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AND WOODLAND AVENUE BUN CON Those Who Recognize the Usefulness of Pe-ru-na Are Never Without It Those Who Recognize the Usefulness of Pe-ru-na Are Never Without It Its tonic properties and the invigorating effect which it exerts upon the mucous membranes are what makes Pe-ru-na such a valuable treatment for a great number of bodily ills. Coughs, colds, nasal catarrh, stomach and bowel disorders are among the more common affections of the mucous linings which call for Pe-ru-na. Fifty years in the service of the people Sold Everywhere Tablet or Liquid Send 4 cents for book on catarrh Hot Radio-Active Water Furnish For AK Baths. Scotarium has 10 R Hotel has 56 Rooms; Telephone Water in Every Room. Rates $ BATH RATE 21 Baths . . . $13.00-10 B 21 Baths to Pythians and C Active Water Furnished by the Government Saint-Remy has 10 Rooms, Diet and Operating Rooms Rooms; Telephone, Hot and Cold Running by Room. Rates $1 to $3 per day BATH RATES: . $13.00—10 Baths . . . $6.50 to Pythians and Calantheans, $8.50 Hot Radio-Active Water Furnished by the Government For AK Baths. Sacrarium has 10 Rooms, Diet and Operating Rooms Hotel has 56 Rooms; Telephone, Hot and Cold Running Water in Every Room. Rates $1 to $3 per day BATH RATES: 21 Baths . . . $13.00-10 Baths . . . $6.50 21 Baths to Pythians and Calantheans, $8.50 THE GAZETTE Eyes Scientifically Examined Office Hours: 10 a.m to 6 Saturday & Monday Till 8 P. M. 4305 WOODLAND AVE. Cleveland, Ohio Knights of Pythias of N. A., S. A., E., A., A. and A. (Operating Under Supervision of U. S. Government) 415 $ \frac{1}{2} $ Malvern Avenue Hot Springs Nat. Park, Ark. ESTABLISHED, AUGUST 25, 1883 And Issued Every Week on Time Since CLEVELAND, OHIO, SATURDAY, MAY 23, 1925 FASCINATING ABYSSINIA! FASCINATING ABYSSINIA! THE COUNTRY OF THE LATE KING MENELIK STILL RICH WITH LEGENDS. Famous Woman Explorer Tells of Travels in Abyssinia—What the Natves Thought of "Movie" Cameras—The Empress Direct Descendant of the Queen of Sheba—Exceptionally Doings of the Race London, England.—Telling of her visit to the fascinating land of Abyssinia, parts of which have never before been touched by other than native feet, Mrs. Rosita Forbes, famous woman explorer, related thrilling episodes of the wonderful country. She has just come back from a 1,100-mile trip to Abyssinia, Africa. Mrs. Forbes declared that her primary purpose in visiting Abyssinia was to obtain pictures of the beautiful city of Lalibehia, famous for its legendary greatness. "Abyssinia is a place of mountains and rough stones pinned together by thorns," Mrs. Forbes said. She pointed out that perhaps the most wonderful part of the city of Lalibehia was its 12 underground churches, one of which she was not allowed to enter. This specific church was dedicated to the Virgin Mary, and because of certain traditions no female is allowed to enter, not even of birds or animals. City Abounds in Legendary Lore. The legendary story of Lalbehla begins back in the days of King Lalbehla when that great monarch captured 600 slaves and brought them to the present site of the city and there began the building of its blood-red courts. It is told that the labor by day was too slow for the industrious king and so he required his serts to work also by night. This accounts for the part of the legend that the laborers worked by day and the angels by night and the building of the city was completed in record time. The explorer estimated that during her trip the motion picture operators who accompanied her made about 11,000 feet of film, nearly half of it in Abysinia. Important and scenic portions near the banks of the Red Sea and on the north, and the Blue Nile on the south were photographed. An exclusive picture was a series of close-ups of the head of the church of Abysinia who is commonly known as the "Black Pope," Mrs. Ida Gibbs Hunt and husband, Wm. H. Hunt, U. S. consul at St. Etienne, France, are visiting in this country. Patrolman George Godfrey was killed in New York City, last week, defending a white couple from a big crowd. His slayer was killed. Our people are urged by the N. E. R. league to observe June 17 in honor of Peter Salem, our Bunker Hill battle hero, an historical character. The Howard University student-strikers number 1200. They object to President J. Stanley Durkee's army training order to drill only, practically. Chas. N. Love, veteran editor of the Houston, Texas, Freeman, was badly beaten by police, last week, because he refused to remove his hat in the station house. Wm. M. Cook has won the $1500 Simpson Fellowship, to study French EVERYBODY BUY "BUDDY POP: PIES"! New York City, May 14, '25. Hon, Harry C. Smith, Editor Gazette, Cleveland; Ohio. My dear Mr. Smith:—Permit me to express to you on behalf of General Dunn, our commander in chief, our sincere appreciation for the helpful co-operation which you have given us in the matter of the "Buddy Poppy" sale. Your co-operation will be of signal assistance to us, and I am sure will help to further the success of our sale greatly. With renewed thanks, I am Very sincerely yours, G. W. Leffingwell. due to his wide domain and great powers. According to Mrs. Forbes, this was her first exploration to be photographed. The natives entertained varied ideas concerning the movie cameras and the other equipment which the explorers carried. Some worshiped the camera, thinking it a shrine of some god. Others with more modern ideas thought it a weapon or instrument of war and throw stones and spears at it. The harvesters gazed upon it with awe, thinking it the concomitant to some new religious ceremony. Mrs. Forbes was presented by the empress of Abyssinia, who resides in the capital Addle Abeba, with the silk garments as souvenirs of her country. They consisted of a pair of brocaded silk trousers, worn under other finely woven and beautifully adorned robes of every color, costumes which are usually worn by the ladies of the court. The empress claims direct lineage from the history queen of Sheba, who visited the great and wise King Solomon, and is known by the title "Queen of the Kings of Ethiopia, Daughter of Meusift, the Conqueror, the Lion of Judah". She often directs the culinary processes when several thousand guests are to be served. In the Ethiopian country marriages are numerous but divorces among the royalty are unknown and illegal. Among the common people, however, divorces may be had, although they are not numerous. If a man whips his wife she is granted a monetary concession which he pays. Mrs. Forbes also described the punishment meted out to those found guilty of murder in Abyssinia. They are much less numerous than in most countries because the sentences are severe and are enforced to the letter. In describing the system Mrs. Forbes said: "He must be killed in a manner similar to that by which his victim met his doom, and his execution is carried out by the nearest relative of the murdered man. There is no undue cruelty, however, and the proceedings are carried through with the utmost possible speed. While the murderer is being executed a man nearby digs a grave for him." at the Sarbonne in Paris. This is the first time an Afro-American has won this the most coveted prize at Amherst College. The Gazetto acknowledges the receipt of an invitation to attend the commencement exercises, May 22 to 28, of the State Agricultural and Mechanical College, Orangeburg, S. C. Prof. R. S. Wilkinson, president. Jasper R. Kirk, a southern "cracker" and former member of the U. S. marine corps, accused of having brutally tortured and murdered, some months ago, a girl of the race on the U. S. reservation in Florida, has been indicted for murder by a federal grand jury. John D. Rocketeller, Sr., donated the funds to secure the services of a large Afro-American chorus which sang at the Weschester (N. Y.) county musical festival, May 14, 15 and 16. The chorus contained more than 150 voices and was under the direction of Rudolph Grant, a member of the race. Director of Publicity, National Poppy Committee, Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States. AU "Whité"! Williamston, N. C.