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IN UNION IS STRENGTH FORTY-THIRD YEAR A MO PROSPECT W 1235 PROS Bargain W Open Tuesday, Thursday till Living Room and Dining room papers, Bedrooms at 5, Hangers Furnished THIRD YEAR No. 32 MOST RESPECT WALL PAPER 1235 PROSPECT AVENUE Bargain Wall Paper Sale Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday Even till 9 P. M. Room and ing room papers, 7½, 10 and 15c per Bedrooms at 5, 7½ and 10c per roll. S Furnished FORTY-THIRD YEAR No.32 A MOST PROSPECT WALL PAPER CO. 1235 PROSPECT AVENUE Bargain Wall Paper Sale Open Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday Evenings till 9 P. M. Living Room and Dining room papers, 71/2, 10 and 15c per roll. Bedrooms at 5, 71/2 and 10c per roll. Hangers Furnished Pros. 459. HAVE YOU TRIED EVER-STRATE? The HAIR DRESS Grows hair rapidly, and strains Danoruff remover, and a good PRICE, 50 CENTS, POST A. 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A General Practitioner of Dentistry CLEVELAND STUDIO Takes Pictures, Day & Night JOHN OLAH, Photographer 4729 Woodland Avenue ECONOMY STYLE SHOP 3324 CEDAR AVE., CLEVELAND, O. SPRING FASHIONS. CLOTHES DISTINCTION FOR EVERY OCCAS Evening Gowns and Wraps. Street Afternoon Dresses. Three-Piece S Spring Coats. Correct Hats. BIRING FASHIONS. CLOTHES AND DETINCTION FOR EVERY OCCASION. Clothing Gowns and Wraps. Street Clothing. Earmoon Dresses. Three-Piece Short. Spring Coats. Correct Hats. SPRING FASHIONS. CLOTHES OF DISTINCTION FOR EVERY OCCASION Evening Gowns and Wraps. Street and Afternoon Dresses. Three-Piece Suits. Spring Coats. Correct Hats. SPECIAL EASTER BARGAIN SALE 100 I. ROSENW 4003 WOODLAND AV OSENWEIG, Merchant WOODLAND AVE. Cleveland I. ROSENWEIG, Merchant Tailor 4003 WOODLAND AVE. Cleveland, O. SING That's Different. ightens without the use of hot comb. od remedy for eczema of the scalp. PAID AGENTS WANTED . 70th St., Cleveland, O. n. 7876 T. Montgomery opening of his office at NTRAL AVE. CELAND, O. citioner of Dentistry UND STUDIO es, Day & Night H, Photographer Holland Avenue STYLE SHOP ONS. CLOTHES OF FOR EVERY OCCASION and Wraps. Street and. s. Three-Piece Suits. s. Correct Hats. Twenty percent off on Suits and Topcoats. Twenty years in the Same Location is your Proof of Perfect Fit and Satisfaction. We have the latest colors for the Spring Season. Step in and look them over. Our price is right! EIG, Merchant Tailor WE. Cleveland, O. THE GAZETTE ESTABLISHED, AUGUST 25, 1883 And Issued Every Week on Time Since TERRIFIC ARRAIGNMENT BECAUSE OF BLACK PERSECUTIONS! THE RECENT KENTUCKY FARCE-TRIAL OF A MEMBER OF THE RACE Draws Out the Most Caustic Comment and “a World of Truth” From the Fearless Veteran Socialist Leader, a Real Friend of the Afro-American. It took just fifteen-and-a-half minutes to try, convict, and sentence a Negro to the gallows down in Kentucky a few days ago. It is a record for the swift execution of justice as administered by courts of law in the United States. It is granted that the Negro thus summarily sentenced was guilty of a terrible crime. The point we are now making, though set like steel against capital punishment, is not that the punishment was too swift or too severe, but that the extraordinary trial and conviction in this case were due solely to the fact that the defendant was a Negro. mines the color of your soul. It is a pathetic commentary on this tragic affair that what was in the feeble, flackering, benighted brain of that black wretch was infinitely less dangerous to society than was the blood-lust in the hearts of the “peace-loving and law-abilling” white citizens who madly strove to rend him and perhaps burn at the stake and dance like fiends incarnate to the music of his agonizing shrieks. Biological science has no difficulty in accounting for the black wretch who raps a white woman, any more than it has in accounting for the white wretch who raps a black woman. Had he been a white man instead of a Negro there would have been no such excitement as to give the case nation-wide attention; the governor would not have been required to order out the state militia; and all the resources of the state would not have been brought into play to prevent another lynching, a possible burning at the stake, followed perhaps by the gruesome sale of the victim's bones as souvenirs of the vindication of "white supremacy" and of the law as administered in our Christian civilization. The Negro in this instance committed murder and was guilty, it is assumed, of rape, though this feature of the frightful affair is left to the inference in the press reports. In any event it was, as we have said, a terrible crime. But what made the crime infinitely more terrible in the eyes of the Christian citizens of Kentucky, where Nordic culture and white supremacy prevail, and where our vaunted civilization, based upon the golden rule and upon the precepts of charity and forgiveness taught by the Master is made manifest in many thousands of churches established in His name, is that it was committed by a human being with a BLACK skin instead of a WHITE one. That the mob of bloodthirsty Christians who surrounded the courthouse and were only held at bay by the armed forces of the state did not add another lynching to their Christian record was not at all their fault. They surged through the streets, these pious American citizens, with all their basest passions unleashed, thirsting for blood to glut their ferocious vengeance. Morally speaking, they lynched their victim and are guilty of that enormous crime, for in their hearts there seethed the blood-lust inherited from their remote ancestors in the primeval jungles. Many and many a Negro girl, scarcely out of her childhood, has been seduced, raped, assaulted by a Nordic gentleman (1) with a white skin, but it has never been necessary to order out the state