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Book on "EyeCare" or "Eye Beauty" go Free on Request STYLE SHOP THE GAZETTE ESTABLISHED, AUGUST 25, 1883 And Issued Every Week on Time Since CLEVELAND, OHIO, SATURDAY, MAY 8, 1926 FRESH OHIO NEWS Written By "The Old Reliable" Gazette's Correspondents What Our People Are Doing Each Week—Church, Personal, Social, Lodge, Literary and Musical—Marriages, Deaths, Etc. WARREN.—Mrs. Della Fields of Toledo spoke to a large crowd at the Baptist church, Sunday. Several from Youngstown attended the services.—Grace A. M. E. church was crowded, Sunday morning. Rev. A. J. Collins preached a special sermon in the evening. GRARD.—Both lodges of the local K. P. turned out in Youngstown Sunday. The exercises were held at Third Baptist church, Thos. Lonesome, C. C., in charge. Our population here numbers about 300. We are trying to raise money to get a new church started. rehearsals, twice a week, at fort hall. Mr. and Mrs. Albert Williams visited Mr. John Williams, who is very ill near Dr. Run. HILLSBORO.—Lida and Nancy Rickman spent the week-end in Columbia with Virginia and Elizabeth Kilgour. Mrs. John Hudson and daughter, Raymond Williams, Helen Johnson, Mary E. Williams and her quintette attended the A. M. E. district conference in Greenfield, last Thursday night. Mr. and Mrs. Colter Colter, Elwood Rickman, Mr. and Mrs. Donald Highwarden motored to Jamestown, Sunday, and vis- 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 allways write their names and that of their city or town on the outside of the wrapper about returned copies. Unless this latter is done, proper credit cannot be given you. Lists of names, wedding presents, etc., obituary notices, inquiries for relatives and advertisements of 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. YOUNGSTOWN—Geo W. Wood, better known as "Capt. Wood," a Spanish-American war veteran, died May 4, a Mason and Odd Fellow, and worked for Armour and Co. for years. —Mrs. J. H. Maxwell is seriously ill. —Mahoning Valley lodge held services, Sunday, in New Castle with Odd Fellows there. R. Burns Harvey, D. D. G. M., was present. The Gazette is Ohio's best race paper. Mrs. Della Fields of Toledo was the speaker for the Federated clubs, Tuesday. —Mrs. Violet Harvey and Mrs. Avonia Lynch returned, Thursday, from a ten-day visit in Chicago and Milwaukee. They attended the Women's Federated body, meet Mrs. Harvey was elected second-vice-pres. —East Youngstown has changed its name to campbell. MANSFIELD.—Rev. and Mrs. E. R. Lucas of Cleveland, will be at the A. M. E. church, Sunday.—Mr. Boyd Hicks is suffering from a nervous breakdown.—Revival meeting, at Mt. Calvary church.—Rev. and Mrs. Wm. Burgess have returned to Oberlin.—Mrs. Hazel Shaw and Mrs. Minnie Johnson have returned to Detroit. They visited Mr. and Mrs. James Hogan.—Mrs. J. H. Davis is very ill.—Mrs. John H. Davis is Sunday.—Dr. Richardson is located in his new office on S. Main St.—Mr. Clayton Luckey has rheumatism.—Mr. Lawson Lake is convalescing.—Mrs. Wilbur Martin is able to be out again.—The Middle Western Ins. Co. of Cleveland will open a branch office here soon.—Dr. and Mrs. W. Crawford and Miss C. Myers of Cleveland were guests of Dr. and Mrs. H. Clarke, Sunday.—C. W. Thurman of Columbus was here, Sunday.—Rev. W. Burgess preached at the Erwin was in Cleveland, last week.—Mr. and Mrs. Fred Alexander and Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Lee motored to Ashland and Haysville, Sunday.—Louise Williams was the week-end guest of Evelyn Lee.—A pound party was held, last week Friday evening, for Rev. Burgess. ROXABELLL—The A. M. E. district conference at Greenfield, Bishop J. H. Jones presiding, was well attended. Next meeting at Frankfort.—Our pastor, Rev. J. J. Burr, was again with us, Sunday, and preached a soul-stirring sermon. The work is progressing nicely under his leadership. Rev. E. Richardson conducted the funeral service of Mildred Wright's young child. They were born on April 12, the child's baby death. Mr. Byrd, a brother of the one who died here about six weeks ago, died, last week, in Michigan.—Baptizing at Hillsboro, May 23.—Ella M. Jones has organized her class to render a program soon. Officers: Dorothy Glubs, pres.; Robert Wright, vice-pres.; Adam Prichard, sec.; Bernice Reed, treas.—Mrs. Valentine is visiting in Chillicothe.—The community band's box social was a success.—Our delegates and president gave us a talk Sunday morning at the Nelsonville. The S. S classes will give "Mother" Ash, who is still very ill, a nice bouquet of flowers. Sunday—Community bane rehearsals, twice a week, at Frankfort hall. Mr. and Mrs. Albert Williams visited Mr. John Williams, who is very ill near Dry Run. **HILLSBORO.** - Lida and Nancy Rickman spent the week-end in Columbus with Virginia and Elizabeth Kilgour. Mrs. John Hudson and daughter, Raymond Williams, Helen Johnson, Mary E. Williams and her quintette attended the A. M. E. district conference in Greenfield, M. E. district in Greenfield, M. E. Charles Colter, Elwood Rickman, Mr. and Mrs. Donald Highwarden motorized to Jamestown, Sunday, and visited Mrs. M. Carlisle and family. Mrs. Carlisle was quite ill so Mrs. Colter remained with her mother. The K. P. annual sermon was preached, Sunday, at the A. M. E. church by Rev. E. L. Blake, pastor. Mrs. Nellie Kilgour and Miss Mary Williams were in Columbus, week-end guests of Mr. and Lyman Kilgour. Mr. Clarence Hudson entertained a number at luncheon and cards. Wendy Woodson and Sue Dale sons, Mr. Charles Day, were in Dayton, Sunday, visiting the latter's son, Frank, and family. A mother's day program, Sunday evening, at New Hope Baptist church. Mr. and Mrs. Enoch Frye of Newport spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Milton Day. Mrs. Frye remained for a few days' visit. A'LELIA WALKER WEDS AGAIN Indianapolis, Ind.—Madam A'Lelia Walker, president and owner of the Mme. C. J. Walker Mfg. Co., and Dr. J. A. Kennedy of Chicago, were married here, May 1, at Atty. F. B. Ransom's residence. Mrs. Madam A'Lelia Walker. Sarl Price Patton attended the bride, Dr. Kennedy is a World War veteran, with the cross de guerre, and a staff member of Wilson Hospital, Chicago. They are honeymooning here. This is her second venture of the kind, having divorced a Dr. Wilson of New York City in California about a year ago. EQUALITY LEAGUE ORGANIZED HERE Twenty Races Unite Against Discrimination in Legislation— Are We In It? Representatives of more than twenty races, whose representatives comprise over 75 per cent of the population of Cleveland, organized the American Equality League at Hotel Cleveland, one night last week. The purpose is "to promote and create a spirit of brotherhood, helpfulness and co-operation among all American people without regard to race, creed or religion, with a profound reverence for the constitution of the United States." The members pleased themselves to unify opposition to all attempts to introduce discriminating policies into the legislation of the nation. The league is incorporated under the laws