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FRESH OHIO NEWS Written By "The Old Reliable" Gazette's Correspondents What Our People Are Doing Each Week—Church, Personal, Social, Lodge, Literary and Musical Marriages, Deaths, Etc. PRIME SPORT NEWS PRIME SPORT NEWS 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., obiary notices, liquories 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. CADIZ.—Prof. R. F. Ballard, principal of Dunbairn school, was a guest of the Steubenville principals' club, last Friday evening. —Mrs. Verl Blanchard and son. Foster were Pittsburgh visitors, recently. —Miss Martha Madison left, Monday, for Winter Park, Fla. —Mr. Theo Smith, of Cannonbursg, Pa., visited Cadiz friends, last week. —Miss Naomi West entertained girl and boy friends, Friday evening. —Mr. Harry Hyton, of Washington, Pa., is visiting his son, Mr. Pete Hyton. —The Brotherhood, an organization with 25 or more members, met in the A. M. E. parsonage, Sunday afternoon. —Tell your friends and acquaintances to order "The Old Reliable" Gazette from the local representative and get a copy, every week. ROXABELL.—Rev. Wilbur Jones preached the installation sermon at the Second Baptist church, his subject being, "I Am the Good Shepherd". He held the congregation spellbound. Scripture was read by Rev. Richardson and prayer offered by Rev. Carter. The choir rendered splendid music. Rev. Carter presented the pastor. Rev. J. J. Burr. "Battling Siki" Shot To Death. New York City—Battling Siki Senegalese light-heavyweight champion prize-fighter, was shot to death by an unknown assassin in Ninth Ave, early Tuesday morning, three blocks from Times square. His body was found by a policeman to whom he had said, four hours before: "Good night. I'm going home now." A revolver was found nearby. Siki's real name was Louis Paul. He won his pugilistic fame when he conquered Georges Carpentier and became the light heavyweight champion of the world. Patrolman John J. Meehan, to whom Siki had talked a little after midnight, stumbled upon the fighter's body toward dawn. He summoned an ambulance and Dr. Julius Bassata pronounced Siki dead of hemorrhage, caused by a bullet. The fighter had been shot in the back, the bullets passing thru his breast. Siki was married to a white woman, Lillian Werner. He gave his age as 23 when the marriage took place at the municipal building here in July. 1924. After his defeat, Carpentier. Siki went steadily down the pugilistic ladder. With the last year or two, his name has seldom appeared in the press in any connection other than that of some Took Fighters Train. Two bullets in the back did the business, and the singular Senegalese, the strangest character the prize ring has known in many trails, passed out over the same trail traveled to kingdom come by Big Bill Brennan the Chicago heavyweight, and borne him the great Stanley Ketchel, middleweight champion of the world. Both white. Tiger Wins From English Boxer. Mass.—Tiger Flowers, Atlanta middleweight, defeated Frank Moody, of Wales, in a ten-round bout here, last week Thursday night, decisively, outpointing the British in every round and knocking him thru the ropes in the second round. Moody went down for the count of seven in the first round and for eight in the second. He regained his feet then only to be knocked clear of the ring for a count of nine a few seconds later. Wilberforce Athletics. Wilberforce, O.—The regular football season is now closed at Wilberforce, with one post season game the bible and made some excellent remarks. Rev. Richardson gave the charge to the church. The Sabbath school is making wonderful progress under the able leadership of its superintendent, Brother Dave Washington. Teachers: First advanced class, Miss Weaver; second, Wilber Jones; third, Intermediate, Edith Brewer. Rev. Burr dined with the Misses Jones. Rev. Williams, pastor of the A. M. E. church, preached a soul-stirring sermon at 3 p. m. Collection for the day. $27. The "Prince and Princess of Morocco, Africa," sang two solos. It was a great day for the Second Baptist church of Roxabell. HILLSBORO—A program will be rendered, Sunday afternoon, at the A. M. E. church—Clarence and Clifford Lamb, Sr., spent last Wednesday in Columbus—Mrs. Archie Cole entertained the Industrial club, last Friday afternoon. Refreshments—Mrs. Mary Donaldson was called to Columbus, last week, by the illness of her grand-daughter; Miss Aurelia Donaldson—Miss Ellizebuch Grandson, of Maysville, Ky., is visiting her aunt, Mrs. Harvey Johnson—Mrs. Cora Boring is going Wednesday in Maysville, where she will Greenfield, visited here, Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Cater visited her mother, Mrs. Mellie Carlisle, in Jamestown, Sunday. The latter accompanied them home for a few days' visit—Floyd Holland and Milburn Baker, were in Chillicothe, Sunday.