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THE GAZETTE DuBois Roasts School Heads! IN UNION IT IS STRONGER FORTY-SECOND YEAR, No. 17 DuBois FURNISHED APARTMENTS FOR RENT The Brownley-Hayes Hotel 2151 E. 40th St. Cor. Cedar Ave. (Ran. 6091 W), Cleveland, O. , W. L. BROWN, Owner and Manager START THE NEW YEAR RIGHT! Attend the 1 R Musical Service at Mt. Zion Congregational Church Central Avenue and E. 55th Street. January 1, 1925 3:30 to 4:30 P. M. ADMISSION 25 CENTS Talent from some of the largest churches in our city. Organ rec promptly at 3:30 o'clock by one of Cleveland's best organists. Auspices of Mt. Zion Congregational Choir. Committee: M. Thomas W. Fleming, Chr.; Mr. J. Noble, Mrs. J. T. Suggs. FORTY-SECOND YEAR, No.17 FURNISHED APARTMENTS FOR RENT The Brownley-Hayes Hotel 2151 E. 40th St. Cor. Cedar Ave. (Ran. 6091 W), Cleveland, O. W. L. BROWN, Owner and Manager Attend the 1 R Musical Service at Mt. Zion Congregational Church, Central Avenue and E. 55th Street January 1, 1925 3:30 to 4:30 P. M. ADMISSION 25 CENTS Auspleces of Mt. Zion Congregational Choir. Committee: Mrs. Thomas W. Fleming, Chr.; Mr. J. Noble, Mrs. J. T. Suggs. SUITS and OVERCOATS Buy at Our Factory— At Wholesale Price $2250 All One Price SUITS and OVERCOATS Buy at Our Factory— At Wholesale Price GORDON CLOTHES Salesroom at Factory—5604 Cedar Ave., at E. 55th St. ke any Cedar Ave. or E. 55th St. car direct to our factory. Milk With A Message With every bottle of rich and pure milk you receive from our dairy comes to you this great message of a new future, a better social order, where man shall work with man in peace, where children shall be happy, and women free—a future where service shall be the sole object of all business transaction. City Co-Operative Dairy Company 9004 Woodland Ave. For service call Garfield 834 $SAVE $SAVE $SAVE $SAVE CLEAN SWEEP SALE FRIDAY AND SATURDAY ONLY The greatest sale of the year. Our entire stock of Ladies' Coats and Dresses at One-Half Price nad Less. This is our loss and your gain. You will positively get a Coat or Dress at less than wholesale prices. COME EARLY — BE CONVINCED Ladies' Silk and Serge Dresses, Ladies' Winter Coats, with fur Regularly $10.00, for $4.98 regularly $25.00, for $9.98 New York Department Store GORDON CLOTHES Salesroom at Factory----5604 Cedar Ave., at E. 55th St. any Cedar Ave. or E. 55th St. car direct to our factory. Milk With A Message With every bottle of rich and pure milk you receive from our dairy comes to you this great message of a new future, a better social order, where man shall work with man in peace, where children shall be happy, and women free—a future where service shall be the sole object of all business transaction. City Co-Operative Dairy Company, 9004 Woodland Ave. For service call Garfield 8341 The greatest sale of the year. Our entire stock of Ladies' Coats and Dresses at One-alf Price nad Less, Ladics' Silk and Serge Dresses, Ladics' Winter Coats, with fur Regularly $10.00, for $4.98 regularly $25.00, for $9.98 New York Department Store 2114 WOODLAND AVE 2114 WOODLAND AVE. ```markdown ``` IRV SPRITZ SAYS:— Be sure and come in this week and see the lovely display of Xmas Jewelry, and the New Clothes in from New York. IRV SPRITZ JIM SHIELD SAYS:— A. B. And see how easy we are making the terms this week. Many nice Christmas presents sold on $1 a week payments. Between Euclid and Prospect SPRITZ Next to Columbia Theatre 2067 EAST 9TH STREET ESTABLISHED, AUGUST 25, 1883 And Issued Every Week on Time Since CLEVELAND, OHIO, SATURDAY., DECEMBER 20, 1924. FRESH OHIO NEWS Written By "The Old Reliable" Gazette's Correspondents What Our People Are Doing Each Week—Church, Personal, Social, Lodge, Literary and Musical—Marriages, Deaths, Etc. CORRESPONDENTS must mail all Mrs. America Williams and daughter letters for publication at their math Mrs. Mary, this week, who are postoffice sufficiently early on Monday every day (or Sunday) of each week to bring Mr. Jesse Coin, well known have them reach The Gazette office brick-mason, dropped lead, Monday on Tuesday morning, and always morning, out at his barn. He has 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. CADIZ.—The churches are preparing for Christmas. The A. M. E. sub-bath school, under the direction of Supt. R. F. Ballard, is preparing a contata, "Listening In," to be rendered Nmas night. Key F. H. Mason, pastor, is delivering a series of sermons that are attracting the attention of the community, judging by the marked increase in attendance. Leander Blue, a World-War Veteran, who died, in E. Liverpool. HILLSHIORO—Roger Williams is spending the winter in Clearwater Fla.—Chrance Hudson and Henry Grasson motored to Springfield Saturday, and were guests of Mr. and Mrs. Zack Lewis. Mrs. Archie Cole is conjugative. Mose Trimble, who died, recently, in Virginia, lived here until a few years ago. Joseph Cole, Jr., is better. Mav. J. J. Turr preached at the Baptist church. Sunday, Miss May Camings and Day, Miss Jill Camings last Thursday, to do their Xmas shopping—Rosetta Nelson and Arnita Burr, Wilberforce students, are expected to arrive, Saturday, to spend the holidays with their parents.—Lyman Ross spent last Thursday in Cincinnati.—Miss Blanche Garnes and Mr. Albert Johns visited "Yields in Majesty To None"—We Have Much To Be Proud of, Ancient and Modern—Interesting Facts. New York City.—Willard Price has the following of special interest to our readers in a recent issue of the Christian Herald, published weekly at Bible House, this city: "Negro scholars are now beginning to dig from the archives of history the records of Negro culture and civilization in Africa when Egypt was young and before Babylon was built. "The world often forgets that the Negro has an ancient history which yields in majesty to none. He derives his heritage not merely from the jungles of Africa, but from the fertile valley of, the Nile, whose monuments are still among the supreme wonders of the world. "The ancient Egyptians represented about the same racial mixture as that of the Afro-American—that is, the right unlucky to absolutely Negro types. The pure-blooded white man was rare among their leaders; the pure-blooded black man rather common. Indeed, it is evident from the pictures on the monuments that in the greatest age of Egyptian building the Pharaohs were distinctly Negro in type. Queen Nefeteri, the most venerated figure in Egyptian history, was a Negress of great beauty and ability. "Is is not familiarly known that the great Sphinx was carved with a Negro face—benign, magnanimous, inscrutable." KLAN SCHOOL BILLS LOOM. Youngstown, O.—Legislation affecting both public and parochial schools probably will be introduced at this session of the Ohio legislature, Clyde W. Osborne, grand dragon of the Klu Klu Klan in the state, said he did not know the source from which the bill would originate nor its nature, nor what the attitude of the klan toward it would be. "When all the bills have been put in the hopper," he said. "the titans of the klan will meet to determine the attitude of the organization and whether it will be necessary to introduce other legislation." He said the klan would favor a change in the present election laws, but did not state the nature of the change sought. A Striking Happening. Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, president of Columbia University, said recently: "There are few more striking happenings in modern history than the advance of the colored people in the United States in the short period of fifty years following the abolition of slavery. They have been faced by every possible handicap; they have been confronted with every possible prejudice, and they have had to surmount every possible obstacle." Mrs. Amelia Williams and daughter, Mrs. Mary, this week, who are entertained for three, Monday evening. Mr. Jesse Coin, well known brick-mason, dropped head, Monday morning, out at his barn. He had been in poor health for some time. CADIZ. - The churches are preparing for Christmas. The A. M. E. subbath school, under the direction of Supt. R. P. Ballard, is preparing a contuta, "Listening in," to, be rendered Nimas night. Rev. F. H. Mason, pastor, is delivering a series of sermons that are attracting the attention of the community, judging by the marked increase in attendance. Joander Blue, a World-War Veteran, who died, in E. Liverpool, was buried from Simpson M. E. church. Rev. A. E. Holland officiating. Rev. and Mrs. W. S. Penney of Wayneburg were among the relatives from a distance. Miss Georgia West was called to Pittsburgh by relatives of her brother, Alice West. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Macon and Mr. and Mrs. Charles Christie spent at Sunday in Steuben, visiting Mr. and Mr. Thomas West. Carl Eindley, son of Mr. and Mrs. Monzo Howard and another overseas soldier, who died suddenly in Steubenville, was buried from St. James A. M. E. church. Rev. F. H. Mason officiating, assisted by Rev. W. H. Lucas. The aged mother has the sympathy of all in her bereavement. Among the relatives from a distance were: Bingham Benford of Zanesville, and Miss Alice Benford of Pittsburgh. MINNEAPOLIS AND ST. PAUL CLIPPINGS Minneapolis has less Afro-American employees in its post-office than St. Paul, and yet the former is the larger city of the two, and has a larger Afro-American population. Many of our citizens here own valuable property upon which high taxes are paid. Many are looking forward to the new administration to open new ways and avenues by which our people will get a more favorable opportunity to better their living conditions and to get a former basis upon which to stand as citizens—Mrs. Fanny Harper, one of our old and highly respected residents, died last Friday. She leaves a son and two grandchildren to mourn her loss. She will be greatly missed by all. Her was a life of usefulness. Mrs. Harper was a member of the Household of Ruth. It had charge of the funeral—Mrs. Wm. Kruger, of St. Paul, presented her husband an elegant graphophone as a birthday present. Mr. and Mrs. Kruger are among our most prosperous residents. —Border M. E. church's P. E. will preach, Sunday. Rev. Storrs and his assistant pastor, Rev. Smith, are doing much to promote a unity of spirit and religious freedom. KU KLUX KLAN DENOUNCED By a Catholic Bishop in The Pulpit Of a Jewish Temple—"Demon's Of Night". Ku Klux Klansmen, "members of an invisible empire, who, working in the dark, seek to stir up hatreds and persecutions", were vigorously condemned by Bishop Joseph Schrembs, head of the Cleveland Catholic diocese, at a meeting of the B'nai Brith, last week Thursday evening. "Tear the mask and hood from their shamed faces and show them in their true light," the bishop urged. He asked this treatment in the use of "righteous propaganda." The bishop was speaking in the Jewish Temple, Ansel Rd. and E. 105th St. "Friends of the B'nai Brith," he said, "it is time every American childen should wake up to the tremendous problem which confronts us at this time. In war or peace we need not be ashamed of our record thru the 150 years of our country's history. We must rededicate ourselves and our children in the spirit of 1776 and must learn again, as never before, to insist upon our fundamental rights." Inallenable rights of men, whether Afro-American, Catholic, Protestant, gentile or Jew, as guaranteed by the Declaration of Independence and the constitution, the bishop declared, were being attacked by "self-constituted guardians of liberty, robed demons of the night, who rally at the flare of a burning cross and stand for mob rule and violence." Atty. Herbert Jamison and mother of Chicago were called here by the recent death of his father, Judge W. I. Jamison. Drunken Southern White Brute Injured Home and Shoots to Death a Wife He Had Already Outraged. Anderson, S. C.—The story of a murder committed by a southern white brute of South Carolina, upon the wife of a peacable and respected member of the race, appeared in the local daily Mail, Dec. 8. The murderer, Joe Wright, not only deliberately killed the woman but accidentally wounded one of her children. Wright had been charged by her husband, about a year ago, of a crime against his wife. For this Wright and been indicted. The case had been in court postponed. It was due to be heard in the court of general counsel at Abileneville, next month. On Dec. 6, Wright, who was noticing with some friends, all of them full of whiskey, stopped before the man's home and Wright said, according to the Daily Mail: "I generally drive my own car, but I was a little too full, so I got one of the boys to drive for me. I was riding and telling him which way to go. I had the car stopped and they thought. I guessed that I had gone in there for some whiskey. I went in and did what I intended to do and came back out, and got in the car and told them to drive on. I told 'em that I had' killed a damnager woman." The man, his wife, and their children were seated at dinner when the drunken white bride hustled into the room, and with the questions: Where is the bride? Is she dead? and entombing? Is she the woman sitting up and running on the door? Is she the door and coming out? Is she the door and coming out? Is she the door and coming out? Are they all in the same room? The American Dude. Mail commenting of actually upon the murder of the bride for justice against the murder of the bride? "It is useless for us to tell of what would have happened had the positions been reversed, had it been a Norwegian man, had the home of a white man and committed such a crime, for everyone knows what would have happened. We do not want, with man-duin sentiment, to attempt to prejudice the case against the prisoner; nor do we want to array class and color in such a manner as to argue for his acquittal. We do, though, want to remind those from whom there has always arisen such a howl for the observance of the law, that here is an opportunity to prove sincerity." OUT STAR DEFEATS SYRACYUSE Great Defense of Brice Taylor Stops Easterners' Attack—Has Only One Hand—Thorp's Comment. Los Angeles, Cal., Before 47,500 enthusiastic cheersing fans, Syracuse University went down to a 16 to 0 defeat before University of Southern California in Exposition Park Stadium, last week. In every department of the game save beckoning, Syracuse was outplayed. The brilliant and ever work of the Bryant African American prize exhibition one of the greatest exhibitions of defensive playing the Pacific coast can ever hope to see. Taylor Saved the Day. Taylor Saved the Day. Writing in the Los Angeles "Examiner" Tom Thorp, noted football expert, and official, says: "Taylor, the Negro guard, is a defensive player of sterling quality. You more a substantial way than this sturdy star. He comes up to meet an incoming back with the speed and power of a locomotive. His fine playing did much to stop Syracuse's attack. Once when McBride, Syracuse star, back, shook himself loose and was on his way for a touchdown, Taylor saved the day for U. S. C. by getting the Syracuse star from the rear. This play, to our way of thinking, was one of the bright features of U. S. C.'s playing." Taylor, deprived of a left hand by Mother Nature, came to the University of California from Seattle. Washington, where he was the sensation of the Northwest in high school athletics. Besides a star football player Taylor is attack star of promising ability. Replies To Rhineland. Ney Rochelle, N. Y.