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ESTABLISHED, AUGUST 25, 1883 And Issued Every Week on Time Since CLEVELAND, OHIO, SATURDAY. FEBRUARY 20, 1926 What Our People Are Doing Each Week—Church, Personal, Social, Lodge, Literary and Musical Marriages, Deaths, Etc. Lima, Ohio OADIZ—A large crowd attended the Inter-racial meeting at Long's theatre, Sunday afternoon. It was a success. Rev. W. H. Lucas, presided and introduced the speakers: Dr. Virgil Turner of First M. E. church, Dr. Rudolph Lippincott of the Presbyterian church, Dr. J. H. Wharton of Christian church, Dr. Charles Gilmore of the U. P. church and Dr. Charles M. Hogans of St. A. M. Music was furnished by the Glee club, Mrs. Hugans, director. Offering $40. Miss Edna Freeman, who died from Gallipoli, Thursday, was buried at St. James church. Tuesday—Harry Jackson of Martin's Ferry visited his family, Sunday. CORRESPONDENTS must mall 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 which returned copies. The latter is done, proper credit cannot be given you. Lists of names, wedding presents, etc., obituaries, inquiries, etc., and advertisements of all kinds, including items announcing entertainments to be heed 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. ROXABELLL. — Lincoln memorial exercises were held at the Sunday morning services at Second Baptist church. An excellent program: Reading, Mrs. Al. Jones; recitals, Ethel and Allie Jones; poem, reprint of "The Wonderful Weaver, who also served as master of ceremonies. The music was very good. At the evening service, our pastor, the Rev. J. J. Burr, paid high tribute to Frederick Douglass and Lincoln, the greatest character in American history. The band's entertainment in Frankfort was a suc- PULPIT EXCHANGE, 'APPLIED BROTHERHOOD' Race Relations Observed in Many Churches Here, Sunday; Observance of Day is the Fourth Throughout the Nation. Applied brotherhood and good will were the underlying features of the four amalgamations of race relations Sunday. In the churches throughout the country. Four years ago at the suggestion of the commission on the Church and Race Relations of the federal council of the Churches of Christ in America, an attempt was made to have addresses upon this subject by pastors of denominations and whose valuable perspective on races were invited to exchange pupils. This was done in a number of Cleveland churches, Sunday. Rev. John Prucha, secretary of the commission on race relations of the Federated Churches, arranged the following schedule: Rev. E. A. Clarke, of St. John's A. M. E. church, with Rev. J. H. Blackburn, of Pearl Road M. E. church. Rev. J. P. Foote, of the St. Paul's A. M. E. Zion church, with Rev. Harvey E. Holt, of North Pereyterian church. Rev. C. L. Jefferson, of St. Mark's Presbyterian church, with Rev. Fred L. Harper, of Bethany Presbyterian church. Rev. Fred L. Zion church, with Rev. L. J. Sharp of Archwood Congregational church. Rev. Joseph Evans, of St James A. M. E. church, with Rev. O. E. Krueger, of Second German Baptist church. Rev Mack T. Williams, of Antioch Baptist church, with Rev E. W. Bloomquist, of Calvary Baptist church. Rev. Charles E. Crable, M. Haven Baptist church, with Rev E. W. Bloomquist, of Calvary formed church. Rev. Drew J. Roberts, of Jones Road Cong. church, with Rev L. H. Brown, of Lane Metropolitan C. M. E. church. Calls It a Moral Crusade. Calls it a Moral Crusade. "In a country such as ours where man, social and national groups dwell there, the good and good will cannot be limited to one or two races," said Dr. George E. Haynes, secretary of the federal council's commission on race relations. "On this, our four Race Relations Sunday, the members of various racial and national groups cess."—Mr. Al. Williams is able to be out again.—A reception was given for Mrs. Mae Pryor's daughters, Mrs. Clarence Bolds and Miss Dorsey Payne. They returned to Indianapolis. Wednesday."—The Old Rellable" Gazette tells you the TRUTH all the time and is fearless in its efforts in behalf of our people. This knows and knows much more. Do not fail to purchase a copy, every week, and keep in touch with matters racial. HILLSBORO.—At the union meeting at the A. M. E. church, Sunday, important topics were discussed by Charles Colter, Clarence Riggs, John Johnson, Charles Bolden, Wm. Wm. Green, Rev. A. P. Mayle, John Killour and Rev. J. Blake—Mrs. Anna Hill, Floyd Holland and Mrs. Rhoda Kittrell have been ill—Mrs. Charles Colter was called to Jamestown, last week. Mrs. Rhoda Kittrell was father, Mr. Ross Hough. Lang Young also attended the funeral.—John Edward, infant son of Mr. and Mrs. Isaac Hudson, died, Feb. 11. Funeral service at the home, Friday, 2 p. m., conducted by Rev. J. J. Burr.—Wilbur Jackson and Miss Annabell Williams were married, Feb. 4, by Rev. R. L. Bray.—Glen Jones was not seriously injured.—Mr. and Mrs. Theo. Rose of Jamestown spent Sunday evening with Mr. and Mrs. Charles Colter.—A "mock trial" in the hall at Frankfort, March 5, staged by the Community band. Clarence Pleasant will assist in prosecuting the case, and Mr. Lomax of Chillcothe will be one of the attorneys invited. Eve Frankfort will be invited—Mrs. Laura E. Minor, one of our old residents, died, Saturday evening. Several days previous, she fell and broke a limb. Funeral services, Wednesday, 2 p. m., at the A. M. E. church of which she was a life-long member. Mrs. Minor leaves a daughter, Mrs. Hattie Brister; two sisters, Mrs. McCormick of Ollam; Mrs. Josephine of Columbus; two nieces, Mrs. Maudie Hawkins of Chicago and Miss Edna Elliot of Detroit, all of whom were here to attend the funeral, and many other relatives and friends. may become better acquainted with one another and more tolerant and Christian. "This is a moral and religious crusade into which the church and co-operating agencies must throw themselves. The churches of America have been the foremost pioneers in the education and advancement of Colored people. All the racial groups are seeking equality opportunity and justice. Every effort should be made to promote mutual understanding and co-operation. The practical operation of brotherhood can be established in this land if we persistently work for it." "Down Home"! Austin, Texas—Our lawyers, appearing for the first time in the state supreme court were not permitted to use the term "Mister" in speaking to each other. The lawyers were S. A. Watkins, James E. White and Tilford H. Smith, of Houston. The case, of nation-wide interest, involved the Right of our people to enter the pass and rituals of the Shrine organization. It is that of Burrell versus Muscheaux. An injunction against our Houston Shriners was obtained by the white organization. Our order is the Egyptian Order of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. The other order is the Ancient Arabic Order of the Mystic Shrine. A New "National Song". Chicago, IL.