militia to protect him against the avenging wrath of his Christian fellow-citizens. Times without number have white men committed crimes as monstrous as that of the Negro in this case, but there is no fifteen-and-a-half-minute record in their trials, and in many cases they went scot free or were dismissed with light sentences. It makes all the difference in the world in this "land of the free and home of the brave"; this land of Christian civilization; this land of equal rights and equal opportunities, corner-stoned in the doctrine that all men are created equal; this land of Nordic culture that boasts of being the vanguard of intellectual, moral and spiritual progress, the herald of "peace on earth and good will to men"—it makes all the difference in the world whether God Almighty gave you a white skin or a black one, for the color of your skin deter mines the color of your soul. It is a pathetic commentary on this tragic affair that what was in the feeble, flickering, be-nighted brain of that black wretch was infinitely less dangerous to society than was the blood-lust in the hearts of the "peace-loving and law-abbling" white citizens who madly strove to rend him and perhaps bury him at the stake and dance like fiends incarnate to the music of his agonizing shrieks. Biological science has no difficulty in accounting for the black wretch who rapes a white woman, any more than it has in accounting for the white wretch who rapes a black woman. But there is a clear-cut line of cleavage in the accounting. From first to last the white man has every advantage and the Negro is the victim of the most cruel and wicked discrimination and persecution. Let it not be overlooked in this connection that the Negro was designedly kept in ignorance by statutory enactment in this country for more than two centuries; that it was forbidden by law, drastically enforced, that he be taught to read or write, or that he be permitted to rise above the animal level; and that the Negro did not degenerate wholly into a brute is a fact for which Mr. White Man need lay no flattering unction to his guilty soul. The whole history of the Negro race in America is one to make the white race blush scarlet with shame. From the time the poor black man was seized in his native land by the brutal kidnapper of the slave-trader, loaded into a boat like a beast and on landing sold like one from the auction block from that time to the "jim crow" car has been one continuous shameless persecution of the Negro, and for the improvement he has been able to make under such inhuman and degrading conditions he is certainly under no obligation to his former white slave-drivers—his present white persecutors. The people of Kentucky are neither better nor worse in this regard than the people of any other state. If there is less cruelty in dealing with the Negro in the north than in the south the reason is not to be found in the humaner consideration of the Negro in the northern states. A study of the Kentucky mob held at bay by the state militia would have revealed the fact, in all probability, that the mob consisted wholly of people who pride themselves upon being "peaceable and law-abiding citizens." We doubt if one could have been found who was not strong for "equality before the law" and for the preservation of "law and order." It is equally certain that without exception they were all one hundred per cent Americans. There were few, if any, "ignorant and vicious foreigners" milling around madly intent upon the feast of blood. They were chiefly if not wholly native to the soil, having from the beginning enjoyed all the advantages of Christian culture, and having never been, like the poor Negro, kept under the lash, exploited, robbed, degraded in every possible way to make possible the blessings of such culture and civilization for the white race. No less certain is it that the mob consisted entirely of American patriots. Not one in it could be called a "traitor." Every one of them is long on "patriotism" and would fight at the drop of the hat to punish "traitors," especially Socialists and such who "have no respect for law" and who are bent upon "overthrowing the government by force." MARCH 20,1926 MORE "COOLIDGE"! Washington, D. C.—Our farmers in the South are greatly hampered in securing government funds to meet their demands like other farmers, because they are unable to secure the advantages accruing from the Farm Loan system, writes Dr. W. S. Scarborough of Wilberforce, O. The trouble is with the local Farm Loan Associations, which (under the Coolidge administration) exclude them from membership, thus making it impossible for them to get recognition. Because of this discontinuation the Afro-American farmer in the South has suffered greatly in many instances and has lost valuabe property*. DO YOU WANT A BOY? Here is a Fine Little Fellow Who Ought to Have a Good Home —Give Him a Chance. John is a little ten year old boy of the race. He has a cheerful disposition and is pleasant and co-operative. His mental test shows him to possess more than average intelligence. His mother died when he was seven years of age. For over a year his father boarded him with a new job the job he did was unable to support the child longer. The little fellow was paroled to the Humane Society by the Juvenile Court for placement in a boarding home. John has perfect health. He is an attractive, dark, clear-skinned child; quiet and has good manners. Social workers feel that he should have the best home that can be found for him as he would have a chance. He is a good student in school and his teacher says that he has ability and gets along well with other boys. The Cleveland Humane Society, 106 City Hall, Cleveland, O., is seeking a high-grade free or adoptive home among our people for John, where he can have a good home and the training and care he needs. A good citizen. Persons interested are requested to write Miss Estelle Hunt, home-finding dep't. Cleveland Humane Society, or call her at Main 4600. "Selling" The Championship." Los Angeles, Cal.