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THE GAZETTE ESTABLISHED, AUGUST 25, 1883 And Issued Every Week on Time Since CLEVELAND, OHIO, SATURDAY, JULY 18, 1925 By Mobs of White Brutes Led by Kluxers—Our People Rally to the Support of the Occupants of the Residences—They're "Holding the Forts". FRESH OHIO NEWS Written By "The Old Reliable" Gazette's Correspondents What Our People Are Doing Each Week—Church Personal, Social, Lodge, Literary and Musical Marriages, Deaths, Etc. Detroit, Mich.—(Special to The Beautiful residence in an aristocratic neighborhood, at No. 9448 Stoepel Ave., two blocks from Livernois and Plymouth Ave.'s, Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Fletcher and other members of the race, opened fire from the upper- story windows on a crowd of several thousand white moboors; shortly after 10 o'clock, last week Friday night. Only one casualty was reported, a white youth being shot twice in the thigh. The house had been a target for stones, bricks and missiles of every sort, except bullets, for half an hour before our people retaliated. All available officers, including detectives, were rushed from police headquarters and other precincts, when the report of the new disorder was received. More than a score of other officers had been on duty at 4812 American Ave., another more or less exclusive neighborhood, south of Tireman, at the home of Mr. V. A. Bristol, the scene of the disorders for three consecutive nights previous. Mrs. W. L. Smith, (white), living at 4922 Stoepel Ave., next door to the Fletcher residence, had five tons of coke delivered in the afternoon. Strange, coincidence, isn't it. The coke was used by the mob. Practically every window in the new Fletcher home was shattered. The mob demonstration, last week Friday night, was the third of the kind in the section west of Grand River Ave. and east of Liverpool, in the last three weeks. Three different Afro-American families moved into new houses in what had been exclusive "white" neighborhoods. Dr. Alexander L. Turner, on Spokane Ave., was the first object of a low down mob, led by southern "crackers". His house was stoned and windows broken. Huge crowds collected for several successive nights, but Dr. and Mrs. Turner "held the fort". Last week Tuesday night, Afro- FRESH OF Written By "The Gazette's Co What Our People Are D Personal, Social, Lodge, Marriages, CADIZ.—Mrs. Lillian Hill, who visited her daughter, Mrs. R. F. Ballard, has returned to Oberlin.—Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Fuller, of Ravenna, visited Mr. and Mrs. Noble Mason, last week.—Mr. Wiltard Wallace was called to Steubenville by his brother, Albert's illness.—Mrs. Essie Jackson and children are visiting in Martin's Ferry.—Miss Alma Biennau is visiting in Columbus —Mrs. Alice Howard has received word of the serious illness of her cousin, Bingham Benford, of Zauzville. In the absence of St. James' pastor, Rev. W. H. Lucas preached in the morning and Rev. W. F. Tyler in the evening.—Misses Lenora and Lillian West were given a birthday surprise, last week Friday evening. 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 Guzette 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. HILLSBORO.—Joseph R. Cole returned from Washington C. H., Sunday. He visited a brother, Dudley. —John Day is ill.—Mr. and Mrs. Alex. Holland and sons, Charles Minor, Vernon Young, John Williams, Clarence Hudson, Harvey Ames, J. Henson, Clarence Pleasant and Sam- Americans opened fire on a white mob that had collected about the new residence of Volligton A. Bristol, undertaker, on American Ave. There were no casualties. The K. K. K. Burn a Firey Cross. Anticipating further disorder, large details of police have been on guard, each night since. There has been no recurrence of the shooting. The nearest approach to additional disorder came again, late last week Friday night, when a large fiery cross was burned by Kluxers in a vacant lot at Prairie and Diversey Ave's, a short distance from the Bristol home. Police extinguished it. Just before midnight, scores of huge placards, announcing a mass meeting of members and friends of the Ku Klux Klan, were tacked on telegraph and telephone poles throughout the district immediately adjacent to Tireman and American Ave's, and were allowed to remain. This shows the attitude of the police and other city officials. The Turner, Bristol and Fletcher homes, were well stocked with arms and ammunition and the two latter used them to splendid purpose for the protection of themselves and their families. This is right, legal and perfectly proper. More than this, hundreds of our people from various parts of the city went to the scenes well armed and ready to afford all the assistance, needed, and hundreds of rifle and revolver shots rifcocheted and spattered as rapid volleys were fired in the clashes between our people and the lawless whites led by kluxes, many southern "crackers". Again the police failed lamentably to do their duty, as they refused to arrest a single one of the white moncrats. The contests are still on even the battles are not raging. Turner, Bristol and Fletcher do not intend to be driven out by this city's lawless element and our people here are going to give them all the support of all kinds they may need. OHIO NEWS The Old Reliable" correspondents Doing Each Week—Church, Literary and Musical— Deaths, Etc. uct Graves, attended the K. P. services in Washington C. H. Sunday, Mr. and Mrs. George Tulbane, of Oxford, are here to spend a month with relatives.—Mr. and Mrs. Clifford Lamb, Misses Virginia Cole and Nina Kilgour visited Mr. and Mrs. Frank Blair, near Leesburg, Sunday.—Mrs. Mary Holland and sons, Miss Ella Hardin, Mrs. J. J. Burr and daughter, motored to Stony Point; Thursday, and were guests of Mrs. Harvey Ames.—Bradley Dent, Miss Mary Williams, Mr. and Mrs. Archie Cole attended the K. P. services in Washington C. H. Sunday.—Mrs. James Hill is ill.—Miss. Virgil Paxton has arrived from Detroit to spend the summer.—Mrs. Anna Johnson returned to Springfield, Saturday.—Kenneth Warner of Columbus, spent Sunday with his grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Edward Green. The I, N, L, A, J, Trouble The C. N. L. X. In Troubles New York City.—An action, dated June 4, and returnable within 20 days is being pressed against the Universal Negro Improvement Association for the sum of $6,000 as a mortgage on the property occupied by the home office of the association at 56 West 135th St. The landlord, alleges the interest has not been paid and no taxes have been 'paid since 1921. The mortgage was executed in 1911 and assigned to Mrs. Jacquin in Feb. 1923. It was extended to Jan. 1925. First Blow Fatal. Athens, O.—Arthur ("Booth") Henshaw, (white). age 37, was killed at Glouster, last week Thursday night, by a single blow from the fist of Dewey Motin; age 27, during a quarrel over a woman. Motin is held in jail. Wonder if Henshaw was trying to practice "social equality" and Motin objected? This happens sometimes, you know. "AT IT AGAIN." The "Cracker" Governor of the Virgin Islands, a Coolidge Appointee From Southern United States. New York City.