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U.S. SENATOR WILLIS AND FESS FOR COL. FISH'S MONUMENT BILL Their Prompt and Frank Replies to "The Old Reliable's" Letter Asking That They Support and Vote for It—Now Write Senator Wadsworth—Willis and the Virgin Islands Letter to Senators Willis and Fess. Dear Sir;—Although I think it unnecessary, I wish to ask you to support and vote for the Fish monument bill now pending in the senate. It authorizes the erection of a monument in France to commemorate the relat service of certain units of the 93rd Division (Provisional), composed of the old Fifteenth N. Y. regiment, the old Eighth N. III. regiment, the First Separate battalion of Washington, D. C.; the First Separate company of Mass., and the Ninth Separate battalion of Ohio. These units were brigaded with the French soldiers and highly honored by the French government for exceptionally fine service. I am sure Col. Hamilton Fish, a member of the lower house of Congress, from New York City, will gladly furnish you with any additional information you may desire relative to the units mentioned and the merits of his bill. The Colonel was an officer in the N. Y. regiment and an excellent one, too. Feeling sure that you regard the bill, or will do so, with favor and that you will willingly accede to the request made herein, to support and vote for it, I am Committee on Territories and Insular Possessions. The majority of the Committee seem to feel that they do not have sufficient information to warrant action and are desirous of further investigation before acting on the bill. I personally feel that we have enough information at hand to enable us to decide that these people are entitled to something better than what is tantamount to an automatic Government. Assuring you of my appreciation of your friendly attitude, I am very truly yours. FRANK B. WILLIS. Wadsworth Has Fish Monument Bill. (Special to The Gazette) Washington, D. C.—Congressman Hamilton Fish's bill, providing for a monument to our soldiers brigaded with the French army in the World War, has been favorably reported by the Senate committee and is now in the hands of the steering committee of the Senate. Wadsworth of New York is chairman. Our editors and citizens generally are urged by Congressman Fish to make their wishes known to Senator Wadsworth and his committee at once. HARRY C. SMITH. P. S.—My remembrance is that Col Fish's monument bill is technically known as House Resolution, No 9694. UNITED STATES SENATE Washington, D. C., June 1, 1926. Hon. Harry C. Smith, Editor Gazette, Cleveland, Ohio. Dear Mr. Smith: — I have your letter relative to the Fish Monument bill. As you have correctly guessed, it was unnecessary for you to call my attention to it, because I am actively supporting the measure. I shall do Senator Frank B. Willis. everything I can honorably to secure its enactment. In my judgment, there is no good reason why anybody should oppose this recognition of the meritorious service of brave men. Very truly yours, FRANK B. WILLIS. UNITED STATES SENATE Washington, D. C., June 1, 1926. Hon. Harry C. Smith, Editor Gazette, Clemson, Alabama. My dear Mr. Smith.—Replying to your letter of the twenty-eighth touching the proposal to erect a monument in France in honor of the colored soldiers of the 93rd Division. I am writing to state that if this proposal is reported from the committee to the Senate, I shall be very glad. Oversee it not only consideration, but my support. It would appear to me that the proposal is one about which there should be little hesitancy on the part of Congress. Yours very truly, SIMEON D. FESS. Strong for the Virgin Islands, Too, UNITED STATES SENATE Washington, D. C. June 4, 1926. Hon. Harry C. Smith, Editor Gazette, Cleveland, Ohio. Dear Harry: I write you to express my gratitude for your kindness in giving me such excellent publicity as appears in the issue of The Gazette or Saturday, June 5th, 1926. It is a fact that I have done all I possibly could and will continue to do all I can to secure legislation to better conditions in the Virgin Islands. I was successful in securing favorable report from the Committee on Immigration on the bill to extend citizenship to the Virgin Islanders. The Civil Government bill, providing a different form of Government for the Islanders, is still pending in the Committee on Territories and Insular Possessions. The majority of the Committee seem to feel that they do not have sufficient information to warrant action and are desirous of further investigation before acting on the bill. I, personally, feel that we have enough information at hand to enable us to decide that these people are entitled to something better than what is tantamount to an autonomic Government. Assuring me of my appreciation of your friendly attitude, I am Very truly yours. Wadsworth Has Fish Monument Bill (Special to The Gazette) Washington, D. C. — Congressman Hamilton Fish's hill, providing for a monumnet our soldiers brigaded with the French army in the World War, has been favorably reported by the Senate committee and is now in the hands of the steering committee of the U. S. Senate, of which Senator Wadsworth of New York is chairman. Our editors and citizens generally are urged by Congressman Fish to make their wishes known to Sen. Wadsworth and his committee at once. SEGREGATION DEFEATS THE SOUTH! The National Conference of Social Workers Turns Down Chattanooga Because of Its Color-Line. It has finally leaked out that the fifty-third annual convention of the National Conference of Social Workers, which closed, recently, in this city, dealt prejudice a severe blow and blasted the hopes of the South for a convention of this organization as long as our delegates are not guaranteed the same privileges and accommodations accorded others. Thus Chattanooga, although it made a persistent demand for the convention, was forced to yield to the demands of the delegates of the Conference of Social Workers, one of the most democratic organizations, has always accorded our delegates just and fair consideration. Once the executive committee threatened to call off the conference when they faced New Orleans' attempt to bar Afro-Americans from the meetings less than two weeks before the delegates were to arrive. Eugene Kinckle Jones, executive secretary of the National Urban league, is a member of the executive committee. In response Jesse O. Thomas, Forrester B. Washington, George E. Haynes, and Charles S. Johnson are members of division committees. Our speakers appear on the program each year. The recent conference heard Charles S. Johnson, editor of "Opportunity," deliver one of the most exhaustive papers of the whole conference, on the subject, "Substitution of Afro-American Labor for European Immigrant Labor"; Lawrence A. Oxley, director of welfare work; Forrester B. Hill, and E. Franklin Frazier, Seventy-five Afro-American delegates attended. "The reactions of employers to Afro-American labor", said Mr. Johnson, "while still contradictory has a secure balance in favor of their use. One closely scientific comparison of their skill in the iron and steel industry which might be cited reveals, according to earnings per hour on piece work, 15 processes, while with their expertise Afro-Americans, 12 processes, in which the latter excel white workers, and 18 processes in which their abilities are the same. They are becoming adjusted to city life and have even lengthened their life span by 5 years since moving north." PRESBYTERIANS WALK OUT OF EMERSON HOTEL. Baltimore, Md.