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This alone should have made the appointment impossible because the activities are colored people. Ruthieh Francis, a native, is editor of "The Virgin Islands: Enunciator". The governor of the Islands is Philip Williams (white), another prejudice American, appointed to the position by the President. Editor Francis, it seems, criticised the brutal conduct of a Virgin Islands/policeman (an American marine, white), who clubbed a native woman in so brutal a manner as to cause general indignation among the merchants and others, and fired a shot which endangered the life of a resident of the Islands. For this criticism, Francei was arraigned before Judge Williams who refused a jury trial on an indictment filed by Government Atty, Chas. H. Gibson (white), another prejudiced American appointee of the President, and found guilty by Judge Williams, who "had it for him" because of criticisms by Francis which appeared in the New York Times Current History magazine when Judge Williams was government attorney and police judge of the Virgin Islands (Jan. 26, '24). At that time Williams characterized Francis as "the loudest meted-howler on the subject of the freedom of the press" and "a calamity howler and publicly seeker". Last July, Editor Francis published in his paper (two protests against the appointment of Williams to his present post of district judge. One of these was addressed to President Coolidge by the Associated Virgin Islands Societies at New York, and the other to Governor Phillip Williams by the American Civil Liberties Union of New York City, specifically warning that "the feeling between Williams and MALONE OUR BEST CANDIDATE. For Appointment as Register of The U. S. Treasury—A Leading Business Man and Philanthropist. Washington, D. C.—Our group has been practically shut out of Presidential appointments during the past three administrations, if not four, and there is a general feeling that we should make a concerted effort to recover the lost ground. more for race prestige than for the money-value involved. Hence some of our best men are striving to secure some 14 of these positions (as representation for the race) from the Coolidge administration, and it is sincerely hoped they will succeed. Aaron E. Malone, president of Poro College at St. Louis, one of the outstanding business and political influences of the race, was in the city recently, and had important conferences with U. S. Senators Spencer and Wm. M. Butler, T. M. Clark, private secretary to President Coolidge, the Hon. L. C. Dyer and other Missouri Congressmen. Mr. Malone is an applicant for the position of register of the treasury. His name was mentioned in connection with this position during the administration of President Harding. In preceding administrations, it has been held by distinguished men of our group. A straw vote, taken by the St. Louis Argus in 1920, showed that Mr. Ma- the inhabitants of the Islands has been so nototoniously bitter that they feared he would use his new position to settle old scores". Editor Francis also published in his Unamenschator in August and September, of last year, an article entitled the naval administration of the Islands. Several letters to the press are made to publish a news release. Government City, G. issued the present individual, and Frances with a label because of charge of action incapable of a appearing in the Unamenschator, Sept. 27 and 29, 1924. Under these conditions, it was a travesty on justice for Judge Williams to frame without a jury, especially since the article for which Frances was indicted is purely political. To say the least, his conviction and sentence to 30 days in jail on Jan. 10, 25, on a charge of criminal libel for the article charging brutality against the police, by a political for is a dangerous form of press censorship. Judge Williams has often accused by Virgin Islands papers of "anti-Negro prejudice" and frequent protests have been made by Virgin Islands and their friends against U.S. naval rule in the Islands. The bill establishing a permanent civil government therein, now pending in Congress, ought to be enacted into law just as soon as possible, if for no other reason than to enable the natives to go to U.S. of the prejudiced Americans who are raising the Virgin Islands. Frances's case was appealed to the U.S. circuit court at Philadelphia and is soon to have a hearing. U.S. naval control and the appointment of prejudiced Americans to judicial and other positions in the Virgin Islands have worked out to the great detriment of the native population just as they did in the cases of Santa Domingo and Hailu. All of this has resulted in the further estrangement of practically all of the South American countries as far as this country is concerned. lone was the choice for the position of our National Press Association. I dare say, a like pole now would show a like preference. Why? Because he has a clear record of race-service in business and politics, and would be a credit to the race as register as well as a distinct asset to the Republican party. Mr. Malone was a delegate to the Republican National Convention at Cleveland, in June, representing the 11th congressional district of Missouri, which includes St. Louis. The Missouri delegation unanimously elected him as their representative on the Coolidge notification committee. He was our only representative at the laureon given by President Coolidge at the White House during the notification ceremonies. Mr. Malone was chairman of the Missouri speaker's bureau for our group in the last Presidential campaign. He not only contributed his service gratis but contributed $2,500 to meet the deficit left over from the campaign. For the past three terms, Mr. Malone managed Congressman Dyer's campaign, and for the past four years he has been a member of the Missouri Republican executive committee. Mr. and Mrs. Malone are the largest philanthropists of our group, among their latest donations are gifts of $2,500 to the Y. M. C. A. and $10,000 to the Howard University medical school. He is well qualified for the position of register of the treasury because of his business experience and financial standing, and his contact with moneyed-interests, having paid $38,000 income tax, last year. Mr. Malone is of genial disposition, always giving the appearance of having just emerged from the latest haberdashery, and is easily approached. Yes, there are other candidates for the place, but Prof. Aaron E. Malone of St. Louis deserves the appointment, has the full endorsement of Senator Spencer, the Missouri Congressman, and the press and is undoubtedly our best and strongest candidate for it. HARRIS WAS ELECTED? New York City.—The Applegate Division has decided that Geo. W. Harris, editor of the N. Y. News, was legally elected a member of the Board of Aldermen of this city, from the Twenty-first Aldermanic District, on Nov. 8th, 1921, and that John W. Smith (white) was unlawfully seated in Harris' place, from July 6, 1923, until the end of the term, on Dec. 31, 1923. The Board of Aldermen unseated Harris after he had served part of his term. He will at once seek to recover back pay at $250 a month from the city. The Dyer Anti-Lynching Bill Dead For This Session Of Congress MORE HOUSTON MARTYRS LIBERATED! Miss Leilia Walker Donates $25,000 — Lynchings in the Last Ten Years — Garrett a Real Man — British Government Honors President King of Liberia — Other Doings of The Race." Miss A. Leilia Walker, president of the Madison C. J. Walker Mint, company of Liberty to the Hampstead, Toughee Downing and Lord The Prince on the Hon. Walter H. Gorman, a compiler of editions of the New Yorker, is installed in the superintendent of Louisiana. The three掐枝 Lynchings in 1912, 18 in 17, 58 in 16, 59 in 17, 67 in 18, 83 in 17, 65 in 29, 64 in 21, 69 in 22, 28 in 23, and 16 has year N. Herman K. Stevenson, of Darham, N. C., found a pocket book containing $235, wafted 20 minutes to return it to the owner, and then refused a $40 reward. "Senator Albert B. Commins has introduced a bill to create a "Negev Industrial Commission of 5 members (three Afro-Americans) to be named by the President." The Howard university federalization bill has been reported favorably to the U. S. House of Representatives, but has NOT passed that body. It places the institution under direct government control. Donnick Albano (white) was found guilty last week, by a white jury in Chicago of being the father of the 5 months old baby of Miss Cera Baker, and was ordered by the court to support the child. The Dyer anti-lynching bill will not come up before the U. S. House of Representatives, this session, according to a letter received by Mr. Moorfield Story of Boston, president of the N. A. A. C. P., from Congressman Nicholas Longworth of Ohio, majority leader. Dr. S. Parks Cadman, president of the Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America, has appointed Bishop Reverdy C. Ransom of the A. M. E. Church, a member of the Commission of the Church and Race Relations for the present quadrenium, and also a member of its executive committee. The British government placed the murder at the disposal of President King of Liberia, Africa, to take hint from Morovia, capital of Liberia, to Freetown, the capital of Sierra Leone, a British colony. President King was the guest of the British governor of Sierra Leone for several days, the last of this month. S. W. Green, S. C. and Dr. E. E. Underwood, S. K. of R. & S. have issued the annual thanksgiving proclamation to our K. P. and Corps of Calanthe. The official program of service for Sunday, Mar. 29, "25, can be secured from Supreme Chancellor Green, 