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RHODES, Proprietor COLOR-LINE LUNA PARK Because they will not invoke the aid of our Ohio Civil Rights law "Negroes" only are barred from Luna Park's dance-hall, roller skating rink and bathingpool. That ought to be enough for all self and race respecting "Negroes". Do not be inveigled into going to Luna Park for any celebration or anything else! Clean, Clear, Healthy Beautiful Eyes Are a Wonderful Asset Murine is Cleansing, Soothing, Refreshing and Harmless. You Will Like It. Book on "Eye Care" or "Eye Beauty" go Free on Request restaurant 55TH STREET at Modern Equipped Restaurant THE GAZETTE ESTABLISHED, AUGUST 25, 1883 And Issued Every Week on Time Since CLEVELAND, OHIO, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1926. AND BURN OUR SCHOOLS! BITTERLY OPPOSED TO THE EDUCATION OF OUR CHILDREN. FRESH OHIO NEWS New York City.—The September Crisis contains the first article in the survey of schools undertaken as the result of an appropriation of $5,000 for this purpose by the American Fund for Public Service, known as the Garland Fund. The article, which covers the state of Georgia, shows that the average amount expended yearly on each white pupil in the state is $36.29 and the average amount on each Afro-American child is $4.59, though our children form 43 per cent of the children of school age only 9 per cent of the educational funds are spent on them and 91 per cent on the white children. The survey contains a history of the education of Afro-Americans in Georgia, a summary of school laws affecting our children, and tabulations of attendance, expenditures, value of school property, libraries, etc. It is shown that there are 115 libraries for our schools as against 117 libraries for schools not libraries contained 269,128 books, as against 12.188 books in ours. Conditions, as shown in 75 counties investigated, are typified by the following: "Berren County: The schools in this county for our children are taught mainly in old churches with no equipment other than a stove, benches and a few feet of homemade blackboard." No Windows. "Ben Hill County: Cowokee, in this county, used as a school a dilapidated wooden building which was formerly a church. There is one room, one teacher and the school runs for four months. The enrollment is 35, the attendance good. The school is open a month. The school at Fitzgerald is held in a frame building which is in a very dangerous condition, JAMESTOWN. — Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Taylor were recalled to Indianapolis by a serious accident to their son, Dwight. They visited relatives here. En route home, Mr. and Mrs. Taylor, their nephew, Dwight, and Dr. Carcauses met with Dr. Carcauses to discuss their car, Mr. Taylor and Dwight were seriously injured. —Mr. Joseph Baker was taken ill suddenly, Sunday noon, but is better. —G. A. Williams' father, of Oxford, is visiting him and Mrs. Williams. —Tell your friends to order The Gazette from its local representatives. 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, property officers of names, wedding presents, etc., obtructions, inquiries for relatives and advertisements of all kinds, including items announcing entertainments to be heired 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 applace. HILLSBORO—Rev. and Mrs. C. R. Jones and family of Cleveland were guests of Mr. and Mrs. Popp Kittrell, last week. He preached at the Baptist church, last week Wednesday night, and pastored here, twelve years ago.—Mrs. Francis Morgan of Springfield visited her niece, Mrs. Flora West.—Mrs. Cora Young and daughter. Mrs. Archie Cole, returned from Dayton Saturday, and visited the for-mer daughter. Mrs. Louis Goodson.—Mr. and Mrs. Ol. Young returned, Thursday night, from a visit in Columbus and Newark. Born to Mr. and Mrs. Clifford Zimmerman, a sdn.—Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Blakey have returned from a visit in Kentucky and Indianapolis. Miss Sissah Lee and Elizabeth Hill Greenfield visited Mrs. Mary Jones, last week.—The 33rd session of the South Ohio Conference of Wesleyan M. church was held at Wesleyan church, last week. Rev. A. P. Mayle, pastor. Tuesday night, there was a program and reception for the ministers and delegates, numbering about thirty-five. The sessions were well attended. The community was greatly benefited by the conference meet. Sermons were delivered by Revs. A. C. Mayle of Parkersburg, W. Va.; W. Curtis of Marietta; D. E. B. Dasson; being nearly ready to fall. There are seven rooms and six teachers. The term is nine months and the enrollment is 400. The principal's salary is $50 a month and the teachers receive a $10 a month. The institution is held in a frame building with no windows, no lights and the school benches have no backs. There is one room. The term is four months and the teacher's salary varies from $20 to $30 a month. According to the official report of the Commissioner of Education Georgia, "The Negro school in his county are deplorable and should be improved in some way." No Desks. In Atlanta, it is reported, 5,641 children are left "without a seat or a desk at which to study." In Monroe County, our teachers get $15 a month and in Jones County at a typical school, the teacher's salary is $22 a month. "Students are taken out of school during the peach season. This was ordered by the whites' requirements." Summary. The summary of school conditions in Georgia includes the following statements: "The data collected from counties scattered over the state show that in 15 counties the schools run less than six months, which is not a requirement. The churches and lodges which are used for our schools are chiefly old, dilapidated buildings, unfit for teaching purposes. In some cases, they have no means of getting light; often there are no desks. In some counties there is not a single school building for all students. In some cases there is great hostility towards our education is shown by the malicious burning of schools in several sections. Clara M. Cook and R. E. Gilmer of Richmond, Ind. The conference closed, Sunday night, to meet in Pomeroy in August, 1927. Rev. W. F. Derrick of Columbus preached at the Baptist church, Sunday morning, and Colrev. W. W. Stephenson of Columbus, at night.—Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Easton and Mr. Lang Young were in Newark, Thursday, visiting relatives.—Rev. W. Bell, of Lexington, Ky. spm the Winters.—Mr. and Mrs. Juwens Owens.—Mr. Gertrude Christy of Dayton is here visiting her mother.—Percy Nelson and Luther Eckels of Bahnbridge were guests of Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Easton, Saturday.—Mr. and Mrs. Enoch Frye of Cincinnati and the former's mother, of Newport, Ky., visited Mr. and Mrs. Milton Day, Sunday.—Mr. Squire Willis and sons, Richard and Robert, and Joe H. Williams attended the moonlight picnic in Washington C. H. Saturday, Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Saturday, Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Saturday, Mr. and Mrs. D. Highwarden attended the Gragston reunion in Ripley, Sunday.—Mr. and Mrs. James Captain and son were called to Springfield, Monday, by the illness of the former's sister, Mrs. J. Woodley, who suffered a slight stroke. JANITORS PAID BETTER Than Our Teachers in Our Schools in Mississippi—Almost as Bad as in Georgia. Jackson, Miss.—Declaring that our teachers receive only one-fourth the salary of our teachers a committee of citizens petitioned the board of trustees of the public schools of this city for an increase in pay. The highest salary paid an assistant in our schools, according to the committee's report, is $55 a month and the principals receive as low as $60. Several assistants in the high school, as well as in the grammar school, receive $30 and $55 a month. The lowest paid janitor in the white schools of this city receives more than many teachers in our schools. New Army Band Leader. Washington, D. C.-Staff Sergeant Robert B. Trescant, first Afro-American graduate of the army music school, here, has been appointed a warrant officer band leader in the army and assigned to the 24th Infantry at Fort Benning, Ga. He has had fourteen years' service in the army. Proposal to discontinue the school is being fought on the ground that it is the only means of supplying available handsmen GOV. A. V. DONAHEY REPRIEVES ROSS The last minute attempts to save Emanuel Ross from death, last week Friday night, in the electric chair at the state penitentiary in Columbus were made in the morning of that day. Gov. A. V. Donahay was asked to grant a stay of execution until Ross' attorneys had a chance to check up on what they believed was new evidence, and kindly complied with the request. A telegraphic plea for the stay was also sent by our Ohio Elks in the national convention in session here, all last week. They asked a reprieve. Atty. Sully Jaymes of Springfield, a Democratic nominee (of Clarke county) for state representative, here for the convention, went to Columbus to see Gov. Donahay. The telegraph sent by the Elks read: "Reserve that we 1,000 delegates to the twenty-seventh annual convention of the Improved Benevolent Order of Elks of the World, representing 175,000 stalwart, loyal and progressive male members of the Negro race in America, petition his excellency A. V. Donahay, governor of Ohio, to issue a reprieve in the case of Emanuel Ross, now confined in the Ohio prison, and soon to be electrocuted, until face to face in the case can be presented." Attys. Louise Pridgeon and Alex H. Martin, who represented Ross in appellate and state supreme courts, believe they have evidence which will warrant a rehearing of Ross' case. Ross' execution was set for 9 o'clock, last week Friday night. The state elec­men­ary and Gov. Clinton will meet on Wednesday, to commute his death sentence, but the Governor, on Friday, finally granted a fourteen day reprieve. Ross was sentenced to die for the murder of Isadore Steeck during an attempted robbery of his Central Ave. grocery, Nov. 5, 1925. King Young, age 39, whose acquaintance Ross was involved in a life imprisonment sentence, some months 420. WRITES DONAHEY OF WRIT FOR ROSS. Judge Silbert Explains His Stand For "Inquiry Before Execution". "It is the law's policy not to kill first and inquire later, but to give the defendant every opportunity to have his fundamental rights, if any, informed. Common Pleas Judge Samuel H. Silbert said, Monday, in a letter explaining to Gov. A. V. Donahay why he granted a writ of habeas corpus to save Emanual Ross from execution. Judge Silbert granted the writ when Ross' attorneys declared the boy, who is only 18 years of age, should have been taken into juvenile court before trial in common pleas court. Gov. Samuel Garrard two-week stay of execution until the contention could be heard finally. "If there is any criticism of your action which permits an eighteen-year-old boy to have his fundamental rights, if any, determined, before he becomes a corpse, I am ready and willing to assume all responsibility," the letter said. The state clementey board and Donahey had refused commutation of sentence to Ross. Silbert issued the order to Obesas corpse. Friday, a few hours before the hour set for the boy's execution, but Warden P, E, Thomas of the state penitentiary refused to recognize the writ. Donahey then kindly intervened with the stay of execution. A motion, seeking a new trial on the ground that Ross was robbed of his constitutional rights by not being taken before