-Members of the committee on christian education of the Presbyterian General Assembly, refused to remain at a luncheon meeting, last week Monday, when C. A. Booker, its Afro-American member, was refused service at the Emerson hotel. Mr. Booker, who is a member of the Street Presbyterian church, Washington, D. C., stated that the attitude of the committee was firm, and altho they paid for the luncheon, every member refused to eat it, and Harold McAfee Robinson, the secretary, told the management that they would withdraw rather than submit to ti. Dies at Age of 126 Los Angeles, Cal.—Eliza Allen, who was middle-aged, on a plantation in Kentucky before the war of the rebellion, died here, June 7, at her daughter's. According to the newspaper thealmist she born 126 years ago near Louisville, Ky. "MY OBSERVATIONS." By Rev. Horace C. Bailey, D. D. @ On my return from Florida, two weeks ago, I found among my mail an invitation from the faculty and We ought to dress sanely and modestly. Why wear pants with big legs and have little heads? The style of our young men's dress is foolish and silly, they are becoming effeminate and one leg of their trousers is almost as big as the width of a woman's dress. Our young women are wearing beards and hair—short and narrow skirts—skirts too short and too narrow to sit down comfortably. Our group needs training for service. I observe, having been in public life for forty years or more, that our great lack is education. Our pulpits need it, S. S. teachers need it as well as our laity in general. Let us not deceive ourselves into thinking that God is going to entrust us with the responsibility of leadership without preparation. We have a hundred-bound basket to carry if he were not physically able; no I would place that upon my stronger son. We are as a rule mentally, financially and morally weaker than the other SINGLE COPY FIVE CENTS FOR THE RACE IS THIS OHIO "BOY" AT THE NATIONAL CAPITAL. Writing on "Race Discrimination in the District of Columbia" the Howard University Professor Pays Deserved Tribute to Neval. Washington, D. C.—It is vitally important that the race should keep its eye on the national legislature especially to forend unfair action. We have very little hope for affirmative action in our behalf but in constant dread of hostile enactment. The National association of the unemployed and the only effective organization in the field of political and civil rights. The headquarters are in New York City but the real focus is the national capital. The local organization for this city has been fortunate during the past ten years in having at its head men of the highest consecration and devotion recently retired because of age, was and is one of the most outspoken apostles for race equality with the "i" dotted and the "t" crossed. He served as the head of the local branch for many years and has been as effective as any other in combating race prejudice and discrimination at the national capital. He defended this cause without a reward or compensation. Indeed, he would have spurred remuneration for service rendered for human success by a younger man, Neval H. Thomas, who is filled with a double measure of his spirit. Mr. Thomas is upright and down straight on all matters of political and civil rights of his race and is as uncompromising as the local branch of the N. A. A. C. P. he keeps a hawk eye upon congressional action. He has acquired an infallible instinct in detecting racial prejudice and discrimination and never fails to hit it and to hit it hard! He is a school-teacher and draws his stipend from the federal government and yet he never fails to defend wrong doer with such unanimous table courage that even the legislators whom he criticises are compelled to commend his courage and the rightness of his position. When the rest of us were restrained by prudence and caution, he demanded IN UNION IN STRENGTH COPY FIVE CENTS MAS! LIVE WIRE S OHIO "BOY" AT THE CAPITAL. nation in the District of d University Professor Tribute to Neval. equality of provision in the public schools which, largely as result of his insistence, has become the accepted policy of those in charge of the educational machinery of the national capital. Sports are of a most democratic nature. They are more democratic than the church or university, and are less susceptible at the Washington ball-park than any other public institution in the city. When the monster, prejudice, threatened to raise its head even in the sports, it was Neval H. Thomas who checked it in its incipiency and kept the sports of the national capital democratic. He appealed to the President of the United States not to sign the separate bathing-beach bus, thus writing into law race discrimination. Although his protest was not effective, it at least called the attention of the Afro-Americans and the nation to the grave danger of nominated in the strong as local prejudice is so strong that prevent identity of public rights and facilities, it is a wise policy to defer only as far as we must to the discriminatory be crystallized into law. When New Yorkers are first to head the local association many felt that he was perhaps outspoken and incautious for safe leadership even of an aggressive organization, but experience easily proves that when one is in the right he can hardly be over insistent. Even those who are opposed to one's position will respect and admire uncompromising courage and heart, their heart of hearts that his course is just and right. It requires two types of temperament to effect reform. John Brown and Abraham Lincoln were the complements of each other; John Brown, with wreckless courage and sacrifice to blast away at the evil foundation; and Abraham Lincoln for safe, constructive endeavor. The militant organization of the race, today, must discriminate and prejudice outcompromise. Other types of temperament will the safe and sane constructive work. Neval H. Thomas has consecrated himself to the cause of human rights as a sacred religion. He enters the conflict as upon a holy war. He gives not only his services but himself with complete detachment without fear of consequences or hope of reward. He devotes every moment of his life, outside of his civic duties, to the war and his race. During all of his career he has never received or expected one cent remuneration for his services. You can not buy devotion with dollars any more than you can purchase the gift of God with money. He spurs material compensation as filthy lucre proffered as reward for the performance of duty due to God. He would no more think of accepting a salary for this service any more than a priest. He would accuse him of militarism. Our unpopular, militant organization is fortunate indeed in having in the key position at the national capital a man of such militant spirit at such a time as this. OUR CANDIDATE! (Special to The Gazette) Columbus, O., June 9.—Two more formally entered the contest for the Republican gubernatorial nomination, today, making eleven starters. Hon. Harry C. Smith of Cleveland, editor and publisher of The Gazette, a newspaper devoted to the interests of his people, and Joseph B. Sieber, Akron K. K. K. attorney, filed their declarations, today. There is every certainty that the total number of candidates for the Republican nomination will reach twelve. State Treasurer Harry S. Day, who is conducting a campaign for the nomination, has not filed. And there may be others before filing time expires Friday midnight. Editor Smith was a member of the Ohio Assembly in 1894, 5, 6, 7 and 1900 and 1901, six years. He is the father of Ohio's Civil Rights and Anti-Lynching laws. There are more than two hundred thousand Afro-American voters (male and female) in Ohio. Less than that number, by more than fifty thousand, will nominate Mr. Smith, this time, because of the exceptionally large number of gubernatorial candidates in the field. A great opportunity for Ohio Afro-Americans. ```markdown ``` THAT MUST BE SISTER NOW! ...I WONDER WHERE SHE'S BEEN! R-R-R-R! R-R-R-RING! WHERE ON EARTH HAVE YOU BEEN ALL DAY SIS? WHY IVE BEEN OUT MARKETING AT THE GOVERNMENT FOOD SALES! AND OH! SUCH BARGAINS! SAVED 24 ON A CAN OF BEANS AND A NICKLE ON A CAN OF MEAT! FINE, SIS! BUT YOU MUST BE TIRED AFTER BEING AT IT ALL DAY! NOT A BIT! -- TAXICABS NEVER TIRE ME THE LEAST BIT! One Year ..... $2.90 Six Months ..... 