of Ohio. There are more than 200 members. The movement is local as yet, but steps have been taken to make the organization national in scope. Only American citizens are eligible to membership. Officers elected were: Pres. Martin A. McCormick; first vice-pres. Carl Raid; second, Municipal Judge Joseph F. Sawicki third. Max Welsh; fourth, Ven Svarc; fifth, Louis Petrastris first. Vice-pres. Tsangasdid, as sec. A. Hansman; chair' ex. com., Joseph Nucio; vice chair. John B. Milehich “MISSOURLDAY” Celebrated at the Nation's Capital by Our Women's Political Study Club —Prof. Malone the Speaker. Washington D. C. C. —"Missouri Day" was the special feature of the Sunday morning meeting of the Women's Republican National Political Study club at the Phyllis Wheatley Y. W. C. A. The principal speaker was Prof. Aaron E. Malone of St. Louis, president of Poro College. The meeting was unusually well attended as Mr. Malone is one of our most active speakers. We gave a close-up on the political situation in his state, from both Democratic and Republican angles. Among A. B. other things he pointed to the fact that our people of Missouri are registering and voting fifty percent stronger than four years ago, due to the concentrated effort of an educational campaign of both women and men which had been brought about largely through the activities of the women voters. St. Louis affording the best example wherein not less than a dozen women were acceptable members on the city central committee. Others who contributed to the program were: Mrs. Minnie Richardson Powell, who rendered two vocal solos, and Mrs. Edna French who gave two select readings. "DOWN HOME"! How Our People Are Being Treated, These Days, "Down in Hell" for Them—Interesting! Baltimore, MD.—"The South gets whiter every day," declared J. A. Rogers, author and newspaper respondent, who passed through Baltimore, Monday, after a trip which took him as far south as Wilmington, N. C. "In one Virginia school," Mr. Rogers said, "I saw 14 girls so fair nobody knew whether they were white or colored children from their color. As a rule lighter colored men pass over into the white race while women of the same complexion prefer to walk on the foot on the neck of the Negro in the South. Injustices are many and varied. The R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. in North Carolina, employs colored women in the field for a wage as low as $4.50 and board. The Duke Tobacco Co. pays wages up to $12 a week. John Powell, Virginia racial integrity and segregation bill, is as dark a man as I am and I have plenty of colored blood. I rode in jim-crow cars in the South. They are usually made of wood and are placed in between the steel baggage car and steel passenger coach for whites only. Generally there is only one for blacks, for by white employees of the road. White men use the jim-crow car for a smoker. The white news butcher occupies two seats. In the railroad stations colored people wait, until white travellers receive their tickets first. Unless a colored person gets to the station a half hour before train time, he may have to get on the train without a ticket. The white man in the train gets a ticket. I passed for white occasionally by speaking a little French and I found accommodations always 200 per cent better than that afforded colored. White welfare workers at Wilmington hesitated to believe a statement that one notorious colored resort was visited frequently by a score of white patrons. An official check of one interview of 60 whites many of the better class were counted in the place." An Editor Appointed. Philadelphia, Pa.—E. Washington Rhodes, editor of the Philadelphia Tribune and just admitted to the bar, was appointed an assistant by the U. S. district attorney, last week The appointment is due to U. S. Senator George Pepper who is seeking re-election. Got What He Deserved Oakland, Cal.—David Starr Jordan, chancellor emeritus of Leland Stanford university, was hissed when he said, recently, that he had an old southern mamma who married a worthless good-for-nothing "darky." He was delivering a speech before the Lycmeum of this city. SINGLE COPY FIVE CENTS WILL PROVE VERY HELPFUL! A Near Mistrial-Over Forty Prosecuting Witnesses Already Examined-That K. K. K. Waterworks Improvement Association The Battle Still On. (Special to The Gazette.) Detroit, Mich.—A mistrial of the Sweet case was averted, last week Wednesday morning, when defense and prosecution counsel held that they would not admit a juror Charles Thorne, age 82, 11345 Nardin Ave. After many witnesses had been heard it developed that Thorne had served on a circuit court panel in March. A state law forbids his service on another jury for a year. Defense attorneys said they were satisfied with Thorne. The prosecution had a large number of neighborhood witnesses, possibly forty in all, whose testimony was similar to a point of being monotonous and showed unmistakably that they had been coached to say that there was only "a few people, about 20", gathered about the Sweet home, just before the firing began, when as a matter of fact they were ten and five hundred at least. This is the one point of the testimony that was ceaselessly attacked by Clarence Darrow all last week. Wm. Good, 2980 Garland Ave., one of the witnesses said he was a member of that K. K. K. Waterworks Improvement Association. "Why did you join?" asked Darrow. "For one thing, to see that we didn't get any undesirable people in the neighborhood." "What do you mean by undesirable?" "We didn't want any colored or Jewish people." Russell Burns, 3402 Garland Ave., another witness, said there was "a crowd" in the streets, and then changed his statement, saying, "I mean a few people." "Haven't you, been told to say there was not a lot of people but just a few?" demanded Darrow. Of course Burns would not admit that he was a crowd, but Fred A Benoit, 3422 Garland Ave., after a lengthy cross-examination, voluntarily offered the information that there were between 75 and 100 persons within a radius of half a block. Eric Houberg, 2918 Garland Ave., testified that he was shaving when he heard the firemen downstairs, he said, and a moment later was shot in the leg when the firing was resumed. He told of seeing A CLEVELAND VOICE FROM THE FAR SOUTH Tallahassee, Fla., Apr. 26, 1926. Hon. Harry C. Smith, 226 W. Superior Ave., Cleveland, Ohio. Dear Friend Smith, Editor of "The Old Reliable": I am resting while conducting a series of evangelistic meetings in the above-named place and church I pastored 30 old years ago. I am delighted to meet many of my old parishioners and friends. But the greater portion has fallen asleep and a new generation and strangers fill their place. They are not people of the same type, nor have they ideals of the generation preceding them. They are the easy-going and easy satisfying class. They seem Rev. Horace C. Bailey to be content with their lot and appear to accept it as their God-given assignment. Churches are not flourishing and apparently very little interest is taken in church-work. Other