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CORNER E. 30TH STREET AND SCOVILL AVENUE THE GAZETTE ESTABLISHED, AUGUST 25, 1883 And Issued Every Week on Time Since CLEVELAND, OHIO, SATURDAY, JANUARY 16, 1926. FRESH OHIO NEWS Written By "The Old Reliable" Gazette's Correspondents What Our People Are Doing Each Week—Church, Personal, Social, Lodge, Literary and Musical Marriages, Deaths, Etc. PRIME SPORT NEWS PRIME SPORT NEWS CADIZ—The glee club will make its initial appearance at St. James A. M. E. church, Jan. 24. Mrs. C. M. Hogans, directress—Miss Marcella Jones and Mr. Charles Brooks were married, recently—Mrs. George Richardson of St. James Pettress, has returned a covered-d party was given in her honor by the A. M. E. stewardess board. In the absence of Rev. C. M. Hogans, who was ill, Sunday, Rev. W. H. Lucas and W. F. Tyler took charge of the services. Mr. and Mrs. Freer, weaver, were held in recently purchased home on Spring St.—Rev. Charles Gilmore will address the Brotherhood, Sunday afternoon. CORRESPONDENTS must mail all posters for publication at their main letters 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 a kind, including items 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. ROXABELL.—The Second Baptist church has had a great spiritual feast ever since New Year's night, beginning with an old fashioned watchmeeting. Rev. J. J. Burr, our pastor, entered upon his service, Jan. 3, as never before, preaching two stirring sermons to large congregations of both races. The inclement weather caused a tempest, and Rev. Richardson and Carter preached two excellent sermons during the revival. Mr. Albert Williams' club, No. 4, will give an entertainment, Jan. 1.—Miss Ethel Jones is in Chillicothe, this week.—Mrs. Mays, vice-pres., W. M. s., dist. No. 1, lost her husband in Chillicothe. Funeral there. Thursday that pastor served Monday that gave C. Turner's widow had died in Cincinnati.—Be sure to order a copy of "The Old Reliable" Gazette and read it carefully. Battling Ski Left Only $800. New York City.—It was shown, last week, that Battling Ski, world's light-heavyweight champion, left an estate valued at less than $600. The papers were filed by his widow (white) asking for letters of administration. During his ring career Ski won consecutive titles, and a small order of Ski also left a girl in Europe, a native of Holland, with whom he lived in France and by whom he had a little boy. Simmons U. Five Here. Simmons University's basket ball team, of Louisville, Ky., were the opponents of the "Benjee" Drug five at the Carpenters hall, Tuesday night, the "Pride of Kentucky," as the Louisville team is known, is making its first trip through this part of the country and has been a viable reputation in the South and mid-west. The "Drugs" entered the same fresh from a decisive victory over the Buffalo Lincolns, last week. Their line-up had Johns and Williams at forwards, Young and Willett at guards and Hampton at center. Dempsey Needs Cash. Youngstown, O.—The urgent need of ready cash may be the big inducement that will cause Jack Dempsey to disregard his hand-made nose and risk his championship in a contest with Harry Wills during the outdoor boxing season of 1926. This is the belief of Joseph P. Omlor, world war veteran, advertising man and former manager of the famous Patrician football teams, following his return from a ten-month tour that took him through twenty-six states and parts of Mexico and Mexico City. Omlor had an extended visit with the champion and it was during one of these chats that the local man formed his conclusions, that the heavyweight each week. Ella Jones, reporter; Ethel Jones, distributor.—Mrs. Lona Bayley and son, Harry, were called to Cincinnati by another son, Emmett's illness.—Mrs. Ash, a pioneer resident of this place, the community安装, the church. Our southern Ohio churches are urged to use this excellent organization.—Rev. J. J. Burr was the all-week guest of Mr. and Mrs. Al Byrd, the former one of our leading farmers.—Rev. Williams, pastor of theological student at Wilberforce University, is still pushing his work and doing well.—Mrs. Weaver, our teacher, is back at her post again. HILLSBORO.—Mrs. John Williams and Mrs. Donald Hirwarden entertained the Get-Together club at the latter's. A program, business and lunch.—Mrs. Carey Williams has been ill.—Mr. and Mrs. Lawn Trimble have returned from Cincinnati for an extended visit with her mother.—Mrs. Turner, widow of the late Rev. C. A. Turner, a former resident and a member of New Hope Baptist church, died in Cincinnati, last week. The remains were brought here for the funeral.—Mrs. Carey Williams.—Mrs. C. M. Gragston and Mrs. Roy Trimble are improving.—Mrs. Ella Johnson of Cleveland is visiting her parents. Mr. and Mrs. Vernoah Wallace.—Vernon Young returned from Dayton with Mrs. Lewis Goodson.—When Rev. J. J. Burr arrived, Monday, from his charge at Roxabell Mrs. Burr was all-smiles, being greatly pleased with the basket sent by Mrs. Albert Wess of Roxabell. Everything good was in the church. Lads and children in church was laid at Mrs. Flora Weet's, last Thursday evening. The meeting at New Hope Baptist church is still in progress. Rev. L. H. Coleman, of Louisville, Ks., evangelist, is an eloquent speaker. There are two candidates for baptism.—Mrs. Vinnie Burr, sister-in-law of Rev. J. J. Burr, died in Georgetown, Saturday. Funeral there, Monday. Mrs. Lucy Lucas is better. Members and friends made a liberal donation to Rev. L. A. Bray and family, last week.—Mr. and Mrs. James Captain entertained Revs. Coleman and Bray and Mrs. John Williams, and Mrs. John Williams, entertained them, last Friday. The dinner-guest of Mrs. Sarah Johnson, Sunday.—Mrs. Alice Ely of Indianapolis is visiting her mother, Mrs. Lucas, who has been ill. king hasn't hung up his gloves for all time. "I would gather from what Dempsey said to me," remarked Omlor, "that the champion is 'property poor' and that his supply of ready cash is limited. This explains his visit to Mexico to pick up easy money and to Florida and other southern states." PRAISES OUR SCHOOLS. Washington, D. C.—In a statement to the press, Dr. I. Garland Penn, one of the secretaries in charge of our work for the board of education of the Methodist Episcopal church, declares that the growth and success of education in our colleges and schools is remarkable. Thirty years ago, according to Dr. Penn, there was not an Afro-American filling the presidency of any of the schools of the Methodist Episcopal church. Now there are eleven. Thirty years ago, most of the teachers were white missionaries; now out of 450 teachers fully 400 are members of the race. Arrest Bank Cashier Elizabeth City, N. C. —W. H. Holland, cashier of the Albemarle bank, which closed the day before Christmas, has been arrested on a charge of embezzlement and is being held in jail in default of bond. The warrant was sworn out by a white accountant. The arrest followed the discovery of a shortage of $10,000, which may run to $30,000. Holland, when the leak was discovered, was visiting in Ind. Ind. He from which city he returned. He denies the leak against him. The finding of a bank ledger and balance sheets bearing a number of accounts concealed in the bank valuels led to the discovery of the shortage and the cashier's arrest. A BATTLE ROYAL Residential Segregation Challenged Before The U. S. Supreme Court By One of the Leading Attorneys in America. Washington, D. C.