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Coolidge Turns Down Johnson IN UNION IN STRENGTH FORTY-SECOND YEAR Coo See us First for a JOHN S. Prices Reasonable. JEWELER A. 8182 Central Ave. Cleveland FURNISHED FOR The Brown 2151 E. 40th S. (Ran. 6091 W. W. L. BROWN, SUITS and OVERCOATS Buy at Our Factory— At Wholesale Price GORDON Salesroom at Factory—500 Take any Cedar Ave. or E. Milk With With every bottle of r from our dairy comes to you future, a better social order man in peace, where childr free—a future where servi all business transaction. City Co-Operative 9004 Woodland Ave. Your Opportunity From New York MEN'S AND WOMEN Ladies, Come At Your Also QUILTS, BLANKETS, SHEETS, TRUNKS, SUIT $SAVE $SAVE CLEAN SW The greatest sale of the Ladies' Coats and Dresses This is our loss and you get a Coat or Dress at less COME EARLY— Ladies' Silk and Serge Dresses, Regularly $10.00, for ... $4.98 New Depart Sto 2114 WOOD FORTY-SECOND YEAR. No.19 The Brownley-Hayes Hotel 2151 E. 40th St. Cor. Cedar Ave. (Ran. 6091 W), Cleveland, O. W. L. BROWN, Owner and Manager $2250 All One Price DON CLOTHES factory—5004 Cedar Ave., at E. 55th St. Love, or E. 55th St. car direct to our factory. With A Message A battle of rich and pure milk you receive comes to you this great message of a new special order, where man shall work with the children shall be happy, and women are service shall be the sole object of action. Derative Dairy Company Love. For service call Garfield 834 MAX LUSTBERG Unity 2734 Central Ave. Has a WONDERFUL Stock of Unclaimed Laundry New York City. CHEAP! WOMEN'S FURNISHINGS Sales, Come and Purchase At Your Own Price. INKETS, PILLOWS, PILLOW CASES, KES, SUIT-CASES and HAND BAGS. SAVE $SAVE $SAVE EAN SWEEP SALE A sale of the year. Our entire stock of Dresses at One-Half Price nad Less. Gross and your gain. You will positively sell at less than wholesale prices. EARLY — BE CONVINCED Large Dresses, Ladies' Winter Coats, with fur collars, regularly $4.98 for $25.00. New York Department Store WOODLAND AVE. 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 Also QUILTS, BLANKETS, PILLOWS, PILLOW CASES, SHEETS, TRUNKS, SUIT-CASES and HAND BAGS. 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. Rhinelander To Pay $300 Monthly. NYACK, N. Y.—Supreme Court Justice Tompkins has awarded $300 a month temporary alimony to Mrs. Alice Jones. Rhinelander pending trial of the annulment suit brought by her husband, Leonard "Kip" Rhinelander, after their marriage last October. Rhinelander, who is wealthy in his own right and also is the prospective heir to millions, charges that his wife is part Negro and that she fraudulently represented durably as "white" when they were married. Mrs. Rhinelander was also awarded $3,000 counsel fees. Her gather is married to Robert Brooks, member of the race, and their lit- tle widow was a pet of Rhinelander's. Mrs. Rhinelander denies that she encouraged to be "white." She refused $280,000 settlement tendered her, last week. --- ```markdown ``` THE GAZETTE Assistant Principal of "Mixed" School. NEW YORK CITY.—Following a successful competitive examination, Mrs. Elsie McDougall has been appointed assistant principal of Public School, 89. Six hundred took the examination and about 150 passed. The position is a permanent one. About half of the teachers and pupils under her are white. Undertaker Leland D. French, 4223 Cedar Ave., reports the following burials, recently: Mrs. Susie Strozler, 7914 Townsend Ave.; services from Friendship Baptist church, Rev. A. Hawkins pastor. Burial in Highland Park cemetery. Mrs. Beatrice Gay, 2860 E, 33rd St. Funeral from Undertaker French's parulors; interment in Highland Park, Rev. L. H. Brown officiating. ESTABLISHED, AUGUST 25, 1883 And Issued Every Week on Time Since CLEVELAND, OHIO, SATURDAY, JANUARY 3, 1925. FRESH OHIO NEWS Written By "The Old Reliable" Gazette's Correspondents What Our People Are Doing Each Week—Church, Personal, Social, Lodge, Literary and Musical—Marriages, Deaths, Etc. YOUNGSTOWN. The Sosos Club Xmas party at Connell hall was quite a success.—Mrs. N. Walker who was called to Macon, Ga., by her father's illness has returned.—Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Smith, of W. Myrtle Ave., have a fine Baby boy.—Mrs. Sarah Pettiford, age 9$, died at her daughter's. Mrs. Mary Peters, Republic Ave., recently. She was the mother of Dr. C. A. Pettiford. Three sons and a daughter survive her.—The Condis Club has purchased seven acres of on Thornhill Ave. Stop 25. Sharline Line, for a baseball field and amusement park. evening.—Mrs. Jno. H. Johnson of Cincinnati is visiting her grandmother, Mrs. Louisa Young.—Mr. Samuel Graves is visiting in Cincinnati. Mrs. Martimore Wilson of Cleveland is visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Williams.—Ocel Young and bride spend a day, last week, with Mr. and Mrs. Q. Young.—J. R., Doyle and Virginia Cole and Miss Ella Hardin were entertained at a six o'clock dinner. Xmas, by Mr. and Mrs. Archie Cole.—Mrs. Josephine Parson is visiting her sister, Jonnie Morris, who is ill in Cleveland.—Rev. Jas. Smith of Cleveland spent the holidays here 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. 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. XENIA. — Lieut. Col. David H. Bidde, U. S. A., has announced that he would recommend the retention of the R. O. T. C. unit at Wilberforce university following an inspection of the unit. The inspection was held for the purpose of determining whether or not the R. O. T. C. would be retained by the war department. Lieut. Col. Bidde said that he had found a great improvement both in the R. O. T. C. and in the general attitude accorded it by the school since the last inspection. He also said that further action would depend upon the inspection to be held next spring. There were 144 men in the ranks when the inspection took place. Lieut. Col. Bidde praised the R. O. T. C. band at the university and said it was one of the best bands he had heard in his inspections of military units over the country. ZANESVILLE.—The new officers of Guiding Star lodge, Odd Fellows, are: Chaplain, G. W. Wakefield; advocate, Henry Shelton; treas. Ernest R. Moorehead; elective sec. Harry R. Stotts; permanent sec. Walter F. Banks; V. G., John Palmer; N. F., John E. Cooper; trustees, P. C. Fields, Manual Holland and Lewis Lacey. They will be installed, Monday evening, at a banquet.—Mr. and Mrs. Rupert Knight, of Matthew St., have a baby girl.—Rev. W. Moses Johnson and family of Cleveland have moved here and are residing at 811 Franklin St. He has taken charge of Caldwell Zion A. M. E. church and has already materially increased its membership. —Mrs. Walter F. Banks entertained 20 members of the Old Acquaintance club, recently. Lunch was served. The club was also entertained by Mrs. Kie Colvin and Mrs. Ross White at the former's residence in Sharon Ave.—Rev. Chess, Powell, of Washington, Pa., is the new pastor of St. Paul's A. M. E. church—Geo. W. Ransome, of Whipple St., and James Starks, of Baker St., have been quite ill—Chas. Steele of Akron and Elmer Steele of Columbus were here to attend the funeral of their father, Mr. Geo. Steele. G. E. Wright has purchased the restaurant at 67 S. 3rd St., formerly operated by Mr. Thos. Duffy, and our people are urged to patronize him. HILLSBORO—Mr. and Mrs. Paul Kilgour and L. Delaney spent Xmas in Columbus with her brother—Mr. and Mrs. Oliver Young entertained Mr. and Mrs. Frank Johnson at dinner. Xmas—Mr. and Mrs. Enoch Fry, of Newport, Ky., and Mrs. Chloe Smith of Cincinnati visited their parents, Mr. and Mrs. Milton Day, during the holidays—Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Lamb and son, and Mr. and Mrs. Archie Cole visited relatives in Columbus, last week—Mrs. Zack Lewis of Springfield visited her mother, during the holidays—Mrs. Mildred Waters entertained at a family dinner, Xmas day—Mrs. Irene Redman of Circleville was the guest of Mrs. Jas. Blanton during the Xmas season—Mr. Edward Carlisle of Springfield spent Xmas here with his family.—Misses Francis Pritchard and Elizabeth Steward, of near Waverly, arrived Xmas to visit Mrs. A. Holland who entertained in their honor at a six o'clock dinner, Friday evening.—Mrs. Jno. H. Johnson of Cincinnati is visiting her grandmother, Mrs. Louisa Young.