—Through the Educational Music Bureau, of this city, Hermes Zimmerman, Afro-American composer, has succeeded in securing national distribution for his march song, "America First and Forever." It has made such a hit with the school supervisors of Chicago and Evanson that it has been translated for use in the public schools by non-English speaking citizens. Musical critics declare that "America First and Forever" is one of the best national march songs of recent years. Principal Moton Back. Tuskegee, Ala. — After several weeks in John Hopkins hospital Baltimore, followed by a brief rest at Hampton Institute. Dr. R. R. Moton, principal of Tuskegee, has returned to his desk. GIVEN CHAIR TO TEACH LATIN! In a New York High School—Remarkable school-Career of Melva L Price, a wonderful Girl of The Race. New York City.—Twenty years ago William J. Price and wife forsook their North Carolina home and settled in New York City. The third member of the family was Melva, 3 years old. On Feb. 1, the life's ambition of the proud parents was realized when their daughter began her chosen career as a teacher of Latin in the James Madison High school, Brooklyn. Her admirers' assertions that Miss Melva L. Price is an exceptionally well-educated student, substantially substituted by her record as a student. In elementary and high school and college she led her class. From each she was graduated with highest honors. In June, 1916, she was valedictorian when her class finished in public school No. 158, Brooklyn. This honor was paid her for having made A in conduct and A in work in all her classes throughout the school. At graduation from the Bushwick school, Brooklyn, in June, 1920, she was the highest average in all the years forwards was 89. In the regents' examinations her average in Latin for that period was 95, and 93 in German and in all subjects. Entering Hunter college, Miss Price continued to lead her class, year after year. In June, 1922, she was signally honored upon completing her studies. She made the highest general average, graduating with summa cum laude. She was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, awarded the also G. Hunt competitive examination in Latin and Greek, and awarded the highest silver medal, and awarded the highest record in course of study in the methods of teaching. New laurels were won by her in June, 1924, when she took the examination for an elementary school teacher's license and passed with an average of 93.2. Of the entrants who passed, her mark was the highest last. The highest competitive examination in Latin and Greek, and awarded the highest silver medal, she taught Latin in the high school department of Teacher college. From September, 1924, to January, 1925, she was a teacher in-training in Latin at Thomas Jefferson High school, Brooklyn. Upon being awarded her diploma to teach in the elementary school, she last. The highest public school No. 157, St. Nicholas Academy St., from which she resigned last month. Miss Price attributes much of her success to encouragement received from Dr. Elias Lieberman, principal, and Dr. George M. Fallon, assistant principal of Thomas Jefferson High school, and the late Dr. Frank L. Rollins, who was principal of Bushwick High school. While attending the high school of Lieberman and Dr. Fallon, he were hired of English and chairman of the Latin department respectively. Impressed with the young woman's ability in Latin, they advised her to go to college. "How did you come to take to Latin as a duck does to water?" I asked Miss Price at her home, 112 Madison Avenue, where I tended to it in the beginning is all I can say," she replied. Virgil is her favorite, Cicero comes next. Miss Price is working for her master's degree in Latin at Columbia university, Greek, French and German and contentess taking up Italian in the summer. Barber Bill Held Up. Atlanta, Ga.—The City Council has voted to reconsider an ordinance which would prohibit our barbers from serving white customers. It acted from a proposal to lay the bill on the table. It was passed, recently, and sent to the Mayor. The Chamber of Commerce protested and threatened to secure an injunction prohibiting an enforcement, if the Mayor signed the bill. Methodist and Episcopal preachers' meetings protected the bill that the subject objected to, saying it would "prohibit us from employing colored people in our homes and would do away with colored maids in manicure establishments. A large number of business people whose property is now rented for barbershops would be heavy losers in rental." The Kaiser and Roosevelt BenJ. Id Wheeler is also a close friend of Roosevelt's, and I was interested in his comparison of the two men (Kaiser Wilhelm and Col. Theo. Roosevelt, Sr.). He considers the kaiser a garder to memory and impulsiveness, but they are dissimilar inasmuch as the kaiser has a religious turn of mind and is more cultured in his manners. Another difference between the kaiser and T. R. was that the kaiser was a good listener when necessary, and is courteous in doing so."—Col. Edw. M. House in his "Memoirs." Du Bois' Request Ignored Philadelphia, Pa.—Proposed plan of Dr. W. E. B. Du-Bois, to hold the next session of the Pan African Conference during the sesqui-centennial celebration here next year, has been ignored by the general committee. J. C. A. Ashbury has been chosen to handle the Afro-American end of the sesqui-activities, with offices in the Odd Fellows building. SINGLE COPY FIVE CENTS BY STATE SUPREME COURT DECISION. THE SPRINGFIELD AND DAYTON CASES RECALLED BY TUESDAY'S DECISION. Some Interesting History of Our Ohio Fights Against School-Segregation Efforts—The Editor's Predictions in Both Cases Have Come True! (Special to The Gazette) Columbus, O.