—The play, given last Friday night at Wesleyan church by Miss Burnice Hudson, was quite a success. —Mr. and Mrs. Donald Highwarden were Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Ames guests, Sunday. —Miss Marsh (Cole and Mrs. Gertrude Christy spent the week-end in Columbus, guests of Mr. and Mrs. Pearl Zimmerman. —Richard, Willis and sister, Byrdle, and Mr. and Mrs. Henry Willis visited Mr. Frank Willis in Washington C. H., Sunday. played, Dec. 12, against Langston Okla, university. At a meeting of the players, Buchanon, snapper center, was elected captain to pilot the team, next year. The basketball team got under way, Dec. 7, when the Gold and Green teams met. The Gold team consists of old players and the Green team of new men. Howard Lincoln, Clark, Simmons, West Virginia, Morehouse, Fisk and Morgan are the home attractions, with a few Y. M. C. A. teams. The local team will make a 15-day tour during the middle of February, meeting such organizations as Howard, Lincoln, Hampton, Simmons, West Virginia and Morgan. With the absence of only one player of last year's team, Wilberforce makes a bid for another new player. New players are: Yerby of Hydro Park high school, Gibbs of New Haven, Conn., and Shelton and Dillard of Evansville, Ind. Wilberforce academy, which was recently admitted to the Ohio High School Athletic association, will have a basketball team this season. Godfrey Scores Kayo New Orleans, La.—George Godfrey, 225 pounds. Monday night, knocked out Battling Owens, 250 pounds, in the third round of a fifteen-round fight. Godfrey beat Owens to the floor in the first round with hard rights to the body, in the second round he sent. Owens down three times. Owens went down from a left to the pit of the stomach in the third and was unable to rise. Wilberforce Defends Langston Wilberforce defeats Langston. Langston, Okla.—The Langston- Wilberforce game played here, last Saturday, resulted in a victory for the Ohio team. Wilberforce won the toss and kicked. Langston out- weighed Wilberforce many, pounds to the man. The generalship of Richey and the swiftness of the team bewildered the southerners, which resulted in a touchdown for the Ohio team, early in the first quarter. A pass from Richey to Wu Fang Ward gave the only score of the game. The remainder of the game was a see-saw, up and down the field, with Wilberforce outliving them in every department of the game except kicking. The sensational kicking of Willi- iams, star halfback and end of Langston, kept them out of danger many times. Time prevented Wil- DISCUSS FUTURE OF WHITE RACE Speakers Dwell on Growing Need For Good Will In The Relationships of Races—A Warning! The home and rule of the white man 400 years ago was confined to Europe. Today he occupies in addition, nine-tenths of America and dominates most of Africa, large parts of Asia and all the islands of the sea. What will be the white man's status 400 years hence? The problems of race relationships were discussed. Tuesday night, at Masonic auditorium by Rev. William E. Barton of Boston, and Rev. Mordecal Johnson of the First Baptist church of Charleston, W. Va. Dr. Barton is an author and former moderator of the National Council of Congregational churches, Dr. Johnson, an eloquent and learned member of the race. The meeting was under the auspices of the woman's department of the federated churches, Mrs. Dan F. Bradley, presiding. "If the white nations of the earth have a spoonful of brains left," Dr. Barton said, "they will quit killing themselves and stop arming against other races. They will forget to brag and bluster and will cultivate an international mind." "Not only in America," Dr. Johnson said, "but all over the world, the man of color, red, black, brown and yellow, who constitutes three-fourths of the world's population and is increasing in number far more rapidly than his white brother, is protesting against the injustices and indignities which the white man has heeded upon him. The colored races are simply asking that the standard for a man be set upon his spirit and intelligence and not on the color of his skin." Segregation, Dr. Johnson insisted, was un-Christian. His statement, that most of the Protestant ministers in the north were active in the Ke Kluz Klan, brought a murmur of disapproval from many in the audience, but is too true for any argument. The robed choir of St. John's A. M. E. church sang exceptionally well. EXONERATES "COLORED" MAN. Accused of Murder—White Woman Admits Helping Tie Killer, An Englishman, Her Lover. Columbus, O.—Confessing that she had purposely told police that the midnight ax-slayer who dashed out her husband's brains as he lay sleeping and then attacked her was "colored" to divert suspicion from the guilty person. Mrs. Joseph Berry declared, detectives said. Sunday, that the slayer was George Robinson, (white), age 30. She intimated, police reported, that the man had been attentive to her in the past. Robinson, born in England, came to Columbus from Iowa. A description of him has been broadcast by radio. Mrs. Berry is suffering from serious wounds that she said Robinson inflicted, with the flat side of the same ax he used in slaying Berry. Scott Left $45,800 Philadelphia.—The will of Macrastrate Amos M. Scott, recently admitted to probate, bequeaths his estate of $45,800 to his three daughters. Another Woman Lawyer. Richmond, Va.