things have the prominent. Some have money in the recent land in Florida. They are being bought out from the most desirable portions of the cities. Land values even in middle Florida have been in IN UNION IS STRENGTH COPY FIVE CENTS TRIAL! E Y HELPFUL! Porty Prosecuting Witnesses That K. K. K. Water- ent Association— e Still On. Leon Breiner fall, the only kluxer and mobocratic kill. Dr. Joseph L. Johnson, president of the board of trustees of the state department of Wilberforce University, Ohio, which Dr. Henry Sweet attended, has arrived to be one of Sweet's character witnesses. Dr. Johnson is a resident of Columbus, O. Atty, Clarence Darrow scored Monday when judge Greg Murphy when Judge Robert's court refused the motion of the prosecution to exclude from the record all references to speeches made at the meeting of the so-called Waterworks Improvement Association, July 14. Breiner, the mobocrat, was killed Sept. 9. One witness stated one speaker urged violence to keep our people from living in the community. The motion was offered during the course of a bitter argument between the prosecution and defense over motion of the subject case, by Mr. Darrow to Otto H. Eberhard, 3435 Garland Ave. a state witness During this argument Darrow grew very vehement in attacking the sincerity or veracity of the prosecution's witnesses. He said: "I don't believe the prosecution has put on one witness who has told the truth in this case; at least, not a witness who was present at the shooting. I believe the court and jury will believe as I do, that these witnesses are in shapeshift and wing. The evidence is in shapeshift and to why the witnesses were there and what they were doing." Darrow referred to the witness who said, Saturday, that one speaker had urged the Waterworks Improvement Association to use violence, if necessary, to drive our people out of the community. This witness was Alfred H. Andrews, 3033 Garland Ave. The prosecution's best business was put on the stand, Monday. Assistant Wardcutting Attorney Robert M. Toms said. Tuesday, that in all probability the ten additional state witnesses to be examined would be heard at once and the state would likely rest its case, Tuesday evening, or Wednesday of this week. Darrow and Chawke cross-examined each witness at length. Marjorie Stowell, 2939 Harding Ave., a witness, admitted that she saw about a hundred people across the street from the Sweet home right after the shooting, Sept. 9. creased by the east and southern prosperity of the state. Well, I cannot tell you all of my recent observation of affairs, but will when I get back. The State college is looking up and seems to be coming back into her own, since President Young left. About 300 or more young women and men of promise are in attendance. The location is the finest and most inspiring in the state. Every year they seize the opportunity and become worth while. My daughter and her husband are on the staff of workers in the school and seem to be contented. The feeling of the two races seems to be friendly. They get along, apparently, without friction. Maybe, it is because they do not rub against each other, because after all friction is brought on by contact. Florida is almost invaluable for health. Its climate is ideal. I came here a week ago with influenza, nearly dead. Today, I am almost normal. Success to you and your long and arduous struggle for life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness of the oppressed man, am I ever. Very truly yours. (REV. H. C. BAILEY, 2244 E. 43rd St. Cleveland, O. A GERMAN CRITIC Praises the Rhythm of African Music—African Talent Marvelous, He Says. Washington, D. C.—"The rhythms of African music are extraordinarily rich and animated, while the chief motif is usually simple and indebtably repeated. The African talent for diversified rhythms on drums and other percussian instruments is little short of marvelous. The native can keep five or six rhythms going simultaneously on his drums and keep them all sharply differentiated. This talent has been developed into drum telegraphy in West Africa. The natives can make themselves understood at over 1,000 kilometer distances."—Dr. Wilhelm Heinitz, noted German critic, in the March Frankfurter Zeitung. I'LL GIVE YOU A FIVE DOLLAR NOTE IF YOU CAN'T HATCH A CHICKEN FROM THIS EGG! SLIP IT TO ME, FATHER! HERE, CHICK-CHICK! YOU'RE WORTH FIVE BUCKS TO ME! WHY SO SORE, GOLDIE? QUACK! BECAUSE! Tim Early SUBSCRIPTION RATES 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 publ- ished in the state of Ohio and compa- sion with any will immediately establish its rank as one of the NEWS- BEST AND BEST in the country. 10,000,000 Afro-Americans 250,000 in Ohio. 40,000 in Cleveland. The Gazette's prediction of last week—that "Jack Dempsey is nearing the end of his string"—came true sooner than even we expected. That N. Y. State Athletic Commission is sure "wormwood and gall" to both the artful dodging Jack and his N. Y. sport-writer-lying friends. It is certainly making him and them and Tex Rickard "sit up and take notice", these days. --- "The Knoxville East Tennessee News" of April 29, 1926, special twentieth anniversary number, contained five sections, splendidly illustrated and "loaded to the scuppers" with prime race news of general interest. It also made a splendid showing in the matter of advertisements. Editor and Publisher Webster L. Porter has every reason to feel proud of it. More power and success to you, confrence. --- Last Sunday's edition of a large number of daily newspapers of the country carried a very encouraging article on the race written by Mr. David Belasco, the most famous American dramatist. This is something out of the ordinary and certainly indicates progress along a certain line. Prominent men and women (white) of the country, who heretofore have paid little or no attention to our people and their progress, are doing so, these days, with the result noted in the foregoing. --- Sydney Barrett, (white), a prosperous New York state farmer, age 27, who recently married Hazel Williams, age 17, a member of the race whose father is a white man, spent part of his time at a honeymoon cottage near Sodom, N. Y., the daily press informs us. It also published a picture of Barrett with shotgun in hand and his bride at his side. He announced that he was ready for all comers, particularly hooded members of the K. K. K., who had threatened him and his bride. Mr. Barrett says he has done nothing wrong and that he and Mrs. Barrett are very happy, these days. More power to Mr. Barrett. --- The Gazette sanctum was honored Monday, with a visit from Mrs. Georgia Douglass Johnson, widow of Henry Lincoln Johnson, national committeeman from Georgia at the time of his death, last year. Mrs. Johnson is touring Ohio gathering statistics relative to our workers in various industries which are desired for the U. S. Labor Department of which she is a special representative and an excellent one, too. Mrs. Johnson stopped at the P. W. A., several days, the first of the week, going to Akron, Wednesday. When a