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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. The American we learn these facts, the quicker we will begin to work for our own salvation, the sooner we will attain our rightful place as American citizens. — Philadelphia Tribune. "Not the largest, But the Best!" Little Rock, Ark. June 16, '25. Hon. Harry C. Smith, Editor, Gazette, Cleveland, O. Dear Friend:—Long live the Gazette! a welcome friend to the Ricks-Demby family for forty-three years. We boast of being among the oldest contin- ius subservers of the Gazette. not the largest, but the best in essentials and the most dependable of race journals. Wishing you continued good health and success, we are as ever. Very truly yours. (Bishop) Edward T. and Nettie M. Demby. "HUMAN NATURE'S FOULEST BLOT." My ear is pained My soul is sick with every day's report Of wrong and outrage, with which the earth is filled. There is no flesh in man's obdurate heart. It does not feel for man: the natural bond Of brotherhood is severed as the flax That falls asunder at the touch of fire. He finds his fellow guilty of a skin Not colored like his own: and having power To enforce the wrong, for such a worthy cause Dooms and devotes him as his lawful prey. Thus man devotes his brother, and destroys: Tis human nature's broadest foulest blot. —Cowper. IS IT ANY USE TO CONTEND FOR RIGHTS? Colored Americans are the only race, responsible members of which are in favor of submitting to discrimination on the claim that their race "always will be discriminated against." The Jews are still contending, after over 1900 years of universal discrimination and are winning even social rights today. The Irish at home have contended for 700 years and are winning because they will die rather than submit. The race that says it's of no use to resist, downs itself and the world then will say, "Negroes are not worthy of equal rights; they are by nature not equal to whites, have no 'guits.'" The world respects only those who resent and resist proscriptions for race. 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Display advertisements accepted until noon, WEDNESDAYS! HARRY C. SMITH, 226 West Superior Avenue, Cleveland, O. (Opposite, Hotel Cleveland.) Notary Public Bell Phone: Cherry 1259 (Call in the Afternoon.) Classified Advertising . . . Department . . FOR SALE.—House in E. 61st St., all improvements. Call, Ran. 5786-M. WANTED.—Agents—Write for Free Samples. Sell Madison "Better-Made" shirts for large manufacturer direct to wearer. No capital or experience required. Many earn $100 weekly and bonus. MADISON 100TH MAKERS, 562 Broadway, New York City. FOR SALE.—Rooming House and good lease on same; 15 furnished rooms, seven pool-tables, lunch counter. Very reasonable. Splendid opportunity. Guaranteed mooker! Apply, Logan Owens, 3033 Central Ave., Cleveland, O. FOR RENT.—Two three-room suites, 7002 St. Clair Ave., N. E. Inquire in grocery, 7006 St. Clair Ave., N. E. Rent reasonable. CLEVELAND Social and Personal Mrs. Ada M. Johnson, E. 80th St., an active club leader, has been very ill. Mrs. Jessie Ross has returned from an extended visit with relatives in Hillsboro, and Maysville, Ky. Sissle & Blake were sure given an ovation on their 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 E. 85th St. Mrs. Minnie Easley of this city will be the principal speaker, July 19-23 evenings, at Mt. Calvary Baptist church, Mansfield. Rev. H. Teague, pastor. Mrs. Alva Robinson, formerly a Cleveland girl, returned to her home in Chicago after a two months' visit with her sick mother, Mrs. M. J. Nance of E. 39th St. Harry C. Wright of the Ohio Investigation Bureau of Secret Service, returned from Philadelphia, Pa., where he spent three months on a very important case. Richard Cammack, one of Wyoming, Ohio's pioneer citizens, is visiting the infirmary Mr. Beatrice 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 largely attended, particularly by our older 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 A. Walton of the N. Y. Age were in Cleveland, last week. Mrs. Ida M. Cash, E. 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. Warfield of Blaine Ave. and E.W. Michelle of Euclid Ave., who renewed their subscriptions, and Rev. Russell S. Brown, pastor of Mt. Zion Cong. temple. Miss Edna Tucker, a teacher in our Indianapolis public schools, is taking a six-weeks' course at Western Reserve university and visiting her sister, Mrs. Anna Parks, E. 36th St. Little Robert and Cornelia McCain, nieces of Mr. and Mrs. Robert K. Hodges of Parkway drive, left, last week, to visit their uncle and aunt, Mrs. and Mrs. Edward Cooper, Memphis, Tenn., who are celebrating their golden wedding. ```markdown ``` *M. KLEINMAN'S 2928 Central Ave. *THE S. & S. DRUG CO. 7325 Central Ave. The Gazette regularly should notify copy delivered promptly. In business matters to The Gazette nk, 220 West Superior Ave., oppo- y wish to see the editor call carefully examine The Gazette's purchases. Business men who have the patronage of our people assurance that they want it application in current issues of The by 4 p. m., TUESDAY of that advertisements accepted until C. SMITH, Avenue, Cleveland, O. tel Cleveland.) Bell 'Phone: Cherry 1259 (Call in the Afternoon.) WANTED.