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ECONOMY STYLE SHOP 3324 CEDAR AVE., CLEVELAND, O. SPRING FASHIONS. CLOTHES OF DISTINCTION FOR EVERY OCCASION Evening Gowns and Wraps. Street and Afternoon Dresses. Three-Piece Suits. Spring Coats. Correct Hats. Used Garments! THE GAZETTE ESTABLISHED, AUGUST 25, 1883 And Issued Every Week on Time Since CLARENCE DARROW ROASTS POLITICIANS AND MINISTERS WARNS OUR PEOPLE OF THE FORMER AND DOES NOT UNDERSTAND THE “JARGON” OF THE LATTER. And Says Work, Be Patient, and Independent in Politics—Praises Our Singing, Actors, Prize Fighters and Writers—Greatest Applause When He Characterizes the “Negro” Politician as Our Greatest Enemy, Etc., Etc. In a talk barbed with sarcasm for the white man, Clarence Darrow, noted Chicago criminal lawyer, Sunday told a large audience at Mt. Zion Cong. church, Central Ave. and E. 55th St., that the future held out hope for the success of our contention for liberty and equality of opportunity. “Go slow; be patient,” he said. “Work every minute to improve yourself.” His advice was: “Seek work that nature has fitted you to do better than the white man. Be independent in politics. Shun jobs where pay is based on tips. You have ministers, but I don’t know much about them. Black or white, their jargon is beyond me. You have great writers and poets. They have no more ability than the white writers, but they have better material—the human interest, in the passionate struggle of the Negro for equality.” Applause lasting a full minute greeted his declaration that “the greatest enemy of the Negro was the colored politician.” “When I speak to a Negro audience, I never tell them how to vote,” he said. “I don’t care. As for myself, I’m a Democrat, and I vote the Democratic ticket. Aside "You sing wonderfully," he continued. "I've just heard you. Even a white man likes to hear you sing. The wave length of the Negro voice seems to be the same. You make good actors—in comedy and in tragedy. You excel the white man in dancing. You excel the prize fighters. I like to see them and win. You have good lawyers—if there are any good lawyers You have ministers, but I don't know much about them. Black or white, their jargon is beyond me. You have great writers and poets. They have no more ability than the white writers, but they have better material—the pathos, the human interest, in the passionate struggle of the Negro for equality." Applause lasting a full minute greeted his declaration that "the greatest enemy of the Negro was the colored politician." "When I speak to a Negro audience, I never tell them how to vote," he said. "I don't care. As for myself, I'm a Democrat, and I vote the Democratic ticket. Aside from that, I'm independent. The Negro made a bad mistake when he derefused me, bound hand and foot, the Republican party. It would have been just as bad if it had been the Democratic. Don't let the politician mislead you by talking about the flag and your debt to the Republican party. In some ways, your condition is worse than before slavery. I don't know yet who won the Civil War—Abe Lincoln or Jeff Davis. I would advise you to vote for the Republican party once more, get a receipt, and then be free. Vote for your friends and against your enemies from then on." Darrow held that the Afro-American had to submit to injustice and indignity because of his recent emergence from slavery. It was a case of master psychology" getting the audience to "slave psychology" and the white man merely "thinks" he is better he asserted. "Bace Only a Word." "Race is only a word," he added "In the beginning, if there was a beginning, man was homogeneous Isolation, climate, customs brought changes. But race, after all, is just a question of place and a long time—maybe a million years. Color is a matter of preference. I like black. All the furniture in my house is painted black. Some like mahogany, which is a kind of mullato. Few people like white. It's a cold, gray, ghastly hue. Scientists are agreed there is not an atom of difference in the intelligence of the Negro and the noble Nordic. I'm a Nordic, but I apologize for it. Some people are first. If he did, I'd like to know what made him for. The white man has done more because he's had more experience and opportunity." He scored "Christian" discrimination against the Afro-American, forcing him into separate churches, separate Y. M. C. A.'s, etc. "I guess I've painted a sad picture," said Darrow. "I had to. It's true. I'm not an optimist. An optimist is just another name for a blooming idiot. Only I'd rather be called an idiot, because I know what that means. Life is full of struggles and worry from cradle to grave. Death comes in the end, sometimes not soon enough. You can forget your troubles by working, by being interested in something. The Negro is not interested in anything, he pleads to be. My own life isn't what I'd like to be. I can't do what I want, either. I too, am the descendant of slaves, but they emerged sooner than your's. Your time should come." Limit New Harvard Class. Cambridge, Mass. — Harvard's freshman class will be limited, next fall. New regulations promulgated by the committee on admissions, will hold it to about 1,000 students. The present enrollment is 1,150. Prospective students must submit photographs with their applications. This is directed at Jews and "Negroes," it is said. Second Sweet Trial. Monday. Detroit, Mich.—Arthur Garfield Hays, who is busy with other cases, has been replaced by Ths. W. Chawke, a prominent local criminal lawyer, who with Atty. Julian W. Perry, a member of the race, will assist Clarence Darrow in the trial of Dr. Henry Sweet, a brewer, who scheduled to open, Monday. His is the first of the eleven "Sweet" cases to be tried. OUR PYTHIANS' DESPICABLE ACT! Lease Theater in Their New Temple To a Man Who Bars our People From His Chain of Eight Theaters, it is Said. (Special to The Gazette.) Columbus, O.