—Mr. Samuel Graves is visiting in Cincinnati.—Mrs. Marttmore Wilson of Cleveland is visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Williams.—Ocel Young and bride spend a day, last week, with Mr. and Mrs. Q. Young.—J. R., Doyle and Virginia Cole and Miss Ella Hardin were entertained at a six o'clock dinner, Xmas, by Mr. and Mrs. Archie Cole.—Mrs. Joseph Parson is visiting her sister, Jennie Morris, who is ill in Cleveland.—Rev. Jas. Smith of Cleveland spend the holidays here with his parents, Rev. and Mrs. P. H. Smith. He preached 'Sunday night, at the Baptist church.' OUR PEOPLE ASK AFRO AMERICAN, OFFICERS Of New York States' Famous 360th Infantry—An Off-the-run The Choice For Colonel—Smith and Fillmore. NEW YORK CITY—Our leading politicians throughout the State are again agitating a full-fledged Afro-American regiment for New York state, as prescribed by law, and a memorial is being prepared by some of our local civic organizations to be forwarded to Gov. All. Smith urging its organization. The 369th Infantry, formerly the 15th Regiment of this city, is being pointed to as a fully equipped Afro-American regiment with newly built modernized quarters, located in our society section of Harlem, but does not meet the requirements of the law as it is commanded mostly by white officers with a white colonel. This particular feature is said, to be very distasteful to our better class here, particularly, and those of the state, outside of the city, in general. Fillmore is Urged For Colonel. Charles W. Fillmore, our ranking officer of the state, is being urged by our prominent people, and many whites, as the commander of the regiment. Advocates of an Afro-American regiment regard Col. Fillmore as the best and most likely piece of timber that could be obtained because of his unusual military qualifications and gentlemanly bearing. The colonel is originally from Springfield, O., and served in the Spanish-American war. President McKinley sent his name to the U. S. Senate and he was commissioned a first lieutenant of the 9th (Ohio) U. S. Infantry. He served with this organization during the war, in Cuba. First as battallion adjutant and then as company commander. Later he held a position in the U. S. Treasury Department at Washington until he secured a transfer to this city. When Col. Hawley was designated to organize the 15th New York Infantry, Fillmore was commissioned Senior captain of the regiment, and as such he served with it in most of its World War engagements overseas. During the battle of the Champagne he was cited for bravery by Gen. Petain, commanding the French army corps, and awarded the Croxel de Guerre. For the remainder of the war he served on the staffs of Gen. Balleau, of the 92nd Division, and Col. Roberts, of the 370th U. S. Infantry. Returning to civil life again, Col. Fillmore was appointed an auditor for the New York State Income Tax Bureau, where he has developed a keen insight for business management, efficiency and economy. Her White Husband Forgave Her, CHICAGO, Ill.—"I'll take another change,' said "Red" Klann, (white), husband of Bessie Klann, "high hrown" of 3724 Cottage Grove Ave. "She's my wife and I love her," said "Red." This crisp statement coming from the lips of the complaining witness halted Judge McCarthy and set Bessie free. She had cut her husband about the body and the hands and had told the arresting officer that she would cut his throat unless she took her away. Upon the promise that she would never do it again she was put on probation for six months. Shot To Death. FRANKLIN, Tenn.—George Hunter, 50, well-to-do owner of a barbecue stand in the public square, was called to the door of his home the evening of Dec. 20, '24, by a group of white brutes and deliberately shot to death. He died while being taken to Nashville for aid. His mob-murders drove off in an automobile. He had had his business for more than 20 years. MAKE DUPES OF WHITE SOUTHERNERS Of the Negro, Says a White Writer In the American, Mercury— Lynch—Murder and Mobbkin An Outcome of the Southern White Man's Fear— Interesting. NEW, YORK CITY.—The white southerner, "knows less about the black men, understands him less, than anyone else on this planet," according to L. M. Hussey, writing in the January American Mercury Magazine, edited by H. L. Mencken of this city. What the white southerner calls a "good nigger," according to Mr. Hussey, is simply an accom- plished actor, playing a part, and de- luding the dominant race in order that he may be permitted to live in the South, the while he lays up his sleeve at his dupe, Mr. Hussey's article, written in a jocose vein, white-employing expressions that will offend many colored readers, nevertheless states interesting facts, and it is because of these facts and many distasteful phrases that attention is called to the article. The price of life for the Negro in the South, says Mr. Hussey, is ability to play a part. The colored people, he observed, "adopted in their intercourse with me, with every white man, the voice and gesture familiar in all mimics. They were enacting, subly, ineffably, very persuasively, a self-imposed role. They were playing a part in a comedy." The object of the comedy is to deduce the white man into thinking them submissive. In this the Negro is completely successful, and the southern white man thinks of him either as a good "Uncle Tom" or else as a criminal. Mr. Hussey goes on to point out that there is another fallacy besides the one that the southern white man "understands the nigger." This fallacy is to the effect that the Negro is better treated in the South than elsewhere. "The superior favors and condescension allotted the 'good nigger' of the Confederacy do not derive from the supereminent kindness of the southern gentleman's heart nor from his better understanding of the blackamoor. They derive, instead, from the fact that the southern gentleman is the dune of the good nigger's histrionic wiles. He is the victim of hundreds of thousands of black Salvinis, playing their parts naturally, almost instinctively, under the brutal urge of a mere biologic prompting, yet withal superlatively." The Negro's clowning plays upon the vanities of the dominant race, but at times the southern, whites come to doubt their own "superiority," especially when the Negro distinguishes himself as a business man or in the arts and professions. Then the white man begins to fear that "white superiority" is not "inherent" but "results from the accidents of numbers and conventions—not from higher "talents." It is this fear of jeopardy to "white supremacy" that prompts the mob, says Mr. Hussey. "Shorn of his sense of mastery, the hysterical overman feels his own skull in danger." When a white woman has been stared at, or some crime committed, "he sees, abruptly, a horde of 'good niggers' ripping off their masks, no longer paying tribute to his accidental eminence. And forthwith he and his brothers in hysteria bear down in overwhelming numbers upon the first isolated cabin at hand—and proceed to lynch a nigger." Meanwhile, the colored man is cynical, says Mr. Hussey, and laughs bitterly to himself. He is coming to repudiate the role of "good nigger." "To the white brethren seeking civilized amusement, to the Nordic overman a bit soured, by the pillid timidities of his accustomed journals. I recommend a trial glance at some real manly Negro papers." MINNEAPOLIS AND ST. PAUL CLIPPINGS Despite blizzard weather, the holiday celebrations were never better. All the churches had Xmas tree festivities and many persons were remembered by Santa Claus.—Mrs Irene Roberson of St. Paul, has returned from Kansas City, Kan., where she visited a sick sister, Mrs Wheeler Johnson, whose condition is greatly improved.—Miss Beatrice Williams of St. Paul, who was run down by an automobile, Dec. 3, '24, on Washington Ave., in Minneapolis, sustaining a broken ankle, is still confined at 512 Twelfth Ave., S. Minneapolis.—Our business men are contemplating the erection of a first-class hotel. An indication of progress.—Turner & Co.'s real-estate office has begun business on a firm basis and has a goodly number of patrons listed already. Abyssinian Crown To Go Home. LONDON, Eng.