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MONEY LOANE JEWELRY & LUGGAGE Men's Slightly Used Suit MONEY LOANED ON CLOTHING JEWELRY & LUGGAGE AT LEGAL RATES Men's Slightly Used Suits, Five Dollars and Up erall you ceyouwa LOANED on CLOUT & LUGGAGE AT LEGAL HIGHLY Used Suits, Five Dollars THE GAZETTE you want u want to pay 100 MY STORE END AVENUE on CLOTHING AT LEGAL RATES Five Dollars and Up ESTABLISHED, AUGUST 25, 1883 And Issued Every Week on Time Since CLEVELAND, OHIO, SATURDAY, MAY 29, 1926 What Our People Are Doing Each Week—Church, Personal, Social, Lodge, Literary and Musical— GALLIPOLIS, — Charles Bickley, age 50, was shot recently to death at Wellton, 35 miles north of here by Town Marshal Abe Young, (white), who attempted to arrest him. Bickley had just sold his farm and was on his way to Cleveland to join his wife and daughter. He was sitting in the Baltimore & Ohio railroad depot, when the "mutt" attempted to arrest him, believing him to be a robber and bootlegger, he said. A seuffle enued, the bootlegger began holding him, had a large sum of money on his person and had resided at Ironon. He was shot seven times. CADIZ, — Mr. and Mrs. Francis Tyler of Nashville, Tenn., are visiting their parents, Mr. and Mrs. Benj. F. Tyler, — Miss Mae Johnson of Warren, and Mrs C. A. Bailey, Royce, weevil, and Mrs J. W. Johnson, honoring their son, James W. Johnson, who was one of the graduates of Cadiz High School. — Mr. and Mrs. Orris Muntz and Mrs. Matie Cole, of Flushing, were Cadiz visitors. Sunday, — Miss Hilda McGee of Urchrishville, visited her parents, the past week. — Rev. and Mrs. C. M. Hogans and Mrs. Benj. S. Lee, the latter a delegate, attended A. M. E. district conference at St. Clairsville, Miss Virginia Redman, Robert Miss, James Johnson and Gordon Ramsey are graduates from Cadiz High School, this year. — Mr. Archie Strother, of Latrobe, Pa, and Mrs. Anna Binns of Oberlin, attended commencement exercises. — St. James A. M. e. church glee club creditably filled two engagements, the past week, before large audiences (white). ROXABELL.—An excellent program will be given all day, May 30, by the Second Baptist church in Sherman Williams grove, on the Roxabell and Frankfort plike. Addresses by able speakers, music by the community band, by Miss Mary William Grove, and by orchestras of Hillsboro. The pastor spent the week assisting Rev. Gray in his anniversary celebration at New Hope Baptist church. At 10:30 a.m. Sunday, Revs. Carter and Richardson assisted in the service, and Messrs. A. Williams, Banks and Bayless, in the finance. Rev. J. J. Burr preached the baptismal sermon Sunday, Sunday, and our Excellent music was rendered by the choir, Miss Ella Jones gave three solos during the day. She has accepted a position in Toledo and her many friends wish her every success in her new field of labor. We recommend her as a good worker in the S. S. and the church. Our church made an excellent showing in Hillsboro Sunday, June 13 at 2 p.m. at the church.—Don't fail to read "The Old Reliable" Gazette, every week. It is our leading paper. Tell your friends. HILLSBORO.—The pastor's anniversary for Rev. R. L. R. Lay, all last week, was a success. The programs were very good—Rev. and Mrs. W. Hester and Miss Edna Hill of Greenfield attended the services at the Baptist church, last Monday night, and visited Mr. and Mrs. Edward Jones.—On Friday night, a grand entertainment was given at the A. M. E. church by Miss Mary Williams. Members of the two church in Greenfield took an active part in the program. The attendance was large. Byrdie Williams received first prize for selling the most tickets, Duanna Thomas, second prize and Ethel Ames, third prize. Rev. E. L. Blake, pastor, will graduate from Wilberforce Theological Seminary in June. A large crowd attended the baptismal services, Sunday, at the Baptist church. Local Old People sermon was preached, Sunday afternoon at the A. M. E. church by the pastor. A large number of brothers and friends from Ripley Georgetown and Wilmington were present. Miss Ella Jones of Roxabell was the guest of Rev. and Mrs. J. B. Jurr, Saturday to Tuesday.—Rev. E. Richardson and family of Frankfort visited Mr. and Mrs. Edward Jones, Sunday.—Mr. Wm. Pope of Columbus spent a few days with Mrs. Wm. Blanton. Dwight Trimble will be in the H. H. S. graduation class, June 3. He is a fine, self-made, young man. A silver offering was taken up for him, Sunday, at the Baptist church of which he is a member. MANSFIELD—Mr. and Mrs. W. T. Crooms of Joffrems, Mrs. Clyde Gordon of Cleveland, Mr. and Mrs. Harry Loney of Ashtabula and Fred Beeler of Detroit attended Mrs. F. B. Cromer's funeral.—Mr. and Mrs. Fred Alexander and Mr. Cory Adams of Findlay were dinner-guests of Capt. and Mrs. Walter S. Thomas, Friday evening.—Rev. W. S. Holley preached in Crestline, Sunday.—A program at Mr. Calvary church, Sunday, by the M. E. church, wives at A. M. E. church, Thursday evening.—Mrs. Wm. Harding and children of Akron are visiting their mother and sister, Mrs. Hattie Minor.—Social, tonight, at Mr. Long's, under the auspices of the usher's board.—Rev D. Erwin was the week-end guest of Mr. and Mrs. A. Luckey.—Mrs. Nellie Hurt of Cleveland, G. L. of the Eastern Star, made an excellent address, Thursday evening, to May chapter at its hall.—Mrs. Pearl Cobb of Columbus is visiting her mother, sister, Mrs. Hattie, when she spent the week-end with Louise Hattie. Mrs. Hattie Banks entertained, Sunday, with a dinner in honor of her birthday: Mr. and Mrs. R. Sawyer, Mrs. Pearl Cobb and Mrs. T. Sawyer. J. H. Davis is improving.—Mrs. B. F. Cromer died, May 15, at the sanitarium after five weeks' illness. A husband, daughter and sister survive. Funeral from the residence, last week Tuesday; Rev. Erwin in charge.—Mr. and Mrs. Robert Love of Cleveland and Mr. and Mrs. Heslys Toledo will spend December Day, guests of Miss Clada Pleants and Mrs. Grant.—Mrs. Marian Cindy was called to Fort Wayne, by her grandmother's death.—Miss Clada Pleants are convalescent.—Prayer services at Mt. Calvary church, Wednesday evening. Every one invited. SCHOMBURG'S GREAT LIBRARY Purchased By the Carnegie Corporation For the New York City Public Library—Now Available To Students. New York City.