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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. They visited their sister, Miss Laura Elliott. They Mary Williams spent Thanksgiving in Columbus with her sister, Mrs. Lyman Kilgour, returning, Sunday evening. CADIZ.—Mr. and Mrs. Elsworth Guy of Steubenville, and Mr. and Mrs. Henry Bruce of Wheeling visited their parents, Mr. and Mrs. F. W. Lucas, Sunday. Mrs. Samuel Ramsey was called to Akron by her son Howard's illness. Mrs. Elma Branan of Steubenville is here visiting. P. T. Brown of E. Liverpool spent Sunday with his family. Mrs. Wesley Dulling has returned from Cleveland. Mr. and Mrs. E. B. Chavis and Mr. and Mrs. R. H. Logan of Columbus. HILLSBORO. Mrs. Lucinda Young visited her brother, Charles Goins, Sunday. Mrs. Florence Galagher is better. Her son, Earl, who was called here by her illness, returned to Maysville, Ky., Sunday. Mrs. Blanche Gilmore of Cleveland who has been visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Venonah Wallace, for two weeks, visited her sister, Mrs. Paul Campbell, over the week-end. Mr. and Mrs. Elijah Richman of Balnbridge, Mrs. Sarah White, and Mr. Henry Johnson of Springfield visited Mr. and Mrs. Edward Jones, recently. Mr. and Mrs. Kirby Henderson, of Washington C. H., spent Saturday and Sunday here. Fire damaged Mr. Alex Holland"s house a little, early last Friday morning. Mrs. Russell Williams of Dayton and Mrs. Josephine Hall have, returned ROSCOE C. BRUCE SETS EXAMPLE For Our Farmers To Follow—Prove That There is Rural Contentment. Washington, D. C.—A few years ago, Prof. Roscoe, Conkling Bruce, whose mother was a Miss Wilson of Cleveland, O., and whose father was U. S. Senator Blanche K. Bruce (deceased) of Mississippi, bought just outside of this city, where he used to superintend the schools, about 27 acres. It was only dense woods with a stream of water on it and a river running back of it. This he has transformed into an estate with twelve cleared acres, a beautiful modern residence, a great barn, a water system, a 57-battery Delco electric plant and a great hollow tile hewnery where nearly 2,000 leghorn hens produce, the host grade of chalk-white eggs. These he sells as far east as Boston with demands as far west as Cleveland, O. All this has been carved in a person or go on of the absolute willingness by a man who had been academically trained, all his life, and who was conventionally supposed to know "chicken," only on the dinner table. It is said that our people have none of the "milestone" Mr. Bruce's fine achievement is a contradiction of that notion. And it is gratifying to record that a man, who was for a long term of years the superintendent of the largest public school system in the country maintained for our people, has pioneered and built in his own initiative a business in which he can easily double any salary he has ever received. Bruce is very busy and therefore happy; now feeding his chicks, boxing eggs for the markets, now joking and tensing with Clara and Roscoe, Jr., and Burrill, when at home on vacation from school and college, reading and revising a novel which he is writing, entertaining old friends who drive out from Washington. They say he thinks of studying law, and may establish Bruce & Bruce attorneys, with his wife, who is studying. Whatever he may do, he will never anything worthier than "Kelso Farm." And yet some of his friends and acquaintances of both races drive out now and then to inquire if he would not again consider taking the superintendency of the schools. Nothing doing! This farm pays more and says less, than any school system, and the leghorn hens are much less trouble than the hairy-legged variety who pester the life out of school superintendents. Donahay Majority 176.842 Columbus, O.—Gov. A. V. Donahay's official majority over Harry L. Davis's the Republican candidate in the recent election was 176.842, aording to the official count. Returns from 8.364 prefects gave Donahay 1,064,981 and Davis 888,139. to Columbus. They visited their sister, Miss Laura Elliott.—Miss Mary Williams spent Thanksgiving in Columbus with her sister, Mrs. Lyman Kilgour, returning. Sunday evening. CMDIZ.—Mr. and Mrs. Elsworth Guy of Steubenville, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Bruce of Wheeling visited their parents, Mr. and Mrs. F. W. Lucas, Sunday.—Mrs. Samuch Ramsay was called to Akron by her son, Howard's Illness.—Miss Elma Branan of Steubenville is here visiting.—P. T. Brown of E. Liverpool spent Sunday with his family.—Mrs. Wesley Duling has returned from Cleveland.—Mr. and Mrs. E. B. Chavis and Mr. and Mrs. R. H. Logan of Pittsburgh were guests of Mrs. Sarah Miller. Sunday. They were entertained at dinner by Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Johnson.—Mr. and Mrs. BenJ. S. Lee visited in Canton and Massillon last week.—District Supt. Ferguson preached at Simpson M. E. church, Sunday evening, and administered communion.—Mrs. Deborah Simpson of Toledo and Mr. and Mrs. Alva Simpson of Stillwater visited Mrs. Bertha Madison, recently.—Mrs. Harriet and Mrs. Ada Cochran of Oberlin were week-end visitors here.—Mr. and Mrs. Rufus Smith and family visited relatives here. Sunday.—Rev F. H. Mason of St. James' church is planning to organize the church into ten clubs, and the outlook for the year is very promising. Rev. S. W. West hold quarterly meeting services here. Sunday. Minneapolis and St. Paul Clippings. St. Paul has many visitors, this week from Seattle, Portland, Oakland, Denver, Topanga, and New York City. Many of our people are still coming from the South. All they ask is a fair chance, the same that is given to members of other groups. Let them have this and no one need worry as to their future. The Good Will corporation has opened a combination store at 612 Lydale Ave. with, Rev Wm. Storrs as general manager. He is a capable business man and a better selection for the place could not, have been made. This store handles our publications from many states. Dr. Storrs and his people are preparing to entertain Bishop Clair of the M. E. church, who spends part of the year in Africa. The bishop is a very able member of the race. The Phyllis Wheatley home for the body of our people is doing excellent work in North Minneapolis. We shall have more to say of this institution in the near future.