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XENIA.—Funeral services for Pa-trolman Charles Simms, who was brutally shot to death, July 10, while in the act of arresting Robert Lee, an alias Frank, an alleged dangerous character, were held from the Third Baptist church, July 14, and largely attended. The murder marked the close of a 15-year public career of our only member of the police force of this city. Miss Mary Laggins spent a few days with Miss Thelma Piper Little Arnett, Montgomery accompanied Mrs. H. Williams home for an indefinite stay. Miss Emma Donstant, who has spent the winter with her sister, Mrs. N. J. Payne, has returned to Columbus. Mrs. Amy Saunders has been called to the bedside of her brother who is seriously ill. 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Club, No. 5, gave a fish fry at the country home of Mr. and Mrs. John Bayless on the Chillicothe pike. The Daughters of Allen gave a moonlight picnic at Morris Wright. The attendance was large.—Mrs. Mary Wright is spending a few days with her daughter, Mrs. Luther Brandon of Kingston.—Mrs. Clara Wright and two children, Mary Ellen and Charles, spent the week-end with relatives in Springfield and Piqua. DOINGS OF THE RACE Florence Cole-Talbert of Detroit, noted singer, sailed, recently, for Milan, Italy, to study a year. Another pledge to the Hampton-Tuskegee endowment fund has just been fulfilled. U. S. Senator T. Coleman du Pont has paid $250,000. A meeting will be held at Des Moines, Iowa, Aug. 1, '25, to organize a national bar association, announce Geo. H. Woodson, S. Joe Brown and Howard P. Drew, attorneys. The youngest grandmother in the U. S., so far discovered, is Mrs. Lola Dixon, of Hagerstown, Md., who is 30 years old. Her daughter, Mrs. R. W. Middleton, age 15, is the mother of a boy. Recently gas was found on a farm owned by Charles Sidney, near Pratt, Kanawah County, W. Va., and his income from the well is $125 per day. Mr. Sidney bought the farm, a few years ago, with his $3,000 savings. A. K. K. K Michigan Blot. Battle Creek, Mich.-After last week Monday night's battle, lasting for hours, in which at least 8 people were hurt, 3 of whom were our people, the county and military authorities have organized a protective measure to cope with the situation. Knives, bricks, guns, and bottles were used and white K. K. K. rioters adopted the sniper system of hiding behind huge objects and hurling missiles at passing members of the race. Seeing that the situation was growing worse, each day, Mayor Green called for an additional guard of soldiers from Camp Custer to aid the county deputies to quell the disturbance. The commandant, Gen. Moore, expects that the soldiers will be withdrawn in a short time. Gave $4,000 to Orphans' Home. Miss Mary Larkin spent a few days with Miss Thelma Piper. Little Arnett, Montgomery accompanied Mrs. S. H. Williams home for an indefinite stay. Miss Emma Dunstan, who has spent the winter with her sister, Mrs. N. J. Payne, has returned to Columbus. Mrs. Amy Saunders has been called to the bed of her brother who is seriously ill. [Correspondent will please send news on Mondays never later in the week. Editor.] HILLSHORO. Mrs. Ida Anderson of Cleveland is visiting her cousin Mrs. Sarah Taylor. Artur Jordan and Milton Wilson of Chincinnati is visiting Mr. and Mrs. Milton Day, Thursday. Mrs. Amerlep Williams and daughter, Miss Mary, and Miss Cassie Esskey visited in Greenfield, Saturday. Wesleyan church choir sang at a church anniversary in Richmond, Ind. Sunday. Mrs. Edith Chalmers and children of Cleveland are visiting her aunt, Mrs. Keziah Hill. Mr. and Mrs. Doyle Smith. Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Metz of Cincinnati were here. Sunday. Mrs. R. C. Ridley of Wilmington visited her aunt Miss Mollie Tatum. D. H. Morrle of Cleveland is visiting his grandmother, Mrs. Louisa Young, who is ill. Miss Augusta Cumberland of Columbus passed through Hillsboro, last week, enroute to Sardinia to visit her parents. Born to Mr. and Mrs. Isaac Hudson, a son, Mrs. Florence Moore and son of Cleveland are visiting her cousins, Mr. and Mrs. James Blanton, and her aunt, Mrs. Eliza Blanton, in Nexia. Mr. Margie Bacon of Cincinnati is visiting her parents, Row and Mrs. P. H. Smith. Mrs. Archie S. Cole was hostess to members of the Industrial Club, Friday afternoon. The home was beautifully decorated with flowers. A delicious luncheon. J. Henson and John Hudson were in Richmond Ind. Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Enoch Frise of Newport spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Milton Day. White Woman Cause of This. Dallas, Tex. A masked mob made up of 125 or more white brutes, seized and severely dogged Clarence Brown, age 29; July 17, shortly after he had been released from jail where he had been held on a charge of miscognition. He told police the moboerats in about 30 automobiles picked him up and took him to a place in the county, where they beat him for half an hour. Doctors declared he was bleeding from many lash wounds and numerous bruises when examined. He said that threats were made to hang him, and he believed that only his strong plea of innocence deterred the masked bank of K. K. K. from murdering him. Ku Klux Klan Attacks A Home. New York City.—After sending several letters signed by their seal, the K. K. K. attacked the home of Samuel Brown on Staten Island, July 18th. Doors and windows were smashed. flower pots and window boxes torn down from the windows, and trees and shrubbery torn up by the roots. This is the second time the kluxers have attacked Brown's house. Last September, they after trying to intimidate him by sending threatening letters, attacked the house in a similar fashion. Fifteen have been identified by Brown as among the attackers. Found $1,100 and Returned It. Los Angeles, Calif.—While Herbert Howard, age 24, janitor of the Plaza Branch of the Citizens Trust and Savings Bank, was making his nightly rounds he came upon a package which contained $1,100 in currency. He turned it over to the police at central station. Garvey Will Leave. Washington, D. C. — Marcus Garvey, head of, the U. N. I. A., sentenced to the federal penitentiary for using the mails to defraud, has written to President Coolidge, expressing a willingness to leave the United States if granted a pardon. Over 100 Years Old South Boston, Va.—Henry Carrington, the oldest citizen in this end of the state, died, July 15, age 110. He is survived by a wife, five children, 42 grandchildren, 37 great-grandchildren and five great-great-grandchildren. CLEVELANDERS IN THE FAR WEST. In a better, under date, July 20, 1925, Mrs. Ida B. Wells, of the city now in Los Angeles, Calif., writes: "They have geraniums here for hedges, growing five and six foot high. The orange and lemon trees were a wonder for me. All the former Clevelanders I have met are quite prosperous. Mr. and Mrs. Stewely own a beautiful home and a large lot with all kinds of fruit trees. I had the pleasure of sitting in the shade of their fig tree and eating figs from it. They also have a lovely 1925 aute Mrs. Valeria Crawford French, another former Clevelander married since coming here. Her husband is our only carpenter employed by the city. He also is a worker. I made lemonade from lemon taken from a tree in their yard. They have a beautiful furnished home. The Misses Hackt have returned home after a ninth month's stay, greatly improved in health. They made many friends here. Mrs. Julia Mitchell is much improved in health and Mrs. Haley is looking fine. We visited Mr. and Mrs. Crawford and sister Mrs. Heart in Pasadena. They have a beautiful home with a yard containing beach plum, lemon fig orange, banana and English walnut trees. Mrs. Joey Crawford Ramsey has a lovely house on one of the prominent streets of the city. Mrs. Yemena Crawford Kingslow is so improved in health and is so robust in appearance that her many friends in Cleveland would hardly know her. When I have met more former Clevelanders, I will write more. Mrs. and