—At the instance of the National Urban league, the sum of $10,000 has been appropriated by the Carnegie Corporation of New York to the New York Public Library for the purchase of the Schomburg library. This matchless collection of Afro-Americana consisting of several thousand books, many of which are exceedingly rare pamphlets, manuscripts, autographs and prints, represents the labors of the authors of the works of thirty years, and offers for the student of Afro-American life and letters a rich storehouse of information. In the collection are as a base practically every important book written by or about the Afro-American and an astonishing revelation of books on the subject in French, German, Assyrian, Latin and Spanish. One volume bears the date of 1550. There is a presentation copy of the great Ludolf's History of Abyssinia printed in 1691. Books on the subject of the race as Gustavus Vassa, Jacobus Capitien, Paul Cuffe, Jupiter Hammond, Juan Latino, Ignatius Sancho, Prince Saundens, DeBaron Vastey, and Henry Sipkins; complete first editions of Dunkins; speeches of Frederick Douglass and Absolom Jones, more than 100 manuscript sermons and speeches of Alexander Crumml, volumes from the Sans Soul Press of Halft, with forty or more orders and memorials, with program, posts and press comments on his triumphs from all over the world, rare prints and mezzo-tints, one of the most precious of which is that by W. Ward of the Chevalier St. George, famous black composer and one of the greatest fencers of Europe, with patient search has drawn these things into one repository. The picture of Benjamin Banneker which appears in Woodson's "The 'Negro' in our History" is the result of a twelve year search. Chick Suggs' Latest Victory New York City.—In the semifinals on the Rikso-Stribling light card here, recently, Chick Suggs, New England bantam and featherweight champion, scored a technical knockout victory over Johnny Brown, English bantam and featherweight title holder. The referee stopped the scheduler and the team-run the fifth round. The Briton was still on his feet, but badly cut about the face by Suggs' slashing attack. The Browns Defeat Sharon. Warren, O.—The Brown's stars had little trouble beating the Sharon Elks, (white), 14 to 1, here, Sunday. The Stars combed three pitchers for 14 hits, including four doubles and a triple. Mellix, while touched for 10 hits, was invincible with men on bases. "The Crisis" Run Behind, Last Year. New York City.—The Crisis Magazine, official organ of the N. A. A. C. P., reported a deficit of $2-048 for last year. Income amounted to $44,847 and expenses $46-905. Average monthly circulation was given as 30,583 for 1925. Elected Moderator. Brooklyn, N. Y.—Rev. H. H. Proctor has just been named as moderator of the Congregational churches of this city and is the first of the three churches there are perhaps sixty-five churches in all nearly all white parishes. Additional Locals Miss Mary Washington and Miss Alice Jackson, E. 88th St., entertained the local branch of the W. C. T. U., Tuesday evening. The editor of The Gazette acknowledges the receipt of a splendidly illustrated prospectus of the Maple Hollow Country Club, the headquarters of which are located at Maple Lake, a good place from Cleveland. The principal office of the club are: Hon. Harry E. Davis, pres.; Major Wm. T. Anderson, vice-pres., and D. R. Williams, sec.-treas. The trustee and advisory board of the organization contains a number of our prominent men of this city, one from Pittsburgh and several from Youngstown and Akron. Rev. Benedict Hanley of the Passionist Order will conduct a mission for each Catholic and non-Catholic at our Catholic church, E. 79th St. near Central Ave., during the week of May 30. This famous lecturer has spent thirty years teaching the real purpose of life and has addressed audiences from coast to coast. He speaks to an audience standing—a black robed figure with sanded feet—beneath a huge draped crucifixion scene. A wimson or ornate costume from a selfish materialistic world to a salutary service of the Savior. He has talks of interest to those outside the Catholic Church Everybody is invited to hear him. SINGLE COPY FIVE CENTS Declares Worse Than American Dictatorship Exists There and Is Right U. S. Senator King Says He Will Not Cease to Assail the Notorious U. S. Haitian Policy Until Every Trooper Is Withdrawn—It Is "Worse Than Slavery," He Maintains. Washington, D. C.—Senator Wm. H. King, (Dem.), of Utah, recently on the floor of the U. S. Senate, vigorously attacked the notoriously bad military policy of the Coolidge administration in Haiti. He introduced a resolution directing the Senate Foreign Relations committee to investigate the serious charges of the Haitian people and to report to the Senate a measure he would permit to self-government for the people of that country. Bitterly Condemns Policy. "I know it is a waste of time to plead for a weak people," Senator King said. "The American people are interested in making money and in exploiting other people. I condemn the policy we are now following in Haiti and protest against it with all my soul. The humblest people in the world are entitled to work out their own salvation. So long as I am in this Senate I am going to fight for these Haitian people." clared the people of Haiti originally made no objection to the intention of military rule there but that they now regret it. "It is a sad commentary," he said, "on American government. I had rather be a slave than live under a military dictatorship such as exists in Haiti, for slavery is usually a result of such relationship." Rotten Dictatorship. Referring to the recent debate in the Senate over the Italian debt settlement, the Senator from Utah said, "the men in this Senate who have so eloquently denounced the dictatorship in Italy should give a little of their eloquence to the dictatorship we have established in a neighboring island. When we talk about revolutions in Haiti we must remember that our American troops have killed more Haitians in a year than the Haitian people have killed in two decades in their national differences. More than 3,000 people have died at the hands of American ma- In his address, Senator King de- Detroit, Mich.