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THE GAZETTE Asks Alumni To Save Fisk! IN UNION IS STRONGER FORTY-SECOND YEAR, No. 18 Asks All 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 reciepts promptly at 8:30 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.18 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! Talent from some of the largest churches in our city. Organ recital promptly at 8:30 o'clock by one of Cleveland's best organists. Auspices of Mt. Zlon 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—5004 Codar Ave., at E. 55th St. Take any Codar 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 o 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. GORDON CLOTHES Salesroom at Factory----5004 Cedar Ave., at E. 55th St. Take 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-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, Regularly $10.00, for $4.98 Ladies' Winter Coats, with fur collars, regularly $25.00, for $9.98 New York Department Store 2114 WOODLAND AVE. IRV SPRITZ SAYS:— Ladies' Silk and Serge Dresses, Ladies' Winter Coats, with fur Regularly $10.00, for $4.98 collars, regularly $25.00, for $9.98 New York Department Store 9114 WOODLAND AVE Be sure and come in this week and see the lovely display of Xmas Jewelry, and the New Clothes in from New York. JIM SHIELD SAYS:— UM SHIELD And see how easy we are making the terms this week. Many nice Christmas presents sold on $1 a week payments. JIM SHIELD Between Enclid and Prospect SPRITZ Next to Columbia Theatre 2067 EAST 9TH STREET ESTABLISHED, AUGUST 25, 1883 And Issued Every Week on Time Since THE STANDARD LIFE. Insurance Company of Atlanta, Ga. And Its President, Heinan E. Perry, Not Rescued by Rosen- wald, Kelsay and Others. Atlanta, Ga.—The story sent out from New York City, Dec. 4, '24, to the effect that a group of southern money-lenders (white) who were about to "clean" Heman E. Perry, president of the Standard Life Ins. Co., of this city, had been stopped by philanthropists, (white), headed by Julius Rosenwald of Chicago and Clarence H. Kolesy, chairman of the board of the Title Guarantee and Trust Co., of this city, is apparently untrue. It announced that Rosenwald, Kolesy, and others had provided $500,000 to save Perry and the Standard Life Ins. Co., the former personally furnishing one-half of the half-million dollar fund. It transplains that the loan has not been made and apparently will not be. The result is that the southern money-lenders can foreclose their mortgage and liens at any time they may see fit, dispossessing President Perry and his associates of their property and rights in the premises. Perry and his associates had sold outright the majority of the Standard Life Ins. Co. stock to the Southeastern Trust Co., (white), which was represented at a recent stockholders' meeting by a Mr. Tripp. The fact is that the Standard Life Ins. Co. is still in the hands of its creditors to be disposed of as they may see fit—foreclose, take over, liquidate, etc., unless there is a secret agreement between the Southeastern Trust Co. and the "alleged rescuers" that neither Mr. Perry nor the stockholders know anything about. Fresh Ohio News Fresh Ohio News CADIZ.-Mr. and Mrs. C. Miller of Detroit, en route home to N. Carolina, stopped to visit Mr. and Mrs. Jas. Pettress.-Mrs. J. P. and Miss Helen Lucas and Mrs. Buelah Strother were in Wheeling, Monday.-Several young people are home from school for the holidays: Miss Katherine Johnson of Wilberforce, Melvin Christian of Howard, Thomas Christian of Wittenberg and Harold Lee of Oberlin.-Miss Genevieve Lee, of Charleston, W. Va., will spend the holidays with her parents. The Y. P. M.-S., Mrs. Lillian Mason, leader, sang Xmas carols, Wednesday evening.-The choir gave the cantata, "The Light of the Christmas Candle", Sunday evening. CORRESPONDENTS must mall all letters for publication at their main postoffice sufficiently early on Monday (or Sunday) of each week to have them reach The Gazette office on Tuesday morning, and always write also, their names and that of their city or town on the outside of the wrapper about returned copies. Unless this latter is done, proper credit cannot be given you. Lists of names, wedding presents, etc., tives and advertisements of all kinds, including items announcing entertainments to be held in the near future, must be paid for in advance at the rate of 25 cents a line, six words to a line. Our rates for display advertisements will be sent on application. HILLSBORO.—Born to Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Gois, Dec. 15, a son Chas, Edward.—Clarence Lamb and Archio Cole arrived, Saturday, to spend the holidays with their families.—Mr. Jesse Gois' funeral services were held at the residence, Wednesday afternoon, and were conducted by Rev. J. J. Burr. He leaves a wife, three daughters; three sons mother, two sisters, one brother, and many other relatives and friends. Some, who attended the funeral, were Mrs. Sydney; Atchison, Doyle Smith, Percy Gois, Mrs. M. Carter, Mrs. E. McCown of Cincinnati, Mrs. Charles Gardner of Cleveland, Mrs. M. Saunders of Greenfield, and Mr. and Mrs. W. Saunders of Springfield.—Mrs. Francis Morgan of Springfield is here spending the holidays with relatives.—Miss Mary Williams is spending her Xmas vacation in Columbus with Mr. and Mrs. Lyman Kilgour and family.—Mr. and Mrs. C. M. Gragston are entertaining Mr. and Mrs. W. Streets and Mrs. M. Williams of Columbus, Mrs. Minnie Taylor, Mr. and Mrs. Albert Williams and family of Wilmington.—Otho Hudson is here visiting his mother.—Joseph Cole, Sr., is better.—Rosetta Nelson and Arnita Burr, of W. U., are spending the holidays with their parents. All correspondence and other matter for publication in our issue of January 3, 1925, must be mailed The Gazette not later than Sunday, Dec. 28, 1924. Correspondents and others will please remember this. Editor. MERRY CHRISTMAS AND HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL! 82 Maurice Maschke head of the local Republican organization, said recently in an address at a local Jewish temple. "The primary law should be repealed. It was designed to correct certain abuses. It has done that." The primary law was adopted to get rid of the convention plan of making nominations. That was the main reason for its adoption. It has corrected that abuse, absolutely the worst of all the "certain abuses", referred to. Party conventions to nominate candidates are easily controlled by the party organizations. Nominations under the primary law are not near so easily controlled. That is why members of the party organizations continue to plead for a return to the convention plan of making nominations. The voters of this city and county are far too wise to ever return to the old convention plan of making nominations. Conditions are bad enough as they are, but under the convention plan they would be infinitely worse, as all know who remember how nominations were controlled and made in the party conventions of years ago. Maschkhe also said in his speech: "When I look back thru the history of this state and compare the giants in office in those days with the officials we have today, I get just a little sick. We have no such men in office, and have