—Thirty men, residents of this and an adjoining county are on trial charged with dragging Joseph A. Needleman; a tobacco salesman, from the county jail and mutilating him the night of March 29. Among those who were indicted are the Rev. E. C. Stone, of the 'Primitive Baptist Church. He has turned state's witness. Twenty-five of those indicted have pleaded guilty to jail delivery and a more serious charge. Thomas Lilley, another defendant, recently attempted to commit suicide. FRESH OHIO NEWS HASTIE "TO THE FRONT." Amherst College Student. One of the "Bond Four", a Signal Honor—Gave Them the "Silence" Treatment. Washington. D. C. — William Henry Hastle of this city, an Afro-American student at Amherst College, has been selected by the faculty committee on prizes as one of four members of the class of 1925, known as the "Bond Four", who will deliver orations on commencement day. The one who excels will receive the Bond prize of $100. The "Bond Four" are selected on the basis of literary and oratorical merit from the fifteen seniors who have attained the highest general standing in their class at the second term of the senior year. Any of the fifteen who desire to compete for the prize are permitted to submit essays to the committee. The four whose papers are judged best may then compete for the final award. Resenting segregation in the balcony of the Washington Auditorium, recently, 200 of our singers abandoned without warning the program of the quinquennial session of the International Council of Women while more than 1,000 of our people in the audience arose and took their departure quietly and orderly from the hall. They politely gave the white women of America what, in army circles, is called "silence". If He Would Only Practice What He Pregaches. Washington, D. C. — President Coolidge, speaking before the young orators who assembled here, recently, asserted the last election virtually constituted a national referendum on the subject of our constitutional system and that its verdict "was overwhelmingly in favor of sustaining that system and going on to perfect it. The voice of the nation has been heard." Continuing he said: "It spoke with emphasis that none could, possibly misunderstand. It declared for ordered liberty, for constitutional procedures, for the maintained sanctity of the courts, the rule of law, the security of property and the sacredness of human rights." How They Do It, "Down Home". Eldorado, Ark.—Rioting broke out in the oil fields eight miles north of here, recently. A band of 200 "crackers" marched upon a camp of 88 Afro-Americans, brought to the field by the Standard Oil Co. for the construction of a pipe line. Several wounded were brought here and reports are that several "crackers" were killed. STEUBENVILLE—Bart J. Guyer, Republican, and Harry Marshall (white), Democrat, were recently named by Common Pleas Judge Jay S. Paisley as jury commissioners for a year, ending May 4.'26. They met, May 4, and selected names of persons eligible for jury service for the year and placed them in the wheel. Mr. Guyder is perhaps the first Ohio Afro-American to receive such an appointment. He is a member of the Republican county committee and has been prominent in local political affairs for many years. He was formerly a trustee of Wilberforce university and is well qualified for the position. 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 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. C4DIZ: Mrs. Emma Tyler is visiting in Zanesville. Mrs. M. Fuller; who was called here by the illness of her daughter, Mrs. Mable Mason, has returned to Ravenna. Mrs. Mary Bort of New York was called here by the serious illness of her sister, Mrs. Ida Jones. Mrs. Zella Strother was a Steubenville visor, recently. Mrs. Parthena Johnson is visiting in Oberlin. Miss Helen Lucas spent Sunday in Zanesville. Rev. and Mrs. R. L. Allen, en route to Smithfield, to attend district conference, stopped here with Rev. and Mrs. F. H. Mason, Monday. Mrs. Ida Brown Jones died, Monday morning, after a brief illness. Rev. Mason was called to Stillwater, Sunday afternoon, to officiate at the funeral of Mrs. Mary Jordan Chris- SINGLE COPY FIVE CENTS TO MARRY A NEGRO? THE OLD PREJUDICED SOUTHERN QUESTION WELL ANSWERED By E. Haldeman-Julius of the Girard (Kan.) Weekly —An Exceptionally Interesting Discussion of the Subject By a Fearless and Manly White Editor. Instantly, inevitably, in any discussion of Negro equality, some one hits upon the delicate phase of sex. One is contended with the specter of intermarriage. This is regarded as a blow that flattens and annihilates the theory of equality. Seldom is it fairly met. The equalitarian himself, as a rule, is rendered ill at ease, if not put to tright and flight, by this aspect of the question. Now I am asked to consider it in the Weekly—and I shall not run from it. William Kline (3420 California St. Omaha, Nebr.) throws the bombshell into our midst. He writes: "In your using of the word 'equality' on the Negro question, do you mean that' to contain 'intermarriage?" In other words, would you be willing to see your daughter or your son take for husband or wife the offspring of Leroy R. Brown, intelligent as he may be? and the white male. These relations bring children into the world; nor is this a recent condition, nor a popular and freakish condition, but one that is rather common and well-known and long standing—indeed traditional, to put it finely; so that the country is full of persons who combine the two racial strains. We have intermixture. Why not intermarriage? We have illegitimate black-and-white children. Why not legitimate ones? Frankly, I do not see how it could alter the situation for the worse. The moralists should be for it. I cannot see fully into Mr. Kline's mind, but apparently he fears that, were all obstacles to intermarriage withdrawn, a rush would follow to violate the hallowed (and hypocritical) taboo. Although not a contingency that would excite me, I do not believe that such would generally—or immediately—be the case. We must not forget that to "Personally, I can be tolerant enough and broad-minded enough to grant the Negro 'equality' up to that point. There are some mighty fine characters, among the Negroes, intelligent or more so than many white folk and yet I do not seem to be able to truthfully say that I would sanction intermarriage. I have mixed with them, brought up in a neighborhood where they were neighbors, broken bread with them, and do think that if they are but given a chance many of them will outstrip the whites, and yet that question I cannot answer yes to. What do you say? "P. S.