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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. Improved.—Mrs. Oca Young entertained the Industrial club, last Friday. Refreshments. ROXABELL. — Rev. Richardson preached ably Sunday morning, at the Second Baptist church. The pastor, Rev. J. J. Burr, presented this program for 1926 at the meeting, Wednesday evening. The church unanimously accepted it. Do not fail to get a copy, each week, of "The Old Religious Gazette. Another star in J. J. Burr's crown. We hold meetings at Austin, Thursday and Friday ewings, for the white congregation. Rev. Jones preached an excellent sermon, the first evening. They have invited us to hold a week's service beginning, Dec. 28. Everyone cordially invited to attend. A grand time, Thursday evening, at HILLSBORO—Glenn Jones, Floyd and Lorenzor Holland visited in Greenfield, Sunday afternoon—Miss Mary Williams left, Wednesday, for Columbus to spend the holidays, with her sister—Miss Virgalline Paxton of Detroit is spending her Xmas vacation with her parents.—Miss Lillian Harewood, a state normal student at Wilberforce, is the guest of Mrs. Amanda Owens.—Mr. and Mrs. Alex, Holland entertained Mrs. M. Carlisle of Jamestown and Mr. and Mrs. Charles Colter at six o'clock dinner, last Tuesday.—Mr. and Mrs. Zack Lewis of Springfield, Mr. and Mrs. Vivian Hudson and son of Dayton spent Xmas with their mother, Mrs. Alline Burton.—Key, R. L. Bray's revival services will begin after New Year's.—Mrs. Mary Donaldson has returned from Columbus. Her grand-daughter, Aureella, is much DEFENDS MISCENATION! Arthur Brisbane, the Well-Known Writer to Daily Newspapers, Taken to Task for a Fool-Expression—Mixing Helpful. Editor Cleveland Daily News:—Being a constant reader of your paper, I have nailed a comment by Arthur Brisbane on the Rhinelander case, in which he has injected the following personal element: "But nature's wisdom is in it, of course. It took thousands of years to produce the white man. The white man sincerely appreciates himself, wants to stay white. It's well for the race that he does." As a fair-minded person to all races, nationalities and creeds, it seems deplorable to me that our learned writer is unable to appreciate the fact that the joke is on him and all similarly deceived people. Perhaps he would do well to peruse the history of France, Spain and Italy to learn of their intermarriage with Ethiopians centuries ago, which has manifested itself in the dark hair and complexions of these peoples. But this has enriched the vitality of both body and mind and certainly not dulled the brains of these brilliant peoples. They neither think nor care anything about it, either. Here in America there are those of so-called African extraction mingling, mixing and inter-marrying by the hundreds every year. Of this many are ignorant, and, like poor Don Quixote, actually live and die deceived. We are living in a supposedly enlightened age. All other civilized countries have long ago discarded such silly prejudices. What a shame that many of us have not caught the vision of progress in the furtherance of the brotherhood of man, the fatherhood of God, and the invocation of world peace. J. B. EZRA. THE EGG.A SUICIDE WEAPON. Scientist Says Hard-Bolled One Will End It All For the Hard-Bolled —The Yolk! Chicago, Ill.—If you yearn to join the celestial voices above the clouds, eat a hard-boiled egg immediately after you have bawled out the office help. This homely warning comes from Dr. Hilton Ira Jones, A. M., Ph. D., nationally recognized chemist, psychologist and author, who spoke last Saturday, before the Executives Club. A certain chemical contained in the yolk of the egg creates a poison, when digested in an acid stomach and may result in violent death, according to Dr. Jones. Another scientific discovery that was no news to the several hundred executives who have kissed away their wives or sweethearts' briny tears, Dr. Jones continued, was that the anger tears of a woman contain seven times as much salt as tears of joy. improved. Mrs. Oca Young enter tained the Industriat club, last Friday. Refreshments. ROXABELL. — Rev. Richardson prescheduled ably, Sunday morning, at the Second Baptist church. The pastor, Rev. J. J. Burr, presented his program for 1926 at the meeting, Wednesday evening. The church unanimously accepted it. Do not fall to get a copy, each week, of "The Old Rellable" Gazette. Another star in J. J. Burr's crown. We held meetings at Austin, Thursday and Friday evenings, for the white congregation. Rey. Jones preached an excellent sermon, the first evening. They have invited us to hold a week's service beginning, Dec. 28. Everyone cordially invited to attend. A grand time, Thursday evening, at Frankfort hall for the benefit of our Sunday school. The most important features were a pantomime and a Christmas play—Mrs. N. Y. Pryor is slowly recovering from injuries sustained in a fall. Her two daughters from Indianapolis, are with her. Mrs. Albert Williams and Miss Ruth Taylery are letter—Mrs. Martha Ash, aged mother of the church, is still confined. Mrs. Weeger, teacher, is doing excellent work in our public school. We have now will leave it with the reporter, Ella M. Jones. — Rev. and Mrs. Williams will spend the holidays in Cincinnati. — Rev. J. J. Burr preached, Sunday night, and "never let a stone amurred." The choir is organized and we are preparing to go to Hillsboro, some Sunday, to conduct morning service. Pastor and officers, be on the look out. -HAS SUPERB RHYTHM That is, The Conclusion of H. L. Mencken, Having Reference to Our Music—He's Right. H. L. Mencken, (Obite), versatile analyst of racial traits and embellishments, after showing deep appreciation for the development of our music by James Weldon and J. Rosaward Johnson, Will Marlon Cook, and others, goes to the heart of the matter by saying that their native rhythm is superb. Says Mr. Mencken: "The rhythms of the Negro were superb, and so all that was needed to make good songs was their reinforcement with melody. That melody, it is highly probable, came from the camp-meeting, and at some time not earlier than the end of the eighteenth century. South made no effort to educate their slaves in the arts, but they were greatly interested, after the first tours of Francis Wesley, in saving their souls, and that salvation was chiefly attempted, for obvious reasons, out of doors. There arose the camp-meeting—and the camp-meeting was a place of sturdy and even voilous song. The Negroes memorized what they heard and then adapted it to their native rhythms. Thus the spirituals were born. To this day Methodist hymns seem banal to musicians because they lack variety of rhythm; nine-tenths of them bang along in the same depressing sing-song. But the Negro spirituals are full of rhythms of the utmost delicacy, and when they are sung properly—not by white frauds or high-toned dephlogisticated Negroes—but by black singers, they give immense pleasure to lovers of music. Beethoven"would have delighted in them, and Brahms, had he ever heard them, would have borrowed them for his uses, as indeed. Dvorak did after him." Appointed Magistrate! Philadelphia. Pa.