—Gov. Williams has again dissolved the St. Croix, Virgin Islands, colonial council, on the ground that they refused to recognize the credentials of two of his appointees. It refused to seat A. E. Stakeman, a lawyer and judge of the St Croix police court, and one Armstrong, the governor's appointees referred to. The council based its refusal on an act of Congress passed in July, 1921, which says that only citizens of the United States or of the Virgin Islands shall be eligible as council members. The dissolution of the council by the governor, places the governmental machinery of the islands in a state of chaos. Stakeman failed to acquire citizenship in either the United States or the Virgin Islands when he renounced his allegiance to Denmark in order to acquire status for his appointment to the council. An official government ruling, defining the status of Stakeman and others, is being sought by the American Civil Liberties Union of this city and other organizations interested in the welfare of the Virgin Islands. NEW TAXI CO. TO LAUNCH FLEET. OF TWENTY CABS DESPIE DRIVER'S ARREST! It has arrived! The first Negro owned and operated taxicab company in Cleveland has just announced that the first of a fleet of twenty taxicabs will be put in operation this week. The new taxi-line will be operated by the "400 Cab Co.", with headquarters at the Majestic Hotel, E. 55th St. and Central Ave. This announcement comes as a direct challenge to the agencies which caused the arrest of Leo Durham, driver for the "400 Cab Co." Saturday night, Durham, in a taxi demonstrator, was treating the public to free taxi rides as an advertising feature, when he was arrested for driving without a license. Friends of the new company are of the opinion that the arrest of Durham was prompted by the white taxi companies who must henceforth compete with the new company for Negro business. Promoters of the local company point with pride to the showing of the "Your Cab Co." and Calumet Taxi Co., both of Chicago, as evidences of the profits to be made in the taxi business. These two companies, both owned and operated by Negroes in Chicago, have been steady moneymakers since they were started, a few years ago. The "Your Cab Co." has maintained steadily earnings of more than twenty per cent. The attitude of local white companies in refusing to give our taxi drivers employment has made imperative the establishment of a competing line that would draw the larger share of Negro business, and thus open up avenues of employment for our men. The rates of the new company will be the same as those of its competitors; 30 cents for the first two-fifths of a mile, and 10 cents for each additional two-fifths of a mile. DOINGS OF THE RACE Following the lead of the New York Alumni of Howard University, the Boston alumni has passed a resolution in registering its demand for the removal of President J. Stanley Durkee. It is signed by Dr. Alfred Russell, president, and Samuel A. Allen, acting secretary. Fred D. Wright, age 43, a Pullman buffet car porter on the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad, has invented a device which increases the effectiveness of the vacuums used in the cleaning of railroad cars. It has been accepted by the company for a sum which is said to have made Wright independent. Because nine-year-old Easter Francis Hill, of Augusta, Md., recently prevented the wreck of a fast Baltimore and Ohio train carrying forty passengers, the little child will be "meritoriously rewarded" by the company. She flagged the train with her bonnet. CORRESPONDENTS WANTED! "The Old Reliable" Gazette desires an active agent and correspondent in every city and town in Ohio and neighboring states having a number of Afro-American residents. Only a little time on Fridays or Saturdays is required. We are especially desirous of hearing from persons in the following named cities: Springfield, Columbus, Toledo, Steubenville, Zanesville, Wilmington, Xenia, Washington C. H., Lancaster, Hamilton, Piqua, Lima, O., and other places, particularly in Ohio, where we have none. Write to the editor of The Gazette 226 West Superior Ave., Cleveland, O., and terms will be sent promptly. Our readers will oblige us greatly by sending at once the addresses of persons in the cities named, and others in the state to whom we can write relative to the matter. SINGLE COPY FIVE CENTS WITH US! BARS "JIM CROW" SCHOOLS Decision of the Court of Appeals of Montgomery County, (Dayton) Ohio, Rendered, July 3, 1925. This is an action in mandamus. The relator, who is a colored man, seeks to compel the defendant, The Board of Education, to admit his son (of school age) to the public schools upon equal terms with other pupils, and avers that such right is denied. The petition is very broad and states, among other things, that the colored pupils of the Garfield School sub-district are being segregated solely because of color, and that separate schools are being maintained for that purpose whereby the colored pupils are required to attend in a separate building, with separate teachers, separate classes, and separate accommodations. The case is submitted on demurrer to the petition. We, therefore, consider the case at this time as stated in the petition. The question presented is whether a Board of Education of a city school district can segregate the pupils solely on account of color, into separate schools. The case of the Board of Education vs. Stute, 35 O. S. 555, is decisive. That case was The resolutions, in part, are as follows: **Aims of The Association.** We have before us today five major aims: 1. The complete abolition of lynching and mob law; 2. Political freedom; 3. Industrial democracy; 4. Better education; 5. The absolute ending of segregation of all sorts based on race and color. Let no one think that lynching is stopped in America as long as one victim every month is publicly murdered and even burned by mobs. There is no political salvation for the Negro as long as he is owned body and soul by the Republican party or by any other party. A free, intelligent ballot is our one political salvation and no place, honor, or salary is worth its loss. We stretch again hands of fellowship and sympathy to all the working people of this land and the world. We would unite with them as equals and as fellows, striving thru organization to make modern industry democratic rather than autocratic to end monopoly and privilege in credit and capital and to make social welfare rather than individual wealth the end of all industry. We are deeply alarmed at the lack of common schools for our children and we see widespread effort to deny as high school training and to keep our talented youth out of colleges and professional schools. We believe in Humanity; we believe in the social and civil equality of all men; we will fight to the bitter end every effort to separate segregate and publicly humiliate human beings of any kind, because of race or color. We are fighting residential segregation in the last ditch before the V. S. supreme court. We are attacking disfranchisement in the South by bringing the white primary before the bar of national justice. Resolved. That we note with disgust and resentment the attempt of Gen. Robert Lee Bullard of Alabama and the U. S. Army to detame and discredit the men of the 92d Division (Colored) of the