-Have we lost ALL self and race respect, and pride? That is the question that welled up until it near choked me as I sat and listened to a recital anent the new Pythian temple here that will soon be finished and occupied. It is located on Mt. Vernon Ave. and includes a theater which has been leased to a man by the name of an eminent actor. He employs the theaters from which, it is said, "Negroes" are barred. We are told that they cannot purchase tickets to any one of them, and one of them is at 20th St. and Mt. Vernon Ave., a location passed daily by thousands of our people. The only thing any one of them can get in James' theaters, it is said, is a bucket and a mop. Naturally our people are waiting to see if he will put all colored help in our new Pythian Temple theater. If he employs an Afro-American operator. There are a number of our operators here. We have one theater, The Empress, owned and controlled by a member of the race. It has all colored help. The other one is the Dunbar, owned by Harry Kaplan, a Jew who is getting thousands of our dollars and employs a white operator. The least of our people should do would be to demand that all white people, who are all money from our department, up their elbows. If they refuse to do this, then we should bocottet them. Mr. James is expecting to do great things, we are told, with his "jim-crow" theater in the new Pythian Temple because it is to be a very beautiful place. All this does not speak very well for our local Pythias who might have operated the theater or leased it to some responsible and competent person of the race. An explanation of some kind is due from Atty, Bareus, the order who helped to put through the deal with James whose barring of our people from his chain of theaters ought to have made him persona non grata when it came to leasing or renting the theater in our new Pythian building. STATEMENT Of the ownership, management, etc., required by the Act of Congress of August 24, 1912, of The Gazette published weekly at Cleveland, Ohio, for April 1, 1926. State of Ohio. County of Cuyahoga, ss. State of Ohio. Notary Public in and for the State and county aforesaid, personally appeared Harry C. Smith, who, having been duly sworn according to law, deposes and says that he is the owner of The Gazette and that the following is, to the best of his knowledge and belief, a true statement of the ownership, management, etc., of the aforesaid publication for the date shown in the above caption, required by the Act of August 24, 1912, embodied in section 443 of the Local Laws and regulations printed on the reverse of this form, to wit: 1. That the name and address of the publisher, editor, managing editor, and business manager is Harry C. Smith, Cleveland, Ohio. 2. That the owner is Harry C. Smith. 3. That the known bondholders, mortgages, and other security holders owning or holding 1 per cent or of total amount of bonds mortgages, or other securities are: None. 4. That the two paragraphs next above, giving the names of the owners, stockholders, and security holders, if any, contain not only the list of stockholders and security holders as they appear upon the books of the company, but also, in cases where the company holds holders appears upon the books of the company as trustee or in any other fiduciary relation, the name of the person or corporation for whom such trustee is acting, is given; also that the said two paragraphs contain statements embracing affiant's full knowledge and belief as to the circumstances and conditions under which stockholders hold holders who do not appear upon the books of the company as trustees, hold stock and securities in a capacity other than that of a bona fide owner; and this affiant has no reason to believe that any other person, association, or corporation has any interest direct or indirect in the said stock, bonds, or other securities than as so stated by him. Signed, Harry C. Smith. Sworn to and subscribed before me this the 30th day of March, 1926. (Seal) Paul Apple. Notary Public. (My commission expires Aug. 6th, 1926.) Indicted in Siki Slaxing New York, March 31—Martin Maroney, 18-year-old laborer, has been indicted for first degree murder in connection with the shooting last December of Louis Phal, Senegalese militant Siki. "It became known today." SINGLE COPY FIVE CENTS AGAINST INSTALLING THE STATUE OF ALEXANDER H. STEPHENS Who Like Gen. Robert E. Lee Was Guilty of Treason —Lovejoy, Garrison, Summer and Douglass— Stephens' Address to Secessionists' Convention. Etc. To the Architect of the U.S. Capitol: I assure you that the colored people of the country are unalterably opposed to the placement of another statue in statuary hall at the Capitol in honor of men who gave their supreme effort to destroy this nation! Already the brilliant Robert E. Lee, who received his military training in the Union military academy at West Point and rewarded the splendid gift with treason, is honored by the presence of his marble likeness there among those of the patriots and other benefactors of the United States, the colored contributors omitted, of the oww to install the statue of Alexander H. Stephens, the Vice-President of the Confederacy who also wears the stain of trying to help found the only government in the history of the world whose sole purpose was to be the perpetuation of slavery. Mr. Stephens' whole life was given to principals at war with every sentiment of democracy for which we claim we stand. He opposed efforts of the abolitionists and other anti-slavery men who fought that iniquitous institution in order that the nation might live. He gave all of his genius to that spirit that murdered Lovejoy, assaulted Summer dragged Garrison through the price of Boston in order to press upon the head of Frederick Douglass, and brought infinite sorrow and suffering to millions of noble men and women in black. While in Congress he championed every demand of the slave power. In 1850 he supported Clay and Webster's compromise which turned over the far West to slavery and gave us the most infamous of all tigritive-slave laws. In 1854 he was the most aggressive leader in the House of Representatives in forcing the Kansas-Nebraska bill, thus extending slavery from which he had been excluded. After the bloody Civil War, for which he was partly responsible, when he and others had been forgiven for their treason, the ungrateful South sent him to Congress again, where he obstructed every wise measure of reconstruction statesmanship. But on his re-appearance in the Congress against which he had waged cruel war to hold black men in bondage, he was to meet black men in the intellectual arena where they mastered the art of racial inferiority. On Jan. 6, 1874, that gifted and devoted Negro statesman, Robert Brown Elliott of South Carolina, hurled an eloquent rebuke at his benighted opposition to Charles Sumner's civil rights bill, a wise and humane piece of legislation calculated to square 54-Year Old Lynch-Murder 34 Year Old Lynch-Murder Celina, O.