—Constitutionality of enforcement by lower courts of private agreements among property owners not to sell to persons of any race, was challenged before the U. S. Supreme Court, last Friday, by Louis Marshall, of New York, one of the leading attorneys in the country. Mr. Marshall declared that such segregation was the entering wedge of the "Ku Klux Klan program of elimination", which would eventually be extended to other minority groups in this country if it was not checked. He warned that residential segregation would "sow the seeds of discord" and would "tend to destroy that unity and harmony which should prevail in a free country". The movement that there is a differentiation in our courts," declared Mr. Marshall, "between white and black, Catholic and Protestant, Jew and non-Jew, hatreds and passions will inevitably be aroused and that which has been most noble and exalted and humane in American life will have been shattered. Great as are the mental and spiritual sufferings of those against whom the shatters of prejudice and intolerance are aimed, the lasting injury is, however, inflicted upon the civilization of a manant such as that which has been enforced by the decrees here sought to be reviewed." Maintaining that such covenants are opposed to public policy, Mr. Marshall referred to the Supreme Court's decision in the case of Buchanan vs. Warley, the Louisville segregation case of 1917, in which it was decided that segregation by state legislation was unconstitutional. "It would appear to be obvious," said Mr. Marshall, "that where a legislature is prohibited from sanctioning a particular policy, individuals may not enter into contracts in direct derogation of the same policy. Surely that which a legislature cannot sanction should not be compelled to be done by a decree of a court of enforcing specific performance of an agreement between parties, which is equivalent of such legislation and is productive of identical results." Mr. Marshall then declared that "if the Constitution could be evaded as it is attempted to be by the device here employed, it would not be difficult to create a situation bearing the elements of a contract that would prevent a colored person from owning realty or from taking up his habitation in any state or in any part of the country." This same would apply to the Jew or any other class of residents who were objectionable to property owners. STABBED HIM TO DEATH! The Kind the Race Must Produce in Larger Numbers If it Is Ever To Be Generally Respected. Sallisaw, Okla. — Three girls of the race—Helen Henderson, Dolla Carpenter and Sarah Foreman, are being held in the county jail following the fatal wounding of Love Smith (white), a Gans farmer, last week Tuesday afternoon. The brute attempted to rape Miss Helen Henderson and rather than submit to his lust the girl stabbed him. Fine! Bunn Was No Coward Raleigh, N. C.—When a crowd of boisterous whites formed a blockade on Wilmington street, last week Wednesday, and declared that no "Negro" should pass, Wash. Bunn vowed that he would. He hit the line of road and got through, but was beaten up. Warranted, he invited the whites to follow him and when some of them were tools enough to do so, he procured a pistol and shot two. Again. Fine! In court he was sentenced to serve 12 months in the county roads, a sentence which appealed and is now fighting out on bond of $300. More power to the Bunns of the race! Defends Self And Wins Case Defends Self And Wins Case. Dunn, N. C.-When Jeff Turner was accosted by a deputy white), and told that it was time for him to go to bed, he resented the suggestion and an altercation ensued which resulted in the deuty taking him to jail. In court, the deputy explained that Turner had a car in front of his house with the engine running, and the how blowing (a lie, of course), and that he had told him to cut out the noise. When Turner remonstrated with him, the officer said he was drunk. (Another lie.) In Recorder's court, last week, Turner was his own lawyer, and told the court had the engine of his car running to charge the battery. He conducted his case so well that he was discharged! Gone to Africa! Seattle, Wash.—Rev. D. A. Graham and Mrs. Graham of this city sailed, recently, for Monrovia Liberia, West Africa, where his home president, of Monrovia College, SINGLE COPY FIVE CENTS 1500 HAIL ATTACK ON SEGREGATION! HAYS TERMS IT "A STREET OF HATE, A MAIN STREET OF DEATH." Assails Detroit Mob Case—Praises Dr. Sweet for the Defense of His Home—The Physician Speaks at Great Mass Meeting New York City.—A mixed audience of more than 1,600 appauled, Jan. 3, an attack on racial segregation in the residential areas of large American cities made by Atty. Arthur Garfield Hays, who, addressing the annual mass meeting of the N. A. A. C. depicted that the racial outcome of segregation into small groups by race or religion would be a street of intolerance, a street of bigotry, a street of hate and a main street of death." Mr. Hays is associated with Atty. Clerar Darrow, Chicago, in the defense of Dr. Osian H. Sweet, Mrs. Sweet and the nine other defendants charged with first degree murder in connection with the murder of the mob involved in Dr. Sweet's mob in Detroit, last September. The jury recently disagreed in the Sweet case and it may be re-tried early this year. Dr. and Mrs. Sweet sat on the platform while their defense counsel praised their courage in defending their home and deplored the spirit of intolerance which caused the incident. Dr. and Mrs. Sweet, who are at liberty on bail, missionary to state to attend the meeting, from the Michigan court, at the request of the association. Their appearance on the platform brought prolonged applause. Secs Constitution Thwarted. Discussing the Sweet case, Mr. Hays declared that it hinged about the issue of residential segregation in America. It was a fight, he asserted, "to preserve the fundamental spirit of the Constitution." Referring to the trial Mr. Hays said Afro-Americans who were called to the witness stand were "quiet, intelligent and direct." A ripple of aplause greeted his statement that the prosecution, in seeking to prove that no one was in the neighborhood of the Sweet home when the riot occurred, called seventy witnesses to the stand, all of whom testified that they were present. Dr. Sweet, a the attorney told of his efforts to defend his home and the subsequent arrangement of himself, his wife and nine friends on a charge of first degree murder. "Nobody, white or black," asserted Mr. Hays, "deserves his