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City Co-Operative Dairy Company, 9004 Woodland Ave. For service call Garfield 8341 THE GAZETTE ESTABLISHED, AUGUST 25, 1883 And Issued Every Week on Time Since CLEVELAND, OHIO, SATURDAY, JANUARY 17, 1925 DOINGS OF THE RACE The Supreme Life & Casualty Co. has purchased a building at 1005 E. Long St., Columbus, O., for its home-office. The State Department of Labor and Industry, which is studying the effect of the southern emigration on Michigan social and industrial life, has found a woman, Rebecca O'Neal, who has lived to the ripe old age of 119, living in the city of Detroit. Cornell A. McDougal, (Dem.), and assistant attorney general of the state of New York, has been succeeded by Clayton T. French (Repub.), of New York City. Fresh Ohio News Fresh Ohio News MASSILLON.—The young men's club made its initial appearance, recently, at a smoker, in Doric hall. Rev. J. H. Williams was the principal speaker, Music, freshments, and smokes followed. Zeneth Broody, press, Harry Miers, see, Floyd Tyler, trias.—The holiday visitors have about all returned home. Archie Robinson shot in the neck in a local pool room, recently, as a result of a heated argument, was taken to the local hospital and operated upon before his death. 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., lives 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. HILLSHORO.—Mrs. Chas. F. Cole entertained twelve at a dinner party, Jan. 4, at Mrs. Gertrude Christy's honoring her daughter, Freda's 10th anniversary.—Mrs. Jas. Blanton and Miss Saddle Newland were called to Xenla, last Monday, by the illness of the former's aunt, Mrs. Annie Lucas, and his mother, Mrs. Blanton.—Rev. S. H. Williams of Frankfort assisted Rev. Blake pastor of the A. M. E. church, with Sunday morning's services.—Mrs. Carrie Golns was called to Greenfield, last week. Her sister-in-law, Mrs. Anna Saunders, suffered a stroke of paralysis. Mrs. Golns returned, Sunday. Mrs. Saunders was not much improved.—Mrs. Irene Redman returned to Circleville, Monday. She visited Mrs. Jas. Blanton and others.—Justice of the Peace J. T. Oatmeal, of Washington C. H. called on Joseph R. Cole, last Thursday.—Mrs. Chas. Golns is ill.—Clarence Larch and Archie Cole, who are working in Felicity, spent Sunday with their families.—Lyman Ross is improving slowly.—Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Menley returned to Chicago, Saturday. They visited Mr. and Mrs. Jno. Hudson.—Mr. Phillip Wallace and Mrs. Louisa J. York were married, last Tuesday, by Rev. J. J. Burr.—Aunt Frances Sneed who died, Jan. 4, leaves two daughters, one son, twenty-two grandchildren, thirty-great-grandchildren, and six great-great-grandchildren.—Mr. and Mrs. Ocal Young of Wooster spent the holidays with Mr. and Mrs. O. Young. Mrs. Young entertained for them and Mrs. Irene Redman. THAT NASHVILLE LYNCHING! Nashville, Tenn.—The local Chamber of Commerce has written a letter to Mr. Walter White, assist, soc. N. A. A. C. P., N. Y. city, acknowledging receipt of information relative to the recent lynching of Sammy Smith, age fifteen, taken from a local hospital bed, to which he was chained, and lynch-murdered by a mob. Despite rewards totaling $5,000, offered for evidence leading to conviction of the lynch-murders; "no clues" had been discovered until Mr. White sent the Chamber the names of four white men who visited the lad in the hospital and warmed him of his impending death. He had acquired the information during a stay of 15 hours here. Will R. Manler, secretary of the Chamber, has written Mr. White as follows: "Thank you for the information contained in your letter of the 27th, in regard to the Sammy Smith lynching. I have passed same over to the detective agency that is investigating the matter for the Chamber." Thus far there, have been no reports of any arrests or prosecutions in connection with the lynching. Somebody ought to tell City Manager W. R. Hopkins and Bishop Joseph Schrembs that the bad members (male or female), of our group, are not any worse or any more numerous, proportionately, than those of any other group in the community. The member or members of the race who have made them believe otherwise are the ones to blame, rather than the city manager and the bishop. R. W. Burns, of Morris Ave, who died on New Year's day after a lengthy illness, was buried from St. James' A. M. E. church, the pastor officiating, assisted by Rev. C. R. Jones of Sec. Emanuel Baptist church. A wife, six children, and a sister in Lima survive him. NEW BOOK REVIEWS. One can nowhere find, so complete a history of that on "The Negro Question" during the period covered as that contained in Prof. Kelly Miller's four volumes of published essays—"Race Adjustment", 1905; "Out of the House of Bondage", 1912; "Appeal to Conscience", 1916, and the present title, "The Everlasting Stain". In this latter volume are gathered not merely the Sunday whittlings of the fray, but some of the substantial rail-splitting which has cleared obstruction from our racial path and made clearings where there were forests, and roads where there was but jungle growth of misunderstanding and folly. Every Afro-American, who intends to lay aside the purely theoretical discussion of the late reconstruction period and discuss the practical scientific analysis and statistical issues of today and reflections on the World War and its aftermath, should secure this late volume. "The Negro in South Carolina." "The Negro in South Carolina." As an investigator of the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History, Alrutheus A. Taylor is making a scientific study of the Negro during the rehabilitation of the Southern states. His aim is to present not what was said about the Negro, not what was done for him, out what he himself said, and what he did for himself. The facts were not obtained from hearss sources, nor from the participants still living. His works are purely a result of palmstaking research into the original sources. He has given vivid pictures of all forces at work in the State—the religious social and economic, as well as the political. "The Negro in South Carolina During the Reconstruction" is the first of a series of monographs dealing with this neglected aspect of our history as influenced by a special group. This book comes in response to an urgent need of students of history questioning the unsupported assertions of historians writing on the Reconstruction. It is a timely book; about an interesting subject, written in a seriously scientific style. Both of these publications are issued by The Associated Publishers, 