—A Negro street-corner preacher once stated a real truth, an appeal for fairness, when he said: 'Ah only wishes de white men wud half lub us — men as they did and does ahr sistus!'" Already, Mr. Kruz, doesn't that postscript suggest the fallacy of your position? Already we have a mingling of the sexes regardless of color—chiefly between the black female itan. He was accompanied by Mrs. Mason and Mr. and Mrs. James Pettrress. HILLSBORO.—Mrs. Leon Worley and children of Newark visited her mother here—Mrs. Ellen Lamb was quite ill, this week. The K. P. annual sermon was preached by Rev. A. P. Mayle, Sunday afternoon, at Wesleyan church. He will preach the Odd Fellows' tomorrow.—Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Lamb and son of Dayton spent Sunday here with relatives.—Mrs. M. Lewis is visiting her daughter, Mrs. John Killgour, and family,—Mr. and Mrs. Grant Atchison and family of Wilmington heard the K. P. sermon here. Sunday.—Mr. George Slater and several from Sabina and Mr. W. Moore of Cincinnati were here. Sunday.—Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Williams, Mr. Milburn Baker and sister, Helen. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Willis, Mr. and Mrs. C. M. Gragston, Charles Minor and Dwight Trimble heard the Ripley Odd Fellows' annual sermon. Sunday.—Rev. C. H. Bray, of Ky., who has been called to pastor New Hope Baptist church, will be here, May 31.—Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Hunter of Batavia were guests of Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Weathers, Sunday.—Lincoln school commencement. Monday evening, May 25, at the Baptist church. All welcome. THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A Gentleman And Prejudiced Asses of All Kinds—Rockefeller a Cleveland! New York City. After most of the Milton-Rockefeller wedding reception guests had departed, last week Thursday, John D. Rockefeller, Jr., escorted through the house and the chapel, three groups of women and girls who had lingered at the curb. Among them was an aged woman of the race, who had tarried on her way home from work. "You are invited to come along", Mr. Rockefeller said to her. "No, sir. Thank you very much", she replied. But Mr. Rockefeller took her by the arm and personally escorted her through the house. There were tears in her eyes, when he handed her two bouquets as he had done to each of the other visitors. IN-UNION IS STRENGTH LE COPY FIVE CENTS ighter HOW A NEGRO? D SOUTHERN QUESTION ANSWERED of the Girard (Kan.) Weekly interesting Discussion of a Fearless and white Editor. and the white male. These relations bring children into the world; nor is this a recent condition, nor a peculiar and freakish condition, but one that is rather common and well-known and long standing—indeed traditional, to put it finely; so that the country is full of persons who combine the two racial strains. We have intermixture. Why not intermarriage? We have illegitimate black-and-white children. Why not legitimate ones? Frankly, I do not see how it could alter the situation for the worse. The moralists should be for it. I cannot see fully into Mr. Kline's mind, but apparently he fears that, were all obstacles to intermarriage withdrawn, a rush would follow to violate the hallowed (and hypocritical) taboo. Although not a contingency that would excite me, I do not believe that such would generally—dr immediately—be the case. We must not forget that to say the races may intermarry is not to say they must do so. It would still be a matter of personal choice; and that exactly, and that alone, what it should be. If my white neighbor (man or woman) wants to marry a Negro (man or women)—let him, I say. It will not change my attitude toward him in the slightest. My view of the general possibility—the number who might wish to intermarry—is equally complac- cern me. Certainly I have, and could have, no prejudice in the matter. It is, you will say, a question of social welfare. Well, I have no reason to believe that racial intermarriage would prove more harmful to society than racial intermixture has been. The Negro of partly "white" blood (and you know numbers of them) is not inferior, to say the least, to the Negro of purely race. The face question will be solved by a grateful and finally complete amalgamation—and that, I should say, would be a good way to settle it. However neither Mr. Kline nor I is forced to aid in the process; and it is not an eventuality that need be envisaged as an urgent, present issue. The truth is that intermarriage is not a real nor vital phase of the question of Negro equality; and we are running a false trail when we discuss it too seriously in that light. Our attitude should be to admit the freedom of personal selection in sex admit it quite simply and brush it aside as then unimportant—and consider the really important, immediate applications of the principle of equality; whether we shall speak out boldly for a removal of the handicaps, the discriminations, the unfair and senseless restrictions that bar the free, forward life of the Negro at so many points in our society. Are we willing to clasp the Negro's hand and stand beside him as our political; economic and social brother? When we talk of the rights of the Negro, will we say and show by our practice that his rights are not different from those of the white man? It is this, and not intermarriage, which is the real question. It is this which the Negro asks, inspired by the worthy spirit of freedom and progress. The Negro is not asking intermarriage. It is far less an issue with him that it is with white men who are so prone fearfully to exaggerate it. The Negro has racial pride, no less than the white man. He wants to preserve the identity and the integrity of his race. What the Negro wants—the heart and the whole of his desire—is equality "up to that point" which Mr. Kline defines as his limit of personal approval. And I predict that, when we have reached that point and when we have accustomed ourselves to regard the Negro in a just and sensible and friendly light, we shall no longer be worried by the thought of intermarriage; and we shall even be able to contemplate instances of intermarriage in a calm spirit. The talk of intermarriage (I do not refer to Mr. Kline's view) is a smokescreen behind which are defensively ranged the indefensible, cruel circumstances of Negro inequality. My son and daughter are a number of years from the marrying age. When they reach that age, they will marry or not marry, each according to free fancy—and happily. I hope. What if they marry one hundred percent white, Protestant. Methodist, Nordic Americans who bore or irritate me to distraction! --- HURRY, GIRLS, IT'S FIVE OCKLOCK! -- WE'VE GOT TO GET HOME BEFORE DAD! HE THINKS WHERE CLEANING HOUSE, YOU KNOW! GEE! WHAT A FUNK SHOW! YOU SAID IT, SIS! HAROLD HAYFOOT IN THE IVORY SKULL MATINEE TO-DAY. GET BUSY, GIRLS! HERE HE COMES! QUICK!! WELL, WELL! -- STILL AT IT! -- CALL IT A DAY, GIRLS! WELL HAVE TO HAVE A LITTLE A MUSEMENT TAFTER SUPPER— — I'VE GOT TICKETS FOR HAROLD HAYFOOT IN THE IVORY SKULL! PLOP! Tim Early The GAZETTE PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY (in Advance) One Year ..... $2.00 Six Months ..... 