—A general denial of the allegations in the complaint of the marriage annulment suit filed by Leonard "Kip" Rhinlander, is contained in the answer of his wife, Mrs. Alice Jones Rhinlander, which her attorney, Saml F. Swinburne, has made public. Rhinlander, in his suit, charges her with having misrepresented her, race to him. Her father is "dark" and at one time lived in the West Indies. Mrs. "Kip" was born and lived in England until she and her father came to this country some years ago and located here. Night Gowns and Hoods. Sight Glohls and Hoods. Philadelphia, Pa.-The 'Ku Klux Klan can no longer be considered a menace, because after its members have worn "nightgowns" and hoods" for a period of two years at a cost of $10 a year, they tire of such an organization. Edgar N. Baldwin told the American Civic Liberties Union at a meeting in the City Club. Broad Street below Spruce, one night, last week. SINGLE COPY FIVE CENTS SAYS PRESIDENT OF FISK UNIVERSITY TOOK OUR GIRLS INTO CABARETS. And Took Them Thru Kitchens—Conditions Also Bad At Hampton, Lincoln, Howard and Others of Our Universities, Colleges and Schools—"Pacifists Damned Fools," Says Du Bois. New York City, Pacifists were also club departed for England the termed damned fools who do not or resident arranged a concert in town know what is going on by Dr. W. E. with the colored members of his faculty "jim crowed," the colored assisite of the American Mercury, of dience "jim crowed," and separate which Henry B. Mencken, (whi$h), windows for white and Negroes to Baltimore, is an editor, on the buy tickets" "Delma of the Neuro". According to Dutlois, the insults awarded Negroes, segregation and racial hatred, is adding to the bill of desirity which the darker world holds against the white. Eventually he says, there will come a day of group friction, reciprocal hate and world war. Pacifists, he declared, are silent about these racial troubles in the United States and are doing nothing about it. "The damned fools do not even know what's going on." Even in the North this attitude of the South is reflected. At Lincoln University in Pennsylvania, the faculty consists of a body of white professors and white and colored instructors, and colored male students. No black man has ever been appoint- Lincoln University. Schools Are Scored. Illustrating how the whites are using every means to humiliate the Negro in Dabois says: "There's at Hampton a colored woman teacher who has the Phil Bela Kepskey from Oberlin. A meeting of the chapter in Virginia was called at Williamburg. Her name was collaboratively omitted from the list of persons invited by the authorities of Hampton; and when the white teachers learned this by accident and in protest refused to go, the principal, Dr. Groeg, and the dean of wghen, a southern white woman, went to repre-sent Hampton. "Similar things are happening at Fisk. Fisk has had southern white teachers who have declined even to greet their colored colleagues on the campus. Gradually the colored professors are being forced out and no new ones appointed. Not a single dean or head of a department today is colored. In order to forward his campaign to raise fifty thousand dollars of endowment in the white South, President McKenzie made use of the celebrated Fisk music. The South loves the Negro folk-song and Fisk can sing it. But the white South will not come to Fisk to hear Fisk sing. Fisk must come to it and come on its knees. Just as the South refuses to my wife and daughter, as to white prostitutes, the title of Mrs. and Miss, just so it demands that Negroes entering its homes or clubs enter by the kitchen door." Took Girls to Ex-Cabaret. "Last year the president of Fisk took the girls' glee club, composed of young women from the best Negro families of America, downtown to the Grotta, a former ratskeller. He sent them into the kitchen curance and had them, sing to white men in a smoke-filled room. Later he took them out to a fashionable southern Girls' finishing-school, and again sent them into the kitchen door and had them sing to these supercilious young ladies. When the male Something of Our Workers on The Steam of the States of the United States Figures showing the number and classification of Negro employees of steam railway lines, as summarized by the Department of Labor, conclusively show the entrance, advancement, and permanency of employment of Negro workers in one of the most important industries of the country. In all, there are 136,065 Negro railhands who are directly engaged in handling or safeguarding the transportation of persons or property over the lines of the various steam railway carriers of the United States. Negro railway employees are usually thought of as porters, and the 139,065 total contains train and Pullman porters in the number of 20,224 of whom 23 are colored women. The other classified railway occupations, however, show that rail transportation workers of the Negro race are in no wise confined to providing traveling comforts and performing domestic service for passengers. In fact, the summary shows that there are two Negro officials and superintendents of rail lines, located in Ohio and Florida. Ninety-seven Negro telephagers, well distributed over the country, are actually engaged in safeguarding passengers and property. There are 111 engineers and 6,478 firemen; 202 inspectors of way and structures; 202 telegraphers and telephone linemen; 33 conductors; 111 bagmen and freight agents; 254 switchmen and linemen; 1,195 formen and overseers; 2,377 boiler washers and engine hostlers; 4,465 brakemen; 65,713 laborers; and 1,961 workers. IN UNION I IS STRONGER LE COPY FIVE CENTS eads! UGLY CHARGES! FISK UNIVERSITY TOOK NTO CABARETS. chens—Conditions Also Bad Howard and Others of Our ages and Schools— Fools," Says Du Bois. The club departed for England the prudent arranged a concert in town with the colored members of his faculty "jim crowed", the colored audience "jim crowed", and separate windows for white and Negroes to buy tickets! Lincoln University. Even in the North this attitude of the South is reflected. At Lincoln University in Pennsylvania, the faculty consists of a body of white professors and white and colored instructors, and colored male students. No black man has ever been appoint- Prof. W. E. B. Du Bois. ed a professor at Lincoln and the black alumni are without voice or influence on the board of trustees. Many of the white teachers have been conscientious and thorough, but can the Negro, race accept without protest an institution which draws the color line in its own faculty? Howard University. At Howard University, with colored and white teachers, colored and white trustees and a white president, we have perpetual turmoil over the president's attitude toward folks and his treatment of colored professors. The alumni of these institutions have long hesitated. If they complain, if they assert their power of boycott, what will follow? Will a change from one white president to another mean anything? In most cases it will not. What, then, will a change to a colored president mean? First, it will mean a wholly colored faculty, for what white person will dare to brave public opinion by serving under a Negro superior? It will mean, in many cases, a more or less complete withdrawal of white philanthropy—and the higher education, in both white and black America, is mainly dependent on the rich. employed at miscellaneous occupations, such as ticket agents and station hands, who are not classified in official listings. The total includes an appreciable number of female employees who work as porters, laborers, telegraph operators, etc. The New York State rail lines, in fact, boast of four female Negro telegraphers. Illinois, with the veteran J. H. Kelley, who for more than forty years has been a telegrapher for the Illinois Central Railroad Company, takes first place in the period of employment service. Geographically, these 136,065 Negro rail hands are well distributed throughout every state in the Union. Georgia leads, with 10,865, and is followed by Louisiana, with 9,141; Virginia, 9,010; Alabama, 8,844; Texas, 8,381; Tennessee, 8,170; Mississippi, 7,744; North Carolina, 5,321; Florida, 5,091; Illinois, 4,554; Arkansas, 4,184; Kentucky, 3,916; South Carolina, 3,858; Missouri, 3,706; Pennsylvania, 3,569; Ohio, 3,219; Maryland, 2,221; West Virginia, 2,052; Oklahoma, 1,807; Indiana, 1,167; New York, 1,127. Each of the remaining states has less than 1,000 Negro rail workers. New Hampshire, with its 1 brakeman, 2 laborers, and 1 switchman, completes the list. The summary plainly shows that avenues of employment in the transportation industry are rapidly being opened to the colored worker and that his future in this phase of employment has a particularly bright aspect. HOLIDAY NOTICE All correspondence and other matter for publication in our issue of Dec. 27, 1924, must be mailed The Gazette not later than Sunday, Dec. 21, 1924. Correspondents and others will please remember this. Editor. I'll tell you what let's do! Let's make faces!