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CIGARS FREE TO THE MEN BALLOONS FREE TO THE "KIDDIES" SOUVENIRS FREE TO ALL Look at Our Windows! DO NOT FORGET THE TIME AND PLACE ROBINSON'S PHARMACY COR. E. 30TH ST. AND SCOVILL AVE. THE GAZETTE ESTABLISHED, AUGUST 25, 1883 And Issued Every Week on Time Since CLEVELAND, OHIO, SATURDAY, AUGUST 8, 1925. FRESH OHIO NEWS What Our People Are Doing Each Week—Church, Personal, Social, Lodge, Literary and Musical—Marriages, Deaths, Etc. CORRESPONDENTS must mail all letters for publication at their main postoffice sufficiently early on Monday (or Sunday) of each week to have them reach The Gazette office on Tuesday morning, and always write their names and that of their city or town on the outside of the wrapper about returned copies. Unless this latter is done, proper credit cannot be given you. Lists of names, wedding presents, etc., obituary notices, inquiries for relatives and advertisements of all kinds, including items announcing entertainments to be held in the near future, must be paid for in advance at the rate of 25 cents a line, six words to a line. Our rates for display advertisements will be sent on application. week Monday, by the illness of a sister, Mrs. Harry Saunders, who suffered a stroke of paralysis and died Sunday, A. E. Piper and son James, visited his sister, Mrs. Amanda Lewis, in Xenia, a week.—Miss Thelma Piper accompanied her brother, Arnold, home for a few weeks' visit.—The Community band, a new organization of our citizens, gave an enjoyable picnic, July 30, for its benefit.—Mrs. Mary Wright is ill.—A fishbait was given by club, No. 1, at Mr. harvey Wright's, July 21. A large crowd—Mrs. N. A. Payne entertained, Sunday, Mrs. M. Jones and son, Percy, and Mrs. E. Cole of Columbus.—M. M. Wright entertained, Sunday week, their son, Avie, of Columbus. CADIZ.—Mr., and Mrs. Frank Christian and Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Christian of Steubenville, were guests of Mr. and Mrs. William Tyler, Sunday.—Mrs. Lucile Williams of Columbus is visiting her father, W. L. Johnson.—Mrs. Elizabeth West and Mrs. Alberta Madison are attending the Household of Ruth grand lodge in Cleveland, this week.—Mrs. M. Harris of Elaine is the guest of Mrs. Margaret West.—Born to Mr. and Mrs. Harry Redmond, the 27th ult., a son.—Miss Katherine Johnson, a recent graduate of Willerforce, is visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Johnson.—Mrs. Henrietta Newsome has returned to Bellefontaine.—Mr. Harold Lee, who has been attending Chicago University during the summer term, has returned home.—Mrs. John Curry spent the past week in Columbus and Springfield. FRANKFORT—Bothel A. M. E. church corner-stone laving, Sunday afternoon, attracted a large crowd. Bishop J. H. Jones delivered a fun address and the collection was $102.79—Mr. and Mrs. J. Roy Williams' week-end guests were her brother and friend from Covington, Ky.—Mr. and Mrs. John Willson has as guests, Mr. and Mrs. Wardon Woodford and the latter's mother, of St. Paul, Mr. Woodford 'is Mrs. Wilson's son. Mr. and Mrs. Wilson entertained, Sunday, his brother and family from Portsmouth.—Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Piper entertained, Sunday, their son and his wife, Mr. and Mrs. Arnold 'Piper of Columbus.—Miss Cleo Polly was in Columbus, last week Tuesday.—Miss Emma Wright was called to Springfield, last THE NEGRO SOLDIER. Ex-Gov. Malcolm R. Patterson Says in the Memphis (Teun.) Commercial-Appal That Gen. Bullard Has Failed to Make Out His Case. The article of G. W. Lee published in Sunday's Commercial-Appal is well worth reading. Lee, a colored man, was an officer in the 368th Infantry in the World War, and his statement is one of the many replies to the charges of Gen. Bullard to the effect that Negro soldiers of the 92nd Division were lacking in courage. The statement of Officer Lee is well presented, and while he and others of his race are no doubt chafing over the strictures of Gen. Bullard, the article is as free from acrimony as could be reasonably expected under the circumstances. The writer of the article mentioned does not content himself with a general denial but quotes from a speech of Gen. Pershing as follows: "I want you officers and soldiers to know that the 92nd Division stands second to none in the record you have made since your arrival in France: I am proud of the part you have played in the great conflict, which ended on the 11th of November. I realize you did not get into the game as early as some of the other units, but since you took over your first sector you have acquitted yourselves with credit. I commend the 92nd Division for its achievements not only in the field, but on the record it has made in their individual conduct." In addition to the foregoing statement of Gen. Pershing, Officer Lee quotes from other white officers, and includes a memorandum made on the field by Col. Allen Greer of week Monday, by the illness of a sister, Mrs. Harry Saunders, who suffered a stroke of paralysis and died, Sunday, - A. E. Piper and son, James, visited his sister, Mrs. Amanda Lewis, in Xenia, a week - Miss Thelma Piper accompanied her brother, Arnold, home for a few weeks' visit.—The Community band, a new organization of our citizens, gave an enjoyable picnic, July 30, for its benefit.—Mrs. Mary Wright is ill.—A fishshy was given by club, No. 1, at Mr. flarey Wright's, July 21. A large crowd—Mrs. N. A. Payne entertained, Sunday, Mrs. M. Jones and son, Percy, and Mrs. E. Cole of Columbus.—M. M. Wright entertained, Sunday week, their son, Avie, of Columbus. HILLSBORO.—C. M. Gragston and C. H. Williams were in London, Saturday.—M. Mrs. Anderson of Cincinnati is visiting her niece, Mrs. Mack Owens.—Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Williams and daughter, Mrs. Winnipeg Wilson, of Cleveland, are visiting their parents, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Williams.—Mr. and Mrs. Edward Jones spent Sunday in Columbus with their cousin, Mrs. M. White.—Misses Maggie Kittrell and Clara Adams of Cincinnati, spent the week with the former's uncle and aunt, Mr. and Mrs. Mal Kittrell.—Mr. and Mrs. John Johnson visited Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Pope in Columbus, Sunday.—Mrs. Martha Hennison entertained at dinner, Sunday, her niece, Miss Arnita Burr, and Mrs Mildred Waters.—Mr. Wallace Nelson and daughter, Miss Rosetta, and Mrs. Paul Kilgour visited in Columbus, last Monday.—Rev. J. J. Burr preached, Sunday, at the Grove meeting in Sabina.—Miss Florence Burns is visiting in Piqúa.—Clarence Pleasant and Samuel Graves attended the K. P. grand lodge in Springfield, last Thursday.—Mrs. Alice Ealey of Indianapolis is visiting her mother, Mrs. Lucy Lucas. Last Tuesday evening, Mrs. Lucas entertained with a six o'clock dinner. The guests were: Mr. and Mrs. James Blanton, Mrs. M. Moore and son of Cleveland and her daughter, Alice Mrs. Moore and son left Saturday, for home. They visited her cousins, Mr. and Mrs. J. Blanton.—Mr. Clifford Lamb spent Sunday in Sabina.—Miss Rosetta Nelson entertained the Industrial club, last Friday. A delightful luncheon.—Mr. Jas, Blair, age 83, died. July 30: Funeral services. Friday afternoon, conducted by Rev. Mayle at the Baptist church. Memphis, all of which are wholly at variance with the charges of Gen. Bullard, Col. Greer is the son of Judge James M. Greer, an old and honored resident of the city, and was born and reared in this city. Col. Greer made a great reputation as a young lieutenant in the Philippine Islands during the native insurrection, was decorated and cited for conspicuous gallantry, and since that time has become a colonel in the regular army. If the number and character of the witnesses are to determine the accuracy of Gen. Bullard's statement, he has failed to make out his case, and on the record presented the Negro soldiers stand not only acquitted of the indictment for cowardice, but as having established in addition the positive fact of their bravery. The Negro is an American citizen, and forms a considerable part of the integral life of the nation. The general impression has always been that he was thoroughly patriotic in the World War and, it came as a distinct surprise, especially to those who know the Negro best, that a charge of cowardice should have been lodged against him by Gen. Bullard or any one else. Dumpsey Let Down Easy New York City—The New York boxing commission, following a lengthy session, Tuesday, announced that no further action had been taken in Jack Dempsey's case. Paddy Mullins, manager of Harry Wills, appeared before the commission and urged that Dempsey's title be vacated because the pseudo champion refused to meet Wills before next year. Mullins was asked to draw articles for a bout between Dempsey and Wills, July 4, 1926. These articles will be presented to Jack by the commission for his signature. Stops a Color-Line in Sports and Keeps Them Ahead of the White Church—A Leader Who Secures Results. (Special to The Gazette) Washington, D. C.