-Gov. Pinchot has appointed Edward W. Henry successor to the late Amos M. Scott as magistrate of Court, No. 2, this city. Atty. Henry resigned as president of the Citizens' Republican club of this city, one of our largest and best known political and social organizations in the country, to support John W. Davis (Dem.) for President in the last national campaign. He is a graduate of the Howard University law school. Lynch-Murder Again! Clarksdale, Miss.—Grand jury investigation of the lynching, the night of Dec. 12, 1925, of Lindlev Coleman, shortly after he was accused of a charge of murder. was ordered, Saturday, by Judge W. A. Alcorn. FAMOUS ARTIST A Wonderful Tribute To a Group of Musicians - Whose Predecessors Introduced the Spirituals to The World. New York City.—Eva Gauthier one of the greatest artists in the musical world, has paid a glowing tribute to Pisk Jubilee Singers, who appeared in Town Hall, some weeks ago. Concerning their musicmanship Miss Gauthier says: "It is not necessary to be interested in folk songs or primitive sources of American music in order to appreciate these singers, although to those who have that interest there is, of course, an added and unique appeal. But as sheer music—as art—the songs and singing of this quintet of singers stand out as something that none of us can afford to miss. I was fortunate enough to hear them in Paris, last spring; in fact, I traveled there from London for that express purpose; and there might well be a thrill of pride in the heart of every American at the enthusiasm aroused there by the music of one group of American singers. It was not only the public that responded tremendously to their singing, but the most demanding of the critics. It was the same in London and Berlin, and the crowds which were unable to hear as much as they craved of their music were no more enthusiastic in their praise than the musicians of most critical judgment. * * * I should like to take space to quote from the criticisms published in those cities the day after their appearance, but that must be unnecessary to convince the people of their own country of the morit and art and beauty in the compositions given by this group of musicians whose predecessors introduced the saints to the world and whose talent deserves some even higher term than that. What is important for us here to realize is that the demand concert at Winged Castle and their reception all through Europe we are now in a time of a wider interest in an unusual type of music but to the perfection of their rendition of songs which are imbued with the art of true music as well as the spontaneity that gives life to any art. New York City, as the music center of this country, "conserves these centers the triumph of Europe in "en quick to nostrow." TWO JIM CROW SCHOOLS Three Cemplemen, Too — Other Places and More "Jim Crow" — South on Influences. Gary, Ind. Gary has two large "colored schools" the other schools being mixed. The schools here are open, day and evening throughout the year, and are the community and recreational centers for both young and old. The Froebel "jim crow" night school, open two evenings a week for our students, has regular classes for adults and older children who work during the day. There are also evening classes in millinery, dressmaking, shoemaking, machine work, wood work, social dancing, swimming for men and women, and movies. Gary's municipal government has three "Negro" members of its city council, four uniformed policemen and three plain-clothes men, two full-time *city* juvenile court workers, one man and one woman. One county juvenile court worker. It has also established the Harris "jim crow" Home for our dependent children. GIVEN OLD SCHOOL BUILDINGS While the City's University is To Have a "Jim Crow" Department—Additions to Local Common School System Louisville, Ky.—Our local school system will be benefited by the two school-bond issues voted, recently, by a majority of almost five to one. The first, an issue of one million for the University of Louisville, will provide $200,000 to establish a "department" for our pupils which will be maintained by taxation. A site will be selected and a building erected at once, where courses will be given in pre-medical training English, modern languages, mathematics, pedagogy, and the sciences. Credits and degrees will be conferred by the University. From the larger bond issue of five million dollars for the improvement of local common schools, our people will get two new junior high schools, an elementary school, three OLD school buildings now used by white pupils, and the enlargement of two others. The building program involved will run to $800,000 or more, it is said. Golfrex Kayos Fulton Minneapolis, Minn.—George Godfrey, giant heavyweight, scored a five-round knockout over Fred Fulton, (white), famous plasterer, here, last week. Friday night. The bout was scheduled for ten rounds and Godfrey had much the better of the affair in every round. A left upperarm sent Fulton down after handing him a good mauling in the earlier rounds. He claimed the blow was low, but the referee refused to allow it; Godfrey knocked Fulton clear out of the ring in the first round. SINGLE COPY FIVE CENTS Attorney Hays to Deliver the Annual Address Spoke at the Nation's Capital, Sunday Detroit Sentiment Still Changing to the Sweets. New York City.—The N. A. A. C. P. has made a full report of expenditures in the trial of Dr. and Mrs. Sweet and nine others in Detroit, showing that the total cost of the first trial was $21,938.69, paid by its Detroit branch and a City-Wedded Department. Dr. wadded the bur. the Rev. Joseph Gomez. The expenditures of the national office totaling $11,377.74, included attorneys' fees of $4,000 to Clarence Darrow, $3,000 to Arthur Garfield Hays and $1,000 to Walter M. Nelson. For traveling and living expenses of attorneys and witnesses, telegraphs and long distance telephone calls, court and attorney's stenographers, and bailbond fee, $3,377.74. The Detroit branch raised in' all $6,137.64 and appointed a disbursement committee, consisting of its vice-president, M. L. Walker, Dr. E. A. Carter and J. W. Cooper, both members of its executive committee. This committee, which established a total bank account and made all disbursements in a series of 55 numbered checks, spent a total of $8,411.74, leaving a cash balance of $8,566.41. Among the disbursements payments to investigators, with a total fee of $460 to each of our three local attorneys in the case of $550 to Walter M. Nelson, transcript of the court record, needs to defendants while in jail, attest, telephones and telegraphs and advance to meet obligations of the injured and defendants. THE City Wide Committee under the leadership of the Rev. Joseph González, raised a fund of which certain same were expended in connection with the Detroit branch through a point committee appointed to this purpose. These sums so expended, totaling $2,650, include $1,000 to Glorence Darrow, $400 to Coel Rowlettle, Julian Perry Johnson, Mahalah Wahde, Jonny Lorraine in the council $150, Walter M. Nelson. The City-Wide Committee reports a balance of $300. Ball bonds for all eleven defendants who have been released from prison, were obtained by the Detroit court and furnished by our Detroit attorneys as follows: Dr. O. H. Sweet, $10,000, bondsman, H. Shepard; Mrs. Gladys Sweet, $5,000, bondsman, Dr. A. Thomas; Dr. Ole Oweet, $5,500, bondsman, Dr. Lewis; Henry Sweet, $10,000, bondsmen, Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Johnson; Henry Latting. CARDINAL GIBBONS INSTITUTE. Washington, D. C.