Mrs. Henderson have returned from several weeks' visit in Cleveland." AFRO-AMERICAN SALESMEN To Be the Salvation of American Trade in the Orient, Says a Leading Business Man of Cleveland. Salvation of American trade in the Orient is the Afro-American salesman, according to Charles A. Adams, president of the Cleveland Hardware Co., the largest drop-forge plant in the United States, employing about 2,000 persons. "We aren't getting our share of that trade," claimed Mr. Adams, "because we haven't got the kind of salesmen who can get under the Oriental's skin. White American salesmen are too abrupt, impatient and totally unable to understand the Oriental's attitude toward life. The educated Afro-American will be the ideal moll for the job. He's patient, humorous and knows how to intricate itself into the Oriental's confidence." Gene to Europe New York City. Col. Ciprius Fillmore was among the passengers who sailed on the S. S. Leviathan, July 25, to visit the American memorials at Romanque, Soiss Montfacon, Serinhet et Nesles: Aisne, Marne and Belleau Wood, where many of his former comrades of the 269th and 270th Inf. are buried. Col. Fillmore is a veteran of the Spanish-American and World Wars, having served overseas in the latter war as an officer in the famous 269th Infantry. He is a former resident of Springfield, O. Just as Expected. Cross City. Fla.—Tom Higginbotham, a notorious figure in Florida's criminal history known as the "whipping boss," was found not guilty, July 22, on a second degree murder charge in connection with the alleged heating to death, months ago, of Martin Tabert, (white), a North Dakota youth. As a result of Higginbotham's cruelty, the Florida Legislature "abolished" the hash in 1923, as a means of disciplining state and county convicts. Higginbotham was tried on a first degree murder charge, convicted of second degree murder and given 20 years in prison. He appealed the case to the state supreme court and was released on a $10,000 bond. As a result of his second trial he was found not guilty, of course. Elected Supervisor. Baltimore. Md. — After many months' efforts, the school board has succeeded in agreeing upon a man to fill the supervisorship of our local schools. Dr. Francis M. Woods of Kentucky, a well known race educator, was elected to the office at a salary of $4,200. Fighting for His Patent. Chicago, Ill. — A desperate struggle is being waged by Levy Bostick, inventor of an auto stop light, to secure patent rights on the device, which it is estimated has a value of $2,000,000. Three Afro-American clerks in the central postoffice have been appointed foremen. Faithful Service Remarried Faithful Service Reward. San Diego, Calif.-Cash. H. Dodge, in the employment of the Southern Trust Commerce Bank of this city, for many years, has received a reward for faithful and efficient service by being given the position of confidential clerk of the institution. SINGLE COPY FIVE CENTS WOMEN SUBJECTED TO UNTOLD INDIGNITIES MADE TO WORK ON ROADS Government Does; Nothing as Negro Peons Are Flogged and Tortured—Wages, Amounting to 20 Cents a Month, Are Stolen (From the Chicago Daily Worker.) New York City, Portugal no longer exports slaves for sale but Portuguese planters and traders in Angola, Portuguese East Africa, hold the natives in penance "worse than slavery." Edward A. Ross, University of Wisconsin, professor of sociology, announces in his report on compulsory labor in the Portuguese colony. Slavery in the simple form of ownership of blacks by whites was ended with the downfall of the Portuguese monarchy in 1919 but the terrible new system began in 1918. Between 1916 and 1918 when "republican principles" were proposed to be in use, Portuguese land-owners complained of the "laziness of natives." Most Portuguese employers thought the natives should work for nothing or at most 20 cents a month and about 2 cents a day for food, Ross reports. brothers and sisters. Furthermore, the child will have to pound the meal and carry it to mother working on the road with the baby on her back." Wages Are Stolen So much of the natives time and strength is requisitioned by the Portuguese masters that the blacks are no longer able to attend their own gardens and fields. "There is little evidence that any considerable part of the wages turned over in trust to the officials by the employers of natives hired from the government actually reached the hands of those to whom it belongs," Ross says. "The amount of unpaid labor exacted of skilled natives is not infrequently excessive that the young men see nothing to be gained by their acquiring skill in the missionary schools." Most Road Workers Women. Workers Flogged and Tortured. Nineteen villages were visited and nearly 7,000 natives interviewed through interpreters. Local pastors and teachers were talked with. Everywhere it was found—that the workers were ruthlessly driven; forced to work up to 12 months a year; flogged with the dijambock or hippo lash and tortured. Women are requisitioned, to-work on roads and "if a mother lays a baby under a tree and rises up from her work when it cries, she may get struck for it." Native police are forced to inflict brutal punishments upon their brother blacks. "A year ago police came to a mission, collected the men, went to the pounding, rocks where the women pound their maniac and had their meal spread ready to dry and took them off to work on the road without even giving them a chance to gather up their meal and carry it to their homes. "Children had to quit the mission school saying, 'Eather has been taken to work on a plantation, mother and the older brothers are working on the roads, so I must stay out of school to hoe the fields, pound the maniac into meal and feed my little PRIME SPORT NEWS Dempsey Talks. Los Angeles, Cal.—"I can only repeat the statement I made in the east," said the champion. "I intend to go ahead with my own fight program, meeting Greb in September, anyone else I can get in the ring with me from then on and finally a hour with Harry Wills next year. "Kearns is my manager until September, 1926, and he will get his split of my earnings until then." Siki Leaves in His Palamas New York City.—The hospital is no place for Battling Sikl. At any rate that is the way Sikl himself looks at it, for he left the institution on Monday afternoon clad only in his pajamas. Sikl was stabbed in the neck. Sunday, and was brought to the hospital late in the afternoon suffering from loss of blood. Another Lynch-Murdered Jacksonville, Fla.—Knife and gun wounds, inflicted by two unidentified white brutes claimed the life of an innocent member of the race, Dick Burgins, age 30, at Brewster hospital, while his young wife and two small daughters wept pathetically. Only one of the alleged murderers, Jesse Maddox, Burgins implicated, before dying, has been apprehended, while a state-wide search is being made for the two others said to have helped to commit the deed. Killed Escaping Peonage. England, Ark.—Rayfield Dixon of Augusta, who was held in peonage on the plantation of J. R. England, (white), was shot and killed as he attempted to escape. The England plantation is famous for its "Negro" peons, placed there charged with disturbing the peace. Watermelon-Eating Contest Burlag, N. C.