—J. H. Goldin, 507 Fourth Ave, N. --- Matthews' "17 Demands" Washington, D. C., Nov. 25. It was learned at the White House today, that the political program of Atty. Wmf. C. Matthews, who was national organizer among our voters for the Republican National Committee during the recent campaign, was written solely for "Negro" consumption. This program made seventeen demands that our people are expecting the Coolidge administration to comply with. They run the gauntlet from representation in the diplomatic corps to approval of the Liberian loan. At the White House it was stated. Tuesday, that no such program had been received there for the attention of the President. Dr. James Made Royal Follow Dr. James Made Royal Fellow. Washington, D. C.—Dr. Herman Haughton James, a graduate of the School of Medicine of Howard University, returned to the U. S., last Thursday, with possibly the most distinguished honors ever conferred upon an Afro-American physician for work in his profession from this country. He is a licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Edinburgh and a licentiate of the Royal Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow, distinguishing himself in medicine, surgery and midwifery. Dr. James graduated from Howard University School of Medicine in 1912. He has practiced in Bridgeport, Conn., and New York City. He sailed for Scotland in Sept., 1923. Leroy J. Price, of Orinoco Ave. chairman of the local branch of the P. P. B. A., (pullman car employees), went to Chicago, last week, to attend the annual meeting of the association. He was a candidate for membership on the board of directors. COTTRILL DEAD His Career in State and National Policies—Active in Zodge Work —U. S. Collector at Honolulu. Toledo, O.—Charles A. Cottrill, for years active in politics, and U. S. collector of customs at Honolulu. Hawaii, during the Taft administration, died here at his home, last week, after several months' illness. He was stricken with paralysis while in attendance upon a Masonic meeting at Pittsburgh. several months ago, where he lay very ill for several weeks before it was possible to bring him home. Many years ago, Cottrill held the corporation clerkship in the secretary of state's office at Columbus. After losing that position, he came home and for a number of years held a clerkship in one of our county offices. During the Harding presidential campaign, four years ago, he held a clerkship in our bureau of the Republican headquarters at Chicago. His wife, former Miss Alma Clark of Columbus, has the heart-felt sympathy of scores of friends throughout the state. Cottrill, for many years, was active in lodge matters, particularly Masonic and K. P. THE FOURTEENTH AMENDMENT --- Exposed Congo Horrors. One of the foremost champions of justice to the Negro, Edmund D. Morel, is dead in London. Mr. Morel was the first to expose the horrors perpetrated upon the natives of the Congo under Belgian administration. This exposure, made in 1904 at great risk to himself, Mr. Morel followed with a series of books showing the African roots of the World War, and that exploitation of black people had brought retribution upon white European battlefields. Among his works are "The Black Man's Burden," "Red Rubber" and a series of pamphlets published by the Union for Democratic Control in England, of which Mr. Morel was one of the founders. SINGLE COPY FIVE CENTS The Coolidge Administration Should Terminate at Once Americans Squandering the Money This Country Loaned the Little Republic of Toussaint L'Ouverture New York City.---Funds of the Republic of Haiti are being squandered by American officials and officers of the Occupation, according to a statement given out by Pierre Hudicourt, of Port-au Prince. Mr. Hudicourt is a member of the American Institute, of International Law and a delegate to the Conference to be held in Lima, Peru. He is a Senator of Haiti, and was Haiti's delegate to the second Peace Conference at the Hague in Belgium. Mr. Hudicourt charges against the American occupation of Haiti: 1. That the gourde, once equivalent to the American dollar, has been deprived so that it now is worth only 20 cents and Haitian lancers must support themselves and their families on a monthly salary of about $5.20. 2. That heavy taxes are crushing the people of Haiti, and that the national funds so raised are going into the pockets of American office holders. 3. That the Haitian people themselves have no voice in their government or in their taxation, but are ruled by an American military dictator. SAME AS TROUTINE: With the alleged purpose of stimulating Haitian agriculture and of guaranteeing the interest and amortisation of the recent Haitian loan of $10,000,000, the American occupation established an Agricultural School in Port au Prince. The American director of this school receives $15,000 a year. He has imported American 'professors' who receive $10 to $100 a month but Political Scandal Chicago, Ill., it has looked on and stepped three to the public that another political scandal, hans around the named "jim crow" western speaker's bureau of the National Republican Committee here over which "Colonel" Rosseo Conkling Simmons was placed. The accusing finger has been pointed at the loquacious "Colonel". The auditor for the committee, Mr. Stackhöse, when interviewed by a representative of The Whip, stated that "little discrepancies had been straightened out," but, notwithstanding, the tales of pay roll padding, fictitious speakers, unwarranty of signing and cashing of checks, sharmut dictionary and wholesale rape of the thirty-five then and dollars supposedly a the