—Cardinal Gibbs Institute, which opened in 1924 at Ridge, Maryland, as a national training school for our boys and girls, regardless of their church affiliations, is showing remarkable progress in its second year. It has approximately sixty students, representing six states; a splendid two-wheel concrete building for a principal's home, a dormitory for boys, a born, and a two hundred acre farm, with equipment, and stock. The Institute is helping to reduce illiteracy in the Ridge district of Maryland, as well as to improve farming methods among our people of the county. Its Ford truck is bringing small children daily from out-of-way districts to its elementary school; and its farm meetings and farm demonstrations work are producing splendid results. Free medical and dental clinics are improving local health conditions; and the general influence of the Institute, which is now only one year old, is being felt throughout southern Maryland. Victor H. Daniel, a vigorous and conscientious educator, is principal of the Institute. "BOB" TERRELL DEAD. III For About Two Years-A Municipal Judge at The Nation's Capital for Years. Washington. D. C.—Judge Robert H. Terrell, ill for the past several years, died here, the first of the work. He not his academic education in Boston and was graduated from Harvard in 1884, the first honor man of the race at that institution of learning. Judge Terrell was appointed municipal judge in 1909 by President Roosevelt after serving from 1902 as a civil magistrate. He was re-appointed by each succeeding President, getting the district bar association's unanimous endorsement, every time. A widow, Mrs. Mollie Church Terrell, and two married daughters survive him and have the heartfelt sympathy of many friends through the country. N. V. H. D. N. E. D. C. LE COPY FIVE CENTS INSIVE! GTO NEW YORK ANNUAL MEETING OF THE P. A. C. P. over the Annual Address— Bron's Capital, Sunday— ment Still Changing e Sweets. $5,500, bondsman, Rev. R. L. Brady; Morris Murray, $5,500, bondsman Nathan King (white); Joseph Mack, $5,500, bondsman Dr. J. A. Miller; Hewitt Watson, $5,500, bondsman, Mrs. Lee; Charles Wash- ington, $5,500, Mrs. E. Johnson; William Davis, $5,500, M. Porkes (obtained by Dr. Ralford). For Leonard Morse, a professional bonds- man was obtained to post $10,000 bail, for which the fee was $400 of which the Detroit branch paid $200 and the national office, $200. The transcript of record at 80c a page, running to 2,602 pages, cost $2- 081.60. Sentiment More Favorable to Dr. Sweet. A prominent Detroit attorney, (white); whose name is withheld for obvious reasons, reports that sentiment in that city has swung in favor of Dr. O. H. Sweet and his associates who defended the Sweet home from a mob. He writes: "From the comments which have come to me since the Sweet trial, I and satisfied that a great deal of good was accomplished. There are even compensations in the failure of the jury to agree. One man who used to live in the neighborhood of Garland and Charlevoix told me that I believed that the people of that locality have a new understanding of the right of colored people to buy property and live in it. He states that the opinion of many officers is that the case should now be nole proposed. On the other hand there are the 'de-hands' who are undoubtedly using their influence to prevent Prosecutor Toms from doing any such wise thing." Hays, Dr. and Mrs. Sweet to Speak. The national office has obtained the consent of the Michigan courts to bring Dr. and Mrs. Ossian H. Sweet to N. Y. City for their first public address here, Jan. 3 at 3 p.m. at Mr. Olivet Baptist Church when the annual meeting of N. A. A. C. P. will be held. At our Garfield Hays will deliver the annual address. He is a liberal and optionally able lawyer, a forceful speaker and a friend of the race. The annual business meeting of the organization will be held at its headquarters, Jan. 4, '26. Mr. Hays spoke in "Washington, D. C., Dec. 20, for a mass meeting held under the direction of a committee of our women of that city. AN "UPLIFTER'S" VIEW: "Lack of Sunlight" Undermining the Health of Our People of This Community, He says—Something New Every Day. Lack of sunlight in the Great Lakes region is undermining the health of our local population. The situation has become so acute, says Floyd A. Rowe, director of the physical welfare department of the public schools, that he is planning measures to cope with it. Rowe bases his conclusions. In part on a careful study made of our children at Mayflower school by Dr. L. W. Childs, head of the school department, and upon the observations of other school physicians and teachers. Dr. Childs examined 34 of our boys and girls, all born in the north. He found bad teeth, positive indications of a lack of calcium in the bones, and a predisposition to rickets. Among 60 of our boys and girls, all born in the south and recent immigrants to Cleveland, he found sound teeth in practically every case and no indications of a lack of calcium. "The southern Negro lives an outdoor life and gets plenty of good warm sunshine, even in the winter," Rowe said. "In addition, he eats a good deal of 'roughage' and corn pone, which is beneficial to the teeth. When he moves north he takes up a more artificial life, eats prepared and soft foods, works indoors and gets little direct sunlight even in the summer time. Because of his dark skin, he needs more sunshine than the white man. Parents of colored children should see that they have plenty of vegetables and fruit and daily doses of cod liver off. Cod liver oil is the best substitute for sunlight and produces much the same effect on the body as the actinic ray in sunlight." The GAZETTE The GAZETTE PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY SUBSCRIPTION RATES (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 HARRY C. SMITH Editor and Proprietor THE GAZETTE 226 W. Superior Ave., Cleveland, O. (Bell Phone: Cherry 1259) 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-TEST AND BEST in the country. 10,000,000 Afro-Americans. 850,000 in Ohio. 40,000 in Cleveland. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1025 Eva Gauthier's wonderful tribute to Fisk Jubilee Singers, republished elsewhere in The Gazette today, will thrill all of the race who read it, particularly those who ca recall the "Fisk" artists of years ago, such as Frederick L. Loudin, Patti Malone and scores of others. --- Gary, Ind. has three Afro-American councilmen, two "jim crow" and several mixed schools. Those "councilmen" are apparently about as useless, as far as the best interests of our people of that community are concerned, as is Cleveland's "Negro" councilman. Gov. Angus W. McLean of North Carolina says in the Hampton (Va.) Southern Workman that "there is no longer a real race problem in the South". If he really meant that, our only wonder is that he did not drop dead after writing it. Perhaps the meant to say that there was not one but many. --- Alice Beatrice Jones Rhinelander's recent victory in the legal fight with her husband, Leonard Kip Rhinelander, who was seeking to annul their marriage, certainly did not please New York City reporters. Their slurs since, ever referring repeatedly to her "alley home in New Rochelle, N. Y., off Pelham Rd." show just how bitter was the pill they had to "gulp down" when the Rhinelander case jury rendered its verdict. Too bad, isn't it? --- According to local daily newspapers, Manager McGraw of the N. Y. "Giants" has signed, as a player for next year or the year following, a Cleveland lad by the name of Andy Cohen. As the name indicates, Andy is a Jew. We shall watch this latest move of McGraw's with a deal of interest because if he "goes thru with this deal", as we sincerely hope he will, it will be a long stride toward knocking down racial prejudice in organized baseball, especially in the big leagues. How the N. Y. kluxers and others of their kidney will take it, we will soon learn. All we hope is that Manager McGraw will "stand his ground" and make them like it. --- Benjamin Giltlow, Communist leader, speaking in New York City, Sunday, to about 2500 followers who crowded the Central Opera house, advocated "a union of foreign industrial and farm workers in America together with the Negro population to overthrow the government of Wall Street". The meeting was called by the Workers' Communist party to celebrate the Russian revolutions of 1825 and 1905 and Giltlow's recent pardon Smith. Gitlow was "a political prisoner", it seems. "Wall Street's" domination of Coolidge and the government ought to be ended, it is true, but not in the way advocated by Communists of the Gitlow kind. The people must wake up and do what it did not know it was doing when Roosevelt was elected President. For during the life of his administration was the only time for many, many years that "big business", known also as "Wall Street", did not dominate our government. Afro-Americans in any considerable number are not going to join the American "reds" or "pinks" of the Gitlow "stripe", even if Prof. "Alphabetical" DuBois and a few of his close friends of color do "flirt" with them and quietly preach a certain kind of "socialism" or something akin. "Nope", Messrs. Gitlow, DuBois and others, the Afro-American will not "union" with foreign industrial and farm-workers "to revolt" and, if possible, "overthrow the government" of this country, regardless of what was done "in Russia in 1825 and 1905". Subscribe Now "WHITE AND BLACK REVUE!" Jack Reid's "record breakers", thirty-five whites and thirty-five Afro-American "speed-demons", the latter headed by Drake & Walker, open at the Columbia theater, Sunday afternoon. This is really two big shows with much of the very best talent on the road. There is too, an extra attraction in Frances Parks, the "Charleston Shimmie", and an extra feature, and a free band concert in front of the theater twice daily. Reid's "White and Black Revue" give an unexcelled entertainment, snappy and most pleasing indeed. Such singing and dancing one is not often privileged to hear and see and there is plenty of it. Do not fail to get to the Columbia often, next week, and tell your friends and acquaintances about the "White and Black Revue". Another One "Blacked Up". A lone hand raided the Cleveland Heights residence of Charles E. Farnsworth, vice-president of the Union Trust Co., and held up the banker and his wife at the dinner table, taking money and jewelry valued at $1,640. Though the bold raid was staged at the dinner hour, last week Tuesday night, news of the crime was suppressed by Cleveland Helights police until Friday, when Farnsworth, the robber, made an appearance in his manner, "blacked up" and wearing a khaki mechanic's jumper and a blue bandana handkerchief for a mask, made his entrance to the home thru the kitchen by pretending to Susan McWherter, a maid, that he had a package to deliver to the banker. At first glance the man appeared to be a "colored" man (he was "colored" airight), but there was a suspicious blackness about his face and his eyes bluish in color, with the fact noticeable white rings showed about his eyes showed conclusively that he had purposely blackened his face to disguise himself. Charged With Murder! Emanuel Ross, jointly indicted with King Young for the murder of Isidore Steeck in his store at 2214 Central Ave. several weeks ago during a robbery, will go on trial in criminal court on Jan. 11. Young will be tried a week later. James P. Mooney and Councilman Herman Ross, and Wm. Corrigan and Hon. Harry E. Davis were selected as attorneys for Young. County Prosecutor Stanton and his assistant, Selmo Glenn, a prosecutor both named, wasn't one of our attorneys assigned to help defend Ross in place of either Finkle or Mooney? Mrs. Ida Brown Cash, E. 36th St. left, Thursday, for Chicago to spend a part of the holiday season with her cousin, Mrs. Sadie Cisco Bolden, of 5326 Prairie Ave. CORRESPONDENTS WANTED! "The Old Reliable" Gazette desires an active agent and correspondent in every city and town in Ohio and neighboring states having a number of Afro-American residents. Only a little time on Fridays or Saturdays is required. We are especially desirous of hearing from persons in the following named cities: Springfield, Columbus, Toledo, Steubenville, Zanesville, Wilmington, Xenia, Washington C. H., Lancaster, Hamilton, Plaqu, Lima, O., and other places, particularly in Ohio, where we have 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. "WORTH ITS WEIGHT IN COLD!" GOLD, Aug. 28th, 1925. Cleveland, Aug. 28th, 1925. Hon. Harry G. Smith, Editor, Gazette, Cleveland, O. Dear Friend: I have read the latest copy of The Gazette through and after reading it. I can truthfully say: It is worth reading it. I admire manhood—a man who, seeing injustice and oppression, dares, within the limits of the law, to expose it and, if possible smite it. 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Miss Dorothy, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Geo. A. Myers, is organizing an orchestra for Mt. Zion Cong, church. She is instructor of music in Columbia school. Our voters of the fourth district are said to have effected a permanent organization with Rev. B. K. Smith as president and Jarrett Chavous, manager. Mrs. A. James and two small sons, Richard and Alfred, left, last week, to spend the holidays with her mother-in-law, and sister, Jessie E. Jones, in Chicago. Antioch choir at its recital. Sunday evening, rendered selections from Handel's "Messiah" and other Christmas music. Prof. Wm. Henderson, director. Mrs. Robert Turner, E. 103rd St., entertained, recently, at turkey THE GEEVUM UM-TA-TA! UM-TA-TA! WHY DON'T YOU AND BUY THE HORRIBLE H FINE!...THE I CAN THE IT IN THE ASH CAN *Open, Sundays. *M. KLEIMAN'S 2928 Central Ave. BENJ. AKERS', 3519 Central Ave. *THE S. & S. 