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Book on "EyeCare" or "Eye Beauty" Free on Request THE GAZETTE ESTABLISHED, AUGUST 25, 1883 And Issued Every Week on Time Since CLEVELAND, OHIO, SATURDAY, JANUARY 23, 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. An Ohio Boy Col. Charles W. Fillmore, Former Major of Ohio's Old Ninth Battalion Twice Cited for Bravery During the World War. Served in Two Wars—Commissioned Lieutenant-Colonel by Gov. Al Smith of New York—Auditor for Tax Commission—Exceptional Military Record. PETER H. BURGESS New York City.—or people of the New York and Ohio, feel proud of the military achievements of Col. Chas. W. Fillmore who first saw the light of day in Ohio. After reaching a mature age, he enlisted in the national guard of that state, passing through the various grades of a soldier from prison to the staircase events succeeding the sinking of the "Maine" and the subsequent declaration of war with Spain that he offered his services to the government. President McKinley sent his name to the U. S. senate and he was commissioned a first lieutenant of the 9th U. S. infantry. He served with this organization under the commands of Generals Lawton and Wood, first as a battalion adjutant and then as a company commander. Thereaded FRESH OPEN Written By "The Gazette's Co. What Our People Are D Personal, Social, Lodge, Marriages, CADIZ.—Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Guy and Mrs. Carrie Guy of Steubenville were guests of Mrs. F. W. Lucas, Sunday.—Mrs. Edward Freeman, an aged resident of Hopedale, is seriously ill.—Mrs. Sarah Bosell has gone to Flushing to visit.—The Glee club drew an audience that taxed the capacity of St. James A. M. E. church, Sunday evening. Jan. 21, another special program will be rendered.—Rev. W. M. Lawrence of Mt. Pleasant preached, Sunday afternoon, at Simpson M. E. church.—The Brotherhood will have Wm. Pickens of New York City to address citizens here in the near future.—Tell your friends to take The Gazette, each week, from the local representative. 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., obtuary notices, inquiries for relatives and advertisements of all kinds, including items announcing entertainments to be heid 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. HILLSBORO.—J. R. Cole and Clarence Pleasant attended a masonic meeting in Washington C. H., recently.—Mr. and Mrs. Harley Rickman fever overtook him and, much against his wishes, he was sent home and honorably discharged, Nov. 15, 1898. For nearly a year he hovered between life and death as a result of his exposure to yellow fever. Recovering his health, he went to Washington, D. C., as a protege of the late Senator M. A. Hanna, and entered the U. S. treasury department. The humdrum of official life in Washington becoming irksome, he secured a transfer to the internal revenue service in New York City. When Col. Hayward was designated by Gov. Whitman to organize the old 15th New York Infantry, Fillmore was commissioned senior captain of the regiment, and as such he served with the troops overseas. During the Battle of the Champagne he was cited for bravery by General Petain, commanding the French Army Corps, and awarded the Croix de Guerre. For the remainder of the war he served on the staff of General B. Galleau, of the 92nd Division, and Col. Roberts of the 370th U. S. Infantry. Returning to civil life again, Col. Fillmore was appointed an auditor for the New York State Income Tax Bureau, where he has developed a keen insight for business management, efficiency and economy, a rare quality much sought for by commercial enterprises. His duties also bring him in contact with both big and small business and professional activities. He has interviewed thousands of persons during his connection with the Tax Commission, and by his dignity, solidity, bearing and personality has added much to his success and prestige in the community. OHIO NEWS The Old Reliable" correspondents Doing Each Week—Church, Literary and Musical—Deaths, Etc. entertained Mrs. Jessie Williams at dinner, Sunday.—Rev. Leroy Greene preached a splendid sermon at Wesleyan M. church, Sunday evening.—David Washington, sup.t. S. S., at Roxabell, again greatly pleased Mrs. J. Burr. Monday, by sending her another nice basket of good things by her husband. Miss Ella Jones, organist at Roxabell, also remembered Mrs. Burr with a nice piece of fancy work.—Mrs. Ellen Lamb has been ill for two weeks.—Mr. and Mrs. James Captain entertained Rev. and Mrs. R. L. Bray and family, Rev. L. H. Coleman at dinner, Sunday.—Mrs. and Mrs. Enoch Frye of Newport were here, Sunday guests of the latrine, Mrs. R. Mrs. and Mrs. Milton Daw.—John Williams and nephew, Barrett Williams, dined with Rev. and Mrs. James A. Young, Sunday.—Revival services at the Baptist church closed, Sunday night.—Rev. L. H. Coleman, state evangelist, of Louisville, Ky., who so ably assisted Rev. Bray, will long be remembered in our town and church. His sermons were elevating and spiritual. Rev. Bray was assisted. Monday evening, by the evangelist and Rev. Burr in ordaining deacons. Donations to the evangelist, over $50. ROXABELL.—The Second Baptist church is being largely attended by members of both races and is certainly raising the spiritual and financial standard of Christianity here, under the able leadership of its sterling pastor, Rev. J. J. Burr. Club No. 4, Mr. Al. Williams, pres., and a deacon of the church, "went over the top", Jan. 16, with its entertainment. Excellent music by the Community band, the officers of which are: Elmer Jones, pres.; Roy Wil- DOFFS HIS ROBES And Goes For a Policeman To Eject a Young Woman Choir-Member —Dr. Byrd in Action. Jersey City, N. 3.