Republican national committee, maintained upon the regular pay as an organizer, a Miss Freene Moats, said to be a school-teacher in Clarksville, W. Va. The superior address that Miss Moats was appointed organizer at the beginning of the campaign at $50 per week, and $7 per day allowance for expenses; that she did not do one thing, in the line of organizing, and remained at her teaching duties until Wednesday, Nov. 5, when she came to New York. It is claimed that she remained in the headquarters all the morning of Friday, the 7th; that Mitchell fixed up her account and she got her money and left the headquarters about 1 p. m. "Goin' some, ain't it?" According to the latest census information, which Chas, E. Halk of Washington, D. C., has kindly furnished The Gazette, Ohio has 1.616 Afro-American farm, operators. Of this number 1.053 are owners; 36 managers; 527 tenants, all of whom control 1.412,222 acres of land of which 76,437 acres are improved. The total value of all this land, with buildings, is $9,126,482. New York City.—Arthur L. Funn, age 21, of Brooklyn, a student at the evening high school and clerk in the office of the city-temple house department by day, won first prize in the N.Y. World's "Biggest News of the Week" competition, the first time he entered. He plans to take an evening course at the College of the City of New York after he is graduated from the high school, next June. Said Mr. Hudicourt: Our Ohio Farmers Won First Prize IN UNION IT IS STRONG LE COPY FIVE CENTS eracy ULE IN HAITI International Law Disgrace on Should Terminate at Once bring the Money This the Little Republic are unable to speak French and have to have interpreters to transmit their remarks, to their students. So that this Agricultural School, conducted at enormous expense, is of no use to Haitians. The case of this school resembles that of the military training school, loudly advertised in the United States, as existing for the purpose of training Haitian officers to replace the Americans. That military training school no longer exists. Upon the much advertised roads built by the American Occupation of Haiti, there have been spent $8,000,000. The heavy rains of last season virtually obliterated these carelessly constructed affairs, and there are at present some 40 or 50 automobiles abandoned on them." Mr. Hudicourt further, said that the present President of Haiti, Mr. Louis Borne, was a puppet in the hands of the American Occupation. He said there was a persistent rumor in Port au Prince that in violation of the convention of 1915 and the Constitution of 1918, the Occupation had demanded of Haiti a law ceding the Island of Gonaves as a military and naval base to the United States. "For more than 100 years," Mr. Hudicourt concluded, "Haiti governed itself, maintaining its independence even before the United States was a world power. Haiti wants to resume that tradition of independence and of self government. We want the U. S. marines withdrawn at once, and we want opportunity to elect our own representatives, maintain our own government and vote and dispose of our own taxes." COOLIDGE'S SEGEREGATION In Ten Departments of the Government Service—Nearly 500 of Our Employees Insulted And Humiliated. (Special To The Gazette.) Washington, D. C.—Supplementing what we wrote in The Gazette last week, relative to Registrar of the Treasury H. V. Spielman's latest demonstration of prejudice and segregation which was exposed on the recent Armistice day, we wish to call attention to the fact that in the fight against the segregation of our government employees, the Treasury department will most likely be the center of attack, for segregation in several of its branches has been most prominent. This is particularly true of the office of the registrar of the Treasury, and the internal resource department. In the former, beaver board walls were maintained, until recently. In the latter these have two cases of discrimination on account of color brought to public view. Investigation of Burcuus An investigation of the executive department and bureaucats listed below shows that segregation prevails in them as follows: Office of the Register of the Treasury, there are two segregated sections one with 20 Afro-American employees and the other with 14. Office of the Treasurer of the United States—a segregated section of 4 employees. War Department, Transportation Division—a segregated section of 5 employees. P. O. Separate Lunch Room Post Office Department—a segregated lunch room. The first meeting of the Committee on Interracial Relations of the Federated Churches was held, Monday afternoon, in the conference room, 701 Hippodrome Bldg. It was devoted to the discussion of a program for the committee. Bonus Section HELP! HELLUP OH.-PA! OH, DAD!--I WAS GETTING THIS JUG OF RAISIN JUICE AND THE LADDER SLIPPED! HOLD TIGHT MY CHILD! HOLD TIGHT! GOSH!-THAT CERTAINLY WAS A NARROW ESCAPE! PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY (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 NEWSBEST AND BEST in the country. 10,000,000 Afro-Americans. 850,000 in Ohio. 40,000 in Cleveland. