The Gazette
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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CADIZ.—Miss Virginia Redmond and Miss Wilma Johnston were delegates to the Harrison county S. S. 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.
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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
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Suggs Wins, as Usual.
Boston, June 9.—Chick Suggs. New Bedford featherweight flash, won the decision from Babe Herman of California in a ten-round bout here, tonight. Suggs had the better of the fight from the start. The weights were: Suggs 126.4%, Herman 129.4%. The new Bedford boxer won seven rounds. Herman had the advantage in one and two were even.
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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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Marshall W. Taylor (Major Taylor) former world's bicycling sprint champion, is ill with heart trouble in city hospital, at Worcester, Mass.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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How Our Men And Women Are Insulted
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Ba canter. ere Garena Gira saat ceeee Canara)’ te
Washington, D. C., Oct. 4, 1924.
—There is more segregation in
Washington today under President
Goolidge than there has ever been
since the Civil War. ‘The beginnings
of segregation were under President
Taft, It was greatly extended, un-
der President Wilson; increased,
still further, under President Hard-
ing; and reached its zenith under
President Coolidge. For Instance,
the largest of our parks President
Wilson never troubled, but the pres-
ent administration has found time
and desire to introduce it even there.
To many people, segregation is a
Democratic scheme of insult, but
such Js not the case. Mr, Taft m-
troduced it in the bureau of engray-
ing. 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, an-
hounced in his official capacity’ that
Negroes shuld not hold office
where white people complained. Seg-
Tegation, then, 1s a Republican {n-
stitution and ot a Democratic one.
it was begun by Republicans, and
carried on to its all-embracing ex-
tent by Republicans!
‘There is far more of Xt in the de-
partments, today, than at any time
since the Negro first appeared, close
upon the close of the Civil War. The
picture requirement in the clvil serv-
fee, which makes it next to impos-
sible for a colored lady or gentleman
to enter the civil service, since thetr
color fs disclosed in thelr photo-
graph which must accompany their
Dapers, is tenaciously held on to. by
our Republican President. Only last
Week, a colored girl appeared after
having passed the best examination,
and after having been telegraphed
for by the department. The photo-
graph had failed to tell her true
Color, and they flatly refused to ap-
point her when she appeared, and
they saw her complexion. Commls-
sioner Blair of the internal revenue
bureau with thousands of clerks will
not appoint a Negro clork, and his
word 1s law there, as he is the spec-
lal favorite of Secretary Mellon and
President Coolidge. He hails trom
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other favorite and leader of the seg-
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It is no use to complain of either of
these southern gentlemen.
‘The colored people here who know
the President could destroy segre-
gation in the departments of tho
government, and the photograph
Tequirements In the civil service by
the mere nod of his head, are at a
loss to understand why he does not
put is 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.
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Hever in segregation, especially since
fegregation fs one of the chief ten-
ets of the Ku Klux Klan which has
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RepMblican party, and recelves no
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Washington, D. C.—In the postot-
fice segregation ts rampant. The
faithful colored clerks work under
constant humiliation and physical
disadvantages. The department
maintains a spacious cafteria 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, disadvantage-
ous as it is, Is far less galling to the
coiored clerks than is the thought of
thelr government taking their taxes,
4a it takes those of the whites, for
the comfort of the latter, and setting
them off as though they ware lepers,
The injustice stings all the more
when they reflect that they are tar
more capable than the whites, and
Fender hg government more intelli
gent and efficient service—the white
man of their attainment being able
to get far more lucrative employ-
ment.
‘The department goes even farther
Im Its sollcttude for whives and neg-
lect of colored. It maintains a well-
appointed club room with pool tables
and other games, comfortable
Jounges and other equipment for
rest, sociability, and recreation, and
nothing for these same colored em-
ployees. This private club is in the
magnificent postoffice building, built
and maintained by ALL of the peo-
ple, In the locker rooms there is
segregation, and segregation 1s even
attempted in the toilets. And all of
this is against the most dependable
and faithful employees.
Last year the white omployees
passed around invitations to the
white employees, in the very pres
ence of the colored, to attend a re-|
ception to the heads of departments,
including the postmaster general, in
the postoffice building. It announced
daning and a pleasant social eve-
ning with the officials for “the post-
office 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 post-
master to invite the colored as well
as the white. These clerks get
around their colored co-workers by
giving the function at a local hotel.
