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ESTABLISHED, AUGUST 25, 1883 And Issued Every Week on Time Since CLEVELAND, OHIO, SATURDAY, APRIL 18, 1925 NEGROES SHOW PROGRESS IN PAST 10 YEARS HERE; SOME ACHIEVE PRESTIGE Immigrants Attracted to Cleveland by Economic Advantages and City's Reputation for Fair Treatment; Conditions of Communities Similar to Those of Whites BY KARL MICKEY. In the last 10 years the Negro population of Cleveland has increased from 8500 to more than 50,000. Before 1916 the Negro population here came from Virginia and North Carolina. They were well assimilated in the community life and several had achieved positions of distinction in literature, medicine and education. The war brought a great migration of Negroes from practically every southern state, but principally Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi. Local manufacturers imported many. More were attracted by Cleveland's economic advantages and its reputation for fair treatment. The adjustment of these southern agricultural workers to the industrial life of a northern city is one of the most interesting chapters in the history of Cleveland's economic and social development. In the first place they suffered the reactions felt by agricultural workers of all races when entering the higher psychological temperature of city life. had savings accounts against 33 of the whites. Many of the Negroes said they were saving to buy homes. Purchase 370 homes. During the past three years they have purchased approximately 370 homes ranging in price from $5000 to $15,000. The general location of the Negro is bounded by E. 12th and E. 110th streets, Cedar Ave. and Kingsbury Itum. There are small groups on E. 126th, 125th and 130th streets off Kinsman Rd.; E. 120th and E. 123rd streets off Superior Ave; Hamilton near E. 121th St., and W. Main and Franklin Hill. The number of Negro business enterprises is increasing. There is one saving and loan company, four drug stores, five hotels, two small manufacturers, many restaurants, pool rooms, theaters, barber's shops and grocery stores. In the pro-duional classes there are 35 physi-诊, 25 lawyers, 18 dentists, 12 pharmacists, 36 social workers, eight registered nurses and number of school teachers. One of the most significant movements is Depressed or Stimulated. They suffer either abnormal depression, or abnormal stimulation, according to the individual temperament. Economically the Negro community is almost a smaller replica of the white community. All strata are found, from 'the illiterate unskilled laborer to intellectual circles of charming retirement accustomed to every social amenity of upperclass white homes. There are 19,000 male Negro workers in the city. About 8000 are employed in foundries, steel mills and allied industries. The building trades employ 5000 more. Of these, 4500 are in building trades unions. Membership in the unions is encouraged by the white workers. About 5000 are employed in garages, in packing houses, as janitors and porters. The number in personal service—such as barbers and waiters—is continually diminishing. 12.000 Female Workers. 12,000 Female Workers. The 12,000 female workers are employed in factories, laundries, domestic service and in stores as maids, stock girls and elevator operators. The demand of Negro business men for female Negro stenographers and other office help is largely supplied by importing them from other cities. The July, 1924, issue of the Monthly Labor Review, published by the U. S. Department of Labor, printed a survey of the Negro in Cleveland's industries. This survey concluded: "They check up well with the average for other races who come as immigrants to make up the great American industrial life." One manufacturer is reported as saying they quickly fit themselves for skilled work and the number of those as foremen and in other responsible positions would increase as rapidly as race prejudice would allow. Another employer is reported to have picked at random 200 Negro and 200 white workers for comparison. Of that number 150 Negroes Doings of the Race Dr. Jas, S. Dudley, president of Greensboro, (N. C.) A. & T. college, died, April 4. An Afro-American Labor Congress is to be held in Chicago, soon, says Lovett Fort-Whiteman, organizer, 19 S. Lincoln St., that city. Dr. Geo. E. Cannon, of Jersey City, N. J., well known physician and politician, died, last week, from injuries received in a fall from a city-line bus. A verdict of guilty was returned and a sentence of one year fixed against Chief of Police Yontz of Jefferson City, Tenn., for shooting a colored youth in the back. Because he refused to get in the street, at Town Creek, Ala., when passed by D. White-Mayes, (white), Robert Grayson was shot and instantly killed, recently. As usual, Mayes was exonerated by the Coroner's jury. At a recent general assembly of the faculty and students of Dunbar High school, Washington, D. C., Cortez W. Peters was awarded the Underwood diamond medal emblem for accuracy and speed in a typing test had savings accounts against 35 of the whites. Many of the Negroes said they were saving to buy homes. Purchase 370 Homes. During the past three years they have purchased approximately 370 homes ranging in price from $5000 to $15,000. The general location of the Negro is bounded by E. 12th and E. 11th streets, Cedar Ave. and Kingsbury ltun. There are small groups on E. 12th, 12th and 130th streets off Kinsman RI; E. 12th and E. 12nd streets off Superlor Aye; Hamilton near E. 12th St., and W. Main and Franklin Hill. The number of Negro business enterprises is increasing. There is one savings and loan company, four drug stores, five hotels, two small manufacturers, many restaurants, pool rooms, theaters, barber shops and grocery stores. In the pro- ditional classes there are 35 physi- tists, 25 lawyers, 18 dentists, 12 pharmacists, 36 social workers, eight registered nurses and a number of school teachers. One of the most significant movements is the growth of the number of churches. More than 60 per cent are church members. 69. Church Organizations. There are 69 church organizations, ranging from "store front" churches (1) close with splendid edifices housing the most progressive educational and social work in addition to the purely religious activity. Negro congregations own 28 buildings. In the last five years they have purchased nearly $800,000 worth of church property. As fast as they are able to "store front" churches purchase buildings. The denominations represented are Methodist Episcopal, African Methodist Episcopal, Colored Methodist Episcopal, Presbyterian, Congregational, Missionary Alliance, Christian, Baptist, Catholic and unorthodox. Baptists predominate with 38 congregations. Amateur artistic activities are increasing in scope, and excellence. They are cultivating the Negro folk songs and dances. Folk plays, as well as the more literary and sophisticated comedies, are produced by the Gilpin Players, an amateur troupe from the-Play House Settlement. Stimulated by the examples of Gilpin, Robeson, Sissle and Blake, Du Bois, Conte Cullen, the Fisk Jubilee Singers and other Negro artistic successes, some of their leaders believe the way out for the Negro is thru excellence in the arts'. Social dancing is popular, but there are no firstclass Negro dance halls. They hold their dances in their homes. A very able work in helping the Negro adjust himself to solve the employment and housing problem is carried on by the Negro Welfare Association under the direction of Wm. R. Conners. White social workers and city officials familiar with the situation have testified to "the frankness and energy shown by Cleveland's Negro population in facing his own problems".