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FOR 15 SHAVES POWDER CO. MAH, GEORGIA Announce Our Anniversary Sale We will sell every Hat or save money, you are un- lues. AP FACTORY NOW ONLY ESTABLISHED, AUGUST 25, 1883 And Issued Every Week on Time Since CLEVELAND, OHIO, SATURDAY, JULY 17, 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. ASHTABULA.—Rev. M. L. Gordon, pastor of the A. M. E. church, was in Youngstown and Warren, Sunday and Monday, of last week. Chas. Simple is visiting in line, and New Castle, Pa.—Do not sign the petitions being circulated against the popular vote primary. The Sunday schools are planning an August picnic, near Youngstown.—Miss Sarah Wooden of Sharline spent the 4th and 5th here with her cousin. SHARLINE.—Mr. Homer Ferman, very ill for seven weeks, is reported worse.—Frank Smith was in Buffalo, July 4 and 5.—Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Logan have returned from their honeymoon and are at their new home, ready to receive their many Friends.—The Sharline B & P club is planning to buy a few acres for a park.—Do not sign the petitions being circulated against the popular vote primary. It will hurt our people to abolish the primary. Toledo is here.—Rev. J. S. Arnold is conducting a two-week revival in Detroit.—Watch The Gazette for announcement of time and place of the Sunday schools.—A. A. P. P. pastor of Mt. Calvary church, delivered a fine sermon on "The Problems of Youth." His sermon on the evening was on "The Problems of Adults." A consecration meeting will be held, beginning Monday evening and continuing thru July 23. Mrs. Minnie Easley of Cleveland will be the principal speaker each evening.—Clarence Jackson left, Saturday, for Detroit to join Ringling Bros. circus' side-show band, under the leadership of Prof. P. G. Lowrey of Cleveland. Jackson is a graduate of a local high school, this year's class, and was a member of the band, under the direction of J. Meron Holcombe, during his four year high school career.—Do not COLUMBUS.-J. J. Harvey of Youngstown was called here by the death of his only brother, George. -Master Ray Johnson of Youngstown is visiting his uncle and aunt, Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Johnson. -The Columbus Glants are planning to play the "Steel Cities" of Youngstown at an early date. -Do not sign the petitions being circulated against the popular vote primary. -Lee Carter has moved his family to Warren where he is manager of an auto repairing plant. STEUBENVILLE.-Rev. and Mrs. J. H. Maxwell, pastor of Oak Hill Ave. A. M. E. church, Youngstown, Mrs. Samuel Boggess and Mrs. Marie Jenkins motored here, this week, to attend the M. S. convention in Quinn A. M. E. church. Delegates from nearly all of the North Ohio Conference are in attendance. -Do not sign the petitions being circulated against the popular vote primary. A return to the old school of making nominations would forever stop our men and women from standing as candidates for public office. Pass the word along! BELLAIRE —A few of the Missionary ladies are attending the convention in Steubenville, this week.—The Gazette desires an agent and correspondent here, at once Write the editor in Cleveland.—Several from Youngstown and Alliance were here to play ball, the 5th.—Do not sign the petitions being circulated against the popular vote primary.—Mr. Fred Wilkes, of New Castle, Pa., visited his brother, Dan, recent to Hall of Honor by U.S. Sailors, our candidate for the Republican nomination for Governor. CORRESPONDENTS must mail all letters for publication at their main postoffice sufficiently early on Monday (or Sunday) of each week to have them reach The Gazette office on Tuesday morning, and always write their names and that of their city or town on the outside of the wrapper about returned copies. Unless this latter is done, proper credit cannot be given you. Lists of names, wedding presents, etc., obituary notices, inquiries for relatives and advertisements of all kinds, including items announcing entertainments to be held in the near future, must be paid for in advance at the rate of 25 cents a line, six words to a line. Our rates for display advertisements will be sent on appliae- YOUNGSTOWN.—Mr. Thos. Robinson is confined in the city hospital.—Mrs. Alex. NaDell is seriously ill.—Mrs. Lon Smith, who lost her eye-sight, recently, is very ill.—Mr. Harvel, Jr., and Clarence Mayfield motored to Bellaire, July 4. J. Elmer Harvey of Sharline has been appointed assistant planer of the Oak Hill Lake, A. M. E. church.—Do not sign the petitions against the popular vote primary being circulated.—Mrs. Wm. T. Anderson of Cleveland, pres. M. S., N. O. Conference, spoke at Oak Hill Ave. church, Sunday evening.—Constable Thos. Causby, the first Afro-American to be a candidate for sheriff of Mahoning county, was introduced as president of both races at a picnic, July 5. It is said he opposed the candidacy of the Harry C. Smith, two years ago. How about it, Mr. Causby?—The ushers of the various churches and their friends had an outing, last week Thursday, at Lake Milton. MANSFIELD.—The annual picnic of Mt. Calvary Baptist church, Gamel, and amusementes.—Harvey Wigfall of Alabama is working at the country club—Jane White of Toledo is here.—Rev J. S. Arnold is conducting a two-week revival in Detroit.—Watch The Gazette for announcement of time and place of the next N. A. A. C. P. meeting. The Tuskegee quartet gave a very good performance at the Echurch, last Tuesday evening.