—Virginia has its first Afro-American woman lawyer as a result of the December bar examinations. She is L. Marfan Poe of Washington, D. C. berforce from making a second touchdown. The game ended with Wilberforce in possession of the ball on Langston's six inch line. The game was witnessed by over two thousand enthusiastic fans who came out to see the champions of the far Southwest bow to the Wilberforce "Bull Dogs" by the score of 6-0. Bury Stkl As' Christian New York City.—In death Battling Siki becomes a Christian. The widow (white) of the murdered Senegalese boxer, Wednesday refused the pleas of his followers that he be buried without a coffin in fresh earth, according to the Mohammed custom. She said: "He was born in French Gulnea, brought up as a follower of the Prophet Mohammed, but during the World War he lost faith in any creed. However, I want him buried Christian-like." And so he was. Siki was a World War veteran. He fought with the French. He was a-French subject. Alice Returns! New York City.—Mrs. Alice Beatrice Jones Rhinelander returned quietly, Wednesday, to her home in Pelham Rd. New Rochelle. She refused to say where she had been. It was learned from her counsel of record, Judge Samuel F. Swinburne, that Mrs. Rhinelander had not gone south, as reported, but had remained in this state. "I have not seen her," said Judge Swinburne, "but I was told that she had returned. She was to go away for only a week, you know. I understood that she spent most of that time with relatives either in West Chester county or in Brewster, N. Y." SINGLE COPY FIVE CENTS SISSLE AND BLAKE HAVE SOLD THEIR "LADY OF THE MOON" TO AN ENGLISH FIRM And Have Made a Great Hit in London With Their Act and Songs—They Are Styled "The American Ambassadors of Syncopation." London, Eng.—Noble Sissle and Enbie Blake, of "Shuffle Along" and "Chocolate Dandell" fame, landed here, last September, to play eight weeks at this city's exclusive Kit Kat club and the Piccadilly, and they are still here and "going strong". What is more they are likely to be for some time, unless they accept a tour of France and Germany offered them with the winter season on the Riviera, taking in Cannes, Nice and Monte Carlo. The local daily and theatrical press is most generous in its praise of "The American Ambassadors of Synception", as Noble and Buble are termed. Their auspicious spirit at the Alhambra caused the management to hold them over at this theater and contract for three weeks at the Coliseum, rated London's leading variety theater. Two of these weeks include the Christmas and New Year holidays. The Victoria Palace, Chishwick Empire, Victoria Empire and Shepherd's Bush were all added to the list, and the boys merrily go on to attend the attraction at Murray Bridge and the Carnival Club, in addition to the headline in the music hall at the same time. Aside from their state triumphs, new laurels are being won with the musical compositions of this versatile pair. All London is singing and whistling their new fox trot ballad "Why". Also, "I'm Just Wild About Harry". The fox trot ballad, bought by Keith moseley, a large British music publishing house, has been recorded on the phonograph and is being sung and played on the air to the delight of British radio fans. London's biggest and most lavish revue, "Still dancing", is featuring with scenic splendor, Sissle and Blake's "Lady of the Moon", and it is the most beautiful in the musical score of the show. Charles B. Cochran, the producer of "Still Dancing", is the person who at one time wanted to put on in this city, "Shuffle Along", and, if the right theater in London's West 1925 Merry Christmas and Good Health This is the design of the Christmas seals being sold to raise money for the national fight against tuberculosis. Ohio's quota from the sale of the one-cent health seals is $300,000. Serve-self boxes containing packets of the seals have been placed by the Anti-Tuberculosis League in 300 convenient public places. Sales are not being actively pushed in the Community Fund area, as money goes from the Fund both to the local organization, and to the National Tuberculosis Association, which puts out the seals. Posters here read "Use Christmas Seals", and as many may be purchased as desired, however. Outside Greater Cleveland, in the county, and the state at large, sales are being vigorously promoted, and a generous use, here and elsewhere, is reported by the postal department, both on letters, and packages. Persons mailing articles are reminded that the seals must be placed on the back, not the front, of letters and parcels. "Through the Xmas seal, funds were furnished to begin much of the work for the care of tuberculosis patients in our city. Now, since this city and the Community Fund supply the money for service, the seals broadcast the message of health for all and remind us that although we have made a good start toward conquering tuberculosis in the last twenty years and have reduced the death rate one half, the disease is not conquered, and only through the active work of all of us can we achieve victory", says Dr. H. L. Rockwood, Cleveland City Health Commissioner. "As Director of Public Health and Welfare, and as one responsible for the operation of sanatoria treating both adults and children, I urge the broadest distribution of these little seals, messengers of health and