American Expeditionary Forces in France. A cloud of witnesses has afflicted overwhelm with denials this assault of a brave men and faithful soldiers; it is not necessary for us to add to a refutation so complete and signal. But we feel impelled to record our sol- E COPY FIVE CENTS H US! ROW" SCHOOLS of Appeals of Montgomery n) Ohio, Rendered, 3, 1925. decided shortly after: the separate school statute had been repealed. Practically the same argument was made in that case as in this. It was contended that the Board of Education had discretion to make such assignment of pupils as they might deem proper for the best interests of the school and that such discretion might justify a segregation on the ground of color. The Supreme Court met this argument as follows: . . . Whilst under the latter section power is conferred on Boards of Education to make such assignments of the youth of their respective districts, to the schools established by them, as will in their opinion, best promote the interest of education in their districts, such power cannot be exercised with reference to the race or color of the youth; and section 4008 having been repealed by the act of the General Assembly passed February 22, 1887 (84 Ohio L. 34), separate schools for colored children have been abolished, and no regulation can be made under section 4013, that does not apply to all children irrespective of race or color." Although that case related to a rural district, it would, in our judgment, apply equally to the case at bar. The discretion of the Board of Education, while a broad discretion, does not permit a segregation purely on the ground of race or color. It is contended that mandamus is not an appropriate remedy. The case of State, ex rel William Phillips, vs. The Board of Education of Woodlawn Rural School District decided by the first appellate district, is cited. While we have great respect for the decisions of that court, we feel bound to hold, to the contrary. We think our Supreme Court stands committed by various decisions to the doctrine that mandamus is an appropriate remedy to enforce the right of a pupil in the public schools. Some of the decisions relied upon by counsel for defendant are mandamus cases and the case in the 45th State, above referred to, was also a mandamus case. Demurrer overruled. McConnaughey and Shea, Wade Buydden, attorneys for plaintiff. J. B. Harshman, city attorney, Wm. V. Snyder, asst., attorneys for defendant. Sam D. Kelly, amicus curlae. ennn protest against General Bullard's action as a hostile gesture, most improper in any army officer, from the element in the South that is still unenlightened and still cave-dwelling, and as a gross, wanton insult to ten per cent of the people that pay Gen. Bullard his wages and whose servant he is. Haiti. The N. A. A. C. P., assembled in its sixteenth annual conference, respectfully reminds the President of the United States and its Secretary of State, that the independent and sovereign republic of Haiti is still occupied, in defiance of international law by American troops. We beg leave to represent that all of the purposes alleged as excuses for this illegal occupation have been achieved. Under, the military, power of the United States, the constitution of Haiti has been destroyed and a new one substituted. The American capital that sought advantages, denied under the old constitution, has made its desired investments under the new. American sugar corporations are now prosperously installed in the subjugated country. We submit that in these conditions the time has come for us to fulfill our belafed obligations to this oppressed country. We therefore request that American troops, he withdrawn from Haiti at once and the country restored to such of its people as still survive. Abolitionists. In view of the persistent and evidently concerted effort to discredit the leaders of the great Abolition movement that freed this country from the terrible blight and ineffable shame of slavery, it is the sense of this conference that wherever and whenever possible this Association should commemorate the birthdays and public services of those noble and unselfish men and women. Freelheit Refuses to Draw Color-Line Philadelphia, Pa.—Officers of the Freelheit walked out of the offices of the Delaware Beach Line Steam-Ship Co. when the company wanted them to draw a color-line in their picnic of July 4. They made it plain that they had never nor would ever bar people from their picicles on account of race or color, and that no one could ever hope to change their policy. THIS IS CALLED A 'DECODY' YOU PUT IT IN WATER, AND IT ATTRACTS LIVE DUCKS TO IT! RHEALLY? GOODNESS! WHAT WON'T THEY GET UP NEXT! SOMEBODY GERTAINLY SOLD SIS A GOLD BRICK WHEN THEY GOLD HER THIS BUM DUCK!-- I KNEW IT WOULDN'T WORK! Tim Early PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY SUBSCRIPTION RATES 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 282 W. Superior Ave., Cleveland, O. M. Member Ohio Legislature: 1894 to 1896; 1896 to 1898; 1900 to 1902 THE GAZETTE is the oldest and has the largest bona fide circulation, double that of any newspaper in the interest of Afro-Americans published in the state of Ohio, and comparison with any will immediately establish its rank as one of the NEWSIEST AND BEST in the country. 10,000,000 Afro-Americans. 250,000 in Ohio. 40,000 in Cleveland. SATURDAY, JULY 18, 1925. Editor Jos. D. Bibb of the Chicago Whip refers to Editor Ben Davis as a "fool and a liar", and says "if Davis was an Irishman he would be thrown in one of the lakes of Killarney". We would like to know Editor Bibb's opinion of Lester Walton. --- The Gazette does not give its readers a lot of "hog-wash" and "sewer-stuff"—accounts of crimes, "immoral" reading-matter and the like, but does give all the doct, encouraging and inspiring race news, each week. Read Bishop and Mrs. E. Thomas Demby's letter. --- The way many of our papers load up their first page with big "scare-heads" over accounts of the viles and fifthest crimes of all kinds would lead one to suppose that they had not yet heard of the determination of leading newspapers of the country to subordinate if not entirely eliminate all such "sewer" publications. Wake up, conferez! --- You will soon see the heads of Stonewall Jackson and Robert E. Lee on half-dollar pieces. Coolidge approved of this action and sanctioned the appearance of these traitors on the currency of the realm. The Grand Army of the Republic has severely scored the President for his action—Chicago Whip. And the G. A. R. is right! All loyal American citizens should be doing the same thing. As for our people, particularly the race-press, many of them do not seem yet to have heard of the Coolidge segregation in the governmental departments at the nation's capital. --- The editor of The Gazette acknowledges the receipt of an invitation from Dr. Carter G. Woodson, director of The Association for the Study of Negro Life and History, Inc., to deliver an address at the tenth anniversary of the Association which is to be held in the nation's capital, Sept. 10, '25, and thoroly appreciates the honor. We hope to be able to arrange to accept it. All of our progressive men and women of intelligence should send Dr. Woodson