—Ladies to finish silk underwear, at home by hand or machine. No canvassing required. Send stamp for reply. Keystone Mills, Amsterdam, N. Y. FOR SALE.—Beautiful six-room Cleveland Heights home; $12,500, priced for quick sale by owner. Immediate action to avoid foreclosure Shown by appointment only. Address, Box 6, The Gazette, 226 W. Superior Ave., Cleveland, Ohio. WANTED AGENTS.—To sell book on race unity and co-operation. Workers can make money. Discusses unity from every angle. Discusses 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, Iowa. Ralph, son of Mr. and Mrs. Milton Gibson, E. 100th St., was the winner of the first prize in the P. W. A. baby popularity contest. Benj. F., Jr., son of Dr. and Mrs. B. F. Rucker, won the second prize. Both represented St. John's A. M. E. Church. THE GAZETTE is the oldest and has the largest bona fide circulation, double that of any newspaper in the interest of Afro-Americans published or circulated in the state of Ohio, and comparison with any will immediately establish its rank as one of the NEWSIEST AND BEST in the country. Miss Jane E. Hunter of the P. W. A., Hon. Harry E. Davis and P. W. A. Myers represent our group on the committee of 150 of Cleveland's leading citizens appointed to formulate plans for the construct Carnegie-Lorain bridge, a new connecting link for the east and west sides of the city. Dr. Armen G. Evans was elected to membership in the Association of American Teachers of the Diseases of Children, at the organization's recent meeting, in Dallas Texas. He has been specializing at the Babies' Dispensary, E. 35th St., in connection with Lakeside hospital, for more than three years and is considered an authority on children's diseases. The Standard Shoe Co., located at 4119 Scovill Ave., is a race enterprise with the best quality of shoes for men, women and children. Since this is the first store of the kind opened by our people in Cleveland in recent years, we ask all to patronize it that can do so. There are over $480,000 spent yearly by our people for shoes in Cleveland, and there is no reason why The Standard Shoe Co. should not get a goodly portion of this, if it will properly suit the needs and otherwise push its business, treat its patrons right and show an ability to compete with other shoe-stores in that vicinity in the matter of stock and prices. Hon Harry C. Smith, editor of the Gazette, is a candidate for the Republican nomination for governor of Ohio, and we learn that the mail is coming to his office so fast that he hardly has time to read it. People are offering their services免费, and the bered should be successful. There has always been a time and always will be when men want positions given them for doing nothing to help the fellow whom they are asking. Help do this great work of voting and electing and you will be open for the man or woman who is qualified to hold them.—Dr. James K. Nickens, Cleveland, O. Correspondent of The Pittsburg Collier. We are wondering if some people can NOW see why The Gazette has for many months kept standing on its fourth page its "SEGREGATION AN OUTRAGE" articles which were specially written for this paper by the most fearless most manly and loyal Afro-American at the nation's capital. This paper took the lead in that matter and for many months was alone in its public protest to President Coolidge against the contemptable, insulting practice. Month after month it publically called upon the race press and our "national" organizations to take THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, O.SATURDAY, JULY 17, 1926. 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 field for the same position. If Mr. Smith is nominated and elected he will make one of the best governors Ohio has ever had, as he believes he is derided. There is whether in prison or out, public 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 so that the outside world will buy more from this part of the land. Success to you, Mr. Smith. We need such a man as you as governor.—Dr. James K. Nickens, Cleveland correspondent 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 country should not be slow to recognize and give unstinted praise, particularly Editor Wm. Monroe Trotter, its secretary and moving spirit. It is time, too, and has been for a long time, for others of our "national" organizations and race publications to awaken to a full sense of their responsibility in the matter and give our people some aggressive action against federal segregation. We are not going to get anywhere 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 Alleged to be the Cause—A Post-Office Employee Nearly Forty Years of Age. Pittsburgh, Pa.