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1924 Again, this year, the postmaster-general is urging all people to do their Xmas shopping and mailing early. Do not wait until the last minute. Be very careful in addressing and wrapping all packages to be sent through the mail, too. --- President Coolidge's Register of the U. S. Treasury (H. V. Speelman of Ohio) now denies having made any promise to our protest committee to have the names of the five dead World War heroes placed on one tablet instead of the two which enabled him to segregate on one of them those of our two dead heroes. Hurrah (?) for Coolidge and his Virginia "illy-secret" secretary, C. Bascomb Slempi --- The editor of The Gazette acknowledges the receipt of Thanksgiving greetings sent by Mrs. May Clement (white), a business woman of 727 Guardian Bldg., this city, on which she wrote: "I read every word of The Gazette. It is corn-fed; no swill." We recommend her comment to many of our contemporaries who are filling their columns with lengthy accounts of crimes and questionable misdoings of various kinds that are certainly "swill." Many of the papers referred to are unfit to enter homes, especially where there are children. PHILADELPHIA SESQUICENTEN- NIAL Philadelphia is at work on plans for the sesquicentennial celebration of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, two years hence. Originally suggested as a world's exposition, the arrangements now contemplate a national, rather than an international, affair. The project will open in June and close in September, 1926, and will be patterned somewhat after the British Empire exhibition held at Wembley during the past summer. Of course there will be extensive exhibits arranged by the National Government, and the states will be expected to erect suitable buildings in which to show their own products. In addition to its patriotic aspect as the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of American independence, the Philadelphia exposition will have an enormous economic value in collecting specimens of our vast variety of natural and manufactured products. Our own citizens will be astonished at the extent of their country's resources, and potential customers from abroad will have their eyes opened to the almost limitless possibilities of the American market. The British Empire exceeds American territory in area, but probably net in the variety and quality of its products. The Philadelphia exhibition ought to prove as interesting and successful as that at Wembley. AFTER DONAHEY AGAIN. Some fool Republican in Columbus, who needs to have his head examined, is endeavoring to secure the assistance, of the Republican organization leaders in Cleveland, Cincinnati, Dayton, Columbus, and Toledo who will control the next Ohio Assembly, in an effort to block the confirmation of the appointments of at least the important positions to be filled on appointment by Gov. A. V. Donahay. This, particularly, because the latter is a Democrat. Donahay's majority over Davis, the Republican candidate for governor at the recent elections, was nearly 200,000. If the leaders of the Republican organizations referred to wish to insure the second re-election of Gov. Donahay by about 400,000, all they need to do is to assist the effort that that fool Republican in Columbus has started, according to daily newspapers of the state. The last State Assembly prevented the governor from making appointments while it was not in session. That had much to do with his recent re- election, in the face of the Coolidge land-slide, by the large majority referred to. The State Assembly better let Donahay alone; better still, work in harmony with him "for the good and welfare" of the state of Ohio. NOT "SMOKE": The editor of the Cleveland Plain Dealer and every other citizen in this community can rest assured that the charges of illegal acts in connection with the voting on election days in booths of this city made by Albert F. Coyle, Sheriff-Elect Fred Kohler, Municipal Judge Alva R. Corlett and others is not "all smoke" but are founded on facts which are well known to the political workers and others in and out of wards 8, 11,12, 17 and others of this city. The voting on election days, at least in the wards named, has been a standing joke for six years with those active in politics and many others in wards mentioned. No indeed it is not "all smoke". A REAL FRIEND GONE. The Hon. John Jay Stranahan, age 81, who died last week at 8508 Detroit Ave., was a representative in the legislature from Chagrin Falls that the Hon. Jerry A. Brown, one of our representatives, was a member of Mr. Stranahan owned and edited The Chagrin Falls Exponent for many years, selling it about 10 years ago; served two terms in the Ohio legislature, and for many years until in recent years was employed by the government to establish fish hatcheries, making his headquarters in Georgia. He was a Mason. Funeral service, Monday afternoon, at Chagrin Falls. Mr. Stranahan is survived by four brothers, Frank and Fred, president and vice-president, respectively, of the Stranahan Bros. Co. of this city, and Henry and Mark of Painesville. For more than twenty-five years, Mr. Stranahan was a personal friend of the editor of this paper. His death, which we sincerely mourn, removes one of the best friends of the race in this section of the country. IS IT ANY USE TO CONTEND FOR RIGHTS? Colored Americans are the only race, responsible members of which are in favor of submitting to discrimination on the claim that their race "always will be discriminated against". The Jews are still contending after over 1900 years of 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 equal rights; they are by nature without self-respect and 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. THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, O. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1924 STORE THIEVES SMOOTH WORKERS FEW PROFESSIONALS Most of Those Who Take Articles Without Paying on Them Are Amateurs—Lure of Goods to Those With Sufficient Funds to Buy Causes Trouble. NEW YORK CITY—A pleasant-looking, business-like man, wearing neither hat nor coat, walked briskly into the door-covering section of a building. On the other day, strde over to a pile of expensive rugs and began comparing the numbers on their tags with numerals on a type written list he carried in his hand. Halfway through the pile, he drew out a rug, folded it carefully, slung it over his shoulder and departed. He nodded to several employees standing near by as he lear The next day when the head of stock was making a cursory inventory he noticed that a Chinese rug valued at more than $200 was unaccounted for, and a fact to members of the sales force. They assured him that the rug could be found readily, as an employee from either the merchandise