1.90 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 826 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-TEST AND BEST in the country. 10,000,000 Afro-Americans. 250,000 in Ohio. 40,000 in Cleveland. SATURDAY, JUNE 12, 1926. Those Presbyterians at Baltimore, Md., last week Monday, who refused to permit the Afro-American member of their committee on christian education to be insulted and humiliated in a hotel, have given us an exhibition of real christianity which is as refreshing as it is unusual. More power to their kind. One of our mothers, who recently visited a local public school attended by her four children, was insulted in the corridor of the school by a fool-exhibit made by pupils "showing a slave scene." That mother asked Supt. R. G. Jones of our local public schools whether the aim of the school was to teach humiliation. We do not believe the superintendent knew of the exhibit or would permit such a disgusting thing to be done in any of our local public schools. The teacher responsible for that exhibit should be disciplined immediately. Here is a job for our local Federation of Women's clubs. U. S. Senator McKinley's recent defeat in Illinois, Pepper's in Pennsylvania, Standfield's in Oregon, Cummins' in Iowa this week, all "administration senators," and the fact that the Republicans of Indiana renominated U. S. Senators Watson and Robinson, K. K. K. sympathizers and "administration senators" also on a platform that contained several direct slaps at "Coolidge policies," will give the silent President with so pronounced a segregation-leaning something to think about, these days. A combination of the intelligent, independent Afro-American vote and that of the same class of farmers and farmer - sympathizers could easily defeat President Coolidge at the next national election, and stranger things have happened. James Brown, age 24, 2192 E 39th St., was dying in Charity hospital, last week Wednesday, after he had been shot four times in the abdomen during a dice game at his home. Police, called to the place by neighbors who reported shots were being fired, found Brown on the floor. They say he was shot during an argument over $3, in a crap game. At Charity hospital, where officers took him, Brown was said to have no chance to recover. Tell your minister, this, too. Edward Reeves, age 30, 3737 Scovill Ave., was sentenced to life imprisonment in the state penitentiary by Judge McMahon, late last week Friday, twelve days after he is said to have fatally wounded Calloway Qualls, who lived at the same address, in a fight following a dice game. Some old story. If it isn't "hootch" or a woman, it is "dope" and gambling. Only six killed, last week, in the third police precinct—the Woodland-Scovill-Central Ave. district. Tell your minister, please. HOWARD'S NEW PRESIDENT. The board of trustees of Howard University, Washington, D. C., is to be congratulated and thanked for the courage, good judgment and wisdom evidenced in the selection and election of Bishop John A. Gregg to the presidency of the institution. He will be Howard's first Afro-American executive and that fact alone will make it our first institution of higher education in this country and the world. Now there will be pride in Howard University, among Afro-Americans generally, such as has never before existed or could have existed with other than a member of the race at its head. It is now our national university and we should and undoubtedly will make it "blossom as a rose" by an exceptional support and loyalty. Bishop Gregg's election was unanimous. "That is just as it should have been because he is entirely worthy and capable. He is a graduate of the University of Kansas, a bishop of the great A. M. E. Church, has served successfully as president of Edward Waters college in Florida and as president of Wilberforce University, this state, and is admittedly a strong man, just THE GEEVUM GIRLS the man for the presidency of Howard University. We felicitate the board of trustees, the University, President-elect Gregg and our people generally. BUCKEYE GRADUATES At The Nation's Capital—Seven Girls From the School of Nursing, Freedman's Hospital. Washington, D. C.—Seven of our girls were among this year's graduates of Freedman's Hospital School of Nursing, this city. Evelyn Fuller, Majorie Forte and Amalia Moarman of Cleveland, Frances Gay and Elizabeth Helvey of Cincinnati, Florence Hill of Columbus and Rheva Speaks of Toledo. The last named not only on the Ohio but also received scholarship to Western Reserve university (Cleveland, Ohio), for further training. Miss Forte was president of the class. The graduation exercises were held, June 1, in Rankin Memorial chapel of Howard university. Dr. W. A. Warfield, president of the university, made impressive by the addresses of Major Julia C. Stimson and Dr. Durkee, president of the university. Another Ohioan, "a Cleveland boy", was among the graduates from the University, this week. Charles W. C. Williams, son of Prof. Edward C. Williams, also a native Clevelander and librarian of Howard is the author of a graduate course in W. Chestnut, Esq. of Cleveland, the noted author. The lad has a splendid record in the University. PETER SALEM DAY CALL. Honor to Our Pioneers of American Independence on Sesquicentennial Urged for June 17th—Demand Enforcement—Sign Up, Says Call. Afro-Americans, Sesquicentennial Greetings: "Peter Salem, A Soldier of the Revolution Concord, Bunker Hill, Samtogon" is cut in a grave monument, done by Framingham, Mass. "Peter Salem, Negro Soldier of the American Revolution," is inscribed by Leicester, Mass., to mark where his domicile stood. In the archives of Massachusetts is the original manuscript of a petition addressed to "The Honorable General Court of the Massachusetts Bay" by the principal officers at the court, and to the HILL for acquittal of the bravery and soldierly ability of Salem Poor Afro-American A federal commission appointed by the President, meeting in the White House, May 12, 1926, set apart June 28 to July 5, 1926, as "American Independence Week" to be observed throughout the country to mark the sesquicentennial of the Declaration of Independence," etc., with the President of the United States as honorary chairman. Bunker Hill, June 17, 1775, was the first regular battle of the American revolution for independence, one year ahead, opening the way for it. The first blood shed was that of an Afro-American, Crispus Attucks, at the Battle of York. The words of John Adams were graven by Massachusetts on his monument: "On that night the foundation of American Independence was laid." With our race furnishing founders and pioneer soldiers of American independence before the declaration and soldiers for its success and defense as well as for the nation's rescue from disruption and for its honour ever since, is Colored America to fail to recognize the American republic of these facts, and to demand that this sesquicentennial observance mark at least the