—The Cleveland Press. (daily). given at the Washington office of the Underwood Typewriter Company, March 26. Gifts, by D. D. Rockefeller, Jr., totaling $55,000 to Morgan college, Baltimore, and a further promise to match all cash donations by any of the ministerial delegates or members of their congregations, were announced at the 62d session of the Delaware M. E. conference at Newark, N. J., recently. Lewis Raymond; a soldier who died while in the army, left a $10,000 insurance policy, to which the San Antonio, Texas, Red Cross chapter is trying to find the legal heirs. Sterling R. Holt (white) of Indianapolis, Ind., has given $1,000 to the Educational Aid Society of that city for our orphans there. Phillip Roseboro, age 83, of Shelby, N. C., is soon to be pensioned by that state. "Uncle" Phillip was on the side of the Confederacy throut the war of the rebellion. He was wounded twice, and saw two of his owners fall in battle. He returned to the home of his widowed mistress and her daughter after the war and worked faithfully earning a living for them until their death. Study for Arts. The Decline! NOTES. Fri. night. Listing Various Person- nities" and "to be Ruined". Cand. in N. J. Museum, some runda, which name person. Flood to go and others "to be ruined" have been announced by police while investigating the home of the seventy-one-year-old "Negro" who, police say, was an alleged "woodoo doctor". The "doctor" calls himself "Rev. Ebinger H. H. Hygheck." He was held without bail after the finding. In tunnels and caverns beneath his home, of bodies of two infants and bones of an arm. He told police he had been married five times and is father of thirty-seven children. The notes discovered hore no addresses. "Mary and Jim are both to go." Anne entry read, "Mrs. Mattie Gibson—her husband Alfred must be ruined." "Thomas Herring and Laura Herring are to go as far as God's winds and waters will carry" were other entries. Hygheck was held by the police after his seventy-old daughter asserted that her father had shot a "light colored" woman and had buried her in a cemetery here. The father denied the child's narrative, saying she had "great imagination." The "doctor" explained the anatomical specimens as gifts of a Philadelphia physician. PRIME SPORT NEWS Wills-Weinert Seto. New York City—Harry Wills. Dempsey's challenger for the heavyweight title, will meet Charley Weinert. Newark, N. J., heavyweight, at the Polo grounds, June 19, in a 15-round decision bout; according to a statement made by Jimmy De Forrest, matchmaker for the "Wangse's" stadium. Wills passed up a chance to meet Tom Gibbons for the milk fund while awaiting word on his challenge to Jack. Weinert sang a conchback, some months ago, by declaring L. Fippo in twelve rounds at Newark. Milky Walker, well-built champion, and Harry Grish, middleweight title holder, virtually have agreed to meet in a middle-weight championship match on the same card, the promoters said. - Thres Vs. Telltings. Big Charles, "Slim") Branahan, who pitched for the Cleveland Browns, last season, helped the Tollings, last Sunday afternoon at Hooper field, in their game with the Akeen General Tires, opening the local semi-pro base-ball season. "Slim" has a style of delivery much like that of Carl Mays. Over six foot in height, Branahan can pitch underhand, overhand and side-arm as well. He is a good pitcher. The Tires and Tollings are white teams. So "Slim" gave color to the occasion. The Tollings won 10 to 8. Hubbard Tiger a World Record Detroit, Mich.—De Hart Hubbard, athlete of the University of Michigan, entered in the Michigan A. A. U. track and field games staged, here April 6 and 7, added another star to his crown when he tied the world's record of $:05 1-5 for the 50-yard dash. Another Siki. Chicago, Ill.—Reginald Siki, the Senegalose wrestler, left, last week Wednesday morning, for Cuba and points in South America, where he will attempt to show his wares and match strength and wit against the best those countries have to offer. Siki is one of the best wrestlers in the game and with an open break wouldumble the best of them, but as similar cause, his color is against hip in this country. He should however, do well in the foreign lands. "BIRTH OF A NATION" BARRED. Charleston, W. Va.—Mayor Wortz, of this city, was with our committee that witnessed the misegable picture. As soon as it was over, he pushed to the manager of the Rialto, without consulting the committee, and said: "It is the worst thing I ever saw, and I cannot understand why any law-abiding citizen should bring such a picture to Charleston. It will not be shown so long as I am mayor of Charleston." And the state supreme court sustained the mayor in his stand. 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. SINGLE COPY FIVE CENTS FACTIONAL DISPUTES LOSS OF DUES AND POLITICAL DEFEATS FATAL TO THE KLAN. New York City.—A striking decrease in the power of the Klu Klux Klan is reported by the American Civil Liberties Union, in a report issued Monday, based on the replies of correspondents in Klan territory to a proposal for holding meetings in behalf of tolerance in Klan strongholds. According to most of the correspondents the Klan is dying out owing to "optional disputes within the organization, failure of members to pay their dues and lack of interest in its objects." The Klan has been further crippled by political failures, "unmasking" legislation and "the general apathy on the part of the public." Practically all the correspondents advised against holding the proposed meetings on the ground that they would strengthen the Klan through opposition and publicity "on which it thrives." "The growth of antagonistic factions in the Klan is common knowledge out here," writes a correspondent from Indiana. "Many of the members have become discouraged and have quit paying dues." Another correspondent in Oklahoma writes that the Klan is dying and if left severely alone will be completely dead within another car or two." The Oklahoma correspondent informs the Civil Liberties Union that the Klu Klux state panel, which has a large circulation, has been suspended and thousands who joined the organization are either publicly withdrawing or are refusing a pay further dues." Similar re- NEXIA.—The miscellaneous shower, in honor of Miss Margaret Watkins, at the Roundtree's, was a success. The hostesses were: Mrs. Pannie Coprick, Mrs. Gorge Valentine and Helen Rountree. Miss Watkins is to marry Robert H. Harden, June 16.—Mr. Harold Jackson of Dayton, was the guest, last week Sunday, of Miss Zetta Harris.—Mr. Paine Jamerson, age 78, died, last week Monday night. He had been ill, three years, and in a critical condition for a month.—East High School has been admitted to membership in the North Central Association of Colleges and High schools according to information received by Supt. A. C. Watts of the school. YOUNGSTOWN.—Blood-poisoning still holds Wm. Lewis in a local hospital.—Mrs. Alice Thomas's sister, Mrs. Brown, of Philadelphia, is still with her at the Girard Country Club.—Illness of a relative called Mrs Jas. Wilson to Cincinnati.—Mr. and Mrs. Robert Connors' nephew, Paul, operated on at the hospital, is at home.—The recent birthday surprise given Mr. George King proved very enjoyable. Music, games and lunch.—The Denver Club, A, W, entertainment, Wednesday evening, at Cincinnati hall, was a success. Like the Amusement Club's reception, last week Friday evening, in Moose temple in honor of Sissie and Blake's Chocolate Dandies here at Park Theatre, the last three days of last week.—Buckeye ledge, Eldes, memorial services, Sunday afternoon, at Third Baptist church.—Rev. S. C. Honesty is still confined to the house. CADIZ, Mr. and Mrs. Chas, Cochran of Oberlin, visited here, Sunday. A concert company from M. Pleasant gave a very good entertainment at Simpson M. E. church, April 16. Mrs. Alice Howard is visiting Pittsburgh. Mr. Harry Jackson has secured a position as supt. of the Times bldg, in Martins Ferry. There were 25 applicants for the position. He will move there soon. St. James S. S. rendered a pleasing program, Sunday. Attendance, 250; collection, $25.50. The pastor preached a very interesting sermon in the morning and the choir gave an enjoyable sacred concert in the evening. Collection, $54.60. Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Watkins of Coshocton were week-end guests of Mr. Patrick Smith. Mr. Homer Harris, son and daughter, of Smithfield, were visitors here, Sunday. MT. NERON.—Mrs. Annie Hudson was hostess at a birthday party given in honor of her son. Rev. James Hudson. Covers were laid for twelve. A beautiful birthday cake formed the centerpiece. The color IN UNION IT IS STRENGTH THE COPY FIVE CENTS cline! DISPUTES POLITICAL DEFEATS THE KLAN. Investigates the Kluxers in Nearly All of Its Cor- o Say—Good News. ports have come from Arkansas, Georgia and Texas. In the latter state "the legislature that has just adjourned passed an anti-masking law that virtually puts the Klan out of business". The Texas correspondent also declares that "one of the Klan leaders, Billie Mayfield, who published a daily Klan paper that boasted of 200,000 circulation, and that one time got out an issue of a million copies, has just been sentenced to prison for two years, for slandering through his paper T. W. Davidson, one of the candidates for Governor. His paper suspended some time ago for want of patronage". Correspondents from West Virginia, Pennsylvania, New Jersey and New York report that "the Klan is on the wane". The Klan is reported to be still strong in Alabama, Colorado and in parts of several middle-western states. The conclusions expressed are summarized by the Civil Liberties Union in saying: The peak of Klan membership and activity appears to be reached the second year of its invasion of any section, and after that it declines rapidly. Local political, racial or religious issues have kept the Klan going strong in a few centers, but these are all exceptions to the general rule of decline and decay after the second year". The Civil Liberties Union, as a result of the opinions received, has decided not to arrange the proposed meetings in Klan territory. HIO NEWS scheme was orange and blue. Rev. Hudson received many presents.—Mrs. J. Marile Rouse died, recently, after an illness of eight months. She leaves a husband, four daughters, father, sister and a host of other relatives and friends. She was a member of the Household of Ruth and M. Calvary Baptist church.—Miss Cleota Reynolds spent Saturday and Sunday in Columbus with her parents.—Mrs. Leon Hammonds has been sick for more than a week.—Mrs. Grant Gordon was hostess to the B. T. Washington club, recently. —Mrs. George Sites spent a few days in Columbus.—Mrs. John Payne entertained the "Twentleth Century" Club, last week Monday afternoon.—Mrs. Willie White motored to Cleveland with Mr. C. Jackson, April 4.—The Gazette wants a live agent and correspondent here. Write to the editor in Cleveland, at once, if you can recommend a suitable person. HILLSBORO.—Mrs. Luther Wallace, Mrs. Gertrude Christy and Miss Josephine Harris spent last Thursday in Dayton.—Mrs. Edith Tarver of Detroit is visiting her grandmother, Mrs. Louisa Young, who is quite ill.—Mrs. Anna Killgour, the Poro agent, has resumed work and is at your service.—Mrs. Zack, Lewis of Springfield, spent. Thursday to Monday, with her mother, Mrs. Alline Burton.—Mrs. Lucinda Colter is ill.—Mr. Edward Carlisle, of Springfield, spent Easter here with his family.—Cecil Hudson, of Leesburg, and Miss Edna Rollins, of New Vienna, visited Mrs. A. Burton and family, Sunday evening.—The Easter programs at all the churches were good.—Mr. and Mrs. Clyde West and the former's mother, Mrs. Gomer, of Springfield, spent Easter with the former's uncle, Mr. John West.—Mr. and Mrs. Alexander Holland and sons, Mrs. Bundy, of Lima, and Clarence Lamb, were in Cincinnati, last Thursday.—Mrs. Florence Gallagher, age 50, died, April 6. She leaves two sons, three sisters and three brothers. Funeral service, conducted by Rev. J. I. Burr, at the Baptist church, 2 p. m. Wednesday. Mrs. Tabitha Jones, of Covington, Ky. and Mr. John Smith, of Warsaw, Ky., attended their sister's funeral.—Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Young entertained at a family dinner, Sunday, in honor of Mr. and Mrs. Archie S. Cole's second marriage anniversary.—Miss Mary Williams, Misses Fern Cole, Annabel Williams and Wm. Stewart, of Leesburg, spent the week-end in Columbus.—Miss Juanita Smith visited her mother in Cincinnati, several days. Rev. and Mrs. Wm. Holbert and son of Columbus, spent Easter with his congregation at Wesleyan church. ```markdown ``` 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 226 W. Superior Ave., Cleveland, O. Member Ohio Legislature: 1894 to 1896; 1896 to 1898; 1900 to 1902 THE GAZETTE is the oldest and has the largest bona fide circulation, double that of any newspaper in the interest of Afro-Americans published in the state of Ohio and comparison with any will immediately establish its rank as one of the NEWS- EST AND BEST in the country. 10,000,000 Afro-Americans. 850,000 in Ohio. 40,000 in Cleveland. SATURDAY, APRIL 18, 1925 Prejudiced Californians in Los Angeles have stopped fighting the Japanese and Chinese long enough to start a residential segregation drive against our people. Monroe Mason's letter on "segregation, appointments to office" and Coolidge in the Washington (D. C.) Sentinel, last week, was really amusing. He is trying to bolster up the dying hopes of the "Negro" supporters of the President, in last fall's campaign. --- The annual financial report of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People shows that it spent over $60,000 in 1924. The receipts of the Association amounted to $73,387. It would be interesting to know just how much of the $60,000 was paid to officers of the organization as salaries. --- The recent Ohio Supreme Court's refusal to review the Wm. Phillips-Woodlawn (Hamilton County) school district case does not change any of that court's decisions against segregation or "jim crow" schools which are illegal affairs where-ever they are found in Ohio. --- Secretary of Labor James J. Davis has listened to the request of our people for the dismissal of Dr. W. A. Plecker, the Virginia "cracker" in his department, who was using government franks to disseminate his very insulting and harmful anti-Negro propaganda. Thank you, Mr. Davis! More than 5,000 of our voters at St. Louis, Mo., voted for the Democratic candidate for mayor, last week, and 1,000 others refused to vote at all, for good and sufficient reasons, says the St. Louis Argus which congratulates the 6,000 on giving this evidence of progress. Yes, slowly but surely we are "getting out of the rut". Until we do, however, we are not going to make any real progress in politics in this day and time. Certain "leading Negroes", who supported the President in last fall's campaign, are still "down on their knees" begging him for a job and he simply continues to ignore them. They were warned, last year, but refused to heed, so great was their overweening desire for a job and campaign graft. There was plenty of money spent in the Coolidge campaign and they no doubt got some of it. But giving them a job—that's a problem the President, apparently, refuses to tackle. --- Karl B. Mickey's article from The Cleveland Daily Press, which The Gazette reproduces on the first page of this issue, is most illuminating and excellent—the best thing of the kind to appear in any local daily paper in many, many months. Both the Press and its special writer, Mr. Mickey, are to be thanked for it. The splendid effect on this community of the publication of Mr. Mickey's article was noted generally within twenty-four hours after its appearance in The Press. --- In reply to our esteemed confrere, the editor of the St. Paul Appeal: Senators John C. Spooner and John M. Thurston were exceptionally able statesmen and friends of the race but neither was in Senator Foraker's class as an aggressive friend of the race. Neither was ever made to pass thru such an ordeal as Foraker was, as the result of a stand in favor of our people; neither was ever persecuted for what he said or did for our people as Foraker was by President Roosevelt because of his espousal of the cause of "The Black Battallon". THE GEEVUM GIRLS THERE!