home liberty unless he is ready to fight for it. Before the riot occurred at the Sweet home mobs had forced other colored people in Detroit to vacate their homes. The reason there was trouble in Detroit is that the other colored people faced the courage to fight for their rights. Miss Mary White Ovington, chairman of the board of directors of the association, presided. She announced that in 1925 the association had raised more than $100,000 with which to carry on its work. The response of Afro-Americans all over the country to the fight against racial intolerance and segregation, she said, has been an intelligent one. Last month, the Association's history, she said, and more money had been raised to carry on its work ever before. Dr. Sweet Speaks Briefly Dr. Sweet speaks briefly. Dr. Sweet spoke briefly, thanking the assentors in his case and for providing funds for the defense of himself and the other defendants. The outcome of the trial, he said, "will determine whether or not mobs shall tell colored people where or not to live." William Pickens, field secretary of the association, declared that segregation lay at the heart of America's race problem. He outlined the fight against race segregation during U.K. Efforts along this line, he said, would be concentrated on three court cases, one the Sweet trial and two cases which were to be argued before the U. S. Supreme Court. Louis Marshall and Moorfield Storey of Boston, the latter president of the association and former president of the American Bar Association, said in the case cases before the Supreme Court. Mr. Pickens said: "This case, known as the Curtis or Washington segregation case, has been fought in all of the District of Columbia courts. It originated in an agreement by a group of Washington, D. C., property owners not to sell real estate to Afro-Americans. Mrs. Irene Hand Corrigan sold a parcel of land to Mrs. Helen Curtis in alleged violation of the agreement. The other parties the agreement must bind in conjunction with Mrs. Curtis taking possession of the property and Mrs. Corrigan from selling. The second case, to be argued before the M-UNION COPY FIVE CENTS EETS! TACK EGREGATION! GREET OF HATE, A MAIN F DEATH." —Praises Dr. Sweet for the —The Physician Speaks ass Meeting Supreme Court, is known as the Nixon vs. Herndon case, which has been argued through the Texas courts, the federal court in the Texas district, and finally on appeal carried to the U. S. Supreme Court. It involved a challenge of the constitutionality of the Texas "white primary" law which forbids our people to vote in Democratic control of the state. This case, Mr. Pickens said, would be used as the opening wedge to persuade Republicans similar prizes in other southern states. At the offices of the association, 69 Fifth Ave., the annual business meeting was held, Jan. 4, at which reports for last year were read and its directors re-elected. Reached and Passed Its Goal Sunday the association had $37,475.73 in its Legal Defense Fund to which must be added the $5,000 contributed by the American Fund for Public Service (the Garland Fund), making a total of $42,475.73. The Garland Fund at its regular meeting on Jan. 6 voted not only may the $15,000 had originally agreed to pay the association should raise thou sword dollars, but an additional sum of $6,552.79. To the total is to be added an additional check for $1,000 from Julius Rosenwald, which he agreed to give on the raising of the second $24,000. The full accounting therefore is: Total contributions received to noon, Jan. 8, $37,475.73; original contribution from the American Fund, $5,000; additional contribution from the American Fund, $15,000; further addition from the American Fund, $6,552.79; contribution from Mr. Rosenwald, $1,000. Total, $65,028.52. Amount raised by the Detroit branch for the Sweet case and disbursed locally, $6,137.64. Grand total, $71,166.16. Dr. Sweet Speaks To 3,000. Dr. Sweet addressed an audience of 3.000 New Yorkers, Jan. 3, at Mt. Olivet Baptist church, and told of the growing prejudice in Detroit against Afro-Americans and the difficulty of finding a decent home and which caused him to settle his family in the so-called "white district." NO LEGAL OHIO "JIM CROW" SCHOOLS! Higher Court Affirms Common Pleas Dayton, O.—"Jim-crow" schools here were again banned, last week Thursday, by a decision handed down by the court of appeals of Montgomery county in the case of Earl Reese vs. the board of education. Reese filed mandamus proceedings to compel the board to admit his children to the class-rooms nearest his home, stating that his and others of our children were in a "jim-crow" annex. The court denied the right of the board to separate pupils because of their color or race. The board of education has weekly meetings to discuss the course of action. It will have four alternatives: give our teachers mixed classes$ discharge them, transfer white pupils, or retain our teachers for classes which are entirely Afro-American because no white children live in that brick building school district. Our school teachers have been employed during this school year only as substitutes and paid as such even though they have been doing the same work that they had been doing previously. This action of the school board is a move to avoid paying the teachers for the full year in the event that it lost its case and it also indicates that the board expects to receive a solicitation, the editor of "The Old Reliable" Gazette aided us MATE-RIALLY to win this fight just as he did that in Springfield which preceded our by a year or two. It is too bad that Earl Reese could not have lived to enjoy 'this great victory which he started in the courts. The Hampton-Tuskegee Fund Wins The Hampton-Tuskegee Fund Wins. New York City.—Clarence H. Kelsey, chairman of the executive committee of the Hampton-Tuskegee Institute Endowment fund, has announced that the five million dollars which was to be raised or pledged to meet the conditions of a gift of more than two million from George Eastman, had been raised. The contributions were received from more than 10,000 persons. 7 1. 1 aay ~ ee ee a || Bases Oe (eotStont wens SSeS | Ie |/ NWP ; ay gs “ep EUROS! | WELL THEN,- | GOT = ia , } ee es Cees! | RT game — |: CW) Gay A LF NTA (3 ES =e) SA ’ Ss So 1 THOUGHT 77 J 7. od} | wan 1 pan pi \\ i LL OO ey AN Ne> TD wear en Las EY tT) "I ey z WY AY} va { Jpy\ FOR = 3 fg (sco (erm "i } \) &s fj a gO / | \} 4 ‘rg J ie A a BA | | 4 JN : 7 Cae KV DOM WY SSN wy — ge S Pe RQ OS MK SR ar oa WN a Be Py KI ae" A |_| | ey AF —! WSN + =e cia \ — Oa <4 i r gr N DS) YS \ PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY SUBSORIPTION RATES (ia Advance) Ome Year oe cece eee wee nn $2.00 ix Mouths 2.20.02... .0cee. 100 Subscribers are requested to remit ‘by postoffice money order or registered letter. Matered at the postottice in Cleve- land, Obio, aa second-class mail matter Address all communications to HARRY ©, SMITH Raditor and Proprietor THe GAZETTE 226 W, Superior Ave., Cleveland, 0. (Bell "Phone: Cherry 1259) Member Ohio Legislature: 1804 vo 1806; 1896 to 1808; 1900 to 1902 ‘THE GAZETTE is the oldest and has the largest bona fide circulation, double that of any newspaper in the tmterest of Afro-Americans publish- ed im the state of Ohio ,and compar- oon with any yrill immediately cs- tablish its rank as one of the NEWS- 0291 AND BEST in the country. 