hope", says Dr. Dudley S. Blossom, Cleveland Director of Public Health and Welfare. IN UNION IT IS STRONG LE COPY FIVE CENTS ROAD AND BLAKE LADY OF THE MOON" TO ENGLISH FIRM It Hit in London With Their Are Styled "The American of Syncopation." End can be secured, this city may yet see "Shuffle Along" with Sissle and Blake as stars. The West End of London is the gay white way and theatrical district. The Keith Prowse Co. has purchased "Lady of the Moon". Sissle and Blake have been commissioned to write the score for a new musical play by Drayett Dell, the English author. Spring will also witness the premiere here of "Elise", a musical comedy for which Sissle and Blake wrote half of the music (eight numbers). "There's One Lane That Has no Turning". Is the title of another of their songs being used by Scott and Whaley, the celebrated Afro-American team that has been domiciled in England for sixteen years. They are established favorites and are being starred in a big revue. Sissle and Blake's mailing address is care of The American Express Co., London, Eng. CAMILLA HILLMAN-HUBERT The Mother of a Remarkable Family —Seven Boys and Five Girls —Boys Holding Important Positions. Atlanta, Ga.—Camilla Hillman Hubert, mother of a remarkable family, died here, last week. Six of her seven sons hold high positions of service in various parts of the country and her five daughters have wedd- ed men holding similar places. She and her husband had little opportu- nity to acquire any education, but through self-denial they were able to rear and educate a large family. The seven sons and their positions are: Z. P. Hubert, president of Jack- son college, Jackson, Miss. B. F. Hubert, director of agriculture, Tuskegee institute, Tuskegee, Ala. John W. Hubert, principal, our High school, Savannah, Ga. J. H. Hubert. ex. sec. Urban league. New York City. Mosee Hubert, farm demonstration agent, Hancock county, Ga. G. J. Hubert, pastor of two Atlanta churches and runs a 600-acre farm. Theodore Hubert, senior at Morehouse college, Atlanta. Czak Hubert, her husband, also survives. The family was reared on a large farm in Hancock county, Ga. ANOTHER JOB FOR THE "SPECIAL". Springfield, Ill.—Wm. C. Matthews of Boston arrived, recently, to assist the local U. S. district attorney. He was sent by the department of justice (Washington, D. C.) after a disagreement between District Attorney Williamson here and U. S. Senator Deneen of Illinois over the appointment of a permanent assistant. When the Illinois district attorney advised the department of justice at Washington that he would not accept the Deneen candidate, he was notified that his office would have to do without an assistant. Later, however, the department sent Matthews, who is a SPECIAL assistant U. S. district attorney and will remain until the rush, due to the next term of court, is ended. The "Sweet" Case Defense Fund. New York City.—The status of the $50,000 defense fund being raised by the N. A. A. C. P. is as follows: Given outright by the Garland Fund. $ 5,000 Offered in addition 15,000 Needed to meet offer 30,000 Total $50,000 Raised to date 22,674 Still to go 6,325 --- SUBSCRIPTION RATES One Year ..... $2.00 Six Months ..... 1.00 Subscribers are requested to remit by postoffice money order or registered letter. Mattered at the postoffice in Cleveland, Ohio, as second-class mail matter 228 W. Superior Ave., Cleveland, O. Member Ohio Legislature: 1894 to 1896; 1896 to 1898; 1900 to 1902 THE GAZETTE is the oldest and has the largest bona fide circulation, double that of any newspaper in the interest of Afro-Americans published in the state of Ohio and comparison with any will immediately establish its rank as one of the NEWS- LEST AND BEST in the country. 10,000,000 Afro-Americans. 350,000 in Ohio. 40,000 in Cleveland. SATURDAY, DECEMBER, 19, 1925. It was in the Warley case, carried to the U. S. Supreme Court in 1917 from Louisville, Ky., that that august body declared against residential segregation. This is something worth remembering. --- The anti-lynching bill which Congressman Dyer of Missouri and U. S. Senator McKinley of Illinois introduced, last week, was amended by them before introduction so as to make it embody more of the provisions of our Ohio anti-lynching law. --- In a long-winded statement, the board of trustees of Howard University, Washington, D. C., has "white-washed" President J. Stanley Durkee and attempted to "cry down" the serious charges brought against his administration of affairs at that institution by responsible persons. It will not succeed, however, and ought not to do so. "Battling Ski!" the singular Senegalese, like many other prize-fighters, "went the pace that kills." If his victory over the French champion prize-fighter, Georges Carpentier, did not "turn his head" then it can be attributed solely to his ignorance. And yet, after all, he was not so different from many other prize-fighters, white Americans, too, who have preceded him to the "great beyond." The officials of Shaker Heights village, not satisfied with having lost their case favoring "jim crow" schools, are appealing it to the state supreme court, it is said. They have gone thru the common pleas and