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Next to Columbia Theater SPRITZ Between Eucld and Prospect 2067 East 9th St. Independence Day Is Here! FREE Bathing Shoes given away Free with every purchase of $5.00 or over. Our Colors and Whites have arrived in all their glory. Look over our windows and see our SPECIALS AND LOW PRICES THE HOME SHOE CO. 2577 E. 55th St. Near Woodland Ave. ESTABLISHED, AUGUST 25, 1883 And Issued Every Week on Time Since Both Old Parties! What Our People Are Doing Each Week—Church, Personal, Social, Lodge, Literary and Musical—Marriages, Deaths, Etc. YOUNGSTOWN.—The recent storm did considerable damage to H. G. Emerson's funeral parlor and Mr. K. Walker's studio.—Mrs. Luby has returned from a two-week's business trip to Cleveland.—Hr. Harry Irvin returned, last week, from Chicago.—Rev. W. H. Honesty is recovering from injuries sustained in an accident some weeks ago.—Rev. Chas. Bundy preached ably, Sunday, Oak Hill Ave. A. M. E. church was filled to its capacity and four members were added. Rev. Chas. Bundy left, Sunday afternoon, for Wilberforce. A good program was rendered at Oak Hill Ave. A. M. E. church, Sunday under the auspices of the Young People's meeting.—Mrs. M. Kinney Brew was called to Detroit, last week. Me." Mrs. Parsons is a graduate of Oberlin college, the groom a graduate of Columbia university and an accountant with the Laguna corporation of New York City. Mr. and Mrs. Parsons after the wedding super left for the East, stopping a few days in Cleveland as guests of Mr. and Mrs. Cobron. They reside at 15 Hancock Ave., Jersey Heights, N. J. SANDUSKY.—Recently Atty. Earl D. Alexander of Cleveland, former resident of this city, still the home of his parents, delivered an address on the rate, to the local Kiwanis club (white) at one of its noonday meetings, that is even yet the topic of many discussions, always with much very favorable comment. His talk 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 to 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. obliterary notices, inquiries for relatives and advertisements of all kinds, including items announcing entertainments to be held in the city, for the advance at the rate of 25 cents a line, six words to a line. Our rate for display advertisements will be sent on application. CADIZ. — Mr. and Mrs. Henry Bruce of Wheeling and Mr. and Mrs. Elsworthy Guy of Steuenbville spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. T. W. Lucas. — Mrs. Isabel Adams and daughter, Elvira, of Pittsburgh; visited Mr. and Mrs. Austin Wallace, last week. — Miss Helen Lucas has returned from a visit in Springfield and Newark. — Miss Katherine Johnson is home from Wilberforce to spend the summer with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Johnson. — Mr. and Mrs. James Titus and daughter, June Vivian, of Canton, are guests of Mrs. Susan West, and Miss Dorothy Hunter, the guest of Susie Eunice Lee. — Miss M. Lefridge of Pittsburgh spent the week-end with Mrs. Verl Blanchard. — Rev. J. H. Pickley of Martins Ferry preached at the M. E. and A. M. E. churches, Sunday. OBERLIN. — One of the prettiest weddings of the June season occurred at Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Tuck's, recently, the contracting parties being their daughter, Miss Dortha Marle Tuck, and Archibald Parsons of New York City. Rev. H. M. Kingsley, pastor of M. Zion Cong. Temple, Cleveland, performed the ring ceremony. Preluding the ceremony George E. Cohron, brother-law of the bride, sang "Oh, Prom- AFRICA MAKING PROGRESS. Natives Seek Education and Improve Conditions of Women—Great Variety of Nations and Differences in Language, Customs, Religion, Etc. Hampton, Va.—"The thing that impressed me most in Africa was the tremendous variety of nations," said Dr. James Hardy Dillard of Charlotteville, Va., president of the Jeanes and Slater Boards, in his recent address before a mass meeting of ministers, teachers and farmers, held in Ogden Hall, Hampton Institute. Continuing he said: "The nations differed among themselves more than the nations of Europe—in habits, customs, language, and religion. I was longest in Kenya, an English colony five times as large as the State of Virginia. There were at least a dozen nations and languages in Kenya, not to speak of the differences in the people. The national differences are very striking. Another striking thing is the improvement in the condition of the women. The men used to do the fighting and the women do the work. Of their own accord this has stopped. This is a great step forward. There are government workers going about showing people how to raise things better. The natives raise good tobacco and cotton. In one country the production of cotton is growing appreciably. England is determined to raise her own cotton. Africans Seek Education "The one thing that struck me on the way down the coast is the deter- Ise Me." Mrs. Parsons is a graduate of Oberlin college, the groom a graduate of Columbia university and an accountant with the Laguna corporation of New York City. Mr. and Mrs. Parsons after the wedding supper left for the East, stopping a few days in Cleveland as guests of Mr. and Mrs. Cobron. They reside at 15 Hancock Ave., Jersey Heights, N. J. SANDUSKY.—Recently Atty. Earl D. Alexander of Cleveland, former resident of this city, still the home of his parents, delivered an address on the rate, to the local Kiwanis club (white) at one of its noisy meetings, that is even yet the topic of many discussions, always with much very favorable comment. His talk was divided into four sections, each being similarly addressed. When he included he was greeted by long and hearty applause by numbers of the club. Atty. Alexander attended Ohio State university for five years and Western Reserve university for a year and a half. He worked his way almost entirely through both schools, with slight aid from the local Kiwanis club loan fund, which was established to help worthy student. He has been practicing law in Cleveland since April. HALLSHORE—Curry and Aurelia Donaldson of Columbus spent Sunday here with their grandmother.—Mrs. Amanda Blair died June 30, after a long illness. Funeral service at the residence, conducted by Rev. W. W. Stephenson.—Mr. and Mrs. Carl Chapman of Wilmington were guests of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Goins, the 4th.—Mr. and Mrs. Alex Holland and son, Floyd, spent Sunday with relatives in Chillicothe.—The C. E. society rendered a good program, Sunday afternoon, at Wayman chapel.—Miss Mary Williams, who is attending O. S. U., Columbus, spent the week-end, with her mother.—Mr. Squire Willis and children of Chillicothe spent the 4th here.—Mr. and Mrs. Lyman Roas, Mrs. Flora West and Mrs. Ida Day attended the Elgar Frye funeral in Newport, Ky., last Wednesday.—Mr. Henry Willis and Miss Anna Drake were married, last week Wednesday evening by Rev. Forrest Mitchell.—Mr. John West has gone to "O'Camp. Mrs. Georgia Tolei Tolei Sardina, Sunday." Funeral service, Tuesday afternoon, conducted by Rev. J. J. The Hillsboro vs. Maysville ball game, the 4th resulted in favor of the former, Sunday's game, home team vs. Springfield Monarchs, was won by the latter 5 to 2—Mamie Hicks, Burnice Hudson, Helen McCowan, Juanita Smith and Mr. Jas. Blanton-motored to Greenfield, Friday evening.—Mrs. Lucinda Young visited her daughter in Cincinnati.—Mr. and Mrs. Lily Kilgour and daughters of Columbus spent the week-end here. mination of the natives to have an education. They are going to have it. I went out in the country and saw what the people themselves were doing. Those people are finding out that there is something that helps to keep their interest; that is education, and they are determined to get it. Missionary students have started schools. In one school forty or fifty students were being taught. They were working on slates and all were interested in my seeing their slates. They appreciated my interest. There was a native college in Africa where the students who attended had to pass an examination harder than any college in America. There were seventy genuine college students, and a fine medical school, is going to be established there. Every child of God has to have a chance. We simply have to go on working to do the best we can. It is spreading the kingdom of heaven. It means more light, the light of education for all, and each one can in his own humble way so do his task that he will help this work." La Folletto's Supporters' Promise. La Folletto's Supporters' Promise. St. Paul, Minn.