juvenile court, was to be heard, this week, by the judge Judge Walter McMahon, the trial judge. And our people should do all in their power to aid our local Federation of Women's clubs in their fight to save the lad's life. THE TWO RING CIRCUS. The biennial farce known as the platform convention has again come and gone and the grass still grows, the stars shine and the sum of human wisdom has not been appreciably augmented. In vain one scans Democratic and Republican platforms for a sign of wisdom, a gesture of courage, a suggestion of anything constructive or remedial to be found in the grain of wisdom to be found in the nine bushel chaff. One does not say this in any spirit of disappointment. In fact, if either party had evolved or expressed anything beyond the usual banalities it would have created a profound sensation in Ohio where long ago we gave up all hope of ever seef anything in a platform that used the peaked and beirish by which pin head politicians hope to get by the voter.—Ex-Congressman Charles L. Knight (Repub.), editor Akron (O.) Beacon-Journal. Coolidge and The Kluxans birmingham, ala. That plan of local Republican leaders, to denounce the activities of the Ku Klux Klan in politics, was halted by a request to "hands-off" from President Coolidge, through local political friends, is declared by the local daily News. This action, the paper declares, is the probable cause of the Alabama Republicans' patient dodging of the Klan issue in their recent state convention. SINGLE COPY FIVE CENTS FINLEY WILSON RE-ELECTED! ALSO GRAND SECRETARY BATES AND OTHERS FOR THE ENSUING YEAR. One Thousand Dollars Voted for Education in Africa Senators Willis and Green Please Greatly— The Grand Ball—Next Meeting Place— Officers Elected, Etc. At the opening session of the Elks' convention, last week Tuesday, in Masonic auditorium, the remarks of ex-Senator John P. Green, who responded in behalf of the citizens of Cleveland to the address of Grand Exalted Ruler J. Fink Wilson, were received with marked enthusiasm and Senator Green, who was at his best, was later the recipient of many congratulations. Senator Willis in his opening remarks said that if he possessed Mr. Green's recipe, which enabled a man of his age (nearly eighty-two) to make the address he had made, he would get it for himself. In the course of his address, Senator Green, in referring to Senator Willis, said: elaborate social program of sight-seeing, Mardi Gras parade, moon-light excursion on Lake Erie, smoker, carnival and cabaret was carried out, Thursday evening. Outside of the election of the grand exalted ruler, chief interest centered, all week, in the grand secretary contest, which was fought out, last Friday morning, between Grand Secretary George W. Bates, of Newark, N. J., and Harry C. Pace of Brooklyn, N. Y. The former has held the position for the last fifteen years. Pace put up such a hard battle that this was the big fight of the convention. "You will find representing us in the Congress of the United States, great and law-abiding men; as, witness our Senator Willis, the able advocate of the rights of our people in this country; and also, recently, of the oppressed colored inhabitants of the South, we bought, from Denmark, with the land; and the with us, yet, not of us. I am greatly pleased to note that the Hon. Harry C. Smith, editor of The Gazette, father of our Ohio Civil Rights and Anti-Lynching laws, and many others of our people are ably supporting Senator Willis." We regret that, for lack of space, we are unable to give Senator Green's entire speech, for it was replete with humor, historic and poetic references which the large audience liberally applauded. Senator Willis's address is another we would have been greatly pleased to publish in its entirety, if space allowed. We are only lighted the large audience but was very encouraging indeed, especially since it came from one of the ablest members of the upper branch of the U. S. Congress. A band contest was scheduled, but no band would compete with the Monarch band of New York City, which, consequently, added another first prize to its already outstanding record. The fourth consecutive year this band has captured the Elks' prize. Last week Wednesday was sure a busy day for the Elks, as announced in our last issue. Over 2,000 enjoyed a lake ride in the afternoon, as well as the several cabaret's, a baseball game at upper field, and the photography of fields of the grand lodge. At the morning session, in Mt. Zion Cong, church, there was a few minutes' pause in memory of Glichrist Stewart of New York City, a delegate who dropped dead upon the street here. The grand secretary's and other reports were heard. The afternoon session included officers' reports. Grand Organizer C. C. Valle of Porto drew apples in the incinereum in his report, that the year had been the most successful in the order's history. New chapters were established in Panama, Cuba and the Philippines, delegates from which were in convention. In the evening, Public hall was filled to capacity quickly and thousands were unable to carry the apples in busy handling the crowds. G. E. R. Wilson and wife headed the ball's grand march. The dance got into full swing at 10 p. m. to the syncopated jazz of the famous Mitee Monarch band of N. Y. City, our largest band in this country. The music of the fifty instruments, which filled the hall with rhythm, was broadcast. It was one of the most enjoyable sessions. It was the greatest hall between New York City and Chicago. The ladies were beautiful gowned. Thursday morning's session was given over to more reports and the afternoon and evening sessions to the nomination and election of grand officers. J. Finley Wilson was re-elected grand exalted ruler for a fifth term