appellate courts, and will undoubtedly receive the same treatment in the highest court of the state. This will be just the kind of treatment the Shaker Heights mayor and his officials need to convince them that this is Ohio and not Georgia or elsewhere in the South. Their persistence in the matter has a tendency to make one feel that it was not Dr. E. A. Bailey's purchase of that Huntington Drive, Shaker Heights property that caused this court action, as alleged, but that old "separate as the fingers of the hand" (Booker T. Washington) segregation sentiment, or "established customs" (Calvin Coolidge) of the South. COOLIDGE BOWS TO THE SOUTH. The following paragraph is from President Coolidge's message to the Congress last week: "It is fundamental of our institutions that they seek to guarantee to all our inhabitants the right to live their own lives under the protection of the public law. This does not include any license to injure others materially, physically or morally, to incite revolution or violate the established customs which have long had the sanction of enlightened society." When the Wilson administration sent Dr. R. R. Moton to Europe, during the closing months of the World War, to tell our soldier boys, who had tasted real freedom overseas, that on their return to this country and the South they must "forget it" and not "violate the established customs" (color-lines) of that section he did just what our President did, last week, with the above paragraph, but this time it is intended for the consumption of all of our people of this country. "Enlightened society", when applied to that of the South, is as great a JOKE as much of the President's reference, to "The Negro" in his message to the Congress, last week, is an insult to our people. And there are many Afro-Americans who are sensible, courageous, manly and womanly enough to so take it. FRIENDSHIP THAT HELPS! One of the race's real friends is Dr. L. Rosenberg of Rosehill Farm, Hudson, Ohio, a former editor of The Waechter & Anzeliger, German daily of this city. Another is Mr. Carl Rald, president, treasurer and general manager of that paper. Some weeks ago. The Gazette was pleased to call the attention of its many readers to the fact that Dr. Rosenberg had prepared a review of poems by leading Afro-American authors that occupied several columns of The Waechter & Anzeiger's Sunday edition, just previous to that date, and that we were indebted to Mr. Raid for calling our attention to the same. Monday the latter again sent us a page from Sunday's edition of the Waechter & Anzeiger which contained an article, over three columns in length, which contained fully two columns of poems by our best authors with the following preface (in part): "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 sixty 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 peaceable enjoyment of the fruits of their labor. Those who do violence to them should be punished for their crimes. No other course of action is worthy of the American people". Fine, Messrs. Rosenberg and Raid. Thank you, for all of my people. We appreciate it. OUTLEY MADE A CAPTAIN Washington, D. C.—Sergeant Hanson Outley of the 9th U. S. Cavalry has been designated a captain in the Liberian frontier forces. He was in Baltimore, last week, for Dr. Ernest Lyon, Liberian consul general, to sign his contract. Under the Liberian agreement with the Firestone Company, the American office is to designate American heads of the Liberian frontier force, subject to the approval of the Liberian government. Capt. Outley has been with the 9th Cavalry since 1915 and has seen service in the Philippines, and in Europe during the World War. He is a graduate of Lincoln High school, Kansas City; Wendell Phillips and the Green College of Motors. He is a qualified an electrical engineer. He will be in charge of the Liberian Frontier force, will receive in salary and expenses, $2,500, traveling expenses of $500 and other perquisites. He will also be granted a two months' leave of absence each year. This One "Blackup" Little Rock, Ark.—More than 100 officers and citizens were engaged in a man hunt here, Saturday, for a brute who murdered Mrs. Lena Blevins, (white), age 28, when the woman resisted his attempt to assault her. Lynching is feared. According to the story told by Mrs. Blevins before her death, she was passing a clump of bushes, when the brute who was blacked to resemble a steppe steppe steppe were led a shotout at her and ordered her to accompany him into the woods. She screamed and the brute fired, wounding her so seriously that she died a few hours later. WINS $40,000 VERDICT. New York City—Following a lengthy trial, the basis of which was negligence and damages, Ernest Carter, age 29, of 240 Roman Ave., Forest Hills, Long Island, a member of the race, received an award of $40.00 for the case against the Queens Supreme Court, recently. Carter was badly injured when the Washington special, on the Pennsylvania Railroad, on which he was employed as a chef, was rammed in a rear-end collision with a Philadelphia local at Manhattan Transfer. The police were asked for by Carter. Counsel for the Pennsylvania moved to have the award set aside as excessive. Prolific Whites! Manitowoc. Wis. — Mrs. Henry Maas, of Maple Grove, near here, is the mother of triplets, two of them girls, and everybody concerned is doing well. Birth of the triplets makes Mrs. Maas able to arrive in the Maas home within six days. Boy, 12 last. Mrs. Maas gave birth to her first child, a boy. The Truth! What would cause other people to gnash their teeth and gird their loins is question of debate for us. Kick us, beat us, pile depredations upon us, revile us, abuse us, lie about us, malign us and even impugn our valor and we are not unanimously insulted. It seems impossible to establish unanimity of insult in the black race.