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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. 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. Blanton, Mrs. Irene Redman of Circleville and Ludlow Woods.—Andrew Johnson was se justly ill, this week.—Mrs. C. M. Granston is better.—Miss Virginalne Baxton has returned to Detroit. She spent the holidays with her parents.—Mrs. Bernadine Trimble entertained Rev. W. Green at dinner. New Year's day.—Mr. and Mrs. Charles Colter were guests of Mrs. H. Carlisle, the latter's mother, in Jamestown, Christmas. Mrs. Colter remained for a visit, returning Saturday.—Mrs. Donald Highwarden was her boss.—LT on New York, Bright Christmas decorations added attractiveness to the rooms and music was furnished by an orchestra.—Miss Lillian Harewood left, Monday, for Wilberforce University.—Squire Willis and son returned from Cleveland, Sat. CADIZ.—Miss Bessie Glenn has returned from Columbus where she spent her vacation.—Mr. and Mrs. G. Hughes of Hopedale were Cadiz visitors, last week.—Word was received, Tuesday, of the death of Mrs. Estella Hawkins of Mt. Pleasant.—Mr. Melvin Christian has returned to Washington, D. C. He visited his parents.—Mrs. Wm. Redmond of Harrisville made a business trip to Cadiz. Friday.—A number of the younger set were at Smithfield, Thursday evening, to a house party.—The choir of St. James A. M. E. church gave the cantata, "The Carpenter of Nazareth"; to an appreciative audience.—Mr. Moore lodge gave its annual banquet, New Year's night. A number of visitors were present.—The social event of the holiday season was the dinner-party given by the Greenleaf club at the A. M. E. parsonage, New Year's afternoon. HILMSBORO.—Mrs. John Williams, Jr., Mr. and Mrs. Donald Highwarden and Barrett Williams were dinner-guests of Rev. and Mrs. James A. Young, Christmas. The entertainments at the Baptist church last week, were successes. Rev. R. L. Bray has begun revival services. Rev. L. H. Coleman, state evangelist, of Kentucky, preached two executions. Rev. A. Arthur Kittrell entertained at the dinner, Dec. 27, Mr. and Mrs. John Day, Mr. and Mrs. Isaac Hudson and family, Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Rickman and family, Mr. and Mrs. James ALICE CELEBRATES! New Rochelle, N. Y. —Fourteen persons, half white and half colored, sat down to dinner at the Jones home here, Christmas, helping Mrs. Alice Beatrice Jones-Rhinelander to celebrate her recent court victory over her husband, Kip. Singing, phonograph and radio featured the party. Among those to dine were Mr. and Mrs. Robert Brooks, Alice's sister and her colored butler husband; Mr. and Mrs. Grace Miller, Alice's other sister and her Italian husband; her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Jones, and a number of friends and relatives, of both races. Late in the afternoon the guests went for an automobile ride, using three large cars and Kip's gift to Alice, a sporty roadster. $50 000 Gift for Hospital $50,000 Gift for Hospital Greensboro, C. Mrs. L. R. Richardson (Urbide), Mrs. L. Richardson, has offered to donate $50,000 for the establishment here of a hospital for our people, contingent upon this city and county (Guilford), providing maintenance. It is said that the city officials have agreed and the county commissioners will take up the matter at an early date. Mrs. Sternberger. (white), of this city, gave $10,000 for laboratory equipment and our people will raise a like amount for beds and other equipment. Says His Wife Is a "Negro." New Orleans, La.—Charging that his wife, Mrs. Hazel Ray Bush, is of "Negro" ancestry, Joe Bush has filed for divorce and asked that their two sons, age 4 years and 18 months, respectively, be declared illegitimate. Joe Bush has filed upon the damphool Louisiana law that prohibits inter-marriage. Bush just discovered that his wife is a "Negro," the petition states. "Link's" Widow Given Job. Washington, D. C.—Mrs. Georgia Douglass Johnson, widow of the late Henry Lincoln Johnson, Republican National Committeeman from Georgia, has been given an appointment by Secretary of Labor James J. Da Blanton, Mrs. Irene Redman of Circleville and Ludlow Woods—Andrew Johnson was seiously ill, this week. Mrs. C. M. G. Maragston is better. Miss Vigalinea Haxton has returned to Detroit. She spent the holidays with her parents. Mrs Bernadine Trimble entertained Rev W. Green and Dina Hinton. Mrs M.-M. and Charles Colter were guests of Mrs H. Carlisle, the latter's mother, in Jamestown, Christmas. Mrs. Colter remained for a visit, returning Saturday. Mrs. Donald Highwarden was hostess to 17 on New Year's eve. Bright Christmas decorations added attractiveness to the rooms and music was furnished by an orchestra. Miss Lillian Harwood left, Monday, for Wilberforce University. Squire Willis and son returned to school Saturday to pay the holidays to the former's sister. Curry Donaldson of Columbus spent Xmas with his mother here. ROXABELL. — Rev. J. J. Burr preached ably, Sunday, at the Second Baptist church, the music was excellent and the congregation large. Mrs. Williams was again with us.—Sidney F. Jones' funeral was conducted at Frankfort hall by Rev. S. H. Williams, assisted by Rev. Burr. He died in Columbus, Dec. 31. A widow, two sons, two brothers and other relatives survive him and have the heartfelt sympathy of the community. One of the sons is a doctor, the other an electrician and a teacher. He is the best school-teachers in Ross county. The deceased, age 72, was a credit to the race. His mother, age 95, was able to attend the funeral of her youngest child.—Mr. and Mrs. S. Miller of Circleville and Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Brooks of Columbus were guests of Mr. and Mrs. Al Byrd.—Undertaker Whittaker of Columbus brought the remains of Mr. Jones here.—Mrs. W. Holley of Mansfield attended her uncle's funeral, visiting her father over Sunday.—Rev. and Mrs. Williams have returned from a visit with her parents in Cincinnati and Mrs. Albert Williams entertained Mrs. Sam Brewer New Year's day. Mr. Harry Byrd of Chillicothe dined with them, Saturday.—The revival opened, Jan. 3. to continue ten days.—Rev. Wilbur Jones preached at Bloomingburg, today. TUSKEGEE'S "LYNCH" REPORT Differs From That of the N. A. A. C. P. by Two—Less than Half of Those Lynch-Murdered Even Charged With Rape. Tuskegee, Ala. — According to Prof. Monroe N. Work, head of the department of record and research Tuskegee N. Work, head of the department of record and research Two of the victims lynched in 1925 Two of the victims were insane. Three others had been formally released by the courts! Ten of the persons lynched were taken from the hands of the law, 2 from jails and 8 from officers of the law outside of jails. Two of those lynched were burned at the stake and one was put to death and body burned. All were "Negroes." Six or less than one-half of those put to death were charged on rape or attempted rape. The rape, 4; attempted rape, 2; killing office of the law, 2; attacking child, 1; insulting woman, 1. The number lynched in each state: Alabama, 1; Arkansas, 1; Florida, 2; Georgia, 2; Louisiana, 1; Mississippi, 6; Missouri, 1; Utah, 1; Virginia, 1. Flays the American Press PLAYS THE MERCERIES. New York City. A passion for money-making, the exclusion of the highest ideals of journalism, is ruining new-papers in the oignion of Don C. Seitz, who has resigned from the World to become an associate editor and member of the board of directors of the Outlook. His article expressing this view is printed in the current issue of the latter publication and is the first of a series on "The American Press." It has the subtitle, "The Palladium of Our Liberties; Is It Cracked?" The Opposite of Alice and Kin PRIME SPORT NEWS KLUXERS DISBAND! Branding the K. K. K. as a National "Menace"—The New Haven "Kloncil" Takes This Action. New Haven, Conn.