—The long-proposed Wills-Dempsey bout became a reality, last week Friday. Final articles of agreement to stage the fight in Chicago or Michigan City, Ind., next September, were signed that morning by Promoter Floyd Fitzsimmons and Dempsey Pledges of cooperation to preside and sign and the money deposited in a Los Angeles bank. Dempsey has received $100,000 as a guarantee for the bout and Fitzsimmons, backed by the Chicago Coliseum club, agreed to hand him $300,000 additional before the fight. This really amounts to selling the heavy-weight championship because just so surely as the bout is held Wills will whip Dempsey and Jack's friends know this. That is why they have fought so long and so hard to keep the two from ever meeting in the ring with the gloves on. I venture to say that there was not a Socialist in that mob of Christian citizens and American patriots. This article has been written from the point of view that men are men and that human beings are human beings, irrespective of creed or color, and any civilization based upon the vicious fallacy that a race should be discriminated against on account of the color of its skin, is a false and pernicious civilization and a hypocritical one as well, if it dare avow itself Christian in the name of the Gallilean Carpenter who would today, were he here, scorn and lash the pharisees who profess to be his followers while they persecute and brutalize, rob and debase those of their fellow-beings over whom they exercise their despotic and damnable dominion. SINGLE COPY FIVE CENTS FRESH OHIO NEWS A WHITE FRIEND Tells of a Couple of "Garvin" Experiences in the State of New Jersey. Madison, N. J., March 15, '26. Hon. Harry C. Smith, Editor Gazette, Cleveland, O. Dear Sir:—I want to say, through your paper, that I doubled: my donation to the "Sweets defense fund" and told the N. A. A. C. P. so. I believe in "giving credit where credit is due." Also to commend your strictures in a recent issue (Jan. 16) on "the fur and expensive coat brigade" at the "Sweets" meeting in Mt. Zion Cong. church. To add to, that here in New Jersey we have (sub rosa) an incident like unto yours of Dr. C. H. Garvin, viz; a colored man had an automobile paint-shop business and was doing well. There was no competition in his line. He bought ground, paid cash, and began to build a $5000 house on Central Ave.—a first-class neighborhood. When the news got out that "the owner was a Negro", two things happened. All his customers quit him, so I am told, and the workmen quit. No reason given. The house remains unfinished. Another: A young colored man and his wife bought a double apartment house through a white friend and paid cash. It was occupied by white people. When the news got out, there was quite a stir. They spent $900 in renovation, and installing some modern improvements. The tenants moved when the agent (a white man) told them their rent would be raised, claiming they were not going "to let n—s get rich off of them." There is no (open) color prejudice here (?) With good wishes, I remain, Yours truly. REV GEO WILSON BRENT. Woman Dies at 118. PITTSBURG, Kan. — Annie Morton, a resident of Weir, near here, died March 15, at the age of 118 years. 'She was freed during the Civil war and attributed her long life to "plenty of vegetables and fresh air." She smoked a pipe almost incessantly. MANSFIELD.—The Girl Reservoir club held an interesting meeting, Wednesday, at Friendly house. The Alpha Art club will give a play there, Mar. 26.—Mesdames Trigg, Collins and Thomas; Messrs. Wraks, Clark and Wills, little Alma Newsome and Jane McGee are ill. The Scout banquet and Eastern Star lodge supper were decided successes. C. H. Bowman, dist. N. X. H. L. Ins. C was here, recently. Rev. Wm. Teague is conducting a revival in Toledo.—Frank Cromer's home was badly damaged by fire, recently. 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., obituaries notices, inquiries for relatives and advertisements of all kinds, including items announcing entertainments to be held in the near future, must be paid for in advance at the rate of 25 cents a line, six words to a line. Our rates for display advertisements will be sent on application. ROXABELL. — Our community band's entertainments in Franklin hall, last Friday evening, and here, Saturday evening, will long be remembered—Mr. Edward Pryor, proprietor of our barber shop, showered Rev. J. J. Burr with a silver offering donation, Sunday. There was another great spiritual feast, that day. Our pastor's sermon was uplifting for both races. — The Gazette's local representative, Ella Jones, visited Chillicothe, Thursday. Mr. and Mrs. Albert Williams were there, Tuesday—Messrs. Verand, Willis of Hillsboro and Willis of Hillsboro Sunday evening guests of the Misses Ella and Ethel Jones. A light lunch was served—An entertainment in Frankfort hall, March 20, by the First Bap IN UNION WE IS STRONGER COPY FIVE CENTS MENT 65 Editor and Publisher of The Knox ville East Tennessee Books For Year Knoxville, Tennessee.