--I'll LEAVE THIS AT THE DOOR AND SCARE "TOD" WHEN HE CALLS TONIGHT! One of our contemporaries is warning its readers, who have any money to invest, to consult a banker or attorney before parting with any of it. Continuing, it says, "unscrupulous stock-salesmen, realty brokers, sharks, confidence men are always on the lookout for just such persons". The Gazette, as its readers know, has for several years frequently published such warnings. It would be interesting to know the number of "stock-salesmen, realty brokers, sharks and confidence men" to come North since 1917. There are hundreds and thousands of them that make their living "skinning the people", our people. Some of them are "professional men", too. Given Five Years. Memphis, Tenn.—E. V. Pinchbeck, former deputy sheriff, was sentenced to not more than five years in the state penitentiary. Wednesday night, by a jury in the Shelby county Criminal court on conviction of killing Mary Spencer, a member of the race, who died as a result of wounds inward when she was shot by Pinchbeck, a former sheriff, in an automobile, the driver of which had been ordered to halt by the deputy. Here is a case almost identical in every particular to the Wilson case in Scovill Ave., this city, year before last—the one the editor of The Gazette tried so hard to get our people of this city properly interested in. Mrs. Wilson was shot by a policeman while in a stolen auto with her husband. The officer was shooting at her husband and she did not know the auto had been stolen. Here was an opportunity which should even yet be taken advantage of if for no other reason than to make the police a little more careful when seeking to make arrests of our people. There is entirely too much carelessness as it is. Then there is the element of justice which also enters the Wilson case. Money was raised in two local churches to push the matter. What has become of it? Some one who knows will please answer. OUR LESSON We must learn to govern ourselves and work together for our own advancement. If we do not learn to govern ourselves and work together for our own advancement, we may be very sure that we will be governed by others in their own interest as well as worked by others for their own advancement and not ours. George W. Blount. RACE PREJUDICE! "I am convinced myself that there is no more evil thing in this present world than race prejudice; none at all! "I write deliberately—it is the worst single thing in life now. It justifies and holds to the truth and abomination than any other sort of error in the world." 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 newspaper develops through years to do so in people. For 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 importance to every advertiser. EDITOR. Tell It, Brother, Tell It! THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, O. SATURDAY, APRIL 18, 1925 The Lost Chord The sweetest strain that ever graced God's sanctuary responded to the organs efforts but once, and then departed never to return. Elsewhere we come and go to-day, but tomorrow may find us gone forever. It is at this hour when the heart of the bereft is bowed down with grief that we are able to offer solace by our anticipation of your every wish and our sincere ministrations. Wynne & Easley Funeral Directors Perfected Service Phone Ran. 6466 2262 N. 55th St. TAKE A PEEK, SIS!-ILL BET HES SCARED OUT OF A YEAR'S GROWTH! BARRY'S HURSIS VOL. X BIG FARM LOSS LAID TO DOGS AGRICULTURAL DEP'T SAYS IF MENACE WERE REMOVED FARMERS WOULD REGAIN THIS SUM. CAUSE OF DECREASE IN FLOCKS Raisers Do Not Like to Rick the Heavy Losses; Drastic Remedies Are Suggested. Washington—The department of agriculture, in a statement, indicates that the sheep-killing dog is a greater menace now than ever before, and that if he could be destroyed it would mean at least $144,267,000 in the pockets of farmers of this country. It is suggested by an expert of the department that the increase would be near $500,000. "The number of sheep in 36 farm states, which do not include any in the western division, could be increased by 150 per cent, it is estimated, without displacing other live stock," asserts the office of information of the department of agriculture. Some authorities believe that the increase could be even as much as 500 per cent without serious interference with the number of other animals. An increase of 150 per cent in these 36 states would mean in money $144,267,000. In a new publication of the department, Farmers' Bulletin 652, the responsibility for this loss to the country is laid upon the sheep-killing dog. Sheep-killing dogs, it is said, are the principal cause of the marked decrease in the number of sheep on American farms. Favorable though the market conditions were, they were not a sufficient incentive to induce farmers to risk the heavy losses from stray dogs. If the dog question could be satisfactorily disposed of, there seems to be no reason why the number of sheep in the country could not be increased to the extent already indicated. In Great Britain there is one sheep or lamb for each 2.5 acres of the total area. In the 36 form states in this country there is one sheep or lamb for each 3.8 acres. The British farmer handles his land on an intensive basis and feeds his sheep on forage pasture. Such pastures not only increase the fertility of the land but also free the sheep from many internal parasites contracted through grazing upon permanent pastures. In particular the use of the most prevalent and disastrous scourges of young stock, and will enable the farmer to market by the end of June or the first of July, when market prices are usually the highest, the lambs that were born in the late winter or early spring. Handled under such conditions and on high-priced farm land, the importance of a small flock of sheep cannot be overlooked. In addition to pointing out these facts, the bulletin discusses the possible means of preventing in the future the loss from dogs. At the present time the various state laws on this subject differ widely, some states using the money obtained from dog licenses to reimburse sheep owners, while others permit the sheepmen to recover damages from the dog owners, and two offer them no recourse whatsoever. Dogs, however, are very seldom caught in the act of killing sheep. It is always difficult to determine their owners, and where the damages are paid by the state directly from the dog-tax funds the money very frequently is far from sufficient to meet all the claims. A remedy that is suggested for this situation is a uniform state dog law embodying the principle of a tax upon dogs sufficiently heavy to discourage those who are not willing to take care of their pets from keeping them. Under this plan all dogs over six months of age must be licensed each year, the tax paid at the time of licensing and a metal tax bearing the license number attached to the dog's collar. Any dog found without this tag unattended and off its owner's premises, under this plan, may be killed. When found unattended on a farm where sheep are kept the dog may be killed whether it has the tag or not, and under any circumstances a dog caught chasing or killing sheep may be killed. All dogs which can be proved to be sheep killers, under the suggested plan, must be killed whether caught in the act or not, and a reward of $15 should be offered for anyone identifying a sheep-killing dog. The money received from dog taxes should be devoted to reimbursing sheep owners for their loss of stock, and the county should in turn recover this money whenever possible from the dog's owners. 