—The crown of Emperor Theodore of Abyssinia, which after being kept in a glass case at the Victoria and Albert Museum, this city, since 1869, is to be returned to its former home in Afrika. SINGLE COPY FIVE CENTS Howard University Trouble—Three Distinguished Service Crosses Awarded Our Retired Soldiers—Coolidge's "Jim Crow" Bathing Beach—Bank Receivers Appointed—Our Soldiers' Memorial Bill, Etc. WASHINGTON, D. C.—According to statistics gathered by Dr. Frank M. Phillips of the federal bureau of education there are only 35,731 African-American students in the many high schools of the country. Atty's, Charles H. Houston and Augustus W. Gray have just been appointed receivers of the defunct Union Laborers' Bank, which closed its doors here on August 23 last. Construction of a "jim crow" bathing beach on the north side of the Tidal basin directly opposite the white bathing beach will begin immediately. Lieut Col. C. O. Sherill, (a Coolidge appointment), officer in charge of public buildings and grounds, has announced. The beach, which is to cost $75,000, is provided for in the second deficiency appropriation bill just passed by Congress. At a meeting of the Board of Education, recently, Garnet C. Wilkinson, assistant superintendent in charge of our schools, was made first assistant superintendent and placed in charge of divisions 10 to 13, and Miss Marlan P. Shadda was promoted from supervising principal to assistant superintendent and chief examiner, same divisions. Both promotions carry with them increases in salary in an effort to put over the bill calling for the erection of a memorial here in honor of our soldiers and sailors, met, recently, and acknowledged receipt of letters of co-operation. One from Senator Frank B. Willis of Ohio gave the assurance that he would take charge of the bill when it comes before the Senate. Another from Congressman Martin B. Madden, chairman of committee on appropriations, stated that he would see that his committee does its duty in relation to the measure. Rep. L. C. Dyer, of Mo., Rep. Hamilton Fish, of New York, assured their support on the floor of the House. Howard academic faculty gave the University administration a Christmas gift, last week, in the shape of a memorial to the board of trustees attacking the salary distribution among teachers and the administrative force for the current year. Congress will be appealed to by a committee of the faculty. The printed memorial complained of disregard of teachers, and inequities in the salary schedule, with resultant dissatisfaction at the present classification. It also insisted upon disclosure of the distribution of $15,100 set aside "to increasing teachers' salaries." Of A solution of the federal patronage situation in Georgia has been obtained from President Coolidge to the satisfaction of the Democrats there. Senator George, of Georgia, recently protested to President Coolidge over the authority of Henry Lincoln Johnson. Republican national committeeman from Georgia, who he charged had abused his power. As a result an arrangement has been made by the President wherby W. Y. Gilliam (white). Republican state chairman, will recommend postal appointments and if they meet the approval of Johnson they will be accepted. Should Johnson disapprove the appointments, the postmaster general will then be required to make a final decision. The advisory board of the National Memorial Association work- THE FIRST MRS.MARCUS GARVEY Arrives from the British West Indies While Garvey Fights That Five-Year Sentence. NEW YORK CITY.—The affairs of Marcus Garvey grow more and more entangled as the days go by. Not only is he confronted with the possibility of going to Leavenworth, Kan., to serve the five-year sentence imposed by Judge Jullan W. Mack in June, 1923, which is scheduled for the final arguments in the U. S. Court of Appeals within a few days, but his first wife, Mrs. Mrs Ashwood Garvey, has come from Kingston, Jamaica, B. W. I., to sue for divorce, charging adultery, Mrs. Garvey, who is 28, states that she met Mr. Garvey in Jamaica, in 1914. They were friendly and often together until 1919, when they were married here. The week of her marriage and at the time when the U. N. I. a was first coming into public notice, Mrs. Garvey says she made Miss Amy Jacques Mr. Garvey's private secretary. This was Mr. Garvey's first introduction to his second wife, according to the first one. Mr. Garvey and his first wife were together only a few months before a rift came, it is alleged. In 1922, Mr. Garvey claims he secured a divorce from his first wife, who was then in England, and married the present Mrs. Garvey, who is also 28 years old. Now Mrs. Garvey, the first, is back from abroad and is suing for divorce, saying that she wants to get married again and she wants her freedom before Garvey goes to federal prison at Leavenworth, Kan., to serve his five years' sentence. She claims Garvey could not have gotten a divorce as she knew nothing of the proceedings. Gets $4,500 Damages. Gastonin, N. C.—Noah Adams was awarded $4,500 in the Superior Court here, recently, in his case against the Brown-Harry Co. and Northern Railway Co., defendants for personal injuries received while working in the freight yards of the railroad in the employ of contractors in July. 1924. The case was compromised by the attorneys. Pleads For Equality. DENVER, Col.—A plea for the elimination of race hate from American life and a further plea that the two races live in harmony by Gov. Wm. E. Sweet, (Dem.) featured the dedication of our new branch Y. M. C. A., recently. IN UNION IT IS STRONGER LE COPY FIVE CENTS nson PATRONAGE By A White Man, State Chairman. le—Three Distinguished Serv- Retired Soldiers—Coolidge's Beach—Bank Receivers iliers' Memorial Bill, Etc. ing in an effort to put over the bill calling for the erection of a memorial here in honor of our soldiers and sailors, met, recently, and acknowledged receipt of letters of co-operation. One from Senator Frank B. Willis of Ohio gave the assurance that he would take charge of the bill when it comes before the Senate. Another from Congressman Martin B. Madden, chairman of committee on appropriations, stated that he would see that his committee does its duty in relation to the measure. Rep. L. C. Dyer, of Mo., Rep. Hamilton Fish, of New York, assured their support on the floor of the House. Howard academic faculty gave the University administration a Christmas gift, last week, in the shape of a memorial to the board of trustees attacking the salary distribution among teachers and the administrative force for the current year. Congress will be appealed to by a committee of the faculty. The printed memorial complained of disregard of teachers, and inequities in the salary schedule, with resultant disfaction at the present classification. It also insisted upon disclosure of the distribution of $15,100 set aside "to increasing teachers' salaries". Of that $15,100 allotted by the board of trustees, little more than $5,000 was assigned to the 60 academic teachers who signed the original memorial. Award of four distinguished service crosses, one of them to Col. Claude H. Miller, now of the army war college, and three to retired Afro-American enlisted men, for heroism during the Philippine campaign; a quarter of a century ago, was announced, last week, by the war department. The three members of the race, who received distinguished service crosses, are Gus J. Williams, sergeant, retired, Co. A, 24th Int., now living in Chicago; Edward J. Monroe, sergeant, retired, Co. A; 24th Inf., now at Philadelphia, and Samuel Copeland, private, retired, Co. A, 24th Inf., who lives in St. Louis. SEES BLACK REPUBLIC IN AFRICA LONDON, Eng.