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MY STORE VENUE CLEVELAND, OHIO, SATURDAY, MAY 22, 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. CORRESPONDENTS must mail all letters for publication at their main postoffice sufficiently early on Monday (or Sunday) of each week to have them reach The Gazette office on Tuesday morning, and always write their names and that of their city or town on the outside of the wrapper about returned copies. Unless this latter is done, proper credit cannot be given you. Lists of names, wedding presents, etc., obituary notices, inquiries for relatives and advertisements of all kinds, including items announcing entertainments to be held in the near future, must be held for evidence the time 25 or a line, six words to a line. Our rates for display advertisements will be sent on application. ROXABELLE.—Our pastor preached, Sunday morning and evening, and Revs. Richardson and Jones conducted afternoon service at the Second Baptist church. Mother Frye, one of the founders of the church, spoke interestingly.—A great time here, Decoration Day. Services in Sherman Williams grove, on Roxabell and Frankfort pike. An excellent program has been arranged. The community band will furnish music. Miss Ethel Besses on her friends, the Miss Dorothy Doyne of Springfield and Beatrice White of Jamestown, attended baptizing, Sunday, at Ebenecer.—A grand rally by S. s. Class, No. .95 Sizes $2.15 all value STORE ESTABLISHED, AUGUST 25, 1883 And Issued Every Week on Time Since 4. June 13. Proceeds to be used to paint the church. Mrs. Rebecca Wilson made a splendid report of the district S. S. convention.—Mother Ash and Mrs. Wm. Johnson are still ill.—Mrs. Mary Williams left, Sunday, for Columbus for a couple of weeks' visit.—Mr. Wm. Johnson, of Washington, H. B. visited his life, who is ill in Sunday. H. B. visited rally at Hillsborough Sunday. Our pastor, Rev. J. J Burr, will preach the sermon.—Mrs. Mary Valentine is in Chillicothe for a few days. HILLSBORO.—Jos. R. Cole spent the week-end in Columbus with his brother, Dudley, who is quite ill. Clarence Hudson and Ruth visited relatives there, Sunday.—Rev. Jas. A. Young preached a good sermon, Sunday night, at the Baptist church, t first for anniversary week; Rev. L. Blake preached, Monday night, and Rev. A. P. May, Tuesday night. Rev. J. J. Burr will pach, Sunday morning. —Miss Mary Williams visited her sister in Columbus, the past week, at Mrs. and Mrs.amel Brister, visited Mr. and Warren Hall in Columbus, Sunday, Ludlow Sneed and Clarence Pleasant were there, the same day. —Mr. and Mrs. Edw. Jones and son, Glenn, visited relatives in Greenfield, Sunday. —Clifford Lamb and Othe Hudson have been assisting Clarence Lamb in Dayton, the past week, on a big plastering job. —Miss Byrdie Williams spent Sunday in Columbus with her sister. —Miss Lillian Nukes is Mrs. Clifford Lamb's guest, this week. —Some who heard the old fellows annual Christmas Holiday, Sunday. Rev. R. L. Bray, Jas. and Wm. Captain, Mr. and Mrs. John Klourg and C. M. Gragston. —Amos Rickman died, Monday week, near Sinking Springs. Burial at Samantha. —Rev. and Mrs. J. A. Young entertained Mrs. Harvey Ames and children, at dinner, Sunday. —Mr. and Mrs. Donald Higharden visited the latter's parents, Sunday. MANSFIELD.—Mrs. Perry Walton and daughter, Travlanion, of Indianapolis have joined Mr. Walton and are residing with Miss Clada Pleasant and Cora Grant.—Mr. and Mrs. Fred Alexander spent Sunday week in Alliance with Mr. and Mrs. Richard Ford.—Mrs. Millie Williams is convalescent.—Miss Ida Beaumont of Cleveland visited her mother.—Mr. Lee, Lori, from Marion Ind. He attended a friend's funeral.—The Busy Bee's will give a social, the 29th, at Mr. Long's.—Mrs. Adams of Findlay was the weekend guest of Capt. and Mrs. Walter S. Thomas.—A. M. E. church club. No. 2's supper at Mrs. Long's, Saturday evening, was a success.—Rev. Irvin and Mrs. Martin attended dist. conf. at Sandusky.—Rev. and Mrs. S. M. Holloway.—Mrs. Martin spent Sunday in Crest.—Mrs. Burrus.—The Girl Reserves gave a very unique and successful entertainment at Friendly House, Monday evening.—The Elks banquet proved an enjoyable success. It was well attended.—Basket-ball team social, Thursday evening, at Mr. and Mrs. Reynolds.—Mrs. Marion Clarke was called to Fort Wayne, Ind. *Hiness.*—Dr. Clarke entertained Canton friends, Sunday.—Rev Holloway.—Mrs. Reynolds. He says the dist. conf. meet was well attended and splendid.—The A. M. E. church program, Sunday, was a grand success.—Revival services at Second Baptist church; Rev. Arnold, pastor.—Be sure to read The Gazette, every week, and get good, clean, wholesome news. Offers a Million Dollars. New York City, May 18.—Tom O'Rourke announced that the backing of a New York syndicate enables him to offer $1,000,000 to Heavyweight Champion Jack Dempsey for a bout with Harry Wills next September or October in a stadium to be built in Long Island City. The champion has been considering an $800,000 offer. Lynched An Indian. Albuquerque, N. M.—The body of Santiago Platero, Navajo Indian, charged with the murder of J. N. Kimmel, government cattle inspector, fifty miles north of the Crown Point Indian agency, was found, recently, hanging from a tree near the scene of the murder. Platero was taken from a sheriff's posse by a party of men while he was being rushed to Crown Point to jail, following his arrest. REFUSE TO REPORT ANTI-LYNCH BILL Senate Committee Members Act Adversely on McKinley Measure—The Bill Dead Again! Washington, D. C.—By a vote of 9 to 3 the senate judiciary committee refused, Monday, to report the McKinley anti-lynching bill, a measure similar to the Dyer bill which was passed by the house several years ago, but died in the senate under the fire of a filibuster by senators from southern states. The motion for a favorable report was made by Senator Ernest, Republican, Kentucky, and was supported by two other committeeemen, Senator Cummins, Republican, Iowa, chairman of the committee, and Assessor Robert A. Martin. The report to have voted against a favorable report were; Borah, Idaho; Means, Colorado; Harreld, Oklahoma, and Deneen, Illinois, Republicans, and Overman, North Carolina; Reed, Missouri; Walsh, Montana; Caraway, Arkansas, and King, Utah, Democrats. The bill offered by Senator McKinley, Republican, Illinois, remains before the committee, and its proponent, King, Utah, demands an effort to have it reported. Opponents predicted, however, that they would be able to send the measure to the senate with an adverse report, which will undoubtedly kill it. Under the terms of the measure, any county in which a lynching took place would be required to forfeit $10,000 to the estate of the victim, and any state or county officer who permitted a mob to lynch an opponent would be subject to a penalty of not more than five years in prison or a fine of not more than $5,000 or both. STILL FORCING MIGRATION With Segregation and Other Color-Line Legislation—What Fools These White Southerners Are. New Orleans, La.