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Black is convalescing.—Our Ohio Federation of Women's clubs convenes here, July 9, 10 and 11, in St. Paul's A. M. E. church. SMITHFIELD—Mr. David and Geneva West, Mr. and Mrs. Logan Smith spent Sunday in McIntyre.—Miss Thelma West visited in Cadiz, Saturday and Sunday.—Samuel E. Freeman was killed, Tuesday morning, in the mines by falling stone. Funeral services, Thursday afternoon.—Mr. David Lancee has moved to his home in town.—Mrs. M. Johnston of Barnesville has returned home after several weeks' visit with her daughter, Mrs. Emmett Beall.—Mrs. Sarah Cooper was in Steubenville, Tuesday. A good many were there doing their Easter shopping. Saturday.—Mr. Robert Beall and Mrs. H. F. Fox are convalescing. was the Sunday guest of Miss Hilda Ramsey.—Rev. A. L. Holland has been returned to Simpson M. E. church for another year.—Mr. and Mrs. Fred Lucas have issued invitations to the marriage of their daughter, Carolyn Lucas Broadus, to Ellsworth Jennings Guy. May 1.—Hon. R. R. Beetham gave an interesting address at St. James A. M. E. S. S. Sunday. Myrtle Christian has returned to Canton. She visited her sister, Bertha Redman. A number of delegates have arrived to attend the district conference. The eight weeks' S. S. contest closed. Sunday. Cadiz school attendance was 64 scholars, collection, $12.60; Newark, 176 scholars and collection, $33.10. Supt. R. F. Ballard, with teachers and scholars, are to be commended for the increase in attendance and interest in the school here. YOUNGSTOWN—An interesting session of the Campus club was held Saturday evening, at Belmont "Y." A feature of the meeting was Miss Estelle Stewart's talk on the San- CORRESPONDENTS must mail all letters for publication at their main postoffice sufficiently early on Monday (or Sunday) of each week to have them, reach The Gazette office on Tuesday morning, and always write also, their names and that of their city or town on the outside of the wrapper about returned copies. Unless this latter is done, proper credit cannot be given you. Lists of names, wedding presents, etc. obituary notices, inquiries for relatives and advertisements of all kinds, including items announcing entertainments to be held in the near future, must be paid for in advance at the rate of 25 cents a line, six words to a line. Our rates for display advertisements will be sent on application. CADIZ—Mrs. Gretchen. West has returned to Pittsburgh. She visited her mother, Mrs. Emma Mason.—Miss Thelma West of Smithfield was the Sunday guest of Miss Hilda Ramsey.—Rev. A. L. Holland has been returned to *Slimpson M. E. church for another year.* Mr. and Mrs. Fred Lucas have issued invitations to the marriage of their daughter, Carolyn Lucas Broadus, to Ellsworth Jennings Guy, May 1.—Hon. R. R. Beetham gave an interesting address at St. James A. M. E. S. S., Sunday.—Miss Myrtle Christian has returned to Canton. She visited her sister, Mrs. Bertha Redman.—A teacherelel has had to attend the district conference. The eight weeks' S. S. contest closed. Sunday, Cadzil school attendance was 64 scholars, collection, $12.60; Newark, 176 scholars and collection, $33.10; Supt. R. F. Ballard, with teachers and scholars, are to be commended for the increase in attendance and interest in the school here. HILLSBORO—A. F. Donaldson of Columbus and daughters, Mrs. W. Mayle and Miss Alela, and son, Curry, attended the funer: here. April 7, of their uncle, Wm. Golns. Also, of Mrs. Rilda Cole.—The fourteenth grade, Lincoln school, laureate sermon, at New Hope Baptist church. April 23, Rev F. Mitchell will deliver it. Commencement and program of Washington School. April 30. Class roll, Hazel Bennett, valedictorian; Juanita Smith, salutatorian; Bryant Carlisle, class historian. Harry Carter, J. Stanley Hudson, Edith Hancock, James Captain and Annabelle Williams are the other graduates—Rev P. H. Murray of Cincinnati preached in Gist Settlement, Sunday, for Rev. J. J. Burr, and here, Sunday evening, for Rev. W. W. Stephenson—Mrs. Chas. Bolden died, April 10, after a week's illness, Funeral service, 2 p. M. Saturday, conducted by Rev. M. Mitchell at the Baptist church. She leaves a husband, three sons, mother, brother, sister and many other relatives and friends to mourn their loss. A. F. Donaldson, son, and daughters, Mrs. Mayle, Alela and Aurelia, Mrs. Martha Gay, Violeta Green, Stella M. Tarpley and Mrs. Stella Kilgour of Columbus attended the funeral. Mr. and Mrs. Otis Bolden and son, Charles K., and Burch. Bolden of Columbus were called here by the death of their mother—Miss Mollie Tatum had as guests, recently. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Colwell of Cincinnati—The Ladies' Ald of the A. M. E. church had a successful entertainment. Saturday evening.—Easter programs at all the churches. Sunday.—Missionary Convention at the Baptist church. April 26 and 27. Wm. Young spent Sunday in Dayton.—Mrs. Elinora Gee and daughter. Constance, spent the weekend in Xenia and Dayton. The former's sister, Miss Rilda Phelps, nurse at Tawawa hospital, Wilberforce, visited her, recently. Wins New York State Scholarship New York City—Oliver D. W. Williams, a native of Brooklyn, and a student at Fordham University, has just been awarded a scholarship of $200 a year by the state of New York as a result of his high standing in a competitive examination in ac- ademic subjects, open to ex-soldiers, sailors, marines and nurses. LET THEM "SQUAWK", IF THEY DARE! French and British Blacks, and They Have Something Coming—Paris To London In An Aeroplane at Ninety Miles An Hour. Hotel Montreal, Paris, France, March 27, '24. Hon. Harry C. Smith, Editor Gazette, Cleveland, O., U. S. A. My dear \Sir:—You've heard talk of "a letter from home", but "The Old Reliable" Gazette is just that, and more. Can't tell you how much I appreciate it. I've just returned from London, England. My companion and I went by aeroplane and it was a wonderful experience. Part of the time we were four thousand foot in the air traveling at the rate of ninety miles an hour. I enjoyed it so much I would like to buy one and become an aviatrix. My trips over here have been splendid, all the way. But where are the Colored people in Europe? I've failed to see them in London and Paris, and have not spoken to a Colored person since I said goodbye at the pier in New York City on Feb. 20. '24. I would like to give the black British and French subjects a piece of my mind, if I ever hear them squawking around in the U. S. A. about anything. There is no race question here because the French are diplomatic enough to keep the blacks in the back-grounds of Africa. They are certainly not in Paris or its surrounding towns, and the same conditions exist in England. Please pardon this long letter. I only intended to write a note, but I've seen so much, and have so much time to think. I could write for hours. My personal opinion is that America is the best place in the world to live, especially for the Afro-American. My best wishes for your continued success, health and happiness. I am Respectfully. Mattie Hunter. FREE PRESS DISAPPEARING! Either Bought Up or "Frozen" (On —.N Chunk of Startling Truth —Interesting! A movement of profound significance has been taking place in this country during the past few years. We refer to the gradual disappearance of a free press. Year by year one independent paper after another (both magazines and newspapers) has either been bought up or "frozen" out by the proprietors of chain publications. As a result, the magazines and newspapers of America are rapidly becoming concentrated in the hands of a few big proprietors who view their property simply as a business investment. This movement has been greatly accelerated within recent months. Four independent newspapers have disappeared in New York City alone—two going to Mr. Munsey, one to Cyrus Curtls, and the other suspending entirely. Freedom of expression was once a predominant characteristic of American journalism. Today the only independent reporters of current affairs are a few journals of business—mostly of small circulation and published as a financial loss. These journals are always hard-pressed for money and take a breast of their expenses only because social-minded individuals generously underwrite their losses. But gradually, like the independent newspaper, one after another is disappearing. Within the past month The Freeman, one of the best edited and most fearless, has had to anunduce its suspension for lack of sufficient public support—The Republic, N. Y. City. We Need More "Somecholes" Boston, Mass., April 10, '24. Hon. Harry C. Smith. Editor Gazette, Cleveland, O. My dear Mr. Smith: I thank you very much for yours of the 7th enclosing check for five dollars, your contribution to the Trotter Fund. Our friend Trotter is doing the work that must be done by somebody, and it would be a great misfortune if he should be compelled to discontinue at this time. We Get Five Nominees! Chicago, Ill.