-School boards are without authority to segregate pupils in the public schools, the state supreme court again ruled, Tuesday, in ordering the Dayton board of education to admit our children into the same buildings and classes maintained for all other children at the Garfield school there. The decision affirms the Montgomery county court of appeals, which previously had ruled against segregation. The court's decision, Tuesday, was unanimous and was based upon a similar decision in the eight-years ago in similar cases coming up from Hamilton and Butler counties, one involving segregation at College Hill, Hamilton county, and the other segregation at Oxford, Butler county. A year previous to the 1888 decision, there was a law giving boards of education or education in similar schools. That law was repealed by the legislature, however, in 1877 when it passed the Ely-Arnett Hill and Oxford cases were instituted to compel the boards of education there to cease segregation. Repeal of the segregation ("black" schools) in 1832 defining general powers of boards of education, which still stands. The prior court decision, discussing the limitations of that section, said that "while it conferred power on boards of education to make such assignments of the youth of their distinctive district, it was established that as will in their opinion best promote the interests of education in their districts, such power cannot be exercised with reference to the race or color of the MRS. ANNIE M. MALONE. St. Louis, Mo.—There was a deal of speculation among the many friends and admirers of Mrs. Malone, when the news became current that she had purchased the palatial home of E. C. Brown, former banker of Philadelphia. Inquiring at Poro College here, it was learned that the purchase was made to present the property to John L. Turnbo, her oldest brother, who she says "made such great sacrifice for us little ones when we were left orphan's". Mrs. Malone has provided for her other brothers and sister but the home given her brother, John, is regarded as the most standing explanation, she said. "I was glad to be able to help him in this small way because of his kindness to me when I could not help myself." Mr. Turnbo's home is located at 123 S. 41st St., Philadelphia, in a fashionable neighborhood and is said to be one of the most costly ($50,000) owned by any of the race in that city. Congress to Aid Virgin Islands. Washington, D. C.—The House insular affairs committee, has drafted bills to bring about a change in government of the Virgin Islands. A delegation protested recently against the present form of naval administration, etc. Virgin Islanders will be given citizenship, right to appeal cases in the U. S. district court at Porto Rico (appeals now lie in Philadelphia), a civil governor and an executive colonial council. IN UNION IN STATUTE THE COPY FIVE CENTS ARRED UPREME JURT DECISION. DAYTON CASES BY TUESDAY'S DECISION. Of Our Ohio Fights Against Ports—The Editor's Pre- s Have Come True! youth." The Dayton case was instituted by Mr. Earl Reese (deceased), about a year ago, in the court of appeals of Montgomery county to compel the Dayton school board and Supt. Stetson to admit his and others of our children attending the Garfield school to classes with and in the same but different kind of children; there are four buildings at the Garfield school, three of which were used for our children and one for the other children. Afro-American teachers taught our children. Mr. Reese contended that his and others of our children were being discriminated against by this method of segregation and, of course, was right. He did the day before, he made a favorable decision courted down by the appellate court, but his wife, Mrs. Carrie B. Reese, and our people of Dayton, carried on the fight. Same Fight Won in Springfield. About three years ago, the same kind of a fight as the more recent Dayton fight was won in the first round of the School Supt. McCord, now at Akron, backed by local (Springfield) kluxes, some city officials, and other prejudiced residents, fought hard for a year to inaugurate "jim-crow" or separate schools for our people. There and was "beaten to death" still unclaimed. The recently been "beaten" at Dayton. Hon. Harry C. Smith, editor of The Gazette, should be very proud of the fact that he was deep in both Springfield and Dayton fights at the special request of our loyal people of both cities, and that we are the people of those cities, as well as of the entire state of Ohio, will not soon forget. Long live "The Old Reliable!" ROCKWOOD ALARMED At the Increase in the City's Mortality Caused By Our People, Urges a Survey. Our people in Cleveland are dying twice as fast as the whites according to the latest reports. Since 1920, the total of deaths of all other races has remained virtually stationary. In the same six years, deaths of our people has increased 80 percent. In 1924 and 1925, our mortality was greatest. In 1920, 752 died; in 1924, 1,139, and last year, 1,175. Why is it? Health Commissioner Harry L. Rockwood asked, "When something like this happens it is a sign that something is radically wrong in our social setup." He recommended that the Welfare Federation, the Cleveland Foundation, or some other civic institution conduct an extensive survey of living conditions, employment, birthplace, disease and other things that affect the lives of the Housing Conditions Rotten. "The job is bigger than my organization can handle," he said. "We can minister to them when they're sick, and prevent disease to some extent through inoculation, but we can't change conditions which make fifteen or twenty families live in a single house originally designed for one person. We name positively the one fundamental cause, but if I were to express my opinion I'd say it was landlords and housing conditions." Here are the figures which caused Commissioner Rockwood to sit up and take notice: Total deaths. Colored centage deaths. colored 1901 5,834 121 2.1 1902 6,134 117 1.9 1903 6,476 143 2.2 1910 8,034 156 1.9 1911 7,967 210 2.6 1912 8,149 163 2.1 1913 8,422 164 2.1 1920 9,997 752 7.5 1921 8,705 679 7.9 1922 8,743 724 8.2 1923 9,618 940 9.7 1924 9,287 1,139 12.3 1925 9,706 1,175 12.1 If Cleveland's white population population, were dying as fast as its colored population it would mean 23,500 deaths a year. What causes the heavy mortality among our people? Inability to stand the cold northern climate? "I don't think so." said Rockwood. "You'd think that a cold climate would increase respiratory diseases. These aren't the principal of the deaths because that why did white people die so quickly, the flu epidemic when colored people seemed to be relatively immune." --- SUMMER FURS I'll SHOW YOU HOW WE DETECTIVES RAID A CRAP GAME! HE'S CERTAINLY TAKING HIS TIME ABOUT IT! I'll GET THAT CHAIR AND TAKE A PEEK! IS HE COMING OUT, SIS? NO! HE'S TRYING FOR A FIVE! COME, PHOEBE!--COME TO PAPA!--JOHNNIE NEEDS A PAIR OF SHOES! READ 'EM AN' WEEP! OH YOU LIL SEVEN! Tim Eardy One Year ..... $2.00 six Months ..... 