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Park, Ark: ESTABLISHED, AUGUST 25, 1883 And Issued Every Week on Time Since CLEVELAND, OHIO, SATURDAY, MARCH 28, 1925 Doings of the Race Doings of the Race Stephen S. Harkness of N. Y. City gave the Tuskegee-Hampton Endowment Fund $100,000, last week. Miss Thelma Berlack, a student at New York University, has won the $100 scholarship offered by Mme. A. Lelia Walker. Allen Barrett, age 61, of Liberty, Texas, a poor farmer with a wife and 11 children, is now receiving $1,000 a day royalty as the result of finding oil on his farm. The supreme court of N. Y. City has decided that Mureus Garvey, who is in the federal prison at Atlanta, must pay his first wife $250 counsel fees and $20 weekly, alimony. John Sunday's will, recently offered for probate at Pensacola, Fla., showed him the owner of $80,000 real estate and $17,662 in personal property. He owned more than 50 houses in Pensacola. Two of our young graduates in mechanical engineering, Alvin and J. F. Lee, from the University of Michigan and Purdue University, respectively, have been given work on the lines of the Detroit street-railways. Florida's whipping boss, T. W. Higginbotham, (white), out on bail on the charge of whipping to death Martin W. Tabert (white), has been "hooked up" again on a similar charge and again admitted to bail ($20,000). The unsolicited gift of $25,000 to the Hampton-Tuskegee Endowment Fund by a prominent business man of Philadelphia, who prefers to remain anonymous, has been announced by Horatio G. Lloyd, treasurer of the Philadelphia committee. The Victory Life Insurance Co. of Chicago recently received a very favorable report from the Illinois Insurance Department which in January carefully examined all of its operations since its organization in March, 1924. Mrs. B. Phinnie and daughter, a 14-year old high school girl, of Brooklyn, N. Y., were given verdicts of $500 each against Keeney's Bedford Theatre, that city, as a result of being refused orchestra seats, in that theatre when they presented tickets for them. The Maryland Insurance Commissioner has filed a petition in the Baltimore court asking that the Southern Life Insurance Co. of that city, a race organization, be closed down because careless management has impaired its ability to meet its obligations. Same old story. John T. Gibson, a member of the race, owner of the Dunbar and Standard theaters in Philadelphia, has donated to our people of Philadelphia and the American Tennis Association a $100,000 property, with plans to build 20 tennis courts for all local and national tournaments. Samuel Copeland of St. Louis, a former private in the 24th U. S. Infantry, will soon be given the distinguished service cross for services rendered the government more than 20 years ago, when he was a soldier with the American Expeditionary forces in the Philippine Islands. Thos. Kennedy (white), age 30, was shoved out of a second stony window by Mrs. Wm. Fields, proprietor of a hotel in Pueblo, Colo. when he made an indecent proposal to her. He will recover and will be arrested for insulting her. A warrant has already been issued. Good for Mrs. Fields. Lient. Hansby Kemper, a Pittsburgh "boy", in the Mexican federal army, has been promoted to that rank from that of adjutant. His wife, Senora Concepcione Kemper and daughter, Senorita Elita Marcheta, are in Mexico City, where Senora Kemper is recovering from an operation which restored her eyesight. Edmund Penfold, wealthy N. Y. bachelor, who died, recently, left our institutions and individuals $30,000; Ten thousand to Lincoln Hospital and Home, $5,000 to The Hope Day Nursery, same amount each to Hampton and Tuskegee schools, $3,000 each to two employees and $1,000 to another. All in N. Y. City. In connection with the splendid train de luxe which runs weekly excursions from Havana to Santiago de Cuba and return for the special benefit of American tourists* the railroad company has also imported a special sextet of Pullman porters, who double as singers. They have been in large demand at various hotels and at amusement places in Havana. Mrs. F. Wade, an elderly woman of Jackson, Mich., asked the police to assist her to find her husband, who has left her to support, herself and her mother, said to be 127 years of age. The aged mother is said to have had eighteen children, the youngest being 57 years of age and the oldest 79 years. She was sold in slavery fifteen different times. Henry Watkins, of Portsmouth, Va., badly crippled, has a natural ability for repairing either clocks or watches. He can tell the time of day at any moment, without consulting a timepiece. He can be called at any hour of the night and can do the same thing. The information given is accurate as he specifies the minute of the day and he has been subjected to all kinds of tests by whites as well as our people. He has never received any instructions along this line. Our National Training School for Women and Girls, Lincoln Heights, D. C., has just received $74,323.33 from the National Baptist Convention, announces Miss Nannie II. Borroughs, president, as