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Rebecca D. Kinney, pres.—Mr. and Mrs. Edward Melford have returned from a three-weeks' tour in the East.—Tell, your friends to read "The Old Reliable" Gazette and get the truth.—Miss Ella Johns entertained St. Paul's M. S. Thursday evening.—Rev. and Mrs. Adams have as guests, Mr. and Mrs. Saml' Stewart.—The Mothers' club meeting at Mrs. Ethel Tate's, Sept. 11, was well attended. Mrs. Lella Anderson was re-elected president. Mrs. Myrtle Curtis has returned from a tour in the state.—Mr. E. annual conference will be held Oct. in St. Paul's church. Bishop Joseph H. Jones will preside—Mr. CADIZ.—Mr. and Mrs. Guy Dulling of Zanesville were guests of Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Christian, recently.—Mr. and Mrs. Charles Cochran and Mrs. Ada Cochran have returned to Oberlin.—Miss Bessie Gleon, teacher in the primary grade, has returned from Marysville.—Mrs. Elvira Wallace visited in Pittsburgh.—Mr. and Mrs. James Pettivess are visiting in Greensburg. N. C.—Mr. and Mrs. Archie West of Pittsburgh visited Mrs. Lizzie West, recently. Miss Elise Ballard left for Williamson, W. Va., recently, to resume teaching in the public school.—Miss Genevieve Lee has accepted a position in Charleston, W. Va.—Miss Katherine Johnson visited, in Columbus. 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. ZANESVILLE,—Miss Sallie Dee Holderness has returned to Hampton, Va., to resume her studies. The Study club has elected new officers for the ensuing year. Mrs. Residential Segregation Case in U. S. Supreme Court—Sim illar Cases in Five States Await ing Outcome of Washington Fight — Catholics New York City. — Segregation cases before the courts in five states in this country, and the entire question of residential segregation of our people and other groups in America, depend upon the case now being carried on appeal before the U. S. Supreme Court by the N. A. A. C. P. Atty. James A. Cobb, of Washington, who is conducting the case, says that similar cases are pending in St. Louis. Baltimore, and in California, Michigan and Louisiana. "The key case," says Mr. Cobb, "is that of Mrs. Helen Curtis who, because of her color was enjoined from taking title to property which she had purchased from a white property owner, on the ground that the sale violated a white property owner's agreement not to sell to Negroes. Adverse decision having been rendered by a lower court the case has been taken on appeal to the U. S. Supreme Court, where it will probably be advanced on the calendar. What is involved is the question of residential segregation, not only against our people but against Catholics, Jews and any other groups property owners may care to bar out by agreement amongst themselves. The present case is fully as important, in fact is more important than the Louisville segregation case, on which decision was rendered by the U. S. Supreme Court in 1917. By the terms of that decision, no municipality may enact residential segregation into law. But property owners are now seeking to evade that decision by writing their own segregation law into agreements among themselves, not to sell to our Rebecca D. Kinney, pres.—Mr. and Mrs. Edward Melford have returned from a three-weeks' tour in the East.—Tell your friends to read "The Old Reliable" Gazette and get the truth.—Missella Johns entertained St. Paul's M. S., Thursday evening.—Rev. and Mrs. Adams have as guests, Mr. and Mrs. Saml Stewart.—The Mothers' club meeting at Mrs. Ethel Tate's, Sept. 15, was well attended. Mrs. Lola Anderson was re-elected president.—Mrs. Myrtle Curtis has returned from a tour in the state.—The A. M. E. annual conference will be held. Oct. 15, in St. Paul's church. Bishop Joshua H. Jones will preside.—Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Miller and son of Washington, D. C., are visiting his brother, Mr. Nate Miller, and sister, Mrs. Mattie Sear.—Miss Margie Weaver has accepted a position as teacher at Winston-Salem. N. C. We wish her every success. She graduated from Hampton institute last year, and goes well recommended. "Singer's Synaptosed Seven" has returned from Wheeling, where they played in one of the finest parks. HILLSBORO. Mr. and Mrs. L. F. L. Ford, Mr. and Mrs. J.竿 Hill visited Mr. and Mrs. Allen McBilim in Richwood, recently. Rev. and Mrs. S. H. Williams of Frankfort was here. Saturday. Ohio Hudson of Columbus is visiting the mother. Mrs. A. Burton Mrs. Prol. Williams Mrs. Julius Owens and Miss Virginia Wilson have returned from Cleveland. They visited Mr. and Mrs. M. Wilson. Mrs. Armel McCowan has gone to Cincinnati. Mrs. Cora Young entertained, last week. Carl Greene. Wilbur Jackson and James West gave a party, last week Thursday evening at K. P. hall for the younger set. Mr. Julius Owens and Irvin Tibnueh visited in New Richmond, recently. Mrs. Sarah Zimmerman of Cincinnati is visiting her parents. Mr. and Mrs. Carey Williams.—Harold Hennison and Wilbur Jackson spent Sunday in Cincinnati.—Mrs. Hannah nad Mrs. Mabel Pleasant, children, and Miss Helen Woods left, Sunday, for Chicago to idate.—Mrs. Alice Ely of Indianapolis is visiting her mother, Mrs. Lucy Lucas.—Rosetta Nelson and Arnita Burr have returned to school at Wilberforce.—Hansbrough district school children are attending Lincoln school. people. If this color bar is sustained it would have the practical effect of nullifying the victory won in the Louisville case." Associated with Mr. Cobb in the conduct of the case are the Hon. Wm. H. Lewis, of Boston, former Assistant U. S. Attorney General; James P. Schick, and Henry E. Davies, of Washington, former U. S. attorney and former corporation counsel, respectively, for the District of Columbia. Associate counsel are Arthur B. Spingarn and Herbert K. Stockton, respectively chairman and member of the N. A. A. C. P. national legal committee; also Emory B. Smith, Esq. Set Aside $25,000 Washington, D. C.—The A. M. E. Zion Church recently set aside $25,000 for Home Mission preachers and sends out a general invitation to young men, graduating from seminaries and otherwise prepared, to join the ranks of intensive and extensive missionary endeavor. As it not mainly an effort to swell its own numbers but a drive for the Kingdom and for increased religious activity among our people, young men and women, regardless of their denominational training, will be acceptable. A Substitute for Boy Scouts Nashville, Tenn.