—The indications are that Atty. Albert College has been nominated for judge of the municipal court; Hon. Adolbert H. Roberts, present member of the legislature, for the state senate, and S. B. Turner and Charles Griffin (in the first district) and Warren P. Dorslass and Geo. T. Kersoy (in the third district), for the legislature. All of this city. Republican primaries, last week. The First Clock Benjamin Banneker, a free Negro born in Baltimore county, Md., constructed, about 1754, a clock which tollled the hours. This is said to have been the first clock ever constructed in America. He was also our first astronomer and made this country's first calendar. The Hon. George W. Williams' "History of the Negro" will give you additional information. SINGLE COPY FIVE CENTS They Won't Kill The Enemy In The Next Conflicts But Will Use Tanks, Gas and Planes To Wound—"The League of Notions" Failing—Gen. "Tank" and Not Marshal Foch Won the World War. In the next war belligerent nations will not try to kill enemy soldiers, Benedict Crowell told the Cornell club (white), recently at Hotel Statler. "The League of Nations is failing, and the next war is approaching," said the man who was assistant secretary of war under former President Thomas Woodrow Wilson, author of the League of Nations covenant. "Three new weapons, developed during the last war, will dominate the action. The nation or group of nations which enters the next war adequately equipped with tanks, gas and airplanes, will win a quick and probably decisive victory." better. Races progress when they are young, stagnate later, then decay. We are still young. The French army dominates a Europe seething with cuplidity, envy, and hatreds. With Germany, Bulgaria and Austria practically disarmed, there are 4,300,000 men under arms in Europe compared with 3,700,000 in 1913. But taxes will destroy the French army, and restraint will be lifted from other nations. France is already disbanding part of her infantry, but the regiments are being replaced by tanks. More machines and fewer men will do the fighting in the future. There is a world war every fifty or 100 years years, and The United States shares much of the blame for the present conditions in Europe, he declared. "I advocated entering the league in 1919," he declared. "But the league has been left to become the instrument of the allies rather than an organization to compose differences between nations. It has failed in every big thing it has tackled. Four nations—England, France, Italy and Japan—dominate the league. Italy and Japan are passive. When England and France agree on a question, the league can do much. But they solidly agree. Because she has the luxury of standing army in the history of the world, France is able to dominate Europe now. Her army is the stabilizer. In that way it is an influence for peace. Says Other Wars Are Sure "Other wars seem inevitable. History is a report of wars. The United States has been at war one year out of every four of its existence, and we are a peaceful nation. I see no indications that humanity is becoming Stop the Flushing Beauty and Popularity Contest—Our Girl the Prettiest. New York City.—The beauty contest, which was also to decide the most popular girl in Flushing, L. I. to be queen of the Spanish fiesta in the state armory there. April 25 for the benefit of a local hospital, has been called off. The reason announced by the heads of the Green Twin Society, an organization of women prominent in society, was that the contest had "stirred up much bitterness and ill feeling." Back of this is prejudice against our people and Jews. When the contest was called off, Miss Violet Meyer, age 17, the daughter of a Jewish newsdealer, was in the lead. Miss Dorothy Derrick, granddaughter of the late Bishop W. B. Derrick of the A. M. E. church, who was in the lead several days, had dropped to third place and a girl (white) was second. From published photographs there is not the slightest doubt but that Miss Derrick would have won the contest if prejudice had not been allowed to enter the control of the contest. Pleads Own Case in Yiddish New York City—Manuel Thornhill, age 28, a Negro actor, pleaded his case in Yiddish, recently, when arraigned for violating the sanitary code. Thornhill explained that his parents were born in Palestine. The magistrate fined him $5 in the Yiddish language but payable in the coin of the realm. IN MEMORIAM. In memory of our dear son, Harrison McKinom Smith, who departed this life three years ago, April 21st, 1927. Call not back the dear departed. Anchored safe where storms are over. On the border land and left three. Soon to meet and part no more. When we leave, this world of changes. When we leave this world of care. We shall find our missing loved one. In our Father's mansion fair. Mr. and Mrs. Charles S. Smith. Mr. and Mrs. Loula Jones, East 101st St. who arrived in N. Y. City, April 7, after a delightful voyage across the Atlantic ocean on the "Antonia," were entertained by Mr. and Mrs. F. C. Taylor and Rev. E. R. Bolden of that city, Mrs. M. Proctor of Brooklyn, Mr. and Mrs. R. W. Leason of Jersey City, Dr. Pursis Hend-rason of Plainfield, N. J., and others, Mrs. Jones left N. Y. City, April 11, for Boston and Mr. Jones arrived in Cleveland, April 12. IS STRENGTH THE COPY FIVE CENTS ome! METARY CROWELL The Enemy In The conflicts and Planes To Wound—"The Failing—Gen. "Tank" al Foch Won the d War. better. Races progress when they are young, stagnate later, then decay. We are still young. The French army dominates a Europe seething with cuppidity, envy, and hatreds. With Germany, Bulgaria and Austria practically disarmed, there are 4,300,000 men under arms in Europe compared with 3,700,000 in 1913. But taxes will destroy the French army, and restraint will be lifted from other nations. France is already disbanding part of her infantry, but the regiments are being replaced by tanks. More machines and fewer men will do the fighting in the future. There is a world war every fifty or 100 years, and each generation must have its major conflict. But machines and gas will make the next war more humane than the last. In the next war governments will use sneezing or laughing gas, or anesthetics to put men, temporarily out of the fighting. Death-dealing gases were used less and less as the last war progressed, and that shows the tendency. A high ranking German officer said after the armistice that it was Gen. "Tank," and not the genius of Marshall Foch, that turned the tide against the Germans. At Cambrai the English advanced as much in one day, with only 6,000 casualties, as they did at Yorks in three months, with 250,000 casualties. The difference was in the use of the tank. Airplanes will jump over armies and attack the directing brains behind. I believe that bombing of cities is not only justifiable, but will be carried out in the next war. Supply depots and junction points will be destroyed, and the morale of the civilians behind the lines impaired." FAMOUS BEAUTY CULTURISTS. Agents of the Walker Company to Hold a Regional Conference In Cleveland, This Month. It will be remembered that in 1920 the national convention of Madam C. J. Walker agents met in Cleveland. Many of these same thrifty business women are to meet here again on April 24th and 25th in a regional conference. Ohio, West Virginia, Maryland, District of Columbia, Delaware and Virginia comprise the fifth district of Madam C. J. Walker agents and those residing in these states have been called by the regional president, Mrs. A. J. Miller, prominent beauty culturer of Richmond, Va., to assemble here on the above-named dates for the purpose of learning the latest methods of dressing the hair; the scalp and giving it most advanced complexion treatments. A large number of these agents is expected and from Mrs. A. C. Burnett, national representative of the Madam C. J. Walker Mfg. Co., who has established headquarters at 2400 East 40th St. 'phone Randolph 6871-7 we learn that great plans have been made to entertain the delegates and to make this conference better than the convention held here, some years ago. All the agents in this district and all interested persons are urged to attend the conference and communicate with Mrs. Burnett: St. John's chair will render "The Seven Last Words of Christ," Good Friday evening. Admission free. The Optimistic club has paid its plaque of $125 to the Playhouse Settlement building fund. The club, with its 35 zealous workers, is still doing effective upift work among our group. Mrs. Della Offer, president. The Spritz Store at 2067 East Ninth Street is introducing something new to the people of Cleveland. They are offering the highest grade clothing for men and women and the best of standard jewelry, such as watches and diamonds, on the lowest credit terms. The success of this store is built on the fact that no matter who you are, whether you are rich or poor, you get courteous attention and friendly service, whether you buy in the store or from one of the Spritz representatives, who may call at your home. Mr. Irvine S. Spritz and Mr. "Him" Shield, the proprietors of The Spritz Store, have many warm personal friends among Gazette readers who are interested in the success of the liberal policy of The Spritz Store. If it is not convenient for you to call at the store, a phone call to Cherry 3766 will bring Mr. Ross, special representative of The Spritz Store, to your home.