its share of the money raised by the Baptists through the country for educational purposes. The National Convention raised during 1924, $609,352.43 and spent $32,965.28 for home missions, $85,241.70 for foreign missions, $351,373.10 for national Sunday-school work, and $102,642, toward the building: fund of the Sunday-school publishing house. Of all the learned professions there is less respect for the ministry than for any of the others. The profession is all right, but it is the man who have entered it for the purpose of graft and filth, lucre. The behavior of the average preacher in the streets in uncomely * * * As a rule he has more mouth than brains, and instead of trying to think and make helpful contribution to the social order, he is engaged in making noise and hindering those who have an idea worth while—Editor Ben Davis in the Atlanta (Ga.) Independent. TAX, LAND VALUES And Lower Rents and The Cost of Homes, Says Secretary Thomas J. Dolan of The Singletax Party of Ohio. Editor Gazette —The following will help to explain why the commodities of life and rents are always at a maximum price and wages at a minimum, and why it's so hard to get a home of your own. The writer, a builder, makes it a practice to buy a lot and build a house on it to sell. Two years ago, he paid $1.125 for a lot on Bunts Road. The person he bought from paid $700 for it, four months before that time. After building a house on it and when he sold the property, one year ago, lots there were selling for $2.500. In many other parts of Cleveland and suburbs, land values have increased from one hundred to five hundred per cent, the biggest increase being on business property which benefits Very few at the expense of the many. All of the people, collectively, of their mere presence in Greater Cleveland, are the ones who make all land here more or less valuable. As the population increases so will the value of land continue to increase. Every child born here and every person who comes to make their home in Greater Cleveland, adds $1,000 to the value of land, as the total increase in value every year is fifty million dollars. Readers of The Gazette can learn of a very simple plan, that if made effective law, would enable all of the people of Greater Cleveland to continually share equally in the benefits of the more than one billion dollars of land value that all have created. They can do it by getting their names on the mailing list of the Singletax Party of Ohio and also will save the price of a ticket and an occasional trip to the theatre, as they will learn many of the jokes, that were told in Ireland and Georgia more than a hundred years ago. Post-card your name and address to Thos. J. Dolan, Secretary, 1762 W. 25th St., Cleveland, O. GREYHOUSES SUIT To Keep Out "Jim Crow" Hijal Schools—The K. K. K. Back of The Movement For Them, As Usual. (Special to The Gazette.) Indianapolis, Ind.-Archie Greathouse has gone into court asking an injunction to restrain the Board of School Commissioners of this city from erecting a segregated or "jim crow" High school for our children only. This city has had "jim crow" grade schools for many years but never has had a "jim crow" high school. Among our oldest teachers were the Misses Wilson, of Cleveland, O., sisters of Mrs. Bruce, wife of U. S. Senator and Register of the U. S. Treasury Blanche K. Bruce (deceased). The N. A. A. C. P. has contributed $200 toward Greathouse's expenses in the case. His attorneys are: W. S. Henry, Robert L. Bailey and W. E. Henderson, all members of the race. The Parent-Teachers' association of Our Lady of the Blessed Sacrament church, E. 79th St., entertained, Wednesday evening. The Mozart and P. W. A. quartets, the Hayden trio and other local talent furnished a fine program. Refreshments. Appreciation, Last Year, To Our Education Totalled $2,702,108—Tuskegee and Hampton Each Given $500,000 Endowment And Union $300,000. New York City. The General Education Board gave for Afro-American education during the past year $2,702,168, according to the annual report just issued. Appropriations to our colleges and schools aggregated $2,221,649. Of this sum $500,000 each went toward the endowment fund of Hampton and Tuskegee Institutes and $300,000 toward the endowment fund of Virginia Union. Hampton and Tuskegee got also an extra $150,000 each toward current expenses and teachers' salaries. Appropriations to other schools were as follows: Arkansas Baptist College, $7,500; Alcorn, Miss., $5,000; Fisk, $50,000; Florida A. and M., $4,000; Hartshorn, $7,500; Jackson, Miss., $7,500; Morehouse, $30,000; Morgan College, $55,000; Morris, S. C., $25,000; Selma, Al., $75,000; Southern, Baton Rouge, La., $50,000; Spellman, Atlanta, $73,100; State, Orangeburg, S. C., $20,000; Durham, N. C., $5,000; State, Montgomery, Ala., $4,000; Storer, Harpers' Ferry, $2,000; Talladega, $15,000; Tyler, Texas, $20,000; Virginia, N. and L., $25,000; Wiley, Marshall, Texas, $2,500. Elementary and Secondary. Of the $500,000 awarded to elementary and secondary schools of the South, the General Education Board gave $77,500 to the Jeans Fund, and $15,000 to the Slater Fund. The sum of $134,500 was appropriated to elementary and secondary schools. The board also appropriated money for the support of rural school agents, for county training schools and summer institutes. VIRGIN ISLANDS FRICTION The Governor and Legislature Clash Over Greatly Needed Reforms—Police Chief Nolan, an American "Cracker". New York City.