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Will It Commit Suicide? FORTY-FIRST YEAR, No. 19 Will WHAT IS GOOD COAL FORTY-FIRST YEAR, No.19 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. HOME COAL PROMPT DELIVERIES IN PHONE: Randolph 5354—Randolph Yard at 865 East 2167 E. 4th St. BIG AFTER CHR NEW YEAR'S IMPORTED TOYS TO THE PUBLIC O We are offering you wonderful bar DISE at less than cost to manufacture Mechanical toys, trays, fruit and mark that make valuable New Year's Gifts. Doors open at 8 a. m. COAL CO DELIVERIES IN YOUR NE alph 5354—Randolph 4860 card at 865 East 67th St. 2167 E. 4th St. ER CHRISTMAS NEW YEAR'S GIFT TOYS AND PUBLIC OF CLEM u wonderful bargains in L to manufacture. In this fruit and market basket Year's Gifts. Be on hand D'S TOY SHE 2167 E. 4th St. Y GO PECT AVE., Bet. East 2d COATS! PROMPT DELIVERIES IN YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD PHONE: Randolph 5354—Randolph 4860—Randolph 3790 Yard at 865 East 67th Street TO THE PUBLIC OF CLEVELAND We are offering you wonderful bargains in IMPORTED MERCHANDISE at less than cost to manufacture. In this lot you will find dolls, Mechanical toys, trays, fruit and market baskets. Also numerous items that make valuable New Year's Gifts. Be on hand early to avoid the rush. Doors open at 8 a. m. 2167 E. 48 WE SELL FOR LESS ARMY G 312 PROSPECT AVE., B Every item we carry in our store will make a wonderful Christmas present. Our merchandise is guaranteed to give you satisfaction. Our prices are the lowest possible. Come in and convince yourself. WE SELL FOR LESS ARMY GOODS 312 PROSPECT AVE., Bet. East 2d & 4th Sts. Sheeplined 20-inch Coat Moleskin shell; big collar; just the thing for cold weather. To go at exceptionally tow prices $13.95 of. Wool Army Shirt: 11 ned bosom and double elbows. $2.95 Winter Weight $1.25 Flannel Shirts..... Store Open Until 10 p. m. Saturday Night CLEVE ARMY SURPL 312 PROSPER See us First for all Goods in our JOHN S. HALL Prices Reasonable. Satisfaction Guaranteed. JEWELER AND OPTOMETRJST 8133 Central Ave. Cleveland, O. Fraternal Jewelry C All-Wool Navy $10.75 Pen-Cont..... EVELA NY SURPLUS ST PROSPECT A Goods in our Line ALL Action Guaranteed. OMETRJST Prospect 3659 jewelry Co. CLEVELAND ARMY SURPLUS STORE J. H. Sears and R. U. Hall FINE WATCH REPAIRING AND ADJUST FINE WATCH REPAIRING AND ADJUSTING. STONE-SETTING AND ENGRAVING 3723 Scovill Ave. Ran. 7816 Cleveland, O. 816 Cleveland, O. IN UNION IB STRENGTH See our Special Work - Basket at $3.98 BLANKETS! Size 06x89 Wt. about 4 lbs. The famous Olive Drab All Wool Gauze Army Blanket. Full double bed size. A wonderful bargain at our special price, each ... $3.50 THE GAZETTE Weight—Full 2000 lbs. to the ton. Price—Right. Delivery—Prompt—when you want it, not when we get to it. COMPANY YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD Randolph 4860—Randolph 3790 Just 67th Street 41th St. CHRISTMAS SALE! GIFTS! AND BASKETS OF CLEVELAND Gifts in IMPORTED MERCHAN- re. In this lot you will find dolls, basket baskets. Also numerous items Be on hand early to avoid the rush. 4th St. WE SELL FOR LESS GOODS et. East 2d & 4th Sts. All leather. Army. shoe. Made especially for rough wear. A real value at our price: $2.95 pair. Army 2-Piece Underwear, brand new, per $1.00 garment. Cashmereette Socks, a pair. 10¢ Special prices on quantity purchases. Mail orders promptly died. Add postage. PLUS STORE PECT AVE. --- CLEVELAND, OHIO, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1923 Open Saturday until 10 P. M. Just received a complete line of work and dress line of gloves and mittens. Then prices are matched are selling them will convince you that they constitute the most attractive Christmas presents. Buy gloves at the prices will go up shortly. SHOES! ENDICOTT JOHNSON $2.95 EYES EXAMINED GLASSES FITTED Prices Reasonable H. L. MANDEL EYESIGHT SPECIALIST 2075 E. 4th St. Bet. Euclid and Prospect Aves. (Nearer Prospect Ave.) Philadelphia masons beat up a motor-man (white) after breaking down the vestibule door to get at him because he insisted on driving the car right into their funeral procession. He backed out finally. ESTABLISHED, AUGUST 25, 1883 And Issued Every Week on Time Since FRESH OHIO NEWS WRITTEN BY "THE OLD RELIABLE" GAZETTE'S CORRESPON DENTS What Our People Are Doing Each Week—Church, Personal, Social, Lodge, Literary and Musical Marriages, Deaths, Etc. SOVIETS AFTER NEGROES! Randolph and Owen's Messenger Subsidized by Them, Says Well Known Writer. In New York there is a magazine, the Messenger, which is edited by two Negro Socialists, A. Philip Randolph and Chandler Owen. The Messenger prides itself on being "the only Negro labor organ in America." Happily its significance to the Negro working masses is almost negligible. In the first place, it purports to be the official organ of the "Friends of Negro Freedom." For the benefit of those who are unfamiliar with the orientations of Negro politics, the "Friends of Negro Freedom" is one of those mythical organizations that thrive on gab and the promulgation of a policy whose practicality is equivalent to firing stones at the stars. I might say, however, that the "Friends of Negro Freedom" is a gigantic joke. Messrs. Randolph and Owen, excellent fellows when it comes to rolling their r's or to dogmatizing on the rights of the black workingman, let it be said to their distinct credit, let it be a single original idea, between them and, naively, do not pretend to have. Really, the Messenger is a crude attempt to copy Mr. Villard's impossible Nation. The important thing to consider is that the Jews, for some ulterior motive, are anxious to line up the Negroes on the side I Socialism and Communism. The appointment of Claude McKay by the Soviets to spread radical propaganda among the Negroes and the continued subsidy of the Messenger by the Soviets party of New York, in the face of the suspension of the Call and its successor, the Lodges are nothing short of an organized mass attempt to indictrate the Negroes with the spirit of syndicalist rebellion—Liewelyn Smith, in the Dearborn (Mich) Independent. Johnson and Coolidge in the South. Hon. Hiram Johnson is out for the Republican Presidential nomination. Frank Hitchcock is his campaign manager. If Mr. Hitchcock gives the South, that is the real Republican South, a showing, he will mop up any other delegate-seeker that shows his head. Slemp is very well known. Negro Republicans. He foisted Phillip upon them and they will not forgive him—Savannah (Ga.) Journal. Phillips is the white boss who has had the distribution of federal patronage in Georgia under the Harding-Coolidge administration, despite the fact that he was indicted in FRESH OPEN WRITTEN BY "THE GAZETTE'S What Our People Are Doing Personal, Social, Lodge, Marriages, 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., ordinary notices, inquiries for relations and arrangements of all kinds, entertainments of all 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. CADIZ.—The following students are visiting their parents, during the holiday season: Katherine Johnson, Frederick Lucas and Floyd Ramsey, from Wilberforce Univ.; Genevieve and Harold F. Lee from Oberlin College, and Melvin Christian, Jr., from Howard University.—Mrs. Hattie Brooks, who has been very sick for several weeks, is not improving very fast.—Simpson M. E. church will give an entertainment, Monday evening.—Mrs. Bertha Davis, evangelist, ably assisted Rev. A. L. Holland, the past week.—Rev. W. H. Lucas, who for 52 years has been the efficient supt. of St. James A. M. E. S. s. retires, Jan. 6, and will be succeeded by Mr. R. F. Ballard.—Mr. Rezin Cooper married a lady from Smithfield, Monday, Rev. H. F. Fox performing the ceremony. — Mrs. Mary Burk of New York City is visiting her mother, Mrs. Sarah Brown. — Miss Heloise Ballard, of the Williamson, W. Va., public schools, is visiting her parents.—A large audience listened to the Christmas cantata, sung by the choir at St. James A. M. E. church, Sunday evening. the federal courts on the charge of fraudulent war contracts—N. Y CANNON A DELEGATE-AT-LARGE Trenton, N. J.—The Republican State Committee met here, Dec. 18, and "suggested" the seven Republican candidates for delegates-at-large to the Republican National Convention. For the first time in the history of this state an Afro-American was named as one of the delegates-at-large. Dr. George E. Cannon of Jersey City defeated Dr. Walter G. Alexander who afterwards was named as alternate delegate-at-large. Dr. Cannon's candidacy was strongly supported by Hon. Oliver Randolph, assistant U.S. district attorney, and former Hon. Oliver Randolph. member of the N. J. legislature. He is the father of this state's anti-lynching or mob violence law, like Illinois' law, a copy of Ohio's famous law. Pearl LeVan Allen Sues! New York City.—A suit has been instituted by Mrs. Pearl LeVan Allen against George W. Allen for $50,000, and papers were served by her attorneys, Mrs. Lillian Story Griffin and Miss K. C. Johnson, on Dec. 17. Mrs. Allen charges that her husband maliciously prosecuted her and sought to ruin her character. In the Domestic Relations Court, the same day, Allen was ordered to pay the expense of medical attention for his wife, who was at St. Joseph's hospital, where she was undergoing treatment. Mrs. Allen is said to be a native of Toledo, O. HIO NEWS OLD RELIABLE" S CORRESPON DENTS Going Each Week—Church, Literary and Musical— Deaths, Etc. HILLSBORO.—Mrs. Ona Lewis of Springfield spent the holidays here with her mother.—R. Callender of Canton was the guest of Cleona Carlisle, Sunday.—Alfred Waters of Springfield spent Xmas here with his mother.—Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Neuman of Greenfield were holiday guests of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Jones.—Mrs. Mary McGinnis of Dayton visited relatives here, this week.—Rosetta Nelson, Arnita Burr and Helen Johnson, Wilberforce students, are home to spend their vacation—Mary E. Williams spent her vacation at Tuskegee, Ala.—Mrs. E. and daughter went home to Xenia for the Xmas. Mrs. Mellie Carlisle and family visited relatives in Zanesville during the holidays.—Lorenzo Holland, Indianapolis, spent Xmas here with his parents.—Mrs. Hannah Pleasant and Miss Helen Woods spent Xmas in Chicago with the former's daughters. YOUNGSTOWN. — The Civic League's Xmas dinner and treat at B. T. W. settlement, for the benefit of the mothers and babies of the clinic, was a delightful affair. About 77 participated.—Rev. J. A. Robinson of Columbus, evangelist, preached, Sunday, at Third Baptist church. Galeta class held its Xmas party at Miss Florence Wright's.—Mrs. J. I. White and son, Joe left Monday, for Franklin to spend the holidays with relatives.—Mrs. Carrie Dennitt, of Beaver, Pa., spent the week-end with her cousins, Mr. and Mrs. J. W. McFarland, stop 26. Sharon line, having been called by his illness.—The Booker girls' basket-ball team will begin a game right after Jan. 1. Claude Johnson, coach.—Walter Willis and Wallace Fleming of Cleveland motored here, Sunday, and were guests of Lucille and Dorothy Murray. SINGLE COPY FIVE CENTS One of the Most Remarkable and Truthful Statements to Ever Appear In Print—Milholland a Great Friend of the Race. Washington, D. C.—The Republican National Committee met in Washington, D. C., Dec. 11, and one of the strongest arguments in behalf of our people ever made anywhere was brought to the attention of the Committee in the open letter of that outstanding Republican, the Hon. John E. Milholland of New York City, who was at one time eastern of the Committee. This letter has most potent effect in reinforcing the argument of Senator George Wharton Pepper in the matter of the reconsideration of the report of the sub-committee concerning the reduction of southern representation in the Republican National Convention. It is the keenest analysis yet made of present day political conditions after the May 4 by Mr. Milholland. The letter as drafted for American. The letter and sent to each member of the executive committee of the Republican National Committee and forwarded to all of the press bureau, was as follows: Hotel Lafayette, Dec. 10, '23. Hon. John T. Adams, chairman, Republican National Committee, Munsee Bldg., Washington, D. C. My dear Mr. Chairman: The Republican party should be continued in the power of administering this government. It is in the best interests of the country that this should be so, because the Republican party is the most fit agency to protect and develop the United States and to rehabilitate a wrecked civilization such as now confronts the world, with no end in sight of the unparalleled demoralization. I want to see Republicans win in the coming national election. Their success is of transcendent importance and because it is and because the outlook is far from satisfactory, I venture to address you and your able colleagues in this way, at the threshold of your decisions, recognizing you as the responsible managers of the Republican party. I have been a participant in Republican activities never have I seen the prospects more uncertain or more unsatisfactory. The situation has been made even more precarious by the announced intention of the Republican National Committee to cut down the representation of southern states in the national convention, thereby offending and alienating hundreds of thousands of loyal Negro voters in the pivotal states of the North and West who rightly regard such action as not only a flagrant principle and tradition but also a timely surrender to race prejudice and "lily-whiteism."—thus actually placing law upon the disfurishing law in the southern states which are in shameful violation of the Constitution—a fraudulent restraint upon liberty—rendered government艰涩iculous and so intended by their authors. This is said without the slightest desire to indulge in any unwarranted criticism or conventional misgiving or to sound any unnecessary notes of alarm. As fellow-workers, eager for party harmony and party success—with all of our intense partisanship we must recognize that, after all, good government, i. e., the widest possible disfurishing law and liberty, is the object worthy of forts. Three years ago Warren G. Harding was elected President of the United States by 7,000,000 majority. The very next year New York City was lost to Mayor Hylan by nearly a quarter of a million votes. As the national administration had been foolishly drawn into the local fight by identification with the most unpopular traction issue, it suffered accordingly and Warren Harding's administration sustained its first humiliating defeat. A year later the same local issue came up again in the state election again. against the Republican national party was dragged into it with an even more disastrous result—the majority of Governor Smith being half a million! The result is that we have to face the momenting fact that the great pivotal congressman in New York which was carried by such a wollen tiding tidal wave in 1920, is today in the Democratic column, with all the significance attached to the fairly well established slogan, that rests on more than mere tradition: "As New York goes, so goes the Nation." Is that not, Mr. Chairman, cause for a certain amount of healthy IN-UNION IS STRENGTH COPY FIVE CENTS ide? American Party! and "Analyzes" The Party And The American. and Truthful Statements to it—Milholland a Great the Race. anxiety on the part of every clear-visioned Republican? Is such management not a matter of grave concern? Doesn't it make you think twice? You may say that the man who carried New York against us, Governor Smith, of that commonwealth, will not be nominated by his party, because of his religious faith, and his position on the liquor question, while that may be true, it is too shallow to believe. The forward because "AI Smith" on the Democratic ticket as anti-prohibition candidate for President or VicePresident, is a very important factor, and every one of you know it. I can well remember when the question of electing a catholic, even as mayor of New York, was considered extremely hazardous. I have