—In an interview here recently, Sir Harry Johnston, the empire builder who carved out Rhodesia, Urganda and Nyasa for Great Britain during his forty years in Africa, said that he visioned a vast, republic of the colored race playing its part in the balance of world power. In the coming clash of color which he envisions, white control in Africa will be imperiled and eventually lost, and the heart of the dark, continent will again belong to its own. "I don't expect to see a black Africa in my time," said Sir Harry, who is 66. "However, it is entirely possible that within half a century all of Africa from the Zambezi to the Great Saraha may be one great black republic." Points to Liberia as Example. "Many considerations go to indicate the eventual success of a black domain throughout Africa. The deadly climate in the central portions—the Congo and the Cameroons—climate absolutely fatal to whites, is one factor. The encouraging success of Liberia in being able to maintain its identity is another. The rising desire for independence—the flowing tide of color—is yet another." "Many of the Negro and Negroid tribes in Africa are fully capable of independence and unless their political instincts are deprived by the ingress of whites, they should be able to take care of themselves. The African type at its best is a fine type of manhood." Sir-Harry is usually considered the greatest living authority on Africa. He went out to the Congo in 1880, worked with Stanley. His scientific discoveries and researches have made him even more signally known. For two decades he collected fauna, flora, geology, and made an especial study of Africa's languages. He is the author of the only available work in English on the Bantu tongues. I'VE TURNED EVERY CLOCK IN THE HOUSE AN HOUR AHEAD, SO THAT BEAU OF YOURS WON'T STAY SO LATE! I LIKE YOUR NERVE! REALLY, YOU MUST GO. GUS, -IT'S LATE! BUT LET US PLUNGE INTO THE SEA OF MATRIMONY, DEAR! - LET US GROW OLD TOGETHER! WELL! - DON'T START DOING IT DOWN THERE! PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY One Year ..... $2.00 Six Months ..... 1.00 Subscribers are requested to remit Entered at the postoffice in Cleve land, Ohio, as second-class mail matter Address all communications HARRY C. SMITH 1426 W. Third St. Cleveland, Ohio Member Ohio Legislature: 1894 to 1896; 1896 to 1898; 1900 to 1902 THE GAZETTE is the oldest and has the largest bona fide circulation, double that of any newspaper in the interest of Afro-Americans published in the state of Ohio, and comparison with any will immediately establish its rank as one of the NEWS- EST AND BEST in the country. 10,000,000 Afro-Americans. 350,000 in Ohio. 40,000 in Cleveland. Here's hoping that "the Coolidge good times," promised before the recent election, will soon arrive. The number of men out of employment increases daily, we regret to say. It is now feared that the downfall of the Standard Life Insurance Co. will carry with it about every worthwhile business enterprise conducted by our people in the city of Atlanta, Ga., because they were merged into a Service Co. with the Standard by Heman E. Perry, president of the insurance company, and others. With the president, and white faculty members of Howard university, striving to have Congress take ever direct control of Howard, at once, and the advertised internal strife started by 60 of its academic teachers, it will not take much more to place Howard upon the same low plain occupied by Fisk University which is having practically a similar experience with the addition of a student rebellion. Following the lead (4 years ago) of Henry Lincoln Johnson of Georgia, Atty. Wm. C. Matthews of Boston, the Coolidge Afro-American leader, has established headquarters for his followers in the Prudential Bank Bldg., Washington, D. C. It ought not to take Mr. Matthews long to learn that President Coolidge does not intend to grant any of his "seventeen propositions" for the race, because the whole Coolidge outfit has bowed to the prejudiced "illy-white" sentiment of the South. --- Atty, Scipio A. Jones, of Little Rock, Ark., and hundreds of others of our people in that state, are still struggling to secure pardon for the remaining six of the fifty unfortunate Afro-Americans who were sentenced to the Arkansas state penitentiary as a result of the Elaine, Ark., riot of several years ago. Like our soldiers of the 24th Inf., officially killed and sentenced for life to the federal penitentiary at Ft. Leavensworth, Kan., these men, too, ought never to have been so punished. They, too, were only trying to protect themselves—their property rights and their lives from a mob of southern white brutes. --- Just as we anticipated, and stated in recent issues of The Gazette, President Coolidge has endorsed the "jim-crow" bathing beach for our people of the nation's capital; turned down Henry Lincoln Johnson in the Georgia patronage matter, and has practically up-held Register of the Treasury H. V. Speelman's "jim-crow" conduct of his office, as well as the segregation in the other departments at Washington, D. C., and elsewhere in the government service. This certainly must be galling to some, at least, of the misguided members of the race who supported the President's candidacy in the recent campaign. "DEAN" FORTUNE'S "MESSAGE." T. Thos. Fortune, for many years part-owner and editor of the New York Age, and now editor of the Negro World, New York City, as well as the associate editor of the N. Y. Tattler, is generally regarded as the dean of the race press. In his Xmas message to our journalists, Editor Fortune has the following: "Our press has reached a commanding position in the life of the race and the nation. It has had to traverse the valley of dry bones and death to do so, but its fidelity and loyalty to the race and the nation has been its salvation." "Valley of dry bones and death" is not putting it a bit too strong. About the only martyrs the race has produced in the last 50 years are the publishers of its newspapers. The THE GEEVUM GIRLS "old timers" only, still in the business, can fully appreciate this statement and Editor Fortune's "valley of dry bones and death". Another paragraph from our conference's message is: "Our journalists helped to build the foundation of the race's moral, intellectual and material development, upon which growth is easy, and they have become one of the most dominant forces for good in the life of the race and the nation. That is a very great deal. It will mean more in the future". TRUTH! What a pity it is that more of our so-called intelligent and leading members of the race do not recognize this fact and at least show their appreciation by a much greater material assistance than they are giving. If it were not for the middle class of our people, those who do not pretend to possess so much intelligence and so much of the world's goods, we would not have more than 200 race publications. We, too, are "proud of the record our journalists have made in the past 45 years." --- 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. Maschke 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. PRIME SPORT NEWS "Rube" Foster has resigned as president of our National Baseball League. Thirteen clubs have failed or been forced to quit the organization, this year. The Acmes won over the Prudence Service basketball team in their recent meeting by a score of 37 to 22. Hampton and John scored all of the points save two and those two were made by Hudson. The Prudence Service team is made up of former Western Reserve and Cleveland High School players. "Tiger" Tolling Frankie Schoell, BUFFALO—Frankie Schoell, local middle weight, and "Tiger" Flowers of Atlanta fought six rounds to a draw here last week Friday night. Schoell weighed 151½; Flowers, 161½. The latter was on the agre- gest at all times, constantly rush- ing to win ropes and cameras but Schoell held him off with a fast, stinging left. In the third round Schoell was hurt by Flowers' body punches but he came back in the fourth and slugged toe to toe with his heavier opponent. Flowers apparently tried for a knockout in the last two rounds. Rev. J. L. Smith visited his paren- ts, Rev. and Mrs. P. H. Smith of Hillsboro, last week. THE GAMWTE, CLEVELAND, O. SATURDAY, JANUARY 3. 