It is inevitable that the wicked
spirit of segregation would express
Itself in appointments, assignments,
and salaries. Colored applicants are
often passed over though their ex-
amination was superior No Negro,
however efficient or old in the serv-
ice, 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 col-
ored clerks have dared to form a
union which meets regularly and
often sends manly and intelligent
protests to the postmaster, and often
appeals from bis 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.—xhe govern-
ment 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 inferier positions there on ac-
fount of the better and more lucra-
five avenues of employment being
closed to them because of their col-
or, The whites are generally OF a
very mediocre group, far from equal-
ing our girls in educational equip-
ment, culture, and working efficion-
cy. Yet these superior girls are set
off {rom the whites with the latter,
of course, having the better working
condition’, salaries and recreational
facilities." There is a large cafeteria
in this huge structure where all of
the employees may go, but there are
‘a few tables in an out-of-the-way
Section reserved for our employees.
Lam glad to say that few, very fow,
of our people patronize ‘the ‘place,
preferring @ Httle physical incon-
ventence to the open, semi-public hu-
miliation of segregation.
In tollet facilities, dressing-rooms,
and work assignments, wherever
possible, the law of segregation ts in
full force, and, of course, this same
Undemocratic practice reveals iteelt
on the salary roll and in the hard
caste that bars promotions. Here,
as elsewhere, the inferior whites
pass over our superior employees to
Girective positions, and higher sal-
aries.
‘The whites have a large recrea-
onal center in this public building
with many fine appointments for
rest and amusements. Durng lunch
and dinner hours they repair to this
restful retreat for sociability and
dance. Last fall, @ young Afro-
‘American with a splendid record in
his work, felt the injustice of this
exclusion ‘of our employees s0 keenly
that he secured the company of a
young lady of the race to take part
in the dance. As soon as this couple
started to dauce the music was ab-
ruptly stopped, and the. young man
reported for ‘attempting to take
part in an entertainment provided
for employees. He was ealled to the
office, lectured for being “one of
those smart Negroes” who believe in
“social equality,” and then dismiss-
ed on a trumped-up charge. He was
& night-employee, hence he carried
@ pistol. Right after the dance in-
cident @ fire broke out in the office.
He was quickly accused of setting
the building afire in revenge for his
exclusion from the dance floor. De-
tectives came to the building to ar-
rest bim, and falling to secure any
evidence searched him only to dis-
cover the pistol. ‘They quickly drop-
ped the arson charge and substituted
one for carrying concealed weapons
for which he was immediately dis-
missed. 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
thelr government (under President
Coolidge) xives them.
Many of the employees have ex-
preased their deeply-wounded teel-
ings to me at being considered a
pariah by the government whose In-
stitutions they are serving 0 faith-
rally, and I have taken up a number:
of eases only to de met by a dental
hat the conditions complained of ex-
st, and a request for the names of
my informants. I knew the fate these
informants would suffer so T have
never given a single name!! The de-
partment then taking the position
hat it cannot take up the case. It
s perfectly clear that this iniquitous
cheme of segregation ts a difficult
hing to fight. since the goverament.
is so well settled upon it, and the
complainants cannot bear witness
to ft.
(Special to The Wazette)
Washington, D. C.—Segregation
in the bureau of engraving and
printing has an interesting history
involving President Thomas Wood-
tow Wilson and members of bis tam-
fly, three heroic young colored wom-
en’ who lost their positions as a re-
sult of their protest, and the noble
wite of Senator Robert La Follette.
Shortly atter the accession of Mr.
Wilson to the White House, a mem-
ber of his family visited the bureau
where she saw white and colored
girls working together in perfect
harmony, oblivious to any thought
of race. " Shortly thereafter came an
order for segregation of the races,
and a white lady who had been not-
ed 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 col-
ored people to stay in their places.”
Three of the young ladies resisted
the order to the dast ditch and were
summarily dismissed!
Senator La Follette lodged a pro-
test with Secretary McAdoo to no
avail, and his noble wife began a
crusade against the undemocratic in-
novation. She took the platform
here in Washington and Boston be-
fore 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 ma-
tonal gathering of the National As-
sociation for the Advancement ot
Colored People in New York. When
our people here were so profoundly
discouraged, she came out one
stormy afternoon to the ¥. M. C. A.
to urge them to continue the fight,
for democracy was at the crises. Os-
wald Garrison Villard came to town
to attack White House and Cabinet
and arouse our people, and the Na-
tlon Association secured publicity in
over six hundred influential white
Papers in the country. The fght
checked what was thought to be the
intention of the segregators, name-
ly, the elimination of the colored
employees trom the bureau alt o-
gether.