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Brooks, well-known member of the Reserve weedy squad, was awarded his letter at the annual banquet at Park Lane Villa, last week. He proved a valuable member notwithstanding this was his first year on the squad. Mrs. E. F. Montgomery, E. $5th St., recently attended the funeral, in Chicago, of her brother, Corporal Charles Alexander, famous tuba player of the Eighth Ill. Reg. band. He was a World War veteran and served on the Mexican border. Richard C. Washington, postal clerk, and Martha Martinez, daughter of a well-to-do Spaniard, a lobacoco dealer in Argentine, S. A., were married, recently. Mrs. Washington is visiting an aunt in Camden, N. J., until March. Charles H. Clay, father of Mrs. W. T. Blue, Jr., died in Springfield, recently. She was at his bedside when he passed out, having left Cleveland immediately after the funeral of Mrs. W. T. Blue, Sr. Her husband accompanied her. Bishop Geo C. Clement, of Louisville, Ky., preached, Sunday morning, at St. Paul's Zion A. M. E. church to a large and appreciative audience, the new pastor of St. Paul's, as able and progressive, and the churchmembers have already begun to see one good results of the same. St. Mark's choir gave its 21st recital, Sunday evening. Among those on the program were: Mary Harris, soprano; Marguerite Sanford, Dr. W. P. Saunders, Marion O. Garner, cornetist, and Augustus Grist, baritone. The choir will sing the Christmas portion of "The Heavenly Vision", Sunday evening; C. H. Ambrose, director. Louia Vaughn Jones, from far away 58 Rue La Bruyere, Paris, France, sends Christmas and New Year's greetings to all of his friends. His parents, Mr. and Mrs. L. S. Jones, E. 101st St., add thelers, and announce that he intends to spend the summer season at home there in Cleveland. This will be most welcome news to Loula's host of local friends and acquaintances. Mrs. Nell C. Ransom, pupil of Mme. Adelina Belloni, was presented as a solistor (tenor) at Antioch Baptist church, Sunday morning, Prof. Wm. Henderson, accompanist. She sang spirituals, arranged by Hugo Frey of New York, and during the holidays will appear at the Unity center, Huron Rd., as a solist, being presented by Ann Whitcomb Fairfield, president of the center. The N. A. A. C. P. local branch re-elected the following officers, recently: Clayborne George, pres; M GIRLS UM-TA-TA UM-TA-TA! GO UP AT BURN, DAD! EN HOW ONE IS W THE WE'RE INF THE GAZETTE, CLEVIN AND, O. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1025 The FIRST and ONLY Cab Company Owned and Operated by OUR GROUP in the State of Ohio. IT EARNESTLY SOLICITS YOUR PATRONAGE. JACK REID'S Record Breakers and "WHITE AND BLACK REVUE" Two Big Shows In One Including The Following Sam Micals Joe Melina Chas. H. Mackie Lilliyan Edbrooke Betty Lee Frank Scopnell Pearl and Bonnie, Replica of the Duncan Sisters. Extra Added Feature—Ferry—18—Kewpie Dolls—18 EXTRA ATTRACTION—FRANCIS P ARKS—"CHARLESTON SHIMMIE" FREE BAND CONCERT IN FRONT OF THEATRE TWICE DAILY Big MidNite Show New Years Eve., Dec.31st, 11:30P.M. SeatsNowonSale Eleanor Alexander, vice-pres; S. P. Keeleb, sec.; Bertha Blue, assist; Ed. P. Jackson, treas. the executive board; C. M. Dabney, R. W. Jellife, F. E. Young, Mrs. H. E. Davis, Albert Miles, D. H. Pierce, Wm. R. Green, Dr. W. S. Biggs and H. S. Chauncey. The presentation of the T. R. Churchill memorial portrait of Jack Trice to E. Tech High school was made at recent auditorium.exercises of the school. Jack was a member of the Carpenter eleven of E. Tech, which won many victories in 1920 and 1921. He died as a result of injuries sustained in a football game in Iowa in 1922, playing tackle. Mrs. Ella Bardwell Collyer, a member of Cory M. E. church, whose death, recently, was quite sudden, left three sons, Ambrose, Edgar and Penola; four daughters, Mrs. Edw, Green, Mrs. Hugh White, Mrs. Hunley and Eva May, a brother of Bardwell, two sisters, Mrs. Clay, wife of Rev. N. R. Clay, and Mrs. Finley. Another sister, Mrs. C. J. Sayles-Slimkins, died over two years ago; a son, Excell, last year, and her husband, in July. "Her gain is our loss". St. John's choir will give its December Sunday recital, tomorrow from 4 to 5 p. m. Special numbers from Handel's "Messiah" and other music will feature. Carroll Scott, chorister, is becoming popular among all the churches of the city. Recently, the choir sang at a Lakewood church, one of the largest in what will dermere M. E. church. Last week, Tuesday evening, it sang at the interracial meeting in Masonic auditorium. Sixteen children of our group broadcasted, recently, over the Union Trust station, WEAR. Piano solos by Zonolia, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Zonolia, and the other two others, duet by Bernice and Fay Crowler, recitation by Juana Thom- CALL, RANDOLPH 3280. "SERVICE", OUR MOTTO. as, violin selections by four boys and songs by nine little girls. Zenobia announced the "Good night". The same children appeared, the next evening, at the Park theater, for poor children. The piano numbers were rendered by students of Mrs. Kathleen H. Forbes. The Cedar "Y" has arranged an exceptional holiday program—Dec. 20 to Jan. 1. It will be interesting to all, young and old. The Mothers' club will install and decorate a Xmas tree, Thursday evening, when the Hi "Y" club and our local Musical Association will sing carols. Xmas day, the "Y" will be closed. Saturday, the boys participate in a tournament at the West Side "Y". In the evening, the Survey club will entertain in the gymnasium and the Studio Club, convene in the dining-room, Open house, New Year's day. Tea will be served and a musical given by our local Musical Association. Mrs. Mary Martin's talk, Thursday afternoon, on "The Modern Method of Rearing Children", was very interesting and instructive. The editor of The Gazette acknowledges the receipt of Christmas and New Year's greetings from Mrs. S. J. Brooks of Fowler, Col., Mrs. Cora L. Campbell, 945 E. 11th St., Los Angeles, Cal.; Mr. and Mrs. Floyd J. Williams of Baltimore, all former residents of Columbus; D. C. Miss Dorothy Pohle of Chicago, Col. Charles W. Fillmore of New York City, former resident of Springfield and Columbus, this state; Mr. and Mrs. Herbert L. Taylor, E. 90th St., this city; Mr. Jim Shield of the popular Spritz Co., this city; A. A. Jackson, Jr., editor of The Inter-State Tattler, N. Y. The Supreme Life & Casual Life Co., Columbus, Ohio; Mr. and Mrs. C. J. Walker Mfg. Co., Indianapolis; Mr. and Mrs. W. T. Grant of Pleasantville, N. J., former Clevelanders, and many others. Dr. Leroy N. Bundy.....President Juriman C. Hudson.....Secretary Dr. I. B. Scott.....Vice-President Major W. T. Anderson...Treasurer 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 ```markdown ``` NATURAL HAIR WIGS Switches, Transformations, Curls, Cluster Puffs, Hair Nets, Straightening Combs and Everything in Hair Goods, WIGS MADE TO YOUR MEASURE Free Catalog Sent on Request ALEX MARKS SEGREGATION AN OUTRAGE! COOLIDGE PERMITS IT! How Our Men And Women Are Insulted And Humiliated In the Government's Departments—Will the Self and Race-Respecting Negro Press of This Country Continue to Stand for This Sort of Thing? (Special to The Gazette.) Washington, D. C., Oct. 4, 1924.—There is more segregation in Washington today under President Coolidge than there has ever been since the Civil War. The beginning of segregation were under President Taft. It was nearly 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. 