—Paul McAdams. (white), a newsboy, exploded another pet theory about our people here. July 18, when in a "jim-crow" watermelon-eating contest he disposed of one in one minute and a half. There were forty contestants and Paul was given a gold watch as the victor. IN UNDN IS STRENGTH LE COPY FIVE CENTS red! BJECTED TO UNDIGNITIES WORK ON ROADS g as Negro Peons Are Flog- —Wages, Amounting Month, Are Stolen brothers and sisters: Furthermore, the child will have to pound the meal and carry it to mother working on the road with the baby on her back." Wages Are Stolen So much of the natives time and strength is requisitioned by the Portuguese masters that the blacks are no longer able to attend their own gardens and fields. "There is little evidence that any considerable part of the wages turned over in trust to the officials by the employers of natives hired from the government actually reached the hands of those to whom it belongs", Ross says. "The amount of unpaid labor exacted of skilled natives is not infrequently so excessive that the young men see nothing to be gained by their acquiring skill in the missionary schools." Most Road Workers Women. "Motor roads have been extended by conscripted, unpaid, unrational natives, for the most part women, with only the most primitive implements." Labor-stealing is widespread, that is, no pay for half-days and many other days worked. "We heard of no effort made by any official to curb this despicable practice. The official does not appear to be in a strong position with respect to his fellow nationalists, the traders, and planters. * * * The blacks feel that the Portuguese are leagued against them and that there is no recourse from the white man's violence and injustice." Government Does Nothing. "The government provides practically nothing in the way of schools, medical care, emergency relief or justice against the white trader, for the people of the villages, as recompense for the heavy burden of unrequited toil it lays upon them. The treatment of natives in Portuguese territory compares so unfavorably with that experienced by the natives of Rhodesia or Belgian Congo that there is a strong tendency to emigrate across the frontier." OUR 1925 YEAR BOOK. Our 1925 YEAR BOOK is ready for distribution. This seventh annual edition contains a very large amount of new material. The information contained in previous volumes has been revised, rewritten and brought down to date. Almost 200 pages are devoted to a review of the events of 1922-1924 as they affect our interests. Especially full are the sections on race relations, the progress of the group, race consciousness, politics and Africa. The book continues to be our standard work of reference on all race matters. It is the most extensively used compendium of information on this subject. Its circulation extends to every part of the United States, Canada, the West Indies, Central and South America, Europe, Asia and Africa. Especial attention is called to the bibliographical section. This bibliography has been topically arranged so as to be helpful to the student who wishes to pursue further the investigation of any particular subject. Our 1925 Year Book is especially adapted for use in schools where sociological and historical courses are given. The price, postpaid, is, paper cover, $1.00; board cover, $1.50. Special rates to agents. Address, The Negro Year Book Co., Tuskegee Institute, Ala. She Got The Fortune Trenton, N. J.—Vice Chancellor Leaming sustained an opinion of Mercer County Orphans' Court that the late Mrs. Emma L. Woodward, (white), of Trenton, was neither unduly influenced nor lacking in mental capacity when she bequeathed most of her $50,000 estate to pretty Miss Amelia M. Stuart, our prominent Jersey social favorite who was married, last week. Under the will Miss Stuart receives Mrs. Woodward's home, valued at $25,000, in a fine residential section here, and most of her personal estate, appraised at $25,000. A sister of Mrs. Woodward got $2,000, a brother-in-law $1,000 and a nephew a like sum. Approves Lynching. Indianapolis, Ind.—A "christian" organization, known as the Baptist Young Peoples Union, went on record here, recently, at their 34th annual convention as approving lynching under some circumstances. © Go | rear Steve aT THE Door Now! % | A-A- ER-ER- y v7 ) Opes | Meee ee) BA || | Seer eal Ts J ] Scout rr wil Tf 1-1-1 LOVE ANOTHER t bee Cie ( SUG BE Done, Tol ¢. Si, : x HIM, | KNOW! v7 i (| ) i * et » S) veccner =) (Eee || © MBN <a. fet BAPE ° HEART! o) | Sue | BOD A Ss) - IDEN i/ WZ | OMG x fe me) EO oe GM | oe gg Ww [\\. foo eS g a. 22 SAB 2 FT (( Sy % es | iy Ww —_, Df : Zs < - _ Hy cal { — [Yam Hy The GAZELLE PUBLISHED EVERX SATURDAY SUBSORLPTION RATES (im Advance) Ome Year... ee eee ewan ea = $2.00 Six Months ....4.--2--2+-+ 1.00 Subscribers are requested to remit ‘Dy postoffice money order oF registered letter. Batered at the postotfice in Cleve- land, Ohio, as second-class mail matter Address all communications HARRY O. SMITH ‘Editor and Proprietor ‘THR GAZETTE (Bell "Phope: Cherry 1250) Room 304, 226 W. Superior Ave., Cleveland, 0. Member Ohio Legislature: 1804 to 1896; 1896 to 1898; 1900 to 1902 ‘THE GAZETTE ts tho oldest and hae the largest bona fide circulation, double that of any newspaper im the interest of Afro-Americans publish- ed im the state of Ohio ,and compar. ison with any will immediately ce- tablish ite rank as one of the NEWS. MaST AND BEST in the country. 10,000,000 Afro-Americans. 850,000 im Ohio. 40,000 im Cleveland, SATURDAY, AUGUST 1, 1925. Do not vote against P. R. You will make a mistake you will regret if you fail to vote for it, REMEMBER "THIS! Sk —ali— ‘The so-called “Negro political leaders” are nothing but political doormats for white political bosses. We have no leaders of any kind be- ‘cause we will not have them, That is all there is “to it”. —li— If lynch-murder is ever stopped it will be done by anti-lynching laws enacted by the several states. The Congress will not, if indeed it can) enact a Jaw against mob violence that will be constitutional. This we said years ago and still believe. —ailt— ‘The Ku Klux Klan is promoting the residential segregation trouble our people are having, these days, here in the North. Our people of the various communities where there is any likelihood of similar trouble should organize promptly and thus be prepared to fight organization with organization! The editor of The Gazette ac- knowledges the receipt, last week, of fan invitation to attend the meeting of third district citizens held, Mon- day evening, in’ the Union Mortgage bldg. to perfect an organization of friends of the P. R. system of ba a ing councilmen, and sincerely refret hig inability to attend it owing to a previous engagement. —atin— ‘THE CENTRAL AVE. CAR-LINE. Increased service does not attract Cleveland car riders, Traction Com- missioner C. M. Ballox announced, last week. It has cost about $180,- 000 to discover this, the commis- sioner said. As a result, service on the Superior, Central and Fulton road lines was reduced at the end of the week to what it was two months ago. The foregoing was said, too, in the face of the fact that the Central Ave. line is one of the very best paying lines in the city. It really is a shame—the way the peo- ple, who use that street-car line, are treated. Yet they stand it without a murmur! And this includes Coun- cilman Thos. W. Fleming. —m— DURKEE MUST GO! Dr. W. A. Sinclair, for years traveling representative of Howard University, Washington, D. C., was in the city, several days the past week, conferring with the local alum- ni of that institution. He addressed the congregation of St. John’s A. M. E. church, Sunday morning, and again in the evening. The church was crowded. He explained fully ‘the unfortunate situation at Howard University and the demand of How- ard’s alumni for the removal of its most unpopular president, Dr. J. Stanley Durkee, before the beginning of the next school year. The audt- ence was thoroly sympathetic, On Monday evening, he spoke at Lane ‘Metropolitan C. M. E. church. There, t00, the people were greatly aroused ‘and thoroly responsive to every ap- peal he made. The pastor of Lane, the bishop of this district and officers of the church gave hearty endorse- ment to Dr. Sinclair's address and promised to interest our U. 5. sena- tors and congressmen in the effort to drive Durkee out of the presiden- cy of Howard University. All of us should help. —ili— (COMMISSIONER MOCK’S QUERIES. ‘Mr. Clark L. Mock, labor commis- sioner of the chamber of commerce of this city, wants to know: “What means could be taken to reduce the excessive rents charged colored people” and “whether resi- dential segregation was to be rec- ommended”. He also inquires about “the problem of schooling for col- THE GEEVUM GIRLS ored children newly arrived from the South”. A reduction of the excessive rent charged our people in the 11th and 12th wards, and elsewhere in the city, can only be secured by furnish- ing houses and apartments at a rea- sonable rental, and this the Cleve- land Chamber of Commerce has it in its power to do.