—Prof. Neval H. Thomas, president of the Washington branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People has broken down another piece of segregation, this week. This time it had invaded the realm of sport. The Evening Star, the Neval H. Thomas. leading daily of the city announced that the Midget Nines of the district would play a game in American League game, just previous to the regular Chicago-Washington game when ten thousand white youth would be admitted free as the guests of the National's. Mr. Thomas wrote Mr. Clark Griffith, manager of the Washington A. L. team, that won the penultast year, telling him that our people regretted that American color, distinctions had, at last entered the popular game of baseball, and that sports are far in advance of the white church in democratic ideals and sense of human brotherhood. Mr. Griffith immediately 'phoned Mr. Thomas that he would reverse the order and admit the first ten thousand boys, regardless of color, and that he would announce the change in all of the daily press. Mr. Thomas is also working on the police commissioner to secure the appointment of our men to the police department who have been declared physically unfit, but who passed the draft boards without hesitation on the part of the examiners, and who have secured clean bills of health from many other physicians, both white and black. He is also insisting upon the trial and punishment of a policeman who entered the home of one of our families at 2 a. m., without a warrant, to arrest a small boy, and who wouldn't even tell the parents what he wanted the boy for. WILL Marian Anderson. Will Star Again. New York City.-Marian Anderson, contrato soloist de luxe, of Philadelphia, will appear the week of Aug. 24 as soloist with the New York Philharmonic Orchestra, in its series of concerts at the Lewisohn Stadium. College of the City of New York. Miss Anderson was selected as the only vocalist from a group of three hundred contestants, all white, save herself. POSTOFFICE OFFICIAL PROMOTED. Interesting Career of a Member of the Race in Government Service at the "Empire City". New York City.—Alexander King, for three years superintendent of College postoffice station, this city, has been promoted to the superintendency of station U. E. 106th St. between Second and Third Aves. Mr. King started his new duties July 20, in the new station which is located in an exclusive white neighborhood. He lives at 23 W. 137th St., has spent over 30 years in the postal service, and was assistant superintendent at the Wall St. station for a number of years under the Roosevelt administration. Later he was demoted to finance clerk because of a change in politics. His appointment to College station in 1922 marked the first of our race to be placed in charge of a branch office in this city. Thomas Killey, who succeeded the late Edward M. Morgan as postmaster of the "metropolis", recommended the promotion of King, which was quickly O. K.'ed by the postmaster general. Leaves Fund for Aged Columbus, O.—A fund for aged and indigent men is created by the will of Wm. H Letchford, late hotel owner. He left an estate, estimated at $50,000 in real estate and $750 in personal property. Woman, Aged 114, Dies. Okmulgee, Okla.—Mrs. Flora Franklin, 114 years old, died here, recently. Her family vouchered for her age. She was a daughter of Monday Durant, councilman of the Creek tribe before the move from Alabama to the Indian territory. SINGLE COPY FIVE CENTS TRYING TO SAVE A WHITE MAN! THE CARNEGIE HERO FUND WILL RECOGNIZE THEIR HEROIC ACT. Both Leave Families—Their Parents Also Extended Sympathy—Contrast This Picture With the One Furnished by Southern "Civilization"—Tom Lee and Others. Pittsburgh, Pa. — Langston Mitchell, age 21, of 69 Fullerton St., and his brother, Edward, age 28, of 4526 Clark St., employees of the power house of the Pittsburgh & Lake Erie railroad, lost their lives in the Monongahela river, last week Tuesday morning, when they attempted to save Joseph Waters, (white), an attorney's assistant, who a few minutes before had leaped from the Smithfield St. bridge into the river. A half hour after the two brothers leaped into the water, the body of the older was dragged from the river bottom by police. The body of Langston Mitchell was recovered 10 minutes later by River Patrolman Spyder. Both brothers leave a wife and one child. Waters' body was found last, a short time after that of Langston Mitchell. —and backed away. A large crowd of both races gathered; the whites looked on, scoffling, while remarking that his blood was as red as theirs; the others, standing at a respectful distance in the rear of the whites; shook their heads in sorrow at the spectacle. An hour later another ambulance, manned by members of our race, appeared and hastened the stricken man toward a hospital, but he was dead long before the destination was reached. He had bled to death as white doctors—exponents of a higher civilization—looked on. He died a martyr to that civilization of which he had become a small part, and for which he had given his best years. Every day we have evidence of the inequality of man in American society. Every day there are in- The brothers, who were among the many that saw Waters leap from the bridge, ran to the water's edge and Edward went in after the white man. Before he arrived in reaching distance of the drowning man the latter went down. Edward Mitchell then began to swim to shore but was caught in a whirlpool, and disappeared. The younger Mitchell then went to the rescue of his brother and was also caught in the whirlpool. John Duffy, (white), age 26, another employee of the power house, throw, a rope to the second brother before he sank out of sight but Mitchell either failed to see the rope or was played out and not able to reach it. Duffy then entered the water and swam to the edge of the whirlpool but the second brother had already, disappeared. Frank Sawyers (white), 12 Gaskill St., Mt. Washington, another employee of the railroad, ran to the water's edge and pulled Duffy to the shore just as he was about to sink. The water near the shore is very deep. as sand dredges had been working there. By this time a large crowd had gathered and boats were already launched in an attempt to save the men. Neighbors of Mr. and Mrs. Willis Mitchell crowded into their modest home on the second floor of 69 Fullerton St., all Tuesday, to offer sympathy on the death of their heroes. In the same house with his parents lived Langston Mitchell and his 18-year-old wife, Hernadotte, whom he married last January. In the stricken household also was Langston's sister, Hazel, age 18, and his twin step-sisters, Sarah and Henrietta, 7 months old. "Madam, your step-sons died heroes," said a minister, who was among the first to arrive at the house. Out of the confusion his voice was heard offering consolation and in a fervent prayer. Edward, the elder brother, was twice married, his first wife having died, several years ago. He has one child, Thelma, 4 years old, a daughter by his first wife. His second marriage took place about nine months ago. .Southern "Civilization"! Tennessee is the home state of Tom Lee; Memphis, the town where he claims a residence. Tom Lee is not white—instead he is a member of what is known as the despised race in America. In spite of it all, he rose to the occasion of rescuing, at the risk of his own life, 32 southern white persons. He saw them in danger and, forgetting the age-old abuses, the insults, the deep injuries heaped upon him and his by these very people, he weat calmly, methodically to the task of saving them. For hours he worked unceasingly, exhausting himself in retrieving those very persons he has had most cause to hate. Last week another incident was enacted in Memphis. A switchman, for 37 years a faithful employee of a southern railway company, slipped beneath a car while performing a duty and the wheels severed an arm and a leg. A large crowd witnessed the accident and someone turned in a call for an ambulance. Ten minutes later, so dispatches have it, two white ambulances dashed up to the scene, each eager to be first to administer first aid to the stricken. Two attendants rushed to the man lying on the ground bleeding to death—two men looked, saw that he was not white IN UNION IS STRONG LE COPY FIVE CENTS eath! TO SAVE ITE MAN! FUND WILL RECOGNIZE HEROIC ACT. their Parents Also Extended This Picture With the One hern "Civilization"— and Others. —and backed away. A large crowd of both races gathered; the whites looked on, scoffingly, while remarking that his blood was as red as theirs; the others, standing at a respectful distance in the rear of the whites; shook their heads in sorrow at the spectacle. An hour later another ambulance, manned by members of our race, appeared and hastened the stricken man toward a hospital, but he was dead long before the destination was reached. He had bled to death as white doctors—exponents of a higher civilization—looked on. He died a partry to that civilization of which he had become a small part, and for which he had given his best years. Every day we have evidence of the inequality of man in American society. Every day there are instances of sacrifice on the one side, and bigoted selfishness on the other. The North is still resounding in praise for Daniels, a Pullman porter, who died that others—white others—might live. Even down in Indiana, the hotbed of kluxism in the North, there are hushed voices when mention is made of two laborers who entered a vat of boiling oil and gas fumes trying to rescue their white foreman. Both died. Maryland tells us of a little girl, who, at great personal risk, stood on a track and flagged to a standstill a passenger train that would surely have been derailed, had she not displayed the prescience of mind she did. Hundreds of lives, most of them white persons, were saved.—Chicago Defender. BASED ON OUR OHIO LAW! The Georgia Legislature Again Has An Anti-Lynching Bill Which It Is Debating. Atlanta, Ga.