—In speaking of the early issuance of a "special twentieth anniversary edition", of The East Tennessee News, which will show the progress of many race institutions in various sections of the country, Tennesseeans point with particular pride to the accomplishments of Webster L. Porter, editor and publisher, continuously for a score years. He launched The News in 1906, when only eighteen years of age, and during the entire twenty years, has successfully managed it. Editor Porter was dependent only on the actual receipts from the sale of subscriptions and advertising and today The News has a printing plant valued at $25,000, located in a large section of the main business section of the city that is much more than five years ago. The paper and plant have the largest weekly pay roll of any other race business establishment in this section of East Tennessee, and employment is given to scores of our young men and women. "A publisher at eighteen, a voter at eighteen and a Mason at eighteen. Editor Porter's record for he tells us, the franchise the first year of the publication of his paper. The hearty co-operation that has been given his efforts in planning the special anniversary edition, which is to be off the press, Thursday, April 29, by leaders in business, educational, religious and fraternal circles, is a fine compliment to the success of the publisher of The East Tennessee News and an achievement carried not less than forty-eight pages, six sections of eight pages each, and is being looked forward to with much interest because of its historical data, particularly. HIO NEWS ofist church of Chillicothe and the community band—Don't fail to read "The Old Reliable" Gazette, every week, and his best of it to your neighbors—Mr. David Byrd and son have returned to Harper's station. HILLSBORO.—Rev. R. L. Bray was at his best, Sunday morning. He preached an excellent sermon—Mr. and Mrs. Paul Kilcour accompanied Mrs. Oils Bolden and son home to Columbus, last Wednesday.—Mrs. John Hudson was hostess to Wesleyan Ladies' Aid society, Thursday evening.—Mrs. Mary Donaldson entertained at a one o'clock lunch, last Tuesday, honoring Mrs. Vinton Mayle of Columbus. Last Friday afternoon, Mrs. Frank Johnson and Mrs. W. Williams also entertained in her honor. Mrs. Mayle returned home, Sunday morning.—Mrs. C. M. Gragston returned from Mrs. M. She is still improving.—Mrs. M. She is Mrs. O. Young were hostesses to the Get-Together club, last Wednesday afternoon, at the latter's.—Last Friday at 2 p. m., Rev. and Mrs. Bray entertained the Ladies' Aid society.—The local representative of The Gazette was ill, last week. CADIZ.—Miss Martha Madison has returned from Florida, Washington, D. C., and Wheeling, W. Va.—Bishop Benj. F. Lee, age 84, who died at Wilberforce, Friday, was the second president of Wilberforce University; highly esteemed and well-known. Mrs. Lee Durham of Canonsburgh, Pa., is the guest of Mrs. Luther Wheeler—Mrs. Lizz" Nuby is seriously ill—R. F. Ballard attended the principals' meeting at Steubenville, last week.—Mr. Donald Blanchard, who sustained a painful injury in an accident, is able to be out again.—Miss Georgia W. Johnson's in Spring St. Sunday afternoon. The officials will serve dinner at the church, Tuesday evening. One of the features—it will be cooked and served by men. The GAZETTE PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY 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 226 W. Superior Ave., Cleveland, O. (Bell Phone: Cherry 1259) Member Ohio Legislature: 1894 to 1896; 1896 to 1898; 1900 to 1902 THE GAZETTE is the oldest and has the largest bona fide circulation, double that of any newspaper in the interest of Afro-Americans published in the state of Ohio and comparison with any will immediately establish its rank as one of the NEWS-EST AND BEST in the country. 10,000,000 Afro-Americans. 350,000 in Ohio. 46,000 in Cleveland. SATURDAY, MARCH 20, 1926. Over 3,000 Mississippi white women have petitioned that state's Legislature to enact a mob violence or anti-lynching law. The right thing to do. The Atlanta, Ga., barber-law, barring whites from Afro-American-owned shops, has not been repealed, the there is an effort, by prominent whites of that city, to have it annulled. Rt. Rev. Benj. F. Lee, senior bishop of the A. M. E. Church, who died last week at his home in Wilberforce, O., was one of the ablest and the best of its officials. His loss to the Church will be felt for years to come. There is hardly another white man in this country who would dare to write and publish such an arraignment, indictment of his own people as the veteran Socialist, Eugene V. Debs, has under the headline, "Black Persecution." Read it carefully, thoughtfully, and call your friends' and acquaintances' attention to it. Atty. Chester K. Gillespie of this city recently wrote the manager of station WEAR, Union Trust Blidg., objecting to the use of the mongrel and insulting term, "darky", by an announcer at his station. Manager Gallagher wrote a nice reply, thanking Mr. Gillespie, etc. If the mongrel term "mick" is used in reference to the Irish, Manager Gallagher will be made to "see the point" much more easily, we feel sure. "Running true to American form", the Firestone Rubber Co. of Akron, O., has imposed terms upon Liberia, Africa, that its legislators refuse to accept. This company was to loan that country $5,000,000 and in return was to receive certain concessions, principally land and rubber trees, that would enable it to help break down England's world monopoly of crude rubber. Liberia has undoubtedly heard of "American control of revenues" in Santo Domingo and Haiti. HOUSING IN WARDS 11 AND 12. A dispatch to the daily newspapers of the country, last week Thursday, from Albany, N. Y., announced that "a report that the Rockefellerers were ready to invest $100,000,000 in the building of low rental homes under Gov. Smith's state housing plan, provided certain changes are made in its provisions, stirred legislators." A report that the Cleveland Foundation, the Community Fund or anything or anybody else would invest some money in the building of low rental homes in wards 11 and 12 of this city would do more than "stir" the large number of suffering residents of that section of the city. The high rents and miserable housing "facilities" there cannot be changed for the better by "conferences" on the subject, and "surveys", of which there have been many in the last eight or nine years. Let Cleveland's Chamber of Commerce committee on emigration and immigration adopt and recommend a comprehensive and suitable housing plan for wards 11 and 12 and we believe that good results will follow in due time. Nashville. Tennessee—Our religious leaders here have announced that our people would not participate in the International Sunday School convention to be held in Birmingham, Ala., April 12-18. 