1.00 Subscribers are requested to remit by postoffice money order or registered letter. Entered at the postoffice in Cleveland, Ohio, as second-class mail matter Address all communications to HARRY C. SMITH Editor and Proprietor THE GAZETTE 220 W. Superior Ave., Cleveland, O. (Bell 'Phone: Cherry 1259) Member Ohio Legislature: 1894 to 1896; 1896 to 1898; 1900 to 1902 THE GAZETTE is the oldest and has the largest bona fide circulation, double that of any newspaper in the interest of Afro-Americans published in the state of Ohio and comparison with any will immediately establish its rank as one of the NEWS-TEST AND BEST in the country. 10,000,000 Afro-Americans. 250,000 in Ohio. 40,000 in Cleveland. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1926. Many of our contemporaries are making the mistake we warned them of, last week—announcing that a committee of the Cleveland Chamber of Commerce had "asked" or recommended separate schools for our children of this city. Nothing of the kind has been done, gentleman! Please make proper correction. Again the Ohio Supreme Court has handed down a decision against race or color segregation in the public schools of this state. It is just what we told our people of Springfield and Dayton would be the case when they opened their rights for justice and right for their children. Great victories, for all of our people of Ohio, were those school cases at Springfield and Dayton. Current rumor has it that Prof. William E. B. DuBois will be in the city, Sunday. Wonder if the local branch of the N. A. A. C. P. will have the nerve to ask our people of this city for more money in the face of its miserable failure to have the Garvin home guarded after a warning from the K. K. K.? This failure resulted in the recent bombing of the house when no one was in it but women. --- The Gazette wants to call Gov. A. V. Donahey the attention to the unfair treatment of the Afro-American women and girls at the State Reformatory at Marysville. Their rooms are not "fitted up" as well as the others and "they are packed in like sardines". Then, too, they are not "permitted to conduct dances" etc., like the white inmates. Also, that Supt. Mittendorf (a woman) has recommended to the Legislature's commission, which recently made a survey of all the state's penal institutions, that "a separate reformatory for colored women be established". Something forbidden by the law of the state. It seems to us, Governor, that a new superintendent is needed at the Maerysvill institution. LINCOLN, LEE AND JACKSON. Hardly was the ink dry on the copy of The Cleveland Daily Press which, last week, recommended that the North also celebrate the birthdays of "Generals" Lee and Jackson, "southern heroes", when three chapters of the Daughters of the Confederacy at Houston, Texas, "took offense at Gov. Miriam A. Ferguson's proclamation asking Texans to celebrate the birthday of Abraham Lincoln, the martyr President and the greatest character in American history. In a signed statement, Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee and Cran M. Roberts chapters said: "History has failed to reveal a single instance which might inspire gratitude from the South, or in which Lincoln was not pernicious to the South. If we do not protest, no doubt John Brown and Harriet Beecher Stowe will be up for celebration." There was only one rebel, and traitor to his country, greater than Lee and Jackson and that was Jeff Davis! And The Cleveland Daily Press wants the people of this session to feel "proud that their country has produced a Lee and a Jackson, national heroes, not southern heroes only". Lord, have mercy! That is enough to make every Grand Army veteran, "who sleeps the sleep that knows no awakening", turn over in his grave. Whither are we drifting when such maudlin sentiment can appear in a daily newspaper of this section of the country in this day and time without raising a storm of protest from the veterans of our wars and all other loyal citizens? The Cleveland Daily Press is holding "the olive branch" to the South entirely too far out for its own "good and welfare" as well as the country's. It surely is not promoting the spirit of loyalty among the young or the old by such publications. THE GEEVUM GIRLS tions. The Press reminds us of the delegation of New York merchants that called on Lincoln between his election and inauguration to urge a policy of conciliation toward the South. "It is for you to say", they told him, "whether this nation shall be plunged into bankruptcy and whether the grass shall grow in the streets of our commercial cities." "The constitution", the president-elect replied, "will be preserved and defended in every part of every one of the United States. It must be so respected, obeyed, enforced and defended, let the grass grow where it may." Imagine, if you can, Lincoln's characterizing as "national heroes" the two leading southern generals who led hosts of misguided men in a four or five year war-effort to shoot the constitution full of holes! This, too, to please the section of the country, the South, that does not to this day respect and obey the constitution. HOUSING SURVEY AND CONFERENCES. For nine years the Cleveland Chamber of Commerce, the Cleveland Welfare Association and other local organizations have been holding conferences and having surveys made of the "terrible housing conditions" existing in the 11th and 12th wards of this city, and that is as far as any of them have ever gone in an effort to remedy them. Now comes Health Commissioner Rockwood with the suggestion that another survey be made. When this same housing matter was being considered, about a year ago, by a Chamber committee we wrote that organization that a solution of the housing problem in that section of the city rested in its getting the Community Fund to spend some of its millions of money in building, in wards 11 and 12, and that was the last of that! Now they are again, for the "seventh" time, talking of another survey and we presume preparing for more "conferences" on the subject. Good Lord, deliver us! Come, gentleman, give us ACTION after so many years' talk. THINKS LAW TOO BROAD. Our Ohio anti-lynching law should be modified, says Assistant County Prosecutor Harry E. Parsons, because the law stipulates that a man killed in a disturbance caused by three or more persons may be regarded as lynched. The state supreme court, Wednesday, upheld lower court verdicts against the county for the death of a garbage collector killed during a riot. Two cases are pending, Parsons said. This same criticism was voiced by the Ohio Ku Klux Klan during the last session of the Ohio Assembly when its vain efforts to amend the law failed. Now comes Mr. Parsons expressing the same opinion which is not good. Can it be that he is a member of the lawless organization, the K. K. K.? Prof. Neval H. Thomas, president of the Washington, D. C. branch of the N. A. A. C. P., is still "up on his toes" fighting for our people. He has sent U. S. Senator Capper and other members of the Congress a strong letter urging them to oppose no less than four anti-race bills recently introduced in that august body. Would that we had many more of his kind. "The Newspaper Business"" The Newspaper Business : Indianapolis, Ind. The Freeman one of our oldest publications, has suspended his position and plea of voluntary bankruptcy. The petition was filed by the venerable George L. Knox, president of the company, who named as his chief asset the publishing company, valued at only $500. Other assets, including the piece of property under mortgage, represented only $200. Debts were listed as $6,000. Willed $7,000. Springfield, Mo.