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Under Race Ownership and Management 52 Well Ventilated Rooms. 4113 Cedar Avenue Phone: Rand. 8011 A Residential Hotel for People of Refined Taste 250 Large, Light, Clean; Quiet Rooms Rates as low as $1.50 per day and $6.00 per week. A Luxurious Dining Room at Restaurant Prices Central at Fifty-Fifth St. CLEVELAND, OHIO Milk With A Message With every bottle of rich and pure milk you n With A Mes Milk With A Message With every bottle of rich and pure milk you receive from our dairy comes to you this great message of a new future, a better social order, where man shall work with man in peace, where children shall be happy, and women free—a future where service shall be the sole object of all business transaction. City Co-Operative Dairy Company, 9004, Woodland Ave. For service call Garfield 8341 GET THE VERY BEST Chew BUCKEYE Smoke SCRAP Union 10c Packages Made 25c Packages Manufactured from clean Havana Clippings "Your Daddy used it 60 Years Ago" Also, QUILTS, BLANKETS, PILLOWS, PILLOW CASES, SHEETS, TRUNKS, SUIT-CASES and HAND BAGS. 'ATHOME' WEEK All persons wishing to inspect our plant are cordially invited to do so, any day next week between the hours of 8:30 a. m. and 4 p. m. Polite attendants will gladly show you thru, and our Mr. Thomas will explain fully our expansion program. THE GAZETTE ESTABLISHED, AUGUST 25, 1883 And Issued Every Week on Time Since FRESH OHIO NEWS Written By "The Old Reliable" Gazette's Correspondents What Our People Are Doing Each Week—Church, Personal, Social, Lodge, Literary and Musical—Marriages, Deaths, Etc. 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., tives 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. Rev. R. L. Allen will attend the county S. S. convention at Hope-dale.—Mrs. Elvira Wallace is attending the Eastern Star convention at Bellaire. HILLSBORO.—Mrs. Cress Hough and children of Cincinnati spent Sunday with her grand-parents. Rev. and Mrs. P. H. Smith.—Mr. and Mrs. Albert Williams, Jr., entertained Mr. and Mrs. John Minor at dinner, Sunday.—Mr. and Mrs. Vivian Hudson and son returned to Chicago, Wednesday. C. M. Gragston, Mrs. Alline Burton, Ruth and Wm. Hudson accompanied them to Springfield to visit Mr. and Mrs. W. Lewis.—Miss Marle Cole entertained Mrs. Florence Gallagher at SPRINGFIELD. — Our candidate for the Republican nomination for governor, the Hon. Harry C. Smith, received 487 votes in this (Clarke) county at the recent primaries; our candidate for lieutenant-governor Geo. W. Shanklin, received 580; U.S. M.eaux, our candidate for sheriff, 198; C. M. Pattreson, our candidate for county commissioner, 1477. Not so bad when it is remembered that many of our voters were misted and discouraged by Negroes in the pay of white politicians, every one of whom should be "outlawed", politically, by the loyal of the race in this city and county. The Gazette's editorial, last week, on Henry Lincoln Johnson certainly "struck home." He deserved it and more. CADIZ. — Simpson M. E. church held a camp meeting at Duncanwood. Sunday. — Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Johnson have returned from Pittsburgh. They attended the Masonic conclave. — Mrs. Grace Banks Spencer and husband, of Weirton, W. Va., visited here, Sunday. — Mr. Fletcher Sledge of Steubenville, Mrs. Madeline Viney of Cleveland, Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Bowman of Columbus were guests of Mrs. Thomas Mason. — Miss Dorothy Robinson of Massillon, and Miss Theresa Emery of Warren, are visiting Mrs. Susan West. — A large number from here will attend the Smith-West-Freeman reunion at Smithfield, Saturday. — FIFTY WHITE SLAVES. Of Native Black Africans—Chief Sebele Well Educated and Speaks English London. Eng.—When officials of the South African government's locust expedition, now in the interior of the Kalahari desert, arrived at Molopole, 100 miles in the interior of the desert, they were taken before Sebele, the paramount native chief. They found him well educated and able to speak English fluently. Both he and his wife wore European clothes. The visitors discovered some fifty white men and women living near the chief's kraad, where they act as servants to the chief and his followers. They are toh to be descendants of Dutch pioneers, who lost themselves in the desert. These unfortunates have no power to own land and no privileges of any kind. They are virtually sorts to the natives, tilling the land of their black masters, who give them small quantities of grain as wages. The natives around Molopole are rich both in cattle and land. They carry rifles, but the whites are not permitted to possess firearms. Chief Sebele dispenses justice to all his tribe, the Bechuana, who are recognized as the aristocracy of the Kalahari. These natives are certainly "getting even" with the South African Dutch who were not near as kind to native blacks as Chief and Mrs. Sebele are to their white slaves. GARVEY'S NEW STEAMSHIP Inspected at Fifty Cents a Head—To Curry the Misguided to Africa—"One Born Every Second". New, York City—In place of The Black Star Line Co., which went down and brought Marcus Garvey into the toils of the federal government, "The Black Cross Line" has arisen. With it has come another vessel, "The General G. W. Goethals." The ship, newly painted, wallowed at pier 65, 24th St. and the Hudson river, for inspection, Sunday, Aug. 17, and 5,000 members of the U. N. I. A. went aboard to look the vessel over after paying an admission of 50 cents. They were anxious to see the accommodations Rev. R. L. Allen will attend the county S: S. convention at Hopedale. — Mrs. Elvira: Wallace is attending the Eastern Star convention at Bellaire. HILLSBORO—Mrs. Clara Hough and children of Cincinnati spent Sunday with her grandparents, Rev. and Mrs. P. H. Smith—Mr. and Mrs. Albert Williams, Jr., entertained Mr. and Mrs. John Minor at dinner, Sunday—Mr. and Mrs. Vilian Hudson and son returned to Chicago, Wednesday. C. M. Gragston, Mrs. Alline Burton, Ruth and Wm. Hudson accompanied them to Springfield to visit Mr. and Mrs. W. Lewis—Miss Marle Cole entertained Mrs. Florence Gallagher at dinner, Sunday—Rev. W. W. Stephenson, who resigned, some weeks ago, as pastor of Wesleyan M. church, preached his farewell sermon, Sunday, before leaving for conference at Marletta—Mrs. Edith T river of Detroit is here, visiting h. grandmother, Mrs. Louisa Young. Mrs. Starle Bolden was called to Newark, last week, by an uncle's serious illness. Mr. and Mrs. Lyman Ross and Mrs. Ida Wednedot to Greenfield, last Wednedot. Rev. Forrest Mitchell and Mr. Gragston were delegates to the E. U. B. A. in Portsmouth, last week. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Johnson, Mr. and Mrs. Jane Young, Mrs. Gragston Mr. and Mrs. A. and Floyd Holland also attended, Thursday—Mrs. Ida W. Brown and children of Detroit, who spent the summer here with her father, Mr. James Nelson, left, Sunday, to visit relatives in Springfield en. route home—Mrs. Lewis Goodon, Mr. W. Jackson and Miss Jeanette Thomas of Dayton were here, Sunday—Mr. Percy Golns and his daughter, Mrs. W. Carter of Cincinnati, visited relatives here, last week—Mrs. Dorsey Minor is quite ill—Mrs. Lydia Clark and children of Martinsville spent the week-end with Mr. and Mrs. Frank Brace—Mrs. Ala Vinegar has returned to Lima. She visited her parents, Rev. and Mrs. Harvey Johnson—Miss Annie Richardson and brother, Kenneth, of Lyndon visited their aunt, Mrs. Edward Jones, recently. provided for the great exodus of 7,000,000 of our people, which, according to Garvey's plans, will begin sailing for Africa in November. He informed those, who gathered around in the dining room of the vessel, that the ship was to be rechristened the "Booker T. Washington," and would have WHITE officers over a crew of color. He said that HE was not going to Africa, and he didn't know just who would be in the first group to sail; that the rate to Africa would be about $180 for first-class, passage, and that provisions will be made for 75 first-class passengers and 100 second-class. Owes $605,000 On The Ship Thirty thousand dollars of the $100,000, asked by the Panama Railroad and Steamship Company for the steamship, "General George W. Goethals," was paid, Aug. 13, 24, by the U. N. I. A., according to W. B. Pfiser, secretary of the company. He also said the ship's papers will not be turned over to the association's president, Marcus Garvey, until an additional $45,000 is paid. This must be done within sixty days, and the remaining $25,000 must be covered by a surety bond, he said. OUR CANDIDATE'S Columbus, O. — Iton, Harry C. Smith, editor of The Gazette, our candidate for the Republican nomination for Governor at the state primaries, Aug. 12. '24. filed his sword statement of campaign expenses, as required by state law, with the Secretary of State (the state supervisor of elections). Friday, Aug. 22. '24. It shows that he spent $282.37, and that $7.50 was the total of the contributions to his campaign fund, making his personal expense; $274.87. That is more money than all of our big "bikes", who call themselves "leaders" of the race, have spent, in an effort to help the race, in 274 years and 87 days. The records, here in the Secretary of State's office, show that Editor Smith has spent nearly one thousand dollars in the last four years in the race's three candidacies for nomination to a state office which he has led. And he is not thorn, either, he says. AUGUST, 30.1924 TO OPEN IN OCTOBER The Cardinal Gibbons Institute, a National School for Our Youth —The Principal and His Assistant—Holy Name Society Parade Washington, D. C.