—Last Sunday morning, Rev H. Teague, pastor of Mt. Calvary church, delivered a fine sermon on "The Problems of Youth". His sermon in the evening was on "The Problems of Adults". A consecration meeting will be held, beginning Monday evening and continuing through July 23. The sermon will be the principal speaker, each evening.—Clarence Jackson left, Saturday, for Detroit to join Ringling Bros. circus' side-show band, under the leadership of Prof. P. G. Lowrey of Cleveland. Jackson is a graduate of a local high school, this year's class, and was a member of the band, under the direction of J. C. H. Lowrey, a year high school career.—Do not sign the petitions being circulated against the popular vote plan. It will hurt our people to abolish it. HILLSBORO.—Bryant and Miss Unamea Carlisle of Jamestown arrived, Sunday. They are guests of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Colter.—Mrs. Ora Tony of Newark visited her brother, Mr. Ol. Young.—Mrs. Lillian Whestle of Xenia spent Sunday with her sister, Miss Ela Hardin.—Mrs. Lillian Whestle of Cincinnati spent Sunday with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Milton Day.—Miss Rosalee Clark, of Louisville, Ky., is visiting her brother, Rev. R. L. Bray.—Mr. Wm. Alsop is here visiting relatives. He had a limb amputated in a Cincinnati hospital.—Wm. Gales of Xenia was here, Sunday.—Mrs. Charles Colter entertained the Get-Together club, last Wednesday afternoon. Refreshments were served.—Mrs. Jessie Ross was uncle to Cleveland, Ohio, and an uncle, John Johnson, and other relatives. Mrs. Ross also visited an uncle, Ad. Lewis, in Maysville, Ky.—Mrs. Mildred Baker is home from Columbus. She had a cataract removed from an eye.—Mrs. Elizabeth Johnson of Greenfield was here, last week, to see her brother, Charles Hudson, who had a jaw-bone fractured by a blast while at work in a quarry. He is visiting in Sardinia and Cincinnati.—Mrs. Naomi Tribute of Oxford is spending the summer with her sister, Mrs. Fred Williams.—Mr. and Mrs. Alex. Holland and family attended the Steward reunion, Sunday, when 166 of them dined.—Le Roy Speech and Harold Hennison visited in Cincinnati, Thursday.—Mrs. Sarah Johnson entertained her niece, Mrs. Jessie Ross, Friday.—Miss Anna Williams of Cincinnati is visiting her parents, Mrs. Sarah Johnson, Rev and Mrs. R. L. Bray spent the 4th in Columbus.—Miss Virgineal Paxton of Detroit has returned home here. COLUMBUS, O., July 7, 1926. There are twelve Republican candidates for governor and the contest at present lies among four of them: Secretary of State Thad H. Brown, Governor of Day, Atty. Joseph B. Sieber, (K. K. K.) of Akron, and Myers Y. Cooper (K. K. K.) Cincinnati reactor and candidate of the Hynicka organization. Politicians are making their selection from among this selection four. The other eight, however, offer opportunity for expression of almost any sort of view. Their Opportunity! Their Opportunity: Harry C. Smith of Cleveland, for six years a member of the Ohio Legislature and for forty-three years editor of the Gazette, was published in the interests of the Negro race, offers that minority an opportunity to unite and nominate its candidate. He has twice been a candidate for governor and once for secretary of state (polling 61,081 votes); his name is by no means unknown. There are probably 175,000 colored voters in the state, all Republicans. IF THEY WERE TO UNITE AT THE POLLS, THEY WOULD NOMINATE THEIR CANDIDATE IN ALL PROBABILITY. DOINGS of the RACE THOMAS SENDS TEN DOLLARS! To Help Increase the Campaign Fund of Our Candidate For the Republican Nomination For Governor—Prof. Neval H. Thomas. Washington, D. C., July 14, '26. Hon. Harry C. Smith, Editor Gazette, Cleveland, Ohio. My dear Harry:—I am happy to know that you have entered the gubernatorial race again, and I certainly hope our people of our state (Ohio) will rise to their opportunity and nominate you. In your long career of devoted service you have never faltered in your trust. You have never sold out to the enemy which a man of your commanding influence among our masses could have done many times and made large pecuniary rewards. Since first I could read, I have read "The Old Reliable" Gazette which through the long years has thundered like a mighty trumpet for the oppressed of men. Above obstly, or sale, res- tention is so stochastic. It has stood like granite against the on- ward march of our country's cursed caste. As a statesman, you have enriched the legislative annals of the state, by giving us two great bulwarks of personal liberty—The Civil Rights law and The Anti-Lynching law—legislation that is worthy of Ohio's other great statesmen, Wade, Sherman, Chase, and Foraker, while can care or will, rise to the bigness of such achievement. There is only one thing for our people to do, and that is to resist the appeal of the time-serving, self-seeking politician who is paid to deceive the Negro voter by eulogies on the magic names of Lincoln, Grant, Sumner, and Frederick Douglass. Segregation, that strangling monster that was invented to huddle a great people into a ghetto, destroy the nation, and plant groups hold him in contempt, is the order of the day here in both the national and the municipal governments. It goes on without any abatement whatever; in fact, we are getting new cases of it frequently. Our people must array themselves against it with more determined purpose and more solidarity of action