1.00 Subscribers are requested to remit by postoffice money order or registered letter. Entered at the postoffice in Cleveland, Ohio, as second-class mail matter 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, MAY 23, 1925. About six representative men and women of the race, supported by national organizations, are needed in Washington to promote the political welfare of Afro-Americans, says Perry W. Howard of the U. S. Department of Justice. This is something The Gazette has urged for at least twenty-five years. Dr. Charles Smith of Meridian, Miss, who is building himself a new home, purchased a new auto and took his fiancee, Miss Myrtle Wilson, a student of Tougaloo College, Miss., for a ride. "Crackers" stopped the car, shot it full of holes, wounded the doctor in the head, almost destroyed the eyesight of Miss Wilson and beat them both severely. The "crackers" were jealous of Dr. Wilson's new home and auto. The effort to wipe out "P. R. and go back to the election of councilmen by wards, instead of districts, does not impress people generally very favorably and is going to fall if the "bunch" cannot "count it in" like they counted out Judge Corlett and Candidate Coyle, recently, and the editor of The Gazette, several years ago. It is so much easier to do this dirty work in ward elections than in districts that that is the main reason for the "bunch's" fight to knock out the P. R., and district election of councilmen. "Watch your step", Mr., Mrs, and Miss Voter. THEIR "MORAL UPKEEP"! Antioch Baptist church trustees, this city, have decided to build a new church in the East End and have pledged $1,600 annually, is an announcement made, last week. That section of the city does not need a church half as much as wards 11 and 12 need church-action that will improve the fearfully low immoral conditions existing there. Why the ministers in that section of the city absolutely refuse to recognize this fact, by failing utterly to take concerted action to improve it, has been a matter of a great deal of discussion for many months, indeed for several years at least. Many of their members, with large families of children some of whom have been ruined as a direct result of the very bad environment, still live in those wards—are compelled, for one reason or another, to do so. Many families have been and are being broken up, men and women ruined, etc., etc. Even this does not move our ministers in that section to proper action, and they are continually asserting from their pulpits that they are "charged with the moral upkeep of our people". LORD, HAVE MERCY! Several weeks ago, a Woodland Ave. business man (white) told the writer that most of the prostitutes of color in that section were "members of churches". While we that there might be some cases of this kind, we freely admit that we were not prepared for a statement of that kind from a man who is in a position to know whereof he speaks. We also have heard that there are gamblers who are members of our churches in wards 11 and 12 and that some of our church-officials have made more or less trouble over church money-matters in the last few years; also that the conduct of certain prominent women-members in and out of the churches and in church-entertainments, has been open to a great deal of question, to say the least. And much more along the same line, have we and others in this community heard frequently in recent years. Perhaps all this explains the utter failure or refusal of our local ministry to even try to cope with the rotten condition of affairs existing among our people in the wards mentioned. It is not more churches or new ones that are most needed, these days, but decidedly much more of a certain kind of activity on the part of both our churches and ministry, and not only in wards 11 and 12 where the condition is worst. There were more killings, cutting-scrapes and other crimes committed in wards 11 and 12. May 9, 10 and 11, 1925, than at any time since the World War, and the sad condition seems to grow slowly but steadily worse. Let our ministers and churches that boast that they are "charged with the moral upkeep of our people" (and they all do) give our people, especially those who live in wards 11 and 12, what is most needed—a concerted movement to improve the miserably low immoral conditions existing there, and elsewhere in the city. Perfect an organization for this work and call in others to help, if necessary. It is a common statement that there are five thousand (if not ten) unmarried men and women of color living as married persons in wards 11 and 12 alone, and there is "more truth than poetry" in the statement. High time for ACTION! Additional Locals The Michigan legislature let its anti-intermarriage bill die. Tom Lee and his motor-boat saved at least 35 persons when the government steamer, Norman, sank in the Mississippi river, early last week. Robert J. Royal, Uniontown, Pa., and William W. Cagle, Baltimore, were among those included in the latest award of Carnegie hero medals. Both rescued white men. Mrs. Carrie O. Mitchell, age 84, died at her daughter, Mrs. John P. Green's, May 1. Her husband, Arthur W. Mitchell, died in 1894. Mrs. Mitchell had been a resident of Oberlin since 1860. The following named children mourn her demise: Mrs. Lottie E. Green, Mrs. Nellie Smith of Wilberforce; Edw. W. and Charles H. Mitchell of this city. Her body was taken to Oberlin for interment, services being held in the Congregational church, of which she had been a member for years. As indicated in the foregoing the Mitchell family was one of our oldest and best in Oberlin for many many years. Commander Harry T. Walker, Adjutant Samuel V. Perry and Finance officer Harry Gibson of Lemuel T. Boydston post, The American Legion, announce its memorial services will be held, Sunday, 9:30 a.m., at Mt. Zion Cong. church. All members of the post are urgently requested to report in uniform at the local O. N. G. headquarters, 2286 Kirk St., promotion at 9 a.m. march to the church. Veterans (in uniform) of the World War welcomed in the parade and all welcomed at the church. The American Wooden band will lead the parade after the services. Secretary Wright of the Federated Churches of Cleveland announces that our local churches have had the largest number of accessions, thus far this year. He says: "Especially noteworthy is the fact that 30 local Afro-American churches had a total number 4000 accessions during the year. Among those having the largest number were: Triedstone Baptist, 577; Antioch Baptist, 400; St. John's A. M. *E.*, 400; St. Paul Zion, 340; Shiloh Baptist, 327; Cory Methodist, 340; Lane Metropolitan, 300." A careful personal examination of the quality of these 4,000 accessions would afford some astounding information. Patronize Our Advertisers 25¢ —is the right price to pay for a good tooth paste— LISTERINE TOOTH PASTE Large Tube 25¢ THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, O.SATURDAY, MAY 23, 1925. 1 PRIME SPORT NEWS Great Game, Sunday Afternoon. The "Blues" play the Columbus "White Sox" at Hooper field, Sunday afternoon. The Sox are our leading team or central Ohio. They are bringing their star battery, Hinton Hurrell, and two heavy hitters, Hurrell, Mitchell, and White Sox have been greatly strengthened. The biggest crowd of the season is anticipated, Sunday. Dover Wins! Last Sunday at Dover, the Dover A. C. won an interesting game, that seasawed back and forth till the eighth inning. Score 7 to 5. The Cleveland Blues started with a rush by scoring three in the first, but Dover was even at the end of the second inning and piled up in the sixth, but steady wildness of the Blues pitchers proved their undoing. The Blues showed classy fielding and good hitting, but their pitchers were off, giving 10 bases on balls. Hubbard Equals Another World- Record. Ann Arbor, Mich.