beginning of the end of present conditions whereby this same race of Attucks and Salem alone are denied the declaration's tenets of equality and rights of life, liberty, pursuit of happiness, and voice in government? If U.S. Army marches star for July 17th an agitation drive, a Declaration of Independence Sesquicentennial Drive, for enforcement of it for all, Arrange "Peter Salem Day" mass meetings by Declaration of Independence Leagues or Committees or Equal Rights Leagues, or Declaration Sub-committees of any fraternity, civic, or literary body, or church, against federal segregation. Make it signing day. Also send resolutions to President. Send 'six cents in stamps to The League, 9 Cornhill, Boston, Mass., for leaflet of historical revolutionary data. NATIONAL EQUAL RIGHTS LEAGUE. America's Leading Authority. Brooklyn, N. Y. — Commenting upon the thirteenth volume of William Stanley Braithwaite's annual Anthology, the Brooklyn Dally Eagle says: "There comes to hand a volume like the Anthology of Magazine Verse for 1925, by William Stanley Braithwaite, and the wonder grows that so much fine poetry can be produced in a land which we of the better minds have agreed has so completely gone to the radio and flivver dogs. All the more, therefore, is it refrescing to turn the pages of this volume and Frequently read, with a catch at the throat, what is authentic and beautiful poetry." Mr. Braithwaite, who happens to be an Afro-American, is the most distinguished authority on poetry in America. THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, O. SATURDAY, JUNE 12, 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. 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Institute.—Mesdames Alberta Masonson, Lucy Carter, Florence Mason and Mabel Christian were Flushing visitors, Sunday.—Mrs. Brother were there, recently.—A birthday supper was given; at Simpson chapel, Friday evening.—Miss Thelma Meadows of Wheeling is visiting her mother, Mrs. Myrtle Johnson.—St. James Glee club gave a very successful entertainment at Germano, the 29th. The ladies of Eastern Star lodge were invited to a supper in honor of Mrs W. H. Lucas, Friday evening.—The Brotherhood exercises, Sunday evening, honored the high school graduates. Atty. E. S. McNamee was the speaker. ROXABELLL. — Miss Geraldine Payne is working in Frankfort. — Mrs. Mary Williams has returned from Columbus. — Mr. Jim Ash, daughter and granddaughter of Columbus visited his mother. — Mr. Leen Pratt and Miss Mary Haney were married, Saturday. — Mr. Oatten Cousins is the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Tom Valentine. Do not call it for a copy, because it is valuable. Gave every week, and tell your friends to take it, too, and keep up to date. At Sunday morning's service, Rev. J. J. Burr notified the congregation of the Second Baptist church that he was going to resign, as pastor, but would give plenty of time to select a good successor. It was a surprise and caused some to weep. All are sorry to have him leave. He has made many friends among both races. There are two Baptist churches here now but there was only one of them. He is pressing nicely under the able leadership of Supt. David Washington. Class, No. 4, will have a rally, Sunday, at 2 p. m. The proceeds will be used to paint the church. The D. M. society is doing excellent work under the leadership of its president, Rebecca Wilson. The people are still talking about the excellent program rendered in Williams Grove, Sunday week. HILLSBORO. — Kenneth Warner in Columbus, with his mother, Columbus, with his mother. Farley "Means Business!" New York City—In a statement, June 4, James A. Farley, chairman of the New York state athletic commission, and the commission's committee that Tex Rickard's license be revoked if the promoter attempts to evade the commission's edict requiring a Wills-Dempsey fight by taking a Dempsey-Tunney bout to New Jersey. Of course, Tex is no fool who has such a disdain any such crazy thing. Only the prejudiced N. Y. sport-writer liars talk such fool-talk and dream such a crazy dream. Jack Johnson's Alibi. Kansas City, Mo.—Jack Johnson, former heavyweight boxing champion of the world, passed through here, last week Tuesday night, on his way to Chicago to consult a specialist about an abdominal swelling which, according to him, resulted from a low blow in his fight with Bob Lawson at Juarez, Mexico, May 30. Jack was focured near the end of the fight and clamped a foul but the claim was disregarded by the referee and the club physician. Lawson was awarded a technical knockout when Johnson failed to respond to the bell at the start of the eighth round. Tex Rickard Threatened. New York City.—If Jack Dempsey and Harry Wills are prevented from fighting in New York state by "political or other interference" the Rev. R. L. Bray, John Williams and Highdon Richarden heard the K. P. annual sermon in Greenfield, Sunday afternoon.—Mr. and Mrs. Walter Johnson are in Dayton for an extended visit.—Jas. Blanton attended the funeral of a cousin, Mrs. Arthur Hudson, in Xenia, Saturday. —Mrs. Mildred Waters and son, Alfred, visited in Dayton, Saturday. —Bryton Higgins and Pearl Zimmerman of Columbus visited Mr. John West, Sunday afternoon. —Mr. and Mrs. A. Hollow and famished with his family, Rev. E. L. Blake, pastor of the A. M. E. church, preached his farewell semen, Sunday night. After he graduates from Wilberforce he will go East to take a charge. Rev. Blake has made many friends here who regret greatly to see him leave but wish him well. —Rev. A. P. Mayle, pastor, held quarterly meeting, Sunday afternoon, at Wesleyan church. —Roy Green and Arthur Burns are employed at a Wisconsin summer resort. —Mr. and Mrs. H. W. Rose, two grandchildren and a friend, Mrs. J. O. Young, pastor of the Sunday. —Mr. and Mrs. Frank Johnson, Mrs. Mildred Waters and son, Albert, Mr. and Mrs. Ol. Young were entertained at an elaborate family dinner, at the latter's home, given by their brother. MANSFIELD.—Mr. Wm. Thurman of Columbus visited his wife, Mrs. Cora Thurman, Sunday.—Mrs. Pearl Cobb visited her mother, Mrs. Hattie Banks, last week.—Mrs. Joe Ammons is the mother of a fine baby girl, named Josephine. Rev. Wm. Cora Thurman of Cleveland was week-end guest and Mrs. Alex Luckey.—Mr. Thomas Weaver, of Massillon; was Mrs. E. Hawkins' guest. Sunday.—Mr. Jas. Grace was called to Mobile. Ala. by his father's serious illness. Mrs. Wm. Bell and Jane McGee have returned from Toledo. The former's daughter is Better.—A great day at the A. M. e Church. Sunday. Morning service conducted. Rev. Will be barbed-tight at W. H. Cash$.—Mr. and Mrs. Steven Perry spent Sunday in Addison.—Capt. Walter S. Thomas is suffering from an injured foot.—Rev. and Mrs. Scott of Oberlin were entertained at Miss Beaumont's. Sunday.—Rev. D. D. Erwin preached a fine sermon at Sandusky. Sunday.—Mrs. B. F. Patterson is sick.—Rev. Will be sandusky. in Sandusky.—Rev. Scott preached at the mission. Sunday. Mrs. Fred Alexander has returned from a pleasant visit in Ashtabula and Cleveland.—Tom Thumb wedding soon at Mt. Calvary church. The Lord's supper was observed at the A. M. e church. Sunday evening, and will be repeated the first Sunday in each month.