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FORTY-FIRST YEAR, No. 30. See us First for all Goods in our Line JOHN S. HALL Prices Reasonable. Satisfaction Guaranteed. JEWELER. AND OPTOMETRIST 8138 Central Ave., Cleveland, O. Prospect 3659 The Better Class of Music, Too! Fraternal Jewelry Co. J. H. Sears and R. U. Hall FINE WATCH REPAIRING AND ADJUSTING. STONE-SETTING AND ENGRAVING 3723 Scovill Ave. Ran. 7816 Cleveland, O. TRADE WITH US! Your Patronage is Appreciated Buy Your Columbia Records and Grafanolas Here. We take your old records in trade. Hear all the latest Beesie Smith records, 75 cents each. Expert repairing on all makes of Phonographs. Work guaranteed. ART MUSIC SHOPPE 2290 E. 55TH ST. NEAR CENTRAL AVE. THE BARNUM OF ALL COLORED ATTRACTIONS After The Minnows Always Comes The Whale THE FAMOUS Georgia Smart Set Minstrels (Two Popular Attractions Combined) 51 = PEOPLE = 51 Greatest Array of Colored Musical Comedy and Minstrel Stars Ever Assembled on One Company. GRAND STREET PARADE DAILY Special Selected Band Concert by the Noted Armory Con- cert Band Bafere Each Performance. BACK TO EARTH SANE POPULAR PRICES. Bargain Mat. 4:30 P.M. Sunday 35 55 85 Lower Floor $1.10 and 85c; Balcony 55c and 35c Note: As this attraction is selling out in all cities played, our patrons are advised to make reservations as early as possible, so they will not be disap- pointed. Box Office open daily after 2 P.M. IN UNION YOUR IS STRENGTH. FORTY-FIRST YEAR See us First for a JOHN Prices Reasonable. JEWELER A. 8188 Central Ave., Cleveland The Better Clar Sung by Florence Cole Tal Delmore, C. Carroll Clark a All the latest "Blues" and orchestrations. Victrola Repairing and M ments tonight here. WESTERN 8047 Central Fraternal J. H. Sears FINE WATCH REPAIR STONE-SETTING 3723 Scovill Ave. TRADE WITH Your Patronage is A Buy Your Columbia R Grafanolas Her We take your old reco Hear all the latest Bessie Sm pert repairing on all makes of ART MUS 2290 E. 55TH ST. FAMOUS GEORGIA SMART SET MINSTRELS 28TH ANNUAL TOUR Commence THE BARNUM C "After The Big Mid Night Show Sat. Night Geo 51 = Greatest Art St Special Sale BACK Lowe Note: As this attract advised to make reserva pointed. Box Office op FAMOUS GEORGIA SMART SET MINSTRELS 28TH ANNUAL TOUR THE GAZETTE The Show That Broke all Records In Chicago ESTABLISHED, AUGUST 25, 1883 And Issued Every Week on Time Since CLEVELAND, OHIO SATURDAY, March 15, 1924 Democracy FRESH OHIO NEWS WRITTEN BY "THE OLD RELIABLE" GAZETTE'S CORRESPONDENTS What Our People Are Doing Each Week—Chureh, Personal, Social, Lodge, Literary and Musical—Marriages, Deaths, Etc. LIMA—Mr. and Mrs. John Oglesbee buried their infant daughter, last week—Mrs. Anna Raymer of Springfield was here, last week—Mrs. Arthur Ray of New York and Mrs. Roby E. Malone of Clincinnati have returned home. They visited their parents, Mr. and Mrs. John A. King—Mrs. M. Wyman, natl. sec. Y. W. C. A. work out of New York, was here, last week, and met a number of persons preparatory (to opening a museum), Anna Crobbett was hostess to the Domestic Art and Library club, last Wednesday evening—Mrs. Emily Neuman of Wellington visited her daughter, Mrs. Clarabelle Robert, last week. CADIZ....Jrs. Margaret West has returned from a visit in Uhrlehsville—Mrs. Bernie Jackson died, Friday, after a lingering illness, and was buried. Sunday afternoon, from St. James A. M. E. church, Rev. R. L. Allen officiating—Mrs. Susie Nash of Columbus visited her aunt, Mrs. Kate Alexander, Sunday—Rev. Wm Tate will lecture, Friday evening, at Simpson chapel; Rev. A. L. Holland pastor—Mrs. Wm. Allen and Mrs. Wm. Barber of Wheeling were guest of Mrs. Samuel Turney—Rev. S. P. West visited Rew and Mrs. Allen encountre to Mr. Pleasant CORRESPONDENTS must mail all letters for publication at their 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. Lists of names, wedding presents, etc., obituary notices, inquiries for relatives and advertisements of all kinds, including items announcing entertainments to be held in the near future, must be paid for in advance at the rate of 25 cents a line, six words to a line. Our rates for display advertisements will be sent on application. FAMOUS GEORGIA SMART SET MINSTRELS 28TH ANNUAL TOUR March 17 ATTRACTIONS "The Whale" Set Bargain Mat. 4:30 P.M. Sunday 35 55 85 y 55c and 35c played, our patrons are they will not be disap- FAMOUS GEORGIA SMART SET MINSTRELS 28TH ANNUAL TOUR CADIZ.—Jrs. Margaret West has returned from a visit in Uhrichsville.—Mrs. Bermie Jackson died, Friday, after a lingering illness, and was buried. Sunday afternoon, from St. James A. M. E. church, Row. R. L. Allen officiating.—Mrs. Susie Nash of Columbus visited her aunt, Mrs. Kate Elexander, Sunday.—Rev. Wm. Tate will lecture, Friday evening, at Simpson chapel; Rev. A. L. Holland pastor.—Mrs. Wm. Allen and Mrs. Wm. Barber of Wheeling were guests of Mrs. Samuel Ramsey.—Row. S. P. West visited Rev. and Mrs. Allen enroute to Mt. Pleasant.—A number of relatives and friends from Hopedale were here to attend the funeral of Mrs. Bermie Jackson.—The A. M. E. S. attendance, Sunday, was 106. Collection, $5.40. The attendance of the Newark S. S. was 134. Collection $17.83. ```markdown ``` YOUNG & TOWN.—Revs. J. H White and W. J. Ingram of New Castle attended Monday afternoon's meeting at the B. T. W. settlement. The former read an interesting paper. A three weeks' union revival will begin in April, conducted by Rev. T. W. Mills, pastor of Zion A. M. E. church.—Troop 24 committee. Boy Scout. America, met at the B. T. W. March 3. The 1924 program was discussed and every member plodged himself to make it the best in the history of the organization. The troop has enrolled a number of new members. Luncheon was served. S. Johnson, chair. com.—A. Pitzholan Wallace, G. S. R. of A. Kitzholan Wallace, G. F. of Ada Johnson, G. W. F.; Mr. T. McAdams state deputy; Elmer C. Underwood, N. R. of Dunbar Lodge, all of Cleveland, were here. Sunday.—Rev. W. Hill preached his opening sermon at Third Baptist church, Sunday, and will conduct revival services, this and next week. HILLSHORO—Chas, R. Day, Mrs. Francis Harris, Mrs. Nancy Williams and Mrs. Alice Woods spent March 2 in Springfield with Mrs. Mary Kirtrell who is "quite ill." Her daughter, Mrs. Flora West, has been with her, several weeks.—Mr. Samuel Gravos is visiting in Cincinnati.—Mrs. John H. Johnson of Cincinnati was here. Saturday, with her grandmother, Mrs. Lonisa Young, who was seriously ill.—Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Blakey of Columbus were here, Sunday, guests of Mrs. M. Craig.—Harry Williams is very ill.—A musical program will be given, next Friday evening, at the Baptist church for the benefit of the M. S.; Mrs. J. J. Burr, pres. This will be your first opportunity to hear the Lincoln Glee club. Admission only ten cents. Do not miss this REAL treat.—Mr. and Mrs. Frank Jackson and Edward Dossa returned to Pittsburg, last Wednesday, and Miss Loretta Williams to Cleveland, Monday. HEAR! HEAR! FAMOUS GEORGIA SMART SET MINSTRELS COMING TO THE GLOBE THEATRE, NEXT WEEK Manager Bob Davis of the popular Globe Theatre has secured for the coming week what is without a question of doubt the largest as well as best attraction of its kind on tour this season. THE FAMOUS SMART SET MINSTRELS. The season to large attractions has meant combine. This also is true in the case of the Georgia Minstrels, known from coast to coast, and the ever popular Smart Set Company, which has always been one of our leading attractions. The greatest array of musical comedy and minstrel stars ever assembled in one company has been secured—fifty-one people are carried which include the Famous Armory Concert Band, which has always been one of the outstanding features of this attraction. It will head the big street parade, which is given daily, and also render a select concert of late musical numbers before each performance. Popular prices within reach of all will prevail. "The whole trouble. in a nutshell, is that the present-day trembling, cowardly Negro leader stands with the white man. Both are so lousy with selfishness and race-prejudice respectively, that they are rotten!" Thus wrote one of our readers, in a letter to the editor, received, last week. "More truth than poetry," too. MOUND BAYOU FOUNDER DEAD! As a Member of the Mississippi Constitutional Convention He Helped To Disfranchise Our People of That State Mound Bayou, Miss', Isaiah T. Montgomery, age 77, slave of Jeff Davis prior to the war of the rebellion, died. Mar. 5, at his home here, an exclusively "Norro" town which he founded, years ago. Mr. Montgomery served as a cabin boy under Admiral Porter of the federal fleet, which operated in the Mississippi river during the war. During reconstruction days he and his brother bought the Briarfield plantation from the Davis family and became owners where once they were slaves. One of his most famous cases in the Mississippi supreme court was over the Briarfield plantation, in which the Montgomerys lost. Isaiah was then backed by white men to found Mound Bayou, in the Mississippi delta. While serving as the leader in the town, he was a member of the Mississippi legislature for years, and was our only member of the Mississippi constitutional convention of 1890. He voted (in it) to disfranchise his own people of this state! Montgomery had been trained by Jeff Davis to be a private secretary and was well educated. PRIME SPORT NEWS Hampton's Big Meet, May 17 Hampton, Va.