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LOCKLAND.—Miss Midred Palmer was called to Indianapolis by mother's death.—Misses Ella Jones and Lacinda White spent the week-end in Kipley.—Rev. and Mrs. Clarence Warber are the proud parents of a little daughter.—Col. Roscoe "Cackling" Simmons lectured at the "Y." Tuesday evening.—Mr. Wm. Benny died, last week Wednesday night, after an illness of only three days.—The remains of Mr. John Bohart of Harwell were buried from his late residence, Thursday. COLUMBUS.—The editor of The Gazette was called here, Tuesday, for a discussion of important racial matters.—Miss Minnie Thompson visited relatives in frontoon, last week.—Miss Cleo Hall was called to, Toppea, Kan., by the death of an uncle.—Miss Pervia Payne has been quite ill. Likewise Mrs. C. W. Thurman. Both are convalescent.—Miss Helen Tolliver, a freshman, has been unanimously elected president of the A. K. A. Pledges club.—Mrs. Celeste Garrett Guy of Cleveland was the guest of Miss Margaret Franklin for a week. MIDDLETOWN.-Gee. A. Walker, who published a paper here, a short time, a couple of years ago, is wanted in Cleveland. Any person knowing his address will do him a favor by sending it to the editor Of The Gazette at once.-Mrs. Lonora Revish is home from Youngstown, visiting relatives.-Mrs. Annie Kinsey was called to Detroit by a daughter-in-law's death.-New Hope Baptist church's recent revival netted it 123 converts and members. The pastor, Rev. J. J. Pennington, was assisted by Rev. Lawrence Tucker, age 16, and others.-Give the local agent your order for The Gazette, and tell your friends to do likewise. 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.,ives 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. (CINCINNATL. Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Huffman and Mr. and Mrs. Harold Taylor spent the week-end with relatives in Springfield.—Mrs. S. Jeferson entertained the Neighborhood club. Saturday. Mrs. Jennie M. Griggsy was called home to Dayton by a relative's illness.—Dr. R. E. Beamon, president of the local Howard Alumni Association, assisted by Rev. E. H. Oxley, has been very busy with Dr. Sterling N. Brown of Howard University, during his stay in Cinchinati, in the interest of a financial drive for the university. A very successful meeting was held at St Andrew's Episcopal church, Feb. 15 a large number of subscriptions secured and a splendid cash amount donated. CADIZ.—Rev. H. W. Tale of Cincinnati assisted Rev. A. L. Holland at Simpson M. E. church. Sunday.—Mr. George Rideout of Youngstown is visiting Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Tyler.—Rev. J. B. Stanton, of McIntyre A. M. E. church, has been sent to Martin's Ferry, and Rev. Matthew Johnson of Martin's Ferry to McIntyre.—Clarence West has bought the Alexander West property, and, will move to town from the country.—Mr. and Mrs. H. Walker's infant was buried, Saturday afternoon.—Rev. S. P. West, held the second quarterly meeting at St. James A. M. E. church. Sunday. The rally clubs are busy with entertainments for the June rally to raise money to make the final payment on the mortgage. SPRINGFIELD.—The Douglass-Lincoln program at the Center St. "Y" was marred by the participation of E. W. Curry, pastor of the Second Baptist church, one of the two local "Negro ministers" who sided with the prejudiced whites of the city when our local school fight was on a couple of years ago. How easily and quickly some of our people forget. They should never forget hurry and the unepicable course he pursued at the time. The future of all our children of this city, and possibly of the entire state, was at stake and yet he "turned against him." There are those of our people here who have not forgotten and never well.—Mrs. Lazelle Johnson and Mr. Edward Held were married, recently. Mrs. Maran Madison has accepted a position in the U.S. Veterans hospital at Tuskegee, Ala. HILLSBORO.—Rev. A. P. Mayle quarterly meeting at Wesleyan church, Sunday.—Rev. Wm. Blake astor A. M. E. church, preached at p. m.—Mrs. Mary Donaldson and aughter, Mrs. Cora Young, visited e former's son, A. P. Donaldson family, in Columbus, last Mon- y.—Rev. J. W. Wright, Rev. J. J. arr and Miss Matilda Blair, were nuer-guests of Mr. and Mrs. Alex- der Holland, last Monday.—Rev. I. loda Kittrell and Mrs. John N. Johnson are convalescent.—Mr. and Mrs. Henry Willis entertained at dinner. Friday, Rev. Wright, Rev. and Mrs. Burr and Mrs. Clarence Carr and daughter.—Mr. Gertrude Christy is visiting relatives in Spring- field.—Mr. and Mrs. C. M. Gragson enttained Rev. Wright at dinner, last Thursday.—Irs. Susie Light- foot of Chillicothe died, last week. She was the wife of Rev. D. L. Light- foot and lived here, several years. The funeral service, Friday af- ternoon, was conducted by Rev. Forst- Mitchell. Those from here who attended were: Miss Helen Baker, mrs. and Mrs. Clarence Pleasant, mrs. and Mrs. Dorsey Minor, Mr. and Mrs. Albert Williams, Jr. Mrs. Clar- Ford and Mrs. Anna Hill.—Clarence Hudson visited Mr. and Mrs. Zack Lewis in Springfield.—The ten-day revival at New Hope Baptist church was a great success. Several con- verts, have joined the church. Rev. J. W. Wright, of Taylorsville, Ky. who conducted the services, is an able speaker.—Mr. and Mrs. R. Chaf- feur, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Smith of Mt. Sterling and Mr. W. Roberts at attended services at the Baptist church, Sunday.—Mr. and Mrs. No- ble Boggs, Mr. and Mrs. Lyman Kill gore and children of Columbus spen- Sunday with Mrs. America Williams and daughter, Miss Mary. Fabron Sent "kove and Kisses" Faison Sei "Love and Kisses" Washington, D. C., Mrs. Annie Nelson Faison, whose husband, Henry W. Faison, (white), son of ex-Congressman John Miller Faison, of North Carolina, is suing her for an annual ment of their marriage, has retained an attorney and will fight. There will be some startling developments as soon as her answer is filed. The contents of the love letters written by Faison to his bride, before their marriage and since their separation, due to his detention at the St. Elizabeth's hospital for mental observation will be made public either at the trial or as exhibits, to her answer. Three Whites Killed! Orange, Texas.—Three white men are dead as the result of a quarrel over a business deal between two of them and two Afro-Americans here. Feb. 14, 25. Those killed were Joe Prejcan, about 46; Dallas Morris, about 22, and Basil Stakes, deputy sheriff. Two Afro-Americans are under arrest. After Prejcan and Morris had been killed Deputy Sheriff W. C. Woods and Basil Stakes attempted to arrest Frank Wilkes and Will Blatchan. Wilkes started toward the officers carrying a rifle in one hand and a revolver in the other Stakes grabbed the rifle and the butt hit Wilkes' head. It was discharged, killing Stakes. Coolidge's Ancestor a Slave, Six Years. Washington, D. C.