had none for years, of the calibre of 30, 50 years ago." The foregoing paragraph is not wholly true, because we have some officials who measure up to some of those of "30, 50 years ago". The great majority of those who do not have been foisted upon the people by the party organizations and are not office-holders primarily as a result of the primary law. A striking illustration of this fact is found in the result of the recent election, which, of course, includes the primary which preceded it. CONFERENCE ONLY. The State Department has indicated to the League of Nations that the United States will participate in the discussion on the traffic in arms scheduled for next April and May in Geneva. This action has no bearing whatever on the League protocol for a disarmament conference; consideration of which has been postponed at the request of Great Britain. This country has always stood ready to confer with other nations on matters of mutual interest when it could do so without submission to restrictions from the League or other source. Such conferences have sometimes been most disappointing in the treatment accorded recommendations advanced by the American delegates, but we will doubtless continue to accept such invitations and in good faith attempt to perfect any agreements that may be reached. Alexander King, the superintendent of the College station branch postoffice, W. 140th St., is the only Afro-American holding such a position in New York City. J. Finley Wilson, editor of the Washington (D. C.) Eagle and G. E. K. of our Elks, came near being mobbed as he was being escorted out of Manhattan lodge rooms, N. Y. City, the evening of the 11th. Some one struck him as he was leaving. The row was the result of the G. E. R.'s attempt to conduct the election of the lodge which was permissible under a law of the order. Prof. W. S. Scarborough was given a testimonial reception by friends in Harlem, New York City, the evening of Dec. 9. The Nashville, Tenn., A. & I. State Normal school is to receive $325,000 in the next two years from different sources for new buildings, etc. Members of the alumni association of Howard university, Washington, D. C., have been split into two factions over a bill which has been introduced in the house of representatives to put the university under direct control of the U. S. government. The Ashley Memorial Trophy, given annually to the member of the Amherst College football squad whose services are considered of greatest value to the team, has been awarded this year to a member of the race, Charles Drew, age 26, of Arlington, Va. He played halftack during the season recently completed. "Tiger" Flowers scored a knockout over Jack Townsend, of Buffalo, in the windup at the Philadelphia, Pa. Arena, recently, before a capacity crowd of S.000 persons. In "Tiger's" case, Harry Greb is now doing the Jack Dempsey act, in the case of Harry Wills. Samuel Smith, age 15, was removed from his cot in General hospital, Nashville, Tenn., early last week Tuesday, by a band of hooded kluxes, hanged to a tree and shot to death. The boy had shot and wounded Ike Eastwood (white) during an attempted hold-up, and was himself suffering from a bullet wound inflicted by the wounded grocer. Republican Senator-elect W. B. Pine of Oklahoma has announced over his signature that he is opposed to the Ku Klux Klan, favors the passage of the Dyer Anti-lynching bill, the enforcement of the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments to the U. S. constitution, and the political and industrial equality of the races. Cipriana Castro, years ago president of Venezuela, South America, died in Porto Rico, several weeks ago, an exile from his country. Castro was born of Negro and Indian blood. By recent act of Congress, Prof. G. C. Wilkinson is now first assistant superintendent of schools, division 10 to 13, District of Columbia. As such he controls 63 offices, 757 teachers in 37 graded schools, 2 junior high schools, 2 senior high schools and 1 normal school. A white man has succeeded the Afro-American manager of our Paramount theater in Atlanta, Ga., on appointment of Mr. Perry. The new manager is a Mississippi "crackes" or "red neck" according to the Atlanta Independent, Ben. J. Davis, editor. Extraordinary bravery and devotion to duty exhibited during a gun battle with three bandits in which he killed two and shot the third, al- SINGLE COPY FIVE CENTS though wounded, caused the Chicago Daily Tribune to award its November $100. hero prize to Jesse B. Reese, an Afro-American, of the Cottage Grove Ave. station, that city. PRIME SPORT NEWS "Tenney" Blount of Detroit has disbanded his Detroit Stars and quit our National Baseball league. He claims that 11 other clubs have left Rube Foster's National League. They include the Cleveland Memphis, Cubans and Birmingham clubs. President Allen H. Dorsey, of the Cleveland Brown's, successors to the Tate Stars, attended the recent meeting of our National Baseball League in Chicago, and so voted as to help "Tenney" Blount get out of the league. President Rube Foster of the League is threatening a suit against Mr. Blount for money, he alleges is due Detroit ball-players, but which Mr. Blount shows conclusively he does not owe. "Tiger" Flowers Vs. Lehman. New York City.—"Tiger" Flowers' next appearance in a local ring will be on New Year's afternoon when he will meet Joe Lehman, of Toledo, according to an announcement, in the star bout at the Rink arena, Brooklyn. "Southern Chivalry" and Siki. Memphis, Tenn.—"Battling" Siki, the Senegalese pugilist, his American white wife and her brother, were arrested, last Saturday night, after an alleged disturbance in a fashionable suburban restaurant here. Upon being informed that the restaurant was exclusively for white persons, Siki and his party were said to have protested vigorously. A charge of drunk and disorderly conduct was placed against the three. Siki spent the night in the city jail. This is the boasted "southern chivalry." He was fined $50, and the charges against his wife and her brother dismissed. ST. PAUL AND MINNEAPOLIS CLIPPINGS. Minneapolis and vicinity had a large and memorable Xmas celebration. She extended her liberalities, charitable sympathies and gifts to her poor and unfortunate.—Mr. W. Turner and partner have opened a real estate and land office on S. 4th Ave. Let us give them our patronage.—The second session of the Business League, organized to promote our economic and social conditions in this city, will be held at Zion Baptist church, Sunday. There should be a large attendance.—Our St. Paul Elks had an extensive Xmas program, among the many features being a drill and a social. J. H. Golff, cor. CHARACTER Character, like a fine old tree, matures slowly and is a riper 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. IN UNION IS STRENGTH isk! CALLS MEETING IN N. Y. CITY IN FEBRUARY Du Bois Says That the University's Salvation Rests Solely in Their Hands—Action Imperative. New York City.