—Rev. S. S. Morris, gen. sec., Allen C. E. League, of the A. M. E. Church, is busily organizing "The Allen Life Guards" among our boys in the South. The fact that they cannot get a charter for Boy Scouts has added greatly to the enthusiasm with which "The Allen Life Guards" have been organized. In Georgia, North Carolina, Tennessee, Alabama, Florida, Mississippi and Texas many troops have been organized and upwards of 100,000 boys enrolled. Flowers Besta Jamaica Kid. Flowers Beets Jamalca Kid. Columbus, O.—"Tiger" Flowers, middleweight, of Atlanta, Ga., won the decision over Jamalca Kid of N. Y. City, in a twelve-round bout here Monday night. Flowers was an easy winner. BRUCE OUT FOR JOHN W. DAVIS Another Harvard Graduate Opposes Coolidge Because of Negregation and the Ku Klux Klan New York City.—Roscoe Cankling Bruce, like the Hon. Wm. H. Lewis of Boston, a graduate of Harvard University, and a lifelong Republican, announced, Monday, that he would support the Hon. John W. Davis against Coolidge because of the segregation of our government employees and President Coolidge's failure to speak out on the Ku Klux Klan issue. In taking this position, Mr. Bruce issued the following statement: "I cast my vote and whatever influence I may possess with these voters, for John W. Davis, the Democratic nominee, by way of rebuke to the present masters of the Republican party, with a view to defending the constitutional rights of my people throughout America, and in the faith that under its new leadership the Democratic party at this time is better qualified than any other to conduct the federal government and serve every element of the American people. "The Ku Klux Klan is after the black man and he knows it!" So, he is going to stand with those who unmistakably repudiate this belated form of lawlessness. Mr. Coolidge said no word when his word might have helped. His method was shown in the Boston, police strike—to sit on the fence until the cat called Public Opinion has made its decisive jump, and then to announce and sonorously support the principles of that jump until the unwary imagine the praise belongs. Mr. Coolidge himself rather than to the car; but if I may draw upon the folk form of my people, I would say that not every shirt eye is asleep. To make public opinion better than to exploit it. I trust. Bruce is the son of B. K. Trune, former L. S. senator from Mississippi and Recorder of Deeds of the District of Columbia. After being graduated from Harvard, he became director of the good department of Turkegue (A. N. & L. School. He later went to Washington, D. C. as head of our schools there, for many years holding the position of assistant superintendent of public schools. BOUGHT A CHURCH FESTIVAL "The Mainspring of Business" That So Many of Our Men in Business Won't See. Baltimore, Md.—"Advertising is the mainspring of business," said Profs.Aaron E. Malone, president of Poro College, St. Louis, Mo., at a dinner given in his honor by Atty, and Mrs. Roy S. Bond during the recent national tournament here. "If I had to name one asset contributing to the success of the institution with which I am identified," said Mr. Malone, "it would be that I have not been afraid to adver- M. B. tise. I shall never forget," said he, of an incident that brought this clearly out in my mind when I was a salesman down in Chattanooga. One night an associate and myself dropped into that town prior to a selling campaign. We strolled around until we ran upon an old time church festival that was about to fizzle out for want of attendance. After surveying the situation we struck upon an idea. Telling the lady in charge that we would buy the whole festival if she would go out and get ladies to cut it. We planked down the cash for the entire outfit or chicken, cake and pop. In a few minutes those sisters had gone out and brought in about every young woman in the community. Needless to say that all the food was eaten and everybody had a good time, but there were also two popular men in town. The next day we did not miss an order anywhere. That little advertising venture did the trick and taught me the lesson of my life. Poro College has spent as much as $40,000 a year for newspaper publicity." SINGLE COPY FIVE CENTS To Forsake Coolidge and the Party, For This Year At Least—Atty. Wm. H. Lewis Urges the Union of All Elements Now Opposing the Kluxers —An Interesting Statement. (Special to The Gazette) Boston, Mass.—Next to the Hon. Harry C. Smith, editor of The Gazette, who at his (Harding's personal) request led the fight, as far as our people were concerned, for the nomination and election of Warren G. Harding to the Presidency, four years ago, possibly the most conspicuous and undoubtedly the ablest figure of color in the campaign for the election was Atty. Wm. H. Lewis of this city, former Harvard University athlete and football star. A lifelong, active Republican and one of the most successful lawyers, regardless of race or color, practicing at the local bar, the following interview, having reference to the candidacy of President Coolidge and to the Ku Klux Klan, will prove, just at this time, to be one of more than passing interest and importance, especially to our people. Mr. Lewis said, on Aug. 30, 1924: As an American citizen affiliated with the Republican Party for more than thirty years, I propose in this campaign to act as an independent to work and vote for the election of the Honorable John W. Davis, Democratic candidate for President of the United States. I propose to do this because his distinguished ability, his current public service, entitles him to the consideration of his congratulations, and because I believe he will make a great President, worthy of the highest traditions of that office. If he is elected, as I confidently believe he will be, the American people will have a real leader who will give us four years of progress through the accomplishment of needed reforms, rather than four years of stalling and stagnation. I propose to do this because the Republican Party today is the Party of Little America and Ku Kluxism. As a colored American citizen, I propose to work and vote for John W. Davis, because his record shows him to be a man of humanitarian instincts, of broad and universal sympathies. As a colored American, I propose to vote for Mr. Davis because he is opposed to Ku Klux Klan and the greatest menace American democracy today. It has raised the standard of religious bigotry, race hatred, and is striving with might and main to the control of the American government, to administer it in the interest of one group of Americans. It is aimed first at the Negro, then at the Jew, then at the Irishman and the Catholic, and finally it has set its hand against all