—Commenting on the hostile attitude of the Virginia Assembly towards our residents of that state, and questioning the soundness of the "Let Down Your Buckets Where You Are," advice of the late Dr. Booker T. Washington, the Southwestern Christian Advocate, published here by the M. E. Church, says: "Was Booker T. Washington right in saying to Negroes in the South, 'Let Down Your Buckets Where You Are?' Hitherto the race took him at his word, to make the South their abode. They were polarizing their lives against Hibernation and Tumult. Northern friends were aiding them generously. For an endowment for these schools recently they gave $7,000,000. No sooner had this been done than the Virginia State Assembly passed its infamous segregation law for the sole "benefit" of Hampton. It would seem that the South is telling Hampton to draw up its bucket and find another source of life-giving water to slake its thirst, or remain where you are, letting down your bucket and making your population polluted waters of race-erotism and color-hate. Not content with the proportions of the present exodus, the South would now force Negro institutions to take up their beds and walk." MORE "JIM CROW" SCHOOLS. "Jim-Crow Negroes" of Dayton Join With Prejudiced Whites to Nullify Ohio Law—Lord Have Mercy. Dayton, O.—Formal reports on the inspection, last week Tuesday by the board of education of sites for a new "jim-crow" school in west Dayton was made at the regular meeting of the board, this week Wednesday night, at its offices in the Hamiel building. Board members, in company with Supt. Paul C. Stetson, made a round of proposed sites in that section of the city west of the Miami river. Execution of a jim-crow elementary school has been bonded to $4,000,000 bond issue. The National Cash Register company's annual "jim-crow" concert was held, Sunday afternoon. On the program was Marian Anderson, noted contralto of Philadelphia, and Walter E. Gossette, organist and teacher in the Coleridge-Taylor School of Music. These are notable race artists. The practice of holding yearly "jim-crow" concerts was started three years ago by Frederick B. Patterson, president of the company, who wanted to quiet criticism of his company's dismissal of old Afro-American employees to give their places to young white men. Some of our local churches evidenced the race by refusing to announce the "jim-crow" concert. "Social workers," "Negroes" from the South in recent years mostly, are being used by prejudiced whites, who gave them their jobs, to load additional segregation and "jim-crow" our poor people of this community. SINGLE COPY FIVE CENTS HIS WONDERFUL PLEA "DID THE BUSINESS." His Statement to the Public After the Jury Rendered Its Verdict—Members of the Jury Named There Will Be No More "Sweet" Trials—Interesting. (Special to The Gazette.) DARROW'S DEFENSE FREES HENRY SWEET. Detroit, Mich., May 13.—Dr. Henry Sweet was acquitted of the charge of murder by the jury here, late today, in connection with the slaying of Leon E. Breiner (white), during the mob-assault on the home, here, of Dr. and Mrs. Ossian H. Sweet, last September. Clarence Darrow's eloquence had much to do with this pleasing outcome which means that the other ten defendants will never be tried. Detroit, Mich.—It took the jury only three and a half hours, last week Wednesday afternoon, to reach a conclusion in the Dr. Henry Sweet case. He had been on trial for a week and a day charged with the slaying of Leon E. Breiner, who was fatally shot, last September, when that notorious mob assailed the Dessian H. Sweet residence at 2905 North Avenue, exceptionally strong and somewhat bitter concluding argument made by Pros. Robert M. Toms for the state, last week Wednesday morning, just before Judge Murphy started his charge to the jury, did not apparently materially affect the ineradicable impression on the jury made by Clarence Darrow's wonderfully fine plea for Dr. Sweet, made the day before—from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. the day before. Murphy's barrow argument was such as iselded heard in a court room anywhere in this country or abroad. At 3:30 p. m. Wednesday, the jury in the midst of its deliberations sent a note to the judge asking whether a crowd in front of the house would necessarily give the defendant the right to shoot. Judge Murphy refused to make an answer to this request. Nevertheless at 5:30 p. m., the jury reached an agreement. The courtroom was packed with persons of all ages and genders. After the jury verdict had been read, the judge complimented the attorneys for their conduct during the trial and many persons congratulated the defense attorneys, Darrow, and Thos. F. Chawke. The jurors (white) were: Chas. Thorne, age 50, sailor; Wm. B. Brunswick, locomotive engineer; Edward B. Bernie, pharmacist; John M. Allen, machinist; Jas. S. Spencer, Wm. J. Sampson and Chas. Phillips, electricians; Chas. L. S. Phillips, marine engineer; Larry Fulling, laborer; World War veteran; Geo. C. Small, dist. mgr.; D & C. Naval Co.; Richard Adams, retired, and Louis J. Sutton, seminary employee. Judge Murphy made a very fine charge to the jury after denying several motions of defense counsel to dismiss the charge on various grounds. In concluding his plea, last week Tuesday afternoon, Atty. Darrow said to refute the assistant prosecutor's statement that Sweet was a coward. The Rest of Darrow's Plea. "Who are the cowards in this case. These black people didn't come to America because they wanted to. They were brought here in slave ships. They have been victims of riots in every state of the union. They have been compelled to stand aside. There was only one place where they had an equal show and that was on the battlefield. Everywhere else they have been food for flames, riots, guns, ropes and boasts of his civilization, has been regardless of the normal sensibilities of normal human beings. The people in that home might have had guns and might have fired, but they were not cowards. With the history of the race behind them, with the knowledge of crime, injury and insult without end behind them they went into that house to fight for your rights and mine. The cowardly curses were the people who gathered around that house, who bate and assaulted were trying to get them out. Negroes have been called great many things down through the ages, but there have been those who believe a black man should have some rights in the country to which he was forced to come. "Common Human Source". "All a man can do in life is to slightly lift the veil and see into the past. I feel that back of all of us and each of us is all the blood that we have shed. The veins of all of us is all that has come out of the infinite past. Back IN UNION IS STRENGTH COPY FIVE CENTS TORY! CLEANS UP" "DID THE BUSINESS." c After the Jury Rendered of the Jury Named— No More "Sweet" interesting. of that is the carnivorous tiger—all the elements that have gone to make you and me and all of us. I wonder who we are to be so proud of an ancestor? Why brag about our ancestors of which none of us know anything. If I can do anything to make the world better, I would try to make man more tolerant." During the afternoon session, last week Tuesday, Mr. Darrow reviewed the testimony