—Rev. Will be at the A. M. e Church. Sunday. Prairie services. at Mt. Calvary church. Wednesday night, and at the A. M. e Church. Thursday night. Walker law "should be tossed into the Harlem river and boxed buried in this state forever," said James A. Farley, chairman of the New York state athletic commission, last week Friday. At the same time Farley accused the commission of darmbark if he negotiated to match Gene Tunney, with Dempsey. "I have fostered the cause of Wills ever since I have been a member of the commission because he has entitled to first consideration as an opponent for Dempsey." Farley said. "If there is any tangible reason for objecting to a Dempsey-Wills match I have not heard it. If Tex Rickard attempts to evade the edict of this board by matching Gene Tunney with Dempsey and takes the fight to New Jersey, I will recommend to Rickard the license be revoked and that he be barred from participation in the promotion of boxing in New York state as long as I am a member of the commission. This affair has irritated me to such an extent that I will go the limit to see it through. Of course, any action against Rickard must be taken by the license committee of which Col. John J. Phelan is the chairman, but I think I know where Col. Phelan stands and I think D. Baker Wear, the other one, will no longer will be associated with a game that does not stand for fair play." Farley said. "Contrary to reports, there never has been any official or political opposition to a Dempsey-Wills bout in my experience and I THE NAME TRADE PORO MARK A SYMBOL OF QUALITY Your name defines your character and personality and is a symbol of what you are. "PORO" is the trade-name of very exceptional Hair and Toilet Preparations and a System of Scientific Hair and Beauty Culture used and praised by ever increasing thousands. Mrs. A. M. Turnbo-Malone, Founder of this great business, has put into PORO her character, personality and ability. PORO Products and Treatments are amazingly efficient. Try PORO Products and Treatments dispensed by PORO AGENTS everywhere. 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The new Bedford boxer won seven rounds. Herman had the advantage in one and two were even. Income Over $400 a Day. Dallas, Tex.-Author and poet, farmer, stock raiser, chef and oil magnate are the professions and occupations of Wesley E. Lawrence, A. H. Afro-American citizen extraordinary. Before he reached the age of 40 he had built up an estate of some $70,000 by the power of his hands and the activity of his brain. In the last 140 days his income has increased from $40,000 on oil royalties amounting to about $42,000. This property was left him by his father. Forgot the Color-Line Omaba, Neb. — Forgetting all about the color-line, Joseph and Elias Mattingly, (white), have laid claim to the $100,000 estate left by Henry Manley, who died here two years ago. The two men claim that they are sons of a half-brother of the deceased Afro-American. The real heirs have taken the case to the state supreme court. 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FOR SALE—A Golden Opportunity—two family; five rooms up and same number down. Property in good condition, all conveniences, and in a good neighborhood in the East End. Rentals total $80 per month. Will sell for $8,500. If you want to see the property with a view to purchasing, call Cherry 1259, in the afternoon, and make an appointment to can be car. This is an excellent opportunity to get a good home, or for investment—tell your friends. Do not miss it if you are looking for a home that will help you to pay for it. CLEVELAND Social and Personal Tuskegee, Ala. N. & I. institute graduates, last week, numbered 196. Atty. Chester K. Gillespie will be a candidate for state representative, it is said. Antioch choir will sing the sacred cantata, "The Holy City", by Gaul, June 20 at 7:45 p. m. All invited. Seats free. Miss Luzy Madson has returned to Idlewild, Mich. She visited her brother, George, and sister, Mrs. Leroy Letcher, E. 83d St. Marshall W. Taylor (Major Taylor) former world's bicycling sprint champion, is ill with heart trouble in city hospital, at Worcester, Mass. Prof. Robert Shaw Wilkinson, president of our State College, Orangeburg, S. C., is at the Hollenden tonight (Friday). He leaves for Oberlin in the morning. The editor of The Gazette acknowledges the receipt of Sunday school and B. Y. P. U. literature from the Nat'l Baptist Publishing THE GEEVUM O-O-O-H IS FLYING THE GEEVUM GIRLS *M. KLEINMAN'S 2928 Central Ave. *THE S. & S. DRUG CO. 7325 Central Ave. 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 O. SMITH, Avenue, Cleveland, O. Iceland Cleveland.) Ball 'Phone: Cherry 1259 (Call in the Afternoon.) Board of the Nat'l. Baptist Convention, Nashville, Tenn. Mrs. Willey Patterson Smith of Canton spent Decoration day with her sisters, Mrs. Ella White, Mrs. O. J. Harris and Mrs. Kate Dodge. Mrs. White has been quite ill. The grip. Our Ohio Elks' annual state meet at Canton, this week, was attended by several thousand visitors and hundreds of Elks. J. Finley Wilson, G. E. R., of Washington, D. C., and W. W. Hill of Cincinnati, state president, were the speakers. At a recent meeting of the Cleveland Bar Association the following were appointed members of its memorial committee; Harvey D. Goulder, chairman; James W. Stewart, John C. Hutchinson, Joseph C. Bloch and John P. Green. About the only game the Cleveland Elites won on their western trip which included Chicago, St. Louis and Detroit was an eleven-inning affair, score 8-9, at St. Louis, May 29, 26. The Elites won a game or two at Hooper Field before going on the road. For real quality and reasonable rates go to The Famous Cap Factory, 3229 Central Ave. The latest, prettiest and most stylish straw hats and caps in the city are found there, where you are welcome and always treated the best. Go in and see for yourself. The editor of The Gazette acknowledges the receipt, last week, of an invitation, sent by the trustees, faculties and graduating classes of Howard University, to attend its events of commencement week—June 6-11. The events will take place on the university campus, Washington, D. C. The editor of The Gazette acknowledges the receipt, last week, of an invitation from Mr. and Mrs. Walter B. Wright, W. 85th St., to attend the marriage of their daughter, Ruth Althea, to Raymond Carroll Johnson, June 26, '26, 7 p. m., at St John's A. M. E. church. Reception 9-10 p. m., at the residence. Dr. E. A. Balley has finally secured the location for his office he has sought for several years and is now located at 4927 Central Ave., over the Rosenburg drug store, on the northwest corner of Central Ave. and E. 55th St., the best location in that section of the city. Congratulations, doctor. The following are our city federation delegates to the state meeting of our Women's clubs, elected, recently, at Mrs. Mollie DeBraun's, Mrs. Cora West Robinson presiding; Mrs. L. J. Pridegeon, Mrs. J. Cyril Crawford and Mrs. Ida Fountaine. Alternates; Mrs. Margaret Carroll, Mrs. Grace Lucas and Mrs. Bessie Bennett. The convention, June 29 to July 2. Robert W. Bagnall of N. Y. City, an assistant secretary of the N. A. A. C. P. and former rector of St. Andrews Episcopal church, this city, speaking at Mt. Zion Cong, church, St. Andrews. He said the crow" hospital effort a few misguided doctors and others have been for months trying to promote. Dr. Joe Thomas says the scheme will not succeed and he ought to know. The editor of The Gazette is indebted to Charles W. C. Williams LOOK SIS! MR WAGGLES S RIGHT INTO A CLOUD! I CANT! MY NECKS STIFF ALREADY! THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, O. SATURDAY, JUNE 12, 1926. for an invitation to attend the "commencement events" of Howard university, Washington, D. C. The young man, a member of the graduating class, is a "Cleveland boy," the grandson of W. Chestnut, Esq., of this city, and son of Prof. Edw. C. Williams, former librarian of Western Reserve university, now holding a similar position at Howard. Master Charles is a member of the literary faculty atternity, was cheer-leader at Howard in 1925, a member of the Dramatic club from 1923 to 1926, a member of the Literary Key club (The Stylus), fun editor of the Year Book, and a member of the track team for 1926—a credit to Cleveland, as well as the nation's capital, his school and people. OPENS BRILLIANTLY Our Baltimore and Washington Society Folk Turn Out by the Hundreds to Inaugurate the National Capital Capital Club—A Gala Event. Washington, D. C.