seen catholic after catholic in that position, as I have seen them in the nited States Senate, in the cabinet and supreme court, until I was not surprised to learn that Smith himself say the other day: "No one is troubled about my church affiliations, except the catholics themselves." The Negro Vote ```markdown ``` Third St., Cleveland, Ohio Member Ohio Legislature: 1894 to 1896; 1896 to 1898; 1900 to 1902 THE GAZETTE is the oldest and has the largest bona fide circulation, double that of any newspaper in the interest of Afro-Americans published in the state of Ohio, and comparison with any will immediately establish its rank as one of the NEWSIEST AND BEST in the country. Happy New Year to all of our readers. A white hotel keeper and an Afro-American employee were lynch-murdered at Marlow, Oklahoma, Dec. 17, '23, because the former persisted in employing the latter. That state is K. K. kidden. --- Last week, a Des Moines, Iowa, jury of whites convicted Sam Elman, proprietor of a theater, and penalized Patrolman Thiel, both "white", for the ejection of Mrs. Norman Blagburn because she refused to vacate a seat Elman had set apart for "white" patrons. Hurrah! for "Sister" Blagburn. Let all of our people fight in the courts for their rights! --- In spite of the fact that almost all of the employees at the Tuskegee U. S. Hospital for our veterans are Afro-Americans, and that only a few whites remain, it is declared that the conditions under which our three hundred employees live is "extremely humiliating and almost unbearable." White employees, without regard to the positions they hold, have better quarters than our physicians and administrative officials, etc. Dr. Griffith ("white") is head of the hospital. He should not be. Tell it to President Coolidge. HELPING THE DEMOCRATS. The radicals of Congress apparently are governed more by a desire to prevent the Republican majority from exercising its will than by their own so-called "principles." When they find themselves unable to accomplish their own private objects, they appear satisfied if they can throw their voting strength to the Democrats and thus defeat the aims of the Republicans, on whose platform most of them obtained their election to the senate or house. Such tactics may be justified in their own eyes, but the public at large is governed by different ideas of fair play. SIGN OF PROSPERITY While it is true that the United States is now importing more foodstuffs than it is exporting, the fact should not be overlooked that the imports are of commodities which we cannot produce in this country, particularly coffee, tea, spices and tropical fruits. The list also includes a large quantity of sugar, which we could produce if the sugar beet industry were developed to the extent that it sometime will be. In the case of most foodstuffs which can be produced here, the Republican protective tariff prevents large importations to the injury of the market of the home producer. THE OUTLOOK BLACK! The murder of Mrs. Georgia Woodward, age 28, in her home at 2257 E. 49th St., last week Friday night, was committed by a man thought to be a relative, who was searching for his wife. Upon Mrs. Woodward's continued assertions that she did not know the whereabouts of the wife, the man, witnesses say, shot her at close range with the heavy gauge shotgun. The gun, dropped in the front yard by the murderer in his flight, is in the hands of police. Later, the same night, there was so much "gun play" in ward 11, between E. 31st and E. 29th St., that one was reminded of the fourth of July. What is going to be the condition in the Cedar-Central-Scovill-Woodland Ave. district in 1924 and 1925, one can readily imagine. The old gang goes back into political power, Jan. 7, '24, and the underworld in that section of the city has been grinning and waiting impatiently for the change to come ever since the recent election. Lord, have mercy on the hundreds of good people, who have to live there, if our ministers and churches in the section continue to refuse to make any efforts whatever to improve the miserably immoral conditions that even now exist to an alarming extent. THE RUSSIAN DEBT TO US. One of the reasons given by President Coolidge for non-recognition of the soviet government was its failure "to recognize that debt contracted with our government, not by the caar, but by the new former Republic of Russia." That debt amounts to about $235,000,000. Here is a presidential utterance that may well be pondered by other nations indebted to the United States. The same reasoning that denies recognition to Russia for non-acknowledgment of her debt could be applied to withdrawal of recognition from any other country for similar cause. Leading statesmen of both France and Italy have openly asserted that their governments would not pay their American obligations, and other smaller debtor countries have exhibited an apathy that opens their credit to very serious question. We do not recommend or suggest that friendly relations with any of them be severed; nevertheless, Mr. Coolidge's reference to the Russian debt carries a pointed meaning to all of them. THE REPUBLICAN PARTY THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, O. SATURDAY, DEC. 29, 1922. REMEMBER, PA. HOW YOU USED TO SING "OH, PROMISE ME!" WHEN WE WERE YOUNG? VEP. SALLIE'S STEADY IS IN THE PARLOR I HOPE HE SINGS SOME OLD LOVE BONG! THE POOR BOY MUST HAVE GONE DIPPY I'M WILD ABOUT YOU, KIDDO. WHEN YOU DO THAT BUNNY HUG HIS FAMILY OUGHT TO KNOW OF HIS AFFLICTION OF ALL THE CHICKENS IN THE COOP, YOU'RE THE ONE I LOVE THE BEST WHEN YOU PLAN THAT DISH RAG TUNE I'LL LOVE YOU WHEN THE CABBAGE SPROUTS AGAIN President Grover Cleveland insisted being held by a Negro, though he had enough strength at one time to decide a presential nomination, and now he is before you to plead for what?—that you will not make yourselves a party to the Democratic effort; to that Democratic crime by which hite Negro suffrage is destroyed throughout the South, and the Constitution of the United States becomes a hollow mockery of the supreme law. The Republican party for forty years has pledged itself to right this monstrous wrong, but it hasn't even cut down the Democratic representation in Congress and in the colony as commanded by the Constitution now, actually debating, today, whether you will still further outrage the rights of the colored voters; rights to which they are, as President Coolidge said the other day in his message, entitled as much as any member of the Republican National Committee. They will not follow the Republican party in blind faith as their fathers have done and if they are going to get anything out of the South they realize that they must do it through their own efforts. Their own efforts lead them to take the obvious way, that is, to cross the border line to the North where there is plenty of work, their wages paid in good cash and very little lynching or bad treatment to worry about. The reason for this is that a sane man, Republican or Democrat, is still wondering what under Heaven caused the Republican leadership to place itself in the hands of the "illy-white" Republican gang of the South and trust its future to such an insurance agency of overwhelming defeat in the convention, and political annihilation at the polls. I repeat does the Republican party intend to commit suicide? Doings Of The Race John C. Jordan, who retired from the U. S. navy after twenty-nine years as chief gunner's mate, the highest rank possible for an Afro-American to reach in the U. S. navy, died and was buried, Dec. 14. '23. Among our current hubs, this year, are: DeHart Hubbard of the University of Michigan who set a new collegiate record of 25 feet and two inches in the running broadjump; Phil Granville, Afro-Canadian, now seven-mile walk-champion, and Sam Langford, the veteran pilist, who became heavyweight champion of Mexico as the climax of a remarkable ring career of twenty years. Roland Hayes, our leading tenor soloist, recently returned from a triumphant concert tour abroad, was soloist for the Boston Symphony orchestra, recently, in concerts in Boston and New York City and with the Detroit Symphony orchestra, that city on Dec. 9. '23. Mas Marian Anderson, our contralto extraordinary, of Philadelphia, was soloist for the Philadelphia Symphony orchestra on Dec. 16. '23. "O, we are coming." Slowly, it is true, but "coming" must the same. In London, England, a few weeks ago, an Indian, a dark man from British India, was plaintiff in a suit against a white woman. The foreman of the jury wanted, right or wrong, to decide the case in favor of the white woman. He asked the Court if he might take into consideration the color of the plaintiff. The judge, a learned and celebrated Scotch barrister, practicing in London, promptly stopped him and sent him into the street. Since the above incident, there has been pronounced a very important judgment in Pretoria, South Africa. Chief Justice Krause has decided that certain regulations of law oppose a police illegal because they discriminated between white and colored men. This decision was given in a South African court of appeal in which three justices sat. The substance of the decision is that the color bar to many things out there is illegal and repugnant to the spirit of the law.—Archibald Johnson of London (Eng.) in N. Y. Age. WEALTHY WHITE WOMAN Says Her Husbund Offered Her $150,000 to Marry a Negro Girl Los Angeles, Cal.—Elsier Lamale (white), motion picture and theatrical director, tried to make his wife accept $150,000 as her share in his plan to sell her to a wealthy Negro gambler, Lou Harris Baker of Juarez, Mexico, for $500,000, according to the amazing charge contained in a divorce complaint filed here, Dec. 19, '23, by M. Helen Lamale of Long Beach. She asks for part of her husband's $400,000 estate names Mrs. Mary Ells Howe Holden, widow of a Dallas (Tex.) banker, as co-respondent. RACE PREJUDICE! "I am convinced myself that there is no more evil thing in this present world than race prejudice; now all will "I write deliberately—it is the worst single thing in life now. It justifies and holds together more baseness, cruelty and abomination than any other sort of error in the world." —H. G. Wells. DO YOU KNOW WHY --- The Old Songs Are Never Pinked? EXPLORER FINDS GIANT'S SKULL IN SOUTH AMERICA Brings Back Bones of Men Who Lived Fully Four Thousand Years Ago Ancient Operations Captain J. Campbell Besley has arrived in New York from his second expedition in South America, bringing a number of scientific trauses, including the skull owl a human being who must have been eight feet in height. Other curiosities of great interest were human skulls thought to be four or five thousand years old, on which trepanning operations had been performed. These were found in Bolivia, in the Inca ruins. "A tradition among the Indians of Peru and Bolivia makes the ancient race a race of giants," said Captain Besley. "This may be a legend which weighed between 100 and 200 tons. It might be that we stumbled upon an isolated giant who was as much a wonder when he lived as he would be today." Skulls trapped by sawing out a square section, fitting metal through it and replacing that section, were found before by excavators in Peru and Bolivia. The particular interest in the trapped skulls found by the Besley expedition is that they are thought to belong to prehistoric periods and to show that some surgical skill existed in South America thousands of years ago. INTERESTING NEW INVENTIONS Electrical Apparatus Gives Warning of Thunderstorms An electrical apparatus recently invented gives warning of the approach of a thunderstorm several hours before any clouds appear. It is operated somewhat like a small wireless plant. There are receiving attenza, or wires, which are affected by the faint impulses from electrical disturbances in the vicinity. These impulses cause the closing of the alarm clock circuit. At first the signals are far apart, but as the storm approaches the bell begins to ring continuously. The device is used to warn electrical companies to increase their lighting power. To protect automobiles from rain and wind a Wisconsin inventor has patented a waterproof skirt which snaps into a waterproof steel springs at the waist and ankles. For emergency exits in public places a Chicago man has invented a door with panels so mounted that pressure at any point opens the latch and permits the door to swing outward. To facilitate milking of cows there has been invented a substantial can that also serves as a stool, the milk being drawn into a long-necked funnel. A simple device invented by a Seattle, Wash., man prevents the accumulation of rain, mist or tog on windshields of automobiles. The invention, which is operated by hand, resembles a cylinder, about twelve inches long, and has a handle. A strip of rubber is attached to one side, and this is rubbed over the surface of the windshield, removing all water and mud. By turning a little screw at the end of the device a felt surface saturated with a mixture of oil and four other ingredients is exposed. This is drawn across the glass and applies a solution which prevents the accumulation of water or fog. On a new kind of saw the teeth are arranged in alternate groups—four pointing downward and then four pointing back. The saw cuts either wood or metal and is made in a variety of shapes. For cutting metal it is said to be twice as efficient as saws of the usual pattern. The blades do not break as easily. EXPERIMENTS IN DEEP MINE Rocks Spilled In Shaft Fail to Hit Bottom. Mile Below. Instructors at the Michigan College of Mines have been conducting interesting experiments in the deep shafts of the copper mines of the Calumet region. It had been noticed that in the shafts at the Tamarack mine, if some ore or rock were spilled near the surface, men working in the bottom of the shaft a mile below were not much bothered and sometimes only observed "a little dust." It is even stated that a car of broken rock could be dumped into the shaft without injury to men directly beneath, a mile down. The reason is that the rock would not fall straight in the vertical shaft, but would lodge in the sides of the timbers which protrude a few inches at intervals. In the experiments, two metal balls were dropped into the center of the shaft and an attempt was made to catch them in a box of clay at the bottom. One ball was never found, the other landed in the east wall of the shaft, only a few hundred feet below the surface. It is explained that the earth, revolving from west to east, kept the ball from falling straight down in the hole. A San Francisco undertaker has built a funeral automobile the tearries thirty-seven persons in addition to a casket and ample space for flowers. In newly invented shackles, convicts sent out do do road work can walk around at will. If they try to run, the Most Cherished among the Gifts bestowed by the Passing Year is the memory of the pleasant relations with those whom we have been privileged to serve. And so it is most sincerely that we wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year PORO COLLEGE Mr. and Mrs. Malone PORO COLLEGE 4300 ST. FERDINAND AVE. ST. LOUIS MO. PORO HAIR AND TOILET PRODUCTS Astounding Performances of Miracle Workers No Longer Awe the General Public PRIME SPORT NEWS Boykin Trims a Chilean Champion. Buenos Aires — Joe Boykin, sparring partner for Luis Angel Firpo, on Dec. 15, '23, defeated Clemente Saavedra, the Chilean heavyweight champion, who quit after the sixth round, but that was to have gone 15 rounds. Boykin is an Afro-American. Battling Siki Loses to Taylor. Philadelphia, Pa.—Jack Taylor of Omaha, Neb. Afro-American heavyweight, was given the decision over Battling Sifi, the Senegalese pugilist, in a ten-round bout here, Xmas day. Sifi, who apparently was not in the best of condition, forced the fighting in the first five rounds and there were numerous stiff mixups in which wicked punches were exchanged. Then Sifi's lack of condition began to tell and he was forced to hold frequently during the remainder of the contest. When Sifi started to slow up, Taylor took the offensive, hitting the Senegalese boxer and often. At the end of the bout, he closed and blood was flowing from his mouth and nose. Taylor weighed 180 and Sifi 177 1-2. In the semi-final Lew (Kid) Lewis of Bridgesport, Conn., won the judges' decision over Pedro Campo, Filipino, in a hard ten-round bout. Ban on Mixed Bouts Lifted. Philadelphia, Pa.