—The outstanding performance of the dual track and field meet here, Saturday week, between the University of Michigan and Ohio State was the record of De Hart Hubbard who equaled the world's record in the 100-yard dash. Hubbard's time was 9:6-10 seconds. He was away like a flash and was the winner over his competitors. Many of the are of the opinion that he will beat the world's mark within the year. Suggs Wins 51st Straight Bout. New Bedford, Mass.—By knocking out Billy Marlow (white) of New York, in the 4th round of a scheduled 10-round bout, "Chick" Suggs, New England bantamweight and featherweight champion, scored his fifty-first consecutive ring victory, recently. He threw Marlow in the first round for a count of nine and finished the scrap in the fourth with a right uppercut that landed flush on the New Yorker's chin. Wilberforce, O.—The track team finds itself handicapped due to the fact that part of its cinder path has been destroyed to make way for a new building. However, it took second place in the 440-yard relay at the Ohio Relays, finishing ahead of Ohio University and Cincinnati. "Wu Pang" Ward, all-round athlete of Wilberforce, is being called the "Ball Penguin" for making baseball (due to his fence-busting proclivities). Ward is a star on the diamond, the gridiron, the track and the basketball court. BASEBALL Sunday, May 24th At 2:45 P. M. Columbus 'White Sox' vs. Cleveland "Blues" See Ohio Capital's Best At Hooper Field How can I, a woman without training and experience, earn the money so necessary to the welfare and happiness of myself and those I love? Ask for KRAFT CHEESE At your dealers. Our answer has solved the problem for thousands of Race Women, who make nice profits through PORO. 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Ben, Haithcox and Elmer Pickering of Lima, came from Detroit to locate here. Phillip Taylor, E. 40th St., spent part of last and the week previous, in Detroit. Rev. D. E. Skelton has been re-appointed pastor of Cory M. E. church for another year. The Gilpin Players will give their last performance of the season, May 26, at Longwood High school auditorium. Weaver & Hedges have closed their pool-room, Central Ave. and E. 31st St., and the latter has gone to Kentucky for a visit. Edith L. Wright, assistant executive secretary of the P. W. A., has resigned and accepted a similar position with our Brooklyn, N. Y., W. C. A. Virginia Jones, E. 90th St., was one of the participants in the big school gym exhibition at public hall, Friday evening. She received a perfect record for the past season. Dr. Stanley E. Brown, Western Reserve university graduate of 1925, has gone to Washington, D. C., to take an examination for an internship in Freedman's hospital. 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Miss Marie Fields won two tickets to the recent concert of Case Musical club (white) at Masonic auditorium by her excellent work in poster drawing at the Cleveland School of Art. If you owe The Gazette for your subscription please mall the amount at once and do not wait for the collector. Tell your friends, if they want the news, to purchase "The Old Reliable" Gazette. Mr. and Mrs. John Pettiford of Oberlin were guests, recently, of Atty, and Mrs. John Ballard, 2272 E. 74th St., whose baby daughter accompanied them home. They are fine people, and were residents of this city, years ago. Perry Robinson, age 43, 2366 E. 81st St., Monday was bound over to the grand jury by Judge Selzer after he had pleaded guilty to cutting to wound Rose Holine, age 40, 3522 Central Ave., when she resisted his attentions. - Ira Mason, B. 101st St., was one of our few members of the mam-month high school orchestra at the public auditorium, Saturday evening week. He is a saxophone player and represented Fairmount junior high school. Lester Stewart, violinist, represented Moses Cleveland school. Violet Rose, age 30, was stabbed twenty-seven times with a pocketknife by her husband, Chauceyn, when they quarreled at their home, 2192 E. 69th St. last week Thursday night, according to police. The woman was taken to a hospital Rose was charged with stabbing to kill. The religious chautauqua at St. James A. M. E. church, May 6 to 17 proved successful, Rev. and Mrs. N.H. Jelz were the special speakers and singers, assisted by the pastor, Rev. Jos. Evans. On Sunday afternoon, Dr. Jelz talked to men and in the evening gave a special sermon. The church auditorium was packed. Basil F. Ramey, confined to his bed, nearly two years, with spinal trouble, the result of a fall on the ice while carrying mail, left, this week, for a government hospital at Asheville, N. C., for treatment: His wife, Mrs. Ada Redman Ramey, died, three months ago. 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One examination for the three posts open was conducted but there were not enough applicants. Mrs. Mary Taylor, mother of Alex. O. Taylor, died, last week, after a lengthy illness. Funeral, Friday afternoon, from St. John's A. M. E. church, Rev. E. A. Clarke officiating. The deceased was an old resident of the city and highly esteemed by all who knew her. Her son has the earnest sympathy of The Gazette and the community. Wednesday evening, the affiliated musical clubs of the Cedar "Y"; the Maxwell quartet, the Thomas Male chorus, the Mozart Glee club and the Hayden trio, will render a joint concert at M. Zion Cong. Temple. The local musical development: violin, cello and piano. Committee: John Maxwell, Charles Boyd, Murray Adams and Thos. Christopher. Current rumor has it that Sam Woods lost his job with the city, last week. He was employed "at the foot of E. 40th St.", where Robert ("Hooofey") Lawson was, before he "lost out", too. Many of our city employees are certainly having "painful" experiences, these days, and are sharpening their political "knives" for Councilman Tom Fleming, they say. Lovett F. Whitman of Chicago, who recently returned from Russia where he studied the problems of the working element, spoke at Beulah Baptist church, E. 31st St. and gave a Thursday evening talk is the national organizer of the Afro-American Labor Congress to be held, this summer; headquarters, Chicago. A number of our local workers are interested in this congress. The Committee on Interacial Relations of the Federated Churches will hold a supper conference in Mt. Zion temple, this week Friday, at 6:30 p. m. The program will consist of a report of the national interacial conference held recently in Cincinnati, made by Atty. A. H. Martin. Brief addresses will be made by E.A. Brodell, Dr. A. Clarke and Rev. Frank T. Barry. Special music will be furnished by Mt. Zion choir. Supper at 75c a plate will be served by the ladies of the church. The Gazette acknowledges the receipt, last week, of an invitation, accompanied by press courtesies, from Supt. R. G. Jones, of the local public schools, to attend the seventh annual folk dance, to be given, this (Saturday) afternoon, by 3,500 pupils and teachers at Public Auditorium, under the direction of Miss Olive Whitworth, assistant supervisor of physical education. Our people should attend in large numbers, and be on hand promptly at 2:30 p.m. m. so as to get good seats. It will be a wonderful spectacle. Three men and a woman chased another member of the race around the corner of E. 38th St. and Scovill Ave, last week Thursday night, and when he tripped and fell, one of them, the woman, it is said, whipped out one of those long-bladed knives, that are sold mainly in the drug stores along the "aveno" (Scovill), and slashed" him across the face inflicted a very severe wound or wounds. 