—Recently a drastic anti-lynching bill, based on the Ohio law, was introduced in the state legislature. It provides that any officer found guilty of negligence in a "riot, riotous assembly, or mob violence" shall be removed from office, and the sheriff of the county involved be subjected to a suit for $5,000 for each homicide by the mob, and "for the full value of the property injured or destroyed." After fees are deducted, the balance of the money is to be turned over to the heirs of the victim or victims. "Proof that any person was in the custody of the respondent officer, or any of his deputies and, was either killed or injured while in such custody, shall be prima facie evidence of such neglect." Seven states, in the north and west, already have laws against lynching and mob violence, led by Ohio. THANK HARRY C. SMITH: Give Harry C. Smith, fighting editor of The Cleveland Gazette, credit for putting spunk in Ohio citizens in their battle against "jim crow" schools. Springfield needed advice on the civil rights law. Mr. Smith, former legislator and father of the law, went down at his own expense to tell them about it. Last week, the Ohio supreme court indorsed what Editor Smith said, several months ago. Dark children will enter the same school door, eat lunch on the same lawn and read books side by side with white children. Take your hat off to Editor Smith. Springfield and Dayton, for bringing yon victory.—"The Week" in Chicago Defender. S'more Southern "Generosity" Washington, D. C.—After an investigation which lasted for several weeks and which was intended to delay recognition of the heroic services of 14-year-old Esther E. Hill of Augusta, Md., the Baltimore & Ohio railroad has awarded the paltry sum of $100 to the little girl. Esther flagged a passenger train near Hagerstown, Md., on July 10 and prevented it from crashing into a large tree which had fallen across the tracks. The crash would have doubtless wrecked the train and snuffed out the lives of many of the passengers it carried. BUMP! GOOD HEAVENS! WHAT'S HAPPENED TO GRANDPA? HE MUST BE HAVING A DUCK FIT! HURRY, SIS! HURRY! OH DEAR! WHAT CAN THE MATTER BE? WHY, GRANPA! -- WHY DON'T YOU LIGHT THE GRATE IF YOU'RE SO COLD? COLD? SAY, I MAY BE OLD, CALS, BUT I'VE GOT YOUNG IDEAS, B'HEK! HOW TO SHIMMY BY Tim Early- PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY (In Advance) One Year ..... $2.00 Six Months ..... 1.00 Subscribers are requested to remit by postoffice money order or registered letter. Entered at the postoffice in Cleveland, Ohio, as second-class mail matter 226 W. Superior Ave., Cleveland, O. 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 compa- sion with any will immediately establish its rank as one of the NEWEST AND BEST in the country. 10,000,000 Afro-Americans. 350,000 in Ohio. 40,000 in Cleveland. SATURDAY, AUGUST 8, 1925. Langston and Edward Mitchell, HEROES! The Georgia legislature is again wrestling with an anti-lyching bill. That state does this at more or less regular periods, about five years apart. Still at it! President Coolidge recently nominated twenty-one candidates for cadetships at West Point. As usual, he turned our people down flat. William Jennings Bryan not only endorsed Ku Kluxism but also dis- franchisement. In this, he does not differ materially, apparently, from President Calvin Coolidge. "Negro housing in Cincinnati is not fit for a prize dog" announces an expert (white) who made a survey in Ohio's second largest city. While conditions in Cleveland are not quite so bad there is need of improvement here. This is The Gazette's last issue in its forty-second year of continuous publication, every week on time! The editor has been "in the saddle" all that time and proposes to stay there just as long as the good Lord will permit him to do so. The Baltimore & Ohio railroad shows that it is even smaller than the city of Memphis has proven itself to be in its handling of the Tom Lee fund. It gave 14-year-old Esther Hill only $100 for saving one of its passenger trains and the lives of many persons on it. Our esteemed conferee of the Baltimore Afro-American is wrong There were three Afro-American graduates of West Point—Lieut Henry O. Flipper, Col. Charles Young and John Alexander, the last two from Ohio, and the first, if memory serves us correctly, from Georgia. At the Cleveland Hardware Co., Miss Isabelle Walden is head chemist. She is a graduate of Fiske University. E. J. McMillan is metallurgist. Though possessed of a splendid technical education, he started as a common laborer. Many of our youth ought to clip this item and paste it in their hats. The city of Memphis ought to be ashamed of itself. It took that town many months to raise a paltry three thousand dollars for its hero, Tom Lee. And he saved thirty-two southern whites from a watery grave. Be sure to read "Southern Civilization", on page 1 of this paper, and get another "mindful". BEN DAVIS OF ATLANTA. It has been a long time since we called the name of Ben Davis, either in public or in private. In fact we had almost forgotten him. But now here he comes defending the rebel side of the Civil War, declaring that the southerners did not fight to keep slavery, and persuading colored people of Georgia to give money to help build a monument to Lee and Jackson and the others of the rebel armies, who, if they had succeeded, would have fixed up matters so that today Ben Davis, instead of editing the Atlanta Dependent and getting easy money from the lodge "brethren," would be picking cotton for one of the grandchildren of those rebels for one suit of clothes a year, and a weekly food allowance of one peck of meal, one pound of salt pork or fish and one handful of salt. If those rebels had succeeded Ben Davis never would have been able to write this foolish advice to the Negroes of Georgia. The successful rebels would have built monuments, of course, but without Ben's advice. But because Grant and Lincoln and 200,000 Negro soldiers in the Civil War had more sense than Davis shows in this advice, Ben has been THE GEEVUM GIRLS privileged to handle a good deal of money in the last 20 or 30 years,—and the Negroes of Georgia have been privileged to lose heavily. Ben wants every Negro in Georgia, and everywhere else for that matter, to give fifty cents each to help erect a rebel monument at Stone Mountain in Georgia, to Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson, and the other rebels, who, he says, "were brave and loyal to the cause they felt to be fight." Because a fellow sticks to the "cause" he feels to be right, is no reason for building a monument to him. We should build monuments to people who are proven by subsequent history to be right and whose cause is proven to be just. If we build monuments to those who "felt" that they were right, we shall have to build monuments to cannibals, witch-doctors, witch-burners, slave-drivers, Georgia lynchers, and (maybe) even to some surrendering Negroes like Ben Davis.—Wm. Pickens. Dayls Wins Glory in England London, England—John P. Davis, Afro-American senior at Bates College, Maine, U. S. A., has been acclaimed by critics as one of the great orators of the times. His team from Bates College has even defeated that of Cambridge University and of the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, and Captain Davis is justly proud of the record of four victories and but two defeats since the opening of the debating battles in the British Isles. Our Population of Some Cities. Washington, D. C.—Estimated Afro-American population of some of the leading cities of the country, July 1, 1925, according to the U. S. census bureau, Baltimore, N. Y. City, 196, 198, Philadelphia, 163,904; Chicago, 150,083; Washington, 119,645; Baltimore, 117,360; Cleveland, 49,856; Pittsburgh, 45,166; Indianapolis, 42,117; Louisville, 40,478; Cincinnati, 35,152, and Kansas City Mo., 34,966. Additional Locals A "Dixie Hour" was one of the big features of the fifteenth cruise of the "Nite Caps" on Lake Erie, Saturday midnight, at the Euclid Music studio of Station WTAM. And inasmuch as the "Nite Caps" remained in port, last month, and went cruiseless, Saturday's session was in the nature of a double bill with one of the biggest and best programs of this sort ever broadcast in Cleveland. There were five orchestras, half a dozen instrumental and vocal trios, and more than a score of fine soloists, who were also the take, see here in their own music comedy, "Bamville," were the features of the "Dixie Hour." They have a brand of humor and music all their own. Also prominent in the Dixie entertainment was the Clarence Williams trio, Okeh recording artists, which specializes in blues and harmony. In addition there were George Warmack's singing syncopators and the Martha Lee club's Seven Musical Magpie, with Bessie Brown, blues singer de luxe, and Walter Johnson, pianist, completing the roster of our entertainers. Featured on the rest of the program were Erie Tay, a graduate of Cleveland's best pianists, who played his latest compositions. Lella Le Mahr, another accomplished pianist; the Golden Pheasant orchestra, Art Kozlik's organization, and the Five University Graduates. In a letter, under date, July 20 '25, Ida I. BwL of wells in city now in Los Angeles, Calif., writes "They have geraniums here for hedges, growing five and six feet high. The orange and lemon trees were a wonder for me. All the former Clevelanders I have met are quite prosperous. Mr. and Mrs. Stevely own a beautiful home and a large orange and lemon figs from it. They also have a lovely 1925 auto. 