—The Pennsylvania State Athletic Commission, at the request of Attorney General Woodruff, decided on December 18 to suspend temporarily its ruling prohibiting mixed bouts in this state until the Department of Justice has an opportunity to examine the legal phase of the matter. The suspension of this ruling was in a large measure due to the fight made by Commissioner Charles Fred White, the Afro-American member of the commission, who contends that the ruling is illegal, and he is undoubtedly right. The attorney general will meet the commission in the next ten days and the legality of the ruling will be decided soon afterward. Wills—Madden—Dempsey New York City.—There is a probability of Harry Wills and Bartley Madden "mixing it up" at Madison Square Garden soon after the first of the year. The result is that prejudiced local newspaper reporters have already commenced to "throw fits" in their slush to local and other American newspapers for which they write, trying to stop it. Madden is "white." With the help of Bill Muldon, head of the N. Y. boxing commission, who goes out of office, Jan. 1, '24, they have managed to stop all heavyweight mixed bouts in this city and state for about two years and thus save (at least during this time) Dempsey his heavyweight pugilist champion crown. But the end of this is apparently now in sight. Harry Wills cannot much longer be denied a chance at Jack, especially if this Wills-Madden bout is permitted, and that is what is worrying the aforementioned prejudiced "sport writers." Too bad, isn't it. Mixed bouts between bantams, featherweights, lightweights, etc., are held and there is no good reason why mixed bouts between heavyweights should not be held also. The majority membership of the state boxing commission will be Democratic attentive. "23." The prejudiced commission, headed by Muldor, is Republican, "illy-white." I suppose, David Walsh ("white") of this city, who writes a daily syndicate sport-news letter for a number of daily papers thrust into the country, sent out the following for Monday of this week: "Perhaps, also, a Dempsey-Wills bout has been deemed an excellent medium toward restoring public confidence in the game. It would be the most popular move the commission could make, not because white men wish to see Dempsey lose. They merely stand for fair play to all, and it is notorious that Harry Wills has been given the garlic. The present commission has been guilty of side stepping, straight-arming, reversing the field and all the broken field tricks in dealing with the Wills issue. It has made a political weapon of a great sport. Only a return of the policy of sport for sport's sake will restore the game to its proper level." Battling Siki's Itinerary New York City.—Battling Sikl light heavyweight champion pugnil of the world ever since his spectacular and unexpected defeat, of France's idol, Georges Carpentier, is booked for the following ring engagements in the immediate future: Detroit, Jan. 1; Buffalo, Jan. 7; Grand Rapids, Mich., Jan. 14; New Orleans, Jan. 21; Havana, Jan. 28. Manager Levy says, if Sikl shows up properly in these bouts he will match him for another go in Madison Square Garden where Sikl is very popular as a result of his recent contest there even tho he lost. Dr. LeROYN. BUNDY, Dentist, Guaranteed and Efficient Work! Extraction with Gas Administered. 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Lonnie Curtis says he is as expert a chauffeur as any of them and we are inclined to believe him, knowing him so long and so well. John Clifford says there is no truth in the marriage rumors, being circulated, with him as the central figure. He is telling all to wait until they see it in "The Old Reliable." Then they can believe it. 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." 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 $354. One of the most competent and courteous opticians in the city is H. L. Mandel, 2075 E. 4th St., just north of Prospect Ave. When in need of glasses, or the services of an eyesight specialist, be sure to go to Mr. Mandel and you will be thoroughly satisfied and pleased.—Adv. A woman with an open knife in her hand and dressed only in her nightgown, chased a man into Central Ave. and back down E. 30th St., about six o'clock in the morning, Wednesday, the day following Christmas. Our ministers and churches in that section of the city better "wake up." This has been a great week at Phillips chapel, 2633 E. 63d St. Dr. G. M. Knoble, pastor, prepared a fine program for last Sunday and every evening since. Sunday, Dr. D. A. Walker, P. E., will preach, morning and evening, and the holy communion will be administered. Watch meeting services Monday night. All welcome. One cause for action in a divorce case is to go right up to a large drum in a theater and give it a swift kick. This was the basis of allegations made by Charles F. Rose, E. 46th St., who, last week, sued his wife, Phenella Rose, E. 33d St., for a divorce. Judge George Baer granted that Mrs. Rose had kicked his drum while he was beating it in the Globe Theater. Among the many Clevelanders who will motor to Columbus to attend the national convention of the alpha Phi alpha fraternity are: Elmer Cheeks, Dr. and Mrs. Benj. K. Smith, John D. Wilkerson, Dr. and Mrs. Charles Garvin, Dr. and Mrs. Charles Crawford, Dr. Jarret Chavous, Garret A. Morgan, Dr. and Mrs. Atten Evans, C. K. Wilkins, Atten. Perry B. Jackson. --- THE GAZETAE, CLEVELAND, O. SATURDAY, DEC. 29. 1923. Mrs. Pearlie Iivers, Proprietor 2364 EAST 55TH ST. CLEVELAND, O. DO YOU KNOW WHY -- Telegrams Cause Scenes Like This? Drawn for this paper By Fisher A TELEGRAM OOO-OH HORRORS! HUSBAND, OH. OH, HERES A TELEGRAM AWK! SNF-SNIF I AM AFRAID TO OPEN H I KNEW SOMETHING WOULD HAPPEN TO THE OLD FOLKS OOOH, I NEVER TREATED THEM RIGHT I WONDER IF IT WAS SUDDEN IT MUST BE AMFU. OH, JACK. MURRY AND OPEN. THE MESSAGE WILL BE IN TOWN TOMORROW BILL INTERNATIONAL CARTOON CO. N.Y. 140 *M. KLEIMAN'S 2028 Central Ave. D. BARBER'S 2006 Central Ave. W. T. 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The fast Loendi club easily defeated the Acmes, 66 to 22, but the local boys put up a game fight. The club's organizers in one of the most perfect teams in country. All of its players are paid. The Acme Association is appreciative of the fine patronage given it. Benjamin Fambrough, convicted, last week Monday, as one of the slayers of Patrolman Frank Koran, Nov. 25, 1921, was taken to the Ohio state penitentiary, Columbus, last week, Friday, to start a life sentence for the murder of pardon. The jury found him guilty of first degree murder, but recommended mercy. A motion for a new trial was argued, Saturday, by his attorney, Alfred A. Steurer, before Judge John C. Hover. Fambridge was sentenced just before being sentenced, stoutly maintaining his innocence of the charge that many who saw and heard him believe that he is not guilty. President Wm. R. Green, of the local branch of the N. A. C. A. P., has furnished The Gazette with a copy of the letters he sent The Press and Chief Graul, and the latter's reply to him anent The Press' misleading publication, referred to several times in recent issues of The Gazette. Also his letter to The Press requesting a correction. They show that President Green was active in the matter, too, and that he and the organization should have credit for the same, as well as Officers Jenkins and Jones for the arrests made. The editor of The Gazette acknowledges the receipt of Christmas and New Year's greetings from the following: Dr. and Mrs. Edward A. Bailey, Atty, and Mrs. A. H. Martin, The Woodstock Typewriter Co., Mrs. Lenora Craig, The Arlinghaus Engraving Co., Wm. H. and Lillian R. Thompson and The Peerless Letter Co., of this city; Mr. John T. Adams, chairman of the Republican National Committee; Mr. C. A. Jones, private secretary to U. S. Senator Frank B. Willis, Washington, D. C.; Mrs. Estelle Clark-Mason, Willa A. Henderson and Mr. and Mrs. William F. Phone, Randolph 534 SAUNDER LODGINGS AND HOME C Mrs. Pearlie Ri 2364 EAST 55TH ST. DO YOU KNOW WHY -- Telegrams Cause Scenes Like This? Taylor of Chicago; Mrs. Reba Doctor of Rome, Ga.; E. T. Banks of Dayton, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur J. Riggs of Springfield, Mrs. Margaret E. Warren of Detroit, Pres. and Mrs. R. S. Wilkinson of our State College, Orangeburg, C., Royal A. Milton Cook, M. The Missions of Wilberforce, Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Malone of St. Louis, Mo., Mrs. Roberta Legon, Mr. and Mrs. J. K. Nickens and the Riehl Printing Co. of Cleveland; Mr. and Mrs. John H. Cook of Washington, D. C., and Mr. Harry D. Johnson of this city. Mr. and Mrs. Cook also送 five box of cigars to the Missions of Wilberforce "smokes." Many thanks, good friends, for the very kind and thoughtful remembrances and the gifts. The musicale extraordinary at Triedstone Baptist church, last week Thursday evening, given by Eugenia Brewer Mayo, assisted by leading local talent, was a grand success. Mrs. Amanda Waddell, dialect reader; Juanita Pearson, piano solist; Helen Frye, reader; Prince L. Burks, poet; and Eleanor H. Joffrey, companion, all acquitted themselves admirably, and were most generously treated by a critical audience. The star of the evening, however, was Eugenia Brewer Mayo, whose first number was Handel's "He Shall Feed His Flock," recitative and air, from the "Messiah." She followed with two groups of songs, one of S. Coleridge-Taylor's "Candle Light Time." this being done in dialect and in costume with a baby, and with Dr. J. K. Nickens throwing a spot-light on the solist, something new in concert work. It "took the house by storm." The climax, however, came at the close of the program when Mrs. Mayo's exceptionally rich mezzo soprano voice burst forth in Gliwann Verd's magnificent aria, "O Don Fatale," singing it in Italian. It was an exceptionally fine piece of concert work and both soloist and accompanist won great praise. Eugenia Brewer Mayo has certainly convinced the muselovings of this community, beyond all question or doubt, that she is both church and concert singer of high degree, and that she is versatile. Her stage appearance is excellent, too. PATRONIZE OUR ADVERTISERS CORRESPONDENTS WANTED. "The Old Reliable" Gazette destres an active agent and correspondent in every city and town in Ohio and neighboring states having a number of Afro-American residents. Only a little time on Fridays or Saturdays is required. We are especially desirous of hearing from persons in the following named cities: Toledo, Steubenville, Zanesville, Wilmington, Xenia, Washington C. 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Fairmount Road Cleveland, Ohio Rooms One Dollar a day and up Dining Room in connection MRS. SYLVIA FORREST, Prop. Smith & Webster INVALID SERVICE A SPECIALTY. Serge Dresses $8.75 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. Rising Tide Of Color! Race Bigots The Menace Of Both Europe And America "Those who set up the doctrine of the superiority of northwest Europe over south and east Europe are helping to divide Europe and are sowing seeds of future wars. Nothing is more dangerous than a self-delusion which under a moral pretense justifies immoral conduct," Rabbit Abba Hillel Silver declared in his sermon, last Sunday morning, at the Temple. "The world is in a state of shock and is readily thrown into panic even by fantastic reports," Rabbit Silver declared. "The most colossal scare of the western world today is the rising tide of color which threatens to inundate the white race. The fear is not groundless. During the war Europe came very near utter collapse. The white people were desiring themselves and impoverishing their man power and resources. "The colored races beheld the internal dissensions among the white peoples, and they grew restive under their subjection. There came to life a new and victorious Turkey, an expanding Japan, a revolutionary Egypt and India, and a pan Islamic movement for the union and progress of all Mohammedan peoples. "If Europe continues imperialistic rivalries which lead to war, competitive armaments which lead to revolution, and diplomatic intrigues which lead to chaos, it may very well come to pass that mastery will pass from the enfeebled hands of the white races of Europe to the unsteamed and less crystal peoples of the east. Ascertain Europe at least four times since the fall of Rome. It may do so again. "The way to avoid such a contingency is not through intensified efforts to keep the colored races in subjection. Such methods, suggested by Grant, Stoddard, Josey and others, based on unbridled racial AN ECHO FROM 1917 There are fifty-four Negroes, ex-members of the twenty-fourth U.S. Infantry, who are the Leavenworth prison for mutilation in connection with the Houston riots of August, 1917. The riots occurred after a considerable period of friction between the colored troops and the white civilians which culminated in the assault upon Corporal Baltimore by two Houston police officers who were offended because Baltimore intervened when they were beating a colored woman. Soon after, a report reached the camp that Baltimore had been killed. According to testimony brought out at the court-martial, a further report came to the camp that a mob of whites was headed to the camp to kill the unarmed soldiers. There was intense excitement, quelling only the more aggressive members of the defense and non-comissioned. According to the same testimony, soon after quiet had been restored a mob was reported almost within the camp. Being in Texas and knowing what might be expected from a mob, the men of the Twenty-fourth did an entirely natural thing — they broke into the arsenal and secured guns and ammunition with which to sell their lives as dearly as possible. The rest of the story is too well known to need repetition. While the resentment against these men was yet at fever heat, the court-martial of numbers of them was held. Nineteen men were sentenced to death and later executed — thirteen to the secret of War or to the President of the United States, their commander-in-chief. Sixty-seven others were sentenced to long prison terms, the large majority of them to life imprisonment. It does not appear that the Negroes were guilty of any crime greater than that of yielding to the atavistic passion of terror which had been trained into them through generations of observation of the fate of Negroes who get into trouble with "white folks." Mutiny is a serious offense in the army and must be so regarded, but in this instance it would seem to be twenty-fourth Infantry might be considered to have been victims of a difficult and unusual situation. Quartered in a "nigger bait" Texas community, deprived of the right to bear arms in spite of their enlistment in the United States army, these creatures were naturally the victims of hysteria the minute it appeared that (mob) trouble was at hand. Are we sure that white men would not have acted in much the same way? These men have been imprisoned for six years. Is not that long enough to serve as punishment for creatures whose whole lives had been lived in preparation for terror?