—Editor Wm. E. Du Bois, of The Crisis, in a letter to the Fisk Alumni, has asked that a meeting of all such clubs of Fisk University meet in this city, February 2 or 3 and form a national federation. He states that affairs at Fisk are "still unsettled" and that the institution must be saved. This action is the outcome of a series of criticisms that Dr. Du Bois has hurled at President McKenzie, who is accused of stifling freedom of thought and independent initiative among students of the institution. Money Versus Spirit. In all fairness to President, McKenzie, those who are now opposing his future plans for Fisk grant that he has done more for the institution in a financial way than any other president who had ever preceded him. But the claim is also made that with the influx of money has come a tightening of rules, a craterlike administration, a stifling of student initiative, a penalty for misdemeanors out of proportion to the offense committed and the color-line insulting of Afro-American students and members of Fisk's faculty. These things began to crop out from the very beginning of the inception of McKenzie as president. Several times the students have risen in open protest against his tyrannical administration of the affairs at Fisk. The splendid "Fisk Spirit" that made of the school one of the most respected and beloved schools in the south is gone. The wonderful football team that used to be the pride of every Fiskite and the nemesis of all opponents has crumbled away into a mere farce. Defeat after defeat has met their efforts on the gridron. It is basking in the heat and, other things, harmful to the race, that Du Bois is crying out. He says that the salvation of Fisk is in the hands of the Alumni, who, hereofore have been merely "money gatherers" and not associates in the administration of the affairs of the school. The Chicago Alumni called a special meeting at the Appomattox club for this week Friday night, at which time they were to decide whether they would join Editor Du Bois or stand by Color-line President McKenzie. ASK BIOT DAMAGES! Two White Men Injured in the K. K. K. Mob at Niles Filo Suits for $1,000 Each—Not The First To Use The Law. Warren, O.—Alleging they were injured during the disorders at Niles, Nov. 1, between members of the Ku Klux Klan and anti-Klansmen, Russell Brock of Warren and Ralph Games of Niles (both white) have just filed damage suits against Trumbull county commissioners. Each seeks $1,000. The suits were filed under Hon. Harry C. Smith's Ohio Anti-Lynching law or Mob Violence Act, which holds the county responsible for mob violence. Brock and Games charge that civil law collapsed in Niles and the city was ruled by mobs. Brock alleges in his patition that while driving his automobile in the downtown section of Niles on that date, he was ordered from the car by ten or twelve men and beaten on the head with a revolver by one of the group. Games, who was a passenger in the car, declares that he and Brock were en route to their homes when they were stopped. Games also alleges he was ordered from the car and beaten and that he and Brock were fired upon by the mob. THE EDITOR REMEMBERED! The editor of The Gazette gracefully acknowledges the receipt of Christmas greetings, the first of the week, from Mr. and Mrs. John H. Cook of Washington, D. C., who accompanied theirs with two boxes of choice "Chancello" cigars; from The Mine C. J. Walker Mfg. Co., Mr. Harry D. Evans, advertising manager, which accompanied their very cordial letter of greeting with a beautiful bronze letter-opener; from Mr. and Mrs. Robt. Brooks of Fowler, Colo., the latter a former Cleveland; from our old friend, J. B. Hippler, and family, of Detroit; from Dr. and Mrs. Emmett J. Scott, secretary-treasurer, Howard University, Washington, D. C.; from the Misses Lucinda Cook and Anna Williamson of Wilberforce; from the Misses D. and E. Pohle of Chicago, from the O. K. Printing Co., Mr. and Mrs. Louis S. Jones, Mrs. Lenora-Craig, Riehl Printing Co., Harry D. Anderson, who sent a fine box of cigars, and others in this city. 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'S WORKS Tim Early The GAZETTE 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 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. 10,000,000 Afro-Americans. 350,000 in Ohio. 40,000 in Cleveland. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1924. Rev. C. G. Collins, pastor of Second Baptist church, Los Angeles, Cal., ousted a band of Kluxers that came to his church, on a recent Sunday evening during services, for the purpose of making a donation. More power to his kind! Sierra Leona, Africa, a British colony, drove out the Syrians in that country "because their standards of living were so low and because of their success in business". Now comes Liberia, Africa, with a similar complaint and organizations designed to secure the expulsion of the eighty Syrians in that country, on the same ground. --- A prominent magazine asserts that the present Congress is "full of lame ducks". That would be interesting if true, but it isn't true. Out of 435 members of the House of Representatives, all of whose members come up for election every two years, not more than 50 were defeated at the polls or the preceding primaries. About 30 others voluntarily retired, either to run for seats in the Senate or for other reasons. The 50 are the only ones who can properly be classed as "lame ducks", and to say that the present Congress is "controlled" by the 50 is utterly absurd. The Gazotto is decidedly opposed to the fool-criticisms being heaped upon the officers of the N. A. A. C. P., Editor Wm. E. Du Bois and the Crisis magazine, by the Negro political "boot-lickers" or "associated pie-hunters" who object to their stand in favor of intelligent, independent political action upon the part of our voters. It is something this paper has urged for more than a quarter of a century, and more over is absolutely necessary if our people are ever to get anywhere "in the political sun". Indeed, the progress of the race, in matters political, depends almost wholly upon such action. Twenty of the fifty-five members of the 24th U. S. Inf., incarcerated for life in the federal penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kan., as a result of the Houston, Tex., riot, several years ago, have been paroled, this year. All of them should have been pardoned long ago by either President Harding or President Coolidge. They never should have been condemned to prison for striking back in defense of Afro-American womanhood and their own lives. The thirty-five still in prison will be paroled at intervals during the few years, up to 1928, according to a statement issued on May 13, '24, by Secretary of War John W. Weeks. The N. A. A. C. P., Warden Biddle of the Leavenworth penitentiary and all others, who have contributed in any way toward securing the release of these men, are entitled to unstinted praise from all. ATTACKS THE KU KLUX KLAN The editor of the Century magazine, in its December number, attacks the Ku Klux Klan for its attempt to "unite in one crusade Protestant Christianity and the Cult of Racialism, welding the two together in the fires of fanaticism". After pointing out that the Klan is anti-Negro, anti-naturalized American, anti-Catholic and anti-Jew, Editor Frank says: "One of the distinctive contributions Jesus made to the spiritual future of mankind law is the fact, that, in the higher realms of the spirit, he wiped out the frontiers that divide