—The fashionable congregation of Lafayette Presbyterian church was shocked, Sunday when its pastor, Rev. Wm. A. Byrd, was compelled to put off his church robes and go out of the church to find a policeman. The incident oc- Rev. Wm. A. Byrd curred just before the opening of the morning service. From the pulpit the past r requested several officers of the church to find a policeman in order to eject Inez Branham, a pretty choir-singer, and her mother, Mrs. Selena Branham. When church officers hesitated, the Rev. Mr. Byrd acted. He disrobed, put on his hat and coat and went into the street, while the congregation, shocked, kept in their pews. In a few moments, he returned with a policeman and told the officer to put the two women out. The policeman hesitated, but finally asked the women courteously to leave when a lawyer in the congregation advised him to leave within his rights. The trouble between the choir singer and the pastor dated, it is said, from the appointment of a new choir leader, Prof. M. Adger, the addition of a musical quartet and a change in the choir rules. A. Our Banner-Salesman Goes To a New Ford Agency. George Early, for a number of years Cleveland's pioneer Ford salesman of the race, has joined the staff of Berichon-McGhee, Inc., authorized Ford dealers, 8711 Cedar Ave. Early has made an enviable record in the sales field. For years, he led the sales force of the Pollock-Davis Co. and in 1923 led all Cleveland salesmen. His connection with Berichon-McGhee will give him an opportunity to render better service than ever to his many customers. When you want a Ford do not fall to 'phone George Early and you will be less nervous, genial and anxious to please tell you who and what he is. Then, too, he is a native Clevelander. liams, mgr.; Ernest Johnson, sec.; Alonzo Jones, treas. We recommend the band highly to the churches in this section of the state. Great praise is due the following co-workers in the entertainment: Mesdames Al. Williams. Will Seward, John Wilson, Al. Byrd, Nathan Gibbs and Sam Brewer. Waltresses; Margaret Gibbs, Ella Jones and Elizabeth Seward. Our S. S. is still progressing most satisfactorily under the leadership of Supt. David Washington and his staff of teachers: Rev. Wilber Jones, Miss Weaver and Ella Jones, sec.; Ethel Jones, treas., Editor; Miss Mayey and sister; Mrs. Clarence Bolds, of Indianapolis, made short talks to the school, Sunday morning. Next Sunday, memorial services—Tell your friends to order The Gazette from the local representative. SINGLE COPY FIVE CENTS THOMAS UNANIMOUSLY RE-ELECTED PRESIDENT FOR ANOTHER YEAR Splendid Work Done at the Nation's Capital, Under His Aggressive Leadership—Cleveland's Local Branch Should "Sit Up and Take Notice"—Women Active, Too. (Special to The Gazette.) Washington, D. C.—At the large annual meeting, of the N. A. A. C. P. Washington branch, held at the Phillis Whettley Y. W. C. A., last Friday evening, Neval H. Thomas was unanimously re-elected President for the ensuing year. The annual report of Secretary A. S. Pinkett recited a long list of contests in which he had been engaged and many victories won, such as securing our boys the right to enter the baseball park as guests of the Chicago Na- lynched, before this same tribunal, had just argued the Curtis case before the U. S. Supreme Court. Mrs. Ella Rush Murray of New York who fought Alice Paul and the other white women of the suffrage movement when they tried to exclude our women from the party, and Mrs. Hallie Q. Brown of Ohio, who last spring made a speech in the auditorium to the Women of the World against segregation, were present and made timely remarks. The report of Sept. Wilkinson, treasurer of the branch, of the range of more than $700 Prof. Neval H. Thomas tionals and the Washington pennant winners of last year; the breaking down of the new discrimination in the U. S. Treasury department where segregation of our visitors was attempted; and his constant rights with Col. Sherrill even to the extent of following him to his new post as city manager of Cincinnati. O. to warn our people there to omit once to demand equal treatment. He also recited the President had with other individuals and groups and checked the attempts at segregation and exclusion of our people, such as working with Bishop E. D. Jones, J. A. Jackson, and his colleague, Mr. Walker, S. M. Dudley, and A. S. Pinkett against discrimination at the Union Station which was abolished; with W. D. Nixon, and H. E. Barnett of the Allied Citizens Associations to secure the demolition of the white bathing beach; and with Mrs. Milton A. Francis, and the ministers of the city at the our people equality in the Washington auditorium at the Roland Hays concert. Mrs. Jenny Richard Magnie, chairman of the Women's Committee of the city that conducted the big drive for funds for the Sweets case and the large mass meeting for Arthur Garfield Hays, called her group together before the meeting and voted to turn over to the branch a cheque for fifteen hundred dollars, with more for follow, with expression of confidence in the administration of the local branch, and pleasure at its many achievements in behalf of our people the capital and the name. She received the letter she arose, when in the meeting latter she arose, when in the meeting effective speech, declaring the loyalty of our women of Washington to the branch and the their foriece with it, delivered the their foriece with it, $1,500. President Thomas then called on Mrs. Milton A. Francis, as the first in the fight for civil treatment at the Roland Hays concert, and the president of The Ladies' Service Group that has for five years given entertainments for the benefit of the local branch. Mrs. Francis also, when in the Women's concert, gave an interlinear narrative of her appeals to the Boston Symphony Orchestra, her telephone and telegraph communications with the manager and publicity agents of the group, and her protests to the Auditorium authorities and Mrs. Wilson Green. She then expressed the confidence of her group in the administration of the branch, her appreciation of its service, and presented the branch with $375 in cash for its exclusive use. H. E. Barnet, chairman of the Press committee, reported the constant activity of his committee throughout the year in protests to the local press and to the various federal and municipal officials, principally his father, the bathing beach. James A. Cobb, made a report of the residential segregation case. This question has just agitated the city, as Moorfield St. of Boston. President of the N. A. A. C. P., and Louis Marshall of New York, who argued the famous case of Leo Frank, the Jew whom Georgia IN-UNION IS STRONGER THE COPY FIVE CENTS RANCH E FOR ALL LY RE-ELECTED PRESI- NOTHER YEAR the Nation's Capital, Under ship—Cleveland's Local Sit Up and Take hen Active, Too. lynched, before this same tribunal, had just argued the Curtis case before the U. S. Supreme Court. Mrs. Ella Rush Murray of New York who fought Alice Paul and the other white women of the suffrage movement when they tried to control Mrs. Hallee L. Brown of Ohio, who last spring made a speech in the auditorium to the Women of the World against segregation, were present and made timely remarks. The report of Supt. Wilkinson, treasurer of the branch, reported a balance of more than $700 remaining in the local treasury after it had paid more than its annual quota for the running expenses of the New York headquarters, and gave the funds to the Sweets Fund, soon to be augmented by more than $1,500 which the local branch will transmit from the Women's committee. MOORFIELD STOREY. An "Old Time" Friend of the Race— A Real Friend—Charles Sum- ner's Secretary. Boston, Mass.