10,000,000 Afro-Americans. 850,000 im Ohio. 40,000 in Cleveland, SATURDAY, JANUARY 16, 1926. Every once in a while something happens to give real encouragement to the unselfish workers for race ad- vancenient, Were it not for this many more would become discour- aged and “fall by the wayside". Last week, three Afro-Americans, two men and one woman, in the South gave splendid evidence of the fact that there is plenty of manhood and womanhood in most of our people. All it needs is encouragement to as- sert iteself. Read carefully the ar- tielesfelsewhere in this paper, under the headline, “Stabbed Him to Death". Cases in point. —in— If every “Negro”, who in various ways is “skinning” poor, ignorant southern “Negroes” in the North (as well as the South) out of their hard- earned money, were treated as was that cashier of the defunct Alber- marle bank at Elizabeth City, N. C., recentlly, how many more would be in northern jails, workhouses and penitentiaries? Don’t all answer at once, Their kind has wrecked about a half-dozen “Negro” banks and lead- ing face business enterprises in. the jast two years. Lord, have mercy! Editor J. H. Watson, of Albany, Ga., should have used the word slid- ing instead of slipping in speaking of the “Negro’s” political retrogres- sion in the last fifteen or twenty gears. Our “leading politicians” in this day and time are almost without exception nothing but “bootlicking” political errand-boys for white poll- ticlans. They talk big, just like the Coolidge “Negroes’” did in the last national campaign, but as a matter of fact do not “amount to a row of pins” to the race. All they seek to do {s to get’a job for themselves, and work overtime for their political posses trying to help them fool our eople. St \ + “TOLD THEM SO”! The recent decision of the appel- Inte court of Montgomery County, this state, in the Dayton “‘Jim-crow” school case, affirming that of a lower court (the éommon pleas court), handed down, many months ago, while very pleasing was not unex- pected because of previous decisions (along the same line) of the state supreme court. Similar decisions were also secured in the same courts ‘of Clarke county in the Springfield “jim crow” school case, several years ago, and they, too, were compelled by the earlier decisions of the high- est legal tribunal of the state. In the early days of both struggles, our loyal people of Springfield and Day- ton sent for the editor of this paper “to advise, enlighten and encourage them”. This we did, telling them, after fully explaining the situation in eath city, that since the Lord and the law was'with them they had ofly to stick and fight to win. This would not have been the situation of affairs, of course, if they had not been RIGHT in their contention for JUSTICE which meant in both cases proper treatment for the sehool-chil- @ren of American citizens, The Springfield fight was the more spec- tacular of the two owing to the won- erful picketing for many weeks of the “jim-crow” school there by our women of that city. This, even in the severest of winter weather and from morn until early evening, every school-day. in the Dayton fight our women were much in evidence, too. They were absolutely indispensable, as helpmates, to our loyal men of both cities. The failure “to stick and fight” has caused our peopie io tose far more contests for rights and privileges in thls country than ins) have ever won and it was ¢his fact more than almost any other that we sought to impress on the occasions of our visits (at their request) to both Springfield's and Dayton’s loyal members of the race who were fight- ing for their children, primarily, but also for rights, as citizens, of all our people of this state, Our only regret in the matter is that Mr. Earl Reese nf Dayton passed out before the vic- ‘ony there was secured. Hoe it was who instituted the case in that city yhich our loyal people there backed ‘otil the decision was won which the THE GEEVUM GIRLS appellate court of Montgomery coun- ty, in which Dayton is located, re- cently confirmed. —in— BROWN AND STEVENS Borrow Money From ©. & 5. Bank- ing Co. to Forestall a Run— Forced to Pay It Back. Philadelphia, Pa—Brown and Stevens of their defunct bank of this city paid at least one creditor im full, says Major R. R. Wright, president of the Citizens and Southern Bank- ing Co. “When Brown and Stevens got into trouble they came to us and begged help. Believing that they told us the truth our bank let them have money. When we found they had not represented the situation as it really was, we demanded our money, for it was our depositors’ money and we are sworn to give ev- ery protection to our depositors. So we told Brown and Stevens they would have to pay us oF go to jail! We had them arrested. ‘Then they paid! We are satisfied and do not care to prosectite them. All we want- ed was our depositors” money.” said Major Wright ASSAILS FOES OF DEFENSE McQuigg Tells Ohio Legionaries We Will Keep Wealth as Long as We'll Fight for It. Columbus, O.—"Keep America strong enough to force the world to Teave us in peace,” Brig. Gen, John R. MeQuigg, of Cleveland, national commander of the American Legion, told 300 representatives of legion posta from all parts of Ohio at a din- ner, last Saturday night. Gen. Me- Quike scored the people who are try- ing to abolish military training in the schools, declaring they must “think our’ freedom just growed” and denounced “the parlor bolshe- vists", of whom “there are more than we realize” as a menace to the ideals and institutions of the nation. He urged legionaries to combine to com- del law enforcement “not only of the eighteenth amendment”, and to “see to it that everybody plays the game according to the rules”, whether they Uke the rules or not. qual Justice Demanded. |. Memphis, ‘Tenn.—Four thousand Methodist “young people (white) ‘from all parts of the South, in con- vention in this elty,. went on record, Jan. 3, with the declaration that “di- visive,, unbrotherly attitudes as be- tween races must be displaced by the spirit of generosity, service, and mutual respect”. “We must abide by the principles of Jesus”, said the voung people, “namely, the Father- hood of God, the brotherhood of man, and the supreme value of hu- man personality”. Their denomina- tion, the M. EB. Church South, num- bering 2/500,000, was requested to “take steps to bring about as far as possible equal advantages between the races In the South in education, in the courts, in economic matters, and in the opportunity for self-ad- Soe amane ‘Tmth! Nothing Else. Albany, Ga.