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. It hurried a protest to the postmaster general the day before it was come off, and he ordered the postmaster to invite the colored as well as the white. These clerks go around their colored co-workers by giving the function at a local hotel. It is inevitable that the wicked spirit of segregation would express To many people, segregation is a Democratic scheme of insult, but such is not the case. Mr. Taft introduced it in the bureau of engraving. He segregated the census in this city in 1910, restricting white workers to a small number, and black workers often duplicating work as many blocks had white and black residents. And, worst of all, announced in his official capacity that Negroes should not hold office where white people complained. Segregation, then, is a Republican institution and not a Democratic one it was begun by Republicans, and all-embracing exponents by Republican! There is far more of it in the departments, today, than at any time since the Negro first appeared, close upon the close of the Civil War. The picture requirement in the civil service, which makes it next to impossible for a colored lady or gentleman to enter the civil service, since their color is disclosed in their photograph which must accompany their papers, is tomaciously held by our Republican President. Only last week, a colored lady appeared after having the best examination, 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 Mellon and President Coolidge. North Carolina, the home of the other favorite and leader of the segregationist 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 so. He would stand for unfolded 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 "welcome home" in the Republican party, and receives no condemnation from the Republican President. (Special to The Gazette.) Washington, D. C.—In the postoffice segregation is rampant. The faithful colored clerks work under constant humiliation and physical disadvantages. The department maintains a spacious cafeteria for whites only, where these inferior white clerks can buy appetizing lunches and chat in comfort while eating, while the colored clerks must bring cold luncheons from home and eat them any place they can. The physical discomfort, disadvantageous as it is, is far less galling to the colored clerks than is the thought of their government taking their taxes, as it takes those of the whites, for the comfort of the latter, and setting them off as though they were the poor. The injustice, all the more when they reflect that they are far 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 the people. In the reception rooms there is segregation and segregation is even segregated 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 send a message as the white. These clerks get around their colored co-workers by giving the function at a local hotel. It is inevitable that the wicked spirit of segregation would express itself in appointments, assignments, and salaries. Colored applicants are often passed over though their examination was superior. No Negro, however efficient or old in the service, must ever dream of a promotion to a directive position. The hard, unyielding caste passes whites over him, one after another, though many of the colored employees have won contests in quickness and accuracy in the handling of mail. The colored clerks have dared to union which means regularly and often sends many and intelligent appeals 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 to meet the employees who go but there are no employees 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 bares prominence. Here, hasasab hasasab, inferior, who pass over our superior employees to directive positions, and higher salaries. The whites have a large recreational center in this public building with many fine appointments for rest and amusements. During lunch and dinner hours they repair to this restful retreat for sociability and dance. Last fall, a young Afro-American with a splendid record in his work, felt the injustice of this exclusion of our employees keenly that we were not being 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 carried a pistol. Right after the dance incident a fire broke out in the office. He was quickly accused of setting the building afire in revenge for his exclusion from the dance floor. Detectives came to the building to arrest him, and falling to secure any evidence searched him only to discover the pistol. They quickly dropped the arson charge and substituted one for carrying concealed weapons for which he was immediately discharged. The unavailment our employees are taught is no way of escape for one who dares to resent the daily insults that their government (under President Coolidge) gives them. Many of the employees have expressed their deeply-wounded feelings to me at being considered a pariah by the government whose institutions they are serving so faithfully, and I have taken up a number of cases only to be met by a denial that the conditions complained of exist, and a request for the names of informants, knew the fate these informants could suffer, have never given a single answer! The department 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 GAZETI B. CLK SATURDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1025. tried upon it, and the individual bear witness to the fact. (Special to The (tazette) 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 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 woman of color." Oversighted 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 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 was and came down to attack White House Cabinets and arouse our people, and the Nation Association secured publicity in over six hundred influential white papers in the country. The fight checked what was thought to be the intention of the segregators, namely, the elimination of the colored employees from the bureau altogether. The same segregation which some of our people think is the cherished institution of the Democratic party is still there, in all of its fullness, under the administration of the party that Abraham Lincoln, Charles Sumner and Frederick Douglass are helped to found. Our girls are employed there in far larger numbers than in any other branch of the public service. THEY ARE SEGRETE the teachers they teach 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 these inferior positions, the insignificant of segregation of people are with us, 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 gentius 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, the colin'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 corporation was! The present head of the department of internal revenue, Mr. Blair from North Carolina, has not appointed a colored clerk since his incumbency. While his predecessor, Mr. Daniel Roper, a Democrat from Texas, appointed and promoted several of them. Since the income tax legislation and the numberless new taxes that the recent war necessitated, this is by far the largest department of the treasury, employing several thousand clerks. Yet Negroes are so scarce there that they can't be noticed. There is the same complaint, here among our clerks and our employees, that is in the other branches of the government—failure to recognize their efficiency to promote their due ability to go so far and no further. The various forms of segregation exist here as well as elsewhere—the restaurants closed or divided along color lines, and special toilets, 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 deserve 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 so claltse 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 registrarians 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 segregant or elimination, and being with them in this southern atmosphere, must take the former. They are depressed at the wrong, but economic stress compels endurance of it. By a single stroke of his pen, President Calvin Coolidge can stop every bit of this damnable segregation, just as he can condemn that lawless organization the Ku Klux Klan. COOLIDGE'S SEGREGATION Washington, D.C.