—Hartford (Conn.) Daily Times. DISFRANCHISEMENT IN THE "SOLID SOUTH" Alabama recently enacted a law which prohibits any American citizen eligible for the Presidency from seeking support in Alabama for presidential nomination unless he be a citizen of that state. Alabama's action is the logical outgrowth of the system of disfranchisement of American citizens which prevails in every state of the Democratie "Solid States Constitution and in defiance of the principles of representative government. This constitutes the most malignant offense upon the American body politic today. It began shortly after the southern states admitted into the Union, upon their promise to observe and obey the American Constitution, by their disfranchising the Negro in defiance of the 14th and 15th amendments. conect and Machlavellian cynicism, are wrecking Europe today. The exploitation of backward races is the most fruitful source of European wars. The subject peoples of the earth will not forever remain subject to feed the pretensions to imaginary excellencies of the so-called Nordics. "The colored races may be helped to civilization and independence and prosperity. They then will benefit themselves and the white races Asia never need invade Europe or America. No land or continent is so overcrowded but that improved methods of agriculture and industrialization thorough machinery will not adequately support its population. "Race chauvinism ruined Germany. It will destroy Anglo-Saxon peoples. The way of salvation is not through exploitation of foreign people but through domestic reconstruction. The white races must forge competitive armament, inter compete for military power, work more and spend less. Luxury destroyed Rome. It will destroy America. "It may be said, in passing, that as far as civilization is concerned up to 1500 A. D. the northwestern European peoples were negligible. Nearly, all they have today of art philosophy, religion and science of government they inherited from the Mediterranean countries and from Judae. And it is at least a debate that hasn't an art which is as fine in England's, and Russia a literature as noble as Germany's. "It should also be remembered that the discovery and exploitation of the new-world, largely through the colonial enterprise of Mediterranean people, gave the north of Europe economic supremacy—and thereby also preposterous notions of inborn greatness." this action was denounced by the Republican party. The right of the emancipated Negro to the ballot was upheld by the Republican party. The South then proceeded to disfranchise white Republicans in southern states. Now the malignant forces which it turned loose threaten to turn upon the Democratic party itself. Having used the weapon of disfranchisement so successfully upon southern Republicans, both black and white Alabama Democrats now employ it to bulldog northern Democratic aspirants for the presidential nomination. Were the evils of this southern practice of disfranchisement confined to the southern states and afflicted the heads of the Democratic party, the country would not be necessarily concerned, but such is not the case. The South claims and obtains representation in the United States House of Representatives on the basis of its Negro and white Republican population. But having used these for the basis of obtaining seats in the House of Representatives, southern Democracy proceeds to refuse its Negro and its white Republican citizens the right to go to the polls and vote for representatives in Congress. Eighty members of the House of Representatives from the "Solid South" are holding their seats because by shot-gun policy and by exercise of citizenship of a majority of their communities is prohibited. It is a plain statement of a disreputable fact that there has not been an honest, free election in the solid Democratic South for a quarter of a century. But the evils extend higher and further. A state vote in the electoral college is based upon its representation in both branches of Congress. The "Solid South" casts 114 electoral votes in every presidential election. Everybody knows that these votes are sure to be cast for the Democratic nominee regardless of who he is or what he stands. Everybody knows his is true because honest elections are impossible in any of the "Solid South" states. The Republican party starts into every presidential campaign with a handicap of 11 votes to overcome before it can "be even" with the Democratic party in a contest for the presidency there are battlegrounds every presidential campaign. If the Republican party, after an intensive fight, succeeds in carrying New York, Indiana, New Jersey, Ohio, Nebraska and Virginia they have succeeded merely in carrying enough states to balance the 114 electoral votes from the "Solid South" and they must the to out and beat the Democratic in the remaining northern states. Or, to it being a Democratic disfranchisement of Republican voters gives to the "Solid South" in every presidential election, without any contest whatever a sufficient number of electoral votes to wipe out the electoral votes of the Republican states of Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, Maine, Illinois, Iowa and Kansas. The Democratic "Solid South" attempts to justify its defiance of the Constitution, its disfranchisement of American citizens, its undermining of representative government, its pollution of elections, upon the ground that its action is necessary in order to have a "white man" government in the remaining northern states be limited in its representation in the House of Representatives and in the electoral college to the number of white men in the South who govern. That would give the South a "white man's government" in exact proportion to the "white man's government" in the rest of the rest of the country. THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, O. SATURDAY, DEC. 29. 1923. Miracles of Surgery Men With Bullets in Brains Are Now Strong and Well and Suffer No Ill Effects Many a man walking about the streets of London today who was shot through the brain in South Africa. Many a lover, brother or husband is lying stricken on the Belgian field with a bullet in his heart or his head. A wife would have given him up for dead and dept bitter tears over the loved one who would never return. But not so now. The modern surgeon—a miracle worker if ever there was one—has changed all this. His X ray and his lancet are a few of the magic means of bringing the apparently dead to life and filling the heart of the home folk with joy near to bursting. It is certainly a crumb of comfort to a man about to fight for his country to know that in battle not one in every thousand projects of all descriptions and weight takes effect, but it is better to know that many of those which hit him in the head or body are, comparatively speaking, harmless. A remarkable case of this kind occurred during the South African campaign. Corporal Thomas, of the Worcester Mounted Infantry, was leading his pony up a hill at Arundel when a Boer, about four hundred yards away, fired at him and hit him four times. One bullet went through him in immediate proximity to the heart, and another passed through the upper part of the abdomen. Had this happened at Waterloo Mrs. Corporal Thomas would have been bereft of her husband and the Thomas children would have been orphans. But it was in South Africa, and Sir William McCormac was in attendance on the Corporal. He examined the patient and found no symptoms of internal injury to either the chest or the abdomen. The Corporal had a slight rise of temperature for three days, and a week later he was sitting in a train condemning the fate which transferred him down country "all one account of a little stiffness in my finger joints." Every surgeon who knows anything about his business can recall cases of recovery after the heart had been injured, and the army surgeon, most of all, knows that ecvn a bullet, lacering and destructive though N may be, is not always fatal. Men are alive today who carry in their hearts bullets which have made their home there. In the last campaign in Morocco a French soldier was wounded by a pistol ball, which lodged in the left upper chamber, or auricle, of the heart. For a week or two he walked about as if nothing had happened; then he began to feel the pain, and his breathing became difficult. The X rays were applied to his chest, and the bullet was seen lying embedded in the soft flesh of his heart and wagging like a pendulum at every beat of that organ. It was the work of an hour to get him in hospital, open the chest and extract the bullet, and long before the fighting ended the gallant trooper was out with his rifle again. When a bullet strikes the brain the brain sometimes wins. John McKenzie, a Crimean veteran, carried a bullet received in that campaign in his head to the day of his death, which occurred at Torquay in 189, and the only effect of it was to increase the power of his voice so that when he sang in the church choir it had a discordant effect. At Magersfontein there was a wounded Boer, who was shot, while lying down, through the top of his head above the right ear. The bullet traveled through his skull and out at the back of his jaw on the left side. He was not pretty to look upon, but he made a marvelous recovery, which was the main consideration. While he was in South Africa Sir Frederick Treves came across many instances of what he called marvelous anatomical feats performed by the Mauser bullet, perhaps the most remarkable being those in which the bullet passed through the brain without causing more than trifling symptoms. The modern surgeon cures these wounds, and at the same time heals the broken hearts at home. Ideas. INTERESTING NEW INVENTIONS Impossible to Tamper with New En velone Without Detection. When an envelope just invented is put into use it will be impossible for persons to steam open others' letters without being detected. The new envelope has perforations along the edge of the flap. On the body of the envelope there are corresponding perforations. When the envelope is sealed these register, and any tampering shows. A Warbington inventor has patented an adjustable tire which can be put on any wagon wheel. The tire is cut in two and the invention is welded in place in such manner that the tightening of a nut brings the tire closer to the wheel. A Japanese army surgeon has invented a machine run by electricity that grinds as many beans into flour in forty minutes as a man can grind by hand in a day. A sand, box for automobiles, like the familiar device on locomotives, to distribute sand under their tires to prevent skidding, has been patented by a Massachusetts inventor. Maybe a young man loses sleep rights wondering how he can win the only girl, when all he would have to do is ask her. 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 Action 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. MOBS. 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 with 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 "lyching" 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, assaulted with whip, massacred or in any other manner, may recover, as hereafter provided, a sum not to exceed one thousand dollars as damages from the county in which the assault is made. (93 v. 161 4.) Section 6281. A person assaulted and lynched by a mob may recover, from the county in which such assault is made a sum not to exceed five hundred dollars; or, if the injury received therefrom is serious, a sum not exceeding one thousand dollars; or, if such injury result in permanent disability to earn a livelihood by manual labor, a sum not to exceed five thousand dollars. (93 v. 162 5.) Section 6282. The legal representative of a person dying from injuries received from lynching by a mob, may recover of the county in which such injury occurred, a sum not to exceed five thousand dollars damages for such unlawful killing. Such sum shall be applied to the maintenance of the family and education of the minor children of such person so lynched, if any survive him, until such children are of legal age, and then be distributed to the survivors, share and share alike, the widow receiving an amount equal to a child's share, if there are no children surviving such decedent, such sum shall be distributed among the next of kin according to the laws of the distribution of the personality of an intestate. Such sum so recovered shall not be a part of the estate of such person so lynched, nor be subject to any of his liabilities. (93 v 162 6.) Section 6283. A person suffering death or injury from a mob attempting to lynch another person shall come within the provisions of this chapter. He or his legal representatives shall have a like right of action as one purposely injured or killed by a mob, v. 192 v. 193. Section 6284. Action for the recoveries provided for in this chapter must be commenced, within two years from the date of such lynchings, 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 county, shall be a part of the judgment in every such case. (93 v. 162 8.) Section 62826. 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 fees in the action for such recovery. (93 v. 162 9.) Section 62827. The county, in which a lynching occurs, may recover the amount of a judgment and costs against it in favor of the legal person. A person injured or seriously injured by mob from any of the persons composing such mob. A person present, with hostile intent, at such lynching shall be deceived a member of the mob and be liable to such action. (93 v. 162 10.) Section 6288. If a mob carries a prisoner into another county, or comes from another county to commit violence on a prisoner brought from such county for safekeeping, the county in which the lynching is committed may recover the amount of the judgment and costs from the county from which the mob came, unless there was conspiracy with the officials of such county in failing to protect such prisoner or dispurse such mob. (93 v. 163 11.) Section 6289. This chapter shall not relieve a person concerned in such lynching from prosecution for homicide or assault for engaging therein. (93 v. 163 12.) OUR OHIO CIVIL RIGHTS LAW Upon the request of many readers of The Gazette we print below the text of the Hon. Harry C. Smith's editor had enacted while a member of the 71st General Assembly, in 1894: The General Code of Ohio: Sec. 12940. Whoever, being the proprietor or his employee, keeper or manager of an inn, restaurant, eating house, barber-shop, public conveyance by land or water, theater or other place of public accommodation and amusement, denies to a citizen, except for reasons applicable alike to all citizens and regardless of race or color, the full enjoyment of the accommodations, advantages, facilities or privileges thereof, shall be fined not less than fifty dollars nor more than five hundred dollars, or imprisoned not less than thirty days nor more than ninety days, or both. Sec. 12941. Whoever violates the next preceding section shall also pay not less than fifty dollars nor more than 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. Misled by the foolishly manufactured outcry for the passage of the Beaty bill, a few years ago, the Akron Beacon Journal published an editorial to which the editor of The Gazette replied, calling its attention to the fact that the Ohio Civil Rights law was good law and did not need amending. The following letter from Judge Grant former presiding judge of the Court of Appeals of the Eighth District of Ohio, is self explanatory: --- Akron, O., April 25, 1919. Hon. Harry C. Smith, Editor The Gazette, Cleveland, O. My Dear Sir; Observing your letter in the Beacon-Journal, of this city, I venture to send you, under a separate cover, the Ohio Law Reporter of Feb. 3, last, containing the opinion of the Court of Appeals in the Puritan Lunch Co. vs. Leonard H. Forman, decided in Akron, last fall, in which a judgment for ($500) five hundred dollars was sustained. If the Beacon-Journal had known what was going on in its own town, there would have been no occasion for criticism editorially. THE LAW OF OHIO IS UNDER NO REPROACH, nor our courts and juries, in administering it. Not a word was said by the Beacon-Journal when the Forman case was reviewed. Very truly yours, R. C. Grant. 