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Unless this latter is done, proper credit names, wedding presents, etc. of names, wedding presents, etc. of names, inquiries, for relatives and advertisements of all kinds, including items announcing entertainments to be held in the near future, must be paid to in advance at the rate of 25 cents a line, six words to a line. Our rates for display advertisements will be sent on application. HILLSBORO. Martha Jones, of Washington H., visited her sister Lisa L. F. Foster last week. Mrs. Bernadine Trumble has been quite ill.-Richard Willis, Mr. and Mrs. Donald Highlander and Mrs. J. J. Burr spent Sunday in Roxabell and attended services at Second Baptist church; Rev. J. J. Burr, pastor. Mr. Highlander and Mrs. Barr sang several selections.-Born to Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Rickman, last week, a daughter.-Rev. R. L. Bray is preaching a series of excellent services. Christy was hostess to the ladies of the Industrial club and their husbands. A delightful three course dinner was served. The Get Together club will give a banquet. Dec. 31, in the basement of the church. GUMZ—Miss Elvira Wallace of Pittsburgh spent Thanksgiving with her grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Wallace—Miss Helen Lucas and Charles Lucas spent the week-end in Columbus—Mrs. Peba Titus and daughter, Jure Vivian, have return- Wilberforce In The South Wibertforce in The South. Guthrie, Okla.—Langston college and Wilberforce University of Ohio will hold a game on Saturday, Langston, Okla., Dec. 12, today, Langston's goal line has been crossed once in three years. Paul Quinn college beat Langston once in the last three years by two field goals. During three years they have scored 408 points. Wilberforce has been defeated twice, this season, by West Virginia college and Howard University. Policeman "Floors" Sikl. New York City—"Battling Skii" world's light heavyweight champion, was fined $5 in police court, Monday, for a drunken altercation. Sunday, with a policeman, Skii was arrested by a housewife, his wife (white) and plowed with Maristrate Well for lenency, Patrolman Leonard Smith, who knocked the Senegalese to the pavement, said Skii, while intoxicated, attacked him. Corbett on Peter Jackson. Former heavyweight champion pugilist, Jim Corbett, has the following to say of the great Australian fighter, of color, Peter Jackson: "Ah, what a fighter he was. I am certain the world will never see his equal. Six feet one inch tall, weighing 100 pounds, he was splendidly proportioned and altogether a beautiful sight to behold. It is too bad some master couldn't have done his body in bronze. He was lightly injured. He had jungle brain rings and he had brains outside the ring. A very polite and likable fellow. And ah! what a fighter! You know. I had plenty of time to study him. We boxed for more than three hours and I also saw him in many other fights. Peter could both box and slug. He could use all sorts of blows with skill and speed and he had the strength to slug with the best. You can bet I grabbed him when we got in close. I didn't want to be slugging with him." Could he have licked Sullivan? "Oh, yes. I think so. Easily. I think. And John must have thought so, too. He'd never fight him, you know." "What was the most remarkable feature of Jackson's attack?" "His one-two. Not a one-two to the head, but a left to the head and a right to the body, mind you. I ed to Canton.—Mr. Pays Harris and daughter were Cadh. visitors. Sunday.—Mr. and Mrs. W. Biggs of Wheeling were guests of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Jamsey, skingglassg. Mr. and Mrs. Jamsey, skingglassg. Smithfield visited relatives here Sunday.—Miss Katherine Johnson has returned from a visit in Warren.—Rev. C. M. Horsons of St. James. A. M. E. church is drawing appreciative audiences by his able gospel ser- paring a cantata for Xmas and the church societies have taken on new life ROXABELL. — Sunday was a great day at the Second Baptist church in Roxabell. Rev. A. B. Adams of Zanesville preached two interesting perms. The church was pleased Sunday, to have Mr. Richard Willis, Mr. and Mrs. Danald Highwarden and Mrs. J. J. Burr of Hillsboro. They rendered several excellent musical selections.—Mrs. Albert Williams, Mrs. Ash and Miss Bailley are ill, and Mrs. J. J. Burr is ill, and there were three good services. A Christmas cantata and sup per at Frankfort hall. Rev. J. J. Burr, our pastor, is having splendid success with the work here. Collection. Sunday, $32.30.—Rev. S. H. Williams, pastor of Frankfort A. M. E. church, is making a splendid showing with a new church build'ng.—Mr. and Mrs. Highwarden Richard Willis, Rev. and Mrs. J. J. Burr and Rev. Adams were dined by Mrs. J. J. Burr and Rev. Adams were dined by Mrs. J. Burr and Mrs. Burwunted Sunday evening with Deacon and Mrs. Albert Williams.