—The following is from the Detroit Evening Times: from the Detroit Evening Times: Detroit's 1925-26 concert season came to an end in Orchestra Hall in about as fitting a manner as one could ask—a recital by Roland Hayes, tenor. The perfect reverberations of his warm, rich voice will ring in our memories across the months that intervene until once again the doors of our concert halls open. And not only the perfections of his voice, but the discriminating taste of his program. It was over by 10 o'clock, but an hour of reverberations is an epileptic feast of music. The joy of the work of Roland Hayes is that by some Divine admonition he has retained the pristine beauty of his wonderful natural voice, has trained it intelligently and uses it now as one who loves singing rather than shriekling. Never a tone is forced and plays power in reserve to achieve his climaxes with ease and unblemished quality. He opened with a Mozart aria, so delightfully sung that he was enriched immediately by an audience that nearly filled the hall, and responded with Handel's pretty "Where're You Walk," one of the most ingratiating love songs of our language. A German group, the Brahms, and nothing that I have heard this season, and few things that I have ever heard, exceeded the sheer tonal beauty and technical finesse of the Schubert "Der Jungling an der Quelle." There was a perfect storm of plaque after it and I think most of us were a little sorry that he didn't repeat it. Something quite different he gave for an encore, the ossack's song, and all the music of the drama. And it is to Mr. Hayes' credit that he deigned to explain the purport of the song before he sang it. His English group was a revelation in versatility—the gorgeously somber "Inall Follows" by Rachmaninoff, followed by a lilling of rustic sentiment in the ancient manner. Roger Quilter's "Over the Mountains." The next two were at the other end of the band, enjoying modern things by Griffes "Rose of the Night" and "The Dreamy Lake," where an evanescent melody dissolves and redissolves into an accompaniment which, after the manner of the moderns, paints quite as much if not more of the picture than the words. They were as beautifully sung, too, as the compositions in unbroken, flowing melody they are made of. "Go a Robe" one of the spirituals, encores here. Then the evening closed with a group of four "Negro" religious songs, plus two more encores. Here, of course, Roland Hayes stands supreme, for his sensitive voice takes on every shade of meaning in the lyrics, intensifying their appeal and illuminating the great depth of the simple sincerity in Heaven and Jesus, Lay Yo Head in de Winder," moved his hearts deeply, but their effect was overmatched by the final encore "Were You There?" sung without accompaniment. It is a treatment of the Crucifixion instantly arresting its simplicity and dignity and compelling in the power with which Mr Hayes delivers it. I say again, that it would be hard to imagine a singer of the same race and day as beautifully as Roland Hayes Those who love the finest uses of the human voice can only hope the IN UNION IS STRENGTH COPY FIVE CENTS OPLE! BAIN HITS RULE IN HAITI American Dictatorship Exists Is Right Not Cease to Assail the Notorious Every Trooper Is Withdrawn— Savery," He Maintains. clared the people of Haiti originally made no objection to the intervention of military rule there but that they now regret it. "It is a sad commentary," he said, "on American government. I had rather be a slave than live and der a diary, dictatorship such as exists in Haiti, for slavery is usually a result of such relationship." Rotten Dictatorship. Referring to the recent debate in the Senate over the Italian debt settlement, the Senator from Utah said, "the men in this Senate who have so eloquently denounced the dictatorship in Italy should give a little of their eloquence to the dictatorship we have established in a neighborhood hand." When we talk about revolutions in Haiti we must remember that our American troops have killed more Haitians in a year than the Haitian people have killed in two decades in their national differences. More than 3,000 people have died at the hands of American marines." ID HAYES' BEAUTIFUL VOICE! Mr. Hayes will give many Detroit recitals in the years to come. Wm. Lawrence was the very excellent accompanist and Mr. Hayes was insistent that he share in the applause. R. H. "SON" TO "MOTHER"! Rue La Bruyere, Paris, France, May 12, 1926. Mrs. L. S. Jones. 2256 E. 101st St. Cleveland, Ohio, U. S. A. My Dear Mother:—This leaves me very well and I hope that it will find both you and dad, likewise. I was pleased to learn that you were able to make the trip home, O. K. and also that both dad and cousin, Mamie, were able to accompany you on the trip. I suppose by now you are able to get into the course with my husband and I pray to the good Lord that you will be normal again soon. But please don't try your leg too soon. I played for Mrs. Parmelee Herrick at the American embassy, last week. In fact, we sang "Negro" spirituals and I played several violin numbers. Last night, I played at the home of the counselor of the embassy. Saw Mr. Parmelee Herrick. He always speaks of dad. Also, his father, the American ambassador, T. always tells everyone that I am Louisa's boy, etc. and what a great fellow Louisa is. So you see I am always receiving compliments from them of my good old dad. I don't know much of importance to write. Oh, yes, in Mrs. Logan's know that she, at last, had landed know that she, at last, landed some one to marry, etc. the fellow who was down in Africa. Really, just a quiet way to ask you and dad to send a wedding present. Myron T. asks often about him. My best to Mame and Enos. With lots of love, and for a speedy recovery. Son. Louia V. Jones (Violinist). "Chick" Suggs-Graham "Setto." New York City.—Theodore Suggs will be a 6-5 choice to defeat Bushy Graham, of Utica, in their June argument. Local fans think a lot of the shifty, unorthodox Graham, of Utica, chose was a decisive victory over Frankie Genaro, but the New York crowd thinks even more of "Chick" Suggs. In Cleveland and points west, the opinion of the majority appears to be that Bud Taylor is the best of the present day bantams. This, however, is not the viewpoint of the eastern critics, all of whom believe Suggs the uncrowned ruler of the 118-and-fourth Suggs-Graham fight will prove a beauty. This writer is one of those who think the Afro-American has too much stuff for the Utica Italian. Will Go To Paris. New York City.