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 contending, after over 1900 years of universal discrimination and are winning even social rights today. The Irish at home have contended for 700 years and are winning because they will die rather than submit. The race that says it's of no use to resist, downs itself and the world then will say, "Negroes are not worthy of equal rights; they are by nature without self-esteem." The world respects only those who resent and resist proscriptions for race. Let us be worthy of the abolitionists, worthy of our own fathers who have died in every war to vindicate the title of their race to equal liberty, and forever resist denial of rights in our native land, however long race discrimination may continue. To submit is to deserve contempt. — Boston (Mass.) Garadian. The YOUTHS COMPANION No other paper brings to your Whole Family so rich a variety of entertaining, informing, inspiring reading for all ages. IN A YEAR, 52 issues. 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My car is pained My soul is sick with every day's report Of wrong and outrage, with which the earth is filled. There is no flesh in man's ob- durate heart. It does not feel for man: the natural bond Of brotherhood is severed as the law. That falls asunder at the touch of fire. He finds his fellow guilty of a skin Not colored like his own: and having power To enforce the wrong, for such a worthy cause Dooms and devotes him as his lawful prey. * * * * * * * * Thus man devotes his brother, and destroys: Tis human nature's broadest foulest blot. —Cowper. Character, like a fine old tree, matures slowly and is a ripier 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. 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Delivery—Prompt—when you want it, not when we get to it. COMPANY YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD Randolph 4860—Randolph 3790 Just 67th Street 41th St. CHRISTMAS SALE! S GIFTS! AND BASKETS DF CLEVELAND mergains in IMPORTED MERCHAN- re. In this lot you will find dolls, ticket baskets. Also numerous items Be on hand early to avoid the rush. 4th St. WE SELL FOR LESS GOODS Set. East 2d & 4th Sts. All leather Army shoe. Made especially for rough wear. A real value at our price. $2.95 pair. Army 2-Piece Underwear, brand new, per $1.00 garment. Cashmereette Socks, 10¢ a pair. Special prices on quantity purchases. Mail orders promptly filled. Add postage. PLUS STORE PECT AVE. --- CLEVELAND, OHIO, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1923 Open Saturday until 10 P. M. SPECIAL! Just request exclusive line of work and dress line of gloves and mittens. The prices on which we are selling them will convince you that they constitute the most attractive Christmas presents. Buy now, as the prices will go up shortly. SHOES! ENDICOTT JOHNSON $2.95 EYES EXAMINED GLASSES FITTED Prices Reasonable H. L. MANDEL EYESIGHT SPECIALIST 2075 E. 4th St. Bet. Euclid and Prospect Aves. (Nearer Prospect Ave.) Philadelphia masons beat up a motor-man (white) after breaking down the vestibule door to get at him because he insisted on driving the car right into their funeral procession. He backed out finally. ESTABLISHED, AUGUST 25, 1883 And Issued Every Week on Time Since FRESH OHIO NEWS WRITTEN BY "THE OLD RELIABLE" GAZETTE'S CORRESPON DENTS What Our People Are Doing Each Week—Church, Personal, Social, Lodge, Literary and Musical Marriages, Deaths, Etc. SOVIETS AFTER NEGROES! Randolph and Owen's Messenger Subsidized by Them, Says Well Known Writer. In New York there is a magazine, the Messenger, which is edited by two Negro Socialists, A. Philip Randolph and Chandler Owen. The Messenger prides itself on being "the only Negro labor organ in America." Happily its significance to the Negro working masses is almost negligible. In the first place, it purports to be the official organ of the Negro labor movement. For the benefit of those who are unfamiliar with the orientations of Negro politics, the "Friends of Negro Freedom" is one of those mythical organizations that thrive on gab and the promulgation of a policy whose practicality is equivalent to firing stones at the stars. I am not, however, that the "Friends of Negro Freedom" is a gigantic joke. Messrs. Randolph and Owen, excellent fellows when it comes to rolling their r's or to dogmatizing on the economic rights of the black workingman, let it be said to their distinct credit, have not a single original idea between them, and, inevitably, do not pretend to have any. Really, messrs. Messenger is a crude attempt to copy Mr. Villard's impossible Nation. The important thing to consider is that the Jews, for some ulterior motive, are anxious to lye up the Negroes on the side of Socialism and Communism. The appointment of Claude McKay by the Soviets to spread radical propaganda among the Negroes and the continued subsidy of the Messenger by the Socialist, party of New York, in the 1920s, to carry out Cell and its successor, the Leader, are nothing short of an organized mass attempt to indictinate the Negroes with the spirit of syndicalist rebellion—Llewellyn Smith, in the Dearborn (Mich) Independent. Johnson and Coulidge in Tac. South, Hon. Hiram Johnson is out for the Republican Presidential nomination. Frank Hitchcock is his campaign manager. If Mr. Hitchcock gives the South, that is the real Republican South, a showing, he will mop up any other delegate-seeker that shows his head. Slemp is very unpopular with Negro Republicans. He foisted Phillips upon them and they will not forgive him—Savannah (Ga.) Journal. 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CADIZ.—The following students are visiting their parents, during the holiday season: Katherine Johnson, Frederick Lucas and Floyd Ramsey, from Wilberforce Univ.; Genevieve and Harold F. Lee from Oberlin College, and Melvin Christian, Jr. from Howard University.—Mrs. Hattie Brooks, who has been very sick for several weeks, is not improving very fast.—Simpson M. E. church will give an entertainment, Monday evening, to Mrs. Bartlett, who is only slightly sick.—Rav. A. L. Holland, the past week.—Rev. W. H. Lucas, who for 52 years has been the efficient supt. of St. James A. M. E. S. S. retires, Jan. 6, and will be succeeded by Mr. R. F. Ballard.—Mr. Rezin Cooper married a lady from Smithfield, Monday. Rev. H. F. Fox performing the ceremony. — Mrs. Mary Burk of New York City is visiting her mother, Mrs. Sarah Brown, at the Holocaust Memorial, Lambton W. Va., public schools, is visiting her parents.—A large audience listened to the Christmas cantata, sung by the choir at St. James A. M. E. church, Sunday evening. --- the federal courts on the charge of fraudulent war contracts—N. Y CANNON A DELEGATE-AT-LARGE Trenton, N. J.—The Republican State Committee met here, Dec. 18, and "suggested" the seven Republican candidates for delegates-at-large to the Republican National Convention. For the first time in the history of this state an Afro-American was named as one of the delegates-at-large. Dr. George E. Cannon of Jersey City defeated Dr. Walter G. Alexander who afterwards was named as alternate delegate-at-large. Dr. Cannon's candidacy was strongly supported by Hon. Oliver Randolph, assistant U. S. district attorney, and former Hon. Oliver Randolph. member of the N. J. legislature. He is the father of this state's antichlamming or mob violence law, like the law, a copy of Ohio's famous law Pearl LeVan Allen Sugi' New York City — A suit has been instituted by Mrs. Pearl LaVen Alen against George W. Allen for $50,000, and papers were served by her attorneys, Mrs. Lillian Story Griffin and Miss K. C. Johnson, on Dec. 17. Mrs. Allen charges that her husband maliciously prosecuted her and sought to ruin her character. In the Domestic Relations Court, the same day, Allen was ordered to pay the expense of medical attention for his wife, who was at Joseph's hospital, where she was interroging treatment. Mrs. Allen is said to be a native of Toledo, O. HIO NEWS OLD RELIABLE" S CORRESPON DENTS going Each Week—Church, Literary and Musical— Deaths, Etc. HILLSBORO.—Mrs. Ona Lewis of Springfield spent the holidays here with her mother.—R. Callender of Canton was the guest of Cleona Carlisle, Sunday.—Alfred Waters of Springfield spent Xmas here with his mother.—Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Neuman of Greenfield were holiday guests of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Jones.—Mrs. Mary McGinnis of Dayton visited relatives here, this week.—Rosetta Nelson, Arnita Burr and Helen Johnson, Wilberforce students, are home to spend their vacation.—Mary E. Williams spent her vacation at Tuskegee, Ala.—Mrs. Ella Gee and daughter went home to Mrs. Ella Gee and vacation Mrs. Mellie Carlisle and family relatives in Zaneville during the holidays.—Lorenzo Holland. Indianapolis spent Xmas here with his parents.—Mrs. Hannah Pleasant and Miss Helen Woods spent Xmas in Chicago with the former's daughters. YOUNGSTOWN. — The Civic League's Xmas dinner and treat at B. T. W settlement, for the benefit of the mothers and babies of the clinic, was a delightful affair. About 77 participated. — Rev. J. A. Robinson of Columbus, evangelist, preached, Sunday, at Third Baptist church, on Monday, at Miss Florence Wright's — Mrs. J. I. White and son, Joe, left, Monday, for Franklin to spend the holidays with relatives. — Mrs. Carrie Dennitt, of Beaver, Pa., spent the week-end with her cousins, Mr. and Mrs. J. W. McFarland, stop 26. Sharon line, having been called by his illness. — The Booker girls' basket-ball team will begin a series of games eight --- SINGLE COPY FIVE CENTS One of the Most Remarkable and Truthful Statements to Ever Appear In Print—Milholland a Great Friend of the Race. Washington, D. C.—The Republican National Committee met in Washington, D. C. Dec. 11, and one of the strongest arguments in behalf of our people ever made anywhere was brought to the attention of the Committee in the open letter of that outstanding Republican, the Hon. John E. Milholland of New York was invited to serve as secretary of the Republican National Committee. This letter had the most potent effect in reinforcing the argument of Senator George Wharton Pepper in the matter of the reconsideration of the report of the sub-committee concerning the reduction of southern representation in the Republican National Convention. It is the keenest analysis yet made against any political conditions affecting the Afro-American. The letter, as drafted by Mr. Milholland and sent to each member of the executive committee of the Republican National Committee and forwarded to all of the press bureaus, was as follows: John T. Lafayette, Dec. 10, '23 Hon. John T. Adams, chairman Republican National Committee, Munsey Bldg., Washington, D. C. My dear Mr. Chairman. The Republican party should be continued in the power of administering this government. It is in the best interests of the country that this should be so, because the Republican party is the most fit agency to protect and develop the United States and to rehabilitate a wrecked civilization such as now confronts the world, with no end in sight of the unparalleled demoralization. I want to see Republicans win in the coming national election. Their success is of transcendent importance and because it is and because the outlook is far from satisfactory. I venture to address the our current issues in this way, at the threshold of our liberations, recognizing you as the responsible managers of the Republican party. In the forty years that I have been a participant in Republican activities never have I seen the prospects more uncertain or more unsatisfactory. The situation has been made even more precarious by the announced intention of the Republican National Committee to cut down the representation of southern states in the national convention, thereby offending and alienating hundreds of thousands of loyal Negro voters in the pivotal states of the North and West who rightly regard such action as not only a flagrant departure from truly Republican principles and traditions but a serious challenge to race prejudice and "ill-whites" actually placing a premium upon the disfranchising laws of the southern states which are in shameful defiance of the Constitution—are a fraudulent restraint upon liberty—render representative government ridiculous and so intended by their authors. This is said without the slightest desire to indulge in any unwarranted criticism or conventional misgiving or to sound any unnecessary notes of alarm. As fellow-workers, eager for party harmony and party success—with all of our intense partisanship we must recognize that, after all, good government, i. e. the widest possible dispensable justice and liberty, is a world without any prejudice, a world without any forts. Three years ago Warren G. Harding was elected President of the United States by 7,000,000 new York City was lost to Mayor Hylan by nearly a quarter of a million votes. As the national administration had been foolishly drawn into the local fight by identification with the most unpopular traction issue, it suffered accordingly and Warren Harding's administration sustained its first humiliating defeat. A year later the same local issue came up again in the state election and again the Republican national party was dragged into it with an even more disastrous result—the majority of Governor Smith being half a million! The result is that we have to face the pivotal moment fact that the great pivotal commonwealth of New York which was established overwhelming tidal waves in 1920, day in the Democratic column with all the significance attached to the fairly well established slogan, that rests on more than mere tradition: "As New York goes, so the Nation." Is that not, Mr. Chairman, cause for a certain amount of healthy IN UNION IT IS STRONGER ide? American Party! and "Analyzes" The Party And The American. and Truthful Statements to —Milholland a Great the Race. anxiety on the part of every clear-visioned Republican? Is such management not a matter of grave concern? Doesn't it make you think twice? You may say that the man who carried New York against us, Governor Smith, of that commonwealth, will not be nominated by his party, because of his religious faith and the lioness question, but while that may be true is too shallow an argument to put forward because "AI" Smith on the Democratic ticket as anti-prohibition candidate for President or Vice President, is a very important factor, and every one of you know it. I can well remember when the question of electing a catholic, even as mayor of New York, was considered extremely hazardous. I have seen catholic after catholic in that position, as I have seen them in the United States Senate, in the cabinet and on the supreme court, until I heard Governor Smith himself say that the Governor "No one is troubled about my church affiliations, except the catholic themselves." The Negro Vote But there is another factor in the New York situation which Republican leaders seem to have overlooked entirely. I refer to the Negro vote. Formerly, this was reckoned from one hundred to one hundred and twenty-five thousand votes; but with five hundred thousand colored people, who have come from the South in the last few years, this vote has been swelled to nearly double that number—it is approximately two hundred thousand. This is supposedly a Republican asset, but clever Democratic leadership is rapidly converting it into a Republican ability, and an asset of Democracy. You can see at this point look at the facts. Tammann Hall eased Negro to the board of aldermen in the last local election. Another was sent to the legislature, and both were chosen out of Republican strongholds, which went all to pieces last year. The appointing and electing colored men get starling results. In the Harlem "black belt" no Republican mass meetings worth mentioning were held. "Al" Smith swept everything before him. It soaked as though he might do so again. At all events Republican leadership is giving him an encouragement in the campaign, which he is steadily carrying over at a rate that is not surprising. Many years ago, out of my experience the eastern secretary of the Republican National Committee, I wrote, or rather compiled a pamphlet, for it was a matter of official facts and indisputable tabulated statements from the records. In that publication I showed what the United States owed to the Negro vote since the war, inasmuch as it had given the Republican party every victory it had won on the