-The murder of Mary Belle Secauer, in the northern part of Mercer county, this state, 54 years old. The murder of peddlers, were lynched, has been cleared up by the death-bed confession of Thomas Bradwell Douglas, in a Denver, Colo., hospital. Douglas in a signed confession admitted murdering the girl and taking part in lynching the two innocent men, Alexander McLeod and Absolom Kimmel. "The hanging of McLeod and Kimmel was as vile a murder as was ever perpetrated. I was one of the molt that executed them, it urgent that executed them for own aid it necessary to secure my own safety, said Douglass. Yes; all "white." Kip's Dad Loses Again! Poughkeepsie, N. Y.-Leonard Kip Rhinelander's father came out loser again, last week Friday, in his litigation to annul his son Kip maritalization to Alice Reece Jones-Rhinelander on the ground that "Negro" blood flowed in her veins. Supreme Court Justice Morschauser denied the motion of Rhinelander's attorneys to set aside the jury's verdict which sustained the legality of the marriage and also denied the motion for a new trial. Counsel fees of $12,000 were allowed Alice's attorney against Rhinelander, Justice Morschauser cutting the original request for $25,000 to that amount. Mr. and Mrs. Lewis J. and John Dean visited the former's father (who is ill), last week Friday and Saturday, in Denton, Mich. They were guests of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Perkins in Wayne, Mich., Saturday through Sunday. They motored both ways. Mr. Perkins is a former Clevelander. IN UNION IS STRONGER COPY FIVE CENTS TAME WAS FILES BONG PROTEST G THE STATUE OF H. STEPHENS Lee Was Guilty of Treason ummer and Douglass— as to Secessionists' ion, Etc. our practice with our preachments. Some of his apologists seek to save his memory by referring to his opposition to the secession of his state in the Georgia convention in January, 1861. But listen to his reasons: "When we of the South," he said in addressing the secessionists convention, "demanded the slave trade, or the importation of Africans for the cultivation of our lands." He asked the right for twenty years? When we asked a three-fifths representation in Congress for our slaves, was it not granted? When we asked and demanded the return of any fugitive slave, was it not incorporated in the Constitution and again strengthened and ratified by the Fugitive Slave law of 1850? When we have asked that more territory be added that we might spread the institution of slavery, we have not yielded to our demands in giving us Florida, Louisiana and Texas, out of which states have been carved and ample territory for four more states to be added in due time, if you do not by this impolite and unwise measure (secession) destroy his power. All we have your slave wrened from you by stern military rule, as South America and Mexico were; or by the vindictive decree of a universal emancipation which may reasonably be expected to follow?" Then followed his plea that the South had gotten more than its deserts from the Union, "sixty-four years of southern Presidents to their (the North's) twenty-four"; eighteen justices of the U. S. Supreme Court to the North's eleven, although four-fifths of the judicial business had arisen in the North; and the bulk of the federal patronage. He was for the South and not for the Nation! For the Hall of Fame should only include those who have served their fellow men for their example is the only one that can inspire others to noble action. The urge for the admission for these two statues springs from the unrepentent spirit that wants the Nation to admit that the South was right in seeking to wreck the Union. It knows that the cold marble can proclaim its cause, especially when it is placed in the very center and heart of the government. The many illustrious Negroes who have rendered distinguished service in every noble endeavor in our country's history have no place there, and we feel that in glorifying our worst enemies the nation discourages patriotism and self-fellowship. Very respectfully yours, Neval H. Thomas. Washington, D. C. March 29, 1826. A $1140 A YEAR JOB! Washington, D. C.-The U. S. Civil Service Commission announces the following open competitive examination: Head Nurse. Receipt of applications for head nurse will close, May 11. The examination is to fill a vacancy at Freedmen's Hospital, Washington, D. C., at $1,140 a year, plus room, board and laundry, and vacancies occurring in positions requiring similar qualifications. Applicants must have been graduated from a standard four years' high-school course, and from a recognized school of nursing, of least three years in a hospital having a daily average of fifty patients or more giving a thorough practical and theoretical training; also they must show evidence of State registration, and must have had one year's hospital experience as a graduate nurse. Freedmen's Hospital is an institution for the care of Afro-American patients. Under supervision, the appointee will be responsible for the patients and personnel in a ward. Competitors will not be allowed to attend at any place, but will be rated on their education, training, and experience. Full information and application blanks may be obtained from the U. S. Civil Service Commission, Washington, D. C., or the secretary of the board of U. S. civil-service examiners at the post office or customhouse in any city. The Hiwatha club held an interesting meeting at Mrs. Eleanora Shook's, E. 81st St. and rendered a splendid program. Luncheon was served. Next meeting at Mrs. Julia Thurston's. N. 103d St. April 5. ```markdown ``` YOU SEE MR FLINNIGAN WE THOUGHT WE'D SPEND A FEW DAYS OF OUR VACATION IN LEARNING ALL ABOUT GOLF! IT'S VERY SIMPLE! - AND WHAT DOES IT MEAN WHEN SOMEONE SAYS "FOUR"? YOU MEAN "FORE!" FORE! WELL— - IT MEANS TO DUCK, OR YOU'RE APT TO GET BEANED WITH A BALL! OH! I SEE! ONE! TWO! THREE! FOUR! OH!--I SEE! 320 YDS. Tim Early! PUBLISHER EVERY SATURDAY (In Advance) 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 1250) 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-BEST AND BEST in the country. 