—Commenting upon the political problems of the Afro- American, Editor J. H. Watson, in a recent issue of the Supreme Circle News, published here, says: “Politically, the Negro 1s not even holding his own; he has been slip- ping backward for the past decade: and it is because he does not interest himself sufficiently to qualify and participate in matters political. He has no political program, and is never found a unit on any proposition. Yet he swears the Republicans have be- trayed him and the Democrats would destroy him, and RESTS HIS CASE THERE.” ——————————= ‘Tell It, Brother, Tell It! ‘There is something radically wrong with a group of people who refuse to help relieve their own burdens, ‘The day ot throwing bouquets Is gone forever. The Afro-American must face the facts as they ex- ist. We won't gain anything dy fooling ourselves into think- ing that everything is all right. Everything, affecting the lives of Afro-Americans, is all wrong. The sooner we face | these facts, the quicker we will begin to work for our own salvation, the sooner will we attain our rightful place as American citizens. — Philadel phia Tribune. OUR LESSON ‘We must iearn to govern our- selves and work together for our own advancement. If wo do not learn to govern our selves and work together for our own advancement, we may be very sure that we will be governed by others tn their own interest as well as worked dy others for their own ad- vancement and net ours.— George W. Blount, MORTGAGES BOUGHT AND SOLD Properties Refinanced ‘WRITE US LAWRENCE & €O. 504 Buckeye Bldg. N. W. Cor. E. 4th St. and Prospect Ave. THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, O.SATURDAY, JANUARY 16, 1926. 5 . ° Faith Strong in PO @ePE-RU-NA Gy MSE Mes. Albert Huet, 109 Prospect ee HE © St, South Manchester, Conn,, com es \ eee Vincod that it saved her life, writes: es Sand. 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Roland Hays, tenor, was soloist for the Philadelphia orchestra (white), Dec. 27, '25, at the Academy of Music, that city. O. J. Harris succeeded Dr. Leroy N. Bundy as president of the Service Cab Co. at a meeting, last week, of the board of directors. Popular "Jim" Shield, of The Spritz Co., 2067 E. 9th St., went to Mt. Sinai hospital, the first of the week, for a slight operation. Miss Thelma, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. O. A. Taylor, entertained, New Year's eve, in honor of Miss Henrietta Herrod of Indianapolis. Dr. Quinn Montgomery, a young dentist and a Cleveland boy, is soon to open offices in Central Ave. The Gazette wishes him every success. The Anchor L. & A. Ins. Co., the Peoples' Finance Corp. and the Empire S. & L. Co. all held annual stockholders' meetings, this week. Mt. Zion Temple choir will hold its vesper musicale, Sunday, from 4 to 5 p. m. A quartet from the Oberlin Choral society will be the feature. Dr. N. K. Christopher returned, last week, from Jacksonville, Fla., where he was called by the illness of his father. The latter is much improved. Prof. J. Francis Gregory has returned to Washington, D. C., where he is the head of a Normal school. He spent his vacation with his family in E. $1st St. Cory M. E. church, E. 35th and Scovill Ave., celebrated its 50th anniversary with a drive for $173,000 new building fund, of which $75,-000 have been subscribed. Mr. and Mrs. Gus Hill have pur- THE GEEVU A-W-W!-D POOR KISS *Open, Sundays. *M. KLEMAN'S 2928 Central Ave. BENJ, AKERS', 3519 Central Ave. *THE S. & S. DRUG CO. 7325 Central Ave. The Gazette regularly should notify copy delivered promptly. business matters to The Gazette k, 220 West Superior Ave., oppo- you wish to see the editor call carefully examine The Gazette's purchases. Business men who have the patronage of our people. assurance that they want it. lication in current issues of The by 4 p. m., TUESDAY of that advertisements accepted until C, SMITH, Avenue, Cleveland, O. Bell 'Phone: Cherry 1259 chased and moved into their new home in Quebec Ave. Rev. B. K. Smith was the live-wire agent in the transaction. The 20th Century club met at Miss Jessie Hunter's and was royally entertained by her and Miss Cornelia Jackson. It met again, last evening (Friday, Jan. 15), at its president, D. R. Spencer's, 2495 E. 63d St. That "colored man and brother" with the long hair and barefeet had a crowd of about 100 about him on the square near the Park Bldg., Sunday. He carries a cane and a small satchel which apparently carried something he disposes of. A. L. Holsey, secretary of our National Business league, was in the city, last week Monday night, to meet the local organization. Plans were discussed for the entertainment of the annual session of the league in Cleveland in August. Miss Henrietta Hickman, who spent six months with her sister, Genevieve Hunt, has returned to Cleveland to return to Cleveland to locate. Miss Hickman made many friends while here. Rt. Rev. W. W. Beckett, late presiding bishop of the Seventh and Eighth E. districts of the A. M. E. Church, died in a hospital at Summerville, S. C. Dec. 31, '25. He was stricken there, Dec. 11, while presiding over the S. C. conference. Antioch choir, under the direction of Prof. P. Henderson, will give its fourth Sunday evening musical, Jan. 24, at 8 p. m. Male and female quartets will feature the program. Among the choir's numbers will be "The Lord is My Strength and Song", by Klein. The following local students have returned to their respective schools after spending the holidays in the city. Lucille Taylor and Mise Mary Howard to Ohio State university; Ted Williams, Skeets Johnson, Hodgie Clark, Tennie Mitchell Cornwell and husband to Michigan State university; Edwin White, Sherman Mitchell and Chelsie France to Ohio state. Last week Tuesday evening Miss Beatrice Wright and brother, Lloyd, entertained at the Caterers club, in honor of Miss Margaret Jones of Charleston, W. Va. Mrs. Walter Wright, mother of the host and hostess, assisted in receiving the 200 in attendance. Out-of-town guesstics. Business. In dianapools, Norie West of Pittsburgh, Edith Woods of Chicago, and Gene Latty of Oberlin. The disbanding of that New Haven, Conn. "chapter" of kluxers, 600 in number, is surely a body-blow to that lawless organization which will go a long way toward hastening the death of the 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. Tav- JIM GIRLS DID HER BUMP HER LIL HEAD?