foreign born, as if any man had the say as to the race in which he should be born, or in what country. "I see no way of putting down the Ku Klux Klan except through the instrumentality of the Democratic party. All that has been accomplished, against that kawless organization, in Texas, Louisiana, Oklahoma and Arkansas has been the work of the Democratic party. I propose to join with the great majority of Americans, including the Irish, 'catholic,' the Jew, and the foreignborn not only in the interest of self-preservation, but also in the interest of my country." In this statement, setting forth his reasons for renouncing the Republican party, the Hon Wm. H. Lewis, former Assistant U. S. Attorney General and an Afro-American of national prominence, expresses his willingness to join with all who are opposed to Klanism, as a means of preserving America's cardinal doctrines, as well as self-protection. Describing the Klan as the greatest menace to American democracy, today, Mr. Lewis declares that it is aimed first at the Afro-American, then at the Jew, then at the Irishman and the Catholic and finally at the foreign born. "There are colored men now living who remember the Ku Klux Klan of another day," said Mr. Lewis. "It came into being to put the colored voter and citizen out of business. Intimidation, coercion, riot and murder, were there not? Fifty years ago the Democratic party was the Ku Klux party. Today the Republican party is the Ku Klux party. The debate of the Ku Klux Klan in the Democratic convention was the most refreshing and wholesome thing that has taken place in American politics in a quarter of a century. The Hon. John W. Davis has taken his stand upon that issue, and I propose to stand with him. The Republican candidate for President; slimy with the fifth of segregation; has said, nothing up to now as to whether he stands for the Klan or IN-UNION IT IS STRENGTH. THE COPY FIVE CENTS RESS! ROTTENNESS! Petts' Leading Afro- republican the Party, For This Year At Lewis Urges the Union Opposing the Kluxers ing Statement. against it. Is the Republican party afraid to take a stand against the Ku Klux Klan? Is it still the party of Lincoln, of Grant and Roosevelt? "I propose to vote for Mr. Davis because as Solicitor General of the United States, albeit a Democrat, he made the arguments before the Supreme Court upon the "Grandfather Clause" of the Oklahoma constitution, and upon peonage, which resulted in the decisions by the Supreme Court putting an end to the "Grandfather Clause," and giving a death blow to peonage in this country. In his argument of the "Grandfather Clause" Mr. Davis said: "The protection of the Constitution was extended to an entire race—to all races—it is true, but it extended just as much to the humbleest member of that race." I propose to vote against the Republican ticket this year as a protest against the treatment accorded the colored voter by the Republican Party in power, which has used the Negro vote to get into power, and then turned against it to pursue a policy of "Lily Whitism," exclusion from office, and segregation in office. Appeals to the responsible authorities for representation, for plain justice for colored Republicans, have fallen upon deaf ears. There is nothing left for self-respecting colored Republicans, except to turn that party of power and to try another. Every four years we are given a pat on the back and a few kind words, only to raise hopes and expectations which are over realized. Four years ago I had the honor of leading a pilgrimage of colored citizens to Marion, Ohio, said to candidate Harding that we colored Americans had more to gain by his election, and more to lose by his failure than any other, group of citizens. We have lost all save honor. The Harding-Coolidge administration has betrayed the Negro voter, has done nothing for him, and will do nothing for him. After half a century of loyalty and devotion to the Republican Party, I submit we have long since paid any debt of gratitude that we ever owed that Party. We gave that Party the issue which brought it into being; we have given it the votes which has kept it in power, and instead of increasingly acting for the interest, protection, and progress of its colored voters, that Party, I charge, has year by year, and decade by decade, abandoned its most loyal adherents. That evil policy, within my memory, has been relieved only by the sympathy, understanding, and encouragement given us by a few great leaders like McKinley, and Roosevelt and Taft. For many years I have had a growing feeling that it was an unfortunate circumstance, growing out of historic and sentimental" reasons, that the colored voters should have followed slavishly, the Republican Party without reference to their own best interests in which they live. It has caused one party to regard his claims with indifference; it gave the party that had his vote to understand that it had only to make a "feature" and the colored vote would follow like sheep. For many years men like Archibald Grimke, James M. Trotter, T. Thomas Fortune, Booker Washington and Ferdinand Q. Morton, have advised the colored men to divide their votes. I think that day has come. The hour is ripe. In Mr. Davis we have a candidate whom we may follow, and I believe, implicitly trust, with an absolute certainty that we will be recognized according to our Party (Continued on Page 2, Col. 4) ```markdown ``` PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY SUBSCRIPTION RATES (In Advance) One Year ..... $2.00 Six Months ..... 1.00 Subscribers are requested to remit by postoffice money order or registered letter. Entered at the postoffice in Cleveland, Ohio, as second-class mail matter 214-215 Blackstone Bldg. 1426 W. Third St. Cleveland, Ohio Member Ohio Legislature: 1894 to 1896; 1896 to 1898; 1900 to 1902 THE GAZETTE is the oldest and has the largest bona fide circulation, double that of any newspaper in the interest of Afro-Americans published in the state of Ohio and comparison with any will immediately establish its rank as one of the NEWSIEST AND BEST in the country. 10,000,000 Afro-Americans. 350,000 in Ohio. 40,000 in Cleveland. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1924 LEWIS AND BRUCE GONE In a lengthy editorial, which teems with good advice to Chairman Butler and the rest of the Coolidge management of the Republican party, Editor John Mitchell of the Richmond (Va.) Planet calls attention to the Hon. Wm. H. Lewis' public announcement of his (Lewis') leaving the party and going to the support of the Democratic candidate for the Presidency, principally because of the Coolidge segregation of our employees in governmental departments at Washington, D. C. and elsewhere in the service, and because of the President's apparent favor of the Ku Klux Klan. The Planet says: "Hon. William H. Lewis hails from Massachusetts and it is to be presumed that the attitude of the Republican managers there has not been along lines consistent with the party's record of some fifty odd years. Secondly, Mr. Lewis is one of the influential colored leaders in this country, nationally honored in the matter of public office and is a keen observer of present day conditions. He hails originally from Portsmouth, Va." William H. Lewis is an ex-assistant Attorney General of the United States, a member of the Boston Bar Association, American Bar Association, Boston Chamber of Commerce, Amherst Club of New York, and the Academy of Political Science. No man, be he colored or white, could have such connections and be other than an exceptionally able and influential man. No one can or does question Mr. Lewis' ability, sincerity or his standing, and all of our people know him to be our ablest leader in the East. It is not of the attitude (toward himself or our people) of the "Republican managers of Massachusetts" that Mr. Lewis complains, but of that of the national managers, particularly that of President Coolidge. This he makes very clear in his statement to the public which we reproduce on the first page of this paper. Continuing Editor Mitchell says: "The disaffection must be off-set at once. Some leader of transcendent ability like Hon. Charles W. Anderson must be thrown into the breach. He halls, too, from New York. With Henry Lincoln Johnson of Georgia, Perry W. Howard of Mississippi and Robert R. Church of Tennessee, operating and co-operating with half a dozen other influential colored leaders of the North, more powerful than the South, inward into the colored voters in the northern states may be checked." It would be a waste of time to send any of the men mentioned to Mr. Lewis or Roscoe Conkling Bruce, another of our Harvard University graduates, to go to the support of the Hon. John W. Davis. The Hon. Charles W. Anderson and Mr. R. R. Church are not the men who could be "sent" on such an errand. They are above that sort of thing. As for Link Johnson and Perry Howard, our Republican national committee, we cannot say as much. One thing sure and that is, a wagon-load of "influential colored leaders of the North", or South, is not going to "check this surprising inroad upon the colored voters in the northern states." The "disaffection" can only be "checked" in part by President Coolidge himself. He must stop that insulting and humiliating segregation, so long and so bitterly complained of, and speak out, as he has not spoken, against the Ku Klux Klan. This it is now almost too late to do, but it is the only thing that can be done. For weeks The Gazette has been sounding this very warning but the President and his leaders seem to be adamant in their determination to continue ignoring our people and their demands—adding insult to injuries, as it were. This time Afro-Americans of intelligence, with manhood, self and race respect, are not going to submit to such shameful mistreatment without striking back, and Republican leaders, who make themselves believe otherwise, are the ones who will be most fooled on the day following the election in November next. Again, The Planet: "Something should be done with Harry C. Smith of Ohio. He is not exactly off the reservation, but he is dangerously near the dividing line and may be found "grazing" on some outside reservation, even though it may not be a part of that assigned to the Democratic political herd of boys when we refer to him, we incidentally know many others like him. Hon John W. Darvis is admittedly popular and he has the colored people believing that he is conscientious. Even those who are opposed to him politically are outspoken in this opinion." Nothing need be done for "Harry C. Smith of Ohio" but something had better be SAID and DONE "mighty" soon for this people of ours —relative to that segregation and the K. K. K., and it is up to the President, and no one else, to say and do what is absolutely necessary. Our highly esteemed conferee of The Planet is right—we are not "exactly off the reservation but dangerously near the dividing line", and there are thousands of other Afro-Americans who are in a similar position. Concluding, The Planet says: "Why did Chairman Butler of New England let William H. Lewis of Massachusetts desert the party at this critical period? Is it possible that in the matter of dealing with colored people practically, the distinguished resident of Massachusetts "hassit got his bonnet on straight" that words are uttered with the mouth be broken to the hope. The race question will be one of transcendent importance. "As for the Ku Klux Klan issue just the mention of that name to a black man or woman from a southern state will have the same effect as the announcement that a shanty in the southland is haunted and that spirits of the other world have a similar effect per away. The colored folks in that neighborhood, especially the women and children, will give it 'a wide berth.'" The Coolidge policy of ignoring our people and their just demands is responsible for Chairman Butler's refusal to listen to our real leaders, like Wm. H. Lewis, and gather about him men of color who for obvious reasons are misleading him. It is most unfortunate indeed, for as we stated in our last issue, there were and still are thousands upon thousands of our people who would prefer to support Coolidge and Dawes, if the former would make it possible. With the President stubborn in his determination to ignore our protests against governmental segregation, and in his attitude toward the Ku Klux Klan, there is nothing left for loyal Afro-Americans to do but go to the support of Davis or La Follette. THEIR FIRST VOTE It is estimated that 7,000,000 new voters have become of age since the last Presidential election in 1920. The first thing those young men and women should do is to determine to go to the polls, on Nov. 4th, and vote their choice for President, Vice President, and other national and local officers indicated on their ballots. Having made that decision, they may then study the records of the candidates and the merits of the platforms on which they are running. But the essential thing is to VOTE! Don't be a civic slacker. COL. JACOB E, REED, AUDITOR The B. M. C. Honors a Cleveland —Next Meeting Place—Grand Master Morris Again Re- Elected—Cottrill Moved. Pittsburg, Pa.