—Henry E. Cobb, mining engineer, has been promoted to a position in the Layne New York Company's Paris, France, office. Mr. Cobb has been an employee of the company for eighteen years and is a specialist in drilling artesian wells. Although a resident of Chicago, Mr. Cobb has been working on jobs in the east for several months. Recently he successfully completed a $350,000 job at Camden, N. J., and another one at Haddenfield, N. J. I WILL SAY AS HOW THAT'S AS FINE A HUNK O'DIE AS I EVER ET! HEY, YOU BEAST! GET OUT OF THAT! KITTY, I'D GIVE YOU THE REST OF IT IF I ONLY KNEW HOW YOU CUT IT! (In Advance) One Year ..... $2.00 Six Months ..... 1.00 Subscribers are requested to remit by postoffice money order or registered letter. Entered at the postoffice in Cleveland, Ohio, as second-class mail matter Address all communications to HARRY C. SMITH Editor and Proprietor THE GAZETTE 226 W. Superior Ave., Cleveland, O. (Bell Phone: Cherry 1259) Member Ohio Legislature: 1894 to 1896; 1896 to 1898; 1900 to 1902 THE GAZETTE is the oldest and has the largest bona fide circulation, double that of any newspaper in the interest of Afro-Americans published in the state of Ohio and comparison with any will immediately establish its rank as one of the NEWS- LIST AND BEST in the country. 10,000,000 Afro-Americans. 850,000 in Ohio. 40,000 in Cleveland. SATURDAY, MAY 29, 1926. A MINISTER-LEADER SADLY NEEDED! Sunday morning two "hooch" victims were picked up in Central Ave. between E. 28th and E. 29th streets, one dead and one dying. Sunday night, another was found dead in an alley near Central Ave. and between E. 30th and E. 31st streets. Monday noon, a mother and her young daughter and two men friend of the two were seen Central Ave. near E. 30th St. Tell your minister about this. He ought to know it. Edward Reeves, age 24, 3737 Scovill Ave., was charged with murder, Monday, and three other men with gambling, following a dice game at Reeves' home which resulted in the fatal stabbing of Calloway Qualls, age 25, 2386 E. 46th St. Sergt. Harvey Weitzel and a police squad from the Orange Ave.-E. 37th precinct station, found Qualls dead in the rear of the cell when they were called to cell a right. Reeves was arrested at Scovill Ave. and E. 46th St. He is said to have admitted stabbing Qualls to death with a butcher knife during an argument over money in a dice game. Those held for gambling were: John Thomas, 3737 Scovill Ave.; Ellis Simpkins, 2546 E. 37th St., and Leenus Seunghton, 2328 E. 49th St. Strange that our ministers and churches of the city take positively no interest in the heart-rending conditions existing among our people of Cleveland! They ought, at least, to force Councilman Tom Fleming to get the police service so sadly needed in our section of the city. There is practically no patrol service done there by policemen. Haven't we one minister in all Cleveland who has the ability, courage, manhood and Christianity to take the lead in this matter and awaken the Ministers' Alliance, Ministers' Conference, race organizations of this city, and our churches to a proper sense of their responsibility in this matter? We sincerely hope so. WHITE AND BLACK THIEVES. A white friend, a salesman who is frequently in the sections of the city most thickly populated by our people, stopped the writer in the middle of the public square, Tuesday noon, and told how he had frequently stood in corner stores in those sections and heard white insurance agents tell how they robbed poor ignorant members of the race who told them to "put it down in the book" and asked for no receipts when they made their payments—trusting to the honesty (?) of the agents or collectors only to be robbed too often. The friend asked us if our people did not have some organization that would take an interest in this matter and help to stop these and other rascals from robbing a poor people that can least afford to be so mistreated. Of course we said nothing to our friend about some of our own socialled business, professional and other men (?) who are "exploiting" (polite word for robbing) these self same poor, ignorant and hard-working members of the race. Strange, but in all this big city with its boasted forty thousand "Negroes", there does not seem to be one—man, woman or organization of any kind, and this includes our ministers and churches—that seems to care a rap what becomes of the thousands of our poor, unprotected, hard-working ignorant but well-meaning and decent people of Cleveland. How they are daily taken advantage of by black and white thieves, posing as agents, ministers, lodge and other organization promoters, etc., etc., would require space only afforded in a paper much larger than "The Old Reliable" Gazette to tell. "SIDESTEPS" THE ISSUE! The U. S. supreme court on Monday "sidestepped" a decision on the internal practice, of fool-prejudiced white persons of the District of Columbia, of agreeing to try to bar our people from buying property wherever they please in the district—a constitutional right according to this same court's decision in the Wm. Warley case in 1917. It was THE GEEVUM GIRLS asked to pass upon a case where the owners on a fashionable Washington, D. C., street had decided among themselves not to permit our people to occupy, use, lease or purchase any of the property. The court, in an opinion read by Justice Sanford, declined to pass upon the validity of such arrangements on the ground that the controversy presented no question within its jurisdiction. Thus, according to daily newspaper report, Tuesday, does the highest legal tribunal in the land "sidestep" the issue and, whether intentionally or not, give encouragement to what might be termed Coolidge administration segregation at the capital of the nation. The court dismissed the case, leaving standing a decision of the lower courts at Washington, D. C. which held such agreements were constitutional and valid, a decision apparently in direct conflict with the U. S. Supreme court decision in the Warley case. The validity of the prejudiced covenant, between white property-owners, was attacked by a Washington, D. C. woman who had agreed to purchase from one of the owners before the owner had determined she was of "Negro" blood. She contended it was in violation of the fifth, thirteenth and fourteenth amendments to the U. S. Constitution, but Justice Sanford declared the court could find nothing in any of those amendments to sustain her contention, it is said. Wonderful! isn't it? It would be interesting to read the minority opinion of the court in this case and it ought to be published in the daily press of the country, too. EDITOR-MARTYB. Gen. Petlura, leader of the Ukrainian army during the World War and later recognized by the