races." Mr. Frank states that the spirit of Christianity and the spirit of racialism are opposed, and that: "The Ku Klux Klan has no right to celebrate Christmas as long as it holds to its dogma of racialism. The fevered flaunting of the dogma of race inferiority and race superiority, can have no other end than a world staggering from one blood-letting to another until civilization itself goes down in a red sunset. Here, as I see it, is the international mission of modern biology. There are superior and inferior men in all races. Civilization will advance at the rate we are able, throughout the world and in all races, to breed away from the inferior and toward the superior. The problem of modern statesmanship and of modern science is not to classify the races into defensive groups. The problem of modern statesmanship and of modern science is this: to bring together the superior men of all races in a vast international conspiracy to breed all races to a higher level." AN ACCURATE INDEX. Bishop Brent of the American delegation at the international opium conference at Geneva has resigned in disgust and is coming home. He says, "This is the last time I shall take a share in any international gathering on this great problem." For a score of years Bishop Brent has been attacking the drug evil, and thought he saw an opportunity to deal it a body blow through the committee appointed by the League of Nations. Article 23 of the League covenant pledges each member of the League to entrust to it general supervision over the traffic in opium and other dangerous drugs, and there was every reason to believe that the League would proceed in good faith to execute the duty. The American delegation, headed by Congressman Stephen G. Porter of Pennsylvania, went to Geneva with high hopes of accomplishment, but their optimism has faded away before the constant rebuffs to which they have been subjected. In its handling of the opium problem the League seems to be guided by just the same considerations that govern most of its other activities. There is no disposition of the members to step on each other's toes in settling controversies likely to lead to war, neither is there any intention of interfering with members who are deriving a highly profitable tax from the traffic in narcotic drugs. The two Geneva opium conferences have been practically fruitless from the selfish attitude of those countries in which the poppy is grown and where opium and its derivatives are manufactured. The conduct of the opium discussions by the League gives us a very accurate index of what would happen to American aspirations if the United States were a member of the League and endeavored to present its side of any question coming before it. Every such controversy would be decided according to the wishes of Old World nations which completely dominate its proceedings. To all infants and purposes the United States was a member of the League so far as its participation in the opium conferences was concerned. Its case was carefully prepared and effectively presented, but the American argument made no impression at all against the sordid diplomacy that has always prevailed abroad. If we could not win our point in a purely altruistic cause like the present, what chance would we have in a cause in which we might have a selfish interest of our own? My ear is pained My soul is sick with every day's report Of wrong and outrage, with which the earth is filled. There is no flesh in man's ob- durate heart. It does not feel for man: the natural bond Of brotherhood is severed as the flax That falls asunder at the touch of fire. He finds his fellow guilty of a Not colored like his own: and having power To enforce the wrong, for such a worthy cause Dooms and devotes him as his lawful prey. Thus man devotes his brother, and destroys: Tis human nature's broadest foulest blot. THE GARBITE, CLEVELAND, O. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1924. REAL IRISH LACE FASHIONS POCKETS FOR WHITE DRESS THE WOMEN'S WORLD This simple dress of white crepe de chine uses Irish pect to trim the four tiers of the skirt and the collar. Twin pockets of Irish crochet are fastened just above the belt. WIRELESS SYSTEM GROWS Nearly Circles Globe; War Prevents Circuit Completion. The opening of the Japanese Marconi wireless plant at Funabashi, near Yokohama, with messages to the Marconi station at Koko head, Hawaii, extended the Marconi service nearly two thirds the way around the globe. If the war had not interfered with the creation of the British Imperial chain, it might have been possible by this time says the Boston Transcript, to relay a message by wireless all the way around the world The first message from the new station in Japan was received in New York. It traveled in the air 3,555 miles from Japan to Hawaii and then 2,097 miles from Hawaii to San Francisco. A station at Petrograd is now in constant communication with the Marconi plant at Carnarvon, Wales. From Clifden, Ireland, messages are sent across the Atlantic to Cape Glace. The new plant at Belmar, N. J., has sent messages across the United States to the station on Bolinas bay, a few miles from San Francisco, although the Marconi company uses wire communication in its transcontinental service. Throw Search. light on Treed Bruin and Companion Shoots Spokane, Wash.—While Mrs Margaret McKenzie fearlessly held a searchlight so that its rays were cast on a 200-pound black bear which had been driven up a tree by a pack of dogs, Frank Lee of Hayden Lake fired the shot which ended Brun's life The daring of Miss McKenzie was the talk of the colony at Lee's Point at Hayden Lake. It was known that a bear was prowling about the Point and when the barking of the dogs was heard Lee and Jame Buchane armed themselves with rifles and asked if any one wished to accompany them, and Miss McKenzie, who is a guest of Mrs. Lee, quickly volunteered. Realizing the danger of the enterprise, the men tried to dissuade her, but Miss McKenzie urged that she be allowed to go. When they neared the tree in which the bear had taken refuge the electric searchlight was given to Miss McKenzie. She turned its rays full on the bear, and one well placed shot from Lee's rifle brought it to the ground dead. "I guess I'm hopelessly behind the times," remarked old Uncle Pennywise. "I know I'm ignorant as a bear but I don't brag about it." HILLS CASCARA QUININE BROMIDE STOPS COLDS IN 24 HOURS-LAGRIPPE IN 3 DAYS .30¢ AT ALL DRUGGISTS C 204 MAY GET JOB OF REPARATIONS AGENT WHEN YOUNG QUITS G.K. It is reported that after Owen D. Young completes organization work he will turn over the job of agent general of the Dawes reparations plan to S. Parker Gilbert, Jr., formerly under secretary of the treasury. Honduras To Start An Air Mail Service Honduras To Start An Air Mail Service Women Visitor Says Husband Has Contract — Will Take Two Planes Home With Her. NEW YORK—Airl service will be started in Honduras just as soon as Mrs. T. C. Pounds, who is now in New York, returns to her home in Tegucigalpa, the capital, with two American-made airplanes, two pilots and a mechanic. She arrived here that her husband, Dr. Pounds, has received the concession from the Honduras Government to carry the mails in that country. Pounds