—Tension between Gov. Philip Williams of the Virgin Islands and the Colonial Council of St. Thomas has developed over the council's resolution calling for an investigation of the police force, a new form of government to replace the naval administration, and a new franchise law. The governor refused to act on the resolutions, and also failed to give the Council "sufficient satisfaction" as requested by the resolution, for the statement recently made by Police Chief Nolan that "the niggers down here don't want law and order". In response to the three resolutions calling for "the appointment of a committee to investigate the Police Department", a committee "to investigate the matter of a new organic act", and a committee "to inquire into the matter of the franchise". Gov. Williams wrote that he proposed "to take no action on them". The Colonial Council has challenged the Governor's attempt "to putter its legitimate political activities". J. E. Kuntz, chairman of the Council, replied to the Governor declaring that "the political affairs of the municipality are by nature the domain of the Colonial Council" and that the three committees formed to investigate the police department, a new organic act and the franchise, "will in due time report to the Council". Further difficulties are expected as a result of the Council's getting together on a program in opposition to the American naval officers who now control the islands. "TWO BURLY WHITE BRUTES" Outrage, Torture and Mortally Injure a Girl of the Race—Two U. S. Marines Charged With The Crimes—Dasturally Deed Committed on Government Land. Pensacola, Fla.—A brutal assault and torture was recently committed upon a girl of the race, now dying in a hospital, and two U. S. marines (white), charged with the atrocities crime, have been arrested. The Durham, N. C. Sun, of March S. reports that the young woman was discovered tied to a tree in the woods along a lonely country road, her clothing stripped off her body slashed and with marks on her skin where burning matches had been applied. The two marines, James Kirk, and L. L. Saxton, are stated by the Durham Sun to have been arrested and failed after positive identification by their dying victim. In the pockets of one of them, police officers said, they found a piece of a garment resembling the coat of the injured girl. The crime is reported to have been committed on the local U. S. naval reservation, placing the case in the hands of federal authorities. The accused men are reported to have refused to discuss the charge against them. Of course! SINGLE COPY FIVE CENTS PROF. J. W. GREGORY SAYS NEGROES, LATINS, WILL RULE IN THIS COUNTRY FRESH OHIO NEWS (From The World's Bureau.) London, England.—That the white races will be unable in the long run to hold their own against the increasing numbers of Negroes and Latins of mixed blood on the American Continent is the view of Prof. J. W. Gregory, expressed in his latest publication, entitled "The Menace of Color" just issued here. The dark races of the world outnumber the white by two to one, he says, and if the high Negro birth rate is maintained the black population of the United States will be 46,000,000 by the year 2000. Dealing with the problem of finding room for the whites to spread and compete with the colored races, Prof. Gregory says: "Extensive areas for the occupation of the white man are few. Asia has vast empty tracts of good land in Southern Siberia climatically suitable for him. A great increase of the white population along the line of the Siberian Railroad is probable, but the European colonies may be at any time swamped by the cheap labor of Mongolians from the south. "The opportunity for white settlement in South Africa," he continues, "is even more unfavorable, owing to the hopelessness of aristans of the more cultured races competing successfully with the Negroes. North America is no doubt a white man's land, except for the share held YOUNGSTOWN. — Mrs. Bessie Saunders entertained 55 guests, recently, in honor of her father's 55th birthday. The house was neatly decorated and lunch was served. —Rey Chus, Bundy, pastor of Oak Hill Ave. A, M. E, church, assisted by Rev. T. W. Mills, officiated at the funeral of Mrs. Iola Myers, daughter of Mrs. Virginia Howard. —Covenant lodge's annual Spring party will be given, next month, in Idora park. —C. C. Lottier, of Overland Ave., has been appointed a special deputy of the district grand lodge, G. U. O. of O. F. —Miss Reba Banks and Walter Brown of W. Philadelphia were married, recently. --- CORRESPONDENTS must mail 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., obituary notices, inquiries for relatives and advertisements of all kinds, including items announcing entertainments to be held in the near future, must be paid-for in advance at the rate of 25 cents a line, six words to a line. Our rates for display advertisements will be sent on application. --- HILLSBORO--Misses Althea and Alleen Stewart, Greenville Normal students, are practicing teaching this week, at Lincoln school--Rev W. George of Kentucky will preach Sunday, at New Hope Baptist church. At 2:30 p. m., the Missionary Society's regular meeting and program. -Floyd and Lorenzo Holland. Leroy Green and Arthur Burns spent Sunday in Greenfield.