- As to the schooling of the newly arrived Afro-American immigrants from the South, the same arrangements furnished all other newly arrived immigrants, trom dif- ferent parts of this country, must be and are being used. There can be no special segregation of those of our “newly arrived" people from the South. Residential segregation, along racial lines, has been declared ‘ille- gal, and therefore has been outiaw- ed, by the U. S, Supreme Court—in a decision handed down, several years ago. It will not be permitted in Cleveland. This same is true when it comes to the matter of schooling, since the State Supreme Court, years ago, rendered a dect- sion outlawing segregated schools, along race lines. 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 hear- ing from persons in the following named cities: Springfield, Colum- bus, Toledo, Steubenville, Zanesville, Wilmington, Xenja, Washington C. H., Lancaster, Hamilton, Piqua, Lima, O., and other places, particu- larly in Ohio, where we have none. Write to the editor of The Gazette, 226 West Superior Ave., Cleveland, ©., 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 oth ers in the state to whom we ca write relative to the matter. oo PROTEST AGAINST WRONG To submit in silence when we should protest makes cow- ards out of men, The human race has climbed on protest. Had no yoice been raised against injustice, ignorance ané lust, the inquisition yet would serve the law, and guillotines decide our least disputes. The tow who dare, must speak ana speak again to right the wrongs of many.—lla Wheel- er Wileox. | | THE MAN WHO DARES “I Nonor the man who in the } consclentious discharge of his duty dares to stand alone; the } world, with ignorant, intoler- ant 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 | triends."—Charles Sumner. SELLS L LLLP LLL LSS CHARACTER, Character, like a fine old tree, matures slowly and is a riper growth than success that is foreed as hothouse products are foreed. Character in a news- paper develops through years of service to the people. Fer forty-two years The Gazette has been serving our people of this country. It has gathered a reader-clientele whose tastes it refleets, and whose power and responsiveness to buy are direct measures of its present irapor- tance to every advertiser. EDITOR. People who Advertise Can sell Goods, People who sell ‘Goods Can make Money. People who make Mon- ey can advertise goods. moe i! The Best Advertising Medium is “The Old Reliable” GAZETTE. ‘THE GAZETTE, CLEVPLAND, O.SATURDAY, AUGUST 11, 1925. MISSING MAN HOLDS: keyvorich mnes| TADTANND NNTA &% Football Star Raises $29,000 to Pur chase Diamond Land in South Afriea—Wife Also Missing. Minneapolis, Minn.—A world-wide search has been instituted for Joseph ‘Myers, mining engineer and graduate of the State University of Iowa, who eee On Oe eine eats of 1,100 acres uf diamond mining land in South Africa. Dr. Fred C. Wheat of this city, a classmate of Meyers and one of the large body of stockholders backing the Project, has instituted the search. Moyers, a football star and former coach at the Towa College of Asricul: ture at Ames, disappeared from the Grand Hotel, San Francisco, July 5. 1910. Not a word has been heard fron: him In the four years since, and Dr. Wheat says he is convinced that some: ‘one obtained knoweldge of the tn- formation Meyers had and that he ts a vietim of foul play. With Meyers his wife disappeared also. She is believed to be with Mgyers if he ts alive. Dr. Wheat ts certain tit Meyers did not abscond with the $39,000 which je obtained from the stockholders’ subscriptions ‘Two incidents of the Good Samaritan nature form the prelude to the strange tale. Sandy McDonald, a miner. gave Myers a chart locating the: diamond bearing land following Meyo:s’ kind ness to him during an illness while the latter was in Caifornia. MeDonald said he obtained tie papers from an other Scotchman, also a Sonth African miner, when the latter was on his deathbed and MeDonald was making bis last moments comfortable. Meyers then investigated ant his ra ports that the charts located valuable damond land were verifie:, Dr. Wheat sald. Then $30,000 was subscribed by Iowa alumni and Moyers returned to South Africa to purchase the land Simulteneously, diamond-bearing tand was discovered only twelve miles away. ‘This raised the price of tand, and in 1910 Meyers returned to raise more funds. He had obtained $9,000, D>. Wheat said, when suddenly he diexz- peared. Just before the last word was ro ceived from Meyers from San Fran- cisco, he was preparing to return to South Africa to work on watersheds, buy title to the land from the British government so that the two-thirds share, required when diamond mines are discovered, need not be pad. “Lam certain Meyers was on the square,” Dr. Wheat sald. “We veri- fied every statement he made. The ee deposit vault in Culcago, but we have ‘been unable 1. locate the bank.” GIVES HIS HORSE ANNUAL VACATION Old Mare, Rests Her Feet and Provides Luxuries Kansas City, Mo—"Gypsy." a 20 year-old mare, owned by Frank D. Par sons, a real estate dealer, is s0 faith. ful and so well thought of by her mas: ter that she 1s given a vacation once every year, just like ratlroad pres dents, doctors and other folk of the city, except that her period for rest and pleasure is much lorzer. Four months out of every yea: are ys months for her. For fifteen years “Gypsy has vir tually been a member of the Parsons family. She stands without hitching, is always ready for work, and, despite her age, is in rugged health and shows no signs of being an old horse December Ist every year Parsons has “Gypsy's” shoes removed, and she 1s allowed to rest four months. She is given a dict of rolled oats and al- falfa, a box stall to sleep in, and a big lot for romping and rolling when she feels like it. “Lam often asked how I keep her looking so well when she is 89 old.” Parsons said in talking of his horse. “It's because of the humane treatment she receives. Gypsy has pulled my ‘buggy many years, and she has earned ‘a yearly vacation. She rests all win: ter, and in the hot summer days she has leisure besides. If the day ‘s hot Yd rather take a street car than bite her up. “The flies never bother Gepsy ‘n the summer because 7 spray her twice a ‘day with » preparation tha’ keeps off ‘the pests, and she will eiand all day without tossing her head or stamping her feet. “The hard pavement never burts her feet, either, because she bas a piece of sole leather next to her hoofs and the shoes are nailed on the Teather, She hasn’t had a sick day in years and she never fails me. “Some day she 48 going to be too old to pull me around, and then she is not ‘going to get a bullet. Tam going to ‘give her freedom and let her close her days in some pleasant pasture. A ‘horse will work without fod until it drops. It never complains, and it puts ‘all {ts trust in its master. A man who ‘wouldn't treat his horse right won't ‘treat his family right.” TOREADOR ROUTS BL FOR C-40S JERSEY ‘ =e SCARED Chicago.