10,000,000 Afro-Americans. 850,000 in Ohio. 40,000 in Cleveland. Prof. Neval H. Thomas' open letter to the architect of the United States capitol, on the first page of this paper, is a terrific indictment of American lack of patriotism and American prejudice, in general, and that of the U. S. Congress in particular. Robert E. Lee of Virginia and Alexander H. Stephens of Georgia were rebels, pure and simple. They were guilty of treason, during the war of the rebellion. And yet the Congress authorized the placing of statues of these men in the Hall of Fame and refused the honor to the Honorable Frederick Douglass, who was just as loyal to this country as Lee and Stephens were disloyal, the basis of the refusal being Douglass' color and race-connection. All of which shows clearly the low state of patriotism in this country and what little regard still exists for the loyal defenders of the government during the trying times from 1861 to 1865. Such an exhibition of lack of patriotism and shameless race and color prejudice could not be duplicated in any other country on the face of the globe. Last Sunday, Atty. Clarence Dar row of Chicago, noted criminal lawyer, delivered an address in Mt Zion Congregational temple or church, this city. To hear it, people were charged fifty cents, seventy-five cents and one dollar. Mr Darrow is a man who never loses an opportunity to ridicule the Christian religion and ministers of the gospel. He did this, Sunday, characterizing their talk as, "jargon". Many ministers were in the audience, too. Some of us "old timers" are still "hugging to our breasts" what seems to be characterized as a delusion, in these days and times; namely, that churches, especially on the Sabbath day, are dedicated or consecrated to the service of God, and that on that day of all days the church should not be used as a hall or theatre with an admission price or charge by any organization, individual or individuals for other than religious services or something akin. Certainly not for the purpose of ridiculing both the Christian religion and ministers of the gospel. And this is just what was done, last Sunday, at Mt Zion Congregational temple or church by the local N. A. A. C. P. branch and Atty. Clarence Darrow of Chicago. Good Lord, whither are we drifting? It would not surprise us now to learn that some local entertainment-promoter had secured Mt. Zion Congregational temple or church for a prize "Charleston" contest, in the near future. Speaking of the Hon. Charles L. Knight's candidacy for the Republican nomination for Governor of Ohio, the Cincinnati Daily Times-Star says he is not the kind that is "topped over" for either the nomination or election. Well, "the gang", Republican organizations of Cleveland, Cincinnati, Columbus, Toledo and Dayton, certainly did "topple him", and other candidates, over two years ago, for Col. Carmi Thompson, the successful candidate, and will do it again if Mr. Thompson is a candidate. Mark our prediction! Ex-Congressman Knight, a native of Georgia, editor and owner of the Akron Beacon-Journal and compiler of a history of the rebel chief, Jeff Davis, is an able man and splendid campaigner but getting the nomination in the face of the opposition of "the gang" and, if nominated, getting elected with Gov. Vic Donahey as his opponent, are two political mountains even he cannot climb, especially with the party's miserable record of mismanagement of state affairs under the Davis administration and the State Assemblies since, to answer for. FRESH OHIO NEWS Written By "The Old Reliable" Gazette's Correspondents What Our People Are Doing Each Week—Church, Personal, Social, Lodge, Literary and Musical Marriages. Deaths. Etc. ANNOUNCEMENT EXTRAORDINARY! THE FRANCES TURNER TEA ROOM Majestic Hotel—Central Ave. and E. 55th Street Specializing in Dinner Parties, Luncheons, Theatre and Motor Parties, Weddings, Etc. Catering to Lodges, Clubs, Etc. Regular Meals at Appropriate Hours Quick and Efficient Service at Popular Prices HOME COOKING AND HOME MADE PASTRY FRANCES TURNER—Prop. THE GEEVUM GIRLS SHARBLINE—Mrs. Lucy Reed, stop 25, is ill.—Mr. Frank Smith spent Sunday in Sharon, Pa.—Mr. Geo. Holland, who has been ill, has returned to work.—Mr. Pharis Hall has the flu. Wm. Warrick, who has returned from county jail on a liquor charge, had a narrow escape. His house was searched just twenty minutes too late. BELLAIRE—Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Baker are visiting in Youngstown.—Mr. and Mrs. Clifford Grant and sons of Sharline are here visiting until Easter. Mrs. Clifford Grant, will locate in Sharline, Easter.—The Old Reliable—Gazette wants an agent here, at once YOUNGSTOWN.—R. Burns Harvey was in akron, Sunday.—Dr. J. H. Maxwell of Oak Hill Ave. A. M. E. church will start a revival, Easter Monday evening. —Anyone knowing the whereabouts of Mrs. Harvey will kindly communicate with her mother, Mrs. Woodson, at Belmont branch Y. W. C. A., which she left recently.—Mrs. Burton Bates, who underwent an operation at city hospital. Thursday is recovering.—Palm Sunday services will be held our 29 different churches here.—The menus will assist the lady-users at Oak Hill Ave. A. M. E. church, Easter. 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, obituary notices, inquiries for relatives and advertisements of all kinds, including items announcing entertainments to be held in the near future, must be paid for in advance at the rate of 25 cents a line, six words to a line. Our rates for display advertisements will be sent on application. HILLSBORO.—Mrs. Eva Bamah of Chicago is visiting her sister, Mrs. Dorsey Minor, and other relatives,—R. L. Bray, JR., was seriously ill this week with bronchial pneumonia.—Miss Helen Johnson entertained with a card party, last Wednesday night.—Mr. and Mrs. Donald Highwarden spent Sunday with the latter's parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Williams.—Mrs. Amanda Grubbs, age 61, born in April, 1865, died, March 24, 1890. Funeral services were conducted by Rev. A. Male, Friday, 2 p. m. at Wesleyan church. She leaves to mourn her loss, a husband, sister and brother. Miss Josephine Harris and Mr. Thomas Dent of Greenfield were here to attend the funeral.