three dollars and become active members of this outstanding organization. His address is 1538 Ninth St., N. W., Washington, D. C. There are many of our people in this city who well remember when the taxi companies did not want to accept them as passengers and in some instances refused to do so. In recent years, they have sought our patronage, doubtless because of competition, but steadily refuse to employ any of our men as chauffeurs or to advertise in our local newspapers. Now comes a taxi company, the "400 Taxicab Co.", owned and managed by Afro-Americans and employing members of the race as chauffeurs which promises to give all of its patrons just as good service as any of the others, and at the same rates. Do your duty! MUST CONTINUE LAW-ABIDING. Jesse Riley, a truck-driver of Glendale, Calif., was refused a shave because the barbers of that city drew a "color-line". Most of them have shops in Doran St., and Riley is alleged to have come dangerously near to burning them all. Burning down the institutions which thus discriminated against American citizens because of their color was "too good for them". Riley is alleged to have said. "I hope that the time will come when every person so discriminated against will adopt similar methods of retaliation. The method is a bit drastic but it is exceedingly effective", he is also quoted as saying. Right there is where Riley is wrong. We must not attempt "to take the law in our hands", for that is just what the Ku Klux are too often doing, and it is wrong! California has a civil rights law and Riley and all the rest of our people in that state must use it in defense of their rights. We cannot afford, at this late date, to become anarchists and ruin a reputation for being a law-abiding people that has been and will continue to be invaluable in our struggle to get our rights and privileges as American citizens. BEN DAVIS' LATEST Ben Davis, editor of the Atlanta (Ga.) Independent, in a recent issue of his paper praises the southern rebels of the war of the rebellion, says they did not fight to keep our people in slavery and winds up with a request that Afro-Americans contribute to the fund being raised to complete the Stone Mountain Memorial to the "Lost Cause" by purchasing the Memorial's souvenir half-dollars at one dollar each! "Can you beat it"? No, wonder Ben's shameless appeal "has brought down upon him the unmeasured censure" of all sane members of the race in Georgia and the rest of the country. Our people of Atlanta ought to "make it too hot" for Ben to remain in that city and state. What some "Negroes" will not do to "pander" to prejudiced white leaders, South and North, is not "in the book". We did not think, however, that Ben Davis was one of that kind. Lord, have mercy! POSITIVELY SILLY! If Lester Walton, who writes for a N. Y. City Democratic daily, or any other member of the race says the "bool weevil drove the Negro emigrant North" he is "talking thru his hat" and knows it whether he will admit it or not. Lynch-murder, "jim-crow" cars, residential and other illegal segregation, general denial of civil rights, miserable or schools, whole-sale outraging of our women and girls and absolutely no legal redress afforded, disfranchisement, and the Lord only knows all the others, are the causes of the emigration of the hundreds of thousands of "Negroes" who have come in the last eight years and are still coming. And about everybody knows this. What is the matter with Ben Davis of Atlanta and Lester Walton of N. Y. City anyhow? "Something's gone wrong!" Conferres of the racepress, these two individuals need a thoro "skinning". Give it to them! For the first time in many years, indeed we do not recall its ever having done so before, although it may have, the detestable word, "Negress" slipped into the columns of The Gazette, last week, when we used a "plate" article on our last page, and it was not noticed until the paper was off the press. Therefore, we owe our many readers an apology and are making it. The very objectifiable term Is the consort of that other and even more insulting mongrel word often applied to our people by the prejudiced, thoughtless and ignorant. We do not like the word "Negro" either and avoid its use in the columns of The Gazette just as much as possible because it is meaningless, and a misnomer officially saddled upon our group in this country by a U. S. Congress which, like all prejudiced citizens, desired that the word American be not used in designating our people, and this for reasons obvious. There was never even a tribe in Africa known as "Negroes" and native blacks of that country today prefer to be known by Ethiopians rather than "Negroes". Be that as it may, we should do everything in our power to eliminate the insulting mongrel terms, "Negress" and its consort, and secure some other designation than "Negro", one that will at least include the word American. It would have a very salutary influence upon the government and those of the other race or races who affect to be proud of the fact that they are Americans. John D. Gives the Million. New York City.—A million dollars in securities was turned over to the Hampton-Tuskegee endowment fund, the first of which, r. r., in fulfillment of a recent pledge. THE GEEVUM GIRLS PRIME SPORT NEWS Kluxers Try to Stop Game—Blues Win. The Cleveland Blues in a lively and interesting game, defeated the Ravenna A. A., there, last Sunday, 7 to 6. Stellar fielding by C. Wright and Vleibrant and hard-hitting by Clay and Cyrus featured. The latter was a punishable run, but cals drove Freeman off the mound in the fifth, but Ed. Reed held them safe. A sensational feature was the appearance of several Ku Klux Klan leaders who tried by threats to the locals to stop the game, but Manager Bayley and his Ravenna boys refused to stop. The team went on with the game. They also gave the Cleveland boys fine treatment. Score: Cleveland Blues...3 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 0—7 Ravenna A. A. 0 0 0 0 5 0 0 1 0—6 Batteries: Freeman, Reed and Vaughan; Dustman and Nash. Blues Play Fishers, Saturday Blues Play Fishers, Saturday. A hard game is scheduled for this week Saturday at Fisher Field, E. 14th and Coit Rd., when the Cleveland Blues tackle the Fisher Body nine, industrial champions of northern Ohio, who have an almost umbrella业, record, Landon O'Neal gradually whipped together a good semi-pro team and with several southern college stars expects to give the Fishers a real tussel. "Bull" Dixon, who once tamed the great Massillon Agathons, or Howard Ross. "Not the Largest, But the Best!" Little Rock, Ark., June 16, '25. Hon. Harry C. Smith, Editor, Gazette, Cleveland, O. Long live The Gazette, a welcome friend to the Ricks-Demby family for forty-two years. We boast of being among the oldest living continuous subscribers of The Gazette—not the largest but the best in essentials and the most dependable of race journals. Wishing you continued good health, we are as ever. (Bishop) Edward T. and Nettic M. Demby. 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 of service to the 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. 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Sunday they will meet the Eagles at Norwalk. Harry and Wife Touring Abroad. New York City.