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Fountain, a Cleveland “boy”, is with the Exposition Quartette ai a local theater, this week. Mr, and Mrs. Geo. Quinn of Ober- lin, visited their daughter, Mrs. Leon 8, Evans, E. 83d St., recently, Emanuel Commandery, K. T., gave its annual Easter ball at’ Chamber of Commerce hall, Monday evening. Mrs. Alice A. Dunjill, of Kalama- 200, Mich., visited her ‘sister-in-law, Mrs. Alice V. Dunjill, B. 35th St,, last week. Phillip Jackson, captain of Mt. Zion's champion basket-ball team, presented it the silver loving cup it won, recently. Billy Ewing, a Cleveland “boy”, has developed into quite a magician. He was at the Academy of Music, Baltimore, recently. ‘The funeral of Mrs. H. A. Lewis, wife of St. John’s church clerk, was held, last Tuesday, from the resi- dence in E. 97th St. Mrs. Mable Holmes Jackson, ot 46866 Siateon Ave. was very il. ‘THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, 0.saTURDAY, APRIL 18, 1925 last week Friday. Her son, Wesley, of Chicago, was here. Bishop Geo. C. Clements preached at St. Paul A. M. E. Zion church, E. S5th St. and Quincy Ave,, Sunday. Rey, B.D. Bell, pastor. Mr, Wm. Hayes, E, 95th St., who died recently, was’ an uncle and not @ brother of Mrs. Geo. A. Myers, He was her mother's brother, . Rev. and Mrs, A. L. Byrd have re- turned to Lima. They spent the win- ter With their son-in-law and daugh- ter, Rev, and Mrs. 8. A. Lucas, i South st. An old citizen's second wife, trom whom he is separated, created con- siderable excitement, Saturday week, in E. 80th St., between Cedar and Quincy Ave's. Wouldn't you like to be a mailman or letter-carrier? Here is an oppor: tunity: After April 16, tifty” new mailmen are to be added to the local force, “Get busy! The Seventh Day Adventists’ Sec ond chureh, has purchased the Ce- dar Ave, church at Tist Si. Our peo- ple largely constitute the member: Silip of this euureh, Among thoye who remembered the editor of ‘The Gazette with pretty souveuir post-eards was Mrs. May Clement of tis city, so favorably known by tany of our leading women, Miss Nellie Hanson of this city and Mr. Henry Gregory of Detroit, are to be married, today, at Mr. and. Mrs. Wm. R. Gréen’s, Earl Ave. Both are leading young’ peaple with’ many friends. Applications tor positions of drattsmen at the navy yards, Brook- lyn and Norfolk, Va., are being re- ceived by C. F. Mackin, local secre- tary of the U. S. civil service com- mission, Federal building. _, Headed by the Masonic band, the Knights Templar marched to Anti- och Baptist church, Sunday after- ‘noon, for memorial’ services. “They made a very good appearance and showing on the march. Miss Louise Barnes, college depart- ment; Miss Mercedes Davis of the ‘conservatory; Miss Susie Bailey of the college and conservatory depart- ment, and Miss Louisa Logan of Co- jumbia university, were in Cleveland, recently, from Oberlin. Mrs, Mamie Hawkins was their chaperon during their short stay. ‘The Central Ave. street-car service grows worse instead of better. Isn't there anything that will make the business men of that section of the city see the necessity of organizing and getting better service? ‘The mis- erable service given the car-riders of that line costs Central Ave, business men hundreds and thousands of dol- lars in loss of trade, ete, every month, ‘The Mothers’ club of the Cedar “Y", assisted by the Survey club, will give a May-day festival, May 1, at Cedar “Y". An added feature will be a thrilling volley-ball game at § D. m. by the Century club, the fel- lows who beat Columbus, the strong- est team in Ohio, Raymond Smith's evening. George Lee, son of the late John Lee, of this city, and a brother of Mrs, Alberta Lee Wills, now a resi- dent of California, died suddenly, Tuesday, in Buffalo, where he was a successfil business’ man. Quite re- cently, he was in the city on a brief ‘visit and apparently in the best of health, and called at the office of the Hon. John P. Green, in the Black- stone bldg, Charged with murder, Cleveland Ford, 3819 Orange Ave., was arrest- ed, Sunday, shortly after the shoot- ing to death of Wm, Hood, $142 Or- |ange Ave. Police said Ford had been [thrown out of a card game, went |home for a revolver and returned for revenge. Hood came outside the house, and after an argument, wit- nesses said, Ford shot him. Police found Ford hiding in a cellar. A. twenty-four-year-old gil was being sought on a charge of stabbing to kill by police, Saturday, following an affray in thé home of Miss Dora Evans, age 26, 2816 Central Ave., during which ‘the Evans girl was stabbed twice in the kidney. She was taken to Charity hospital in ser- fous condition. The stabbing is said by police to have been caused by Jealousy. But for the screams of a strong- voiced woman, an old man of the race would have been cut to ribbons in Central Ave. near the bath houso by @ young man who did make kite- tails of his coat with a knife, Mon- day afternoon. It is thought the fellow was under the “Infloonce” of dope or “hootch”. Better police pro- tection in wards 11 and 12 is cer- tainly a crying need. Last Saturday night, at the corner of E. 30th St. and Scovill Ave., a member of the race beat to death with a brick, another member, and left him lying on the sidewalk. 0, the brutal murders in wards 11 and 12, every month, and all because of the lack of police protection. The sale of long-bladed knives in that section ought to be stopped. Women as well as men are using them. Gilbert B, Aiken, age 37, of 1791 E. 25th St., was strangled, early last week Friday morning, robbed of $60 and left to die in a yard at 2932 Pine Ave, Coroner A. P. Hammond reach- ed this conclusion following an ex- |amination of Aiken's vital organs, | He said the lungs were congested and |tho heart enlarged, indicating stran- | kulation, Aiken was an assistant en- |xineer at the Cleveland Street Rail- way Co.'s power plant. Ho, had plan- ned to buy parts for his automobile and meet his wife and four children, that night, at a relative’s, on the West Side, | A fight over the right of way among Easter afternoon paraders of both sexes on Orange Ave., landed |seven male participants in jail and a woman in Charity hospital, Sunday afternoon. Mrs, Naney Calabro, age 26, of 2636 Woodland Ave., was se- | verely cut in the back while’ cheering her husband to battle, police said. James Jackson, age 25, of 3603 Or- ange Ave., was arrested on a charge of cutting to wound, Police arrested six for disturbance. | Neither Calabro nor Jackson would ever have thought of “pulling off” such an affair where they came trom, After April 15 don’t make the mis- take of placing 1 cent in postage on posteard and expect it to reach its destination. It won't. For on April 15 new postal rates which provide for posteards carrying 2 conts in postage instead of 1 cent become ef- fective. Letters still need only 2 cents postage under the new rate, and government postcards which re- quire only 1 cent postage now also aro unaffected. One-half cent and 1%4- cent stamps and 14%-cent envelopes, for use, forthe most part, in mail of the second and third classes, also will make their appearance April 15. Bishop Joseph Sthrembs’ address, Sunday morning, at St. John’s Catho- He cathedral, was a farewell mess- age to his people and followed the Easter sermon by Rey. C. H. 