517 Pythian Temple, New Orleans, La. Six more Houston martyrs, former members of the 24th U. S. Inf.,侵犯 alleged in the Houston riot of 1917, were released, Jan 8 and 15, "25, and the remaining 29 martyrs transferred from the lawensworth penitentiary to the military prison, because the other was so crowded. The Marcus Garvey steamer, the "Booker T. Washington", with a white captain and two other white officers, left New York, recently, for the West Indies with 20 passengers Stock owners in his first steamship company, the "Black Star Line", are paid to have lost over a million dollars. The "Booker T. Washington" cost $125,000. Joseph Garrett, of Oklahoma City, Okla., returned home, Sunday week, and found his white neighbor with his arms around one of his daughters attempting to drag her over to his home. He was drunk. Both drew guns, but Garrett was the quicker. He is in county jail on a charge of murder but will not be lynched. "THREE EDDIES" AT COLUMBIA THEATER. Almost every Afro-American act claims to have been with "Shuffle Along", "In Bamville", or "Liza". But there is one trio who have won laurels in other shows. They are the "Three Eddies", speedy youths of the race whose stage-work has been confined to the South and where they are as well known as Miller and Lyles or Sissle and Blake. The "Eddies" played all of the big vaudeville time south of "Mason and Dixon's Line" and now are showing folks who are born abroad who know about syncopating "hoofing". They have a routine of steps that is touted to be the swiftest and most extraordinary yet shown in Columbia burlesque. The act is with "Sliding". Billy Watson's "Fun Show" coming, next week, to the Columbus SINGLE COPY FIVE CENTS ELECTED HEAD OF DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA N. A. A. C. P. BRANCH Stands Practically Alone As The Race's Unselfish Leader At The Nation's Capital—Kelly Miller On Thomas—"A Sample". Washington, D. C.—Prof. Neval H. Thomas of the Dunbar High school was unanimously elected president of the District of Columbia branch of the N. A. A. C. P. at its recent annual meeting, Mr. Thomas sought in vain to decline election, stating that he preferred to remain in the ranks of the executive board and the general membership but the large audience that turned out for the election declined by acclamation that he was the true solicitor of the resting president. The Hon. grandchild H. Trinke, who had just completed twenty years as president of the branch and a half century of service to the race, Mr. Thomas was one of the founders of the work here twelve years ago, and has since been its ardent advocate, forgetting so much taking personal risks for the sake of the work. He launched the work for equal school facilities for our people, taking the responsibility that since our children were forced into separation through no tault of their肩, these should not be forced to endure the inevitable results of segregation, inferior accommodations. He has appeared before committees of House and Senate for years. He has appealed to boards of education, boards of trade and chambers of commerce, citizens associations and clubs, churches and schools, the white and our press, influential citizens, in his years of struggle for our schools that were suffering discrimination in appropriations, every year. Eight years ago he started the agitation for deans of girls in our high schools, since the white high schools had such officers. Other forces were enlisted, and today we have two deans of girls at a salary of $3,700 per annum each. He led the fight for the inclusion of such features as a pipe organ and greenhouse which were out of the plans of the new Lumber high school but which were included in those of the white Irish school under construction at the same time, and won. He inaugurated the stadium idea for our high school and has fought for years for sufficient land behind the building upon which to erect it. Up to date $185,000 has been appropriated for land and the people of the city are awake to the need of a stadium such as the white schools have. In addition, he has fought every other form of discrimination that, exists in the capital, in the theatres, restaurants, public employment such as the civil service and the municipal government, the police and fire forces, press and courts. He has never accepted one cent for his services, but on the other hand has spent freely from his own pocket in the work. Prof. Kelly Miller of Howard University has the following to say of Mr. Thomas: "Only a few years after graduation, do we find him advocating equal and exact justice for the colored race in the organic act reorganizing the public schools of the District of Columbia. He was the only colored teacher of the entire corps that had the temerity to appear before the committees of Congress in this behalf. He insisted in and out of season that the colored schools should share and share alike with the whites in school appropriations, appliances and facilities. His insistence often proved embarrassing to his more moderate and restrained colored superiors. But he insisted all the more. The reformer must always take liberties with the established proprieties. Single handed and alone, Neval Thomas compelled the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia to remove restrictions against colored citizens in the restaurant under the court's control. The colored lawyers who were chiefly concerned in the meantime indifferent or apologetic of existing discrimination. He fought a great department staff with large colored patronage and at its lunch counter against colored patrons. He also fought segregation in the restaurants of the House and Senate in the United States Capitol. Mr. Thomas has waged ceaseless war upon the City library for refusing to give colored girls the same opportunity for library training as is accorded to the whites. He has well earned the sobriquet: 'The John Brown of the District of Columbia'. More concrete advantages have come to the colored citizens of the District of Columbia thru the temeritous advocacy of this college reformer than through all other agencies combined. Washington is heavily loaded with college men from the North and from the South, as well as from the East and from the West, but Naval Thomas in the field of reform has wrought more valently than they all. He has created the growth on which the National Asso- IT IS STRONGER THE COPY FIVE CENTS judice? MAS HONORED DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA P. BRANCH As The Race's Unselfish s Capital—Kelly Miller "A Sample". ciation for the Advancement of Colored People thrives in this jurisdiction. But for him, it would in all probability have thriven here but feebly like a tender plant out of dry ground. But mainly through his courageous initiative, the local chapter is the largest in the country." A Sample: To the City Librarian, Dr. George Howerman: I assure you that the colored people took note of the universal acclaim with which the white citizenry Neval H. Thomas. paid tribute to your twenty years of service in our public library. They appreciate with their white fellow citizens the significant growth of the library during your incumbency, its development of branches, its vast increase in volumes, the establishment of library training classes for the training of young white men and women at public expense for service in the library, the enlargement of the personnel and appropriations, and the extension of library facilities to schools and homes. All of this we hail as evidence of elvice progress; but we wish that you could lift the unjust racial discrimination which your incumbency has indicted against the colored people who are taxed to support all of our public institutions. You maintain two expensive public institutions from which the colored people are entirely excluded, a library training class with tree tuition, and a great library which furnishes profitable professional employment to the graduates of this training class. You have steadfastly refused to admit any colored girl or boy, however cultured and competent, to this splendid opportunity to supplement their schooling with this professional training. The roster of your employees numbers 100 costing ALL of the people 138,100 per annum, which means that the colored people are deprived of 28 positions and about $40,000 per year. The budget bureau has wisely granted you 123 assistants and $170,940 for next year which will mean an annual loss of 35 professional positions and nearly $45,000, per year to the colored people. You told me frankly in one of my conversations with you that a colored girl could only enter the library could in capacity of a char woman. Service in the colored person that competent colored youth cannot be found, for we can furnish you with a superior type of American adolescents. The colored Normal School is graduating 125 students per year with no hope of more than 35 of them securing positions, in our schools, leaving you the pick from 90 superior students who have persisted through 15 years of training in our efficient system. You cannot say that such a just policy is ahead of prevailing practice either, for that greater institution, the Library of Congress, has had colored assistants for 60 years, not only without detriment, but with positive improvement, to the service. In fact, every other branch of our municipal and federal service employs colored clerks, and men and women in other positions. I trust you will recognize the justice of our claim and not advance the existence of separate schools as an argument for denying us our just share in the library service. Buffalo, N. Y.