—Mr. Samuel Josephine and Mr. Clarence Pleasant visited in Roxabell, Sunday, and attended the services. They were dinner-guests of Mr. and Mrs. Albert Williams. MANSFIELD.—Mt. Calvary S. S. Easter program in the afternoon. —Mr. and Mrs. B. P. Fatterson entertained Rev. and Mrs. D. D. Erwin at a 6' o'clock dinner, Friday, in honor of Mrs. Patterson's and Mrs. Hawkins' birthday.—An excellent program at Mitchell chapel will be tendered by the chapel de bello direction of Prof. Terry. Quarterly meeting, April 11. Communion, at 10:45 a. m., Rev. T. W. Woodson, P. E., in charge. At 7:30 p. m., the S. will render its Easter program.—All the Girl Reserves of the city, including our four, gave an Easter pageant at the Y. W. C. A., Sunday afternoon at 10:30 a. m., the C. M. Burgess of Oberlin was the week-end guest of Mr. and Mrs. Alex Luckey of N. Cidmas.—Miss Ida Beaumont and mother are convalescing.—Miss Bernice Luckey entertained the Busy THE GAZETTE. CLEVELAND. O. SATURDAY. APRIL 3. 1926. Bee club, Saturday afternoon. It will be entertained by Mrs. J. H. Davis, this afternoon.—Revival meetings will begin at Mitchell chapel, April 18, in charge of Rev. Burgess. A sunrise meeting at 5 a.m. will be held at Mrs. Lawson Lake, leader—Mrs. L. Gossipp is convalescent. The ftu.—Miss Cora Grant has lagripe. Eastern Star lodge will go to Wooster for its annual sermon, April 4.—Miss Vivian Adams of Marlon was greeted by Mrs. L. Gossipp day after Mrs. Pearl Corbin, the week-end guest of her sister, Mrs. Sawyer. They will go to Wooster, April 3. ROXABELL.—A spiritual feast at Second Baptist church, Sunday. At 11:30 a. m., the pastor, Rev. J. Burr, preached a splendid sermon. The S. S. is still progressing under the leadership of Supt. David Washington and his able staff of officers.—The entertainment of Chillicotheau at a frankfort Mar. 10 was a success. The president of was laney M. S. Mrs. Rebecca Wilson, and her officers rendered an excellent program at 2 p. m., Sunday. Special sermon by Rev. Wm. Braxton of Greenfield. The program was fine. Mr. Clarence Pleasant and Mr. J. Graves of Hillsboro were with us. Rev. J. Burr preached again at night. Miss Mary Williams a, and Miss Mary Williams a was unable to bring her sextette on account of her mother's illness.—Mr. Al Byrd is convalescing. Lagripe. Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Brooks were guests of Mr. and Mrs. Byrd.—Our community band played at Greenfield, Thursday night.—Easter Sunday program, in the afternoon.—The Delaney M. S. met at Mr. and Mrs. Al Williams' this week Friday night.—Miss Lillian McNeill, a school, was assigned to our school (dist. No. 15), this week to practice.—Miss Jessie Bryan of Chillicothe, who teaches near Harris Station, visited our school last Thursday.—Revs. Burr, Braxton, Seward and wife, and Mr. David Washington dined with Mr. and Mrs. Al Williams.—Mr. Tony Woodford and two sons were also at our church, Sunday.—Mr John Logan, who lives in a model 1926 Ford coupe—Several cases of rugelap among our people.—Robbie Steele of Waverly visited his cousins, Ella and Ethel Jones. The Truth! What would cause other people to grash 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. LISTERINE THROAT TABLETS Antiseptic Prevent & Relieve Hoarseness Sore Throat Coughs Pe-ru-na is backed by the verdict of two generations, more than fifty years of success. SOLD EVERYWHERE TABLETS or LIQUID 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. Look to your health. Epsom Salts is still the best Physic—take it in small flavored tablets. 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Anderson was in Fremont, last week, in the interest of the W. M. M. society, of which she is N. O. branch president. The explosion of four hundred tons of molten metal, Mar. 20, in one of Birmingham, Ala.'s largest steel furnaces, exacted the fearful toll of twenty-one lives, of which fourteen were Afro-American steel hands. Mrs. Lenora, Craig, Mrs. Cornellia Highgate, Mrs. Carrie Rausch and Mrs. Addie Dillard attended the funeral of an uncle, Mr. Orville Davis, in Salem, last week Friday. He was a native of that city. Mrs. Henry Ross, E. 46th St., who died, recently, after a lingering illness, was a sister of Sydney B. Thompson. Two brothers, a daughter and a sister, in addition to the husband, mourn her demise. Mrs. Estelle Merritt, an old resident of Cleveland, died, last week Tuesday. Funeral from St. John's A. M. E. church, last Saturday afternoon. She leaves a husband, Wilson Merritt, and an adopted daughter, Ritt, to mourn her loss. THE GEEV PLEASE SETTLE A DISPU PARTY, MRS. 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Funeral services, Wednesday afternoon, at Antioch Baptist church Two sons and three daughters survive her and have the sympathy of the community. Mrs. Nellie J Green, E. 79th St., is one of the daughters. A large and appreciative audience listened to the beautiful organ numbers by Edwin Arthur Kraft, organist of Trinity P. E. cathedral Sunday evening, March 21, at the 28th recital of Ailoch choir. The choir bells be beating in the chorus "The City of God," a sacred cantata by Alex. Matthews. It will sing Stainer's "Crucifixion," Easter Sunday at 7:45 p. m. James Mabel, chef at the Z club for years, has been critically ill at city hospital, (W, 25th St. car), for more than three weeks and only ONE of his many friends has been out to see him. This is not as it should be. "Jim" was a "haven of refuge" for years to the hungry boys of the club who were "some of whom and others" too might go out to see him now that he is bed-ridden and all but helpless. A committee met, March 21, at The Christian Community Center, Scovill Ave., to formulate plans to assist and promote the work in Troop 8, of which Mr. Aranton is scout-master, and Troop 94, of which Mr. Wilson is scout-master, Boy Scouts of America. The following persons were pressed and committee appended: Program Director, Chairman; inspection, M. Williams; finance, J, Walker; publicity, Attry, J. E. Ballard. There were 450 killings in Chicago last year. Not all were murders. Many were auto fatalities. About a third of the homicides were due to racial maladjustments between southern whites and southern Negroes, 250,000 of whom have migrated to Chicago in recent Another third occurred among foreign born who brought feuds with them.