—Chicago (III.) Whip. IS IT ANY USE TO CONTEND FOR RIGHTS? Colored Americans are the only race, responsible members of which are in favor of submitting to discrimination on the claim that their race "always will be discriminated against." The Jews are still contending, after over 1900 years of discrimination, and are winning civil rights today. The Irish at home have contended for 700 years and are winning because they will die rather than submit. The race that says it's of no use to resist, downs itself and the world then will say, "Negroes are not worthy of our world without self-respect, have no 'guts'." The world respects only those who resent and resist proscriptions for race. Let us be worthy of the abolitionists, worthy of our own fathers who have died in every war to vindicate the title of their race to equal liberty, and forever resist denial of rights for our native land, however long race discrimination continues. To submit is to deserve a conte mpt. — Boston (Mass.) Guardian. THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, O. SATURDAY, DECEMBER, 19. 1925. CALLS ARITHMETIC 'USELESS STUNT' University of Chicago Professor Draws Attacks When He Makes Declaration. HE SAYS GIRLS DON'T NEED IT Only One Woman in 10,000 Ever Uses Mathematics of High School, He Says. Chicago, Ill.—When Prof. Frank M. Leavitt of the University of Chicago asserted at the meeting of the Chicago Political Equality League at the Congress Hotel that arithmetic is one of the "useless stunts through which all school children are forced to go" he got into trouble. "How about Abraham Lincoln?" asked one woman. "When he was President he asked why people studied geometry. He was told it was to improve the mind, and he took up the study of geometry." "How about Ben-Hur?" asked another. "When he found that the men who rowed always on one side of the galley were being overdeveloped in some parts of their bodies and under-developed in others, he asked to be allowed to row on either side of the boat alternate days." "Thinking about geometry does not teach you to think about political science," said Prof. Leavitt. "There is about one woman in 10,000 who ever used later in life the mathematics she is forced to study in the high school. It is bad enough for men. It is worse for women. We have got our school system loaded up with a lot of useless things. "There is a boy in the provocational classes at the Lane High School who couldn't get through sixth grade. But he knows more about wireless telegraphy than anyone in the high school including the teachers. He lectures to hundreds of other students. His lectures probably do not contain one grammatical sentence, but he will get that later." Masked Firemen Rush from Dance to Fight Blaze—Clowns and Scare-crows on the Ladder. Freeport, L. I—A dwelling ablaze, children screaming, kings, princes, A Friendly Welcome Majestic Hotel Good Food, Good Give Us A Trial N. E. Cor. Central Ave. and James Alexander, Prop. 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Ederixon Dixon, 6 years old, had been left in charge of her younger brothers, Edward, 3, and Theodore, 9 years old. She heard a crackling sound and found the second story, in which the boys were sleeping, in wifes. Cropping through the smoke, she aroused and guided them to the street. She then telephoned for assistance. With a clown and a Mephistopheles in the lead the Russell Hose made a record time to the fire, followed by a long line of maslers from the ball. In about an hour the fire was out, with the loss estimated at $2,000. Their costumes drenched, the members of the Russell Hose changed their uniforms in their engine house without going home, and went back to the dance. Mephistopheles, the foreman, immerly resumed the hesitation valtz with the stately Lady Macbeth, in which they had been so suddenly interrupted by the clang of the alarm bell. 