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 vocalist. I made lemonade from lemons taken from a tree in their yard. They have a beautifully furnished home. The Misses Hackettts have returned home, after a months' stay, groomed and in health and made many friends in Mrs. Julia Mitchell is much improved in health and Mrs. Bailey is looking fine. We visited Mr. and Mrs. Copeland and sister, Mrs. Hearst, in Pasadena. They have a beautiful home with a yard containing peach, plum, lemon, fig, orange, banana and English walnut trees. Mrs. Josie Crawford Ramsey has a lovely home on one of the prominent streets of the city. The Crawford Krugger 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. Mr. and Mrs. Henderson have returned from several weeks' visit in Cleveland." THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, O SATURDAY, AUGUST 8, 1925 PRIME SPORT NEWS New York City.—Tiger Flowers gave one McCarthy (white) a beneficent "lacing" in Boston, recently. Tiger was due in Cleveland, O., Aug. 11, for a bout but decided to have another. The judge has canceled that and four other bouts—to improve his physical condition as indicated in the foregoing. Dempsey-Wills Fight, July 4, 1926. "I have completely broken with Kearns. We are now dividing our property and in the future I will handle my own affairs," the champion declared. "I have informed the commission in New York that I should be within a short time and then I will appear before the commission to formally sign for the Wills bout." The N. Y. state boxing commission should be credited with "forcing Dempsey's hand," with its threat to vacate his championship title if he did not accept Harry he lunge in Wednesday's week. That coupled with "an airful dodger" to act as stated in the foregoing. The sport-writing kluxers of the daily papers, from Los Angeles to N. Y. City, have already begun their "anvil-chorus" of knocking in an effort to work up a nation-wide protest against the Wills-Dempsey fight, next year! They cannot bear the idea of their pugilistic idol (Dempsey) being whipped by an Afro-American. Their efforts will fall, of course, because the "dear public" they praise so much about wants to see which is the better man and have been kept waiting far too long now. Bogash Badly Beaten. Bogash Battly Beaten. Aurora, Ill.—Tiger Flowers hit Lou Bogash (white) with everything except the ash can and that can be off in all colors. He has his right in Lou's faces from the time Walter Eckersall sounded the gong in the first round until he tapped it to end the fight at the finish of the tenth. This all happened at Joe Sager's arena here, on a recent Friday night. So badly that the Tiger do Bogash that the fans couldn't stand it any longer and many left for the train and autos. But Lou must be given some credit—he took an awful pasting and took it for 10 rounds. He bled profusely and to save their scribes use new paint to save their fronts from a shower bath of red claret that flowed from Lou's nose. But Lou didn't get knocked out and he didn't run, either. Greb and Flowers. Greb and Flowers. In August of last year, Middleweight Champion Harry Brec accompanied by his son, James Mayson, placed an visit to Fremont, O. Presents of Raymond Bronson, ex-welterweight champion and boxing impresario, extraordinary, of that state at the time. Greb was introduced to Flowers by Bronson, the ceremony taking place in a twenty-four foot boxing ring. The entertainment lasted for thirty minutes, before a large assembly, who excitedly watched the famous windmill champion do more "milling" than he had ever before displayed. Flowers completely covered Greb during the entertainment. At its conclusion the champion emerged none the better for his efforts and was heard to exclaim in a declaratory manner, "In the future—omit Flowers." 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 name cities: bus, Tolton, Steubenville, Zanesville, Tolton, 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. S. O. S.. Darrow! San Antonio, Tex.—The birth of a child (white) with a 3-inch tail was reported to the health authorities here, July 28, by Dr. Valeriano Palomo, city physician. The child, a girl, was born, July 23, and is normal in every respect. The parents have agreed to an operation on the child when it is 7 months old. Vestigial tails have been noted on infants before. The phenonon is not especially uncommon. Tom Lee Fund $3,000, at last! Memphis, Tenn.—The hero fund of Thomas Lee, who saved 32 whites from drowning in the Mississippi river, many months ago, has at last reached $3,025.85. The committee in charge plans to buy a four-room house with a garden big enough to raise chickens. Any city in the North would have raised the $3,000 in a few days. Mr. Clark L. Mock, labor commissioner 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 residential occupation was to be recommended". He also inquires about "the problem of schooling for colored 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 furnishing houses and apartments at a reasonable rental, and this the Cleveland Chamber of Commerce has it in its power to do. As to the schooling immigrants from the South, the same arrangements furnished all other newly arrived immigrants, from different 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 illegal, and therefore has been outlawed, by the U. S. Supreme Court, decision. The segregation 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 decision outlawing segregated schools, along race lines. Patronize Our Advertisers Patronize Our Advertisers Tell It, Brother, Tell It! Then it, brother. There is something radically wrong in the 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. PROTEST AGAINST WRONG To submit in silence when we should protest makes cowards out of men. The human race has climbed on protest. Had no voice been raised against injustice, ignorance and lust, the inquisition yet would serve the law, and gulotllines decide our least disputes. The few who dare, must speak and speak again to right the wrongs of many.—Ella Wheeler Wilcox. CHARACTER. Character, like a fine old tree, matures slowly and is a ripen 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. EDITOR. FACTS People who Advertise Can sell Goods. * * * * People who sell Goods Can make Money. * * * * People who make Money can advertise goods. * * * * The Best Advertising Medium is "The Old Reliable" GAZETTE. 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EXELENTO MEDICINE CO., Atlanta, Ga AGENTS WANTED EVERYWHERE Write for Particulars Our advertisers want your trade. Those who do not ask for it in the columns of "The Old Reliable" Gasette certainly care little, if at all, for it. Therefore, we urge our readers and all of our friends to patronize those who ask in this paper for your patronage.—Editor. Where To Purchase The Gazette NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS Subscribers not receiving Tues at once. We desire every one Send or bring locals and all office, Room 304, Johnson Bloo site the Hotel Cleveland. If there, please. We advise our readers to advertisements before making advertise in this paper should be The fact that they advertise is. All reading matter for pub Gazette must be in the office week, at the latest. Display noon, WEDNESDAYS! HARRY C. SM 226 West Superior Notary Public Subscribers not receiving The Gazette regularly should notify us at once. We desire every copy delivered promptly. 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.—A good stenographer, one thoroly competent, several days each week. Call, Cherry, 1259. WANTED.—Agents. Free Cake Soap. Life Tonic and Face Powder. Big Profits to agents. Write quick Lacassian Co., Dept. 9A, St. Louis, Mo. WANTED.—An active, intelligent and honest young man, preterably one of our college students, who has spare time, each day, and wishes to make some money. Call, Cherry, 1259, in the afternoon. WANTED.—Agents. Write at once for free samples. Sell Madison "Better-Made" shirts from large man- ufacturer direct to wearer. No capital or experience required. Many earn $100 weekly and bonus. Madison Mfg. Co., 501 Broadway, New York. CLEVELAND Social and Personal Mr. and Mrs. Joe Lucas have sold their home in E. 97th St. Mrs. Mabel Holmes Jackson spent Sunday in Wakeman. Mrs. M. Moore and son returned, Saturday, from a visit in Hillsboro. George W. Buchanan of Independence road, has purchased a splendid auto. Miss Mabel D. Parks returned to N. Y. City, Thursday. She spent most of her vacation here at home. Mr. and Mrs. J. Ray Williams and daughter, Mrs. Winnifred Wilson, are visiting the former's parents in Hillsboro. Dr. and Mrs. Daniel Malekabu, native missionaries from Africa, spoke, Sunday afternoon, at Antioch Baptist church's missionary mass meeting. Jacob E. Reed has sold his fish stand in the "New Market house" and retired from business after many years of successful effort. Dr. and Mrs. N. K. Christopher royally entertained a party of friends on their recently acquired lot at Buena Vista on Lake Erie, near Painesville. Rev. H. M. Kingsley, former pastor of Mt. Zion temple, is now located in Detroit. Mt. Zion pulpit is being well filled by Dr. Gregory, supply pastor for the summer. Miss E. M. Gerathy, chief dietician at Lakeside hospital, addressed an assemblage of our welfare workers at the Sterling library, last week Monday. Rev. Saul A. Lucas, assistant pastor of St. John's A. M. E. church, officiated at the recent marriage of Miss Equilla R. Anderson, one of our local public school-teachers, and Henry R. Morris. THE GEEVU SIS IS A FI A DIET WI LICKED T THE GEEVUM GIRLS H. SMITH 3007 Scovill Ave. C. E. JACKSON'S 4401 Central Ave. J. S. HALL'S 3133 Central Ave. THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, O.SATURDAY. AUGUST 8. 