—Since 1910, Mr. Storey has been president of the N. A. A. C. P. At the age of 22, from 1867 to 1869, he was secretary to the great abolitionist, Senator Charles Summer, and lived through the stirring reconstruction struggles. Mr. Storey has been an overseer of Harvard College, editor of the American Law Review, president of the bureau of civil rights bar associations of his state and city, Massachusetts and Boston. He has written a life of Senator Sumner, published a series of lectures on the reform of legal procedure and has written numerous essays and pamphlets on matters of public concern. He has been identified with many movement for Philippine independ-cluding Civil Service reform. Indian rights movement for Philippine independence. On Jan. 8, 1926, Mr. Storey appeared before the U. S. Supreme Court, to argue against residential segregation in the Curtis case. Mr. Storey filed a brief in the case against "Grandfather Clauses" in 1915, won the Louisville segregation case in 1917 and won the Arkansas cases in 1921. He will also take part in the contest against the Texas "white primate" case in 1926 and prime Court in 1926. Not only has Mr. Storey argued the most important cases for our civil rights without fee, but has contributed upwards of $10,000 to the N. A. A. C. P. THE SWEETS BACK HOME Awaiting Their New Trial—Their Tour, en Route Home, A Success—Funds Raised at Meet- ings in Several Cities. Detroit, Mich.—Dr. Ossian H. Sweet who spoke at the annual mass meeting of the N. A. A. C. P. in N. Y. City, recently, has returned to await his second trial after completing a tour of five cities with Robert W. Bagnall, director of branches. The tour was most successful. In Philadelphia 2,500 persons turned out and gave $846 to the Defense Fund. In Baltimore an audience of 300 heard about the case, giving $145. In Pittsburgh 1,200 braved a blizzard to be present at the Sweet meeting, and gave $873. In Cleveland 2,000 people crowded the meeting place and others were turned away. They contributed $1,157. Everywhere the people were most enthusiastic in their interest. Mr. Bagnall told the story of the Sweet case while Dr. Sweet talked of conditions in Detroit that occasioned his case. ee : Sree! ER 7 y 1 WERE Tk gM gy eset Rin SRR SS" 5 y | Leon ee . deed — ot A ga | Sooo MearDi=-Twas = fy x all |Z Ue =e | Bde SSRs te aS | ROE SS ee “AI ie C os KISSING HiM— pes Ssh 8 wt ES reg Ny) AD i iN 7 2 x Ca Bi Gace aK ' nap 2 2 SY as ay LN i ] 7 Oy | | LMG 3 : 3 a : re wo a a Lo? “ny ; ig 7 z Z : ‘ of a Ir A aa Na MS, ° oe ee |e Fs) | eos eee eee i a —————— = RD B |S Oe ee ee aa The GAZETTE vOBLISHED BEVERY SATURDAY Se SUBSCRIPTION RATES > (in Advance) Bord eereeeneeernrens [OU Bix Momths ... 25. eeeee eres 2.00) Subscribers are requested to remit ‘by postoffice money order or, registered letter. Gatered at the postoffice in Cleve- land, Ohio, as second-class “mail matter Adaress all communications to HARRY ©, SMITH ‘Editor and Proprictor {Hk GAZETTE 226 W. Superior Ave., Cleveland, 0. (Bell "Phone: Cherry 1259) Member Obio Legislature: 1804 to 1806; 1806 to 1898; 1900 te 1902 ——— ‘THE GAZETTE is the oldest and se the largest bona fide circulation double that of any newspaper in the * terest of Afro-Americans publish- ‘sd im the state of Ohio ,and compar ison with any will iramediately ce tablish ite rank as one of the NEWS tags AND BEST im the country. —_——— 10,000,000 Afro-Americans. 859,000 im Obio. 44,000 im Cleveland, SATURDAY, JANUARY 23, 1926. The two “Charlies”, Charley An- aerson and Charlie Fillmore, make a pair of “Qhio Charlies in little old New York” hard to draw to, if we may be permitted to borrow an ex- pression of our card-playing friends. ol Charles A. Chandler and Charles W. White of this city have organized ‘a new law firm and announce that they are ready for practice, in their ‘new offices in the Bailey bldg., 2270 E. 56th St. The Gazette wishes you success, gentlemen! uli ‘The editor of The Gazette acknow!- edges the receipt, from Dr. R. R. Moton, principal of Tuskegee Ala. Normal and Industrial Institute, of an sppeiesion. to attend the 35th an- nual/Tuskegee “Negro’’ Conference, to. be held Jan. 27 and 28, the last day being our birthday. Although dur readers have not heard from Dr. Wm. A. Byrd for many months they will, we feel sure, be pleased to note the fact that the Doctor is still-very much, alive, as the Jersey City letter elsewhere in this paper indieates. If more of our ministers had the “gumption”’ to lead their congregations instead of being led by them, it would be in- finitely better for ail concerned, as a rule. so Sal Every N. A. A. ©. P, branch in this country ought to be made to study the work, the past year, of the Wash- ington, D. C. branch over which 90 ably presides Prof. Neval H. Thomas, the only unafraid and aggressive Jeader the race has in the District of Columbia which includes the na tion's capital, of course. Particular- ly to the Cleveland branch do we commend -its local activity and achievements, the past year. _ As we have taken occasion to Say, several times in the recent past, we repeat, and that is that we have known Edwin D. Barry, director of public safety of Cleveland, for many, many years, and well, too. ‘That is why we feel that there must be a mistake somewhere—after reading our friend, A. H. Dorsey's letter to him published in the sport news de- partment of this paper. We cannot for the life of us imagine a loyal Irishman and Catholic like him lin- ing up with any such fool ku klux sentiment and action as that outlined in the Dorsey letter referred to. Yes, there certainly must-be a mistake somewhere, Ed. Barry: is surely no such “chameleon” Irishman and Cath- ‘atte: So Roland Hays, the tenor soloist, bowed to the color-line drawn by prejudiced whites against his own people in the Lyric theater at Balti more where his recital there was held, last week. Sissle & Blake and others have dome the