1538 Ninth St., N. W., Washington, D. C. The first one, $2.65-postpaid; the second, $2.15 postpaid. PYTHIAN BATH HOUSE At Hot Springs Announces Its Ritze For K. P. Members and Others— The Drive For 50,000 New Members. New Orleans, La—In order that the members of the Order, and the members of our racial group may become better acquainted with the health-promoting waters of Hot Springs, the Pythian Temple sanitarium commission of the Knights of Pythian of North America, South America, Europe, Asia, Africa and Australia, has ordered a temporary reduction in rates for rooms in the Pythian bath house and sanitarium at Hof Springs, Ark., effective Jan. 1, 1925, as follows: For Pythians and Calantheans. Inside rooms one day, seventy-five cents. One week, three dollars. Outside rooms, one day, one dollar. One week, four dollars. For Persons Not Members of The Order. Inside rooms, one day, seventy-five cents. One week, four dollars. Outside rooms, one day, one dollar. One week, five dollars. At a conference of the grand chancellors held at Hot, Springs, Ark., Dec. 29 and 30, 1924, it was decided that a universal campaign for membership should begin, Jan. 1, 1925, and end, July 1, 1925, to add to the present membership at least fifty thousand new members. The grand chancellors and grand worthy counsellors are required to report to the supreme chancellor and the supreme worthy counsellor, respectively, on the first day of each month, the number of new members added to their subordinate lodges and subordinate courts during the previous month. A reduction in the joining fee has been ordered in all grand lodge and grand court jurisdictions, during that period. Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Owens, proprietors of the Geraldine, E. 40th St., report 1924 as the hotel's most prosperous year. They received holiday greetings from many parts of this and several foreign countries, the most elaborate coming from Dr. and Mrs. H. H. Jones of Monrovia, Liberia, Africa. The social and moral atmosphere of the Geraldine is guarded carefully by Mr. and Mrs. Owens and the hotel kept clean and wholesome. For this they deserve special credit Messrs. Wynne and Easley, two enterprising and progressive members of the race, have at 2262 E. 55th St. one of the finest and most modern establishments for the purpose of furnishing funeral service in the city of Cleveland. They are courteous, obliging, and extend you a personal invitation to visit their place of business. Inspect it and offer any suggestions you feel will aid them in bettering either it or their service. -Adv. SINGLE COPY FIVE CENTS And Not As A Member of Any Party Our Salvation Say3 Representative Ogden L. Mills of New York-He Is Right, Too-Organize and Avoid Demagogucs Of All Kinds-Favors Federal Anti- Lynching Law-Other Speakers. New York City.—A square deal, equality of opportunity, and unprejudiced reward of individual merit are the legitimate demands of the race, Representative Ogden L. Mills (white) declared, recently, at the annual mass feeling of the N. A. A. C. P. at the Renaissance Casino, 138th St. and Seventh Ave. "In your struggle to attain these conditions, you should place your trust not in demagogues but in organizations and committees com- Secretary James Weldon Johnson. posed of members of both races, such as we have recently seen organized thruout the country," he said. "The "SHUFFLE ALONG" The Greatest of All Our Shows Coming to The Popular Globe Theater Next Week—Do Not Miss It! George E. Wintz, owner and producer of the musical revue, "Shuffle Along", which comes to the Globe Theater for one week only starting, Monday, Jan. 19. with a mid-nite performance, Saturday, and a matinee, Sunday, does not believe that successful showmanship is the result of genius, but merely the application of sound business methods. This is how he feels about it. "In the first place, cleanliness is one of the big, essentials; the girls must look clean, the wardrobe and scenery must have the appearance of freshness, and last but not least, the comedy must be devoid of all fifth and suggestiveness. No lines, scene, action, song, dance, costume or implication must be polluted with either. All the dimples in the world cannot offset an implication of smut. While it may please a few, it not only offends many but is uncalled for in legitimate show business. To be successful in the show business now, you must give the people a lot for their money, and that lot must be furnished with real talent, which is readily recognized by the up-to-date theatergoer, who cannot be fooled as in the days gone by. We endeavor to give a big show with a heap of speed and pep, and above all, a show that any man can safely take his own mother and sister to, without fearing offence". Reserved seats now on sale. Without a swimming pool, gymnasium, and the convenience installed in every other bath-house in the city, the Central Ave. bath-house has been a standing joke ever since it was built. Councilman Tom Fleming is again promising the long-looked for swimming pool, gymnasium, etc. May it soon materialize! Sheriff Fred Kohler, whose election Councilman Tom Fleming fought so strenuously, would hardly appoint any one upon the recommendation of the latter. So Clarence Shaw, who succeeded Harry Kersey, a member of the local Republican organization, as a deputy, in that office, doubtless owes his appointment to the sheriff. We want to call our readers' attention, particularly all those who love music, to the advertisement of the Reliable Music House, 2577 E. 55th St., just north of Woodland Ave., because it is offering some exceptional opportunities to get what you may want. Mr. Malinoff and his assistants are courteous, obliging and make you welcome when you enter their store. Be sure to read carefully the advertisement of the Reliable Music House elsewhere in this paper.