1905. DOINGS OF THE RACE The Chamber of Commerce, of Nashville, Tenn., has offered a $5,000 reward for the arrest and conviction of the mob-murderers that lynched the 15-year old "Negro", recently, who was taken from a cot in a hospital there. Gov. Hydie of Missouri has offered a reward of $300 for the arrest and conviction of the leaders of the mob-murderers who recently lynched a 20-year-old "Negro" at Charleston, Mo. Marcus Garvey's case is again being heard in the U. S. court of appeals at New York City. The government is prosecuting the case. John T. Gibson, owner of two of our theatres in Philadelphia, Pa., has given $5,000 to Morgan college of Baltimore of which he is an alumnus. Miss Portia M. Wiley of New York City recently sent out announcements her marriage to Columbia Nickens, a Wilberforce and Columbia graduate, which took place on Christmas Day. 1923. in Jersey City. The National council of Young Men's Christian associations, at its last meeting in Buffalo, recognized the race by electing President John Hope of Atlanta to the highest governing board of the council. LYNCHING DATA For 1924 Furnished by Dr. Robert R. Moton, Principal,uskeguee, Mt. Pleasant, Sphinx, Sphinx. Ala., N. & I. School. Editor Gazette, Dear Sir: I send the following concerning lynchings for the Tuskegee Institute in the department of records and research. I find there were sixteen persons lynched in 1924. This is the smallest number lynched in any year since records of lynchings have been kept, and is seventeen less than the number, thirty-three, for the year 1923 and forty-one less than the number, fifteen, for the year 1922. Nine of them for the year 1922. Nine from the hands of the law—six from jails and three from officers of the law outside of jails. There were forty-five instances in which officers of the law prevented lynchings. Two women, one white and one colored, were among those thus saved. Eight of these preventions of lynchings were in northern states and thirty-seven in southern states. In thirty-six of the cases the prisoners were removed or the guards augmented or other precautions taken. In nine other instances armed force was used to repel the would-be lynchers. In four instances during the year persons charged with being connected with lynching-mobs were indicted. Of the nineteen persons thus before the courts only five were convicted. These were given jail time. Of the sixteen persons lynched all were Negroes. The offenses only alleged and charged were: Murder, 1; attack, 5; attempted attack, 2; killing officer of the law, 2; insulting women, 3; attacking woman, 1; killing man in altercation, 1; wounding man, 1. The states in which lynchings occurred, and the number in each state are as follows: Florida, 5; Georgia, 2; Illinois, 1; Kentucky, 1; Louisiana, 1; Mississippi, 2; Missouri, 1; South Carolina, 1; Tennessee, 1; "About 30 Years in All." Cleveland, O., Dec. 22, '24. Hon. Harry C. Smith, Editor Gazette, City. Dear Friend; — Enclosed please find check for $2.00 to renew my subscription to "The Old Reliable" Gazette for another year, making about 30 years in all. I wish you a Merry Xmas and Happy New Year. James Bonner, age 25, of 3035 Central Ave., was shot twice, Sunday, during an argument with Lee Williams, pool room attendant at 3033 Central Ave. He was taken to Charity hospital. Williams told police he became "annoyed" after Bonner struck him on the head with a billiard cue. Williams was exonerated by police. This is in Ward 11. KISSING ON STREET PROPER So Rules a Wise and Sympathetic Old Jurist. Baltimore, Mr.—It is not disorderly conduct for two men to frequently kiss a girl when they are bidding her good night at a street corner. At least that is the decision handed down by Justice Dean of the northeastern police district. Charles Lawson and his brother, Harry Lawson, had attended a party in northeast Baltimore with Miss Eva Bova. After the party adjourned they accompanied the girl to the street. They were kissing and hugging each other when they were interrupted by Patrolmen Callahan and Murray and taken to the northeastern police station. Justice Dean dismissed the case. PROFESSOR SEES END OF LAUGHTER M. Dr. Charles G. Shaw, professor of philosophy in New York University, says the end of laughter is near. The future man, having learned so much through science, will have no need for laughter, which is induced by incongruity, inequality and criticism, he explains. Lake Ship's Keeper Tells Wierd Story Lake Ship's Keeper Tells Wierd Story Sees Ghost of Dead Master During Detroit, Mich.—H. W. Phaler, shipkeeper aboard the big lake steamer City of Detroit III., paused from his duties one morning to relate a strange stor yt his fellow workers and a number of others, including a marine reporter. Boys from the D. & C. office tried to persuade Phaler that he was "conning" them, but he stuck to his story. Tales of sea monsters, mermaids and miracles brought to terra firma by sailors of the lakes and the deep salt seas are often outdone by the yarn spun by the men who keep lonely visit about the big boats from the time they go into winter quarters until they are brought out in the spring. Stories of departed lookouts standing at their posts every stormy night and of engineers who have gone to "Dewey Jones" locker" working over the machinery and running the engine full blast while the propeller of the craft falls to turn over once, have been told and some of them printed, but Mr. Phailer's story is of an apparition of a former master of the line following him all over the boat. "It was coming 'low twelve' and as I stepped out of No. 3 doorway on the after deck, I saw a man standing by the rail watching a big freighter with a tow going up the river," declared Phailer. "For a minute I was a little frightened, then shouting to him asked what he was doing on board the boat. He turned and smiled, but never a word did he say. I walked up and reached for him, but he was gone; disappeared in the air. "For a minute, I thought I was seeing things and started for the next recording clock. When I reached it, I turned around and there was that man facing me not more than six places away, I punched the clock and then walked warily toward him. Again he disappeared. I was getting pretty well scared and when I arrived up forward I went out and up on the upper deck for some fresh air. "I stood there for a minute or so and turning to re-enter the cabin looked up at the pilot-house, and standing behind the window glass was the apparition that had gotten away from me twice. At first I felt like running but then stood there. That smile again spread over his face. "What do you want on here?" I shouted. "For an answer he reached back and pulled the bell cord. 'Dainty it is long at first, then grew louder and again died away slowly. I knew the pilot-house was locked up and that no one could get in. Again I started to run, but checked myself and looking up found the specter gone. After mustering up courage I went up and took a peep into the place, but there was no one there. "I started for the main deck and reached the lobby just as the big bells up town struck midnight and from down the main stairway floated the words, 'I am the captain of first foat of the line,' and looking up I just caught sight of the form vanishing as I had seen it do twice already." Most Cherished among the Gifts bestowed by the Passing Year is the memory of the pleasant relations with those whom we have been privileged to serve. And so it is most sincerely that we wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year PORO COLLEGE Mr. and Mrs. Malone PORO COLLEGE 4300 ST. PERDINAND AVE. ST. LOUIS MO. PORO HAIR AND TOILET PRODUCTS Ask for KRAFT CHEESE At your dealer's. ashamed It brought him untold misery; yet only he himself, was to blame HE had neglected his teeth so long that he was actually ashamed to visit his dentist. And like so many people, he kept putting it off. 