—The late Douglas J. Landers, millionaire lumberman here, recently bequeathed two faithful servants, Mrs. Ella Thomas, $5000, and Glyne McAdam houseman, $2000. Both, Aro-Americans. Cobb Succeeds Terrell. Washington, D. C.—Atty. James M. Cobb of this city has been appointed a judge of the municipal court of the District Committee of the City of Jackson H. Brown deceased, who held the position for twenty-four years. THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, O.SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1926. "LUCKY SAMBO" HERE NEXT WEEK! This is an era of Afro-American entertainment and the biggest one now touring the Columbia circuit is Hurtig & Seamon's all-new "Lucky Sambo" which makes its bow at Sunday's matinee at the Columbia theatre commencing a week's tarry with the usual daily afternoon shows. Hurtig and Seamon's cabaret comes the talent that offers this sparkling entertainment. Many on the roster are known and admired where-ever musical pieces have played while some of the principals are making their initial burlesque appearance. All have played in higher-priced offerings prior to their "Lucky Sambo" engagement. Just glimpse this array of performers and to recall any single show within the roster, you will see stars: Julia Moody, star recorder of phonograph disks, is the featured feminine player and she is doing her famous "blues" singing-specially besides playing in the two acts and many of the ten big scenes. Then there is a comedian Billy Higgins, as droll a chap as ever made an audience shriek with merriment. Billy Higgins is the comedian, the dancer and is eminently capable of carrying the fun-burden to a successful laugh climax in every instance. Our best straight man on the stage is Ernest R. Whitman. In "Lucky Sambo" he is given ample opportunities to display his famous wardrobe of modish attire. Joe Byrd is another fine comedian and two other laugh-providers will be seen when Arthur Porter and his James Shufft shuffle around the studio with his delight. He will be a pity with "Three Dixie Songbirds", a trio of southern girls in specialties and vocal ensembles. "Red" Cassidy and Nina Hunter will be seen in displays of extraordinary Russian dancing. "Jim Vaughan and His Jazz Hounds" are talking-machine-record makers and these 12 musicians are guaranteed to be about the jazziest instrumentalists ever. Backing the principals you will find the most charming chorus eighteen pretty misses and eight fast-stepting youths. Their lightning-like "hoofing" and Charleston dance will prove a revelation. "Good Riddance!" Washington, D. C.—Dr. J. Stanley Durkee will likely tender his resignation as president of Howard University, to be effective at the close of the present school year, to become pastor of the Plymouth Conference University. He has been offered the position and will undoubtedly accept it. Congratulate Howard; commisserate Plymouth or our people of Brooklyn. Garvey Must Remain. Washington, D. C. — President Coolidge has refused to pardon Marcus Garvey, president-general of the U. N. I. A. 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CLEVELAND Social and Personal Rumor has it that the Thomas Special-Flux Co. 10522 Norman Ave., is in the hands of a receiver. There was still another murder in Scoville Ave., Sunday night. It's been simply awful, in recent weeks. Crime after crime! A men's brotherhood has been organized at St. John's church by members of Baraca and Maccabee classes of the Sunday school. Community Fund officials request ex-service men to convert their war term insurance into permanent policies immediately, as July 2 is the last date for conversion. Mr. and Mrs. Charles R. Hayes, E. 86th St., entertained royally at a dinner, last Saturday evening, in honor of her mother, Mrs. Grace W. Brown's birthday. Covers were laid for nine. Lovett F. Whiteman, national organizer of the Afro-American Labor congress, addressed a mass meeting on race discrimination' at Buehla church, E. 31st St. and Cedar Ave. Wednesday evening. Mme. E. P. 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How Our Men And Women Are Insulted And Humiliated In the Government's Departments—Will the Self and Race-Respecting Negro Press of This Country Continue to Stand for This Sort of Thing? (Special to The Gazette). Washington, D. C., Oct. 4, 1924. —There is more segregation in Washington today under President Coolidge than there has ever been since the Civil War. The 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 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 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 graph which must accompany their papers, is tenacious; held on to our Republican president. Only last week, a woman girl appeared after she passed the best examination, and after having been telegraphed for by the department. The photograph had failed to tell her true color, and they flatly refused to appoint her when she appeared, and they saw her complexion. Commissioner Blair of the internal revenue bureau with thousands of clerks will not appoint a Negro clerk, and his word is law there, as he has the favorite of Secretary Mellon and President Mollos. He halls from Carolina, the home of the other favorite and leader of the segregation forces, Col. Sherrill, superintendent of buildings and grounds. it is no use to complain of either of these southern gentlemen. The colored people here who know the President could destroy segregation in the departments of the government, and the photograph requirements in the civil service by the mere nod of his head, are at a loss to understand why he does not put his 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 one of the chief tenets of the Ku Klux Klan which has found its "welcome home" in the Republican party, and receives no condemnation from the Republican President. (Special to The Gazette.) Washington, D. C.