political battlefields since 1868, when Grant and "coffax" shattered the hopes of the Democratic party, who, under the leader of the war, a failure and all that sort of rebel chatter. From that campaign down to the present hour, except in two instances, this has held true. The two instances were: Roosevelt's overwhelming victory, the other that of the landslide which swept Harding into office by a majority unprecedented in American history. Since Harding's election, however, the situation has changed materially. With a scorn of consequences unparalleled, unsurpassed by any people of color, since little Japan stood up in reckless defiance of colored unjustus prizes. Negro hardiness self-esteem unequaled in his history as the faithful ally of the Republican party. This remarks needs no illustration, particularly to you, for you know all about the defeat of Senator Freleng-hysen over in New Jersey, because he failed to take a satisfactory stand on the Dyer bill and you know what happened over in Delaware to Congressman Lyton and United States Senator DuPont, although the latter had been looked upon as one of the strongest friends of the colored people. But I remind you of what happened a little further away, yet still more impressive in character. I refer to the overthrow of the Republican party in Chicago this spring and the important part in that overthrow played by the Negro one hundred of whose ministers handed themselves together to support the Democratic (Continued on Page 2) ```markdown ``` 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 Cleveland, Ohio, as second-class mail matter Address all communications to HARRY C. SMITH Editor and Proprietor TLE GAZETTE (Bell Thone: Cherry 1259) 214-215 Blackstone Bldg., 1426 W. Third St., Cleveland, Ohio Member Ohio Legislature: 1894 to 1896; 1896 to 1898; 1900 to 1902 THE GAZETTE is the oldest and has the largest bona fide circulation, double that of any newspaper in the interest of Afro-Americans published in the state of Ohio, and comparison with any will immediately establish its rank as one of the NEWSIEST AND BEST in the country. Happy New Year to all of our readers. A white hotel keeper and an Afro-American employee were lynch-murdered at Marlow, Oklahoma, Dec. 17, '23, because the former persisted in employing the latter. That state is K. K. kidden. --- Last week, a Des Molnes, Iowa, jury of whites convicted Sam Elman, proprietor of a theater, and penalized Patrolman Thiel, both "white", for the ejection of Mrs. Norman Blagburn because she refused to vacate a seat Elman had set apart for "white" patrons. Hurrah! for "Sister" Blagburn. Let all of our people fight in the courts for their rights! --- In spite of the fact that almost all of the employees at the Tuskegee U. S. Hospital for our veterans are Afro-Americans, and that only a few whites remain, it is declared that the conditions under which our three hundred employees live is "extremely humiliating and almost unbearable." White employees, without regard to the positions they hold, have better quarters than our physicians and administrative officials, etc. Dr. Griffith ("white") is head of the hospital. He should not be. Tell it to President Coolidge. HELPING THE DEMOCRATS. The radicals of Congress apparently are governed more by a desire to prevent the Republican majority from exercising its will than by their own so-called "principles". When they find themselves unable to accomplish their own private objects, they appear satisfied if they can throw their voting strength to the Democrats and thus defeat the aims of the Republicans, on whose platform most of them obtained their election to the senate or house. Such tactics may be justified in their own eyes, but the public at large is governed by different ideas of fair play. SIGN OF PROSPERITY While it is true that the United States is now importing more foodstuffs than it is exporting, the fact should not be overlooked that the imports are of commodities which we cannot produce in this country, particularly coffee, tea, spices and tropical fruits. The list also includes a large quantity of sugar, which we could produce if the sugar beet industry were developed to the extent that it sometime will be. In the case of most foodstuffs which can be produced here, the Republican protective tariff prevents large importations to the injury of the market of the home producer. THE OUTLOOK BLACK! The murder of Mrs. Georgia Woodward, age 28, in her home at 2257 E. 49th St., last week Friday night, was committed by a man thought to be a relative, who was searching for his wife. Upon Mrs. Woodward's continued assertions that she did not know the whereabouts of the wife, the man, witnesses say, shot her at close range with the heavy gauge shotgun. The gun, dropped in the front yard by the murderer in his flight, is in the hands of police. Later, the same night, there was so much "gun play" in ward 11, between E. 31st and E. 29th St., that one was reminded of the fourth of July. What is going to be the condition in the Cedar-Central-Scovill-Woodland Ave. district in 1924 and 1925, one can readily imagine. The old gang goes back into political power, Jan. 7, 24, and the underworld in that section of the city has been grimming and waiting impatiently for the change to come ever since the recent election. Lord, have mercy on the hundreds of good people, who have to live there, if our ministers and churches in the section continue to refuse to make any efforts whatever to improve the miserably immoral conditions that even now exist to an alarming extent. THE RUSSIAN DEBT TO US. One of the reasons given by President Coolidge for non-recognition of the soviet government was its failure "to recognize that debt contracted with our government, not by the czar, but by the new formed Republic of Russia." That debt amounts to about $235,000,000. Here is a presidential utterance that may well be pondered by other nations indebted to the United States. The same reasoning that denies recognition to Russia for non-acknowledgment of her debt could be applied to withdrawal of recognition from any other country for similar cause. Leading statesmen of both France and Italy have openly asserted that their governments would not pay their American obligations, and other smaller debtor countries have exhibited an apathy that opens their credit to very serious question. We do not recommend or suggest that friendly relations with any of them be severed; nevertheless, Mr. Coolidge's reference to the Russian debt carries a pointed meaning to all of them. THE REPUBLICAN PARTY. THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, O. SATURDAY, DEC. 29, 1922. REMEMBER, PAY MONDAY, USED TO SING OH, PROMISE ME! WHEN WE WERE YOUNG? NEP. SALLIE'S STEADY IS IN THE PARLOR I HOPE HE SINGS SOME OLD LOVE DONGS! THE POOR BOY MUST HAVE GONE DIPPY IM WILD ABOUT YOU, KIDDO, WHEN YOU DO THAT BUNNY HUG! HIS FAMILY CAN'T KNOW OF HIS AFFLICTION OF ALL THE CHILDREN IN THE COOP, YOU'RE THE ONE I LOVE THE BEST! I HOPE THE DOCTOR CAN CURE HIM! WHEN YOU PLAN THAT DISH RAG TUNE! ALL LOVE YOU WHEN THE CROSSAGE SPROUTS AHEAD! President Grover Cleveland insisted being held by a Negro, though he had enough strength at one time to decide a presidential nomination, and now he is before you to plead for what?—that you will not make yourselves a party to the Democratic effort; to that Democratic crime by which he Negro suffrage is destroying the Constitution of the United States, and the Constitution of the United States comes a hollow mockery of the supreme law. The Republican party for forty years has pledged itself to right this monstrous 'wrong', but it hasn't even cut down the Democratic representation in Congress and in the electoral college, as commanded by the Constitution and now you are actually debating, today, whether you will still further outrage the rights of the colored voters; rights to which they are, as President Coolidge said the other day in his memoirs, the committee of the Republican National Committee. They will not follow the Republican party in blind faith for their fathers have done and if they are going to get anything out of the South they realize that they must do it through their own efforts. Their own efforts lead them to take the obvious way, that is, to cross the border line to the North where there is plenty of work, their wages paid in good cash and very little lynching or bad treatment to worry about. Our case is so simple that every same policy or strategy is still wondering what under En caused the Republican leadership to place itself in the hands of the "illy-white" Republican gang of the South and trust its future to such an insurance agency of overwhelming defeat in the convention, and political annihilation at the polls. I repeat does the Republican I repeat does the Republican party intend to commit suicide? Sincerely yours, John E. Millholland. Doings Of The Race John C. Jordan, who retired from the U. S. navy after twenty-nine years as chief gunner's mate, the highest rank possible for an Afro-American to reach in the U. S. navy, died and was buried, Dec. 14, '23. Among our title-holders, this year, are: DeHart Hubbard of the University of Michigan who set a new collegiate record of 25 feet and two inches in the running broad-jump; Phil Granville, Afro-Canadian; and Sevenville walk-champion, and Sasak Langford, the veteran pugilist, who became heavyweight champion of Mexico as the climax of a remarkable ring career of twenty years. Roland Hayes, our leading tenor soloist, recently returned from a triumphant concert tour abroad, was soloist for the Boston Symphony orchestra, recently, in concerts in Boston and New York City and with the Detroit Symphony orchestra in that city on Dec. 9, '23. Miss Marian Anderson, our contralto extraordinary, of Philadelphia, was soloist for the Boston Symphony orchestra on Dec. 16, '23. "O we are coming." Slowly, it is true, but "coming" just the same. In London, England, a few weeks ago, an Indian, a dark man from British India, was plaintiff in a suit against a white woman. The foreman of the jury wanted, right or wrong, to decide the case in favor of the white woman. He asked the Court if he might take into consideration the color of the plaintiff. The judge gave a color and a scale. Solely harrier practicing in London promptly stopped him and sent him into the street. Since the above incident, there has been pronounced a very important judgment in Pretoria, South Africa. Chief Justice Krause has decided that certain regulations of a mining company were illegal because they discriminated between white and colored men. This decision was given in a South African court of appeal in which three justices sat aboard the decision. But the color bar to many things out there is illegal and repugnant to the spirit of the law.—Eng. in N. Y. Age. WEALTHY WHITE WOMAN Says Her Husband Offered Her $150,000. A Negro Gamblers. Los Angeles, Cal.—Elsier Lamate (white), motion picture and theatrical director, tried to make his wife accept $150,000 as her share in his plan to sell her to a wealthy Negro gambler, Lou Harris Baker of Juarez, Mexico, for $500,000, according to the amazing charge contained in a divorce complaint filed in 1970. Lamate, the Lamate of Long Beach. She asks for part of her husband's $400,000 estate and names Mrs. Mary Ells Howe Holder, widow of a Dallas (Tex.) banker, as co-respondent. RACE PREJUDICE "I am convinced myself that there is no more evil thing in this present world than race prejudice; none at all! "I write deliberately—it is the worst single thing in life now. It justifies and holds to together more baseness, cruelty and abomination than any other sort of error in the world." —H. G. Wells. DO YOU KNOW WHY --- The Old Songs Are Never Pinked? EXPLORER FINDS CIANT'S SKULL IN SOUTH AMERICA Brings Back Bones of Men Who Lived Fully Four Thousand Years Ago Ancient Operations Captain J. Campbell Besley has arrived in New York from his second expedition in South America, bringing a number of scientific trauses, including the skull owl a human being who must have been eight feet in height. Other curiosities of great interest were human skulls thought to be four or five thousand years old, on which trepanning operations had been performed. These were found in Bolivia, in the Inca ruins. "A tradition among the Indians of Peru and Boliva makes the ancient race a race of giants," said Captain Besley. "This may be a legend which weighed between 100 and 200 tons. It might be that we stumbled upon an isolated giant who was as much a wonder when he lived as he would be today." Skulls trapped by sawing out a square section, fitting metal through it and replacing that section, were found before by excavators in Peru and Boliva. The particular interest in the trapped skulls found by the Besley expedition is that they are thought to belong to prehistoric periods and to show that some surgical skill existed in South America thousands of years ago. INTERESTING NEW INVENTIONS Electrical Apparatus Gives Warning of Thunderstorms An electrical apparatus recently invented gives warning of the approach of a thunderstorm several hours before any clouds appear. It is operated somewhat like a small wireless plant. There are receiving attenue, or wires, which are affected by the faint impulses from electrical disturbances in the vicinity. These impulses cause the closing of the alarm clock circuit. At first the signals are far apart, but as the storm approaches the bell begins to ring continuously. The device is used to warn electrical companies to increase their lighting power. To protect automobilists from rain and wind a Wisconsin inventor has patented a waterproof skirt which snaps into place with steel springs at the waist and ankles. For emergency exits in public places a Chicago man has invented a door with panels so mounted that pressure at any point opens the latch and permits the door to swing outward. To facilitate milking of cows there has been invented a substantial can that also serves as a stool, the milk being drawn into a long-necked funnel. A simple device invented by a Seattle, Wash., man prevents the accumulation of rain, mist or tog on windshields of automobiles. The invention, which is operated by hand, resembles a cylinder, about twelve inches long, and has a handle. A strip of rubber is attached to one side, and this is rubbed over the surface of the windshield, removing all water and mud. By turning a little screw at the end of the device a felt surface saturated with a mixture of oil and four other ingredients is exposed. This is drawn across the glass and applies a solution which prevents the accumulation of water or fog. On a new kind of saw the teeth are arranged in alternate groups—four pointing downward and then four pointing back. The saw cuts either wood or metal and is made in a variety of shapes. For cutting metal it is said to be twice as efficient as saws of the usual pattern. The blades do not break as easily. EXPERIMENTS IN DEEP MINE Rocks Spilled In Shaft Fail to Hit Bottom. Mile Below. Instructors at the Michigan College of Mines have been conducting interesting experiments in the deep shafts of the copper mines of the Calumet region. It had been noticed that in the shafts at the Tamarack mine, if some are or rock were spilled near the surface, men working in the bottom of the shaft a mile below were not much bothered and sometimes only observed "a little dust." It is even stated that a car of car broken rock could be dumped into the shaft without injury to men directly beneath, a mile down. The reason is that the rock would not fall straight in the vertical shaft, but would lodge in the sides of the timbers which protrude in the sides of intervals. In the experiments, two metal balls were dropped into the center of the shaft and an attempt was made to catch them in a box of clay at the bottom. One ball was never found, the other landed in the east wall of the shaft, only a few hundred feet below the surface. It is explained that the earth, revolving from west to east, kept the ball from falling straight down in the hole. A San Francisco undertaker was built a funeral automobile the tearcies thirty-seven persons in addition to a casket and ample space for flowers. In newly invented shackles, convicts sent cut do do road work can walk around at will. If they try to run the Most Cherished among the Gifts bestowed by the Passing Year is the memory of the pleasant relations with those whom we have been privileged to serve. And so it is most sincerely that we wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year PORO COLLEGE Mr. and Mrs. Malone PORO COLLEGE 4300 ST. FERDINAND AVE ST. LOUIS MO. PORO HAIR AND TOILET PRODUCTS Astounding Performances of Miracle Workers No Longer Awe the General Public PRIME SPORT NEWS Boykin Trims a Chilean Champion. Buenos Aires — Joe Boykin, sparring partner for Luis Angel Firpo, on Dec 15, 23. defeated Clementa Saavedra, the Chilean heavyweight round in a bout that was to have gone 15 rounds. Boykin is an Afro-American. Battling Siki Loses to Taylor. Philadelphia, Pa.