—The recent B. M. C., Elks and Masonic meetings here were all great successes, as all now know. The Hon. E. H. Morris of T. R. GRAND AUDITOR REE Chicago, G. M., presided over the B. M. C. Mayor W. A. Magee welcomed all. The response was made by the grand master. There were many n any other addresses and responses. Routine business was done during the week's sessions and many valuable reports received. All showed the Grand United Order of Odd Fellows and the Grand Household of Ruth to be in an exceptionally flourishing condition. Most of the grand officers were re-elected. Especially interesting and pleasing to Clevelanders is the election of Col. J. E. Reed of that city as a grand auditor. Next B. M. C. meeting place, Baltimore. Charlie Cottrell of Toledo, who was stricken while attending the Masonic meet here, several weeks ago, and who has been in a local hospital ever since, being attended also by his wife, Mrs. Alma Clark THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, O. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1924 The Brownley-Hayes Hotel 2151 E. 40th St. Cor. Cedar Ave. (Ran. 6091 W), Cleveland, O. W. L. BROWN, Owner and Manager KEE. ITS ONLY I AM I OUGHT TO GET THIS DONE BY 4:30 INTERNATIONAL CARTOON CO. N.Y. 439 Cottrell, and Charles Gordon of Cleveland, was moved home, Saturday. He was little (if any) imploved. PRIME SPORT NEWS Wills Does The Expected Hill Wins The Expected. Jersey City, N. J.—As for last week Thursday night's battle it was clearly, graphically shown that the rapier is greater than the war club. The star of science rose clear above the cause of brute force. Under the hard, cold moonlight of an unseasonable September night the matador, a superb figure in bronze, toyed Wild Bull of the Pampas, stabbing when and where he would, easily leading the rushes of his opponent and his club-like blows, and eventually, through scores of body punches, taking the steam out of his man, rendering him helpless so far as attack was concerned. Willies was the clever matador, but he fought the bull, so speak, with a blunted sword. No thrust was a deadly thrust, and the fight ended with Willies the winner by sight miles on points. If ever he was to lay Firpo supine, it was in the second round, when he clouted the South American on the jaw with all he had. It sent Firpo to the canvas, but it did not keep him there. Thereafter the bout was an endless wrestling affair with Firpo doing most of the grappling. Willies won every round, easily, and undoubtedly had good reasons why he did not kayo Firpo. Jack Dempsey was at the ringside and Harry was not going to show his best "wares" to him when it was entirely unnecessary. He did that when the "Champion" and get into the ring together, next year. What Willies did was to show Jack the he might have handled Firpo with himself knocked out of the ring, and really defeated. The gross receipts of the fight were $471,000 and the net receipts $424,000. Of this sum Firpo received $159,000. Willies drew down $150,000. Rickard declared h is profit probably would amount to $80,000. Wills received $1, for his first real fight in 1913 in the rear of Mike Mule's saloon at Alexandra, Va. His opponent was Kid Brown, who was knocked out in the second round. The fight drew a "gate" of $30. During the seven weeks of Wills' training for his fight with Firpo, the comely little woman of the race whom he married nine years ago and who has followed him through career, he has been his constant companion. Early in the morning Mrs. Wills, with "Cham" the bull pup of the family, would go the road with Harry. After breakfast she drove with him to Southampton, N. Y., near his camp, for mail and the daily glimpses of civilization; in the afternoon she attended his workouts; in the evenings the pair would roam through the country or listen in on the radio in the living room of their bungalow. Guided by long experience, Mrs. Wills superintended the cooking wives of the crafts, which might cause destructive of the crafts and covered over her charge with frank and motherly care. The two sparring partners, only other inhabitants of the household, describe the nine-year "honeymooners" as "a couple of kids." Champion Jack Dempsey is quoted, in the daily newspapers, since the fight, as saying that "Wills just handcuffed Firpio; that he won because he was stronger than Firpio," etc. etc, and Firpio was too strong for Jack—he knocked the Champion out of the ring, in their fight, and really won. He was too "strong" champion to handcuff" Dempsey is also known by saying that "Wills is four years older than Firpio and has a little edge on him in knowledge of wrestling holds." Indeed, Well, when Jack and Harry get in the ring together, next year, this "handcuff" business, strength, and skill as a boxer and wrestler will "come in handy." The knowledge of these things, and others, is just what has kept Jack and Harry out of the ring, thus far. Dempsey kills Wills is a real fighter, such the hardest and one with a better physique than Firpio. Their measurements show and prove this. Wills is Dempsey's master, as a pugilist, and he and his friends, experts in their knowledge of pugilists, KNOW this. Invoke N. Y. Anti-Klan Law! Invoke N. Y. Anti-Klan Law! Buffalo, N. Y. — The Walker anti- klan law has been invoked against alleged members of the K. K. K. here, who are charged with violat- ing the act by belonging to an organization failing to file its membership lists. Atty. Henry W. Killeen is seeking to put every one of the klan's alleged 7,000 members in this (Erie) county under oath, forcing them to testify whether or not they are members of the order and thus making the membership lists public. REPUBLICAN ROTTENNESS. (Continued from Page 1) service, and the vote we cast, upon the same principle applicable alike to all men. The party in power is the Government for the time being. It functions through its officers and agents. To live under a Government without representation in it, is to be 'a man without a country'. I am not unmindful of the decision which I am making—cutting myself off from the past. I care nothing about my own political future. I am not a candidate for public office, care nothing about party affairs or resignations; I shall hereafter vote for the measures as best serves the interest of my country and my people. I am going to oppose the K. K. K in this campaign with the C. C. C.