—Charging that the miserable Ku Klux Klan is a "national menace" which "can never be redeemed," Arthur J. Mann, former klgraph (secretary) of Provisional Klan, No. 1, of New Haven, announces the dissolution of the local chapter. In two letters, one to the press and the other to Walter F. Rossett of Indianapolis, imperial kleatiff (vice president), Knights of the Ku Klux Klan of Georgia, Inc., Mann "roasts" the order. About 600 members were affected by the decision to disband. The council of New Haven Klansmen, on Dec. 22, decided that the objects of the order were such "that Ned Haveners who were self-respecting Protestants and good citizens of the United States could no longer maintain." In the letter to the press Mann charges that the Klan is "entirely in the hands of one man. Standardized after his type, it (the Klan) has become moronic. Its psychology is bad and it has become not only un-American, but anti-American." The K. K. K. is slow, but surely disintegrating—dying—in all parts of the country. Theorem 1.1.1 The Sweets On Speaking Tour. New York City—Dr. and Mrs. Ossian H. Sweet of Detroit, out on ball, and Walter White, assist. sec. N. A. A. C. P., spoke in Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington and Pittsburgh, this week, and will speak in Cleveland, town of the inbound of the organization's Legal Defense Fund ($65,000). Their new trial will not begin early in January as first announced. No date for it has as yet been fixed. 1925 Lynch-Murder Record 1925 Lynch-Murder Record. New York City.—Eighteen of our people were lynch-murdered in 1925 and sixteen in 1924, announces the National Report Mississippi led with six. This is one of the few times that Georgia has not led, in the last quarter of a century. Figures for the other states were: Florida, three; Georgia, two, and one each in Arkansas, Alabama, Kentucky, Louisiana, Missouri, Utah and Virginia. $20,000 for Orphans' Home Winston-Salem, N. C.—As the result of a gift of $20,000, from an unknown donor, the Memorial Industrial school, an institution for our orphans, is soon to be moved to a new and more suitable site. The new location comprises 386 acres, located on a new highway north of the city, which command a splendid view of the surrounding mountains. "Southern Contractors." Detroit, Mich.—Mrs. Mattie Lewis has filed a complaint against William Perry and Robinson Green, "contractors," in which she charges them with larceny of $2,500, funds with which they were to have built her a house. Green is under arrest. Henry O'Neill also filed a charge in the prosecutor's office, claiming that the two men owe him $462. Presides Over Board. New York City.—For the first time in the history of this city, an Afro-American member of the board of aldermen presided over its deliberations when Wm. T. Collins, president of the board, extended* the gavel to John W. Smith, alderman from Harlem. As Mr. Smith ascended the rostrum his colleagues applauded him. An Exeutional Man Gone All EXPERIMENTAL SANITARY GUEST Washington D. C. Washington D. C. Murray, the best posted employee of the Congressional library or many years, died here, this week. His death is a positive loss to both the library force and the race. An Echo of the Ring. "Ladies an' gennalum! The man-agement has requested me to announce that owin' to an injury, Benny McBiff will not—" "Siddown, you big tramp!" "Tear down 'em ropes an' we'lynch him!—" "How about the three bucks thirty I paid for this seat?—" "The same of' balon—" "Gennulman, piece! The man-emen has got a doctor's certificate to show you gennulman! All right, you pack o' heels, if y' won't lissen! Let somebody else tell ya'—" James E. Doyle in Cleveland (Daily) Plain Dealer. "Tiger" Gets Championship Bout. New York City.—Harry Greb will defend his title in a fifteen-round bout, against Tiger Flowers of Atlanta, for the world's middleweight championship, in Madison Square Garden, Feb. 26. The match, ordered by the state athletic commission when it accepted the $2,500 check-challenge of Flowers and ordered Greb to accept or reject the def within thirty days, was practically closed, last Friday, on Greb's arrival SINGLE COPY FIVE CENTS MRS. ANNIE M. MALONE Awards Diamond Rings to a Group of Poro Employees as Five Year Service Gifts—Over 100 Such to Date. St. Louis, Mo.—With 250 persons gathered at the eleventh annual Christmas dinner at Poro College, Mrs. Annie M. Malone, founder of the institution, presented to a group of eighteen Poro employees beautiful diamond rings or gold watches as five year service gifts. Over 100 employees have received this award up to the present time. Those who received the five year service awards are: Mesdames Beulah Bragg, Katie Hancock, Lucy Wright, Estella Mitchell, Luila Maddux, P. F. P. P. son, William Williams, Martel Wade, Rosalyn Keith, Misses Dollie Evans, Rosalyn Rankin, M. Mae McAllister; Messrs. Edgar McDaniel, Edward Bolden, John Haywood, George Stanly, John Williams and Joseph Johnson. THE MAYOR "HELPLESS" Kansas City, Kan.-The "Birth (Rape) of a Nation" previously barred from the city, will be given its first showing here despite the fact it will stir up ill-feeling and prejudice. Mayor Gordon was asked to prevent the rotten exhibition, but he said he was powerless, since the state board of censors had passed it. He also said that the only person who would be the showing now is the Governor. It will be given in Soldiers and Sailor's memorial building. Clarence Sayers, lessee of the building, is secretary of the Wyandotte county chapter of the ku klux klan. Another Bank "Busted". Elizabeth City, N. C.—The Albermarle Bank operating here for the last five years closed its doors, the Thursday before Xmas, pending the arrival of the bank examiner from Raleigh to make a survey of the situation. The shortage of funds which resulted in the closing is ascribed unofficially to the large investments in long term real estate loans upon which the bank could not collect quickly enough to withstand the heavy holiday withdrawals. The bank has a capital stock of $25,000. Cullen Annexes Another Prize Boston, Mass.