allies as president of the Ukrainian republic, was assassinated in Paris, Tuesday afternoon, by a Russian Jewish editor, Samuel Schwabzart, who immediately surrendered to the police, declaring that his deed avenged Petlura's wholesale butchery of innocent Jews. He said: "I have avenged hundreds of innocent Jewish women and girls whom he and his soldiers violated in the Ukraine". Like hundreds of other more or less prominent Europeans before the World War, the general had been living in poverty in Paris with his wife and daughter. While it ill-becomes anyone to condone a deed of that kind, even if in large part apparently justified, we cannot help admiring the great self-sacrificing spirit of Samuel Schwazbart, a willing martyr to the cause of his people. We do not recall a similar case furnished by that class or group of people though their loyalty to one another has long been generally recognized. While members of our race at long intervals have given evidence of this same self-sacrificing spirit, we do not recall any of them ever having furnished such a spectacular example as that of this Jewish editor. If there is any one thing, more than another, needed to promote the cause of the Afro-American people in this country it is the self-sacrificing spirit exhibited in a superlative degree by Samuel Schwazbart in Paris on Tuesday of this week. Warley and Cole Indicted Madisonville, Ky. — The Hopkins County Grant in session here, recently, it e turn in session against I. Willis Cells, editor of the Louisville Leader, and Wm. Warey, editor of the Louisville News, charging them with libel, in connection with news and editorials appearing in their two publications, regarding the mob spirit which preceded the trial and conviction of three "Negroes", charged with as on a girl (white) and her companion. "A tempest in a teapot". Flowers-Greb Match. New York City.—"Tiger" Flowers, world's champion middleweight boxer, may meet Harry Greb from whom he wrested the crown, in a return bout in this city about May 28, according to an announcement made by Walk Miller, manager of the champion, after a meeting with Jess McMahon, matchmaker at the New Madison Square Garden. Dett to Be Honored. Oberlin, O.—Nathaniel Dett, head of the music department at Hampon Va. Institute, and one of our foremost musicians and composers, will be honored by Oberlin College, next month, with the degree of Doctor of Music, as a recognition of the achievement and distinction that has come to him in the field of music. THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, O.SATURDAY, MAY 29, 1926. COMPLETE LINE OF FORD PARTS & ACCESSORIES 30x3½ CORD TIRE, $6.95! Battery Recharging, 50 Cents Only THE OHIO AUTO SUPPLY CO. 2548 E. 55TH ST. RAN. 7069 OUR NEW LOCATION—2308 E. 55TH ST. We wish to announce to our friends and patrons that on or about May 15th, we will open at our new location, 2308 E. 55th St., moving from 2286 E. 55th St. "Substantial food, cooked right, served right, priced right." POOL'S QUICK SERVICE LUNCH COUNTER 2308 East 55th Street See us First for all Goods in our Line JOHN S. HALL Prices Reasonable. Satisfaction Guaranteed. JEWELER AND OPTOMETRIST 8188 Central Ave., Cleveland, O. 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"The Elites" lost all four games played in Chicago, late last week and the first of this week. Mr. H. Jenkins of Columbus was the dinner-guest of Capt. and Mrs. Charles E. Frye, Monday evening. The Philathea class will give a musicale at Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Martin's. E. 40th St., Sunday at 4 p.m. The Service Cab Co. was halted, last week, temporarily, pending the issuance of a license to operate by the city. Mesdames Ella White, Flora Byers and Bertha Wingfield attended the recent A. M. E. district conference at Sandusky. Dr. H. L. Wallace's wife went to St. Alexis hospital, Monday, for a minor operation, performed by Dr. Oliver A. Taylor. There is rumor of the early marriage of Atty. Chandler and Miss Elsa Cox, one of our local public-school teachers. Mr. Wm. 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The editor of The Gazette acknowledges the receipt, last week, of an invitation from the trustees of Tuskegee N. and I. institute to attend its forty-fifth anniversary exercises, which began, May 23 and October 2, Dr. Robert M. Nelson principal. Atty, Sculpion A. Jones, of Little Rock, Ark., delivered the annual address. Florence W. Morton, age 8 months, daughter of M. and Mrs. John H. Morton, of 2206 E. 82d St., has worked her magnetic little touch on her "daddy" to such an extent that "Pa" Morton is openly declaring his willingness to "back her against the field". Other proud fathers, and all are naturally and very properly proud of their youngsters, will please take notice and govern themselves accordingly. Tell your friends about the WONDERFUL sale of overalls at The Economy Store, 4309 Woodland Ave. Read their advertisement on page 1 and do not miss this really exceptional opportunity, if you have use for overalls. 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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 communities in this city by restricting white people to white people, and black to black, often duplicating work as most blocks had white and black residents. And, worst of all, an announced in his official capacity that Negroes should not hold office where white people complained. Segregation, then, is a Republic situation and not a Democratic one, it was begun by Republicans, and it is all-embracing exct 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 hold on to by our Republican President. Only last week, a colored girl appeared after having passed, been examination, having having been telegraphed for by the department. The photograph had failed to tell her true color, and they flatly refused to appoint her when she appeared, and they saw her complexion. Commissioner Blair of the internal revenue bureau with thousands of clerks will not appoint a Negro clerk, and his word is law there, as he is the special favorite of Secretary Caldwell and President Coolidge. He halls from North Carolina, the home of the other favorite and leader of the segregation force. Col Sherrill, supervisor 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 display in operation here, where it would not even cost him a single vote and where he has full power and absolutely no opposition. They wonder if he is not a firm believer in segregation, especially since segregation is one of the chief tenets of the Ku Klux Klan, found its "welcome home" in the Republican party, and receives no undemnation from the Republican President. (Special to The Gazette.) (Washington, D. C.