same thing. Well, until we produce the kind that will make any personal sacrifice, par- tieularly of dollars and cents, to con- serve the rights and privileges, par- ticularly the former, of their, our people, as a race we are not going to get very far “in the sun". Of that, all may rest assured. Funny, but Roland's next stop was, Pitts- Durgh where he and his secretary were given a taste of their own col- or-line at Loew's Aldine theater. They were refused admittance, and Pennsylvania has a civil rights law! Speaking of she Pittsburgh bank failure, the latest, a friend wrote us, this week, that he knew of an old lady of the race who sold her Ala- bama property and moved to Pitts- burgh with the $4,000. “She put $1,800 in this bank and the rest In the’ Garvey movement. Negroes learned she had the monéy and never Jet up running after her until they got it", he continued. This is just what we have time and again called attention to, last week being the Jatest “call”. The “skinners” are in every community, particularly every large city, and with brief case or satchel in band are after every one hey think ha» a little money, for the purpose of selling them “stock”, etc., Dace paytatag: to get the mousy. THE GEEVUM GIRLS They are like vultures. Why don’t our press and pulpit do more to warn our poor, hard-working people to beware of them, elles One David, Hawkins, fight promo- ter (white), was to stage a “Colored Charleston contest", Wednesday ‘eve- ning, at a local dance hall. He an- nounced thru the daily papers that “regular ballroom dancing for col- ored people only would take place before and after the contest”. Also, that “a small part of the gallery would be saved for white people who wish to see the contest, and that no white people would be allowed on the dance floor as the event was ex- clusively for the people who made the Charleston famous". This. is what very naturally follows local “Jim crow” Negroes’ requests for sep- Jarate institutions of one kind and anogher, from “Jim crow” wards in | hospitals to the “jim crow” deten- tion (Talbert) home, the Phyllis || Wheatley home, ete., ete. If you sat still without protest when these and ’| many other “jim crow’! schemes were "| being hatched and pushed forward, "| do not yell now, but take your medi- "eine as gracefully as you can, Of | course, it is all wrong and hurts and retards the race’s progress. ‘The Standard Life Insurance Co., of Atlanta, Ga., is now The Standard Life Insurance Co. of Arkansas, just purchased by whites for $750,000 from the Southern Insurance Co. (white) of Tennessee which got it for $275,000 when it was about to fail, some months ago. “Negro” mismanagement had ‘all but ruined the company, according to Julius Rosenwald, the Chicago philantropist Who was asked to help save it and started to do so only to find that those same “Negro” officials had ‘even misrepresented the Standard’s ‘condition to him, the friend to whom ener were appealing for financial aid, ‘This tells the story of about all the “Negro” bank failures, four or five in/the South and two in Pennsyl- vania, the past year, and explains why 80 many of our business enter- prises “go to the wall”. Crooked or incompetent offici*ls, and too often both, “Negroes”, who were never able to make and save a dollar for themselves, using other _people’s money in avait effort to make money for them. Can you beat it? ‘Lord, have mercy! : pe —lli— ANOTHER BANK GONE “BLOOEY!” “Frozen Assets’ Blamed as the Wyh, Ave. Institution Is Taken ‘Over by State Rxaminers— — / Involves $500,000. Pittsburgh, Pa.—‘Frozen assets” wag given, last week, as the reason for closing the Steel City Bapking Company, a private partnership of Negroes,” which operated a general ‘banking business at 801 Wylie Ave., with a branch bank at 6309 Broad St., Bast End. The bank was closed by Chief Banking Examiner R. P. Ferguson, who said that although no exact figures are available, more than $500,000 is involved and about 5,- 000 ‘depositors, all “Negroes”, are affected by the closing. Operating as a private partnership the bank, which was organized in 1919, had not been subject to examination until the pass- ing of legislation in May, 1925, which gave the State Banking Department control over the operations of pri- vately owned banks. Examination of the books disclosed that practical- ly all its cash was invested in real estate and mortgages. There was'not sufficient money on hand to meet the depostors’ daily demands and the as- sets could not readily be liquidated. Robert G. Dickson was placed .in temporary charge by Chief Exam- iner Ferguson who said that there has been nothing of a criminal na- ture in the operations of the bank @isclosed by the examination, but that the heavy investments had sim- ply made it “land poor”. ‘The Rev. J. ©, Austin, pastor of the Ebenezer Baptist church, is vice president of the bank; Atty. Arthur G. Steven- son, secretary and cashier; and John H, Pletcher, assistant cashier. Rev. M.S. Hunter, who was president of the bank, resigned some time ago. Records and cash on hand in the East Liberty branch were transferred to the Wylie Ave. institution. There was no tun on the bank, although a large crowd of curious persons and small depositors gathered about the adors of the bank at the time it was Supposed to open, one day last week. A brief notice to the effect that the bank is now in possession of Peter G. Cameron, secretary of banking of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, was posted on the doors of both banks. ‘The directorate of the bank, all “Negroes”, includes: J. W. Lov- ing, the Rey, J. C. Austin, W. H. Hughes, L, H. Walker, J. H. Johnson, J. H, Fletcher, James M. Burwell, Hampton Ricketts, Joseph James, Shadrack Fields, Miles Sales, W. B. Shorter, the Rev. J. H. Johnson, Au- gustus Hargrove and Atty. Arthur D. Bataneon:. THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, O.SATURDAY, JANUARY 28, 1926. . a ° Faith Strong in a EY a Ge = . Ae. Be 7 pupil ee fee. ome Bog ag rit erty Dacadpeny TE BRE wisced that it saved ber life, writes: HP ~ apace “or nad carry of the stomach, bows a ad Bed get ate, ae tert fee. 