manager's or the general manager's office, filling a special order. Inquiry at these offices, however, failed to reveal any trace of it. Further questioning in the rug department brought out the fact that no one had recalled ever seizing the youth before, but had been given a gift in the greeting, that he was an employee. They were wrong. The young man wasn't working for the store or for any one else. He was in business for himself. He was engaged in the ancient and dishonorable profession of shoplifting. There was nothing to keep him from management to add $300 to the thousands excited annually by the light-fingered ladies and ingenuous gentlemen who give repeated demonstrations that the hand is quicker than the eye, particularly when the eye is focussed elsewhere. Waging war upon shoplifters is almost as much a part of the effort to keep the department store as the delivering of packages. These meccas of merchandise are the happy hunting grounds for a legion of men and women intent upon getting something for nothing. There are no truces in the conflict between the stores and their despoilers. The struggle is especially bitter during November and December, although there are many who do their Christmas stealing early. Shoplifting As a Science The professional shoplifters, who work on scientific lines and are constantly on the alert for new methods, recognize no closed season. Nor do the amateurs, for that matter, when they come upon something which, as they put it, fairly demands to be taken away by them. Five people, professional shoplifters are professionals, according to William A. Murphy, chief detective of the Stores Mutual Protective Association. This organization co-operates with the detectives employed by the various large department and specialty stores in New York City in the never-ceasing drive against shoplifters. It is a clearing house for information on the various stores. It also disseminates data on the latest methods employed by them. Mr. Murphy was a detective sergeant in the New York Police Department for sixteen years. He was a member of the pickpocket squad for many years, and spent much of the time in ferreting out shoplifters. "The extent of shoplifting," Mr. Murphy says, "is not generally known. Literally hundreds of thousands of dollars' worth of merchandise is stolen from the big stores of New York City each year. Keeping their losses down is a big problem." While only 5 per cent, of the shoplifters are professionals, earning a livelihood through it, they are so deft at it that their loot reaches a most imposing total. I know of one pair, for example, who took $545 worth of merchandise from the ready-to-wear department store for half an hour. Some have managed to get away with between $1,000 and $1,500 a day. "Keeping the professionals in check is far more difficult than curbing the operations of the 95 per cent, to whom shoplifting line. There is as a difference between professional and amateur shoplifting as there is between professional and amateur baseball, or anything else. Those who do it as CASCARA OUININE COMMERCIAL STOPS COLDS IN 24 HOURS—LAGRIPPE IN 3 DAYS 30¢ AT ALL DRUGGISTS C.204 a regular thing are so skimmed to make detection by the ordinary salesperson virtually impossible. The man or woman selzed with a sudden desire for some a safe usually goes after it in such a bungling manner as almost to sound a police alarm. "Sometimes I think that if the professional shoplifters lavished their talents on a legitimate pursuit they would make more than they do by stealing from stores. As soon as a store been exposed, they'd another. Old Stand-Bys "There are some old stand-bys, however, which they do not discard. For example, there is the box with the false bottom. It has the appearance of a large party case. This piece of clothing is the article sought. There is an opening for Boycott Finland Is Labor Communist Appeal Rouses Echoe of City War MOSCOW.-Sharp echoes of the civil war between "Reds" and Whites" that raged in Finland in 1885 and waned $ by the triumph of German oppressive heart in an appeal to the "workers" of all the world," issued late in June by the political prisoners in the Tammisari institution of Penal Servitude and printed in the Communist and Socialist Press. As has been reported in American newspapers during his couple of years, the campaign, for immunity of the waged by the labor forces of that republic, regardless of their division into contending groups by splits engineered from Moscow, has resulted in the freeing of the great majority of the thousands of "Reds" jailed immediately after the wiping out of the labor regime, but it is alleged that there are more than a thousand in confinement of them under revolting conditions. It appears that the Government, headed by Premier Lauri Ingman, feels so sure of the backing of the 200 bourgeois members of the Diet of 200 elected last April, when it comes to a question of releasing what the non-labor elements regard as dangerous agitators, that there is small chance of its yielding to the amnesty drive unless the labor forces of foreign countries can maneuvered in an effort to stir up Finnish guilt about this. This is the hope of the prisoners is shown by the text of their appeal which reads, in part, as follows: "A great many of us are those who were still left alive after the great butchery of six years ago. We were bitterly divided, red who have been thrown behind the bars since 1918, several hundred who have dared—not to take up arms, not to revolt—but to aid the widows and orphans of their murdered comrades, to organize the murdered comrades, to attack Communist literature, to admit being Communists. And recently nearly 200 comrades were sentenced to the penitentiary for many years for having belonged to a labor party which was sympathetic toward the Communist International, not "In other parts of the world political prisoners have at least partial privileges compared with common criminals. Here only a law of us may enjoy the same privileges as real burgeeois们 and receive a portion of the food delivered by our relatives. And one after another, comrades suspected of being agitators, are being transferred to the same prisons with ordinary criminals. Consequently, the majority of the political prisoners and burgeeois and inamy respects are worse off than common criminals." Gets 528-Lb. Swordfish California Angler Lands Huge Fish, Which Knocks in Side of Boat. LOS ANGELLES—H. J. Mallen, Los Angeles business man, caught a 528-pound swordfish off Santa Catalina Island. It is said to be the largest of its kind ever captured with a rod and line. 