at the evening session. Edward Henry, Philadelphia ward magistrate, who was running against him, gave up when 497 out of 500 votes were cast for Wilson. At the time Henry had received 231. Exhausted by an extra long session, the convention then adjourned until Friday morning, when the election of the remaining officers were held. Mrs. Ella G. Berry of Chicago was elected grand daughter ruler by the grand temple women. She defeated Mrs. Laura E. Williams of Roanoke, Va. who was running for re-election. In his fourth annual report the G. E. R. emphasized the progress that had been made during the year. During his administration the membership had trebled, the national treasury, and the number of lodges has been increased from 303 to 708. Wilson is editor of the Washington (D. C.) Eagle. Ar IN-UNION IS STRONGER THE COPY FIVE CENTS UNDS! N RE-ELECTED! RY BATES AND OTHERS SUING YEAR. ted for Education in Africa Green Please Greatly— Next Meeting Place— lected, Etc. elaborate social program of sightseeing, Mardi Gras parade, moonlight excursion on Lake Erie, smoker, carnival and cabaret was carried out, Thursday evening. Outside of the election of the grand exalted ruler, chief interest centered, all week, in the grand secretary contest, which was fought out. Last Friday morning, between Grand Secretary George W. Bates, of Newark, N. J., and Harry C. Pace of Brooklyn, N. Y. The former has held the position for the last fifteen years. Pace put up such a hard battle that this was the big fight of the convention. After an hour's balloting, Pace conceded to Bates, who was elected by acclamation. Grand Treasurer James T. Carter, of Richmond, Va., was re-elected, defeating T. Tiffany Tolliver of Ranokoke, Va., and began a tenure with the firm in that office. Municipal Judge Wm. C. Hueston of Gary, Ind., was re-elected commissioner of education. Other grand officers elected were: Dr. S. H. George, Paducah, Ky., leading knight; Leonard Foreman, Akron, loyal knight; Dr. Roland Johnson, Brooklyn, lecturing at the University of Pennsylvania, Washington auditor; French Gillison, Hartford, Conn, tyler; Charles E. Starr, Denver, inner guard; Wm. Turner, Wheeling, esquire; Perry W. Howard, assistant U. S. attorney general, Washington, D.C., was reappointed legal advisor. New York was selected as the 1927 convention city after a long contest, which finally ended at the conclusion. Animal Washington, Dept. was the second choice, being only six votes behind. The convention closed, Saturday, after the final business meeting, which considered corrected reports of committees and the problem of the fidency fund, which affects taxation of members to an extent that may mean an added income of $100,000 to the grand lodge, last Friday, voted $1,000 for the furtherance of education in Africa. Dances in honor of newly elected officers and farewell parties were held, Friday night, in the Elks' cabarets and at headquarters in E. 55th St. Saturday, the 1,000 delegates wound up one of the greatest annual meets in the history of the organization with a visit to the country clubs and a party at Lake Erie beach. The Elks and their friends, who visited the city, did not number more than 40,000. "NEGRO" MOTHER OBJECTED! White Parents of Girl Approved and Son Married His Pretty Sweetheart. Brockton, Mass.—Mrs. James Fenell, Monroe St., Roxbury, begged her son, Clarence Aiken, age 19, last week Monday, not to marry Edyth H. Willen (white.) Undisturbed by the fact that her prospective husband described himself on the marriage certificate as "colored," Edyth blonde, blue-eyed and pretty prepared for her wedding, that day. Mrs. Fenell declared she would have been more pleased if "Clarence had chosen one of his own race." The father of the girl, John Willen, dismised the subject with the terse remark, "Aiken is a nice fellow." The girl's mother said, "It's a private matter and nobody's business." Both are members of the Gethsemane Lutheran church, of which the Rev. William Frebendig is pastor. SEGREGATION AN OUTRAGE! Help The "Old Reliable" to Increase Its Circulation Don't Throw Away Your Copy of The GAZETTE After Reading It But give it to a Friend or Acquaintance who might Subscribe after Reading a Copy of It. COOLIDGE PERMITS IT! How Our Men And Women Are Insulted And Humiliated In the Government's Departments—Will the Self and Race-Respecting Negro Press and People 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 Tatt. 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. seception to the heads of departments 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 come out, and he ordered the post master 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 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, writing with 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 situation and not a Democratic one, and by Republicans, and carried on to its all-embracing extent by Republicans! There is far more of it in the departments, today, than at any time since the Negro first appeared, close upon the close of the Civil War. The picture requirement in the civil service, which makes it next to impossible for a colored lady or gentleman to enter the civil service, since their color is disclosed in their photograph which must accompany their papers, is tenaciously held on to by our Republican President and last week, a colored lady appeared after having passed the best examination, having been telegraphed for by the department. The photograph had failed to tell her true color, and they finally 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 President Coolidge. From North Carolina, the home of the other favorite and leader of the segregationists, Col. Sherrill, superintendent of buildings and grounds, is no use to complain of either of these southern gentlemen. The colored people here who know the President could destroy segregation in the departments of the government, and the photograph requirements in the civil service by the mere nod of his head, are at a loss to understand why he does not put his splendid declarations on democracy into operation here, where it would not even cost him a single vote and where he has full power and absolutely no opposition. They wonder if he is not a firm believer in segregation, especially since segregation is one of the chief tenets of the Ku Klux Klan which has found its "welcome home" in the Republican party, and receives no condemnation from the Republican President. (Special to The Gazette.) (Special to the Observer. Washington, D. C.