—Harry Wills and wife sailed for Europe, last week Wednesday, on the Berengaria. Scores of his friends were at the pier to him off. Wills and his wife have gone to France and Germany, where he will take the baths in the hope of getting the inflammation out of his hand which was injured in his fight with Luis Firpo, last year. "I am not going to put on a glove in Europe," said Wills, "but I am going to get in shape to whip Jack Dempsey, if the fight is arranged, as seems likely now." Harry ought to tell the story all the time to ask him to show the two cowardly Jacks (Dempsey and his cowardly Kearns) have been sidesteping a contest with him for lo! these many months; but he is too gentlemanly to do it. We hope some one else, over there, does it, anyhow. Wills-Godfrey New York City.—Seven promoters, hailing from different parts of the country, are said to have offered to stage a Wills-Godfrey match as a Pacific coast attraction, where Godfrey seems to have made a hit. Such a fight would be a money-maker out there. Subscribe Now Ask for KRAFT CHEESE At your dealers. CASH For Dental Gold, Platinum, Silver, Diamonds, magneto points false teeth, jewelry, any valu- ables. Mail today. Cash by return mail. Hoke S. & R. Co., Otsego, Mich. IRV SPRITZ AND JIM SHIELD WANT YOU TO BUY YOUR CLOTHING FROM Their Friendship Credit Service Store THE NEWEST STYLES THE BEST MATERIALS THE EASIEST CREDIT SPRITZ PAY $2 DOWN Next to Columbia Theatre Between Euclid and Prospect 2067 E. 9th St. LISTERINE TOOTH PASTE Large Tube 25¢ Those Who Recognize the Usefulness of Pe-ru-na Are Never Without It To the man who draws the "Geevum Girls:— Dear Sir:— When drawing the "Geevum Girls" do you have real line girls to pose, or are they purely imaginary? 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Send or bring locals and all business matters to The Gazette office, Room 304, Johnson Block, 226 West Superior Ave., opposite the Hotel Cleveland. If you wish to see the editor call there, please. We advise our readers to carefully examine The Gazette's advertisements before making purchases. Business men who advertise in this paper should have the patronage of our people. The fact that they advertise is assurance that they want it. All reading matter for publication in current issues of The Gazette must be in the office by 4 p. m., TUESDAY of that week, at the latest. Display advertisements accepted until noon, WEDNESDAYS! Classified Advertising ... Department ... WANTED—An active, intelligent and honest young man, preferably one of our college students, who has spare time, each day, and wishes to make some money. Call, Cherry, 1269, in the afternoon. WANTED—Agents. Write at once for free samples. Sell Madison "Better-Made" shirts from large manufacturer direct to wear. No capital or experience required. Many earn $100 weekly and bonus. Madison Mfg. Co., 501 Broadway, New York. CLEVELAND Social and Personal Mrs. Louis S. Jones, E. 101st St. had as guest Miss Emozetta Miller of Youngstown. Sissla and Blake are our first team to be booked as head-liners in picture treaters. They have been booked for the Missouri theater, St. Louis. Mrs. George W. Carroll had as recent guests Miss Hallel Q. Brown of Wilberforce, Mrs. Mary Chavous and Mrs. Lillie Evans of Columbus. Jane E. Hunter, W. T. Blue, Jr. Earl Fox and Charles W. White, recent graduates in law, have taken the state bar examination at Columbus. Rumor has it that Arthur J. Smith has closed his photographic studio and left the city, and that the studio's affairs are in the hands of a receiver. Do not forget the Cleveland Letter-carriers' afternoon ride on cool Lake Erie in the great boat, "Seeandbabe", Sunday, from 2 to 5 p. d. Mancing galore. E. W. Smith, the interior and exterior decorator, of 9104 Beckman Ave., wants to hear from you, if you want the best work at the most reasonable charge. The irrepressible Sydney B. Thompson of Cuyahoga lodge, will stand as a candidate for grand esquire in the Elks' Richmond, Va., convention, this year. Local Elks should rally to his support and "put Syd over". The U. S. Veterans Bureau, Hanna building, desires information as to the whereabouts of Mrs. Ora Bailey, wife of John Bailey, an ex-service man of the World War, who formerly lived on E. 31st or E. 34th St., this city. Mrs. Sada J., wife of Major W. T. Anderson, attended a meeting of the executive board of the national A. M. E. W. M. M. society, recently, in Baltimore. She has almost recovered from her serious accident of many months ago. THE GEEVU To the man who the "Geevum Dear Sir:— When drawing the "Geevum Girls" do you have real THE GEEVUM GIRLS . *Open, Sundays. *M. KLEIMAN'S 2028 Central Ave. D. BARBER'S 2006 Central Ave. BENJ. AKERS, 3519 Central Ave. *THE S. & S. DRUG CO. 7325 Central Ave. The Gazette regularly should notify copy delivered promptly. In business matters to The Gazette k. 226 West Superior Ave., oppo-you wish to see the editor call carefully examine The Gazette's purchases. Business men who have the patronage of our people, assurance that they want it, location in current issues of The by 4 p. m., TUESDAY of that advertisements accepted until ITH, Room 304. Avenue, Cleveland, O. Bell 'Phone: Cherry 1259 Prof. and Mrs. Geo. R. Dorsey have located in Cleveland. He was a member of the faculty of the C. N. K. I. Department of Wilberforce University, the past year, and is a brother of Allen H. Dorsey of E. 31st St. Prof. Dorsey is a graduate of Michigan University. John A. Mitchell, one of our longtime letter-carryers, made a record of 100 per cent for the fiscal year, according to a statement sent out by the superintendent of mails for this district. Mr. Mitchell is a brother of Mrs. Sarah Mitchell Bailey, one of our veteran school teachers. Andrew Ford, vice supreme dictator of the Moose; Mrs. Rebecca Harding Ridley, of Columbus, organizer, were guests of Mesdames Moline De Braun, Ada Johnson and W. Deille Braun, Caddy of Columbus, a supreme officer, was the guest of Mrs. Florence D. Cochran. Rev. S. A. Lucas, local representative of the American Bible society, attended the Michigan-Indiana A. M. E. Z. Center in South Bend, Ind. recently, and attended the Massillon, July 15, when a successor to Rev. E. D. Bell, deceased pastor of St. Paul's church, was appointed. The first five days of the campaign for $100,000 to build a new church and community center, now being conducted by the Antioch Baptist church, resulted in a total of $87,810, last week Friday. The campaign ended July 16. An anonymous gift of $500 has been received. Dr. and Mrs. J. T. Bridgeman, E. 81st St., had as guests, recently, Mrs. Fannie Frankes, and two daughters, Elsie and Evelyn, sister and nieces, respectively, of the doctor. They were en route from Cambridge, Mass., to South Bend, Ind., where Dr. and Mrs. Bridgeman will join them soon. Eugene Harris, age 34, was shot and instantly killed, last week Thursday, at E. 31st St. and Scovill Ave. The murder was committed, police say, by a rejected sweetheart of a woman with whom Harris was walking at the time of the shooting. He is being sought by police. Harris lived at 2346 E. 30th St. In honor of Dr. and Mrs. N. C. Vaughan of Cincinnati, guests of Mr. and Mrs. Jos. Robinson of Pasadena Ave., a most enjoyable dinner-party was given, last Sunday, by Mrs. Agnes and Mrs. Allen H. Dorsey, E. 81st St., the latter former residents of Cincinnati. Others present were: and Mrs. Roselie Davis and Russell H. Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Robinson, Messrs. Geo. R. and Allen H. Dorsey and H. C. Green. Mrs. Will Harrington, Mr. and Mrs. Columbus Campbell and Miss M. Baskin, guests of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Turner, E. 103d St., have returned home. Mrs. Turner entered in an elaborate dinner in their honor. Other guests were: Rev. and Mrs. M. T. Williams, Mr. and Mrs. W. G. Thurston, Mrs. Tom Saunders and Mr. Mark Davis of Pittsburgh. M GIRL'S draws circle: - WE PUR NO DR THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, O.SATURDAY, JULY 18, 1925. TRY OUR EASY PAYMENT PLAN! Our Own Taxicabs For Our Own People Hobbling into Municipal Judge Stevens's court, last week Tuesday, on crutches, Mrs. Lucy Bramley, E. 40th St., testified that Fred Johnson, of Waterloo Rd., hit her with a table lamp and threw her to the floor, breaking her right foot, after she had entered Johnson's home, she alleged, to compel her husband, Leo, to return home. Leo was drinking, she said. Johnson was given costs and thirty days in the workhouse. Mrs. Mollie De Braun, E. 80th St., was honored by our State Federation of Women's clubs, which met here, two weeks ago, by being elected editor of the "Queen's Garden," the federation's monthly magazine. The department of the industrial and normal (state) department of Wilberforce university, was recently given a raise in salary to $5,000 per year. He is a son of Rev. and Mrs. Charles Bunday, residents of this city. Ben Davis "Sycophancy"" Atlanta, Ga.—How a black man, proscribed and persecuted, kicked and cornered, lynch-ridden, and lilbelled can so submerge his own self-respect as to champion his semi-civilized southern oppressors is something that must be answered before one can understand Ben Davis' unpardonable sycophancy in trying to make southern black folk pay one good silver dollar for Stone Mountain, that are being made to perpetuate the memory of the "Lost Cause". Monday, Mrs. Louia S. Jones, E. 101st St., entertained at an 11 o'clock breakfast: Mrs. Ella White of this day, Mrs. Hannah Boggess and Mrs. Jonah Boggess of Youngstown, and Mrs. Annabelle Voyard, wife of a former pastor of St. Joseph, A. M. E. church, this city. Last week, Mrs. Jones received a letter from her Our For W QUALITY PRINTING QUICK SERVICE Fraternal Printing & Publishing Co. FIRST CLASS JOB AND COMMERCIAL PRINTING Church and Secret Order Work a Specialty Mail Orders Receive Prompt Attention M. C. MARTIN & SONS, 6304 SCOVILL AVE., Cleveland, Ohio E in Cleveland, now, for the first time, have a taxicab service of our own, like those of Chicago, Cincinnati, Toledo, Buffalo and most other large cities. It is backed by representative business men, manned by carefully selected drivers and will maintain a high standard of safety and service. The first stand and the company garage will be at the Majestic Hotel, East 55th and Central Avenue. New stands and more cabs will be added as you demand our services. The success of the "Your Cab Company" of Chicago has been phenomenal and there is no doubt that this company will be just as successful and as much a credit to the community. son, Louia, who had just returned to Paris, France, from a delightful visit in London with Johnny Payne and Lionel Jones, musicians, former residents of this city. Wynne & Easley, our leading undertakers, report the following deaths: Melvin, age 6, son of Mr. and Mrs. Herman Harvey, E. 55th St., died at Lakeside hospital, July 13. Interment in E. Cleveland cemetery. Edw. Rhodes, E. 33d St., Cuyahoga lodge, Elks, in charge of services. Interment in the Elks' lot, Woodland cemetery. Ophelia Cook, E. 103d St., died at City hospital. Body St., Coldertown, C. Louis Nelson, died at Lakeside hospital. Albert Peak, Scovill Ave. Mrs. Alice Blye, died at Lakeside hospital. All these funerals, from Wynne & Easley's beautiful funeral hospital, 2262 E. 55th St., near Central Ave. The last three interments, in Highland Park cemetery. Edward and Nathaniel Robinson, graduated pharmacists with thirteen years' experience in the business, have purchased and are operating what was the Rosenfeld drug store at the corner of E. 30th St. and Seco MURINE FOR YOUR EYES Clean, Clear, Healthy Beautiful Eyes Are a Wonderful Asset Murine is Cleansing, Soothing, Refreshing and Harmless. You Will Like It. Book on "Eye Care" or "Eye Beauty" Free on Request Murine Co., Dpt. H. S., 9E. Ohio St., Chicago vill Ave. It is now known as Robinson's Pharmacy. Prescriptions carefully compounded by a registered druggist always in attendance at the store. The Robinsons are carrying a complete line of southern hair and toilet preparations, photo supplies, toilet articles of all kinds, cigars, candies, sodas, etc., etc., and deliver to their customers when it is desired. Watch their windows and The Gazette for their special sales and remember they give employment to one of the race in the person of Walter Gumble (deceased), father of Mrs. Alberta Gumble Wille, now a resident of Los Angeles, Calif. The Lee family was one of our earliest and best set- tlers in Cleveland. Patronize Robinson's Pharmacy at the corner of E. 30th St. and Scovill Ave. 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 together more baseness, cruelty and abomination than any other sort of error in the world." —H. G. Wells. 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. COOLIDGE PERMITS IT! How Our Men And Women Are Insulted And Humiliated In the Government's Departments—Will the Self and Race-Respecting Negro Press of This Country Continue to Stand for This Sort of Thing? (Special to The Gazette.) 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 Tatt. 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 in this city in white people while segregating 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 one. It was begun by Republicans, and Negroes 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 their papers, is tenacious and on to our Republican president. Only last week, a colored girl appeared after she appeared 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 if the special favorite of Secretary Mollie President Coolidge. He halls from North Carolina, the home of the favorite and leader of the segregation forces, Col. Sherrill, superintendent of buildings and grounds. It is no use to complain of either of these southern gentlemen. The colored people here who know the President could destroy segregation in the departments of the government, and the photograph requirements in the civil service by the mere nod of 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.) (special of The Gatehouse) Washington, D. C.