—In the postoffice segregation is rampant. The faithful colored civil work under constant humiliation and physical punishment. The department maintains a spacious cafeteria for whites only, where these inferior white clerks can buy appetizing luncheons and chat in comfort while eating, while the colored clerks must bring cold luncheons from home and eat them any place they can. The physical discomfort, disadvantageous as it is, is far less galling to the colored clerks than is the thought of their government taking their taxes, as it takes those of the whites, for the comfort of the latter, and setting them off as though they were poison. The injustice, stings all the more when they reflect that they are far more liable than the whites, and render the government more intelligent and efficient service—the white man of their attainment being able to get far more lucrative employment. The department goes even farther in its solicitude for whives and neglect of colored. It maintains a well-appointed club room with pool tables and other games, comfortable lounges and other equipment for rest, sociability, and recreation, and nothing for these same colored employees. This private club is in the magnificent postoffice building, built and maintained by ALL of the people. In the locker rooms there segregation, and segregation even attempted, and all of the people against the most dependable and faithful employees. Last year the white employees passed around invitations to the white employees, in the very presence of the colored, to attend a reception to the heads of departments, including the postmaster general, in the postoffice building. It announced dancing and a pleasant social evening with the officials for "the postoffice employees," yet not one was delivered to the colored clerks. I hurried a protest to the postmaster general the day before it was to come off, and he ordered the master to leave the office 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 handling of mail. The colored clerks have dared to union which me to regularly and often sends mail and intelligent protests to the postmaster, and often appalls 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 recreation facilities. There is a large number in this huge street, 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 reveals itself on the salary roll and in the caste that barspromotions Here, as elsewhere, the inferior whites cover our superior employees to directive positions, and higher salaries. The whites have a large recreational center in this public building with many fine appointments for rest and amusements. During lunch and dinner hours they repair to this restful retreat for sociability and dance. Last fall, a young Afro-American with a splendid record in his work, felt the injustice of exclusion of our employees so keenly that 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 basis. He was then dismissed when 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 failing to secure any evidence searched him only to discover the pistol. They quickly dropped the arson charge and substituted one for carrying conceal and 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 were suffer, never given a single chance! The decision 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, Q. SATURDAY, MAY 29, 1926. is so well settled upon it, and the complainants cannot bear witness (Special to The gazette) (Special to The Gazette) Washington, D. C.-Segregation in the bureau of engraving and printing has an interesting history involving President Thomas Woodrow Wilson and members of his family, three heroic young colored women who lost their positions as a result of their protest, and the noble wife of Senator Robert La Follette. Shortly after the accession of Mr. Wilson to the White House, a member of his family visited the bureau where she saw white and colored girls who were the perfect harmony oblivious to any right 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 dis c o u r a g e d, 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 to abstent from people. 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 a lt 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 SEGRETE than they are not, to collect, and working stations, and none are ever thought of for promotions 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, and the need for the issuance of an order destroying this iniquitous practice in all of our government departments, for it not only humiliates the best of the government servants but impairs the government service. (Special to The Gazette) Washington, D. C.—The treasury department, according to the President's recent acceptance speech, is now under the ablest financial genius since the days of Alexander Hamilton. It is to be remembered that the great Hamilton came from the West Indies, and in that long sweep of history that the President traversed are the mighty Salmon P. Chase, secretary of the treasury in Lincoln's cabinet, who, in a national extremity such as this country has never known, devised the national banking system which financed the Civil War; and Ohio's master financier, John Sherman. These men never knew what segregation was! The present head of the department of internal revenue, Mr. Blair from North Carolina, has not appointed a colored clerk since his incumbency. While his predecessor, Mr. Daniel Roper, a Democrat from Texas, appointed and promoted several of them. Since the income tax legislation and the numberless new taxes that the recent war necessitated, this is by far the largest demand for the several thousand clerks. Yet Negroes are so scarse there that they can't be noticed. There is the same general complaint here among our clerks and other employees as there is in the other branches of the government—failure to recognize their efficiency when promotions are due; ability to go so far and no farther. The various forms of segregation exist here as well as elsewhere—the restaurants closed or divided along color lines, and special toilet, locker rooms, rest rooms, etc., set off for colored. The toilers 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 and work with no other opportunities in this southern atmosphere, must take the former. They are depressed at the wrong, but economic stress compels endurance of it. By a single stroke of his pen, President Calvin Coolidge can stop every bit of this damnable segregation, just as he can condemn that lawless organization the Ku Klux Klan. COOLIDGE'S SEGREGATION Washington, D. C.