—"Love is, after all the strongest force in the world. Yes, love is everything. After it—what The above were the remarks of Alfred Jones, age 39, of 608 Protectory way, well known mason and city post office employee, ere he hurled himself into eternity by firing a bullet into his left temple in a barricaded room at his residence, which grim disease mocked. 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 mocked. Relatives recall a love affair with a Cleveland woman, whom Jones had planned to marry, but who has been in a sanitarium fightless seemed to him to be a losing gambit with a well-known authorities to be well-night incurable. 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 is why he said to a friend: "It's all wrong—the sanitarium—the ring." Code-like as it appears from all indications, those few words explain why Alfred Jones took his life. OUR LESSON We must learn to govern ourselves and work together for our own advancement. If we do not learn to govern ourselves and work together for our own advancement, we may be very sure that we will be governed by others in their own interest as well as worked by others for their own advancement and not ours. George W. Blount. CHARACTER. Character, like a fine old tree, matures slowly and is a riper growth than success that is forced as hothouse products are forced. Character in a newspaper develops through years of service to the people. For forty-two years The Gazette has been serving our people of this country. It has gathered a number of articles which reflects, and whose power and responsiveness to buy are direct measures of its present importance to every advertiser. EDITOR. LISTERINE THROAT TABLETS Antiseptic Prevent & Relieve Hoarseness Sore Throat Coughs Made by Lambert Pharmacal Co., Saint Louis, U.S.A. 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How Our Men And Women Are Insulted And Humiliated In the Government's Departments—Will the Self and Race-Respecting Negro Press of This Country Continue to Stand for This Sort of Thing? Washington, D. C., (Special). —There is more segregation in Washington today under President Coolidge than there has ever been since the Civil War. The beginnings of segregation were under President Taft. It was greatly extended, under President Wilson; increased, still further, under President Harding; and reached its zenith under President Coolidge. For instance, the largest of our parks President Wilson never troubled, but the present administration has found time and desire to introduce it even there. including the postmaster general, in the postoffice building. It announces dancing and a pleasant social evening with the officials for "the post office employees," yet not one was delivered to the colored clerks. hurried a protest to the postmaster general the day before it was to come off, and he ordered the postmaster to invite the colored as well as the white. These clerks go 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 To many people, segregation is a Democratic scheme of insult, but such is not the case. Mr. Taft introduced it in the bureau of engraving. He segregated the census-takers in this city in 1910, restricting white workers to white people, and black to black, often duplicating work as most blocks had white and black residents. And, worst of all, announced in his official capacity that Negroes should not hold office where white people complained. Segregation, then, is a Republican institution and a Democratic one. It was begun by Republicans, and carried on to its all-embracing extent by Republicans! There is far more of it in the departments, today, than at any time since the Negro first appeared, close upon the close of the Civil War. The picture requirement in the civil service, which makes it next to impossible for a colored lady or gentleman to enter the civil service, since their color is disclosed in their graph which must accompany their papers, is tenaciously held on to by our Republican girl present. Only last week, a color girl appeared after having the best examination, and after having been telegraphed are by the department. The photograph had failed to tell her true color, and they flatly refused to appoint her when she appeared, and they saw her complexion. Commissioner Blair of the internal revenue bureau with thousands of clerks will not appoint a Negro clerk, and his word is law there, as he is the special favorite of Secretary Mellon and President Coolidge. He will tell North Carolina. He is the name of the other favorite and the segregationist of buildings and grounds, is used to complain of either of the southern gentlemen. The colored people here who know the President could destroy segregation in the departments of the government, and the photograph requirements in the civil service by the mere nod of his head, are at a loss to understand why he does not put his splendid declarations on democracy into operation here, where it would not even cost him a single vote and where he has full power and absolutely no opposition. They wonder if he is not a firm believer in segregation, especially since segregation is one of the chief tenets of the Ku Klux Klan which has found its "welcome home" in the Republican party, and receives no condemnation from the Republican President. (Special to The Gazette.) Washington, D. C.