—Countee P. Cullon, leader of a new poetry school, has won the Whitter Bynner undergraduate poetry prize for 1925 while at Harvard university, where he is now doing graduate work. The contest was open to all college students in the country. He had already won second honors in the Whitter Bynner contest for 1923 and 1924. ORT NEWS here from Atlantic City. At his headquarters following a conference with Matchmaker Jess McMahon at the garden, Greb announced that he had agreed with McMahon on the date for the fight and that the match will be signed formally offer another conference, at which the title-holder expects to adjust a slight financial difference which prevented the signing, last week. Tiger-Shade Bout Planner Tiger-Shade Bout Planner. New York City—The state athletic commission on Tuesday took steps to bring about a match between Tiger Flowers of Atlanta and Dave Shade of California, to determine which is the foremost challenger of Harry Greb, middleweight champion. Flowers' challenge for a title match with Greb already had been approved by the commission, but the strength of Shade's claims prompted the boxing authorities to seek an elimination test. Leo Flynn, Shade's manager, was asked to make the match but deferred his final decision, asserting, however, he would demand $25,000 for it. Demanding and getting are oft-times so different. COPY FIVE CENTS UTH! BUTLER'S PROMISES LIKE PIE-CRUST! Delegations See Coolidge's Right- Hand Man Relative to Federal Segregation — Demand Its Abolition—Coolidge's Proviso Understood. Boston, Mass.—A sensational turn was given to an audience with Senator W. M. Butler in his Boston offices, Monday forenoon, by a delegation representing the National Equal Rights League and the Greater Boston Ministerial Alliance which again was asking the national Republican chairman to stop federal segregation, when Attorney Edgar P. Benjamin told Senator Butler that the proviso in the President's recent message about not interfering with the usages of enlightened society meant no interference with southern race-prospects. Mr. Benjamin, eminent lawyer and local bank president, was supported by Rev. D. S. Klugh, chairman of the delegation; Rev. Benj. W. Swain, vice president of league, and spokesman for the Ministerial Alliance; Attorney Albert G. Wolff, local league secretary; Mister Hester Colley, Col. E. B. Barco of the K. P., Rev. C. C. Somerco, Rev. J. W. Hill, Lawrence Banks and Rev. R. S. Pitman, Secretary Trotter as chair of some President-in-quisition. President's message was misunderstood. He had his secretary bring in a copy of the message. He said the false interpretation would be counteracted. More PROMISES—"Coolidge" promises! Chairman Klugh and Rev. Swain, Col. Barco and Mr. Benjamin declared the race had lost its patience waiting for the President to abolish segregation. They read and presented a detailed specification of the race, which was published in "The Old Reliable" Gazette Chairman Butler reiterated his opposition to segregation and so impressed the delegation that they will be surprised if something tangible is done. Butler is "long" on "bull" and promises. S. Coleridge-Taylor's Son Weds. London, Eng—S. Coleridge Tayor, Jr., musician, son of the famous composer, was secretly married to his accompanist, Miss Kathleen Markwell (white), last week. Young Taylor is a fine violinist and orchestra director in his own right. His sister married the sclon of a well known white family here, two years ago. His mother is an English lady and his father was an Afro-Englishman. Tom-Toms Barred. Havana, Cuba.—Playing of the tambor, or tom-tom, or other musical instruments of ancient African character, with singing and contorted dancing, have been prohibited by the laws of the United States. The class of music and the "rumba" are contrary to the good customs and public order of Cuba. Defunct Bank Now a Restaurant. Detroit Bank Now a Restaurant, Petersburg, Va. The building houses our defunct "People's Bank of Petersburg", two years ago is now occupied by a restaurant which serves excellent meals all hours of the day instead of check books and slips marked "insufficient funds". Barron Wilkin's Estate Bankrupt. Barron Wilkin's Estate Bankrupt. New York City.—It was revealed recently by action of the Surrogate Court that the estate of the late Barron D. Wilkins, cabaret owner and well known night life character, is bankrupt. Wilkins at the time of his death was reputed by many to be one of our wealthiest men in Harlem. Although his case was bound for the county grand jury, Monday, Patrolman James Patton was on the job, Sunday. During the day, assistant police and county prosecutors investigated and said they found no reasons for Patton's indictment, but decided to let the grand jury have the final say. Patton was alleged to have been drinking and to have been unjustified in firing the war wounded Charles Fletcher New Year's night following an argument. The case took official form after a report by Deputy Inspector Timothy J. Costello to Safety Director Edwin D. Barry. Patton was discharged in May, 1924, for intoxication, and reinstated by the civil service commission in February, 1925. In May, 1925, he was up on a charge that he failed to ring in his patrol box, and Barry fined him all days off the year. "Just before Christmas of fellow came in asking me to give him a day off around Christmas," said Barry. "I gave it to him as a Christmas present, and he got into this affair on the day off." Lois Deppe's Plantation Orchestra, from Pittsburgh, last week signed for the Ritz, and Bobby Robinson, and Clifton Jones, dancers, appeared with the orchestra. SUBSCRIPTION RATES One Year ..... $2.00 Six Months ..... 1.00 Subscribers are requested to remit by postoffice money order or registered letter. Entered at the postoffice in Cleveland, Ohio, as second-class mail matter 226 W. Superior Ave., Cleveland, O. (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- IEST AND BEST in the country. 10,000,000 Afro-Americans. 350,000 in Ohio. 400,000 in Cleveland. SATURDAY, JANUARY 1, 1926. One of our contemporaries published a Washington, D. C. letter, last week, in which reference was made to "John Wesley Langston". Can you believe it? That is enough to make Ex-Congressman John Mercer Langston turn over in his grave. We are as every reader of The Gazette well knows opposed to mob violence, particularly lynch-murder by the stake route. But, Lord! burning-at-the-stake is entirely too good for Joe Bush (white), if the contents of our New Orleans letter in this paper be true. --- The local branch of the N. A. A. C. P., the local Federation of Women's clubs and our leading men and women of Cleveland generally ought not to stand supinely by and see those "color-liners", whom Officer James Patton opposed in his restaurant suit, have him "railroaded" out of the police department on trumped up charges. --- The Michigan Supreme court has just handed down a decision to the effect that restrictions against the sale of property to our people on account of race or color are invalid. This is in line with the U. S. Supreme court decision (in 1917) in the now famous Warley case. Let the good work go forward! --- Henry Lincoln Johnson's widow is a lovely woman—if for no other reason than the fact that she lived in Cleveland for a time when a girl. It is to be hoped that Secretary of Labor James J. Davis has given Mrs. Johnson a position commensurate with her exceptional literary