—Jack Taylor of Omaha, Neb. Afro-American heavyweight, was given the decision over Battling Sikl, the Senegalese pugilist, in a ten-round bout here, Xmas day. Sikl, who apparently was not in the best of condition, forced the fighting in the first five rounds and there were numerous stiff mixups in which wicked punches were exchanged. Then Sikl's lack of condition began to tell and he was forced to hold frequently during the remainder of the contest. When Sikl started to slow up, Taylor took the offensive, hitting the Senegalese of hard and often. At the end of the fight, he closed and blood was flowing from his mouth and nose. Taylor weighed 180 and Sikl 1771-2. In the semi-final Lew (Kid) Lewis of Bridgesport, Conn., won the judges' decision over Pedro Campo, Filipino, in a hard ten-round bout. Ban on Mixed Bouts Lifted Philadelphia, Pa.—The Pennsylvania State Athletic Commission, at the request of Attorney General Woodruff, decided on Dec. 18 to suspend temporarily its ruling prohibiting mixed bouts in this state until the Department of Justice has an opportunity to examine the legal phase of the matter. The suspension of this ruling was in a large measure due to the fight made by Commissioner Charles Fred White, the Afro-American member of the commission, who contends that the ruling is illegal, and he is undoubtedly right. The attorney general will meet the commission in the next ten days and the legality of the ruling will be decided soon afterward. Wills—Madden—Dempsey New York City.—There is a probability of Harry Wills and Bartley Madden "mixing it up" at Madison Square Garden soon after the first of the year. The result is that prejudiced local newspaper reporters have already commenced to "throw fits" in their slush to local and other American newspapers for which they write, trying to stop it. Madden is "white." With the help of Bill Muldall, head of the N. Y. boxing commission, who goes out of office, Jan. 1, '24, they have managed to stop all heavyweight-mixed bouts in this city and state for about two years and thus save (at least during this time) Dempsey his heavyweight pugilist crown. But the end of this is apparently now in sight. Harry Wills cannot much longer be denied a chance at Jack, especially if this Wills-Madden bout is permitted, and that is what is worrying the aforementioned prejudiced "sport writers." Too bad, isn't it. Mixed bouts between bantams, featherweights, lightweights, etc., are held and there is no good reason why mixed bouts between heavyweights should not be held also. The majority membership of the state boxing commission will be Democratic after Jan. 1, '23. The present prejudiced commission headed by Muldall supposes, "mily-white" suppose. David Walsh ("white") of this city, who writes a daily syndicate sport-news letter for a number of daily papers thrust out the country, sent out the following for Monday of this week: "Perhaps, also a Dempsey-Wills bout has been deemed an excellent medium toward restoring public confidence in the game. It would be the most popular move the commission could make, not because white men wish to see Dempsey lose. They merely stand for fair play to all, and it is notorious that Harry Wills has been given the garlic. The present commission has been guilty of side stepping, straight-arming, reversing the field and all the broken field tricks in dealing with the Wills issue. It has made a political weapon of a great sport. Only a return of the policy of sport for sport's sake will restore the game to its proper level." Battling Sikt's Itinerary New York, City.—Battling Sikit light heavyweight champion pugilist of the world ever since his spectacular and unexpected defeat of France's idol, Georges Carpentier, is booked for the following ring engagements in the immediate future: Detroit, Jan. 1; Buffalo, Jan. 7; Grand Rapids, Mich., Jan. 14; New Orleans, Jan. 21; Havana, Jan. 28. Manager Levy says, if Sikit shows up properly in these bouts he will match him for another go in Madison Square Garden where Sikit is very popular as a result of his recent content there even tho he lost. Dr. LeROY N. BUNDY, Dentist, Guaranteed and Efficient Work! Extraction with Gas Administered. Twenty Years’ Experience The "St. John’, Cor. E. 40th St. & Central Avenue a xcellent Service Hours: 9 to 12, 1 to 6, 7 to 8 Sundays by Appointment : TRY OUR EASY PAYMENT PLAN! Sian J. LOMSKY $820 Central Avenue Wwe full line of * “Dey Goods” Ladies’ and Gents’ Fur- nishings Pema MRS.L.S. BRADLEY 8241 Preble Ave. Cleveland, O. 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Business men who adver | tise in this paper should have the patronage of our people. The | fact that they advertise is assurance that they want it. All reading matier for publication in current issues of The Gazette must be in the office by 4 p. m., TUESDAY of that week, | at the latest, Display advertisements accepted until noon, WED: NESDAYS! . HARRY C, SMITH, 215 Blackstone Bldg. | Cor. W. Third 8, and Frankfort Ave., Cleveland, 0. Notary Public Bell "Phone: Cherry 1250 | alread a ae | Classified Advertising *.*. Department .°. WANTED,.—Stenographer; one Pag lod gry et ge Bee cae els ee ons oe Mal Solupas emacs ore write rapidly. Call, Ontario 1259, I tne afiarebon at once CLEVELAND Social and Personal ‘Love not sleep, lest thou cone] { ie paw Pee seas’ ‘Mr. and Mrs, Monroe Williams, E. 84th St., have a baby girl, born’ re- cently. Horace Roller, B, 28th St., was called to New York City, recently, by ithe iliness of a relative. Major and Mrs. W. T. Anderson will spend the rest of the winter in California. George Hooper will join his family there, next month. St. John’s choir will give its 18th recital, Sunday afternoon, from 4 to 5 o'clock. The Christmas portion of Handel's beautiful “Messiah” will be sung. All seats free. Lonnie Curtis says he ts as expert a chauffeur as any of them and we are inclined to belleve him, knowing him so long and so well. John Clifford says there, is no truth in the marriage rumors, being circulated, with him as the central figure. He is telling all to wait un- til they see it in “The Old Reliable.” ‘Then they can believe it Do not wait for the collector, but call, send or mail at once your sub- seription money, or whatever you owe The Gazette, so as not to miss a single copy of “The Old Reliable.” ‘Tho 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. ‘One of the most competent and courteous opticians in the city is H. L, Mandel, 2075 B. 4th St., just north of Prospect Ave. When in need of glasses, or the services of an eyesight spécialist, be sure to go to Mr. Mandel and you will be thoroughly satisfied and pleased — Ady. A woman with an open knife In her hand and dressed only in her nightgown, chased a man into Cen- tral Ave. ‘and back down E. 30th St., about six o'clock in the ‘morn- ing, Wednesday, the day following Christmas. Our ministers and churches in that section of the city better “wake up.” ‘This has been a great week at Phillips chapel, 2633 E. 634 St. Dr. G. M. Knoble, pastor, prepared a fine program for last Sunday and every evening since. Sunday. Dr. D. A. Walker, P. E., will preach, morning and evening, and the loly com- munion will be administered. Watch meeting services Monday night. All welcome, One cause for action in a divorce case is to go right up to a large drum in a theater and give it a swift kick. ‘This was the basis of allegations made by Charles F. Rose, B. 46th St., who, last week, sued’ his wife, Phenelia Rose, E. 33d St,, for a divorce. Judge George Baer granted Rose a divorce on his testimony that Mrs. Rose had kick- ed his drum while he was beating It in the Globe Theater. Among the many Clevelanders ‘who will motor to Columbus to at- tend the national convention of the alpha Phi Alpha fraternity are: Bl- mer Cheeks, Dr. and Mrs. Benj. K. Smith, John D. Wilkerson, Dr. and Mra, Charles Garvin, Dr. and Mrs. J. D. Stewart, Dr. Martin Crawford, Jarret Chavous, Garret A. Morgan, Dr. and Mrs. Leon Evans, C.K: Wilkins, Atty. Perry B. Jackson, THE GAZETiU, CLEVELAND, 0. SATURDAY, DEG 29, 1923. rd "Phone, Randolph 534 STEAM HEAT SAUNDERS HOUSE LODGINGS AND DINING SERVICE HOME COOKING Mrs. Pearlie Rivers, Proprietor 2364 EAST 55TH ST. CLEVELAND, 0. ae Frwseannon) (Aa) go ‘SMF Sue ut i ec (es) Yroecons!/ 7 i J Ms ‘woven Heeen TO) | JT wonoes e on eee eu) loop! as ae ke Lb es THE OLD FOLKS it wens SUOOER, Seen rhe: = leak? | PASS EEE bi ‘a, reson ee ieee / feos Tee ayes. fo, la AW Be OTe eas ine oe Cha XS & Gs SEN) ¢i 2 ; Le le) \y L fy < \ \\ Gf See es RS, 7 BS va bee se eoe en Se FE 2 Nie ee is a aeons et E= = ner en ~ Seal : bees aot Mr, and Mrs. George Cohron, Em- mer Lancaster, Francis E. Young. The editor of The Gazette ac knowledges the receipt of a card ‘bearing a good portrait of the may- or and the following: “The city’s last mayor extends to you the sea- son's greetings and wishes you a most happy and prosperous New Year. (Signed) Fred Kohler, may- or, Cleveland, Ohio.” Thanks, Mr. Mayor, for the remembrance. More than a thousand persons saw the basket-ball game and par- ticipated in the dance at Eagles’ hall, E. 55th St., last week Monday evening. The fast Loendi club easily defeated the Acmes, 66 to 22, bul the local boys put up a game fight. ‘The Pittsburg aggregation is one of the most perfect teams in the country. All of its players are paid. The Acme Association is ap- preciative of the fine patronage given it. Benjamin Fambrough, convicted, last week Monday, as one of the slayers of Patrolman Frank Koran, Nov. 25, 1921, was taken to the Ohio state penitentiary, Columbus, last, week, Friday, to start a life sentence which carries no hope of pardon. The jury found him guilty Of first degree murder, but recom: mended ‘mercy. A motion ‘for 3 new trial was argued, Saturday, by his attorney, Alfred A. Steurer,” be fore Judge John C. Hover. Fam. brough plead so pitifully just be- fore being sentenced, stoutly main- taining his innocence of the charge, that many who saw and heard him believe that he is not guilty. President Wm. R. Green, of the local branch of the N. A. A. C. P., has furnished The Gazette with a copy of the letters he sent The ‘Press and Chief Graul, and the lat ter’s reply to him anent The Press’ misleading publication, referred to several times in recent issues of The Gazette. Also his letter to The Press requesting a correction. They show that President Green was ac- Uve in the matter, too, and that he andthe organization should have credit for the same, as well a: Officers Jenkins and ‘Jones for th: arrests made. ‘The editor of The Gazette acknow!- edges the receipt of Christmas and New Year's greetings {rom the fol lowing: Dr. and. Mrs, Edward A Bailey, Atty. and Mrs. A. H. Martin, The Woodstock Typewriter Co., Mrs Lenora Craig, The Arlinghaus En- graving Co., Wm. H. and Lillian R. Thompson and The Peerless Letter Co., of this city; Mr. John T. Adams, chairman of the-Republican National Committee; Mr. C. A, Jones, private secretary to U. 8. Senator Frank B. Willis, Washington, D. C.; Mrs. Es- telle Clark-Mason, Willa A. Hender- son and Mr. and Mrs. William F. BO YOU KNOW WHY -- Telograns Cause Scenes Like This ? Taylor of Chicago; Mrs. Reba Doctor of Rome, Ga.; E. T. Banks ot Day- ton, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur J. Riggs of Springfield, Mrs. Margaret B. War- ren of Detroit, Pres. and Mrs. R. 8. Wilkinson of” our State College, Orangeburg, S. C., Royal A. Milton of Hampton, Va., the Misses Lucinda Cook and Anna Williamson of Wil- berforce, Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Malone of St, Louis, Mo., Mrs. Roberta Lee- gon, Mr. and Mrs. J. K. Nickens and the ‘Richi Printing Co., of Cleveland; Mr. and Mrs. John H. Cook of Wash- ington, D. C., and Mr. Harry D. Johnson of this city. Mr. and Mrs Cook also sent @ fie box of cigars and Mr, Jonson, two boxes of fine “smokes.” Many thanks, good friends, for the very Kind and thoughiful remembrances and the gitts. i The musteale extraordinary at ‘Triedstone Baptist church, last week ‘Thursday evening, given by Eugenia Brewer Mayo, assisted by leading Tocal talent, was a grand. success Mrs. Amanda Waddell, dialect read- er; Juanita Pearson, plano soloist; Helen Frye, reader; Prince L. Burks, tenor; Almeda Mallein, original poetess, and Earlean H. Jeffry, ac- companist, all acquitted themselves admirably, and were most generous- ly treated by a eritical audience. The star of the evening, however, was Eugenla Brewer Mayo, whose first number was Handel's “He Shall Feed His Flock,” recitative and air. from the “Messiah.” She followed with two groups of songs, one of “spirituals.” Among the latter was 8. Coleridge-Taylor's “Candle Light- ing Time,” this being done in dialect ang in costume with a baby, and with Dr. J. K. Nickens throwing a spot-light on the soloist, something new in concert work. Tt “took the house by storm.” The climax,, how- ever, came at the close of the pro- gram when Mrs. Mayo's exceptional- ly rich mezzo soprano volce burst forth In Giovanni Verdl's| magnit- cent aria, “O Don Fatale,” singing it In Italian, It was an exception- ally fine piece of concert work and both soloist and accompanist won great praise. Eugenia Brewer Mayo has certainly convinced the muste- loving of this community, beyond all question or doubt, that she is both church and concert singer of high degree, and that she Is versatile. Her stage appearance is excellent, too. PATRONIZE OUR ADVERTISERS CORRESPONDENTS WANTED. “The Old Reliable” Gazette desires 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. 