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R. league a few weeks ago, is the following paragraph of exceptional interest: "The beloved Paul Revere, arriving too late to prevent the terrible tragedy, turned to his friend Crispus Attucks lying in the snow crimsoned by his life's blood and said: 'Ah, Crispus, if only reason could have tamed that mad heart of thine. None truer ever beat. Freedom has lost an ardent friend, this day. God' grant that this blood has not been spilled in vain." THE MAN WHO DARES "I honor the man who in the conscientious discharge of his duty dares to stand alone; the world, with ignorant, intolerant judgment, may condemn, the countenances of relatives may be averted, and the hearts of friends grow cold, but the sense of duty done shall be sweeter than the applause of the world, the countenances of relatives or the hearts of friends."—Charles Sumner. PROTEST AGAINST WRONG To submit in silence when we should protest makes cowards out of men. The human race has climbed on protest. Had no voice been raised against injustice, ignorance and lust, the inquisition yet would serve the law, and guillotines decide our least disputes. The few who dere, must speak and speak again to right the wrongs of many.—Ella Wheeler Wilcox. RACE PREJUDICE! RACE PREJUDICE. "I am convinced myself that there is no more evil thing in this present world than race prejudice; none at all! "I write deliberately—it is the worst single thing in life now. It justifies and holds together more baseness, cruelty and abomination than any other sort of error in the world." We must learn to govern ourselves and work together for our own advancement. If we do not learn to govern ourselves and work together for our own advancement, we may be very sure that we will be governed by others in their own interest as well as worked by others for their own advancement and not ours.—George W. Blount. THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, O. SATURDAY, MARCH 20, 1926. The Truth! What would cause other people to gnash their teeth and gird their loins is question of debate for us. Kick us, beat us, pile depredations upon us, revile us, abuse us, lie about us, malign us and even impugn our valor and we are not unanimously insulted. It seems impossible to establish unanimity of insult in the black race. Chicago (Ill.) Whip. 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. "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 power, to oppose it and, if possible smite it. You and I have frequently, during the forty-two years since the birth of The Gazette, been, as the Scotch would say, like two McNells, but when you, who 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.) FLOWER SHOP 2324 E. 55th St. We are your Flower Girls---- WELLMA and LEOTA MAY McLEOD Flowers For All Occasions, $1.00 and Up Soft Hair In Latest Style May Be Yours This girl's beautiful, lustrous, smooth hair was once very harsh and unruly. 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Boyd presented the work of the council to various clubs, Musical Moments, Sunshine and Work and Chatter clubs, auxiliaries to the council, were successful in their recent activities. The advisory board of the Mary B. Talbert home, E. 40th St., was a part of the recent conference in the public library. Prof. Edwin Arthur Kraft, organist of Trinity Cathedral, will play several selections at Antioch choir's 28th recital, Sunday evening, opening at 7.45 sharp. The choir will sing the sacred cantata, "The City of God", by Alex. Matthews. they alone, have the B late against mob violo A. A. C. P. and all of this if any anti-lynch acted into law by the it ever reaches the Court. However, the lihood of any such b both branches of the LOOK AT THAT MAN THAT HE'S CLOO WHERE FOLLOW HI *M. KLEINMAN'S 2928 Central Ave. *THE S. & S. DRUG CO. 7325 Central Ave. *MAJESTIC HOTEL CAFE, Cor. E. 55th St and Central Ave. The Gazette regularly should notify copy delivered promptly. 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A dance will follow. Mrs. Louia S. Jones, E. 101st St., whose lium, left leg, was broken in two places, just above the ankle, as the result of a fall on a slippery pavement in Lancaster, five weeks ago, has been taken from the hospital to the home of her cousin, Mrs. Mayne Streets, 406 E. Locust St., that city. In a letter to the editor she writes that March 2 was her son, Louia's 31st birthday and that in a letter received from him, he wrote that he was well, doing fine (in Paris, France), and that he wished to be kindly remembered to all his friends. Louia, a fine violinist, is now studying piano and composition. His violin engagements keep him busy, he wrote. Mr. Jones remained in Lancaster with his wife. They were there on a visit when the accident occurred. The fundamental law of the land gives to the various states of the country the right to legislate against and regulate mob violence which includes lynching, of course. This fact is generally recognized by our leading constitutional lawyers, both Republican and Democratic; the courts, the S. Supreme Court can declare constitutional the McKinley-Dyer bill as a law, or any other, that will "step in when any state of the Union fails to exercise its right and carry to a successful conclusion the plain interpretation of the United States which is binding not only upon the state but also upon the state severally and collectively". The failure of any state to do its moral or legal duty does not create a legal (constitutional) basis for the enactment of a law by the Congress which transgresses a state right. While we would that it were otherwise, so that a constitutional federal morality would be enacted by the Congress, it is perfectly clear to us, as well as to the greatest constitutional lawyers in this country, that it is an impossibility for the reason stated. 