--Mrs. Nancy Williams is better.--Mrs. Grace Trimble has gone to Newark.--Mrs. Ethel Bolden has joined her husband in Dayton where he has employment. -Miss Rosetta Nelson returned to Wilberforce, Friday.--Mrs. Enoch Frye returned to Newport, Sunday. -Easter Sunday evening, the program will be rendered at the Baptist church. STEUBENVILLE. — Prof. Byrd Prillerman, of Institute, W. Va. member executive committee of W. Va. Council of Religious Education and president emeritus of W. Va. Collegiate Institute, will soon visit his former pupil, Philip Johnson, Jr., 912 N. 7 St. Dr. Prillerman has three sons who are college professors and a third a graduate musician, and is an authority on the English and Hebrew languages. He will address a meeting at Collier, W. Va. while here. Dr. Prillerman is a longtime friend of the editor of The Gazette. — James Brown has arrived with the intention of establishing an undertaking business, and Dr. James S. White of Pittsburgh, in business at Wheeling, will open a drug store on South St. So you see we are pro- AN UNION MEN IS STRONGER THE COPY FIVE CENTS CED! GREGORY SAYS RATINS, WILL THIS COUNTRY by 11,000,000 or 12,000,000 Negroes, whose future is the most difficult problem in American development "South America offers the possibilities of an indefinite increase in the white inhabitants in the southern part of the continent, but the bulk of it is predominantly brown and Negro, and its future lies with a mixed colored race with a dwindling white strain. Australia is the one continent which offers a possibility of a twenty-fold increase of its present white inhabitants." Prof. Gregory handles the subject with commendable impartiality and contends that he has no ax to grind and is not advocating the supremacy or extra development of any particular nation or race. He examines the problems of intermarriage between various races' and the antagonism which causes most of the world's persecutions and wars, and comes to the conclusion that "each of the races of mankind has its special merits and has made its own contribution to the progress of the world." He says that "the ethical basis of civilization has been supplied by the Asiatic, to whom are due all the chief religions. For the material basis of civilization, iron, the world is probably indebted to the Negro. The scientific and administrative genius of the European race has discovered how the forces and materials of nature can be made most fully available for the service of man." HIO NEWS gressing.—Atty. W. P. Shellman has returned from the nation's capital. He went there on business.—One of our local business men paid an income tax on $18,000. UHRICHSVILLE.—Mrs. Mary L. Henderson, evangelist, of Zanesville closed a wonderfully successful 16-day revival here, last Wednesday evening. Both races crowded the church, every evening.—T. Ed. Peterson's funeral was held from the Presbyterian church, Rev. W. H. Hicks of Newark and our Masons of Cadiz in charge. Others were in attendance from Newark and Cleveland. A widow, three sisters and other relatives survive him. Friends from many Ohio cities also attended the funeral.—Mrs. Esther Grant spent the week-end with Mrs. M. L. Henderson and preached a fine sermon. Sunday evening.—Rev. Allen was here. Friday night.—Sunday, Mr. Isafc Strother was entertained at dinner by Mr. and Mrs. Joe Smith; Mrs. M. L. Henderson and Mrs. Grant, by Mrs. T. Truman; and Rev. and Mrs. I. Pemberton, I. Strother, Mesdames Henderson and Grant, by Mrs. E. Olmstead.—Mesdames Henderson and Grant were entertained, Saturday, by Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Robinson in Dennison. RACE MIXTURE A BENEFIT That Multitots Produce Superior Race in Five Generations Proven In South Sea Island. Washington, D. C.—That mulattoes, the off-spring of white fathers and colored mothers after five generations constitute a superior race, was the message of H. L. Shapiro, white, of Peabody Museum, Cambridge University, in a lecture before the American Association for the Advancement of Science, recently. Back in 1887, according to Shapiro, 12 white mutineers kidnapped 12 black Tahitian girls from the Island of Tahita; near Australia and set up a colony first at Pitcarr Island nearby and later at Norfolk Island. After 100 years, mentally and physically, the present Norfolk Island people are unbelievably superior to their ancestors. "Both in stature and in weight," reads Shapiro's report, "these hybrids are superior to either parent stock; and they illustrate again the hybrid vigor which often attends race