—According to the Abridged Compendium of American Genealogy, President Calvin Coolidge is the tenth in line from John Coolidge, who came from England to Watertown, Mass., in 1630, and six years later became a "freeman", having apparently sold himself into servitude for a period to raise passage money. Purnell Bryant; E. 28th St., president of the students' council of Brownell Junior high school, was one of our two graduates from that school to enter Longwood high. Doings of the Race JOHN H. HARRIS Addresses Ohio University Sociology Department—Says Africa Turns From Prejudiced Christians to Mohammedanism. Columbus, O.—Hon. Harry E. Davie, member of the Ohio legislature from Clermont, on Feb. 10, addressed the sociology department of Ohio State University, and urged our desire to cognition as a full participant in American life. Mr. Davies said that the question of race relationship was affecting not only international affairs but also the nature of Christianity before the second said in part: "Largely because of color prejudice the Christian missionary movement is at a standstill in India, China, Japan and Africa, the great emperor's servant for prosecutions. In it appears that Africa is desired to become a great Mohammedan Province. The darker race have made a point where they will not readily accept a sacred love and beliefhood when called of their essential manhood by Christian people, not the tenets which they are marked to accept." TWO MORE BANK FAILURES. Philadelphia, Pa. Brown and Stevens' bank, the largest private bank of the race, with 6,000 depositors and one million in liabilities, carried down with it also the Cosmopolitan State bank with 3,000 depositors and $112,000 liabilities. This latter bank had $38,000 on deposit with Brown and Stevens. J. C. Brown was head of both banks, and while no fraud was perpetrated in depositing funds of Cosmopolitan Bank in the private bank of Brown and Stevens, the procedure showed poor judgment on the part of the Cosmopolitan directors. Brown and Stevens' funds were known to have been invested in various real estate and theoretical enterprises. One of those: the Douglass Theatre, Baltimore, built at a cost of $350,000, has been dark for nearly two years. Here you have it again, as with the Standard Life Ins. Co. of Atlanta. It is so easy to use and to spend other people's money. Marcus Garvey's host, the Booker A. Newton, arrived in the Paraná Canal Zone, last week. Mrs. Aaron P. Malone, O. Poro Col- b, St. Louis, Mo., has given $1,000 to a fund being raised for George R. Smith college, Sedalia, Mo. Herman L. Perry is no longer pr president of the Standard Life Co., of Atlanta. A smaller white company now owns the Standard. Two Brown & Stevens banks, Philadelphia, are in the hands of receivers. Like the Standard Life Insurance Co. of Atlanta, Ga., they were supposed to be among our oldest and best business enterprises. Dr. J. Stanley Durkee, whitest, president of Howard University, Washington, D. C., is refusing to accept any of the Fisk University students, that are leaving that institution because of President McKenzie's prejudiced rule. Walter L. Cohen, comptroller of custolists at New Orleans, La., and E. P. Booze, of Mound Bayon, Miss., are the only Afro-Americans credited with having given $1000 each to the Republican National Committee, last fall. The song every Y. W. C. A. in the country will sing as a national anthem was written and composed by Marian Virginia Turner, one of our Philadelphia, school girls. It was unanimously chosen winner in a contest between the women of the eleven Philadelphia Y. W.'s. President C. B. D. King of Liberal Africa, was treated royally by the English governor of Sierra Leone, Africa, upon the occasion of his recent visit to that neighboring country. The Liberian Legislature has endorsed President King's edict barring "Garveyites" from the country. Hon. Arthur G. Froe, recorder of deeds, Washington. D. C., vehement- SINGLE COPY FIVE CENTS Vice-President L. H. Wood Who Says the Trustees Will Back President McKenzie—It Will Ruin the School. Nashville, Tenn.—If the word of L. Hollingsworth Wood, vice-president of the board of trustees of Fisk University, is to be taken at its face value, the trustees of the institution are a unit in their support of President Fayette McKenzie and his side of the controversy which has split the school. This statement was made to 57 students in the dining room of Livingstone hall, last week. Several hundred students have left the university and others are merely awaiting the receipt of funds from home before going. Only one-third of the tables in the dining room are filled. In a statement to local papers, Mr. Wood declared that every action of McKenzie received the endorsement of his colleagues on the board. Questioned as to the propriety of calling in police to club the students, the board's vice-president was emphatic in his assertion that that was the only step to have taken when the students rebelled. The students who have broken loose, their supporters here and elsewhere, were denounced in scathing statements issued to the press by Dr. W. W. Sumlin, well known physician representing the minority. He called the students "smart alec upstarts," and certain of our members of the faculty "traitorous." Dr. Sumlin declares that the whole truth about the situation at Fisk is this: "A group of lawless, self-imprinting and more or less vicious students object to obey the rules and regulations of the school, although these rules are so forth plainly in the catalogue; want to commit acts of impropriety, such as they have been brazenly committing since the recent walkout, they have felt free of restraint; want to sit around under the trees on the grounds hugging, as they were doing on Saturday last, after they have struck, and when they were thrown on their so-called honor; want to be free to wear skirts split almost their waists, exposing their nakedness, as was seen on Monday last; want to convert the noble Fisk into a place of jazz." Chief of Police of St. Thomas—The Virgin Island Legislature Despards Governor Explain Nolan's Insult to Natives New York City.