--LET SIS TAN MAKE IT WELL! BRIGHT IDEA THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, O. SATURDAY, JANUARY 16, 1926. The FIRST and ONLY Cab Company Owned and Operated by OUR GROUP in the State of Ohio. IT EARNESTLY SOLICITS YOUR PATRONAGE. lor, Atty, Robert Fisher, Ulmer Bldg., this city; Mrs. Nettle 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. Miss Pearl Mitchell, until recently president of the Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority, reports the boute, held, last summer, the most interesting. She finished her seventh year in office, two years as national president. She refused an offer of the presidency for a third term. During her administration 19 new chapters were organized, eight in 1924 and 11 in 1925. The delegates expressed their appreciation of her work by presenting her with a beautiful pearl necklace and bracelets at the banquet, Dec. 31. Next meeting, in Columbus. On Jan. 2. the deal was closed for St. James A. M. E. church's new home at E. 84th and Cedar Ave. "We feel that we have really accomplished something worth while to possess such a beautiful church," he said. The annual trustee election resulted as follows: R. S. Koiner, A. H. Moore, Ernest Howard, B. I. Hutchinson, F. A. Ballard, William Holland, Stafford Williams, J. L. Edwards and George Brooks. The church will be closed Monday and Tuesday, when opened, Jan. 24. Two weeks' dedicatory services will be held. 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 only people in the world who 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 students. We have opened to our College, St. Louis, Mo. More power to you, Prof. A. E. and Mrs. A. M. Malone! Dr. C. H. Garvin and family moved into their newly constructed home at 11114 Wade Park Ave., on Dec. 31, '25. Last fall when it became known that the house was being built by and for the occupancy of our neighbors, the Garvins tested and openly declared that the Garvins would never be permitted to live in their home. The house was completed recently, and the Garvins moved in unmolested, Sunday, Dr. Garvin reported to the police that some one had painted K. K. K. in large letters on the front of his house, and the Garvins were afflicted, Saturday night. Detectives Henry Cowles and Patrick Allen were detailed to investigate. A meeting of protest, held by Wade Park allment property owners, last September, appointed a committee to persuade Dr. Garvin to live somewhere else but it failed after several conferences. Dr. Garvin is another Garvin. Dr. Garvin is the director, a dentist, who refuses to be bluffed or bullied of living in his own home, and our people of this community are with him in this resolution "to a man." At the "Sweets" meeting at Mt. Zion Cong. church, Sunday afternoon, less than $1,150 were raised toward the N. A. A. C. P. Legal Defense Fund, over $400 of which was cash. Dr. Ossian H. Sweet of Walter, Walter H. White of N. Y. City, an assistant N. A. A. C. P. secretary; Rev. Russell Brown, pastor of the church; Rev. Robert Bagnall, another assistant secretary of the N. A. A. C. P., and Hon. Harry E. Davis were the speakers. Atty. Clayborne George, president of the local branch of the organization, presided. The church was packed and "the sisters and brothers", the former particularly, were much in evidence with their expensive fur coats and other garments. The Gazette representative, after looking them over, expected surely that they would contribute at least eleven thousand five hundred dollars instead of less than a mezzely eleven hundred and fifty dollars for so worthy a cause and, too, after hearing Dr. Sweet and seeing his modest, little, unassuming wife whom some of our women presented a beautiful bouquet of American Beauty roses. George Hooper and Hooker Page, two of our unassuming old citizens, who do not go in for so much show, gave $100 two weeks before the bride began to leave even before the collection was taken. O, yes, "a wonderful people", these people of ours—"wonderful show and blow bags", too many of them. CALL. RANDOLPH 3280. "SERVICE", OUR MOTTO. W & E Is the result of doing all things well at all time. 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C., Oct. 4, 1924. —There is more segregation in Washington today under President Coolidge than there has ever been since the Civil War. The beginnings of segregation were under President Taft. It was greatly extended, under President Wilson; increased, still further, under President Harding; and reached its zenith under President Coolidge. For instance, the largest of our parks President Wilson never troubled, but the present administration has found time and desire to introduce it even there. To many people, segregation is a Democratic scheme of insult, but such is not the case. Mr. Taft introduced it in the bureau of engraving. He segregated the women in this city in 1900, restricting white women to white people, and black to black, often duplicating work as most blocks had white and black residents. And, worst of all, an announced in his official capacity that Negroes should not hold office where white people complained. Segregation, then, is a Republican institution and not a Democrat institution. It was begun by Democraticans, and caused its all-embracing exertion 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 tenaciously held our Republican Presidency. Only last week, a colored lady appeared after having taken the best examination, 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 segregated Jones, Col. Sherrill, superintendent of buildings and grounds, is no use to complain of either of these southern gentlemen. The colored people here who know the President could destroy segregation in the departments of the government, and the photograph requirements in the civil service by the mere nod of his head, are at a loss to understand what a he does with splendid declarations on democracy. In 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 a right. Knu Klux Klan which has found its "welcome home" in the Republican party, and receives no condemnation from the Republican President. (Bspecial to The Gazette.) (Special to the Gazette) Washington, D. C.—In the postoffice segregation is rampant. The white collar worker under constant illumination 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 lunchhems 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 more when they reflect that the are far more capable than the whites of 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 neglects 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 attempted. All of this 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 to complain and colored 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, 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 been to form a union that is 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 department'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 school, 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 places, 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, the law of segregation passes over our superior employees to directive positions, and higher salaries. The whites have a large recreational center in this public building with many fine appointments for rest and amusements. During lunch and dinner hours they repair to this restful retreat for sociability and dance. Last fall, a young Afro-American with a splendid record in his work, felt the injustice of this exclusion of our employees so keenly. He was 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 a trumped-up charge. He was arrested on a pistol. He 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 dismissed. By this severe punishment the employee was forced to be no way of escape for one who dares to resent the daily insults that their government (under President Coolidge) gives them. Many of the employee 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 taken the position of a government then taking the position that it cannot take up the case. It is perfectly clear that this inquisitive scheme of segregation is a difficult thing to fight, since the government THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, O. SATURDAY, JANUARY 16, 1926. will settled upon it, and the contants cannot bear witness (Special to The (jazette) (Special to the Gazette) Washington, D. C.