of defense witnesses, holding that it not only justified the shooting but made it necessary. Then he switched back into the question of intolerance and sketched the history of the race. "There is nothing as dangerous as bigot when it is on legs," he said. "The first instinct man has is to save his life. I can understand the passion of a mob—no reason, no heart, no soul, no pity, cruel as the grave. I don't believe in the law of hate. I don't believe in the law of love. And I would like to see the day when man will forget color and creed and learn to love his fellow men. The law made men equal, but men haven't made them equal. There is a long road ahead for the Negro before he can take the place he deserves. I would advise patience and tolerance and understanding and all those things that are necessary to live. I ask you one more time, those helpless ones who turn to you, on behalf of the state and this great city—I ask you in the name of progress and understanding to render a verdict of not guilty." Darrow's face was white and tense with exhaustion when at a few minutes to 5 o'clock he finished his plea and sat down. Darrow Statement. In a statement following the verdict Mr. Darrow said he believed the effect of the Sweet trial would be beneficial. "Both Negroes and whites have to learn the lesson of forbearance," he stated. "Personally I feel that the sentiment against the Negro is one of prejudice, growing out of the Negroes recent rise from slave-age prejudices. Have to be reckoned with as much as facts. And the whites cannot be held responsible for their prejudices for all of us are products of environment. None of us is responsible for our old prejudices. The Negro must remember that it takes a long time to overcome habits and prejudices. His progress is bound to be slow, but I feel that it is possible to develop individual understandings and consideration rather than by legislation. I believe that the outcome of this case will be a benefit to the white and the black man alike. In his charge Judge Murphy emphasized the point that excusable homicide arose only from circumstances that gave the appearance of imminent or actual danger. According to Judge Murphy's charge a man had no right to resist assailant with video evidence to retreat. On this point, however, he added, "a man is not obliged to retreat if he is assaulted in his own dwelling." The other ten defendants in the "Sweet" cases will never be tried. The outcome of the Henry Sweet case settles that beyond all question or doubt. ROCKEFELLER AIDS New York City.—The most concrete step in the solution of the housing program among our people in this city is that taken by John D. Rockeller in the purchase of an entire block, containing 60 city lots, bounded by Seventh and Eighth Aves, between 149th and 150th Sts. This constitutes the fourth step in Mr. Rockefeller's plan for providing new homes. In the New York Urban league,duce the Rockefeller's action. Mr. Rockefeller born in Cleveland, O. Here is a hint to the Cleveland urban league. Woman Gives $50,000 Dayton, O.—Fifty thousand dollars from Mrs. H. G. Carnell, (white), was the first gift in the campaign being waged by "jim crow Negroes" and prejudiced whites to provide this city with a "jim crow" Y. M. C. A. The result was that $312,445 was reported the first night, $7,081 of which came from "jim crow Negroes", from whom $15,000 is sought. OH!!--I'll help YOU, LADY! THANK YOU SO MUCH, SIR! NOT AT ALL, LADY! PERMIT ME,--MY CARD! I CLEARLY SUITS CLEANED & PRESSED Tim Earley 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 Pro proprietor THE GAZETTE $26 W. Superior Ave., Cleveland, O. (Bell Phone: Cherry 1259) Member Ohio Legislature: 1894 to 1896; 1896 to 1898; 1900 to 1902 THE GAZETTE is the oldest and has the largest bona fide circulation, double that of any newspaper in the interest of Afro-Americans published in the state of Ohio and comparison with any will immediately establish its rank as one of the NEWSBEST and BEST in the country. 10,000,000 Afro-Americans. 850,000 in Ohio. 40,000 in Cleveland. SATURDAY, MAY 22, 1926. The Southwestern Christian Advocate's editorial on "Still Forcing Migration", which we republish elsewhere in this paper, is fine and ought to be furnished every daily-paper editor in the South, and North, too, for that matter. The average southerner, "cracker" or other, certainly can make the biggest kind of a fool of himself when his prejudice is uppermost in his mind. --- Spare the rod and raise a potential criminal. Let a child know he can misbehave and escape punishment and he will grow up to disrespect law and order. This was the terse comment of Detective Inspector Cornellus Cody, Tuesday, on the statement by U. S. Secretary of Labor James J. Davis that parents, in allowing their children to grow up uncorrected, are filling the reformatories and penitentiaries with criminals. TRUTH! We cannot understand what has come over the loyal members of the race in Dayton that they sit still and permit "jim-crow Negroes" and prejudiced whites to multiply "jim-crow" schools in that city, greatly increasing segregation. They have the Lord, right, and the law on their side and cannot fail to win with proper effort. Can it be that there is no one among all the Afro-Americans of the "Gem City" of Ohio to lead them? WENT BACK TO WORK. Local laborers, who have practically held up construction work in Cleveland for eleven weeks as a result of their strike, went back to work, Monday morning, at their old wage and have shown good judgment in so doing. They sought an increase, from eighty-seven and one-half cents to one dollar an hour, in spite of the fact that they were receiving the former, a peak wage during the World War, and, too, in the face of the fact that business generally has been at worse than a standstill for the past two and a half years. Their strike not only brought all major building operations in this community to a practical standstill, but also seriously interfered with a wide range of other industrial and commercial pursuits. Their demand for one dollar an hour was unreasonable and one which the building-contractors and home-builders of this community could not afford to meet. As we have already said, it was asking an increase of the World-War-time-peak-wage of eighty-seven and one-half cents an hour when business generally was as bad as it was good during the World War. All of which is but prime evidence of mighty poor leadership for local laborers, to say the least. It is now high time the painters and glaziers, too, "see the light", for it is "hand-writing on the wall in letters one hundred feet high." DARROW'S PLEA AND VICTORY Clarence Darrow's plea to that jury for Dr. Henry Sweet (and the other ten defendants) was "wonderful" because it was so unlike the pleas usually made by other attorneys in such (murder) cases. It was very plain, direct and included statements that other attorneys would not have dared to make under similar circumstances. For instance, the one charging the jury with being prejudiced, his scathing references to Breiner the man killed the night of the shooting from the Sweet home, and his