—Mr. Victor Daniel, principal of The Cardinal Gibbons Institute, took charge of its affairs, July 1. He devoted the summer to meeting committees organized in various sections of the country to assist the Institute. Public receptions were held for him in Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Atlantic City, Wilmington, Baltimore, Annapolis, Frederick, Washington. Cardinal Gibbons and other places. The Institute will open for students, early in October, and will be prepared to give junior high school courses in separate departments to both boys and girls. In addition, certain trade courses will be offered. Students over sixteen years of age will be admitted to these trade courses regardless of whether they are able to enter the junior high school or not. They will be required to take academic work, however, in special classes according to their actual needs. Mrs. Victor Daniel has been engaged as assistant principal and matron. She will devote a part of her time to teaching, during the first year. The present farm house on the property is to be remodeled and fitted as a home for the principal and his family, which is composed of four small children in addition to Mrs. Daniel. This national school is located at Ridge, St. Mary's county, Md., and has the backing of the Catholic Church. A. Great Parade Our Holy Name societies of Philadelphia will march as a unit in the Holy Name parade to be held here, Sunday, Sept. 21. Our members of the local section, who are having a large part in the general arrangement for the parade, will entertain those from Philadelphia and other centers, and provide for their wants. It is expected that 150,000 Holy Name men from all parts of the country will be in the parade. There are 1,500,000 members of the society in the U. S. LEAVES HOUSEKEEPER $250,000 The Woman, Her Son and Alex Rankin Left the Bulk of a Half Million Dollar Estate By a Race Track Man. Lexington, Ky.—For faithful service covering a period of more than forty years, Mrs. Ellen Davis and Alex Rankin, employs in the home of the late John T. Hughes (white), have been rewarded with the bulk of his estate valued at half million dollars. This includes 1000 acres of Bluegrass farmland adapted for thorobed horsebreeding. Rewards 40 Years' Service Ellen Davis, faithful servant, is given the home farm on the Maysville pike, containing 273 $^2$/acres absolutely. She is also given the contents of the house, the farming utensils on the place, wagons, work stock and a black saddle mare, "Red Belle H." Her part is worth $200,000. It is estimated. Her son, Robert Henry Hughes, is given the Dudley farm on the Huston-Clintonville pike, containing 160 acres to be held absolutely. Gets 9612 Acre Farm Alex Rinkin, "old faithful colored man, who has been in my company for about forty years, is bequeathed the Ware farm lying on the Haley, Clintonville and Loxington pikes, containing 9612 acres, to have and hold for and during his natural life time, with remainder in fine simple to Robert Henry Higgesson of Ellen Davis, my old colored servant who has worked for me faithfully for over 40 years." A number of other bequests are made, and a separate bequest of $500 is set apart for Ellen Davis to have erected in the colored cemetery on Seventh street a tombstone. Penalty for Contest! The will sets out that "if any person, herein mentioned, contests my will, or objects to the probate thereof, then any and all property, devised to said person or persons, shall lapse and pass under the residuary part of my will." Dr. James C. Carrick and Jacob H. Graves, both white, are named executors, empowered to sell all property necessary for settlement. The will, signed by Mr. Hughes, is his own writing, is dated March 28, 1924, and witnessed, by George R. Hunt and W. F. Warren, all white. SINGLE COPY FIVE CENTS KU KLUX KLAN, THE ISSUE Have Now Denounced the Kluxers—Only President Coolidge Fears To Do So—He Also Refuses to End Government Segregation of Our Employees—Davis' Record Sea Girt, N. J.—The Hon. John W. Davis, in his first major address since formally accepting the Democratic nomination for president, last week Friday came out four-square in condemnation of the Ku Klux Klan. At the same time, he challenged President Coolidge to do likewise and thereby remove the issue as a topic of political debate. "Since my arrival in Seagirt I have been asked by more than one person now present in this audience what views I entertain concerning the organization known as the Ku Klux Klan. I am constrained to think that those who ask this question did not hear, or have not done me the honor to read, the speech of acceptance which I delivered at Clarksburg on the 11th of this month. Illicitor General of the United States, Davis argued and won the case which held that the so-called "grandfather clause" of the Oklahoma constitution violated the Fifteenth Amendment in imposing a literary test for all voters except descendants of persons entitled to vote on Jan. 1, 1866—a clause obviously designed to rob the Negro of his ballot. In this case, Davis argued; The protection of the Constitution was extended to an entire race—to all races, it is true—but it is extended just as much to the humblest member of that race. Each single individual in it, a citizen of the United States, is assured that neither the United States nor any state shall deny or abridge his right to vote on account of race, color or previous condition of servitude; and any The K. K. K. Menaco The K. K. K. Menace "In that speech I took occasion to declare that nothing would so utterly destroy our happiness and security at home, and our dignity and influence abroad as the separation of the citizenship of this country into discordant groups along racial or religious lines. I affirmed my personal belief in the great guarantees of religious freedom and religious tolerance which have made this country what it is, and I assert it to be the solemn duty of every believer in American institutions to oppose any challenge, organized or unorganized, of this sacred doctrine, under whatever name or in whatever character it might appear. No Room for Doubt "It was my purpose to state these truths in language plain enough to leave no room for doubt or misunderstanding of my personal views and in terms sufficiently broad to include any and all forms of bigry, prejudice and intolerance. On that declaration I stand. If any organization, no matter what it chooses to be called, whether Ku Klux Klan or by any other name, raises the standard of racial and religious prejudice or attempts to make racial origins or religious beliefs the test of fitness for public office, it does violence to the spirit of American institutions and must be condemned by all those who believe as I do in American ideals. Challenges Coolidge "I repeat that these matters must not be permitted to divert the attention of the public from the vital questions now before them. I venture, therefore, to express the hope that the nominee of the Republican party will see fit by some explicit declaration, to join in entirely removing this topic from the field of political debate." Race Discrimination and K. K. K. (New York World Editorial) The same point of view, that ranged John W. Davis on the side of labor in support of the Clayton act, the Adams bill, and the Child Labor Law, put him on the side of liberalism against discrimination between the races. Appearing before the Supreme Court in 1915, as So- THE THOMAS COMPANY TO EXPAND PLANT Among the productive enterprises of the race, Cleveland can house of one quite in a class by itself. The Thomas Flux Co. This concern is engaged in the manufacture of a product which is indispensable to the foundry business, primarily, and as a side-line fills orders for special steel, brass and aluminum castings, counting among their customers foundry concerns in several well-known cities, and the Cleveland Hardware Co., of this city. A Gazette representative who recently interviewed the president and manager of the firm, Mr. H. T. Thomas, was shown thru the plant on Norman Ave., and found in use the latest business methods. From the clean, spacious, well-equipped office to the stockyard was an orderliness which reflected the managerial ability of Mr. Thomas, the guiding star. "We plan an expansion of our plant here," said Mr. Thomas, "to take care of an increased volume of business. This enlargement will also make an opening for some of our young men who are interested in learning and applying such trades as moulding, pattern-making, metalurgy and the various phases of this form of business." The firm is a most creditable one, and, under the management of Mr. IN-UNION IS STRENGTH E COPY FIVE CENTS DGE! AN, THE ISSUE Candidate For Presi- La Follette Kluxers—Only President Cool- o—He Also Refuses to ent Segregation of oyees—Davis' record licitor General of the United States, Davis argued and won the case which held that the so-called "grandfather clause" of the Oklahoma constitution violated the Fifteenth Amendment in imposing a literary test for all voters except descendants of persons entitled to vote on Jan. 1, 1866—a clause obviously designed to rob the Negro of his ballot. In this case, Davis argued: The protection of the Constitution was extended to an entire race—to all races, it is true—but it is extended just as much to the humblest member of that race. Each single individual in it, if a citizen of the United States, is assured that neither the United States nor any state shall deny or abridge his right to vote on account of race, color or previous condition of servitude; and any law to the contrary, no matter from how high a