—Attorney Clarence Darrow of Chicago. There is no more likeable man in business in Cleveland than popular Jim Shield of The Spritz Company, 2067 E. 9th St., who has just spent a month or more in Mt. Sinai hospi- CLEVELAN Takes Pictures JOHN OLAH JOHN OLAH, Photographer 4729 Woodland Avenue UM GIRLS TE REGARDING OUR BIRTHDAY I SAY IT WOULD BE PERFECTLY AN KISSED ME ONCE FOR EACH CAR OF MY AGE AND I SAY IT WOULDN'T! WELL, THAT DEPENDS, --IN THE FIRST PLACE, BIRTHI THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, O. SATURDAY, APRIL 3, 1926. 4729 Woodland Avenue tal, struggling for the "steenth" time to rid his body of some of the painful effects of his overseas experiences during the World War. Many of his hosts of friends do not know that he is again in the business-harming pleasure in notifying them of the fact. Go in and "look him over". He will be pleased to see you, "as of old". Negro melodies are a genuine accomplishment in the realm of music. James H. Rogers, composer and musical critic, is dear to the Unity Day night told the Unity club at Channing Hall, Euclid Ave, and E. $2nd St. He played three spirituals, "Swing Low, Sweet Charlot" and "Deep River" and "Standin' in the Need of Prayer". "These things have an expressiveness," he said, which with their backgrond this was the chief modern music Mr. Rogers cited as worth while in his talk on the subject, "Music, Past and Present; Whither Tending?" The Social Workers Round Table club is composed of representatives of Cleveland's social, health and protective agencies, courts, settlements and other organizations interested in community welfare. The organization is just entering its third year, selecting as president黑h Howard of the Human Services, Emma Howard of the juvenile court; rec sec. Clementine Hedges of the Associated Charities; cor. sec. Virginia Hodges of the Welfare Federation; areas. Nina Thomas of the Red Cross society. The club expects to help entertain our delegates (from out of the city) to the 53d annual national conference of social workers to convene in this city. May 26 to June 2. At its meeting, the neighborhood health featured, with nurses and City Sanitation Officer Milner leading in the discussion. Miss Agnes Gould of the Christian center rendered a musical number. Julius Bledsoe, baritone, New York City, made his debut in Cleveland, last week Tuesday evening, at Mt. Zion Cong, church, under the auspices of the Mozart Glee club. As a soloist, he has been coming and coming rapidly, in the last two years, but in the East. He has not sung much in this section of the country, however. Mr. Bledsoe has a splendid voice and knows his music. His classic selections, folk songs and imitations of street-cries of New Orleans "Negro" peddilers are all artistically done and his accompanist, a Mr. Sandridge, was very efficient. The Mozart club's officers are: Capt. Chas. Fry, director; G. H. Ambrose, business manager; John H. Perry, sec.; Dr. Wm. P. Saunders, cor. sec.; Thos. L. Christopher, pres; James Strode, librarian; Dr. W. W. Whitfield, treas; Marguerite Sandford, accompanist; Other H. W. Balkins, Charles H. Weaver, Dr. U. S. Tartar, Russell Scott, W. U. Grayson, John T. 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Don't Throw Away Your Copy of THE GAZETTE After Reading it, But Give It to a Friend or an acquaintance who Might Subscribe After Reading a Copy of it. 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. The largest 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. Tatt introduced it in the bureau of engraving. He segregated the census-takers in this city in 1910, restricting white workers to white people, and black to black, often duplicating work as most blocks had white and black residents. And, worst of all, announced in his official capacity that Negroes should not hold office where white people complained. Segregation, then, is a Republican institution and not a Democratic one it was begun by Republicans, and carried on to its all-embracing extent by Republicans! There is far more of it in the departments, today, than at any time since the Negro first appeared, close upon the close of the Civil War. The picture requirement in the civil service, which makes it next to impossible for a colored lady or gentleman to enter the civil service, since their color is disclosed in their photograph which must accompany papers, is tenacious on to by our Republican President. Only last week, a colorful appearance after having asked the best examination, after having been telegraphed far 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, President Coolidge, and hails from North Carolina, the home of the other favorite and the segregation force. Col. Sherrill, superintendent of buildings and grounds, is not 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 coined clerks work under constant lumination 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 coined clerks than is the thought of their government taking their taxes, as it takes those of the whites, for the comfort of the latter, and setting them off as though they were the enemy. The injustice stings all the more when they reflect that they are far 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, a com for t able lounges and other equipment for rest, sociability, and recreation, and nothing for these same colored employees. This private club is in the magnificent postoffice building, built and maintained by ALL of the people. In the locker rooms there is segregation, and segregation is even attempted in the toilets. And all of this is against the most dependable and faithful employees. Last year the white employees passed around invitations to the white employees, in the very presence of the colored, to attend a reception to the heads of departments, including the postmaster general, in the postoffice building. It announced dancing and a pleasant social evening with the officials for "the postoffice employees," yet not one was delivered to the colored clerks. I hurried a protest to the postmaster general the day before it was to come on, and I was invited to invite the colored as well as the white. These clerks get around their colored co-workers by giving the function at a local hotel. It is inevitable that the wicked spirit of segregation would express itself in appointments, assignments, and salaries. Colored applicants are often passed over though their examination was superior. No Negro, however efficient or old in the service, must ever dream of a promotion to a directive position. The hard, unyielding caste passes whites over him, one after another, though many of the colored employees have won contests in quickness and accuracy in the job. 