ability. She is a woman far above the average, without reference to class or race. --- The disbanding of that New Haven, Conn. "chapter" of kluxes, 600 in number, is surely a body-blow to that lawless organization which will go a long way toward hastening the end—the death of the K. K. K. Ever since the Atlanta, Ga. split, a year or so ago, the organization has been slowly but surely disintegrating. May the end soon be reached is the devout hope of all truly law-abiding American citizens. Additional New Year's cards—from Editor Wm. H. Steward of Louisville, Ky., and Mr. Phil Taylor, E. 46th St., this city; and beautiful Christmas presents from Mr. Taylor, Atty. Robert Fisher, Ulmer Bldg., this city; Mrs. Nettie Ricks Demby, wife of Bishop E. Thomas Demby of Little Rock, Ark., and many others have been received by the editor of The Gazette. Many, many thanks to all the kind friends who have in any way remembered us. Mrs. Annie M. Malone of Poro fame is a WONDERFUL woman, wonderful in her earnestness, simplicity and Christianity. She and her distinguished husband are the greatest benefactors of color the race has ever produced. We have reference not alone to the splendid gifts they have made our worthy individuals, and institutions of various kinds but also, and particularly, to the many splendid opportunities they have opened to our young men and women in Poro College, St. Louis. Mo. More power to you, Prof. A. E. and Mrs. A. M. Malone! Don C. Seitz, former editor of the N. Y. World, is right. It is now a commercialized press in this country. There are very few papers that are not being published with a view to making money and that above everything else. Even the race press has reached the point where nearly all of them are afraid to tell our people the truth at all times for fear of offending some politician (white or black), some church, lodge or something else. The honest, loyal, untrammelled press, black and white, is gone forever, it seems. What a pity! The masses of people everywhere are the greatest sufferers, as a result. OH DEAR! THERE'S THE BELL! IT'S RUDOLPH, AND I JUST KNOW HE'S GOING TO PROPOSE! S-SH! S-SH! IS HE FLIRTING? Ex-Congressman Charles L. Knight, former resident of Georgia, author of a history of the life of Jeff Davis, president of the Confederacy, and editor and owner of the Akron (O.) Beacon Journal, in a speech at Marion, this state, last month, asks what is wrong, with the Republican party of Ohio? A number of things! The most harmful, however, is "boss rule". The heads of the Republican organizations in Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati, Dayton and Toledo have "run the party in the ground" just where they would have had the state of Ohio financially and otherwise, were it not for the people who have wisely refused to elect Governor their hand-picked candidates. The political bosses dominate all the other state offices, the result being that state primary elections in Ohio are farces, pure and simple, as far as the great mass of Republicans are concerned. This same disgraceful condition exists in their, the bosses' particular bailiwicks. The foregoing is well-known to most of the workers in the organizations in the cities named, and until this shameful condition is changed for the better it would be worse than folly for the people of Ohio to elect a hand-picked candidate to the office of Chief Executive of the state. Editor Knight's Marion speech is a good one, but for some reason or, does not go clear to the bottom of the trouble. Can it be that he is angling for the support of the bosses, heads of the Republican organizations in Cleveland, Cincinnati, Toledo, Columbus and Dayton? BUTLER AND COOLIDGE PROM ISES. U. S. Senator Wm. M. Butler of Massachusetts, chairman of the Republican National Committee and President Calvin Coolidge's "right-hand" man in politics, is "playing the game to the limit" with his constituents of color, it seems. Several months ago, he made them PROMISES similar to those he made again on Monday last to the two delegations of our people who visited him in his offices in Boston. And that is as far as either he or the President will ever go in the matter of federal segregation. It is about time for all of us to recognize this fact. Neither the Senator nor the President intend to do anything else except "string the Negroes along" like they did during the last national campaign when making their promises of appointments of Afro-Americans to office in event of Republican victory. They did not intend to keep them and they do not intend to keep them now. Rev. Klugh, Rev. Swain, Col. Barco and attorney Edgar P. Benjamin who is a fine, upstanding, thorly loyal member of the race, certainly told the Senator the truth when they said our people had about lost their patience waiting on Coolidge to abolish segregation. Many of us never had any in him to lose; thank the Lord. It is pertinent to add that Senator Butler is an appointee seeking election at this time, and that that undoubtedly accounts for his willingness to make promises. THE MAN WHO DARES "I honor the man who in the conscientious discharge of his duty dares to stand alone; the world, with ignorant, intolerant judgment, may condemn, the countenances of relatives may be averted, and the hearts of friends grow cold, but the sense of duty done shall be sweeter than the applause of the world, the countenances of relatives or the hearts of friends."—Charles Sumner. OUR LESSON We must learn to govern ourselves and work together for our own advancement. If we do not learn to govern ourselves and work together for our own advancement, we may be very sure that we will be governed by others in their own interest as well as worked by others for their own advancement and not ours.—George W. Blount. MORTGAGES BOUGHT AND SOLD Properties Refinanced WRITE US LAWRENCE & CO. 504 Buckeye Bldg. N. W. Cor. E. 4th St. and Prospect Ave. THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, O. SATURDAY, JANUARY 9, 1926 Little Rock, Ark. June 16, '25. Hon. Harry C. Smith, Editor, Gazette, Cleveland, O. Dear Friend:—Long live The Gazette! a welcome friend to the Ricks-Demby family for forty-three years. We boast of being among the oldest continuous subscribers of The Gazette—not the largest but the best in essentials and the most dependable of race journals. Wishing you continued good health and success, we are as ever. Very truly yours, (Bishop) Edward T. and Nettie M. Demby. 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When Mrs. Mabel Holmes Jackson, of Hudson Ave., returned, last week, from Chicago where she spent the holidays with her son, Wesley, and family, she found much of her home filled with ice. The oration on "Abraham Lincoln" for the banquet at St. Phillips' P. E. church, (white), west side, Monday evening, will be delivered by the Hon. John P. Green, a fine public speaker. Dr. B. F. Rucker, E. 30th St. and Scovill Ave., was called to Wadsworth, Sunday, to attend a patient critically ill with pneumonia. He returned, Tuesday night, "with victory perched upon his banner." The doctor is a very busy man, these days. The 20th Century club gave its first anniversary celebration, Dec. 31, at Mr. and Mrs. Louis Fletcher's, of Clarkwood Rd., and it was its greatest success of the year. The first 1926 meeting, Jan. 8, was held to Miss Jennifer Hunter's, Quincy Ave. D. R. Spencer's birthday, Christmas, was remembered most satisfac- THE GEEVU DON'T ORDER YOU HOW YOU E-BUT MAMM THE GEEVUM GIRLS *M. 