bold reference to many of the state's witnesses as liars, etc. And yet, it was just such plainness and directness of speech and characterization of persons and things that won for our people one of the greatest court victories they have had in the history of this country—a great public acknowledgment of our citizen-right to defend our homes, our "castles", against the assault of the mob even to the extent of killing one or more THE GEEVUM GIRLS assistant, Atty, Chawke's searching of the mobocrats. Darrow and his inquiry into the brief history and lawless methods of that so-called Waterworks Improvement association, an annex of the Detroit K. K. that promoted the assault on the Sweet home with the assistance of the Detroit police, undoubtedly had much, very much to do with bringing about the jury's verdict. Another thing that had much to do with bringing about the welcome verdict was the lapse of time—since last September. It gave the Detroit community (white) time to get rid of much of the hostile feeling against our people that the K. K. of that city had openly encouraged in every conceivable way and the local daily press and police had largely manufactured, commencing the morning after the night of the shooting, Sept. 9. There was one factor of the defense council, who while not in the "timelike" like Messrs. Darrow and Chawke, did telling work and must not be overlooked, and that is Attorney Walter M. Nelson, a member of the race. All three gentlemen are entitled to the warmest thanks and fullest appreciation of our people of the entire country because the Sweet trial verdict is of the greatest importance to all of us for reasons obvious. No one should hesitate, either, to give the N. A. A. C. P. full credit for the part it played in this great battle and victory. DOINGS OF THE RACE. Wayman A. M. E. church in Billings, Montana, declined a proffered gift of $100 from the local K. K. K. Our residents of Daytona Beach, Florida, are circulating petitions, to be submitted to the city commission to revoke an ordinance requiring them to carry passes after dark. A meeting of 300 of our people to protest the delay in the prosecution of a white patrolman accused of assaulting a woman of the race, was broken up, recently, by police in Brooklyn, N. Y. Atty. Hunter, Huntor of Gary, Incorrectly referred to as "Judge", has just been nominated as a Republican candidate for justice of the peace, a position to which the commissioners of the county, in which Gary is located, originally appointed him, last fall. Six hundred thirty-two "African blacks" entered this country from Jude 155, to March 1826, while during the same period, 759 left the country The U. N. I. A., Garvey's organization, which was bequeathed $100,000 by the will of the late Isaiah Emmanuel Morter, a well-do colored planter of Central Illinois, grew the farm. This was recently decided by the Supreme Court of British Honduras. "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 me by 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, he be right or wrong. Also, I adhere to the rules. Because I 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 sun, maybe it will live as long as you which I hope will be one hundred years. Mme. "Bright Star", "See er-ess and Theosophist, formerly of Cleveland. CORRESPONDENTS WANTED! "The Old Reliable" Gazette desires an active agent and correspondent in every city and town in Ohio and neighboring states having a number of Afro-American residents. Only a little time on Fridays or Saturdays is needed. We are especially desirous of hearing from persons in the following named cities: Springfield, Columbus, Toledo, Steubenville, Zanville, Wilmington, Xenia, Washington C. H., Lancaster, Hamilton, Plaqua, Lima, and other places particularly in Ohio where we have native writers to the editor of the Gazette, 226 West Superior Ave., Cleveland, O. and terms will be promptly. Our readers will oblige us greatly by sending at once the addresses of persons in the cities named, and other places where we can write relative to the matter. THE GAZETTE. CLEVELAND. O. SATURDAY, MAY 22, 1926. COOLIDGE SIGNS THE BATHING BEACH BILL. Calvin Coolidge, thirtieth president of the U. S. of America, and a Republican, has affixed his signature, to the infamous separate bathing beach bill for the District of Columbia. Colored America is shocked and disappointed, especially the Afro-American leaders, who during the last Presidential election invigorated colored voters into casting their ballot for this yankee son of colordhobbs' latest flaunt. The late Warren G. Harding warned us in a speech at Atlanta, not to put all of our eggs in one basket. Harding did not say this idly. The dyed in the wool black-followers, of the "G. O. P." will never wake up until they are completely thrown out of the Republican party, which is inevitable. 'Coming events cast their shadows a long way in advance. The bathing beach bill is a national precedent. When a yankee makes contact with southerners, and is converted to their "Negro" policy, he becomes a real enemy, not to be reckoned with lightly as he is at least sincere, while the southerner is hypocritical. Coolidge never has accomplished anything laudable and it is doubtful if he ever will, insofar as we are concerned. The Colored citizens, of Washington, D. C., could render a supreme service to our group, by refusing the government's offer of a "james crow" beach, not that we are desirous of bathing in the same waters with the Nordics, but to demonstrate our conscientious objection to an un-American, un-democratic principle. The governor of the state containing the cradle of liberty, and the birthplace of Crispus Attucks, a colored man who was the first in Boston to lay down his life for American independence from British tyranny is almost unthinkable.—"The Inter-State Tattler," N. Y. City. What Is The Painters Strike About? What Is The Painters Strike About? The painters', paperhangers' and glaziers' unions are on strike, demanding a wage increase from $1.25 per hour to $1.371/2 per hour, and a 5-day (40-hour) working week, instead of the 51/2-day (44-hour) week. Are Painters Underpaid? The average largest cities of the hour. Cleveland pay crease demanded, higher than the average Does the Cost Increase Statistics of that the cost of livingately 83% higher The wage of without the increase rate of 1914. The percentage twice as great as the cost of living. Are the Olders, paperhangers, ing 5½ days, or 44 a half-holiday on ditions under whi land's building in There is no go hangers and glazed number of days are in the building in This strike is already caused w irreparable losses of essential public Cleveland Cham By Order average wage for painters ties of the United States is and painters receive, with handed, a wage which is $.07 in the average. The Cost of Living Warrant Increase Demanded? ties of the Department of Post of living in Cleveland is % higher than in 1914. Average of Cleveland's union the increase, is 178% higher. Percentage of wage increase great as the percentage of living. The average wage for painters in the ten largest cities of the United States is $1.171/2 per hour. Cleveland painters receive, without the increase demanded, a wage which is $.071/2 per hour higher than the average. Does the Cost of Living Warrant the Increase Demanded? Statistics of the Department of Labor show that the cost of living in Cleveland is approximately 83% higher than in 1914. The wage of Cleveland's union painters, without the increase, is 178% higher than the rate of 1914. The percentage of wage increase has been twice as great as the percentage of increase in the cost of living. Are the Hours of Work Too Long? In the old agreement, Cleveland hangers and glaziers have 14 hours, or 44 hours per week, and day on Saturdays. These are under which all other workers in the building industry are now employed is no good reason why painters and glaziers should not work days and hours as the other building industry. A strike is without justification caused workers and the company losses and retarded the real public improvements. Chamber of Commerce By Order of the Board of Dy- president. Acting Chairman Committee of Secretary. 