—Adv. --- ®EBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY SUBSCRIPTION RATES Gin Advance) Ome Year -.........+-5+-5$2.00 @x Months ............2... 1.00 Subscribers are requested to remit by Postoffice money order or reg- istered letter. Mntered at the postoffice in Cleve- land, Ohio, as second-class mail matter Address all communications to HARRY 0. SMITH Editor and Proprietor THE GAZETTE (Bell "Phone: Cherry 1259) 214-215 Blackstone Bldg., 1426 W. Third St., Cleveland, Ohio Member Ohio Legislature: 1894 to 1896; 1896 to 1896; 1900 to 1902 THE GAZETTE is the oldest and has the largest boma fide circulation, @ouble that of any newspaper in the Interest of Afro-Americans publish- 8d in the state of Ohio, and compar- Wen with any will immediately es- tablish its rank as one of the NEWS- GEST AND BEST im the country. 10,000,000 Afre-Americans. 850,000 in Obie. 40,000 in Cleveland. SATURDAY, APRIL 19, 1924 Advocacy of a republic in Persia is a crime with penalties attached. Self-determination seems to have slipped a cog, over there. —inm1i— Senator Wheeler is basing his case largely upon witnesses who con- fess connection wtih illegal trans- actions—and expects the country to place dependence upon that sort of testimony. —aili— Our people generally will be re- Joiced that the Baptists of the Dis- trict of Columbia have been given a site valued at $35,000 for a theo- logical seminary. This site, located in the center of Douglass Park, Va., has been donated by the Waeshing- ton Development Corporation, and the corporation is giving a certain per cent of their collections toward the seminary. This is sort of a mu- tually helpful plan, and already sev- eral hundred lots have been sold to ‘our people in the District of Colum- bla, Ohio, and other parts of the country. —tin—- VERY ENCOURAGING! When the speakers’ bureau of the local Community Fund asked Dr. E. A. Bailey to lecture on “Cancer” during the recent “Healt week” and assigned him to address the Noble Community club of Euclid Village, it¥made no mistake, as The Gazette indicated in its issué of last week. The second day after the doctor’s lecture, ‘the bureau ‘phoned him its thanks for the splendid im- pression he had made on the au- dience of nearly 200 (whites) and said that while it was its rule to have a physician speak but once during that week it would ask him to deliver another address to the Valley View Schoo! Mothers’ club in Hathaway Rd. This he did on April 11, in the afternoon, and with like success. “The Old Reliable” Gazette extracts exceptional satis- faction from all successes our peo- ple, especially our business and pro- fessional men and women, havo mong other classes or races be- cause it is positive proof that we are “making good” according to the standards set up for all without ro- gard to race or class. Dr. Bailey, we salute you! = a FLEMING WAS RIGHT, THIS TIME ‘The Gazette has had’ to criticise Councilman Tom Fleming so much thruout his tenure of office that it is a real pleasure to praise him ffor what he said last week, to that woman from the Sterling house, a color-line in- stitution, who was tendering its use to the city in event of the adoption of the policewoman’s bureau. In taking the position he did he not only surprised but pleased every right thinking person in the city, particularly among our people. Keep 4 up, Tom, and you can depend upon the support of “The Old Reliable” erery time you are right in contend- ing for this race of ours. The very {dea of any one having the~nerve and gall to offer to a city an institu- tion that discriminates as between citizens of that municipality is as- tounding. Where in the world did that woman, {ts head, corhe from anyhow? We cannot understand how Councilwoman Marie Wing, a splendid representative, broad-mind- ed and exceptionally capable, ever permitted it. There is no question in our mind but that that grievqus mistake had much to do with the final Killing of the policewoman’s bureau effort. eR SE DEMOCRATIC PRESS HEDGING. Now that the sensation-creating investigations at Washington are about over, some of the Democratic Rewspapers that gave them widest attention are beginning to admit the weakness of much of the evidence ‘and the lack of validity in much of ‘the proceedings. Hero, for instance, is the New York World, which laud- ed the Wheeler committee so highly, remarking editorially that the com- mittee “exhibited itself in a light that leaves much to be desired.” And the paper also asserts that the committee gave ‘so much more at- tention to publicity than to evi- dence” that it is now “far from Possessing the confidence of the country.” ‘That is absolutely true. After all the questionable and undependable evidence is eliminated, how much more does the country know now than it did before the Wheeler com- mittee began its work? The New York Times, an independent Demo- cratic paper takes much the same view. In an editorial under the heading “Kidders and Kiddees", that Paper says: “Some of the other highly inventive testimony solemnly given to the Senate investigators— frequently in the form of dead men’s tales—may be both charitably and wisely dismissed as mere ‘kidding’.” Apparently the editor of the Times is not as gullible as the Democratic Senators, for he asks, “What about tho men, especially what about the Senators, who so easily allow them- selves to be kidded? One would sup- pose that they are familiar with the type of man who delights among his neighbors and intimates to dtaw the political long-bow. No man can be nominated or elected President with- out giving occasion for various gen- tlemen, in different parts of the country, darkly to hint that they could, if they chose, tell the whole secret of how the thing was done. ‘They claim to know what lies behind the public record, and gradually elaborate narratives of their own mysterious political manipulation and its extraordinary effects. ‘Those who listen to thefr amusing stories year after year are accustomed to smile amiably at such manifesta- tions of human weakness. They know kidding when they hear it. All the more astonishing is it that sophis- ticated Senators should not only lis- ten to it solemnly, but premit them- selves so readily to be made kid- dees.” POLITICAL DUMBELLS OR ‘TRAITORS! Now comes the Republican Inter- state League of the District of Co- lumbia, “a Coolidge organization,” with its protest against “the hand- picking of delegates and alternates to the next Republican National Convention from the nation’s cap- ital.” It seems the Coolidge leaders there are like those in Ohio, Kansas and other states—have little respect or consideration for “the rank and file” of the members of the party. It looks as if they are determined to defeat President Coolidge, this fall. Whether they are blundering because of a woful lack of knowledge of poli- tics, or are simply traitors, is the question. The big manager of the Coolidge primary campaigns, thru- out the country, whoever he may be, had better wake up, and soon, too, or It will be too late to stop the mischief being done by the Coolidge state and district leaders. It looks very much, at this time, as if Ohio has been lost already. Hoke Dont- then’s insulting mistreatment of the more than 200,000 Ohio Afro-Amer- fean voters and that most unfortu- nate attack upon the late President Warren G. Harding, made by Sena- tor Pepper of Pennsylvania in a re- cent speech “down East", HAVE HURT! There is no question as to that. Donithen 4s the President's Ohio leader and the Senator is one of his closest friends and political advisors. Hoke has already hung out the 8. 