—In the postitive segregation is rampant. The faithful colored whites seek dark understated and physical disadvantages. The department maintains a spacious cafeteria for whites only, where these inferior white clerks can buy appetizing luncheons and chat in comfort while eating, while the colored clerks must bring cold luncheons from home and eat them any place they can. The physical discomfort, disadvantageous as it is, is far less galling to the colored clerks than is the thought of their government taking their taxes, as it takes those of the whites, for the comfort of the latter, and setting them off as though they were lone. The injustice stings when they perfect that they are far more valuable than the whites, and under 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 whines and neglects of colored. It maintains a well-appointed club room with pool tables and other games, com for t able lounges and other equipment for rest, sociability, and recreation, and nothing for these same colored employees. This private club is in the magnificent postoffice building, built and maintained by ALL of the people. In the locker rooms there is segregation, and segregation is even attempted in the toilets. And all of this is against the most dependable and faithful employees. Last year the white employees passed around invitations to the white employees, in the very presence of the colored, to attend a re- seption to the heads of departments, including the postmaster general, in the postoffice building. It announced dancing and a pleasant social evening with the officials for "the postoffice employees," yet not one was delivered to the colored clerks. I hurried a protest to the postmaster general the day before it was to come off, and he ordered the 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 on to the colorado who was superior. No Negro, however efficient or old in the service, must ever dream of a promotion to a directive position. The hard, unyielding caste passes whites over him, one after another, though many of the colored employees have won contests in quickness and accuracy in the handling of mail. The colored clerks have dared to form a union which meets regularly and often sends manly and intelligent protests to the postmaster, and often appeals for a change in 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 or 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 catalogue in this huge structure of the employee, but there are no tables in an out-of-the-way section reserved for our employees. I am glad to say that few, very few, of our people patronize the place, preferring a little physical inconvenience to the open, semi-public humiliation of segregation. In toilet facilities, dressing-rooms, and work assignments, wherever possible, the law of segregation is in full force, and, of course, this same undemocratic practice reveals itself on the salary roil and in the hard caste that bars promotion. Here, the law of segregation forms a pass over our superior employees to directive positions, and higher salaries. The whites have a large recreational center in this public building with many fine appointments for rest and amusements. During lunch and dinner hours they repair to this restful retreat for sociability and dance. Last fall, a young Afro-American with a splendid record in his work, felt the injustice of exclusion, keenly noticed that secured the company of a young lady of the race to take part in the dance. As soon as this couple started to dance the music was abruptly stopped, and the young man reported for attempting to take part in an entertainment provided for employees. He was called to the office, lectured for being "one of those smart Negroes who then dismissed a trapped-up charge. He was a night-employee, hence he carried a pistol. Right after the dance incident a fire broke out in the office. He was quickly accused of setting the building afire in revenge for his exclusion from the dance floor. Detectives came to the building to arrest him, and failing to secure any evidence searched him only to discover the pistol. They quickly dropped the arson charge, substituting one for carrying the seized weapons. By this severe punishment our employees are taught that there is no way of escape for one who dares to resent the daily insults that their government (under President Coolidge) gives them. Many of the employees have expressed their deeply-wounded feelings to me at being considered a pariah by the government whose institutions they are serving so faithfully, and I have taken up a number of cases only to be met by a denial that the conditions complained of exist, and a request for the names of my informant's, hate these informants could have so after she given a single name!! The department then taking the position that it cannot take up the case. It is perfectly clear that this iniquitous THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, O. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1926. scheme of segregation is a difficult thing to fight, since the government is so well settled upon it, and the impolishants cannot hear witness to it. (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 women named 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 a white lady who had been noted for her philanthropy among our people and who was upon intimate terms at the White House appeared at the bureau to tell our girls to be contented with the new order as "a great Negro leader had taught colored people to stay in their places." Three of the young ladies resisted the order to the last ditch and were summarily dismissed! Senator La Follette lodged a protest with Secretary McAdoo to no avail, and his noble wife began a crusade against the undemocratic innovation. She took the platform here in Washington and Boston before the famous Twentieth Century club. She used the columns of the Senator's magazine, sparing neither space nor vigor of utterance. She thundered against it in our local white press, and addressed the national gathering of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People in New York. When our people here were so profoundly discouraged, she came out one afternoon to the YMCA to urge them to continue the fight, for democracy was at the crises. Oswald Garrison Villain came' to town to attack White House and Cabinet and arouse our people, and the Nation Association secured publicity in over six hundred influential white papers in the country. The fight checked what was thought to the intention of the segregators, namely, the elimination of the colored employees from the bureau all 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. They are GATED in their rest rooms, toilets, and working stations, and of course none are ever thought of for promotions to executive places. They are girls from our best nomes, most of them with high age, normal school training, and fine culture. The white girls are of no such grade, as there is no segregation for them in the great world of things. They have unlimited fields at high wage for even mediocre talents. The best of our girls must take these interior spaces for them to segregate. 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 genius since the days of Alexander Hamilton. It is to be remembered that the president was the first to 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 been, is the first banking system which financed the Civil War; and Ohio's master financier, John Sherman. These men never knew what segregation was! The present head of the department of internal revenue, Mr. Blair from North Carolina, has not appointed a colored clerk since his incumbency. While his predecessor, Mr. Daniel Roper, a democrat from Texas, appointed and promoted several of them. Since the income tax legislation and the numberless new taxes that the recent war necessitated, this is by far the largest department of the treasury, employing several thousand clerks. Yet Negroes are so scarce there that they can't be noticed. There is the same general complaint here among our clerks and other employees as there are other branch employees in the enforcement—unless branches recognize their efficiency when promotions are due; ability to go so far and no further. The various forms of segregation exist here as well as elsewhere—the restaurants closed or divided along color lines, and special toilets, locker rooms, rest rooms, etc., set off for colored. The toilets for the colored are few in such a large structure. Hence, the segregated clerks are forced to endure physical inconvenience at times, and are forced to travel long distances when they demand maintenance a huge, magnificent cafeteria, in the splendid sweep of woodland along our national drive way, where white people of every class can come to rest, dine, and socialize of afternoons and evenings at minimum costs. The white press of the city is constantly telling of the thousands who take advantage of this "delightful retreat," and the festive scene that their presence creates. It sees people tearing up the grass; but not one Negro! His only share is in the taxes he is forced to pay for this luxury for another group! The registrieship of the treasury, which Republican Presidents have given the Negro since Garfield appointed Blanch K. Bruce, is now filled by a white man, and the colored people are congregated in a separate room which is publicly proclaimed as "a colored division." When it it is discovered that Negro clerks are "working as white" in other divisions, they are promptly transferred to this "colored division." Our people fear that protest against this segregation would result in the abolition of the division altogether; so they remain in a dilemma, fearing to act. Our clerks must accept segregation or elimination, and be poor, with no other opportunities in this southern atmosphere, much like the former. They are depressed at the wrong, but economic stress compounded of it. By a single stroke of his pen, President Calvin Coolidge can stop every bit of this damnable segregation, just as he can condemn that lawless organization the Ku Klux Klan. COOLIDGE'S SEGREGATION Washington, D. C.—We wish to call attention to the fact that in the fight against the segregation of our government employees, the Treasury Department will most likely be the center of attack, for segregation in several of its bureaus has been most pronounced. This is particularly true of the office of the register of the treasury and the internal revenue bureau. In the former, bearer board walls were maintained until recently. In the latter there have been two cases of discrimination on account of color brought to public view. The words, announcing the election of President Coolidge, were hardly cold before the event, increase segregation in the department, and on again at full speed. It had slowed up a little during the campaign. Investigation of Burcans 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. War Department, Transportation Division—a segregated section of 5 employees. 