—In the barnyard of a farm a mile or so from the Glen View Golf club there 1s a Jersey bull who is sut- fering from a bad attack of nerves. Every time anyone comes near him he snorts, back# away and crawls under the barn. If you were to come up to him suddenly and wave a hand herchiet In his face he would try. te jump over the windmill and bellow for hels, There was a tine when Claute-- tha’s his name—had the reputation ot being the most ferocious bull tn Cook county. But yesterday the com- bination of a bw fighter armed with a lath “espada” and a bed quilt, a pro- fessor of history, a viding master and twenty cheering “co-eds” from North western University proved too much for him, Here is the story of Cook county's first and only bull fight and the un doing of Claude: ‘At 1128 Foster Ave, there ta riding school, conducted by Walter C. Du Brock. Among his patrons are sey- eral members of Northwestern Unt- versity faculty and m score or more coeds. It has been their custom to meet at the school Saturdays and ride to g plenic enclosure near the Glen View club, owned by Mr. Du Brock. ‘Among the acquaintances of the lat- ter is “Ike” Levin, who has been a bull fighter in Mexico. The other day he suggested that he display to Mr. Du Brock’s pupils just how the sport was carried on: After meeting at the school, the party—there were twenty young women and.as many men—rode out to the club, Included in the party was Prof. Harry’ Nightingale, head of the hjstory department of the Evanston academy. After a plenie luncheon Mr. Du Prock and Prof. Nightingale went over to the farm of George Nielson to bor- row Claude. ‘The twenty co-eds scram: bled hastily onto the roof of a shed within the enclosure, while the men in the party got behind the fence. Attired in the regulation costume, *Foreador” Levin stood in the middle of the enetdsure waving a gorgeous bed quilt. The co-eds sang the torea- dor song from “Carmen.” Suddenly shouts were heard fom a patch of woods within the exclosurs, and out dashed Claude. He wes het fowing and shaking his head > ochously. “Brave el toro!” shouted the .pecta- tors. “Viva el matador!” Whereupon the toreador stepped for: wand # yard or two and waved the hodantit “capa” Claude, not to be entdore, also stepped forward, waving iis head In this fashlon they came to within a fev feet of each other. ‘Tien Levin raised his lath and smote Claude ‘on the brow. “Viva!” shrieked the co-4s. “What a spiendid demoxsiration of alacrity!” called the professor encour. aringly, It was too much for Claude. An ex pression of horrid, desperate fear crept into his eyes and he suddenly turned and fled, Mr, Dultrock, assuming the duties of a picador and armed with the branch of a tree, chanced to be in the Hine of Claude's retreat, But Claude sew nor heard not, with the result that the picador suddenly rose in the air, coming down on all fours as the bull disappeared among the trees, ‘A searching party was sent after Claude, but he was nowhere to be found. A wrecked gate and a path of cutup turf leading to his own barn- yard were the enly traces ‘e left be- hind him. YOUTH PARTS WITH ONE TOE Crooked Member Bars Enlistment, So He Says, “Cut Her Off"—All Goes Well. Omaha, Neb.—When W. G. 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Lucky charms, roots and herbs, Lodge stone. Advice free. Send one dime (10c) for mailing. E. R. Goode, Boydton, Va. CLEVELAND Social and Personal Miss Mabel Parks is home from N. Y. City, visiting her parents. Mrs. Ella Johnson of Hillsboro arrived, Sunday, to visit her sister, Mrs. Blanche Glimore, E. 49th St. Mrs. Edith Chalmers and children, D. H. Morris, Mrs. Ida Anderson, Mrs. Florence Moore and son are visiting relatives in Hillsboro. Rev. E. A. Clarke was painfully injured in an auto accident, Friday, when returning from Mt. Pleasant. He was unable to preach, Sunday. Rev. R. F. Foote, pastor of St. John's A. M. E. Zion church, Cincinnati, is the new pastor of St. Paul's church, succeeding Rev. E. D. Bell (deceased). Mrs. Caroline Peele and daughter Miss Florence Burton, have returned to New Vienna, O., They spent six months with the former's grand-daughter, Mrs. Rurey Beard, E. 112th St. Miss Gladys Wells of this city, who has been in Los Angeles for some months, was the feature soloist at the eighth annual recital of the pupils of the Bartlett School of Music of that city, July 21, '25, making a splendid impression. Mrs. John D. Wilkerson, of Drexel Ave., will return in a few days from St. Louis where she was called by death of her father, Mr. Charles Strasser. She has the heartfelt sympathy of many friends and acquaintances. A. R. Gillespie, E 87th H., has received a splendid letter from Masonic Grand Secretary Jas. A. Ovias, of Winnipipe, Manitoba, Ca., on his (Gillespie's) paper "Peace" sent to Philadelphia in the Bok Peace Prize prize. THE GEEVUN WELL OF ALL THE DISGRACEFUL SIGHTS! THE GEEVUM GIRLS *M. KLEIMAN'S 2928 Central Ave. D. BARBER'S 2006 Central Ave. BENJ. 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Mrs. Rilla Taylor, wife of Dr. Sumner Jackson of Chicago, is visiting her niece, Mrs. Kate Russell, 2281 E. 93rd St. Mrs. Jackson was formerly a resident of Cincinnati and is a sister of Mrs. Blanche Taylor Richardson, years ago a resident of this city as well as Cincinnati, and now a resident of Chicago. Speakers at the recent midsummer convention of the Christian Missionary alliance were: Dr. D. J. Flynn, Charlotte, N. C: Rev. E. M. Burgess, Pittsburgh; Rev. A. S. Snead and Rev. A. E. Funk, New York; Rev. J. H. Hartman, Boston, and Mrs. M. McNeal, returned missionary from Africa. Mr. and Mrs. Milton Gates of Atlanta, guests of Mr. and Mrs. Marlon Kaigler of Cedar Ave., are in Detroit, this week, but will return. Miss Charlotte Griffith, E. 38th St., a cousin, accompanied them. Mrs. F. Todd, E. 88th St., Mrs. Laverda M. Beard, E. 12th St., R. Carey, E. 38th St., and Mr. and Mrs. C. Lockette, E. 43d St., entertained in honor of Mr. and Mrs. Gates. Mrs. W. H. W. Hodginsville, Tenn, mother of Mrs. Dr. E. A. Balley, arrived, Thursday, with two children (Edward H. and Guydinlum) of President W. J. Hale, of the State A. & I. Normal school, Nashville, who, with another son, is in N. Y. City to his wife receive the M. A. degree from Columbia University. Prof. and Mrs. Hale will come to Cleveland soon to spend a couple of weeks with Dr. and Mrs. Bailey. Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Bailey are sisters. Noble Sissie is said to have cleared $100,000 on "Shuffle Along". Now he is "broke"—so he testified in a Baltimore court, recently. "Nobe" is apparently a good actor but a very poor business man or financier. We are sorry. He was a very popular Cleveland boy for some years, and his father pastor of one of our largest local churches. Applications to take examination for matron in the Indian service will be received until Aug. 8, it was announced, Wednesday, by the Cleveland board of U. S. Civil Service in the main postoffice. Persons interested in other civil service positions may obtain information from the board. Our people should take advantage of these opportunities. The alumni association of Howard University, Washington, D. C., is making a determined effort to force the resignation of President J. Stanley Durkee of that school and it is sincerely hoped the association will be successful and soon. He is as unfitted for the position, from our (race) standpoint, as was President James Durkee, the president of Fisk University, Nashville, Teen, and for the same reasons. Durkee, like McKenzie, apparently has very little respect for our people, their purposes and alms. M GIRLS HUZZYS! THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, O.SATURDAY, AUGUST 1, 1925. TRY OUR EASY PAYMENT PLAN! 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. 300th St. and Scovill Ave. It is now known as Robinson's Pharmacy. Prescriptions carefully compounded by a registered drugstain is in attendance at the store. The Robinsons are carrying hair and toilet preparations, photo toilet articles of all kinds, cigars, candies, sodas, 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 Lee, a grandson of Mr. John Lee (deceased), father of Mrs. Alberta Gambie Ellis, now a resident of New York, was one of our earliest and best settlers in Cleveland. Patronize Robinson's Pharmacy at the corner of E. 300th St. and Scovill Ave. The Truth! What would cause other people to gnash their teeth and gird their loins is question of debate for us. Kick us, beat us, pile depredations upon us, revile us, abuse us, lie about us, malign us and even impugn our valor and we are not unanimously insulted. It seems impossible to establish unanimity of insult in the black race.