—We wish to call attention to the fact that in the fight against the segregation of our government employees, the Treasury Department will most likely be the center of attack, for segregation in several of its bureaus has been most pronounced. This is particularly true of the office of the register of the treasury and the internal revenue bureau. In the former, beaver board walls were maintained until recently. In the latter there have been two cases of discrimination on account of color brought to public view. The words, announcing the election of President Coolidge, were hardly cold before the effort to increase segregation in the departments here was on again at full speed. It had allowed up a little during the campaign. Investigation of Burcus An investigation of the executive departments and bureaus listed below shows that segregation prevails in them as follows: P. O. Separate Lunch Room Post Office Department—a segregated lunch room. 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. The officials of Shaker Heights village, not satisfied with having loss 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 appeal the case to the court to 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 persistently want 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 custom" (Calvin Coolidge) of the South. CHARACTER. Character, like a fine old tree, matures slowly and is a riper growth than success that is forced as hothouse products are forced. Character in a newspaper develops through years of service to the people. For forty-two years The Gazette has been serving our people of this country. It has gathered a reader clientele whose tastes it reflects and whose power and interests to buy are direct measures of its present trapor- ture to every advertiser. EDUCOR 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. "Serious injury" defined. 6280. Damages in case of assault. 6281. Damages in case of lynching. 6282. Damages recoverable by legal representative of victim of lynching. 6283. Person suffering death or injury by mob trying to lynch another. 6284. Limitations of action. 6285. Order to include recovery and costs in tax levy. 6286. Guardian's custody, etc., fees. 6287. County's right of action against member of mob. 6288. County's right of action against another county. 6289. Non-relief from prosecution. Our mob-violence or anti-lynching bill was introduced in the Ohio legislature in 1834 and re-introduced in 1896. It took the Hon. Harry C. Smith, editor of The Gazette, just three years to secure its enactment into law. The Ohio Supreme Court has several times upheld the constitutionality of the law and it has Section 6278. A collection of people assembled for an unlawful purpose and intending to do damage or injury to any one, or pretending to exercise correctional power over other persons by violence and without authority of law, shall be described as "for the purpose of this chapter." An act of violence by a mob upon the body of any person shall constitute a "lyching" within the meaning of this chapter. (93 v. 161 2.) Section 6279. The term "serious injury," for the purpose of this chapter, shall include such injury as permanently or temporarily disables the person receiving it from earning a payable by manual labor. (93 v. 161 2.) Section 6280. A person taken from officers of justice by a mob, and assaulted with whips, clubs, missiles or in any other manner, may recover, as hereafter provided, a sum not to exceed one thousand dollars as damages from the county in which such assault is made (§ 93 v. 1, 4, 1). Section 6281. A person assaulted and lynched by a mob may recover, from the county in which such assault is made a sum not to exceed five hundred dollars; or, if the injury received therefrom is serious, a sum not exceeding one thousand dollars; or, if such injury result in persecution by manual labor, a sum not to exceed five thousand dollars. (§ 93 v. 162 5.) Section 6232. The legal representative of a person dying from injuries received from lynching by a mob may recover of the county in which such injury occurred, a sum not to exceed five thousand dollars damages for such unlawful killing. Such sum shall be applied to the maintenance of the family and education of the minor children of such person so lynched. if any survive him, until such children are of legal age, and then be distributed to the survivors, share and share alike, the widow receiving an amount equal to a child's share. If there be no widow or minor children surviving such decedent, such sum shall be distributed to the laws of the distribution of the personality of an intestate. Such sum so recovered shall not be a part of the estate of such person so lynched, nor be subject to any of his liabilities. (93 v 162 6.) Section 6223. A person suffering death or injury from a mob attempting to lynch another person shall come within the provisions of this chapter. He or his legal representatives shall have a like right of action as one purposely injured or killed by such a mob. (93 v 162 6.) Section 6224. Action for the recoveries provided for in this chapter must be commenced, within two years from the date of such lynching. In any court having original jurisdiction of an action for damages for malicious assault. (93 v 162 7.) Section 6285. An order to the commissioners of a county, against which such recovery is had, to include it with the costs of action, in the next succeeding tax levy for such county, shall be a part of the judgment in every such case. (93 v. 162 8.) Section 6282. If the decedent so lynched has minor children surviving him, the fund shall be turned over to a regularly appointed guardian. Such guardian shall administer such fund under the direction of the probate judge, allowing not more than five hundred dollars for counsel fees in the action for such recovery. (93 v. 162 9.) Section 6287. The county, in which a lynching occurs, may recover the amount of a judgment and costs against it in favor of the legal representatives of a person killed or seriously injured by a mob from any of the persons composing such mob. A person present, with hostile intent, at such lynching shall be deemed a member of the mob and be liable to such action. (93 v. 162 10.) Section 6288. If a mob carries a prisoner into another county, or comes from another county to com- been very effective. Illinois, Pennsylvania and New Jersey have followed Ohio's lead and enacted mob violence or anti-lynching laws which are copies of our Ohio law. Several other northern states and at least one border state (Kentucky) have also enacted anti-lynching laws, in recent years, like Pennsylvania and New Jersey. The Ohio law follows: IBS. ed. f. representative of victim of lynchingury by mob trying to