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All Chris- tlans ought to abstain from that sort of thing.” Martin ‘has gone barefooted since he was 10, when he says he heard a voice commanding him to preach sal- Yation for all, and to wear neither hat nor shoes. He tells how people have tried to imitate him and have shivered. “['m not cold. Christ is a lamp unto my feet,” he says. He Was born in Virginia and has preached in the open in many cities In Virginia, West Virginia and Ohio, he says. Te has been in Cleveland eght months and plans to go to In- Gianapolis and Chicago next, then to New York. He lives with ‘his wife and four children, all girls, at 2126 Orange Ave. PRIME SPORT NEWS Rowing (o The Ku Klux Sentiment: ‘The following letier is self-explan- atory: Cleveland, 0., Nov. 14, "25. — Mr. Edwin D. Barry, Director of Publie Safety, Cleveland, Ohio. Dear Sir:—I was very much dis- gusted and chagrined in looking over the sport page of the Plain Dealer, Nov. Sth issue, to see where you, as the final authority or chiet “pooh- bah” of the local boxing commis- sion, had decreed that here in this fair’ city, only whites could box whites, blacks could fight blacks, yel- lows versus yellows, reds versus reds, and so on “ad nauseum”. I intend: ed to write you the next day in pro- test agalilst this discriminatory or- der, but haye been very busy. ‘This idea of you officials that mixed fights are bad is all bosh. The fight fans care little about the color of a boxer if he can really fight and fight clean. With the real fan there Is no color line. ‘They want the “goods”. An- other thing, if New York City under real democracy (Tammany _ Hall, Jim Walker, Judge Olvany, Smith) €an and does ‘sanction mixed bouts, if Boston led by fair-minded Jim Curley and his Democratic hosts can applaud inter-race boxing, if the Democratic strongholds of New Jer sey (Newark and Jersey City) led by Mayor Hague, Newt Bugbee and Gov- ernor-elect Moore can attend and be satisfied at mixed bouts, if Philadel- phia, the “Brotherly Love City”, can pack the halls to see high-class col- ored and white boxers perform, why in heaven's name Is it so obnoxious here under you so-called Republic- ans? Echo answers why? ‘How do you get that way? As a taxpayer, citizen, sport lover and Republican, I know that I voice the opinion of hundreds of fellow - Clevelanders (scores of whom I have talked to) when I say that we ask you to re- seind this southernistic, kukluxistic, un-democratic and un-republican or- der. 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McIntire's sister-in-law, Mrs. Ether William's of Akron, visited her, the week-end, returning home., Tusday. Phil Taylor, E. 40th St., and Wm. Edw. West, E. 46th St., write from Detroit that they are in good health and having a fine visit. Mrs.' Luella Jackson, 2165 E. 70th St., widow of the Rev. John Jackson, who has been quite ill all winter, thus far, is still very sick. Dr. Quinn Montgomery, a graduate of Ohio State university dental school, has located with Dr. Hendricks, E. 36th and Central Ave. Alfred Berry, an active mission worker when here, died in Pasadena, Calif., last week. He was a brother of Mrs. Mary McNeal of the Old Folks' home. J. Finley Wilson, G. E. R.; of the Elks and editor of proprietor of the Washington (D. C.) Eagle, called on The Gazette, Monday, accompanied by District Deputy W. W. Williams. Atty. Wm. R. Stewart, Dr. J. H. Wallace, H. G. Emerson and F. W. Harper were here from Youngstown, last week, to attend the annual meeting of the Anchor Life Insurance Co. King Tut lodge of Elks installed its newly elected officers, recently, James F. Green, husband of Mrs. Nellie Jackson Green, is the new exalted ruler. District Deputy W. W. Williams officiated. Atty. W. M. Saunders left, recently, for a trip to Florida to see his mother and other relatives. He will visit in Washington and New York City on his return, and be gone about four weeks. A two-day cold school-room gave Mrs. Ida M. B. Cash, one of our local public school-teachers, a very severe cold from which she suffered greatly, last week and the first of this. Mrs. Gertie L. Maxwell, E. 83d St. THE GEEVU THE GEEVUM GIRLS *M. KLEIMAN'S 2928 Central Ave. BENJ. AKERS', 3519 Central Ave. *THE S. & S. 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City, will be the soloist. Sunday night two men started fighting outside Robinson's Drug store and could not stop until they had broken one of its large plate glass windows. Then they "lit out." It was a "mixed" fight—one of each race. At Mt. Zion Cong. church's Sunday vesper service (at 4 p.m.), Wm. Panky, tenor; Elizabeth Singford, soprano; George Edwards, violin, and Carrie Booker, pianist, all of Oberlin conservatory, were featured. Mrs. Chas. Griffin died, last week Thursday. Funeral, Saturday. Her sister, Mrs. Cora R. King of Los Angeles, and a brother, Fred Robinson, of New York City, survive her and have the sympathy of many friends. The O. K. Printing Co., 3119 Central Ave. has one of the nearest and nicest book stores (The Acme) in the city, next to its place of business. We urge our readers to patronize both the store and printing plant. The latter does first-class work and at reasonable rates. The funeral of Rev. Allen Sloan, former assistant pastor of E. Mt. Zion Baptist church book place from the church. Hundreds of admirers of the deceased evangelist and singer were on hand to pay tribute. Rev. Sloan was ill only four days with an attack of double pneumonia. "Sonny" Davis, a Cleveland, accidentally killed in Detroit, last week Thursday, by a close friend, left a wife and two children, and parents, residents of this city. The funeral, Monday, from Mt. Zion Cong. church was largely attended, the Elks in a body, led by their band making a conspicuous part in the services. St. John's choir will give its 38th Sunday afternoon recital, Jan. 24th, from 4 to 5 p. m., as usual. It will have the assistance of the Carnegie Museum, Mitchell, tralto; Luther King, tenor, and Wm. Thomas, baritone, Handel and Chalkowsky compositions will be given by the choir, Mr. Carroll Scott, director. Everybody welcome. All of our older residents know Dr. W. F. Staniforth whose advertisement appears elsewhere in The Gazette. He is the pioneer in the dog and cat hospital business in Cleveland and has been wonderfully successful as all well know. "Doc" has been equipped with all the latest hospital improvements. So if you need his services at any time do not hesitate to call there or 'phone. Hs is the best in the city in his line. 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- M GIRLS HURRY, SIS!