‘The same segregation which some
of our people think 1s 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
helped to found. Our girls are om-
ployed there in far larger numbers
than in any other branch of the pub-
lic service. THEY ARE SEGRE’
GATED in thelr rest rooms, toilets,
and working stations, and of course
none are ever thought of for promo-
tons to executive places. They are
girls from our best nomes, most of
them with high ant normal school
training, and fine culture. The white
girls are of no such grade, as there
{s no segregation for them in the
great world of things. They have
unlimited flelds at high wage for
even mediocre talents, ‘The best of
our girls must take these inferior
positions, the inevitable result of 80-
gregation. Our people are still hop-
ing for the issuance of an order de
stroying this Intquitous practice in
all of our government, departments,
for {t not omly humiliates the best
of the government servants but im-
pairs the government service.
(Special to The Gazette)
Washington, D. C.—The treasury
department, according to the Prest-
dent’s recent acceptance speech, 1s
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 In-
dies, and in that long sweep of, his.
tory that the President traversed
are the mighty Salmon P. Chase,
secretary of the treasury in Lin-
coln’s cabinet, who, in a national! ex-
tremity such’ as this country has
never known, devised the national
banking system which financed ‘the
Civil War; and Ohio's master finan-
cler, John Sherman. ‘These men
never knew what segregation was!
‘The present head of the depart-
ment of internal revenue, Mr. Blair
from North Carolina, has not ap-
pointed a colored clerk since his in-
cumbency. While his predecessor,
Mr. Daniel Roper, a Democrat from
Texas, appointee and promoted sev-
eral of them. Since the Income tax
logislation and the numberless new
taxes that the recent war necess!-
tated, this is by far the largest de-
partment of the treasury, employing
several thousand clerks. Yet Ne-
groes are so scarce there that they
ean'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 gov-
ernment—faflure to recognize their
effictency when promotions are due;
ability to go #0 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 tollets, lock-
pF 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 inconven-
jence at times, and are forced to
ravel long distances when they de-
fre the use of them. The depart-
nent maintains a huge, magnificent
cafeteria, In the splendid sweep of
woodland along our national drive-
ay, where white people of every
lass can come to rest, dine, and s0-
alti: 4 atharmeens aad events 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 din-
ers with space t¢ spare; but not one
Negro! His only share is in the
taxes he is forced to pay for this
luxury for another group!
‘The registership of the treasury,
which Republican Presidents have
given the Negro since Garfield ap-
pointed Blanch K. Bruce, is now
filled by a white man, and the col-
ored people are congregated in a sep-
arate room which is publicly pro-
claimed as ‘a colored division.”
When it is: discovered that Negro
clerks are “working as white” in
other divisions, they are promptly
transfered 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 dilemna, fearing
to act, Our clerks must accept se-
gregation or elimination, and being
poor, with no other opportunities in
this southern atmosphere, must take
the former. They are dopressed at
the wrong, but economle stress com-
pels endurance of it.
By a ingle stroke of his pen,
President Calvin Coolidge can stoy
every bit of this damnable segrega-
tion, Just as he can condemn that
lawless organization the Ku Klux
Klan.
COOLIDGE’S
‘Washington, D. C.—We wish to cal
attention to the fact that in the fight
against the segregation of our gov-
ernment employees, the Treasury
Department will most Ukely 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, beaver
‘board walls were maintained until
recently. In tho 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 in-
crease segregation in the depart.
ments here was on again at full
speed. Tt had slowed up a little dur.
ing the campaign.
Investigation of Bureaus
An investigation of the executive
departments and bureaus lated be-
low shows that segregation prevails
in them as follows:
Oftice of the Register of the
‘Treasury, there are two segregated
sections—one with 20 Afro-Amert.
gan employees and the other with
‘Navy Department — one _sogre-
gated section of 18 of our employ-
ees, as woll as a segregated lunch
room.
Census Bureau —a__ segregated
section of 60 Afro-American empioy-
Bonus Section
Ronus section of the War Depart:
ment—one segregated section of 180
ot our employees.
Veterans Bureau—a segregated
section of 16 employees.