source it comes or how adroitly its purposes may be hidden, is invalid, and void though he alone be reached by it. * * * * In each and every line and syllable, in meaning, as well as in phrase, in fulfilment as well as in promise, the races must stand side by side. Again Davis argued and won before the court the case which held the Alabama Peonage Law unconstitutional as violating the spirit of the Thirteenth Amendment and the Federal Anti-Peonage Act. "If the Constitution did not stand in the path of the Alabama Law," insisted Davis, "then reason and public safety should. The fiction put forward in its defense * * has neither fact nor logic to support it." It was Davis, again, who argued and won a case against election officials in Oklahoma, charging them with a Federal crime when they refused to count Negro ballots in certain districts. Their offense, he held, violated section 6 of the Act of Congress of May 31, 1870—known as the Ku Klux Klan Act. The law was old and established for another Klan; but its violation was up-to-date and in the spirit of the modern Klan. Here was an attempt to use the same high-handed tactics which the present Klan invokes against the Negro in the South. Argued Davis: The statute (of 1870) was designed to prevent any act whereby the complete exercise of the privilege of voting might be prevented or impeded. * * * The right of suffrage secured by the Constitution consists not merely of the right to cast a ballot but likewise of the right to have that ballot counted. Nine years before the Ku Klux Klan became a national party issue, nine years before it was necessary for a presidential candidate either to have ideas or embrace a liberalism in which he had no faith, John W. Davis disclosed where he stood on the issue of the Klan, of peonage in the Solid South, of discrimination against the Negro voter. The Davis record on those three issues is not lip-service to a liberal cause, but a record of test cases in the courts—test cases fought and won. Thomas, who is well prepared both in theory and practice, should not fail to develop into one of the most substantial and profitable businesses owned by members of the race. Among the scores of letters received from its satisfied customers, one large local firm wrote: "Your product is the best thing in the line of fluy we have ever used." Elsewhere in this paper is an advertisement announcing the firm's exposition program which should receive the support of every loyal Afro-American. The present plant, the small, is well organized and managed. The assets of the concern run high—into five figures! A Monument to Treason! Boston, Mass. - Speakers at a recent dedication of a memorial tablet to Abraham Lincoln, at Providence and Bloomfield Sf., spoke of the Stone Mountain memorial, near Chittawoga, Tenn., now being erected to confederate leaders as a "monument to treason" and denounced the Ku Klux Klan as being un-American and not in accord with the spirit of Lincoln. Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Case, 2267 E. 89th St., had a reunion, last week Tuesday evening, at which was represented three generations of the Williams and Case family. Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Williams of Baltimore, the former Mrs. Case's brother, returned home, last Saturday, after a delightful visit of two weeks. SUBSCRIPTION RATES (In Advance) One Year ..... $2.00 Six Mouths ..... 1.00 Subscribers are requested to remit Entered at the postoffice in Cleveland, Ohio, as second-class mail matter Address all communications 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; 1896 to 1898; 1900 to 1902 THE GAZETTE is the oldest and has the largest bona fide circulation, double that of any newspaper in the interest of Afro-Americans published in the state of Ohio, and comparison with any will immediately establish its rank as one of the NEWS-EST and BEST in the country. SATURDAY, AUGUST 30, 1924 John E. Bruce, newspaper writer, who died recently in N. Y. City, better known in journalistic circles as "Bruce Grit", was Washington, D. C. correspondent for The Gazette, many years ago. He was an exceptionally able journalist to the day of his death. --- There is a large number of "Negroes" in this country that can be spared to go to Africa—or most any other old place out of the U. S. If Garvey will only take that kind, in November or later, just so it is soon, there are many of us who should be very thankful. --- It is possibly too bad for those fifty Dutch slaves away in the interior of Africa but isn't it barely possible that "the Lord is working in a mysterious way?" The South African Dutch are due a good deal, you know, for their mistreatment of native black Africans. If John T. Hughes' will is not a stunning reminder of most unfortunate conditions that existed very generally prior to the war of the rebellion (and since) that the "chivalric" prejudiced South does not like to have the country's attention called to in the public press, then what is it? The law-abiding people of this country will not permit President Coolidge to hide behind the conservatively strong statement, anent the Ku Klux Klan, made by his running mate, Gen. "Hell and Maria" Dawes, last week. They want to know where he (Coolidge) stands on the question and it will pay him to speak out like La Follette and Darls have. --- Another one of our "banks" was forced to close, Aug. 18, (at Washington, D. C.). Too many of our people are rushing into various business enterprises, these days, which they seek to direct without any training in, and little or no knowledge of, the business they are entering. Then they ask our people to "buy stock." You know the rest! And this is decidedly more than the exception, too. It is the rule. U. S. Senator Wheeler, candidate for vice-president on the La Follette ticket, asserts that the one thing absolutely certain is that "Coolidge cannot get sufficient electoral votes to win outright at the polls." in November. There are many thoughtful persons in this country who agree with him. That Congress will have to settle the Presidential contest, between Davis, Coolidge and La Follette, is far more than a probability. Mark our prediction! If J. Finley Wilson, editor of the Washington (D. C.) Eagle, did make that Florida mob "back up", as reported, last week, in a Chicago contemporary, The Whip, he is entitled to all kinds of credit. Finley is said to have had two automatics in his "grip", which he used, and with his bride, was en route North from Miami, Fla. when the Kluxers (some in their "regalia") boarded the train to drive him and Mrs. Wilson from a drawing room of the sleeper. Nobody killed or injured. --- Senator Robert M. La Follette's recent pronouncement against the Ku Klux Klan, and his and his wife's efforts, years ago, to stop that insulting and humiliating segregation in the government departments at Washington, D. C.; and the record of the Hon. John W. Davis, made while Solicitor General of the United States, fighting peonage, disfranchisement and the Ku Klux Klan, together with his recent repudiation of the K. K. K., are making the intelligent Afro-American voter THINK as he has never be- fore thot during a national political campaign. This fall will see our vote split as it never has been since the day the Afro-American was enfranchised. --- Judging from many letters, received in this office, last week, from loyal members of the race throne through the state, a goodly portion of the $21,658.80 campaign fund, spent in the interest of the "successful" Harry L. Davis candidacy for the Republican nomination for Governor, was paid to "Negro bootleaders" and others of the race, ministers and laymen, every one of whom should be blacklisted by our people. When Davis was Governor of Ohio in 1921 and 1922, our people were thoroly ignored in about every way possible by him. Naturally, as a result, this time his candidacy was supported largely by the Ku Klux Klan of the state. And there are other Klan candidates on the Ohio state Republican ticket: We will name them later on. TOM ON EDITOR JOHN MITCHELI A representative of The Gazette overheard a conversation; last week, in one of our restaurants, in Central Ave., this city, that proved very interesting because it showed the mental caliber of certain so-called "Negro leaders." Said one (who, by the way, was Councilman Tom Fleming): "Some Negro down in Virginia (Editor John Mitchell of the Richmond Planet) had the NERVE, a few years ago, to run for Governor of that state," etc. etc. This statement seemed rather significant, especially in view of the fact that a member of the race has twice dared as much here in Ohio. From the expression on Tom's face and the tone of his voice, such ambition on the part of a "Negro" is a grevious fault, intolerably audacious and altogether ridiculous. Terrible! isn't it? Some people (white politicians and their "Negro political boot-lickers") have taken very much to heart our Coolidge segregation and La Follette publications in The Gazette of Aug. 2, 9, 16 and 23, 1924, and we presume they, and possibly others, will "throw cat-fis" when they read the Hon. John W. Davis publications on our first page, today. All we have to say in explanation is that our readers want all the news, facts, of special interest to them, that have relation to the three Presidential candidates, and we propose to see to it that they get them thru the columns of "The Old Reliable" Gazette; and, too, without fear or favor". It is a DUTY this paper owes its thousands of patrons, and believe us, we are taking the greatest pleasure in the world in performing it, just at this time. The fact that the Hon. John W. Davis' birthplace and that of the editor of The Gazette is the same—Clarksburg, W. Va.