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Next meeting, Jan. 18, at Mrs. Ida Fountain's, E. 81st St. Mrs. DeBraun, president. The Antioch Baptist church musicale, Mrs. Arnita Bolden, who is serving as missionary in Africa, was a success. Mrs. Mary N. Allen, director. Mrs. Hazel Harrison Anderson, Chicago pianist, will give her recital here, May 12, under the auspices of the Harmonic Choral society; Mrs. Grace Willis Thompson, director. Antioch choir's 13th musicale, Sunday evening, was an exceptional success. Mrs. rendered the beautiful music "My Heart" and selections from Handel's "Mendelssohn Prof. Henderson, chorister and organist, rendered "The March of the Magi". Mr. Daniel Freeman visited relatives in Marysville, recently. Mrs. F. D. Kemp of Fremont attended the funeral, last week, of her brother, Chas. Marshall. Mrs. A. C. Griffin is visiting her sister, Mrs. P. W. Walker, of Fremont. Rev. Wm. Phillips, who underwent an operation, recently, at a local hospital, was able to return to Ravenna, last week. The street-car service in Central Ave. is absolutely the worst in the city of Cleveland. Why don't the business men in the avenue wake up demand better service and show some regard for their patrons' welfare as well as their own? President J. W. Washington recently reopened the Service Men's Social club at 2306 E. 49th St., and reports splendid success. Mrs. Sada J. Anderson, wife of Major W. T. Anderson, who was painfully injured by an automobile near E. Liverpool, and has since been in a hospital there, sustained an operation, recently, and is slowly THE GEEVU GEEV LOOK FOR GIRL HOW ABC THE GAMBERT, CLEVELAND & SATURDAY, JANUARY 2, 1925. *M. KLEIMAN'S 2028 Central Ave. D. BAKBEE'S 2006 Central Ave. BENJ. AKERS, 3519 Central Ave. *OLE 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 fefully examine The Gazette's ad- chases. Business men who adver- se the patronage of our people. The ence that they want it. location in current issues of The 4 p. m., TUESDAY of that week, ments accepted until neon, WEB- 215 Blackstone Bldg. Frankfort Ave., Cleveland, O. Bell 'Phone: Cherry 1259 recovering. Dr. Oliver A. Taylor rendered professional services on each of his several visits. Others to visit Mrs. Anderson are Rev. and Mrs. E. A. Clarke, Rev. Joseph M. Evans, Mrs. Ella Mellia and Miss Jane E. Hunter. The Central Bathhouse Health Clinic of the Antituberculosis league placed Dr. Leon Evans in charge of its very interesting health exhibit and Xmas tree in the show window at 3665 Central Ave. Assistant Police Prosecutor and Mrs. Lawrence O. Payne, 2245 E. 4918 St., newlyweds, had Miss Floy Clements of Chicago as their guest, recently. Mrs. Walter B. Wright, Sr., W. 8518 St., and daughter, Miss Beatrice, one of our local school teachers, spent the holidays with relatives in Chicago. Dr. Frank Gregory, of Washington, D. C., husband of Mrs. Endar Anderson Gregory, E. 81st St., a native Cleveland who is here educating her children, spent the holidays in the city with his family. Mr. and Mrs. Pete Ross and son spent the holidays with relatives in Cincinnati. Mrs. E. V. Clarke, mother of Miss Mabelle C. Clarke, and her sister, Mrs. Dora Manley of Toledo, have gone to California to spend the winter. Cuyahoga lodge, Elks, recently elected Clarence Shaw, E. R.; Harry McDonald, L; K, L; O. Payne, L; K, A; E. Wynne, J. E. Reed, Sidney Thompson, "Sunny" Slaughter and Marcellus Mason, trustees; John Green, sec., John Downey, assist. District Deputy W. W. Williams was appointed by the G. E. R. Special organizer, Steve Ball; Welcome T. Blue, S. G. O. The recent annual election of the local branch of the N. A. A. C. P. resulted follows: Atty, Clayborne George, pres.; Miss Eleanor Alexander, vice-pres.; S. P. Keeble, sec., and Edward Jackson, treas. Exec com.: Hooker Page, R. K. Moon, Francis E. Young, R. W. Jelfire, Dr. W. S. Biggs, Albert Miles, Dr. E. J Gregg, and C. M. Dabney. TO "N. B. F!" Anonymous communications of all kinds are refused! If you wish publication of your article, re-write and send it with your name and address (the latter not for publication, however). New York attracts comparatively few Negroes leaving the South for the North, according to Franklin O. Nichols, assistant educational director of the American Social Hygiene Association, of New York City and our only member of the staff. Cleveland, Detroit and Chicago are getting the bulk of the infu, he said. There are 5 nice, newly papered rooms (downstairs) at 2417 E. 82nd St. and a 5-room brick cottage for 9 E. 82nd St. Tell your friends and acquaintances. The editor of The Gazette acknowledges the receipt also of the following: From Mr. and Mrs. J. Elmer Harsch of Sharline, and Mrs. May Clement of this city who is visiting in Wheeling, W. Va. M GIRLS SIS.-I WISH I HAD YOUR BKS! LIFE IS ALWAYS ROSY OR A PRETTY BLL!--TELL ME W TO GO OUT IT! Charles Gilpin, who was starred in the play "Emperor Jones", is at the popular Globe theatre, this week. Manager Bob Davis is still at it—getting the best! Moses Johnson and family, E. 20th St. were moved to Zanesville, where he has charge of Caldwell Zion A. M. E. church, and is doing well. Ora Morris, age 26, and her sweetheart, Olin Hightower, age 26, both of 2405 A. St. St. Ward, 11 were shot, Monday, at E. 38th St. and Scovill Ave, by a former sweetheart of the woman, who escaped after the shooting, according to police. A bulldog, a nighttower's right cheek and another nighttower's Ora's neck. Both were taken to Charity hospital. They will recover, according to physicians. The editor of The Gazette gratefully acknowledges the receipt of the following additional Xmas and New Year's greetings: From Major and Mrs. Allen S. Peal, Western University, Kansas, Kan.; Miss Willa A. Henselman of Chicago; Mr. and Mrs. B. Henson of Detroit; Dr. Edward E. Underwood of Ky.; Principal R. R. Moton, Tuskegee Institute, Ala.; the Standard Life Insurance Co., Atlanta; H. A. Slegel, Midwest Feature Service, Chicago; Chas. H. Berrigan, Peoria, Ill.; President G. R. Bridgeford, Kansas Vocational College, Topeka, Kan.; A. H. Dorssey, Mrs. Robert Logo, Herbert L. Taylor, the Taylor Private School, and others in the city. Rev. R. B. Hudson, principal of our high school at Selma, Ala., and father of Mrs. Bernice Hudson White, father of Wm. White, spoke at Annoch School church, Sunday morning, and addressed a local Baptist Ministers' conference, Monday afternoon. Mr. Hudson left for Cincinnati, Tuesday night. The following delightfully entertained, the past week, in honor of Mrs. Ida B. Carey and daughter of New Vienna: L. R. Carey, E. 38th St., a formal reception; Mrs. Mattei Plerson, E. 43rd St., a dinner; Mrs. Francis L. Todd, E. 85th St., a luncheon; Mrs. Ida B. Johnson, E. 38th St., a dinner; Mrs. Albert Gregory, E. 46th St., a breakfast; Mrs. Jennie Johnson, E. 49th St., a Xmas turkey dinner, and Mrs. Quinetta Gregory, E. 93rd St., a luncheon. Henry Slaughter, 2800 Woodland Ave. (Ward 12), admitted in municipal court, Monday, that he had stolen a sweater to keep himself warm. "I'll make it hot for you; costs and thirty days," Judge Stevens sald. The Phyllis Wheatley Association drive for $600,000 to provide adequate buildings and equipment is set for the last week in this month. Dr. Robt. H. Bishop, Jr., is chairman of the campaign committee. Money raised will be used to complete the purchase of land between E. 43rd and W. 43rd streets, a central building and dormitory are to be built and improvements made in the Doan branch of the P. W. A., furnishings and equipment. A new camp site for the girls is to be secured to replace the one destroyed by the Lorain flood. Miss Jane E. Hunter, gen. sec. of the P. W. A., stresses the fact of the inadequacy of the present home as the reason for the demolition of the trees of the P. W. A., the campaign committee, and the advisory committee include leading members, male and female, of both races. "While the white race has advanced in a civilization of material gain, the Negro race will develop a civilization of happiness and service," said Dr. W. E. B. DuBois, editor of the Crisis, New York City, in an address on "The Future of the Dark Races" at the Jewish Center forum, Sunday morning. "It is difficult to predict the kind of service this race will render, for the problem is a recent one. Man has not been accustomed to connect civilization and color, and we have not considered seriously any future other than that of the whites. The survival of the race be the determining factor of life, and the theory developed that the white race, because of its fitness, deserved to rule the world. Investigations were made of this superiority, but one by one they were abandoned, as a great similarity was found between the races in all intelligence tests. The dark races have been treated as children in the past, but if the white man will give them the chance to prove their capability they will show the world that what humanity has accomplished in the past is still a future." Editor DuBois' address was preceded by a short musical program. "I honor the man who in the conscientious discharge of his duty dares to stand alone; the world, with ignorant, intolerant judgment, may condemn, the countenances of relatives may be averted, and the hearts of friends grow cold, but the sense of duty done shall be sweeter than the applause of the world, the countenances of relatives or the hearts of friends."—Charles Sumner. RACE PREJUDICE1 "I am convinced myself that there is no more evil thing in this present world than race prejudice; none at all! 