1925 TRY OUR EASY PAYMENT PLAN! *M. KLEIMAN'S 2928 Central Ave. *THE S. & S. DRUG CO. 7325 Central Ave. C. E. Jackson, well-known newsdealer, 4401 Central Ave., is convalescing after two weeks' severe illness with stomach trouble. Do not vote against P. R. You will make a mistake you will regret if you fail to vote for it. REMEMBER THIS! Mrs. C. L. Cheatham was visited, recently, by her sister, Mrs. Dorothy Anderson of Marion, Ind. She was en route to Chicago. Mrs. Dr. W. S. Biggs, of Earle Ave., has returned from an extended visit with her mother in Birmingham, Ala. Deputy Joseph Jackson, of the county treasurer's office, has been promoted to check cashier. This is in recognition of his honesty, integrity and faithfulness. Little Ester, Sarah and Jane, daughters of Jurilman C. Hudson, are spending the summer at the P. W. A. girls' camp at On-the-Erie Beach, near Lorain. Mr. Wm. Hicks, the popular cornet-net player, and Miss Hattie Burch were married, Wednesday evening at St. John's parsonage by Dr. E. A. Clarke, pastor of the church. Rev. C. Lee Jefferson, pastor of St. Mark's Presbyterian church, married Alberta E. Johnson and John L. Myers at the bride's parents' residence, July 15. Dr. Joseph B., son of Mr. and Mrs. Nathaniel Robinson, E. 128th St. has passed the state dental board examination. He has been in Middleburg, Ky., for several months, but plans to locate here. Mrs. W. E. McIntire and nieces, Ruth McNney of Chicago, are visiting the Carmen's old house. Mrs. Cora Christian, Wm. and Geraldine Christian visited their aunt, Mrs. McIntire, E. 85th St., and attended the picnic at Garfield park, Thursday. Mrs. Grace Willis Thompson, head of the junior department of musicians, left, last week Monday, for Indianapolis, to attend the annual meeting of our National Association of Musicians. She was accompanied by Mrs. Ruth I. Bonds and reports a most successful meet. Dr. Oliver A. Taylor and Mrs. Alex. H. Martin participants in the Congress-Franklin wedding in Philadelphia, recently, report a very pretty wedding and a delightful trip. Miss Edith Wright, formerly of Cleveland, now of our Brooklyn, N. Y., W. W. C. A., also attended the wedding. Miss Rosa Adams, of Uniontown, Ala., a teacher in our public schools of Birmingham, Ala., is the guest of Mr. and Mrs. W. P. Robinson, E 90th St. Many social functions on the day will be for honor visit. Youngstown, Detroit, Chicago, New York and New Jersey, returning to Birmingham in September. The Misses "Mickie" Cook and Anna Williamson, members of the faculty of the state department of Wilberforce University, spent last week at the University of North Carolina Eubanks and mother, Mrs. Harmon, of Lakewood. They were en route East from Detroit, leaving here for Buffalo, Saturday morning. Frank Williams' father died in Millersburg, Ky., last week. If you know him call his attention to this please. His relatives wired Chief Graul, last Wednesday, who with the assistance of the local police was unable to locate him. Williams, when last heard from, was located in Jerome Ct., this city. Mrs. H. C. T. Cuck of Oberlin stopped off in Cleveland, recently, to visit her son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. George E. Cohron, E. 103rd St., en route to New Jersey to visit her daughter, Mrs. Dorothy T. Parsons, until late in September. Mr. Tuck accompanied her to Cleveland, spending the week-end with the Cohrons. Mrs. Roy Phillips, of Quincy Ave. has received a card from her brother, W. Curtis Carver, international "Y" worker, of Washington, D. C., saying that he was in London, Eng., and expected to visit Switzerland, Italy, Holland and Scotland before Italy, Holland and Switzerland. Mr. Carver is president of the International Students' council. Hilda Lincoln Jackson of Glennville High school made an average of 92.76, standing eighth in a class of 293 graduates. She will enter Cleveland's normal school, this fall. Miss Jackson made the highest per cent of all our graduates of local high schools and colleges, this year, and was awarded the $100 scholarship prize offered, each year, by the Survive club for such achievement. Mrs. Ida Hollingsworth, Mrs. Ida Brown, Mrs. Mr. Wm. Cash and Geo. Hollingsworth, Mrs. Hollingsworth, Tuesday, and were guests of Mrs. Minnie Moore and Mr. F. Lancaster. Mrs. Roy Ray, Mrs. Kate Butler, Mrs. Jennie Thomas and Mrs. Wm. Peets leave, Saturday, for Indianapolis to attend the A. U. K. and D. of A. convention, next week. Elisha S. Freeman, E. 90th St., was in Pittsburg, last week Tuesday, when those two martyrs brothers sacrificed their lives in a vain effort to save a man (white) who jumped into the Monongahela river. The Gazette is indebted to Mr. Freeman for a copy of a Pittsburg paper containing a full account of the heart-rending occurrence. A sidewalk conversation ended in a stabbing, Saturday, when Richard Stowars, age 45, 3638 Cedar Ave., is said to have made a remark about a woman who passed, according to a newspaper, that she may be conversing with Stowars stabbed him in the chest and fled in an automobile. Stowars, at St. Luke's hospital, will recover. A joint session of Ohio district grand lodge and household, Odd Fellows, was held Tuesday in Triedstone Baptist church. Both bodies held four-day meetings, opening Monday, with a public reception to visitors and delegates at Cory M. E. church. About 125 delegates were in attendance. Charles Armstrong of Urbana, M. N. G., and Florence of Toledo, M. N. G., presided. Mrs. Florence D. Cochran of this city is D. G. D. The local committee in charge of arrangements for the conventions: Thos. D. Jackson, chair; Ella V. Moore, see., and C. P. L. Laster, treas. The two bodies plan to establish a home for aged members and purchase a $150,000 state headquarters. The women's order gave a memorial day in the evening on Tuesday. The men paraded in uniform at noon, the same day. A $400 prize was given the best-drilled company. Writing from Midland, Mich., our friend, Frank J. Perkins of Detroit, former resident of this city for many years, informs the editor of The Gazette that he has just closed a deal for cash that puts him in possession of sixty acres of fine land (part improved) on the main trunk line road. About 20 miles from Saginaw to Gladwin, Mich., and on the Tittabawassee river at the town of Averill. "I intend to make it my summer home, in a few years. Plenty of fishing and boat-riding in the summer," writes Mr. Perkins, who, by the way, holds a very responsible position Twenty Years' Experience Phone: Bell, Randolph 6978 Sundays by Appointment FINAL CLEARANCE SUMMER DRESSES EVERY DRESS MUST GO We do not carry over a garment from one season to another. Original price tags on every dress. Values $7.50 to $16.50. Limited three dresses to a customer. Pay Cash or Use Spritz Credit Terms 50c Down 50c a Week on Each Dress $3.75 Sale Starts Saturday. Lasts Till 90 Dresses Are Sold SPRITZ Next to Columbia Theater 2067 E. Ninth St. Between Euclid and Prospect in charge of the safe deposit vault of the Penobscot bank of Detroit, one of the largest in this section of the country. FINIS When the last line has been read. Life too has its final line the final word before going onward Our loved ones pass from us daily leaving but cherished memories It is within our calling in these sorrowful moments to render sympathetic help intelligently for we have had long experience in the last sad rites of the departed We undertake the final ministrations of your beloved in every detail with tender care, omitting nothing that will relieve you from worry and anxiety in your time of sorrow. WYNNE & EASLEY Funeral Directors 2262 E. 55TH STREET 'Phone, Ran. 6466 The slaying of Mrs. Willie Fleemester, age 25, shot to death, according to police, by her sweetheart at E. 39th St. and Scovill Ave., last Saturday night, brought on a near riot when a mob took after the alleged killer. Police rescued the man from his pursuers. More than 500 people were arrested, including "lynch him," had surrounded Colchester bus Johnson whose clothes were torn and face bruised, when police leveled riot guns at the crowd and formed a human bulwark that halted the throng. Angry members of the mob later attempted to "rush" the squad car and transfer Johnson to another place. During the scuffle one man tried to kidnap Johnson. Witnesses said the woman fell to the ground with the first shot, after which the man fired five more into her body. The police said Johnson had quarreled with his sweetheart at 2392 E. 37th St., where they both lived. Johnson was booked on a charge of murder. Yes, he's from "down home." Nearly every person are from one to fifteen dozen murders and near-murders in that section of the city, largely because of a wolfful lack of police protection. 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 Scovill Ave. It is now known as Robinson's Pharmacy. Prescriptions carefully compounded by a registered dispenser always in attendance at the store. The Robinson's are carrying a complete line of sodium hair and toilet preparations, photos and 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 Lee, a grandson of Mr. John Lee deceased), father of Mrs. Alberta Grizzle, now a resident of Los Angeles, Canada. The Lee family was one of our earliest and best settlers in Cleveland. Patronize Robinson's Pharmacy at the corner of E. 30th St. and Scovill Ave. PHONE US, WE'LL CALL PROSPECT 913 A. L. BLACK Dry Cleaning & Tailoring REPAIRING AND REMODELING A SPECIALTY We Grow Through Service 3344 CENTRAL AVENUE Cleveland, Ohio. 