—If the La Folletta supporters are successful at the polls, next November, the Afro-American will be accorded full economic and political equality in every section of the country, they say. A plank carrying this declaration was made part of the platform after a hot debate, by the convention that recently closed its sessions in this city. The southern delegates, led by one E. R. Meltzer from Texas, made a bitter fight against the adoption of the plank, but they were defeated by an overwhelming vote. Robert Harddeon, a N. A. A. C. P. Speaker, Advocating Such For "The Gem City"—How About It, Secretary James Weldon Johnson? (Special to The Gazette.) Sunday afternoon at the C. M. E. church, corner of Germantown and Bank streets, a mass meeting was held under the auspices of the Dayton branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Mr. Robert Harddeon delivered an address, on the race question. Among other things he praised the worth of colored, teachers and favored separate ("Jim crow") schools. At the close of his address a lively discussion of the school situation in Dayton took place, ending in a decision to appoint a committee to investigate the school situation thruout the city—Dayton (O.) Forum. Dayton, O.—The above clipping, from the Dayton Forum, tells of an N. A. A. C. P. meeting at which separate schools for our people of Dayton were freely discussed. The speaker stated that the N. A. A. C. P. recommends separate schools for certain localities, especially those cities near the "Mason and Dixon" line, largely influenced by southern sentiment. Mr. Harddeen, a representative of the N. A. A. C. P., eloquently spoke of "the colored teacher" and plead that where she could not be placed in the mixed schools, separate institutions be contended for, for her benefit. The burden of his argument was that the employment of "colored teachers" outweighs all other disadvantages of separate schools. The writer wonders if the N. A. A. C. P. recommends one thing for one locality and another for another locality. Are its speakers consistent with its policy? Here is a speaker praising a thing that has been an embarrassment to our parents of Dayton for some years. A colored professional man started amping up a result as a result of a little separate school in the rear of Garfield school on the west side, in the heart of the "colored" section. Our children there are housed in some little "fire traps" and the segregation is complete. An effort is being made by some selfish interests to spread this condition over the entire city school system. Fortunately for the city of Dayton, she has a real MAN for superintendent of its schools and he has promised to do justice to our people. Whenever our parents have asked that their children be transferred from the sad Garfield school condition, he has readily consented and no parent is compelled to send his child there. The difficulty rests not with the school board and superintendent, but with Jim Nage agitators, such as the N. A. A. C. P. speaker, Mr. Hardeeon. Is the N. A. A. C. P. behind the separate school movement in Dayton and Indianapolis? OUR VOTING STRENGTH In a Number of Northern, Border And Other States. Washington, D. C.—According to politicians interested in our vote in the coming elections, the number in important states is as follows: California, 50,000; Delaware, 16,000; Illinois, 172,000; Indiana, 110,000; Kansas, 90,000; Kentucky, 120,000; Maryland, 90,000; Missouri, 102,000; Massachusetts, 60,000; Michigan, 70,000; Minnesota, 50,000; Nebraska, 25,000; New Jersey, 90,000; New York, 200,000; Ohio, 200,000; Oklahoma, 60,000; Pennsylvania, 175,000; Tennessee, 135,000; Washington, 40,000; West Virginia, 70,000; Wisconsin, 30,000. These figures are conservative, for since the last election, many of our people have moved into northern, border and other states where they can vote in November. This Lynching Cost $2,000. Columbia, S. C. - Allendale county must pay damages to the amount of $2,000 for the lynching of Edward Kirkland, a member of the race, who was taken from the sheriff of Allendale on Oct. 24, 1921, his charred body being found that night in the burned ruins of a lodge building. The State Supreme court on June 26 affirmed the decision of Circuit Judge J. K. Henry directing a verdict of $2,000 for Mrs. Lillian B. Kirkland., administratrix of the estate of Edward Kirkland, who brought the suit. "Sister!" Harrell Flud! Norfolk, Va. — Names of police reserves and frontiers were, massed around police headquarters, June 20, '24, to control frenzied white and colored followers of Mrs. Mabel ("Slater") Harrell, "evangelist," on trial for receiving compensation-for her "healing." She was fined $260 by Justice Spindle after an hour's hearing. Her manager, Rev. Moses Madden, colored, was dismissed. An appeal was noted. SINGLE COPY FIVE CENTS Warns Our People To Register and Vote for Candidates Who Are Our Friends Regardless of Their Party Connection—Some Good Advice—THE Ku Klux Klan, Etc. Philadelphia, Pa.—The N. A. A. C. P. has just made public the following message to the American people: The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People in its fifteenth annual conference, assembled here, believes that the pressing problem before the Afro-American, today, is the use of his vote in the approaching election. save us from a choice between half-hearted friends and half-concealed enemies or from the necessity of voting for the same oppression under different party names. Such a movement may give the Afro-American and other submerged classes a chance to vote more directly for economic The Republican Party. We face the two old parties and a possible third party movement. The Republican party, which has always commanded the great majority of our votes, has, during the last two administrations, recognized our right to a voice in the party cones and made some effort to carry out our wishes in legislation and administration; nevertheless, although in power in all branches of the government, it has specifically failed to pass the Dyer Anti-Lynching bill, to abolish segregation in the government offices at Washington, to take any action with regard to "jim crow" cars in interstate travel, to withdraw our military forces from Haiti, and to make a loan to Liberia. The Democratic Party: The Democratic party appears to us in two distinct pints. The northern wing of the party has recognized our demands in many states and treated us with great fairness. But this northern wing is at the absolute mercy of the "solid South" with its "rotten borough" system depending upon the disfranchisement of the Afro-American; with its segregation and "jim crow" legislation, its mob law and lynching, and its denial of proper education to Afro-American children. The Ku Klux Klan Denounced. The Ku Klux Klan denounced. Both parties are catering to the Ku Klux-Klan, that secret fomenter of religious intolerance, race-hate and midnight murder, whose spread is the greatest proof of national decadence and the greatest menace to democracy. The Afro-American Vote. It is manifestly impossible that under these circumstances enfranchised Afro-Americans should vote a straight ticket for either of these parties. Our voting must be primarily a matter of individual candidates for office. In order to vote effectively we must know the records of such candidates. We must demand of them clear statements as to their attitude toward matters of vital interest to us. We must remember that we are electing in the approaching election and other near elections simply the President of the United States but members of Congress and of the legislatures; state officials, judges, members of school boards and other local officials. We must especially keep in mind the fact that the administration of the Afro-American, today, is more largely a matter of state law and local ordinance than of national enactment and that the interpretation of the law by the courts and the administration of the law by officials are just as important and often far more important than its actual content. We need, therefore, to redouble our agitation and our effort in court action and law administration, and we need especially to use our ballot in order to reward our friends and to punish our enemies. We must utterly ignore party labels and vote for the man who will best serve US and our country. Education. The need for such determination is shown in many ways but perhaps more especially by the continued attitude of this nation toward the education of Afro-American children. We have no adequate common school facilities and we have continually put forward by U. S. government, state and local officials and the great philanthropic foundations, not