-Since the opening of Armstrong Field at Hampton Institute in 1922, it has been the custom to hold each year a big track and field meet, to which the various universities, colleges and high schools have sent representative teams. The third annual championship track and field meet will be held on Armstrong Field on Saturday, May 17. The meet is sanctioned by our Intercollegiate Athletic Association, which is a member of the National Collegiate Athletic Association. The meet this year has an added attraction for college athletes with exceptional ability. Those who win championships in the track and field events in this meet and who are of Olympic caliber will be eligible to compete in the sectional tryouts for the Olympic team. The three place winners in the sectional tryouts will be selected for the final tryouts to be held in Boston on June 13-14. This arrangement to select men who make outstanding records in the Hampton meet for the sectional tryouts has been approved by the secretary of the Olympic committee. The intercollegiate and high-school events for the meet this year will be as follows: Intercollegiate Events: 100-yard, 220-yard, 440-yard and 880-dash, dush, mile and 2-mile run. 120-yard high hurdles, 220-yard low hurdles, mile run, shot-out (16 lb.), javelin and disc throws, broad and high jumps, pole vault. Prizes for each event will be given as follows: gold medal for first place winners of each event; silver medals for second place winners; bronze medals for third place winners. Each member of the winning relay team will receive a prize. Winning relay team will receive a silver cup. Team scoring highest number of points will receive a handsome point trophy. HAITIAN EDITORS MISTREATED. New York City.—A letter from Le Tempus, a daily newspaper of Port au Prince, Haiti, made public, last week, charges that American officers had mistreated imprisoned Haitian editors. The letter, written by H. Berthoumlex, publisher of The Courrier Haitien, charges that Lieutenants Johnson and Edwards (white), chief and assistant chief, respectfully, of the American military prison, had entered the cells of Messrs. J. Jolibois, Jr., Guerin, Pierre-Paul, Petit, Savain and Lemaire, and had forced these gentlemen to strip naked. Furthermore, that these editors had been forced to spend entire days unsheltered in the full sunlight. M. Berthoumlex's letter was published in Le Tempus of February 20, 1924. Suos for Back Pay Washington, D. C.-Louise F. Denny, a teacher. In the high schools, has sued the District of Columbia for $2.246 alleged to be due her as back pay. Miss Denny, sister of Miss Pearl Denny, also a local school teacher, and former resident of Cleveland, O. recently won the right to be appointed a probationary teacher through a decision of the District Court of Appeals against the board of education, and now seeks to be reimbursed for salary from May 3, 1922, to Feb. 10, 1924. She is represented by Atty. James Easby-Smith and David Pine. Women Break With Klan Springfield, O.. March 12—Eight hundred members (white) of the local women's auxiliary of Ku Klux Klan announce they have broken with state and national klan organizations because officers are using the organizations to further "personal gain." SINGLE COPY FIVE CENTS It's Northern "Republican" Allies Are No Better. The Republican Party Is Being Punished, These Days, for Its Unholy Alliance With Southern Democracy To Disfranchise the Southern Negro— Teapot Dome! (Special to The Gazette) Jersey City, N. J.—The Democratic party without any platform to go before the country and smarting under the loss of four years ago with the loss of pap, has resorted to a campaign of lies and slander upon which it hopes to ride into office again. This campaign of slander and limnobonds has its roots in the south under the leadership of Helfin of Alabama, Harrison of Mississippi and Robinson and Caraway of Arkansas. There may be a slime of oil-polluting the country but it is not to be compared with the criminality, lawlessness and bloodshed which keep these same southern Senators in office. These loud-mouthed demagogues have brazenly defied the constitution, corrupted the franchise and abetted peonage in order that they may remain at Washington. It is typical of the south to appeal to lies and misrepresentation to get into office. The last fifty years the Democratic south has maintained a system of lies and a propaganda of villification of our people in order that it could unlawfully maintain that section as the chief power in this country. No lie is to mean for it to publish for political purposes that it might keep our people under. It has distranchised them and at the same time enjoyed the representation in Congress that they vote warrants. These Senators are political thieves, for they accept what they know they are not entitled to. The Republican party, now hard-pressed by Democratic lies, is reaping what is legitimate due it. In order to maintain white supremacy, which means white lawlessness, murder, lynching, poaching and compulsion, the control of the police and the people in that section, the Republican party has been too concurably to correct this brazen attempt of the south to nullify the constitution. Under the guise of "white supremacy," southern Separates have allied themselves with certain northern "Republican" Senators to keep out of office all Negroes. The Republican party has been too concurably to correct this brazen attempt of the south. The south is mad and drunk with its success to keep its section in its clutches and is now reaching out again to clutch the nation. To do this, it is willing to paint every white Republican, in character, blacker than they painted, our voters. Dohoney may have made money out of his oil lease but in doing so he did not rob any American citizen of his vote! The south is reactionary, stunted and poor in business ability. Every-person with wealth is a secondround so far as it is concerned. This country knows its record and it is time that the Republican party cut itself loose from the bluer-turquoise agreement it has landed with the south and come back to its Additional Local "A plea of not guilty to, a charge of first degree murder was entered before Criminal Judge McMahon, on Wednesday, by William Spring, 5116 Scovill Ave., charged with shooting Golden Anderson, age 19, of the same address. Spring was remanded to the county, jail without bond and his trial set for April 14. He was brought here from Charlotte, N.C. by Assistant County Prosecutor Parsons, after being traced to that city. Susan Boyd, age 39, of 2402 Woodland Ave., was indicted on a charge of second degree murder. Wednesday: Police charge that on March 1 she shot and killed a man named as "Lake Shore," address unknown. The man, she is said to have claimed, attacked her in the doorway of her home after trying to extort money from her. --- The N. A. A. C. P., headquarters in N. Y. City has just announced that Robert W. Bagnall, its director of branches, on his return to N. Y. City from this city, reported that Cleveland Afro-Americans had contributed $2410 toward the Association's work and immediately following the recent mass meeting held at the Cory M. E. church. He reports that there were five contributions of $100 each, from J. Walter Wills, Sr., George Hooper, Harry E. Davis, Wm. R. Green and Dr. O. A. Taylor, and that there were fifteen gifts of $50 each and 25 of $25 each, all of the people pledging themselves to give 11k sums for three years and one of the men. Dr Taylor, pledging himself to give $100 a year for ten years. Also that under the leadership of Wm. Pickens, the Association's field IN UNION IS STRENGTH LE COPY FIVE CENTS tten! O THE CORE" publican" Allies Are Better. Being Punished, These Days, for With Southern Democracy. The Southern Negro— It Dome! pristine state. For politics, the south murdered Abraham Lincoln. It will crucify any person, however, innocent, in order to get political advantage. The south's representation in Congress and the electoral college must be cut down! The right to vote and have that vote correctly counted must be restored to our voters of the south! A different type of men must come to Congress from the south, from what is there now, and the only way to bring this about is to restore the Republican party to its rights in the south. Let white and black Republicans vote in the south and a different class of men will come to Washington. That section of the country has been pandered to because of its lying cry of "Negro domination." No domination of any kind by any group can be more assinine and dishonest than that of "white supremacy." The menace to America and the world is the south, with rigidity, hate, duplicity and lies. The party now dominated by that sect has received the edum the south has brought upon Negroes who vote for Democratic Senators from northern states, are playing into the hands