than ever before. Certainly, the election of men and women of our group to high office, and the intelligence and leadership that can intellectually develop and displays, will serve beyond measure to rid our country of this undemocratic and insulting practice. I shall appeal to my black fellow-countrymen throughout the nation for small contributions to so worthy a cause, for no great movement can be built rapidly without material support. I am assured to accept my own contribution for ten dollars patriotic contribution to my race and country, for this is the cause of democracy, the only basis upon which the nation can endure. On To Helsingfors! New York City—Ten men, seven boys and two college students of the race will be in the American delegation to the Y. M. C. A. World Conference which meets at Helsingtons, Finland, Aug. 1 to 6. Most of them sailed from New York, July 16. The boys will be members of one of the "world friendship tours", conducted every year under the auspices of the Y. M. C. A. National Council headquarters here. Miss Otelia Cromwell, Washington, D.C. high school teacher, has just earned Yale's highest degree, doctor of philosophy. A Kansas City, Mo. court has ordered J. S. Whitney, a member of the race, to vacate a house he owns, as the result of an illegal segregation procedure. Dr. Mordecal W. Johnson, pastor of First Baptist church, Charleston, W. Va., newly elected president of Howard University, is in Europe, but will take office Sept. 1. Dean Mohr, director of athletics and physical education and coach of basketball, track and tennis teams at Wilberforce, O. University for four years, was let out and did not resign. Roland Hayes, celebrated tenor and concert singer, was dismissed from Fisk University after four years of training there. The dismissal helped to make him, it is said. For the first time in the history of New York City both white and colored patients of the accident wards at Harlem hospital have been almost entirely attended by our doctors. The U. S. House of Representatives' committee on appropriations has refuted the $650,000 for the construction of two artificial bathing beaches or pools (one "jim-crow"), approved by President Coolidge, May 4, 1926. Liquid assets of the Steel City Banking Co. Pittsburgh, the institution that was closed by the state banking department, Jan. 12, were SINGLE COPY FIVE CENTS Cleveland, July 12, '26. Mr. Maurice Maschke, Republican National Committeeman, Cleveland, Ohio. Dear Sir:—Sometime ago you said that you would not "endorse any Republican candidate for Governor unless Cuyahoga county entered a candidate"—something it has done in the person of the Hon. Harry C. Smith, our Cleveland can- didate. Now Mr. Maschke keep your promise and show that you are a man of your word by endorsing Mr. Smith whom you long ago styled one of the best campaign speakers this town or county had produced. His six years' service (three times) makes him eligible for nomination to any state office and his ability to perform the duties of the office has never been questioned. Six years ago, as a candidate for the Republican nomination for Secretary of State, Mr. Smith polled over 61,000 votes. Yours truly, (Rev.) Horace Bailley, 2244 E. 43rd St., City. In the Original Draft of The Declaration of Independence. Boston, Mass.—Among the original protestations of the committee of declarants of Independence was a so-called "slave clause," which read: "He (the king) has waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating its most sacred rights of life and liberty in the persons of a distant people, who never offended him capturing and carrying them in the wilderness, a sphere or to incur miserable death in their transportation thither. This piratical warfare, the opprobrium of infidel powers, is the warfare of the CHRISTIAN king of Great Britain. Determined to keep open a market where MEN should be bought and sold, he has prostituted his negative for suppressing every legislative attempt to prohibit or to restrain this exeercable commerce, and that this assemblage of horrors might want no fact of distinguished die, he is now exciting those very people to rise in arms among us, and to raise his liberty of which he deprived them, by murdering the people upon him he also obtruded them, thus paying off former crimes committed against the LIBERTIES of one people, with crimes which he urges them to commit against the lives of another." increased $6,435, last week Wednesday, by the sale of the bank's building, together with its furniture and fixtures. Announcement that Dr. Wm. B. Greenway, (white), pastor of Bethany Temple Presbyterian church Philadelphia, newly elected president of Lincoln University, Pa. is a Klan sympathizer, has created a sensation in the institution's alumni circles. DeHart Hubbard, of Cincinnati world's champion broad jumper successfully defeated his 1925 A. A. U. record and created a new championship mark in the broad jump by leaping a distance of 25 feet, $2\frac{1}{2} inches, in the fiftyfirst annual championships of the A. A. U. in the municipal stadium at Philadelphia, last week Monday. The N. A. A. C. P.'s annual address, this year, discusses briefly residential and "white primary" and disfranchisement, the Association's "legal defense funds" the Dyer Anti-lynching bill's latest defeat in Congress, independent political action and fuller recognition of our workers by organized labor. The Canadian National Railways has replaced