—Coming Colored Citizens' of America. I am not looking backward; I am looking toward the future of my country, and my race in this country; and I believe that future lies along the lines of independence in politics. After this campaign I trust that no one will be able to tell a man's political and color of the skin. The friendly advance of the Government Party, seeking the votes of the colored citizen in this campaign, marks a new era in American politics. Mr. Davis, its candidate, has characteristically shown a new brand of courage. I am with him and for him, to the finish." REJECTS KLUXERS' GIFT An Illinois Congregation Promptly Returns Donation of $65 Galesburg, Ill.-Thirty members of the local Ku Klux Klan, wearing white robes but not hooded, entered the A. M. E. church, last Monday night, to interrupt a social given to raise funds to pay the pastor, and handed $65 in cash to Mrs. Ada Davis. The board of officials of the church met, Tuesday afternoon, and handed the money back to the Kluxers. "We don't care for donations from such a source," said the church officials. Valuable Publications The new "Negro Year Book" by Prof. Monroe N. Work, for 1923 and 1924, price 75c. "The Earth is Flat," and many other articles on a variety of special subjects shall be in the 1925 almanac, price 25c. Inclose postal money order and send immediately to The Financee of Jesus Christ, Imperial Evaillengi- tical Church, Station D, P. O. Box 3841, Philadelphia, Pa., U. S. A.— Adv. Additional Locals --- The Sept. 2 meeting of Mt. Zion Cong. temple M. S. was a very pleasant one. It was held at Mrs. Jessie M. Sides', E. 31st St. The program included sacred songs and victoria selections. The president, Mrs. Sadie Turner, opened with prayer. After the transaction of business, Mrs. Collings, who has spent several years in Los Angeles, gave a very interesting talk. Also Mrs. T. Ballard, former matron of the Old Folks' home, and Mrs. Gazaway. A delicious lunch was served by the hostess and the victoria responded with "A Perfect Day." Next meeting at Mrs. J. Nobles'. Four boys, from nine to eleven years of age, admitted, police say, perpetrating fifteen burglaries in the last few weeks, when taken into custody by police. Tuesday morning. The boys, Edwin Burke, nine, 2536 E. 31st St.; Marion Newton, nine, 3344 Central Ave.; Benjamin Evans, ten, 2383 E. 31st; James Fangle, eleven, 2385 E. 37th. We all taken to the detention home to await action of juvenile court. Patrolmen Sifling and Chase arrested them after observing that they always had more than enough money for their meager wants. Rey, Charles L. Fisk preached, last Sunday, at Mt. Zion Cong. temple, on "The Friendiness of Jesus." The edition of its bulletin, in commemoration of the sixteenth anniversary of the church, contains the history of, and reference to the activities and needs, of the church and makes an earnest appeal for support. The opening event of the anniversary was the reception and dinner by the women of the church on last Wednesday. The first speaker will be Dr. J. E. 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Burbridge, E. 100th St., who died, recently, after a lingering illness, were sent to Cincinnati for burial. Roderick, son of Atty, and Mrs. Jas, M. Williams, returned, recently, from a vacation spent at Woodland Park, Mich. Mrs. Williams is active in St. John's S. S. work. The annual meeting of the Association for the Study of Afro-American Life and History will be held in Richmond, Va., Sept. 29 and 30, 1924. Dr. E. Duval Colley of Cincinnati passed thru the city, Tuesday, en route to Boston, New York City and Washington, D. C. Dr. Colley is one of our leading men in southern Oho. Mr. and Mrs. Warren J. Cossey have just returned from an extended visit in the East which included Atlantic City, N. J., and Montreal, Can. Officers arrested four little boys of the race, no one of them over ten years of age, Tuesday morning, and charged them with breaking in and robbing stores at the corner of E. 30th St. on Cedar Ave. Our ministers should join The Gazette in warning our people of the 11th and 12th wards, particularly, to be on the lookout for the "fake" insurance collectors (white) operating in that section of the city. It was reported, late last week, that Mr. Frank Pridgeon had lost a leg in an auto accident while en route to Chicago, last week. He and his wife, Atty, Louise Pridgeon, have the sympathy of the community. Dr. and Mrs. E. A. Bailey entertained, recently, in honor of Prof. and Mrs. W. J. Hale of Nashville, Mr. Hale, Mrs. Bailey's brother, is president of our I, & N. College of that city and one of our leading educators in the South. Mrs. Fred, Williams, Mrs. Julius Owens and Miss Virginia Wilson, guests of Mr. and Mrs. Martimore Wilson, have returned to Hillsboro. Mr. and Mrs. H. L. and Mr. and Mrs. Lee Phillips, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Lewis and little Betty Jane motored to Buffalo, Niagara Falls and points in Canada, recently. Miss Mabelle Clarke, pianist and organist, returned, recently, from a two months' tour of Canada with a quartet under the direction of the Redpath chautauqua. The personnel of the Redpath chautauqua in Lyles Smith of Chicago, soprano; Helen Walker of Cincinnati, con --- THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, O. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1924 land's illness, five weeks ago and since. We greatly regret it as he has been a regular reader, subscriber and patron of The Gazette for many years. Every one is enthusiastic over the expected visit of Mr. Oswald Garrison Villard, who speaks here under the auspices of the Independent Voters League. The speaking will be in East Technical School on next Monday night at 8 p. m. Other instances of ability will appear on the program as well as some lent musical selections. Rev. H. C. 