of such cowardly wretches as the Hollins and Robinsons. The Edwards, Copeland and the whole company of northern Democratic Senators MUST obey their southern MASTERS, the Hollins and Caraways. In spite of the lies of this Democratic clique, the country will not be deceived. Coolidge will be elected President of this country and a Republican Congress that is genuine will be put into power to clean this nasty bunch that is gloating over stolen goods. secretary, a recent baby contest at Davenport netted the N. A. A. C. P. $667. The story of the Teapot Dome scandal and the investigation of U. S. Attorney General Harry M. Daugherty will be discussed by Senator Frank B. Willis, close personal friend and his chief defender in the Senate, at a dinner given by the Republican women of Ohio at Hollenladen, March 18. He was adjill McCormick, a native of Cleveland (Miss Hannah) wife of Senator McCormick of Illinois, also will speak. Miss Irene Nunngesser, assistant U. S. district attorney and president of the Republican Women's club of this city, will preside and expects more than a thousand women at the dinner. Tickets may be secured from the chairman, Mrs. Elmer Lang, 18111 Clifton Blvd. Lakewood, 96. They will also be on sale at the Hollenladen. March 17, 18 and 19 and are $1.50 each. Thelma Berlack of N. Y. City, recently won the N. Y. Daily World first prize of $70 for selecting the most important piece of news for the week and for writing a short article giving her reason for the choice. Our college championship for the season of 1923-1924 has been won by the Wilberforce University basketball team. Another Delegate-at-Large New Orleans, La.—Hon. Walter H. Cohen of this city has been elected one of Mississippi's four delegates-at-large to the Republican National convention to meet in Cleveland, O. in June of this year. Emile Kuntz (white) will be the Nat'l Repub. committeeman from this state. SUBSCRIPTION RATES (In Advance) One Year .....$2.00 MG Months .....1.00 Subscribers are requested to remit by postoffice money order or reg- istered letter. Entered at the postoffice in Clever- land, Ohio, as second-class mail matter Address all communications to HARRY C. SMITH Editor and Proprietor THE GAZETTE (Boll 'Phone: 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 NEWS-EST AND BEST in the country. 10,000,000 Afro-Americans. 850,000 in Ohio. 40,000 in Cleveland. SATURDAY, MARCH 15, 1924 City Manager Wm. R. Hopkins' 1924 program for Cleveland calls for the expenditure of twenty million dollars for improvements. Of this sum, Councilman Tom Fleming has been able to secure the munificent (?) sum of "$400 for general repairs on the Central Ave. bath house," the biggest joke of a "bath house" in the city of Cleveland. Great (?) is the "Negro" councilman of Cleveland. --- In the biggest week-end clean-up of gambling, vice and liquor violators since Manager William R. Hopkins took office, police arrested 217 persons, late Saturday night and early Sunday. The third precinct station, E. 37th St. near Woodland Ave., was loaded with prisoners, and all day Sunday bondsmen trooped into Central station, where all the prisoners were taken. Sergt. Albert Jones and Patrolmen Joseph Bartunek and John Kever, in plain clothes, were high men in Saturday night's arrests. Working around Scovill Ave., on E. 28th and 29th St., they brought in fifty-two prisoners. Have you noticed the large number of crimes committed and criminals arrested in wards 11 and 12, last and this week? Something fierce! THE PENALTY OF SUCCESS. A contemptible news-writer declares that Sinclair was "nothing but a soda-water jerker" a few years ago while he is now one of the biggest powers in the world of oil, and he goes on to describe the vast oil fields which have come under Mr. Sinclair in his bitter struggle to prevent British and other interests from monopolizing the petroleum of the world. Instead of being proud of such a man, the poisoned pens of today are jabbed into him, the jabbers taking it as confessed that a millionaire is a criminal. What provincialism! --- THE PROOF OF PARTISANSHIP If the people of the United States needed any evidence that the underlying purpose of the oil investigation is partisan politics, they would find it in the course the leaders in the investigation have pursued. When authorized to employ special counsel to prosecute the oil cases, President Coolidge named former Senator Pomerene of this state and an attorney named Strawn, of Chicago. Both nominations were opposed by Democrats, though Pomerene is a man of highest standing and a Democrat, and Strawn was known as one of the ablest lawyers in the middle west, and a man of equally high repute. It was alleged against Pomerene that he is a conservative. Against Strawn it was alleged that he is a director in a bank in which one of the oil companies has deposits. Thus finely were the lines drawn in an effort to discredit anyone that the President might name. But note the attitude of the Democrats toward Mr. McAdoo, candidate for the Democratic nomination for the Presidency. When it was shown that McAdoo had been employed by Doheny at a fee out of all proportion to his legal ability, and that McAdoo's firm was to appear before the Departments at Washington, in which some of the appointees of the Wilson Administration would decide questions at issue, Senator Walsh insisted that this disclosure in no way impaired Mr. McAdoo's availability as a candidate or his fitness for the Presidency. Now note the difference. Pomerene was unfit to serve as a prosecuting attorney because he is a conservative. Strawn was unfit because he is a director in a bank in which an oil company has deposits. But McAdoo is perfectly fit for the Presidency notwithstanding he and his firm were employed by Doheny to look after his interests at Washington and in Mexico. The facts developed concerning the payment of $100,000 to former Secretary Fall were sufficient to create a suspicion of corruption, and yet the proof is not conclusive. Those who know the spirit of the west and the close ties of friendship that exist between men who have endured the hardships of life on the frontier, and who know how freely the mining man spends, can appreciate the possibility, if not the probability that Doheny was telling the absolute truth when he said that the $100,000 was loaned to Fall because of old friendship and that repayment would not be demanded unless Fall found himself able to repay. Many a frontiersman has been just as generous as that, in proportion to his means. Nevertheless, to the ordinary citizen, the transaction looks crooked, and Republicans have not sought to defend it. But on that transaction the Democrats have built their wholesale accusation of the Republican Administration and have cast baseless insinuations at every Republican who could in any way be mentioned in connection with oil leases. When it comes to a measuring of probabilities, as indicated by the evidence thus far presented, there is as much likelihood of pure motive in the payment of $100,000 to Fall on account of old friendship as there is in the payment of $100,000 to McAdoo on account of legal ability. BIRD POPULATION A Hundred-million Robins in Eastern United States. Washington, D. C.—Partial returns from the census of birds which, for the first time in its history the United States Government is now undertaking, indicates that there are wide variations in the bird population in different parts of the country. The most numerous bird life so far reported is the Chevy Chase, Maryland. An average was found there of about 7 pairs per acre. Only a few places report as high a population as four pairs per acre, while it seems probable from the data so far received that the average for the whole United States east of the plains will be not far from a thousand pairs to the square mile after omitting the land in corn and potatoes where there would be small chances for any birds to nest, and after omitting also the land covered entirely with forests. Timber land supports a much smaller bird population than an equal area of farm land. The most extensive census of forest so far received comes from Montana, where the careful counting of the birds on nearly a thousand acres showed an average of one pair to each three acres. As would be expected the arid lands of the Southwest show the smallest bird population, and large stretches in Arizona and New Mexico do not contain more than one pair of birds to seven acres. Apparently the most abundant bird in the United States east of the Mississippi River is the Robin, with an average of about fifty pairs to the square mile, or a hundred million robins in the eastern United States. LOSS OF MUSHROOM CROP Disease of Mushrooms Through For maldehyde—Gas Fumigation Need- ed to Combat This Blight Washington, D. C.