—Never before in the social history of our people of Washington and Baltimore has such enthusiasm marked the opening of any new project as that, on Decoration day, in connection with the formal opening of the National Capital Country club at Edge Hill, Md. Nestled in a shady grove of magnificent landscapes, our elite of the two cities, consists of 19 large airy rooms, surrounded on three sides by spacious verandas. The property of twenty-three acres is being improved by a nine-hole golf course and five tennis courts. Located midway between Baltimore and Washington and fronting on the famous boulevard that joins the two cities, this property is admirably suited to the accommodation of residents as well as non-resident members from other cities. The board of governors of the club, includes some of our best known names in this section of the country. Officers: Dr. Emmett J. Scott, pres. and chairman of board of governors; Dr. A. M. Curtis, first vicepres.; Dr. Harry S. McCardell, second vicepres.; Thos. H. Clarke, third; Victor R. Daly, see; Dr. Michel O. Dumas, treas, and James A. Cobb, chairman, membership committee. The dining room of the club is capable of seating 65 persons and there are ten cool and airy bedrooms, convenient to modern baths. One wing of the club house has been built and equipped for dancing. The hall will accommodate at least fifty conference rooms, provided by spacious verandas and the lobby. Large French windows open on the verandas. An orchestra piano and a player piano have been provided. Wore Stockings Only. New Orleans, La.—Clad only in a pair of white stockings with a hole in each heel, Rosie Batiste scandalized the neighborhood by walking down the middle of the street yelling at the top of her voice. The arresting squad after covering her with a rubber tarpaulin, used to protect the radiator on their automobile, found she was drunk. Divides $500,000 With Her Lawyer. Okmulgea, Okla. — Mrs. Cora Adams, formerly a washerwoman, has been awarded $100,000 in cash and a quarter interest in oil royalty worth $20,000 annually by the State Supreme Court. The whole estate is worth $500,000 and her lawyer, James N. Hayes, has a fifty per cent recovery contract with her. 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 required. 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Better than a mustard plaster MUSTEROLE WILL NOT BLISTER -HOW ID LOVE TO SAIL THROUGH SPACE LIKE A BIRD! SEGREGATION AN OUTRAGE! Help The "Old Reliable" to increase its circulation! Don't Throw Away Your Copy of THE GAZETTE After Reading it, But Give It to a Friend or an acquaintance who Might Subscribe After Reading a Copy of it. COOLIDGE PERMITS IT! How Our Men And Women Are Insulted And Humiliated In the Government's Departments—Will the Self and Race-Respecting Negro Press of This Country Continue to Stand for This Sort of Thing? (Special to The Gazette.) Washington, D. C., Oct. 4, 1924. —There is more segregation in Washington today under President Coolidge than there has ever been since the Civil War. Bornlings of segregation were under President Taft, 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 as most blocks had white and black residents. And, worst of all, announced in his official capacity that Negroes should not hold office where white people complained. Segregation, then, is a Republican institution and not a Democratic one. It was begun by Republicans, and carried on to its all-embracing extent by Republicans! There is far more of it in the departments, today, than at any time since the Negro first appeared, close upon the close of the Civil War. The picture requirement in the civil service, which makes it next to impossible for a colored lady or gentleman to enter the civil service, since their color is disclosed in their photograph which must accompany their papers, is tenaciously held by our Republican President. Only last week, a colored lady appeared after having the best examination, and then 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 President Coolidge. He hails from North Carolina, the home of the other avenger and leader of the segregation forces, Col. Sherrill, superintendent of buildings and grounds, is no use to complain of either of these southern gentlemen. The colored people here who know the President could destroy segregation in the departments of the government, and the photograph requirements in the civil service by the mere nod of his head, are at a loss to understand why he does not put his splendid declarations on democracy into operation here, where it would not even cost him a single vote and where he has full power and absolutely no opposition. They wonder if he is not a firm believer in segregation, especially since segregation is one of the chief tenets of the Ku Klux Klan which has found its "welcome home" in the Republican party, and receives no condemnation from the Republican President. (Special to The Gazette.) (Special to The Gazette) Washington, D. C.—In the postoffice segregation is rampant. The faithful colored clerks work under constant humiliation and physical disadvantages. The department maintains a space dedicated to whites only, where these inferior 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 coured 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 at the more when they reflect that they are far more capable of the whites, and 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 room, segregation, and the institution is even attempted by the toilet. All of all the mistrust 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 wrote the colored as well as the white. These clerks get around their colored co-workers by giving the function at a local hotel. It is inevitable that the wicked spirit of segregation would express itself in appointments, assignments, and salaries. Colored applicants are often passed over though their examination was superior. No Negro, however efficient or old in the service, must ever dream of a promotion to a directive position. The hard, unyielding caste passes whites over him, one after another, though many of the colored employees have won contests in quickness and accuracy in the handling of mail. Owed clerks have dared to form a union which will be regularly and frequently many and intelligent protests to the postmaster, and often appeals from his dedications 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 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 set off from the whites with the latter, of course, having the better working conditions, salaries and recreation facilities. There are other girls in this large 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 roll force, and, of course, this same undemocratic practice reveals itself on the salary roll and in the hard caste positions. Here, in 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 injury he had to exclusion of the company so keenly secured the company of a young lady of the race to take part in the dance. As soon as this couple started to dance the music was abruptly stopped, and the young man reported for attempting to take part in an entertainment provided for employees. He was called to the office, lectured for being "one of those smart Negroes" who believe in "social equality," and then dismissed on a trumped-up charge. He was a night-employee, hence, he was 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 falling to secure any evidence searched him only to discover the pistol. They quickly dropped the arson charge and substituted one for carrying concealed weapons for which he was immediately disciplined. 