made several trial flights just before the recent Honduras revolution and found he could fly the 150-mile stretch from coast to coast in one and one-half hours. Regular mails are delivered by auto and horseback, Mrs. Pounds said. While the trip itself is made two days, she said that the mails from one coast city to another are seldom delivered in less than a week or two. When she left her home a little more than two weeks ago, Mrs. Pounds said, the country was still politically unsettled. Feeling against Franklin Morales, the American Minister in Iraq reported. Recalling the attacks made upon the Legation during the fighting in the capital, Mrs. Pounds said the natives are still suspicious of his motives. She explained that Mr. Morales's brothers are in business there and that one of his natives is married into one of the leading political families of Honduras. "Every time the American Minister brings forth a candidate for President the Hondurans shout, 'Family interests' and all diplomatic negotiations immediately cease," she said. "The revolution because of his intervention in internal affairs that the people went through the streets shouting 'Death to the American Minister.' 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The Spritz Co., 2067 E. 9th st. next to the Columbia theater, car- ries as fine a line of men's and women's wearing apparel as can be found in the city. All can be purchased on easy payments. Then, too, Messrs. Spritz, Shields and every one of their employees treat their patrons right. The large number of our people who patronize this store will freely attest this fact. The Spritz Store prices are very reasonable, too. What more can any one ask? Do not fall to go in and see for yourself in case you have not done so.—Adv. PROTEST AGAINST WRONG To submit in silence when we should protest makes cowards out of men. The human race has climbed on protest. Had no voice been raised against injustice, ignorance and lust, the inquisition yet would serve the law, and guillotines decide our least disputes. 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 at 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 THE GEEVUM GIRLS H. 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See advertisement, elsewhere in this paper.—Adv. Rev. Edward A. Clarke, pastor St. John's church, spent his recent vacation in his old home at Wilberforce. Mrs. Della Eubanks of Lakeland Ave., Lakewood, was hostess to the Wistaria club, recently. An exceptionally enjoyable meeting was the result. The Harmonic Choral society, Mrs. Grace Willis Thompson, director, will sing carols at St. John's A. M. E. church, Christmas eve. from 10:30 to 11:30 p. m. Mrs. C. H. Phillips and daughter spent part of this month with the Bishop in Alabama where he presided over annual conferences of the C. M. E. Church. Mrs. Sarah Adams of Cincinnati recently visited her daughter, Mrs. Joseph Seelig, E. 132d St., for the first time during the latter's sixteen years' residence in Cleveland. Another Cleveland Herald Pub. Co. has just been organized; Geo. E. Cohron, pres.; M. E. Author, sec.; Dr. B. C. Styles, treas.; Ormond A. Forte, editor, and L. L. Yancey, bus. mgr. The Vashti class, Mrs. Ethel Simone, press, gave its Xmas party at the Old Folks' Home, last evening. The class will keep open house from 3 to 5 p.m., New Year's day, at the Women's clubhouse, "The Clarabelle", $820 Cedar Ave. The Optimistic club held its annual Xmas party at Mrs. Lena Brown's, E. $5th St., Tuesday evening. Mrs. Della Offer, president of the club, and Mrs. Nettie Davis, publicity representative. Many friends of Mrs. Harry L. Gaines did not know of the benefit tendered her at Antioch Baptist church, on a recent Sunday afternoon, and greatly regret the failure to properly advertise it. Purnell Bryant, E. $28th St., is president of Brownell Junior High school's student council of 1,200 members. His brother, Robert, has the honor of being president of his I CAN'T UNDERSTAND WHY WOMEN INSIST UPON GIVING TIES FOR GIFTS, DURN IT! THE GAETTE, CLEVELAND, O. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 27. 1924. *M. KLEIMAN'S 2028 Central Ave. D. BARBEE'S 2006 Central Ave. BENJ. AKERS, 3519 Central Ave. *THE S. & S. DRUG CO. 7325 Central Ave. SUBSCRIBERS Gazette regularly should notify delivered promptly. business matters to The Gazette If you wish to see the editor fully examine The Gazette's ad- chases. Business men who adver- the patronage of our people. The nce that they want it. location in current issues of The p. m., TUESDAY of that week, ments accepted until noon, WED- 215 Blackstone Bldg. Bankfort Ave., Cleveland, O. Bell 'Phone: Cherry 1259 class in the same school. Mrs. Malinda C. Berry, who is again with her daughter, Mrs. A. E. George, E. 85th St., is convalescing slowly. Mrs. Mamie Stlever of Nottingham, Mrs. George's sister, visited them over the week-end. The local Office Agency club, of the N. B. L. Ins. Co, has just elected the following officers for the next six months: W. Graham, pres.; T. R. Wallace, vice-pres.; James Hall, sec., and G. E. Cohron, treas. Mr. and Mrs. Carroll Scott, E. 86th St., have another fine boy, born recently. They have a large and interesting family that would "deeelight" President Roosevelt were he alive. Bring on the cigars, Carroll! The Cleveland Association of Insurance men will celebrate Emancipation day at Zion Hill Baptist church, New Year's day, at 11 a. Rev. Mack T. Williams will be the principal speaker and discuss our economic and political freedom. The Current Events club recently elected the following officers: Mrs. Christopher Pollard, pres.; Mrs. John Burt, vice-pres.; Mrs. Oscar Stakeley, sec.; Mrs. J. B. France, treas.; Mrs. J. Harold Taylor, reporter. Its annual banquet, in honor of the members' husbands, will be given, Jan. 9, at Mrs. Burt's, Lakeview Rd. Queen Elizabeth chapter, which meets in Masonic headquarters, E. 555th St., was recently presented with a gift from the O. E. S. No. 9, music club. Under the guidance of the club, the Junior Star muscicle will be given at an early date. Mrs. J. L. Jackson, pres.; Mrs. Carrie Lowery, sec., and Mrs. Ada Johnson, treas. A childish quarrel between Louise Steele, age 10, of 2224 A 35th st., and a six-year-old girl schoolmate, ended, last week Thursday, when the younger girl, producing a safety razor blade from her pocket, cut the other in the face. The wound was not serious and, when Louise assured police she didn't want to see her hair, she was shiled, the latter was sent home with a holding. This is in ward 11, of course. Mrs. Mary Taylor, E. 71st st., mother of Alex. O. Taylor, was given a very enjoyable surprise party, recently, in honor of her 80th birthday. It was beautifully arranged by Emma T. Williams, E. 79th st., who has known Mrs. Taylor for years. About twenty of her old friends were assembled to pay tribute to her ripe old age. Favorite hymns were sung and the 92d Psalm read by Mrs. E. F. Montgomery, Mrs. Dazala Wade Paul Duparn's poem, the Party Mrs. Duparn's poem, theeral beautiful bouquets and other tokens of esteem. A cake with twenty candles burning was presented her by Miss Williams. C. Arthur Lewis of Chicago who has invented and patented an aeroplanes which he