—A fungal disease of cultivated mushrooms has reduced the yield in certain houses from 30,000 pounds to less than 1,000 pounds a year. Extensive mushroom plants in the eastern part of Pennsylvania which supply the eastern markets establishments whose collective products exceed one million pounds of mushrooms annually. The same blight which is known as the "Mycogone disease," is reported to have caused annual losses of about $200,000 to mushroom growers of Paris. An effective method for the control of the blight has been evolved in the United States, and all mushroom growers will be interested in its exposition in a new bulletin of the U. S. Department of Agriculture, entitled "The Mycogone Disease of Mushrooms, and Its Control." The common form of the disease in this country as well as in France consists of a white velvety coating that covers the mushroom. The normal development of the gills in prevented and as the disease progresses the color darkens and the tissue decays. The cap of the mushroom is frequently distorted and arrested in development by the fungus. Diseased houses should not be used for the cultivation of mushrooms until at least three years have elapsed after the house has been abandoned. Fumigation will control the disease in the houses, but will not keep them free, since bringing infected material, tools, etc., into the houses will certainly start the disease anew; therefore every precaution should be taken to prevent the reinfection of the houses after they have been fumigated. 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. We are especially desirous of hearing from persons in the following named cities: Toledo, Steubenville, Zanesville, W11 m i n g t o n, Xenia, Washington C. H., Lancaster, Hamilton, Dayton, Piqua, Lima, O., and other places, particularly in Ohio, where we have access. Write to the editor of The Gazette, Blackstone building, Cleveland, O., and terms will be sent promptly. Our readers will oblige us greatly by sending at once the addresses of persons is the cities named, and others, in the state, to whom we can write relative to the matter. THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, O. SATURDAY, MARCH 15. 1924 DO YOU KNOW WHY --- There Is Such A Thing As False Economy? OH, ABOUT FOUR DOLLARS I GUESS PUMBER, HOW MUCH WILL YOU SOW ME TO FIX THAT FROZEN PIPE OH, ALL RIGHT # - YOUR GRANNY! DO YOU SUPPOSE, I MONNA PAY YOU I BUGS, JUST TO FIX A THING LIKE THAT? I SHOULD SAY NIT! DON'T KID YOURSELF INTO THINKING I DLET A GUN STAND ME UP FOR THIS LITTLE JOB ILL DO IT MYSELF OOF HERCY SAVE US! WIFE, OH WIFE, CALL A PLUMBER! I GUESS IT'LL COST ABOUT $40 NOW BLUB BLUB NOTE - THERE ARE TWO WAYS OF BEING SOAKED Always Take HILL'S CASCARA QUININE BROMIDE Relieves COLD IN 24 HOURS LA GRIPPE IN 3 DAYS 8 20+ All Druggists—30 cents OUR LESSON We must learn to govern ourselves and work together for our own advancement. If we do not learn to govern ourselves and work together for our own advancement, we may be very sure that we will be governed by others in their own interest as well as worked by others for their own advancement and not ours.—George W. Blount. PROTEST AGAINST WRONG To submit in silence when we should protest makes cowards out of men. The human race has climbed on protest. Had no voice been raised against injustice, ignorance and lust, the inquisition yet would serve the law, and gullotines decide our least disputes. The few who dare, must speak and speak again to right the wrongs of many.—Ella Wheeler Wilcox. 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斗争, 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-respect and respects only those who resent and resist proscriptions for race. Let us be worthy of the abolitionists, worthy of our own fathers who have died in every war to vindicate the title of their race to equal liberty, and forever resist denial of rights in our native land, however long race discrimination may continue. To submit is to deserve contempt. — Boston (Mass.) Guardian. THE MAN WHO DARES "I honor the man who in the conscientious discharge of his duty dares to stand alone; the world, with ignorant, intolerant judgment, may condemn, the countenances of relatives may be averted, and the hearts of those who sense of duty done shall be sweeter than the applause of the world, the countenances of relatives or the hearts of friends."—Charles Sumner. DO YOU KNOW WHY OH, ABOUT FOUR DOLLARS I GUESS NUMBER, HOW MUCH WILL YOU SOAK ME TO FIX THAT FROZEN PIE BEAUTIFUL HAIR MAKES BEAUTIFUL WOMEN BEAUTIFUL HAIR MAKES BEAUTIFUL WOMEN Complete in Itself Sharpens the blade in the razor without removing it. Quick. Convenient. Easy to clean. 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LOMSKY 8820 Central Avenue We carry full line of Dry Goods Ladies' and Gents' Furnishings JOHN P. GREEN ATTORNEY-AT-LAW Room 510, Blackstone Bldg., 1426 West 8rd Street Cleveland, O. Notary Public Office Phones: Main 2912; Res. 614 E. 107th St. 'Phone, Eddy 6532 O. K. Printing Co. W. J. Foster - John M. Smith Commercial and Job Printing PROMPT SERVICE 3119 Central Ave. Prospect 2600 Dr. J. T. Bridgeman Dental Surgeon Hours—9 A. M. to 12 noon; 2 to 8 P. M. Sundays by appointment. 8848 Woodland Ave. Cor. E. 89th St. Phone, Rand, 4367 Cedar Branch Y. M. C. A. Cor, Cedar Ave. and E. 77th St. A HOME FOR YOUNG MEN! RESTAURANT - HOME COOKING Individual Beds 02.50-03.00 KNOXIT PROPHYLACTIC Unnatural and mucous discharges can be avoided by destroying the germs of infectious diseases. $1.10 at all druggists. MRS.L.S.BRADLEY 8241 Preble Ave. Cleveland, O. Has Houses For Sale or Rent IF YOU WANT TO BE Lucky, Happy and Well TELL YOUR SECRETS TO THE RIGHT MAN. Happy in Friendship, Business, etc. Spells of all Kinds Released and Broken Medical Preparations for Conjured Pains Sufferers LOVE APPLES IN ALL FORMS High John the Conqueror, Adam and Eve. All Kinds of highly appreciated roots and herbs. Call, or if out o town, write. CASH OR CREDIT I Will Credit You. No Matters. Not Where You Live. D. ALEXANDER 90 Downing Street Brooklyn, N. Y. OWN A LOT IN DOUGLASS PARK BEAUTIFUL Sub-division near Washington City for colored people exclusively. Ohio people are buying. Without obligation on my part please send me map and prizes with terms on lots in DOUGLASS PARK. Name ..... Street ..... City ..... State ..... PATRONIZE OUR ADVERTISERS Where To Purchase The Gazette NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS Subscribers not receiving The Gazette regularly should notify us at once. We desire every copy delivered promptly. Send or bring locals and all business matters to The Gazette office, 214-215 Blackstone Bldg. If you wish to see the editor call there, please. 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We advise our readers to care vertisements before making purchase in this paper should have the fact that they advertise is assurant. All reading matter for public Gazette must be in the office by 4 at the latest. Display advertisement NESDAYS! HARRY C. SMITH, Cor. W. Third St. and Fran Notary Public Classified Advertising ... Department ... WANTED — Firemen, Brakemen, Baggagemen, Sleeping Car Men and Train Porters, $140-$200. Experience unnecessary. 209 Railway Bureau, East St. Louis, Ill. WANTED — Stenographer. One who can read readily her own short-hand writing and whose knowledge of English is good, Address, Box 1, The Gazette, Blackstone Bldg., or call Ontario 1259. CLEVELAND Social and Personal Dr. Arthur S. Scott has been elected a member of the City club. Mrs. Wm. Guy, of Frank Ave., is still very ill at Lakeside hospital. Mrs. Elisha Freeman returned, last week, from a visit in New York City. Miss Louise, sister of Atty. Chester K. Gillespie, was very ill, last week. Mr. and Mrs. Arthur H. Lee won first prize in the recent club card tournament. The recent club card-tournament netted the N. A. A. C. P. local branch $196.75. The Gilpin Players will give three one-act plays at Longwood High school, March 19. The Chi Delta Chi sorority will give a benefit ball for the Playhouse at Chamber of Commerce ball room, March 21. A. F. Yancey, of Blaine Ave., has returned from Tuscaloosa, Ala., where he was called by a sister's illness. Mrs. A. Braggs, who has been quite ill with ptomaine poisoning at her daughter, Mrs. Mildred Gant's, East 37th St., is much improved. Wm. Conners "hooked up" with that Lincoln Memorial commission, according to last Saturday's Plain Dealer. "Twas ever thus! Mrs. Mattie Hunter of N. Y. City, until a few years ago a resident of Chicago and Cleveland, left recently to visit Paris and Belgium. Rev. H. C. Balley conducted the revival at Mt. Haven Baptist church, last week, and it is rumored he is to be called to pastor the church. Win his love and hold it. Bind him with invisible chains of psychic force, I will teach you how. Dept. 14, Box 1179, Milwaukee, Wis.- Adv. Mrs. Lulu Talbot, only daughter of Rev. and Mrs. Charles Bundy, has been very ill at Mt. Sinal hospital, Dr. Bundy is pastoring Oak Hill Ave. A. M. E. church, Youngstown. Skii, who is "resting" in a Cuban hospital, knocked out two attendants and then tumbled downstairs. When he's through resting, he'll need to take a rest cure—Cleveland Daily Plain Dealer. Mrs. Jos. Jackson entertained the Allegro 500 club, recently. The guests were Mrs. J. H. Taylor and Mrs. Leroy N. Bundy, Mrs. Mamle Branch, president. Mrs. Perchman won first prize, and Mrs. Taylor the guest's prize. On Sunday, March 23, 1924, at 3:15 p.m. m. Mr. Wm. Pickens of New York will speak at Lane Metropolitan church, cor. E. 46th and Cedar Ave., under the auspices of the local branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.