—has absolutely nothing to do with it, however. Additional Locals This last week-end clean-up, in the 11th and 12th wards, resulted in 46 arrests. Capt. Carey and Sergt. Leonard Treadon raided a house at 2565 E. 30th St. and captured ten on gambling charges. Sergt. Otto Carlovec took a squad to 2371 E. 49th St. and brot in eight, said to have been gambling. Within an hour the same squad took twelve charged with gambling and violating the liquor laws at 4917 Woodland Ave. Sergt. Treadon salied for the murder and arrested 2304 Scoville Ave. burglers. Police were seeking two men, Monday, in the death of Monroe G. Glivens, age 35, of 2828 Central Ave. Glivens, stabbed in the leg, died from loss of blood while police were taking him to Charity hospital. Monday morning, about 3 o'clock, two women were yelling and cursing so loud in E. 30th St. near Central Ave. that people were awakened for half a block. This is a common occurrence, distressing lack of police protection, particularly Saturday and Sunday nights between 11 p. m. and 3 or 4 a. m. Director Barry, PLEASE: give us some relief. John Jackson was fired at five times, one night, last week, when he attempted to remonstrate with four men in an automobile in front of his home at 1068 E. 84th St. Jackson, police said, first went out to the curb where the car was parked and asked the men to move along after their profanity disturbed his wife. He returned to the house, but went out again when the men refused to move. When he offered to fight the four, one of them, police said, drew a revolver and fired him. Jackson but failed to strike him. Jackson called the police, but when they arrived the automobile had gone. The 11th and 12th wards are extending east. That's all! Mrs. J. W. Byrd, E. 101st St., wife of ex-Patrolman Byrd, died, last week Wednesday, after some months' illness. Funeral from the house and burial at her former home, Mercersburg, Pa., Mr. Byrd, his son and his deceased wife's sister, Mrs. Grace Bell, accompanying the remains. A member of the Berkshire Society added Byrd before death, complained bitterly of her treatment by the organization and its individual members. THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, O. SATURDAY, AUGUST 30, 1924 PRIME SPORT NEWS DO YOU KNOW WHY--- They Continue Making Every New Ocean Liner Longer Than The One Before? ENGLAND WHY NOT BUILD A SHIP REACHING FROM NEW YORK TO ENGLAND. IT WOULD SIMPLIFY TRAVELING AND EXPEDITE MATTERS SOMEWHAT ALL ABORDED FOR FREE STREAM ON THE SHIP STEAMSHIP RR CO. KEEP INOLLEY ON THE DECK SO ON INTERNATIONAL CARTOON CO. N.Y. IF THIS PLAN WAS BUT INTO OPERATION NO MORE OF THIS OH DOCTOR, I OUGHT TO HAVE A WEIGHT TO KEEP IT DOWN OW-W GOODBYE, DEAR, I HOPE YOU ENJOY YOUR WALK AROUS THE OCEAN GIVEN ALL THE FOLKS IN COUTHAMPTON MY LOVE WALK NOODLE FROM N.Y. TO COUTHAMPTON FRAME STYLE I OUGHT TO HAVE NOTORIOUS MATERIALS THIS BOAT ONE GUYE MIGHT WALK ACROSS Lose 15 Inning Game **Naming Game** Lansingburg, N. Y. Peter's Catholic club of N. Y. city defeated the N. Y. Black Sox in 17 innings, 3 to 2, on the 17th. It was SOME game. The white lads scored two runs in the first inning and the Black Sox tied up things in the third. That ended the scoring game. A double by Blaustein was followed by a single that won the game. Sam Langford: "Vibe" Sam Langfordi "Whis" Again! New York City.—Sam Langford pulled down a $436 purse here, on Aug. 15, at the Lafayette Theatre, and he did not have to take a jolt in the tummy or a smash on the jaw to earn the money. Old Sam Langfordi across the stage and ambled back the theater, then acted as referee for the spirited three round exhibition between Joe Jeanette and one of Joe's pupils. It was a benefit for Sam. "Tiger" Stoppeg This One "Tiger" Stopped This One New York City.—"Tiger" Flowers, Atlanta middleweight sensation, stopped Jack Townsend (white), a Chicago heavyweight, in the 12th round of a scheduled 12-round bout Aug. 9. Flowers' weight was announced at 162, while Townsend topped him by 23 pounds. Harry Greb, of Pittsburgh, was at the ringside to see the Atlanta marvel in action. That is why Greb asked for a week more in which to train for the Fremont fight. Wilberforce Wins! Springfield, O.—Wilberforce and the Marathon A. C. of Dayton, won the major honors in the recent fifth annual track and field meet, sponsored by our Young Men's Business association. A crowd of 3,000 greeted the 70 from Cincinnati, Columbus, Dayton, Pittsburgh, Springfield and Wilberforce. The individual honors went to Gaston Lewis of Wilberforce. He won first honors in the 880 yard run, shot put and broad jump. Lloyd Lewis of Wilberforce broke his own record of 10 2-5 seconds made on the local track in 1923, by taking the century dash in 10 seconds flat. Carletta Hubbard, brother of DeHart, won the hop, step and jump with a leap of 40 feet and 9 inches. Embry of the Marathon A. C. was the individual star of the junior events winning the 100-yard dash and broad jump. Cook Flu Greb-Flowers Bout Fremont, O.-Theodore "Tiger" Flowers, Alaska's prize "pug" of color, came out of its ten-round bout with Champion Harry Greb with colors flying even if he was awarded the decision. The contest, held here, last week Thursday evening, was such as to assure "Tiger" a return engagement, all admit. Greb won the 5th, 7th, 9th and 10th rounds, the others were "even" or Flowers', said the judges, all white. Nearly 20,000 witnessed the fray and all characterized it as one of the best seen in years. "Tiger" is SOME fighter, and after the next season, "pugs" meet, he will be middle-weight. Greb received received $7,012.47. F'o wore $2,743.65, and the local boxing commission, $1,216.75, part of which will be used for charity or given to the local recreation building fund. Siki-Conroy Fiasco Lorain O.—Battling Skii and Mike Conroy of Rochester fought eight rounds of their scheduled ten-round bout here, last week Wednesday evening, when Skii, who felt that he was going to be "skinned" out of his money for the same, strode to the center of the ring and said, or is quoted as saying, in spite of the fact that he does not speak English: "I'm getting nothing for this; I quit," and did so. Throught the eight rounds, he refused to be serious," but "played" with Conroy when he was awarded "vision." Skii weighed 173 and Conroy. 191. The former finally received approximately $900 and it is said that the promoters of the contest lost about $800. Skii was to receive double the amount given him. His new American wife (white) was at the ringside. The Brown's vs. the Barons Chicago, Ill.—During Rube Foster's team's absence at Schorling's park, the first of last week, the Birmingham Barons and the Cleveland Brown's entertained the fans and those who braved the rarest August here in many a day were warmed up by some of the baseball disheated out by the visiting teams. The Birmingham Barons, 16, was won by Cleveland, 8 to 5, in the twelfth and on Sunday the Cleveland club lost a hard luck game, 6 to 5. Joseph's "boner" caused the Brown's to lose this game. It cost three runs. Monday's game was a humdinger. Score, 2 to 1. Streeter fanned ten men. Ross, a young recruit who has a pippin of a delivery, and who hails from the Lorain, Ohio, high school, being a three-star and well-wielded player. He held the Birmingham sluggers to five scattered hits and was backed up by some wonderful support with the exception of in the ninth. The elements decided, Tuesday, that neither team should play as old Jupiter Hot Radio-Active Water Furnished by the Government For All Baths. Saitarium has 10 Rooms, Diet and Operating Rooms Pluvius opened up his warehouse and dumped all the rain possible to fall between six and twelve and left the grounds fit for ducks only. At the end of the week, the Browns and Cubans were tied, in last place, in the standing of our clubs in the National League. - The K. C. Monarchs, still first; Foster's Giants, second; Detroit, third; St. Louis, fourth; Birmingham and Memphis, fifth and sixth, respectively. The Monarchs can lose all of their remaining games (to be played) and still lead our National League for the season. "Bobo," the "Big Noise" New York City...Among the several 300 hitters of our Eastern League, it is very interesting to pick out of the number one who once cavorted around the pasture at Tate Field, Cleveland, O. The leading LEVELAND swatsmith, "Bobo" Leonard, who played with the Tate Stars, last season, is showing just what stuff he really has since going east, where money comes without trouble. "Bobo" is the left fielder of the local Lincoln Giants and is "going great guns." We. In Ohio. Must Do the Same We, in Ohio, Must Do the Same Indianapolis, Ind.—A resolution that, since the Republican party in Indiana "has seemed to have chosen the open road with the Klu Klan," there is nothing for Negro voters in the hunt up a new office of political fraternity, led by the executive committee of our National Press Association, here. The resolution advises Indiana and Ohio Afro-Americans to make a finish fight on the klan issue, and to stand by those who stand by them. In a burning speech Melvin J. Chisum declared, "Altho we are all Republicans, we have found during our stay in Indiana that practically all the state are affiliated with the klan, and for that reason I urge my people to cast their party affiliation aside in the coming campaign and vote against the organization." The Georgia Minstrels is certainly "packing them in," this week, at the popular Globe Theater. Manager Bob Davis knows the good ones and gets them! If you have not seen show you want to do so. It's fine. BROOKLYN CHAKACTEK, Character, like a fine old tree, matures slowly and is a ripier growth than success that is forced as hothouse products are forced. Character in a newspaper develops through years of service to the people. For forty-two years The Gazette has been serving our people of this country. It has gathered a render clientele whose tastes it reflects, and whose power and responsiveness to buy are direct measures of its present importance to every advertiser. Tell It, Brother, Tell It! 