—We wish to call attention to the fact that in the fight against the segregation of our government employees, the Treasury Department will most likely be the center of attack, for segregation in several of its bureaus has been most pronounced. This is particularly true of the office of the register of the treasury and the internal revenue bureau. In the former, bearer board walls were maintained until recently. In the latter there have been two cases of discrimination on account of color brought to public view. The words, announcing the election of President Coolidge, were hardly 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 campaign. Investigation of Burcus An investigation of the executive department of 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 employee 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. Box 2. Separate Lunch Room Post Office Department—a segregated lunch room. Additional Locals Mrs. Jesse Chancellor, E. 86th St., ill with rheumatism, is better. Mrs. Ora Jones, of Cedar Ave., ill for several weeks, is convalescing rapidly. The infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Williams, of Arthur Ave., is very ill. Mrs. Rebecca Skinner Walker, of Pine Ave., seriously ill for some time, is slightly improved. Mrs. Ida B. Wells and daughter, Miss Gladys, are well pleased with their present home in Los Angeles, Cal. Miss Emma Williams, E. 79th St., who has been very ill at Lakeside hospital, is expected out in a few days. Miss Flora Corom, of Pine Ave., recently received an appointment for social service at the Playhouse Settlement. Mrs. Sarah Gaines, of Cedar Ave., who sustained a compound fracture of a limb, several weeks ago, is doing nicely at city hospital. Mrs. Rachel Walker Turner and her brother and sister-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. D. H. Walker, of Cedar Ave., have moved into Mrs. Turner's home in E. $44th St. The Mozart Glee club sang to a packed house Sunday, at St. Paul's A. M. E. church, Columbus. The audience was so pleased with their singing that before the club left the church they had signed up for two return concerts. The state supreme court, after a rehearing, has decided to review the appeal of David Atkins, who is under a death sentence for the murder (provoked) of a Baldwin Ohio railroad detective, near Canfield, the court, a few weeks ago, refused to review the case, thereby affirming his sentence. OHIO'S ANTI-LYNCHING LAW LEADS THE COUNTRY IN EFFECTIVE LEGISLATION Against The Mob and Lynch-Murder—The Work of a Member of The Race—Also His Ohio Civil Rights Law 6278. "Mob" and "lynching" defined. 6279. "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 a mob must constitute a "lynching" within the meaning of this chapter. (93 v. 162.1.) 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. 1) 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. 1) 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 involved thereof is serious, a sum not exceeding one thousand dollars; or, if such injury result in permanent disability to earn a livelihood by manual labor, a sum not to exceed five thousand dollars. (93 v. 162 5.) Section 1282. The legal representative of a person dying from injuries received from lynching by a mob, may recover of the county in which such injury occurred, a sum not to exceed five thousand dollars damages for such unlawful killing. Such sum shall be applied to the maintenance of the family and education of the minor children of such person so lynched, if any survive him, until such children are of legal age, and then be distributed to the survivors, share and share alike, the widow receiving an amount equal to a child's share. If there be no widow or minor children surviving such decedent, such sum shall be distributed to the parents of the person receiving to the laws of the distribution of the personality of an intestate. Such sum so recovered shall not be a part of the estate of such person so lynched, nor be subject to any of his liabilities. (93 v 162 6.) Section 6283. A person suffering death or injury from a mob attempting to lynch another person shall come within the provisions of this chapter. He or his legal representatives shall have a like right of action as one purposely injured or killed by such a mob. (93 v 162 6.) Section 6284. Action for the recoveries provided for in this chapter must be commenced, within two years from the date of such lynching, in any court having original jurisdiction of an action for damages for malicious assault. (93 v. 162 7.) Section 6285. An order to the commissioners of a county, against which such recovery is had, to include it with the costs of action, in the next succeeding tax levy for such county, shall be a part of the judgment in every such case. (93 v. 162 8.) Section 6282. 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 arrest, may recover the property of a judgment and against it in favor of the legal representatives of a person killed or seriously injured by a mob from any of the persons composing such mob. A person present, with hostile intent, at such lynching shall be deemed a member of the mob and be liable to such action. (93 v. 162 10.) Section 6288. If a mob carries a prisoner into another county, or comes from another county to commit violence on a prisoner brought 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: 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 cage- gence on the part of officials of such unless there was contributory negi- imprisoned not less than thirty days county in failing to protect such prisoner or disperse such mob. (93 v. 163 11.) Section 6289. This chapter shall not relieve a person concerned in such lynching from prosecution for homicide or assault for engaging therein. (93 v. 163 12.) OUR OHIO CIVIL RIGHTS LAW Upon the request or many readers of The Gazette we print below the text of the Hon. Harry C. Smith's Ohio Civil Rights law which the board had enacted while a member of the 71st General Assembly, in 1894: The General Code of Ohio: Sec. 12940. Whoever, being the proprietor or his