0. S. and called upon the Ohio Congressmen to come home and campaign for Coolidge and the party. It’s needed, alright, but it will not save the day the way things Coolidge are drifting in this state. Remove the political dumbbells, or traitors, at once, Mr. President, or they will encompass your defeat, this fall, Just as sure as there is an election. Northern Republicans, colored and white, will not stand such mistreat- ment without striking back and you and all others know it. OUR MINISTERS AND CHURCHES ‘Wards 11 and 12 eriminal echoes: Susan Boyd, age 89, pleaded guilty to a charge of manslaughter for kill- ing “Lake Shore”, an unidentified man, in her room at a house at 2402 Woodland Ave., March 10, and was sentenced, last Friday, to an inde- terminate term at the women's re- formatory at Marysville. She bad been charged with second degree murder, and claims she shot in self- defense. Albert Davis, age 20, was sentenced, Monday, to life-tmprison- ment in the state penitentiary, after pleading guilty to second degree murder in the killing of Walter Cruze, Feb. 24. These are only two of the many crimes committed in those two wards since the first of the year. And conditions are getting worse daily! The outlook for the next two years is very black indeed and still it seems impossible to get our min- fsters and churches in that section of the city (most thickly populated by our people, too) to pay any at- tention to the matter. From three to a dozen of our girls of tender years are ruined in wards 11 and 12 almost every week, fam- THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, 0. SATURDAY. APRIT. 19. 19294 OO YOU KNOW WHY --~ it Makes A Lot Of Difference Who Wears Them? Drawn for this payer By Fisher Pa I — (a ape) ee ey Cs es) Seer) [Aareee gy PE \aveee Awe a See Sad =g ada > Ee we eZ ery ae Je al =i. = 4 Re ee pore | a) PO te | a ee Pe ee beremamionAl CARTOON CON. 137 { er eth we en (PRIME SPORT NEWS Pushing over the winning run in ‘the last hale of the ninth inning, the Cleveland Browns emerged with col. ‘ors flying from thelr practice game with the Grennan Cake aggregation, peas 8 to 7, at Hooper field, this city’s baseball inaugural. Ray, sub- stitute first baseman and catcher, found the sacks loaded to capacity ‘when he carried his big stick to the plate in the ninth inning. The Brown slugger had Mined out a triple on a previous trip to the plate and Young, hurling for the Triple A nine, work- ed cautiously, One strike and two balls floated over the platter. ‘The next offering was just right and the sphere sailed out to left, bringing the winning run over the plate. Geo. Cykoswki, former Indian _ pitcher, was at the park but did not take part in the contest. ‘The Grennans’ other star hurler, Walter Miller, was not prepared to’ go to the mound. Errors and wild throws were numer- ous, owing to the lack of practice. Despito the fact that the players were not in condition, the contest developed into a nip-and-tuck en- counter with both teams fighting hard for a victory. The Browns ob- tained an early lead, scoring three runs in the second inning and regis- tering another pair in the third. Har- nett pitched good ball for the Gren- nans, but a combination of hits and errors proved his downfall. He was relieved by Young after’ pitching three innings. His successor display- ed a fast ball and curve that had our players guessings, but found it a dif- ficult task to locate the plate, walk- ing six batters. Miles starred at bat for the Browns, obtaining three hits. One of his drives cleared the wall in right for a trip around the cireult. ‘The Grennans and Browns will meet again, tomorrow afternoon. The teams have had a full week to prac- tice and the return fracas should be, far more interesting than last Sun- day's game. One out when winning run scored. Grennans | 0001030 3 0—7 Browns .. 03201001 1-8 The Browns will open the 1924 season at Detroit, May 3, and after four games will move on to Chicago for a second series of four games. Coming back exhibition games will probably be played at Kalamazoo. while the opening date at Hooper field will be May 17. The team will then pack up for a long jump to St. Louis. Other clubs in our National Baseball league are Indianapolis, Kansas City, Birmingham and the Cuban Stars.” All will be seen in ac- tion at Hooper field this coming season. In addition games have been lined up with three class triple A clubs. The Tellings ure first to be booked with the Browns, May 17, and will be followed on the follow: ing Sunday by the Grennan Cakes, while the Firemen ‘will try their luck, May 27. The three games will give one a fairly good idea as to the comparative strength of the new Browns and the best of Cleveland's semi-pro clubs (white). ilies are broken up, and hundreds of men and women live openly to- gether who are not married, and still our ministers and churches there absolutely refuse to act to improve the sad conditions, LORD, HAVE MERCY! What makes their refusal all the more heart-rending and ag- gravating is the fact that they have maintained this same position for at least two years, now. ‘The very latest, although it has happened many times in the last five years, 1s the breaking up of a fine family that furnished at least three exceptionally active workers and members in one of our largest churches in wards 11 and 12. This s the direct result (as usual) of the miserable condition that is permit ted to exist in that section and, too, without any protest whatever from our ministers and churches. Haven't we one minister in all this great city (with its 40,000 Afro- Americans) of sufficient command- ing ability and BACKBONE to start something that will force the sadly needed action? Gladys Sanaers, age 15, caused the arrest, last Friday, April 4, '24, of Charles C. 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If you wish to see the editor call there, please. We advise our readers to carefully examine The Gazette's advertisements before making purchases. Business men who advertise in this paper should have the patronage of our people. The fact that they advertise is assurance that they want it. All reading matter for publication in current issues of The Gazette must be in the office by 4 p. m., TUESDAY of that week, at the latest. Display advertisements accepted until noon, WEDNESDAYS! HARRY C. SMITH, 215 Blackstone Bldg. Cor. W. Third St. and Frankfort Ave., Cleveland, O. Notary Public Bell 'Phone: Cherry 1250 H. SMITH 3007 Scovill Ave. CHAS, E. JACKSON'S 4401 Central Ave. J. S. HALL'S 3133 Central Ave. *Open, Sundays. NOTICE TO Subscribers not receiving The us at once. We desire every copy. Send or bring locals and all office, 214-215 Blackstone Bldg. call there, please. We advise our readers to call vertisements before making purtiise in this paper should have the fact that they advertise is assured. All reading matter for public Gazette must be in the office by at the latest. Display advertise NESDAYS! HARRY C. SMITH Cor. W. Third St. and Fn. Notary Public Classified Advertising ... Department ... WANTED—Agents can earn $100 to $200 weekly, selling nationally famous Sport Clothes for Women, Misses and Children at actual Wholesale Prices. Manufacturer wishes to establish a agents throughout the country. Act quickly! Send in your application today. Ask for free catalog, United Sportwear Co., Longacre Bldg., 1472 Broadway, Room 311, Dept. "A", New York City. CLEVELAND Social and Personal Harry T. Ford filled concert engagements in N. Y. City and Baltimore, last week. Major and Mrs. W. T. Anderson returned, this week, from several months' visit in California. Mrs. G. Quinn of Oberlin visited her daughter and son-in-law, Dr. and Mrs. Leon S. Evans, recently. You should hear Florence Cole Talbert, soprano solofist de luxe, on April 24, at Lane Metropolitan church. Samuel W. Clark, proprietor of the Dunbar theater, Columbus, was a guest of the Hotel Majestic, a few days, this week. Genial James G. Offer, E. 89th St. has been appointed to a lucrative position at the Reliance Savings bank in Euclid Ave. Mr. and Mrs. W. T. Grant are to locate in Pleasantville, N. J. Their many friends in this city greatly regret their departure. The local branch of the N. A. A. C. P. will present a chorus of sixty voices from Oberlin College, May 16, at St. John's A. M. E. church. Miss Maggie Winston of Missville, Ky., a student at Oberlin college, spent her spring vacation with Mr. and Mrs. W. W. May of E. 95th St. Mrs. Alexander Martin, E. 40th St., has been selected as one of the instructors of the "Plattsburg" school of the Ohio Women's Republican club. Mr. Anthqpy Overton, president of the Douglass bank, Chicago, our only national bank, will speak at a mass-meeting at St. John's church, April 30, at 8 p. m. Dorothy, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles W. Chesnut of 9716 Lamont Ave., and John H. Slade, Ohio State university medical student, were married, recently. Mr. and Mrs. W. T. Grant, who sold their news and cigar store, in Central Ave., to Mr. Benj. Akers, are visiting his mother in Louisville, Ky. Mrs. Emma Rogers Corom, contralto, of Lakewood, and daughter, Mrs. Hazel Lyons, soprano, E. 84th St., concerted in Toledo, recently, at Warren A. M. E. church. Rev. B. K. Smith, pastor of East Mt. Zion Baptist church for many years, has tendered his resignation owing to ill health. He is one of our oldest and best ministers. Mr. and Mrs. Loula S. Jones, of E. 101st St. have returned from their several months' trip abroad. Their son remained in Paris, France, to continue his study of the violin. Mr. Henry Perry, 2248 E. 46th St., father of John H. Perry, who sustained a stroke of paralysis