only undemocratic segregation in education, but the astonishingly undemocratic doctrine that Afro-Americans should have no voice in the education of their own children but that their schools and colleges should be dominated by their enemies. We have repeatedly asked Federal aid for education and in answer we have now a bill before Congress which seeks to grant it but which is a travesty on justice and would perpetuate in local school systems these very discriminations against which we vigorously protest. A. Third Party. Nothing will more quickly bring the old parties to a clear realization of their obligations to us and the nation than a vigorous third party movement. Such a movement may IN UNION IS STRENGTH LE COPY FIVE CENTS ties! C. P.'S ADDRESS e Republican And c Parties register and Vote for Candidates Regardless of Their Party e Good Advice—THE x Klan, Etc. save us from a choice between half-hearted friends and half-concealed enemies or from the necessity of voting for the same oppression under different party names. Such a movement may give the Afro-American and other submerged classes a chance to vote more directly for economic Moorfield Story, Esq. emancipation from monopoly and privilege and a fairer chance to work according to ability and share more equitably in the social income. Finally, may we remind the new immigrants to the North as well as Afro-Americans living there that the greatest significance of this migration is the increased political power of black men in America. We have at last found an effective method not only to punish the mob, the segregationist and the disfranchiser thru economic boycott, but also a chance to gain for ourselves new political power in order to vote our people into freedom. But this means nothing unless it is used with far-reaching intelligence. We must learn to vote; we must study democracy and government; we must not be ashamed, any of us, to confess our ignorance of the machinery of the American government and of the methods of its political life. Let us learn what voting means and for whom to vote and how to vote ourselves into free, modern industrial democracy. A WONDERFUL TRIP. Thru The West Indies, To Be Conducted By The Aladdin Cruise Corporation, Next January And February "The best answer to prejudice is action, not words." says Dr. John Louis Hill, (white), author and traveler, in explaining the cruise, which he has agreed to conduct through the West Indies for the Aladdin Cruise Corporation, a local company. Dr. Hill, a southerner, is author of "When Black Meets White," a plea for racial co-operation that he has won praise from scores of thinkers of both races. "We expect the cruise to accomplish three things!" he says. "The open invitation to all respectable men and women, regardless of race, is an open defiance to the propaganda of discrimination. Second, the contacts formed on this voyage between well disposed people of both races will open the eyes of both. Third, for a large-part of the passengers it will be a new opportunity for the enjoyment of travel, observation, and study among various people and in a country rich with historic incident. Nothing broadens people like travel. It is more than an assertion of equality, it is an actual avenue of superiority; for the man who has traveled is a better man for having traveled. His thoughts can never again be compressed in the same narrow channels." The cruise, which lasts from January 15 to February 12, 1925, and touches eleven points of interest in the West Indies, is to be taken in the big United American liner, "Mount Clay." All distinctions of class are to be obliterated in the furnishing and management of the ship. All passengers will have the same deck privileges, eat the same food, enjoy the same games, and attend the same, nightly program of lectures and entertainments. Land trips through the Canal Zone and also to Caracas, Venezuela, are given as part of the passage. Optional land pleasures are offered at Havana, Kingston, Trinidad, Martinique, Barbados, Virgin Islands and Bermuda. One Year ..... $2.00 My 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 (Bell 'Phone: Cherry 1259) 214-215 Blackstone Bldg., 1426 W Third St.; Cleveland, Ohio Member Ohio Legislature: 1894 to 1896; 1396 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. One can not hurt to see the influence and "the Italian hand" of "alphabetical" DuBois in the position that the N. A. A. C. P. speaker, Robert Hardeon, took in his speech at Dayton, recently, referred to in the article under the head, "A Jim-Crow School," to be found elsewhere in the paper. BY ALL MEANS TEST THE PRESIDENT. Commenting upon President Coolidge's message of greeting to the recent annual meeting of the N. A. A. C. P. at Philadelphia, Mr. Moorfield Storey of Boston, one of Massachusetts's most eminent jurists, and president of the N. A. A. C. P., said: "There is a very simple way of testing President Coolidge's wishes for the realization of our high aims. Let us test the President in the matter of segregation in the government departments in Washington. It began under President Wilson. It can end under Coolidge." But will it? We sincerely hope so. PAPER-SOLE POLICIES. It was inevitable that the Democrats in their 1924 platform should be their own strongest critic. Either by their affirmative action or by their silence they must necessarily discredit their own past utterances and pay tribute to the superior wisdom of their Republican opponents. Such has been their history in the past. In 1896 the Democratic party made its campaign on the free silver issue, while the Republicans took the side of sound money. The Democrats went down to defeat. The nation enjoyed prosperity under Republican policies and the Democratic party abandoned its free silver theories, thus admitting that the Republicans were right. In 1900 the Democrats forced the issue of imperialism, demanding that the American flag be hauled down in the Philippines. The Republicans refused to endorse the policy of "suttle" and they won at the polls. The marvelous development of the Philippines under salutary administration by the United States has been a complete vindication of the Republican policy and the Democrats ceased to talk about hauling down the flag, thus practically admitting that the Republican party has been right. In 1912 the Democrats made the cost of living the chief issue, stressing the tariff in their discussion. Because of the Roosevelt bolt from the Republican ranks they won at the polls, only to find that the tariff law they enacted brought widespread distress and disaster. There is now a very strong sentiment among business men in the Democratic party in favor of a protective tariff and the party is embarrassed by any pretense that it is standing by its traditional principles on the tariff question. In the 1920 campaign the league of nations was forced to the fore as the dominant issue, with the Republicans declaring that they favored staying out of the league. The Democrats lost and their leaders have since endeavored to evade the league as a subject of campaign discussion. The Democrats in past campaigns have denounced extravagance in office and yet their recent (Wilsonian) administration, entirely aside from the necessary expenditures for the war, was the most extravagant this nation has ever known; they denounced bureaucracy and yet during the Democratic regime more new buerse were created during any other similar period in our history; they declared in favor of observance of the classified civil service and yet their record was one of unsurpassed zeal in finding places for "deserving Democrats." With a record like that it is not surprising that they found their platform making a difficult task in 1924. As we go to press, the nomination of thevon. John W. Davis of West Virginia is the Democratic nominee for the Presidency is announced. With two Republican candidates (Coolidge and LaFollette), in the field and only one Democratic candidate, it looks very much like another Roosevelt-Taft-Wilson contest is to be had, this fall, with the usual result—The election of the Democrat to the Presidency. They, the Democrats, know that there only hope to succeed rests in their splitting the Republican vote as Roosevelt did and as LaFollette will undoubtedly do this fall. The Democratic National convention as all now know, finally adopted an anti-klan plank for its platform but was unable to adopt one naming the klan. The committee plank, against the klan but not specifically mentioning the miserable organization by name, was adopted by a vote of 547 to 540. The 540 delegates