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 could have under a single name! The department then taking the position that it cannot take up the case. It is perfectly clear that this iniquitous scheme of segregation is a difficult thing to fight, since the government THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, O. SATURDAY, JUNE 12, 1926. is so well settled upon it, and the complainants cannot bear witness (Special to The jazette) (Special to The Gazette) Washington, D. C.—Segregation in the bureau of engraving and printing has an interesting history involving President Thomas Woodrow Wilson and members of his family, three heroic young colored women who lost their positions as a result of their protest, and the noble wife of Senator Robert La Follette. Shortly after the accession of Mr. Wilson to the White House, a member or his family visited the bureau where she saw white and colored girls working together in perfect harmony, oblivious to any thought they might have before she came an order for segregation of the 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 discouraged, she came out one stormy afternoon to the Y. M. C. A. to urge them to continue with the fight. Oswald Garcia McVillard came to town to attack White House and Cabinet and arouse our people, and the Nation Association secured publicity in over six hundred influential white papers in the country. The fight checked what was thought to be the intention of the segregates, namely, the elimination of the colored employees from the bureau altogether. 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 Sumner and Frederick Douglass are helped to found. Our girls are employed there in far larger numbers than in any other branch of the public service. THEY ARE SEGREGATE GROUPS that they occupy rooms, offices and working stations, of course 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. Our people are still in the business of the issuance of 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, his tax law the largest defender of the tax system has several thousand clerks. Yet Negroes are so scarce there that they can't be noticed. There is the same general complaint here among our clerks and other employees as there is in the other branches of the government—failure to recognize their efficiency when promotions are due; ability to go so far and far no more. The various forms of segregation exist here as well as elsewhere—the restaurants closed or divided along color lines, and special toilets, locker rooms, rest rooms, etc., set off for colored. The toilets for the colored are few in such a large structure. Hence, the segregated clerks are forced to endure physical inconvenience at times, and are forced to travel long distances when they desire the use of them. The department maintains a huge, magnificent cafeteria, in the splendid sweep of woodland along our national driveway, where white people of every class can come to rest, dine, and socialize of afternoons and evenings at minimum costs. The white press of the city is constantly telling of the thousands who take advantage of this "delightful retreat," and the festive scene that their presence creates. It seats two thousand diners with space to spare; but not one Negro! His only share is in the taxes he is forced to pay for this luxury for another group! The registrieship of the treasury, which Republican Presidents have given the Negro since Garfield appointed Blanch K. Bruce, is now filled by a white man, and the colored people are congregated in a separate room which is publicly proclaimed as "a colored division." When it is discovered that Negro clerks are "working as white" in other divisions, they are promptly transferred to this "colored division." Our people fear that protest against this segregation would result in the abolition of the division altogether; so they remain in a dilemma, fearing to act. Our clerks must accept segregation and be 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. 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 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 burrows has been most prominent in its 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 Burcuses An investigation of the executive departments and bureaus listed below shows that segregation prevails in them as follows: Office of the Register of the Treasury, there are two segregated sections—one with 30 Afro-American employees and the other with 14. Navy Department — one segregated section of 18 of our employees, as well as a segregated lunch room. Census Bureau — a segregated section of 60 Afro-American employee Bonus Section Bonus section of the War Department—one segregated section of 180 of our employees. RACE PREJUDICE! "I am convinced myself that there is no more evil thing in this present world than race prejudice; none at all! "I write deliberately—it is the worst single thing in life as it justifies and holds together and unites us together and abomination than any other sort of error in the world." IS IT ANY USE TO CONTEND FOR RIGHTS? Colored Americans are the only race, responsible members of which are in favor of submitting to discrimination on the claim that their race "always will be discriminated against." The Jews are still contending, after over 1900 years of universal discrimination, and are winning new rights today. The Irish at home have contended for 700 years and are winning because they will die rather than submit. The race that says it's of no use to resist, downs itself and the world then will say, "Negroes are not worthy of equal rights; they are not aware of themselves self-request and have no 'guts.'" The world respects only those who resent and resist proscriptions for race. Let us be worthy of the abolitionists, worthy of our own fathers who have died in every war to vindicate the title of their race to equal liberty, and forever maintain the rights of their native land, however long race discrimination may continue. To submit is to deserve contempt. — Boston (Mass.) Guardian. 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 Section 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 to constitute "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 disabled the 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 occurred, and from county number 6281. A person assaulted and lynched by a mob may recover, from the county in which such assault is made a sum not to exceed five hundred dollars; or, if the injury received therefrom is serious, a sum not exceeding one thousand dollars; or, if such injury result in permanent disability to earn a sum not to exceed five thousand dollars. (92 v. 162 5.) Section C282. 