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HEROLIN MEDICINE CO Atlanta, Georgia When Black Meets White By JOHN LOUIS HILL Sixteen chapters on race history and race relations, constituting the strongest case ever presented for tolerance and equality. Also sixteen illustrated sketches of departed leaders whose lives have been beacons of inspiration to those who face life under the same circumstances. Own a book that will free your children from the handicap of servile thinking and feeling—a book you can hand to a man of another race and answer him while you inform him. TEAR OFF. FILL OUT. SH THE ARGYLE PUBLISHING COMPANY, GA Enclosed find $2 for one copy of When B Name Address OUT. SEND TO US. PANY, Geo. W. Stone Bldg., Cleveland of When Black Meets White TEAR OFF. FILL OUT. SEND TO US. THE ARGYLE PUBLISHING COMPANY, Geo. W. Stone Bldg., Cleveland Enclosed find $2 for one copy of When Black Meets White *M. KLEIMAN'S 2028 Central Ave. D. BARBER'S 2006 Central Ave. BENJ. AKERS, 3519 Central Ave. *THE S. & S. DRUG CO. 7325 Central Ave. tralto; Mr. Wm. Hill, basso, and Mr. F. Richardson, tenor, both of Cincinnati. The remains of Mrs. Walter B. Wright, Jr., of Chicago, were brot to Cleveland, last week Wednesday, for interment on Thursday. The two daughters, Miss Helen Wright and Mrs. Raymond Smith, and Mr. Wright, who is in the employ of the Nickel Plate Ry. Co., offices in Chicago, have the sympathy of a host of friends and acquaintances in this city and Chicago. The Gazetto acknowledges the receipt of an invitation from Mr. and Mrs. Harry E. Thomas to attend the marriage of their daughter, Dorothy Esther, to Chester K. Gillespie, Esq., Sept. 27, at 2126 E. 40th St. Mr. J. C. Hood of Indianapolis and Mrs. J. Jeanette Bishop of Detroit were quietly married, Sept. 17 at Rev. J. W. Yewell's residence, Mrs. Wallace and Mr. Ralph Jefferson, best lady and best man. Rev. S. T. McDowell, or Durham, N. C., preached at Antioch Baptist church, Sunday, the pastor being absent attending a National Baptist convention. Five members were added to the church and the collection for the day was $1148.50. Charles F. Garland, No. 10839 Pasadena Ave., who has been very ill for five weeks, is slightly improved and hopes to be out and around again in a few days. An oversight was the cause of The Gazette's failure to mention Mr. Gar- Believe in Your Race Read a book that will make your veinstingle with just pride for the blood that courses through them. Read the new gospel of race co-operation. By JOHN LOUIS HILL The Mozart Glee club elected the following officers, recently, at the Cedar "Y": Press. Thos. Christopher; vice-pres., G. H. Ambrose; sec. J. H. Perry; cor, sec. Dr. Wm. P. Saunders; treas., Dr. W. W. Whitfield; director of music, Chas. E. Frye. The club is planning a Christmas concert and party at one of the largest halls in the city; a concert with a soloist of national origin in the early spring, a big surprise in the near future. Watch for the announcements of these affairs in "The Old Reliable Gazette. The club is open for engagements. Why intelligent members of the race persist 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 ALL self and race respect? Ask them! No person or people have any more respect for us, individually or collectively, than we SHOW we are deserving of. Our pastors should make this clear to the members of their congregations. The sixth anniversary, Sept. 29, '24, of the ordination and consecration of Rt. Rev. Edward Thomas Demby, suffragan bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church, stationed in Arkansas, will be observed at Forrest City, Ark., in Christ Church. Prominent members of the church in Arkansas and neighboring states have the celebration in charge. The program starts with Holy Eucharist, and closes with a reception that ends at 10 p. m., that day. Mrs. Nettle Ricks Demby, wife of the Bishop, is a native of this city. They reside at 1852 Cross St., Little Rock. It is really pleasing to note the large circle of friends and patrons Dr. Samuel Stone, of The S. & S. Drug Co., 7325 Central Ave., has made in the year he has been in that vicinity. It was just so when "Doc," as he is familiarly called by a host of friends and acquaintances, was in business in the 11th and 12th wards. He knows how to treat people, all the time, and is not bothered with "temperamental moods." He is painstaking, clever, obliging, and one of the best registered pharmacists in the city. 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How Our Men And Women Are Insulted And Humiliated In the Government's Departments—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 whites only, where these 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 all the more when they reflect 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, comfortable 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 directive position. The hard, unyielding caste passes with him one after another, though many 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 are still bitter over the huge injustice done to them for nothing else than the color of their skin. (Special to The Gazette.) Washington, D. C. The government printing office keeps faith with the government's universal scheme of segregation. Some of our girls are forced to brightest of our girls are forced to accept large portions 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 to meet the employees may go but there are a few tables that go out-of-the-way 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, lectured for being "one of 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 inhaled the fire, he brought out. He was quickly accessed of setting the building afire in revenge 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 dismissed. By this severe punishment our employees are taught that there were war of egos, and 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 additional complainant is, 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 perfectly clear that this iniquitous segregation is a difficult thing to forgive. It is so well settled upon it, and the complainants cannot bear witness to it. (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 heroic 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 his family visited the bureau where she saw white and colored girls working together in perfect harmony, oblivious to any thought 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 lodged a protest with Secretary McAdoo to no avail, and his noble wife began a crusade against the undemocratic innovation. She took the platform here in Washington and Boston before the famous Twentieth 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, or to leave the crises. Oswald Garrison Villard named 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 segregators, namely, the elimination of the colored employees from the bureau ait toogether. 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, toilers, THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, O. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1924 and working stations, and of course none are ever thought of for promotions to executive places. They are girls from our best nomes, most of them with high age, normal school or college. 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 hoping for the issuance of an order destroying 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. (Special to The Gazette) (Special to The Gazette) Washington, D. C.