—In the postoffice segregation is rampant. The faithful colored clerks work under constant humiliation and physical disadvantages. The department maintains a spacious cafeteria for whites only, where these inferior white clerks can buy appetizing lunches and chat in comfort while eating, while the colored clerks must bring cold luncheons from home and eat them any place they can. The physical discomfort, disadvantageous as it is, is far less galling to the colored clerks than is the thought of their government taking their taxes, as it takes those of the whites, for the comfort of the latter, taking them off as though they were lepers. The injustice brings all the more they reflect that they are far more capable than the whites, and render the government more intelligent and efficient service—the white man of their attainment being able to get far more lucrative employment. The department goes even farther in its solicitude for whites and neglect of colored. It maintains a well-appointed club room with pool tables and other games, comfortable lounges and other equipment for rest, sociability, and recreation, and nothing for these same colored employees. This private club is in the magnificent postoffice building, built and maintained by ALL of the people. In the locker rooms there is segregation, and segregation is even attempted in the foillets. And all of this is against the most dependable and most reliable 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 incurred a protest to the postmaster general, general day of office, and ordered the postmaster to invite the colored as well as the white. These clerks go around their colored co-workers by giving the function at a local hotel. It is inevitable that the wicked spirit of segregation would express 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 workings of mails. The colored workers had 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.) Washington, D. C.—The government printing office keeps faith with the government's universal scheme of segregation. Some of the best and brightest of our girls are forced to accept inferior positions there on account of the better and more lucrative avenues of employment being closed to them because of their color. The whites are generally of a very mediocre group, far from equaling our girls in educational equipment, culture, and working efficiency. Yet these superior girls are set off from the whites with the latter, of course, having the better working conditions, salaries and recreational facilities. There is a large caterain in this huge structure where the employees may go out there are a few tables in the out-of-the-way room furnished for our employees. I am glad to say that few, very few, of our people patronize the place, preferring a little physical inconvenience to the open, semi-public hui-uation of segregation. in toilet facilities, dressing-rooms, and work assignments, wherever possible, the law of segregation is in full force, and, of course, this same undemocratic practice reveals itself on the salary roll and in the hard caste that bars promotion. Here as elsewhere, our superior sector offers 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 that he secured the company of a young lady of the race to take part in the dance. As soon as this couple started to dance the music was abruptly stopped, and the young man reported for attempting to take part in an entertainment provided for employees. He was called to the office, lectured for being "one of those smart Negroes" who believe in "social equality," and then dismissed on a trumped-up charge. He was a night-employee, hence he carried a pistol. Right after the dance in the street, 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. By this severe punishment our employees are taught that there is no way of escape for one who dares to resent the daily insults that their government (under President Coolidge) gives them. Many of the employees have expressed their deeply-wounded feelings to me at being considered a pariah by the government whose institutions they are serving so faithfully, and I have taken up a number of cases only to be met by a denial that the conditions complained of exist, and a request for the names of my informants. I knew the fate these informants would suffer so have informed me that 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, FEBRUARY 20, 1926. is so well settled upon it, and the complainants cannot bear witness to it. (Special to The Gazette) Washington, D. C.—Segregation in the bureau of engraving and printing has an interesting history involving President Thomas Woodrow Wilson and members of his family, three heroic young colored women who lost their positions as a result of their protest, and the noble wife of Senator Robert La Follette. Shortly after the accession of Mr. Wilson to the White House, a member of his family visited the bureau where she saw white and colored girls working together in perfect harmony, oblivious to any thought race. Shortly thereafter came an order for segregation of the races, and white lady who had been noted for her philanthropy among our people and was upon intimate terms at the White House appeared at the bureau to tell our girls to contented with the new order as "a great Negro leader had taught colored people to stay in their places." Three of the young ladies resisted the order to the last ditch and were summarily dismissed! Senator La Follette lodged a protest with Secretary McAdoo to no avail, and his noble wife began a crusade against the undemocratic innovation. She took the platform here in Washington and Boston before the famous Twentieth Century club. She used the columns of the Senator's magazine, sparing neither space nor vigor of utterance. She thundered against it in our local white press, and addressed the national gathering of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People in New York. When our people here were so profoundly discuraged, she came out one stormy afternoon to the Y. M. C. A. to urge them to continue the fight, for democracy was at the crises. Oswald was at the ample army 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 Democratic party is still there, in all of its fulness, under the administration of the party that Abraham Lincoln, Charles Sumner and Frederick Douglass are helped to found. Our girls are employed there in far larger numbers than in any other branch of the public service. THEY ARE SEGREGATED in their rest rooms, toilets, and working stations, and of course none are ever thought of for promotions to executive places. They are girls from our best nomes, most of them with high ante normal school training, and fine culture. The white girls are of no such grade, as there is no segregation for them in the great world of things. They have unlimited fields at high wage for even mediocre talents. The best of our girls must take these inferior positions, the inevitable result of segregation. Our people are still hoping for the issuance of an order destroying this iniquitous practice in all of our government departments, for it not only humiliates the best of the government servants but impairs the government service. (Special to The Gazette) Washington, D. C.