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Apply, Logan Owens, 3033 Central Ave., Cleveland, O. CLEVELAND Social and Personal Mrs. J. W. Hunter, E. $3d St. entertained royally, last Friday evening, in honor of Mrs. Stella Evans of Chicago and Mrs. May Williams who are visiting her sister, Mrs. Pearl McNeal. Mrs. Minerva Taylor and Mrs. Ed Clemens of Toledo will attend our W. M. M. society meeting in Steubenville, and the annual meeting of our National Federation of Women's clubs in California. Our local K. P. lodges, headed by their bands, marched to church, Sunday afternoon, to hear their annual sermon. The female branch of the organization helped materially to make the occasion a success. John Brewer, a Cleveland boy, who has spent the past three years in the U. S. navy, is home on a visi- tory boat for the week. He will return, via Washington, D. C., to the U. S. shipping board steamer, S. S. City of St. Joseph. Dr. and Mrs. Leroy N. Bundy recently entertained royally at dinner in honor of Mrs. Georgia Douglass Johnson and at a breakfast in honor of Duse Mahomed All Effendi, Egyptian author and traveler, and Atty. J. H. Pettiford of Detroit. Dr. and Mrs. Leroy N. Bundy and mother, Mrs. Charles Bundy, motored to Wilberforce, recently, to attend the Wilberforce C. Bundy, superintendent of the state department of Wilberforce University, who was operated on for appendicitis. Matt Hinkel has announced definitely that the Olympic Arena boxing season would open Decoration Day evening, May 31, and said there was a possibility that Harry THE GEEVUM GIRLS OUT HE GOES! I TOLD YOU I DIDN'T WANT HIM AROUND WERE! *M. KLEINMAN'S 2028 Cent. Ave. *THE S. & S. DRUG CO. 7325 Cent. The Gazette regularly should notify copy delivered promptly. business matters to The Gazette k, 226 West Superior Ave., oppo- you wish to see the editor call carefully examine The Gazette's purchases. Business men who have the patronage of our people. assurance that they want it. dication in current issues of The by 4 p. m., TUESDAY of that advertisements accepted until C. SMITH, Avenue, Cleveland, O. tel Cleveland.) Bell 'Phone: Cherry 1259 (Call in the Afternoon.) Wills would appear in the feature bout. If Wills cannot be secured, an all star program, topped by three ten-round bouts, will be conducted. Sunday, the Daughters of Irls attended St. James A. M. E. church, E. 84th St. and Cedar Ave., for their annual sermon. At 3:30 p.m., local Masons, headed by the stair game master, officiated at the opening of one of the churches, 7:45. Emanuel commandery, K.T., assembled for its annual sermon, preached by Major Wm. T. Anderson. The following from Zanesville motored here, recently, to attend Mrs. Anna Guy Ramsey's funeral; Mr. and Mrs. John Pritchard, Mr. and Mrs. George and Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Guy, Mrs. James Simpson, Mrs. G. W. Tate, Mrs. Margaret Toney, Mr. and Mrs. Edward Murdock and Mr. and Mrs. Alvin Ramdock of Dunkirk, who stopped with Dr. and Mrs. F. D. Websier, E. 93d St. Dr. Charles L. Reason, an old Clevelandander who has been located at the Springs, has been the past four years, arrived in the city, Sunday, and may relocate here. Mrs. Nannie C. Burden, coloratura soprano, of New York City, who gave a recital at Shiloh Baptist church, Thursday evening, was brought to the city by Mrs. B. J. Prince, the pastor's wife. Among Miss Burden's program-numbers were selections from "Lucia" and other operas. Wm. H. Dean, age 92, veteran of the war of the Rebellion and father of Louis J. Dean of Elberon Ave., this city, died recently at Wayne, Mich. Three sons, two daughters and a sister, mother of Frank J. Perkins of Midland, Mich., former resident of New York, and both survive the deceased and have the sympathy of the community. Mr. and Mrs. L. J. Dean attended the funeral, Sunday week, returning, last week Tuesday. Just a few hours afterwards Mrs. Dean fell down a flight of stairs at their home severely injuring herself. No bones broken. George Warmack and his Singing syncopators, who have been featured at the Far East restaurant, the past several years, is taking a vacation instead of continuing at the restaurant all summer and supplying the usual unusual syncopation for which he is famed. So our folk of Cleveland are to give Warmack and his boys a farewell concert at the Zimmerman's ballroom. Warmack has long held a "place high in the esteem of lovers of syncopation. His orchestra has been noted for its fine rhythm and novel effects. His was the first orchestra in town to broadcast via radio "Hearts Afame", a new fox trot song. The shadow of the electric chair—temporarily removed by a court appeal—settled heavily again, Saturday, about Emmanuel Ross, age 17. of Detroit, convicted slayer of Isidore Steeck. Appellate court, last week Friday, sustained the decision of common pleas court that Ross must die in the chair for the crime. King Young, of Detroit, was also found guilty of the murder, and was sentenced to imprisonment. Ross' appeal was on the grounds that he was influenced by Young, who is thirty-two years old. Steeck was killed, three months ago, during a robbery DON'T, DAD! IT'S A GOOD LITTLE FELLOW! THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, O.SATURDAY, MAY 22, 1926 in his grocery store at 3915 Central Ave. Master Monroe, youngest son of Prof. and Mrs. Francis Gregory, E. 81st St., was unanimously voted by three judges (white) winner of the first prize in the recent essay contest conducted at East high school under the auspices of the Colonial Dames of America. There were 450 contestants. The subject of essay was "What America Can Do For the World." A copy was sent to Washington, D. C. to be placed on record. Two years ago, Monroe won second prize in a contest sponsored by one of the Washington dailies. He is president of the East high school debating society, which is considered quite an honor. Mrs. Gregory was former Miss Edna Anderson, a local public-school teacher. The recent style show at Shiloh Baptist church was a success. Mrs. Hallel Jackson managed it and is entitled to