about a week ago, is very ill. For more than 20 years Mr. Perry has been house-man for Mrs. John Huntington. Ferd. L. Barnett of Omaha, years ago a resident of this city, has been triumphantly nominated as a candidate for the Nebraska legislature. This news will please greatly his old friends in this city. --- THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, O. SATURDAY, APRIL 19, 1924 *M. KLEIMAN'S 2928 Central Ave. D. BARBER'S 2006 Central Ave. BENJ. AKERS, 3519 Central Ave. *STONE DRUG STORE 7325 Central Ave. SUBSCRIBERS The Gazette regularly should notify by delivered promptly. business matters to The Gazette If you wish to see the editor frequently examine The Gazette's ad- chases. Business men who adver- the patronage of our people. The ance that they want it. ication in current issues of The 4 p. m., TUESDAY of that week, ments accepted until noon, WED- 215 Blackstone Bldg. Bankfort Ave., Cleveland, O. Bell 'Phone: Cherry 1259 Fred D. Sampson, E. 40th St., was recently promoted to the position of "sign out" man for the Pullman company, at Union passenger station. He is one of the very few of our group holding this position in the Pullman service. Fred is a native Cleveland. Jarret Chavous, of the Chavous Reality Co., sold a $24,000 four-suite brick apartment on E. 100th St., last week, to a young member of the race. Dr. E. J. Gunn, one of our leading physicians, purchased a two-family house on the same street from the Chavous Co., recently. The agents of the Cleveland district of the National Benefit Life were greatly pleased, recently, when District Manager G. E. Cohron informed them that they were able to write insurance on the group plan as a result of the recent absorption of a company in West Virginia. The Stillman, Allen and other local theaters are not only segregating our people but in some instances grossly insulting them in addition thereto, it is said. President George the local branch of the N. A. A. C. P. and others interested should get the facts—recent occurrences. They will make your blood "boll". Henrietta Vinton Davis, the well-known elocutionist, was the guest of Mr. and Mrs. John Scott, E. 74th St., during her recent stay in Cleveland in the interest to the U. N. I. A. she was a dinner guest of her cousin Mrs. James G. Offer. Miss Davis is connected with the headquarters of the U. N. I. A. in New York City. Royal A. Milton, former employee of The Gazette, who went home to Hampton, Va., about two years ago, for his health, writes us that he is the first Ridge mountains to spend Eastern Lake he will leave western Virginia for Cleveland. He has many friends in this city who will be pleased greatly to see him again. The local branch of our National Association of Musicians gave a musical at Mt. Zion Cong. church, Sunday afternoon. Hon. John P. Green and Rev. H. M. Kingsley were the speakers. Kittle S. Mitchell, soprano soloist. The community singing was led by John H. Perry. Grace Bills Thompson, president. of the National Bible conference and institute of liedstone Baptist church, recently, was given E. W. D. Isaac, of Nashville, was in charge. Drs. J. T. Brown and L. G. Jordan, of Nashville and Philadelphia, respectively, were also speakers. A chorus of 60 voices, directed by Mrs. F. B. Cochran, was one of the features of the program. George W. Henderson of 1274 Washington Ave., died, Tuesday. A grandmother placed his age at 112, although he had often told her he was born in 1800. A slave in Maryland when the war of the rebellion started, Henderson enlisted in the Union forces. After the war he bought a small farm in Maryland. Two months ago he came to Cleveland to live with his granddaughter, Mrs. Bessie Hipshire. Jimmie Cooper's Revue at the Columbia theatre, this week, is a "scream". His 35 white performers and the same number of Afro-American singers, dancers, comedians, etc., etc., are giving a show rarely, if ever seen. Jimmie Cooper himself is a whole show, but when he adds a white performer like he has with his humble little week, it is simply a case of three or six first-class shows in one. You will make a mistake that you will always regret if you fail to go to the Columbia, this week. Prof. Arthur Edwin Kraft, (white), a member of the F. A. Guild of Organists and organist at Trinity cathedral, has selected Mrs. Kathleen H. Forbes, of 2164 E. 74th St., as an entrant in the annual musical contest conducted by the Cleveland Association of Musicians (white) in May. Organ, piano, voice and violin will be represented. Mrs. Forbes has been a student of the organ under Prof. Kraft only six months. A gold medal will be awarded to the successful compet- U. S. civil service examinations for railway postal clerks will be held in Cleveland on May 8. 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Everybody is showing, this week, and you should not miss this exceptional opportunity for a great evening's entertainment. Sidney B. Thompson has been restored to his former position as a foreman of street clearing in the Lakewood district by the commissioner of streets. Syd's threats to expose some of the election frauds in the ward 12 councilmanic contest of two years ago, last fall, because of Councilman Tom Fleming's opposition to his reappointment, is what forced the political boss (Maschke) to re-appoint him over Tom's strenuous objections, it is said. Apparently the rank and file of the organization's Afro- contingent are very "sore on Tom" and tired of him. He never was popular with them. Since the leader, Starlight's death, it has been very no-ticeable. Some more ward 11 echoes:— Henry Smith, 2236 E. 38th St., Monday pleaded guilty to a charge of cutting to wound Leo Schlang, deputy dance hall inspector, before Judge Phillips. Schlang was cut in the cheek and arm when he ejected Smith from a Chinese restaurant at 3623 Central Ave. Smith was shot in the right leg by a policeman as he from the restaurant. Wm. Spring, 22, who formerly lived at 5116 Scovill Ave., pleaded guilty to second degree murder. Monday, during the selection of a jury, try him on a first degree murder charge. Judge Pearson sentenced Spring to life imprisonment in the Ohio penitentiary. Spring shot Golden Anderson, age 19, a roomer, on Dec. 29, during an argument over a woman. Spring was arrested at Charlotte, N. C. Mme. Antoinette Garnes, coloratura soprano, of Chicago, assisted by Miss Mabel E. Clark, pianist, demonstrated to the satisfaction of all, at her recital at Cory M. E. church, last week Friday evening, that she has a good voice which has been excepted, and trained, and that she knows how to play the piano, is somewhat of an actress, too. Mme. Garnes has excellent stage presence. An audience that filled the large auditorium of the church was thrilled and greatly pleased by her really brilliant vocal work and showed it in repeated encores that were as spontaneous as they were hearty. She sang selections by Handel, Grieg, Massenet, a蒲勃曼, et al. Miss Clark is a splendid, beautiful, as we all know, but it seemed to the writer that she did exceptionally good work, last week Friday evening. Prof. Neval H. Thomas of Washington, D. C., years ago a resident of this city, will speak at East Mt. Zion Baptist church, corner E. 108d St. and Cedar Ave., at 4 p. m., Sunday, April 20, 1924, under the auspices of local branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.—Adv. The Hotel Geraldine is what it purports to be—a high-class race enterprise conducted on moral grounds for good people and is splendidly and conveniently located. You can tell all your friends this, whether they are in or out of Cleveland. 