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 Itto 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 Im the Government’s Departments—Will the Self and Race-Respecting Negro Press of This Country Continue to Stand for This Sort of Thing? Washington, D. C., Oct. 4, 1924. There is imore segregation tn ‘Washington today under President ‘Coolidge than there has ever been since the Civil War. The beginnings of segregation were under President Taft, It was greatly extended, un- der President Wilson; increased, still further, under President Hard- ing; and reached its zenith under President Coolidge. For instance, the largest of our parks President Wilson never troubled, but the pres- ent administration has found time and desire to introduce it even there. ‘To many people, segregation is a Democratic scheme of Snsult, but such is not the case. Mr. Taft im- troduced it in the bureau of engrav- ing. 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, an- nounced in his official capacity’ that Negroes should not hold office ‘where white people complained. Ses- regation, then, is a Republican {n- stitution and not a Democratic one. It was begun by Repnblicans, and carried on to its all-embracing ex temt by Republicans! ‘There is far more of st in the de- partments, today, than at any time since the Negro first appeared, close upon the close of the Civil War. The picture requirement in the civil serv- ice, which makes it next to impos- sible for # colored lady or gentleman to enter the civil service, since their color is disclosed in their photo- graph which must accompany their papers, is tenaciously held on to by our Republican President. Only last week, a colored girl appeared after having passed the best examination, and after having been telegraphed for by the department. ‘The photo- graph had failed to tell her true color, and they flatly refused to ap- point her when sho appeared, and they saw her complexion. Commis- sioner Blair of the internat revenue Dureau with thousands of clerks will not appoint a Negro clerk, and his ‘word is law there, as he is the spec- fal favorite of Secretary Mellon and President Coolidge. He halls trom North Carolina, the home of the other favorite and leader of the seg- regation forces, Col. Sherrill, super- intondent of buildings and grounds. It is no use to complain of cither of theso southern gentlemen. ‘The colored. people here who know the President could destroy segre- gation in the departments of the government, and the photograph Fequirements in the civil service by the mere nod of his head, are st 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 1s not a firm be- liever in segregation, especially since segregation is one of the chief ten- ets of the Ku Klux Klan which has found its “welcome home” in the Republican party, and: recelves no condemnation from the Republican President. * (Special to The Gazette.) Washington, D. C.—In the postot- fice segregation is rampant. Th faithful colored clerks work under eonstant humiliation and physical @isadvantages. The department maintains a spacious cafteria for whites only, where these inferior white clerks can buy appetizing Iuncheons 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 discomfors, disadvantage- ous as it 4s, 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. ‘Tho injustice stings all the more when they reflect that they are far more capable than the whites, and render the government more intelli- gent and efficient rervice—the white man of their attainment being able to get far mare lucrative employ- ment. ‘The departnient goes even farther fp its sollcttude for whites and neg Joct of colored. It maintains a well- ‘appointed club room with pool tables end other games, comfortable lounges and other equipment for Test, sociability, and recreation, end mothing for these same colored «m- ployees. “This private club is in the magnificent postoffice building, built and maintained by\ ALL of the peo- ple. In the locker rooms there is segregation, and segregation is even attempted in the toilets. And ail of this 1s against the most dependable and faithful employees. Last year the white employees passed around invitations to the ‘white employees, in the very pree- ence of the colored, to attend @ re- ception to the heads of departments, including the postmaster general, in the postoffice building. It announced dancing and a pleasant social eve- ning with the officials for “the post- office employees,” yet not one was delivered to the colored clerks. \ hurried a protest to the postmaster general the day, before it was tc come off, and he ordered the post: master 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 expres: itself in appointments, assignments ‘and salaries. Colored applicants are often passed over though their ex- amination was superior. No Negro, however efficent or old in the serv- ice, must ever dream of a promotion toa 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 im the handling of mail. The col- ored clerks have dared to form s union which moots regularly and often sends manly and intelligent protests to the postmaster, and ofter ‘appeals from his decisions to the postmaster-general, It has secured Some improvement in thelr working conditions, but they are still bitter over the huge injustice done to them for nothing else than the color of their skin. (Rectal to The Gasnctte.) Washington, D. C.—?ne govern ment 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 inferier positions there on ac- count of the better and more lucra- tive avenues of employment being closed to them because of their col- or. ‘The whites are generally of 1 very mediocre group, far from equal- ing our girls in educational equip- ment, culture, and working efficien- ey. Yet these superior girls aro set off from the whites with the latter, of course, having the better working conditions, salaries and recreational facilities, ' There is a large cafeteria in this huge structure where all of the employees may go, but there are & few tables in an out-of-the-way section reserved for our employees. Tam glad to say that fow, very few, of our people patronize ‘the place, preferring a little physteal incon- venience to the open, semi-public hu- milfation of segregation. In toilet facilities, dressing-rooms, and work assignments, wherever possible, the law of segregation is in full forée, and, of course, this same undemocratic practice reveals fteelf on the salary roll and fn the hard easte that bars promotions. Here, as elsewhere, the inferior whites ass over our superior employees to directive positions, and higher sal- aries. | The whites have a large recrea- ‘tlonal center in this public building with many fine appointments for rest and amusements, Durng 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 ‘ot 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 ab- ruptly 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 dismiss- ed on a trumped-up charge. He was a night-employee, hence he carried a pistol. Right after the dance in- eldent'a fire broke out in the office. He was quickly accused of setting the bullding afire in revenge for his exclusion from the dance floor. De- tectives came to the building to ar- rest him, and failing to secure any evidence searched him only to dis- cover the pistol. They quickly drop- ped the arson charge and substituted one for carrying concealed weapons for which he was immediately dis- missed. By this severe punishment our employees are taught that there is mo way of escape for one wlio dares to resent the dally insults that their government (under President Coolidge) xives them. Many of the employees have ex- papeted thelr. Geapiy-wounded test to me st being considered a pariah by the government whose in- stitutions they are serving so faith- fully, and I have taken up s number of cases only to be met by a dental that the conditions complained of ex- ist, and a request for the names of my informants. Iknew the fate these informants would suffer so I have never given a single name!! The de- partment then taking the position ‘THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, 0. SATURDAY, AUGUST 8, 1925. that it cannot take up the case. I is perfectly clear that this iniquitous scheme of segregation {s a difficult thing to fight, since the goverament is so well settled upon it, and the complainants cannot bear witness to it. a a ee ee. Washington, D. C.