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EASLEY One of Cleveland's Finest and Most Modern Mortuaries --- Segregation An Outrage! Help The "Old Reliable" to increase its circulation! Don't Throw Away Your Copy of THE GAZETTE After Reading it, But Give It to a Friend or an acquaintance who Might Subscribe After Reading a Copy of It. How Our Men And Women Are Insulted And Humiliated In the Government's Departments—Will the Self and Race-Respecting Negro Press of This Country Continue to Stand for This Sort of Thing? (Special to The Gazette). Washington, D. C., Oct. 4, 1924. —There is more segregation in Washington today under President Coolidge than there has ever been since the Civil War. The beginnings of segregation were under President Taft. It was greatly extended, under President Wilson; increased, still further, under President Harding; and reached its zenith under President Coolidge. For instance, the largest of our parks President Wilson never troubled, but the present administration has found time and desire to introduce it even there. To many people, segregation is a Democratic scheme of insult, but such is not the case. Mr. Taft introduced it in the bureau of engraving. He segregated 10,000 workers in 1909, restricting white workers to white people, and black to black, often duplicating work as most blocks had white and black residents. And, worst of all, an 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 institution. It was begun by Republican, and to its all-embracing extent by Republican! 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 the papers, is tenaciously held on to by our Republican President. Only last week, a colored lady appeared after she passed the best examination, and after having been telegraphed for by the department. The photograph had failed to tell her true color, and they flatly refused to appoint her when she appeared, and they saw her complexion. Commissioner Blair of the internal revenue bureau with thousands of clerks will not appoint a Negro clerk, and his word is law there, as he is the special favorite of Secretary Mellon and President Coolidge. He holds in North Carolina, the头衔 of the other favorite and leader of the segregated schools. Col Sherrill, superintendent of buildings and grounds, 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 cafeteria for whites only, where these inferior white clerks can buy appetizing lunches and chat in comfort while eating, while the colored clerks must bring cold luncheons from home and eat them any place they can. The physical discomfort, disadvantageous as it is, is far less galling to the colored clerks than is the thought of their government taking their taxes, as it takes those of the whites, for the comfort of the latter, and setting them off as though they were the more important to all the more they reflect that they are far more capable than the whites, and render the government more intelligent and efficient service—the white man of their attainment being able to get far more lucrative employment. The department goes even farther in its solicitude for whites and neglect of colored. It maintains a well-appointed club room with pool tables and other games, comfortable lounges and other equipment for rest, sociability, and recreation, and nothing for these same colored employees. This private club is in the magnificent postoffice building, built and maintained by ALL of the people. In the locker room the segregation segregation is even present in the toilets. And all of this is against the most dependable and faithful employees. Last year the white employees passed around invitations to the white employees, in the very pres- ence of the colored, to attend a reception to the heads of departments, including the postmaster general, in the postoffice building. It announced dancing and a pleasant social evening with the officials for "the postoffice employee who was the colored clerk, who hurried a protest to the postmaster general the day before it was to come 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. If a client or old in the service must ever dream of a promotion to a directive position. The hard, unyielding caste passes whites over him, one after another, though many of the colored employees have won contests in quickness and accuracy in the handling of mail. The colored clerks have dared to form a union which meets regularly and often sends manly and intelligent protests to the postmaster, and often appeals from his decisions to the postmaster-general. It has secured some improvement in their working conditions, but they are still bitter over the huge injustice done to them for nothing else than the color of their skin. (Special to The Gazette.) Washington, D. C.—The government printing office keeps faith with the government's universal scheme of segregation. Some of the best and brightest of our girls are forced to accept inferior positions there on account of the better and more lucrative avenues of employment being closed to them because of their color. The whites are generally of a very mediocre group, far from equaling our girls in educational equipment, culture, and working efficiency. Yet these superior girls are set off from the whites with the latter, of course, having the better working conditions, salaries and recreational facilities. There is a large cafeteria in this huge structure where all of the employees may go out of the-way section reserved for our employees. I am glad to say that few, very few, of our people patronize the place, preferring a little physical inconvenience to the open, semi-public humiliation of segregation. In toilet facilities, dressing-rooms, and work assignments, wherever possible, the law of segregation is in full force, and, of course, this same undemocratic practice reveals itself on the salary roll and in the hard caste that bares promotions. Here, the managers, as well as pass over our superior employees to directive positions, and higher salaries. The whites have a large recreational center in this public building with many fine appointments for rest and amusements. During lunch and dinner hours they repair to this restful retreat for sociability and dance. Last fall, a young Afro-American with a splendid record in his work, felt the injustice of this treatment, and 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 dismisses him for a night employee, hence he drives a pistol. Right after the dance incident a fire broke out in the office. He was quickly accused of setting the building afire in revenge for his exclusion from the dance floor. Detectives came to the building to arrest him, and failing to secure any evidence searched him only to discover the pistol. They quickly dropped the arson charge and substituted one for carrying concealed weapons with which he immediately dismissed. By this secure unimproved 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 only to be met a dental that theDIT administration est, and a request for the name of my informants. I knew the fate these informants would suffer so I have never given a single name! The department then taking the position THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, J. SATURDAY, MAY 23, 1925. that it cannot take up the case. It is perfectly clear that this iniquitous scheme of segregation is a difficult thing to fight, since the government will settled upon it, and the complainants cannot bear witness to it. (Special to The jazette) (Special to The Gazette) Washington, D. C.