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They entertained for their guests and Mr. David Manson, of Chicago. Police are still seeking Larry Rubin and Morris Fischer on a charge of jumping a $2,000 bail bond. Fischer and Rubin were bound to grand jury with Aaron Goldstein and Sam Mobile, all "white," on a charge against the judge. I conquered with the death of Wm. Morrison, a member of the race, killed, some weeks ago, in a Woodland Ave. restaurant. The grand jury got the case, early this week. Thos. W. Walker, of Pine Ave., and his first wife, mother of Mrs. Rachel W. Turner, are both very ill. It is said that he is critically ill, at this writing (Wednesday). Both are among our oldest residents of the city. Mrs. Turner improves slowly. She sustained a stroke of paralysis, some months ago. Sunday, she called to see her father, after an estrangement that has existed for many years. About 500 foreign-born and Afro-American Clevelanders dined and danced, last Tuesday night, at Hotel Cleveland in honor of Joseph F. Sawicki, the immigrant boy who became a municipal judge. Out-of-town guests were John Priebes, president of the Chicago society of the Polish National Alliance; Dr. Frank Fronczak, for the past two decades city health officer of Buffalo, and Baskell Novak, Chicago financier. The hall was sponsored by the Cleveland society by the Polish National Alliance, the Polish Ladies Club, and a group of Polish professional men. Speeches were made by a number of Judge Sawicki's associates on the bench, and by official representatives of organizations of foreign-born residents. Patrolman James Patton was fully exonerated by Chief Graul, Saturday, of any blame in connection with the shooting of Charles Fletcher, 3400 Woodland Ave., shot through the chest, police say, when he attempted to run from an alleged knife fight after being ordered by Patton to stop. Detective Captain Emmett Potts investigated stories of alleged witnesses who said the shooting took place in a house and not in Hackman Ct., as Patton reported, and then declared he had uncovered what appeared to be an attempt to "frame" Patton. Police Prosecutor Griffin, who collaborated with Potts in the investigation, expressed a similar belief "patton" gun and badge, which had been taken from him earlier in the day, were returned to him by Chief Graul. If Prof. Neal of Harvest Thomas, the only aggressive and unselfish leader our people of the nation's capital have, is not very careful he will up to public view a thing that had been taken from him. Cultural branches than those in Washington, D. C. and Cleveland. "Pea- UM GIRLS Y, GOLDIE! I'LL SHOW TO MAKE DAD BUY A HAT! HE JUST BOUGHT A ONE -- AND HE'S B-BUSTED! THE GAZETTE, CLEVER AND, O. SATURDAY, JANUARY 9, 1926 The FIRST and ONLY Cab Company Owned and Operated by OUR GROUP in the State of Ohio. 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"It may come next Christmas," he thought as he flung himself on his narrow prison bed. He worked on and on at his task assigned by the warden until the following April. Then one day when he wasn't expecting it the warden called him to the office and handed him the letter with the pardon. That night Willie Sells left the Kansas penitentiary behind him. No money in his pockets, few friends, but a desire and a will to make good, that was all he had. "It was a long time coming, but it was worth waiting for." W. B. Sells, druggist, said the other day in his own drug store at Thirteenth St. and Garfield Ave., Kansas City, Kan. "I've been out seven years now and I have worked hard to show the world that a man can make good even if he has spent eighteen long years behind the walls of a penal institution." It was the same Willie Sells who twenty-five years ago figured in one of the most sensational murder cases in the history of the west. Through the long dreary days of his trial for the quadruple murder Willie Sells maintained his innocence. His conviction was based on circumstantial evidence. The trial was held at Trie, Kan. Sympathizers with the boy, who believed he had been persecuted, started many petitions to obtain his relase without success. A petition containing thousands of names of persons in all parts of the state and some from other states was presented to Governor Hoch seven years ago and it was planned to free Sells on Christmas Day, but Governor Hoch delayed the matter until April. Willie Sells "beat his way back" by hard work. His education practically was obtained in the penitentiary. He worked some in the prison drug store, where he learned to fill prescriptions. So when he got out he obtained employment in a drug store in a small western Kansas town. He worked and saved his money. Three years ago he came to Kansas City and obtained employment in the store he now owns. 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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. Including the postmaster general, in the postoffice building. It announced dancing and a pleasant social evening with the officials for "the post-office 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 To many people, segregation is a Democratic scheme of insult, but such is not the case. Mr. Taft introduced it in the bureaucracy of segregation. He segregated the census-takers in 1910, restricting white workers to white people, and black to black, often duplicating work as most blocks had white and black residents. And, worst of all, announced in his official capacity that Negroes sh*ld not hold office where white people complained. Segregation, then, is a Republican institution and not Democratic. It was brought by Republicans, and went to its all-embracing extent by Republicans! There is far more of it in the departments, today, than at any time since the Negro first appeared, close upon the close of the Civil War. The picture requirement in the civil service, which makes it next to impossible for a colored lady or gentleman to enter the civil service, since their color is disclosed in their photograph which must accompany papers, is tenaciously held on to by our Republican President. Only last week, a colored lady appeared after having given the best examination, and then 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 Coulson and President Coolidge. Hills from North Carolina, the home of the other favorite and leader of the segregationists, Col. Sherrill, superintendent of buildings and grounds, it is no use to complain of either of these southern gentlemen. The colored people here who know the President could destroy segregation in the departments of the government, and the photograph requirements in the civil service by the mere nod of his head, are at a loss to understand why he does not put his splendid declarations on democracy into operation here, where it would not even cost him a single vote and where he has full power and absolutely no opposition. They wonder if he is not a firm believer in segregation, especially since segregation is one of the chief tenets of the Ku Klux Klan which has found its "welcome home" in the Republican party, and receives no condemnation from the Republican President. (Special to The Gazette.) Washington, D. C.