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Qhio Afro-Americans Openly Insulted and Humiliated Our Demand for What We ay oak a ent ,To a eoteniageae Deets tonker Statement of Ohio Afro-American Republicans, held in Garfield hall, Feb. 4, ‘24, ‘the following resolution was unani- mously adopted: Whereas, The Afro-American Re- publicans of the state of Ohio thra the Abraham Lincoln club of Day- ton asked for conference with the State Republican Executive Com- mittee and also asked for one of ‘our group to be selected as a dele- gate-at-large to the Republican Na- tional Convention which 1s to con- Yen at Cleveland in June, 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 Ohfo is sufficiently large to en- title it to one of the seven dole- gates-atdarge to the Republican Na- an National Convention, and thelr loyalty to the party ‘is unques- tloned, this conference, of Afro- American Republican voters of Ohio, respectfully requests the sub- stitution of a member of our race for one of the seven persons announced as having been recently selected aa Ohio's candidates for delegates-at- large to the next Republican 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, Ohio Coolidge _Teader, which was done, on appointment, Tuesday, Feb. 12, 1924, Lincoln's Dirthday. The committee: Hon. Harry Clay Smith of Cleveland Rey. I. 8. Webster of Toledo, I. 8. Beason of Columbus, John C. Lo- gan of Columbus and Dr. L. H. Cox of Dayton, chairman. The. officers of the Conference were: E. T. Banks of Dayton, chairman; Rev. J. E. Baker of Fremont, secretary; Rev. I. 8. Webster, treasurer. After the committee was named, the chafrman called the office of Mr. Donithen and was informed that the gentleman was out and would not de back until late that evening. He then called the office of the chairman of the state executive committee and was Informed that that gentleman had left town, at noon, and would not be back that day." The chair. man returned to the conference and related his experiences in trying tc make an appointment to deliver the resolution. and announced that he would bend every honorable effor towards making the appointment with Mr. Donithen that the commit tee might deliver the resolution i person, ‘The remaining members o the committee agreed to meet Chair man Cox in Columbus, if possible on call. A few days later, Mr. Co: called Mr. Donithen over ‘the lon @istance "phone and asked an ap paintment. He stated that the com mittee could call “any day" and he would seo it. To this Mr. Cox re piled: “That is too indefinite, Mr Donithen; we do not want a repeti tion of last Monday when the com mittee was in Columbus ready t ¢all_on you and could not get 1 touch with you.” He thon agreed o1 ‘Tuesday, Feb. 12th. Chairman Co: then notified each’ member of thi committee to meet hint in Columbu: st 12 gelock noon, Feb. 12th, sné received a reply from Mr. Logan wh informed him that owing to the fac he was leaving for Chicago to atten 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, threo of the committee of five met here at the ¥. M,C. A. Mr. Dontthen was called on ‘the phone ‘and the meeting with him was ar- ranged for one-thirty. “We were at Donithen’s headquar- ters at one-ffteen, 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 ope2 we ould think—here he is now —but that door opened and closed several times between one-thirty and three- thirty, without being darkened by fhe 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 ome more; onty looking towards the oor, every time it rattled, to say, ‘there he comes now.” Finally, when I 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 eimply 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 nnd a half hours’ waiting, the long- Bs. Donithen entered and, after see another man (white) w! Sttived after we aid but whom bis secretary (Donithen's) explained was @ delegate from California and want- 4 to catch a train, Mr. Daggthen ‘came into the room where we were waiting and made no excuse What- over for keeping us waiting for more han two hours. Rather humiliating {2 any self-respecting human being, don’t you think? I 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 Ohio, none the less Republican because they dare think for themselves, and in thelr Dehalf We urge you to use your good offices to sce that we are justly accorded what we aro asking for. We recos- nize, Mr, Donithen, that to the victor belongs ‘the spolls, but we do not come to you as job-seeking Repub- Means, willing to barter the just rights of our people for a political’ Job or promise of such job, but we do 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 belleve 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 Rev. Webster. “Editor Dabney of the Cincinnat! Union told him that since we had waited so long and the hour was growing so late we would simply leave the resolution for him to look over later and he could write his re- ply to the chafrman, This he would not hear to but insistea upon ‘hav- ing it out right now while we are 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 proceed- 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 Cincinnat! and Ex-Congressman Knight were selected because they were not in harmony with the organ- ization, and they were selected to bring about harmony in the party. At this point Mr. Dabney sald: “I believe I see just how it was done. You se- lected those men because you fig- vred that they might cause some trouble if they were not selected, and | you figured that the cotorea Repub- | Means would vote for you anyway '| whether you named one of our grout Jor 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 (7) men. (and '| he named the five persons) and they [all agreed to it.’ Just think, men 'Jand women of the race, this man | telling us right to.our faces that our | self-appointed leaders had been call: ed into conference, before this thing i] was done, and that they had agreed '] to the arrangement whereby we were | not to have # delegate-at-large, but || merely two alternates! Two Azure. heads, you might say! Agreed to it! |My God, what is to become of the | Face 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 a felerste-ntlarge, Two "sore white Republicans, 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 that two years ago the Republican organization put out literature for our people to use telling us not to vote for Mr. Knight because of his southern birth (Georgia) and southern views, and now you name this same Mr, Knight and ask us to vote for 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 sald ‘was of no avail ‘Because the leading men of your race were consulted and they agreed to it.’ Men and women for the love of all that is right and Just, for the love of our children and ‘our future generations think! Think! aud be named the men, too!” | BANKS NAMES SIX Now We Know the “Negroes Whom Donithen Said They Had Con- ferred With—Engrave Their Renee ecko Dayton, O., March 23, '24 Hon. Harry C. Smith, Editor Gazette, Cleveland, O. My dear Mr. Smith:—ainformation has just come to the Abraham Lin- coln Republican club of this city that the Republican “race leaders”, who agreed with the Republican State Reccctisn amnion Ste dese ea te tae aa cere son as a candidate for delegate-at- large to the Republican National convention to meet in Cleveland in June of this year, would have been THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, 0. SATURDAY, APRIL 19, 1924 ee EA TURDAY, (AP RID 79): 1086 “a fatal step for the patty at this! the President must first and prompt-| try, | Particular time,” are (n..ned by Mr.| ly root out that aggravatingly insult-| nos, Hoke Donithen): Charles Cottrill of| ing segregation in the departments | "0"° Toledo; Attys. Barcus and Wilbur| of the government at Washington, | Peopl King of Columbus; Prof. W. 8,|D. C. (and elsewhere in its service). | lican Scarborough and Carl Jenkins of| This far overshadows the matter ot| Goors Wilberforce, and Fred D. Patterson| appointments to office. If it ts not| if ho of Greenfield. ‘These constitute only| wiped out soon, no self and race re- & part of those who were seen, they| specting member of the race can pos-| have sald. These names would have becn| sibly vote for the Prosident, this fall. | said in your hands before this, had we|A southern Democratic ‘President | dumt gotten them sooner. (Wilson) inaugurated the segrega-| chars Our information also has it that|tlon and another can do no worse.| | special men were sent out to inves-| We are trying to have faith in Prost-| eal tigate Editor W. P. Dabney of Cin-| dent Coolidge but Cohen's appoint-| leade cinnat!, Rev. Webster of Toledo,| ment, and all others that may come| viow, Editor ‘Harry C. Smith of Cleveland, | after, pale into insignificance while| pate Dr. U, H. Cox of this elty and others| that segregation in the departments of our group who were active in the| at Washington remains, a campaign for what we are clearly| With the administration at Wash-| ‘J entitled to—a candidate for dole-| ington failing In the most important gate-at-large. matter to the entire raco, and failing | yy, Tam hastening to send you (spe-|to give us any recognition worth clal delivery) this bit of information| while in the way of appointments to| teem knowing of “The Old Reliable” Ga-| office, and ita stato leaders, Ike the| (ya, zette's strong desire for {t before| Hon. Hoke Donithen of Marion, 0.,| ‘V* now, and it having only reached us| and Chairman Montgomery of the| editc at 8:15 o'clock tonight. Ohio Republican executive commlt-| voc, ‘Trusting, that when we have done| tee, .treating with almost contempt our full duty to the race, this fall,| not only our Just demand but also| clarl the earnest desire of the Colored| those of our real leaders who car-| atu voters of Ohio will never again be ried It to them at Columbus, the| “* 80 utterly tgnored. I am (for the| outlook for the loss of 50,000 Afro-| this Abraham Lincoln Republican club),] American votes in this state alone, | yeaa ‘Very truly yours, is anything but encouraging as far FE. T. Banks, |as tho election of President Cool-) Afro ee ldge, this fall, 1s concerned. nite PRESIDENT COOLIDGE!| ........—._._.