mixture." The original mutineers, for instance, averaged 5 feet 7 1-4 inches in height, the Tahitian mothers 5 feet 7 3-4 inches. The present islanders average 5 feet 8 1-2 inches. Their heads are also larger and better proportioned. It suggests that the best treatment for our own unregenerate criminals might possibly be to throw them together with native women, on some savage island, to leave them alone—and then to wait for the miraculous new race which may result in 100 years' time. --- 3 ee se hea OE. : : aE The GAZETTE PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY SUBSCRIPTION RATES (in Advance) One Year ceeceeeceere nee $200 Six Mouths... ee eeeee sees 1.00 Subscribers are. requested to remit by postoflice money order or rogisiered letter. Kntered at the postoifice in Cleve- land, Ohio, as second-class ‘mail matter Address all communications HARRY ©. SMITH Editor and Proprietor THR GAZETTE (Bell "Phone: Cherry 1259) Room 304, 226 W. Superior Ave., Cleveland, O. Member Obio Legislature: 1894 to 1896; 1896 to 1808; 1900 to 1902 ‘THE GAZETTE is tho oldest and une the largest bona tide circulation, double that of any newspaper in the interest of Afro-Americans publish- od im the state of Ohio ,and compar- son with any will immediately cs- tablish ite rank as one of the NEWS- usr AND BEST in the country. 10,000,000 Afro-Americans. 350,000 im Ohio, 40,000 in Cleveland, of SATURDAY, MARCH 28, 1925 ‘That New York Athletic Commis- sion is certainly making Champion Jack Dempsey fook mighty cheap, these days. It has made Harry Wills a veritable nightmare for‘ Color-line Jack and his friends. a We have no patience at all with the “Negro” newspaper that has the brazen effrontery to try to sing praises of President Calvin Coolidge to its unfortunate readers. Sei After reading what Prof. (J. W. Gregory of London, England, has to say about Negroes and Latins event ually ruling this country, and what H. L. Shapiro of Peabody Museum, Cambridge University, s€ye about race mixture improving races, prej- udiced Americans, especially those im the South, will find it difficult to sleep nights. These two eminent men are surely shooting their pet hobbies full of holes. Too bad, isn’t 1 —ili— FISK UNIVERSITY TROUBLES. President McKenzie sent The Ga- zette, recently, a small booklet con- taining a number of letters from the parents of students which endorsed directly or indireetly his mal-admin- istration of affairs at Pisk Univer- sity, Nashville, Tenn. It was clear to be seen on reading the letters that Mr, McKenzie, or some one under him, had furnished the parents with “information” favorable to his side of the controversy and that upon this they had based their letters to him. Now comes the rebellious stu- dents with a lengthy printed state- ‘ment of their side of the controversy which endorses and explains much that has come to the surface (from other sources) in that University’s troubles. The statement makes a wonderfully strong case against President McKenzie and places him in a position that will justify the University trustees in dropping him and securing another president. In- deed, it seems to us that the stu- dents’ charges ought to compel them to do so, if they really have the vital interests of the institution at heart. In common with hundreds of other friends of Fisk University, including the great majority of its alumni, we feel sure that an unbiased and fair investigation of borh sides of the controversy, and a proper Considera- tibn for the most unfortunate condi- tion at the school resultant from it, will make their duty to the Univer- sity clear to the trustees, and that is to relieve Prof. McKenzie of the presidency just as soon as possible ‘and replace him with an abler and Droader-minded man. In his deter- mination to cater to southern preju- dices of various kinds, he is not only a detriment to the University but a positive hindrance to the proper Schooling and advancement of the students. No man who will permit such @ condition to arise and con- tinue for so long a time is fit to pre- side over one of our oldest and best schools. ‘That is also perfectly clear. ‘Replace President McKenzie! JOHN MITCHELL WINS AGAIN! Our long-time confrere and friend, Editor John Mitchell of the Rich- mond-(Va.) Planet, president of the Mechanics Savings bank of that city that failed, many months ago, has You a tong drawn-out fight in the courts of that state fo get a new trial, and we are glad. As a result of the bank failure, he was accused ‘and convicted in a lower court of “false and fraudulent entries with intent to defraud the Mechanics Savings bank’. ‘The Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia found that ‘no fraud on his part was ‘shown in the lower court and orders a new trial which we feel sure will result im the complete vindication of our jJong-time friend. ~ John Mitchell has been too long on the “firing-line” for our people and has done far too much good, unselfish work for the race for any of us who know him to be able to believe that he would de- fraud the Mechanics Savings bank or anything else, especially a bust- hess proposition which he headed that meant so very much to the race not only in Richmond but to those thruout the country, —e— BUSINESS’ LNFLUENC= ON NEWS: PAPERS. club, Washington, D. C4 recently, Mr. “Avery C. Marks, Jr., managing editor of the Washington Daily Times, a Hearst publication, said, with reference to “Newspapers and Their Relation to the Public and the Community": “A newopaper is and must be, be- fore anytaing else, a ousiness insti- tition. 