—Mr. and Mrs. Highwarden and Richard Willis were entertained at supper at the Misses Jones'.—Installation services for the pastor. Rev. Burwunt, Sunday, Dec. 13. Jones. Jones and Richardson will conduct the services. was a marvelous and murderous combination." When Jackson "lost" his battle with Corbett, he fought the last half of the game, broken hand and the contest went forty or fifty rounds, possibly more. ALL SWEET CASE DE FENDANTS RELEASED Detroit, Mich.—All of the eleven defendants in the Sweet case have been admitted to bail and released under bail bonds furnished by our property owners of this city, and by the local defense committee. Theorman sentenced the Sweet to week Wednesday morning, Dec. 2, and procured admission to bail in the sum of $10,000 each for Dr. Ossian H. Sweet, Henry Sweet and Leonard Morse. Mrs. Sweet was released on her personal recognizance, before she received bond here before she furnished for her. Torturers in the case have already begun their preparations for the new trial in January. "SWEET CASE" DEFENSE FUND! New York City—Contributions of $4,885.14 toward the N. A. A. C. P. Legal Defense Fund brought the total to $19,250.14 at the close of last week—well past the half-way mark and toward the $30,000 required to meet the Garland Fund's offer of $15,000. The status of the fund, No. 5, was as follows: Given outright by Garland Fund.....$ 5,000 Offered in addition.....15,000 Required to meet offer.....30,000 Total.....$50,000 Raised to date.....$19,250.14 Still to go.....10,649.86 Addressed Allied Memorial Center. Oakland, Cal.-Miss Delilah L. Beasley, 'former resident of Springfield and Cincinnati, O., and author of the "Negro Trail Blazers of California" and special daily newspaper feature-writer, who was a delegate to the National League of Women Voters' convention held in Richmond, Va., several months ago, delivered a memorial address on Armistice day afternoon in the Allied Memorial Center. A signal honor. In Spite of Her and Her Mother's Heart-Bending Court Experiences —Alimony $300 Monthly— The Rhinelander "Mess." White Plains, N. Y. The Rhinelander jury returned a sealed verdict at 11:25 p.m., m. Dec. 4. It was out about 12 hours. The verdict was opened at 10 a.m., Dec. 5, and favored Alice. Kip had lost his case, the attorney and the judge. After he had received the jury's verdict, Justice Morschauer reserved decision. When this is handed down, the entire case will go to a special term of the (city) supreme court for final review. Kip's attorney (Mills) will appeal the case, he saps. "That verdict will never stand," commented the venerable Judge Kip, as he left the court. "It is directly opposite to the evidence." Mrs. Rhinelander's counsel tried to serve papers in a projected suit for separation on Leon R. Jacobs, one of Kip's attorneys, but Jacobs declined to accept service until he could confer with Judge Mills. Both summons and complaint in the separation action were filed. Alice's attorney. Alice's plans for the future are not as yet definite. Her counsel. In a formal statement, asked that she be allowed to rest and recover her health before the press again centers inquiries upon her. The girl was haggard and was as she spoke with interviewers in Davis. She jumped up and ran. Her brawny face reflected her tiredness. But her eyes were alert and occasionally they sparkled. "Will you ever go back to your husband?" asked a reporter. "No-o-o. I don't think so." she remarked without spirit. "I've lost ten nounds. I want so much to rest." "Do you still love your husband?" she was asked. "This sought to interrupt, but she relied on." "I do love him—and I don't. Right now I'm happy over the result and I can forget some of the things that were done to me. I can forget some of the misery that came with the tortures of the past few weeks. "I'd rather remember other things. I'd rather remember that Leonard's love and mine was a wonderful thing until they started to break it up." At another point in the interview tears came to her eyes. "I'd never forget," she said, "what my mother has gone through and I always will be grateful for the sacrifices she has made." It is not generally known that Alice receives $300 monthly alimony from Kip and will continue to do so until some other order is made by the court. Also, that Alice's sister, Grace, is married to a white man while Emily, her youngest sister, is married to a member of the race. As soon as Justice Morschauer decides Judge Mills' motion Atty, Davis will apply for an additional $10,000 or $12,000 allowance from Kip for deserving a chauffeur who spent Sunday on a long automobile ride. It is rumored she will leave for Florida some time this week for a rest. Her mother will accompany her. TAMPERING TOLD BY KIP JUROR Investigation Ordered as Alleged Approach in Rhinelander Case Is Revealed to Judge. White Plains, N. Y., Dec. 9. — The Westchester county-grand jury today was directed to conduct an investigation