—Gov. Philip Williams of the Virgin Islands has been called on by the Colonial Council, the native legislature, to explain, the statement, alleged to have been made by Police Chief M. J. Nolan of St. Thomas, that "these niggers don't want law and order". The Nolan has been ignored by the American naval administration of the Virgin Islands. The Colonial Council has also passed a resolution demanding a thorough investigation of the St. Thomas police force and another calling for an examination of the franhge law. An amendment to the code of laws making jury trials mandatory instead of optional with the judge has been taken up for pass. All of these resolutions were introduced by Rothschild Francis, editor of the Virgin Islands Emanuel days on a charge of criminal libel for criticizing the police. He was tried before Judge Washington Williams without a jury. His appeal to higher courts is being handled by the Civil Liberties Union of this city, which has been campaigning for a permanent form of civil government for the islands. A resolution providing for a new organic act and for permanent representation at Washington has just been passed by the Colonial Council. ly double a newspaper reports that he ignored the "love and admiration" letter personally transmitted to G. Bassam Shih, Virginia "lily-white" secretary to President Coolidge when he retired, recently, by "Link" Johnson and Perry Howard. The February issue of Ira Bryant's paper, "The Young Abente" of Nashville, Teen, launches another attack upon the bishops of the A. M. E. Church in which it is declared that they travel around on free R. R. passes and then accept the usual expense report from conferences to defray their "travelling expenses." Wm. Y. Chambliss, a graduate of Tuskegee institute, class of 1890, started Dr. R. R. Moton, principal of the institute, and the trustee board, a few days ago, by announcing the gift of a $75,000 (hotel) building to the school. This is the largest amount ever given it by a member of the race. Petition for a writ of mandamus was filed, recently, in the District of Columbia Supreme Court against the Whiteclaw-Corporation Company to compel it to file financial report stating the amount of capital and the proportion actually paid in and the total amount of debts, as required by law. The corporation conducts our leading Washington, D. C. hotel. malgamation Sure. Personally I believe the black and white races of America will eventually amalgamate as they have been amalgamating, with this difference, that in the future the amalgamation will become more and more legal and honorable as time speeds us along the road to eternity — Joshua H. Jones, Jr., secretary to Mayor Curley of Boston, Mass. IN UNION IT IS STRENGTH COPY FIVE CENTS FISK ER SIDE TY CONTROVERSY D BY d Who Says the Trustees ent McKenzie— the School. denounced in scathing statements is issued to the press by Dr. W. W. Sumlin, well known physician representing the minority. He called the students "smart alice upstarts," and certain of our members of the faculty "traitorous." Dr. Sumlin declares that the whole truth about the situation at Fisk is this: "A group of lawless, self-important and more or less vicious students object to obeying the rules and regulations of the school, although these rules are set forth plainly in the catalogue; want to commit acts of impropriety, such as they have been brazenly committing since the recent walkout, when they have felt free of restraint; want to sit around under the trees on the grounds hugging, as they were doing on Saturday last, after they had struck, and when they were thrown on their so-called honor; want to be free to wear skirts split almost to their waists, exposing their nakedness, as was seen on Monday last; want to convert the noble Fisk into a place of jazz." DR L GARLAND PENN Elected Secretary of Endowments and Field Activities of Our Work in the M. E. Church—Other Assignments. Chicago, Ill.—At a recent meeting in Chicago, of the Board of Education of the M. E. Church, our leaders in that church were elected to some important tasks. The Afro-American members of the Board are Bishop Robert E. Jones of New Orleans; Dr. W. J. King of Gammon Theological Seminary; Atlanta; and Dr. L. M. McCoy, Holly Springs, Miss., president of Rust College. The board met at Edgewater Beach Hotel, where these members and Secretary I. Garland Penn were entertained with others of the board. In the reorganization of the new board. Bishop Robert E. Jones was chosen as chairman of the departmental committee, on "Negro" education. Dr. Penn of Cincinnati was elected secretary of endowments and field activities. Dr. King was appointed on the executive committee, with membership in other standing committees, and Dr. L. M. McCoy was also given important committee assignments. signer Dr. Penn's long experience of twenty-eight years as a general officer in the Church eminently fits him, for the large responsibility of supervising the whole field covering campaigns for endowments and general field activities before churches, conferences, and assemblies in connection with and on behalf of all our institutions, of the Church. When seen by a reporter Dr. Penn said: "I have chosen the hardest task of my life because the one thing our schools now need is endowment. Exclusive of Meharry and Gammon, our endowment amounts to, but a few hundred thousand. The slogan of the quadrenium is to get all of our schools accredited and we need money for new buildings, equipment and additions to faculties. These needs are paramount to anything else." Dr. F. H. Bailfer is also continued as Field Secretary in Sunday school and Enworth League work. A $20,000 PRESENT Went With the $55,000 Purchase of A Home by Our National Conservatory of Music. Chicago, Ill.-Our National University of Music, Pauline J. Lee, founder and president; Miss Bessie Hicks, sec., has purchased for $55,000 the residence (4427 Grand Blvd.) of Thomas Carey, millionaire, now living in California, and has been presented by him with antique furniture in it valued at $20,000. The university has sold its present quarters, the former home of Madam Ernestine Schumann-Helnk, noted singer, cor. Michigan Ave. and 37th St., to Jesse Binga, banker, treasurer of the South Side Community Service, for $27,000. It will be occupied by this race relief organization, now at 3201 S. Wabash Ave., on May 1. The Carey residence, one of the most imposing on Grand boulevard, contains thirty-two rooms and is of brick and stone, with a fifty car garage. The three-day bazaar at old Eagles hall, E. 55th St. Thursday, Friday and Saturday, for the benefit of Our Lady of the Blessed Sacrament. Colored Catholic church, E. 79th St. and Central Ave. Rev. Thos. E. McKenney, (white), pastor, was sponsored by white Catholic women of the city. --- HOP IN, MISS GEEVUM, - WE'LL HAVE A SPEEDY LITTLE RIDE! HOW'S THAT FOR SPEED? SPEED?!--I THOUGHT YOU HAD THE BRAKES ON! TWEET! TWEET! Tim Eardy 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 Address all communications HARRY C. 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 NEWS-TEST AND BEST in the country. 10,000,000 Afro-Americans. 350,000 in Ohio. 40,000 in Cleveland. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1925 AGREED! Prof. H. A. Miller (white), of Ohio State University, in an address on "Why the Millenium has not Come", delivered at the Attucks Club "Douglass-Lincoln" banquet in this city, last week, said after a lengthy discussion of race or group prejudices that it had not come "because we are such fools". An Englishman of intelligence and standing when told that an educated Afro-American of splendid character and means, who was as white in color as he, "was classed (mistreated) as a Negro in America", said: "What damned fools Americans must be on the race question". TRUTH! The gentlemen referred to but voice the sentiment of all broad-minded, intelligent people the world over, and about everybody knows it. But what is more, the "damnfool!" Americans know it, too, but nevertheless persist in being "damn tools" and doing their level best wherever they go, in and out of this country, to spread their "damn-foolishness". More outspoken real men and women of the prominence and standing of Prof. Miller and the Englishman referred to are sadly needed in this country and wherever "damnfool Americans" go abroad. May their tribe increase rapidly. The lack of police protection in wards 11 and 12 is the prime cause of the miserably bad conditions, existing in that section of the city, growing steadily worse. Here is another "case in point": A member of the race, who lives in the rear of one of our churches on Scovill Ave. in ward 11 but whose house fronts on a leading side-street that has a car line, told a representative of The Gazette, the first of the week, that the night before, while he and his wife were preparing to retire, "long toward midnight", they heard a noise outside their kitchen door (near the church), which caused him to take his "gun" and investigate. He found a white fellow with a woman of the race backed up against the door. She ran and he threw up his trembling hands, crying out: "Don't shoot, mister, please don't shoot". Like the other "cases in point", elsewhere in these columns, this is not an exceptional one but a common occurrence in the Central-Scovill-Woodland Ave. district. Such women and their "patrons", black and white, do about as they please in that section of the city, in the absence of proper police protection. Our ministers and churches all know this and still no concerted effort is being made to better the sad and very bad conditions referred to. Our boys and girls of tender years in wards 11 and 12 must dally wade thru an immoral cesspool en route to and from school, some of them being ruined as a result, every week, and even the knowledge of this fact does not move our ministers and churches to action. LORD, HAVE MERCY! MISUSING OTHER PEOPLE'S MONEY. None of the officers of the Standard Life Ins. Co., of Atlanta, Ga., have been able to explain how the Southeastern Life Insurance Company, (white), got hold of the final 43 shares which gave it a voting majority of the common stock, it seems. David Jones, it is reported, did not sign these certificates as secretary, and when he found out they had been transferred, threatened an injunction. 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Officials, who will talk, admit that the Standard Life dealt in high finance, lending as much as $8000 on real estate, which was assessed at only $5000, etc., etc. In the last year or two, we have had bank failures in Washington, D.C., Philadelphia, Richmond, Va., and other cities in the South as well as failures of several business enterprises in that section, of which the Standard is the largest, and nearly all of them for practically the same reasons. Stockholders' and depositors' money is not only loaned too carelessly by incompetent or rascally officials but often used for purposes clearly "without the law". Some months ago it was widely advertised that the Standard Life Ins. Co. was promoting the organization of a "holding" or Service Co. in which most of our leading business enterprises of Atlanta, including a race newspaper, were to be taken. Later on it was announced that this had been accomplished. Then came the "death" of the Standard—sold to a white company, smaller than itself and against the wishes of nearly all of its stockholders and depositors. "Negroes", from the South in the last seven years brought to this section a veritable orgy of "stock-selling" and schemes of one kind and another — "anything to get the money", as several of the promoters said to the writer. Too often, if one of them has a "peanut-stand" he wants to "organize it into a company and sell stock". This sort of thing has cost our poor people South and North the loss of hundreds and THOUSANDS of dollars unnecessarily, in recent years, and will continue to do so until some check is put on it. "Dealing in high finance" is bad business for any bank, insurance company or any other business enterprise particularly of our people. Read Esther Bigeou, exclusive phonograph artist and famous vaudeville star. 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Victorious over the Howard university team of Washington, recently, 28 to 17, the Acme basketball outfit battled the Wilberforce college array, one evening, last week, at Carpenter's, 55th base, Wilberforce defeated the team here earlier in the season, that being one of the two setbacks experienced to that date by the Acmes, this winter. Wilberforce holds our national college title. The Loends of Pittsburgh, claimants to our professional championship, played the Acmes at Carpenters hall, this week. The latter put up a good game but lost again. Monte Carlo, France.—Luis Angel Firpo was seen in action, last week Thursday night, for the first time since his visit to Europe. He took on Jack Townsend, Afro-American, in a six-round contest here. Townsend was a sparing partner in Firpo's training camp, last summer, when the South American was preparing for his bout with Harry Willis. Recent ring records show Townsend was knocked out by Bill Prestage, English heavyweight, at Newark, N. 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The Flowers-Delaney match took the place of the original bout scheduled on that date between Flowers and Paul Berlenbach, who canceled his appearance because of an injured hand. Flowers accepted the return go with Delaney after efforts to match the latter with Young Stribling, Georgia youngster, failed. Wills-Gibbons Match New York City.—Harry Wills has agreed to meet Tommy Gibbons at the Milk Fund charity bout here, the next summer. Gibbons agreed to the match sometime ago, but Wills, thus his manager, Paddy Mullins, would not accept the terms of the pro-am tournament. The match which will be held in one of New York's baseball parks, will be scheduled for fifteen rounds and the winner will be matched later in the summer for a title bout with Jack Dempsey. The milk fund matches are promoted by a New York newspaper. MEETS DEATH IN HIS OWN TRAP Farmer Killed by Weapon Set for the Chicken Thief. 