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 widow, if such child according to the laws of the distribution of the personality of an intestate. Such sum so recovered shall not be a part of the estate of such person so lynched, nor be subject to any of his liabilities. (93 v 162 6.) Section 6283. A person suffering death or injury from a mob attempting to lynch another person shall come within the provisions of this chapter. He or his legal representatives shall have a like right of action as one purposely injured or killed by such a mob. (93 v 162 6.) Section 6284. Action for the recoveries provided for in this chapter must be commenced, within two years from the date of such lynching, in any court having original jurisdiction of an action for damages for malicious assault. (93 v. 162 7.) Section 6285. An order to the commissioners of a county, against which such recovery is had, to include it with the costs of action, in the next succeeding tax levy for such county, shall be a part of the judgment in every such case. (93 v. 162 8.) Section 6286. If the decedent 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 judge may recover the amount of a judgment and costs against it in favor of the legal representatives of a person killed or seriously injured by a mob from any of the persons composing such mob. A person present, with hostile intent, at such lynching shall be deemed a member of the mob and be liable to such action. (93 v. 162 10.) Section 6288. If a mob carries a prisoner into another county, or comes from another county to 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: BBS. need. g. I representative of victim of lynching injury by mob trying to lynch another and costs in tax levy. hs. I 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 campage 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 dispurse 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 editor had enacted while a member of the 71st General Assembly, in 1894: The General Code of Ohio: Sec. 12940. Whoever, being the proprietor or his employee, keeper or manager of an inn, restaurant, eating house, barber-shop, public conveyance by land or water, theater or other place of public accommodation and amusement, denies to a citizen, except for reasons applicable alike to all citizens and regardless of race the enjoyment of the accommodations, advantages, ties or privileges thereof, shall be nuded not less than fifty dollars nor more than five hundred dollars, or nor more than ninety days, or both. Sec. 12941. Whoever violates the next preceding section shall also pay not less than fifty dollars nor more than five hundred dollars to the person aggrieved 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. Misdel by the foolishly manufactured outcry for the passage of the Beaty bill, a few years ago, the Akronacon commission published and 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. Hon. Harry C. Smith. Editor The Gazette, Cleveland, O. My Dear Sir: Observing your letter in the Republic of Israel, this city, I venture to send you under a separate cover, the Ohio Law Reporter of Feb. 3, last, containing the opinion of the Court of Appeals in the Puritan Lunch Co. vs. Leonard H. 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 criticism editorially. The LAW OF OHIO is UNDER NO RE ORDO or JOBS in administering it. Not a word was said by the Beacon-Journal when the Forman case was reviewed. Very truly yours, R. C. Grant. 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. Reading it, Reading a SOUTH LOSES LEGEND OF INDIAN ROMANCE Scientists Investigate Nacooochee Mound in Georgia and Dispel Myth Atlanta, Ga. Ga. The recent investigation of Nacooochee Mound, in White County Georgia, by the Bureau of American Ethnology verified the belief that the formation is artificial and an Indian mound, but at the same time exploded one of Georgia's pet legends. The mound lies in the narrow valley of the Nacooochee River at the foot of the sheer crags of Yonah Mountain. The legend is of the Indian lovers, Sautee and Yonah, who, because their respective tribes were at war, embraced and leaped from the top of Yonah Mountain, subsequently to be buried in the valley and have the mound erected over them. The investigation showed that the mound was built by the Cherokee Indians and is comparatively recent origin. Many natives of Georgia have believed this particular mound dated back to the days of the Spanish conquest, and was connected intimately with the writings of well known Georgians. "The legend of Nacoochee, Sautee and Yonah, of Indian kings and queens and of the reputed visit of De Sota to this locality in the Sixteenth Century," says the report of the bureau, "is purely imaginary; it is nowise an Indian story and nothing was found by the excavators in the mound which, by the wildest flight of imagination, could give credence to those fairy tales." The investigation last summer was conducted jointly by the Bureau of American Ethnology of the Smithsonian Institution and the Museum of the American Indian, sometimes called the Heve Museum of New York. The Cherokee built the mound partly for a domicile and partly for a cemetery. It was the gradual work of generations, for there are varying strata in the mound. About 75 graves were found at varying levels. There were also evidence of fire pits and remains of fires. Practically all the bodies found had been buried with their heads pointed in the direction of sunrise. At the base of the mound were two graves protected by stone slabs, and in one of them was a beautifully painted effigy vase. This was the only piece of painted pottery found, although there were numerous other specimens of pottery, smoking pipes and ornaments. It was established that the mound was used as late as the Nineteenth Century, after the arrival of white people. The word "Nacoochee" is not identifiable with the Cherokee language, it was asserted, and does not signify in any Indian tongue "the evening star," as has been claimed. JUST LIKE COUNTRY COUSINS Thousands of New Yorkers Never Saw Brooklyn Bridge New York—"You may talk about your country cousins who never get outside of their native counties," said a New Yorker, "but I know a man who has lived here for forty years and has never seen the Flatiron building in Twenty-third street. Of course he couldn't have seen it during three-fourths of that time, however much he may have wanted to, but that isn't what I'm talking about. "He's a bookseller with a shop not three minutes from Broadway and not more than twenty minutes walk from Twenty-third street. No, he isn't blind. He simply hasn't seen the Flatiron building because his business hasn't taken him down that way, and he is not sufficiently curious to go down there merely to look at it. He has his work to attend to during the day, and when night comes he goes home. "Which reminds me that there are thousands of people in Manhattan who have never seen the Brooklyn bridge and more have never crossed it. This sounds strange, but it is undoubtedly the truth." DEATH IN EMPTY TIN CANS Punch Holes in Bottoms and Save Lives, Says United States Washington, D. C.—The United States Public Health Service announces that the tin can is a menace. An official bulletin says: "Malaria experts of the United States have found that discarded tin cans containing rain water are breeding places for the mosquito, which is the sole agent in spreading malaria. "A hole in the bottom of the empty can might have resulted in the saving of a human life. Certainly it would have assisted in preventing a deterriting illness. Empty tin cans have no business about the premises anyway, but if we must so decorate our back yards let us see to it that the can has a hole in the bottom." NEW WAY TO CAPTURE RABBITS Hoosier Chap Uses Auto Forn and Garden Hose Petersburg, Ind.-Frank Hill, a barber, who likes to hunt rabbits and other small game obtained an automobile born, attached it to his garden hose and went hunting during a recent snow. And in a short time he got all the rabbits he could carry.