11 you Wi keep that thougat in mind, waen you atempt to ana- ayze the attitude o1 newspapers to- ward ceran probiwins you may fina the answers to many seemingly mys- terious puzzies. 4 must follow along the nes or omer successtul com- mercial institunons; it must con- 4orm to the laws of merchandising, Just the same as do the manutac- turers of other producis. “To be financially sowvent a news- Paper must be honest, unbiased, in- Gependent, and must retlect and pro- mote the best interests of its com- mumity. It must work for the good of the people of the city in order to Raye sufficient prestige to maintain itself, And so the very necessity for saking @ publication self supporting or profit making produces 4 situa- sion that gives the public, honestly conducted, constructive organs, working for the good of the com- munity.” It is simply impossible, we be- Hieve, to underestimate the baneful influence of “business” on the news- papers of today: A case in point is the fear to properly criticise the pho- toplay business because of the large sums’ of money spent with the news- papers by hAt business. Scores of otifer cases could be cited, but it is unnecessary. The commercialized press of the country includes nearly all of the newspapers, especially daily publications, and magazines. The press of this country is not'“in- dependent” and has not been for years, It is and has been controlled cy “business” and is not free to be “honest, unbiased, independent”, and to “reflect and promote the best in- terests of the community” unless it is to the best interests of “business” that it do so. ‘This same is of course true when it comes to “working for the good of the people”, anywhere. “The very necessity for making a publication self-supporting or profit- making” is what produces the very unfortunate coniition, just the op- posite of the one Editor Marks out: Hines. No publication that bows to the will of “business” can possibly “work for the good of the commu- nity”, at all times. It is not free to do s0, because of the baneful in- duence of “business”. The days when newspapers stood for the peo- ple as against all else are gone, we tear, forever. There is today not ove prominent publication of the kind in the country, and about every one knows it. The cause is the bane- ful influence of “business”. There “are a few weekly and monthly class or special publica~ tions, like some few of our papers, that are not “endowed” but are “op- erated at a loss", that are free of the baneful influence of “business” and are “honest, unbiased and independ- ent” and that really try constandy to “reflect and promote the ‘best in- terests” of their people or class of workmen, ete. As to our publica- tions, Editor Marks said: “You have papers published for the consumption primarily of colored Bepple. You read them, and you should. ‘They are an integral part of your life. They set forth the news ‘of people of your race in greater de- tail than can be done by other pa- pers, which print a great deal of ad- ditional news. These publications are valuable—I urge you to read them, As long as they remain hon- est and unbiased in their news col- umns, they contribute in no small degree to your information and therefore, to your betterment.” ‘There are a number of our papers that are not entitled to be included in the foregoing because of the bane- {ul influence of “business”, political business. For instance, it is that and that alone that causes some of them to continue to keep from their readers the truth as to the miserable mis- treatment of our men and women clerks and other employees in the departments at Washington, D. C., and elsewhere in the government service. These race newspapers are continually trying to find an excuse for the President and in other ways trying to relieve him of his respon- sibility in the: matter. In this, at least, they are NOT “honest and un- biased”, either in their news or editorial columns. ih aa 4 So ee _ RACE WEALTH, TWO BILLION. | Tuskegee, Ala.