—Segregation in the bureau of engraving and printing has @n interesting history involving President Thomas Wood- row Wilson and members of his fam- ily, three heroic young colored wom- en who lost their positions as a re- sult of thelr protest, and the noble ‘wife of Senator Robert La Follette. Shortly after the accession of Mr. ‘Wilson to the White House, a mem- der 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 not- ed 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 col- ‘red people to stay in thelr places.” Three of the young ladies resisted the order to the last ditch and were summarily dismissed! Senator La Follette iodged a pro- test with Secretary McAdoo to no avail, and his noble wife began a crusade against the undemocratic in- novation. She took the platform here in Washington and Boston be- tore the famous Twenteth 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 na- tional gathering of the National As- sociation for the Advancement of Colored People in New York. When our people here were so profoundly @iscouraged, she came out one stormy afternoon to the Y. M. ©. A. to urge them to continue the fight, for democracy was at the crises. Or- wald Garrison Villard came to town to attack White House and Cabinet and arouse our people, and the Na- tion Association secured publicity in over six hundred tnfluential white Papers in the country, The fight checked what was thought to be the intention of the segregators, name- ly, the ellmination of the colored employees from the bureau alt o- gether. ‘The same segregation which some of our people think is the: cherished institution of the Democratic party is still there, in all of its fullness, under the administration of the party that Abraham Lincoln, Charles Sumner and Frederick Douglass helped to found. Our girls are em- ployed there in far larger numbers than in any other branch of the pub- lic service. THEY ARE SEGRE GATED in thelr rest rooms, toilets, and working stations, and of course none are ever thought of for promo- tions to executive places. ‘They are girls from our best nomes, most of them with high ant normal school training, and fine culture. The white girls are of no such grade, as there fs no segregation for them in the great world of things. They have unlimited fields at hich wage for even modiocre talents. ‘The heat of our girls must take these inferior positions, the inevitable result of se- gregation. Our people are stfll hop- ing for the issuance of an order de- stroying this iniquitous practice in all of our government departments, for ft not only humiliates the best of the government servants but im- paire the government service. (Snectal to The Gazette) Daihen pec ened ere Ape alma department, according to the Prest- dent's recent acceptance speech, 1s now under the ablest financial genius since the days of Alexander Hamilton, Tt 1s to be remembered that the great Hamilton came from the West In- dies, and in that long sweep of his- tory that the President traversed are the mighty Salmon P. Chase, secretary of the treasury in Lin- coln’s cabinet, who, in a national ex- tremity such’ as this country has never known, devised the national banking eystem which financed the Civll War: and Obfo’s master finan- eter, John Sherman. ‘These men never knew what segregation was! ‘The present head of the depart ment of internal revenue, Mr. Blair from North’ Carolina, has not ap- pointed a colored clerk since his tn- cumbency. While his predecessor, Mr. Danfel Roper, a Democrat from Texas, appointed and promoted sev- eral of them. Since the income tax legislation and the numberless new taxes that the recent war necess!- tated, this s by far the largest de- partment of the treasury, employing several thousand clerks. Yet Ne- groes are so scarce there that they can't be noticed. ‘There ts the same general complaint here among our clerks and other employees as there is in the other branches of the gov- ernment—faflure to recognize their efficlency 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 tollets, lock- er 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 inconven- fence at times, and are forced to travel Iong distances when they de- sire the use of them. The depart- ment maintains a huge, magnificent feafeteria, in the splendid sweep of woodland along our national drive- way, where white people of every class can come to rest, dine, and 80- clalize of afternoons and evenings at minimum costs. The white press of fe elty is constantly telling of the thousands who take advantage of this “delightful retreat,” and the festive scene that their presence creates. It seats two thousand din- ers 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 registership ot the treasury, which Republican Presidents have given the Negro since Garfield ap- pointed Blanch K. Bruce, {s now filled by a white man, and the col ored people are congregated in a sep. arate room which is publicly pro claimed as ‘a colored division.’ When it is discovered that Negrc clerks are “working as white” ir other divisions, they are promptly transfered to this “colored division.’ Our people fear that protest agains this segregation would result in the abolition of the division altogether; 30 they remain in a dilemna, fearing to act. Our clerks must accept se gregation or elimination, and being poor, with no other opportunities 1 this southern atmosphere, must take the former. ‘They are depressed al the wrong, but economic stress com: pels endurance of it. By a single stroke of his pen President Calvin Coolidge can stor every bit of this damnable sogrega tion, Just as he can condemn that lawless organization the Ku Klus Klan. COOLIDGE’S SEGREGATION Washington, D. C.—We wish to call attention to the fact that in the fight against the segregation of our gov- ernment 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 revenuc 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 pubiic view. ‘The words, announcing the election of Prosident Coolidge, were hardly cold before the effort to in- crease segregation in the depart- menta here was on again at full speed. It had slowed up a little dur- ing the campaign. Investigation of Bureaus An investigation of the executive departments and bureaus listed be- low shows that segregation prevails ‘in them as follows: Office of the Register of the Treasury, there are two segregated sections—one with 30 Afro-Amer- gaa employees and the other with Navy Department — ohe _sogre- gated section of 18 of our employ- ees, as well as a segregated lunch room. Census. Bureau—a _segrogated section of 60 Afro-American employ- ees. ‘Bonus Section Ronus section of the War Depart- ment—one segregated section of 180 ot our employees. Veterans Bureau—a sogrogated section of 16 employees. Department of Justice—a segre- gated section of 10 employees in the fila room. Internal Revenue Internal Revenue Bureau—a seg- regated section of 7 employees, Office of the Treasurer of the Unt- ‘ted States—a segregated section of 4 employees, _ War Department, Transportation Division—a segregated section of 5 employees. P. O. Separate Lunch Room Post Office Department—a segre- gated lunch room, IS IT ANY USE TO CONTEND FOR RIGHTS? Colored Americans are the anly Face, responsible members of which are in favor of sub- mitting to diserfmination on the claim that thefr race “al- ways will he discriminated against." ‘The Jews aro. still contending, after over 1900 years of universal discrimina- Hon, and are winning even s0o- clal rights today. ‘The Trish at home have contended for 700 years and are winning because they will di¢ rather than sub- mit. ‘The race that «ays 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 na- ture without self-respect and have no ‘guts'." ‘The world re- spects only those who resent and resist proscriptions for race. Let us be worthy of the abo- Utionists, worthy of our own fathers who have died in very war to vindicate the title of thelr race to equal Uberty, and forever resist dental of rights in our native land, however long race discrimination may continue, To submit is to de- verve 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 Section 6278. “Mob” and “lynching” defined. 6279. ““Sorlous injury” defined. 6280. Damages in case of assault. 6283. Damages in caso 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 actlon, 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. aa De eee Our mob-violence or anti-lynching bill was introduced in the Ohio leg- islature in 1894 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 con- stitutfionality of the law and it has | Section 6278. A collection of peo- ple assembled for an unlawful pur- pose and Intending to do damage or injury to any one, or pretending to exercise correctional power over other persons by violence and with- out authority of law, shall be deemed a “mob” for the purpose of this ‘chapter. An act of violence by a mob upon the body of any person shall constitute a “lynching” within the meaning of this chapter, (93 ¥. 161 2.) Section 6279. The term “serious {njury,” for the purpose of this chap- ter, shall include such Injury as per- manently or temporarily disables the person reselving It from earning a livelihood by manual labor. (93 ¥. 