Department of Justice—a segre-
gated section of 10 employees in the
fils room.
Internal Revenue
Internal Revenue Bureau—a seg.
regated section of 7 employees.
Office of the Treasurer of the Un}-
ted States—a segregated section of
4 employees,
War Department, Transportation
Division—a segregated section of 5
employees.
'P. 0. Separate Lunch Room
Post Office Department—a segre-
gated tach room.
RACE PREJUDICE!
“I am convinced myself that
there is no more evil thing in
this present world than race
prejudice; none at all!
“write deliberately—it is
the worst single thing in life
now. It justifies and holds to-
gether more baseness, cruelty
and abomination than any
other sort of error in the
world.”
—H, G. Wells.
IS If ANY USE TO CONTEND
FOR RIGHTS?
Colored Americans are the
anly race, responsible members
of which’ are in favor of sub-
mitting to discrimination on
the claim that their race “al-
ways will be discriminated
against.” Tho Jews are still
contending, after over 1900
years of untversal discrimina-
tion, and are winning even so
cial rights today. The Irish at
home have contended for 700
years and are winning because
they, will dic rather than sub-
mit,’ The race that says it's of
mo use to resist, downs iteclf
and the world then wilt say,
“Negroes are not worthy of
equal rights; they are by na-
ture without, self-respect _and
have no ‘guts'." The world re-
spects only those who resent
and resist proscriptions for
Face.
Let us be worthy of the abo-
Utlonists, worthy of our own
fathers who have died in every
war to vindicate the title of
thelr race to equal liberty, and
forever resist denial of rights
in our native land, however
Tong race discrimination may
continue. ‘To submit is to de-
verve contempt.— Boston
(Mass.) Guardian.
QHIO’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,
6283. Damages in case of lynching.
6282. Damages recoverable by legal representative of victim of lynening
6283. Person suffering death or injury by mob trying to lynch another
6284. Limitations of action.
6285. Order to include recovery and costs in taa levy.
6286. Guardian's custody, etc., fees.
6287. County's right of action against member of mop.
6288. County's right of action against another county,
Phin ae tera Pe cde re carla ay
Our mob-violence or anti-lynehing
biN was introduced in the Ohio leg:
islature in 1894 and re-introduced 1a
1896. It took the Hon. Harry ¢.
Smith, editor of The Gazette, just
three years to secure its enactment
into law. ‘The Ohio Supreme Court
has several Umes upheld the con-
stitutionality of the law and it has
MOBS.
ap aiscoucttecgh eg Niu regecinakerteng soit
ple assembled for an unlawful pur-
pose ana intending to do damage or
injury to any one, or pretending to
exercise correctional power over
other persons by violence and with-
‘out authority of law, sball be deemed
a “mob” for the purpose of this
chapter. An act of violence by a
mob upon the body of any person
shall constitute a “lynching” within
the meaning of this chapter, (¥3 ¥.
161 2.)
Section 6279. The term “serious
injury,” for the purpose of this chap-
ter, shall include such injury as per-
manently or temporarily disables the
person recelying it from earning a
livelihood by manual labor. (93 ¥.
161 8.)
Section 6280. A person taken
from officers of Justice by a mob,
and assaulted with whips, clubs, mis-
siles 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 1s made. (93 ¥. 161 4.)
Section 6281. A person assaulted
and lynched by a mob may recover,
from the county in which such as-
sault 1s made @ sum not to exceed
five hundred dollars; or, if the in-
jury received therefrom is serious, a
sum not exceeding one thousand dol-
lars; or, if such injury result in per-
manent’ disability to earn a livell-
hood by manual labor, a sum not to
exceed five thousand dollars. (93 v.
162 5.)
Section (282. Tho legal reprosen-
tative of a person dying from injur-
ies received from lynching by a mob,
may recover of the county in which
such Injury occurred, 8 sum not to
exceed five thousand dollars dam-
ages for such unlawful killing, Such
sum shall be applied to the mainte-
nance of the family and eduoaticn cz
the minor children of such person so
lynched, it any survive bim, until
such children are of legal age, and
then be distributed to the survivors,
share and share alike, the widow re-
coiving an amount equal to a child’s
share. If there be no widow or
minor children surviving such dece-
dont, such sum shall be distributed
among the next of kin according to
the laws of the distribution of the
personality of an intestate. Such
sum 80 recovered shall not be a part
of the state of such person so lynch-
ed, nor be subject to any of his Iia-
bilities. (98 v 162 6.)