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B. conference. ‘Mrs, Grace Willis Thompson, di- rector, announces Harrison Farrel, violinist, of Chicago, as the soloist for the’ Harmonic Choral Society concert, Dec. 2, at St. John's church. J. Finley Wilson, editor of the Washington (D. C.) Eagle, and head of our order of Elks, was guest of honor of Cuyahoga lodge at its an- nual Thanksgiving ball, Monday eve- ning, at Euclid Dancing academy. ‘THE GAZETTE, OLEVELAND, OSATURDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1924 The Helping Hand club, of Lin- coin Heights A. M. E. church, Bed- ford, met at Mr. obert Lee's, Tador drive, last week Friday afternoon. ‘The president, Mrs, Ella Hurt, pre- sided. The club was entertained by Mrs. Gertrude Brooks. Next _meet- ing at Mrs. Sadie Parker's, Booker drive, Rumors are being circulated in the 11th and 12th wards to the ef- fect that Judge W. I. Jamison’s death may have been caused by pois- on. 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Before return- ee rune at enue in connection with the building of a cottage at Idlewild in the Broadway that he has about twenty splendidly way in the section of Idlewild that and sold complete, probaby by next People have cottages in this same locality and spend most of their sum- (37th St., Sunday morning; his arms a chair and a bandage drawn tightly sought. Dr. Logan's landlady, Mrs. Logan’s automobile in front of the building at 8 o'clock, Sunday morn- ed the door to the office and found the body. She told the police that she had access to the office to clean it, daily, and said she had heard 9:30, Saturday night. A quantity of ‘Tell It, Brother, Tell It! ‘There is something radically wrong with a group of people who refuse to help relieve their own burdens, The day of throwing bouquets is gone forever, The Afro-American must face the facts as they ex- ist. We won't gain anything by fooling ourselves into think- ing that everything is all right. 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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. Segregation 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., Oct. 4, 1924. —There is more segregation in Washington today under President Coolidge than there has ever been since the Civil War. The beginnings of segregation were under President Tuft. It was greatly extended, under President Wilson; increased, still further, under President Harding; and reached its zenith under President Coolidge. For instance, the largest of our parks President Wilson never troubled, but the present administration has found time and desire to introduce it even there. To many people, segregation is a Democratic scheme of insult, but such is not the case. Mr. Taft introduced it in the bureau of engraving. He segregated the census in this city in white clothing while in this city in black people, and black to black, often duplicating work as most blocks had white and black residents. And, worst of all, announced in his official capacity that Negroes should not hold office where white people complained. Segregation, then, is a Republican institution and not a Democratic one. It was begun by Republicans, and it was to all-embracing extent by Republicans! There is far more of it in the departments, today, than at any time since the Negro first appeared, close upon the close of the Civil War. The picture requirement in the civil service, which makes it next to impossible for a colored lady or gentleman to enter the civil service, since their color is disclosed in their photograph which must accompany papers, is tenaciously held on to by our Republican President. Only last week, a colored civil servant appeared after the best examination, and after having been telegraphed for by the department. The photograph had failed to tell her true color, and they flatly refused to appoint her when she appeared, and they saw her complexion. Commissioner Blair of the internal revenue bureau with thousands of clerks will not appoint a Negro clerk, and his word is law there, as he is the special favorite of Secretary President Coolidge. He hails from North Carolina, the home of the other faction, the leader of the segregation forces, Col Sherrill, superintendent of buildings and grounds. It is no use to complain of either of these southern gentlemen. The colored people here who know the President could destroy segregation in the departments of the government, and the photograph requirements in the civil service by the mere nod of his head, are at a loss to understand why he does not spellout declarations on democracy into operation here, where it would not even cost him a single vote and where he has full power and absolutely no opposition. They wonder if he is not a firm believer in segregation, especially since segregation is one of the chief tenets of the "welcome home" in the Republican party, and receives no condemnation from the Republican President. (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 caferina for whites only, where these inferior white clerks can buy appetizing lunches and chat in comfort while eating, while the colored clerks must bring cold lurcheons 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 valuable than the whites, and for 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 segregated bathrooms and a restroom 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 pres- ence 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, and off, and 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 Negre, however efficient or old in the service, must ever dream of a promotion to a directive position. The hard, unyielding caste passes whites over him, one after another, though many of the colored employees have won contests in quickness and敏捷 in the interview. 