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How Our Men And Women Are Insulted And Humiliated In the Government's Departments—Will the Self and Race-Respecting Negro Press of This Country Continue to Stand for This Sort of Thing? (Special to The Gazette) Washington, D. C., Oct. 4, 1924. —There is more segregation in Washington today under President Coolidge than there has ever been since the Civil War. The beginnings of segregation were under President Taft. It was greatly extended, under President Wilson; increased, still further, under President Harding; and reached its zenith under President Coolidge. For instance, the largest of our parks President Wilson never troubled, but the present administration has found time and desire to introduce it even there. To many people, segregation is a Democratic scheme of insult, but such is not the case. Mr. Taft introduced it in the bureau of engraving. He segregated the census-takers in this city in 1910, restricting white workers to white people, and black to black, often duplicating work as most blocks had white and black residents. And, worst of all, announced in his official capacity that Negroes should not hold office where white people complained/Segregation, then, is a Republican institution and not a Democratic one. It was begun by Republicans, and carried on to its all-embracing extent by Republicans! There is far more of it in the departments, today, than at any time since the Negro first appeared, close upon the close of the Civil War. The picture requirement in the civil service, which makes it next to impossible for a colored lady or gentleman to enter the civil service, since their color is disclosed in their photograph which must accompany their papers, is tenaciously held on to by our Republican President. We are a week, a colored girl appeared after having passed, having been examination, and having been telegraphed for by the department. The photograph had failed to tell her true color, and they flatly refused to appoint her when she appeared, and they saw her complexion. Commissioner Blair of the internal revenue bureau with thousands of clerks will not appoint a Negro clerk, and his word is law there, as he is the special favorite of Secretary Coulson and President Coolidge. And North Carolina, the home of the other sorter and leader of the segregationaries, Col. Sherrill, superintendent of buildings and grounds, it is no use to complain of either of these southern gentlemen. The colored people here who know the President could destroy segregation in the departments of the government, and the photograph requirements in the civil service by the mere nod of his head, are at a loss to understand why he does not put his splendid declarations on democracy into operation here, where it would not even cost him a single vote and where he has full power and absolutely no opposition. They wonder if he is not a firm believer in segregation, especially since segregation is one of the chief tenets of the Ku Klux Klan which has found its "welcome home" in the Republican party, and receives no condemnation from the Republican President. (Special to The Gazette.) Washington, D. C.—In the postoffice segregation is rampant. The faithful colored clerks work under constant humiliation and physical disadvantages. The department maintains a spacious caterfa for whites only, where these inferior white clerks can buy appetizing luncheons and chat in comfort while eating, while the colored clerks must bring lunchheons from home and eat them any place they can. The physical discomfort, disadvantageous as it is, is far less galling to the colored clerks than is the thought of their government taking their taxes, as it takes those of the whites, for the comfort of the latter, and setting them off as though they were lepers. The injustice, stinging, all the time, they ridiculed 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 segregation, and segregation is even attempted in the club. This allows the club to maintain 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, given the opportunity to off, and he ordered the postmaster to invite the colored as well as the white. These clerks get around their colored co-workers by giving the function at a local hotel. It is inevitable that the wicked spirit of segregation would express itself in appointments, assignments, and salaries. Colored applicants are often passed over though their examination was superior. No Negro, however efficient or old in the service, must ever dream of a promotion to a directive position. 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 office. The colored ones have been trained to form a union which meets regularly and often sends manly and intelligent protests to the postmaster, and often appeals from his decisions to the postmaster-general. It has secured some improvement in their working conditions, but they are still bitter over the huge injustice done to them for nothing else than the color of their skin. (Special to The Gazette.) (Washington, D. C.—The government printing office keeps faith with the government's universal scheme of segregation. Some of the men and brightest of the men are forced to attend inferior positions there on account of the better and more lucrative avenues of employment being closed to them because of their color. The whites are generally of a very mediocre group, far from equaling our girls in educational equipment, culture, and working efficiency. Yet these superior girls are set off from the whites with the latter, of course, having the better working conditions, salaries and recreational facilities. There is a large cafeteria in this huge structure where all of the employees may go, but there are a few tables in an one of the other cafeterias to serve their employees. I am glad to say that few, very few, of our people patronize the place, preferring a little physical inconvenience to the open, semi-public humiliation of segregation. In toilet facilities, dressing-rooms, and work assignments, wherever possible, the law of segregation is in full force, and, of course, this same undemocratic practice reveals itself on the salary roll and in the hard caste that bars promotions. Here, the law of segregation passes over our superior employees to directive positions, and higher salaries. The whites have a large recreational center in this public building with many fine appointments for rest and amusements. During lunch and dinner hours they repair to this restful retreat for sociability and dance. Last fall, a young Afro-American with a splendid record in his work, felt the injustice of this exclusion of our employees so keenly that he secured the company of a young lady of the race to take part in the dance. As soon as this couple started to dance the music was abruptly stopped, and the young man reported for attempting to take part in an entertainment provided for employees. He was called to the office, lectured for being "one of those smart Negroes" who believe in "social equality," and then dismissed on a trumped-up charge. He was a night-employee, hence he carried a pistol. Right after the dance incident a fire broke out in the office. He was slightly accused of setting fire to the building, and exclusion from the dance floor. Detectives came to the building to arrest him, and falling to secure any evidence searched him only to discover the pistol. They quickly dropped the arson charge and substituted one for carrying concealed weapons for which he was immediately dismissed. By this severe punishment our employees are taught that there is no way of escape for one who dares to resent the daily insults that their government (under President Coolidge) gives them. Many of the employees have expressed their deeply-wounded feelings to me at being considered a pariah by the government whose institutions they are serving so faithfully, and I have taken up a number of cases only to be met by a dental that the conditions complained of exacerbated by my informants. I knew the fact these informants would suffer so I have never given a single name!! The department then taking the position THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, J. SATURDAY, APRIL 