—The treasury department, according to the President's recent acceptance speech, is now under the ablest financial 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 imposed on war necessitated, this is by far the most part of the treasury, employing several thousand clerks. Yet Negroes are so scarce there that they can't be noticed. There is the same general complaint here among our clerks and other employees as there is in the other branches of the government—failure to recognize their efficiency when promotions are due; ability to go so far and no farther. The various forms of segregation exist here as well as elsewhere—the restaurants closed or divided along color lines, and special 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 of afternoons and evenings at minimum costs. The white press of the city is constantly telling of the thousands who take advantage of this "delightful retreat," and the festive scene that their presence creates. It seats two thousand diners with space to spare; but not one Negro! His only share is in the taxes he is forced to pay for this luxury for another group! The registrieship of the treasury, which Republican Presidents have given the Negro since Garfield appointed Blanch K. Bruce, is now filled by a white man, and the colored people are congregated in a separate room which is publicly proclaimed as "a colored division." When it is discovered that Negro clerks are "working as white" in other divisions, they are promptly transferred to this "colored division." Our people fear that protest against this segregation would result in the abolition of the division altogether; so they remain in a dilemma, fearing 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 register of the treasury and the internal revenue bureau. In the former, bearer board walls were maintained until recently. In the latter there have been two cases of discrimination on account of color brought to public view. The words, announcing the election of President Coolidge, were hardly beaten the first time. Increase segregation in the departments here was on again at full speed. It had slowed up a little during the campaign. Investigation of Burcus An investigation of the executive departments and bureaus listed below shows that segregation prevails in them as follows: Office of the Register of the Treasury, there are two segregated sections—one with 30 Afro-American employees and the other with 14. Navy Department — one segregated section of 18 of our employees, as well as a segregated lunch room. Census Bureau — a segregated section of 60 Afro-American employ- Bonus Section Bonus section of the War Department—one segregated section of 180 of our employees. Veterans Bureau—a segregated section of 16 employees. Department of Justice—a segregated section of 10 employees in the file 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, Dear Friend:—I have read the latest copy of The Gazette through and after reading it, I can truthfully say: It is worth its weight in gold! I admire true manhood—a man who, seeing injustice and oppression, dares, within the limits of his duties, and if possible smite. You and I have frequently, during the forty-two years since the birth of The Gazette, been, as the Scotch would say, like two McNeils, but when I find a man, such as you, who 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 ripen growth than success that is forced as hothouse products are forced. Character in a newspaper develops through years of service to the For. For two years the Gazette has been serving our people of this country. It has gathered a reader-clientele whose tastes it reflects, and whose power and responsiveness to buy are direct measures of its present importance to every advertiser. EDITOR OHIO'S ANTI-LYNCHING LAW LEADS THE COUNTRY IN EFFECTIVE LEGISLATION Against The Mob and Lynch-Murder—The Work of a Member of The Race—Also His Ohio Civil Rights Law 6278. "Mob" and "lynching" defined. 6279. "Sorious injury" defined. 6280. Damages in case of assault. 6281. Damages in case of lynching. 6282. Damages recoverable by legal representative of victim of lynching. 6283. Person suffering death or injury by mob trying to lynch another 6284. Limitations of action. 6285. Order to include recovery and costs in tax levy. 6286. Guardian's custody, etc., fees. 6287. County's right of action against member of mob. 6288. County's right of action against another county. 6289. Non-relief from prosecution. Our mob-violence or anti-lynching bill was introduced in the Ohio legislature in 1834 and re-introduced in 1896. It took the Hon. Harry C. Smith; editor of The Gazette, just three years to secure its enactment into law. The Ohio Supreme Court has several times upheld the constitutionality of the law and it has Section 6278. A collection of people assembled for an unlawful purpose and intending to do damage or injury to any one, or pretending to exercise correctional power over other persons by violence and without authority of law, shall be deemed a "lynching" for the purpose of a chapter. An act of violence by a mob upon the body of any person shall constitute a "lynching" 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 disable the person receiving it for earning 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. (93 v. 161 4.) Section 6281. A person assaulted and lynched by a mob may recover, from the county in which such assault is made a sum not to exceed five hundred dollars; or, if the injury received therefrom is serious, a sum not exceeding one thousand dollars; or, if such injury result in permanent disability to earn a livelihood by manual labor, a sum not to exceed five thousand dollars. (93 v. 162 5.) Section £282. 