161 3.) Section 6280. A person taken from officers of justice by a mob, and assaulted with whips, elubs, mis- siles or in any other manner, may recover, as hereafter provided, «sum not to exceed one thousand dollars as damages from the county in which the assault ts made. (93 v. 161 4.) Section 6281. A person assaulted ‘and lynched by a mob may recover, from the county in which euch as- sault 1s made a sum not to excond five hundred dollars; or, if the in- jury received therefrom fe serious, a sm not exceeding one thousand dol- lars; or, {f suck Injury result in per- manent’ disability to earn a Hvell- hood by manual labor. a sum not to exceed five thousand dollars, (98 v. 162 6.) Section 6282. ‘Tho legal reprosen- tative of a person dying from iniur- fos received from lynching by a mob, may recover of the county In which such Injury eccurred, a eum not to exceed five thousand. dollars dam- ages for such unlawful killing. Such sum shall be applied to the mainte- nance of the famfly and educaticn c* the minor children of such person «0 lynched. tf any survive him, until such children are of legal age, and thon be distributed to the survivors. share and share alike, the widow re- colving an amount equal to a child's share. If there he no widow or minor children surviving such dece- dent, such sum shall be distributed among the next of kin according tn the Inws of the distribution of the personality of an intestate, Such sim 80 recovered shall not be a part of the astate of auch person ko Ivnch- ef. nor be subject to any of his Iia- bilities. (93 v 162 6.) Section 6288. A person suffering death or Injury trom a moh attempt- ing to Ivnch another person shall come within the provisions of thie chapter. He or his legal raprosonta- tives shall have a Ike right of action as one purposely injured or killed by such a mob. (93 v 162 6.) Section 6284. Action for the re- coveries provided for in this chap- ter must be commenced, within two vears trom the date of such Iench- Ing. In any court having original furisdtetion of an action for anm- ages for malfclous assault. (93 v. 162 7.) Section 6285. An order to the commissioners of a county, against which such recovery 1s had. to in- clude tt with the costs of action, In the next succeeding tax levy for such county, shall be a part of the judz- ment in every such case. (98 v. 162 Section 6286. xf the decedent co Iynched has minor children surviv- ing him, the fund shall be turned over to a regularly appointed guar- dian. Such guardian shall adminis- ter such fund under the direction of the probate judge. allowing not more than five hundred dollars for coun- sel fees in the action for such re- covery. (93 v. 162 9.) Section 6287. The county, tn which a lynching occurs, may re- cover the amount of a judgment and costs against it in favor of the legal representatives of a person Killed oF 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 Hable to such action. (93 v. 162 10.) Section 6288. If a mob carries 8 prisoner into ‘another county, oF omes from another county to com- been very effective. Illinois, Penn- sylvania and New Jersey have fol- lowed 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, tz recent years, like Pennsylvania and New Jersey.’ The Ohio law follows: mit violence on & prisoner brough! from such county for safekeeping, the county in which the lynching Is committed may recover the amount of the judgment and costs from the county from which the mob came gence on the part of officials of such unless there was contributory negll- imprisoned not less than thirty days county in failing to protect such prisoner or dispurse such mob. (93 y. 163 11.) Section 6289. This chapter shall not relieve person concerned tn 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 wo print below the text of the Hon. Harry C. Smith's Ohfo’ Civil Rights law which the editor had enacted while a member of the 71st General Assembly, In 1894: ‘The General Coae of Ohio: See. 12940. Whoever, being the proprietor or his employea, keeper or manager of an inn, restaurant, eat. Ing house, barber-shop, public’ con- veyance by land or water, theater or other place of public accommodation and amusement, denies to a cltizen except for reasons applicable alike to all citizens and regardless of race or color, the full enjoyment of the accommodations, advantages, facll!- tles or privileges thereof, shall be fined not less than fifty dollars nor more than five hundred dollars, or hor more than ninety days, or both. Sec. 12941. Whoever violates the next preceding section shall also pay not less than fifty dollars nor more than five hundred dollars to the per- son aggrieved thereby to be recov: ered in any court of competent jur- Isdiction tn the county where such offense was committed. ‘This law has repeatedly been held constitutional and good law by the Ohfo Supreme court. The trouble ts our people will not use it as often as they should, but-expeet it to do for them what they should and must do for themselves, under ft, In the courts, Judge Grant's Opinion of the Law. Misted by the foolishly manutac- tured outery for tne passage of the Beaty Dill, a few years ago, the Ak- ron Beacon Journal published an editorial to which the editor of ‘The Gazette replied, calling its attention to che fact that the Ohfo 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 Bighth District of Ohfo, {s self explanatory: Akron, 0., April 25, 1919. ion: ases 4 ea Same eee eee Editor The Gazette, Cleveland, O. ‘My Dear Sir: Observing your let- ter fn the Beacon-Journal, of this city, T venture to send you, under a separate cover, the Ohfo Law Re- porter of Feb. 3, last, containing the opinion of the Court of Appeals tn the Puritan Lunch Co. ys. Leonard H. Vorman, decided in Akron, last fall, In which a judgment for ($500) five hundred dollars was sustained, If the Beacon-Journal had known what was going on in fts own town, there would have been no oceasion for criticism editorially. THE LAW OF OHIO IS UNDER NO RE- PROACH, nor our courts and juries, im administering ft. Not a word was sald by the Beacon-Journal when the Forman case was reviewed. ‘Very truly yours, ‘R. ©. 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 sinele thing in life now. It justifies and holds to- gether more baseness, cruelty and abomination than any other sort of error in the world.” —H. G. Wells. MASON.DIXON LINE wT BEGUN 1% YEARS AGO To Mark the Boundary Between the 1g States of Pennsylvania and ~ Maryland. Philadeiphfa, Pa—In 1763, two Eng- lish surveyors, Charles Mason. and Jeremiah Dixon, began the surveying of what came to 9e known as the Mason-Dixon Line between the states f Rennsylvania and Maryland. This ine afterwards ecame famous as the supposed boundary between the North and the South, or between the tree oF flave-holding states. ‘The line was survered at the tn- stance of William Penn and Lord Bal- timore.. The surveyors were three years in making the survey from the northeast corner to the foot of Savage Mou: tain, In 1767 the work was fin- shed from the Ir -er point to Virginia, now West Virginia. The line fs sald to have cost $300,000, and the sur- veyors employed an army of 100 ax- men, and a toad 20 feet wide was cut through the dense forest. A mizture of sand and Hme stones cf ght brown-grayish color was brovuit over from England to mark the line, and these stones were set up at intervais of a mile wheraver it was possible to erect them. They weighed 500 pounds each and were four and oneshaif feet high. On some parts of the line the country was so rugged that mounds of dirt and rocks had to be substituted for these stones. Today the Mason-Dixon line has been resurveyed and remarked and df- vested of its chfe® erroneous traditions. In 1849 a revision of the line was made by a foint commission from Pennsyl- vania, Masyland and Delaware, and it was then found that the change in- Yolved by the correction amounted to less than two acres, ~hich were added to Maryland. In 1903 Pennsylvania and Maryland each appropriated $5,000 for the restoration of the line. Many of the peculiar English stones ‘had disappeared, and the commission made an exhaustive search for them. ‘The {dentification was an easy task, for, on breaking them, the stones emit- ted a sulphurous odor. So thorough was the search that some’ were found fn the curbing of streets and in peo- ie's cellars, One was taken trom the wall of an old stone church, where it ‘had done service for many years. In ‘the places of those that could not be found new stones of marble were set up. On every fifth stone the coat of arms of William Penn was cut on the Penn- sylvanta slde and on the Maryland side the eseutcheon of Lord Baltimore was placed, On the others the monogram P. and M, was cut. The stones are now set so near one another, even in the mountain regions, that the traveler. may stand at a stone and ace the next ‘alia BAGG'S HENS ELOPE WITH BINN’S GEESE Padlocks -sd curglar Alarm Proving of Ne Avail, He Goes on a ‘Saint thank. Rune, H. V.—Mystery surrounded the disappearance of about fifty v< the choicest fowls on the poultry farm of Geo. begg, at Brewerton, c= On- eda Lake. Tweaty seas were taken a few weeks ago: soon aftervard about twenty more jowed the mussing. The pouliry house was double rad- iocked, 2 homemade burglar alarm was used, and still the poultry seemed to melt away. There were no traces of predatory animals, and the super stitious wagged their heads, while Mr. Bagg was in despair. ‘A few days ago he put in the dey hiding in some bzehes midwe= be- tween his poultry yard ana the nearby banks of the river which fcws to Onelda Lake. As he watched, the mys- tery was solved. Four unusually large geese from the farm of Frank Binn, across the river, had been fraternizing with the Bagg hens all sumer and been enticing them to leave their home and go over to the other farm. ‘These geese were seen solemnly waddling down to the water, followed by several hens. When the geese stepped into the river a hen would flutter a few feet up and down the bank and then with a squawk would fly or hop onto the back of a goose. Then, squatting contonvedly, the fowls were \carried over to the Binné farm. There Mr. Bagg found his missing hens, the geese having carried them all over on thelr backs, GIRL CANNOT SAY “HELLO” “Centrai” Loses Power of Speech Just sm As Call Comes In. Muskogee, Okla—Miss Flora Wetzel, 38 years old, a telephone operator, suddenly lost her voice while attempt- ing to answer a call. She had just made one connection, and turned to answer another, when she discovered she could not speak. Her lips formed the usual “number, please,” but gave no sound, Her vocal chords had suddenly become para- lyzed. Greatly frightened, she tried again and again to speak. Then she managed to signal for help. When friends arrived she tried again to talk to them, but could not. When they Tealized her condition they took her to ‘apbniciea.