—In the postoffice segregation is rampant. The faithful colored clerks work under constant humiliation and physical disadvantages. The department maintains a spacious cafeteria for whites only, where these inferior white clerks can buy appetizing luncheons and chat in comfort while eating, while the colored clerks must bring cold luncheons from home and eat them any place they can. The physical discomfort, 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 lepers. The injustice stings. All the they protect that they are far more capable than the whites, and render the government more intelligent and efficient service—the white man of their attainment being able to get far more lucrative employment. The department goes even farther in its solicitude for whites and neglect of colored. It maintains a well-appointed club room with pool tables and other games, comfortable lounges and other equipment for rest, sociability, and recreation, and nothing for these same colored employees. This private club is in the magnificent postoffice building, built and maintained by ALL of the people. In the locker rooms there is segregation, and segregation is even attempted in the toilets. All of this is against the most dependable and faithful employee around 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, and 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. The hard-working caste passes whites over him, one after another, though many of the colored employees have won contests in quickness and accuracy in the delivery of mail. The colored clerks were dared to form a union, which we it's regularly and often sends many and intelligent protests to the postmaster, and often appeals from his decisions to the postmaster-general. It has secured some improvement in their working conditions, but they are still bitter over the huge injustice done to them for nothing else than the color of their skin. (Special to The Gazette.) Washington, D. C.—The government printing office keeps faith with the government's universal scheme of segregation. Some of the best and brightest of our girls are forced to accept inferior positions there on account of the better and more lucrative avenues of employment being closed to them because of their color. The whites are generally of a very mediocre group, far from equaling our girls in educational equipment, culture, and working efficiency. Yet these superior girls are set off from the whites with the latter, of course, having the better working conditions, salaries and recreational facilities. There is a large cafeteria in this huge structure where all of the employees may go, but there are a few tables in an out-of-the-way section reserved for our employees. I am glad to say that few, very few, of our people patronize the place, preferring a little physical inconvenience to the open, semi-public humiliation of segregation. In toilet facilities, dressing-rooms, and work assignments, wherever possible, the law of segregation is in full force, and, of course, this same undemocratic practice reveals itself on the salary roll and in the hard caste that bars promotions. Here, as elsewhere, the law requires that as many as possible work on superior employees 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 restful retreat, and that he secured the company of a young lady of the race to take part in the dance. As soon as this couple started to dance the music was abruptly stopped, and the young man reported for attempting to take part in an entertainment provided for employees. He was called to the office, lectured for being "one of those smart Negroes" who believe in "social equality," and then dismissed on a trumped-up charge. He was a night-employee, hence the carried out arrest of the dance dancer 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 failing 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. He was severe punishment our employees are in 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 my informants. I knew the fate these informants would suffer so I have never given a single name! The department then taking the position that cannot take up the case. It is therefore the scheme of segregation is a difficult thing to fight, since the government THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, O. SATURDAY, JANUARY 9, 1926. is so well settled upon it, and the complainants cannot bear witness to it. (Special To The Gazette) Washington, D. C.-Segregation in the bureau of engraving and printing has an interesting history involving President Thomas Woodrow Wilson and members of his family, three herocly 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, driven to any thought of race, which never earlier came an order for segregation of races, and a white lady who had been led for her philanthropy among our people and who was upon intimate terms at the White House appeared at the bureau to tell our girls to be contented with the new order as "a great Negro leader had taught colored people to stay in their places." Three of the young ladies resisted the order to the last ditch and were summarily dismissed! Senator La Follette lodged a protest with Secretary McAdoo to no avail, and his noble wife began a crusade against the undemocratic innovation. She took the platform here in Washington and Boston before the famous Twentieth Century club. She used the columns of the Senator's magazine, sparing neither space nor vigor of utterance. She thundered against it in our local white press, and addressed the national gathering of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People in New York. When our people here were so profoundly discuraged, she came out one stormy afternoon to the Y. M. C. A. to urge them to continue the fight, for democracy was at the erisces. Oswald Garrison Villard came to town to attack White House and Cabinet in our country, 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 a lt together. The same segregation which some of our people think is the cherished institution of the Democratic party is still there, in all of its fullness, under the administration of the party that Abraham Lincoln, Charles Sumner and Frederick Douglass are helped to found. Our girls are employed there in far larger numbers than in any other branch of the public service. 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 nomes, most of them with high ante normal school training, and fine culture. The white girls are of no such grade, as there is no segregation for them in the great world of things. They have unlimited fields at high wage for even mediocre talents. The best of our girls must take these inferior positions, the inevitable result of segregation. Our people are still hoping for the issuance of an order destroying this iniquitous practice in all of our government departments for it not only humiliates the best of the government servants but impairs the government service. (Special to The Gazette) Washington, D. C.