much credit. Among the participants were Anita Jackson, her daughter, who made all the dresses for the little ones; Wm. Hallel Jackson, who made all the in white tailored suits; Mrs. Addie Simpson, formerly of Chicago, dressed as a bride; Lucretia Logan attired in a Japanese breakfast gown; Mrs. B. J. Prince, old rose afternoon dress with steel cut beads; Iva Beasley, in black and white sport carrying a tennis racket; Mrs. Alexander of E. 47th St., repaired and stitched to it; E. Eyvine and Mr. W. Powell, in soft Miss Ozella Moore, in a broached evening gown; the quintet girls who announced the scenes. Thousands of members will attend the annual convention of the Improved Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks of the World here, August 22, according to J. Finley Wilson, of Washington, D. C., grand exalted ruler, who was here, the past week, completing arrangements for the meet. The convention is expected to attract a larger gathering of our Elks, than any previous meeting of the order. The local group making plans for the gathering are Alphos Glenn, chair; housing com. Mrs. Mollie Browne, chair; ladies' grand temple Mrs. Mary LaSante, sec.; Mrs. Martha Brown, treas.; Tom Fleming, chair; local grand lodge committee; G. P. Lancaster, sec.; Charles Smith, treas.; J. M. Turk, chair, fin. com., and Steve Ball, chair, transportation com. Undertakers Wynne & Easley's splendid success is largely explained when the word efficiency is used in connection with all they do and this is accounted for in the following statement of facts: Mr. Wynne was for a number of years in urging the Nunn Undertaking department of the Nunn Undertaking Co. one of the largest and best known of Cleveland's undertaking firms. He is, too, a graduate of the Cincinnati School of Embalming. Mr. Easley was formerly in business in Nashville, where he built up a splendid reputation. He is an alumnus of Howard University, and re-entered the Nashville College of Embalming. Subsequently he took a postgraduate course at the Cleveland School of Embalming and, therefore, holds licenses from the state boards of both Tennessee and Ohio. George E. Freeman, 2311 E. 30th St., inherited a $3,000 lot in Wickliffe for which he received, recently, $50 cash. It seems that George was pretty well satisfied with the promises of a man who occupied a mahogany swivel chair and had his name on the door of a downtown office building. He watched the purchaser peel off ten new $5 bills, and then sign a promissory note for the balance, $3,000, to be paid May 12. He signed a receipt for the $50, pocketed the money and note and walked gleefully from the "real estate dealer's" office. That was last month. Last week Wednesday, George went to collect the $250 he had boxed. A door greeted him. The building manager notified him that the "real estate dealer" had given up the office and moved away. Naturally George was worried. He rushed to Wickliffe. There learned that his lot had been sold for $3,000 by its last purchaser to another man. And now he wants County Detective James Doran to help him find the purchaser. Of course you have many friends, what the famous old showman, P. T. Barnum, said about one being born every minute. That is not true now, for there is one born every second, these days. Approval of City Manager Hopkins of the establishment of a courtroom in the new third precinct police station for "the terrible third", to be erected at E. 35th St. and Scovill Ave., will be asked by Safety Director Barry, it was announced, last week Friday, when bids for the construction of the building were to be received at city hall. The bids will in all probability be ignored and plans for the building altered prescriptive for the courtroom. Hopkins approves Barry's plan it is said. Chief Justice Dempsey of municipal court has informed Barry that a judge would be assigned to the station if the courtroom was installed. Barry says that the plan would eliminate congestion at the new central station courts. The "terrible third" would then "enjoy the distinction" of being the only police precinct in the city to be thus "signally and spectally honored". It's court would, too, eliminate from the central station courts the throng black offenders that beset the almost entirely the open business. It, therefore, would practically be a "jim crow" police court, "Yelping" for a "jim crow" hospital for Cleveland has encouraged this. Tell It, Brother, Tell It! There is something radically wrong with a group of people who refuse to help relieve their own burdens. The day of throwing bouquets is gone forever. The Afro-American must face the facts as they exist. We won't gain anything by fooling ourselves into thinking that everything is all right. Everything, affecting the lives of Afro-Americans, is all wrong. Our former we face these facts, the quicker we will begin to work for our own salvation, the sooner we will attain our rightful place as American citizens. — Philadelphia Tribune. 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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? Washington, D. C., Oct. 4, 1924. —There is more segregation in Washington today under President Coolidge than there ever has been since the Civil War. The beginnings of segregation were under President Taft. It was greatly extended, under President Wilson; increased, still further, under President Harding; and reached its zenith under President Coolidge. For instance, the largest of our parks President Wilson never troubled, but the present administration has found time and desire to introduce it even there. To many people, segregation is a Democratic scheme of insult, but such is not the case. Mr. Taft introduced it in the bureau of engraving. He segregated the census-takers in this city in 1910, restricting white workers to white people, and black to black, often duplicating work most blocks had when black residents, the worst of all, announced in his official capacity that Negroes should not hold office 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 tenaciously held on to by our Republican President. Only last week, a colored lady appeared after having passed the best examination, and having been telegraphed 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 Col. Sherrill, superintendent of buildings and grounds. It is no use to complain of either of these southern gentlemen. The colored people here who know the President could destroy segregation in the departments of the government, and the photograph requirements in the civil service by the mere nod of his head, he does not to understand why he does not pick up solidard 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 Constitution, which he "welcome home" in the Republican party, and receives no condemnation from the Republican President. (Special to The Gazette.) (Washington, D. C.