—Segregation in the bureau of engraving and printing involved 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 women who had 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 great Negro leader had taught us the lesson of the slaves." Three of the young ladies resisted the order to the last ditch and were summarily dismised! 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 discouraged, she came out one stormy afternoon to the Y. M. C. A. to urge them to continue the fight. for democracy was the crise. Bus. Commissioner Ward Jr. was to attack White House and Cabinet and arouse our people, and the Nation Association secured publicity in over six hundred influential white papers in the country. The fight checked what was thought to be the intention of the segregators, namely, the elimination of the colored employees from the bureau ait together. The same segregation which some of our people think is the cherished institution of the Democratic party is still there, in all of its fullness, under the administration of the party that Abraham Lincoln, Charles Sumner and Frederick Douglass are helped to found. Our girls are employed there in far larger numbers than in any other branch of the public. We are GATED in their rest rooms, toilets, and working stations, and of course none are ever thought of for promotions to executive places. They are girls from our best names, most of them with high age normal school training, and fine culture. The white girls are of no such grade, as there is no segregation for them in the great world of things. They have unlimited fields at high wage for even mediocre tents, the best of them being the these serious 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 genius since the days of Alexander Hamilton. It is to be remembered that the great Hamilton came from the West Indies, and in that long sweep of history that the President traversed are the mighty Salmon P. Chase, secretary of the treasury in Lincoln's cabinet, who, in a national extremity such as this country has never known, devised the national banking system which financed the Civil War; and Ohio's master financier, John Sherman. These men never knew what segregation was! The present head of the department of internal revenue, Mr. 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 New York has scarce access to the 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 toilets, locker rooms, rest rooms, etc., set off for colored. The toilets for the colored are few in such a large structure because they are forced to endure physical inconvenience at times, and are forced to travel long distances when they desire the use of them. The department maintains a huge magnificent cafeteria. in the splendid sweep of woodland along our national drive where white people of every class walk through the claustre of afternoons and evening at minimum costs. The white press of the city is constantly telling of the thousands who take advantage of this "delightful retreat," and the festive scene that their presence creates. It seats two thousand diners with space to spare; but not one Negro! His only share is in the taxes he is forced to pay for this luxury for another group! The registrieship of the treasury, which Republican Presidents have given the Negro since Garfield appointed Blanch K. Bruce, is now filled by a white man, and the colored people are congregated in a separate room which is publicly proclaimed as "a colored division." When it is discovered that Negro clerks are "working as white" in other divisions, they are promptly transferred to this "colored division." Our people fear that protest against this segregation would result in the abolition of the religious altogether; they remain in a dilemma, fearing to set. Our clerks must accept segregation or elimination, and being poor, with no other opportunities in this southern atmosphere, must take the former. They are depressed at the wrong, but economic stress compels endurance of it. By a single stroke of his pen, President Calvin Coolidge can stop every bit of this damnable segregation, just as he can condemn that lawless organization the Ku Klux Klan. COOLIDGE'S SEGREGATION Washington, D. 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 registrar of the army 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 army was against it at full speed. It had slowed up a little during the campaign. Investigation of Bureana 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. I Dear Bend: 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 have frequently, during the former year since the birth of The Gazette, been, as the Scotch would say, like two McNells, but when you find a man, such as you, who consistently, and persistently, through nearly half a 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 Great Gatsby 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 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 deemed to constitute 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 discharged by receiving an earring in livelihood 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 from the county in which the assault is made. (92 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, such injury resulting from the activity of a livelihood by manual labor, a sum not to exceed five thousand dollars. (92 v. 162 5.) Section 6282. The legal representative of a person dying from injuries received from lynching by a mob, may recover from 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 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 distribution, what shall be distributed among the part 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 lynched, nor be subject to any of his liabilities. (93 v 162 6.) Section 6283. 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 6284. 