—Dr. E. K. Smith announces the marriage of his sister, Mrs. Elizabeth Brown; to Wm. H. Talbert, Jan. 23d. '25. Mr. and Mrs. Talbert are located in his cosy home at 118 Northland Ave., this city, after an extended honeymoon trip up the lakes. He was the husband of Mrs. Mary Talbert (deceased), president of our Federation of Women's clubs, several years ago. Mr. Talbert is one of our leading citizens. The GAZETTE (In Advance) One Year .....$2.00 Six Months .....1.00 Subscribers are requested to remit by postoffice money order or registered letter. Entered at the postoffice in Cleveland, Ohio, as second-class mail matter Address all communications HARRY S. SMITH Editor and Proprietor THE GAZETTE (Bell 'Phone: Cherry 1259) Room 304, 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 NEWSIEST AND BEST in the country. Wednesday of this week, Jan. 28th, was the editor's birthday. This announcement should have been made in our last issue, but we were too busy to remember to do so. In spi of this, a number of good friends have "remembered" us. --- The attorney general of Colorado has ruled that boards of education in that state are within their rights in barring Afro-American pupils from public school entertainments given by whites. This ruling ought to be tested in the courts of Colorado. We do not think it would stand, providing of course the entertainment was being promoted by a board of education. The U. S. Senate judiciary committee has voted to confirm the appointment of Isaac Meekins (white) of North Carolina, as a federal judge. "Col. Ike" is the individual The Gazette referred to, last week, as openly opposing "Negro suffrage" while on the stump for Coolidge and Dawes in the recent campaign in his state. More "Coolidge encouragement" (?). --- President Gilbert H. Jones of Wilberforce, O. university, writes The Gazette that none of his students were in any way connected with the recent robbery committed by others when they broke into the U. S. armory at the institution and took rifles and other equipment. All of the stolen property has been recovered. We are certainly pleased to know this. The National Equal Rights League has issued an appeal to our people of the country to observe Feb. 12 as Douglass-Lincoln day, honoring the great Frederick Douglass and the immortal Abraham Lincoln. It also urges that on that day, appeals be sent directly to President Calvin Coolidge, in the name of Lincoln, the emancipator, and Douglass, unmatched leader of the race, to abolish segregation in the departments at Washington, and elsewhere in the Government service, and thus re-established the equality in federal employment which endured from President Lincoln's time to that of President Thomas Woodrow Wilson. This is a timely appeal, and we sincerely trust that our people, generally, will hearken to it. THE ONLY ONE In electing Prof. Neval H. Thomas as its president, the District of Columbia branch of the N. A. A. C. P. has not only honored itself, but has selected as its leader the outstanding figure among our people (from a race viewpoint) at the nation's capital. As the Washington (D. C.) Tribune well said editorially, recently: "It is hard for a man on a job and salary to take sides against the party in power, and the established prejudices of a community. But when a man rises above consideration of personal advantage to stand out for principle and for right, we are glad to do him honor". That is just what Neval H. Thomas has done for years and he is the only one of the race in that city to do so in the last quarter of a century. Indeed, we know of no other anywhere in the country; and yet it is his kind that must multiply, if this race of ours is ever to have any real leaders. The selfish excuses, who pose as leaders, have for years been and still are a bane of the race. May the Neval H. Thomas tribe increase, immediately! The race in all parts of the country suffers from lack of his kind. LOCAL ELECTION FRAUDS. Hearing before court of appeals on the motion of Municipal Judge Corlett for opening of ballots cast at the Nov. 4 election in which Corlett is alleged to have been defeated by a 548-vote majority by Judge A. J. Pearson for the common pleas bench, was set over to this week Monday when it came up in court, last week Wednesday. Atty. John A. Cline, representing Judge Pearson in the election contest, asked for the continuance. Also Gov. Donahey's office is in possession of a telegram from the Women's Civic association here, asking that he order an immediate grand jury investigation into alleged errors, fraud and illegal voting in the November election. His attention was specifically directed to allegations that election officials had "imposed on ignorant voters in the twelfth ward (and the eleventh, too) and thus had contributed to the defeat of Municipal Judge Corlett" in the race for the common pleas judge'ship, for the common pleas judge's errors had been made in the twenty-second district in counting the votes of Albert F. Coyle, Independent-Progressive candidate for Congress and Theodore E. Burton, Congress candidate. It is well known to political workers in both the eleventh and twelfth wards that honest and correct results of voting in many of the precincts of these wards have not been reported for six or seven years. This, as we have repeatedly called attention to, is largely true also in the cases of wards eight and seventeen, and there is not going to be any material change in this displeasant condition of affairs until our local Board of Elections is made independent of all political organizations. This can only be done by repealing the state law giving the executive committees of the two dominant party organizations the right to suggest, recommend and practically name the members of the board COOLIDGE, WATSON AND THE K. K. K. Senator James E. Watson, Republican leader of Indiana, insists upon remaining loyal to the Ku Klux Klan. Recently, he voted, as a member of the U. S. Senate committee which investigated the allegations of Klan support and of fraud during his (Mayfield's) campaign and at his election, to seat Senator-elect Earle B. Mayfield of Texas. The committee stood 3 for and 2 against. Watson also endorsed the candidacy of Indiana's K. K. K. Republican governor (Jackson), elected in November, 1924, and is a spokesman of the Coolidge administration in the upper branch of Congress. With the President leaning very perceptibly toward the K. K. K. and his leader in the Senate even more active in his support of the despicable organization, the "Coolidge" outlook, as far as we are concerned, is not bright. A "JIM-CROW NEGRO". El Paso, Tex., Afro-Americans are "up in arms" as the result of the shameful action of a "jim-crow" Negro" preacher, who in his quest of funds is urging the establishment of "a home for charity patients of the Negro race, and separate schools with Negro teachers for Negro boys and girls". Just how highly (?) this selfh "Negro" (the "Rev." T. C. Cunningham) is regarded by a member of the other class or race can be gained from the following: A white business-man of El Paso, in conversation with one of our respectable men of that city, said recently: "When Cunningham comes into our place, with his hat under his arm, and wanting a quarter, that darky surely will get it." Of course! Dayton, Ohio, is soley burdened with "Cunninghams", these days, and they are in all probability more responsible for the school fight, which is being waged in the courts of that city (just as in Springfield, Ohio, several years ago) than even its prejudiced school-board. As we have frequently said, the "jim-crow Negro" is the bane of the race. Lord, have mercy! MALONE FOR REGISTER We like the candidacy, for appointment as register of the U. S. treasury, of Aaron E. Malone of Missouri, He is decidedly our strongest candidate for the place and if any one can get it, Malone is the man. Without reference to race, class or group, he is a leading business man and philanthropist. There is absolutely no question as to his ability, character, and standing as an active Republican as well as business man and philanthropist. If we cannot break down the prejudice against the appointment of an Afro-American to that position with Aaron E. Malone, it is simply useless to try to do so with any other member of the race. Therefore, all racial elements of consequence and force in our political and business world ought to combine in one tremendous effort to put over the Malone appointment—for the good and welfare of the race. In an effort to promote the P. W. A. drive for the $600,000 building fund, which closes Monday, City Manager W. R. Hopkins, and Local Public School Superintendent R. G. Jones both declared, recently, that: The presence of 50,000 Negroes in Cleveland has created a situation that may easily become a menace unless both the white and black races awaken to it. Support of the Phillis Wheatley campaign is the most immediate way in which to handle the problem, they said. "I don't know of any problem confronting the city that contains more potential menace than the fact that 40,000 southern Negroes have been dumped into Cleveland within the last few years." Manager Hopkins declared. "We were fortunate in our colored population here before the war. It had a real aristocracy, and no question about it. There was Charles Chesnutt, nationally prominent in letters, and many others who were distinguished in scholarship and leadership. This aristocracy constitutes today what I might call our first defense." Colds Fever Grippe Go Stop them today Stop them quickly—all their dangers and discomforts. End the fever and headache. Force the poisons out. Hills break colds in 24 hours. They tone the whole system. The