—Adv. IN UNION IS STRONGER LE COPY FIVE CENTS FOR US INDIVIDUALS Member of Any Party Salvation L. Mills of New York—He Is and Avoid Demagogues favors Federal Anti- Other Speakers. members of these bodies are earnest men and women who realize that here is a problem upon the solution of which depends the happiness of millions and possibly the future welfare of our country." Favored Dyer Anti-Lynching Bill. Representative. Mills said he had voted for the Dyer anti-lynching bill because he considered lynching a national disgrace. "When it is shown that lynchings are decreasing in numbers, but that every year from sixty to 100 of these hideous crimes go unpunished in this country so proud of its civilization, its public morality and its education, the fact that these crimes are decreasing seems to me insignificant beside the "out that they occur at all," he said. A morning against the formation of blocs was sounded by Mr. Mills. "Vote individually," he advised. "Don't ever put yourself in a position where politicians of either side can say they can deliver the Negro vote." Segregation Discussed. The question of residential segregation by race, which has arisen out of agreements among property owners, was considered at the meeting. Wm. Pickens, former dean of Morgan College, Baltimore, spoke on this subject. Other speakers were Robert W. Bagnall, Mary White Qvington, chairman of the board of directors of the association, and James, Weldon Johnson, secretary. It was announced that a check for $1,007.50 had been received from Philip G. Peabody, of Boston, bringing his total contributions to the association to $10,000 in the last few years. A business meeting of the association followed. COOLIDGE SHOULD FREE HAIT! Haitian Laborers Publicly Protest Acts of American Officials—Editor of "La Poste" Jailed Without Trial—Another Outrage. Port au Prince, Haith.—"The American Occupation" caused the arrest of Edouard Pouget, editor of "La Poste", a local newspaper, on the night of Dec. 26, '24, and without trial, placed him in solitary confinement. Another outrage to be added to the long list made by the illegal, arbitrary and prejudiced control of this country's affairs by the American government in the United States. Among the signers of the Haitian laborers' protest, just issued, are Perceval Thoby, former attach of the Haitian ministry in Washington; George J. Petit, Flavius Leon and Andre Zamor. The laborers protest against the arbitrary parity of 20 cents for the Haitian gourde. They charge that railway ties were recently imported from the United States. depriving Haitian lumber workers of opportunity to labor; that English is being substituted for French, the national tongue, by the American administration; that prison and school labor is used to supply resident Americans with cheap commodities; that hard woods are bought by the government at prices arbitrarily fixed to the prejudice of Haitians; and that American industrial companies, under the present administration, are acquiring rights denied them heretofore in Haiti. Arrest of Editor Pouget. As to Mr. Pouget, it is reported that he is being held, without legal proceedings, on the status of a common criminal, for having written an editorial displeasing to the administration (American Occupation). Mr. Pouget has been Haitian minister to Germany, Secretary of State, Secretary of the Treasury, and a Senator. Hattie Hall King Dead. Columbus, O.—Mrs. Hattie Hall King, for many years a teacher in the local public schools, and former wife of Atty. Wilbur King, died here, recently, after many months' illness. The deceased was a sister of Mrs. Lula Hall Alexander, who was in Cleveland, recently. THE RIGHT SPIRIT. Coffeyville, Kan.—Atty. Elisha Scott, who won the case opening the doors of all Kansas junior high schools to our students, has waived $200 of his fee. Mr. Scott was entitled to $500; but accepted $300 from the. Coffeyville branch of the N. A. A. C. P. in view of the court's order awarding him $1,000 from the local school-board. The GAZETTE PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY 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 (Bell Phone: Cherry 1259) Room 804, 226 W. Superior Ave., Cleveland, O. 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. SATURDAY, JANUARY, 17, 1925. Even the hundreds of distressing outrages upon the natives of Haiti do not move President Coolidge to . . . Possibly one should not be surprised at this when he remembers the insulting and humiliating segregation of American citizens of color in the departments at Washington and elsewhere in the government service. --- Under the head-lines, "For the Good of Cleveland", The Cleveland Press carried an editorial on the proposed new Phillis Wheatley home, one day the first of this week, which is far and away the best local daily newspaper publication in connection with the drive now on to raise $600,000 for the P. W. A., we have seen and read. The Gazette takes this opportunity to thank Editor Earle Martin of the Press for our people of this community. --- When Representative Ogden L. Mills of New York City warned our people against becoming a part or any political bloc, but to vote individually, with an eye-single to the promotion of racial interest and not merely personal interest, he said a "mouthful". That is the one thing the intelligent members and others of the race must to make to do if we are ever to make the progress so greatly needed and desired. We made a splendid beginning in the recent Presidential campaign which The Gazette sincerely trusts will go forward steadily. COOLIDGE AND HAITI. During the recent campaign, the Coolidge political management caused it to be announced and heralded throut the country that the American Occupation of Haiti and Santo Domingo would be ended at an early date. Mostly prejudiced individuals from the southern part of this country are at the head of the American Occupation in Haiti. The same was largely true, in Santo Domingo. That accounts for the hundreds and even thousands of outrages committed upon the innocent and helpless people of both countries. If President Coolidge is as friendly toward our people as his Afro-American supporters claimed for him during the recent campaign, he will end the American Occupation of Haiti at once. It is causing all of the South American countries to question the boasted honesty, sincerity and fairness of the government of this country, and very properly, too. Remove those southern "crackers" at once, Mr. President! If you won't end the segregation in the departments at the nation's capital, and elsewhere in the government service, you might at least put an end to outrages in Haiti. SEGREGATING THEMSELVES. With a "NEGRO DIVISION of workers for the P. W. A. drive for a $600,000 building fund", and other "Negroes" appealing to the generous people of Cleveland "to aid the Lincoln Hospital campaign drive for a $25,000 building fund", another voluntary and really unnecessary movement, on the part of "Negroes", that particular group of people "in this neck of the woods" is in a fair way to make Cleveland about what they left when they came here from "down home". During the preliminary preparations for the P. W. A. drive, several very harmful things have appeared in the local daily press, untrue statements made by over-zealous white friends who have been misinformed. And now comes the