—In the postoffice segregation is rampant. The faithful colored clerks work under constant humiliation and physical disadvantages. The department maintains a spacious caferla for whites only, where these inferior white clerks can buy appetizing luncheons and chat in comfort while eating, while the colored clerks must bring cold luncheons from home and eat them any place they can. The physical discomfort, disadvantageous as it is, is far less galling to the colored clerks than is the thought of their government taking their taxes, as it takes those of the whites, for the comfort of the latter, and setting them off as though they were the工业利益 sting. all the more when they reflect that they are far capable than the whites, and render the government more intelligent and efficient service—the white man of their attainment being able to get far more lucrative employment. The department goes even farther in its solicitude for whiche and neglect of colored. It maintains a well-appointed club room with pool tables and other games, comfortable lounges and other equipment for rest, sociability, and recreation, and nothing for these same colored employees. This private club is in the magnificent postoffice building, built and maintained by ALL of the people. In the locker room, segregation, and segregation is even attempted in the office. And all of the most dependable and faithful employees. Last year the white employees passed around invitations to the white employees, in the very presence of the colored, to attend a reception to the heads of departments, including the postmaster general, in the postoffice building. It announced dancing and a pleasant social evening with the officials for "the postoffice employees," yet not one was delivered to the colored clerks. I hurried a protest to the postmaster general, general day of the week, off the commute, and he ordered the postmaster 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 examination was superior No Negro, however efficient or old in the service, must ever dream of a promotion to a directive position. The hard, unyielding caste passes whites over him, one after another, though many of the colored employees have won contests in quickness and acumen in the hands of mail The colored clocks have dared to form a union which meets regularly and sends many and intelligent protests to the postmaster, and often appeals from his decisions to the postmaster-general. It has secured some improvement in their working conditions, but they are still bitter over the huge injustice done to them for nothing else than the color of their skin. (Special to The Gazette.) Washington, D. C.—The government printing office keeps faith with the government's universal scheme of segregation. Some of the best and brightest of our girls are forced to accept inferior positions there on account of the better and more lucrative avenues of employment being closed to them because of their color. The whites are generally of a very mediocre group, far from equaling our girls in educational equipment, culture, and working efficiency. Yet these superior girls are set off from the whites with the latter, of course, having the better working conditions, salaries and recreational facilities. There is a large cafeteria in this huge structure where all of the employees may go, but, with a few tables in an open-of-the-way section enclosed in the employees, am I going to say that few, very few, of the people patronize the place, preferring a little physical inconvenience to the open, semi-public humiliation of segregation. In toilet facilities, dressing-rooms, and work assignments, wherever possible, the law of segregation is in full force, and, of course, this same undemocratic practice reveals itself on the salary roll and in the hard caste that bars promotion. Here, as elsewhere, the senior officer, as a superior employee to directive positions, and higher salaries. The whites have a large recreational center in this public building with many fine appointments for rest and amusements. During lunch and dinner hours they repair to this restful retreat for sociability and dance. Last fall, a young Afro-American with a splendid record in his work, felt the injustice of exclusion of our own so keenly felt, and