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Fun: eral services at St. John’s church, last week Monday, under the auspices of the American Woodmen. Wm. Wade, 2404 Woodland Ave., with him at the time of the aceldent, was Instantly killed. The Mozart Glee club went to Akron, recently, to participate in a “Race’ Relations” program conduet- ed by the Y. M.C. A. and the 8. Main M. EB. church, (white), of that city. Bishop M. W. Clair, Rev. J. L. Black, pastor of the Zion A. M. E. church, ‘the superintendent of pub- He schools and other prominent speakers, (white), of that city, were also on the program. Early Sunday morning, « woman of the race split open her husband's temple, killing him instantly, in the Clayton block, 2828 Central Ave., Monday about’9 p. m., a male indi- vidual drove a woman, naked but for a strip about her waist, into Cen- tral Ave., near E. 28th St., where the latter proceeded to use language that would have driven w hungry dog from a ‘bone, Such things are com- mon occurrences in wards 11 and 12 because of the lack of proper police protection, largely. ‘The following officers were re- cently installed by Star Calanthe Drill corps; Captain Christina Lit- tle; first Heut., Rena Tuck; second, Irene Dillard; first serg., Emily Jack- son; recorder, Emma Bellis; treas., Martha Richards; quartermaster sergt., Della Cochran; color-bearer, Tillie. Rogers; first corp., Geneva Lawson; assist. quartermaster serat., Mazaline Leigh; fin. sec., Sergeant Fuey. Officers. of Cuyahoga Star Calanthe Nurses corps: Captain, An- nie Craighead; “first leut., Mattie Jackson; second, Indiana ‘Walker; first serg., Ida Nichols; second, Rosa Fuller; treas., Mattie Mason; ‘color- bearer, Rose ‘Taylor; quartermaster sergt., Martha Gilsey. Refresh- ments, speakers and music. Captain Little spoke of the good work of the two organizations, Cuyahoga lodge’s social session committee gave their first entertain- ment at Elks’ hall, recently, a Valen- tine party. The hall was decorated and souvenirs were given the ladies. Luncheon and .danging. The com- mittee: Archie Cleage, chairman; Wm. Perking, sec.; B. D. Hood, as- sist.; Joe Hackley, award Green, supervisors; J. C. Clinton, Steve Ball, vice chairmen; Carl Jenkins, assist, supervisor. A union meeting of Elks and Daughter Elks was held at Mt, Zion temple, Monday evening. Cuyahoga and King Tut lodges, Glenora and Mary Talbert temples Participated in the meeting. Wel- come T. 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LISTERINE TOOTH PASTE Large Tube—25 cents Segregation An Outrage! Help The "Old Reliable" to increase its circulation! Don't Throw Away Your Copy of THE GAZETTE After Reading it, But Give It to a Friend or an acquaintance who Might Subscribe After Reading a Copy of It. How Our Men And Women Are Insulted And Humiliated In the Government's Departments—Will the Self and Race-Respecting Negro Press of This Country Continue to Stand for This Sort of Thing? (Special to The Gazette.) Washington, D. C., Oct. 4, 1924. —There is more segregation in Washington today under President Coolidge than there has ever been since the Civil War. The beginnings of segregation were under President Taft. It was greatly extended, under President Wilson; increased, still further, under President Harding; and reached its zenith under President Coolidge. For instance, the largest of our parks President Wilson never troubled, but the present administration has found time and desire to introduce it even there. To many people, segregation is a Democratic scheme of insult, but such is not the case. Mr. Taft introduced it in the bureau of engraving. He segregated the census workers and white workers to white people, and black to black, often duplicating work as most blocks had white and black residents. And, worst of all, announced in his official capacity that Negroes should not hold office where white people complained. Segregation, then, is a Republicium institution and not a Democracy one. As Negroes oppose it and carry on to its all-embracing extent by Republicians! 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 on to by our Republican President. On last week, the color was appeared after being passed 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 favorite of Secretary Mellon and Admiral Edge. He hails from North Carolina, the home of the other favorite and leader of the segregation forces, Col. Sherrill, superintendent of buildings and grounds. It is no use to complain of either of these southern gentlemen. The colored people here who know the President could destroy segregation in the departments of the government, and the photograph requirements in the civil service by the mere nod of the head at all the portraits why he does not put his splendid declarations on democracy into operation here, where it would not even cost him a single vote and where he has full power and absolutely no opposition. They wonder if he is not a firm believer in segregation, especially since segregation is one of the chief tenets of our Constitution, and he calls "welcome home" in the Republican party, and receives no condemnation from the Republican President. (Special to The Gazette.) Washington, D. C.—In the postoffice rampant. The faithful colored clerks work under constant humiliation and physical disadvantages. The department maintains a spacious cafeteria for whites only, where these inferior white clerks can buy appetizing luncheons and chat in comfort while eating, while the colored clerks must bring cold luncheons from home and eat them any place they can. The physical discomfort, disadvantageous as it is, is far less galling to the colored clerks than is the thought of their government taking their taxes, as it takes those of the whites, for the comfort of the latter, and setting them off as though they were lepers, when they reflect that they are far more capable than the whites, and render the government more intelligent and efficient service—the white man of their attainment being able to get far more lucrative employment. The department goes even farther in its solicitude for whites and neglect of colored. It maintains a well-appointed club room with pool tables and other games, comfortable lounges and other equipment for rest, sociability, and recreation, and nothing for these same colored employees. This private club is in the magnificent postoffice building, built and maintained by ALL of the people. In the locker rooms there is segregated bathrooms and a toilet in the toilets. And all of this is against the most dependable and faithful employees. Last year the white employees passed around invitations to the white employees, in the very pres- ence of the colored, to attend a reception to the heads of departments, including the postmaster general, in the postoffice building. It announced dancing and a pleasant social evening with the officials for "the postoffice employees," yet not one was delivered to the colored clerks. I hurried a protest to the postmaster general 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. Collected 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 in the handling of mail. The colored clerks have dared to be more regular 