Lincoln hospital movement for which there is very little, if any, real need or demand. One thing sure and that is, the way our group of people in this community are drifting these days, it will not be long before conditions here will be almost as bad as they are in the South. And "Negroes" will be largely to blame for the change. To boost oneself or to get hold of a little easy money, some of our people will go to any extreme, regardless of how much they injure our group. While hundreds and thousands of others of our people, who see and understand, stand aloof and permit the movement or movements to go on and the everlasting harm be done. Then when members of other groups segregate, insult, humiliate and mistreat our people, in various ways because of their race or color, there is a howl followed by protests against the very thing the P. W. A. drive and the Lincoln hospital drive are encouraging MOST right now. PRIME SPORT NEWS Tiger Was Another. Providence, R. I. — "Tiger" Flowers, our sensational Atlanta middleweight, defeated Dan Dowd of Boston on a technical knockout in the sixth round of their scheduled ten round bout, last week Thursday night. Dowd was badly beaten and his seconds tossed in the towel to save him from further punishment. Flowers Meets Delaney. New York City—A middleweight battle which is expected to produce a qualified challenger for the world's title held by Harry Greb is scheduled for decision, this week Friday night, in Madison Square garden. The principals are Jack Delaney, Bridgeport boxer, who boasts of a knockout victory over the hard hitting Paul Berlienbach, and "Tiger" Flowers. They are scheduled for twelve rounds as the feature of a fisticick card which promises plenty of action. The bout will witness Delaney's first appearance in the Garden since his recent disappointing showing against Pal Reed, and the second against in which he has engaged before a Garden gathering since his memorable knockout over Berlien. In only appeal against Delaney, Bridgeport boxers published himself as a capable boxer through the workmanlike manner in which he battered his way to victory over Johnny Wilson, former world's middleweight champion. Although each boxer is a challenger for the middleweight title, it is not expected that they will enter the ring at the class weight limit. Flowers is expected to weigh about 165 pounds, while Delaney is expected to weigh about 162 pounds. Dempsey Vs. Wills. Dempsey S. W. will Not a very tall man Luis Anger Perpo esthished the strabistic world by knocking Jack Dempsey absolutely out of the ring. The champion dropped heavily among the amazed and alarmed ring-side press writers, and in self defense they pushed him back up into the arena. There are those who still maintain that at just this moment Jack Dempsey forfeited the heavyweight championship of the world to the "wild cull" of Argentina. Of course, Mr. Dempsey made reasonably short work of Sonor, but he will always carry the sigma of having been knocked utterly out of the ring, an almost unique experience for champions or near champions. And the worst part of it is that the distracting punch was administered by a seventh-rate fighter. In view of all that has happened it is perhaps as well that writers did lift Dempsey back into the ring. Firpo would have been an egregious fizz as a champion. Whatever may say of his fizz, he hinged on to his championship like a terrier to a rope—Cleveland Daily Plain Dealer. Yes, he's "hanging on", alright—lodging Harry Wills, his master as a man, boxer and fighter. No one knows this better than the two Jacks—Dempsey and his manager, Kearns. If ever Dempsey and Wills meet in (and of them) it will be knocked out of it, it will be a waste of effort for newspapermen or others to throw him back into the ring. He will be done! FACTS People who Advertise Can sell Goods. People who sell Goods Can make Money People who make Money can advertise goods. The Best Advertising Medium is "The Old Reliable" GAZETTK IS IT ANY USE TO CONTEND FOR RIGHTS? Colored Americans are the only race, responsible members of which are in favor of submitting to discrimination on the claim that their race "always will be discriminated against." The Jews are still contending, after over 1900 years of universal discrimination and we whining over civil rights today. The Irish at home have contended for 700 years and are winning because they will die rather than submit. The race that says it's of no use to resist, downs itself and the world then will say, "Negroes are not worthy of equal rights; they are by nature not white." The world respects only those who resent and resist proscriptions for race. Let us be worthy of the abolitionists, worthy of our own fathers who have died in every war to vindicate the title of their race to equal liberty, and forever resist dental of rights in our native land, however long race discrimination may continue. To submit is to deserve contempt. — Boston (Mass.) Guardian. THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, O. SATURDAY, JANUARY, 17, 1925. GIL TOWN MOVED ONE MILE Buildings as Well as the Residents Transferred and Have Settled Down to Business. Yale, Okla.-Whole towns have been moved bodily on more than one occasion down this way, but the latest town-moving day has passed off without any serious hitches or casualties, and everybody interested is again happy and pursuing the even tenor of their ways, just as if nothing out of the usual had happened. Dropright, one of the new towns near Yale, in the heart of the northeastern Oklahoma oil and gas field district, has settled down to business after having been moved bodily for a distance of one mile in a single day. No accidents accompanied the moving of the buildings and the trekking of the 1,000 inhabitants, who with their belongings, made the march from the old town to the new town site. Temporary buildings and shacks have been erected on the new town site, which had already been surveyed off into streets and alleys when the inhabitants with their mercantile and household effects reached the new town site. Moving of the town of Dropright from the old town site was occasioned by the fact that the town was situated upon property leased to the Markham oil interests, and upon which producing oil and gas wells have been brought in almost on the town site. Dropright is now one mile nearer to Yale, as the result of the trek. Among the wells recently brought in near the old town site of Dropright is a 50,000,000 foot gas well. JINGLE OF GLASS CHARMS FISH Michigan Man's Discovery Earns Him Reputation as Best Angler. Holland, Mich—When George Sinclair