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Office Phone: Pros. 688 Cleveland, Ohio MRS,L.S.BRADLEY 8241 Preble Ave. Cleveland, O. Has Houses For Sale or To Rent STRANGE POWERS! Unhappy, undecided, in doubt, worried, not well? Business, domestic, social, love affairs wrong? Write freely, frankly and confidentially— request information and advice pertaining to this beloved woman's work and methods. You can win! Do it now. GRACE GRAY DE LONG Miami, Florida NO 333 Nemo$ SELF-REDUCING CORSET 1 Nemo Self-Reducing No. 333 is a real bargain. It has a low top and medium skirt. It is durable pink or white coutt; sizes 24 to 36 and costs only $3.00. If your dealer can't get it, send name, address, and phone number to Nemo Hygiene Fashion Institute 120 E 160 St, New York (Dept. J) 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 greater power than cruelty and abomination than any other sort of error in the world." —H. G. Wells. Where To Purchase The Gazette NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS Subscribers not receiving The Gazette regularly should notify us at once. We desire every copy delivered promptly. Send or bring locals and all business matters to The Gazette office, 214-215 Blackstone Bldg. If you wish to see the editor call there, please. 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 1259 H. SMITH 3007 Scovill Ave. CHAS. E. JACKSON'S 4401 Central Ave. J. S. HALL'S 3138 Central Ave. WM. G. HARRIS 1920 Scovill Ave. *Open Sundays* NOTICE TO S 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 care vertisements before making purtiise in this paper should have the fact that they advertise is assura. All reading matter for public Gazette must be in the office by at the latest. Display advertiser NESDAYS! HARRY C. SMITH, Cor. W. Third St. and Fry Notary Public Classified Advertising ... Department ... FOR SALE—1919 Reo truck. Apply, 2618 Cedar Ave. Phone, 265-J CLEVELAND Social and Personal Mrs. Madeline Viney is visiting in Cadiz. Miss Dorothy Cowdery is spending her vacation in Chicago. Mrs. Wm. Gray, E. 103rd St., is visiting her daughter, Mrs. M. Hicks of Pen Yan, N. Y. The Elk's excursion train will leave for Pittsburgh, Monday, at 7:30 a.m. Mrs. B. M. Shook accompanied her son and daughter-in-law on their return to Detroit, recently. St. Marks Presbyterian church M. S. will hold its next monthly meeting, Tuesday afternoon, in Wade Park. Other callers at The Gazette office, Tuesday afternoon, were: J. I. Greenhow of Toledo and Dr. J. K. Nickens. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Joyce, of E. 97th St., are spending their vacation in Detroit, and Windsor, Canada. The Old Folks' Home association will meet at the home, Tuesday evening, instead of Monday, Labor day. Mrs. Oliver A. Taylor of Crawford Rd., had as guests, last week, her sister, Mrs. Bertha Higgins, and daughter, Miss Prudence, of Providence, R. I. Mrs. Alberta Wills has sold her property in Cincinnati and is there on business in connection with the sale and to visit a son. She will return here in a few days. Dr. N. K. Christopher left, last week, for Chicago and Idlewild. In Chicago he was joined by Mrs. Christopher and little daughter, Odessa. Mr. and Mrs. Calvin Jones of Toledo visited relatives: Mrs. R. Coom of Lakewood; Mrs. Chas. M. Williams, E. 84th St., and Mrs. Vernon Lyons of Gooding Ave. They came here from Idlewild. Miss Blanche E. Johnson, E. 95th St., is visiting relatives in Akron. Mrs. Alberta Wills of Los Angeles, Cal., was the guest of Mrs. Laura Daw, E. 86th St. Of the world population of one billion, seven hundred million persons, one billion three hundred million of them, or about 77 per cent constitute the dark races. The remainder, or 23 per cent, are white people. Mrs. Tom Queen returned, recently, from a delightful visit with relatives in Houston, Fort Worth and other points in Texas, her sister, Mrs. Effie Davenport, and son, Nathaniel, accompanying her on the return. Prof. Neval H. Thomas, of the Dunbar High School faculty, Washington, D. C., called on The Gazette, last week Friday. He was en route to Idlewild from Atlantic City, N. J., on his annual vacation. Mrs. Pearl Smith of Chicago is visiting her sisters, Mrs. Charles M. Williams and Mrs. Robert Corom, and her niece, Mrs. Vernon Lyons. Enroute home Mrs. Smith will visit her sister, Mrs. Will Gregory, in Sandusky, and another sister, Mrs. Calvin Jones, of Toledo. Mr. Dalley Nickens of Springfield is visiting his brothers, Dr. J. K. and Mr. Seth Nickens. The latter's wife left, last week, with her brother to visit him in Los Angeles, Cal. Mrs. R. K. Moon, of Bryant Ave. Mrs. R. K. Moon, of Bryant Ave., entertained, Tuesday, at a luncheon in honor of visitors in the city. THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, O. SATURDAY, AUGUST 30, 1924 TRY OUR EASY PAYMENT PLAN! GEE WHIZ! I'M GLAD I FREEL IN VACATION TIME AND NO WIFE TO LIV AROUND YOU I'M A WUCKY GUY AM ABORD FOR OLD DADMART THE HURST RASBURY PARK AND ALL POINTS ON THE BOAT! HOTEL GRAFT S. YOU BUT I'M TOO WISE A GUY EVER TO BE GRABBED BY A SKIRT DUCKY BADDLES LOVES UM ITLE TOOTSUM WOOD SUMS ESS. IT LOVES ITS OPPSY WOPSEY IM GOING TO THE SHORTH FOR ONE BIG TIME JOE WELL DON'T TELL ME ABOUT IT COME MY JOE INTERNATIONAL CARTOON CO. 422 *M. KLELMAN'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 fefully examine The Gazette's ad- chases. Business men who adver- se the patronage of our people. The ance that they want it. location in current issues of The 4 p. m., TUESDAY of that week, events accepted until noon, WED- 215 Blackstone Bldg. Bankfort Ave., Cleveland, O. Bell 'Phone: Cherry 1259 Mr. and Mrs. S. H. Pankey, of Little Rock, Ark., are visiting her sister, Mrs. Lottle Gordon of Gibson Ave., and will also visit in Oberlin. They paid the Gazette sancion to very pleasant visit, Tuesday afternoon, and Pankey are en route home from Chicago where they attended our National Business League's annual session. Mrs. Florence D. Cochran attended the district grand Household of Ruth, at Cincinnati, recently. She was its grand governess for four years and, at the recent meeting, was elected district grand director. The Household showed its appreciation of her splendid administration by presenting her with a gift $75. Mrs. Jessie A. Gardner of Toledo was elected to succeed Mrs. Cochran as governess. J. H. Kelly of Chicago has been a telegraph operator for the Illinois Central Railroad for fifty years. He is stationed at Carbondale, Ill. Charles Leach and Albert Richardson (both deceased) were for many years telegraph operators for the Lake Shore (now a part of the N. Y. Central) Railroad, years ago. The last named and his brother, Garrett Richardson, who is still in the employ of the same road, came to Cleveland to serve it, many years ago. In a meeting of a number of our local political leaders, at 308 Euclid Ave. Bldg., an organization was effected under the name of The Independent Colored Voters League of Cuyahoga County, for the support of Robert M. La Follette, a lifelong Republican, for president. The league is to be permanent and intends sending its progressive propaganda throut the state. It claims the pioneer role in the latest departure from "Old Guard" Republicanism. Rev. H. C. Balley, pres.; N. Scott, v-pres.; Peter Boult, sec., and G. K. Lilly, treas. An executive committee was appointed with Walter L. Brown as chairman. Mrs. Anna Wells, age 50, of 2542 E. 31st St., 12th ward, said she paid $81 about two weeks ago for a cure for dropsy and diabetes. She received a bottle of lotion, with a number of incantations. But she grew no better and consulted with police. They told her the bottle contained vinegar and then went out and rounded up five other patients. The man the patients named as the "healer" was home when the police called. He gave his name as Wm. Wilson, age 38, of 2359 E. 46th St., and was charged with unlawfully practicing medicine and obtaining money under false pretenses. Wilson came to Cleveland from the South ("down home"), some months ago, it is said. "When Black Meets White," by Dr. John Louis Hill, discusses ably the so-called "race problem" in America. Mr. Hill, a southerner by birth and a northerner as a result of twenty years' residence, is fitted by experience in both northern and southern attitude toward the Afro-American. He cites the mistakes and unfairness of both sections of the country. He points out the progress, loyalty and perseverance of our people despite DO, YOU KNOW WHY SEE WHIZ I'M GLAD I'M FREE FOR VACATION THE DAY THEN I'M TO LIVE AROUND YOU I'M A LUCKY GUY AW A CEDAR- FINE HOME POKE A POINT A BOOST both. The book contains no maudlin sentiment, but facts, statistics, names and dates to convince the most incredulous. His constant plea is for recognition, on the score of our achievements and not the color of the skin. In conclusion, he states that proportionate "Negro" representation should obtain in business, politics, education—that there are Afro-Americans eminently fitted to fill cabinet positions and that the time will come when they will do. The book contains sixteen chapters, race relations, race relations; also sixteen illustrated sketches of departed leaders of the race whose lives have been an inspiration. A copy of "When Black Meets White" should be in every home as it is not only a book well worth reading but an absolute library necessity. The Argyle Publishing Co., Geo. W. Stone Bldg., Cleveland, O., publishers. "Line", O. "Line", when will it be "time"? When "Massa Cush" tells you so? When, in God's name, will that be? Can any one answer? Why intelligent members of the race persists in invigilating our people to color-line Luna park in order to make money for it and a few "lousy" dollars for themselves or some organization, is one of the most harmful things to racial progress in this community that The Gazette finds it difficult to explain. Have they lost any more respect for us, individually them! No person or people have or collectively, than we SHOW we are deserving of. BANK FORCED TO CLOSE. Washington, D. C.