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 this summer, where the employees may go, but there are a few tables in an out-of-the-way section reserved for our employees. I am glad to say that few, very few, of our people patronize the place, preferring a little physical inconvenience to the open, semi-public humiliation of segregation. In toilet facilities, dressing-rooms, and work assignments, wherever possible, the law of segregation is in full force, and, of course, this same undemocratic practice reveals itself on the salary roll and in the hard work promotions menu. Here, as elsewhere the inferior will pass over our superior employees to directive positions, and higher salaries. The whites have a large recreational center in this public building with many fine appointments for rest and amusements. During lunch and dinner hours they repair to this restful retreat for sociability and dance. Last fall, a young Afro-American with a splendid record in his work, felt the injustice of this exclusion of our employees so keenly that he was 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 arrested and sentenced to a pistol. Right after the dance incident a fire broke out in the office. He was quickly accused of setting the building afire in revenge for his exclusion from the dance floor. Detectives came to the building to arrest him, and to secure any evidence searched him only to discover the pistol. They quickly dropped the arson charge and substituted one for carrying concealed weapons for which he was immediately discharged. A few minutes later our employees are taught that there is no way of escape for one who dares to resent the daily insults that their government (under President Coolidge) gives them. Many of the employees have expressed their deeply-wounded feelings to me at being considered a pariah by the government whose institutions they are serving so faithfully, and I have taken up a number of cases only to be met by a dental condition complained of exist, and I have taken the names of my informants. I know the names of these informants would suffer so I have never given a single name!! The department then taking the position THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, J.SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1925 that it cannot take up the case. It is perfectly clear that this iniquitous scheme of segregation is a difficult thing to fight, since the government so well settled upon it, and the complainants cannot bear witness to it. (Special to The jazette) (Spectator to The Gazette) Washington, D. C.—Segregation in the bureau of engraving and printing has an interesting history involving President Thomas Woodrow Wilson and members of his family, three heroic young colored women who lost their positions as a rebel priest, and the noble wife of Senator Robert La Follette. Shortly after the accession of Mr. Wilson to the White House, member of his family visited the bureau where she saw white and colored girls' working together in perfect harmony, oblivious to any thought of race. Shortly thereafter came an order for segregation of the races, and a white lady who had been noted for her philanthropy among our people and who was upon intimate terms at the White House appeared at the bureau to tell our girls to be contented with the new order as "a great Negro leader had taught colored people to stay in their places." Three of the young ladies resisted the order to the last ditch and were summarily dismissed! Senator La Follette lodged a protest with Secretary McAdoo to no avail, and his noble wife began a crusade against the undemocratic innovation. She took the platform here in Washington and Boston before the famous Twentieth Century club. She used the columns of the Senator's magazine, sparing neither space nor vigor of utterance. She thundered against it in our local white press, and addressed the national gathering of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People in New York. When our people here were so profoundly discuraged, she came out one stormy afternoon to the Y. M. C. A. to urge them to continue the fight, for democracy was at the crises. Osseo was 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 segregators, namely, the elimination of the colored employees from the bureau altogether. The same segregation which some of our people think is the cherished institution of the Democratic party is still there, in all of its fullness, under the administration of the party that Abraham Lincoln, Charles Sumner and Frederick Douglass helped to found. Our girls are employed there in far larger numbers than in any other branch of the public. 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 talent. The best of them are the ten most senior positions, the inevitable result of segregation. Our people are still hoping for the issuance of an order destroying this iniquitous practice in all of our government departments, for it not only humiliates the best of the government servants but impairs the government service. (Special to The Gazette) (Special to the Observer) Washington, D. C.—The treasury department, according to the President's office, opposes neoconsism, is now under the ablest financial genius since the days of Alexander Hamilton. It is to be remembered that the great Hamilton came from the West Indies, and in that long sweep of history that the President traversed are the mighty Salmon P. Chase, secretary of the treasury in Lincoln's cabinet, who, in a national extremity such as this country has never known, devised the national banking system which financed the Civil War; and Ohio's master financier, John Sherman. These men never knew what segregation was! The present head of the department of internal revenue, Mr. Blair from North Carolina, has not appointed a colored clerk since his incumbency. While his predecessor, Mr. Daniel Roper, a Democrat from Texas, appointed and promoted several of them. Since the income tax legislation and the numberless new taxes that the recent war necessitated, this is by far the largest department of the treasury, employing several thousand clerks. Yet Negroes are so scarce there that they cannot be noticed. There is the same camera but there among our clerks and other employees 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 end their residence at times, and are forced to travel long distances when they desire the use of them. The department maintains a huge, magnificent cafeteria, in the splendid sweep of woodland along our national driveway, where white people of every class can come to rest, dine, and socialize of afternoons and evenings at minimum costs. The white press of the city is constantly telling of the thousands who take advantage of the brightly lit retreat and the festive scene the their creature creates. It seats two thousand diners with space to spars; 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 the abolition of the division result in the abolition of the division, so they remain in a dilemma, fearing 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 Washington, D.C.