--the one who makes the ugliest face wins!-ill start. HERE GOES! LOOK! YOU WIN, MISS GEEVUM! --but I haven't started- IDEA BING! EARLY NURSING Tim Early (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 Address all communications HARRY C. SMITH Editor and Proprietor THE GAZETTE (Bell 'Phone: Cherry 1259) 214-215 Blackstone Bldg. 1426 W. Third St. Cleveland, Ohio Member Ohio Legislature: 1894 to 1896; 1896 to 1898; 1900 to 1902 THE GAZETTE is the oldest and has the largest bona fide circulation, double that of any newspaper in the interest of Afro-Americans published in the state of Ohio, and comparison with any will immediately establish its rank as one of the NEWSIEST AND BEST in the country. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1924 SATURDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1924 The spectacle of a Catholic bishop condemning the ku klux klan in a Jewish temple is encouraging, to say the least. "Negro" politicians, particularly the so-called "Negro Leaders", are "associated pie-hunters". If you are inclined to question this, just notice the scramble for political jobs under Coolidge they have already inaugurated. Their over-wearing desire for jobs far outweigh their loyalty to the race, their self and race respect. Once again, we call our people's attention to the fact that the ku klux klan will make an effort at the session of the State Assembly, which opens in January, to change the laws of the state so as to permit the legal existence of "jim-crow" schools. We will need effective organization to successfully oppose this effort and should start at once to perfect it. --- According to southern daily newspapers, President Coolidge's Virginia "illy-white" secretary, C. Bascomb Slemp, has informed them that what the President said about "The Negro", in his recent message to the Congress, was simply "a political act to appease colored supporters". He might have gone a little further and said that that was about all the "colored supporters" are going to get from the Coolidge administration, too. A Mississippi "cracker", a member of the lower House of the Congress, objects to the $400,000 appropriation for Howard university on the ground that "Washington will become more and more a 'Mecca' for the 'Negro' race". He fears the domination of the national capital by the "Negro" race, if the voters in the District of Columbia should ever be given the franchise. Awful, isn't it? --- "The Negro has an ancient history which yields in majesty to none", says Mr. Willard Price in The Christian Herald. Have your children familiarize themselves with this ancient history and "get busy" yourself along the same line. It will instill race pride, stimulate the right kind of self pride and make for greater race loyalty. Three essentials greatly needed by too many of our people. --- Rev. E. N. Bryant of Tulsa, head of the Fraternal Benevolent Relief Association of the United Brothers and Sisters of the World, who has been in the city about ten days on business connected with his organization, paid The Gazette a very pleasant visit, last week. Dr. Bryant was our live-wire independent candidate for U. S. senator from Oklahoma prior to the recent election and made a splendid showing, all things considered. O. We are coming'; slowly, but surely. --- Dr. Joe T. Thomas announced, last week, that his Lincoln hospital, which is to train our girls for nursing, is nearing completion at 2406 E. 40th St., Cleveland, and that it will be formally opened, Feb. 12. Lincoln's birthday; that it contains 16 rooms, with 15 to be added when his home in front of it is remodeled as another unit. No one has any objection to the doctor's hospital. It is only when it is sought to make an institution of that kind a "jim-crow" annex to local city or county institutions of a like nature that objection is raised. --- The brutal killing of that mother and the wounding of one of her children by a white brute while they were dining in their own home near Anderson, S. C., recently, and the slippant manner in which the drunken scoundrel spoke of his dastardly deed to a representative of the Anderson Daily Mail shows the high (?) regard for the law, held by the THE GEEVUM GIRLS masses of "white" people in that state, when our people are concerned. The murderous brute had already outraged the poor mother and was under indictment for that heinous crime. It was to get rid of this indictment that he shot the poor woman to death. Lord, have mercy! See Anderson, S. C., letter, elsewhere in this paper. A "NEGRO" ON COOLIDGE When he (President Coolidge) inaugurates his own policies, as distinguished from the policies handed down from his lamented predecessor, he may be expected to take a position that none may misunderstand. That his policies will include the recognition of the Negro as an integral part of American citizenship, no one who has been a political career can doubt. —N. Y. Aye. Optimism is oftimes a splendid thing to have. But in the case of President Coolidge, we fail to see how or where Editor Fred R. Moore got his. In all of the positions Mr. Coolidge held while a resident of Massachusetts, he failed to recognize "the Negro as an integral factor of American citizenship", so some of our best residents of Boston, who know Mr. Coolidge well, inform the writer. During the year he has been President, he has shown our people practically no recognition whatever, and we do not believe that he intends to. Indeed, we fail to see how any one, "who has followed his political career", can do so and this includes our esteemed conferee, the editor of the New York Age. COOLIDGE ON "THE NEGRO." In his recent message to the Congress, President Calvin Coolidge said: "I firmly believe that it is better for all concerned that they (Negroes) should be cheerfully accorded their full constitutional rights, that they should be protected from all of those impositions to which, from their position, they naturally fall a speciality from the crime of lynching, that they should receive every encouragement to become full partakers in all the blessings of our common American citizenship." One would think after reading the foregoing that the President was speaking of other than American citizens. He "firmly believes" is hardly the expression that should have been used. There is no question, or rather ought not to be any in the President's mind when it comes to according full constitutional rights and protection to ALL American citizens, and the President should have expressed himself in such a positive manner as to remove any idea that any person may have that there should be such a question in anyone's mind. Moreover, his administration should practice what he preaches. Little confidence can be placed in what the President says about according "full constitutional rights and protection from impositions" when he permits such widespread and insulting segregation of our employees in so many government departments within the shadow of the White House. Of all persons in this country, the President should be consistent when it comes to "according full constitutional rights, and protection from all impositions" practiced upon any group of American citizens; and encourage all, even Afro-Americans, to become "full partakers in all the blessings of our common American citizenship" by eliminating racial segregation from the departments in Washington and elsewhere in the government service. ELIMINATION OF JOHNSON ASKED! Washington, D. C.