—In the postoffice segregation is rampant. The faithful colored clerks work under constant humiliation and physical disadvantages. The department must be 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, disadvantages as it is, is far less galling to the colored clerks than is the thought of their government taking their taxes, as it takes those of the whites, for the comfort of the latter, and setting them off as though they were lepers. The injustice stings all the more when they reflect that they are far more capable than the whites, 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 whiche and neglect of colored. It maintains a well-appointed room with good tables and other games, a co-far to a table lounges and other equipment for rest, sociability, and recreation, and nothing for the same colored employees. Their 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 post-office employees," yet not one was delivered to the clerked clers. I hurried a protest to the postmaster general the day before it was to come off, and he ordered the postmaster to invite the colored as well as the white. These clerks get around their colored co-workers, giving the notice at a local hotel, uninvitable 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 handling of mail. The colored clerks have dared to form a union which meets a regular often sends manic intelligent protests to the postmaster, and often appeals from his decisions to the postmaster-general. It has secured 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 print office keeps faith with the government's universal scheme of segregation. Some of the best and brightest of our girls are forced to accept interior 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 off from the whites when the latter, of course, having the better working conditions, and recreational facilities. There is a large cafeteria in this huge structure where all of the employees may go, but there are a few tables in an out-of-the-way section reserved for our employees. I am glad to say that few, very few, of our people patronize the place, preferring a little physical inconvenience to the open, semi-public humiliation of segregation. In toilet facilities, dressing-rooms, and work assignments, wherever possible, the law of segregation is in full force, and, of course, this same undemocratic practice is in the hard case the salary rolls in the hard case, elsewhere, 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 need of employees so keenly that he secured the company of a young lady of the race to take part in the dance. As soon as this couple started to dance the music was abruptly stopped, and the young man reported for attempting to take part in an entertainment provided for employees. He was called to the office, lectured for being "one of those smart Negroes" who believe in "social equality" and then discharged on a trumpeted charge. He was a nightmare, hence he carried a pistol. 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 one or two armed weapons which was immediately dismissed. By this severe punishment our employees are taught that there is no way of escape for one who dares to resent the daily insults that their government (under President Coolidge) gives them. Many of the employees have expressed their deeply-wounded feelings to me at being considered a pariah by the government whose institutions they are serving so faithfully, and I have taken up a number of cases only to be met by a denial that the conditions complained of exist, and a request for the names of my informants. I knew the fate these informants then took, and 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, CLEVKLAND, O. SATURDAY, MAY 22, 1926. is so well settled upon it, and the complainants cannot bear witness (Special to The tazette) (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 garments together in perfect harmony, oblivious to any threat 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 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 arrogate the secession of the association secured publicity in over six hundred influential white papers in the country. The fight checked what was thought to be the intention of the segregators, namely, the elimination of the colored employees from the bureau ait 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 fullness, under the administration of the party that *Abraham Lincoln*, Charles Summer and Frederick Douglass are helped to found. Our girls are employed there in far larger numbers than in any other branch of the public service. THEY ARE SEGREGATED in their rest rooms, toilets, and working stations, and of course in the classrooms and instructional institutions to executive places. They are girls from our best nomes, most of them with high age 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 in the middle of destroying 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, 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 laws and the new tax laws taxes that the recent war necessitated, this is by far the largest department of the treasury, employing several thousand clerks. Yet Negroes are so scarce there that they can't be noticed. There is the same general complaint here among our clerks and other employees as there is in the other branches of the government—failure to recognize their efficiency when promotions are due; ability to go so far and no further. The various forms of segregation exist here as well as elsewhere—the restaurants closed or divided along color lines, and special toileters, 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 land for his family. The registrarship 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 removed. 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 southern atmosphere, must take the former. They are depressed at the wrong, but economic stress compels endurance of it. The 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 bureau has been most pronounced. This is particularly the office of the register of the treasury and the internal revenue bureau. In the former, beezer board wards 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 camaign. Investigation of Bureaus '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 asunder at the touch of fire. He finds his fellow guilty of a kin 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. "table" to inc 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. "Sericous 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 taa 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 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 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 recover, as hereafter provided, a sum not to exceed one thousand dollars as damages from the county in which the assault is made. (93 v. 161 4.) Section 6281. A person assaulted and lynched by a mob may recover, from the county in which such assault is made, from a sum not exceeding 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 death, shall be 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 sum shall be 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. Motion for the recovery 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 6286. 