-In the postoffice segregation is rampant. The faithful colored men who undertook civilization and physical disadvantages. This department maintains a spacious cafeteria for whites only, where these inferior white clerks can buy appetizing luncheons and chat in comfort while eating, while the colored clerks must bring cold luncheons from home and eat them any place they can. The physical discomfort, disadvantageous as it is, is far less galling to the colored clerks than is the thought of their government taking their taxes, as it takes those of the whites, for the comfort of the latter, and setting them off as though they were lepers, when they reflect all the more when they reflect that they are far more capable than the whites, and render the government more intelligent and efficient service—the white man of their attainment being able to get far more lucrative employment. The department goes even farther in its solitude 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 toilets. And all of this is against the most dependable and faithful employees. Last year the white employees invited to the white employees very proud 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 clerk. I was given the opportunity to 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. 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 unemployed 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 beat 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 for the employees, all the employees may go, but there are a few tables in an out-of-the-way section reserved for our employees. I am glad to say that few, very few, of our people patronize the place, preferring a little physical inconvenience to the open, semi-public humiliation of segregation. In toilet facilities, dressing-rooms, and work assignments, wherever possible, the law of segregation is in full force, and, of course, this same undemocratic practice reveals itself on the salary roll and in the hard easte and bars promoter. Here, we also bar the interior 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 situation, 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 equity" and then dismissed him with an enraged-charge. He night-employee, hence he carried 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 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 discharged. Our employees our employees are targeted 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 denial that the conditions complained of exist, and a request for the names of those informants to date these informants would suffer so, that never given a single name!! The department then taking the position THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, D. SATURDAY, JULY 18, 1925. that it cannot take up the case. I is perfectly clear that this infinitous scheme of segregation is a difficult thing to fight, since the government will settled upon it, and the complainers cannot hear witness to it. (Special to The (larotte) (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 she saw white and colored working together in perfect harmony, devious to any thought of race. Shortly thereafter came an order for segregation of the races, and a white ladder, who had been noted for her philanthropy among our people and who was intimate terms at the White House appeared at the bureau to tell our girls 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 fast 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. urge them to continue the fight, for those who wait the critical wald 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 segregators, namely, the elimination of the colored employees from the bureau all 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 Summer and Frederick Doug lass are helped to found. Our girls are employed there in far larger numbers than in any other of the pubs, 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 talents. The best of our girls must take these inferior positions, and we are 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 The Gazette) Washington, D. C.—The treasury department, according to the President's recent accession, has much in common with the 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, 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 workers. Necannot be ignored there that they can't be noticed. There is the same general complaint here among our clerks and other employees as there is in the other branches of the government—failure to recognize their efficiency when promotions are due; ability to go so far and no farther. The various forms of segregation exist here as well as elsewhere—the restaurants closed or divided along color lines, and special 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 cafeteria, in the splendid sweep of woodland along our national driveway, where white people of every class can come to rest, dine, and socialize of afternoons and evenings at minimum costs. The white press of the city is constantly telling of the thousands who take advantage of this "delightful retreat," and the business creates. It seats two thousand diners 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 registration 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 act. Our clerks must accept segregation or elimination, and being poor, with no other opportunities in this southern atmosphere, must take the former. They are depressed at the wrong, but economic stress compels endurance of it. By a single stroke of his pen, President Calvin Coolidge can stop every bit of this damnable segregation, just as he can condemn that lawless organization the Ku Klux Klan. COOLIDGE'S SEGREGATION Washington, D.C.—We wish to call attention to the fact that in the fight against the segregation of our government employees, the Treasury Department will most likely be the center of attack, for segregation in several of its bureaus has been most pronounced. This is particularly true of the office of the register of the treasury and the internal revenue bureau. In the former, beaver board walls were maintained until recently. In the latter there have been two cases of discrimination on account of color brought to public attention by 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 Burcans Internal Revenue 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 over 1900 years of submitting to discrimination, and are winning overall 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 white, and they have no 'guts.'" The world respects only those who resent and resist proscriptions for race. Let us be worthy of the abolitionists, worthy of our own fathers who have died in every war to vindicate the title of their race to equal liberty, and forever resist denial of rights in our native land, however long race discrimination may continue. To submit is to deserve contempt. — Boston (Mass.) Guardian. W E When a Higher Quality of Funeral Service is given, Wynne & Easley will give it A. E. WYNNE As Near As Your Telephone Randolph 6466 W. L. EASLEY One of Cleveland's Finest and Most Modern Mortuaries Is the result of doing all things well at all times. That is the Wynne & Easley creed from which there is never a deviation. COMPLETE FUNERAL $150.00 Black cloth, white or silver grey plush casket, engraved nameplate outside case, embalming, washing, dressing, shaving if necessary, advertising death notice, removal from hospital or morgue, gloves, chairs, door dressing, finest funeral car in the city and two Cadillac limousines. A beautiful funeral should not be a burden to those who must assume its responsibility. The same careful and efficient service rendered with our $90.00 funeral as those of most elaborate arrangement. ONE-MANRAILROAD STILL A MYSTERY Lone Worker Remains an Unsolved Puzzle to Many Curious Men. BUILDS RAILROAD SINGLE-HANDED --- No One But the Mysterious Promoter Knows Object of Work That Is Being Done. Jetmore, Kan.