-Segregation in the bureau of engraving and printing has an interesting history involving President Thomas Woodrow Wilson and members of his family, three heroic young colored women who lost their positions as a 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 he colored and colored girls working together in 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 disu raged, she came out one stormy afternoon to the Y. M. C. A. to urge them to continue the fight for equality against the crises. Oswald Garrison Villard came to town to attack White House and Cabinet and arouse our people, and the Nation Association secured publicity in over six hundred influential white papers in the country. The fight checked what was thought to be the intention of the segregates, namely, the elimination of the colored employees from the bureau a1 to培 The same segregation which some of our people think is the cherished institution of the Democratic party is still there, in all of its fullness, under the administration, of the party that Abraham Lincoln, Charles Sumner and Frederick Douglass are helped to found. Our girls are employed there in far larger numbers than in any other branch of the public service. THEY ARE SEGREGATED in their rest rooms, toilets, and laundry facilities, and none are ever thought of for promotions to executive places. They are girls from our best nomes, most of them with high age, normal school training, and fine culture. The white girls are of no such grade, as there is no segregation for them in the great world of things. They have unlimited fields at high wage for even mediocre talents. The best of our girls must take these inferior positions, and not segregation. Our people are still hoping for the issuance of an order destroying this iniquitous practice in all of our government departments, for it not only humiliates the best of the government servants but impairs the government service. (Special to The Gazette) (Special to Washington, D.C. — The Treasury department, according to the President's acceptance speech, is now under the ablest financial genius since the days of Alexander Hamilton. It is to be remembered that the great Hamilton came from the West Indies, and in that long sweep of history that the President traversed are the mighty Salmon P. Chase, secretary of the treasury in Lincoln's cabinet, who, in a national extremity such as this country has never known, devised the national banking system which financed the Civil War; and Ohio's master financier, John Sherman. These men never knew what securcation was! The present head of the department of internal revenue, Mr. Blair from North Carolina, has not appointed a colored clerk since his incumbency. While his predecessor, Mr. Daniel Roper, a Democrat from Texas, appointed and promoted several of them. Since the income tax legislation and the numberless new taxes that the recent war necessitated, this is by far the largest department of the treasury, employing several thousand clerks. Yet Negroes are so scarce there that they are not the 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 thee. 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. The segregated clerks are forced to work the physical inconvenience at times, and travel long distances when they desire the use of them. The department maintains a huge, marvellant safeteria, 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 they preside over in two thousand rooms 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 registries 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 segregation must be abolished the division altogether; so they remain in a dilemma, fearing to act. Our clerks must accept segregation or elimination, and being poor, with no other opportunities in this southern atmosphere, must take the former. They are depressed at the wrong, but economic stress compels endurance of it. By a single stroke of his pen, President Calvin Coolidge can stop every bit of this damnable segregation, just as he can condemn that lawless organization the Ku Klux Klan. COOLIDGE'S SEGREGATION Washington, D.C.—We wish to call attention to the fact that in the fight against the segregation of our government employees, the Treasury Department will most likely be the center of attack for segregation in several of its bureaus has been most announced. This is particularly true of the office of the register of the treasury and the internal revenue bureau. In the former, beaver board walls were maintained until recently. In the latter there have been two cases of discrimination on account of color brought to public view. The words, announcing the election of President Coolidge, were hardly cold before the effort to increase segregation in the departments here was on again at full speed. It had slowed up a little during the campaign. Investigation of Bureaus 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 contemptuous after years of 900 of unheard discrimination, 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. "Negrades are not worthy of equal rights; they are by nature not worth it." 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. Against The Mob and Lynch-Murder—The Work of a Member of The Race—Also His Ohio Civil Rights Law 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 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: MOBS. Section 6278. "Mob" and "lynching" defined. 6279. "Serious injury" defined. 6280. Damages in case of assault. 6281. Damages in case of lynching. 6282. Damages recoverable by legal representative of victim of lynching. 6283. Person suffering death or injury by mob trying to lynch another. 6284. Limitations of action. 6285. Order to include recovery and costs in tax levy. 6286. Guardian's custody, etc., fees. 6287. County's right of action against member of mob. 6288. County's right of action against another county. 