lynch another and costs in tax levy. s. last member of mob. nst another county. mit violence on a prisoner brought from such county for safekeeping, the county in which the lynching is committed may recover the amount of the judgment and costs from the county from which the mob came gence on the part of officials of such county, imprisoned not less than thirty days county in failing to protect such prisoner or dispurse such mob (93 v. 168 11.) Section 6289. This chapter shall not relieve a person concerned in such lynching from prosecution for homicide or assault for engaging therein. (93 v. 163 12.) OUR OHIO CIVIL RIGHTS LAW Upon the request or many readers of The Gazette we print below the text of the Hon. Harry C. Smith's book Civil Rights law which the editor had cancled while a member of the 71st General Assembly, in 1894: The General Code of Ohio: Sec. 12940. Whoever, being the proprietor or his employee, keeper or manager of an inn, restaurant, eating house, bar-sharer, public convenience by land or water, theater or other place of public accommodation and amusement, denies to a citizen except for reasons applicable alike to all citizens and regardless of race or color, the full enjoyment of the accommodations, advantages, facilities or privileges thereof, shall be fined not less than fifty dollars nor more than five hundred dollars, or not more than ninety days, or both the next preceding season. Whoever violates the not less than fifty dollars shall also not less than fifty dollars to the person aggrieved thereby to be recovered in any court of competent jurisdiction in the county where such offense was committed. This law has repeatedly been held constitutional and good law by the Ohio Supreme court. The trouble is our people will not use it as often as they should, but expect it to do for them what they should and must do for themselves, under it, in the courts. Judge Grant's Opinion of the Law. Mislied by the foolishly manufactured outcyre for the passage of the Beaty bill, a few years ago, the Akron Beacon Journal published an editorial to which the editor of The Gazette replied, calling its attention to he fact that the Ohio Civil Rights law was good law and did not need amendments following letter from Judge Grant former presiding judge of the Court of Appeals of the Eighth District of Ohio, is self explanatory: Akron, G., April 25, 1919. Hon. Harry C. Smith. Editor The Gazette, Cleveland, O. My Dear St: Observing your letter, the Beacon-Journal, of this literary, I to send you, under a separate cover, the porter of Feb. 3, last, containing the opinion of the Court of Appeals in the Puritan Lunch Co. vs. Leonard H. Forman, decided in Akron, last fall, in which a judgment for ($500) five hundred dollars was sustained, if the Beacon-Journal had known that was going on in its own town, there was no occasion for criticism editorially. OF OHIO IS UNDER NO RE- PROACH, nor our courts and juries, in administering it. Not a word was said by the Beacon-Journal when the Forman case was reviewed. Our advertisers want your trade. Those who do not ask for it in the columns of "The Old Reliable" Gazette 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. uplication! Reading it, B er Reading Small Man Chastised by Big Woman Only Entitled to Sympathy, Judge Rules. THE WIFE IS GRANTED FREEDOM Jurist Refuses to Hear Testimony That Mother Smoked Before Children. Los Angeles, Cal.-Declaring that a woman may smoke cigarettes and still be entrusted with the care of her children and that a man of fragile proportions, who is chastised by a wife of Amazonian statue, is entitled to sympathy, but not a divorce, Judge Monroe adjusted the marital difficulties between Fred Shunko, wealthy furniture manufacturer, and Sarah Shunko. A decree was given to Mrs. Shunko as a personal gift from the court, but not on either of the above grounds, which were the basis of the complaint brought by her husband. Judge Monroe also took the custody of the two little daughters from both parents and will consign them to some guardian or institution. Here was the burden of the husband's complaint: That his wife, whose form is molded on heroic lines, frequently beat him. That she chased him armed with a pair of sclessors and threatened to impale him. That she smoked cigarettes and abused him in the presence of their little daughter. To which the wife retorted: To which the wife recited: That her husband was habitually intemperate and that her demonstrations against him were deserved. Shunko took the witness stand and attempted to relate his marital woes. He produced three cartridges which, he said, he had taken from a revolver with which his wife had threatened to shoot him; also, he produced the fragments of a watch which, he said, she had seized and stamped on, and as proof of the charge that she had chased him with a pair of shears he exhibited the shears. "Also tell the court about your wife's smoking cigarettes," said Mr. Shunko's attorney. "I don't want to hear it," said Judge Morroe. "I will never grant a divorce or take a woman's children away because she happens to smoke cigarettes," he said. "That seems to have become somewhat of a custom among certain rich and idle women and the canons of society do not invigilate against a woman's privilege of smoking. If rich women may smoke I cannot forbid a poor woman from doing so; therefore, let us hear no more about cigarettes." The court listened sympathetically to Shunko's recital of his woes, and then "Under the law neither is entitled to a divorce on the evidence presented. However, I won't ask either to live longer with the other and will award a decree to the wife. From what the court has learned I don't think either is fit to raise these little girls. Therefore I will take them from the custody of both parents." CLOSE CALL FOR MERRYMAKERS Incident Revives Talk About Dangerous Railroad Crossings. Leslie, Mich.—There are three very dangerous railroad crossings in this village, points where all view of approaching trains is obstructed by buildings. Two persons have been killed and there have been frequent narrow escapes. The latest "close call" might have been a shocking affair. Lee Rivard was driving a merry party to town Friday evening to attend doings at Odd Fellows' Hall. When near the railroad tracks on Mill street they were laughing and having a good time and forgot about the trains and tracks until one of them suddenly screamed. "The cars." The horses were on the track and RIVARD shouted to them. The horses jumped forward and the sleigh just cleared the track when the engine went whizzing by. Three of the occupants were thrown from the back of the sleigh, and the suction of the train almost pulled them under. Something should be done to safeguard these dangerous crossings. FAMILY RANGE BLOWN TO BITS Woman Unhurt by Nearly Two Hundred Flying Milesian Middletown, Pa.—Though fragments of an exploding kitchen stove few past, her in all directions as she was seated at a sewing machine, not three feet away, Mrs. Emmanuel D. Bamberger not only had a marvelous escape from death in the dining room of her home, at Highspire, but did not suffer even so much as a scratch. Fragments, numbering nearly 200, of what once was a beautiful No. 9 range were showered through the air like shrapnel.