wanted the klan named in the plank. This is a better showing than was made in the Republican National convention held in this city, recently. Virtually, the division, in the Democratic convention, was sectional. The larger eastern states contributed most of the votes in opposition to the committee plank not naming the klan. They wanted the klan mentioned in the plank. The west and south cast most of the ballots for the (committee) plank that did not mention the klan, and was finally carried. New York recorded 90 solid votes against the committee plank. New Jersey gave 28 solid votes, Maryland gave 16, Rhode Island 10 and Massachusetts gave 35 $ \frac{1}{2} $ , against and only $ \frac{1}{2} $ vote for the plank. Connecticut gave 13 opposition votes and only 1 vote for the plank. Illinois cast 45 votes against and 13 for it. Pennsylvania gave 49 $ \frac{1}{2} $ votes against and 24 $ \frac{1}{2} $ votes for it. Ohio cast 32 against and 16 for it. This state should have voted solidly against it, as did New York state. In support of the committee plank Texas led with 40 solid votes, Louisiana with 20 solid votes, South Carolina with 18 and Arkansas with 18. Georgia cast $21\frac{1}{2}$ votes for and only $1\frac{1}{2}$ votes against. Alabama, the home of Senator Underwood, stood almost alone in the solid south in opposition, lining up unitedly with 24 votes against the klan. These states, apparently, lacked full courage of their supposed convictions, and while willing the klan be denounced without being named in the plank, they showed that they were also willing that the notorious organization should save part of its "face", by voting to keep its name out of the plank of the party's platform for this year. And William Jennings Bryan of Nebraska and Florida was their leader. Lord, have mercy! We are told that "this vote came after the most bitter fight on the floor of the convention, since the slavery fight in the Democratic convention in 1860. That debate split the party into its northern and southern factions." It is worth while to note that there was no such determined fight made in the Republican National convention held here recently. It supinely made its 50-50 concession to the klan and straddled the issue easily, thor o l y squelching in the national committee the much-heralded and promised "fight on the floor of the convention" made for many months prior to it by National Committeeman and Lily-White-Leader Creager of Texas. Doings Of The Race Wilberforce University graduated 150, this year. Dr. J. G. Robinson, former Ohio pastor, has been elected editor of The A. M. E. Church Review, succeeding Bishop R. C. Ransom. Miss Mary G. Evans, evangelist, who is pastoring St. John's A. M. E. church, Indianapolis, was given the B. D. degree by Wilberforce University, last month. Atty. Matthew W. Bullock has been appointed an assistant Attorney-General by Attorney-General Bureau of Boston. Karl Phillips, who for years has been attached to the U. S. Labor department at Washington, D. C., has been appointed a commissioner of conciliation to succeed the late Phil H. Brown. 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 earn. George W. Blount. THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, O. SATURDAY, JULY 12, 1924 DO YOU KNOW WHY -- This Generally Happens When Father Shaves? WHISHERS ARE ABOUT AS USEFUL AS A TRAMP OUCH! NOW LIZZIE LOOK WHAT YOU'VE DONE! BING BANG JINGLE CRASH BOW EEK!! BANG! THOSE FLOWS BOOBS WILL PERSIST IN RIDING IN AUTOMOBILES PRIME SPORT NEWS Buenos Aires, S. A.-Luis Firpo sailed, July 3, for New York on the steamship American Legion to fulfill his engagement with Harry Wills. Siki to Fight at Bellaire. New York City.—Battling Sikh, the Senegalese boxer, world's light-heavyweight champion, has signed for two bouts. On July 11 he will meet Dixie Kid in a twelve-round bout at Bellehare, on and July 18 at Brooklyn. He will sell in Manchester, N.H. Both of Sikh's opponents are Afro-Americans. Olympic Contests. Colombes, France, July 7. —Misfortune, which struck the ranks of the American 400-meter hurdles yesterday, when Coulter (white), lost a sure chance to qualify by slipping and stumbling over the first hurdle, continued, today, whep Charles Brookins of Iowa, after crossing the finish, was ruled by the judges on the charges that he had strayed from his lane and had failed to take one hurdle cleanly. The vigorous protest of the Americans was denied and the other men were moved up a notch, second place going to Vilen of Finland. Protests Penalty Against Brookins. Paris, France, July 7.—The American Olympic committee, this afternoon, lodged a protest against the decision of the jury in putting back Charles Brookins of Iowa from second to fifth place in the 400-meter hurdle race through his disqualification. The jury also too great. According to the rules governing such protests in the Olympic games the committee deposited 100 francs. The protest was disallowed, without undue delay, but the deposit thus far has been retained. "Wills in Five Rounds." Chicago, Ill. — Frank Swatts, (white), veteran fight promoter of California, speaking recently to a delegation of fight fans and sportsmen, voiced the opinion that if Harry Wills and Luis Firpo meet in New York, Aug. 30, as scheduled, Wills should win, in five rounds. "Wills can hit harder than Firpo and his aim is better than that of the South American's. So I really cannot see anything other than a win for Harry. It should be a good fight, however, and a trip from California should be considered short to see it." said Swatts. Judson W. Lyons Dead. Augusta, Ga.—Hon. Judson W. Lyons, one of our most prominent men, died at his home here, June 22. He had been a member of the Republican National committee and Register of the U. S. Treasury. He had been located here and had a host of friends. A West Virginia "Cracker." Paris, France—Steward Howard, (white), a gunner in the U. S. navy, whose native home is in West Virginia, lies dangerously wounded in a Paris hospital as result of attempting to inaugurate a color line in Kiley's Montmartre dance hall. ORGANIZE AND SPREAD THE NEWS. Ohio Afro-Americans will have twice as many votes (over 200,000), if our men and women will but register, as will be necessary to nominate our candidates for the Republican nominations for Governor and Lietenant-Governor. Make this fact perfectly clear to all with whom you come in contact. If it can be made generally known and acted upon, the greatly desired results are upon, the greatly desired results are sure to come at the next primary. Make yourself a committee of one to spread this information, and organize in every county in the state where there are any of our people, for the purpose, particularly, of educating them along this line. Pay no attention to "Negro political kicksters" in the campaign, W. M. N.'s). They are few in number at best and but stumbling blocks in the path of racial progress. We can win—IF WE WILL! Four years ago, the editor of The Gazette polled in excess of 61,000 votes as a candidate for the Republican nomination for Secretary of State. Two years ago, he beat two or three white candidates of the eight in the contest for the Republican nomination for Governor. Who said it could not be done? The W. M. N., "political bootlickers." Fine 8 Acre Fruit and Chicken Farm FOR SALE Good six room house with bath. Interior newly decorated. 