—The treasury department, according to the President's recent acceptance speech, is now under the ablest financial gentus since the days of Alexander Hamilton. It is to be remembered that the great Hamilton came from the West Indies, and in that long sweep of history that the President traversed are the mighty Salmon P. Chase, secretary of the treasury in Lincoln's cabinet, who, in a national extremity such as this country has never known, devised the national banking system which financed the Civil War; and Ohio's master financier, John Sherman. These men never knew what segregation was! The present head of the department of internal revenue, Mr. 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 demand for the several thousand clerks. We Negroes are so scarse 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 toilet, locker rooms, rest rooms etc. set off 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 dearest the use of them. The department maintains a huge marmilent cafeteria, in the splendid sweep of woodland along our national driveway, where white people of class can come to rest, dine, and socialize at afternoons and evenings. minimum costs. The white press of the city is constantly telling of the thousands who take advantage of this "delightful retreat," and the festive scene that their presence creates. It seats two thousand diners with space to spare; but not one Negro! His only share is in the taxes he is forced to pay for this luxury for another group! the registries of the treasury, which Republican Presidents have given the Negro since Garfield appointed Blanch K. Bruce, is now filled by a white man, and the colored people are congregated in a separate room which is publicly proclaimed as "a colored division." When it is discovered that Negro clerks are "working as white" in other divisions, they are promptly transferred to this "colored division." Our people fear that protest against this segregation would result in abolition of the division of fear; so they remain in a dilemma, fearing that on 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 the 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, bearer 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 office of the treasury on again at full speed. It had slowed up a little during the campaign. Investigation of Burcauus An investigation of the executive departments and bureaus listed below shows that segregation prevails in them as follows: Office of the Register of the Treasury, there are two segregated sections—one with 30 Afro-American employees and the other with 14. Navy Department — one segregated section of 18 of our employees, as well as a segregated lunch room. Census Bureau — a segregated section of 60 Afro-American employee Bonus Section Bonus section of the War Department—one segregated section of 180 of our employees. Veterans Bureau—a segregated section of 16 employees. Department of Justice—a segregated section of 10 employees in the file room. Internal Revenue Internal Revenue Bureau—a segregated section of 7 employees. Office of the Treasurer of the United States—a segregated section of 4 employees. War Department, Transportation Division—a segregated section of 5 employees. P. O. Separate Lunch Room Post Office Department—a segregated lunch room. "WORTH ITS WEIGHT IN GOLD!" Cleveland, O., Aug. 28th, 1925. Hon. Harry C. 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 its weight in gold! I admire true manhood—a man who, seeing injustice and oppression, dares, within the limits of the law, to expose it and, if possible smite it. You and I have frequently, during the forty-two years since the birth of The Gazette, been, as the Scotch would say, like two McNeils, but when I find a man, such as you, who is persistently, through nearly half century, puts his race foremost in his life struggle, I take off my hat to him, as being a true friend of our class. Long life to you and The Gazette. Yours for the right, John P. Green. (Former Member, Ohio State Senate.) 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 responsiveness to buy are direct measures of its present importance to every advertiser. EDITOR OHIO'S ANTI-LYNCHING LAW LEADS THE COUNTRY IN EFFECTIVE LEGISLATION Against The Mob and Lynch-Murder—The Work of a Member of The Race—Also His Ohio Civil Rights Law 6278. "Mob" and "lynching" defined. 6279. "Serious injury" defined. 6280. Damages in case of assault. 6281. Damages in case of lynching. 6282. Damages recoverable by legal representative of victim of lynching 6283. Person suffering death or injury by mob trying to lynch another 6284. Limitations of action. 6285. Order to include recovery and costs in tax levy. 6286. Guardian's custody, etc., fees. 6287. County's right of action against member of mob. 6288. County's right of action against another county. 6289. Non-relief from prosecution. Our mob-violence or anti-lynching bill was introduced in the Ohio legislature in 1834 and re-introduced in 1896. It took the Hon. Harry C. Smith, editor of The Gazette, just three years to secure its enactment into law. The Ohio Supreme Court has several times upheld the constitutionality of the law and it has Section 6278. A collection of people assembled for an unlawful purpose and intending to do damage or injury to any one, or pretending to exercise correctional power over other persons by violence and without authority of law, shall be deemed a "mob" for the purpose of this chapter. A person taking possession of 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 livelihood by manual labor. (93 v. 161 3.) Section 6280. A person takes from officers of justice, by a mob, an object with whips, clubs, missiles or in any other manner, may recover, as hereafter provided, a sum not to exceed one thousand dollars as damages from the county in which the assault is made. (93 v. 161 4.) Section 6281. A person assaulted and lynched by a mob may recover, from the county in which such assault is made a sum not to exceed five hundred dollars; or, if the injury received therefrom is serious, a sum not exceeding one thousand dollars; or, if such injury result in permanent disability to earn a livelihood by manual labor, a sum not to exceed five thousand dollars. (93 v. 162 5.) Section 6282. The legal representative of a person dying from injuries received from lynching by a mob may recover of the county in which such injury occurred, a sum not to exceed five thousand dollars damages for such unlawful killing. Such sum shall be applied to the maintenance of the family and education of the minor children of such person 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 among the next of kin according to the laws of the distribution of the personality of an intestate. Such sum so recovered shall not be a part of the estate of such person so lynch-ed, nor be subject to any of his liabilities. (93 v 162 6.) Section 6238. 