0. Separate Lunch Room Post Office Department—a segregated lunch room. RACE PREJUDICE1 "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. Wells. "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. It, and I have frequently, during the forty-two years since the birth of the Girl of the Forest, been the Scotch would say, like two McNells, but when I 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 of Ohio State Senate.) Against The Mob and Lynch-Murder—The Work of a Member of The Race—Also His Ohio Civil Rights Law Section 6278. "Mob" and "lynching" defined. 6279. "Serious injury" defined. 6280. Damages in case of assault. 6281. Damages in case of lynching. 6282. Damages recoverable by legal representative of victim of lynching. 6283. Person suffering death or injury by mob trying to lynch another. 6284. Limitations of action. 6285. Order to include recovery and costs in tax levy. 6286. Guardian's custody, etc., fees. 6287. County's right of action against member of mob. 6288. County's right of action against another county. 6289. Non-relief from prosecution. Our mob-violence or anti-lynching bill was introduced in the Ohio legislature in 1894 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 with out authority of law, shall be deemed a chapter. The purpose of this chapter. An act of violence by a mob upon the body of any person shall constitute a "lynching" within the meaning of this chapter. (93 v. 161 2.) Section 6279. The term "serious injury," for the purpose of this chapter, shall include such injury as permanently or temporarily disables the person 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, assaulted with whips, clups, missiles or any other manner, may not to exceed one thousand dollars as damages 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, if such injury result in permanent disability to earn a livelihood by manual labor, a sum not to exceed five thousand dollars. (93 v. 162 5.) Section C282. The legal representative of a person dying from injuries received from lynching by a mob, may recover of the county in which such injury occurred, a sum not to exceed five thousand dollars damages for such unlawful killing. Such sum shall be applied to the maintenance of the family and education of the minor children of such person so lynched, if any survive him, until such children are of legal age, and then be distributed to the survivors, share and share alike, the widow receiving an amount equal to a child's share. If there be no widow's minor children surviving, sum shall be distributed, such sum shall be distributed among the next of kin according to laws of the distribution of the personality of an intestate. Such sum so recovered shall not be a part of the estate of such person so lynched, nor be subject to any of his liabilities. (93 v. 162 6.) Section 6283. A person suffering death or injury from a mob attempting to lynch another person shall come within the provisions of this chapter. He or his legal representatives shall have a like right of action as one purposely injured or killed by such a mob. (93 v 162 6.) Section 6284. Action for the recoveries provided for in this chapter must be commenced, within two years from the date of such lynching, in any court having original jurisdiction of an action for damages for malicious assault. (93 v. 162 7.) Section 6285. An order to the commissioners of a county, against which such recovery is had, to include it with the costs of action, in the next succeeding tax levy for such county, shall be a part of the judgment in every such case. (93 v. 162 8.) Section 6286. If the decedent so lynched has minor children surviving him, the fund shall be turned over to a regularly appointed guardian. Such guardian shall administer such fund under the direction of the probate judge, or more than five times more dollars for couse-safety in the action for such recovery. (93 v. 162 9.) Section 6287. The county, in which a lynching occurs, may recover the amount of a judgment and costs against it in favor of the legal representatives of a person killed or seriously injured by a mob from any of the persons composing such mob. A person present will justify 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 com- 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: 285. ed. r. representative of victim of lynching; bury by mob trying to lynch another. and costs in tax levy. a. last member of mob. just another county. mit violence on a prisoner brought 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 came on the part of officials of such unless there was contributory negligence not less than thirty days county in calling to prosecute such or disperse such mob (93 v. 163 11.) Section 6289. This chapter shall not relieve a person concerned in such lynching from prosecution for homicide or assault for engaging therein. (93 v. 163 12.) OUR OHIO CIVIL RIGHTS LAW Upon the request of many readers of The Gazette we print below the text of the Hon. Harry C. Smith a Ohio Civil Rights law which the editor had enacted while a member of the 71st General Assembly, in 1894: The General Code of Ohio: The General Code of Ohio: Sec. 12940. Whoever, being the proprietor or his employee, keeper or manager of an inn, restaurant, catering establishment, or veneance by land or water, theater or other place of public accommodation and amusement, denies to a citizen, except for reasons applicable akin to all citizens and regardless of race or color, the full enjoyment of the