joined the company of a young lady of the race to take part in the dance. As soon as this couple started to dance the music was abruptly stopped, and the young man reported for attempting to take part in an entertainment provided for employees. He was called to the office, lectured for being "one of those smart Negroes" who believe in "social equality," and then dismissed on a trumped-up charge. He was a night-employee of the company, and after the dance incident a fire broke out in the office. He was quickly accused of setting the building afire in revenge for his exclusion from the dance floor. Detectives came to the building to arrest him, and failing to secure any evidence searched him only to discover the pistol. They quickly dropped the arson charge and substituted one for carrying conceal, and immediately disliked the company. By this severe punishment there is no way of escape for one who dares to resent the daily insults that their government (under President Coolidge) gives them. Many of the employees have expressed their deeply-wounded feelings to me at being considered a pariah by the government whose institutions they are serving so faithfully, and I have taken up a number of cases only to be met by a denial that the conditions complained of exist, and a request for the names of my informants. I knew the fate these informants would suffer, have the right to complain! The parliament then taking the position that it cannot take up the case. It is perfectly clear that this iniquitous scheme of segregation is a difficult thing to fight, since the government THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, O.SATURDAY, JULY 17, 1926 is so well settled upon it, and the complainants cannot bear witness (Special to The Gazette) Washington, D. C.—Segregation in the bureau of engraving and printing has an interesting history involving President Thomas Woodrow Wilson and members of his family, three heroic young colored women who lost their positions as a result of their protest, and the noble wife of Senator Robert La Follette. Shortly after the accession of Mr. Wilson to the White House, a member of his family visited the bureau where she saw white and colored girls working together in perfect harmony, oblivious to any thought of race. Shortly thereafter came an order for segregation of the races, and the bureau was ordered for her philanthropy among our people and who was upon intimate terms at the White House appeared at the bureau to tell our girls to be contented with the new order as "a great Negro leader had taught colored people to stay in their places." Three of the young ladies resisted the order to the last ditch and wore summarily dismissed! Senator La Follette lodged a protest with Secretary McAdoo to no avail, and his noble wife began a crusade against the undemocratic innovation. She took the platform here in Washington and Boston before the famous Twentieth Century club. She used the columns of the Senator's magazine, sparing neither space nor vigor of utterance. She thundered against it in our local white press, and addressed the national gathering of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People in New York. When our people here were so profoundly discouraged, she came out one stormy afternoon to the Y. M. C. A. to urge them to continue the fight, for democracy at the crisis.wald Garrison Villanova is to town to attack white House and Cabinet our people, and the Nation Association secured publicity in over six hundred influential white papers in the country. The fight checked what was thought to be the intention of the segregates, namely, the elimination of the colored employees from the bureau alt together. The same segregation which some of our people think is the cherished institution of the Democratic party is still there, in all of its fullness, under the administration of the party that Abraham Lincoln, Charles Sumner and Frederick Douglass are helped to found. Our girls are employed there in far larger numbers than in any other branch of the public service. THEY ARE SERIOUS students, the teachers are follies, and working stations, and of course none are ever thought of for promotions to executive places. They are girls from our best names, most of them with high age normal school training, and fine culture. The white girls are of no such grade, as there is no segregation for them in the great world of things. They have unlimited fields at high wage for even mediocre talents. The best of our girls must take these inferior positions in segregation. Our people are still hoping for the issuance of an order destroying this iniquitous practice in all of our government departments, for it not only humiliates the best of the government servants but impairs the government service. (Special to The Gazette) Washington, D. C.