—Chicago (Ill.) Whip. Tell It, Brother, Tell It! There is nothing radically wrong with a group of people who refuse to help relieve their own burdens. The day of throwing bouquets is gone forever. The Afro-American must face the facts as they exist. We won't gain anything by fooling ourselves into thinking that everything is all right. Everything, affecting the lives of Afro-Americans, is all wrong. The sooner we face facts the quicker we will begin to work for our own salvation, the sooner we will attain our rightful place as American citizens. — Philadelphia Tribune. "Not the largest, But the Best." Little Rock, Ark., June 16, '25. Hon. Harry C. Smith, Editor, C. 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The beginnings of segregation were under President Taft. It was greatly extended, under President Wilson; increased, still further, under President Harding; and reached its zeal under President Coolidge. For instance, the largest of our parks President Wilson never troubled, but the present administration has found time and desire to introduce it even there. To many people, segregation is a Democratic scheme of insult, but such is not the case. Mr. Taft introduced it in the bureau of engraving. He segregated the census-takers in this city in 1910, restricting white workers to white people, and black to black, often duplicating work as most blocks had white and black residents. And, worst of all, announced in his official capacity that Negroes should not hold office where white people complained. Segregation, then, is a Republican institution and not a Democratic one. It was begun by Republicans, and carried on to its all-embracing extent by Republicans! There is far more of it in the departments, today, than at any time since the Negro first appeared, close upon the close of the Civil War. The picture requirement in the civil service, which makes it next to impossible for a colored lady or gentleman to enter the civil service, since their color is disclosed in their photograph which must accompany their papers, is tenacious. Only by ourRepublican president. Only last year colored girl appeared after having 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 has al favorite Secretary Mellon and Baden Colidge. He hails from North Carolina, the home of the other favorite and leader of the segregation forces, Col. Sherrill, superintendent of buildings and grounds. it is no use to complain of either of these southern gentlemen. The colored people here who know the President could destroy segregation in the departments of the government, and the photograph requirements in the civil service by the mere nod of 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 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, disadvantages 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 apart from the rest. The injustice stings 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 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 department, investigation 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 passed around invitations to the white employees, in the very pres- ence of the colored, to attend a reception to the heads of departments, including the postmaster general, in the postoffice building. It announced dancing and a pleasant social evening with the officials for "the postoffice employees," yet not one was delivered to the colored clerks. I hurried a protest to the postmaster general the day before it was to come off, and he ordered the postmaster to leave as the white. These clerks get around their colored co-workers by giving the function at a local hotel. It is inevitable that the wicked spirit of segregation would express itself in appointments, assignments, and salaries. Colored applicants are often passed over though their examination was superior. No Negro, however efficient or old in the service, must ever dream of a promotion to a directive position. The hard, unyielding caste passes whites over him, one after another, though many of the colored employees have won contests in quickness and accuracy in the handling of mall. The colored clerks have dared to form a union which meets its demands often needs merely and intelligent appeals from 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 opportunities in this huge structure where all of 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 caste that bars promotions. Here, the law of segregation forces pass over our superior employees to directive positions, and higher salaries. The whites have a large recreational center in this public building with many fine appointments for rest and amusements. During lunch and dinner hours they repair to this restful retreat for sociability and dance. Last fall, a young Afro-American with a splendid record in his work, felt the injustice of this exclusion of our employees so keenly that he secured the company of a young lady of the race to take part in the dance. As soon as this couple started to dance the music was abruptly stopped, and the young man reported for attempting to take part in an entertainment provided for employees. He was called to the office, lectured for being "one of those smart Negroes" who believe in "social equality," and then dismissed on a trumped-up charge. He was a night-employee, hence he carried a pistol. Right after the dance in the office he broke out in the office. He was guided into setting the building after 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 dismissed. By this severe punishment our employees are taught that there is no way of escape for one who dares to resent the daily insults that their government (under President Coolidge) gives them. Many of the employees have expressed their deeply-wounded feelings to me at being considered a pariah by the government whose institutions they are serving so faithfully, and I have taken up a number of cases only to be met by a dental that the conditions complained of exacerbated 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, D. SATURDAY, AUGUST 1, 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 well settled upon it, and the complainters cannot bear witness to it. (Special to The tiazetta) 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 men who lost their positions as a result of their protest, and the noble wife of Senator Robert La Follette. Shortly after the accession of Mr. Wilson to the White House, a member of his family visited the bureau where she saw white and colored girls working together in perfect harmony, oblivious to any thought of race. Shortly thereafter came an order for segregation of the races, and a white lady who had been noted for her philanthropy among our people and who was upon intimate terms at the White House appeared at the bureau to tell our girls to be contented with the new order as "a great Negro leader had taught colored people to stay in their places." Three of the young ladies resisted the order to the last ditch and were summarily dismissed! Senator La Follette lodged a protest with Secretary McAdoo to no avail, and his noble wife began a crusade against the undemocratic innovation. She took the platform here in Washington and Boston before the famous Twentieth Century club. She used the columns of the Senator's magazine, sparing neither space nor vigor of utterance. She thundered against it in our local white press, and addressed the national gathering of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People in New York. When our people here were so profoundly discoured, she came out one stormy afternoon to the Y. M. C. A. to urge them to continue the fight, for democracy was at the crises. Osseo came down 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 sight checked what was thought to be the intention of the segregators, namely, the elimination of the colored employees from the bureau altogether. The same segregation which some of our people think is the cherished institution of the Democratic party is still there, in all