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 person. (93 v 162 6.) Section 6244. Action for the recoveries provided for in this chapter must be commenced, within two years from the date of such lynch-ing, 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 6286. If the deedent so launched 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: OBS. need. g. I representative of victim of lynching injury by mob trying to lynch another and costs in tax levy. os. inst member of mob. inst 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 on the part of officials of such unless there was contributory negligence not less than thirty days county in falling to protect such prisoner or dispurse such mob (93 v. 163 11.1) 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 Ohio Civil Rights law which the editor had enacted while a member of the 71st General Assembly, in 1894: The General Coge of Ohio Sec. 12940. Whoever, being the proprietor or his employee, keeper or manager of an inn, restaurant, eating house, barber-shop, public conveyance 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 paid less than fifty dollars nor more than fifty dollars or dollars or more than ninety days of work. See. 12941. Whoever violates the next preceding section shall also pay not less than fifty dollars nor more than five hundred 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 outcry 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 be fact that the Ohio Civil Rights law was not used but not need amending. The following letter from Judge Grant former presiding Judge of the Court of Appeals of the Eighth District of Ohio, is self explanatory: Akron, G., April 25, 1919. Hon. Harry C. Smith. Edition. Editor The Gazette, Cleveland, O. My Dear Sir: Observing your letter, to the Beacon-Journal, of this city, I venture to suggest you separate cover, the Ohio Law Reporter of Feb. 3, last, containing the opinion of the Court of Appeals in the Puritan Lunch Co. vs. Leonard H. Forman, decided in Akron, last fall, in which a judgment for ($500) five hundred dollars was sustained. W the Beacon-Journal had known that the Beacon-Journal in its own there would have been a location for criticism editorially, THE LAW 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. rulation! Reading it, I ter Reading a VETERAN JURYMAN WON'T VOTE TO HANG Uncle Eben Reynolds Has Been Forty Years At It—Was in Price's Army. Macon, Mo—Four years a muske- tear; forty years a jurymay. teer, forty years ago. The above, in a nutshell, is the life record of Uncle Eben Reynolds of Middle Fork Township, Macon County. At least that is the eventful part of it. Of course the law does not permit a man to serve as juryman at every regular term of court, but for forty years Uncle Eben has been summoned at least on one term each year, and as some terms were strung out for two or three months he has obtained fairly good experience as a juryman. One of this veteran juryman's peculiarities—if it is a peculiarity—is that he won't vote to hang a man, guilty or no. He draws the line at the death penalty; says the Creator gave life to man, and only the Creator has the right to take it away from him. Sounds a little inconsistent for a man who was a musketeer in "Pap" Price's Confederate army for four years, doesn't it? But with Uncle Ebe there's entire harmony in his philosophy. "The Lord's willin' for a man to fight for his country," he argues, "but that don't give him the right to set a time limit on another man's life in calm moments. It ain't Scriptural, and I won't vote to hang any man!" On all other kinds of cases Uncle Ebe makes an ideal juror. They tell it on him that one day the man who was his commander and who is now a practicing lawyer at the bar, though fully as old as Uncle Ebe, was forcibly arguing a case on which Uncle Ebe was a juryman, when the old man rose from his place in the jury box, gave the "rebel yell" and cried: "Give it to 'em, Cap! I'm with you!" Uncle Ebe says that's a fairy tale, but admits he thinks his old commander is the greatest lawyer and soldier that ever lived. His name is Ben Ell Guthrie, and the two men have been warm personal friends for more than a half century. Uncle Ebe came back from the war a ruined man financially, but he got him a little patch of land, worked hard and little by little massed enough to give his children a good start and to lay something; by for the day that is on him now. Last reports are the old juryman is cuft, feeble and will not be able to attend the winter term, but he hopes to be up in the spring and to get on the panel. All the lawyers like to have him, because while the veteran has not much "book learning," he has more than the usual amount of good horse sense, and he's as quick to see the justice of a case as the trial judge. "I've often wanted to tell the lawyers," remarked Uncle Ebe last time he was in court, "that if they would just lay down their main points, and not do so much flowery speechifin at the windup it would be a powerful help to the jury. What we want to know is, for instance, who struck the first lick. There aren't no sense in wastin' time on sayin' smart things. What a jury wants is facts." The Circuit judge who overheard the remark, smiled and said ever since he has been on the bench he's been trying to get the lawyers to fall in with Uncle Ebe's theory. Mink Farm Latest in Fur Production Portland, Me—F. C. Tibbetts of this city proposes to breed mink for the pelt. He has studied the mink for years, has corresponded with producers of mink and purchasers of mink hides. He finds that mink fur is a very desirable sort of fur. Not only it is warm, but it is smooth and of fine texture and has remarkable heat producing qualities. It has also been demonstrated to him that the mink will thrive in Maine, or at least it should thrive there. The climate and soil conditions, he says, are just right for the mink and the best spot in Maine is down on Deer Island, Cascio Bay. It is there he proposes to establish his mink farm. It may surprise folks to know that the mink is a highly civilized animal. In many respects he bears a marked resemblance to the human mily. Most people have a notion that the mink prefers a hole in the ground as a place of abode to anything else in the world. Perish the thought! Tibbetts says it is not so. His say-so is backed up by his investigations and years of study of the mink family. He says that given his choice between a hole in the ground and a box filled with clean straw, the rent being the same, Mr. and Mrs. Mink will decide in favor of the box. Likewise, once having set up housekeeping in the box the mink family will never make the error of crawling into any other box. They know their own box from the box of any other mink family. This is something worth knowing about mink. Tibbets has found that ranch breed mink are the best with which to start a mink farm. He says they are hardy and reproduce rapidly. He feels that the venture wil prove a success. A good mink pelt is worth from $9 to $13. Strongest Cable Ever Made All records for cable strength were surpassed when in a test at Lehigh University recently a section of a new steel rope, now in use by an iron com-