the colored dining-room car crews on its international limited, which runs between Montreal and Chicago, via Toronto and Detroit, with white employees. Sir Henry Thornton, president and general manager of the Canadian government railway, in a recent ad- dressing "Cowboy" uniforms, faced problems and colored people should be discouraged from migrating here". IN UNION IS STRONGER E COPY FIVE CENTS IO! ALL IN THE DAY'S WORK BY W. R. ROSE A Starling Innovation Here is a story which, because it is a part of the annals of Western Reserve college, should be recalled in the institution's centennial year, and more especially at the commencement season. It is the story of a daring innovation and a courteous act in 1854, in the Hudson period, and of those who took part in the incident it is doubtful if more than one is left. When it came time for the graduating class to select a commencement orator for the momentous occasion—quite as momentous then as now—the seniors were started to Douglas, once a slave, then a freeman with a remarkable oratorial gift, should be selected. The name of Frederick Douglas was known throughout the land, and his eloquent voice, raised in the cause of freedom for his people, had a wide-spread influence. One of the students, it was W. S. Kerruish, now the oldest member of the local bar, saw a chance to gratify his anti-slavery instincts and principles, and wrote to Frederick Douglas at his home in Rochester, N. Y., asking if it would be possible and agreeable for him to come to Hudson at commencement time and to attend students. Mr. Douglas replied that he would come if officially invited. Trouble Was Feared When the story leaked out it created a hubbub in the student body and among the friends of the school. Inviting a colored man—no matter how gifted—to address a body of white students, was looked upon as a revolutionary innovation. Even President Pierce is said to have doubted the propriety of the proposition. But he left the debate to the senior class, and by the senior class book he quips, the backing up the suggestion and the invitation by a handsome majority. But trouble was feared. Prejudice was strong. The anti-slavery element was continually faced by determined pro-slavery adherents. If there was to be trouble the senior class was prepared for it. Having committed themselves to the choice of a commencement speaker the seniors meant to stand by him. It was that each of them equipped himself with a club, and that the class was strategically scattered over the campus. He Conquered Opposition. Frederick Douglass came. What would his reception be? As the slender orator, straight as an arrow, crossed the campus to the tent in which the exercises were held, arm in arm with President Pierce, not a sound was uttered, but every semblance of hostility was swept away by the orator's first sentence. "There is a wide gap between the swamp into which I crept a fugitive slave and this free and enlightened platform!" Those who heard it long remembered it as a great oration. When Douglass clamed, "They say the Negro's voice is weak", it is asserted he could have been heard half way to Akron. So the eminent orator came and went, and genius overthrew prejudice, and fair play and decorum ruled the campus. In short, considering the times and the temper of the community, the innovation was as successful as it was daring—Cleveland Plain Dealer. TWO RACE RIOTS In New York and New Jersey—A School Dynamited By Florida "Crackers" — Georgia Brooklyn, N. Y. — Objection to the gradual invasion of our people into Prospect Place, this city, led to outbreaks on June 27. Men, women, and children participated. Two white men were injured. Four of our men were arrested. Three whites and five Afro-Americans were held by police after a riot in Beverly, N. J., on June 28. State troops guarded the streets. The outbreak occurred between southern "Negrites" living in Beverly and group of Georgia "cracker" students who vanished to pick fruit during their vacation. One of our school buildings in Miami, Fla., was dynamited on June 29 after threats had been made against school authorities for constructing the school near the white section. Seven workers were injured and one killed in the explosion. The building was completely wrecked. Made Detective-Captain Los Angeles, Calif.—After over 20 years of faithful service as a member of the Los Angeles police force, W. W. Glenn, assistant captain of detectives, has finally received his rightful title of Captain, the only position of its kind held by an Afro-American, west of Chicago. Through an order issued by the Los Angeles Police Commission the rank of captain of detectives was officially changed to chief of detectives and the 14 men now holding the rank of assistant captain of detectives changed to captain of detectives. TA-DA-DEE DAA-A! LA-LA-DEE DA-DEE-DE! OF COURSE IT WON'T BURN!...IT'S LUCKY FOR YOU I PUT WATER IN IT! HUH? OH DEAR!--SOMEBODY'S ALWAYS PLAYING TRICKS ON POOR LITTLE ME! Tim Early (In Advance) One Year ..... $2.00 Six Months ..... 1.00 Subscribers are requested to remit by postoffice money order or registered letter. Entered at the postoffice in Cleveland, Ohio, as second-class mail matter Address all communications to HARRY C. SMITH Editor and Proprietor THE GAZETTE 226 W. Superior Ave., Cleveland, O. (Bell 'Phone: Cherry 1259) Member Ohio Legislature: 1894 to 1896; 1890 to 1898; 1900 to 1902 THE GAZETTE is the oldest and has the largest bon 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. 