Section 6283. A person suffering
death or injury from a mob attempt-
ing to lynch another person shall
come within the provisions of this
chapter. He or his legal represents-
tives shall have a Ifke right of actfon
as one purposely injured or killed by
such a mob. (93 ¥ 162 6.)
Section 6284. Action for the re-
coverles provided for in this chap-
ter must be commenced, within two
years from the date of such lynch-
ing, in any court having original
jurisdiction of an action for dam-
ages for malicious assault. (93 ¥.
162 7.)
Section 6285. An order to the
commissioners of a county, against
which such recovery 18 had, to in
clude {t with the costs of action, in
the next succeeding tax levy for such
county, shall be a part of the juds-
ment in every such case, (93 v. 162
8.)
Section 6286. If the decedent so
lynched has minor children surviv-
ing him, tho fund shall be turned
over to a regularly appointed guar-
dian, Such guardian shall adminis-
ter such fund under the direction of
the probate judge, allowing not more
than five hundred dollars for coun-
sel fees in the action for such re
covery. (93 ¥. 162 9.)
Section 6287. ‘The county, In
which a lynching occurs, may re-
cover 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 Hable to
such action. (98 v. 162 10.)
Section 6288. If a mob carries 8
prisoner into another county, or
comes from another county to com-
‘nit violence on a prisoner brought
been very effective. Illinois, Penn-
sylvania and New Jersey bave fol-
lowed Ohio's lead and enacted mob
violence oF auti-lynching laws which
‘are copies of our Ohio law. Several
fother northern states and at least
Jone border state (Kentucky) have
viso enacted anti-lynching laws, in
recent years, like Pennsylvania ana
New Jersey. ‘The Ohio law follows:
STORY SRR COURS TOF: MTUEOOR RE:
the county in wich the lyncumng 1s
committed may recover the amount
of the Judgment and costs from the
county from which the mob cama
gence on the part of offictals of sucs
unless there was contributory negtt-
tmprigoned not Jess than thirty days
county in failing to protect suen
prisoner or dispurse such mob,
(98 v. 163 11.)
Section 6289. ‘This chapter shali
not relieve a person concerned in
such lynching from prosecution tor
homicide or assault for engaging
therein. (93 v. 168 12.)
OUR OHIO CIVIL RIGHTS LAW
Upon the request of many readers
or ‘The Gagetts. we print. below tae
text of the Hon, Harry G. Smith’
Onto “Civil” feghts law whieh tne
editor had enacted while a member
of the 71st General Assembly, 1
Tees:
‘The General Coae of Ohio:
See, 12040, Whoever, belng the
proprietor or his employee, keeper 0}
anager of an inn, restaurant, eat
tng. house, barver-ihop, DuBlis’ Sou
veyance by land or watery theater 0
other piace of public accommodation
Sud amusement, dentes to a citizen,
except for reasons applicable alike
to ali citizens and regardless of race
or color, the full enjoyment of te
Sccommoaations, advantages, facltt
tion or privileges’ therest, snail b
‘Qned not tess than fifty dollars nor
more than five hundred dollars, or
‘ior more than ninety days, oF bott
BSgce. 12941. Whowver violates tae
next preceding suction shall also pay
not less than fifty dollars nor more
‘than five hundred dollars to the per-
son" aggvioved thereby. to ba setor
cred it any’ court of competent Jet
{sdietion’ 2 the county: waere each
renee wan one
This law has repeatediy been held
constitutional and good Jaw by the
Ohio Supreme court. The trouble ts
our people will not use it as often as
they should, but expect {t to do for
them what they Should and must de
for themselves, under it, in the
courts.
Judge Grant's Opinion of the Law.
Misled by the foolishly manufac.
tured outery for te passage of the
Beaty bill, a few years ago, the Ak-
ron Beacon Journal published an
editorial to which the editor of ‘The
Gazette replied, calling its attention
to -he fact that the Ohio Civil Rights
law was good law and did not need
amending. The following letter from
Judge Grant former presiding judge
of the Court of Appeals of the Eighth
District of Ohio, {s self explanatory
Hon. Harry C. Smith,
Editor The Gazette, Cleveland, O.