—The treasury department, according to the President's recent acceptance speech, is now under the ablest financial gentus since the days of Alexander Hamilton. It is to be remembered that the great Hamilton came from the West Indies, and in that long sweep of history that the President traversed are the mighty Salmon P. Chase, secretary of the treasury in Lincoln's cabinet, who, in a national extremity such as this country has never known, devised the national banking system which financed the Civil War; and Ohio's master financier, John Sherman. These men never knew what segregation was! The present head of the department of internal revenue, Mr. Blair from North Carolina, has not appointed a colored clerk since his incumbency. While his predecessor, Mr. Daniel Roper, a Democrat from Texas, appointed and promoted several of them. Since the income tax legislation and the numberless new tax laws enacted, this is by far the largest department of the treasury, employing several thousand clerks. Yet Negroes are so scarse that they can't be noticed. There is the same general complaint here among our clerks and other employees as there is in the other branches of the government—failure to recognize their efficiency when promotions are due; ability to go so far and no farther. The various forms of segregation exist here as well as elsewhere—the restaurants closed or divided on color lines, and special toilets, lockers, and bathrooms colored. The toilets for the colored are few in such a large structure. Hence, the segregated clerks are forced to endure physical inconvenience at times, and are forced to travel long distances when they desire the use of them. The department maintains a huge, magnificent cafeteria, in the splendid sweep of woodland along our national driveway. The class can come to rest, dine, and socialize at afternoons and evenings at minimum costs. The white press of the city is constantly telling of the thousands who take advantage of this "delightful retreat," and the festive scene that their presence creates. It seats two thousand diners with space to spare; but not one Negro! His only share is in the taxes he is forced to pay for this luxury for another group! The registries of the treasury, which Republican Presidents have given the Negro since Garfield appointed Blanch K. Bruce, is now filled by a white man, and the colored people are congregated in a separate room which is publicly proclaimed as "a colored division." When it is discovered that Negro clerks are "working as white" in other divisions, they are promptly transferred to this "colored division." Our people fear that protest against this segregation would result in the abolition of the division altogether; so they remain in a dilemma, fearing segregation or elimination, and being poor, with no other opportunities in this southern atmosphere, must take the former. They are depressed at the wrong, but economic stress compels endurance of it. By a single stroke of his pen, President Calvln Coolidge can stop every bit of this damnable segregation, just as he can condemn that lawless organization the Ku Klux Klan. COOLIDGE'S SEGREGATION Washington, D. C.—We wish to call attention to the fact that in the fight against the segregation of our government employees, the Treasury Department will most likely be the center of attack, for segregation in several of its bureaus has been most pronounced. This is particularly true of the office of the register of the treasury and the internal revenue bureau. In the former, bearer board walls were maintained until recently. In the latter there have been two cases of discrimination on account of color brought to public view. The words, announcing the election of President Coolidge, were hardly cold before the effort to increase segregation in the departments here was on again at full speed. I had wiped up a little during the campaign. Investigation of Burcures An investigation of the executive departments and bureaus listed below shows that segregation prevails in them as follows: Office of the Register of the Treasury, there are two segregated sections—one with 30 Afro-American employees and the other with 14. Navy Department — one segregated section of 18 of our employees, as well as a segregated lunch room. Census Bureau — a segregated section of 60 Afro-American employee Bonus Section. Bonus section of the War Department—one segregated section of 180 of our employees. Veterans Bureau—a segregated section of 16 employees. Department of Justice—a segregated section of 10 employees in the file room. Internal Revenue Internal Revenue Bureau—a segregated section of 7 employees. Office of the Treasurer of the United States—a segregated section of 4 employees. P. O. Department. Transportation Division—a segregated section of 5 employees. P. O. Separate Lunch Room Post Office Department—a segregated lunch room. "WORTH ITS WEIGHT IN GOLD!" Cleveland, O. Aug. 28th, 1925. Hon. Harry