__ | they at. Sarcus Of Volumbus Gnc tae other “white-men picked” or self- styled “Negro leaders of Ohio” gave the Hon. Hoke Donithen, Coolldge leader in this state, to understand that our people of Ohio would be satisfied with two candidates for al- ternates-at-large to the Republican National Convention, to meet in this city in June of this year, they knew full well the despicable 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 is the merest nonsense for Mr. Donithen, or any- one else, to tell us “It is now toc late” to do this. He and his associ- ates in the selection of the seven candidates on the slate (for dele- gates-at-large) knew in time that we had asked and expected what we ‘were and are clearly entitled to a: @ potent factor of the Republican party of Ohio, and unless it 1s giver we can safely say that at least 50,. 000 Ohio Afro-Americans will refuse, this fall, to vote for President Cool: idge, many of them voting for th Democratic candidate for the Prest. dency if McAdoo or some other broad-minded northern member 0} that party be named as such. Cou pled with the foregoing and greatl; aggravating the whole matter ts thi contemptuous manner in which Mr Donithen treated our Conference: committee that sought (almost ir vain) the interview with him. I was far more of an insult than ar Interview. He does not secm to havi anything lke a proper regard foi tho Afro-American Republicans o Ohio and it 1s up to them to teact him, and those associated with him a much-needed lesson. This can onl; be done at the polls in November unless he awakens and soon, too, ti | ® proper and full realization of th fact that we propose to have tha | delegate-at-large or give them some thing to remember, this fall,” the} will never forget. Ohio Afro-Amer feans will not stand such insulting and unfair mistreatment from Dont then, Coolfdge or any one else with. out striking back in a proper man- ner and at the proper time, and it i far better that they get this right in thelr minds now than later on when ft {s too late. ‘The Harding-Coolidge administra. tion was a grievous disappointment to Afro-Americans generally, . not only because it practically followed the policy of the southern Demo- cratic Wilson administration in re- fusing to appoint responsible mem- ders of our group to positions of {m- portance ‘(both as to class and sal- ‘ary), as well as others, but also be- cause it continued the insulting seg- regation in the departments at Wash- ington, D. C., inaugurated by and under the Wilson administration; and voiced insulting sentiments which {t felt would also please the Democratic South. Add to the fore- going its refusal to pardon our sol- dier-martyrs imprisoned at Ft. Leav- 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 yéars, The C. Bascomb Slemp idea that Afro-Americans can be fooled with the giving of “tho shadow for the substance” 1s positively silly, and President Coolidge who may mean well and intend to do what is right by us, should not De misled by his “‘Iily-white” Republican secre- ary from Virginia, Mr. Slemp. He, yy. fyI7 1.7: 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 ot appointments to office. If it 1s 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 Prest- dent Coolidge but Cohen's appoint- ment, and all others that may come after, pale into insignificance, while that jon 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 tc office, and its stato leaders, Ike the Hon. ‘Hoke Donithen of Marion, O. and Chairman Montgomery of’ th Ohio Republican executive commit tee, treating with almost contemp not only our Just demand but. alsc those of our real leaders who car ried it to them at Columbus, th outlook for the loss of 60,000 Afro American votes in this state alone is anything but encouraging as fai as tho election of President Cool: idee, Chie fall. Sn eonenmaad. NEGROES FOR COOLIDGE? “No Republican who has the in- terest of his party at heart need have any fear about the loyalty of the Ohio colored voters in the campaign, this year,” said Henry Lincoln John- son of Georgia, a member of the Re- ‘publican national committee. fe Inado this’ statement. at. the. White House: “Ohio has between 275,000 and 280,000 Negro voters, men and women," said Johnson. “There was some disaffection among them, but that is a thing of the past.’ The Negroes not only of Ohio, but of other states where the colored vote is a large factor, are for Calvin Cool- fdge. ‘They are for him not perfunc- torily, but with all thelr hearts and souls ‘and all their sentiment."* ‘The foregoing, clipped from the Columbus (0.) Daily Dispatch, a “Coolidge” publication, was sent to us, recently, by one of the leading, thoughtful members of the race liv- ing in that city. The following com- ment accompanied it: “Tam sending you a clipping from March 10th issue, which will be self explanatory. Mr. Johnson seoms to be like most of the other race lead- ers, so-called. When they speak they do not have the interest of the Negro at heart, bnt, only their own selfish advancement.” ‘TRUTH! Henry Lincoln Johnson knows ab- solutely nothing of the attitude of Ohio Afro-Americans toward Presi- dent Calvin Coolidge’s candidacy and shows it plainly by what he says. What is still worse is the evident fact that he had made absolutely no effort to find out what it was and is. “Like most of the other race leaders, so-called,” apparently he does not seem to care to know. And the Columbus Evening Dispatch, this Negro’s name is among those signed to the Lincoln League's reso- lution, sent to Hoke Donithen, Ohio Coolidge leader, on Feb. 12 of this year, “urging the propriety of plac- ing a Colored member on the Ohio delegation-at-large," something Ohic Afro-Americans were and are clearly entitled to! We are very sorry. We thought Johnson a far different sort of man, And his insulting interview was given “at the White House” where doubtless he was begging a job from the President for himselt or some one else. LORD, HAVE MERCY! “The Negroes of Ohio and other northern states where the Colored vote is a large factor,” have abso- lutely nothing to thank President Coolidge tor, to date, and for John- son or any one else to say that they “are for Calvin Coolidge, not per- funetorily, but with all their hearts and souls and all thelr sentiment” is a positively silly statement which it is difficult for us to belleve that he or any other sane member of the race could or would make. It is really ridiculous. ‘The Harding-Coolidge administra- tion made the great mass of our peo- ple heart-sick with disappointment and chagrin. ‘The Coolidge admin- stration has not changed this con- dition in the least, up to date, If anything, it has aggravated it with its few fnsienificant appointments. properly referred to as “the shadow for the substance”; with its studied refusal to wipe out the dis- graceful and disgustingly insulting segregation In the governmental de- partments at Washington, D. C., and elsewhere; and with the Coolldze leaders in the various northern states denying our people thelr right- ful representation in the party’s pri- mary elections as they have done in Ohio, Kansas and other northern states. These are only a few of the many good causes of complaint and “disaffection” that will cause thou- sands of Afro-American voters in “Ohio and other states where the Colored vote ts a large factor” to refrain from voting, this fall, it they are not promptly removed by Presi- dent Coolidge and his state man- agers. ‘There is precious lttie Coolidge |: enthusiasm among the masses of! white Republicans thruout the coun-' try, these Teapot Dome days, and none, absolutely none among our people anywhere, and the Repub- lican National Committeeman from Georgia is a mighty dumb politician if he does not know this. And we have yet to meet the person who said Henry Lincoln Johnson was a dumb politician, even tho they may characterize him as a truckling pollt- feal servant of the big Coolidge leaders, as his “White House” inter- ‘view, published in the Columbus Dis- patch would indicate. ‘TROUBLE IN OHIO” Under the above heading, our es- teemed contemporary, the Richmond (Va.) Planet, John Mitchell, Jr., editor, had a lengthy editorial, Inst week, that needs explanation and clarification. In the first place, “the astute (7)) Republican leaders” of this state did not “out-wit” our leaders of Ohfo in the matter of an Afro-American candidate for dele- gate-at-large. ‘They simply did what they have been doing in Virginia and almost every other state in the Un- fon for yearé—ignored our request for what was clearly due. It was the same old thing that caused the last great fight of our leaders in the “Old Dominion” in which the editor | of the Planet was a leader. In this (as usual) the Ohio leaders (white) were aided and abetted by “Negro” political boot-lickers who were un- ,doudtedly promised jobs for their despicable duplicity and treachery. ‘They are expecting them, anyway, in the event