into an alleged attempt to tamper with the grand jury which heard Leonard Kip Rhinelander's amendment suit against his wife, Alice Binstock. G. Sanford, a juror in the trial, told Justice Morechaucher he had been approached by a certain Yonkers man who had broached the subject of the Rhinelander case. Said to Favor Kip's Side. "I gathered from his talk that he favored Rhinelander and was opposed to inter-racial marriages," Sanford told Justice Morschaucher, who presided at the trial. Sanford said he had been approached by other residents of Yonkers during the trial of the case but he was only able to give the name of one man definitely. "This sort of thing strikes at the foundation of justice," said Justice Morschaucher. "Influence of outsiders brought to bear upon a jury is harmful. It must stop. I want juries left alone while they are hearing a case." Plans Searching Probe. Assistant District Attorney Coyne, after talking with him, said that the jury would be placed before a grand jury and searching investigation begun. Isaac N. Mills, attorney for Rhinelander, said today he would submit a twenty-page brief on the case next Friday to the court. Mrs. Carrie Blue, E. 89th St., wife of Welcome T. Blue, Sr. died, Monday night, after fourteen weeks' illness. The husband and a son survive her, and he sympathy of the community. Funeral, Thursday, m., from St. John's A. M. E. church, the pastor, Dr. Clarke, officiating. SINGLE COPY FIVE CENTS PROF. NEVAL H. THOMAS TELLS WHO COL. CLARENCE O. SHERRILL, NEW CITY MANAGER Of Cincinnati, Is From a Race Viewpoint—A Southerner Who Leaves No Stone Unturned to Promote Segregation—His Shameful Record at the National Capital. Washington, D. C., Dec. 3, '25. The centre white press of this capital city announces that the city council of Cincinnati are considering the appointment of Col. Clarence O. Sherrill to the managership of your great city. As a resident of the state of Ohio where I was born and reared and where my aged mother still lives, and as one who loves the great commonwealth enough to sorrow over the inroads of southern institutions there, I feel it my duty to acquaint you, my fellow citizens and fellow sufferers, with the record of this aggressive son of the benighted south-land. great public buildings under his control have cafeterias and other conveniences from which colored people are excluded, yet they are all public institutions supported by all of the public. His vision simply cannot lift him to any finer conception of democracy than segregation. It is my hope that you leave him Col. Sherrill has for some years held the position of superintendent of public buildings and grounds here in the nation's capital, a most strategic position with large powers and important social distinction. He has been the most industrious and successful promoter of segregation with a strong commitment to tend. At the dedication of the magnificent two million dollar monument to Abraham Lincoln, in the presence of the then President of the United States, the Supreme Court, House, Senate, and the rest of official society and their friends, his soldiers forced Negro citizens into "jim-crow" seats at the point of the bayonet. He attempted to place the Negro bathing beach, which he recommended to move to in heathen Virginia, and after a vigorous first of years, led by Prof. W. B. Nixon of the Dunbun High School, Congress ordered it placed on the Tidal Basin near the white beach and then ordered it destroyed. He immediately dismantled the colored and left the white standing so that white people could have bathing facilities in spite of the plain manners of the black community. Easter morn by placing "jim-crow" signs in the largest of our public parks in the largest of our public capital had not seen since the pitiful cries of helpless black slaves were heard in the slave pen or on the auction block to be sold away from their loved ones within hearing of antibellum speeches on democracy. He stood out for years against admired colored people to the nine courts of golf course for "mental reservation supported by all of the people, and after a long, bitter protest led by Mr. Haley G. Douglass he grudgingly yielded a golf course and two tennis courses, "for colored only". Nearly all of the DRIFTING EASTWARD 123 men and women, caught in the week-end cleanup of vice and gambling, were arraigned before Police Judge Hull, Monday, and all were released with suspended fines with the exception of a man and a woman who had been involved in gambling games. They were fined and sentenced to 30-day terms in the IN UNION IS NOT UNION COPY FIVE CENTS ANNATI L H. THOMAS ENCE O. SHERRILL, NEW MANAGER Race Viewpoint—A South- one Unturned to Promote Shameful Record at final Capital. great public buildings under his control have cafeterias and other conveniences from which colored people are excluded, yet they are all public institutions supported by all of