850,000 in Ohio. 40,000 in Cleveland. SATURDAY, JULY 17, 1926. The intensive politician drive to obtain 250,000 signatures in less than forty days on the initiated petition for an amendment to the Ohio constitution which will eliminate the popular vote primary system, now made mandatory by the basic law of the state, is under way. DO NOT SIGN! President Alex. Bernstein of the Western Reserve Republican club should not be held responsible for the presence of Atty. Joseph A. Sieber of Akron at the club's recent Republican mass meeting, but the committee of the club in charge of the meeting that invited him in spite of Mr. Bernstein's objections. According to the daily press, Sieber is one of the four Ku Klux Klan candidates for the Republican nomination for Governor. The other three are: State Representative Ross P. Buchanan of Carrollton, Thad. H. Brown and Myers Y. Cooper of Cincinnati. POPULAR ON FRENCH STAGE. Some French theatrical men are protesting that Afro-American artists are the principal features in what is termed "Negromania", on the stage, today, and have grown jealous of them. it is said. This attitude is not taken from a prejudicial standpoint, however, but the protestants desire the honor and acclamation for their own splendid colonies, black and white. Judging from this, it would be wise for the colonial French blacks to "get busy". THE N. A. A. C. P. WRONG. The statement in the annual address of the N. A. A. C. P., adopted recently at its Chicago meeting, to the effect that "segregation of colored employees in the department at Washington, D. C., was begun under President Wilson", is wrong. Federal segregation "began under President Taft, was greatly extended under President Wilson, increased still further under President Harding and reached its zenith under President Coolidge". See page 4, column 1 of this paper. The present (Coolidge) administration has introduced it in the largest parks of Washington, D. C., something President Wilson did not do. DO NOT SIGN! THE GEEVUM GIRLS their allies' efforts to discredit it for the sole purpose of substituting the old or any convention plan, and regaining control of nominations for public offices. Ohio Afro-American voters, of all others in the state, would be most harmed by a return to the convention plan of making nominations because it would estop any of our number in this state from ever again standing as candidates for public office of any consequence. Whether we are elected or not, we should at least, in common with all other classes or races of voters, be permitted to stand as candidates for any public office, and should not again be barred from so doing as we always were under the old convention plan. Do not be misled by any specious argument of politicians or others into signing the petitions now being circulated thruout the state which ask that the popular vote primary be resubmitted to a vote at the election in November. Surely you know that the political bosses are depending on the notorious crookedness (they more than anyone or anything else is responsible for) which is invoked on primary election day, to do away with the popular vote primary. Make yourself a committee of one to explain this to all you come in contact with. KELLY MILLEY AND MRORE TREATTER₀ Speaking of Editor Wm. Monroe Trotter, Prof. Kelly Miller of Howard University, has this to say: "I have differed with him and still differ in modus operandi, but his devotion, his courage and persistence command my unlimited admiration. Because I am of a different type of temperament in no less wisees the candor of my judgment and the sincerity of my esteem." But that "different type of temperament" "played havoc" with Kelly's "backbone", however. His "kow-towing" to President Durkee proved that beyond all question or doubt. THE GOVERNOR WAS RIGHT. Gov. A. V. Donahay wasn't joking, four years ago, when in so many words he characterized primary elections in Ohio as "rotten to the core" but he was telling a plain truth that ought to be but is not notorious. Primary elections are not "rotten" of themselves, however, but are made so purposefully by political bosses and organizations in certain cities for two reasons—one that the bosses may nominate those candidates they prefer, and the other that they may discredit the popular vote primary in the eyes and minds of the people. The bosses were and still are "up to their old tricks" and are more anxious than ever before to return to the old convention plan of "making nominations" because they can control the conventions and of course all of the nominations made in them. Let the law against crookedness in elections of all kinds be enforced, particularly in Cleveland, Cincinnati, Columbus, Dayton and Toledo, and the voting and counting of votes at said elections be properly safe-guarded, and away will go, immediately, ninetynine percent of the "rottenness", the complaint against the popular vote primary, and very much of the benevolent influence of political bosses. "PROSPERITY WITH PEACE". "It took the World War," points out Congressman Charles J. Thompson, Republican, of Ohio, "to bring prosperity to the Wilson administration." But, as the Representative continued, with the war over, millions were idle and business was paralyzed. Prosperity, however, has come to the country in peace time. Unemployment has disappeared; billions have been created by the Democratic administration. Uncle