prompt, reliable results have led millions to employ them. Don't rely on lesser helps, don't delay. All druggists HILL'S CASCARA QUININE Get Red Box with portrait PRIME SPORT NEWS "Kid" Lenning, middleweight from the South, will meet "Battling" Payne of Buffalo in Public Hall, Feb. 11. Lenning, a husky, well-built. Supt. Jones said the colored infuxh had presented some pressing problems, especially in the vicinity of Kennard Junior High school. "I had thought of proposing to the board of education that a community house be built where the colored pupils could be taught whosome recreation, at least," he said. "We now look to the Phillips Academy by means of added equipment and facilities, it will be able to take this problem off our hands." "If you can make these colored girls good, pure women, you will elevate and refine the whole colored race," said Bishop Joseph Schrembs of the Catholic diocese. The "50,000 southern Negroes", Mr. Hopkins, were not "dumped into Cleveland", but were encouraged to come here by our business men, who sorely needed their services during the World War. And the problem confronting the city that contains potential menace", the result of their coming to the city, can and must be solved by furnishing the sections of Cleveland in which they are most largely located with proper police protection. Time and again The Gazette has called attention to this fact, in vain. Therefore, if there is such a "potential menace", no one is more to blame for its existence than the authorities of the city of Cleveland, who have it in their power to eliminate it, and fail to do so. The same can be truthfully said in connection with Supt. Jones' reference to the "pressing problem, especially in the vicinity of Kennard Junior High school". All such problems can be directly traced to the lack of police protection in that section of the city. Any "community house" or other institution, furnished by the school or other officials of Cleveland for that section of the city, MUST be open to ALL pupils and not simply to "colored pupils", because the white pupils living in that section are in as great need of it as any other. As to Bishop Schrems' statement: If he or any one else could make the same grade or class of white girls "good, pure women", they would "elevate and refine the whole white race", too. There is no material difference, Bishop, when it comes to the same grades or classes of both races (colored and white), and the conditions referred to are practically the same in both races in this community. The popular statement of white welfare workers and others, that the "Negro race" presents "peculiar problems of its own", is nonsense, pure and simple. PERUM TON Coughs, colds, nasal catarrh, stomach and bowel disorders are among the more common affections of the mucous linings which call for Pe-ru-na. Fifty years in the service of the people Sold Everywhere Tablet or Liquid Send 4 cents for book on catarrh One sweetest strain that ever graced Gods sanctuary responded to the orginary efforts but once, and then departed never to return. Likewise we come and go to dap, but to tomorrow may find us gone forever. It is at this hour when the heart of the bereft is bowed down with grief that we are able to offer onlce by our anticipation of your ever wish and our sincere ministrations. Wynne & Easley Funeral Directors Perfected Service Phone Ran. 6466 2262 E. 55th St. Problems in Schools. ```markdown ``` Go Stop them today Stop them quickly—all their dangers and discomforts. End the fever and headache. Force the poisons out. Hills break cells in 24 hours. They tone the whole system. The prompt, re-energize, and re-energize. Don't rely on lesser helps, don't delay. All druggists Price 30c HILL'S CASCARA QUININE BROMIDE Get Red Box with portrait PRIME SPORT NEWS "Kid" Lening, middleweight from the South, will meet "Battling" Payne of Buffalo in Public Hall, Feb. 11. Lening, a husky, well-built, young ring "gladiator", is stopping at Hotel Lineino and training there at Dunn's quarers. The Gazette wishes him success in his coming bout. Flowers and Moore Bout. Newark, N. J.—Tiger Flowers and Ted Moore, English middleweight, will meet in a twelve-round bout at Newark armory, Feb. 2. The match was canceled after the Flowers- Moore fight, the promoters have changed their minds. "Tiger" and "Mickey" Walker. "Tiger" and "Mickey" Walker. Newark, N. J—Tiger Flowers, Atlanta middleweight, will be matched with Mickey Walker, wetter- weight champion, for a match under the rules. He will face men club late in March if he defeats Ted Moore, English middleweight, in their twelve-round contest here, next Monday night. Walker stipul- ated that Flowers make 160 pounds. "Titit" Jackson vs. Jack Johnson. "Tat" Jackson vs. Jack Johnson. Grand Rapids, Mich.-Jack Johnson, former world's heavyweight champion, will fight "Tat" Jackson, of Washington Courthouse, O. here. Feb. 12, under the auspices of an organization of local society people. The bout will be to a decision, and the entire gate receipts will go toward a fund for clipped children. Gov. Alex Groesbeck has sanctioned the bout. Flowers vs. Berlembach. New York City.—Tiger Flowers, last week Tuesday, signed a contract for a 12-round match with Paul Berlenbach, slugging New Yorker, on Feb. 26, at Madison Square Garden. Flowers' return match with Johnny Wilson, slated for the same week, was postponed by arrangement with the Boston promoters and probably will be held, March 20. MINNEAPOLIS AND ST. PAUL CLIPPINGS Union and St. Anthony Baptist churches, two young organizations, have united with Rev. J. C. Crowder as pastor and Rev. E. L. Fuller as his associate. This is a splendid move. The combination will be known as St. Anthony Baptist church. This church will entertain Ames Lodge, Elke, Feb. 8 at 3 p.m. An annual event will be fine, vocal and instrumental music featuring it. Dr. E. L. Fuller, pastor, will deliver a special sermon on "Charity, Brotherly Love and Fidelity", the three key-words of the order. He is a chaplain of the lodge.—Mrs. M. P. Huckle of Gary, Ind., who visited her cousin, Rev. Wm. Storrs, for several weeks, was called home to fill a vacancy in our high school faculty of that city. She was a teacher in the graded schools of Gary.—Zero weather has handicapped local schools, and the schools are urgently affected the delivery of "The Old Reliable" Gazette. We are anticipating a more encouraging near future. Those Who Recognize the Usefulness of Pe-ru-na Are Never Without It Its tonic properties and the invigorating effect which it exerts upon the mucous membranes are what makes Pe-ru-na such a valuable treatment for eat number of bodily lills. MILLE THE NAME TRADE PORO MARK A SYMBOL OF QUALITY Your name defines your character and personality and is a symbol of what you are. "PORO" is the trade-name of very exceptional Hair and Toilet Preparations and a System of Scientific Hair and Beauty Culture used and praised by ever increasing thousands. Mrs. A. M. Turnbo-Malone, Founder of this great business, has put into PORO her character, personality and ability. W E Is the result of doing all things well at all times. That is the Wynne & Easley creed from which there is never a deviation. COMPLETE FUNERAL $150.00 Black cloth, white or silver grey plush casket, engraved nameplate outside case, embalming, washing, dressing, shaving if necessary, advertising death notice, removal from hospital or morgue, gloves, chairs, door dressing, finest funeral car in the city and two Cadillac limousines. A beautiful funeral should not be a burden to those who must assume its responsibility. The same careful and efficient service rendered with our $90.00 funeral as those of most elaborate arrangement. A. E. WYNNE As Near As Your Telephone Randolph 6466 Is the result of Wynne & Easley COB Black cloak nameplate our ing if necesa pital or morg car in the cit A beauti must assume efficient servi most elaborat WYNNE & EASLE MAKE MONEY SHIRTS SELL Madison Shirts Direct from our factory to wearer. Easily sold. Given one mailing included workers. No capital or experience required. Large-scale income. Many own Shirts in stock weekly. Furniture now selected. Write For Free Samples. Madison Factories, 803 Bway, New York MRS.L.S.BRADLEY 8241 Preble Ave. Cleveland, O. Has Houses For Sale or To Rent --- If you don't know a PORO AGENT, write us and she'll call. PORO COLL. 4300 St. Ferdinand A. ST. LOUIS, MO.. U DEPT. W & E PORO COLLEGE 4300 St. Ferdinand Avenue ST. LOUIS, MO.. U. S. A. DEPT. When a Higher Quality of Funeral Service is given, Wynne & Easley will give it THE HISTORY OF THE MUSEUM PERFECTED SERVICE of doing all things well at all times hasley creed from which there is never COMPLETE FUNERAL $150.00 cloth, white or silver grey plush cash outside case, embalming, washing, dry dressery, advertising death notice, remove nourge, gloves, chairs, door dressing, the city and two Cadillac limousines. beautiful funeral should not be a burden sume its responsibility. The same service rendered with our $90.00 funeral corporate arrangement. INSPECT OUR ESTABLISHMENT ASLEY, 226 See us First for all C JOHN S. Prices Reasonable. Satis- JEWELER AND C $133 Central Ave., Cleveland, O. EFFECTED SERVICE All things well at all times. That is to from which there is never a deviation. TEE FUNERAL $150.00 Free or silver grey plush casket, engraved use, embalming, washing, dressing, shav- tising death notice, removal from hos- ses, chairs, door dressing, finest funeral two Cadillac limousines. Feral should not be a burden to those who responsibility. The same careful and need with our $90.00 funeral as those of agement. AT OUR ESTABLISHMENT 2262 East 55th St See us First for all Goods in O JOHN S. HALL Prices Reasonable. Satisfaction Guarantee JEWELER AND OPTOMETRIST 133 Central Ave., Cleveland, O. MURINE For YOUR EYES Murine Co., Dpt. H. S., 9 E. Ohio St., Chicago --- LLEGE and Avenue D.. U. S. A. B b W. L. EASLEY One of Cleveland's Finest and Most Modern Mortuaries CE se times. That is the never a deviation. $50.00 casket, engraved dressing, shav- moval from hos- ing, finest funeral den to those who me careful and general as those of ENT 2262 East 55th Street All Goods in our Line S. HALL Satisfaction Guaranteed. ND OPTOMETRIST D. O. Prospect 3655 Clean, Clear, Healthy Beautiful Eyes Are a Wonderful Asset Murine is Cleansing, Soothing, Refreshing and Harmless. You Will Like It. Book on "EyeCare" or "Eye Beauty" go Free on Request Dr. LeROY N.B UNDY, Dentist, Guaranteed and Efficient Work! Extraction with Gas Administered. Twenty Years' Experience IF YOU'RE DRYING THE DISHES, SISTER, - THE PARLOR'S A POOR PLACE, TO DO IT! YOU'RE A FIBBER, YOU ARE! WHAT D'YOU MEAN YOU'RE DRYING THEM? WELL, THERE IS MORE THAN ONE WAY OF KILLING A CAT! WHAT'S THAT ABOUT THE CAT? GO OUT IN THE KITCHEN AND TAKE A LOOK! WELL!