the public. His vision simply cannot lift him to any finer conception of democracy than segregation. It is my hope that you leave him. Prof. Neval H. Thomas. here with us, for there is little more harm he can do us here. We are securely pinioned by the additional repressive measures he has inflicted upon us. Yes, leave us with us, for our lot cannot be made harder nor our burden increased. Save what is left of justice, of fair participation in the public benefits, in the second city in Ohio. You appreciate, I know, the relentless industry of our enemies in sending their able young white men into the North to disseminate southern propaganda; their positions on the news and editorial staffs of northern papers, their monopoly of the radio, the moving picture, the stage; their positions in state and municipal governments; their advocacy of segregation in residences and education; and their extensive employment of useful Negroes to "keep the Negro in his place" and perpetuate a servant group in this country. My belief is that the intelligent use of your ballot, the precious thing that Col. Sherill's constituency has illegally taken away from us herb, prevent his advent into the North." Neval H. Thomas. workhouse. Of the 123 persons arrested over the week-end, 103 were taken in custody by Sergt. Emil Smitana and his men from the E. 37th St.-Orange Ave. station and the other 20 were arrested by Sergt. Emil Smith, of the E. 79th St.-Woodland and the largest single raid was made by Smitana. Guard ward 11, at 2912 Scovill Ave. Eighteen women and sixteen men, charged with participation in a noisy assemblage in the home, were found guilty and given suspended sentences. Seven others, charged with gambling, also were dismissed with sentence of 2912 Scovill Ave. 2393 E. 40th St. and Mrs. John Shuford, age 28, charged with running a gambling game, were given 30-day sentences in the workhouse and fines $25 and costs each. Mrs. Shuford also was fined $100 and costs on a charge of possessing liquor. Nineteen men, arrested by Sergt. Smith at 5612 in Rd. and costs on a charge of possessing costs, but the fines were suspended. six men charged with gambling at 4317 Scovill Ave. also were released under suspended fines. SEND WORD TO COOLIDGE* Chicago, Ill.—The recent appointment, by Gov. Len Small (Rep.) of Dr. S. A. Ware, of Springfield, Ill., as a specialist in the social hygienic division of the state department of public health, should be followed by similar appointments in other states having a considerable Afro-American population. Other outstanding appointments, of members of the race, Gov. Len Small are Edward H. Wright, member of the Computer Commission, and John B. member Illinois Industrial Commission, with salaries of $7,000 and $5,000 per year, respectively. Both are residents of this city. Leaves $30,000. Danville, Ky.—Mrs. Kate Whelan, a member of the race, who died, recently, left a $30,000 estate. Dr. E. J. Gregg addressed the W. M. & W. club of the People's R. E. & I. association. Sunday afternoon, at its headquarters in E. 43rd St. (In Advance) One Year ..... $2.00 Six Months ..... 1.00 Subscribers are requested to remit by postoffice money order or registered letter. Entered at the postoffice in Cleveland, Ohio, as second-class mail matter 226 W. Superior Ave., Cleveland, O. Member Ohio Legislature: 1894 to 1896; 1896 to 1898; 1900 to 1902 THE GAZETTE is the oldest and has the largest bone side circulation, double that of any newspaper in the interest of Afro-Americans published in the state of Ohio and comparison with any will immediately establish its rank as one of the NEWS- LEST AND BEST in the country. 10,000,000 Afro-Americans. 325,000 in Ohio. 40,000 in Cleveland. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1925. While President Calvin Coolidge continues to refuse to appoint any of his Afro-American followers to office, administration publicity agents are announcing through the newspapers the appointment of W. C. Matthews of Boston as a Special Assistant U. S. District Attorney—first in Boston and now at Chicago. Anything to fool the great mass of our people seems to be a Coolidge slogan. --- Our people of Cincinnati are in for a gruelling experience, as Lieut. Col. Clarence O. Sherrill, of the Engineer Corps, U. S. army, in charge of the government buildings at Washington, D. C., has resigned from the army and accepted the city management of the former "Queen City" of Olio. Sherrill is absolutely the most prejudiced government official to come to our notice in the last quarter of a century. He is a southern "cracker". --- D. Hamilton Jackson and Jean Hestres, members of the colonial councils of St. Thomas and St. Croix, V. I., are responsible for the announcement that the government of the Virgin Islands has "distinctly improved" under the regime of Naval Governor Trench. Messrs. Jackson and Hestres are members of the committee now in this