claims will revolutionize that growing industry, says: "A firm in Cleveland (including a man who at the time this invention was offered to the government during the war period was in the aviation department) has incorporated 1 GIRLS MAH GOOD A BRAN M NECKTIE FUNERAL HOME to manufacture a craft, of similar construction with little changes. Not, however, sufficient to escape infringement upon my claims. This firm, whose aim is in part set forth in the February, 1924, number of the Popular Science Monthly magazine, will find it quite difficult to navigate, even the design of craft illustrated in that issue, without further infringement upon my patented idea. The O'Neill 90th St. one-man car (The Connerillie trolley) probably fatally injured last week Friday night, Sam Barto age 65 of 2204 (Voy. Ave. No one but the motorman-conductor witnessed the accident. Barto was taken, to Lakeside hospital where physicians said he probably would die from a fractured skull. About 2 o'clock, last week Friday morning, a young man of the race was beaten so nearly to death in front of the Clayton block, 2828 Central Ave., (ward 11), that he died some hours afterward in a local hospital. His companion, who was chased down Central Ave. toward E. 22d St., was beaten almost to death in the gang. Gangster that the two young men had been successful gambling in the block and won about all the money. That no doubt explains their being so mistreated. The it was drizzling rain and cold, the first victim lay on the sidewalk in front of the Clayton block for quite three-quarters of an hour before the police flying squad arrived. There has been an unusually large number of similar crimes in wards 11 and 12 in recent weeks, all because of the lack of police protection Our Ministers' Conference held dance once to take up this matter, at which time better police protection for that section from City Manager Honking Hon. Wm. H. Clifford, a native of this city and for years a clerk in the treasury department at Washington, D. C., has retired from the government service, owing largely to failing health. Many years ago, the editor of The Gazette, with the assistance of a few others, secured Mr. Clifford's appointment in our local county clerk's office as a deputy clerk to succeed Powhatten Henderson, a member of the race who had held the position for years. This position Clifford held even after he was elected a member of the Ohio Legislature in the fall of 1893 at the same time that the editor of The Gazette was elected to serve his first term, too. The latter was re-elected in 1895 and 1899 and was re-elected in 1897. With the exception of a few years during President Roosevelt's term of office, Clifford has held a clerkship in the U. S. treasury department in Cleveland and in the departments at Washington, ever since leaving the local county clerk's office and until he resigned in August of this year. Once again, we call our people's attention to the fact that the kuklux 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. Dr. Joe T. Thomas announced, last week, that his Lincoln hospital, which is to train our girls for nurses- and Efficient Work Twenty Years' Experience Phone: Bell, Randolph 6978 Sundays by Appointment LELAND D. FRENCH IS MODERN AND COMPLETE. 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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 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, because they were poor, single, 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 the Ku Klux Klan to its all-cmbreaking 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 tenaciously held by our Republican President. Only last week, a colored lady appeared after having passed the best examination, then 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. He hails from North Carolina. He hails from other favorite and the leader of the segregated schools. 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 campers. A faithful friend of the work under constant humiliation and physical disadvantages. The department maintains a spacious cafera for whites only, where these inferior white clerks can buy appetizing luncheons and chat in comfort while eating, while the colored clerks must bring cold luncheons from home and eat them any place they can. The physical discomfort, disadvantageous as it is, is far less galling to the colored clerks than is the thought of their government taking their taxes, as it takes those of the whites, for the comfort of the latter, and setting them off as though they were lepers. The injustice stings more they reedent. I'll be far more capable than the whites, and render the government more intelligent and efficient service—the white man of their attainment being able to get far more lucrative employment. The department goes even farther in its solicitude for whites and neglect of colored. It maintains a well-appointed club room with pool tables and other games, comfortable lounges and other equipment for rest, sociability, and recreation, and nothing for these same colored employees. This private club is in the magnificent postoffice building, built and maintained by ALL of the people. In the locker rooms there is segregation, and segregation and attempted segregation, and all of them must almost 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, to be sent off, and he ordered the postmaster to invite the postmaster 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 quickness and accuracy. The color clerks are the most. 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 out to the open, out of the 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 fall force, and, of course, this same undemocratic practice reveals itself on the salary roll and in the hard caste bars bars promotions here. Here, lawhawher the interior will 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 rest and amusements excluded of our employees so keenly that he secured the company of a young lady of the race to take part in the dance. As soon as this couple started to dance the music was abruptly stopped, and the young man reported for attempting to take part in an entertainment provided for employees. He was called to the office, lectured for being "one of those smart Negroes" who believe in "social equality," and then dismissed on a trumped-up charge. He was the captain of the carved a pistol. Right after the dance a 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 failing to secure any evidence searched him only to discover the pistol. They quickly dropped the arson charge and substituted one for carrying concealed weapons. By this he was immediately dismissed. By the police punishment our employees are taught that is no way of escape for one who dares to resent the daily insults that their government (under President Coolidge) gives them. Many of the employees have expressed their deeply-wounded feelings to me at being considered a pariah by the government whose institutions they are serving so faithfully, and I have taken up a number of cases only to be met by a denial that the conditions complained of exist in my department, the name of my informants. I knew the fact that the informants would suffer so I have never given a single name! The department then taking the position THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND O SATURDAY, DECEMBER 27, 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 well settled upon it, and the complainants cannot bear witness to it. (Special to The tazette) (Special to The Gazette) Washington, D. C.