- JUST LET HER TRY TO KILL MY CAT! Tim Eardy The "St. John", Cor. E. 40th St. & Central Avenue Excellent Service Hours: 9 to 12,1 to 6,7 to 8 Cor, Cedar Ave. and E. 77th St. A HOME FOR YOUNG MEN! RESTAURANT - HOME COOKING Individual Beds $2.50-$3.00 KNOXIT PROPHYLACTIC Unnatural and mucous discharges can be avoided by destroying the germs of infectious diseases. Frank I. Hogan Attorney-at-Law 418 Ulmer Bldg. Main 2072 Res. Phone: Lincoln 4233 J. LOMSKY 3820 Central Avenue We carry full line of Dry Goods Ladies' and Gents' Furnishings JOHN P. GREEN Attorney-at-Law Room 510, Blackstone Bldg. 1426 West 3rd Street CLEVELAND, OHIO Notary Public Office Phone: Main 2912 Res.: 614 East 107th St. Phone, Eddy 6538 O.K. Printing Co. W. J. Foster - John M. Smith Commercial and Job Printing PROMPT SERVICE 3119 Central Ave. Prospect 2600 CHESTER K. GILLESPIE Garf. 2085 2263 E. 95th St. ROGER N. DILLARD Ban. 5362-J 2276 E. 49th St. Attorneys at Law 530 Erie Bldg. 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AGENTS WANTED EVERYWHERE Write For Particulars Where To Purchase The Gazette NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS Subscribers not receiving The Gazette regularly should notify us at once. We desire every copy delivered promptly. Send or bring locals and all business matters to The Gazette office, 214-215 Blackstone Bldg. If you wish to see the editor call there, please. We advise our readers to carefully examine The Gazette's advertisements before making purchases. Business men who advertise in this paper should have the patronage of our people. The fact that they advertise at assurance that they want it. Ali reading matter for publication in current issues of The Gazette must be in the office by 4 p. m., TUESDAY of that week, at the latest. Display advertisements accepted until noon, WEDNESDAYS! HARRY C. SMITH, Room 304. 220 West Superior Avenue, Cleveland, O. Notary Public Bell 'Phone: Cherry 1259 THE GEEVUM GIRLS H. SMITH 3007 Scovill Ave. CHAS. E. JACKSON'S 4401 Central Ave. J. S. HALL'S 3183 Central Ave. *Open, Sundays.* NOTICE TO Subscribers not receiving The us at once. We desire every copy Send or bring locals and all office, 214-215 Blackstone Bldg. call there, please. We advise our readers to carry vertisements before making purpise in this paper should have the fact that they advertise it assure. Ali reading matter for publ Gazette must be in the office by at the latest. Display advertise NESDAYS! HARRY C. SM 220 West Superior A Notary Public Classified Advertising ... Department ... FOR RENT. - 5 lice rooms, newly papered, lownstairs, Bath, gas, etc. 2417 E. 82nd St. 'Phone, Cherry 1259. AGENTS WANTED! Agents—Write for Free Samples. Sell Madison "Better-Made" Shirts for large manufacturer direct to wearer. No capital or experience required. Many earn $100 weekly and bonus. Madison Mfg. Co., 501 Broadway, New York. CLEVELAND Social and Personal Atty. Clayborne George was in Pittsburgh on business, recently. The Old Folks' Home Association will meet, the evening of Feb. 9, at the home. A cantata, The "91st Psalm", will be sung, Feb. 8, at Antioch Baptist church, by a special chorus. Mrs. Grace W. Brown and sister, Mrs. Maude Wilson Rhodes, are residing at 2419 E. 82nd St. Mrs Carrie Fields of Chicago, visiting her sister, Mrs J. G. Offer, E. 89th St., has been quite ill. mrs. Mollie DeBraun state deputy, inns. officers. Peerless temple, lady temple Omega chapter, A K A K., will celebrate founders' day at Antioch Baptist church, Sunday evening. Mrs. Mamie Gales, E. 103d St., attended the funeral of an aunt, in Windsor, Ont., Can., recently. Orchid chapter, Moose, claims to have 210 financial members, and $600 in its treasury. Organized, last May. St. James A. M. E. choir, Harry E. Thompson, director, has begun rehearsing Stainer's "Crucifixion". Fine! Dr. Oliver A. Taylor has his biennial new Hupmobile coupe. This is the 17th year he has been using this make of car. The N. A. of N. M. local will organize a chorus for the study of S. Coleridge-Taylor's beautiful "Hiawatha." Good! Greatness of local high and normal schools are to be entertained at a dance party, the last week of February, by the A K A. sorority Rumor has it that Miss Mary Jones, pianist of St. John's A. M. E. S. S. orchestra, and a senior in Central High school, married Crosby Ramey, recently. Mrs. W. G. Wurston, E. 103d St., went to Swissville, Pa., last week, to attend a niece's graduation, the only man to race in her class, and its salutatorian. R. W. Bagnall, former rector of St. Andrews' P. E. church, this city, and now an assist, see of, the N. A. A. C. P., was in the city, last week Sunday, en route to Akron. THE GEEVU IF YOU'RE DRYING SISTER - THE PARI POOR PLACE TO D SISTER'S VOICE THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, O. SATURDAY, JANUARY 31, 1925 *M. KLEIMAN'S 29228 Central Ave. D. BARBER'S 2908 Central Ave. BENJ. AKERS, 3519 Central Ave. *THE S. & S. DRUG CO. 73225 Central Ave. SUBSCRIBERS Gazette regularly should notify delivered promptly. business matters to The Gazette If you wish to see the editor faultily examine The Gazette's ad- hases. Business men who adver- the patronage of our people. The once that they want it. location in current issue of The p. m. TUESDAY at that week, ments accepted until noon, WED- TH, Room 304. avenue, Cleveland, O. Bell 'Phone: Cherry 1259 Be sure to read the advertisement of the Reliable Music House, 2579 E. 55th St., just north of Woodland Ave. It has a message for you. Benj. Wright, one of our old residents who died at his niece, Mrs. Wm. Gibson's, 2224 E. 83rd St., Jan. 21, after an illness of several weeks, was buried from the Nickens-Gibbs chapel, Jan. 24. 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 cellar, yard, bath, etc. Call, Cherry d259. At Mt. Zion Cong. church, Tuesday evening, there was a meeting of the Congregational Union and a banquet of the Glass get-together banquet, under the auspices of the Men's club and ushers, will be held, Feb. 11. The editor of The Gazette acknowledges receipts, last week, of an invitation from Dr. Robt. R. Moton, principal of Tuskegee, Ala., N. & I. school, to attend the 34th annual Tuskegee Negro Conference', held on Wednesday and Thursday of this week. B. W. P. club members were guests of the Martha Madge tea room, E. 55th St., Sunday afternoon. The round-table discussions, during the daintily served repast, were very interesting. Next meeting, at 2398 E. 55th St. Feb. 4. Mrs. C. Richie, president. There will be a mass meeting, Tuesday evening, at Zion Hill Baptist church, of business men, ministers and all others interested, to perfect an organization in the interest of the race here in Cleveland. The vestrymen of St. Andrews' P. E church installed, recently, were: A. Arnold, Meredith John Blain, S. Biggs, S. A Wade and Dr. N. K. Christopher (treas.). Hon. John P. Green is senior deacon. Lawrence ("Lonnie") Curtis and Bobbie Johnson royally entertained Jeanne and Seymour of the Keith Circuit at a six-course dinner, recently. Chef Will Alexander (than whom there is none better) prepared the sumptuous repast. The chef of the Knowledge Ave., employed for 19 years as a clerk in the traffic department of the Standard Oil Co., has been given a substantial raise in salary, and next year will receive one of the company's 20-year service gold buttons. Atty. John H. Ballard was selected by a judge of the common pleas court to defend Chas. George, charged with the murder of his wife, Jurtle, the rider began Mary, George Cull's court attorney, Ballard is one of our few attorneys, members of the local Bar association. Cuyahoga lodge, Elks, has a balance of $10,000 in its treasury. Its new officers were installed, recently, by W. W. Williams, district deputy. Clarence M. Shaw, E. R. was presented, at the same meeting, with a fine gavel, a cigaret box made in China and a beautiful bouquet of flowers. The deputy appointed a deputy by Sheriff Kohler. Alexander G. Stanley, husband of Mrs. Julia A. Stanley, died Tuesday, at his residence, 2250 E. 84th St. M GIRLS THE DISHES. OR'S A D IT! Funeral services, Friday, Jan. 30, at St. Andrews Episcopal church. He was one of our old residents and highly esteemed. The widow, another old resident, has the heartfelt sympathy of the community. The widow of St. John's A. M. E. choir, Sunday afternoon, was well attended and thorously appreciated by friends throut the city. The numbers rendered by Millward Weaver, piano; Juanta Thomas, reader; John Henry Early, violin; Lillian E. McQueen, soprano; Georgia Nelson and Dorothy Scott, dancers were exceptionally beautiful. They are of the young talent of the city. The Gazette desires to call the attention of all of its readers to the advertisement of the Dunlap Shoe sale, at 4933 Woodland Ave., published elsewhere in this paper. This is an exceptional opportunity to get one or more pairs of first-class shoes at a wonderfully low rate>$5.95. He has, because you may never again gain the opportunity other shoes for men, women and children at this address are on sale, at the lowest possible prices. Do not delay, but go at once!