employee, keeper or manager of an inn, restaurant, eating house, barber-shop, public conveyance by land or water, theater or other entertainment, accommodation and amusement, denied permission except for reasons applicable alike to all citizens and regardless of race or color, the full enjoyment of the accommodations, advantages, facilities or privileges thereof, shall be fined not less than fifty dollars nor more than five hundred dollars, or more than ninety days, or both. Sec. 12941. Whoever violates the holding action shall also pay not less than fifty dollars or more than five hundred dollars, or more than ten thousand 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 outcry for the passage of the Featy bill, a few years ago, the Akron Court editorial to which the editor of The Gazette replied, calling its attention to the 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 G. Cotter, Cleveland. Eduardo, the Gigante, Cleveland, O. The Beacon-Journal, inviting you letter in the Beacon-Journal of this city. I venture to send you, under a separate cover, the Ohio Law Repo- rator of Feb. 3, last, containing the opinion of the Court of Appeals in the Puritan Lunch Co. vs. Leonard H. Forman, decided in Akron, last fall, in which a judgment for ($500) five hundred dollars was sustained. If the Beacon-Journal had known what was going on in its own town, it would have been court cases for criticism editorially. THE LAW OF OHIO IS UNDER NO RE- PROACH, nor our courts and juries in administering it. Not a word was said by the Beacon-Journal when the Forman case was reviewed. Mrs. Claude Palmer, E. 97th St. seriously burned about the face and neck, recently, in a gas explosion, is much improved. She was alone in the house with her infant daughter at the time. Five members of the Gilpin Players were highly applauded for a play, Tuesday, before delegates to the annual convention of the National Conference of Social Workers. Organized five years ago at Playhouse Settlement, the Gilpin Players now nummany High school and other places have presented forty-six productions. Mrs. Martin Heydemann is director. MARVEL OF MODERN SURGERY ORGAN REMOVED FROM NECK OF WOMAN PATIENTS IMPROVE VERY RAPIDLY Child Had Become Mentally Deficient Because of Depression—Now Can Speak Intelligently Brooklyn, N. Y.—Another marvel of modern surgery was performed in St. Mary's Hospital, with every indication of success. By an operation known as thyroidectomy the extreme mental activity of a woman was lessened and the backward mind of a child was brought closer to the normal. The operation itself was comparatively simple. Briefly told, it consisted of removing part of a goiter in the threat of the abnormal woman and inserting it in the abdominal wall of the subnormal child. The improvement in both cases was marked. The woman, who was about 22 years old, came from a well to do family in Brooklyn. She had been suffering for some time from the swelling of the throat known colloquially as goiter. By physicians this is attributed to an enlargement of the thyroid gland just under the law. This gland is at present so doctors themselves say, but imperfectly comprehended by physicians, but they know enough of its functions to realize that it is one of the most remarkable organs in the body. It is believed not only to govern the growth but to determine the mental and nervous development. Because of the excessive size of the patient's thyroid gland, which is known technically as hyperthyroidism, the woman was in a highly sensitive state. She was neurotic, subject to fits of hysteria, and was agitated by the slightest disturbance. Consequently she decided to go to St. Mary's hospital, which had been particularly successful in the reduction of thyroidal affections. When she went there the chief operating surgeon decided that he had an opportunity not only of relieving the woman but of benefitting the little boy in whom he was interested. The youngster, who was 6 years old was the son of a prominent man in Virginia. He suffered from lack of secretions from the thyroid gland, which caused him to be mentally defective. His speech was limited and so indistinct as to be unintelligible, and though he apparently recognized his toys when they were held up before him, he could not name them. His parents were desirous of having the handicap removed, but though the operating surgeon had promised assistance, he had found only diseased thyroids among his patients until the woman applied at the hospital. Then he notified the lad's father, who immediately brought his son here. An operation was decided upon by the doctors at St. Mary's eight hours after the boy's arrival, which made his subsequent good showing all the more striking. He and the woman were placed or adjoining operating tables, with three surgeons in attendance and other physicians at the hospital watching the unique proceeding. The woman was given an injection of cocaine in her neck, while the child was put under a general anaesthetic, ether being administered. One lobe of the woman's thyroid gland was then taken out and transplanted to the boy, being placed between the peritoneum, a membrane lining the abdominal cavity and the fascia, a connective tissue covering the vital organs. The operation was over in an hour and a half. The woman who had been conscious and talked freely to the doctors during the operation without feeling the slightest pain recovered quickly. The strain on her mind was greatly diminished, and though not rested to normal sensibility at once, physicians at the hospital felt when she was discharged it was only a question of time before her temperament would be brought to "the happy medium." Their chief interest centered in the transformation so far wrought in the child. He came out of the effects of the ether without trouble and began to grow in intelligence. At the end of 15 days' observation his clear utterance was in sharp contrast to his mumbling previously, and he could pronounce such difficult words for a youngster as "automobile" and "choocho train." As he left to return to Virginia-with his father he delighted the nurses by speaking the words they taught him. "Good-by, sweetheart." Operations of a kindred nature have been performed a few times before, but never with such favorable results so far as known. The practice has been to insert the grafted thyroid into the tibia, or shin bone, on the theory that it would take best there.