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C. p. denounce the Ku Klux Klan and urge our people to unite their forces in an effort to promote their own interests. The speakers at the meeting were John Haynes Holmes, pastor of the Community Church of New York; Representative theodore E. Burton of Ohio, keynote of the Republican National convention; and James Weldon Johnson, secretary of the N. A. A. [Name] Secretary James Weldon Johnson. C. P. The Democratic representative, who was to have spoken at the meeting, Senator David I. Walsh of Massachusetts, failed to put in an appearance. Dr. Holmes, the first speaker, said he had no respect left for either of the old parties, Republican or Democratic; and he urged our voters as a non-partisan bloc to concentrate on issues affecting themselves and make every candidate for office declare himself on those issues. Urging freedom for our voters from allegiance to the Republican party, Dr. Holmes said: "The party of Abraham Lincoln is one thing and the party of Calvin Coolidge is another thing entirely. We need political manpower is needed to free the Pro-Indian from political bondage as once he was freed from chattel slavery." Representative Burton also urged our people to stand together for their common interests. "Organization rules the world these days," he said. "You must stand together with a common feeling and a common interest and insist that your opportunities shall be equal to those of any other race. If you want to repress the Ku Klux Klan your best way is to support the Anti-Lynching bill. For the Klan is an organization within the terms of a mob or riotous assembly as defined in the Ohio Anti-Lynching law," the basis of the Dyer Anti-Lynching bill. Secretary Johnson severely scared Senator Lodge of Massachusetts and other Republican Senators who had let the Dyer bill die because of the Democratic filibuster against it. Mr. Johnson asserted he did not believe Senator Lodge ever intended to let the bill pass and urged our voters to hold all elective officials and candidates to strict accountability. When he spoke of the Ku Klux Klan's endorsement of the Republican candidate for Governor in Indiana, and asked whether our people would vote for the Republicans in that state, he was met by a road of "No," from the entire mass meeting. He选了 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." STRONG TESTIMONY The Afro-American Has Made Good In the North, Says Judge Ira W. Jayne of the Detroit Circuit Court. Philadelphia, Pa.—Addressing a mass meeting of the N. A. A. C. P. at its recent fifteenth annual conference here, Hon. Ira W. Jayne, judge of the circuit court of Detroit, declared that he could "prove by established facts from the industrial centers of the North that the Afro-American is maturing from the South has made good in his new environment. Judge Jayne said in part: "Forrester B. Washington, recently of Detroit, now of the Armstrong Association of Philadelphia, surveyed the situation in Detroit, acknowledged one of the centers of this migration. His findings have been accepted as accurate by all elements of the community. These have been supplemented by similar reports in other cities. All these figures show the Negro the equal in productive value to any group, the superior of many. In the riveting and moulding industries he has broken production records so often, that it is no longer a novelty. "Four hundred and ninety-six firms in Detroit employ 40,000 Negroes, in numbers ranging from 7500 and 4000 down to 10, at equal pay with whites and under equal working conditions. One-fifth of the post office force in Detroit are Negroes. Postmaster John B. Smith says, "We have a very troubled service during the recent wage demoralization. 21,000 Negroes are employed in the steel industry in the Pittsburgh district. Negro workers perform the major work in the stockyards of Chicago. These same statistics show his employment to be as regular, his health in the North as good, his delinquency no more frequent than that of any other racial group. His cheerfulness, once mistaken for wiliness, has become more consistent with what is more important and encouraging still, he is acquiring capital and the knack of management to enter the ranks of employers." Declaring that the Afro-American preferred "seven dollars a day in the North to seven dollars a week in the South" and "ten months equal schooling in the North to two months' slighted schooling in the South," Judge Jayne expressed the hope that he had come North to stay. "The Negro is a man. He is here. He is a working man, respected and respectable. I hope the Negro until he has learned all three is to know of this industrial system which is at once our salvation and our despair. I hope the Negro leavens its sordid dullness with that inexhaustible joy and rythm which have brought him unscarred through the crucible of slavery and degradation. I hope the Negro leavens its selfish greed with his innate loyalty and faithfulness which have always been his even in his reputation among his enemies." Personal Mention: Braiddock Heights, Md.-Mr. and Mrs. Floyd J. Williams of Baltimore, former residents of Cleveland, O., motored here, July 4, for a brief visit. They are in excellent health. Required user will make a mistake if they overlook the advertisement elsewhere in this book. Of course you want the best, if any. So do not fail to read the advertisement referred to. 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Mr. Daniel Lambert, most worshipful grand master of York Masons, was guest of A. A. Robinson, E. 40th St., recently. Mme. Effe G. Hardy of Columbus, principal soloist of the recent St. John's choir recital, was the guest of Mrs. Oliver A. Taylor, while in the city. Miss Olivia Swope, E. 90th St., student at Fairmount Junior high, who was injured in a class rush, is convalescent. Miss Sarah Hamler, art teacher in our Indianapolis schools, is attending summer normal school here and stopping with Mrs. J. O. Hunt, E. 85th St. Mrs. Caroline Cheatham and grand-daughter, Miss A. M. Cheatham, of Detroit, are guests of Mr. and Mrs. G. L. Cheatham. Miss Cheatham is a graduate of Northwestern high school, Detroit. Mr. James Joyce, 2228 E. 80th St., is being visited by his mother and sister, Mrs. Ida J. Jackson, of Columbus. They return home, Sunday morning. The Joyces have for years been one of our leading families of the state capital. It was Lewis Richard Gilbert, junior member of the firm of Gilbert Bros., printers, who died suddenly of acute indigestion, recently. Mr. Gilbert was well known at home and abroad as a civil engineer and was an authority in Boy Scout work. He leaves a brother, H. C. Gilbert, printer and musician. The editor of The Gazetto acknowledges the receipt of an invitation to attend the marriage, July 23, of J. Finley Wilson, editor of the Washington (D. C.) Eagle, and Miss Leah B. Farrar of Richmond Va. Long life, much success and the best of health, confere! Mrs. W. Rosier Jackson entertained at dinner during convention week Albon Holsey, Tuskegee, Ala.; Dr. W. H. Harns, Athens, Ga.; Dr. J. Mitchell, Philadelphia; Atty. C. Richardson, Richmond, Ind.; W. F. Cozart, Atlantic City, N. J.; and W. Wm. Mendhall, Los Angeles, Cal. Our women of the 28th ward have organized a Republican club, electing the following officers: President, Bertha C. Fortner; vice-pres, Mrs. Laura Elston; sec., Mrs. Bessie Bennet; treas., Miss Glace Byrd; chaplain, Mrs. Cora Scott. The eight acre fruit and chicken farm advertised elsewhere in this paper is a show place, a beautiful place, one of the nicest in this section of the country. I don't a high-priced farm, either, and the terms are MOST reasonable, indeed. Call Hemlock 1689. Miss Lillian C. Eubanks of Birmingham, and James A. Caldwell were quietly married, June 18, at her sister, Mrs. Annie Evans', E. 76th St. Father Joseph Johns, one of our four Catholic priests, in this country, a teacher in the theological seminary, at Highwood, N. J., officiated at Our Lady of the Blessed Sacrament church, E. 79th St. Sunday. Mrs. H. K. Price, of Orinoco Ave., was hostess to the Minerva Reading club, June 28. Vacations abroad were discussed by Mrs. Louis S. Jones, Miss G. M. Johnson, who served with the A. E. F. in France. ```markdown ``` THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, O.SATURDAY, JULY 12. 1924 GIMME TWO GIMME ONE ALL RIGHT WELL ILL STAND PAT ILL SEE YOU FOR THAT MUCH AND CALL YOU THERE THEY ARE BOYS A FULL HAND BOLLY WHADDYE THINK OF THAT I HAD THREE ACES YEE WHIZ. AND I HAD A STRAIGHT TOO BAD FELLOWS I DIDN'T WIN ANYTHING IT'S A SINCH I DIDN'T WELL I KNOW I DIDN'T THAT'S SURE *M. KLEMAN'S 2028 Central Ave. D. BARBER'S 2006 Central Ave. BENJ. AKERS, 3519 Central Ave. *STONE DRUG STORE 7325 Central Ave. SUBSCRIBERS Gazette regularly should notify delivered promptly. business matters to The Gazette If you wish to see the editor faultily examine The Gazette's ad- chases. Business men who adve- the patronage of our people. The once that they want it. location in current issues of The d p. m., TUESDAY of that week, events accepted until noon, WED- 215 Blackstone Bldg. Bankfort Ave., Cleveland, O. Bell 'Phone: Chevy 1259 and Mrs. A. H. Martin, who came to visit in London. Mrs. H. served a delicious lunch, assisted by Miss Magdalene Taylor. Ten guests were present. The N. A. of musicians will convene in Cleveland, July 22 to 24. All sessions will be open to the public and there will be concerts, each evening. Grace W. Thompson, pres.; Dr. W. P. Saunders, sec., of the local branch of the organization. The Mozart Glee club will give a festival, July 25, at Chamber of Commerce hall in honor of delegates to the convention. There were only four murders in the eleventh ward vicinity, July 4. Conditions have been gradually getting worse, there, for the last six months. Monday