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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 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 tenaciously held on by our Republican Presidency. Only last week, a colored lady appeared after having passed the best examination, having been telegraphed for by the department. The photograph had failed to tell her true color, and they flatly refused to appoint her when she appeared, and they saw her complexion. Commissioner Blair of the internal revenue bureau with thousands of clerks will not appoint a Negro clerk, and his word is law there, as he is the special favorite of Secretary Mellon and President Coolidge. He has from North Carolina. The house of the other favorite and the segregation forces, Col. Sherrill, superintendent buildings and grounds, must use to complain of either of these southern gentlemen. The colored people here who know the President could destroy segregation in the departments of the government, and the photograph requirements in the civil service by the mere nod of his head, are at a loss to understand why he does not put his splendid declarations on democracy into operation here, where it would not even cost him a single vote and where he has full power and absolutely no opposition. They wonder if he is not a firm believer in segregation, especially since segregation is one of the chief tenets of the Ku Klux Klan which has found its "welcome home" in the Republican party, and receives no condemnation from the Republican President. (Special to The Gazette.) Washington, D. C.—In the postoffice segregation is rampant. The faithful colored clerks work under constant humiliation and physical disadvantages. The department maintains a spacious cafeteria for whites only, where these inferior white clerks can buy appetizing luncheons and chat in comfort while eating, while the colored clerks must bring cold luncheons from home and eat them any place they can. The physical discomfort, disadvantageous as it is, is far less galling to the colored clerks than is the thought of their government taking their taxes, as it takes those of the white, the comfort of the latter, and letting them off as though they were lepers. The injustice stings all the more when 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 segregation, and segregation has attempted in the past. And all of this is agreeable to 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, because he had been off, and he ordered the postmaster to invite the colored as well as the white. These clerks gee 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, unpleasing caste passes whites over him, one after another, though many of the colored employees have won contests in quickness and敏捷 in the coloring of mail. The colored workers 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.) Washington, D. C.—the government printing office keeps faith with the government's universal scheme of segregation. Some of the best and brightest of our girls are forced to accept inferior positions there on account of the better and more lucrative avenues of employment being closed to them because of their color. The whites are generally of a very mediocre group, far from equaling our girls in educational equipment, culture, and working efficiency. Yet these superior girls are set off from the whites with the latter, of course, having the better working conditions, salaries and recreational facilities. There is a large cafeteria in this huge structure where in the employees may go there and a few tables are reserved for our employees. I am glad to say that few, very few, of our people patronize the place, preferring a little physical inconvenience to the open, semi-public humiliation of segregation. In toilet facilities, dressing-rooms, and work assignments, wherever possible, the law of segregation is in full force, and, of course, this same undemocratic practice reveals itself on the salary roll and in the hard caste that bars promotion. In force, the law of segregation will pass over our superior employees to directive positions, and higher salaries. The whites have a large recreational center in this public building with many fine appointments for rest and amusements. During lunch and dinner hours they repair to this restful retreat for sociability and dance. Last fall, a young Afro-American with a splendid record in his work, felt the injustice of this exclusion of our employees so keenly that he secured the company of a young lady of the same race. 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, he was dressed in a fireproof 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. This his seventh employee gives 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. They have never given shivers!' The government 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, MARCH 20, 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 or his family visited the bureau where she saw white and colored girls working together in perfect harmony, oblivious to any thought of race. Shortly thereafter came an order for her to attend of the races, and a white lady who resisted for her philanthropy among our people and who was upon intimate terms at the White House appeared at the bureau to tell our girls to be contented with the new order as "a great Negro leader had taught colored people to stay in their places." Three of the young ladies resisted the