—Adv. The editor of the Gazette acknowledges the receipt, early last week, of an invitation to attend the Crispus Attucks Press Association's unveiling of the printing of Crispus Attucks, the first American to make the supreme sacrifice for this country's independence (on Boston Commons, March 5th, 1700), at the press club, D.C. Church, D.C. Friday evening, Jan. 23, 25. There was dancing from $8.30 to 12 p. m., Reeves' orchestra furnishing the music. 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. 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 city of Isleland. They are courteous, obliging and extend your 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. Lt. Chas, S. Smith, E. 86th St., on Tuesday finished 28 consecutive years as a member of the Cleveland police department. Until the Kohler administration, he was secretary to the chief of police. Since then, he was a member of the department of public safety. Charlton, as he is familiarly called by his host of friends, has served under 5 chiefs of police and 2 directors of public safety. The appointments of Mr. Smith and Mr. John Chaffin, retired, as patrolmen were made at the request of the Mayor, and on the order of Mayor Robt. E. McKisson, 28 years ago. "How the time flies!" Andrew F. Hilver Dead Washington, D. C.—Andrew F. Hilzer, 60, veteran trustee of Howard university and one of the best known persons in this city and the East, died here at his residence, 1883 Vermont Ave. N. W., recently, after an illness of three weeks. Two years ago, Mr. Hilzer was married to Dr. Amanda V. Gray, of New York City. Other relatives surviving are a son and daughter by his first wife. Atty. J. Katherine Bingham of this city, Mrs. Kathleen Bingham of this city, and a sister, Miss Jennie Hilzer of Tallahassee, Fla. Mr. Hilzer visited Cleveland, many years ago, on his first "honeymonkey" trip. Rhineland Asks Jury Trial White Plains, N. Y.-Leonard "Kip" Rhinelander, who is suing for an annulment of his marriage to Alice Beatrice Jones Rhinelander, of New Rochelle, on the ground of fraud, filed notice for a jury trial in the Westchester County Supreme Court, last week. Rhinelander, in his suit, alleges that his wife deceased him as to her race. Judge Samuel F. Swinburne, counsel for Mrs. Rhinelander, has sent an agent to England to obtain a copy of the birth certificate of the father and grandfather, to disprove Rhinelander's allegations. Her sister is married to an Afro-American. SELLING OUT DUNLAP SHOES A LIFETIME CHANCE FOR YOU NOW. DON'T MISS IT. 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This offer In order to introduce the wonderful Hi-Ja Beauty products to everyone we are making the following special trial offer. One Box Hi-Ja Quinine Hair Dressing, value 25c, one bottle Hi-Ja Cocoanut Quinine Shampoo, value 25c, one box Hi-Ja Skin Whitener Ointment, value 25c, one bar Hi-Ja Medicated Beauty Soap, value 25c and one package Hi-Ja Complexion Powder, value 25c. These five products with a total value of $1.25 will be sent to you for only $1.00. Act Now. This offer will be open for a short time only. Agents: You can make more money seiling Hi-Ja Beauty preparations than any others because they sell easier and faster. Write for our remarkable agency offer today. HI-JA CHEMICAL COMPANY Atlanta, Georgia Segregation An Outrage! Help The “Old Reliable” to increase its circulation! Don’t Throw Awav Your Copy of THE GAZETTE After Reading it, But Give Itto a Friend or an acquaintance who Might Subscribe After Reading a Copy of It. COOLIDGE PERMITS 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.) ence of the culored. to attend a re- Washington, D. C., Oct. 4, 1924. —There is imore 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, un- der President Wilson; _ increased, still further, under President Hard- ing; and reached its zenith under President Coolidge. For instance, the largest of our parks President Wilson never troubled, but the pres- ent 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 in- troduced it in the bureau of engrav- ing. 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, an- nounced in his official capacity that Negroes should not hold office where white people cdmplained. Ses: regation, then, is a Republican in- stitution and not a Democratic one. It was begun by Republicans, and carricd on to its all-embracing, ¢x tent by Republicans! ‘There is far more of it in the de- partments, today, than at any time since the Negro first appeared, close upon the close of the Civil War. The picture requirement in the civil serv- fee, which makes it next to impos- sible for a colored lady or gentleman to enter the civil service, since thelr color is disclosed in their photo- graph which must accompany their papers, is tenaciously held on to by our Republican President. Only last week, a colored girl appeared after having passed the best examination, and after having been telegraphed for by the department. The photo- graph had failed to tell her true color, and they flatly refused to ap- point her when she appeared, and they saw her.complexion. Commis. sioner Blair of the interna) revenue bureau with thousands of clerks will not appoint a Negro clerk, and his word is law there, as he is the spec- fal favorite of Secretary Mellon and President Coolidge. He hails trom North Carolina, the home of the other favorite and leader of the ses: Tegation forces, Col. Sherrill, super- {ntendent of bulldings and grounds. It is no use to complain of either of these southern gentlemen. ‘The cotored people here who know the President could destroy segre- gation in the departments of the government, and the photograph Tequiroments in the civil service by the mere nod bf 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 evengrost him a Single vote and where fo bas fall power and absolutely no opposition. ‘They wonder it he is not a firm be- liever in segregation, especially since segregation is one of the chief ten- ets of the Ku Klux Klan which has found its “welcome home” in the Republican party, and recelves no condemnation ‘rom the Republican President. /Snectal to The Gazette.) ‘Washington, D. C.—In the postof- fice segregation is rampant. The faithful colored clerks work under constant humiliation and physical disadvantages. The department maintains © spacious cafteria 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 discomfors. disadvantage ous 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 #11 the more when they reflect that they are far more capable than the whites, and render the government more intell!- gent and efficient service—the white man of their attainment being able to get far more lucrative employ- ment. ‘The department goes even farther in its solicitude for whites and neg- lect 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 Bothing for these same colored om- ployees. This private club is in the magnificent postoffice building, built and maintained by ALL of the peo- ple. In the locker rooms there is segregation, and segregation is\even attempted im the toflets. And all of this ts against the most dependable and faithful employees. Last year the white employees passed sround invitations to the Shite employees, in the very pres- ence of the culored, to attend a re- ception to the heads of departments, Including the postmaster general, in the postoffice bullding. It announced dancing and a pleasant social eve- ning with the officials for “the post- office employees,” yet not one was delivered to the colored clerks. I hurried a protest to the postmaster genoral the day before it was to come off, and he ordered the post- 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 ex- amination was superior, No Negro, however efficient or old in the serv- ice, 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 in the handling of mail. The col- ored clerks have dared to form a union which meets regularly and often sends manly and fatelligent 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 thelr skin. 2 (Special to The Gazette.) | Washington, D. C.