18, 1925 that it cannot take up the case. It is perfectly clear that this inquisitive scheme of segregation is a difficult thing to fight, since the government is so well settled upon it, and the inhabitants cannot bear witness to it. (Special to The tiazette) Washington, D. C. Congressional in the bureau of engraving and printing has an interesting history involving President Thomas Woodrow Wilson and members of his family, three heroes young colored women who lost their positions as a result of their protest, and the noble wife of Senator Robert La Follette. Shortly after the accession of Mr. Wilson to the White House, a member of his family visited the bureau where she saw white and colored girls working together in perfect harmony, oblivious to any thought of race. Shortly thereafter came an order for segregation of the races, and a white lady who had been noted for her philanthropy among our people and who was upon intimate terms at the White House appeared at the bureau to tell our girls to be contented with the new order as "a great Negro leader had taught colored people to stay in their places." Three of the young ladies resisted the order to the last ditch and 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. Osama bin Laden came and attacked White Horn 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 ait together. The same segregation which some of our people think is the cherished institution of the Democratic party is still there, in all of its fullness, under the administration of the party that Abraham Lincoln, Charles Sumner and Frederick Doug has helped to found. Our girls are employed there in far larger numbers than in any other school, the pubs, the 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 girls are of these superior 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) Washington, D. C. —The treasury department, according to the President's recent acceptance speech, is now making 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 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 New York's clerks can't be noticed. There is the same general complaint here among our clerks and other employees as there is in the other branches of the government—failure to recognize their efficiency when promotions are due; ability to go so far and far nother. The various forms of segregation exist here as well as elsewhere—the restaurants closed or divided along color lines, and special lockers, locker rooms, rest rooms, etc., set off for colored. The toilers for the colored are few in such a large structure. Hence, the segregated clerks are forced to endure physical inconvenience and travel long distances when they desire the use of them. The department maintains a huge, magnificent afederia, in the splendid sweep of woodland along our national driveway, where white people of every class can come to rest, dine, and socialize of afternoons and evenings at minimum costs. The white press of the city is constantly telling of the thousands who take advantage of this "delightful retreat," and the festive scene that their presence creates with space for dancers with space to spare; but not one Negro! His only share is in the taxes he is forced to pay for this luxury for another group! The registship of the treasury, which Republican Presidents have given the Negro since Garfield appointed Blanch K. Bruce, is now filled by a white man, and the colored people are congregated in a separate room which is publicly proclaimed as "a colored division." When it is discovered that Negro clerks are "working as white" in other divisions, they are promptly transferred to this "colored division." Our people fear that protest against this segregation would result in the abolition of the division altogether; so they remain in a dilemma, fearing to act. Our clerks must accept secession, 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 the office of the registrar of the treasury and the internal revenue bureau. In the former, beaver board walls were maintained until recently. In the latter there have been two cases of discrimination on account of color brought to public view. The words, announcing the election of President Coolidge, were hardly cold before the effort to increase segregation was launched on again at full speed. It had slowed up a little during the campaign. Investigation of Burcans An investigation of the executive departments and bureaues listed below shows that segregation prevails in them as follows: Office of the Register of the Treasury, there are two segregated sections—one with 30 Afro-American employees and the other with 14. Navy Department — one segregated section of 18 of our employees, as well as a segregated lunch room. Census Bureau — a segregated section of 60 Afro-American employees. Bonus Section 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 seg regated section of 7 employees regated 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 violent assault and torture, and are winning even 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 not equal to whites, and have no 'guts.'" The world respects only those who resent and resist prescriptions 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. — Boston (Mass.) Guardian. OHIO'S ANTI-LYNCHING LAW LEADS THE COUNTRY IN EFFECTIVE LEGISLATION Against The Mob and Lynch-Murder—The Work of a Member of The Race—Also His Ohio Civil Rights Law 6278. "Mob" and "lynching" defined. 6279. "Serious injury" defined. 6280. Damages in case of assault. 6281. Damages in case of lynching. 6282. Damages recoverable by legal representative of victim of lynching. 6283. Person suffering death or injury by mob trying to lynch another. 6284. Limitations of action. 6285. Order to include recovery and costs in tax levy. 6286. Guardian's custody, etc., fees. 6287. County's right of action against member of mob. 6288. County's right of action against another county. 6289. Non-relief from prosecution. Our mob-violence or anti-lynching bill was introduced in the Ohio legislature in 1834 and re-introduced in 1896. It took the Hon. Harry C. Smith, editor of The Gazette, just three years to secure its enactment into law. The Ohio Supreme Court has several times upheld the constitutionality of the law and it has Section 6278. A collection of people assembled for an unlawful purpose and intending to do damage or injury to any one, or pretending to exercise correctional power over other persons by violence and without authority of law, shall be deemed guilty of the purpose of this chapter. An act of violence by a mob upon the body of any person shall constitute a "lynching" within the meaning of this chapter. (93 v. 161 2.) Section 6279. The term "serious injury," for the purpose of this chapter, shall include such injury as permanently or temporarily disables the person receiving it from earning a livelihood by manual labor. (93 v. 161 3.) Section 6280. A person taken from officers of justice by a mob, and assaulted with whips, clubs, missiles or in any other manner, may recover, as hereafter provided, a sum not to exceed one thousand dollars as damages from the county in which the assault is made. (93 v. 161 4.) Section 6281. A person assaulted and lynched by a mob may recover, as result, is made a sum of 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 five thousand dollars. (93 v. 162 5.) Section 6232. The legal representative of a person dying from injuries received from lynching by a mob may recover of the county in which such injury occurred, a sum not to exceed five thousand dollars damages for such unlawful killing. Such sum shall be applied to the maintenance of the family and education of the minor children of such person so lynched, if any survive him, until such children are of legal age, and then be distributed to the survivors, share and share alike, the widow receiving an amount equal to a child's share. If there be no widow or minor child surviving such injury, 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 such person. Section 6283. A 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 6284. 