Sam's note is worth 100 cents on the dollar, and the country is in the midst of one of the greatest eras of prosperity that it has ever known. Peace time, rather than war time, is the real testing time of parties and policies. Congress has adjourned and Representative Thompson has undoubtedly returned to his home in this state and been promptly convinced by his constituents that his flight of imagination during that speech was enough to make any one dizzy. We have the peace alright but not the promised "Coolidge prosperity"—at least here in Ohio. Unemployment has NOT "disappeared" and this part THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, O.SATURDAY, JULY 17, 1926 of the country is NOT "in the midst of one of the greatest eras of prosperity that it has ever known". Only a man on a good salary, like Congressman Thompson's, could possibly make such a ridiculous statement, these days. COOLIDGE. President Coolidge's little joke—to the delegation that called on him, at noon, Friday, July 2, to protest against federal segregation: "Some segregation has been removed and I will continue to remove more gradually until it is all removed." Strange, isn't it that none of our people or out of Washington, D.C. have as yet been able to ascertain where any segregation has been removed by the President or any of his cabinet officers? And still President Coolidge is alleged to have perpetrated that aggravating and insulting little joke. We cannot believe it. Editor Wm. Monroe Trotter, did he say anything of the kneel, Prof. Keval H. Thomas of Washington, D.C. where the slightest foundation in the face of the President's alleged statement? Come, gentlemen, speak up! DENY DIVORCE ACTIONS. Lieut. Jay Williams Clifford Denes Through the Attorney Starting Dryer System Pittsburgh, Pa. — Through Atty, George H. White, Jr., of this city, Lieut, and Mrs. Jay Williams Clifford, the former a government narcotic inspector and a native of Cleveland, O., have emphatically denied the divorce action as published in a recent issue of the New York Tattler. In a statement made to the police, he claimed that neither one of them have any time complained such action. Mrs. Clifford is at present residing with Mr. and Mrs. Charles H. Flagg, of R. St. N. W., Washington, D. C. while Mr. Clifford has an assignment in this district. She has issued a supplementary statement declaring that she closed her Fairmont Ave. residence at the nation's capital for economy. New York friends of the Cliffords have expressed very great pleasure over the denial of divorce action, inasmuch as they had been considered an ideal wedded couple. TEXT OF SESQUICENTENNIAL PETITION READ TO PRESIDENT AT WHITE HOUSE AUDIENCE, JULY 2, 1926. To the President, Calvin Coolidge, Chief Executive, White House, Washington, D. C.: In this year 1926, Sesqui-Centennial Year of signing of Declaration of U. S. A. which asserted human rights for American Independence Week, the set aside by Federal Commission under yourself to the end of nationwide observances of its 150th anniversary; We the undersigned, for ourselves and all other Americans of African extraction or descent, do hereby earnestly and of right petition, request the present Order the present segregation of Colored federal employees in Executive Departments—Treasury, Justice, Post Office, Army and Navy and others, a subjection of one racial element to the race prejudice actual or presumed of all other elements, and therefore a denial of qualification of citizenship to the race singled out from all others for such subjection. For we hold it to be self-evident that consistency and national honor require that race distinction in deference to race prejudice be removed from federal buildings at federal capital as the federal government arranges nation-wide observances of the sesqui-centennial of a Republic's first document which enunciated equality and freedom. This is the more incumbent when this one race so proscribed furnished the first martyr, and soldiers in the war, for the very independence to be celebrated, with soldiers in every other war, thereafter, and never again. THIS LEAD THE NATION GENERALLY TO END COLOR PROSCRIPTION AT 150 YEARS. NATIONAL EQUAL RIGHTS LEAGUE, for UNITED COLORED AMERICAN COMMITTEE. ALICE TO JOIN "KIP". New York City.—Alice Jones Rhinelander has made reservations for her long-contemplated trip to Europe. She plans to sail, today, on the Majestic. In view of the fact that her aristocratic and wealthy young husband, Leonard Kip Rhinelander, whose father tried in vain to obtain an annulment of their marriage, is abroad, her friends see in this a move toward reconcilation. Ms. Rhinelander could not be reached, Thursday, but her friends prophesied a romantic reunion in Paris as the next big adventure in the lives of these two young people. Prejudice will not bother them there. Drew Wins Amherst Loving Cup. Washington, D. C.—Charlie Drew graduate from Amherst College received the Howard Hill Mossman loving cup. The cup goes to the student who has brought the most honor to the college in athletics dur- ing Washingtonian, and went to Amherst from Dunbar high school, after completing the course with high honors. 