—The doors of the union Laborers' bank failed to open, Aug. 18, because, according to W. H. Howard, its president, the institution was unable to earn sufficient returns on its deposits. These amounted to approximately $40,000. The exact amount will not be known until a complete audit of the books has been made. Investigations are being made to learn if there has been any irregularities or misappropriation of the funds. The bank was started by Mr. Howard under a handicap and was capitalized at $10,000. It consisted largely of promissory paper and unpaid stock. Mr. Howard, one of the trustees, was made president after several changes. A. L. Satterwhite, a prominent banker, was appointed first president, was asked to resign. L. Melendez King also served as president at one time. BENDER NO KLUXER Nor Klan Sympathizer—Has No Connection With It and, Like La Follette, Doesn't Want Any Cleveland, O. Aug. 23, '24. Hon. Harry C. Smith, Editor, The Gazette, City. Dear Sir: Sometimes before the primary election there appeared a yellow ticket upon which the name, "George H. Bender, State Senator." 470 18C2 was printed. This ticket was supposed to have been a K. K. K. indorsement of local candidates. It was headed, "Cuyahoga Co., Republican Candidates 100%," and signed by Clinton Rich, secy. Senator Bender and I are old schoolmates, and the training that we received is a tribute to our veterans, in schools. There are them in our class. Senator Bender is NOT a member of the Ku Klux Klan, nor does he intend to be, nor does he favor any organization or agency which tends to create race How to make Your Skin soft, clear and lighter! If your skin is dull, lifeless and far too dark, use these wonderfully fine preparations. A few delightful applications will make it clearer, lighter and much more lovely. You can have a sweet clear complexion, plump velvety neck and soft smooth arms and hands by using Dr. Fred Palmer's Skin Whitener Preparations. Your druggists can supply you with these preparations, or we will send them direct on receipt of price—25c each. prejudice, intolerance, or religious bigotry. As well is known, he is and has been, the greater part of his life, connected with the Woodland Center, located at Woodland Ave. and E. 46th St., a social settlement, which acts as a service station for ALL people in that section of the community. It is free from race or religious prejudices of any kind. His record in the Legislature, in business, his personal record, and his record in social life, all will justify his respect for all will classes and elements in society. As a candidate for state senator, he has made no appeal to any class. He is a candidate for the state senate on his record. The reason I am writing you this letter is because an injustice has been done him through the distribution of those yellow tickets among Afro-American and Jewish citizens of this city, for the sole purpose of jeopardizing his chances for re-election, and anything you can do to correct the impression created by these yellow tickets will be greatly appreciated by the senator and Yours respectfully, Paul Apple. P. S.—He has made his position as to the Ku Klux Klan, known publicly, orally and in writing. P. A. Doings Of The Race Roland Hays, tenor soloist, has returned from Europe. "Enemies—enemies." My God, the biggest enemy to Marcus Garvey is his mouth—Indianapolis Freeman. 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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. How Our Girls Are Insulted And Humiliated In the Government Printing Office—Will the Self and Race-Respecting Negro Press of This Country Continue to Stand for This Sort of Thing? (Special to The Gazette.) Washington, D. C.—In the postoffice segregation is rampant. The faithful colored clerks work under constant humiliation and physical disadvantages. The department maintains a spacious cafeteria for who shop where the inferior white clerks can buy appetizing luncheons and chat in comfort while eating, while the colored clerks must bring cold luncheons from home and eat them any place they can. The physical discomfort, disadvantageous as it is, is far less galling to the colored clerks than is the thought of their government taking their taxes, as it takes those of the whites, for the comfort of the latter, and setting them off as though they were lepers. The injustice stings. The injustice reflects that they are far more capable than the whites, and render the government more intelligent and efficient service—the white man of their attainment being able to get far more lucrative employment. The department goes even farther in its solicitude for whites and neglect of colored. It maintains a well-appointed club room with pool tables and other games, com for t able lounges and other equipment for rest, sociability, and recreation, and nothing for these same colored employees. This private club is in the magnificent postoffice building, built and maintained by ALL of the people. In the locker rooms there is segregation, and segregation is even attempted in the toilets. And all of this is against the most dependable and faithful employees. Last year the white employees passed around invitations to the white employees, in the very presence of the colored, to attend a reception to the heads of departments, including the postmaster general, in the postoffice building. It announced dancing and a pleasant social evening with the officials for "the postoffice employees," yet not one was delivered to the colored clerks. I hurried a protest to the postmaster general the day before it was to come off, and he ordered the postmaster to invite the colored as well as the white. These clerks get around their colored co-workers by giving the function at a local hotel. It is inevitable that the wicked spirit of segregation would express itself in appointments, assignments, and salaries. Colored applicants are often passed over though their examination was superior. No Negro, however efficient or old in the service, must ever dream of a promotion to a position. Unwieldy caste passes whites over him, one after another, though many of the colored employees have won contests in quickness and accuracy in the handling of mail. The colored clerks have dared to form a union which meets regularly and often sends manly and intelligent protests to the postmaster, and often appeals from his decisions to the postmaster-general. It has secured some improvement in their working conditions, but they still bitter for the police done to the skin of their skin. Next week, the government printing office segregation, etc., will be exposed. (1) Theorem 1.1.1. (Special to The Gazette.) Washington, D. C. The government printing office keeps faith with the government's universal scheme of segregation. Some of the best and brightest it has found, accept new positions there on account of the better and more lucrative avenues of employment being closed to them because of their color. The whites are generally of a very mediocre group, far from equaling our girls in educational equipment, culture, and working efficiency. Yet these superior girls are set off from the whites with the latter, of course, having the better working conditions, salaries and recreational facilities. There is a large cafeteria in this huge structure where all of the employees may go out of-the-way section reserved for our employees. I am glad to say that few, very few, of our people patronize the place, preferring a little physical inconvenience to the open, semi-public humiliation of segregation. In toilet facilities, dressing-rooms, and work assignments, wherever possible, the law of segregation is in full force, and, of course, this same undemocratic practice reveals itself on the salary roll and in the hard caste that bars promotions. Here, as elsewhere, the inferior whites pass over our superior employees to directive positions, and higher salaries. The whites have a large recreational center in this public building with many fine appointments for rest and amusements. During lunch and dinner hours they repair to this restful retreat for sociability and dance. Last fall, a young Afro-American with a splendid record in his work, felt the injustice of this exclusion of our employees so keenly that he secured the company of a young lady of the race to take part in the dance. As soon as this couple started to dance the music was abruptly stopped, and the young man reported for attempting to take part in an entertainment provided for employees. He was called to the office and asked to help those smart Negroes who believe in "social equality," and then dismissed on a trumped-up charge. He was a