—The govern- ment printing office keeps faith with the government's universal schemo of segregation. Some of the best and ‘brightest of our girls are forced to accept interier positions there on ac- ‘count of the better and more Iucra- ‘Hive avenues of employment being closed to them because of their col- ‘or. The whites are generally of a ‘very mediocre group, far from equal- ing our girls in educational equtp- ‘ment, culture, and working efficten- cy. Yet these superior girls are set of course, having the better working ‘conditions, salaries and recreational facilities. "There ts a large cafeteria fn this huge structure where all of the employees may go, but there are & few tables in an out-of-the-way section reserved for our employees. Tam glad to say that few, very few, of our people patronize ‘the place, preferring a little physteal_ incon- venience to the open, semi-public hu- miliation of segregation. In toilet facilities, dressing-rooms. and work assignments, wherever possible, the law of segregation fs in fall force, and, of course, this same undemocratic practice reveals itselt on the salary roll and in the hard easte that bars promotions. Here, as elsewhere, the inferior whites pass over our superior employees to Airective positions, and higher sal- aries. ‘The whites have a large recrea- tional center in this public buflding with many fine appointments for rest and amusements. Durng 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 the music was ab- ruptly stopped, and the young man reported for ‘attempting to take part in an eftertainment provided for employees. He was called to the office, lectured for being “one of those smart Negroes” who believe in “social equality,” and then dismiss- ed on a trumped-up charge. He was a night-employee,, hence he carried a pistol. Right after the dance in- cident a fire broke out in the office. He was quickly accused of setting the building afire in revenge for bis exclusion from the dance floor. De- tectives came to the building’ to ar- rest him, and failing to secure any evidence searched him only to dis- cover the pistol. They quickly drop- ped the arson charge and substituted one for carrying concealed weapons for which he was immediately dis- missed. 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 thelr government (under President Coolidge) xives them. ‘Many of the employees have ex- pressed their dreply-wounded fecl- ings to me at being considered a pariah by the government whose in- stitutions they are serving so faith- tally, and I have taken up a number of cases only to be met by a dental that the conditions complained of ex- ist, and a request for the names of my informants. I knew the fate thess informants would suffer so T have never given a single name!! The de- partment then taking the position THE GAZETTs, CLEVELAND © SATURDAY, JANUARY 31, 1925 vat tt cannot take up the case. It verfectly clear that this iniquitous scheme of segregation is a difficult hing to fight, since the goverament is so well settled upon it, and the complainants cannot bear witness| to It. ‘Metal tn then eheneien’: ‘Washington, D. C.—Segregation im the bureau of engraving and printing has an interesting history involving President Thomas Wood- tow Wilson and members of his fam- fly, three herofe young colored wom- en who lost their positions as a re- sult of their protest, and the noble wife of Senator Robert La Follette. Shortly after the accession of Mr. Wilson to the White House, a mem- der of his family visited the bureau where she saw white ‘and colored girls working together in perfect harmony, oblivious to any thonght of race. "Shortly thereafter came An order for segregation of the races, and a white lady who had been not- ed 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 Negto leader had taught col- ored people to stay in thelr places.” Three of the voung ladies resisted the order to the Inst ditch and were summarily dismissed! Senator La Follette iodged a pro- test with Secretary McAdoo to no avail, and his noble wife began a crusade against the undemocratic in- novation. She took the platform here in Washington ‘and Boston be- fore the famous Twentleth Century club. She used the columns of the Senator's magazine, sparing neither space nor vigor of utterance. She thundered against tt In our local [white press, and addreseed the na- Uional gathering of the National As- |soctation for the Advancement of | Colored People in New York. When our people here were so profoundly discouraged, she came out one stormy afternoon to the Y. M. C. A to urge them to continue the fight for democracy was at the crises. Os- wald Garrison Villard came to town to attack White House and Cabinet and arouse our people, and the Na- tion Association secured publicity in over six hundred influential white papers in the country. The fight checked what was thought to be the intention of the segregators, name- dy, the elimination of the colored employees from the bureau alto- gether. ‘The same segregation which some of our people think 1s the cherished institution of the Democratic party is still there, in all of its fullnens, under the administration of the party that Abraham Lincoln, Charles Sumner and Frederick Douglass helped to found. Ourigirls are em- ployed there in far larger numbers than in any other branch of the pnb- lic service. THEY ARE SEGRE- GATED In thelr rest rooms, tollets, and working stations, and of course none are ever thought of for promo- tions to executive places. They are girls from our best nomes. most of them with high ante normal school training, and fine culture. The white girls are of no such grade, as there fs no qeeregation for them In the great world of things. ‘They havo unlimited fields at high wage for ‘even mediocre talents. The hest of our girls must take these inferior positions, the inevitable result of se- gregation. Our people are still hop- ing for the issuance of an order de- stroying this iniquitous practice in all of our government departments. for it not only humiliates the best of the government servants but im- paire the government service. (Special to The Gazette) Washington, D. C.—he treasury @epartment, according to the Presi dent's recent acceptance speech, 1 now under the ablest financial gentu: since the days of Alexander Hamilton, It is to be remembered that the great Hamilton came from the West In. dies, and in that long sweep of his. tory that the President traversed are the mighty Salmon P. Chase, secretary of the treasury in Lin. coln's cabinet, who, in a national ex- tremity suchas this country has never known, devised the national banking system which financed the Civil War; and Ohio's master finan- cler, John Sherman, These men never knew what segregation was! ‘The present head of the depart- ment of internal revenue, Mr. Blafr from North Carolina, has not ap- pointed a colored clerk since his in- cumbency. While his predecessor, ‘Mr. Daniel Roper, 2 Democrat from Texas, appointed and promoted sev- eral of them. Since the income tax legislation and the numberless new taxes‘ that the recent war necess!- tated, this {s by far the largest de- partment of the treasury, employing several thousand clerks. Yet Ne- groes 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 gov- ernment—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 toflets, lock- er rooms, Test rooms, etc., set off for colored. ' The tollets for the colored are few in such a large structure. Hence, the segregated clerks are forced to endure physical inconven- fence at times. and are forced to travel long distances when they de- sire the use of them. 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Tho registership of the treasury, which Republican Presidents have given the Negro since Garfield ap- pointed Blanch K. Bruce, is now filled by a white man, and the col- ored people are congregated in a sep- arate room which {s publicly pro- claimed as “a colored division.” When it is discovered that Negro clerks are “working as white” in other divisions, they are promptly transfered 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 dilemna, fearing to act. Our clerks must accept so- gregation or elimination, and being Door, with no other opportunities in this southern atmosphere, must take the former. ‘They are depressed at the wrong, but economic stress com- pels endurance of it, By a single stroke of his pen, President Calvin Coolidge can stop every bit of this damnable segrega- tion, just as he can condemn that lawless organization the Ku Klux lan. COOLIDGE’S SEGREGATION Washington, D, C.—Supplement- ing what we wrote in The Gazette, last week, relative to Registrar of the Treasury H, V. Spielman’s latest demonstration of prejudice and seg: regation 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 gov- ernment employees, the Treasury Department will most likely be the center of attack, for segregation in several of its bureaus has been most 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 hardly cold before the effort to in- crease segregation in the depart- ments here was on again at ful! speed. It had slowed up a little dur- ing the campaign. /—Anvestigation of Bureaus An investigation of the executive departments and bureaus listed be- low shows that segregation prevails in them as follows: Office of the Register of the Treasury, there are two segregated sections—one with 30 Afro-Ameri- gan employees and the other with 4. Navy Department — one segre- gated section of 18 of our employ- ees, as well as a segregated lunch room, Census Bureau —a__ segregated section of 60 Afro-American employ- ees. Bonns Section = Bonus section of the War Depart- ment—one segregated section of 180 ot our employees. Veterans Bureu—a segregated section of 16 employees. Department of Justice—a segre- gated section of 10 employees in the file room. Internal Revenue Internal Revenue Bureat—a seg- regated section of 7 employees. Office of the Treasurer of the Uni- ted States—a segregated section of 4 employees, War Department, Transportation Division—a segregated section of 5 employees. P. 0. Separate Lunch Room Post Office Department—a segre- sated lente senm. — ANTI-LYNCHING LAW 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. “‘Serfous Injury” defined. 6280. Damages in case of assault. 6283. Damages in case of lynching. 