country, working with congress for an autonomous civil government for the Virgin Islanders. This will be good news to the many friends of the Virgin Islands in this country. NEWT. BAKER'S PREJUDICE. An N. A. A. C. P. "newspaper release" of date, Dec. 4th, '25, calls attention to the fact that Ex-Mayor Newton D. Baker, former secretary-of-war in President Thomas Woodrow Wilson's cabinet, is a member of the Shaker Heights Protective Association's segregation committee. It is this committee that is credited with having forced Dr. E. A. Bailey's removal from his beautiful new home in Huntington drive, Shaker Heights, a few weeks ago. That Mr. Baker is a member of the committee is not at all surprising to those who know him and remember his treatment of our people when mayor of this city. Although he received the colored vote ever given a Democratic candidate for that position, he absolutely refused to accord our people any recognition, whatever. That why we failed to enthuse over his appointment of our friend, Dr. Emmet J. Scott, as a special assistant secretary-of-war. There was a reason for this appointment which is not wholly creditable to Mr. Baker who is a West Virginian by birth and long residence. All during the course of the Sweet trial at Detroit, Clarence Darrow, head of the defense counsel, continued to call the attention of the jury and the court to the baneful effect of prejudice, especially race prejudice. And, as he finally said, prejudice more than anything else prevented the members of the Sweet jury from returning a verdict of not guilty, which should have been rendered. Lee Parsons Davis, head of counsel for Alice Beatrice Jones Rhinelander, harped upon prejudice all thru the trial of that case much as did Attorney Darrow and undoubtedly for the same reason. They expected it to and it did have a greater beneficial effect on the juries in both cases (Sweet and Rhinelander) than anything else except the testimony, and that is why Darrow and Davis continued to call attention to it (prejudice). But prejudice is not so "deep-rooted", so hard to get rid of as both Messrs. Darrow and Davis impressed their hearers and thousands of others who read in the newspapers what they said. It is a thing people pick up and lay down as easily as one does his or her hat—when they want to do so. A case in point is Kip and Alice Rhinelander who would be living together today were it not for outside interference. He was prejudiced until he learned to love her. When told she was "colored", his reply was that he didn't "give a damn" if she was, and he continued to live with her until spirited away by Attorney Jacobs in the employ of his father. This is the rule and not the exception, and many, many cases could be cited to prove the correctness of our statement that prejudice is not "ineradicable", so "deep-rooted", etc. It is undoubtedly hard to get the other fellow to give it up when he is inclined to be stubborn, but HE can and does lay it down and get rid of it easily and quickly whenever he feels to do so, just as Kip did in the case of Alice, Darrow's and Davis' prejudice-talk undoubtedly helped their clients in the Sweet and Rhinelander cases but did it help the race through the country? MORE COOLIDGE WORDS! President Coolidge in his message to the Congress, the first of the week, had the following to say relative to The Negro. Nearly one-tenth of our population consists of the Negro race. The progress which they have made in all the arts of civilization in the last years is almost beyond belief. Our country has no more loyal citizens. But they do still need sympathy, kindness, and helpfulness. They need reassurance that the requirements of the government and society to deal out to them evenhanded justice will be met. They should be protected from all violence and supported in the peacable enjoyments of the fruits of their labor. They should be protected from the crimes. No other course of action is worthy of the American people. Then the President of the United States of America ought to be severely punished for the "crime" of federal segregation, about the rankest and most harmful insult he could possibly give over ten million loyal Afro-American citizens whose protests he refuses to recognize and ignores. Come Mr. President, practice what you preach, give Afro-Americans, not beautiful words only but real sympathy, kindness, helpfulness, and reassurance" of the kind you mention; the protection and support you can easily and ought to afford them. We have had only words, occasionally beautiful sentences like the foregoing, from you and many months have passed since you were inducted into the Chief Executive's office of this great country. A little favorable action is what we need from you and not words, words, words! --- A Xmas Story "There ain't no Santa Claus," said the ragged urchin to the corner newsboy. "He ain't never brought me any toys or candy or Christmas