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 the best and brightest of our girls are forced to accept inferior 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 there, where the facilities 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, the law of segregation serves to 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 music and a strong exclusion of our employees so keen 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 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 revenge for his exclusion from the dance floor. Detectives came to the building to arrest him, and to secure any evidence searched him only to discover the pistol. They quickly dropped the arson charge and substituted one for carrying concealed weapons and was immediately dismissed. By this time our 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 them only to be met by a denial that the company complained of exist, and a request for names of my informants. I knew the fact that informants would suffer so I have never given a single name! The department then taking the position THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, O. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1924 that it cannot take up the case. It is perfectly clear that this iniquitous scheme of segregation is a difficult thing to fight, since the government so well settled upon it, and the complainants cannot bear witness to it. (Special to The Gazette) (Special to The Gazette) Washington, D. C.—Segregation in the house of the president 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 and colored girls working together in 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 girls to be 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 local 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 discouraged, she came out one stormy afternoon to the Y. M. C. A. to urge them to continue the fight, to democracy at the crises. Oswald Willett Vilas, the president 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 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 fulness, under the administration of the party that Abraham Lincoln, Charles Sumner and Frederick Douglass are helped to found. Our girls are employed there in far larger numbers than in any other branch of the pub service. THEY ARE SEGREGATED, their lives are SEGREGATED 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 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 in 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) 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, this is by far the largest department of the treasury, employing several thousand employees. Now 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 promotions 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. Thus the segregated the segregated the forced the physical inconvenience 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 festive scene that their presence with place to spare; but not one Negro! His place is in the taxes he is forced to pay for this luxury for another group! The registries 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; so they remain in a dilemma, fearing to act. Our clerks must accept segregation or elimination, and be poor, with no other opportunities in this southern atmosphere, must take the wrong. They are depressed at the former, but economic stress compels endurance of it. By a single stroke of his pen, President Calvin Coolidge can stop every bit of this damnable segregation, just as he can condemn that lawless organization the Ku Klux Klan. "I'm No Stranger Here," is 54-Year Old Prisoner's comment. OSSINING.—"I'm no stranger around here," Arthur Seamon, just arrived at Sing Sing to begin another sentence, said, when an attendant, unaware it was his sixth commitment to a penal institution, he was sentenced to three rules. Seamon, who is 54, then gave his pedigree. It showed two previous sentences to Sing Sing and three terms in the New York County Penitentiary. This Seamon arrived to serve one year for alleged forgery in Brooklyn. In spite of his long record, Seamon will, by behaving himself in prison, be eligible for parole in less than nine months. 73 DIE IN FORMOSAN FLOODS TOKIO—Seventy-three persons are known to be dead and fifty-seven missing as a result of the overflowing of the Tamusl River in Northern Formosa. Approximately 40,000 houses were arundated, of which 3,000 were destroyed, while thou- sands of persons are homeless, in- cluding 7,000 in the city of Tah- hoku. It is expected that the casu- alty list will grow when complete reports are received from the districts of Taihoku and Gilan. The Government is organizing relief. Neglect the Battery By ERWWI (President Greer College Neglect the Battery and Pay the Piper Neglect the Battery and Pay the Piper BY ERWIN GREER (President Greer College of Automotive Engineering) Why is it that the battery engineer, with his university training, is allowed to turn loose blobs and gobs of words on an unsuspecting public? He evidently means all right but he does not know why our battery is batting his technical discourse only tends to further bawl us up. You wash yourself to keep clean. 