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 the employees may go out; there are a few tables in an out-of-the-way section reserved for our employees, an ample say that few, very few, people patronize the place, preserving 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 ruil force, and, of course, this same undemocratic practice reveals itself on the salary roll and in the hard caste that bars promotions. Here, as elsewhere, we power 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 chair 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 he arrived in the office, he was quickly accused of setting the building aire 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 free to there be no dares to resent the daily insults that their government (under President Coiffure) 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, never given a single name! The department cannot take up the position, 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, CLEVLAND, O. SATURDAY, APRIL 3, 1926. is so well settled upon it, and the complainants cannot bear witness to (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 he met colored women and colored girls working together in harmony, oblivious to any thought of race. Shortly thereafter came an order for segregation of the races, and a white lady who had been noted for her philanthropy among our people and who was upon intimate terms at the White House appeared at the bureau to tell our girls to be contented with the new order as a "great Negro leader had taught 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 disc uraged, 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 Garrison Villard came to town and aroused our people 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 alt to 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 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 SEGREAT (they are the rest rooms, toilets, and working stations, none are ever thought of for promotions to executive places. They are girls from our best nomes, most of them with high 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 unlimited fields at high wage for even mediocre talents. The best of them are in the best 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 that segregation was! The present head of the department of internal revenue, Mr. Blain 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 of the nation's largest companies 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 Bland K. Bruce, is now filled by a white man, and the colored people are congregated in a separate room which is publicly proclaimed as "a colored division." When it is discovered that Negro clerks are "working as white" in other divisions, they are promptly transferred to this "colored division." Our people fear that protest against this segregation would result in the abolition of the division altogether; so they remain in a dilemma, fearing to act. Our clerks must accept segregation or elimination, and be poor, no other opportunity, and the southern states 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 cold before the effort to increase segregation in the departments here was on again at full speed. It had turned up a little during the campaign. Investigations of Bursees An investigation of the executive departments and bureaus listed below shows that segregation prevails in them as follows: regulated section in 7 employees. Office of the Treasurer of the United States—a segregated section of 4. War Department, Transportation Division—a segregated section of 5 employees. 'HUMAN NATURE'S FOULEST BLOT." My car 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 flax. That falls surrender 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. able" to incr THE GAZE who Might Su OHIO'S ANTI-LYNCHING LAW Against The Mob and Lynch-Murder—The Work of a Member of The Race—Also His Ohio Civil Rights Law 6278. "Mob" and "lynching" defined. 6279. "Serious injury" defined. 6280. Damages in case of assault. 6281. Damages in case of lynching. 6282. Damages recoverable by legal representative of victim of lynching. 6283. Person suffering death or injury by mob trying to lynch another. 6284. Limitations of action. 6285. Order to include recovery and costs in tax levy. 6286. Guardian's custody, etc., fees. 6287. County's right of action against member of mob. 6288. County's right of action against another county. 6289. Non-relief from prosecution. Our mob-violence or anti-lynching bill was introduced in the Ohio legislature in 1834 and re-introduced in 1896. It took the Hon. Harry C. Smith, editor of The Gazette, just three years to secure its enactment into law. The Ohio Supreme Court has several times upheld the constitutionality of the law and it has Section 6278. A collection of people assembled for an unlawful purpose and intending to do damage or injury to any one, or pretending to exercise correctional power over other persons by violence and with authority of violence, law shall be deemed a "mob" for the purpose of this chapter. An act of violence by a mob upon the body of any person shall constitute a "lynching" within the meaning of this chapter. (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 receiving it from 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 and ages from 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 persecution by house labor, a sum not to exceed five thousand dollars. (93 v. 162 5.) Section 6282. The legal representative of a person dying from injuries received from lynching by a mob, may recover of the county in which such injury occurred, a sum not to exceed five thousand dollars damages for such unlawful killing. Such sum shall be applied to the maintenance of the family and education of the minor children of such person so lynched, if any survive him, until such children are of legal age, and then be distributed to the survivors, share and