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Race Bigots The Menace Of Both Europe And America "Those who set up the doctrine of the superiority of northwest Europe over south and east Europe are helping to divide Europe and are sowing seeds of future wars. Nothing is more dangerous than a self-delusion which under a moral pretense justifies immoral conduct," Rabbit Abba Hillel Silver declared in his sermon, last Sunday morning, at the Temple. "The world is in a state of shock and is readily thrown into panic even by fantastic reports," Rabbit Silver declared. "The most colossal scare of the western world today is the rising tide of color which threatens to inundate the white races. The fear of grouplandness. During the war Europe came very near utter collapse. The white people were destroying themselves and impoverishing their man power and resources. "The colored races behold the internal dissensions among the white peoples, and they grew restive under their subjection. There came to life a new and victorious Turkey, an expanding Japan, a revolutionary Egypt and India, and a pan Islamic movement for the union and progress of all Mohammedan peoples. "If Europe continues imperialistic rivalries which lead to war, competitive armaments which lead to revolution, and diplomatic intrigues which lead to chaos, it may very well come to pass that mastery will pass from the enfeebled hands of the white races of Europe to the warheaded and lethal civil peoples of the east. Asia has invaded Europe at least four times since the fall of Rome. It may do so again. "The way to avoid such a contingency is not through intensified efforts to keep the colored races in subjection. Such methods, suggested by Grant, Stoddard, Josey and others, based on unbridled racial AN ECHO FROM 1917 DISFRANCHISEMENT IN THE "SOLID SOUTH" Alabama recently enacted a law which prohibits any American citizen eligible for the Presidency from seeking support in Alabama for presidential nomination unless he be a citizen of that state. Alabama's action is the logical outgrowth of the system of disfranchisement of American citizens which previsals in every state of the Democratic "Solid States Constitution and in defiance of the principles of representative government. This constitutes the most malignant cancer upon the American body politic. It began shortly after the southern states admitted into the Union, upon their promise to observe and obey the American Constitution, by their disfranchising the Negro in defiance of the 14th and 15th amendments. Don't Throw It to a Friend conceit and Machlavallian cynicism, are wrecking Europe today. The exploitation of backward races is the most fruitful source of European wars. The subject peoples of the earth will not forever remain subject to feed the pretensions to imaginary excellencies of the so-called Nordics. "The colored races may be helped to civilization and independence and prosperity. They then will benefit themselves and the white races. Asia never need invade Europe or America. No land or continent is so overcrowded but that improved methods of agriculture and industrialization through machinery will not adequately support its population. "Race chauvinism ruined Germany. It will destroy Anglo-Saxon peoples. The way of salvation is not through exploitation of foreign people but through domestic reconstruction. The white races must forge competitive armament, interracial bickerings and war. They must work more and spend less. Luxury destroyed Rome. It will destroy America. "It may be said, in passing, that as far as civilization is concerned, up to 1500 A. D. the northwestern European peoples were negligible. Nearly, all they have today of art philosophy, religion and science or government they inherited from the Mediterranean countries and from Judea. And it is at least a debatable question whether Italy today hasn't an art which is as fine as England's, and Russia a literature as noble as Germany's. "It should also be remembered that the discovery and exploitation of the new-world, largely through the colonial enterprise of Mediterranean people, gave the north of Europe economic supremacy—and thereby also preposterous notions of inborn greatness." this action was denounced by the republican party. The right of the emancipated Negro to the ballot warp held by the Republican party. The South then proceeded to disfranchise white Republicans in southern states. Now the malignant forces which is turned loose threaten to turn upon the Democratic party itself. Having used the weapon of disfranchisement so successfully upon southern Republicans, both black and white Alabama Democrats now employ it to bulldog northern Democratic as pirants for the presidential nomination. But the evasive nature of the informal practice of disfranchisement confined to the southern states and visited only upon the heads of the Democratic party, the rest of the country would not be necessarily concerned, but such is not the case. The South claims and obtains representation in the United States House of Representatives on the basis of its Negro and white Republican population. But having used these for politics or obtaining seats in the House of Representatives in the Democratic process to refuse its Negro and its white Republican citizens the right to go to the polls and vote for representatives in Congress. Eighty members of the House of Representatives from the "Solid South" are holding their seats because by "shot-gun" policy and by dishonest and fraudulent elections the exercise of citizenship of a majority of their communities is prohibited. It is a plain statement of a disqualified fact that there are no inmates in the solid Democratic South for a quarter of a century. But the evil extends higher and further. A state vote in the electoral college is based on branches of Congress. The "Solid South" casts 114 electoral votes in every presidential election. Every body knows that these votes are sure to be cast for the Democratic nominee regardless of who he is or for what he stands. Everybody knows his is true because honest elections are necessary of who he is or for what he stands. Everybody knows there are certain states in the North which are battlegrounds every presidential campaign. If the Republicans, after an intensive fight, succeed in carrying New York, Indiana, New Jersey, Ohio, Nebraska and Wisconsin, they have succeeded to make the 114 electoral votes from the "Solid South" and they must go out and beat the Democratic party in the remaining northern states. Or, to put it another way, Democratic disfranchisement of Republican voters gives to the "Solid South" in every presidential election, without any contest whatever a sufficient number of electoral votes to wipe out the electoral votes of the Republican states of Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, Maine, Illinois, Iowa and Kansas. The Democratic party justifies its defiance of the Constitution, its disfranchisement of American citizens, its undermining of representative government, its pollution of elections, upon the ground that its action is necessary in order to have a "white man's government." If that be true then it should be limited in its representation in the House of Representatives and in the electoral college to the number of white men in the South who govern. That would give the South more control than the "white man's government" in the rest of the country. THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, O. SATURDAY, DEC. 29, 1923 Miracles of Surgery Men With Bullets in Brains Are Now Strong and Well and Suffer No Ill Effects Many a man walking about the streets of London today who was shot through the brain in South Africa. Many a lover, brother or husband is lying stricken on the Belgian field with a bullet in his heart or his head. A wife would have given him up for dead and wiped bitter tears over the loved one who would never return. But not so now. The modern surgeon—a miracle worker if ever there was one—has changed all this. His X ray and his lanctet are a few of the magic means of bringing the apparently dead to life and filling the heart of the home folk with joy near to bursting. It is certainly a crumb of comfort to a man about to fight for his country to know that in battle not one in every thousand projects of all descriptions and weight takes effect, but it is better to know that many of those which hit him in the head or body area, comparatively speaking, harmless. A remarkable case of this kind occurred during the South African campaign. Corporal Thomas, of the Worcester Mounted Infantry, was leading his pony up a hill at Arundel when a Boer, about four hundred yards away, fired at him and hit him four times. One bullet went through him in immediate proximity to the heart, and another passed through the upper part of the abdomen. Had this happened at Waterloo Mrs. Corporal Thomas would have been bereft of her husband and the Thomas children would have been orphans. But it was in South Africa, and Sir William McCormac was in attendance on the Corporal. He examined the patient and found no symptoms of internal injury to either the chest or the abdomen. The Corporal had a slight rise of temperature for three days, and a week later he was sitting in a train condemning the fate which transferred him down country "all one account of a little stiffness in my finger joints." Every surgeon who knows anything about his business can recall cases of recovery after the heart had been injured, and the army surgeon, most of all, knows that evea a bullet, lacering and destructive though M may be, is not always fatal. Men are alive today who carry in their hearts bullets which have made their home there. In the last campaign in Morocco a French soldier was wounded by a pistol ball, which lodged in the left upper chamber, or auricle, of the heart. For a week or two he walked about as if nothing had happened; then he began to feel the pain, and his breathing became difficult. The X rays were applied to his chest, and the bullet was seen lying embedded in the soft flesh of his heart and wagging like a pendulum at every beat of that organ. It was the work of an hour to get him in hospital, open the chest and extract the bullet, and long before the fighting ended the gallant trooper was out with his rifle again. When a bullet strikes the brain the brain sometimes wins. John McKenzie, a Crimean veteran, carried a bullet received in that campaign in his head to the day of his death, which occurred at Torquay in 189, and the only effect of it was to increase the power of his voice so that when he sang in the church choir it had a discordant effect. At Macsfortonville there was a wounded Boer, who was shot, while lying down, through the top of his head above the right ear. The bullet traveled through his skull and out at the back of his jaw on the left side. He was not pretty to look upon, but he made a marvelous recovery, which was the main consideration. While he was in South Africa Sir Frederick Treves came across many instances of what he called marvelous anatomical feats performed by the Mauser bullet, perhaps the most remarkable being those in which the bullet passed through the brain without causing more than trifling symptoms. The modern surgeon cures these wounds, and at the same time heals the broken hearts at home. Ideas. INTERESTING NEW II.VENTIONS Impossible to Tamper with New Envelope Without Detection. When an envelope just invented is put into use it will be impossible for persons to steam open others' letters without being detected. The new envelope has perforations along the edge of the flap. On the body of the envelope there are corresponding perforations. When the envelope is sealed these register, and any tampering shows. A Washington inventor has patented an adjustable tire which can be put on any wagon wheel. The tire is cut in two and the invention is welded in place in such manner that the tightening of a nut brings the tire closer to the wheel. A Japanese army surgeon has invented a machine run by electricity that grinds as many beans into flour in forty minutes as a man can grind by hand in a day. A sand, box for automobiles, like the familiar device on locomotives, to distribute sand under their tires to prevent skidding, has been patented by a Massachusetts inventor. Maybe a young man loses sleep rights wondering how he can win the only girl, when all he would have to do is ask her. 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 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. MOBS. 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 the authority and with 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 "lyching" 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, a mob, and with whips, obs, misses or in any other manner, may recover, as hereafter provided, a sum not to exceed one thousand dollars as damages from the county in which the assault is made. (93 v. 161 4.) Section 6281. A person assaulted and lynched by a mob may recover, from the county in which such an assault occurred, 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, manual labor, a sum not to exceed five thousand dollars. (98 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 minor children of such person so lynched, if any survive him, until such children are of legal age, and then be distributed to the survivors, share and share alike, the widow receiving an amount equal to a child's share, and the minor children surviving such decedent, such sum shall be distributed among the next of kin according to the laws of the distribution of the personality of an intestate. Such sum so recovered shall not be a part of the estate of such person so lynched, nor be subject to any of his liabilities. (93 v 162 6.) Section 6283. A person suffering death or injury from a mob attempting to lynch another person shall come within the provisions of this chapter. He or his legal representatives shall have a like right of action as one purposely injured or killed by the mob within the provisions of section 93. 192. 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 the costs of the court proceeding, next successive 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 fees in the action for such recovery. (93 v. 162 9.) Section 6287. The county, in which a lynching occurs, may recover the amount of a judgment and costs against it in favor of the legal representatives of a person killed or abducted. The county, in favor of the persons composing such mob. A person present, with hostile intent at such lynching shall be deceived a member of the mob and be liable to such action. (93 v. 162 10.) Section 6288. If a mob carries a prisoner into another county, or comes from another county to commit violence on a prisoner brought from such county for safekeeping, the county in which the lynching is committed may recover the amount of the judgment and costs from the county from which the mob came, unless there was an official court of such county in failing to protect such prisoner or dispurse such mob. (93 v. 163 11.) Section 6289. This chapter shall not relieve a person concerned in such lynching from prosecution for homicide or assault for engaging therein. (93 v. 163 12.) OUR OHIO CIVIL RIGHTS LAW Upon the request of many readers of The Gazette we print below the text of 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 accommodations, advantages, facilities or privileges thereof, shall be fined not less than fifty dollars nor more than five hundred dollars, or imprisoned not less than thirty days nor more than ninety days, or both. Sec. 12941. Whoever violates the next preceding section shall also pay not less than fifty dollars nor more than 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. Misled by the foolishly manufactured outcry for the passage of the Browne Act, the Akron Beacon Journal published an editorial to which the editor of The Gazette replied, calling its attention to the fact that the Ohio Civil Rights law was good law and did not need amending. The following letter from Judge Grant former presiding judge of the Court of Appeals of the Eighth District of Ohio, is self explanatory: --- Akron, O., April 25, 1919. Hon. Harry C. Smith. Editor The Gazette, Cleveland, O. My Dear Sir: Observing your letter in the Beacon-Journal, of this city, I venture to send you, under a separate cover, the Ohio Law Reporter of Feb. 3, last, containing the opinion of the Court of Appeals in the Puritan Lunch Co. vs. Leonard H. Forman, decided in Akron, last fall, in which a judgment for ($500) five hundred dollars was sustained. If the Beacon-Journal had known what was going on in its own town, there would have been no occasion for criticism editorially. THE LAW OF OHIO IS UNDER NO REPROACH, nor our courts and juries, in administering it. Not a word was said by the Beacon-Journal when the Forman case was reviewed. 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 contending, after over 1900 years of universal discrimination, and are winning over 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, "Negroes are not worthy of equal rights; they are by nature not white." They have no 'guts.' The world respects only those who resent and resist proscriptions for race. Let us be worthy of the abolitionists, worthy of our own fathers who have died in every war to vindicate the title of their race to equal liberty, and forever resist denial of rights in our native land, however long race discrimination may continue. To submit is to deserve contempt. — Boston (Mass.) Guradian. The YOUTHS COMPANION Whole Family so rich a variety of entertaining, informing, inspiring reading for all ages. 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