C. Smith, Editor, Gazette, Dear Friend:—I have read the latest copy of The Gazette through and after reading it. I can truthfully say: It is worth its weight in gold! I admire true manhood—a man who, seeing injustice and oppression, dares, within the limits of the law, to expose it and, if possible smite it. You and have frequently it, during the forty-fourth since the birth of The Gazette, been, as the Scotch would say, like two McNeils, but when you, who find a man, such as you, who consistently, and persistently, through nearly half a century, puts his race foremost in his life struggle, I take off my hat to him, as being a true friend of our class. Long life to you and The Gazette. Yours for the right, John P. Green. (Former Member, Ohio State Senate.) RACE PREJUDICEI "I am convinced myself that there is no more evil thing in this present world than race prejudice; none at all! "I write deliberately—it is the worst single thing in life now. It justifies and holds to together more baseness, cruelty and abomination than any other sort of error in the world." —H. G. Wella. OHIO'S ANTI-LYNCHING LAW Against The Mob and Lynch-Murder—The Work of a Member of The Race—Also His Ohio Civil Rights Law 6278. "Mob" and "lynching" defined. 6279. "Serious injury" defined. 6280. Damages in case of assault. 6281. Damages in case of lynching. 6282. Damages recoverable by legal representative of victim of lynching. 6283. Person suffering death or injury by mob trying to lynch another. 6284. Limitations of action. 6285. Order to include recovery and costs in tax levy. 6286. Guardian's custody, etc., fees. 6287. County's right of action against member of mob. 6288. County's right of action against another county. 6289. Non-relief from prosecution. Our mob-violence or anti-lynching bill was introduced in the Ohio legislature in 1834 and re-introduced in 1896. It took the Hon. Harry C. Smith, editor of The Gazette, just three years to secure its enactment into law. The Ohio Supreme Court has several times upheld the constitutionality of the law and it has Section 6278. A collection of people assembled for an unlawful purpose and intending to do damage or injury to any one, or pretending to exercise correctional power over other persons by violence and without authority of law, shall be deemed a "mob" for the purpose of this action of violence by a mob upon the body of any person shall constitute a "lynching" within the meaning of this chapter. (93 v. 161 2.) Section 6279. The term "serious injury," for the purpose of this chapter, shall include such injury as permanently or temporarily disabled the receiving it from earning a livelihood by manual labor. (93 v. 161 3.) Section 6280. A person taken from officers of justice by a mob, and assaulted with whips, clubs, missiles or in any other manner, may recover, as hereafter provided, a sum not to exceed one thousand dollars from the county in which the assault is made. (93 v. 161 4.) Section 6281. A person assaulted and lynched by a mob may recover, from the county in which such assault is made a sum not to exceed five hundred dollars; or, if the injury received therefrom is serious, a sum not exceeding one thousand dollars; or, such that the injury may earn a livelihood by manual labor, a sum not to exceed five thousand dollars. (93 v. 162 5.) Section ¢282. The legal representative of a person dying from injuries received from lynching by a mob may recover of the county in which such injury occurred, a sum not to exceed five thousand dollars damages for such unlawful killing. Such sum shall be applied to the maintenance of the family and education of the minor children of such person so lynched, if any survive him, until such children are of legal age, and then be distributed to the survivors, share and share alike, the widow receiving an amount equal to a child's share, there be no widow or minor children of such person so lynched, 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 so recovered shall not be a part of the estate of such person so lynched, nor be subject to any of his liabilities. (93 v 162 6.) Section 6283. A person suffering death or injury from a mob attempting to lynch another person shall come within the provisions of this chapter. He or his legal representatives shall have a like right of action as one purposely injured or killed by such a mob. (93 v 162 6.) Section 6284. Action for the recoveries provided for in this chapter must be commenced, within two years from the date of such lynching, in any court having original jurisdiction of an action for damages for malicious assault. (93 v. 162 7.) Section 6285. An order to the commissioners of a county, against which such recovery is had, to include it with the costs of action, in the next succeeding tax levy for such county, shall be a part of the judgment in every such case. (93 v. 162 8.) Section 6288. If the decedent so lynched has minor children surviving him, the fund shall be turned over to a regularly appointed guardian. 