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 deceased, share and share alike, 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 6286. If the decedent so lynch has minor children surviving him, the fund shall be turned over to a regularly appointed guardian. Such guardian shall administer such fund under the direction of the probate judge, allowing not more than five hundred dollars for counsel fees in the action for such recovery. (93 v. 162 9.) Section 6287. The county, in which a lynch occurs, may recover the amount of a judgment and costs against it in favor of the legal representatives of a person killed or seriously injured by a mob from any of the persons composing such mob. A person present, with hostile intent, at such lynching shall be deemed a member of the mob and be liable to such action. (93 v. 162 10). Section 6288. If a mob carries a prisoner into another county, or comes from another county to com- been very effective. Illinois, Pennsylvania and New Jersey have followed Ohio's lead and enacted mob violence or anti-lynching laws which are copies of our Ohio law. Several other northern states and at least one border state (Kentucky) have also enacted anti-lynching laws, in recent years, like Pennsylvania and New Jersey. The Ohio law follows: 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 failing 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, 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免责 than fifty dollars nor more than ten hundred dollars nor 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 them what they should and must do for themselves, under it, in the courts. Judge Grant's Opinion of the Law. Missed by the foolishly manufactured outcry for the passage of the Beaty bill, a few years ago, the Akron Beacon Journal published an editorial to which the editor of The Gazette replied, calling its attention the fact that the Ohio Civil Rights law was not 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. Edition. Editor The Gazette, Cleveland, O. Mear Dear Sir: Observing your letter, to the Beacon-Journal, of this city, I am an associate and separate cover, the Ohio Law Reporter of Feb. 3, last, containing the opinion of the Court of Appeals in the Puritan Lunch Co. vs. Leonard H. Forman, decided in Akron, last fall, in which a judgment for ($500) five hundred dollars was sustained. 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 OHIO 6 U NDER 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. O"" advertisers want your Ony 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. Additional Locals A jury, undoubtedly prejudiced, in Judge Thomas E. Green's court, recently, after 15 minutes deliberation, brought in a verdict of not guilty in the case of Shelby Farrow, of 4608 Cenat Ave., versus the Medina restaurant, W. Superior Ave., in a criminal discrimination case. The restaurant demanded that Farrow pay fifty cents for a baked apple. Atty Harold M. Gassaway announced that Farrow would file new action in "Muny" court, under Hon. Harry C. Smith's Ohio civil rights law. Alexander H. Martin, Esq., one of the committee of three (Harry E. Davis, Charles W. Chesnutt and Martin), which voluntarily met the local Chamber of Commerce committee on immigration, last week, informs The Gazette that the publication of last week, in a local contemporary, has not been adopted by the committee or its sub-committee which has the matter under consideration. The legal report is undoubtedly the work of some sound southern sympathy and prejudiced member of the sub-committee who would, if he could, bring about in this section of the country the adoption of the segregation and other color-line methods of the South. The alleged report in its entirety is what is advocated by the Ku Klux Klan thrust out the country and is not only outrageous but positively un-American. The two dominant features of the alleged report are: first, a recommendation that Ohio law be over-ridden in order to bring about separate schools for our people, and other segregation; an impossibility at this time. Second, down the bars, now up against an indiscriminate immigration from foreign countries, in order that foreigners sufficient can be secured to replace the "Negro" laborers in the North. Fine (?) Americanism this! favoring foreigners to replace native born American citizens in American industries here at home. No one could ever make us believe that the Chamber of Commerce of the city of Cleveland, Ohio, or its committee on immigration with George B. Harris, a human rights advocate such un-American and positively reputed recommendations as the kluxer-writer of that alleged report has ground out of his prejudiced-soaked brain. It was 29 years ago, Jan. 28, that the editor of The Gazette secured the appointment of Charles S. Smith and John Chaffin, both of this city, as members of the Cleveland police department, from Mayor Robert E. McKisson. Patrolman Smith was immediately assigned to duty as stenographer to the chief of police—the first this city ever had, and he has been making police duty even since he be it said to his arrest. He was elevated to the position of secretary to the director of public safety, retaining the secretaryship to the chief of police, by Mayor Fred Kohler, and has served very satisfactorily indeed, five chiefs of police and two safety (city) directors. He has also served as secretary of the police pension board for a number of years. Patrolman Chaffin has been on the retired list, owing to poor health, for several years, but while on duty, especially while doing traffic duty, there was no more popular policeman in the city. He deeply seemed to know and like "Big John," and there are a number of other members in this filling good positions in this community just as acceptably as Mr. Smith is and Mr. Chaffin did, in whose success we have more than a passing interest, a similar interest. A mass meeting will be held, Feb. 21, at 8 p.m. in Moose Hall, 1000 Walnut Ave., which is to be addressed by representatives of the Miners' Union. Persons wishing to help in the relief work for the striking miners with a joint representation with J. A. Hamilton, 2226 E. St. The Miners' Union in northern West Virginia includes a large number of our miners, who were very active when the operators were observing the contract and are now equally as actively supporting the strike in an effort to maintain the union wage-scale and conditions. The Cleveland and other workers' Relief has been organized by theatives of forty trade unions, fraternal societies and other workers' organizations of this city, including the Inter-racial Workers' club, an educational organization of workers of both races. The conference is oring an energetic campaign to secure relief for the miners now on strike not only in the anthracite region, but also in northern West Virginia. Subscribe Now LISTERINE THROAT TABLETS Antiseptic Prevent & Relieve Hoarseness Sore Throat Coughs