My Dear Sir: Observing your let-
ter in the Beacon-Journal, of this
city, I venture to send you, under &
separate cover, the Ohlo Law Re-
porter of Feb. 8, last. containing the
opinion of the Court of Appeals in
the Puritan Lunch Co. vs. Leonard
H. Yorman, 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 eriticism editorially. THE LAW
OF OHIO IS UNDER NO RE-
PROACH, nor our courts and juries,
in administering it. Not a word was
sa{d by the Beacon-Journal when the
Forman case was reviewed.
Very truly yours,
'R. ©. Grant.
‘The Truth!
‘What would cause other peo-
ple 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, le about
us, malign us and even impugn
our valor and we are not unan-
imously insulted. It seems {m-
possible to establish unanimity
of insult in the black race,—
Chicago (II.) Whip.
SOUTH LOSES LEGEND
OF INDIAN ROMANCE
Scientists Investigate _ Nacoochee
Mound in Georgia and
Dispel Myth
Pe eee nets
Atlanta, Ga.—The recent investiga
‘on of Nareoochee Mound, in White
County Georgia, by the Bureau ot
American Ethnology veritiee the be-
fief that the formation ff artificial and
an Indian mound, but at the same time
exploded one of Georgia's pet legends.
The mound Mes in the narrow valley
of the Nacoochee River at the foot of
‘ne sheer crags of Yonah Mountain.
‘The legend is of the Indian lovers,
sautee and Yonah, who, because thetr
respective tribes were at war, embrac-
ed and Jeaped from the top of Youab
Mountain, subsequently to. be buried
i the’ valley and have the
mound erected over them, ‘The Inves
tigation showed that the mound was
built by the Cherokee Indians and 1
£ comparatively recent origin.
Many natives of Georgia have believ-
ed this particular mound dated back
to the days of the Snanish conquest,
end was connected intimately with
the writings of well known Georsians.
“The legend of Nacoocher, Saute
and Yonah, of Indian kings and queens
and of the reputed visit of De Sota t»
‘this locality in the Sixteenth Century,”
says the report of the bureau, “is pure-
ly 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
xsive eredence to those fairy tales.”
‘The Investigation last summer was
vonducted jointly by the Bureau of
American Ethnology of the Smithsoni-
an Institution and the Museum of the
American Indian, sometimes called
the Heye Museum of New York.
‘The Cherokee built the mound part-
1y for a domicile and partly for a cera
ctery. It was the gradual work of gen-
erations, for there are varying strata
zm the mound. About 75 graves were
found at varying levels. There were
dso evidence of fire pits ahd remains
of fires.
Practically all the bodies 2ound had
been buried with their heads pointed
in the direction of sunrise.
[At the base of the mound were twa
graves protected by stone slabs, and In
one of them was a beautifully painted
oftigy vase. This was the only plece of
painted pottery found, although ther»
were numerous other specimens of
pottery, smoking pipes and ornaments.
Tt was established that the mouna
was used as late as the Nineteenth
Century, after the arrival of white
people.
‘The word “Nacoochee” 1s not Iden-
Uflable 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
New Yorker, “but I know & 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 threc-
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 & shop not
three minutes from Broadway and not
fore than twenty minutes walle from
‘Twenty-third street, No, he ten" blind.
He simply hasn't seen the Platiroa
building because his business bnsn'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, aud
when night comes he goes heme.
“Which reminds me that there are
thousands of people in Manhattan whe
have never seen the Brooklsn bridge
and more!have never crossee It. This
rounds strange, but ft {s undoubtedly
the truth”
DEATH IN EMPTY TIN CANS
Punch Holes in Bottoms and Save
Lives, Says United States
Washington, D. ©—The United
States Public Health Service an-
nounces 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 breed-
mg places for the mosquito, which ta
the sole agent in spreading tualaria,
“A hole in the bottom of the empty
can might have resulted in the saving
of a human life. Certainly it wou'é
have assisted in preventing a detilitat-
ing ilness. Empty tin cans nave n>
business about ‘the premises anyway.
but if we must so decorate our back
yards let us see to it that the can has
& hole in the bottom.”
NEW WAY TO CAPTURE RABBITS
Hoosier Chap Uses Auto form anc
Garden Hose
Petersburg, Ind.—Frank Hill, a bar-
ber, who likes to hunt rabbits and oth-
er small game obtained an automobile
horn, attached it to his garden. bose
and went hunting during a recent
snow, And in a short time he got ail
the wadihite Sevtoked euere-