night-employee, hence he carried a pistol. Right after the dance incident a fire broke out in the office. He was quickly accused of setting the building afire in the dance for his exclusion from the dance floor. Detectives came to the building to arrest him, and failing to secure any evidence searched him only to discover the pistol. They quickly dropped the arson charge and substituted one for carrying concealed weapons for which he was immediately discharged. The police plumed their employees are taught that there is no way of escape for one who dares to resent the daily insults that their government (under President Coolidge) gives them. Many of the employees have expressed their deeply-wounded feelings to me at being considered a pariah by the government whose institutions they are serving so faithfully, and I have taken up a number of cases only to be met by a denial that the conditions complained of exist, and a request for the names of my informants. I knew the fate these informants would suffer so I have never given a single name!! The department then taking the position that it cannot take up the case. It is clearly correct that this iniquitous information is aggravated to details thing to fight, since the government is so well settled upon it, and the complainants cannot bear witness to it. My next letter will deal with the segregation in the bureau of engraving and printing. (Special to The Couette) (Special to The Gazette) Washington, D. C.-Segregation in the bureau of engraving and printing has an interesting history involving President Thomas Woodrow Wilson and members of his family, three heroe young colored women who lost their positions as a result of their protest, and the noble wife of Senator Robert La Follette. Shortly after the accession of Mr. Wilson to the White House, a member of the family visited the bureau where she worked and colored girls working together in perfect harmony, oblivious to any threat of race. Shortly thereafter came an order for segregation of the races, and a white lady who had been noted for her philanthropy among our people and who was upon intimate terms at the White House appeared at the bureau to tell our girls to be contented with the new order as "a great Negro leader had taught colored people to stay in their places." Three of the young ladies resisted the order to the last ditch and were summarily dismissed! Senator La Follette iodged a protest with Secretary McAdoo to no avail, and his noble wife began a crusade against the democratic innovation. She took the platform here in Washington and Boston before the famous Twenteth Century club. She used the columns of the Senator's magazine, sparing neither space nor vigor of utterance. She thundered against it in our loca a white press, and addressed the national gathering of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People in New York. When our people here were so profoundly disc u raged, she came out one stormy afternoon to the Y. M. C. A. to urge them to continue the fight, for or against the war of the civil war. Wald Garrison Villard came to town to attack White House and Cabinet and arouse our people, and the Nation Association secured publicity in over six hundred influential white papers in the country. The fight checked what was thought to be the intention of the segregates, namely, the elimination of the colored employees from the bureau altogether. The same segregation which some of our people think is the cherished institution of the Democratic party is still there, in all of its fullness, under the administration of the party that Abraham Lincoln, Charles Sumner and Frederick Douglass helped to found. Our girls are employed there in far larger numbers than in any other branch of the public service. THEY ARE SEGREGATED in their rest rooms, toilets, THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, O. SATURDAY, AUGUST 30, 1924 and working stations, and of course none are ever thought of for promotions to executive places. They are girls from our best homes, most of them with high and normal school training, and fine culture. The white girls are of no such grade, as there is no segregation for them in the great world of things. They have unlimited fields at high wage for even mediocre talents. The best of our girls must take these inferior positions, the inevitable result of segregation. Our people are still hopeless in carrying this iniquitous practice in all of our government departments, for it not only humiliates the best of the government servants but impairs the government service. Next week, I shall attempt to describe the universal restrictions placed around our population in our government reservations here at the seat of government. "LINC" JOHNSON'S DISLOYALTY. In the editorial, in our last issue, on "Our Two State candidates," we neglected to mention the fact that the Coolidge control of the Republican National Committee and the Ohio Republican Executive Committee had Henry Lincoln Johnson of Georgia, one of our two members of the Republican National Committee, campaigning Ohio for about two weeks, prior to the recent primaries, in the interest of President Coolidge and certain state candidates, and incidentally against OUR two candidates for the Republican nomination for Governor and Lieutenant-Governor. While "Linc" did not dare to openly oppose Messrs. Smith and Shanklin he did it by the free use of inuendo. At Springfield, for instance, week before last, during the course of his speech, after praising certain white candidates his political bosses had him "plugging" for "Linc" said sarcastically that he had "no ambition to be governor or Lieutenant-governor" and that he that it was not yet time for our people to be aspiring to such high positions. This is undoubtedly the talk of his white political masters. But we that Henry Lincoln Johnson too able a man, too loyal a member of the race with too much self and race respect, to stoop to such a dispicable course as his use of inuendo at Springfield and elsewhere in the state against OUR two state candidates. We are sorry. We thought Henry Lincoln Johnson a very different sort of man. When he was here in Cleveland, in attendance upon the Republican National Convention, the writer talked with him relative to our candidacies for the gubernatorial nominations and apparently he had race and heart interest in them. And then to have him "turn turtle" at the "eleventh hour" and at his white masters' bidding! It is too much, too much, and shows just what the man really is. "Negroes" throut Ohio and the country, especially those in Georgia and the South, will please file the above information for present and future use. OUR STATE CANDIDACY, A VICTORY Dunbar High School Washington, D. C., Aug. 16, '24 Hon. Harry C. Smith, Cleveland, Ohio My dear Harry: Once more you have carried our standard to victory; for the liberalizing influence of your campaign upon American public opinion is beyond calculation. It has directed Negro aspirations to the high functions of government and taught him that he belongs in places of power; while the white man, recovering from his first shock to find himself unhurt, will begin to recognize the Negro's right to any office in the gift of the nation. To find that so many of our men and women have overcome the overwhelming force of habit, the conscienteless leadership of demagogues, and the urge of money to vote their conscience, the fear of being heartening in the extreme Killings, the fight, run again and again, and on some day we will have Negroes in the U.S. Senate and House; yea, in every branch of our national, state, county and municipal governments. Then, and only then, can we call America a democracy. Your comrade in the Cause, Neval H. Thomas. "Line" said sarcastically or ironically, at Springfield, that he had no ambition to be governor or lieutenant-governor. Because his ambition has been crushed out in Georgia, is it any reason why he should come to Ohio, where we have the ambition and "guts" to try to be, and, too, have a good chance to be, sooner or later; we repeat, is it any reason he should come into Ohio and try to discourage his people here who are trying to get somewhere in the "political sun"? LORD HAVE MERCY! OUR FORTY-SECOND YEAR! Forty-one years ago, last Monday, on August 25, 1883, The Gazette was launched upon "the troubled seas" of journalism, and there have been SOME "troubled seas" for it, in years gone by, as all of our oldest readers can attest. But "The Old Reliable," as The Gazette is now known from one end of this country to the other, "weathered" them, and more! For isn't it entering upon its forty-second year of continuous publication, every week on time since the state of its birth? IT CERTAINLY IS! In itself, a remarkable record which few papers of any class or group of people in this country can duplicate. And more! From its efforts, many years ago, to help wipe out "The Black Laws of Ohio;" to enact a Civil Rights law and an Anti-Lynching law for this state; to help defend and protect our people, not only of the state but of the entire country; and to blaze the way to wiser political and other action in order that something like reasonable recognition and better treatment might be secured, to its latest effort to teach our people of Ohio their great strength as a voting factor of the Republican party of this state, "The Old Reliable" Gazette has stood out in the open for forty-one years like a beacon light, fearless and unafraid, never faltering and always determined. What it has done in hundreds of other instances to help, defend and encourage our people along all lines that lead to