—Adv. The jobs our men have secured under City Manager Hopkins were given them by "Boss" Maschke and not Tom Fleming, as erroneously announced, several times, by a local THE GARDENA, CLEVELAND, O. SATURDAY, MARCH 15, 1924 DO YOU KNOW WHY --- The Poor_Old Tie Is Always To Blame? DO YOU KNOW WHAT THE FOUR OLD TIE IS ALWAYS TO BLAINE? DING DONG IT! THIS CRAZY TIE WON'T SLIDE IT'S DOING IT ON PURPOSE IT KNOWS I'M IN A HURRY OOP!OOP! BLUE ATMOSPHERE ILL SHOW YOU JENNIE WOULD YOU MIND SEWING THIS THING TOGETHER! INTERNATIONAL CARTOON CO.N.Y. *M. KLEIMAN'S 2028 Central Ave. D. BARBER'S 2006 Central Ave. W. T. GRANT, 3512 Central Ave. STONE DRUG STORE 7325 Central Ave. SUBSCRIBERS The Gazette regularly should notify delivered promptly. business matters to The Gazette If you wish to see the editor fully examine The Gazette's ad- hases. Business men who adver- se patronage of our people. The once that they want it. location in current issues of The p. m., TUESDAY of that week, events accepted until noon, WED- 215 Blackstone Bldg. Bunkfort Ave., Cleveland, O. Bell Phone: Cherry 1259 correspondent. Tom had about as much to do with their appointment as the Sultan of Sulu. Florence Cole Talbert, one of our best sopranos and possibly the nearest approach to Madam Marie Selika, our queen of song when in her prime, will sing in concert with the Moztart club in April. Bishop E. T. Demby and wife, Mrs. Nettle Ricks Demby, of Little Rock, Ark, are due to arrive in the city, today, for a brief stay. Mrs. Demby is a native of Cleveland who has a host of friends here who will be delighted to meet and greet her again. Dr. John E. Gregg, president of Wilberforce university, will lecture at E. TechniBald auditorium, Monday evening, under the auspices of our Women's council. Subject, "Twentieth Century Ideals." St. John's choir will furnish music. A reception will be tendered the speaker at the conclusion of the lecture. Miss Kitty Stanley Green, sister of Hon. John P. Green and one of our oldest residents, has issued in booklet form, 31 pages, "Jesus Christ's Parable of the Rich Man and Lazies, and the Coin and Popcorn." Send ten cents to be at 1323 W. 99th St. city, and get a copy of it. You will be highly edified. Mt. Zion Cong, choir rendered a special musical program at Pilgrim church, (white), Sunday evening, and received a goodly check for the church. The choir's concert under the direction of Madams Lambert and Wright, netted $40. Dr. Webber, wearing the wristband, night, March 32. The S. attendance was 130, and the collection was $29.22. Col. J. E. Reed, Col. A. T. Abbott, Capt. James Beckwith, Capt. A. G. Goodrich, C. P. Lancaster and T. D. Jackson were among the local Odd Fellows who attended the mid-winter Patrilarchie regimental meet in Columbus, recently. The ladies attended the Household of Ruth worthy recorders' meeting, at the same time, were Mrs. Ella Wormley, Mrs. Gussie Ramsey, Mrs. Della Offer and Mrs. F. D. Cochran. Mrs. Mary Davis, wife of Rev. J. E. Davis, of 8106 Central Ave., was injured, May 13, '23, as a result of a collision of her husband's auto with one owned by Abe Mandel (white), at the corner of E. 71st St. and Central Ave. Mrs. Davis sustained paralysis in the right shoulder which she is just recovering. Atty. Perry B. Jackson, 506 Advance Bldg., brought suit in the Municipal Court in behalf of Mrs. Davis. Trial of the case began, Tuesday morning, and continued until Wednesday noon. About 12 witnesses were examined. Mandel was represented by Attys. McNeal and Reed (white), and their witnesses were whites. In about this time jury (white) returned a unanimous verdict for $-500 in Mrs. Davis' favor. A splendid victory! Congratulations, Atty. Jackson. TAILORING SALESMEN! Albert Williams, incorporated of Chicago, wants seven to work on Creek and Cheek district office. Big commissions. Call or write Mr. Nelburger, 30 Euclid Arcade, Room 409.—Adv. DO YOU KNOW W When you purchase anything from any of our advertisers tell them you saw their advertisement in "The Old Reliable" Gazette, and oblige us, please. 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." Monroe G. Gregory, age 15, a first-year student of Dunbar High school, Washington, D. C., won the second prize for the third and final contest week in The Washington, (D. C.) Daily Star's "best news story" contest, recently. The victory gained Monroe a check for $15. Local interest is gained for the foregoing when you purchase a copy of the latest son of Mrs. Edna Anderson Gregory, a native of Cleveland and one of our best local public school teachers, years ago, and a grandson of Mrs. Julia Anderson Burdine, for many years a resident of Cleveland. The refusal of the Lincoln Memorial commission to have a member of the race on its committee, in charge of raising its $30,000 fund, is very naturally causing hundreds of our folk to refuse to contribute to it. The commission is having a hard time getting the last six or seven thousand dollars to complete the fund. One member of the commission is a Lincoln man. They could invite him to become a member of their committee but for some unaccountable reason would not extend the same courtesy and honor to an Afro-American; and it was for our people that Lincoln did his greatest thing next to saving the Union. Martin, son of Mr. Wesley M. 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Se Don’t Throw Away Your Copy of THE GAZETTE After Reading it, But Give Itto a Friend or an A cquaintance who Might Subscribe After Reading a Copy of It. INSIDE sroRY oF How JENNINGS OKLA, COT 173 NAME Horse Traders Daughter Donned Male ‘tire and Entered a Race Againet, Mca paslacener kta: Jennings, Okla.—Not for Al Jen- nings| of “Beating Back" fame, but for Joe Jennings, an early day char- acter in this section of the soul westwest, cowboy, horse trader and general roustabout was the town of Jennings named, according to Col. George McElroy the last of the cow- men still in the business in this part of Oklahoma. The original townsite of forty acres was given by Joe Jennings upon re- ceiving a promise that the town would be given his name, McElroy says. ‘The Pawnee Indian country, includ- ing the old Oklahoma triangle in the center of which is Jennings, was open- ed to settlement along with the old Cherokee strip in September, 1892. A number of the towns within the strip have just been celebrating tho event of their twenty-second birthday with apprppriate ceremonies. ‘The strip extended westward from the western boundary of the Cherokee nation about thirty miles east of Jeu- ings, to the Colorado and New Mex- 4co border including at one time, it 1s said, the famous No Man's Land, which is now divided into the counties of Cimarron, Texas and Beaver. ‘The story of how Jennings was homesteaded and named 1s interest: ing, therefore, at this time, when the birthday anniversary of the town bas just been observed. Joe Jennings had been a resident of this part of the Indian country for some time, according to Colonel Me- Etroy, and hed raised a family here, including a helf grown daughter, then perhaps sixteen or seventeen years od. She was the typical country raised girl of the border day period, able to ride, shoot and throw a lasso. Jennings conceived the idea, when announcement of the strips opening reached him, that his half grown daughter should make the race for a quarter section of land, which the family would homestead. ‘It is not recorded why Jennings did not make the race, but he was on hand to take possession after the girl had partici pated. ‘The race for homes when the Cher ‘okee strip was opened to settlement will go down in the history of the southwest as the greatest horse race that was ever pulled off under tha sanction of the Federal Government. ‘There were several thousand choice quarter section farms as the prizes, and men came froin all sections of the United States to make the race and win a claim if possible. ‘The swiftest and most seasoned horses were selected wherever they were ob- tainable for all the riders knew that by the men and animals with the best staying qualities would the farms be won. Among the riders in the Pawnee country was the halt grown Jennings girl, and she proved her ability as a horse woman. Among the thousands of other riders there were very few, perhaps one, who knew the well built youngster was a girl. Dressed in man’s clothing with high heeled boots and spurs she entered the race and won a claim, a rich tract of valley land lying between two tong ranges of low hills, one of the pret tiest natural spots in the entire strip country. ‘Having won the claim the ramily evidently did not care for it, for be fore long three foutths of it had been sold to John Simmons and the other forty acres had been given for a town- site on condition that the new town be named Jennings. The family then Jeft this section of the country, and in Inter years it was reported that Joe Jennings was living in Old Mex- feo. FALSE TEETH IMPERIL LIFE Swimmer Nearly Drowns When Plate Ie Displaced. New York—Fulse teeth which be- ‘came lodged in the throat of Lee Zies- ler 27 years old, nearly cost him his life while he was bathing jn Kirkwood Lake, New Jersey, in spite of the fact ‘that he is a good swimmer. While diving Ziegler’s false teeth came out of place and, being afraid that he would lose them, Zieg- Jer kept his mouth closed, with the result that they slipped part way down his throat. He immediately be- gan to choke, and while struggling in the lake swallowed @ lot of water. ‘His companions who were on shore, could not imagine what was the mat- ter, and thought he was drowning. ‘Louis Hooker who is his fatherin- law, dived out of 2 cance and tool Ziegler ashore, There Miss Wolfscu, a Philadelphia district municipal nurse, who is spending her vacation at Kirkwood, brought him to con- sciousness after three hours of work. She was aided by a party of campers, who were nearby. It fs easier to break the will of = dead man than the will of a live wo man. MORE TROUBLE FOR COOLIDGE! This Means Fight, This Fall! Ohio Afro-Americans Openly Insulted and Humiliated Our Demand for What We Are Clearly Entitled To, a Delegate-at-Large, Ignored—Five ‘‘Negroes”’ Turn Against Our People—Donithen’s Statement Columbus, O.