6282, Damages recoverable by legal representative of victim of lynching 6282. Person suffering death or injury by mob trying to lynch another 6284. Limitations of aetlon, 6285. Order to include recovery and costs in tax levy. 6286. Guardian's custody, etc., feos, 6287. County's right of action against member of mob. 6288. County's right of action against another county. gnas, Scmeatle® tones aronseeian. Our mob-violence or anti-lynching bil was introduced in the Ohio leg- islature In 18,4 and re-Introduced In 1896, It took the Hon. Harry C. Smith, editor of The Gazette, just three ‘years to secure ite enactment Into law. ‘The Ohio Supreme Court has sevoral times upheld the con- stitutionality of the law and it has Section 6278. A collection of peo- ple assembled for an untawful pur- pose and intending to do damage or injury to any one, or pretending to exercise correctional power avert other persons by violence and with out 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 perseo shall constitute @ “lynching” within the meaning of thia chapter. (93 v. 161 2.) Section 6279. Tho term “serious Injury," for the purpose of this chap- ter, shall include such Injury as per- manently or temporarily disables the person receiving {t from earning a livelihood by manual labor. (98 v. 161 3.) Section 6280. A person taken from officers of justice by a mob. and assaulted with whips, clubs, mis- siles 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 18 made. (93 v, 161 4.) Section 6281. A person assaulted and lynched by a mob may recover, from the county in which such as- sault fs made a sum.not to exceed five hundred dollars; or, if the in- jury received therefrom is serious, a sum not exceeding one thousand dol- lars; or, if such injury result tn per- manent’ disability to earn a livell- hood by manual labor, a sum not to exceed five thousand dollars. (93 v. 162 5.) Section 6282. The legal reprosen- tative of a person dying from injur- ies received from lynching by a mob, may recover of the county in which such injury occurred, a sum not to exceed five thousand dollars dam- ages for such unlawful killing. Such sum shall be applied to the mainte- nance of the family and educsti:= =: 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 re- ceiving an amount equal to a child's share. If there be no widow or minor children surviving such dece- dent, 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 lynch- ed. nor be subject to any of his. lia- bilities. (93 v 162 6.) Section 6283. A person suffering death or injury from a mob attempt- ing to Iynch another person shall come within the provisions of thix chapter. He or his legal represento- tives shall have a Ike right of action as one purposely injured or killed by such a mob. (98 162 6.) Section 6284. Action for the re- coverles provided for in this chap- ter must be commenced, within two years from the date of such Iynch- ing, in any court having original jurisdiction of an action for dam- ages for malicious assault. (98 ¥ 162 7.) Section 6285. An order to the commissioners of a county. against which such recovery ts had. to In: clude tt with the costs of action. in the next succeeding tax levy for snch county, shall be a part of the judr- ment in every such case. (93 v, 162 8.) Section 6286. If the decedent «o lynched has minor children surviv- ing him, the fund shall be turned over to a regularly appointed guar- dian, Such guardian shall adminis- ter such fund under the direction of the probate judge, allowing not more than five hundred dollars for coua- sel fees In the action for such re- covery. (93 v, 162 9.) Section 6287. The county, tn which a lynching occurs, may re- cover the amount of a fudgment and costs against {t in favor of the legal representatives of person killed or serlously injured by a mob from any of the persons composing such mob.. A pereon present, with hostile intent, at such lynching shall be deemed a member of the mob and be llable to such action. (98 v. 162 10.) Section 6288. If a mob carries = prisoner into another county, oF comes from another county to’com- been very effective. Illinois, Penn- tyivanta ‘and New Jersey dave fob lowed Ohio's lead and enacted mob violence or anti-lynching laws which are copies of our Ohio law. Several other northern states and at ‘east one border state (Kentucky) have also enacted anti-lynching laws, to ees cate eat ta BS. a. : representative of victim of lynching ury by mob trying to lynch another nd costs in tax levy. ‘ ast member of mob. nst another county. | mit violence on a prisoner brought oe cas enna arias enorme homicide or assault for engaging therein. (93 ¥. 163 12.) a a ne Lae, Upon the request of many readers of The Gazette we print below the text of the Hon. Harry C. Smith's Ohto Civil Rights law which the editor had enacted while a member of the 71st General Assembly. In 1894: ‘The General Coe of Ohio: Sec. 12940. Whoever, being the proprietor or his employes, keeper 07 manager of an inn. restaurant, eat ing hovse, barber-shop, public. con: vevance by land or water, theater or other place of public accommodatton and amusement, denies to a citizen except for reasons applicable altice to all citizens and regardless of race or color, the full enjoyment of the accommodations, advantages, facili ties or privileges thereof, shall be fined not less than fitty dollars nor more than five hundred dollars, o: not more than ninety days, or both Sec. 12941. Whoever violates the next preceding section shall also pa: hot less than fifty dollars nor more than five hundred dollars to the per. son aggrieved thereby to be recov ered In any court of competent jur isdiction In the county where eact offense was committed. ‘This law has rapeatediy been hale constitutional and good law by the Ohfo Supreme court. The tronble ts ont people will not use ft ar often ar they should. but expect It to do for them what they should and muet 4r for themselves, under ft, fm the courta, sutee Grant's Opinion of the Law Misted by the foolishly manufac tured ontery for tme vnssae of the Reaty hill. a few years meo. the Ak ron Reacon Journal published ar editorial to which the editor of The Gazetio replied. calling {tx attention to -ha fact that the Ohio Civil Riehts Taw wae gond law and ald not need amanding. ‘The following letter trom Indee Grant former presiding infer of the Conrt of Anneats of the Blehth District of Oblo, fs relf explanatory, Axron, 0., April 25, 1919. Hon. Harry C. Smith, Editor The Gazette. Cleveland, 0. My Dear Sir: Observing your let ter in the Beacon-Journal, of tht city, I venture to send you, under s separate cover, the Ohio Law Re- porter of Feb. 3. Inst, containing the opinion of the Court of Appeals 'n the Puritan Lunch Co. va. Leonard H. Vorman, ducided in Akron, last fall, In which a judgment for ($500) fire’ hundred dollars was sustained It the Beacon-Journal had known what was going on in {ts own town there would have been no occasion for criticism editorially. THE LAW OF ORTO IS UNDER NO RE- PROACH, nor our courts and juries, im administering It. Not a word was satd by the Beacon-Journal when tb- Forman case was reviewed. ‘Very truly yours, R. ©. Grant. une Aen te Sens De aged barber employed in the Senate wing of the capitol, ran amuck, early ulation! ! Reading it Reading a ( Fresh Ohio News. HILLSBORO.—Chas. Nelson has returned from Columbus.—Clarence Clifford Lamb, Jr., who has been very iil, is better—Mrs, M. Cowles, age 29, nee Murl Dent, a niece of Wal- lace Nelson, who was badly burned when her clothes caught fire in her home, died in Columbus, last week. —Mrs. Rhoda Neuman who visited her daughter, Mrs. Edward Jones, returned to Greenfield, Saturday, to visit relatives—She ‘will visit’ in Springfield and Bainbridge before returning here.—-G. L. Holland, new- ly elected president of the B. ¥. P. U., delivered an excellent address, Sunday evening, to the society. Chas. Colter was well prepared on the tople, Duet, Mozelle Green and Juanita Smith. All are cordially in- vited to attend these meetings.—Rey, P. H, Hill, Sr., one of the oldest min~ Istera of ‘the’ Eastern Ass'n., died, last Thursday, at his son, Rev. P. Ht. Hill, Jr.'s in Youngstown, Burial in South Salem.—Mr, and Mrs. Asa Jackson, Mrs. Jno. Hudson and daughter, Burnice, Miss Mary Wil- liems, Mr. and Mrs, Ed. Dixon, Mr. Bradley Dent: and others attended the Wesleyan church rally, Sunday, in Columbus. Rev. A. P: Mayle, pas- tor—Mrs. J. J. Burr was notified, Monday, of her brother, Matt Jenk- ins’ serious condition.—Mr. and Mrs, Jas. Blanton and Miss Sadie New- land attended the funeral, last week, of Mrs. Annie Lucas, age 69, the for- mer’s aunt. ‘The deceased was born in ilsboro and died at her home in Xenia, Jan. 22, "25. She leaves four sons, a daughter and sister to mourn their loss. She had been a member of Middle Run Baptist chureh for thirty-six years, where the funeral sorvices were conducted by the pastor, Rev. J. H. Allen. Mr, Wm. Johnson was the efficient un- dertaker—Lawn Delaney was in Xenia, last week—Mr, Wm. Pope of Columbus visited Mr. and Mrs. Jas anton, POVERTY KILLS MANY MOTHERS, ‘The Latest Pederal Census Figures ‘Tell An Interesting Tho Sad Story—Read Carefully! Washington, D. C—How our mothers die ‘at childbirth, while white mothers in the same region— but in a higher economic grade—are saved, is shown by federal census figures for 1923. In 1923 the death rate for white mothers at childbirth in Kentucky and Maryland was 5.4 per 1,000. In Mississippi it was 6.6, 4m Virginia 6. jn South Carolina 7.4, and in North Carolina 6.7. But for our mothers the death rate in Ken- tucky was 15.4 per 1,000, in South Carolfna 12.2, in Mississippi 10.9, in Virginia 10.8, in North Carolina 10.7, and in Maryland 8.2. They had, as a rule, no money to secure good medical care. Of all the states, Utah showed the lowest death rate, which was 5, while South Carolina had the highest at 9.7 per 1,000. For the 30 states represented in the registration area. the average rate was 6.7 for 1923, compared with 6.6 for 1922, 6.8 for 1921 and 6.1 for 1915. ‘CHILDLESS MARRIAGES ExXPtATKED. 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