of its fullness, under the administration of the party that Abraham Lincoln, Charles Summer and Frederick Douglass are helped to found. Our girls are employed there in far larger numbers than in any other church, the pubs, the THEY ARE GATED in their rest rooms, toilets, and working stations, and of course none are ever thought of for promotions to executive places. They are girls from our best nomes, most of them with high age, normal school training, and fine culture. The white girls are of no such grade, as there is no segregation for them in the great world of things. They have unlimited fields at high wage for even mediocre talents. The best of our girls must take these inferior positions, the inevitable result of seating them in the front, with 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 acceptance speech, is now under the ablest financial genius, since the days of the Reagan administration. It is now remembered that the great Hamilton came from the West Indies, and in that long sweep of history that the President traversed are the mighty Salmon P. Chase, secretary of the treasury in Lincoln's cabinet, who, in a national extremity such as this country has never known, devised the national banking system which financed the Civil War; and Ohio's master financier, John Sherman. These men never knew what segregation was! The present head of the department of internal revenue, Mr. Blair from North Carolina, has not appointed a collered 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 might be there if there is a general complaint being 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 toiletes, locker rooms, rest rooms, etc. set off for colored. The toilets for the colored are few in such a large structure. Hence, the segregated clerks are forced to endure physical inconvenience to travel long distances are forced to dislike 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 festive scene that their presence with us creates in 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 registrieship of the treasury, which Republican Presidents have given the Negro since Garfield appointed Blanch K. Bruce, is now filled by a white man, and the colored people are congregated in a separate room which is publicly proclaimed as "a colored division." When it is discovered that Negro clerks are "working as white" in other divisions, they are promptly transferred to this "colored division." Our people fear that protest against this segregation would result in the abolition of 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 life, they remain in 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 an 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 An investigation of the executive departments and bureaues listed below shows that segregation prevails in them as follows: Office of the Register of the Treasury, there are two segregated sections—one with 30 Afro-American employees and the other with 14. Navy Department — one segregated section of 18 of our employees, as well as a segregated lunch room. Census Bureau — a segregated section of 60 Afro-American employees. Bonus Section Bonus section of the War Department—one segregated section of 180 of our employees. Veterans Bureau—a segregated section of 16 employees. Department of Justice—a segregated section of 10 employees in the fila room. Internal Revenue Internal Revenue Bureau—a segregated section of 7 employees. War Department, Transportation Division—a segregated section of 5 employees. P. O. Separate Lunch Room Post Office Department—a segregated lunch room. IS IT ANY USE TO CONTEND FOR RIGHTS? Colored Americans are the only race, responsible members of which are in favor of submitting to discrimination on the claim that their race "always will be discriminated against." The Jews are still contending, after over 1900 years of universal discrimination and social rights today. The Irish home have contended for 700 years and are winning because they will die rather than submit. The race that says it's of no use to resist, downs itself and the world then will say. "Negroes are not worthy of equal rights; they are by nature without self-respect and have no rights." The world resists those who want whites 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. OHIO'S ANTI-LYNCHING LAW LEADS THE COUNTRY IN EFFECTIVE LEGISLATION Against The Mob and Lynch-Murder—The Work of a Member of The Race—Also His Ohio Civil Rights Law 6278. "Mob" and "lynching" defined. 6279. "Serious injury" defined. 6280. Damages in case of assault. 6281. Damages in case of lynching. 6282. Damages recoverable by legal representative of victim of lynching 6283. Person suffering death or injury by mob trying to lynch another 6284. Limitations of action. 6285. Order to include recovery and costs in tax levy. 6286. Guardian's custody, etc., fees. 6287. County's right of action against member of mob. 6288. County's right of action against another county. 6289. Non-relief from prosecution. Our mob-violence or anti-lynching bill was introduced in the Ohio legislature in 1834 and re-introduced in 1896. It took the Hon. Harry C. Smith, editor of The Gazette, just three years to secure its enactment into law. The Ohio Supreme Court has several times upheld the constitutionality of the law and it has Section 6278. A collection of people assembled for an unlawful purpose and intending to do damage or injury to any one, or pretending to exercise correctional power over other persons by violence and without authority of law, shall be deemed a "mob" for the purpose of this chapter. A person who violates the violence mob upon the body of any person shall constitute a "lymching" within the meaning of this chapter. (93 v. 161 2.) Section 6279. The term "serious injury," for the purpose of this chapter, shall include such injury as permanently or temporarily disables the person receiving it from earning a livelihood by manual labor. (93 v. 161 3.) Section 6280. A person taken from officers of justice by a mob, and assaulted with whips, clubs, missiles or in any other manner, may recover, as hereafter provided, a sum not to exceed one thousand dollars as damages from the county in which the assault is made. (93 v. 161 4.) Section 6281. A person assaulted and lynched by a mob may recover, 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 of the county in which such injury occurred, a sum not to exceed five thousand dollars damages for such unlawful killing. Such sum shall be applied to the maintenance of the family and education of the minor children of such person 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, there be no widow of or child of such person, the child, such sum shall be distributed among the next of kin according to the laws of the distribution of the personality of an intestate. Such sum so recovered shall not be a part of the estate of such person so lynched, nor be subject to any of his liabilities. (93 v 162 6.) Section 6283. A person suffering death or injury from a mob attempting to lynch another person shall come within the provisions of this chapter. He or his legal representatives shall have a like right of action as one purposely injured or killed by such a mob. (93 v 162 6.) Section 6284. Action for the recoveries provided for in this chapter must be commenced, within two years from the date of such lynching. in any court having original jurisdiction of an action for damages for malicious assault. (93 v 162 7.) Section 6285. An order to the commissioners of a county, against which such recovery is had, to include it with the costs of action, in the next succeeding tax levy for such county, shall be a part of the judgment in every such case. (93 v 162 8.) Section 6228. 