—At the Conference ot Ohio Afro-American Republicans, held in Garfield hall, Fev. 4, “24, the following resolution was unani- mously adopted: Whereas, The Afro-American Re- publicans of the state of Ohio thra the Abraham Lincoin club of Day- ton asked for conference with the Stato “Republican Executive Com- mittee and also asked for one of our group to be selected as a dele- gates-at-large to the Republican Na- tional Convention which is to con- yene at Cloveland in Juno, 1924, both of which requests were de- nied, therefore be it Resolved, That in view of the fact that the number of Afro-Amer- fean Republican voters in the state of Ohlo is sufficiently large to en- title ft to one of the seven dele- gate-at-large to the Republican Na- an National Convention, and thetr loyalty to the party ‘is unques- tioned, this conference, of Afro- American Republican yoters of Ohio, respectfully requests the sub- stitution of a member of our race for one of the seven persons announced as having been recently solected as Ohio's candidates for delegates-at- large to the next Repmblican National Convention. The following were named as a committee to present the foregoing resolution to Chairman Montgomery of the State Republican Executive Committee and to the Hon. Hoke Donithen, Ohto Coollage leader, which was done, on appointment, Tuesday, Feb. 12, 1924, Lincoln's birthday. ‘The committee: Hon. Harry Clay Smith of Cleveland, Rev. I. 8. Webster of Toledo, I. 8. Beason ot Columbus, John C. Lo- gan_ot Columbus and Dr. L. H. Cox ot Dayton, chairman. ‘The. officers of the Conference were: B. T. Banks of Dayton, chairman; Rev. J. F. Baker of Fremont, secretary; Rev. I. $. Webster, treasurer. After the committee was named, the chairman called the office of Mr. Donithen and was informed that the gentleman was out and wonld not be back until Iate that evening. He then called the office of the chairman of the state executive committer and was Informed that that gentleman had left town, at noon, and wonld not be back that day,’ ‘The chair- man returned to the conference and related his experiences in trying to make an appointment to deliver the resolution, and announced that he would bend every honorable effort towards making the appointment with Mr. Donithen that the commit: tee might deliver the resolution in person. The remaining members of the committee agreed to mect Chatr- man Cox in Columbus, if possible, on call. A tow days later, Mr. Cox called Mr. Dontthen over the long Gistance "phone and asked an ap- pointment. He stated that the com- mittee could call “any day" and he Would see tt. To this Mr. Cox re- plied: “That is too indefinite, Mr. Donithen; we do not want a repet!- tion of last Monday when the com- mittee was in Columbus ready to call on you and could not get in touch with you.” He then agreed on Tuesday, Feb. 12th. Chairman Cox then notified each member of the committee to meet him in Columbus at 12 o'clock noon, Feb. 12th, and received a reply from Mr. Logan who Informed him that owing to the fact he was leaving for Chicago to attend the Lincoln League convention he would not be present but directed Mr. Cox to sign his name to the reso- lution. The editor of The Gazette, much to his regret, was unable to leave Cleveland, Feb. 12, but wrote that he was heart and soul with the committee and for it to use his name and paper in anyway the committee saw fit. Promptly at 12 o'clock, Feb. 12, 1924, three of the committee of five met here at the Y. MC. A. Mr. Donithen was called on the phone and the meeting with him was ar- Tanged for one-thirty. “We were at Donithen’s headquar- ters at one-fifteen, just fifteen’ min- utes ahead of time.” sald Chairman Cox. “He was out but was ‘expected back at any minute.’ Well, those fifteen minutes soon passed ‘and it was now one-thirty, the appointed hour. From the room where we sat we could see the outside door and every time the door would opea we would think—here he is now—but that door opened and closed several times between one-thirty and three- thirty, without being darkened by the form of Mr. Donithen. For more than two hours, there we sat, smok- ed and chatted, looked at our watch- es, and then ‘smoked and chatted some more; only looking towards the door, every time it rattled. to say, ‘here he comes now.’ Finally, when T could stand it no longer and had risen to go, telling my companions that I had stood the humiliation long enough and that I had stood it that long simply because I felt that T was making the sacrifice for the thinking men and women of my race in the state, and after about two and a half hours’ waiting, the long-looked for Mr. Donithen entered and, after see- ing another man (white) who had arrived after we did but whom his secretary (Denithen’s) explained was THE GAZETTS, GLEVELAND, 0. SATURDAY, MARCH 15, 1924. Rear ence orth Deanna eee eae eee aE ed to catch a train, Mr. Donithen came into the room ‘where we were waiting and made no excuse what- ever for keeping us waiting for more than two hours, Rather humiliating to any self-respecting human being. don't you think? T was. standing when he entered and, after introduc ing myself, Editor Dabney and Rev. Webster, I read the follwoing: “Mr. Donithen, we come to you as the representatives of the thinking Negro Republicans, men and women of the state of Ohlo, none the less Republican because they dare think for themselves, and in their pehalf we urge you to use your good offices to see that we are justly accorded what we are asking for. We recor- nize, Mr. Donithen, that to the victor belongs the spoils, but we do not come to you as job-seeking Repub- leans, willing to barter the Just rights of our people for a political Job or promise of such job, but we @o come fully mindful of ‘the fact that year after year we have labored. side by side, with Republicans of your race and voted almost solidly for the success of the grand ‘old party, and we believe we are justi- fied in asking. now for some of its honors and that the treatment ac- corded us be in Keeping with our loyalty to the party. I present to you this resolution (published above) for your careful considera- tion, Mr. Dabney will make a few remarks and then Rey. Webster. “Editor Dabney of the Cincinnat! Union told him that sinee we had waited so long and the hour was growing so Inte we would simply Teave the resolution for him to look over later and he could write his re- ply to the chairman, This he would not hear to but insistes pon ‘hay- ing it out right now while we aro all here.’ I know what your petition is about; you want a delegate-at-large. but ft cannot be done now. It is ali arranged and nothing can be done." Rey. Webster sald: ‘You mean the slate has all been fixed’ and procecd- ed to tell Mr. Donithen a few things about the treatment of members of our race. Mr. Donithen replied by saying, ‘No it was no state-making: it was done in this way” and he pro- ceeded by pulling a slip of paper from his pocket and as he called each named delegate by name he ex- plained how each happened to be selected. He told how Mr. Procter of Cincinnati! and Fx-Congressman Knight were selected because they were not in harmony with the organ- ization, and they were seeleted to bring about harmony in the party, At this point Mr. Dabney said: ‘I believe I soe just how it was done. You se- lected those men because you fg- ured that they might cause some trouble if they were not selected, and you figured that the cotored Repub- Means would vote for you anyway whether you named one of our group or not.’ To my utter surprise, Mr. Donithen then replied: ‘You ‘have the right idea. We figured that you owe us your vote because of the Civil War and what that meant to you. And furthermore. we called into con- ference your leading (?) men (and he named the five persons) and they all agreed to it’ Just think, men and women of the race, this man telling us right to our faces that our self-appointed leaders had been eall- ed into conference, before this thing ‘was done, and that they had agreed to the arrangement whereby we were not to have a delegate-at-large, but merely two alternates! ‘Two flcure- heads, you might say! Agreed to it! My God, what is to become of the race When our own men treat us like that. What is to become of us when one of our group accepts an alter nate's place when men, REAL MEN of the race, are contending for x Aclegate-at-large. Two sore white Republicans, Procter and Knight, and two white women are among the seven whites selected as candidates for delegates-at-large! It would have been the fair and just thing to have named one white woman and one Afro-American, man or woman. I further reminded him tnat two years ago the Republican organization put out literature for our people to use telling us not to vote for Mr. Knight decause of his southern birth (Georgia) and southern views. and now you name this same Mr, Knight and ask us to vote tor him. “We had with us one of the circulars (fur- nished by the editor of The Gazette) used by the Republican organization. two years ago, which was self-evi- dent truth that what T sald about Mr, Knight was true. But all we said was of no avail ‘Because the leading men of your race were consulted and they agrede to it.’ Men and women for the lore of all that is right and just, for the love of our children and our future generations think! Think? and he named the men, too!!! (Who were they—name them and let our people of Ohio know who they are! —Baitor.) E. T. Banks went all the way to Chicago to have the Lin- coln League, then in session, send a telegram to Mr. Donithen in'support of our resolution which we present- ed, Feb. 12, *24, and when Mr. Banks made an effort to get a resolution through authorizing the sending of the telegram, one of these same men ee at ee ake ek hen named as being one of our leaders who agreed to their not naming 5 Negro delegate-atlarge, was the.e and tried to block the adoption of the resolution. But in spite of his efforts, tho resolution passed and the telegram was sent. Hats off to Banks and shame on the man who laid down when the race needed upstanding men to champfon Its cause. Some weeks ago a petl- tion was circulated thruout Ohio and thousands of signatures obtained by the Abraham Lincoln Republican club of Dayton, calling upon the state executive committee to name a member of the race as a delegate-at- large to the Republican National Convention to be held in Cleveland, this year. ‘This was before the slate was made up, too. Some time later, T was informed that this petition had been ignored by the state Republican executive committee.” Dayton, O., Feb. 18, ‘24. Hon, Harry C. Smith, Editor Gazette, Cleveland, 0, My doar Mr. Smith—T am sending you some late data on the contention for delegate-at-large and the work of the committee who called upon Mr. Hoke Donithen on Lincoln's birinday to present the reselution of the people as adopted at our Colum- bus meeting. Two of the men of our group who say that the colored people will be satisfied with an alter- nate, according to Mr. Dontthen, are CHARLES COTTRILL of Toledo and ATTY, BARCUS of Columbus. The ‘other ‘three names have not been given me yet, but T will notity you &s soon as they come to hand. Tam sending you herewith tho action of the \Lincoln League with regard to graphed to Mr. Donithen by_mysel at the League's Insistance. We are protesting the utterances of the self. appointed “race leaders” as to. the satisfaction of the people with minor Tecognition and are wondering where, in the face of our great pet ton, they could have gotten thet authority. ‘The fight has just be. gun, however, and we will be pleased to Keep you tnformed as to the prog- ress we are making. Thanking you for your deep interest, kindness and assistance, Tam ‘Yours respectfully, R. T. Banks, Advisor, For the Abratiam Lincoln Repab- Mean Club of Dayton, 0.; Wm. Penn, Pros, Cottrill Opposed Bank's Resolution. Chicago, I1.—The first plece of constructive legislation passed by the Lincoln League of America, assem- bled here, February 12, '24, was presented by E. T. Banks of Dayton, who made his ‘plea before the con: vention for national influence upon the delegate-at-large situation of Ohio. “He addressed himself to his subject with such ardor that the con- vention passed the following resolu- tion and wired it immediately to Hoke Dontthen, the Ohio Coolldge manager, at Columbus, Ohio: ‘We, the Lincoln League of Amer. fea, in convention assembled, conset- ous of the increase in the delegated representation in the National Con- vention from Ohio, urge the proprl- ety of placing a colored member on the Ohfo delegation at large. (Signed), ‘The Lincoln League of’ America, by Roscoe Simmons, Pres.; Henry Lincoln Johnson, national Repub: Mean committeeman of Georgia; R. R. Church. chairman executive com- mittee; William C. Mathews, Mass.: Oscar DePriest, Til.; Perry Howard, Miss.; William Kelly, N. Y.; Walter Cohen, La.; Homer Philitps, Mo.; R. L. Bailey, ‘Ind.; B. H. Underwood, Ky., and Melvin Chisum, Md. hel: Cincinnati, 0., Feb. 21, '24. Editor Harry C. Smith, The Gazette, Gleveland, 0. Just returned from Nashville found your telegram. Donithen sat that Charley Cottril! and other lead ers were seen and that they wer satisfled with alternates. Dabney. Our advertisers want your trade. Those who do not ask for {t in the columns of “The Old Reliable” Gazette certain- ly care little, if at all, for it. ‘Therefore, we urge our read- ers and all of our friends to patronize those who ask in this Paper for your patronage — Baitor, CHARACTER, Character, like a fine old tree, matures slowly and is a riper growth than success that is forced as hothouse products are forced. Character in a news- paper develops through years of wervice to the people. For forty years The Gazette has been serving our people of this country. It has gathered a reader-clientele whose tastes it reflects, and whose power and responsiveness to buy are direct measures of its present impor- tance to every advertiver. ‘EDITOR. RACE PREJUDICE! “I am convinced myself that there is no more evil thing in this present world than race prgjatie none at all! of eer ew in Ute now. It fostifes and Golde to- gether more baseness, cruelty and abomination than any other sort of error in the world.” —H. G. Wells. PRESIDENT COOLIDGE! ‘hat our people of Ohio would be satisfied with two candidates for al- ernates-at-large to the Republican National Convention, to mect tn this sity in June of this year, they knew full well the despleable part they were playing for their white political masters and how our people of Ohio would feel toward them for their treachery, We asked, in time this year, a delegate-at-large, and now DEMAND it! An Afro-American must be substituted for Knight or Procter, or one of the two white women selected. It 1s the morest nonsense for Mr. Donithen, or any- one else, to tell us “It 1s now too late” to do this. Ho and his assoct- ates In tho solection of the seven candidates on the slate (for dele- gatos-at-large) knew in time that we had asked and expected what we were and aro clearly entitled to as a potent factor of the Republican party of Ohio, and unless it is given wo can safely say that at least 50,- 900 Ohio Afro-Americans will refuse, this fall, to vote for President Cool- idge, many of them voting for the Democratic candidate for the Presi- dency if McAdoo or some other broad-minded northern member of that party be named as such, Cou- pled with the foregoing and greatly aggravating the whole matter is the contemptuous manner in which Mr. Donithen treated our Conference committee that sought (almost in vain) the interview with him. It was far more of an insult than an Interview. He does not seem to have anything like a proper regard for tho Afro-American Republicans of Ohio and it 1s up to them to teach him, and those associated with him, a much-needed lesson, This can only be done at the polls in November, unless he awakens and soon, too, to @ proper and full realization of the fact that we propose to have that delexate-at-large or give them some- thing to remember, this fall, they will never forget. Ohio Afro-Amer- jeans will not stand such insulting and unfair mistreatment from Dont- then, Coolidge or any one else with- ont striking back in a proper man- ner and at the proper time, and it fs far better that they get this right im their minds now than later on when it fs too late. ‘The Harding-Coolidge administra- tion was a grievous disappointment to. Afro-Americans generally, not only because {t practically followed the policy of the southern Demo: cratie Wilson administration in re- fusing to appoint responsible: mem: bers of our group to positions of im- portance (both as to class and sal- ary), as well as others, but also be- cause {t continued the insulting sea: regation in the departments at Wash- ington, D. C., inaugurated by and under the Wilson administration; and voiced insulting sentiments which it felt would also please the Democratic South, Add to the fore- going its refusal to pardon our sol dier-martyrs tmprisoned at Ft. Leay- enworth, Kans, and many other demonstrations of unfairness, all be- cause of our color and race, and anyone can get something like a fair estimate of how