--WE'RE LATE AS CAN BE! THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, O. SATURDAY, JANUARY 23, 1926 The FIRST and ONLY Cab Company Owned and Operated by OUR GROUP in the State of Ohio. IT EARNESTLY SOLICITS YOUR PATRONAGE. earned money, were treated as was that cashier of the defunct Albermarle bank at Elizabeth City, N. C., recently, 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 leading race business enterprises in the last two years. Lord, have mercy! Our Council of Women holds its meetings at the Mary B. Talbert home, E. 40th St., the first and third Tuesday evenings in each month. The home is the "jim-crow" annex of the Salvation Army Rescue home—a sort of "a black tail to a white kite". It was established in recent montius with the connivance of "Negroes". It is enough to make the remains of Mary B. Talbert turn over in the grave. SHE never endorsed "jim-crow. Mrs. Talbert was one of the highest-class graduates of Oberlin College and one of the two or three leading women of the race to the day of her death. Editor J. H. Watson, of Albany, Ga. should have used the word sliding instead of slipping in speaking of the "Negro's" political retrogression in the last fifteen or twenty years. The Albany Allies did the day and time are almost without exception nothing but "bootlicking" political errand-boys for white politicians. 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 police in job for themselves, and work overtime for their political bosses trying to help them fool our people. The Charleston contest, scheduled for Wednesday evening in public auditorium, was forbidden during the afternoon by Safety Director Barry when he was informed by a committee of our people that segregation of spectators was planned. Protests were made by George A. Myers and others, who declared the segregation plan was illegal. Barry, who said he forbade the dance for other reasons aside from the proposed segregation, ordered a detail of police to watch the hall during the evening to see that one entered—Cleveland Daily News. If Barry did say that WHY did he say it? Find out, Bro. Myers! Emmanuel Ross, seventeen-year-old youth condemned to die in the electric chair for the murder of Islidore Steeck in his confectionery at 3214 Central Ave. Nov. 5, was called as a surprise witness in criminal court. Wednesday, to testify against his pal, King Young, on trial for first degree murder for the same killing. Ross declared that Young furnished the weapon and commanded him to fire the fatal shot. The state rested with Ross' testimony. Young, in a statement to police declared the weapon used in the property of Ross, that Ross fired the shot of his own volition. Judge McMahon, who presided at the trial of Ross, cut the attorney fees of the youth's counsel, Herman Finkle and James P. Mooney, from $1,456 each to $1,000 each. The attorneys were appointed by the court. THE DEFENSE FUND! TOTAL CONTRIBUTIONS to the N. A. A. C. P. Defense Fund for the Sweet Case, amount to $71,166.16, which is in excess of the amount originally asked. 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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 census-takers in this city 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 should not hold office where white people complained. Segregation, then, is a Republican institution and not a Democratic one. It was begun by Republicans, and carried on to its all-embracing extent by Republicans! There is far more of it in the departments, today, than at any time since the Negro first appeared, close upon the close of the Civil War. The picture requirement in the civil service, which makes it next to impossible for a colored lady or gentleman to enter the civil service, since their color is disclosed in their photograph which must accompany their papers, is tenactically told on to by our Republican President. Only last week, a colored girl appeared after having passed best examination, and after having been telegraphed for by the department. The photograph had told 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 Calvin President Coolidge from North Carolina, the home of the other favorite and leader of the segregation force. Col. Sherrill, superintendent of buildings and grounds, it is not use to complain of either of our southern gentlemen. these 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 more nod of his head, are at a level 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.) (Special to Washington, D. C. — In the postface segregation is amount. The faithful colored clerks work under constant intimidation and physical disadvantages. The department maintains a spacious caerla 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 when they rebel that they are far more capable than the whites, and 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, a com for t able lounges and other equipment for rest, sociability, and recreation, and nothing for these same colored employees. This private club is in the magnificent postoffice building, built and maintained by ALL of the people. In the locker room the segregation, and segregation is even attenuated to the toilet. And all of us 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, 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, unyielding caste passes with him, one after another, though many of the colored employees have won contests of quickness and accuracy in the handling of mail. The colored clerks have dared to form a union which meets regularly and often sends manly and intelligent protests to the postmaster, and often 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.) (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 there on account of the older and more lucrative of the 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 caterain in this huge structure where all of the employees may go, but there are a few tables in an out-of-the-way room set out for our employees, an gnid to say that tew, 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 or 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 promiscuity there. In the inferior white pass over our superior employees to directive positions, and higher salaries. The whites have a large recreational center in this public building with many fine appointments for rest and amusements. During lunch and dinner hours they repair to this resilient retreat for sociability and dance. Last fall, a young Afro-American with a splendid record in his work, felt the need for exclusion, so keenly 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 he was forced