greater and better progress is a matter of general knowledge. We refer particularly to its efforts against criminal legislation and harmful discrimination, national, state and municipal, and in favor of all that was helpful to the race. Personal interests have always been subordinated by its editor to those of the race, and The Gazette's clarion call to Afro-Americans, generally, in season and out, has been to accept nothing in the way of treatment that is less than that all citizens, without reference to class (race) or color, are entitled to. When it comes to our citizen-rights, here in the North, we have been and always will be unalterably opposed to any "doctrine of surrender," or conciliatory policy, so insidiously but quietly preached, in this day and time, by "jim-crow Negroes" and their prejudiced white masters. The Gazette believes in demanding for our people, in this section of the country at least, and continuing to fight for ALL that is due all American citizens under the law. THIS IS OUR SLOGAN! Its firm adherence to principle, thru all these years, together with its known accomplishments, is its best recommendation for continued and greater support, and we respectfully ask it. To our faithful following of the past forty-one years—thousands of readers in all parts of the country, from ocean to ocean and from the Great Lakes to the Gulf—we have only expressions of sincerest appreciation. There is, however, one thing we would ask of all our readers at this time and that is that they urge their friends and acquaintances to become subscribers to "The Old Reliable" Gazette and in this way assist it to materially increase its circulation and power for good. For all you have done in the past, we thank you, and again assure you of our sincerest appreciation. Harry C. Smith, Editor and Owner. Wednesday morning, Aug. 13, '24, the morning after the Primaries, the daily papers of Ohio announced the vote on state candidates in about half the voting precincts of Ohio. Our candidate for the Republican nomination for Governor was running second (eight candidates, all white except our candidate). It, our vote as announced, was between eighty-four and eighty-five thousand. From that on until evening our vote steadily decreased to about fifteen thousand. Little wonder that Gov. Vic Donahay, early last year, characterized the primaries of both parties in Ohio as "ROTTEN." This is no secret, either. But even that does not discourage us, as hoped by prejudiced white politicians and their black political "boot-lickers." We are going to carry on the effort, for our people of this state and the country, until favorable results are secured for them! ```markdown ``` Our advertisers want your trade. Those who do not ask for it in the columns of "The Old Reliable" Gazette certainly care little, if at all, for it. Therefore, we urge our readers and all of our friends to patronize those who ask in this paper for your patronage.—Editor. 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 who be averted from the hearts of frightened cold, but sense of duty done shall be sweeter than the applause of the world, the countenances of relatives or the hearts of friends."—Charles Sumner. PROTEST AGAINST WRONG To submit in silence when we should protest makes cowards out of men. The human race has climbed on protest. Had no voice been raised against injustice, ignorance and lust, the inquisition yet would serve the law, and gullotines decide our least disputes. The few who dare, must speak and speak again to right the wrongs of many.—Ella Wheeler Wilcox. "HUMAN NATURE'S FOULEST BLOT." My ear is pained My soul is sick with every day's report Of wrong and outrage, with which the earth is filled. There is no flesh in man's obdurate heart. It does not feel for man: the natural bond Of brotherhood is severed as the flax That falls asunder at the touch of fire. He finds his fellow guilty of a skin Not colored like his own: and having power To enforce the wrong, for such a worthy cause Dooms and devotes him as his lawful prey. Thus man devotes his brother, and destroys: Tis human nature's broadest foulest blot. —Cowper. IS IT ANY USE TO CONTEND FOR RIGHTS? Colored Americans are the only race, responsible members of which are in favor of submitting to discrimination on the claim that their race "always will be discriminated against. The Jews are still standing, tolerating, not opposing, years of universal discrimination, and are winning even social rights today. The Irish at home have contended for 700 years and are winning because they will die rather than submit. The race that says it's of no use to resist, downs itself and the world then will say. Negroes are not worthy of color rights they are by nature without self-respect. have no 'guts.' The world respects only those who resent and resist prescriptions for race. Let us be worthy of the abolitionists, worthy of our own fathers who have died in every war to vindicate the title of their race to equal liberty, and forever resist denial of rights in our native land, however long race discrimination may continue. To submit is to deserve contempt. — Boston (Mass.) Guardian. FACTS People who Advertise Can sell Goods. People who sell Goods Can make Money. People who make Money can advertise goods. The Best Advertising Medium is "The Old Reliable" GAZETTE. 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 6278. "Mob" and "lynching" defined. 6279. "Serious injury" defined. 6280. Damages in case of assault. 6281. Damages in case of lynching. 6282. Damages recoverable by legal representative of victim of lynching. 6283. Person suffering death or injury by mob trying to lynch another. 6284. Limitations of action. 6285. Order to include recovery and costs in tax levy. 6286. Guardian's custody, etc., fees. 6287. County's right of action against member of mob. 6288. County's right of action against another county. 6289. Non-relief from prosecution. Our mob-violence or anti-lynching bill was introduced in the Ohio legislature in 1834 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 attack was made, Section 6281. A person assaulted and lynched by a mob may recover, from the county in which such assault is made a sum not to exceed five hundred dollars; or, if the injury received therefrom is serious, a sum not exceeding one thousand dollars; or, if such injury result in permanent disability to earn a livelihood, by which the attack may not exceed five thousand dollars. (98 v. 182 5.) Section 6282. The legal representative of a person dying from injuries received from lynching by a mob may recover of the county in which such injury occurred, a sum not to exceed five thousand dollars damages for such unlawful killing. Such sum shall be applied to the maintenance of the family and education of the minor children of such person so lynched, if any survive him, until such children are of legal age, and then be distributed to the survivors, share and share alike, the widow receiving an amount equal to a child's share. If there be no widow or no children surviving such decedent, such children that have 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 6236. 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 9.1) Section 6237. The county, in which a lynching occurs, may recover the amount of a judgment and costs against it in favor of the legal representatives of a person killed or seriously injured by a mob from any of the persons composing such mob. A person present, with hostile intent, at such lynching shall be awarded a minimum amount 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: OBES. need. g. I representative of victim of lynching. jury by mob trying to lynch another. and costs in tax levy. me. inst member of mob. inst 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 offencekeeping, in which the lynching is committed, or in which the amount of the judgment and the amount from the county from which the mob engages on the part of officials of such unless there was contributory negligence not less than thirty days county in failing to protect such prisoner or dispurse such mob. (633 g. 91.1) Section 6228. This chapter shall not relieve a person concerned in such lynching from prosecution for homicide or assault for engaging therein. (633 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 the Hon. Rights law which the editor had enacted while a member of the 71st General Assembly, in 1894: The General Coge of Ohio: Sec. 12840. Whoever, being the proprietor or his employee, keeper or manager of an inn, restaurant, eating house, bar-bar shop, public conveyance by land or water, theater or other place of public accommodation and amusement, denies to a citizen, except for reasons applicable alike to all citizens and regardless of race or color, the full enjoyment of the accommodations, advantages, facilities or privileges thereof, shall be fined for the same dollars nor more than five hundred dollars, or nor more than nibury dollars. Sec. 12941. Whoever violates the next preceding section shall also pay not less than fifty dollars nor more than five hundred dollars; 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, O., April 25, 1919. Hon. Harry C. Smith. My Dear Sir: Observing your letter in the Beacon-Journal 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. The Beacon-Journal had known what he was going on in its own town, there would have been no occasion for criticism literally. THE LAW OF OHIO is NO RE-PROACH, nor our courts and juries, in administering it. Not a word was said by the Beacon-Journal when the Forman case was reviewed Patronize Our Advertisers But Give Copy of It.