—Senator Walter F. George (Democrat, Ga.), has asked President Coolidge to eliminate Henry Lincoln Johnson, Republican national committeeman, Negro leader and G. O. P. campaigner and pacifier in the last campaign, as patronage distributor for Georgia because he is unfit for the job. Senator George said he is not opposing Johnson as patronage dispenser because of his color, but on the ground that he is not willing to act wisely. Johnson, he added, is domiciled in Washington and is represented by agents in Georgia. He said that some of those who claim to represent him, and among them white men, are more undesirable to the people of the state than Johnson himself. If memory serves us correctly, several years ago Henry Lincoln Johnson's confirmation as recorder of deeds of the District of Columbia THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, O. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1924 was defeated by the Georgia Democratic U. S. senators, as the result of charges similar to those hinted at in the foregoing, only possibly more serious. At the time, we felt that the question of color was the real and sole cause of their opposition to him. This feeling, too, was general among our people thrueout the country. But since Henry Lincoln's speeches in Ohio, both prior to and after this state's primary campaign, early this fall, we have been forced to change our opinion of that individual, sent here (at $150 a month, it is said) by the Coolidge control of the Republican National Committee of which he is the member from Georgia. While campaigning in Ohio, Johnson, doubtless at the behest of his political bosses, rarely if ever lost an opportunity to try to discourage loyal Ohio Afro-Americans who were enthusiastically supporting the candidacy of Mr. George W. Shanklin of Springfield for the Republican nomination as Lieutenant-Governor, and that of the writer, for Governor. This showed a woeful lack of self and race pride as well as rare loyalty, and any Afro-American who can so lower himself in the estimation of his people, and all other broad-minded and fair persons, is very apt to be open to more or less serious charges eminating from almost any source which would of course include the Democratic U. S. senators of the South. Johnson's conduct in this state, referred to, was so reprehensible and indefensible that we confess to a growing belief there may be more real good foundation to Senator George's objection than has been made clear to the reading public. Henry Lincoln Johnson is far from being "the great Negro leader" he is "cracked up" to be by a number of our contemporaries, and there are thousands of loyal Ohio Afro-Americans who believe as we do in his case. He was a willing tool in the hands of the Coolidge leaders during the recent campaign, even to the extent of exposing a woeful lack of self and race pride and loyalty to the race. It would not surprise us in the least if President Coolidge consented to the demand for the elimination of Henry Lincoln. Indeed, it would be just exactly what we expect, because the President, we believe, will practically eliminate all of our people when the question of federal patronage in Georgia and elsewhere is reached. Nets Xmas Fund $22,000 New York City.—The Christmas fund boxing show which saw Tom Gibbons and "Tiger" Flowers gain sensational knockout victories, netted the fund a total of $22,607, according to the official figures. Flowers knockout of Johnny Willett soaked up the championship, made a championship match with Harry Greb inevitable, according to well informed boxing men. Our advertisers want your trade. Those who do not ask for it in the columns of "The Old Reliable" Gazette certainly care little, if at all, for it. Therefore, we urge our readers and all of our friends to patronize those who ask in this paper for your patronage.—Editor. RACE PREJUDICE1 "I am convinced myself that there is no more evil thing in this present world than race prejudice; none at all" "I write deliberately—it is the worst single thing in life now. It justifies and holds together more baseness, cruelty and abomination than any other sort of error in the world." —H. G. Wella. CHARACTER, Character, like a fine old tree, matures slowly and is a ripier growth than success that is, forced as hothouse products are forced. Character in a newspaper develops through years of service to the people. For forty-two years The Gazette has been serving our people of this country. It has gathered a reader-clientele whose tastes it reflects, and whose power and responsiveness to buy are direct measures of its present importance to every advertiser. WHAT'S BEEN DONE IN ONE DECADE INVENTIONS THAT HAVE REVOLUTIONIZED THE WORLD HERE RECORDED. Progress Has Been Rapid Since Engine Was Invented. The most significant event in the annals of human achievement was the invention of the steam engine. Its introduction divided recorded time into two distinctly defined eras, and it may well be said that the entire history of man's material endeavors counts forward or backward from that comparatively recent event. As soon after this event as distracted civilization could be released from the stifling bondage of incessant warfare, the problem of applying this mighty energy to the needs of man began in earnest—with an energy, capacity and genius never ceasing and never before equaled. Thus was inaugurated the age of machinery, of invention, of industrialism—an age vitally different from all that precedes it, and during which the basis of society was more completely altered and the economic and political structure more fundamentally revolutionized than in all the preceding centuries of civilization put together. Of the ten decades which may be roughly stated as covering this not able period of development not one has failed to contribute its quota toward the sum of great inventive achievements. Each and every decade has seen the origin of some transcendent act for the advancement of material civilization. The decade most fraught with achievement up to the invention of the telephone was the 1870-1850 period, during which the receiver, vulcanization of rubber, sewing machine and telegraph were perfected. These inventions, by far the most notable of the decade were gil American, and marked the culmination of Yankee ingenuity. It is safe to assert that no other people in any equal short span of time can point to a record of accomplishments so marvelous and so revolutionizing, industrially and socially. 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The few who dare, must speak and speak again to right the wrongs of many.—Ella Wheeler Wilcox. --- Where To Purchase The Gazette NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS Subscribers not receiving The Gazette regularly should notify us at once. We desire every copy delivered promptly. Send or bring locals and all business matters to The Gazette office, 214-215 Blackstone Bldg. If you wish to see the editor call there, please. We advise our readers to carefully examine The Gazette's advertisements before making purchases. Business men who advertise in this paper should have the patronage of our people. The fact that they advertise is assurance that they want it. Ali reading matter for publication in current issues of The Gazette must be in the office by 4 p. m., TUESDAY of that week, at the latest. Display advertisements accepted until noon, WEDNESDAYS! HARRY C. SMITH, 215 Blackstone Bldg. Cor. W. Third St. and Frankfort Ave., Cleveland, O. Notary Public Bell Phone: Cherry 1259 H. 