accommodations, advantages, facilities or privileges thereof, shall be hired not less than fifty dollars nor more than thirty dollars, nor more than ninety days, or both. Sec. 12941. Whoever violates the next preceding section shall also pay not less than fifty dollars nor more than five hundred dollars to the person aggrieved thereby to be recovered in any court of competent jurisdiction in the county where such offense was committed. This law has repeatedly been held constitutional and good law by the Ohio Supreme court. The trouble is that the law does not it as it should, but expect it to do for them what they should and must do for themselves, under it, in the courts. Judge Grant's Opinion of the Law Misled by the foolishly manufactured outcry for the passage of the Beaty bill, a few years ago, the Akron Beacon Journal published an editorial to which the editor of The Gazette replied, calling its attention to the fact that the Ohio Civil Rights law was good law and should not be amended without 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, Guvena, O. M. My dear Sir: Observing your letter to the Editor of the New York daily, this city, I venture to send you, under a separate cover, the Ohio Law Reporter of Feb. 3, last, containing the opinion of the Court of Appeals in the Puritan Lunch Co. vs. Leonard H. 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, there would have been no occasion for criticism editorially. THE LAW 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. Our advertisers want your trade. Those who do not ask for it in the columns of "The Old Rellable" Gazette certainly care little, if at all, for it. Therefore, we urge our readers and all of our friends to patronize those who ask in this paper for your patronage. Editor. Circulation E After Reafter Reading A DIVORCE COURT LAWYER'S VIEWS The Obtruding Male Affinity Who Finds His Way Into Many Homes. THE WIFE IS HIS SPONSOR She Gets Unhappy Because Her Husband Is Not Equally Successful . . . Making Both Love And Money For Her And Calls In Another Man. CLEVELAND, O.—The conflicting demands of the idle married woman upon her husband, that he be both a highly successful business man and a lover so ardent as to make life one long honeymoon, are largely responsible for the invasion of the home by the male affinity, writes Judge Thomas F. Graham, a noted divorce court jurist of Cleveland. The man who can meet the strenuous requirements of business and at the same time gratify an idle wife's call for perpetual romance is a paragon. Certainly the average man cannot shine in this dual role. The dreamy devotionals of courtship and the hard aggressivism of modern business do not libe. As the man's attentions begin to wane, perforce, the wife of this class begins to take her diversions alone or with those upon whom business makes less strenuous demands. More and more her pleasures become a thing apart from her wedded mate. Almost inevitably they become more daring. And then comes jealousy, jealousy about the husband, inspired by her own indiscretions. Soon she is having him trailed by private detectives. This isn't conducive to future happiness, even if the wife's vague doubts remain unproven. It all stems back to the idleness of the woman and the overwork of the man. The women of the poor or the moderately well-to-so are seldom in the divorce courts. They are too busy; they are normally occupied. My experience has shown me that there is nothing more demoralizing than the constant seeking of pleasure, even when it is perfectly harmless to begin with. No catalog of divorce causes is complete that does not take into account the modern rag or clutch dances. That is why married folk so frequently quarrel after a night at the dance, often without daring to put into words the foundation for their jealousies. I don't want to be understood as denouncing the dance. I like to dance myself. It is merely the character of certain popular dances which I blame as factors in divorce and domestic scandals. The decadent clutch dances are merely another index of the growing craving for unrestrained pleasures which is resulting naturally from social conditions demanding too much work from one member of the family and which permit the other one too much idleness. WANTED TO GET HOME. And Willing to Pick All The Apples On The Farm. PITTSEBURGH, Pa.—"Judge, if you send me back home this time I never run away again and I'll pick all the apples on the farm," said William Shafer, aged 10 years, of Eleanor, Jefferson County, to Magistrate William H. Robertson at the Allegheny police station. The boy had been arrested at the Fort Wayne station charged with being a runaway, by Special Officer W. J. Betts. According to the police the boy ran away from home because his father wanted him to pick apples. The lad did not want to pick apples, he said, so he joined with an older boy from the same town and they came to Pittsburgh on a freight train. On arriving here the other boy disappeared and Shafer was arrested. His parents were notified and the father same here for his son. ALL WORKED WITH FATHER Fourteen Of 'Em And All Over Six Feet High. SHENANDOAH, Pa. — Howard J. Reinhardt, traveling salesman for the New England Granite Works, located at Westerly, R. L. is in town on business for his firm. Mr. Reinhardt is one of a family of 17 children, 14 boys, all over six feet in height, and three girls. His father was a marble cutter running a small marble works in Allentown, consequently all 14 boys learned the trade and helped the father in his business up to the time of death. Stupid Chicken Thieves. MILAN, Kan.—When Byron Yardley frightened away from his house two chickens thieves paying a nocturnal visit, the culprits not only dropped two sacks containing thirty-