young girl she lived in this city for some months with Mrs. Arla Sellers, mother of E. W. Sellers. --- If President Calvin Coolidge fails as requested, to veto the bill recently passed by the congress, providing for segregation on the bathing beaches it authorizes at the nation's capital, then our people should refuse to vote for him should he become a candidate for re-election. And Prof. Neval H. Thomas, of Dunbar high school, Washington, D. C., should provide our press of the country with a list of the names of the Republican members of the congress who voted for the bill with its objectionable segregation feature. We should know who they are so we can oppose their re-election to the congress in event they should seek it. Indeed, we should oppose their election to any office, in the future. PATROLMEN BADLY NEEDED. Two patrolmen detailed to the E. 371th S4. Orange Ave. police station resigned from the force, last week Wednesday, after they had been informed that they were to be suspended pending the investigation of bribery charges brought against THE GEEVUM GIRLS them, Capt. James Hughes, in charge of the station, informed the officers their suspension was impending during the investigation of charges that on April 20 they had accepted $25 from a bootleger as a guarantee against arrest. The officers were accused of demanding $50 as protection from arrest, according to Safety Director Barry, Good work, Messrs. Barry and Hughes. Now start an investigation and learn how much if any truth there is in the statement that gamblers, speak-easy-keepers, dope-kings and peddlers, buffet-flat and bawdy-house keepers, streetwalkers and other male and female members of the underworld, as well as bootleggers, in the third police precinct "pay for protection or are put out of business promptly." The condition in the "terrible third" is so "rotten." Director Barry, (as Captain Hughes will tell you) that immediate action along the line suggested ought to be had. There is no section of the city of Cleveland that so badly needs patrolmen and not merely police riding around in a "Ford" or two. WRITE YOUR MEMBERS OF CONGRESS. We hope our people of Ohio are doing as Congressman Fish of New York state asks—writing to their members of the congress, urging them to support and vote for House resolution, No. 9694, which ought to be adopted at once. It provides for the erection of a monument in France in honor of the Afro-American regiments brigaded with the French army during the World War. Mr. Fish was an officer in one of these regiments. His resolution was scheduled to come up in the U. S. House of Representatives, several days ago. So, reader, if you have not written your congressman, please do so at once. U. S. senate resolution No. 84, calling for a thorow investigation of a Washington, D. C., hospital in which several members of the race were killed recently, is another our Ohio people should support willingly by writing U. S. Senators Frank Willis and Simeon D. Fess at Washington, D. C., urging them to support and vote for it, too. ATTY. GILLESPIE IS RIGHT. Cleveland, O., April 28, '26. Hon, Harry C. Smith, Editor Gazette, City. Dear Friend: — The Citizens League will hold its annual election some time during the month of May. It is too big for us as a group to be out of. I am hoping therefore that we will all pull hard together and see that Mr. Martin is elected to the board. His Letter to The Lacque, Cleveland, O., April 28, '26 The Citizens League, 1307 Seconded Building, Cleveland Ohio Gentlemen:—I am submitting herewith the name of Atty, Alexander H. Martin, 529 Erie Bldg., City, for membership on the executive board of the League. A great man memorial League feet it would be most fortunate in securing the services of this distinguished citizen. Yours very truly, Chester K. Gillespie. MARRIES WHITE FARMER In Spite of the Opposition of the K Kaiser of White and Her Mother Colored Peekskill, N. Y.-Sydney Barrett, age 27, a prosperous white farmer, and Hazel Williams, age 17, are happily married in spite of the opposition of kluxes and a prejudiced white minister. He is married to Mrs. Meade, born of Kent, April 24, '26, and obtained a marriage license. Outside they were surrounded by 20 men in white hoods and masks, members of the Putman county K. K. K. organization, who threatened to make it warm in the house. The couple returned to the automobile in which they rode to Mrs. Meade's home, they found it had been tampered with and temporarily put out of commission. Rev. J. S. Stowell, (white), pastor of a Baptist church at Farmer's Mills, refused to marry the woman. Miss Williams' father, John, is a white man, and her mother is mulatto. Wins Stay of Execution. Columbus, O.—The state supreme court, last week Wednesday afternoon, granted a stay of execution, until May 28, to David Atkins, who has been sentenced to die in the electric chair, Friday night, for the murder and Ohio railroad detective, slain near Canton, August 16. THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, O. SATURDAY, MAY 8, 1926. PRIME SPORT NEWS Wills-Dempsey Contest Assured. New York City — Two important obstacles barring the way to a heavy-weight championship fight here, this fall, were removed, last week Friday, when the state athletic commission ruled Jack Dempsey eligible and granted a license to Tex Rickard to promote exhibitions at Yankee stadium. This action course was right between Dempsey and Harry Wills, the logical contender, at the American league park, around Sept. 16. The commission had Jack on its blacklist for many months for his failure to accept Harry's challenge and of course would not lift its ban on "the artful dodger" until he agreed to meet Wills FIRST, and in September, 1926. There will be no match between Dempsey and Tunney unless the latter wishes to fight Jack after Harry Wills trims him in September. Of course this is no news to Tex Rickard. This occasion this fact, last week, and on divers different occasions in the months past—before any other newspaper, daily or weekly, in the country. Jack Johnson Wants Firpo. Nogales, Ariz.