—We wish to call attention to the fact that in the fight against the segregation of our government employees, the Treasury Department will most likely be the center of attack, for segregation in several of its 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 attention by the financing were the election of President Coolidge, hardly cold before the effort to increase segregation in the departments here was on again at full speed. It had slowed up a little during the campaign. Investigation of Burcaus An investigation of the executive departments and bureaus listed below shows that segregation prevails in them as follows: Once the Register of the Treasury, there are two segregated sections—one with 30 Afro-American employees and the other with 14. Navy Department — one segregated section of 18 of our employees, as well as a segregated lunch room. Census Bureau — a segregated section of 60 Afro-American employees. Bonus Section Bonus section of the War Department—one segregated section of 180 of our employees. Veterans Bureau—a segregated section of 16 employees. Department of Justice—a segregated section of 10 employees in the file room. Internal Revenue Internal Revenue Bureau—a 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. IS IT ANY USE TO CONTEND FOR RIGHTS? Colored Americans are the only race, responsible members of which are in favor of submitting to discrimination on the claim that their race "always will be discriminated against." The Jews are still contending, after over 1900 years of universal discrimination and are wining over social 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 without善德." The world respects only those who resent and resist proscriptions for race. Let us be worthy of the abolitionists, worthy of our own fathers who have died in every war to vindicate the title of their race to equal liberty, and forever resist denial of rights in our native land, however long race discrimination may continue. To submit is to deserve contempt. - Berton (Mass.) Guardian. 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 Action 6279. "Mob" and "lynching" defined. 6279. "Serious injury" defined. 6280. Damages in case of assault. 6280. 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. 6284. Order to include recovery and costs in tax levy. 6286. Guardian's custody, etc., fees. 6287. County's right of action against member of mob. 6288. County's right of action against another county. 6289. Non-relief from prosecution. Our mob-violence or anti-lynching bill was introduced in the Ohio legislature in 1834 and re-introduced in 1896. It took the Hon. Harry C. Smith, editor of The Gazette, just three years to secure its enactment into law. The Ohio Supreme Court has several times upheld the constitutionality of the law and it has Section 6278. A collection of people assembled for an unlawful purpose and intending to do damage or injury to any one, or pretending to exercise correctional power over other persons by violence and without authority of law, shall be deemed a "mob" for the purpose of this chapter. An act of violence by a person shall constitute a "lynchman" 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 be convicted of a crime not to exceed one thousand dollars as damages from the county in which the assault is made. (93 v. 161 4.) Section 6281. A person assaulted and lynched by a mob may recover, from the county in which such assault is made a sum not to exceed five hundred dollars; or, if the injury received therefrom is serious, a sum not exceeding one thousand dollars; or, if such injury result in permanent disability to earn a livelihood by manual labor, a sum not to exceed five thousand dollars. (93 v. 162 5.) Section 6282. The legal representative of a person dying from injuries received from lynching by a mob, may recover of the county in which such injury occurred, a sum not to exceed five thousand dollars damages for such unlawful killing. Such sum shall be applied to the maintenance of the family and education of the minor children of such person so lynched. if any survive him, until such children are of legal age, and then be distributed to the survivors, share and share alike, the widow receiving an amount equal to a child's share, the child's minor children surviving such decedent, such sum shall be distributed among the next of kin according to the laws of the distribution of the personality of an intestate. Such sum so recovered shall not be a part of the estate of such person so lynched, nor be subject to any of his liabilities. (93 v 162 6.) Section 6283. A person suffering death or injury from a mob attempting to lynch another person shall come within the provisions of this chapter. He or his legal representatives shall have a like right of action as one purposely injured or killed by section 6283. 198. Section 6284. Action for the recoveries provided for in this chapter must be commenced, within two years from the date of such lynching. In any court having original jurisdiction of an action for damages for malicious assault. (93 v. 162 7.) Section 6285. An order to the commissioners of a county, against which such recovery is had, to include it with the costs of action. In the next succeeding tax levy for such county, shall be a part of the judgment in every such case. (93 v. 162 8.) Section 6286. If the decedent so lynched has minor children surviving him, the fund shall be turned over to a regularly appointed guardian. Such guardian shall administer such fund under the direction of the probate judge, allowing not more than five hundred dollars for counsel fees in the action for such recovery. (93 v. 162 9.) Section 6287. The county in which a lynching occurs, may recover the amount of a judgment and costs against it in favor of the tegal representatives of a person killed or represented by the person of the persons composing such mob. A person present, with hostile intent, at such lynching shall be deemed a member of the mob and be liable to such action. (93 v. 162 10.) Section 6288. If a mob carries a prisoner into another county, or comes from another county to commit violence on a prisoner brought Deen very effective. Illinois, Pennsylvania and New Jersey have followed Ohio's lead and enacted mob violence or anti-lynching laws which are copies of our Ohio law. Several other northern states and at least one border state (Kentucky) have also enacted anti-lynching laws, in recent years, like Pennsylvania and New Jersey. The Ohio law follows: BBS. eed. g. representative of victim of lynching injury by mob trying to lynch another and costs in tax levy. s. nst member of mob. nst another county. from such county for safekeeping, the