of President Coolldge’s election. Ralph W. Tyler was never “a Col- ored leader” in Ohio and was not given the appointment he held be- cause he was “of presidential size” (for appointment to office). If Ralph were alive, we would explain in de- tail his appointment by President Roosevelt who was “slapping at” ou great and good friend, Senator "Joseph Benson Foraker, when he made it. Roosevelt was angry witt the Senator because he persisted ir his fight for “The Black Battalion’ which he (Roosevelt) had ordered | Secretary of War Taft to ‘discharg: | without honor” from the U. 8. Army This Taft had done after trying ir | vain to get Roosevelt to rescind hi order. Some of “The Black Bat talion” had helped to save the live | of Col. Roosevelt and his “Roug! | Riders” in Cuba during the Spanish , American War, too. No Ohio Afro | American has ever held a Presiden | tial appointment “of national im | portance” because of this state’ || “Negro” political boot-lickers. ‘The; {have always been willing to helj | White Republican leaders hold ow \| people back, in the matter of prope | representation, etc, so they coul J Set a Job. Continuing, Editor Mit || chell says: | “Either pledges should be made t || sive to some of these Afro-America: leaders an appointment of nationa Jimportance or the fight should b ‘| continued to the bitter end. Supin }] submission cannot win in a politica | contest. Manly men alone ean se eure manhood rights for eithe '| themselves of for some one else. W | hope that united action will tak the place of divided council, whic | now seems to be dominating affair in Ohio at this time. If the colorec || people of that state will got to | gether, all that they demand can b Secured without being put to th | hazardous trouble of fighting in th joven for ft. ‘The report of the ex |periences of that Afro-Americar committee as published in ‘The Cleveland Gazette of March 8th |] 1924, is decidedly humiliating. Thes« men were not on a personal missior and were advocating no. particulas candidate for the position, The; took high ground and left to the white Republicans themselves, so fa1 as the resolution goes, the naming of one of thelr number to go to the Re- publican National Convention at Cleveland, ‘The matter can be com- promised, but this compromise can only come by pledging to appoint to a position of national importance some one of the able Republican ‘Afro-American leaders of Ohio.” ‘That 4s where our esteemed con- frero of the Planet ts wyong. Ohic Afro-Americans insist upon a candi- date for delegate-at-large and the offer of a job, or position of any kind, will not be accepted. There can be no compromise! Either we get what we demand or we will carry the fight into the campaign for election, this fall. ‘There is no law that compels our people to vote, this fall or any other, if they do not feel to do so, and they know it. THE MAN WHO DARES “I honor the man who tn the conscientious discharge af his duty dares to stand alone; the world, with ignorant, intoler- ant judgment, may condemn, the countenances of relatives may be averted, and the hearts of friends grow cold, but the sense of duty done shall be sweeter than the applause of the world, the countenances of relatives or the hearts of friends.”—Charles Sumner. 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 caso of lynching. 6282. Damages recoverable by legal representative of victim of lynching. 6283. Porson 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., tees. 6287. County's right of action against member of mob. 6288, County's right of action against another county. 6239. Non-relicf from prosecution. Our mob-violence or anti-lynehing 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 its 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 sny 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 a “lynching” within the meaning of this chapter. (93 ¥. 161 2.) Section 6279. The 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, aud assaulted with whips, clubs, mis- ses or in any other manner, may recover, as hereafter provided, a sum not to ‘exceed one thousand dollars as damages trom the county in which the assault 1s 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 is serious, a Sum not exceeding one thousand dol- lars; of, if suck injury result in per- manent’ disability to earn a livelt- hood by manual labor, a sum not to exceed five thousand dollars. (93 ¥. 162 6.) 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 ¢: the minor children of such person 0 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’ share. If there be no widow of minor children surviving such dece dent, such sum shall be distributed among the next of kin according ti the laws of the distribution of th personality of am intestate, Such ‘sum so recovered shall not be # part of the estate of such person so lynch: ed, nor be subject to any of his la bilities. (98 v 162 6.) Section 6283. A person suffering death or injury from a mob attempt. ing to lynch another person shal 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 malicious assault. (93 v. 162 7.) Section 6285. An order to the commissioners of a county, against which such recovery 1s had, to in- clude {t with the costs of action, in the next succeeding tax levy for such county, shall be a part of the judg- ment in every such ease. (98 y. 162 ) Section 6286. If-the decedent so lynched has minor children eurviv- ing him, the fund shall be turned over to ‘a regularly appointed guar- dian. Such guardian shall adminis- ter such fund under the direetion of the probate judge, allowing not more than five hundred dollars for coua- sel fees in the action for such re- covery. (93 v, 162 9.) Section 6287. ‘The county, tn which a lynching occurs, may re- cover the amount of a Judgment and costs against {t in favor of the legal representatives of a person killed or seriously injured by a mob from any of the persons composing such mob. A person present, with hostile intent, at such lynching shall be deemed a member of the mob and be Mable to such action. (98 v. 162 10.) Section 6288. If a mob carries a prisoner into ‘another county, or comes from another county to com- mit violence on prisoner brought from such county for safekeeping, the county in which the Iynching fs committed may recover the amount of the judgment and costs from the county from which the mob came, unless there was contributory negll- ‘gence on the part of officials of such! been very effective. Illinois, Penn- sylvania and New Jersey have fol- lowed Ohio's lead and enacted mob. Violence or anti-lynching 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 New Jersey. The Ohio law follows: BS. od. representative of victim of lynching. ury by mob trying to lynch another. d costs in tax levy, 3 st member of mob. ust another county, county in failing to protect such prisoner or dispurse such mob. (98 ¥. 163 11.) Section 6289. This chapter shall not relieve @ 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 Coae of Ohio: Sec. 12940. Whoever, being the proprietor or his employee, keeper or manager of an inn, restaurant, eat- ing house, barber-shop, public con- veyance 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, faelli- ties 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. See. 12941. Whoever violates the next preceding section shall also pay not less than fifty dollars nor more than five hundred dollars to the per- son aggrieved thereby to be recov- ered in any court of competent jur- isdiction in the county where euch offense was committed. ‘This law has repeatedly been held constitutional and good law by the Ohio Supreme court. The trouble {3 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, eae a a= ray ee eee Game eer renee Misled by the foolishly manufac- tured outery for tue passage of the Beaty bill, a few years ago, the Ak- Ton 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 Highth District of Obio, is self explanatory: | _Alrom, O., April 25, 1919. ete Wee aoe Editor The Gazette, Cleveland, 0. My Dear Sir: Observing your let- ter in the Beacon-Journal, of this city, I venture to send you, under a separate cover, the Ohio Law Re- porter of Feb. 3, last, containing the opinion of the Court of Appeals in He Forman, decided ta Aureeonace H. jecided in Akron, last fail, in which a judgment for ($500) five hundred dollars was sustained. It the Beacon-Journal had known what was going on in {ts own town, there would have been no occasion for eriticism editorially. THE LAW OF OHIO 18 UNDER NO RE- PROACH, nor our courts and juries, in administering it. Not a word was said by the Beacon-Journal when tho Forman case was reviewed. Very truly yours, R. ©. Grant. FACTS People who Advertise Can sell Goods. People who sell Goods Can make Money. People police Mon- ey can advertise goods. | The Best Advertising Medium is “The Old Reliable” GAZETTE. PPPPLLDLDPPPLL LLLP PL LPP PPPS Sut Give Y opy of It.