—Jack Johnson, former world's heavyweight champion, is anxious to met Luis Angel Firpo. July 4. Johnson accepted a purported challenge from the Argentine fighter, Sunday, after he won a decision over Pat Lester (white), of Jack Johnson. Tucson, Ariz., in a fifteen-round bout at Nogales, Sonora, Mexico. Johnson, who is forty-eight, exhibited much of his former speed, but lacked the punch for a decisive victory over his twenty-four-year-old opponent. The bout drew a record crowd to the old bull ring of Nogales, many of the people coming from distant states to witness the fight. Chairman Farley Speaks. Chairman F. Farley Harry Farley, Jack Dempsey's only challenger and any attempt by Tex Rickard to displace Wills with another opponent for Dempsey will result in the heavyweight champion being declared ineligible in this state, said James A. Farley, chairman of the New York state athletic commission, May I. Chairman Farley declared that Rickard has no alternative in the matter of an opponent as the commission gave him permission to proceed to the championship upon that the promo- ment considering Wills as the challenger. Both Farley and Phelan, the latter also a member of the commission, assured the commission at large that a Dempsey-Tunney bout never would be permitted in this state because of the priority of Harry Wills' challenge. Any attempt on Rickard's part to stage a Dempsey-Tunney bout in New Jersey or any other state would undoubtedly bring the license promoted him, last week, to promote boxing exhibitions at the Yankee stadium, in this city, or staging any anywhere else in the state of New York, New York City daily sport- writer-writer to the contrary notwithstanding. And don't you think for a single moment that Tex Reckard does not know and recognize this fact. Continuing, Chairman Farley said: Jack Must Fight Harry First. "It is in order to state now that the Dempsey team's restoration to eligibility is the fact that he accepted Wills' challenge in person and it naturally follows that should Rickard even attempt to displace Wills with another opponent Dempsey would have to revert back to his old standing of ineligibility. Commissioners Brower and Muldoon were present at the meeting attendance was impaired by Dempsey where the commission expressed his willingness to fight Wills and as far as the commission is concerned and speaking for myself personally, Wills is the only heavyweight recognized by this commission as a suitable opponent for Dempsey. Nothing that occurred, at last week Friday's meeting, has changed Wills' status as the logical person to be making it possible for Dempsey to sign a contract to meet Wills. I want Dempsey to box Wills and that that's that." The Elites Drop The Series The Elites Drop The Series. The Indianapolis team made it three of four in front of the Cleveland's envy in of our two National leagues, by trouncing the latter, 6 to 3, in the final game at Hooper field. Sunday afternoon. The manner in which Drake scattered the nine safe bingles made off his delivery was the big reason the Elites finished second. He had only two bad innings. The Cuban All Stars, scheduled to tackle the Elites in the next series which was to start, Sunday, he had to win and of course are not expected to arrive in Cleveland for a game on that day. Farley Standing Pat. New York City, May 5.—Developments, today, in the Dempsey-Wills-Tunney situation were to the effect that Chairman James A. Farley of the state athletic commission, claimed his associates, William Muldoon and George E. Brower, did not vote Jack Dempsey eligible on July 17, 1925, as announced, last week, and that he had copies of the minutes to prove it. He added that the records showed Dempsey's status had not been clear up, and that Dempsey was on the ineligible list, as before. Farley's charges followed an investigation into the matter after he was informed by his associates, in the presence of Tex Rickard, last Friday, that Dempsey had been voted into good standing, nearly a year ago, while Farley was absent. The champion had been declared ineligible to accept a challenge from Harry Wills. According to Farley's statement, today, only a Dempsey-Wills bout can be tolerated here. "THE WINGED WORSHIPPERS" sixty-five years ago, Ex-Senator John P. Green, age 81, committed to memory a beautiful poem. Recently reading an account in the daily papers of an owl flying into a room in the White House in which the President was resting comfort and write the following to the editor of the Cleveland (Daily) Plain Dealer: Mr. Green's Letter. Editor Plain Dealer, Dear Sir:— Apropos of the story of the owl flying into the room of the white Hole where the light is highly indoiled, was resting. I want to ask whether you can tell me something about a poem written many years ago, suggested by two swallows flying into a church and out again while the worshipers were gathered there. I give two stanzas: Gay, humorous pair. What seek ye from the fields of heaven? Ye have no need of prayer, Ye have no sins to be forgiven. Perch why perch, Where mortals to their Maker bend? Can your pure spirits fear The God ye never could offend? Can you inform me where the whole poem can be found? JOHN P. GREEN. The Editor's Reply. The stanzas are by Charles Prague, one of the earlier American poets. Sprague was born in Boston in 1791, became a banker as well as a poet, and died in his native city in 1875. This poem is "The Winged Worshiping. It is most readily accessible in Prof. Stedman's "An American Anthology," published in 1900 by Houghton, Mifflin & Co., and to be found in all public libraries. Yours are the first stanzas. It is rather a shame to break off with those, and here, therefore, are the others: Ye never knew The crimes for which we come to weep. Penance is not for you. Blessed wanderers of the upper deep. To wake sweet nature's untaught lays, Beneath the arch of heaven To chirp away a life of praise. Then spread each wing, Far, far above, o'er lakes and lands, And join the choirs that sing In yon blue dome not reared with hands. Above ea crown, On unnewed wings could I but fly, I'd bathe in yon bright cloud, And seek the stars that gem the sky. Twere Heaven indeed Through fields of trackless light to soar, On nature's charms to feed, And Nature's own great God adore. —Cleveland Plain Dealer. OUR WOMAN FLYER KILLED. Crashes to the Ground in Florida, Taking Her White Manager With Her to Death. 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St, Agnes guild of St. Andrew's P. E, chureh gave its first style show at Trinity cathedral parish house, B. 22nd St. and Euclid Ave., Monday evening. A very pretty souvenior post-card from Niagara Falls, Tuesday, an- nounced that Phil Taylor, who has spent much time in Detroit, the last year of two, was en route to his “old THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, 0. SATURDAY, MAY 8, 1926. home’ {aurtae the World Wart in home” (during the World War) in St. Catherines, Ont., Ca., and that he would return to Cleveland “real soon”. ‘The Wisteria club elected’ the fol- lowing officers for the ensuing year, recently, at the residence of Miss Willa M. Shook. Mrs. Charles Smith, pres; Mrs, Geo. A. Myers, viee-pres.; Mr9. J. H. Cousins, sec.; Mrs. R. R. Cheeks, cor, sec.” The club gave its annual donation of $1500 to help educate a student at the Fort Valley (Ga.) State Normal school. The Twentieth Century club has changed its name to the Montesello Social club and ‘held its public in- stallation of officers, last week ‘Thursday evening, at D. R. Spencer's, E. 63d St. Elzy Milton, chairman, hung the new charter as Mrs. Ruth Gregory repeated the Lord's prayer. Among those present were: L. R. Wilson of Boston, Eddie Brown of Quebec, Ca., and Jas. Hamington of Homestéad;’Pa., Mr. Wilson contem- plates opening a dancing department at the club, Austin Drake and Myr- tle Turner, entertainers, gave three songs: “Dinah”, “Always” and “Are You Sorry” which, with music by Geo. Hart's syncopators, ‘made a very pleasant evening. Jas, Creech, hee, 2495 