to dance the dance included 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 dismissed. Employees are taught that there is no way of escape for one who dares to resent the daily insults that their government (under President Coolidge) gives them. Many of the employees have expressed their deeply-wounded feelings to me at being considered a pariah by the government whose institutions they are serving so faithfully, and I have taken up a number of cases only to be met by a dental that the conditions complained of exist, and a request for the names of my informant. I knew the fate these informants were suffer from growing anguish! The department then taking the position that it cannot take up the case. It is perfectly clear that this iniquitous scheme of segregation is a difficult thing to fight, since the government THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, O. SATURDAY, JANUARY 23, 1926 is so well settled upon it, and the complainants cannot bear witness to it. (Special to The Gazette) (Special to The Gazette) Washington, D. C.—Segregation in the bureau of engraving and printing has an interesting history involving President Thomas Woodrow Wilson and members of his family, three heroic young colored women who lost their positions as a result of their protest, and the noble wife of Senator Robert La Follette. Shortly after the accession of Mr. Wilson to the White House, a member of his family visited the bureau where she saw white and colored girls working together in perfect harmony and in 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 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 discouraged, she came out one stormy afternoon to the Y. M. C. A. them to outrage the fight for democracy was at the crises. Oswald Garrison Villard came to town to attack White House and Cabinet and arouse our people, and the Nation Association secured publicity in over six hundred influential white papers in the country. The fight checked what was thought to be the intention of the segregators, namely, the elimination of the colored employees from the bureau altogether. The same segregation which some of our people think is the cherished institution of the Democrat party is still there, in all of its fulness, under the administration of the party that Abraham Lincoln, Charles Summer 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 male 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 medicoceal 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 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's traitors are he, the Treasury 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 None of them are not 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 farer; The various forms of segregation exist here as well as elsewhere—the restaurants closed or divided along color lines, and special toilets, locker rooms, rest rooms, etc., set off for colored. The toilets for the colored are few in such a large structure. Hence, the segregated clerks are forced to endure physical inconvenience at times, and are forced to travel long distances when they desire the use of them. The department maintains a huge, magnificent cafeteria, in the splendid sweep of woodland along our national driveway, where white people of every class can come to rest, dine, and socialize at afternoons and evenings at minimum costs. The white press of the city is constantly telling of the thousands who take advantage of this "delightful retreat," and the festive scene that their presence creates. It seats two thousand diners with space to spare; but not one Negro! His only share is in the taxes he is forced to pay for this luxury for another group! The registries of the treasury, which Republican Presidents have given the Negro since Garfield appointed Blanch K. Bruce, is now filled by a white man, and the colored people are congregated in a separate room which is publicly proclaimed as "a colored division." When it is discovered that Negro clerks are "working as white" in other divisions, they are promptly transferred to this "colored division." Our people fear that protest against this segregation would result in the abolition of the division altogether; so they remain in a dilemma, fearing to act. Our clerks must accept segregation or elimination, and be poor, with no other opportunity to escape the southern slopes that must take the former. They are depressed at the wrong, but economic stress compels endurance of it. By a single stroke of his pen, President Calvin Coolidge can stop every bit of this damnable segregation, just as he can condemn that lawless organization the Ku Klux Klan. COOLIDGE'S SEGREGATION Washington, D. C.—We wish to call attention to the fact that in the fight against the segregation of our government employees, the Treasury Department will most likely be the center of attack, for segregation in several of its bureaus has been most pronounced. This is particularly true of the office of the register of the treasury and the internal revenue bureau. In the former, beaver board walls were maintained until recently. In the latter there have been two cases of discrimination on account of color brought to public view. The words, announcing the election of President Coolidge, were hardly cold before the effort to increase segregation in the U.S. was on again at full speed. It had slowed up a little during the campaign. Investigation of Burcucs 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. Bonsus Bureau — a segregated section of 60 Afro-American employ- Bonus Section Bonus section of the War Department—one segregated section of 180 of our employees. "WORTH ITS WEIGHT IN COLON!" Cleveland, O., Aug. 28th, 1925. Hon. Harry C. Smith, Editor, Gazette, 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 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 John, as the Scotch would say, like two McNeils, but when you I 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 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 Bace—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; for offlaw, shall be deemed to constitute a "lynching" within the meaning of this chapter. An act of violence by a mob upon the body of any person shall constitute a "lynching" within the meaning of this chapter. Section 6279. The term "serious injury," for the purpose of this chapter, shall include such injury as permanent or temporary reason it from earning a livelihood by