night, a row in a poolroom almost brought about a courtroom members of the race and Italians in the neighborhood at E. 34th St. and Scovill Ave. Only the arrival of police flying squads prevented a clash. Cuyahoga chapter, No. 36, R. A. M., elected the following officers for the ensuing year at their recent convocation: High priest, Com. C. H. Munson; king, Com. F. Green; scribe, Com. Otto Redicks, prin. sof., Com. D. R. Jones; treas, C. P. Lancer; sec., F. O. Brown; captain of H. Samuel Sams; R. A. C. Chas. Alsberry; master third V., Thomas B. Bentley; master second V., Douglas Johnson; master first V., Sam Thomas; guard, Julius Ashley. The following persons recently received diplomas for the completion of the regular standard three-year course in teachers' training at the Christian Community center: Mary D. Coleman, Isabelle Jefferson, Marie Smith, Marilla Johnson, Woodie H. Cunningham, W. A. Walls and Mabel Brown. Those receiving certificates for the first year's work were Clara B. Clark, Lillian Gaskin, Jennie Harris and Zeoita Simmons. Eight girls received certificates from the cooking department headed by Mrs. Archie Thurston. The Rachel Walker Turner testimonial concert, under the auspices of the local branch of our N. A. of M., will be given, Sunday afternoon, at M. Zion Cong. Temple. The Thomas Choral club, Mozart Glee club, Miss Cora Fields and several of our church-choirs will furnish the program. President W. H. Holmes of Tougoual, Moss., College, assisted in the church-communion service,UND, and addressed the S.S. The pastor left in address for Green Lake, to address the Wisco. Young People's conference on "The Race Question." Collection. Sunday, $213.46. Civil service examinations for city positions were announced, Saturday, at city hall. Applications must be filed one week before examinations. The examinations are listed as follows: July 23, draughtsmen; July 24, commissioner of water and heat, commissioner of light and power, chief mechanical engineer of water and heat, construction engineer of light and power, engineer of construction and survey; July 25, keeper of the municipal golf course; July 30, skilled laborers, and August 4, superintendent of the Warrensville workhouse. DO YOU KNOW WHY GIMME TWO GIMME ONE ALL R WELL STAND 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, Pula, Lima, O., and Alla, Places, also in Ohio, where we have none. Write to the editor of The Gazette. Blackstone building, Cleveland, O., and terms will be sent promptly. Our readers will welcome us greatly by sending at once the addresses of persons is the cities named and others, in the state, to whom we write relative to the matter. Our advertisers want your trade. Those who do not ask for it in the columns of "The Old Reliable" Gazette certainly care little, if at all, for it. 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AND I HAD A STRAIGHT TOO BAD FELLOWS AND GAM I DIDN'T MAY ANYTHING AND AFTER THE GAME - YOU KNOW TOO BAD FELLOWS I DIDN'T WIN ANYTHING IT'S A BIGGLE I DIDN'T WELL. I KNOW I DIDN'T. THAT'S SURE SEND FOR THIS TO-DAY Supplied to you by WALKER AGENTS, Good Drug Stores and by Mail. THE MADAM C. J. WALKER MFG. CO. 640 N. West St. Indianapolis, Ind. II A WALKER AGENT IS YOUR NEIGHBOR Wonderful Here are four preparations especially recommen- dated for the grower and brittle hair, itching scalp, baldness, dandruff and eczema of the scalp —our special trial offer —order it now Vegetable Shampoo Soap Our Two State Candidates! Help The "Old Reliable" to increase its circulation! Don't Throw Away Your Copy of THE GAZETTE After Reading it, But Give It to a Friend or an Acquaintance who Might Subscribe After Reading a Copy of It. SMITH and SHANKLIN One in Northern Ohio; the Other in Southern Ohio—The Fulton School Fight Recalled —Judge F. W. Geiger. Springfield, O.—The news that the Hon. Harry C. Smith, editor of The Gazette, has again entered as a candidate before the primaries for the nomination for governor, on the Republican ticket, was a source of great satisfaction to his many friends in this city. The services Mr. Smith has rendered to our people in this state are too well known to need recounting. The many readers of The Gazette, which has appeared on time and without missing an issue for over forty years, know the consistent that Springfield will be on his list. While Cuyahoga county is furnishing a candidate for governor, Clark county bids for fame with a candidate for lieutenant-governor in the person of Geo. W. Shanklin, a carpenter contractor, of this city. Other than these the chief interest locally is in the candidacy of former Common Pleas Judge F. W. Geiger, for judge of the supreme court. The newspaper release announcing his candidacy mentions the part he had in establishing the juvenile court A. and uncompromising attitude he has maintained thrust this long period of time on the race question. In addition, he has a brilliant record as a member for three terms, six years, of the Ohio General Assembly where he has to his credit the Ohio Civil Rights law and the Ohio law, pioneer legislation which is legal, pioneer legislation which is most effective act against that barbaric practice and the model upon which the Dyer bill, now in the national Congress, was drawn. While these facts are pretty generally known over the state, he has more strongly endeared himself to the citizens of this city by the valuable assistance given us in our recent local school fight. It is conceded that nothing can be more to the citizens to carry away enthusiasm to strengthen our determination to fight to a successful end than the speeches here of Mr. Smith and the support of The Gazette. Should he enter upon a speaking tour, it is hoped GEORGE W. SHANKLIN Our Candidate For the Republican Nomination For Lieutenant Governor of Ohio. Springfield, O.—The subject of this sketch was born in Gallia county, received his education in the public schools and at Río Grande college, that county. He is a veteran of the Spanish-American war and a leading carpenter - contractor of Springfield. Mr. Shanklin is married and has seven children. His platform is the same as that of his "running mate," the Hon. Harry C. Smith, our candidate for the Republican nomination for Governor for the second time, with the exception that Mr. Shanklin favors a modification of the Volstead Act to permit the manufacture of light wines and for home use. It also includes, more economy in the operation of the state government; a thorough revision of the tax laws of Ohio; a tax on gasoline to the consumer; the proceeds to go to further improvement of Ohio roads; more money for mothers' pensions, and "every facility for the "WHITE MAN'S COUNTRY"? Gov. James M. Cox Said so and Ther Are Some "Jim-Crow Negroes" Who Subscribe to the Same Columbus, O., June 14, '24. Hon. Harry C. Smith, Smith. education. Do you know, I am, enclosing your receipt for $25—your entrance fee as a candidate for the Republican nomination for Governor of Ohio. I gave your platform to the Columbus Dispatch, also to The Citizen, leading local daily papers, but I do not believe that they published it. Both of the papers mentioned your candidacy, however. They promised me that they would insert your platform. You know that four years ago, Gov. James M. Cox, then the Democratic candidate for the Presidency, said publicly that "this is a white man's country, most of the whites are with him in this. It would not be so bad, quite a "bunch" of our people did not think the same way. I am hoping that you will get a large vote again, if for no other reason than to show Ohio and the country that a large number of our people do not believe that this is "a white HARRY C. SMITH that Springfield will be on his list. While Cuyahoga county's furnishing a candidate for governor, Clark county bids for fame with a candidate for governor in the person of Geo. W. Shanklin, a carpenter contractor, of this city. Other than these the chief interest locally is in the candidacy of former Common Pleas Judge F. W. Geiger, for judge of the supreme court. The newspaper release announcing his candidacy mentions the part he had in establishing the juvenile court system and the long period that he presided over the court in this county. It was during that time that it was reported in the local papers that in passing on a case in that court, the judge announced that he would warn real-estate dealers, renting double-houses, against having white and colored tenants in the same building. This aroused the resentment of our citizens which, together with the highly-dalying tactics in the Fulton school case, brought about