B. 63d St. Cleveland’s first Atro- American public-school teacher was Miss Jo- sephine Wilson and not Miss Mary Wilson, as stated in a recent issue of ‘The Gazette, Miss Josephine married U. 8. Senator Blanche K. Bruce of Mississipp!, and Prof. Roscoe Conk- ling Bruce, former superintendent of our schools of Washington, D. C., is their son. ‘The. Misses Mary and Victoria Wilson, sisters of Mrs Bruce, taught for many years in out “public” schools of Indianapolis. ‘The Wilson girls were daughters of Dr Joseph Wilson, our first dentist in Cleveland, who owned his hore which was located in Perry St., now E. 22nd St,, between Sibley St, now Carnegie Ave., and Prospect St., now Prospect Ave. He was one of our earliest residents of Cleveland. Dr. Alonzo P. Holly, an_ Afro- American, who was born in Haiti, a son of the noted Bishop Holly, has just published a very interesting and valuable ttle booklet, “The Publie Schools and Education in Haiti", “which should’ grace” the home ‘ot every intelligent. member of the race. Write Dr. Holly, 620 Second Ave. West Palm Beach, Florida, at once, for a copy. Atty. Alex. H. Martin argued his motion for a new trial for the con- victed and sentenced youth, Eman- uel Ross, in the court of ‘appeals, Wednesday. An indefinite stay of ex ecution of the death sentence was | granted, some weeks ago. Local Elks and band, augmented by the lodge from Akron headed by their band, and” Glenara temple, women EIks, headed by their band, made quite an imposing appearance on parade, Sunday, to and from Mt. Zion Cong. church where their an- nual memorial services were held, These Included a memorial address by Atty. W. C. Hueston of Gary, Ind. and sermon by Rev, Russell M. Brown, pastor of the chureh; invo- cation by Chaplain J. L. Morton, an organ prelude by Mrs. M. C. Biair, “Thanatopsis” by A. E, Wynne, solo by John Madison and eulogy by C. B. Shaw. Dr. E. J. Gregg pre- sided as master of ceremonies, The Gast eae cow eee. 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Vernon Ave., this city, secretary of the association, will be pleased to furnish all neces- sary information relative to the meet. So do not hesitate ¢o write to her. Chie Sekgoma Dead. Capetown, South Africa.— Europe or America may never have heard of the late Chief Sekgoma, He was one of the last of the great black chiefs in Africa. The whole of native Aftl- ca bowed its ‘head in sorrow at the news of Sekgoma’s death. a SS el | |, Madisonville, Ky.—Bunyan Flem- ing and Nathan Bard were sentenced to be hanged, June 4, and Columbus Hollis given twenty years in the state penitentiary, last week Thursday, for attacks on a sixten-year-old girl the night of April 7. Approximately 500 state troops had been on guard duty here throughout the trials and under soldier guard they left for Eddyville penitentiary pending hearing of ap- peals in their cases, THAT DARROW LECTURE At Mt. Zion Cong. 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We wish further to commend you on your out-spoken condemnation of this “Negro” hosplial movement. A hospital manned by “Negro” doctors New Castle, Pa., News and nurses, although it may not claim| Mrs. Ella Downs was in Yor any color-line, will be the beginning | town and Mr, and Mrs. D. A. At of “Negro” schools in Cleveland. Once |son in Shariine, Sunday.—Yot a “Negro” hospital is perfected, we|town, Sharon and Farrell lc will have separate schools, and there | joined the local Odd Fellow 1 is no telling where it will end, It|Sunday in its thanksgiving ser seems strange that only the new|Also R. B. Harvey, D. D. G “Negro”, coming into Cleveland, ad- | There was a large number of vis yoeates ‘this sort of thing. Is it|from eastern Ohio and western F ee eR ce ain Sai aaa aaa New Castle, Pa., News | Mrs, Ella Downs was in Youngs- town and Mr, and Mrs. D. A. Ander- son in. Shariine, Sunday—Youngs- town, Sharon and Farrell lodges Joinea the local Odd Fellow lodge, ‘Sunday in its thanksgiving services. Also R, B. Harvey, D. D. G. M. ‘There Was @ large number of visitors from eastern Ohio and western Penn- a SEGREGATION AN OUTRAGE! Help The "Old Reliable" to increase its circulation! 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. COOLIDGE PERMITS 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 culmination, President Coolidge. For instance, President Coolidge was our parks President Wilson never troubled, but the present administration has found time and desire to introduce it even there. To many people, segregation is a Democratic scheme of insult, but such is not the case. Mr. Taft introduced it in the bureau of engraving. He segregated the census-takers in this city in 1910, restricting white workers to white people, and black to black, often duplicating work as most blocks had white and black residents. And, worst of all, announced in his official capacity that Negroes should not hold office where white people complained. Segregation, then, is a Republican institution and not a Democratic one it was begun by Republicans, and carried on to its all-embracing extent by Republicans! There is far more of it in the departments, today, than at any time since the Negro first appeared, close upon the close of the Civil War. The picture requirement in the civil service, which makes it next to impossible for a colored lady or gentleman to enter the civil service, since their color is disclosed in their photograph which must accompany their papers, is tenaciously on to by our Republican president. Only last week, a colored girl appeared after having passed the best examination, after having been telegraphed for by the department. The photograph had failed to tell her true color, and they flatly refused to appoint her when she appeared, and they saw her complexion. Commissor Blair of the internal revenue bureau with thousands of clerks will not appoint a Negro clerk, and word is law there, as he is a special favorite of Secretary Mellon and President Coolidge. He hails from North Carolina, the home of the other favorite and leader of the segregation forces, Col. Sherrill, superintendent of buildings and grounds, is no use to complain of either of these southern gentlemen. The colored people here who know the President could destroy segregation in the departments of the government, and the photograph requirements in the civil service by the mere nod of his head, are at a loss to understand 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 command illification and physical disadvantages. The department maintains a spacious caferla 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 latter the comfort of the latter, by setting them off as though they were lepers. The injustice stings all the more when they protest that they are far more liable than the whites, and under 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 comfortable lounges and other equipment for rest, sociability, and recreation, and nothing for these same colored employees. This private club is in the magnificent postoffice building, built and maintained by ALL of the people. In the locker rooms there is segregation, and segregation is even attempted in the toiletts. 