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Mrs. Jessie Bolden was hostess to the Research club at its recent meeting. Next meeting at Mrs. N. Burton's, E. 80th St. Dr. A. W. Mercer of Chicago, en route to Pennsylvania, recently, visited his cousin, Mrs. Geo. A. Myers, of Passadena Ave. Mr. Wm. Ashby, of Newark, N. J., was the guest of Dr. V. O. Beck, while in the city, recently. They were classmates in college. One of our letter carriers was given a long sentence (10 years) in the federal prison, the first of the week, for stealing money (about $15) from a letter. Miller's Kola Tonic is fine. Try it! Splendid for the blood and to "tone up" the system. See advertisement, elsewhere in this paper.—Adv. In a little over four years the country has paid off one-fifth of its war debt. Were the same rate to continue, the entire obligation would be liquidated in twenty years. St. John's A. M. E. choir will give its 28th recital, Sunday, from 4 to 5 p. m. It will sing the beautiful sacred cantata, "The Dawn of Christmas." All seats free. Silver offering. Mrs. Ida B. Carey and daughter, Miss Getha, of New Vienna, arrived, Thursday, to spend Christmas with her son, L. R. Carey, E. 38th T. Their many friends here will doubtless make it very pleasant for them. Dr. and Mrs. Leon Tancil, the latter a daughter of Judge and Mrs. Robt. H. Terrell of Washington, D. C., were guests of Miss Dorothy Myers, Pasadena Ave., recently, enroute to Chicago from the nation's capital. Mrs. Georgiana Jackson dropped dead, last week Tuesday, at the funeral services of her husband, Limus Jackson, which was being conducted at Gethsema Baptist church. This caused the son to order a double funeral. The Jacksons lived at 3153 Orange Ave. Bernice Radcliffe, 3335 Central Ave., accused of stabbing to death Frank Jones, 3125 Scovill Ave., dur- I CAN'T UNDERSTAND WHY WOMEN INSIST UPON GIVING TIES FOR GIFTS, DURN IT! THE GAZETTE, OLEVELAND, O.SATURDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1924 *M. KLEIMAN'S 2028 Central Ave. D. BARBEE'S 2006 Central Ave. BENJ. AKERS, 3519 Central Ave. *TREE S. & S. DRUG CO. 7325 Central Ave. SUBSCRIBERS The Gazette regularly should notify by delivered promptly. business matters to The Gazette If you wish to see the editor fearfully examine The Gazette's ad- hocies. Business men who adver- the patronage of our people. The ance that they want it. ication in current issues of The 4 p. m., TUESDAY of that week, ments accepted until noon, WEB- 215 Blackstone Bldg. Bankfort Ave., Cleveland, O. Bell Phone: Cherry 1259 ing a quarrel, Oct. 9, was freed of the charge, last week Thursday, when the grand jury failed to return a true bill because of insufficient evidence. Thelma Louise, a student of Heldeberg university, at Tiffin, spent her Thanksgiving holidays with her parents, Dr. and Mrs. Oliver A. Taylor of Crawford Rd., who also entertained Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Walker of Chicago, en route from Washington to Philadelphia. "The Clarabelle", $920 Cedar Ave., is the name of our women's club house, formally opened with a social function, last week Tuesday afternoon. It was neatly decorated. Mrs. Cora W. Robinson acted as hostess, assisted by Mesdames Beulah Jackson, Julia Milton, Minnie Stakeley, Irene Dillard and Hattie Steward. One of the most enjoyable dinners given during the Thanksgiving season was that of Mr. and Mrs. Wm. A. Webster, 86th St., at the P. W. A. The guests were Mesdames Johnson and Banks, Mr. Wm. Moseby of Polks' Homes, Misses Jane Hunter and Mable Harris. Plans to raise funds for a new home for the Phillis Wheatley association were to be outlined Wednesday noon at a meeting of the board at the Hotel Hollenden. The association brought its quarters at 2269 E. 40th St. and will build a new place at E. 46th St. and Cedar Ave.-Cleveland News-Leader, Dec. 10, '24. The Assembly Study club met at Mrs. Hattle Hildreth's, E. 46th St., recently, and enjoyed a session of study and discussion. A review of article I of the U. S. Constitution was given by Mrs. Callie Davis. The new members were Mrs. Alex H. Martin and Mrs. Nellie Cox. Visitor, Mrs. Chas. Ellott. Next meeting, at Mrs. Mildred Gants', 2437 E. 89th St. The Young Men's Civic Committee and Women's League, headquarters at 4910 Central Ave. S, V. Perry, pres., and George S. Stokes, etc., have issued a circular-letter approving the re-establishment of the segregated district; and an insurance policy for firemen and policemen, etc., but had not a word to say relative to the critical need of driving the bad "actors", male and female, from the 11th and 12th wards where the most of our people live. The three sons of his Afro-American servants on a plantation in Georgia were remembered in the will, probated last week, of the late Hon. John Jay Stranahan, former state representative from Chagrin Falls. Each is bequeathed $300 for education in the common branches of agricultural pursuits, but none for the ministry. Fred A. Henry B. and Frank F. Stranahan, brothers living in Cleveland, were appointed administrators and will share in the estate. Mrs. Leland French, 4223 Cedar Ave., was hostess to the Inner Circle club, last week Tuesday evening. Three tables were filled by 500 play- M GIRLS MAH GOODBY A BRAN' N NECKTIE FUNERAL HOME ers. Mrs. Cora W. Robinson won first prize and Mrs. Minnie Stakely, second. The annual election of officers resulted as follows: Pres. Mrs. Julia Milton (second term); vice-pres. Mrs. Ruth Thomas! sec. Mrs. Esther Lee; treas. Mrs. Joe Hardaway. A feature of the meeting at Mrs. Milton's, 12905 Superior Ave., was a gift exchange. The club will hold its annual Christmas party at Mrs. French's, Dec. 31. 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 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 not guts." The world respects only those who resent and resist proscriptions 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. LELAND D. FRENCH IS MODERN AND COMPLETE. Funerals are conducted in surroundings that insure privacy and comfort for the family and friends CONSULTATION INVITED Relative to All Details of Funeral Services. 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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 Taft. 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-takers in this city in 1910, restricting white workers to white 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 carried on to its 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 their papers, is tenacious held on to by our Republican President, John F. Kennedy, a colored lady appeared after he had been 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 Mellon and President Coolidge. North Carolina, the home of the other favorite and 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 put his splendid 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 Ku Klux Klan which has found its "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 cateria 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 they reflect, all the 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 the people of the society. Theocker rooms there are 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 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, asking for an 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 whites over him, one after another, though many of the colored employees have won contests in blindness and accuracy in the mold of email. The color workers 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.) (Special to the GAZETTE) Washington, D. C.