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AW, SIS!--LET'S ARBITRATE! Segregation An Outrage! Help The "Old Reliable" to increase its circulation! Don't Throw Away Your Copy of THE GAZETTE After Reading it, But Give It to a Friend or an acquaintance who Might Subscribe After Reading a Copy of It. How Our 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, 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 the papers, is tenaciously in to by our Republican President. Only last week, a colored girl appeared after having passed the best examination, 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 of President Coolidge. They halls from North Carolina, the home of the other favorite and leader of the segregation 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 cocker 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 them all when they reflect that they are far more liable 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 over the toilet. 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 post-office employees" yet not one was delivered to the colored clerks. I hurried a protest to the postmaster office to have us come off, and he ordered the postmaster to invite the colored as well as the white. These clerks get around their colored co-workers by giving the function at a local hotel. It is inevitable that the wicked spirit of segregation would express itself in appointments, assignments, and salaries. Colored applicants are often passed over though their examination was superior. No Negro, however efficient or old in the service, must ever dream of a promotion to a directive position. In hard, unyielding caste passes whites, him one after another, though many of the employed employees have won contests in quickness and accuracy in the handling of mail. The colored clerks have dared to form a union which meets regularly and often sends manly and intelligent protests to the postmaster, and often appeals from his decisions to the postmaster-general. It has secured some improvement in their working conditions, but they 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. But they are not out-of-the-way section reserved for our employees. I am glad to say that few, very few, of our people patronize the place, preferring a little physical inconvenience to the open, semi-public humiliation of segregation. In toilet facilities, dressing-rooms, and work assignments, wherever possible, the law of segregation is in full force, and, of course, this same undemocratic practice reveals itself on the salary roll and in the hard caste that bars promotions Here. With the exception of former pass over our superior employees to directive positions, and higher salaries. The whites have a large recreational center in this public building with many fine appointments for rest and amusements. During lunch and dinner hours they repair to this restful retreat for sociability and dance. Last fall, a young Afro-American with a splendid record in his work, felt the injustice of this exclusion of our employees so keenly that he secured the company of a young lady of the race to take part in the dance. As soon as this couple started to dance if a music was abruptly stopped, and the young man reported for attempting to take part in an entertainment provided for employee. He was called to the office, lectured for being "one of those smart Negroes who believe in social equality, and the dismissal of unimpeded charge. He was a night-employee, hence he had a pistol. Right after the dance incident a fire broke 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 falling to secure any evidence searched him only to discover the pistol. They quickly dropped the arson charge and substituted one for carrying concealed weapons for which he was immediately dismissed. By this severe punishment our employees are taught that there 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 dental if the conditions complained of exist. My informants of my informants I knew the fate these informants would suffer so I have never given a single name!! The department then taking the position THE GALSTEPS, CLEVELAND O SATURDAY, JANUARY 3, 1925. 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 is so well settled upon it, and the complainants cannot bear witness to it. (Special to The gazette) (Special to The Gazette) Washington, D. C.-Segregation in the 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 rebel leader in the Civil War, wife of Senator Robert La Follette. Shortly after the accession of Mr. Wilson to the White House, a member of his family visited the bureau where she saw white and colored girls working together in perfect harmony, oblivious to any thought of race. Shortly thereafter came an order for segregation of the races, and a white lady who had been noted for her philanthropy among our people and who was upon intimate terms at the White House appeared at the bureau to tell our girls to be contented with the new order as "a great Negro leader had taught colored people to stay in their places." Three of the young ladies resisted the order to the last ditch and were summarily dismissed! Senator La Follette lodged a protest with Secretary McAdoo to no avail, and his noble wife began a crusade against the undemocratic innovation. She took the platform here in Washington and Boston before the famous Twentieth Century club. She used the columns of the Senator's magazine, sparing neither space nor vigor of utterance. She thundered against it in our 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. Or they were at the crises, Oswald Garrison Wilard to attack White House and Cabinet and arouse our people, and the Nation Association secured publicity in over six hundred influential white papers in the country. The eight checked what was thought to be the intention of the segregators, namely, the elimination of the colored employees from the bureau ait together. 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 are 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 auto 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) (Special to The Gazette) Washington, D. C.—The treasury department, according to the President's recent acceptance speech, is now under the abstent financial genius of the late George W. Bush. 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 mikty 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 taxation of the recent war necessitated, this is by far the largest department of the treasury in several thousand clerks. Yet Negroes are so scarce there that they can't be noticed. There is the same general complaint here among our clerks and other employees as there is in the other branches of the government—failure to recognize their efficiency when promotions are due; ability to go so far and no farther. The various forms of segregation exist here as well as elsewhere—the restaurants closed or divided along color lines, and special toilets, locker rooms, rest-rooms, etc., set off for colored. The toilets for the colored are few in such a large structure. Hence the segregated clerks are held at rest, and the enforcement 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 drive scene that the presence creates, the two thousands ers with space to spare; but not one Negro! His only share is in the taxes he is forced to pay for this luxury for another group! The registrieship of the treasury, which Republican Presidents have given the Negro since Garfield appointed Blanch K. Bruce, is now filled by a white man, and the colored people are congregated in a separate room which is publicly proclaimed as "a colored division." When it is discovered that Negro clerks are "working as white" in other divisions, they are promptly transferred to this "colored division." Our people fear that protest against this segregation would result in the abolition of the division altogether; so they remain in a dilemma, fearing that our clerks must accept segregation or elimination, and being poor, with no other opportunities in this southern atmosphere, must take the former. They are depressed at the wrong, but economic stress compels endurance of it. By a single stroke of his pen, President Calvin Coolidge can stop every bit of 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 several of its bureaues has been most pronounced, particularly the office of the register of the treasury and the internal revenue bureau. In the former, beaver board walls were maintained 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 Corunna, Mich.