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. 192 8.) Section 6286. If the decedent so lynched has minor children surviving him, the fund shall be turned over to a regularly appointed guardian. Such guardian shall administer such fund under the direction of the probate judge, allowing not more than five hundred dollars for counsel fees in the action for such recovery. (93 v. 162 9.) Section 6287. The county, in which a lynching occurs, may recover the amount of a judgment and costs against it in favor of the legal representatives of a person killed or seriously injured by a mob from any county. 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 been very effective. Illinois, Pennsylvania and New Jersey have followed Ohio's lead and enacted mob violence or anti-lynching laws which are copies of our Ohio law. Several other northern states and at least one border state (Kentucky) have also enacted anti-lynching laws, in recent years, like Pennsylvania and New Jersey. The Ohio law follows: IBS. ed. g. representative of victim of lynching bury 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 Gazzette we print below the text of the Hon. Harry C. Smith's [out of all] Rights law which the editor had enacted while a member of the 71st General Assembly, in 1894: The General Coge of Ohio: The General Course of Ohio: Sec. 12940. Whoever, being the proprietor or his employee, keeper or manager of an inn, restaurant, eat- house, barber-shop, public con- servant, by any other place of public accommodation and amusement, denies to a citizen, except for reasons applicable alike to all citizens and regardless of race or color, the full enjoyment of the accommodations, advantages, facilities or privileges thereof, shall be fined not less than fifty dollars nor more than five hundred dollars, or nor more than ninety days, or both. Sec. 12941. Whoever violates the next preceding section shall also pay no more than five dollars nor more than five hundred dollars, or the person aggrieved thereby to be per- sered in any court of competent jurisdiction in the county where such offense was committed. This law has repeatedly been held constitutional and good law by the Ohio Supreme court. The trouble is our people will not use it as often as they should, but expect it to do for them what they should and must do for themselves, under it, in the courts. Judge Grant's Opinion of the Law Misled by the foolishly manufactured outcry for the passage of the Beaty hill, a few years ago, the Akron Beacon Journal published an editorial to which the editor of The Gazette replied, calling its attention to the fact that the Ohio Civil Rights law was good law and did not need amending. The following letter from Judge Grant former presiding judge of the Court of Appeals of the Eighth District of Ohio, is self explanatory: Akron, O. April 25, 1919. Hon. Harry C. Smith. Courts Department, JOSE GILBERT, Cleveland, O. My Dear Brother, Observing your letter in the My Dear Brother, this city, I venture to send you, under a separate cover, the Ohio Law Reporter of Feb. 3. last, containing the opinion of the Court of Appeals in the Puritan Lunch Co. vs. Leonard H. Fman, decided in Akron, 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, it would have been for criticism editorially. THE LAW OF OHIO IS UNDER NO REPROACH, nor our courts and juries in administering it. Not a word was said by the Beacon-Journal when the Fman case was reviewed. Our advertisers want your trade. Those who do not ask for it in the columns of "The Old Rellable" 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, After Reading PLOW HORSE TO GO FOR ELECTRICITY EDISON DECLARES THE CHANGE IS IMPERATIVE UNDER NEED OF INTENSIVE FARMING. THE GERMANS ALREADY USE IT Hundreds of Farm Houses in Illinois Also Utilizing the Current —Doubts Jitney. East Orange, N. J.—Thomas A. Edison, in a talk with newspaper visitor gave glimpses into the future of electricity, when there would be new methods of generating and every farmer could tap the current to do his spring plowing. Incidentally he talked of rates and jitneys, and the jitx which pursues the poor devil of an inventor. "Electricity in farming," said he, "is one of our coming developments. Something is being done, but that branch of our industry is only in its incipiency. In many parts of the country, such as Indiana and Illinois, we have got to come to intensive farming. This will be done with electricity from big central distributing plants with circuits all over the state. "In Illinois there are now some 300 or 400 farm towns using electricity. All ought to have it, each with its little substation, if you like, attached to the village grocery store or the local drug store. The whole service can be inexpensively handled. They do it in Germany. I noticed that in many sections nearly every farm had electric poles. "Electricity is a feature of the intensive farming which has put that country in the forefront of agriculture and made it hard to starve to. Plowing by electricity is an everyday matter there." "The public does not realize what an enormous reduction has gone on the last few years. Electricity is about the only thing that has gone down in price. The public so far has had the benefit of all the inventions and improvements in this way, but there is a limit to which the rates can be cut, for the capital needed for growth and service must be invited by fair returns. The rate question is not well understood, however, and here again is a chance for simple explanation to the plain people. It is absurd to give a man who pays a monthly bill of only $2 the same rate as one whose bill is $1000." Speaking of the fitneys, which are supposed to be making such ravages among established transportation systems, the wizard of Orange said that its career was likely to be grief. "Street railways," he continued, "have little cause for fear. The railroad men got scared once before when the bicycle was all the craze. A 5-cent jitney will never pay for tires and repairs. "When you come to the electric vehicle for general use, and more particularly the electric truck, I see no end to its future. The horse is a very poor motor, its food is high priced, it is risky property and in the city nobody wants it. It is as sure as death that the electric truck is going to have its day. It takes time to introduce some things. When I helped make the first typewriter it took seven long years to introduce the machine. Then it went everywhere with a rush." Edison said that he looked forward to the discovery of further chemical reactions which would be used in the generation of electricity. "But as to electricity direct from coal," he resumed, "there is nothing doing. Unhappily, here is the absolute certainty that our present patent laws the poor devil of an inventor would never receive any reward for it. "I have never made anything out of inventing. The money that keeps all these men busy in the works here I got from manufacturing, and I have long ceased to expect anything else. I suppose I invent as much as ever, but the pathway to the patent office isn't quite so hot with my footsteps as it used to be." PLANS BURGLAR-PROOF POULTRY FORTRESS. Owner's Last Surviving Chick to Be Preserved at all Hazards and Cost. Moultrie, Ga.—A granite chicken house, double locked, double barred, and fixed with an electric burglar alarm, will be built here soon by C. R. Atwater. He has posted on his front gate an invitation to all chicken thieves in the neighborhood to attend the laying of the cornerstone and to inspect the plans for the new "coop." He says there is one in particular who ought to attend.