—The government printing office keeps faith with the government's universal scheme of segregation. So far, the government and its 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, but there are a few tables in an out-of-the-way employee. I am glad to say that few, very few, of our people patronize the places, 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 can pass over our superior employees 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. He was 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. By this time he was immediately dismissed. By this time the 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. I have been denial that the conditions complained to me, and a request for the name myinformants. I knew the fate these informants would suffer so I have never given a single name!! The department then taking the position THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, O. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1924 that it cannot take up the case. It is perfectly clear that this inquisitive scheme of segregation is a difficult thing to fight, since the government is so well settled upon it, and the inhabitants cannot hear witness to it. (Special to The tazette) 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 House, a member of his family visited the bureau where she saw white 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 stay in their places." Three of the 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 discuraged, she came out one stormy afternoon to the Y. M. C. A. to urge them to continue the fight, for democracy was at the crises. Oswald Garrison Villard came to town to bribe and arouse our people, and the National 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 fullness, under the administration of the party that Abraham Lincoln, Charles Summer and Frederick Douglass are helped to found. Our girls are employed there in far larger numbers than in any other branch of the publiec 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 them are not in the best 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 Hanoverian was a man of diles, and in that long sweep of history that the President traversed are the mighty Salmon 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. Blain 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 clerks. Yet there are so scarce there that they can't be trained. There is the same general complaint here among our clerks and other employees as is in the other branches of the government—failure to recognize their efficiency when promotions are due; ability to go so far, and far further. The various forms of segregation exist here as well as elsewhere—the restaurants closed or divided along color lines, and special toilet, locker rooms, rest rooms, etc., set off for colored. The toilers for the colored are few in such a large structure. The segregation forced to end 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 creates. It seats two thousand diners at its tables. Negro! His only share 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 the open 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 this damnable segregation, just as he can condemn that lawless organization the Ku Klux Klan. COOLIDGE'S SEGREGATION 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 the office has been a fact pronounced. This is particularly true of the office of the register of the treasury and the internal revenue bureau. In the former, beaver board walls were maintained until recently. In the latter there have been two cases of discrimination on account of color brought to public view. The words, announcing the election of President Coolidge, were the first to increase segregation in the departments here was on again at full speed. It had slowed up a little during the campaign. Investigation of Bureaus An investigation of the executive departments and bureaues listed below shows that segregation prevails in them as follows: Office of the Register of the Treasury, there are two segregated sections—one with 30 Afro-American employees and the other with 14. Navy Department — one segregated section of 18 of our employees, as well as a segregated lunch room. Census Bureau — a segregated section of 60 Afro-American employees. Bonus Section Bonus section of the War Department—one segregated section of 180 of our employees. Veterans Bureau—a segregated section of 16 employees. Department of Justice—a segregated section of 10 employees in the file room. Internal Revenue segregated section of 7 employees. 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 Gazette desires to make a special request of its readers to do all in their power to promote a new and deserving enterprise. At 4223 Cedar Ave., Leland D. French has established one of the most complete funeral homes in the city and is asking the patronage particularly of our people. He is, too, worthy of it because he is experienced in the business and entirely competent. Mr. French is the son of the late Neptune W. French, and a native of this city; educated in the local public schools. He is a former assistant to Undertaker John W. Adams of Columbus and a graduate of the University of Embalming. Mr. French has been in the undertaking business since 1920 and was formerly located at 5012 Scoville Ave. He is herewelling giving the public, particularly our people, a special invitation to call and inspect his home-like establishment. BIG "INJUNS" ARE DIVIDED One Party Progressive Other Still Pagan SENECAS NUMEROUS Five Thousand Indians of Iroquois Nation live on 87,220 acres in New York State.—Only Five Per Cent These Are Pure NASSAU ARE Pure-Blooded ALBANB. The Ohio has authority to govern the reservations of New York State? The 5,000 Indians of the Iroquois race now living on three reservations in the State. They and their for-bears have been living on those lands since the State was founded; and no one has yet been able to final answer to this question, Neither the Edenton Government, the State authorities for dians themselves have solved the problem. The anomalous situation has bred serious unrest and lawlessness among the Indians. In presenting this problem, the sow and living conditions of the New York Indians will be dealt with. The Senecas, who are most numerous of the tribes of the Iroquois, occupy three separate tracts of land in Western New York, known as the Allegany, Cataraugus and Tonawanda Reservations. The Tuscaroras have a fine location in the fruit of Niagara County. The Tonawanda Reservations are a racecue. This tribe is keeper of the council fire for the Six Nations and has veto power in all important actions of the confederacy. The Cayngas and Oneldas have no reservations, but many of them enjoy the hospitality of other tribes. The Mohawks hold a tract of land on the St. Lawrence River, bordering the total acreage of the reservations is 87,226. About five per cent of the reserves are pure-flooded. Lands In Common Each tribe holds its land in common, but, according to Indian costum, assigns portions to individual Indians. No occupant can sell his title to a white man, although it may be passed on to heirs at his decease. An Indian of the tribe cannot claim and be obliging to pay taxes, though married into it. Children inherit all rights from the mother. The ultimate title to tribal lands is in doubt in some cases; although in one instant it clearly vests in the State. The right of occupancy, however, beyond question vests in the tribes as long as they wish to return. Superficially the reservations look like any other settlement. The wigwam days are gone never to return. The frogs live in houses, dress and eat like white folks. The houses vary in quality as in white communities, and so does the housekeeping. If one looks for dirt, disease and cowardiness on a re-occupied land, as he can in New York or Syracuse. New York