share alike, the widow receiving an amount equal to a child's share. If there be no widow or minor children surviving such decedent, such sum shall be distributed 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 *o* lynched has minor children surviving him, the fund shall be turned over to a regularly appointed guardian. Such guardian shall administer such fund under the direction of the probate judge, allowing not more than five hundred dollars for counsel fees in the action for such recovery. (93 v. 162 9.) Section 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" Murine Co., Dpt. H. S., 9 E. Ohio St., Chicago Free on Request been very effective. Illinois, Pennsylvania and New Jersey have followed Ohio's lead and enacted mob violence or anti-lyning laws which are copies of our Ohio law. Several other northern states (Kentucky) have also enacted anti-lyning laws, in recent years, like Pennsylvania and New Jersey. The Ohio law follows: BBS. ed. g. representative of victim of lynching. bury by mob trying to lynch another. and costs in tax levy. s. inst member of mob. inst another county. mit violence on a prisoner brought from such county for safekeeping, the county in which the lynching is committed may recover the amount of the judgment and costs from the county from which the mob came on the part of officials of such unless there was contributory negligence not less than thirty days in lording to protect such prisoner or dispense 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 to 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 fined not less than fifty dollars nor more than five hundred dollars, or nor more than ninety days, or both. Whoever violates the next preceding action shall also pay not less than fifty dollars nor more than five hundred dollars, or 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. Misdled 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 'he fact that the Ohio Civil Rights Act does 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-aggranulatory. 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 letter from the editor, the porter 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 ($600) five hundred dollars was sustained. If the Beacon-Journal had known what was going on in its own town, could he have, no occasion for criticism, have heard? THE LAW OF OHIO IS UNDER NO REPROACH, 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. MURINE FOR YOUR EYES Murine Co., Dpt. H. S., 9 E. Ohio St., Chicago Was Known All Over the United States for the Remarkable Toys He Made. TAUGHT HIMSELF TO DO WORK Brooklyn, N. Y.-Charles Francis Reeves, the blind toymaker of Brooklyn, who was known from coast to coast through the toys he designed and made, is dead, after a brief illness at his home, 121 Prospect place. Mr. Reeves was 73 years old, and had been blind for more than half his life. Before his sight totally failed him, however, he mastered the toy trade, and when he finally became blind, was able to use all the instruments of the trade and earn a Livelihood. At his home on Prospect place, where he had resided for many years, he had fitted up one of the finest workshops for the toymaking trade to be found in the city. The workshop occupied two rooms and it was here that he made the toys that during the last three decades he has disposed of through various associations in Brooklyn and Manhattan, and which made him famous throughout the country. He had everything necessary for toymaking in the shop and a prescribed place for each instrument so that he could place his hand in a minute on any tool he needed, despite his blindness. The tools, which he used most frequently were arranged on a rack over his head, and the manner in which he could pick out the instrument he wanted from the mass seemed a miracle. Mr. Reeves was an Englishman by birth, being born at Westminster, Middlesex, England, in 1843. His father, Charles Reeves, was one of the leading silversmiths of that part of the country, but the toymaker refused to follow in his father's footsteps, and after spending a few years at school, at the age of 14 ran off to sea. His first cruise was on the sailing vessel Runnymede of Bristol, and he stayed on this vessel for two years. His career on the sea lasted for five years, after which he entered a brass foundry to learn the molding trade. He had to abandon this trade when he was 21 because of his failing sight. In 1863 he married Miss Dedella Gorman in London, and in 1860 the couple emigrated to Canada, coming to the United States years later the family settled in Brooklyn. As his sight failed him Mr. Reeves with the assistance of his wife, who proved to be a worthy helpmeet, learned how to use the fine toymakers' saws and tools. Although it was necessary for him at times to count the teeth on the saws to get some of the fine results in his work and keep it perfect, it was his boast that he had never injured his fingers once. He had mastered the typewriter and was an expert broommaker. DREAM OF WEALTH COMES TRUE Poor Little Girl Is Awarded $16,000 for Her Injuries. Boston, Mass—To be a poor little girl with the poor little girl's dream of some day becoming a princess with untold wealth and then to suddenly find that the wealthy part of the dream has come true, is the experience of 15-year-old Josephine Romano. Josephine's dream of wealth came true when she was awarded $16,000 by a jury for injuries sustained several years ago when she was hit and tripped by a live wire which was dangling from one of the Boston elevated poles. She was so severely burned about the face and hands that the marks will remain on her body for life. "It is so much money that I don't know what to do with it," she said. "I think I'll put it in the bank and then be a real lady." Equine Wonder; Not a Circus Horse Reading Center, N. Y.—Countless automobiles may spin along the road of Yates County, reading-rooms may be established at every crossroads; dancing and husking bees may be held each evening, but the serene course of the education of Miss Charlotte Hicks, daughter of Albert A. Hicks of this place, will never be clouded—and all because of an equine wonder, "a brood mare of much spirit and life." Miss Hicks attends the Dundee high school, and every morning she drives the horse three-quarters of a mile to