discovered that music charms fish, he kept the secret which gave him the reputation of being the best and most successful fisherman in Michigan waters, but he has finally confided to his friends the way to catch fish any old time and in all sorts of weather. Here's the secret, as told by Sinclair: "Procure a common quart glass milk bottle, place in it a rusty screen door spring, fasten a rope around the neck of the bottle, and attach a cord to the spring. Let the bottle down into the water, suspend about four feet from the bottom, then jingle the spring and the tinkle is music to any fish that swims. "That's all there is to it." "The fish will collect in schools around the bottle, and be 'charmed,' and all you have to do is to drop a few lines and hook as many as are needed." Sinclair conceived the idea that fish love music several years ago. While standing on a dock at Macataw Park he discovered a number of fish swimming around an old sunken minnow pall. Drawing up the pall, he found that the cover was loose, and he figured that the action of the water flapped the top against the bottom, producing a tiny sound. Said to Be One of Three "Error issues" Now Extant. Now York.—At the first public stamp sale of the season by a Nassau street dealer, George R. Tuttle paid $1,750 for a 30-cent American postage stamp of the "error issue" of 1869. The stamp is one of a plate printed with inverted flags and collectors know of only three examples of it that have been saved. The price given above made a new high record. Mr. Tuttle also paid $627 far a 30-cent American stamp of the issue of 1851, for which a record of $715 had been made at a previous sale. The sale is of uncommon interest because importation of rare stamps has been cut off from Germany, which has been the main source of supply for collectors. FATE OF COW STILL UNSOLVED But No Mystery Clings to Mike and the Huge Lion. Gillette, Wyo — While hunting a lost cow, Mike Cahill, who lives near Boyd, heard an animal crashing in the brush and pushed his way through, expecting to find the cow, but found himself facing a huge mountain lion instead. He and the lion stood looking at each other for what Cahill thinks was fully a minute. The man dared not move, while the lion, evidently uncertain what to do, finally backed slowly away, Cahill doing the same and getting to his home as rapidly as possible. He does not know if the lion got his cow or not. HOBO CHICKENS COME TO TOWN Rooster and Hens Ride Into Atlanta on Car Trucks. Atlanta, Ga.-When a Seaboard freight train from Birmingham reached Atlanta a car repairer heard noises from under a car and telephoned the police to come down and arrest "some hoboes." Policemen Carroll and Davis went to the yards and yanked the "hoboes" from the truck. They were a big Plymouth Rock rooster and two fine hens. PATIENT'S TOOTH IN HIS EYE Queer Acident In a Dental Parlor Requires Operation. 'Santa Paula, Cal. A surgical operation was necessary to remove from Dr. G. L. Richardson's eye a portion of a patient's tooth. While the dentist was at work a small particle of tooth broke off and lodged in one of his eyes. The injury was not serious, though there was some fear of infection. EGGS IN BALE OF HAY Everett, Wash.—Opening a bale of hay to feed his cattle, Ed. F. Bergeron found six eggs within the bale. How the eggs withstood the pressure of the baling machine is a mystery, yet none were broken. WHAT'S BEEN DONE IN ONE DECADE Progress Has Been Rapid Since Engine Was Invented The most significant event in the annals of human achievement was the invention of the steam engine. Its introduction divided recorded time into two distinctly defined eras, and it may well be said that the entire history of man's material endeavours counts forward or backward from that comparatively recent event. As soon after this event as distracted civilization could be released from the stifling bodegge of incessant warfare, the problem of applying this mighty energy to the needs of man began in context—with an energy, capacity and genius never ceasing and never before equaled. Thus was inaugurated the age of machinery, of invention, of industrialism—an age vitally different from all that precedes it, and during which the basis of society was more completely altered and the economic and political structure more fundamentally revolutionized than in all the preceding centuries of civilization put together. Of the ten decades which may be roughly stated as covering this notable period of development not one has failed to contribute its quota toward the sum of great inventive achievements. Each and every decade has seen the origin of some transcendent act for the advancement of material civilization. The decade most fraught with achievement up to the invention of the telephone was the 1850-1850 period, during which the reaper, vulcanization of rubber, sewing machine and telegraph were perfected. These inventions, by far the most notable of the decade were all American, and marked the culmination of Yankee ingenuity. It is safe to assert that no other people in any equal short span of time can point to a record of accomplishments to marvelous and so revolutionizing, industrially and socially. The decade beginning with 1870 was also notable, the telephone, the dynamo and the arc lamp appeared and gave the first indications of the coming part electricity was to play in the affairs of mankind. But the ten years beginning with 1880 saw an outburst of inventive activity that dwarfed all similar periods in the history of invention. It seemed that the discoveries in things electrical in the last three or four years of the previous decades were the signal for loosing the pent-up genius of the world. The trolley car which has changed the face of urban civilization; the in candescent light, with its more powerful and healthier glow and more adaptable use; the automobile, the most distinctive feature of our time; the typewriter, the most indispensable instrument in modern business; the skyscraper, the delineator of the new skyline of American business centers, and the cash register, that ubiquitous instrument and first aid to honesty—to pick out the most obvious of the innovations that proclaim the age—all of these came into being or were first whipped into shape in the ten pregnant years beginning with 1880. Musterole usually gives prompt relief from bronchitis, sore throat, coughs, colds, croup, neuralgia, headache, congestion, rheumatism, sprains, sore muscles, bruises, and all aches and pains. 