—"When the One-Man Railroad grade is built an additional mile it will be out of the woods." This is the way the people look at the efforts of Rudolph Meyer, proprietor of the "One-Man Railroad" in Hodgeman County. When the work now completed is pushed forward another mile it will be up on the flat country that stretches off toward Garden City, fifty miles away. The grade will have reached the flat lands that make further expensive grade work unnecessary. But the people of Jetmore know but little more of Meyer than any one else in Kansas. He keeps his own counsel. He will talk, and talk freely, about everything but his actual plans. He enjoys his talk with strangers, but they go away no better informed than before. The building of this One-Man Railroad grade has almost ceased to be a wonder here. For four years Rudolph Meyer has been at work on it. Sundays were no exception, and early and late his animals dragged the dirt from the pits to the tops of the grade or pulled huge stones from the side of a canyon. The Santa Fe Jetmore branch ends here, in the lowland of the Buckner Creek valley. It is a rough country. The railroad line is pointed southwest, when it comes to the "end of the track." Meyer, when he came here four years ago, went into the country, two and a half miles, up a canyon or draw of a dry run that connects with the ever flowing Buckner Creek, and started his grade. He began in the edge of a rocky bluff, where he leveled a grade through this formation and the red, sandy soil. He has carried this grade toward the southwest, reaching for the higher land with evident pre --- cision, though no engineer has set the stakes, and the line and the elevation of the grade has been established by eye. People who know say the grade is an excellent one. When he has come to depressions that are torrents of water in the heavy downpours of rain, Meyer has brought a group of two or three of these depressions together and directed their course to one common opening under the grade, thus to cut down the number of bridges. Engineering science seems to have taught him this. These draws are not bridged, but the "fill" comes up to them and rock has been drawn there in quantity for foundations for bridges and culverts, showing aptness for railroad building. Does anyone know why Meyer is building this grade? No one in Jetter-maims to have knowledge. Meyer doesn't owe any one. He has no large expense, for he lives in his own "shack," sometimes mounted on wheels and other times placed on the ground near his work. But when he does buy things in town he pays cash or else gives a check on a bank in Valley Falls, Kan., which is always honored. A large share of the work on the grade of this One-Man railroad was built by using four mules, hitched abreast of two "slip" scrapers, one alongside the other. Meyer would put the lines around his shoulders, stand between the two scrapers and fill them as the mules pulled them along, one with each hand. Then he would follow and dump them at the top of the grade. It was almost superhuman work, but day after day, with long hours, Meyer has done this. No one here believes Rudolph Meyer is in the employ of the Santa Fe Railroad. The Santa Fe should be the only one interested, for there is no other road anywhere near. But a system like the Santa Fe would find no reason for such a course, as there is from one to a half dozen ways out of the Buckner Creek canyons, each as advantageous as the one selected. Jetmore people declare the Santa Fe could easily secure a free right of way for a grade and track, yet Rudolph Meyer has paid $30 an acre for all that he's used, a strip nearly four miles long. In all, it is believed he has paid $1,500 for land, and all of it with the understanding that it is to revert to the former owners if the railroad is not in operation in five years. Scarcely a year yet remains to Meyer for a portion of this grade, and still he keeps on and on. "Are you going to build your road to Garden City?" is asked of him. "Sure," is his reply. when a Higher Quality of Funeral Service is given, Wynne & Easley will give PERFECTED SERVICES doing all things well at all time creed from which there is new COMPLETE FUNERAL $150 white, white or silver grey plush car inside case, embalming, washing, ad- vice, advertising death notice, remo- ture, gloves, chairs, door dressing, and two Cadillac limousines. Funeral should not be a burden its responsibility. The same be rendered with our $90.00 funeral arrangement. INSPECT OUR ESTABLISHMENT KEY, 229 Stole Feather Bed. Topeka, Kan—Cold, and wearing wet clothing, Will Harkens, walked into a restaurant on East Fourth street. Harry Crumbine, the waiter, hailed him as friend and asked him to spend the night at his place on Monroe street. Harkins accepted the invitation and spent the night on a downy feather bed. Crumbine had to be at work early the next morning, but he did not disturb the stranger who slept with him. About noon Harkins came to the restaurant and feelingly thanked Crumbine. All afternoon Crumbine felt the glow of having done a good turn for his fellow-man, and that night he went to his room happy. The bed didn't look as high as usual. He punched it and his hand struck the hard springs. The feather tick was gone. He called the landlady. She was bewildered and scolded about the loss. After spending the night on it, Harkins had carried the feather tick away with him. He sold the feathers to a mattress maker. The police arrested Harkins, and he was fined $20 by Judge R. M. Yates for petit larceny. A Pet Carp. Sandusky, O—Theodore Sharp, a fisherman living in the upper Sandusky bay section, eight miles southwest of this city, claims to be the owner of the only educated carp in existence. Sharp says the carp, which weighs nearly forty pounds and when out of water resembles to a marked degree, a fat hog, will come to him when he whistles, that it will eat out of his hand and that when he is out in a boat, will follow him around, swimming close astern near the surface. The man who would retain the good will of his friends should remember that there are a great many things he must not forget to forget. Others will ask if Climarron is the intended point he hopes to reach, and he says again, "Sure." Pressed for a statement as to the actual point to which he means to extend his railroad grade, he will say: "See that weed up there?" pointing to any that appears prominent on the skyline of the hill to the southwest, "that's where I'm going to build." Then he will chuckle and make you understand in no unfriendly way, that it is none of your business. People ask for an explanation as to such a freaky way of doing things. W. L. EASLEY One of Cleveland's Finest and Most Modern Mortuaries times. That is the never a deviation. 50.00 casket, engraved dressing, shav- monal from hos- g, finest funeral den to those who are careful and seral as those of ENT But Give a Copy of It.