tree." It was a cold winter evening in the middle of the week. A fierce wind was blowing around the corned, and as the two boys stood there talkin', they shivered. The store in front of which they were standing was owned by a middled man. There were no people out buying that night, everybody stayed home where it was warm and comfortable. And so the man, with time dragging on his hands, stood in the front of his store looking out the window close to which the two boys hovered and talked. He could hear their voices and see their shivering bodies. Their talk brought back memories of his youth. He lived in a far-away land. His father and mother owned a small farm, on which they earned enough to keep their family of two boys and a girl clothed and fed. Every year at Christmas time Santa came to their farm and left small Christmas tree, some fruits and nuts, a toy or two for each child. But they were happy. A mile away lived another family, and they would occasionally go over there with their toys and play with the boys and girls. And then in town there was always a big Christmas tree around which all the boys and girls would skip and sing. A few years later when he was 22 years old, he married the girl who lived on the next farm, and together they started to make a little home of their own. But soon a big war broke out and he had to leave to join the armies of his country. While fighting he had been wounded and taken to a hospital. Soon after the enemy's forces captured the town where the hospital was and his own soldiers were unable to take him with them. He was nursed back to health and then sent to a prison camp where he was forced to stay until the end of the war. Then he went back home, but it was a different place than the one he left. His little home was torn to the ground by the shots of the armies. His little farm was deserted, weeds were growing where he had planted wheat. The neighbors' farms were in the same condition and the entire place was deserted. He tried to find out where his wife had gone but none knew. The few people still in the nearby town told him of the fierce battle that had been fought on the very ground where his farm was. They told him, too, that all the people packed what they could carry and hurried away. He went to nearby towns and asked, but no one knew where he could find his wife. After a year of searching he left the country, too discouraged to look further. He wanted to get away from it all. He went to a distant city where he got a job. He saved his money and soon he opened the store in which he stood. While he had stood there thinking, the newsboy had left the corner and gone home, but the other boy stayed. He had no home to go to, the night before he slept in a dry goods box that he found in the back of a store. Usually he visited places where street gangs were working and would beg crusts of bread or whatever he could get from the men. That day no such gangs were working and he had been without food except a piece of bread that someone else had either lost or thrown away from their lunch. shrieked. The man looked then from him, too, there came a low shout as he rushed over to the nurse's side. He had seen that she was the wife he had long looked for. Another nurse was given the instructions on the care of the boy as the re-united husband and wife went into another room. She told him about the little boy that was born a few months after he went to the army, about the battle and how all the people had taken what they could carry and went away. In the hurry and scurry families weer part, but she hung onto her little baby boy. Fearful that she might lose him like other mothers lost theirs' she tattooed his initials on his right Suddenly the man in the store saw a feeble motion, the form of the boy had dropped limply to the ground and it lay there motionless. He rushed outside and picked it up. He shook it, but no answer came from the boy's lips. He carried him into the store and rubbed his arms, but still there was no spark of life. Quickly he put on his coat and carried the boy to his machine and hurried him to the hospital, where doctors began working to bring life back into the frozen little body. Nurses came into the room and quietly went out again to get something that the doctors wanted. Soon the color began coming back into the little boy's face. 