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 votest to the postmaster general the day before it was to come and meet the clerks, 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 office of passel. 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 all of the employees may go out to there a few tables in our office sectioned off for our employees. Glad to say that few, very few, of our people patronize the places, preferring a little physical inconvenience to the open, semi-public humiliation of segregation. In toilet facilities, dressing-rooms, and work assignments, wherever possible, the law of segregation is in full force, and, of course, this same undemocratic practice reveals itself on the salary roll and in the hard caste that barspromote Hire. In the inferior whites 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 intrigue exhilarating the employees so keenly he secured the company of a young lady of the race to take part in the dance. As soon as this couple started to dance the music was abruptly stopped, and the young man reported for attempting to take part in an entertainment provided for employees. He was called to the office, lectured for being "one of those smart Negroes" who believe in "social equality," and then dismissed on a trumped-up charge. He was a night-entrance he carried to the dance right after the dance incident a fire broke out in the office. He was quickly accused of setting the building afire in revenge for his exclusion from the dance floor. Detectives came to the building to arrest him, and 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 employee was the there one way of escape for 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' known informants could offer so I have received a single name! The department then taking the position that it cannot take up the case. It is perfectly clear that this iniquitous scheme of segregation is a difficult thing to fight, since the government THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, O.SATURDAY, MAY 8, 1926. is so well settled upon it, and the complainants cannot bear witness to it. (Special to The Gazette) Washington, D. C.—Segregation in the bureau of engraving and printing has an interesting history involving President Thomas Woodrow Wilson and members of his family, three heroic young colored women who lost their positions as a result of their protest, and the noble wife of Senator Robert La Follette. Shortly after the accession of Mr. Wilson to the White House, a member or his family visited the bureau where she saw white and colored girls working together in perfect harmony, and thought of race. Shortly thereafter came an order for segregation of the race, 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 discuraged, she came out one stormy afternoon to the Y. M. C. A. to urge them to continue the fight, for democracy was at the crises. Oswald Garrison Villard came to town to attack White House and Cabinet and arouse our people, and the Nation's secrecy occurred privately 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 a17 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 SEGRETE than those that work rooms, toilets, and working rooms, and none are ever thought of for promotions to executive places. They are girls from our best names, 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 our girls must take these inferior positions, the inevitable result of segregation. Our people are still hopeless, and we are struggling this inquisitive practice in all of our government departments, for it not only humiliates the best of the government servants but impairs the government service. (Special to The Gazette) Washington, D. C.—The treasury department, according to the President's recent acceptance speech, is now under the ablest financial genius since the days of Alexander Hamilton. It is to be remembered that the great Hamilton came from the West Indies, and in that long sweep of history that the President traversed are the mighty Salmon P. Chase, secretary of the treasury in Lincoln's cabinet, who, in a national extremity such as this country has never known, devised the national banking system which financed the Civil War; and Ohio's master financier, John Sherman. These men never knew what segregation was! The present head of the department of internal revenue, Mr. Blair from North Carolina, has not appointed a colored clerk since his incumbency. While his predecessor, Mr. Daniel Roper, a democrat from Texas, appointed and promoted several of them. Since the income tax legislation and the numberless new taxes that the recent war necessitated, his far the largest department of the treasury has several thousand clerks. Yet Negroes are so scarce there that they can't be noticed. There is the same general complaint here among our clerks and other employees as there is in the other branches of the government—failure to recognize their efficiency when promotions are due; ability to go so far and far no further. The various forms of segregation exist here as well as elsewhere—the restaurants closed or divided along color lines, and special toilets, locker rooms, rest rooms, etc., set off for colored. The toilets for the colored are few in such a large structure. Hence, the segregated clerks are forced to endure physical inconvenience at times, and are forced to travel long distances when they desire the use of them. The department maintains a huge, magnificent cafeteria, in the splendid sweep of woodland along our national driveway, where white people of every class can come to rest, dine, and socialize at afternoons and evenings at minimum costs. The white press of the city is constantly telling of the thousands who take advantage of this "delightful retreat," and the festive scene that their presence creates. It seats two thousand diners with space to spare; but not one Negro! His only share is in the taxes he is forced to pay for this luxury for another group! The 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 poor, with no other opportunities in this harsh environment, 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 slowed up a little during the designation of Burcurs. An investigation of the executive departments and bureaus listed below shows that segregation prevails in them as follows: Office of the Register of the Treasury, there are two segregated sections—one with 30 Afro-American employees and the other with 14. Navy Department — one segregated section of 18 of our employees, as well as a segregated lunch room. Census Bureau — a segregated section of 60 Afro-American employ- Bonus Section Bonus section of the War Department—one segregated section of 180 of our employees. Veterans Bureau—a segregated section of 16 employees. Department of Justice—a segregated section of 10 employees in the file room. Internal Revenue Internal Revenue Bureau—a segregated section of 7 employees. Office of the Treasurer of the United States—a segregated section of 4 