—The _ estimated wealth of Afro-Americans Is $2,000,- 000,000, according to a recent sur- ‘rey ‘made for the Research Section Of the American Sociological Society by Prof. Monroe N. Work, of Tuske- gee N. & I. Institute, The wealth of Our group in 1912 was estimated at $700,000,000. We have made decided gains also im the matter of health. The death fate, which was 22.9 the 1,000 in 1912, had fallen to 16.7 in 1922, oF S aatbeaae ot Si-per cunts THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, 0. saTURDAY, MARCH 28, 1925 | PRIME SPORT NEWS. Flowers-Gans Go, ish well up in the first division, ae Aulanta, Ga—Tiger Flowers, At-| ‘The Cubans will bring a much lanta’s fighting deacon, and Allon-|stronger club this season. . town Joe Gans, who enjoys the dis-| Foster’ has not signed’ Ware, the . tinetion of whipping Jack Delaney,|¥oung firsi-sacker from Wiley, this twice conqueror of the ‘Tiger, will] year. On the initial sack maybe OfMGX Knuckles on esch other for 13 | found Jona’ Doualdeen: lave of the : Founas or less here, Mareh 41, 1t was | Kauss City Monarchs, and if mat detinitely announesd, last week, by {ters cannot be sttaightaned out with Wak Miller, matchmaker for the] tie ployer or the former owners sl Disabled Veteraus of the World war. | his services, Foster will have to use ast Jim Brown’ or ‘Torrient! at first. | Gibbons Wants $200,000. The addition to his stat of Frank | Chieagd, Ii——Eddle Kane, man-| Stevus, outiielder and piicher;. ‘tay: | it Ager of Tom Gibbons, has demanded [10% outtieldes, aud MeCall, pitcher, rit a guarantee of $200,000 for a Gip-|ieA¥es the Gants in pretty good GB Rat se GORE eueat’ dor hes| tabling phage. Bunhion Andere, il fuilian hospital fund in New York,| Guck second sucker, has also been June 19. Gibbons’ terms were made | A4ded Co te Uist of the ae i known in a telegram replying to an | °'*"'*- oller trom Herbert J. Fugacy, of Now = a Jack Dempsey Blacklisted, ee New York’ City.—Jack Dempsey, Watcha dae adee ices. [heave weleht conmplon. was declared Vvanston, Lil.—De Hart Hubbard of Michigan University, Olympics broad jump champion, in winning arst place in the 50-yard dash in a stack meet at Northwestern Uniyer- sity, recently, not only Guabled itis scuvul to capture Lae Western Con- seieuce imavor Lrack Cenampionsiip vt also forced him Lo cuuil Le Com xelence record of 02-9, Which was suade vy surray of Lumois, in 1944. im the heid with 11ubbard Were some vi tie Heetest das men 10 the coun ay. uiemgan peat Wisconsin tor sue Lue Z2-2v, ive of the 1ormer's poms veg scored by Lhe versatile cuampion vroud jump star. Hu0- ourd Was at Carpenters’ Ball, E, goth St, Cleveland, U,, last Week Thursday evening, when the Dunvar Centers vasketwall team (students) of Ann Arbor (Mich.) with which he is eon- nected, beat the Cleveland Acmes. Our National Baschall League. Chicago, Il.—The reieasing of Grant, veteran first baseman; Dixon, veteran catcher; Whitworth and Tom Williams, two former mainstays on the pitching staf; Jimmy Lyons, outilelder; Woltolks, the tall rangy pitcher from Kentucky, and the go- ing of Pitcher Rile to Indianapolis and the sending of Roth to Birming- bam by Andrew “ube” Foster, 1s the first big move on the part of the owner of the American Giants to re- vuild his team with an eye on the coming championship fight. With this move comes’ the an- nouncement from Wilkerson, owner of the world champion Kansas City Monarchs, that Wide Johnson of Battimore goes back to Kansas City in trade for Heavy Johnson, the home run king. ‘The Indianapolis club is very busy scouting for new players. The signing of William Dismukes by Bubbles Lewis, owner of the Mem- phis Red Sox, is another big move in our National League, as Memphis has bolstered up its weakest spot. Dismukes, an experienced ipiteher, schooled under the late C. 1. Taylor, is sure to make good. At Detroit, Buddy Petway retains the managership of the new club, al- though Blount’s action has forced a change in the ownership. The De- troit roster of players remains the same, ‘The Monarchs, with the exception of the Johnson ‘trade, will present the same lineup as in 1924. when they not only won our National League championship but copped our World series money and title from the crack Hilldale club of the East- ern League. Joe Rush has signed W. B. Pat- ‘terson of Houston, Texas, the lote manager of the Houston | Buffaloes, to pilot his 1925 outfit. The Birm- daekaahiiiiads Taran exact to 1s: A REAL WOMAN! Sol Her Home to Fight In The Courts For Justice—Her Brother, imnocent of Crime, Was Lynched—Mrs, Henry an Invalid, Too. Malvern, Ark. — Damage suits, have been’ brought by Mrs. Callie Henry, of this place, against four men whom she and other Witnesses saw among a mob which Iynehed her brother, John Harrison, in 1922, for a crime of which he was afterward found to be innocent. Mrs. Henry Vought another suit, for nonfeas- ance, against the sheriff! and his deputies, which was disallowed. The damage ‘suit is soon to be heard. Mrs, Henry, an invalid, and the two children of John Harrison, whose mother is dead, whom her brother had supported, sold her home for $400 to pay her lawyer. Through Atty, Scipio A. Jones, the N. A. A. ©. P, is contributing $250 toward the expenses of the case. CHARACTER, Character, like a fine old tree, matures slowly and is a riper growth than success that is forced as hothouse products are forced. Character in a news- paper develops through years of service to the people. Fer forty-two years The Gazette has been serving our people of this country. It has gathered a reader-clientele whose tastes it reflects, and whose power and responsiveness to buy are direct measures of its present iripor- tance to every advertiser. ‘EDITOR. PROTEST AGAINST WRONG To submit in silence when we sMould protest makes cow- ards out of men. The human race has climbed on protest. Had no voice been raised against injustice, ignorance and lust, the inquisition yet would serve the law, and guillotines decide our least disputes. The few who dare, must speak ana speak again to right the wrongs of many.