his defeat for re-election to the office of common pleas judge. In this case, as the readers of The Gazette will recall, the attorney made to the school a separate (" Jimrow" school by the device of removing the white children from the school. The protests, made by our people, being ignored, the C. R. P. League was organized and injunction proceedings began. Notwithstanding the suit was filed in September and a temporary injunction asked of Judge Geiger against the continuance of the school under that arrangement, it was not until just a few days before the election that year, that what purported to be an injunction was issued. There was a suspicion that this delay was in the interest of Supt. McCord and those in favor of the scheme who were making every effort to break up the resistance that was preventing the success of the "experiment." That the Geiger injunction decision was a "bluff," was evidenced by the fact that no account was paid to it by the superintendent schools and the school board. Had there been any pretense of sincerity, such as closing the school until after the election, the result might have been different as that hope was expressed by Judge Geiger's Afro-American supporters, some of whom were active in the opposition to the "Jimrow" school. education and training of the youth of Ohio." Mr. Shanklin says, and very pertinently, too: "There are 200,000 Afro-American voters in Ohio, and the Republican party has been riding into office on the wings of these voters too long already without granting them a single elective state-office. It seems to me that this great mass of Republicans should now receive adequate recognition or MAKE it also that they have the power (votes) so to do." He and Mr. Smith will campaign the state, this fall, as the editor did, two years ago, when a candidate. For six years (three terms), Mr. Shanklin was (elected) tax assessor of Gallipolis—from 1906 to 1912. In 1920 he was a candidate for state representative and was loyally supported by our people and many whites, running a close third in a field of four candidates, with two to be nominated. man's country," exclusively. Anything that I may be able to do for you, I assure you I will gladly do. We Can Win—If We Will Vote! Youngstown, O., June 22, '24. Hon. Harry C. Smith, Editor Gazette, Cleveland, O. Dear Sir:--Sincerest congratulations on your entrance as a candidate for the Republican nomination for the governor of Ohio. I am hoping that you will show Ohio and the country that we as a race do not believe that this is "a white man's country," exclusively. You have my SUPPORT and anything that I may be able to do for you. I assure you I will GLADLY do. Very respectfully yours, J. Elmer Harvey. Do You Want a Good Job? Washington, D. C.—It has been announced that from 3,000 to 3,500 employees will be placed in payment payrolls within the next month to aid in administering the soldiers' bonus law. The U. S. civil service commission is holding examinations, each Tuesday, to provide the addition of salaries for clerks usage $1,140 and for stenographers $1,320 a year. THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, O. SATURDAY, JULY 12, 1924 COOLIDGE DISCHARGES Of the Register of the Treasury Department—White Clerks Given Transfers to Other Departments of the Government Service. OHIO'S NEXT LIEUTENANT-GOVERNOR! Washington, D. C.—On June 30, forty-three Afro-American employees were discharged by the U. S. register of the treasury, thirty-eight of whom were in the notorious "jim-crow" section of the interest coupon division. The other 5 were in a minor "jim-crow" section. The forty-three employees discharged were about half the total number of Afro-American clerks in the office of Register Harvey V. Speelman, a former resident of Ohio. It is currently reported that the discharged employees of the interest coupon division were most active in their opposition to Register Speelman's segregation of our employees of his department. Mr. Speelman has even arranged it so colored and white employees of his department cannot use the elevators at the same time, mornings and evenings. This is carrying segregation to the limit, and President Calvin Coolidge permits it, too, in spite of all of our protests. Including messengers, charwomen and janitors (laborers), there were 119 Afro-American employees in the office of the register of the treasury. The reasons given for these dismissals is the failure of Congress to appropriate the necessary funds to carry on the work in which these clerks were engaged. It is claimed that the appropriation for this work was reduced $280,000. Representative Martin B. Madden (of Chicago), chairman of the appropriation committee of the House, is blamed for this reduction. It is shown, however, that the Commissioner of Public Debt testified before the committee on appropriation. WILBERFORCE'S NEW PRESIDENT. A Testimonial From an Old Class Mate and Native Ohio-an, Major Allen S. Peal. Hon. Harry C. Smith. Editor Gazette, Cleveland, O. EDITOR GAZELLE Kansas City, Kan., June 23, '24. Dear time-tried Friend and Editor: Oklahoma is not merely a state; it is a propaganda of the best kind or a ceaseless preachment for progress. Herbert Spencer says something about "all human things affecting tions that the work in which this division was engaged was so nearly completed that he did not think the work was required or that work was actually required. Discrimination Our discharged clerks claim that they were clerks against. They charge that the official of the register's office began notifying the white employees in April last and gave them application blanks to fill out and file with the Civil Service Commission for transfer to some other branch of the Government service. Our clerks were not notified until 4 o'clock on the afternoon of June 13. At that time they were simply ordered to the office of A. J. Leakin, chief of the division, who notified them orally that their services would no longer be required after June 30. Register Speelman has been the object of several bitter attacks because of the segregation in force in his office, which President Clinton has board walls completely separate closed and white employees engaged in the same work and on the same floor. Speelman claims, however, that such walls were erected by the Democrats under President Wilson. Nevertheless, they have been continued during the Harding and Coolidge administrations. Colored and white employees on the same floor report for duty, mornings and noons, fifteen minutes apart. Register Speelman claims that this is done to relieve the elevator service, but the clerks say it is done so that there may be no contact whatever between the two races. Separate toilets were proclaimed in the office, but these were abolished after there had been threats of seeking his forced resignation. The "fim-crow" section continues, however. Forty-one employees are left in it. And Coolidge wants Negro votes in November. Lord, have mercy! him." Somehow all things "Buckeye" touch my keenest sympathy. The latest pulsation is the new president of Wilberforce. I knew "Dean Jones" around old Central High school, Columbus, O. In those days Negro scholarship was an excitement! We played before the indifferent "bleachers" with volley after volley of Latin conjugations and algebraic solutions. I won a cadet commission at Ohio State University and never had a jar in command of white platoons. But they say it is not so easy now. I am glad to note the elevation of our NEXT LIEUTENANT-GOVE able" to incre HE GAZET ho Might Subs old friend, a real, sure-enough schooled man to the president of Wilberforce. The University can help every phase of Negro education the world over, stressing ability more than degrees. I believe that a broad-gauged educated man can make Wilberforce, national and international, sharing in the exchange of professors generally and becoming known for technical rating—the very last word for the highest, sanest, most practical Negro student excellence! With his single (not dual) training along pedagogical lines, President Jones can ring clear; he can define for his race, as an unfettered university head, some lovely topics. President Angel of Michigan once told us that "on the campus, on the college campus, as now where else, do brains and bodies work together, wealth and prejudices count for so little," that politicians are fellows grabbing for self while statesmen seek to help others. Psychology is rampant as a test now a days, Years ago in Texas, a student told me that "physiology tells what's in a man's body and head." Truly "big jobs" tell what is in the systems of our leaders. A very little more will come out than what went in! Ideals and intellectual entente cannot be churned out over night. Those who have not drained the dregs of campus, class-room and dormitory uplifts, never felt the heroic (not brutal) thrills of drill field and student competition (those pardonable mall correspondence beneficiaries), received a lot—but missed a lot. I need not boast for the old "Buckeyes." They never boast. The "Buckeyes" always way to widen the body all the time the norm petrel they carry the banner of effort everywhere. Wilberforce will keep up the quota. Very cordially. Teacher, Western Univ. Kansas City, Kan. 