6289. Non-relief from prosecution. Section 6278. A collection of people assembled for an unlawful purpose and intending to do damage or injury to any one, or pretending to exercise correctional power over other persons by violence and without authority of law, shall be deemed a "mob" for the purpose of this chapter. A person may mob upon the body of any person shall constitute a "lyching" within the meaning of this chapter. (93 v. 161 2.) Section 6279. The term "serious injury," for the purpose of this chapter, shall include such injury as permanently or temporarily disables the person receiving it from earning a livelihood by manual labor. (93 v. 161 2.) Section 6280. A person taken from officers of justice by a mob, and assaulted with whips, clubs, misfits, or other weapons, 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, from the county in which such assault is made a sum not to exceed five hundred dollars; or, if the injury received therefrom is serious, a sum not exceeding one thousand dollars; or, if such injury result in permanent disability to earn a livelihood by manual labor, a sum not to exceed five thousand dollars. (92 v. 162 5.) Section 6282. The legal representative of a person dying from injuries received from lynching by a mob, may recover 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 children surviving such decedent being the part of such 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 the mob. Section 6284. Action for the recoveries provided for in this chapter must be commenced, within two years from the date of such lynching, in any court having original jurisdiction of an action for damages for malicious assault. (93 v. 162 7.) Section 6285. An order to the commissioners of a county, against which such recovery is had, to include it with the costs of action, in the county, shall be a part of the judgment in every such case. (93 v. 162 8.) Section 6236. 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 6237. 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 persons composing such mob. A person present, with hostile intent, at such lynching shall be deemed a member of the mob and be liable to such action. (93 v. 162 10.) Section 6238. If a mob carries a prisoner into another county, or comes from another county to commit violence on a prisoner brought from such county for safekeeping, the county in which the lynching is committed may recover the amount of the judgment and costs from the county from which the mob came gence on the part of officials of such contributory negligence imprisoned not less than 100 county in falling to protect such prisoner or disperse such mob (93 v. 163 11.) Section 6289. This chapter shall not relieve a person concerned in such lynching for prosecution for homicide or assault for engaging therein. (93 v. 163 12.) OUR OHIO CIVIL RIGHTS LAW Upon the request or many readers of The Gazette we print below the text of the Hon. Henry W. Ohio Civil Rights law which the editor had enacted while a member of the 71st General Assembly, in 1894: The General Code of Ohio: Sec. 12940. Whoever, being the proprietor or his employee, keeper or manager of an inn, restaurant, eating house, bar-shop, public conveyance by land or water, theater or other place of public accommodation and amusement, denies to a citizen except for reasons applicable allike to all citizens and regardless of race or civil enjoyment of the accommodations, admitting tities or privileges thereof, shall be fined not less than fifty dollars nor more than five hundred dollars, or more than ninety days, or both. Sec. 12941. Whoever violates the next preceding section shall also pay not less than fifty dollars nor more than five hundred dollars to the person aggrieved thereby to be recovered in any court of competent jurisdiction in the county where such offense was committed. This law has repeatedly been held constitutional and good law by the Ohio Supreme court. The people in our people will not use it as often as they should, but expect it to do for them what they should and must do for themselves, under it, in the courts. Judge Grant's Opinion of the Law Misled by the foolishly manufactured outcry for the passage of the Beaty bill, a few years ago, the Akron Beacon Journal published an editorial to which the editor of The Gazette replied, calling its attention to the wrongness of the right law was good law and did not amending. The following letter from Judge Grant former presiding judge of the Court of Appeals of the Eighth District of Ohio, is self explanatory. Editor, The Gazette, Cleveland, O. My Dear Sir: Observing your letter in the Beacon-Journal, of this 1 venture to send you, under a separate porter of Feb. 3, last, containing the opinion of the Court of Appeals in the Puritan Lunch Co. vs. Leonard H. Forman, decided in Akron, last fall, in which a judgment for ($500) five hundred dollars was sustained. If the Beacon-Journal had known the judge, he would have known there would have been no occasion for criticism editorially. THE LAW OF OHIO IS UNDER NO RE- PROACH, nor our courts and juries, in administering it. Not a word was said by the Beacon-Journal when the Forman case was reviewed. Our advertisers want your trade. Those who do not ask for it in the columns of "The Old Reliable" Gazette certainly care little, if at all, for it. Therefore, we urge our readers and all of our friends to patronize those who ask in this paper for your patronage. Editor. The Ideal Motor Car (President Greer College of Automotive Engineering, Chicago) It goes without saying that the ideal automobile should be noiseless, free from vibration, powerful, of simple, sturdy construction, with few moving parts to get out of order and require attention, and with friction reduced to a minimum. It should be easily operated, flexible, capable of rapid acceleration, quick stopping, ready at a moment's notice, mechanical and other complications, theft-proof, clean, room and comfortable. Most important of all, it must be practical, reliable, serviceable and economical. In appearance it should be so distinctive and attractive as to cause that just pride that comes with ownership of a really fine car. The body work should be typical of the best traditions of the coach-builder's art. It should be right In every detail The reason for the high favor with which the closed type of automobile is regarded seems obvious. The well built closed car affords, in summer and winter, a greater measure of comfort than is possible in the open type of vehicle. With windows lowered, the touring sedan or coupe becomes an open car, the rain storms and other summer disturbances. In the winter months, with windows closed and equipped with a heater, the sedan or coupe always is comfortable. And comfort, after all, is the factor that most appeals to the present-day motor-car owner. What will the final equipment of automobile be? This is the question itself is brought up almost every time several motor-car owners get together for a few minutes' chat or what their car can do. When the electric lighting and starting was installed, it was thought the last word had been heard, for these improvements overshadowed all the previous ones that had been made. But competition forced manufacturers to try and add new features, and the succeeding models were fitted until today a car is sold with practically everything that is designed for efficiency and comfort. Correct form in driving means minimum drain on the pocketbook. Velvet stops and starts prevent unusual strains on the engine, and they also stop and thres. They also cut down the consumption of gasoline and oil. A well made engine, like a Swiss watch, is a sensitive thing. It would abuse, but responds willingly and capably to gentle handling. Next week's article: "Around the Garage Stove." "I honor the man who in the conscientious discharge of his duty dares to stand alone; the world, with ignorant, intolerant judgment, may condemn, the countenances of relatives may be averted, and the hearts of friends grow cold, but the sense of duty done shall be sweeter than the applause of the world, the countenances of relatives or the hearts of friends."—Charles Sumner.