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Sunday week, 1,084 pupils were in attendance, It is reported that a son of Rev. P. W. Martin, pastot of Christian chureh (in the'P. W. A. annex), died in Washington, D. C., from an oper ation, recently. Mr. Richard Stanhope has return- ed to hie home in southern Ohio, af- ter a pleasant visit with his grand- daughter, Mrs. Herbert Moon of Quiney Ave. Mrs. D. E. Fox, E, 106th St., en- tertained at dinner, recently: | Mr. and Mrs. Harry E. "Thompson, Mrs. Marie Turner, Misses _ Beatrice Wright, Mildred Percival, Susie Fox, and Mr. Russell Fox. Thelma Louise, of Heidelberg unt- versity, Tiff in, daughter of Dr. and Mrs, 0. A. Taylor of Crawford Ra. accompanied her mother to Philadel- phia, recently, to attend the “Alpha” annual meet. ‘The Gazette is making an effort to close all of 1924s accounts. If you ‘THE GAZETTE, OLEVELAND, O.SATURDAY, JANUARY, 17, 1925. ' pil rf Che , Cost Chord : sconeetcta ‘ig a sancti: fgepont oa ‘ fothe organ 8 ‘i but once, pasa oe a more Sar bi us ae ee this ho erates ae berg ibowpep down 3 with tweare Ke ae 3 cr palace by every pith anb out 20 4 cere iminiotrations. ue ; = ae HG as ce Ky Wynne & Easely ea Funeral Directors Gir Perfected Service AOS Phone Ran, 6100" "S368 E B8th Bt. Re Me aes owe it anything will you kindly mail the same to it, at once, and save the collector a trip? Oblige us, please. Norman L, McGhee, E. 130th St. who arrived in the city, rocently, from Washington, D. C., to locate, has passed the Ohio state bar ex- amination, ‘The Gazette office has been moved to ¥26 Superior Ave., West; room B04—a better and more convenient location, opposite the Hotel Cleve- land, The 5 rooms downstairs, at 2417 ‘E, 82nd St., for rent, is very near the Quincy Ave. car line, only a few ‘houses from the avenue. Large cel- Jar, yard, bath, ete. Call, Cherry 1259, ‘The stroet-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? Atty. Alex, H. Martin is chairman of the interracial committee of the Federated Churches, which held a meeting, Tuesday, 1:45 p. m., in the confererice room of the organization in the Hipp. bldg. W. H. Harrison, pres. of the M. W. M. Ins, Co., and Miss Mattle L. daughter of Rev. J. B. Wilson, pastor of Sec. Mt. Olive Baptist church, were married by the latter on Xmas day. Dr. M. L, Crawford and Mis Lenora Clinton were married the same day. The first annual meeting of stock holders of the Cleveland People’s Finance Corp, was held, Monday eve- ning, when its officers for the ensu- ing Year were re-elected. ‘ine m- erease of the company’s stock from 10 to 12 dollars a share was consi cred, Rey. A. C. Williams of Philadel- phia will succeed Rev. B. K. Smith as pastor of BE. Mt. Zion Baptist church, B, 103d and Cedar Ave, Rev. Smith is retiring on account of ill health. He is one of our oldest and dest ministers, There are many splendid bargains at the New York Dept. Store, 2114 Woodland Ave., today and tomor- row (this week, Friday and Satur- day). Do not tiss them. Be sure to read their advertisement in this paper this week and you surely will not miss the wonderful opportunities offered.—Adv. Wm, Lacey, age 24, of 2269 E. 87th St, was acquitied of man- slaughter’ before Comman Pleas Judge Dan B, Cull, Monday. Ernest Black, 4903 Scovill Ave., was killed, when he was thrown from Lacey's automobile in a collision with a street car, according to police. The Jury ubsolved Lacey of responsibility. According to its 1924 report, the P. W. A. gave board and lodging to 1.201 girls, served 46,170 ‘meals, found employment for 7,239 girls, trained 2,105 girls in cooking clagsas, 813 in sewing classes and ‘uaa be music classes, supervised vacation activities of the P. W. playground, where the total attendance was 12,- 072 children, and made 4,124 visits to homes, Fifty speakers (white) are ad- dressing clubs and other organizations in the interest of the P. W. A. drive for a $600,000 building fund. ‘The team captains and division leaders dined at the Union club, Monday eve- ning, in their first campaign rally. 'D. G, Wills, board chairman of the Federal Reserve bank, has been chosen treas. of the campaign and a member of its executive committee. Preliminary instructions will be given the workers, Monday noon, at the Chamber of Commerce and the campaign will open with a dinner, Friday, Jan. 23, and close Feb, 2. ‘The “Negro” division leaders and captains met, Monday evening, at the P. W. Al and announced thelr ‘team-captains as follows: Mrs. ‘Oliver A. Taylor, Mrs. Susie Wil- isms, Mrs. Grace W. ‘Thompson, Blanche Johnson, Pauline Milliner, Virginia “Hodges, Harvey Atkins, ‘Mrs. GG. Jones, Mrs. Amy Blue, “Mrs. May Busey, I HT, Rife, Mrs. ¥. FP. Boyd, Mitton Gibson, Emma Wil- ‘Mams, Wm, R. Green, Alex 0, Tay- or, Mrs, A. H. Martin, Dr, Beatrice Gaines, Mrs, T. O. Queen, R. K, Hod- ges, Howard Siaughter, R. K. Moon, Mrs. Chas. Boyd, Mrs. W. 8. Biggs. Fred D, Roseboro, Mrs. W. M. Alex- ander, Mra. Chas, R, Hayes, Roscoe Davis, J. Walter Wills, ‘Eleanor Alexander, R. S. Koiner, Mrs. M. B. Auther, Mrs. E. EB. Jackson, Irene M. Deang and Mrs. Blanche A. 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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 under President Harding; and reached its zenith under President Coolidge. For instance, the largest of our parks President Wilson never troubled, but the president 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 people 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. The segregation carried on to its all-embracing extent by Republicans! There is far more of it in the departments, today, than at any time since the Negro first appeared, close upon the close of the Civil War. The picture requirement in the civil service, which makes it next to impossible for a colored lady or gentleman to enter the civil service, since their color is disclosed in their photograph which must accompany their papers, is tenaciously held to by our Republican President. Only a week, a colored lady appeared after an army, and after having the best examination, and after having been telegraphed for by the department. The photograph had failed to tell her true color, and they flatly refused to appoint her when she appeared, and they saw her complexion. Commissioner Blair of the internal revenue bureau with thousands of clerks will not appoint a Negro clerk, and his word is law there, as he is the special favorite of Secretary Cannon and President Coolidge. North Carolina, the home of the favorite clerk and leader of the segregation forces, Col Sherrill, superintendent of buildings and grounds. it is no use to complain of either of these southern gentlemen. The colored people here who know the President could destroy segregation in