employees. War Department. Transportation Division—a segregated section of 5 employees. P. O. Separate Lunch Room Post Office Department—a segregated lunch room. '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 flax That falls asunder 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 HE GAZE ho 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 without authority of law, shall be deemed a "mob" for the purpose of this chapter. An act of violence by 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 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, missiles or in any other manner, may 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 6282. The legal representative of a person dying from injuries received from lynching by a mob may recover of the county in which such injury occurred, a sum not to exceed five thousand dollars damages for such unlawful killing. Such sum shall be applied to the maintenance of the family and education of the minor children of such person so lynched, if any survive him, until such children are of legal age, and then be distributed to the survivors, share and share alike, the widow receiving an amount equal to a child's share. If there be no widow or minor children surviving such decedent, such sum shall be distributed among the next of kin according to the laws of the distribution of the personality of an intestate. Such decedent shall not be a part of the estate of such person so lynchable, nor be subject to any of his liabilities. (93 v 162 6.) Section 6233. 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 representative shall have like right of action as one purposely or killed by such a mob. (93 v 162 6.) Section 6234. Action for the recoveries provided for in this chapter must be commenced, within two years from the date of such lynching, in any court having original jurisdiction of an action for damages for malicious assault. (93 v 162 7.) Section 6285. An order to the commissioners of a county, against which such recovery is had, to include it with the costs of action, in the next succeeding tax levy for such county, shall be a part of the judgment in every such case. (93 v. 162 8.) Section 6286. If the decedent so 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 representative of a person killed or seized 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, complying with the law, been very effective. Illinois, Pennsylvania and New Jersey have followed Ohio's lead and enacted mot violence or anti-lynching laws which are copies of our Ohio law. Several other northern states and at least one border state (Kentucky) have also enacted anti-lynching laws, in recent years, like Pennsylvania and New Jersey. The Ohio law follows. mit violence on a prisoner brought from such county for safekeeping, the county in which the lynching is committed may recover the amount of the judgment and costs from the county from which the mob came on the part of officials of such unless there was contributory negligence not less than thirty days failing to protect such prisoner or disprove 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 Upon the request or many readers of The Gazette we print below the text of the Hon. Harry C. Smith's Ohio Civil Rights law which the editor had enacted while a member of 71st General Assembly, in 1894: The General Coge of Ohio: 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 public accommodation and amusement, deserves except for reasons applicable alike to all citizens and regardless of race or color, the full enjoyment of the accommodations, advantages, facilities or privileges thereof, shall be defined not less than fifty dollars not more than five hundred dollars, or not more than ninety days, or both. Sec. 12941. Whoever violates the said section shall also pay not less than fifty dollars more than five hundred dollars to the person aggrieved thereby to be recovered in any court of competent jurisdiction in the county where such offense was committed. This law has repeatedly been held constitutional and good law by the Ohio Supreme court. The trouble is our people will not use it as often as they should, but expect it to do for them what they should and must do for themselves, under it, in the courts. Judge Grant's Opinion of the Law Misled by the foolishly manufactured outcyr 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 he fact that the Ohio Civil Rights law was good law and did not need amending. The following letter from Judge Grant former presiding Judge of the Court of Appeals of the Eighth District of Ohio, is self explanatory: Akron, O., April 25, 1919. Hon. Harry C. Smith. Editor The Gazette, Cleveland, O. Mear Dear Sir: Observing your letter, if the Beacon-Journal, of this city, is to be sued for separate cover, the Ohio Law Reporter of Feb. 3, last, containing the opinion of the Court of Appeals in the Puritan Lunch Co. vs. Leonard H. Forman, decided in Akron, last fall, in which a judgment for ($600) 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 a lawsuit. 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. Awarded Pulitzer Gold Medal. New York City.—The Pulitzer gold medal for the most disinterested and meritious public service rendered by an American newspaper during 1925 has been awarded the Columbus (Ga.) Enquirer Sun. The judges announced, Monday, that the award was made for the "Journal's brave and energetic fight against the Ku Klux Klan, against a law barring the teaching of evolution against dishonest and incompetent public officials, against lynching and for justice to the Negro." "LIKE THE STURDY OAK" "The Old Reliable" Gazette Has Stood For Forty-three Years—A White Friend Frankly Expresses Her Opinion. New York City, Apr. 20, '26. Hon. Harry C. Smith, Editor Gazette, Cleveland, Ohio. Dear Mr. Smith:—I have received and read with pleasure several copies of your paper, sent to you. First, allow me to say, I am proud to know of such a gentleman as yourself, who is a real he-man and is not afraid to express his opinion of the white man and the Negro, be he right or wrong. Also, I am mire your stability. Because, if you did not possess this quality, The Gazette like many of the "colored papers" would have "gone to the wall", long ago. Some of those papers "grew up over night, like mushrooms". Where are they? But thanks to all that is good, your paper has stood for 40 years like the sturdy oak. May it live as long as you, which I hope will be one hundred years. Mme, "Bright Star", "See-er-ess and Theosophist, formerly of Cleveland. Abbie Mitchell Married Again New York City — Abbie Mitchell, the soprano soloist de luxe, has married Leslie Tompkins, a student at Columbia University. The couple were married at city hall, April 13th. This is her third matrimonial venture. Her first husband was Will Marion Cook, the musician and composer. Marcus Garvey's first wife was caught in her bed with a man here, recounting detectives' Little Parina of the "Our Gang" in the film comedies, gets $400 a week. P. 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