—Edward Brophy was arrested after a week's spree. When he pleaded guilty, Justice Nichols sentenced him to sleep in the county jail for thirty nights and to work at his trade in the daytime. Justice Nichols told Brophy that he must come to the jail as soon as he is through work and that he must stay there Sunday. Twice Seen Near Kutztown by Pennsylvania Folk. Kutztown, Pa.-Milton Hill and Frank Hill found a land turtle near Rothermel's mill with the initials G. H. M. and the Gate 1832 cut on the shell. able" to incr HE GAZET o Might Sub LAWYERS TOUCHED BY SMOOTH CLIENT Man in Overalls Tells Them Thrilling Story of Cruelty of "Standard Oil Manager." DIG DAMAGES ARE WANTED Promiss to Retain Attorneys in Four Cults, Borrowed 50 Cents and Disappear. New York—Several more or less well known Brooklyn attorneys were comparing notes at one of the downtown clubs, during the luncheon hour, with about the same number of members of the profession practicing in Manhattan, over a clever game of "touch" that, seemingly, has been worked during the week with lawyers only as victims. "How the scheme was worked was outlined by one of the attorneys who admitted "giving up" a 50-cent piece in the hope of coralling four $10,000 damage suits against the Standard Oil Company of 26 Broadway, Manhattan. The attorney was sitting in his office when an undersized man, dressed in overalls, and with the roll and flavor of the sea about him, walked in. He was about 50 years of age, and looked every bit what he claimed to be—a chief engineer of a steamship. "You see, sir, it's just this way, sir, I am looking for a lawyer to take my case, sir, and the cases of three of my mates. It's against the Standard Oil Company, sir, which owns the steam- ship Delaware." "My name, sir, is William Francis Grant. I have been with the Standard Oil Company for seven years, sir. I am now stopping at the American Seamen's Mission in West street, sir. I signed articles for three years as chief engineer of the Delaware, sir. I was discharged from the hospital yesterday, sir, but my mates are now in the Marine Hospital on Staten Island, sir. They are George Watson, second assistant engineer; James Welch, third assistant engineer, and William Kelly, fourth assistant engineer, sir. I had two ribs broken and my teeth knocked out. Watson lost his right hand, Welch had both legs and a rib broken, and Kelly lost his right leg at the knee, it was an amputation, sir. "How did the accident happen," the attorney asked, briefly. "You see, sir, our ship, the Delaware, was at the dock at Point Breeze, Philadelphia, where the Standard Oil Company has its docks, when the company manager, J. R. Smith, came aboard and directed me to lift up the low pressure cylinder cover, sir. I told him, sir, that we didn't have sufficient gear to lift up the cover, which weighs 950 pounds. He persisted in me doing so, I told him we were not going to do it until I had witnesses. I called two custom house officers; they were George Davis, a surveyor, and William Phillips, a searcher, who happened to be on the dock, and asked them to come aboard and take a look at the gear. As soon as Davis took a look at the gear he said: "That gear has been condemned; didn't you know that?" I said I didn't, as I had had no occasion to use it. In spite of this, sir, which Mr. Smith heard, he ordered me to rig the gear. Well, sir, we proceeded to lift the cylinder head and had it about six feet above its place when the tackle broke and the cover fell over on its side and broke through the platform on which Watson, Welch, Kelly and myself were working. We felt saveren feet and were all knocked senseless by the broken cover. "Well, sir, we were all taken to the Marine Hospital in an ambulance, and there were until the other day, when the Delaware, on a return trip, brought us to New York. The Delaware is now at Bayonne, but they took the other three men to the hospital on stretchers. I was over to Staten Island to see them today. You see, sir, the company has its agents trying to settle with us for $1,000 each, but we won't settle until we have a lawyer. We think we ought to get a good deal more than that, sir." Visions of four perfectly good damage suits against the Standard Oil Company had long before this made the eagerly listening attorney's mouth water particularly as the smooth-talking Grant had casually illustrated how the accident had happened by use of the inkwells and their covers on the desk before him, and expressed himself as quite willing to sign a retainer and get his friends to do the same when he visited them on the morrow. He readily signed it and pocketed blank retainers for his mates to sign. Then came the "touch," but done so artistically that it showed the master mind. "You see, sir, I shall take an early boat tomorrow morning, about 7 o'clock, so I can get back here about 11. You know, sir, that the company still owes us our wages, and would you mind letting me have a little money, say 50 cents, to pay my way over to Staten Island and back? I'll be back here before noon, sure." 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 "lynching" within the meaning of this chapter. (93 v. 161 2.) Section 6279. The term "serious injury," for the purpose of this chapter, shall include such injury as permanently or temporarily disables the person receiving it from earning a livelihood by manual labor. (93 v. 161 3.) Section 6280. A person taken from officers of justice by a mob, and assaulted with whips, clubs, missiles or in any other manner, may recover, as hereafter provided, a sum not to exceed one thousand dollars as damages from the county in which the 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. (93 v. 162 5.) Section 6282. The legal representative of a person dying from injuries received from lynching by a mob, may recover of the county in which such injury occurred, a sum not to exceed five thousand dollars damages for such unlawful killing. Such sum shall be applied to the maintenance of the family and education of the minor children of such person so lynched, if any survive him, until such children are of legal age, and then be distributed to the survivors, share and share alike, the widow receiving an amount equal to a child's share. If there be no widow or child of such person, such person, such student, 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 102 6.) Section 6283. A person suffering death or injury from a mob attempting to lynch another person shall come within the provisions of this chapter. He or his legal representatives shall have a like right of action as one purposely injured or killed by a mob. (93 v 162 6.) Section 6284. Action for the recoveries provided for in this chapter must be commenced, within two years from the date of such lynching. In any court having original jurisdiction of an action for damages for malicious assault. (93 v 162 7.) Section 6285. An order to the commissioners of a county, against which such recovery is had, to include it with the costs of action, in the next succeeding tax levy for such county, shall be a part of the judgment in every such case. (93 v. 162 8.) Section 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 in the act of 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: UBS. eed. g. representative of victim of lynching. injury by mob trying to lynch another. and costs in tax levy. s. inst member of mob. inst 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 House had enacted while a member of the 71st General Assembly, in 1894: The General Coge 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. 12940. 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 rescued 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 Mistled by the foolishly manufactured outcry for the passage of the Beatty bill, a few years ago, the Akron Beacon Journal published editorial to which the editor of The Gazette replied, calling its attention to _he 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, 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 ($$000) 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.