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 6258. If the descent so lynchened 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 prohate judge, allowing not more than five hundred dollars for counsel fees in the action for such recovery. (93 v 162 9.) Section 6257. The county in which a lynching occurs may recover the amount of a judgment and costs against it in favor of a person who is convicted 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 to a town from another county, he com- been very effective. Illinois, Pennsylvania and New Jersey have followed Ohio's lead and enacted mob violence or anti-lyning laws which are copies of our Ohio law. Several other northern states and at least one border state (Kentucky) have also enacted anti-lyning laws, in recent years, like Pennsylvania and New Jersey. The Ohio law follows: BBS. ed. g. representative of victim of lynching.ury by mob trying to lynch another. h. costs in tax levy. i. inst member of mob. j. 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.) 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 Code of Ohio: Sec. 12940. Whoever, being the proprietor or his employee, keeper or manager of an inn, restaurant, eating house, barbershop, 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 defined not less than fifty dollars nor more than five hundred dollars, or more than ninety days, or both Sec. 12941. Whoever violates the next preceding section shall also pay not less than fifty dollars nor more than five hundred dollars to the 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 what they should and must do for themselves, under it, in the courts. Judge Grant's Opinion of the Law. Misled 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 wrote its appeal to the fact that the Ohio Civil Rights law was good law and did not need amending. The following letter from Judge Grant former presiding judge of the Court of Appeals of the Eighth District of Ohio, is self explanatory: Akron, O., April 25, 1919. Hon. Harry C. Smith. Editor The Gazette, Cleveland, O. My Dear Sir: Observing your letter in the Beacon-Journal, of this city, I venture to send you, under a cover I have given Ohio Law Repo- ratory of the 3. last. Ohio Law opinion of the Court of Appeals in the Puritan Lunch Co. va, Leonard H. Formal, decided in Akron, last fall, in which a judgment for ($5000 five hundred dollars was sustained If the Beacon-Journal had known what was going on in its own town there would have been no occasion for criticism editorially. THE LAW OF OHIO IS UNDER NO RE- PRODUCTION, nor our courts and juries in a lawsuit against the word was said by the Beacon-Journal when the Forman case was reviewed. Very truly yours. R. C. Grant. 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 patronise those who ask in this paper for your patronage.—Editor. Reading it, Reading BEARDED MAN'S VOW OF '96 STILL STANDS Years Without Shave or Hair-cut—Has Them Trimmed When Bryan Gains Wilson's Chair. Waterloo, N. Y. —"I'll never shave or cut my hair until William Jennings Bryan is elected President of the United States of America." These were the words of William Hilkert of Ramulus, when the present Secretary of State was defeated by William McKinley in 1896. Today Hilkert has a beard reaching to his waist and long tangled hair of a grayish hue. He still believes that some time Bryan will be elected president, and still refuses to succumb to torsional inducements. He declares he will carry his beard to the grave before it will ever again be touched by scissors or razor. Away back in 1896 "Old Bill" as he is familiarly known, came "to town" to get the election returns. He had been a rabid Democrat since the time he had sent in his vote in 1864—from the Army of the Potomac—for "Little Mac" and found when he returned home that he had voted for Lincoln. Election returns in Waterloo that night were being received at the store of William H. Dempsey, now a prominent Democratic politician of this section, and thither Bill journeyed. Soon the vote began to trickle in. McKinley carried this state and that state. Bryan was running behind. Still Bill lingered. More returns came in, increasing McKinley's lead. Still Bill, hoping against hope, stayed on. Finally, when the result was no longer in doubt, he gave vent to his emotions. "I'll never shave or cut my hair until Bryan's elected President," he exclaimed. And his words have held true. The next morning he came to town again. This time he carried a mysterious bundle. He unwrapped it in Dempsey's store, displaying a sheep shears and a razor. Dempsey contributed an oil painting of Bryan and the whole collection was hung in the front window of the store, where they hang today, still causing comment, and necessitating the telling of the story almost daily. In 1900, when Bryan was again nominated against Roosevelt, Hilkert was certain he would get rid of his four years' growth. All arrangements were made for the anticipated death of Bryan, was commended on the principal corner of the village. Bill brought to town the largest ox on his farm. Dempsey was to shave him on the platform after Bryan was elected and the ceremony was to be followed by a barbecue, with the ox as the victim. But again Bill was disappointed. Roosevelt won. Four more years the razor and shears hung in the window. In 1904 the Democrats nominated Parker, and Hilkert lost his chance to rid himself of his ever growing hair appendage. In 1908, when Bryan was again nominated against Taft, Hilkert renewed hope. Again he brought an ox to town. Again the platform was erected, but again he was doomed to disappointment. Taft won. In 1912, Hilkert never had a chance. Woodrow Wilson was nominated and elected by the Democrats. Bryan was made Secretary of State. Still Bill's beard and hair continued to grow. "Never mind," said Bill when a friend stopped him, "there's lots more elections coming. I'm not dead yet, but if Bryan's never elected they will have to bury this armful of whiskers with me." Since Hilkert's store has changed hands it has been altered and remodeled, but still the picture of Bryan, with the sheep shears and razor dangling from the frame, hangs in the front window. This was the only condition under which Dempsey, owner of the building, would turn the lease over to the present owners. CHARMS WILDCAT WITH HIS MELODIOUS FLUTE Man Owes His Life to His Perfect Playing of the "Adeste Edilis" Spring Grove, Pa.—James Howard, living in the Bad Hills, near here, probably owes his life to his adaptability to music, a sweet toned flute and the insistence "Adeste Fidelis" being the means of saving his life in this particular instance. A few weeks ago while Howard was walking through that part of the Bad Hills which is yet inhabited by wildcats he was suddenly confronted by one hanging from a tree ready to spring. Being equal to the emergency, he opened his flute case, and brought forth the instrument and began playing the sacred hymn, whereupon the wildcat appeared to calm down a bit. While Howard played and watched the beast slowly began to descend from the tree, and with a last long-drawn whine disappeared in the forest. This incident is not unlike the case of Will H. Harding, of this place, who last summer charmed a large black snake in somewhat the same manner, only he did it with a mouth organ. THE ONLY HARASSING prospect confronting President Coolidge the number of lame ducks that will be foundering around next November.