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It was greatly extended, under President Wilson; increased, still further, under President Harding; and reached its zenith under President Coolidge. For instance, the largest of our parks President Wilson never troubled, but the present administration has found time and desire to introduce it even there. To many people, segregation is a Democratic scheme of insult, but such is not the case. Mr. Taft introduced it in the bureau of engraving. He segregated the blacks in this city in the district restricting white people in white people, and black to black, often duplicating work as most blocks had white and black residents. And, worst of all, announced in his official capacity that Negroes should not hold office where white people complained. Segregation, then, is a Republican institution and not a Democrat. It was begun by Republicans, and carried to all-embracing ex-Republican There is far more of it in the departments, today, than at any time since the Negro first appeared, close upon the close of the Civil War. The picture requirement in the civil service, which makes it next to impossible for a colored lady or gentleman to enter the civil service, since their color is disclosed in their photograph which must accompany papers, is tenaciously held on to by our Republican President. Only last week, a colorful civil appeared after the best examination, and after having been telegraphed for by the department. The photograph had failed to tell her true color, and they flatly refused to appoint her when she appeared, and they saw her complexion. Commissioner Blair of the internal revenue bureau with thousands of clerks will not appoint a Negro clerk, and his word is law there, as he is the special favorite of Secretary Hill, President Coolidge. He calls from North Carolina, the home of the other factions, and leader of the segregation forces, Col. Sherrill, superintendent of buildings and grounds, it is no use to complain of either of these southern gentlemen. The colored people here who know the President could destroy segregation in the departments of the government, and the photograph requirements in the civil service by the mere nod of his head, are at a loss to understand why he does not speak up about declarations on democracy into operation here, where it would not even cost him a single vote and where he has full power and absolutely no opposition. They wonder if he is not a firm believer in segregation, especially since segregation is one of the chief tenets of the Constitution, and found its "welcome home" in the Republican party, and receives no condemnation from the Republican President. (Special to The Gazette.) Washington, D. C.—In the postoffice segregation is rampant. The faithful colored clerks work under constant humiliation and physical disadvantages. The department maintains a spacious cateria for whites only, where these inferior white clerks can buy appetizing luncheons and chat in comfort while eating, while the colored clerks must bring cold luncheons from home and eat them any place they can. The physical discomfort, disadvantages as it is, is far less galling to the cooled 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 not involved in justice, sting 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, com for t able lounges and other equipment for rest, sociability, and recreation, and nothing for these same colored employees. This private club is in the magnificent postoffice building, built and maintained by ALL of the people. The investigation and segregation is even attempted in the toilets. And all of this is against the most dependable and faithful employees. Last year the white employees passed around invitations to the white employees, in the very 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 it was to come off, and he ordered the postmaster to invite the colored as well as the white. These clerks get around their colored co-workers by giving the function at a local hotel. It is inevitable that the wicked spirit of segregation would express itself in appointments, assignments, and salaries. Colored applicants are often passed over though their examination was superior. No Negro, however efficient or old in the service, must ever dream of a promotion to a directive position. Unyielding caste passes whites over him, one after another, though many of the colored employees have won contests and quickness and accuracy in the handling of mail. The colored clerks have dared to form a union which meets regularly and often sends manly and intelligent protests to the postmaster, and often sends from his dedications 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.) (Special to Washington D. C. —The government printing office keeps faith with the government's universal scheme of segregation. Some of the best and bright of our girls are forced to take inferior positions there on account of the better and more lucrative avenues of employment being closed to them because of their color. The whites are generally of a very mediocre group, far from equaling our girls in educational equipment, culture, and working efficiency. Yet these superior girls are set off from the whites with the latter, of course, having the better working conditions, salaries and recreational facilities. There is a large cafeteria in this huge structure where all of the employees may go. There are a few tables in an out-of-the-way room, out of view of the 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 promotion. Here, the law of segregation passes 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 work, in the office, in exchange of our employees so keenly that he secured the company of a young lady of the race to take part in the dance. As soon as this couple started to dance the music was abruptly