order to the last ditch and were summarily dismissed! Senator La Foillette 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 loca a 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 discuaged, 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. Osseo came to attack White House Cabinets and arouse our people, and the Nation Association secured publicity in over six hundred influential white papers in the country. The fight checked what was thought to be the intention of the segregators, namely, the elimination of the colored employees from the bureau ait together. The same segregation which some of our people think is the cherished institution of the Democratic party is still there, in all of its fulness, under the administration of the party that Abram Lincoln, Charles Summer and Frederick Douglass helped to found. Our girls are eminent in the larger numbers than in any other branch of life 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 names, most of them with high age and 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 high aptitude, 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 his career, he was 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 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 Neal's office is not so large that 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 to act. Our clerks must accept segregation or elimination, and being in no other opportunities in this southern state, they must be 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 cold before the effort to increase segregation in the department here was on again at full speed. It had slowed up a little during the campaign. Investigation of Burcures 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 employees. 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 regated section of 7 employees. Office of the Treasurer of the United States—a segregated section of 4 employees. P. O. Separate Lunch Room P.O. Box Office Department - a segregated lounge "HUMAN NATURE'S FOULEST BLOT." My ear is pained My soul is sick with every day's report Of wrong and outrage, with which the earth is filled. There is no flesh in man's obdurate heart. It does not feel for man: the natural bond Of brotherhood is severed as the diar That falls saunder at the touch of fire. He finds his fellow guilty of a skin Not colored like his own: and having power To enforce the wrong, for such a worthy cause Dooms and devotes him as his lawful prey. Thus man devotes his brother, and destroys: Tis human nature's broadest foulest blot. —Cowper. 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. EDUCR. able" to incr HE GAZE" who Might Su 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 6279. "Mob" and "lynching" defined. 6279. "Serious injury" defined. 6280. Damages in case of assault. 6280. 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. 6284. 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 "injury" for the purpose of this chapter. An act of violence by a mob upon the body of any person shall constitute a "lying" within the meaning of this chapter. (93 v. 161 2.) Section 6279. The term "serious injury," for the purpose of this chapter, shall include such injury as permanently or temporarily disables the person receiving it from earning a livelihood by manual labor. (93 v. 161 3.) Section 6280. A person taken from officers of justice by a mob, and assaulted with whips, clubs, misshapen fists, or other weapons, 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 1282. The legal representative of a person dying from injuries received from lynching by a mob, may recover of the county in which such injury occurred, a sum not to exceed five thousand dollars damages for such unlawful killing. Such sum shall be applied to the maintenance of the family and education of the minor children of such person so lynched, if any survive him, until such children are of legal age, and then be distributed to the survivors, share and share alike, the widow receiving an amount equal to a child's share. If there be no widow or minor children surviving such decedent, such sum shall be distributed among the next of kin according to the personality of an intestine. 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 se 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 lynching occurs, may recover the amount of a judgment and costs against it in favor of the legal representatives of a person killed or seriously injured by a mob from any of the persons composing such mob. A person present, with hostile intent, at such lynching shall be deemed a member of the mob and be liable to such action. (93 v. 162 10.) Section 6288. If a mob carries a prisoner into another county, or comes from another county to com- MURINE FOR YOUR EYES Clean, Clear, Healthy Beautiful Eyes Are a Wonderful Asset Murine is Cleansing, Soothing, Refreshing and Harmless. You Will Like It. Book on "Eye Care" or "Eye Beauty" Free on Request Murine Co., Dpt. H. S., 9 E. Ohio St., Chicago 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 lynching laws, in recent years, like Pennsylvania and New Jersey. The Ohio law follows. B.S. ed. g. representative of victim of lynchingury by mob trying to lynch another. and costs in tax levy. s. just member of mob. just another county. mit violence on a prisoner brought from such county for safekeeping, the county in which the lynching is committed may recover the amount of the judgment and costs from the county from which the mob came on the part of officials of such unless there was contributory negligence not less than thirty days county in failing to protect such county or of displeasure such mob (93 v. 163 11.) Section 6229. 