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 oyned 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 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 commit violence on a prisoner enough been very effective. Illinois, Pennsylvania and New Jersey have followed Ohio's lead and enacted mob violence or anti-lynching laws which are copies of our Ohio law. Several other northern states and at least one border state (Kentucky) have also enacted anti-lynching laws, in recent years, like Pennsylvania and New Jersey. The Ohio law follows: BBS. ed. s. representative of victim of lynching by mob trying to lynch another. and costs in tax levy. s. inst member of mob. inst another county. from such county for safekeeping, the county in which the lynching is committed may recover the amount of the judgment and costs from the county from which the mob came on the part of officials of such unless there was contributory negligence not less than thirty days county in failing to protect such prisoner or dispouse 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 OOK OHIO CIVIL HIGHWAY Upon the request or many readers of The Gazette we print below the text of the Hon. Harry C. Smith's Ohio Civil Rights law which the editor had enacted while a member of the 71st General Assembly, in 1894: The General Coge of Ohio: **General Code of Ohio:** Seed 1840. Whoever, being the proprietor of the employee, keeper or manager of an in-house restaurant, eating house, bar-sharing public veyance 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 blind not less than fifty dollars nor more than five hundred dollars, or not more than thirty days, or both. Seed 12941. Whoever, before next preceding section shall also pay not less than fifty dollars nor more than five hundred dollars to the person aggrieved thereby to be recovered in any court of competent jurisdiction in the county where such offense was committed. This law has repeatedly been held constitutional and good law by the Ohio Supreme Court, the trouble is our people will not use it as 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 outery 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 that the 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. My Dear Sir: Observing your letter in the Beacon-Journal, of this month I venture to send you, under a separate porter of Feb. 3, last, containing the opinion of the Court of Appeals in the Puritan Lunch Co. vs. Leonard H. Fman, decided in Akron, last fall, in which a judgment for ($500) five hundred dollars was sustained. If the Beacon-Journal had known what was going on in its own town, there would have been no occasion for 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. The Truth! What would cause other people to gnash their teeth and gird their loins is question of debate for us. Kick us, beat us, pile depredations upon us, revile us, abuse us, lie about us, malign us and even impugn our valor and we are not unanimously insulted. It seems impossible to establish unanimity of insult in the black race.—Chicago (III.) Whip. APPEAL MADE TO PRACTICALLY EVERY INDIAN AGENCY IN THE U. S. WONDER PRIMITIVE PAPOOO LIVES Carlisle School Gets Interesting Reports and Contrasts From the Reservations Carlisle, Pa.—In response to Commissioner of Indian Affairs' appeal to superintendents of Indian schools, urging them to do their utmost to save the lives of Indian babies Superintendent Oscar H. Lipps of the Carlisle Indian school has received interesting information relating to aboriginal babies from practically every Indian agency. Commissioner Sells believes that this campaign for better babies, the rescue of a race, calls for redoubled energy and zeal throughout the Indian service, for it means personal work and tireless patience. Some of the photographs of Indian babies cared for in primitive fashion present rare contrasts to those of the more fortunate little reds who have advantages of civilization, such, for example, as the children of Carlisle graduates. All are fascinating specimens of babyhood, though, and the only wonder is that the primitive papoose ever lives to grow up. Dr. W. K. Callahan states that the papooses commonly come into the world well enowed physically, but old Indian customs of carelessness and neglect are responsible for many subsequent lills. The new born child is usually wrapped up in an old blanket for the first two or three weeks of its life and is not bathed until the mother is able to bathe it herself. Dr. Charles L. Zimmerman of the Ponca agency, Oklahoma, believes that the first step in the instruction of the Indian mother as regards the health of her infant should be that of "proper feeding". An almost universal disease of Indian children is tuberculosis, and when one considers that 99 per cent of all children of 10 years of age in the white race are said to have tubercular implantation, he can appreciate its danger and importance in the tepee. Forced feeding and a daily bath for these cases will do much to overcome an inherited weakened body. Bridget C. Keough, field matron, St. Xavier, Mont., reports that in the Big Horn Valley, on the Crow reservation, Indian mothers are learning to take better care of their babies. While some still lister to the medicine women, or old grandmother, when the baby is sick the majority go to a doctor for advice and try to follow suggestions as to cleanliness and diet. The Crow mother will not prepare a layette for her baby, as it is a superstition among them that the baby will die if its clothes are made in advance. Dr. Martin R. Reiber of Arizona, writing concerning Hopi Indian babies remarks that the living quarters and conditions of this Indian are not such as would be conductive to the health of the infant, and consequently the death rate is extremely high. Like the entire family the infant reposes only on blankets or sheep pelts on a bare, hard floor of clay. The one room house necessitates its occupancy by the entire family day and night; a door or window, if they have one, is soldom kept open even in the mildest weather; remements of foodstuffs often litter the floor, and facilities for the disposal of garbage are deplorably inadequate; and moreover, the Hopi frequently does not take kindly to any suggestion that might remedy the situation. The water supply is inadequate, as it usually has to be carried a mile or more on the backs of the women or borros, and is often used for culinary and other purposes when alive with various larvae and absolutely unfit for human consumption. Concerning the Apaches of Arizona, Tassie Mary Scott of the San Carlos Indian Agency, writes that the mothers bundle the babies into the carriers, tie them, allowing no room for the movement of the babies lower extremities (which is necessary for muscular development and exercise), or for the proper expansion of the abdominal muscles, or necessary respiration. They leave them so for hours, generally with a heavy blanket, thru which no air can penetrate, covering the whole carrier. Bride Balks at Red Wig Detroit, Mich.—Alla Mallad was in complete disguise at the time of his marriage to May Hassan. His new little redwig did not look like a wig at all. It looked just like his own hair. His bride hadn't discovered the disguise when freinds in Highland Park near this city, gathered to welcome the couple to their new home.