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For instance, the largest of our parks President Wilson never trampled on, the institution has found time 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 censorship in this city in white workers, white people, and black workers, often duplicating work as most blocks had white and black residents. And, worst of all, an influshed 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 Republican, and carried 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, held on to by our Republican President. Only last week, a woman girl appeared after she passed the best examination, and after having been telegraphed for by the department. The photograph had failed to tell her true color, and they flatly refused to appoint her when she appeared, and they saw her complexion. Commissioner Blair of the internal revenue bureau with thousands of clerks will not appoint a Negro clerk, and his word is law there, as he has the favorite of Secretary Mellon and President Coolidge. He halls from North Carolina to the home of the other favorite and leader of the segregation forces, Col. Sherrill, superintendent of buildings and grounds, is no use to complain of either of these southern gentlemen. The colored people here who know the President could destroy segregation in the departments of the government, and the photograph requirements in the civil service by the mere nod of his head, are at a loss to understand why he does not send hardline 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 ets in the Klan which has and 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 caerules for whites only, where these inferior white clerks can buy appetizing luncheons and chat in comfort while eating, while the colored clerks must bring cold luncheons from home and eat them any place they can. The physical discomfort. disadvantageous as it is, is far less galling to the coured clerks than is the thought of their government taking their taxes, as it takes those of the whites, for the comfort of the clerks and them of such the were feepers. Justice strikes 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 ALA of the people. In the rooms there is segregation and segregation is even permitted 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 presence 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 the postoffice come off, and colored the postoffice to invite the colored as well as the white. These clerks get around their colored co-workers by giving the function at a local hotel. It is inevitable that the wicked spirit of segregation would express itself in appointments, assignments, and salaries. Collected 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 and quickest hands of mail. The colored clerks have dared to form a union which meets regularly and often sends manly and intelligent protests to the postmaster, and often appeals from his decisions to the postmaster-general. It has secured some improvement in their working conditions, but they are still bitter over the huge injustice done to them for nothing else than the color of their skin. (Special to The Gazette.) Washington D. C. —The government printing office keeps faith with the government's universal scheme of segregation. Some of the best and brightest of our girls are forced to accept inferior positions there on account of the better and more lucrative avenues of employment being closed to them because of their color. The whites are generally of a very mediocre group, far from equaling our girls in educational equipment, culture, and working efficiency. Yet these superior girls are set off from the whites with the latter, of course, having the better working conditions, salaries and recreational facilities. There is a large cafeteria in this huge structure in which the employees may go, but there are no other 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, Tere, a former Navy officer, nassed 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 employees because the company of 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 the police. He was the client a fire broke out in the office. He was quickly accused of setting the building afire in revenge for his exclusion from the dance floor. Detectives came to the building to arrest him, and falling to secure any evidence searched him only to discover the pistol. They quickly dropped the arson charge and substituted one for carrying concealed weapons for which he was immediately dismissed. By this severe punishment is no way to be are taught that there is no way to be are taught 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 exist, and a request for the names of my informants. I knew the fate these informants would suffer so I have never given a single name!! The demeanor taking the position that it cannot take on the position is perfectly clear that this inhumane scheme of segregation is a difficult thing to fight, since the government THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND J. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 12. 1925. as so well settled upon it, and the complainants cannot bear witness (Special to The gazette) (Special to The Gazette) Washington, D. C.