—Ella Wheel- er Wileox. ish well up in the first division, The Cubans will bring a much stronger elu this season. Foster’ has not signed Ware, the Young first-sacker from Wiley,” this year. On the initial sack may" be found John Donaldson, late of the Kansas City Monarehs, and if) mat- ters cannot be straightened out with the player or the former owners of ils services, Foster will have to use Jim Brown’ or ‘Torrienth at first. The addition to his stat of Frank Stevens, outuelder and pitcher; Tay- lor, outfielder, and’ Metall, pitcher, jeaves the Giants in pretty good ‘ighting shape. Bubbles Anderson, crack ‘second sacker, has also been added to the list of the, American Giants, at we a te aaa New York City.—Jack Dempsey, heavyweight champion, Was deciared ineligible to eagage in any boxing bouts in iis state by the New York suite athletie commission at its meeting, Tuesday. ‘This action was taken because of the failure of Dempsey to accept the challenge of Harry Wills. ‘The suspension, the commission said, was until sueh time as Dempsey agtcod to meet Wills. Tommy Gibbons, St. Paul heavy- Weight, has also filed a challenge to Dempsey with the commission, but the defi of Wills was given prece- dence because it was filed a week earlier. James A. Farley, chaitman of the N. ¥. boxing commission, is- sued two statements following’ the mecting. One said: “Dempsey ig placed upon the in eligible list for his failure to comply with the law governing boxing champions in the state of New York.” ‘The other follows: “The New York state athletf com- mission forbids any lcense@ elub, matchmaker or auy official conneet- ed with a licensed club in this state from entering into @ contract or hay- ing any negotiations for a match with any boxer stapended or on the ineligible Uist of the New York State Athletic commission.” Afraid to Pight Harry Wills. Ray Campbell (white), a well- known sport writer for ‘the daily newspapers, said the first of the week: “I believe Dempsey wants to quit becsiuse he no longer has confidence in his ability to fight. His sorry showing in his bout with Gibbons and his narrow escape from defeat at the hands of that, big clown, Firpo, probably robbed kim of his former ‘I’m cock of the roost and nobody can run me off’ attitude. 1 have reason to believe he thinks any man of some ability may whip him and he sees ho reason why he should take that whipping when Jack ‘Kearns will recetve half his purse ‘and the government will gobble up another sigable part of what he has left. “Still, Jack Dempsey, as heavy weight champion, will be a better drawing card in pictures in which he will Be co-starred with his wife, Es- telle Taylor, than he will as the man who retired because, as it will be hinted, he was ‘afraid to fight Wills’. So Jack will probably continue to ex- postulate that he is ‘ready to meet Wills at any time’ while he ts going ahead with his thovie work. Some of the people will be fooled at any rate. “{ have always believed Dempsey could lek Wills without. experienc- ing much trouble doing it. But if Jack thinks otherwisc—well, it will be his opinion and not yours or mine that will keep him out of a bout with Wills.” RACE PREJUDICE! “| am convinced myself that there is no more evil thing in this present world than race prejudice; none at all! “[ write deliberately—it is the worst single thing in life now. It justifies and holds to- gether more baseness, cruelty {nd abomination than any other sort of error in the world.” _g Ga Wells. Se eer role ees There is something radically wrong with a group of people who refuse to help relieve their own burdens. The day of throwing bouquets is gone forever, The Afro-American must face the facts as they ex- ist. We won't gain anything by fooling ourselves into think- ing that everything is all right. Everything, affecting the lives of Afro-Americans, is all weong. ‘Tho sooner we face these facts, the quicker we will begin to work for our own salvation, the sooner will we attain our rightful place as American citizens. — Philadel- phia Tribuae. ee seeaeneanrtesstesrastansomenonotuasonaT ‘HUMAN NATURE'S FOULEST BLOT.” My ear is pained My soul’ is sick with every day's report ~ Of wrong and outrage, with ‘which the earth is’ filled. There is no flesh in man's ob- durate heart. It docs not feel for man: the natural bond Of brotherhood fs wevered as the flax That falls asunder at the touch of fre. He finds his fellow guilty of @ skin Not colored like his own: and having power To enforce the wrong, for such ‘@ worthy cause Dooms and devotes him as bis lawful prey. Brae b= quel seh Thus man devotes his brother, ‘and destroys: ‘Tis human nature's broadest foulest blot. ‘saiummaiel: Seed & Di Sa ee THE NAME . 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