'You take a drink because you are thirsty. All right, then. Give your battery a cleaning every so often and more often a drink of distilled water and our bottle be over. That's all there to it. A storage battery is exceedingly sensitive to dirt. It requires only a minute quantity of dust or impurity in the water used to replenish the cells to produce a sort of "foot and mouth disease" known as local action, which will eat away at the plates and greatly reduce the number of stops, the greatest to see that before cranking BATTERY TO BE KEPT CLEAN BATTERY TO BE KEPT CLEAN 1800 SEAL BATTERY 1950 HALF BATTERY 1775 HALF CHARGE 2250 HALF CHARGE 1250 PLUS CHARGE A DOWN EVERY NO OPTEN AND A LITTLE INTELLIGENT THINKING ON THE PART OF ITS MASTER IS ALL THAT ANY BATTERY DEMANDS any kind get in. Keep the tops of the cells clean and dry. Before removing the screw plugs for inspection see that all dirt is wiped away. If any acid has sputtered out, sponges it away with a neutralizing solution of baking soda in water. Unless great care is used, attempting to wipe away the un-neutralized acid usually results in spreading it over the connecting wires where it will cause corrosion troubles. Lay the screw plugs upside down on the top of the cell or better still, place them on a clean paper or board. everything is made ready to enable a prompt start of the engine. Only those whose money is more abundant than their grey matter should hold the start button down, which trying to find out why the engine won't start. After such a work-out the battery is as much "all in" as a sprinter after a closely contested quarter-mile race. In winter the battery has the odds heavily against it. Its work is much harder because of stiff oil and cold gasoline, and in addition, the low temperature reduces its Keep the cells filled to the correct level. The top edges of the plates should be covered one-half the height of the plates or the top of the plates and the under side of the cover. If too full, some liquid is apt to be pushed out by the pressure. If allowed to stand uncovered they will soon go to pieces. A glass able" to incr HE GAZET to Might Sub (Copyright 1934 by Writen Gouer) Soviet In Treaty Gets Its Demands Concessions it Grants British Violate Own Constitution. LONDON—When the Labor Prime Minister of Great Britain attempted to press for a decision in regard to the general treaty with Soviet Russia last Thursday, Sir Robert Horne, Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1921 to 1922, characterized the document as an "illusion" and former Premier Lloyd George as "fake." Since the Anglo-Russian Conference opened on April 14 the Russian delegates have ceaselessly striven to obtain two objects: A British Government's guarantee of a British diplomatic immunity for Russian trade delegations. The treaty which has been negotiated grants both. To secure these boons the Soviet delegates were obliged to make certain concessions, some/of which are contrary to the Constitution as adopted July 10, 1918, at the fifth session of the Congress, annually amended in subsequent December congresses; other concessions are contrary to resolutions adopted by the Russian Communist Party while the London conference has actually been in session, while the Soviet Government is being repudiated by the Politikbureau, which, as has been proved by the documents published by the State Department at Washington and by the Bulgarian Government at Sofia, forms the real executive of the Soviet and Socialist Governments. The Soviet delegates have promised that their Government would not ordinarily sequestrate foreign property in Russia. That is contrary to the Constitution, which provides for the nationalization of all private property, both Russian and foreign. The same delegates that Soviet propaganda should cease in the British dominions. This propaganda has been going on while the conference agreed that it should not. To this charge the same answer has been given which was given by Moscow when, after the signing of the Russo-British commercial treaty three years ago, the British Government complained that Soviet propaganda was created in India and friendship toward it in Afghanistan. The answer was that the propaganda complained of was conducted by a Russian political party over which the Soviet Government has no control, any more than the British Government had control over the activities of a political party in the United Kingdom. Since then, however, the Politikbureau in which the complained-of Communist propaganda originated was the supreme power at Moscow. and Pay the Piper N GREER of Automotive Engineering) tube let down till it touches the plates, closed by a finger and then withdrawn, furnishes an easy means of measuring the depth above the plates. Only pure distillate of automotive fluid should be used. Blow it in clean glass or earthenware; never in metal containers. If a battery gets low or "empty" it is often not necessary to "have it charged" at a battery service station. If the car is used, but the battery is given a rest for a few days the generator is working properly, will charge it. This means little battery use, no unnecessary lights and especially no continued battery cranking. If, after a hundred miles of charging and little or no use of the battery, it is low and no grounds or "shorts" are on any of the wires, then it is time to visit the battery service station, not before. The greater number of starts and stops, the greater the care required to see that, before cranking begins, COMMON SENSE 1109 DEAD 1150 BATTERY 1190 HALF 1225 CHARGE 1250 FULL 1280 CHARGE DRINK EVERY 50 OFTEN A LITTLE ON THE PART OF ITS MASTER THAT ANY BATTERY DEMANDS everything is made ready to enable a prompt start of the engine. Only those whose money is more abundant than their grey matter should hold the starter button down while they are on and when the engine won't start. After such a work-out the battery is as much "all in" as a sprinter after a closely contested quarter-mile race. In winter the battery has the odds heavily against it. Its work is much harder because of stiff oil and cold gasoline, and in addition, the low temperature reduces its own ability to recover and to build up charge. Hence extra care is required to ensure that the battery is as possible. 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