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 OOK OHIO CIVIL RIGHTS LAW Upon the request of many readers of The Gazette we print below the text of the Hon. Harry C. Smith s Ohio Civil Rights law which the editor had enacted while a member of the 71st General Assembly, in 1894: The General Code of Ohio: Sec. 12940. Whoever, being the proprietor or his employee, keeper or manager of an inn, restaurant, eating house, barbershop, public convenience by land or water, theater or other place of public accommodation and amusement, denies to a citizen except for reasons applicable alike to all citizens and regardless of race or color, the full enjoyment of the accommodations, advantages, facilities or privileges thereof, shall be denied not less than fifty dollars nor more than five hundred dollars, or more than ninety days, or both. Sec. 12941. Whoever violates the next preceding section shall also pay not less than fifty dollars nor more than five hundred dollars to the person aggrieved thereon; 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 in 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 Beaty bill, a few years ago, the Akron Beacon Journal published an editorial to which the editor of The Gazette replied, calling its attention to be fact that the Ohio Civil Rights Act does not need amending. The following judge Judge Grant former presiding judge of the Court of Appeals of the Eighth District of Ohio, is self explanatory. --- Akron, O., April 25, 1919. Hon. Harry C. Smith, Editor The Gazette, Cleveland, O. My Dear Sir: Observing your letter in the Beacon-Journal, of this city, I venture to send you, under a separate cover, the Ohio Law Reporter of Feb. 3, last, containing the opinion of the Law 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 OF OHIO IS UNDER NO REPROACH, nor our courts and juries, what was going on in a word was said by the Beacon-Journal when the form case was reviewed. Very truly yours, R. C. Grant. MURINE FOR YOUR EYES Murine Co., Dpt. H. S., 9E. Ohio St., Chicago Photographer Advances Scheme Now Discussed by Teachers of Physics Throughout U. S. "ACTINO" IS MADE THE UNIT Valuable in Photography for Determining Actinicity Under Certain Conditions. New York—A system to simplify the measuring of light and to establish a unit of measurement has been devised by F. M. Steadman, a photographer, which has attracted the attention of teachers of physics throughout the country. Although the system was devised by Mr. Steadman for use in his photography and is not as yet well known, those who have heard it discussed and explained believe in its merits. At a recent lecture before the Camera Club, Mr. Steadman told of the uses to which the theory could be put and showed the value of measuring light in taking photographs where much attention is devoted to light and shadow effects. Briefly, the theory of Mr. Steadman is that since all light has an effect in causing a change on chemically sensitized paper, light could be measured by the number of seconds it takes to cause such a change. It was said by Mr. Steadman in light that the present system of using the candle light as a unit is unsatisfactory, as it necessitates a certain amount of guess work. If a standard sensitized paper could be used and the faintest change taken the time unit required in making the change could be used as the unit for measuring the strength of the light. The name "acetinicity" has already been used for the property which any object has to cause a chemical change on a material. Steadman suggests that the unit of measurement be called an "acting" The purpose of Mr. Steadman in giving his time to the advancement of his theory, is explained by him in his book, "Unit Photography," where he says, "As every object about us, even one so indefinite as the sky, emits light capable of effecting this chemical change to some degree, this property is evidently a quantitative one, and, as will be shown, can be measured in simple units. This property has already been termed actinicity. "In taking up the discussion of the unite of actinicity it must be understood that the purpose of this system is not to suggest a primary light source of unit power as a standard, but to furnish a practical means of measuring and expressing in simple numbers the intrinsic actinicity of all light sources, as the sun, the sky, flames and all visible surfaces about us in nature." MODERN LUMBER JACK A REAL ARISTOCRAT Hotel on Wheels Has Parlor and Kitchen Cars with Brilliant Lights Spring Beds and Soft Mattresses. Mellen, Wis.-Should an old time lumberjack wander into this neck of the woods searching for old, familiar scenes, and with the possible desire to once again for a brief time enter into the old calling for pastime or physical improvement, he would be apt to make a hasty survey of present conditions and with a voice softened by disappointment declare, "No, this is not the same—not at all the same. This may be all right for a minister's son, but not for me—not for me. Too much like Chicago." Last winter residents of Mellen had an opportunity to watch a train of new boarding cars switch out into the city's bustling railway and the Foster-Latimer Lumber Company. The cars were built in the local car shops of that concern and are the last word in quarters for woodsmen. The outfit comprises a "kitchen car," equipped with the most modern kitchen appliances, such as can only be found in the culinary departments in hotels of large cities; two "sleepers," equipped with steel double deck beds, springs and mattresses, there being no bunks, but regular upper and lower berns, each for two persons and provided with individual ventilating windows; in the roof are also eight patent ventilator stacks. The two diners are provided with individual tables for setting four persons each. The entire train is comfortably heated by steam heat. The cars are provided with hardwood floors, neatly painted inside and out, well lighted, and provided with the latest model