—Segregation in the bureau of engraving and printing has an interesting history involving President Thomas Woodrow Wilson and members of his family, three heroic young colored women who lost their positions as a result of their protest, and the noble wife of Senator Robert La Follette. Shortly after the accession of Mr. Wilson to the White House, a member of his family visited the bureau where she saw white and colored girls working together in perfect harmony, oblivious to any thought of race. Shortly thereafter came an officer of segregation of the races, and a white woman, catered for her philanthropy among 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 discured, she came out one stormy afternoon to the Y. M. C. A. to urge them to continue the fight for peace, and wait at the town of Oswald Garrison Villard came to town to attack White House and Cabinet and arouse our people, and the Nation Association secured publicity in over six hundred influential white papers in the country. The fight checked what was thought to be the intention of the segregates, namely, the elimination of the colored employees from the bureau alt together. The same segregation which some of our people think is the cherished institution of the Democratic party is still there, in all of its fullness, under the administration of the party that Abraham Lincoln, Charles Sumner and Frederick 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 names, 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 the inferior for the table, the table result in segregation. Our people are still hoping for the issuance of an order destroying this iniquitous practice in all of our government departments for it not only humiliates the best of the government servants but impairs the government service. (Special to The Gazette) Washington, D. C.—The treasury department, according to the President's recent acceptance speech, is now under the ablest financial genius since the days of Alexander Hamilton. It is to be remembered that the great Hamilton came from the West Indies, and in that long sweep of history that the President traversed are the mighty Salmon P. Chase, secretary of the treasury in Lincoln's cabinet, who, in a national extremity such as this country has never known, devised the national banking system which financed the Civil War; and Ohio's master financier, John Sherman. These men never knew what segregation was The present head of the department of internal revenue, Mr. Blain from North Carolina, has not appointed a colored clerk since his incumbency. While his predecessor, Mr. Daniel Roper, a Democrat from Texas, appointed and promoted several of them. Since the income tax legislation and the numberless new taxes that the recent war necessitated, the department of the treasury, employing several thousand clerks, Net Negroes are so scarce there that they can't be noticed. There is the same general complaint here among our clerks and other employees as there is in the other branches of the government—failure to recognize their efficiency when promotions are due; ability to go so far, and no farther The various forms of segregation exist here as well as elsewhere—the restaurants closed or divided along color lines, and special lockers, locker rooms, rest rooms, etc., set off for colored. The toilers for the colored man in such a large structure. Hence, the bureaucratic force to endure physical inconvenience at times, and are forced to travel long distances when they desire the use of them. The department maintains a huge magnificent cafeteria. in the splendid sweep of woodland along our national driveway, people of every class can come to the cafeteria of afternoons and evenings at minimum costs. The white press of the city is constantly telling of the thousands who take advantage of this "delightful retreat," and the festive scene that their presence creates. It seats two thousand diners with space to spare; but not one Negro! His only share is in the taxes he is forced to pay for this luxury for another group! The registries of the treasury, which Republican Presidents have given the Negro since Garfield appointed Blanch K. Bruce, is now filled by a white man, and the colored people are congregated in a separate room which is publicly proclaimed as "a colored division." When it is discovered that Negro clerks are "working as white" in other divisions, they are promptly transferred to this "colored division." Our people fear that protest against 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 with them would make this southern atmosphere, must take the former. They are depressed at the wrong, but economic stress compels endurance of it. By a single stroke of his pen, President Calvin Coolidge can stop every bit of this damnable segregation, just as he can condemn that lawless organization the Ku Klux Klan. COOLIDGE'S SEGREGATION Washington, D. C.—We wish to call attention to the fact that in the fight against the segregation of our government employees, the Treasury Department will most likely be the center of attack, for segregation in several of its bureaus has been most pronounced. 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