the departments of the government, and the photograph requirements in the civil service by the mere nod of his head, are at a loss to understand why he does not declare 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 Kux Klan that he has been a member in the Republican party, and receives no condemnation from the Republican President. (Special to The Gazette) (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 caterer for whites only, where they inform white men, but they appetizing the食堂 and that in comfort while eating, while the colored clerks must bring cold luncheons from home and eat them any place they can. The physical discomfort, disadvantageous as it is, is far less galling to the colored clerks than is the thought of their government taking their taxes, as it takes those of the whites, for the comfort of the latter, and setting them off as though they were lepers. The injustice stings all the more when they reflect that the whites, and refer 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 lounge and other equipment for rest, sociability, and recreation, and nothing for these same colored employees. This private club is in the magnificent postoffice building, built and maintained by ALL of the people. In the locker rooms there is segregation, and segregation is not tolerated. And all of this is against the most dependable and faithful employees. Last year the white employees passed around invitations to the white employees, in the very pres- ence of the colored, to attend a reception to the heads of departments, including the postmaster general, in the postoffice building. It announced dancing and a pleasant social evening with the officials for "the postoffice employees," yet not one was delivered to the colored clerks. I hurried a protest to the postmaster general the day before it was to leave the master to invite the colored as well as the white. These clerks get around their colored co-workers by giving the function at a local hotel. It is inevitable that the wicked spirit of segregation would express itself in appointments, assignments, and salaries. Colored applicants are often passed over though their examination was superior. No Negro, however efficient or old in the service, must ever dream of a promotion to a directive position. The hard, unyielding caste passes whites over him, one after another, though many of the colored employees have won contests in quickness and accuracy and are well known of the old clerks who 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 there are no other sections of the work section reserved for our employees. I am glad to say that few, very few, of our people patronize the place, preferring a little physical inconvenience to the open, semi-public humiliation of segregation. In toilet facilities, dressing-rooms, and work assignments, wherever possible, the law of segregation is in full force, and, of course, this same undemocratic practice reveals itself on the salary roll and in the hard caste that bars promotions. Here, the law of segregation enables employees 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 work, took the injury of his ex-roommate so keeping that he secured the company of a young lady of the race to take part in the dance. As soon as this couple started to dance the music was abruptly stopped, and the young man reported for attempting to take part in an entertainment provided for employees. He was called to the office, lectured for being "one of those smart Negroes" who believe in "social equality," and then dismissed on a trumped-up charge. He was a high-employee, hence a careful manager, and the accident 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 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 on which he was immediately discharged. By securing unharmed 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 denial that the conditions complained of exist in 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 GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, O. SATURDAY, JANUARY, 17, 1925. that it cannot take up the case. It is perfectly clear that this inquisitive scheme of segregation is a difficult thing to fight, since the government is so well settled upon it, and the settlers 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 a resident Thomas Woodrow Wilson and his family. His family, three heroes young colored men who lost their positions as a result of their protest, and the noble wife of Senator Robert La Follette, Shortly after the accession of Mr. Wilson to the White House, a member of his family visited the bureau where she saw white and colored girls working together in perfect harmony, oblivious to any thought of race. Shortly thereafter came an order for segregation of the races, and a white lady who had been noted for her philanthropy among our people and who was upon intimate terms at the White House appeared at the bureau to tell our girls to be contented with the new order as "a great Negro leader had taught colored people to stay in their places." Three of the young ladies resisted the order to the last ditch and wore 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. of those they went to the prison, wald Garrison Villard came to town to attack White House and Cabinet and arouse our people, and the Nation Association secured publicity in over six hundred influential white papers in the country. The fight checked what was thought to be the intention of the segregates, namely, the elimination of the colored employees from the bureau a17 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 helped to found. Our girls are employed there in far larger numbers than in any other branch of the public. They are GATED 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 girls to work in segregation. Our people are still hoping for the issuance of an order destroying this iniquitous practice in all of our government departments, for it not only humiliates the best of the government servants but impairs the government service. (Special to The Gazette) 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 thousands clerks. Yet Negroes are scarce there that they can't be noticed, and the same general complaint here amuses 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 toilet, locker rooms, rest rooms, etc., set off for colored. The toilers for the colored are few in such a large structure. The segregated clerks are forced to take physical inconvenience at times, and travel long distances when they desire the use of them. The department maintains a huge, magnificent T 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 people she sees there the presence creates. It seats two thousand 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 demotion of the division altogether; so they remain in a dilemma for to act. Our clerks must accept segregation or elimination, and being poor, with no other opportunities in this southern atmosphere, must take the former. They are depressed at the wrong, but economic stress compels endurance of it. By a single stroke of his pen, President Calvin Coolidge can stop every bit of 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 (Special to The Gazette.) (Special to The Gazette) Washington, D. C.