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 fees to be incurred for counsel fees in the action for such recovery. (83 v. 162 9.) Section 6228. The county, in which a lynching occurs, may recover the amount of a judgment and costs against it in favor of the legal representatives of a person killed or seriously injured by a mob from any of the persons composing such mob. A person present, with hostile intent, at such lynching shall be deemed a member of the mob and be liable to the court. Section 6228. If a mob carries a prisoner into another county, or comes from another county to com- 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: mit 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 on the part of officials of such imprisonment to attribute negligence not less than the county in failing to protect such prisoner or dispurse such mob. (93 v. 163 11.) Section 6289. This chapter shall not relieve a person concerned in such lynching from prosecution for homicide or assault for engaging therein. (93 v. 163 12.) OUR OHIO CIVIL RIGHTS LAW Upon the request or many readers of the Gazette we print below the text of the letter Harry C. Smith's Ohio Civil Rights Act which the editor had enacted while a member of the 71st General Assembly, in 1894: The General Code of Ohio The General Code of Ohio: Sec. 12940. Whoever, being the proprietor or his employee, keeper or man of an inn, restaurant, eating house, barn shop, public conveyance by land or other property, other place of public accommodation and amusement, denies to a citizen except for reasons applicable alike to all citizens and regardless of race or color, the full enjoyment of the accommodations, advantages, facilities or privileges thereof, shall be fined not less than fifty dollars nor more than fifty hundred dollars, or nor more than fifty days, or both. Sec. 12941. Whoever, before the next preceding section shall also pay not less than fifty dollars nor more than five hundred dollars to the person aggrieved thereby to he 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 trouble is our people will not use it as often as they should, but expect it to do for them what they should and must do for themselves, under it, in the courts. Judge Grant's Opinion of the Law. Misled by the foolishly manufactured outcry for the passage of the Beaty Hill, a few years ago, the Akron Beaton Journal published an editorial which the editor of The Gazette replied, calling its attention to the fact that the Ohio Civil Rights law was good law and did not need amending. The following letter from Judge Grant former presiding judge of the Court of Appeals of the Eighth District of Ohio, is self explanatory: Akron, G., April 25, 1919. Hon. Harry C. Smith. Edition. Gazette, Cleveland, O. My Dear Brother, Observing your letter in the Beacon Journal, this city, I venture to send you, under a separate cover, the Ohio Law Reporter of Feb. 3, last, containing the opinion of the Court of Appeals in the Puritan Lunch Co. vs. Leonard H. Forman, decided in Akron, last fall, in which a judgment for ($500) five hundred dollars was sustained. The Beacon-Journal had known what the Beacon-Journal in its own town, there would have been no need for criticism editorially. THE LAW OF OHIO IS UNDER NO REPROACH, nor our courts and juries, in administering it. Not a word was said by the Beacon-Journal when the Forman case was reviewed. Very truly yours, R. C. Grant. RACE PREJUDICE! "I am convinced myself that there is no more evil thing in this present world than race prejudice; none at all! "I write deliberately—it is the worst single thing in life now. It justifies and holds to together more baseness, cruelty and abomination than any other sort of error in the world." —H. G. Wells. TRUE TO HER LOVE OF 65 YEARS AGO Aged Woman Remembers First Beau With Greetings on Anniversary Burry, Ride, They, Took. San Francisco, Cal.-The saying that "the constancy of a woman runs but three years and a day" has again been refuted, for out of the past there has flickered a message from Ohio to California that tells how an effection once planted in a woman's heart never ceases to burn, though the winter of life weaves the frost halo in her hair and though vast mountains and numerous miles are thrust between the young emotion and the old. On a summer day in 1849 Stephen T. Gage, 18 years of age, took Mary Stevens, 16, for a ride along the beech and maple uplands of Ashtabula, Ohio, and boy and girl together they plied by a leaf-embowered stream. There was a spark that went with the glances of the two, and Fate swung their lives far apart. A strapping, six-floor-three youth, he joined the pilgrimage to the west, while she remained in the comparative quietude of the old Ohio home. He went into freighting over the big Sierra divide from Hangtown (Placer ville) into Nevada, and in 1866 was sent as an assemblyman on the Know Nothing ticket to represent his country, then the "Empire county of the state," in the Legislature—the legislative session of which he is now the sole survivor. In his freighting he charged "all the traffic would bear" and he grew in influence and confidence in the transportation game. When it came time to organize the building of the great transcontinental railroad, young Gage was a factor to be reckoned with, and he joined the Crockers, Stanford, Colton, Huntington, Hopkins and Judah in carrying the project to its conclusion. Then he became a commanding figure in the politics of California and Nevada—the confidant and right hand of Stanford in carrying forward the railroad's manifold policies. He made governors and judges, assessors, secretaries and controllers with a nod and unmade them with a wink. Men fawned for his favor and scurried from his frown. He married, but not the girl of the picnic of Ashtabula in the far dim Ohio of his youth. Death made him a widower—twice. Age came, and with time the companions of his youth, his mature manhood and his achievements went their way. But that age left him ruddy and rugged—quick of eye, firm of step, patriarchal to beard, but still such a figure that has made him called "the handsomest man in California." But all these years in the far-away Ohio a woman remembered that picnic out of Ashtabula beneath the beeches and the maples, remembered a gleam in his eye, recalled the pressure of his hand. Three years ago Stephen T. Gage went back to Ohio and there he took Mary Stevens for a ride and picnic over the same old road out of Ashtabula—a ride under the beech and maple shade, a picnic by the same leaf-embowered stream. On the anniversary of that first ride in 1849 there came to Stephen T. Gage, 83 years old and a resident of this city, from Mary E. Stevens, aged 81, a telegraphed message reading: "To my and only beau." "Happy returns of the day," wired Stephen T. Gage in reply, and he hummed an old love tune. DOG'S PEDIGREE IS NOTHING Says Idaho Miner, If You Love Your Dog—His Story Is Go Boise, Idaho.—Edward McDonald and his brother, Michael, two typical Southern mountainineers, who have been living in the mountains back of Pioneerville for a number of years, and who still dress in the typical Tennessee mountain style, appeared at the Boise station with tickets to Nashville. Edward McDonald remarked that he wanted to check his dog through and asked if he could get off at certain stations to feed and pet the animal. "That dog is powerful fond of me," he remarked in explanation as the station agent's eye fell upon the homely animal. His face fell somewhat when he was told that it would cost him something like $10 to check the dog. "Why can't he go on our tickets—we've got two?" he asked. When told that he would have to pay $7.50 to St. Louis and another fee from there on, he said: "Well, that cur thinks so powerful much of me I reckon I'll have to pay it. It makes no difference about the kind of dog if you ... e him, you know," and he slowly counted out the money from an old miner's wallet and put the dog in the baggage car, with a final love pat on his head. She Falls Unconscious at Sight of Tiny Intruder. Kenosha, Wis.-Miss Edna Engle, the 17-year old daughter of Caspar Engel, was scared to death by a mouse. The mouse ran out from under a piece of furniture as she entered her room. The girl fell unconscious and died without regaining consciousness.