we feel today toward the Coolidge administration which has not, as yet, done anything ma- terial to change the strong feeling of resentment that has surged thru the breast of every manly and wom- anly Afro-American for nearly three years, The C. Bascomb Slemp idea that Afro-Americans can be fooled with the giving of “the shadow for the substance" {s positively silly, and President Coolidge who may mean well and intend to do what 1s right by us, should not pe misled by his “lily-white” Republican secre- tary from Virginia, Mr. Slemp. He, the President must first and prompt- ly root out that aggravatingly insult- ing segregation in the departments of the government at Washington, D. C. (and elsewhere in its service). This far overshadows the matter of appointments to office. If it is not wiped out soon, no self and race re- specting member of the race can pos- sibly vote for the President, this fall. A_southern Democratic President (Wilson) inaugurated the segrega- tion and another can do no worse. We are trying to have faith In Presi- dent Coolidge but Cohen's appoint- ment, and all others that may come after, pale into insignificance while that segregation in the departments at Washington remains. ‘With the administration at Wash- ington falling in the most important matter to the entire race, and failing to give us any recognition worth while in the way of appointments to office, and its state leaders, like the Hon. Hoke Donithen of Marion, O., and Chairman Montgomery of the Ohio Republican executive commit- tee, treating with almost contempt not only our just demand but also those of our real leaders who car- ried it to them at Columbus, the outlook for the loss of 50,000 Afro- American votes in this state alone, is anything but encouraging as far as the election of President Cool- idge, this fall, is concerned. ee ee eee 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 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, ete., fees, 6287. County's right of action against member of mob. 6288. County's right of action against another county. €359: Non-tatlet. from acensoutien . Our mob-violence or anti-lynching bill was introduced in the Ohio leg- islature in 1894 and re-introduced in 1896. It took the Hon. Harry C. Smith, editor of The Gazette, just three ‘years to secure {ts enactment into law. ‘The Ohio Supreme Court has several times upheld the con- stitutionality of the law and it has Section 6278. A collection of peo- ple assembled for an unlawful pur- pose and intending to do damage or injury to any one, or pretending to exercise correctional power over other persons by violence and with- out 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 » “lynching” within the meaning of this chapter. (98 ¥. 161 2.) } Section 6279. Tho term “serious injury," for the purpose of this chap- ter, shall include such injury as per- manently or temporarily disables the person receiving it from earning a livelihood by manual'labor. (93 v. 161 3.) Section 6280. A person taken from officers of justice by a mob, and assaulted with whips, clubs, mis- siles 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 as- sault is made a sum not to exceed five hundred dollars; or, if the in- jury received therefrom fs serious, Sum not exceeding one thousand dol- lars; or, if suck injury result in per- manent’ disability to earn a lvell- hood by manual labor, a sum not to exceed five thousand dollars. (93 v. 162 5.) Section 6282. ‘The legal represen- tative of a person dying from injur- ies received from lynching by a mob, may recover of the county in which such injury occurred, a sum not to exceed five thousand dollars dam- ages for such unlawful killing. Such sum shall be applied to the mainte- nance of the family and educaticn ct? 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 re- ceiving an amount equal to a child's share. If there be no widow or minor children surviving such. dece- dent, such sum shall be distributed among the next of kin according to the laws of the distribution of the personality of an intestate. Such sum so recovered shall not be a part of the estate of such person so lynch- ed. nor be subject to any of his Ia- bilities. (93 v 162 6.) Section 6283. A person suffering death or injury trom a mob attempt- ing to lynch another person shall come within the provisions of this chapter. He or his legal representa- tives shall have a like right of action as one purposely injured or killed by such a mob. (93 v 162 6.) Section 6284. Action for the re- coverles provided for in this chap- ter must be commenced, within two years from the date of such lynch- ing, in any court having original Jurisdiction of an action for dam- ages for malicous assault. (93 v. 162 7.) Section 6285. An order to the commissioners of a county, against which such recovery {s had, to in- clude ft with the costs of action, in tho next succeeding tax levy for such county, shall be a part of the juds- ment in every such case. (98 v. 162 -) Section 6286. 1f the decedent £0 lynched has minor children surviv- ing him, the fund shall be turned over to a regularly appointed guar- dian. Such guardian shall adminis- ter such fund under the direction of the probate judge, allowing not more than five hundred dollars for coua- sel fees in the action for such re- covery. (98 v, 162 9.) Section 6287. The county, in which s lynching occurs, may re- cover the amount of a judgment and costs against it in favor of the legal representatives of 8 person killed or sertously injured by ® mob from any of the persons composing such mob. A person present, with hostile intent, at such lynching shall be deemed a member of the mob and be Hable to such action. (98 ¥. 162 10.) Section 6288. It a mob carries a prisoner {nto another county, or comes from another eounty to com- mit violence on a prisoner brought from such county for safekeeping, the county in which the lynching {s committed may recever the amount of the judgment and costs from the county from which the mob came, unless there was contributory negli- gence on the part of officals of such been very effective. Illinois, Penn- sylvania and New Jersey have fol- lowed Ohio's lead and enacted mob violence or anti-lynehing laws which are copies of our Ohio law. Several other northern states and at least ‘one border state (Kentucky) have also enacted anti-lynching laws, in recent years, like Pennsylvania and Now Jersey.’ The Ohio law follows: BS. a, ‘representative of victim of lynching. ary by mob trying to lynch another. 2 costs in tax levy. : st member of mob. nst another county. (el arppeenlaiacapea gee A ee en ne ee ene ees Drlsoner | or dlspurse auch mob. Tae has as Section 6289. This chapter shall not relieve a person concerned in tien guching Bom protein ot miclde af" anal for enctelog ora” Ge We 235 OUR OHIO CIVIL RIGHTS LAW Upon the request of many readers or"tta Gunes we grat Susy tay text of the Hon. Harry C. Smith's Chl Gye Rights ee Salen as odor bud esesied wile 2 atabet an the 71st General Assembly, in a ‘The General Cone of Obl: sea apie Whoosh Saige the proprietor or his employee, keeper or anager of an inn, reuitiaa eat ing house, barber-shop, public con- wejaten by lasaar won hasta biker place of pubic secomedaion td amanoment estes fot clteen except for reasons applicable alike io al ldzons nad retidiom ot nee or color, the full enjoyment of the accommodations, advantages, facili- ties or privileges thereof, shall be tsea"ho ie tH dics net tore thea’ fre undeed Sule or imprisoned not less than thirty days nor more than ninety days, or both. seaiault” Wht Mite he nest presen secon sl nse poy tot da tha fy tne nar ae than five hundred dollars to the per- ton aterieved tery fo'be Seer ered in any court of competent jur- isdiction in the county where such fsdietion in the county This law has repeatedly been held constitutional and good law by the Ohio Supreme court. The trouble is our people will not use it as often as they should, but expect it to do for them what they should and must do for themselves, under it, in the courts, Judge Grant's Opinion of the Law. 2iisied by the foolishly manufac~ tured outery for the passage of the Beaty bill, a few years ago, the Ak- ron Beacon Journal published an editorial to which the editor of The Gazette replied, calling {ts attention to the fact that the Oho 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: Boa. Barry C. Smith, Editor The Gazette, Cieveland, 0. My Dear Sir: Observing your let- ter in the Beacon-Journal, of this city, I venture to send you, under @ separate cover, the Ohio Law Re- porter of Feb. 3, last, containing the opinion of the Court of Appeais in te Puritan Lanch Oo. ve. Losnaet H. Forman, decided ‘n 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 oceasion for eriticism editorially. THE LAW OF OHIO IS UNDER NO RE- PROACH, nor our courts and juries, in administering {t. Not a word was sald by the Beacon-Journal when the Forman caso was reviewed. Very truly yours, R. ©. Grant. ———EEE————E FACTS People who Advertise Can selt Goods. Biles People who sell Goods Can make Money. eee People who make Mon- ey can advertise goods, The Best Advertising Medium is “The Old Reliable” GAZETTE.