manual labor. (93 v. 161 3.) Section 6280. A person taken from officers of justice by a mob, and assaulted with whips, clubs, missiles or in any other manner, may recover, as hereafter provided, a sum not to exceed one thousand dollars as damages from the county in which the assault is made (§ 32 v. 1, 14). Section 6281. A person assaulted and lynched by a mob may recover, from the county in which such assault is made a sum not to exceed five hundred dollars; or, if the injury received therefrom is serious, a sum not exceeding one thousand dollars; or, if such injury result in persecution by manual labor, a sum not to exceed five thousand dollars. (§ 32 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 according to 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 6236. If the decedent so lynched has minor children surviving him, the fund shall be turned over to a regularly appointed guardian. Such guardian shall administer such fund under the direction of the probate judge, allowing not more than five hundred dollars for counsel fees in the action for such recovery. (93 v. 162 9.) Section 6237. 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 6238. 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-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. sed. g. representative of victim of lynchingury by mob trying to lynch another and costs in tax levy. h. 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 in failing to protect such county or dispense such mob (93 v. 163 11.1) Section 6239. 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 fined not less than fifty dollars nor more than five hundred dollars, or nor more than ninety days, or both 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 Misled by the foolishly manufactured outcry for the passage of the Heaty Hill, a few years ago, the Akron Gazette, published an editorial to which the editor The Gazette replied, calling its attention 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. Editor, The Gazette, Cleveland, O. My Dear Sir: Observing your letter in the Court of Appeals, the city, I venture to send you, under a 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 ($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 citation; edited THE LAW OF OHIO IS UNDER THE PROACH, nor our courts and juries, in administering it. Not a 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 patronize those who ask in this paper for your patronage. Editor. Reading it, Reading Small Man Chastised by Big Woman Only Entitled to Sympathy, Judge Rules. THE WIFE IS GRANTED FREEDOM Los Angeles, Cal.-Declaring that a woman may smoke cigarettes and still be entrusted with the care of her children and that a man of fragile proportions, who is chastised by a wife of Amazonian statue, is entitled to sympathy, but not a divorce, Judge Monroe adjusted the marital difficulties between Fred Shunko, wealthy furniture manufacturer, and Sarah Shunko. A decree was given to Mrs. Shunko as a personal gift from the court, but not on either of the above grounds, which were the basis of the complaint brought by her husband. Judge Monroe also took the custody of the two little daughters from both parents and will consign them to some guardian or institution. Here was the burden of the husband's complaint: That his wife, whose form is molded on heroic lines, frequently beat him. That she chased him armed with a pair of scissors and threatened to imminent him. That she smoked cigarets and abused him in the presence of their little daughters. To which the wife retorted: That her husband was habitually intemperate and that her demonstrations against him were deserved. Shunko took the witness stand and attempted to relate his marital woes. He produced three cartridges which, he said, he had taken from a revolver with which his wife had threatened to shoot him; also, he produced the fragments of a watch which, he said, she had seized and stamped on, and as proof of the charge that she had chased him with a pair of shears he exhibited the shears. "Also tell the court about your wife's smoking cigarets," said Mr. Shunko's attorney. "I don't want to hear it," said Judge Morroe. "I will never grant a divorce or take a woman's children away because she happens to smoke cigarets," he said. "That seems to have become somewhat of a custom among certain rich and idle woman and the canons of society do not invigilate against a woman's privilege of smoking. If rich women may smoke I cannot forbid a poor woman from doing so; therefore, let us hear no more about cigarets." The court listened sympathetically to Shunko's recital of his woes, and then said: "Under the law neither is entitled to a divorce on the evidence presented. However, I won't ask either to live longer with the other and will award a decree to the wife. From what the court has learned I don't think either is fit to raise these little girls. Therefore I will take them from the custody of both parents." CLOSE CALL FOR MERRYMAKERS Incident Revives Talk About Dangerous Railroad Crossings. Leslie, Mich.—There are three very dangerous railroad crossings in this village, points where all view of approaching trains is obstructed by buildings. Two persons have been killed and there have been frequent narrow escapes. The latest "close call" might have been a shocking affair. Lee Rivard was driving a merry party to town Friday evening to attend doings at Odd Fellows' Hall. When near the railroad tracks on Mill street they were laughing and having a good time and forgot about the trains and tracks until one of them suddenly screamed, "The cars." The horses were on the track and Rivard shouted to them. The horses jumped forward and the sleigh just cleared the track when the engine went whizling by. Three of the occupants were thrown from the back of the sleigh, and the suction of the train almost pulled them under. Something should be done to safeguard these dangerous crossings. FAMILY RANGE BLOW TO BITS Woman Unhurt by Nearly Two Hundred Flying Missiles Middletown, Pa.—Though fragments of an exploding kitchen stove flew past her in all directions as she was seated at a sewing machine, not three feet away, Mrs. Emmanuel D. Bamberger not only had a marvelous escape from death in the dining room of her home, at Highspire, but did not suffer even so much as a scratch. Fragments, numbering nearly 200, of what once was a beautiful No. 9 range were showered through the air like shrapnel.