—The treasury department, according to the President's recent acceptance speech, is now under the ablest financial genius since the days of Alexander Hamilton. It is to be remembered that the great Hamilton came from the West Indies, and in that long sweep of history that the President trailed, he was the first P. Chase, secretary of the treasury in Lincoln's cabinet, who, in a national extremity such as this country has never known, devised the national banking system which financed the Civil War; and Ohio's master financier, John Sherman. These men never knew what segregation was! The present head of the department of internal revenue, Mr. Blair from North Carolina, has not appointed a colored clerk since his incumbency. While his predecessor, Mr. Daniel Roper, a Democrat from Texas, appointed and promoted several of them. Since the income tax legislation and the numberless new taxes that the recent war necessitated, Mr. Blair has been the department of the treasury, employing several thousand clerks. Yet Negroes are so scarce that they can't be noticed. There is the same general complaint here among our clerks and other employees as there is in the other branches of the government—failure to recognize their efficiency when promotion are due; ability to go so far and no farther. The various forms of segregation exist here as well as elsewhere—the restaurants closed or divided along color lines, and special toilets, locker rooms, rest rooms, etc., set off for colored. The toilets for the colored are few in such a large structure. Hence the segregated clerks are placed in the same room, the science at times, and are forced to travel long distances when they desire the use of them. The department maintains a huge, magnificent cafeteria, in the splendid sweep, of woodland along our national driveway, where white people of every class can come to rest, dine, and socialize of afternoons and evenings at minimum costs. The white press of the city is constantly telling of the thousands who take advantage of this "delightful retreat," and the society sets the table for the presence creates. It seats two thousands with space to spare; but not one Negro! His only share is in the taxes he is forced to pay for this luxury for another group! The registrieship of the treasury which Republican Presidents have given the Negro since Garfield appointed Blanch K. Bruce, is now filled by a white man, and the colored people are congregated in a separate room which is publicly proclaimed as "a colored division." When it is discovered that Negro clerks are "working as white" in other divisions, they are promptly transferred to this "colored division." Our people fear that protest against this segregation would result in the abolition of the division altogether; other than the clerks' dilemma, forcing to act. Our clerks must accept segregation or elimination, and being poor, with no other opportunities in this southern atmosphere, must take the former. They are depressed at the wrong, but economic stress compels endurance of it. By a single stroke of his pen, President Calvin Coolidge can stop every bit of the damnable segregation, just as he can condemn that lawless organization the Ku Klux Klan. If he wants the votes, in November, of loyal Afro-Americans, male and female, thrush the length and breadth of this country, these are two things he will have to do. 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! 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. Personal 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 MOBS. Section 6278. A collection of people assembled for an unlawful purpose and intending to do damage or injury to any one, or pretending to exercise correctional power over other persons by violence and 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 "lurching" 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). 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 persecution by the police, a hood 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 age. If any child is not 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 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 62826. If the decedent so lynched has minor children surviving him, the fund shall be turned over to a regularly appointed guardian. Such guardian shall administer such fund under the direction of the probate judge, allowing not more than five hundred dollars for counsel fees in the action for such recovery. (93 v. 162 9.) Section 62827. The county, in which a lynching occurs, may recover the amount of a judgment and costs against it in favor of the legal representatives of a person killed seriously injured in such attack or of the person composing such mob. The person, 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: UBS. eed. g. a representative of victim of lynching. injury by mob trying to lynch another. and costs in tax levy. s. a inst member of mob. nst 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 conducted must accord the amount of the judgment against the county from which the mob came on the part of officials of such unless there was contributory negligence not less than thirty days county in falling to protect such prisoner or dispurse such mob (93 B. 12). Section 6229. This chapter shall not relieve a person concerned in such lynching from prosecution for homicide or assault for engaging therein. (93 v. 163 12.) OUR OHIO CIVIL RIGHTS LAW Upon the request or many readers of The Gazette we print below the text of the Hon. Harry C. Smith's Ohio Civil Rights law which the House had enacted while a member of the 71st General Assembly, in 1894: The General Code of Ohio: The General Code of Ohio: Sec. 12940. Whoever, being the proprietor or his employee, keeper or manager of an inn, restaurant, eating house, barber-shop, public convenience by land or water, theater or accommodation and amusement, denied to the 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 nor more than ninety days, or both the next preceding season, however violates the not less than fifty dollars nor 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: 一 Akron, O., April 25, 1919. Hon, Harry C. Smith. Maryland Editor The Gazette, Cleveland, O. Mear Dear Sir: Observing your letter, the Beacon-Journal, of this city, I want you, you and separate cover, the Ohio La- Reporter of Feb. 3, last, containing the opinion of the Court of Appeals in the Puritan Lunch Co. vs. Leonard H. 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