'Such guardian shall administer such fund under the direction of the probate judge, allowing not more than five hundred dollars for counsel fees in the action for such recovery. (93 v. 162 9.) Section 6287. The county, in which a lynching charges, may recover the cost of a judgment and cost the victim in favor of the legal presentatives of a person killed or seriously injured by a mob from any of the persons composing such mob. A person present, with hostile intent, at such lynching shall be deemed a member of the mob and be liable to such action. (93 v. 162 10.) Section 6288. If a mob carries a prisoner into another county, or comes from another county to commit violence on a prisoner brought been very effective. Illinois, Pennsylvania and New Jersey have followed Ohio's lead and enacted mob violence or anti-lynching laws which are copies of our Ohio law. Several other northern states and at least one border state (Kentucky) have also enacted anti-lynching laws, in recent years, like Pennsylvania and New Jersey. The Ohio law follows: DBS. need. g. I representative of victim of lynching injury by mob trying to lynch another. and costs in tax levy. as. Inst member of mob. Inst another county. from such county for safekeeping, the county in which the lynching is committed may recover the amount of the judgment and costs from the county from which the mob campa- gence on the part of officials of such unless there was contributory negi- imprisoned not less than thirty days county in falling to protect such prisoner or disperse such mob. (93 v. 163 11.) Section 6289. This chapter shall not relieve a person concerned in such lynching from prosecution for homicide or assault for engaging therein. (93 v. 163 12.) OUR OHIO CIVIL RIGHTS LAW OUR OHIO CIVIL RIGHTS LAW Upon the request of many readers of The Gazette we print below the text of the Hon. Harry C. Smith's Ohio Civil Rights law which the editor had enacted while a member of the 71st General Assembly, in 1894: The General Coge of Ohio: **General Code of Ohio:** Sec. 12940. Whoever, being the proprietor of this employee, keeper or manager of an animal, restaurant, eating house, barber shop, public conveyance by land or ship, or other place of public accommodation, and amusement, denies to a citizen, except for reasons applicable alike to all citizens and regardless of race or color, the full enjoyment of the accommodations, advantages, facilities or privileges thereof, shall be fined not less than fifty dollars nor more than five hundred dollars, or nor more than ninety days, or both. Sec. 12941. Whoever violates the next provision shall also pay not less than fifty dollars nor more than five hundred dollars, or person aggrieved thereby to be reefered in any court of competent jurisdiction in the county where such offense was committed. This law has repeatedly been held constitutional and good law by the Ohio Supreme court. The trouble is our people will not use it as often as they should, but expect it to do for them what they should and must do for themselves, under it, in the courts. Judge Grant's Opinion of the Law. Mislest by the foolishly manufactured outcry for the passage of the Beaty bill a few years ago, and Akron 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, is self explanatory: Akron, O., April 25, 1919. Hon. Harry C. Smith. Editor The Gazette, Cleveland, O. My Dear Sir: Observing your letter, to the Beacon-Journal, of this city, I venture to say that you separate cover, the Ohio Law Reporter of Feb. 3, last, containing the opinion of the Court of Appeals in the Puritan Lunch Co. vs. Leonard H. Forman, decided in Akron, last fall, in which a judgment for ($500) five hundred dollars was sustained. If the Beacon-Journal had known what was going on in its own town, it would have no occasion for criticism favorably. OF OHIO IS UNDER NO REPROACH, nor our courts and juries in administering it. Not a word was said by the Beacon-Journal when the Forman case was reviewed. Very truly yours, B. C. Grant Subscribe Now To Save Money Read Our Ad on Page 1 Famous Cap Factory Circulation E After Re after Reading ROOSEVELT'S STRONG PLEA ROOSEVELT. We sincerely trust that young "Teddy" Roosevelt is far more sincere in what he says about our people and their rights and privileges than his famous daddy was. The elder Roosevelt talked beautifully, to them he came to Afro-Americas and his act drew square with his talk. For instance, that "discharge without honor" of "The Black Battalion," soldiers absolutely innocent of any wrong-doing, as charged by prejudiced southerners who at heart were no more friendly toward our government than the brave black men they practiced to be "lynch-murdered," as far as the soldiers' citizen and army rights and privileges were concerned.