-Segregation in the bureau of engraving and printing has an interesting history involving President Thomas Woodrow Wilson and members of his family, three heroic young colored women who lost their positions as a result of their protest, and the noble wife of senator Robert La Follette. Shortly after the accession of Mr. Wilson to the White House, a member of his family visited the bureau where she saw white and colored girls working together in perfect harmony, oblivious to any thought of race. Shortly thereafter came an order for segregation of the races, and a white lady who had been noted for her philanthropy among our people and who was upon intimate terms at the Bureau to tell our girls to be contented with the new order as "a great Negro leader had taught colored people to stay in their places." Three of the young ladies resisted the order to the last ditch and were summarily dismissed! Senator La Follette lodged a protest with Secretary McAdoo to no avail, and his noble wife began a crusade against the undemocratic innovation. She took the platform here in Washington and Boston before the famous Twentieth Century club. She used the columns of the Senator's magazine, sparing neither space nor vigor of utterance. She thundered against it in our 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 disc u raged, 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 and a cabinet and arouse our people, and the 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 Sumner and Frederick Douglass helped to found. Our girls are employed there in far larger numbers than in any other branch of the public service. THEY ARE SEGREGATED in their rest rooms, toilets, 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, 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) Washington, D. C.—The treasury department, according to the President's recent acceptance speech, is now under the ablest financial genius since the days of Alexander Hamilton. It is to be remembered that the great Hamilton came from the West Indies, and in that long sweep of history that the President 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. 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 clerks. Yet Negroes are so scarce there that they be noticed. There is the same general racial here among our clerks and other employees, and 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. Hence, the segregated clerks are forced to endure physical inconvenience times, and are forced to travel long distances, and are dislike 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 enriches with art and beauty with space to spare; but not one Negro! His only share is in the taxes he is forced to pay for this luxury for another group! The 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 being with them with the hope that this southern atmosphere, must take the former. They are depressed at the wrong, but economic stress compels endurance of it. By a single stroke of his pen, President Calvin Coolidge can stop every bit of the damnable segregation, just as he can condemn that lawless organization the Ku Klux Klan. 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 several of its bureaucracies, 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 hardly cold before the effort 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 bureaus 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 Internal Revenue Bureau—a seg regated 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. O. 0. Separate Lunch Room Post Office Department—a segregated lunch room. 8 New Canadian Peaks Found By Scientists CHICAGO—Eight new mountains have been found and ascended in the Cariboo Range of British Columbia by Professor R. T. Chamberlin of the University of Chicago's Department of Geology, and Allen Carpe, New York engineer, who have recently returned. One is among the highest in the Canadian Northwest. Hitherto even old guides in Alberta were unfamiliar with the Alpine slopes of the range. Chamberlin and Carpe also located the headwaters of the Thompson and Canoe Mountains, and they are the glacial men ever to note the glacial sources of these two mountain streams. They camped on the rocks as high as 10,000 feet, using a special powder for fuel. Great Increase In Waste Oil That Flows Into Harbor PUMPED OVERBOARD Sixty-Thousand Gallons of Oil Escape In Maryland At One Time and Was Traced to Points On Water Hundreds of Miles Distant. BOSTON.—There is a widespread complaint this Summer of the rufinous effects of oil on the bathing beaches along the Atlantic coast line. Early in the year reports of oil came from Miami and other Florida coast resorts, and the authorities of New Orleans similar conditions were noted. The situation is much the same on the Pacific coast and the Gulf of Mexico. The oil menace is but a single phase of the problem of river and harbor, pollution. A spirited drive is now under way, directed by the National Coast Anti-Pollution Act, to obtain Federal as State legislation to correct the situation. It has been determined by a recent survey that pollution has virtually destroyed many important sources of food supply. The property loss due to pollution at bathing beaches and elsewhere is heavy. Moreover, the health of great cities and extended areas adjacent to polluted streams and other affected waters is seriously menaced. There has been a great increase of late in the quantity of waste that finds its way into our harbors and is carried along the coast. A considerable quantity of oil waste is deliberately pumped overboard from oil-burning vessels. In transferring oil from ships to tanks on land or to railroad cars, leakage often occurs and the oil finds its way into the water. Recently some 60,000 gallons of oil escaped from Sparrow's Point, Md., and was later traced to points hundreds of miles distant. Sea Food Hurt The direct effect of pollution of waters upon the supply of sea food has been investigated in many parts of the country. The pollution frequently kills the fish outright. In some cases it diverts the migration of fish with disastrous results. The young fish again are often smothered by being deprived of sufficient oxygen. The presence of poisonous matter in the water hits sea plants and causes them to partition into which certain fish feed. Large areas of spawning grounds are often destroyed The fisheries of Alabama along the Gulf of Mexico amounted annually to 10,610,000 pounds, valued at $227,000 a few years ago. In a period of ten years the catch has been cut in half and is still highly valuable. The elk has occurred in the sea products of Louisiana. One of the most striking examples is found in South Carolina. Food fish were caught in these waters totalling about 15,000-000 pounds. In ten years the catch has fallen to less than 4,000,000 pounds. This decrease, it is said, is directly traceable to the increase in the number of ships that poisonous wasts