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. We are especially desirous of hearing from persons in the following named cities: Springfield, Column Street, St. Peter's Valley, Zachary Wilmington, Xenia, Washington C. H., Lancaster, Hamilton, Piqua, Lima, O., and other places, particularly in Ohio, where we have none. Write to the editor of The Gazette, 226 West, Superior Ave., Cleveland, O., and terms will be sent promptly. Our readers will oblige us great, by sending at once the addresses of persons in the cities named, and other cities where we can write relative to the matter. There is something radically wrong with a group of people who refuse to help relieve their own burdens. The day of throwing bouquets is gone forever. The Afro-American must face the facts as they exist. We won't gain anything by fooling ourselves into thinking that everything is all right. Everything, affecting the lives of Afro-Americans, is all wrong. 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Sissle & Blake were sure given an ovation on thelr return engagement at the Allen Theater, last week. Prof, Joseph L. Meyers, principal of the Lincoln Junior high school at Gallipolis, is visiting his parents, Mr. and Mrs, Elbert Meyers of EB. S5th St. Mrs, Minnie Easley of this city will be the principal speaker, July 19-23 evenings, at Mt. Calvary Bap- tist. church, Mansfield. Rev. H. Teague, pastor. | Mrs, Alva Robinson, formerly a Cleveland girl, returned to her home in Chicago after a two months’ vis- it with her sick mother, Mrs, M. J Nance of B. 39th St. Harry C. Wright of the Ohio In- vestigation Bureau of Secret Serv- fee, returned from Philadelphia, Po.., where he spent three months on a very important case. Richard Cammack, one of Wyom- ing, Ohio’s pioneer citizens, is vis- iting his niece, Miss Beatrico Gaines, who also had as guest, recently, Mrs, Daisy Hall Rice of ‘Columbus. Mrs. Frank Wise, whose husband passed out a year or two ago. died at the infirmary (Warrensville), last week. They were old residents of Cleveland. Mr. Geo. W. Sampson's funeral service, last week Friday afternoon at Mt, Zion Cong. church was large- ly attended, particularly by our old- er residents. The Sampson family has the sympathy of the community. Albon L. Holsey, of Tuskegee, Ala., sec. of our N. B. league, which meets in Cleveland, Aug. 18, 19 and 20, and Lester Al Walton of the N.Y. Age were in Cleveland, last week. Mrs, Ida M. Cash, EB. 36th St.. one of our local public’ school teachers, is spending a part of her vacation with Mrs. C. B. Lewis in Wickliffe, driving there in her car. Among the callers at The Gazette sanctum, the first of the week, were: ‘Wm. Warfleld of Blaine Ave. and E. W. Mitchell of Euclid Ave. who tenewed their subscriptions, and Rev. Russell 8. Brown, pastor of Mt. Zion Cong. temple. 4 ‘Miss Edna Tucker, a teacher in our Indianapolis public schools, is taking a six-weeks' course at West- ern Reserve university and visiting her sister, Mrs. Anna Parks, E. 36th St. Little Robert and Cornelia Mc- Cain, nigces of Mr. and Mrs, Robert K. Hodges of Parkway drive, left, last week, to visit their uncle and aunt, Mr.'and Mrs. Edward Cooper, Memphis, Tenn., who ate celebrat- ing their golden wedding. THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, O.SATURDAY, JULY 17, 1926 WANTED.—Ladics—to finish silk underwear, at home by hand or ma- chine, No canvassing required. Send stamp for reply. Keystone Mills, Amsterdam, N. ¥. FOR SALE.—Beautiful six-room Cleveland Heights home; $12,500, priced for quick sale by owner. | Im- Mediate action to avoid foreclosing. Shown by appointment only. Ad- dress, Box 6, The Gazette, 226 W. Superior Ave., Cleveland, Ohio. WANTED AGENTS.—To sell book en race unity and co-operation, Workers can make money. Discuss- es unity from every angle. Gives plan to unite our people through the different states and nationally. Sample copy, 50 cents (silver or money order.) Enclose stamp for particulars, Address, Dr. Samuel Barrett, 108 Mears St., Waterloo, capa Ralph, son of Mr. and Mrs. Mil- ton Gibson, E. 100th Sta was the ‘inner of the’ frat prize in. the WA" baby popularity contest. Ten By dee bavet Dr and Mire. B. Fe Rucker, won the second prize. Both) Ropresented St John’s A.M, E. churen, THR GAZETTE is the oldest and bas the largest bona fide circulation, ‘double that of any newspaper in the Inerest of, Afro-Americans pablsh- Chor circulated in the state of Ohio, Sia comparison with say will ine matiately cetablish its rank ay one of the NEWSIEST AND BEST In the country. Misi Jano E, Hunter of the WA, Hon. Harty E. Davis and Goo. A. Myers represent our group on ine committee of 160 of Cleve- Tand's leading citizens appointed to formulate ‘plane {or the, coustruce fon’ ‘of thy. “propored. $15,000,000 Carmogied.orain bridge, & new con- hecting link for the east and west fides of the city. Dr. Armen G. Byans was cloctod to membership in the Association of American ‘Teachers ot the Diseases of Obildren, at, the organtestion’s Feceut meeting, in Dallas Toxas. He has been specializing at the Babies’ Dispensary, , Sth St, in_ connec: ton with’ Lakeside hospital, for fore tian three yenre aud is con- |sidered an authority on children's |atioases. ‘The Standard Shoo Co., located at 4119 Scovill Ave., Is a raco enter- prise with the best ‘quality of shoes for men, women and children. Since this is the first store of the kind opened by cur people in Clevslaad fm receat years, we ask ail to pat- ronize it that can do so. There are Over, $480,000. spent yearly by our people for shoes in Cleveland, and eee seca a era ae ard Shoe Co. should not get a good: {iy portion of this, if it will properly puverite sud clusrwise pus ite ‘Dusiness, treat ite patrons