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 of friends grow cold, but the heart is sweeter than the applause of the world, the countenances of relatives or the hearts of may be averted, and the hearts friends."—Charles Sumner. RACE PREJUDICE! "I am convinced myself that there is no more evil thing in this present world than race prejudice; none at all!" "I write deliberately—it is the worst single thing in life now. It justifies and holds to together more baseness, cruelty and abomination than any other sort of error in the world." —H. G. Wells. 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 lychn another. 6284. Limitations of action. 6285. Order to include recovery and costs in tax levy. 6286. Guardian's custody, etc., fees. 6287. County's right of action against member of mob. 6288. County's right of action against another county. 6289. Non-relief from prosecution. Our mob-violence or anti-lynching bill was introduced in the Ohio legislature in 1894 and re-introduced in 1896. It took the Hon. Harry C. Smith, editor of The Gazette, just three years to secure its enactment into law. The Ohio Supreme Court has several times upheld the constitutionality of the law and it has Section 6278. A collection of people assembled for an unlawful purpose and intending to do damage or injury to any one, or pretending to exercise correctional power over other persons by violence and without authority of law, shall be deemed a "mob" for the purpose of this chapter. An act of violence by a mob upon the body of any person shall constitute a "lynching" within the meaning of this chapter. (93 v. 161 2.) Section 6279. The term "serious injury," for the purpose of this chapter, shall include such injury as permanently or temporarily disables the person receiving it from earning a livelihood by manual labor. (93 v. 161 3.) Section 6280. A person taken from officers of justice by a mob, and assaulted with whips, clubs, missiles or in any other manner, may recover, as hereafter provided, a sum not to exceed one thousand dollars as damages from the county in which the assault is made (§ 93 v. 1, 4). Section 6281. A person assaulted and lynched by a mob may recover, from the county in which such assault is made a sum not to exceed five hundred dollars; or, if the injury received therefrom is serious, a sum not exceeding one thousand dollars, or such injury result in permanent or such damage by manual labor, a sum not to exceed five thousand dollars. (§ 93 v. 162 5.) Section 6282. The legal representative of a person dying from injuries received from lynching by a mob, may recover of the county in which such injury occurred, a sum not to exceed five thousand dollars damages for such unlawful killing. Such sum shall be applied to the maintenance of the family and education of the minor children of such person so lynched. If any survive him, until such children are of legal age, and then be distributed to the survivors, share and share alike, the widow receiving an amount equal to child's share. If any child survives to minor children surviving such decedent, such sum shall be distributed among the next of kin according to the laws of the distribution of the personality of an intestate. Such sum so recovered shall not be a part of the estate of such person so lynched, nor be subject to any of his liabilities. (93 v 162 6.) Section 6283. A person suffering death or injury from a mob attempting to lynch another person shall come within the provisions of this chapter. He or his legal representatives shall have a like right of action as one purposely injured or killed by such a mob. (93 v 162 6.) Section 6284. Action for the recoveries provided for in this chapter must be commenced, within two years from the date of such lynching. In any court having original jurisdiction of an action for damages for malicious assault. (93 v. 162 7.) Section 6285. An order to the commissioners of a county, against which such recovery is had, to include it with the costs of action, in the next succeeding tax levy for such county, shall be a part of the judgment in every such case. (93 v. 162 8.) Section 6282. If the decedent so lynched has minor children surviving him, the fund shall be turned over to a regularly appointed guardian. Such guardian shall administer such fund under the direction of the probate judge, allowing not more than five hundred dollars for counsel fees in the action for such recovery. (93 v. 162 9.) Section 6287. The county, in which a lynching occurs, may recover the amount of a judgment and costs against it in favor of the legal representatives of a person killed or otherwise killed by robbery from any of the persons composing such mob. A person present, with hostile intent, at such lynching shall be deemed a member of the mob and be liable to such action. (93 v. 162 10.) been very effective. Illinois, Pennsylvania and New Jersey have followed 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: RS. ed. r. representative of victim of lynching. bury by mob trying to lynch another. and costs in tax levy. s. last member of mob. last another county. Section 6228. If a mob carries a prisoner into another county, or comes from another county to commit violence on a prisoner brought from such county for safekeeping, the county in which the lynching is committed may recover the amount of the judgment and costs from the county from which the mob came, gence on the part of officials of such unless there was contributory negligence not less than thirty days after failing to protect such prisoner or disurse such mob. (93 v. 162 11.) Section 6229. This chapter shall not relieve a person concerned in such lynching from prosecution for homicide or assault for engaging therein. (93 v. 162 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 court had enacted while a member of the 71st General Assembly, in 1894: The General Code of Ohio Sec. 12940. Whoever, the proprietor or his employee, keeper or manager of an inn, restaurant, eating house, barbershop, public convenience by land or water, theater or other place of public accommodation and amusement, denies to a citizen, except for reasons applicable alike to all citizens and regardless of race or color, the full enjoyment of the accommodations, advantages, facilities or privileges thereof, shall be fined not less than fifty dollars nor more than five hundred dollars, or more than ninety days, or both. Sec. 12941. Whoever violates the new section shall also pay not less than fifty dollars nor more than five hundred dollars to the person aggrieved thereby to be recovered in any court of competent jurisdiction in the county where such offense was committed. --- This law has repeatedly been held 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. Misled by the foolishly manufactured outcry for the passage of the Beaty bill, a few years ago, the Akron Beacon Journal published an editorial to which the editor of The Gazette replied, calling its attention to the fact that the Ohio Civil Rights law was good law and did not need amending. The following letter from Judge Grant former presiding judge of the Court of Appeals of the Eighth District of Ohio, is self explanatory: Akron. G., April 25, 1919. Hon. Harry C. Edwards. Editorial Staff. My Dear Sir: Observing your letter in the Beacon-Journal, of this city, I venture to send you, under a separate cover, the Ohio Law Reporter of Feb. 3. last, containing the opinion of the Court of Appeals in the Puritan Lunch Co. vs. Leonard H. Forman, decided in Akron, last fall, in which a judgment for ($500) five hundred dollars was sustained. If the Beacon-Journal had known what was going on in its own town, there would have been no occasion for criticism editorially. THE LAW OF OHIO IF UNDER NO REPROACH, nor our courts and juries, in administering it. Not a word was said by the Beacon-Journal when the Forman case was reviewed. Very truly yours. R. O. Grant. PATRONIZE OUR ADVERTISERS But Give Copy of It.