into coastal waters. Similar conditions are found at many pointons on the North Atlantic coast. Ten years ago fishermen along the Northern New Jersey coast caught 100,000 or more of wolfish a week today at the mouth of the fish or an entire season rarely reaches 100,000 pounds. The pollution of the Great Lakes presents an equally serious problem. Millions of gallons of oil and poisonous materials drain into these waters yearly. In a decade the catch of fish in Lake Michigan has fallen off some 15 per cent., and similar decreases are noted in Lake Erie, Superior, Huron and Ontario. This pollution finds its way into remote inland waters. A striking example in the case of Michigan, which has once probably the largest sea face, with 2,000 square miles of inland waters. The waters available for trout fishing have been reduced in ten years to one-fifth this area. Investigations made by the American Public Health Association give twenty definitive classifications of sources of water pollution. Prominent among the industrial plants that contribute polsonous substances are creameries, tanneries, coal and phosphate mines, paper and pulp oil refineries and oil factories, ammonia plants, starch, shoe and mills, paint factories, steel mills, leather factories, chemical factories, plants and sugar refineries. Leaking water pipes may be temporarily repaired by binding around several layers of string well soaked in thick oil. American automobile manufacturers spend at least $50,000,000 each year in developing new models before the cars are offered for sale. 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-lynching bill was introduced in the Ohio legislature in 1834 and re-introduced in 1896. It took the Hon. Harry C. Smith, editor of The Gazette, just three years to secure its enactment into law. The Ohio Supreme Court has several times upheld the constitutionality of the law and it has Section 6278. A collection of people assembled for an unlawful purpose and intending to do damage or injury to any one, or pretending to exercise correctional power over other persons by violence and without authority of law, shall be deemed a "mob" for the purpose of this chapter. An act of violence by a mob upon the body of any person shall constitute a "luyching" within the meaning of this chapter. (93 v. 161 2.) Section 6279. The term "serious injury," for the purpose of this chapter, shall include such injury as permanently or temporarily disables the person receiving it from earning a livelihood by manual labor. (93 v. 161 3.) Section 6280. A person taken from officers of justice by a mob, and assaulted with whips, clubs, missiles or in any other manner, may recover, as hereafter provided, a sum not to exceed one thousand dollars as damages from the county in which the assault is made. (93 v. 161 4.) Section 6281. A person assaulted and lynched by a mob may recover, from the county in which such assault is made a sum not to exceed five hundred dollars; or, if the injury received therefrom is serious, a sum not exceeding one thousand dollars; or, if such injury result in permanent disability to earn a livelihood by manual labor, a sum not to exceed five thousand dollars. (92 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. If there be no widow or minor children surviving such decedent, such sum shall be distributed to the children of lynching to the laws of the distribution of the personality of an intestate. Such sum so recovered shall not be a part of the estate of such person so lynched, nor be subject to any of his liabilities. (93 v 162 6.) Section 6283. A person suffering death or injury from a mob attempting to lynch another person shall come within the provisions of this chapter. He or his legal representatives shall have a like right of action as one purposely injured or killed by such a mob. (93 v 162 6.) Section 6284. Action for the recoveries provided for in this chapter must be commenced, within two years from the date of such lynching. In any court having original jurisdiction of an action for damages for malicious assault. (93 v. 162 7.) Section 6285. An order to the commissioners of a county, against which such recovery is had, to include it with the costs of action, in the next succeeding tax levy for such county, shall be a part of the judgment in every such case. (93 v. 162 8.) Section 6286. 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 seriously injured by a mob from any of the person's property such such mob 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: 1. ed. 2. representative of victim of lynching.ury by mob trying to lynch another. 3. and costs in tax levy. 4. last member of mob. 5. last another county. Section 6238. If a mob carries a prisoner into another county, or comes from another county to commit violence on a prisoner brought from such county for safekeeping, the county in which the lynching is committed may recover the amount of the judgment and costs from the county from which the mob came gence on the part of officials of such unless there was contributory negligence not less than thirty days county in falling to protect such prisoner or dispurse such mob. (93 v. 163 11.) Section 6239. 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 council had enacted while a member of the 71st General Assembly, in 1894: The General Code of Ohio: Sec. 12940. Whoever, being the proprietor or his employee, keeper or manager of an inn, restaurant, eating house, barber-shop, public 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 defined not less than fifty dollars nor more than five hundred dollars, or more than ninety days, or both. Sec. 12944. Whoever violates the next preceding section shall also pay not less than fifty dollars nor more than five hundred dollars to the person aggrieved thereby to be recovered in any court of competent jurisdiction in the county where such offense was committed This law has repeatedly been held constitutional and good law by the Ohio Supreme court. The trouble is our people will not use it as often as they should, but expect it to do for them what they should and must do for themselves, under it, in the courts. Judge Grant's Opinion of the Law Misled by the foolishly manufactured outey for the passage of the Beaty bill, a few years ago, the Akron Beacon Journal Journal and an editorial to which the editor of The Gazette replied, calling its attention to the fact that the Ohio Civil Rights law was good law and did not need amending. The following letter from Judge Grant former presiding judge of the Court of Appeals of the Eighth District of Ohio, is self explanatory: --- Akron, O., April 25, 1919. Hon. Harry C. Smith, Editor The Gazette, Cleveland, O. My Dear Sir: Observing your letter in the Beacon-Journal, of this city, I venture to say you, under a separate cover, the Ohio Law Reporter of Feb. 3, last, containing the opinion of the Court of Appeals in the Puritan Lunch Co. vs. Leonard H. Forman, decided in Akron, last fall, in which a judgment for ($500) five hundred dollars was sustained. If the Beacon-Journal had known what was going on in its own town, there would have been no occasion for criticism editorially. THE LAW OF OHIO 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.