Ment and show aa ability, to, compete. with Stuer shoe-stores In that vicinity. in the matter of stock and. prices Hon Harry C. Smith, editor ot he Gnsctto, ie a candidate for the Republican nomination for gover- hor of Olilo, and we learn that the hail Io coming to ‘his ‘office 80 fast that he hardly has time to read it. People are offering their services free- Iy and some are saking to he remem- dered should he be successful. There hag always been a time and always wilt ‘be when. men. want. positions given them for doing nothing to help the fellow whom they are ask- ing. Help do this great work of voting and electing and you will bo Surprised “ot positions ‘tat. will be open for the man or woman ‘Who is Qualified to hold chem-—Dr. James K Nickens, ‘Cleveland, 0. Corre- spondent of The Pittsburg Colrier.. Wo aro wondering if some peo- ple ean NOW see why The Gazette has for many months kept standing on its fourth page its “SEGREGA- TION AN OUTRAGE” articles Which were specially ‘written for this Da per by the most fearless, most man- ly and loyal Afro-American at the nation’s capital. This paper took che lead in that matter and for many months was alone in its public pro- test to President Coolidge against the contemptable, insulting prac- tice. Month after month it public- ally called upon the race press and our “national” organizations to take LLAMA AE Smith, Our Candidate! Hon. Harry C. Smith, editor of ‘The Gazette for forty-three years, has filed his papers for the Republican nomination for governor of Ohio. There are about a dozen candidates in the ‘eld gor the same posi- tion, If Mr. Smith is nomi- nated and elected he will make one of the best governors Ohio has ever had, as he believes in a fair deal for all races, whether in prison or out, Pub- lic improvements will go on, the laws will be upheld, the farmers will be encouraged, business men encouraged to build greater industrial plants and hire more of our people 0 that the outside world will buy more from this part of the land. Success to you, Mr. Smith. We need such aman As you as governor.—Dr. James K. Nickens, Cleveland corre- spondent of ‘The Pittsburg Courter. up the fight in behalf of the race and it was many months before any of them made a move toward doing so. Now comes the National Equal Rights league and performs a duty that our people of the entire coun- try should not be slow to recognize and give unstinted praise, particu- larly Editor Wm, Monroe Trotter, its secretary and moving spirit. It is time, too, and has been for a long time, for others of our “na- tional” organizations and race pub- lications to awaken to a full sense of their responsibility in the matter and give our people some aggres- sive action against federal segrega- tion, We are not going to get any- where in this country, as far as our rights and privileges ‘are concerned, until we are far more active in our own behalf. SHOT HIMSELF TO DEATH. Love For A Cleveland Woman Al- leged to be the Gause—A Post- Office Employe Nearly Forte Years of Ace: ‘Pittsburgh, Pa.—“Love is, after all, the strongest force in the world. ‘Yes, love is everything. After it— what is life?” The above were the remarks of Alfred Jones, age 29, of 608 Pro- tectory way, well known mason and city post office employee, ere he hurled himself into eternity by fir ing a bullet into his left temple in a barricaded room at his residence, Joly 1, 1926, and died as he was being rushed to Passavant hospital. The cause for Jones’ act seems to have been a love affair of long standing, which grim disease mock- ed. Relatives recall a love affair with a Cleveland woman, whom Jones had planned to marry, but who has been in a sanitarium ‘fight- ing what seemed to him to be a losing game with a malady held by authorities to be well-nigh ineur- able, It is said that because of this she, some time ago, returned the ring he had placed’ on her finger as a marriage pledge. Possibly this fg why he said to a friend: “It's all Wrong—the sanitarium—the ring— the difference—* Code-like, as it appears from all indications, those few words explain why Alfred Jones took his life. OUR LESSON ‘We must tearn to govern our- selves and work together for our own advancement. It we do not learn to govern our- selveg and work together for our own advancoment, we may be very sure that we will be governed by others in their Own interest as well ag worked by others for their own ad- vancement and not ours.— George W. 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The com- mittee unanimously agreed that this was not only an affront but an ag- grayating insult to all the Afro- American, Jewish, Catholic and for- eign-born’ voters ‘of the Third Dis- trict, particularly, and those of the entire city and county, in general, Se ee See ae ognized as one of the four Ku Klux Klan candidates for the Republican nomination for Governor, Thad. H. Brown, Hon. Ross P. Buchanan of Carroliton and Myers Y. Cooper of Cincinnati being she others. The executive committhe of Ward 11 Central Body does not hold Presi- dent Alex. Bernstein responsible for the blunder because it understands that he tried in vain to avert it but places the blame for the reprehens- ible action on the Western Reserve Republican club’s committee in charge of the meeting. Harry C. Smith, editor of The Gazette and a candidate for the Republican nomi- nation for Governor, is president of Ward 11 Central ‘Body. 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