Indians have plenty of fertile land and might all make a success of farming if they wished to do so. The truth is, however, that much of the Indian land is either going to waste or being rented to white people. As a race, the Iroquois do not seem to take to tilling the soil, although a good many individuals are making a success of it. The appropriation of money to unduly stimulate the Indian to become a farmer is often a result of Shop work seems to appeal to many Indians and they seem to be better adapted to working for others than for themselves. There are some good carpenters among them and some masons; but the majority are irregular day laborers. As a race, the Iroquois have persistently resisted modern civilization. They have always feared the white race and have asked to be let alone. In their present conditions of tutelage they have enjoyed immunities and vantages that they believe they would lose if they accepted the white man's laws and customs. The mention of citizenship stirs up violent opposition among them because they believe that citizenship will bring with it taxation, loss of tribal rights and a change of land tenure, to all of which the majority are strongly opposed. Under a law recently enacted by Congress, the majority may be forced to citizens without loss of tribal rights and this may induce many to become citizens. Dvided Into Two Parties There are two distinctly marked parties among the New York Indians, about equal in number, commonly known as Christian, or progressive, and pagan, or reactionary. The former looks ahead to a better type of community life, the other backward toward the costums of their primitive ancestors. One party favors churches, temperance societies and schools, the other rallies around the council houses, observes and articulates the views openly opposed to education. One party holds the white race in high esteem, the other opposes white people and all their wavs. LEADS THE COUNTRY IN EFFECTIVE LEGISLATION Against The Mob and Lynch-Murder—The Work of a Member of The Race—Also His Ohio Civil Rights Law Section 6278. "Mob" and "lynching" defined. 6279. "Serious injury" defined. 6280. Damages in case of assault. 6281. Damages in case of lynching. 6282. Damages recoverable by legal representative of victim of lynching. 6283. Person suffering death or injury by mob trying to 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-lyching bill was introduced in the Ohio legislature in 1834 and re-introduced in 1896. It took the Hon. Harry C. Smith, editor of The Gazette, just three years to secure its enactment into law. The Ohio Supreme Court has several times upheld the constitutionality of the law and it has Section 6278. A collection of people assembled for an unlawful purpose and intending to do damage or injury to any one, or pretending to exercise correctional power over other persons by violence and without authority of law, shall be deemed a "mob" for the purpose of this chapter. An act of violence by a mob upon the body of any person shall constitute a "lynching" within the meaning of this chapter. (93 v. 161 2.) Section 6279. The term "serious injury," for the purpose of this chapter, shall include such injury as permanently or temporarily disable 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 injury is made. (§ 23 v. 10 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 manual labor, a sum not to exceed five thousand dollars. (§ 22 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 a child's share, there be no widow or dependent, there be no dependent, 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 6228. 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 against the mob, which will be killed by such a mob. (93 v 162 6.) Section 6224. 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 6225. An order to the commissioners of a county, against which such recovery is had, to indemnify the mob from the next succeeding tax levy for such county, shall be a part of the judgment in every such case. (93 v 162 8.) Section 6282. If the decedent so lynched has minor children surviving him, the fund shall be turned over to a regularly appointed guardian. Such guardian shall administer such fund under the direction of the probate judge, allowing not more than five hundred dollars for counsel fees in the action for such recovery. (93 v. 162 9.) Section 6287. The county, in which a lynching occurs, may recover the amount of a judgment and costs against it in favor of the legal representatives of a person killed or dead. The county may recover any of the persons composing such mob. A person present, with hostile intent, at such lynching shall be deemed a member of the mob and be liable to such action. (93 v. 162 10.) been very effective. Illinois, Pennsylvania and New Jersey have followed Ohio's lead and enacted mob violence or anti-lynching laws which are copies of our Ohio law. Several other northern states and at least one border state (Kentucky) have also enacted anti-lynching laws, in recent years, like Pennsylvania and New Jersey. The Ohio law follows: BBS. ed. g. representative of victim of lynching.bury by mob trying to lynch another. and costs in tax levy. s. must member of mob. must another county. Section 6288. If a mob carries a prisoner into another county, or comes from another county to commit violence on a prisoner brought from such county for safekeeping, the county in which the lynching is committed may recover the amount of the judgment and costs from the county from which the mob camegence on the part of officials of such unless there was contributory negligence not less than thirty days county in failing to protect such prisoner or dispurse such mob. (93 v. 163 11.) Section 6289. 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 officer had enacted while a member of the 71st General Assembly, in 1894: The General Coge of Obio Sec. 12340. Whoever, being the proprietor or his employee, keeper or manager of an inn, restaurant, eating house, barber-shop, public conveyance by land or water, theater or other place of public accommodation and amusement, denies to a citizen, except for reasons applicable alike to all citizens and regardless of race or color, the full enjoyment of the accommodations, advantages, facilities or privileges thereof, shall be fined not less than fifty dollars nor more than five hundred dollars, or more than ninety days, or both. Sec. 12340. Whoever violates the next preceding section shall also pay not less than fifty dollars nor more than five hundred dollars, or 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 Suprema 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 Missed by the foolishly manufactured outcry for the passage of the Beaty bill, a few years ago and the Akron Beacon Journal published an editorial to which the editor The Gazette replied, calling its attention to the fact that the Ohio Civil Rights law was good law and did not need amending. The following letter from Judge Grant former presiding judge of the Court of Appeals of the Eighth District of Ohio, is self explanatory: --- Akron, O., April 25, 1919. Hon. Harry C. Smith, Editor The Gazette, Cleveland, O. My Dear Sir: Observing your letter in the Beacon-Journal, of this city, I venture to send you, separate cover, the Ohio Law Reporter of Feb. 3, last, containing the opinion of the Court of Appeals in the Puritan Lunch Co. vs. Leonard H. Forman, decided in Akron, last fall, in which a judgment for ($500) five hundred dollars was sustained. If the Beacon-Journal had known what was going on in its own town, there would have been no occasion for criticism editorially. THE LAW OF OHIO IS UNDER NO REPROACH, nor our courts and juries, in administering it. Not a word was said by the Beacon-Journal when the Forman case was reviewed. Very truly yours, R. C. Grant. But Give Copy of It.