county in which the lynching is committed may recover the amount of the judgment and costs from the county from which the mob came gence on the part of officials of such unless there was contributory negligence not less than thirty days county in falling to protect such prisoner or dispurse such mob (93 v. 163 11.) Section 6289. This chapter shall not relieve a person concerned in such lynching from prosecution for homicide or assault for engaging therein. (93 v. 163 12.) OUR OHIO CIVIL RIGHTS LAW Upon the request or many readers of The Gazette we print below the text of the Hon. Harry C. Smith's Ohio Civil Rights law which the editor had enacted while a member of the 71st General Assembly in 1844: The General Code of Obfo: Sec. 12940. Whoever, being the proprietor or his employee, keeper or manager of an inn, restaurant, eating house, barber-sharer, public veneance by land or water, theater or other place of public accommodation and amusement, denies to a citizen except for reasons applicable alike to all parties involved in 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 thereby to be recovered in any court of competent jurisdiction in any city where such offense was committed. This law has repeatedly been held constitutional and good law by the Ohio Supreme court. The trouble in 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. Misdled by the foolishly manufactured outcry for two years the Beatty bill, a few years ago, the Akron Beacon 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 presiding judge of the Court of Appeals of the Eighth District of Ohio, is self explanatory: Akron. G. April 25, 1919 Hon. Harry C. Smith. Edited. My Dear Sir: Observing your letter in the Beacon-Journal, of the city, I venture to send you, under a separate cover, the Ohio Law Reporter of Feb. 3. last, containing the opinion of the Court of Appeals in the Puritan Lunch Co. vs. Leonard H. Forman, decided in Akton, last fall, in which a judgment for ($500) five hundred dollars was sustained. If the Beacon-Journal had known what was going on in its own town, there would have been no occasion for OF OHIO to be involved OF OHIO IS UNDER NO REPROACH, nor our courts and injuries in administering it. Not a word was said by the Beacon-Journal when the Forman case was reviewed. Our advertisers want your trade. Those who do not ask for it in the columns of "The Old Reliable" Gazette certainly care little, if at all, for it. Therefore, we urge our readers and all of our friends to patronize those who ask in this paper for your patronage.—Editor. ulation! Reading it, B ter Reading Remarkable Complete Collection of Weapons of Many Types Made in Many Countries. ONE DATES BACK TO YEAR 1381 Washington, D. C.—Specimens of military and other forms of firearms from England, France, Russia, Japan, Germany and many other countries, are now to be seen in the small-arms exhibition of the United States National Museum. The exhibit includes some 1,400 individual pieces and comprises probably the best general collection in the United States, considering that there are represented examples of military rifles, pistols and revolvers, sporting shotguns and rifles, target rifles and pistols and numerous odd and unusual pieces relating to the development of firearms. Although the discovery of gunpowder is attributed by some to China, there is no positive evidence that the Chinese ever made use of it. At an early period they produced certain kinds of fireworks, accounts of which came through Persia, Egypt and the Moorish countries in Southern Europe, but gunpowder for use in firearms, it was originated, in Italy, Spain or Germany. While cannon of a sort were built in the early part of the Fourteenth Century, hand firearms were slow to be adopted on account of their unreliability, and it was not until about 1381 that they are known to have appeared in Germany, while Europe in general did not take them up until the middle of the fifteenth century, when they became known as hand-cannon. The earliest form of hand gun was a crude affair fired by the application of a burning match to the touch-hole. The first improvement was the mounting of the match on a springless lock or cock which later, on the addition of a spring, became known as the matchlock. Examples of this early weapon from India, China, Afghanistan, Japan, Formosa, Arabia, Morocco and Mexico are in the museum collection. The next development was the wheel-lock gun, about 1515 or 1517, fired by a spark struck on pyrites by a roughened wheel revolved by a spring. Specimens of this type of gun and pistol from Greece, Germany and England are also to be seen in the museum exhibit. A form of flintlock, called the snaphaunce, followed in 1540. This substituted, in place of the wheel, a lock, which held in its jaws a piece of pyrites, and when released hit the cover of the pan striking a spark which ignited the charge of powder. A pair of pistols of this type from Constantinople illustrates the principle well. Further improvements in the snaphaunce resulted in the flintlock gun, in which a piece of flint replaced the pyrites. Examples of this style are more common and some 60 are included in the museum collections, representing nearly every country, and well illustrating the various changes and improvements made. One of the most interesting and valuable, arms in the collection is the John Cookson flintlock breech-loading magazine gun, made in 1586, which has a magazine in the stock capable of holding 10 rounds of lobes powder and bullets. One movement of a lever feeds the ammunition into the barrel, cocks the hammer and primes the pan. In spite of the English name of the maker, this odd piece is believed to be of Spanish origin on account of its general type and the style of its decoration. It was probably brought to Maryland by the early English colonists; at least it was found in Baltimore and confiscated in 1863, and held by the government until 1867, when it was thrown away. In 1888 it was purchased for a small sum and put in its present perfect condition by a gunsmith of Baltimore, from whom it was secured by an American collector and presented to the museum. From a military point of view, the design of this gun evidences great advance of its time, for, with the magazine-charging appurtenance, ten shots could be fired in but little more time than is required with a modern magazine gun. Altogether, the antiquity, design, workmanship and beauty of this gun make it a most valuable and remarkable relic. The collection also contains several pill-lock and the percussion-cap guns, which followed the flint-lock, and the Prussian needle gun and the French Chassepot, which appeared later. The development of the gun and ammunition in the United States is well illustrated by a series of historical cases showing the types used in the succeeding wars from the French and Indian to the war with Spain.