—Supplementing what we wrote in The Gazette, last week, relative to Registrar of the Treasury H. V. Spieleman's latest demonstration of prejudice and segregation which was exposed on the recent Armistice day, we wish to call attention to the fact that in the fight against the segregation of our government employees, the Treasury Department will most likely be the center of attack, for segregation in the office of the Treasury has been pronounced. This is particularly true of the office of the register of the treasury and the internal revenue bureau. In the former, beaver board walls were maintained until recently. In the latter there have been two cases of discrimination on account of color brought to public view. The words, announcing the election of President Coolidge, were only added to the effort to increase segregation in the departments here on was again at full speed. It had slowed up a little during the campaign. An investigation of the executive departments and bureauals 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 employ- ees, 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 Buren—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 segregated section of 7 employees. Office of the Treasurer of the United States—a segregated section of 4 employees. War Department, Transportation Division—a segregated section of 5 employees. P. O. Separate Lunch Room Post Office Department—a segregated lunch room. Fear Famine In China Floods Destroy Crops, but the Loss of Life is Not Heavy PEKING - The floods are causing much suffering * according to reports received by the Central Government. Kwengal, a Southern Province, has asked for funds as the result of four years overflowing, a lack of water, oppression by civil war, seasuns unstable, to stand the calamity. The Governor of Sikhliang Province, in the West, reports that $ number of villages have been flooded and asks for tax exemption. Liang President of the International Famine Relief estimates that three-fourths of Hunan Province are suffering to a varying extent. He forecasts a famine. Confiding reports make it difficult to estimate the extent of the damage. The Chinese Red Cross, the International Famine Relief Association, a committee appointed by the Chinese Cabinet are arranged in relief measures. Hundreds of villages in the North have been inundated. The loss of life has been small, adequate warning having been given the populace in most cases. Growing crops, however, have been ruined in many localities. The City of Tien-tain, menaced for a time by the rising waters of the HsL-ho River, was saved from possible damage by the breaking of the rivers banks about seven miles west of the city. The waters overbowed all the adjacent lower country. Peking had a momentary flurry when the Yunting-Ho overflowed about fifteen rules southwest of the city, but the flood was checked, although it flooded about fifteen villages. AMERICANS GIVE UP ANGORA PROJECT CONSTANTINOPLE. — Negotiations between the Turkish Government and an American company for the reconstruction of Angora, the new Turkish capital, have been suspended, as the company demanded the services of an American bank and refused those of Turkish bankers. The company also asked for an extension of the period allowed for execution of the work and retaliated any responsibility for 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 1844 and r3-introduced in 1836. 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. A person may mob upon the body of any person shall constitute a "lyching" 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 in damages from 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, there be no widow or minor children surviving such decedent, such sum that be distributed among the next of kin according to the laws of the distribution of the personality of an intestate. The sum so recovered shall not be a part of the estate of such person so lynched, nor be subject to any of its 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 purposes injured or killed by him (93 v 162). 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 bad, to inquire into the case, 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 1.9) 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 persons composing such mob. A person responsible for such injury in 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: OBJS. need. g. representative of victim of lynching bury by mob trying to lynch another. and costs in tax levy. s. must member of mob. nst 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 m棠 gence on the part of officials of such unless there was contributory neglig- imprisoned not less than thirty days county in failing 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 *The Rights law* which the editor 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 fined not less than fifty dollars nor more than five hundred dollars, or nor more than ninety days, or both. Sec. 12941. Whoever violates the next preceding section shall also pay not less than fifty dollars nor more than five hundred dollars to the person aggrieved therein to be recovered in any court of competent jurisdiction in the county where such offense was committed --- This law has repeatedly been held constitutional and good law by the Ohio Supreme court. The trouble is our people will not use it as often as they should, but expect it to do for them what they should and must do for themselves, under it, in the courts. --- Judge Grant's Opinion of the Law Misled by the foolishly manufactured outcry for the passage of the Beaty hill, a few years ago, the Akronacon Journal published an 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 president of the Court of Appeals of Ohio, is set against the District of Ohio, is set against the 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, interpreting 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 ($800) 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.