stopped, and the young man reported for attempting to take part in an entertainment provided for employees. He was called to the office, lectured for being "one of those smart Negroes" who believe in "social equality," and then dismissed on a trumped-up charge. He was arrested by the police with a pistol. Right after the dance incident a fire broke out in the office. He was quickly accused of setting the building afire in revenge for his exclusion from the dance floor. Detectives came to the building to arrest him, and falling to secure any evidence searched him only to discover the pistol. They quickly dropped the arson charge and substituted one for carrying concealed weapons. Then he was immediately dismissed. By now the employees are taught that there is no way of escape for one who dares to resent the daily insults that their government (under President Coolidge) gives them. Many of the employees have expressed their deeply-wounded feelings to me at being considered a pariah by the government whose institutions they are serving so faithfully, and I have taken up a number of cases only to be met by a denial that the conditions complained of exerted the request for the names of my informants and the fate these informants would suffer. I have never given a single name! The parition then taking the position that it cannot take up the case. It is perfectly clear that this iniquitous scheme of segregation is a difficult thing to fight, since the government THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, J. SATURDAY, DECEMBER, 19, 1925. is so well settled upon it, and the complainants cannot bear witness to it. (Special to The Gazette) (Special To The Gazette) Washington, D. C.-Segregation in the bureau of engraving and printing in an institution involving President Thomas W. Row 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 in and of race. Shortly thereafter came an order for segregation of the races, and a white lady who had been noted for her philanthropy among our people and who was upon intimate terms at the White House appeared at the bureau to tell our girls to be contented with the new order as "a great Negro leader had taught colored people to stay in their places." The order was imprinted 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 discourged, she came out one stormy afternoon to the Y. M. C. A. to urge them to continue the fight for democracy was at the crises. Oswald Garrison Villard came to town to attack White House and the National 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 ait 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 Doug has helped to found. Our girls are employed there in far larger numbers than in any of the other parties. THEY ARE SEGREGATED 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 rate, and the best our girls must take these inferior positions, the inevitable result of segregation. Our people are still honoring 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 the long sweet history of the United States 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 secretion was The present head of the department of internal revenue, Mr. Blair from North Carolina, has not appointed a colored clerk since his incumbency. While his predecessor, Mr. Daniel Roper, a democrat from Texas, appointed and promoted several of them. Since the income tax legislation and the numberless new taxes that the recent war necessitated, this is by far the largest department of the treasury, employing more than 100,000 grocers 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 toiletries, locker rooms, rest rooms, etc., set off for colored. The toilets for the colored are few in such a large structure. Hence, the segregated clerks are forced to endure physical inconvenience 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, where white people of every class can come to rest, dine, and socialize of afternoons and evenings at minimum costs. The white press of the city is constantly telling of the thousands who take advantage of this "delightful retreat," and the festive scene that their presence 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 registrieship of the treasury, which Republican Presidents have given the Negro since Garfield appointed Blanch K. Bruce, is now filled by a white man, and the colored people are congregated in a separate room which is publicly proclaimed as "a colored division." When it is discovered that Negro clerks are "working as white" in other divisions, they are promptly transferred to this "colored division." Our people fear that protest against this segregation would result in the abolition of the division altogether, possibly in a dilemma, fearing to act. Our clerks must accept segregation or elimination, and being poor, with no other opportunities in this southern atmosphere, must take the former. They are depressed at the wrong, but economic stress compels endurance of it. By a single stroke of his pen, President Calvin Coolidge can stop every bit of this damnable segregation, just as he can condemn that lawless organization the Ku Klux Klan. COOLIDGE'S SEGREGATION Washington, D. 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