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IF IT IS TRUE, RAYMOND BIRD, THE VICTIM, SURE WAS A "BIRD." He Is Charged With Being the Father of a Baby Born to One Sister—Two Other Sisters Soon to Become Mothers, Too, It Is Said—Was He "Framed"? Wytheville, Va.—Back of the lynching of Raymond Bird by a mob here, recently, was the knowledge that he had been intimate with three girls of the Grubb family here. Bird was a farm hand on the place belonging to Grover Grubb, (white), on the Cooper farm, awa and half miles out of rural Retreat. He and his friends them for five years. Bird had a father and mother, was married and had three small children, none of them over six years old. In the Grubb family are three girls about 12, 18 and 20 years of age. Mary, the 18-year-old girl, gave birth to a baby in the hospital about a month ago. She said the child was white but the nurse said it was colored. She tried to have it removed and then it happened eventually she took it home, gave it to Raymond and had him put it with a family near here. Another In Hospital. The eldest girl is now in the hospital and is expected soon to become a mother. The youngest, it K. K. K. PARADE SMALLER Than Last Year—Five Sisters Arrested in a Raid—Alice and "Kip" Rhinlander, Again. (Special to The Gazette) Washington, D. C.—About a year ago, the Ku Klux Klan of the country had a national meet here, incidentally announcing that a parade would be held that would have seventy-five or one hundred thousand people, that were just 35,000. Last week, the announcement of their latest meet was accompanied with the statement that their parade was to have seventy-five thousand in line. There were only 13,000 that paraded, and that a generous estimate, too. So you can see "whither the malady is drifting." Overs in Baltimore, last week Thursday night, five sisters, ranging in age from 16 to 26 were taken in a raid on 1427 Druid Hill Ave. along with fifteen other people. They gave their names as, Annie, Elsie, Marie, Eugenia and Mary Rhubottom, 1140 N. Gillmore St. The police claimed that the party was loud and bolstered and so they were forced to interfere. Dispatches to daily newspapers in this country, from Paris, France, last week, told how "Kip" Rhinlander's father's attorneys inveigled "Kip's" wife, Alice Beatrice Jones Rhinlander, a member of the race, from Birmingham, England, (english) who visited relatives, and tried to get her to consent to a divorce there, offering her again (it is said) $150,000. She refused! Some class to Alice, eh? HE SURE WILL TELL THEM! The Party Has Not Only 'Failed To Kill Kenneth' But Also 'Failed To Read' Read Paper 4 of This Paper. Editor Harry C. Smith, of the veteran Cleveland Gazette, who ran in the Republican primaries for the nomination of Governor of Ohio, rapped (certain members of) the race for failing to give him greater support. An editorial note in The Gazette said: "Along about the middle of November next year will tell those members of the race in Ohio who voted for the white candidates for the Republican nomination for Governor, on Aug. 10, 1926, how they 'throw away' their votes. Many of them said they did not vote for our own candidate because they did not want to 'throw away' their votes. And he ran fifth in twelve, beating seven white candidates without their votes. Sooner than right to them on the head and awaken their dormant race loyalty, if they have any." Political insurgency seems to be contagious in Ohio, this year. Dr. E. Duval Colley of Cincinnati is independent candidate for Congress against Nicholas Longworth, speaker of the House, "because the Republican party has failed to keep faith with the race."—Fred. R. Moore, editor, N. Y. Age. Mrs. Scarborough Thanks All. Xenia, O., Sept. 15, 26. Hon. Harry C. Smith. Editor The Gazette, Cleveland, O. Dear Mr. Smith:—I can now only send a word of thanks to the friends who have so tenderly sympathized with me in my grief, helping me to bear it. yours truly. (Mrs.) S. C. B. Scarborough. is believed, will follow soon. News of this occurrence spread throughout the community and the Grubbs asked Bird to leave. The girls told police they would not go back on Raymond, but they felt that he would be safer if he would go away. Raymond, however, refused to have a dog in jail at Wytheville. He was lying asleep when the mob broke in and riddled his body with bullets. Stripped Naked. Then stripping him of his clothing, they put the naked body on the running board of the car and drove it a half mile from here to St. Paul's church, where they strung his body to a tree. According to the Richmond (Va.) Planet, the Grubbs have been mixing with our people here for nearly ten years. They are said to be good livers and no one else in the neighborhood would link anything wonderful of the fact that Raymond Widow was able to cast his spell of attraction over the three girls and even old man Bird himself. (See editorial on page 2.) STRAIGHT TALK By a Southern Labor Journal on a Recent Fool-Enactment of The Georgia Legislature. Atlanta, Ga.—Criticising a recent enactment of the Georgia legislature, with regard to employees leaving their employers, and chiding those who have protested against the migration of Afro-American labor, the Journal of Labor, published in this city, said, in its issue of Sept. 3rd: "The Negro or rights have we in the Negro or in any common laborer that we thus seek to prevent his moving from one section to another? Why is it necessary that we hold the Negro in virtual slavery, practice open peonage in order to prevent the Negro leaving the state? The American citizen, whether white or colored, must be free! He must be free to seek his own advance and welfare, and not afford this freedom. The American Federation of Labor has always insisted on this right, and as we approach Labor Day we could do no better thing than protest against such an iniquitous practice. A practice which is perpetuating the dependence of the white man on the Negro and seriously impeding progress by insisting cheap labor—which the Negro in Georgia—if we need him—let us treat him fairly and he will stay. If the Negro wishes to go elsewhere, let him go." Donahey Celebrates Emancipation Day. Columbus, Sept. 22.—Two Negroes were released from the state penitentiary today by Gov. A. V. Donahey in recognition of emancipation day. They were Wm. Taylor, of Canton, and Frank Westbrooke, of Cleveland. Taylor was serving ten to twenty-five years for robbing a companion of $5 while both were drunk. He went to prison Oct. 29, 1924. He is to return to prison Oct. 10, 1925, received at the prison Oct. 10, 1925, was serving three to seven years for stealing $50 worth of automobile tools. He has a wife and three children whom the clementry board said needs his care. Killed by The K. K. K. Jacksonville, Fla.—The suspension of Sheriff J. L. Hancock of Putnam County, Fla., has brought to light the death of two "Negroes" by a hooded mob (K. K. K.) on Aug. 14. Until last week it was reported the two youths had been shot in the street by a "strap man." The slain men, William Steen and Clarence Chism of Palatka, Fla., were searching for Mrs. Minnie Pickney, Steen's mother. The mob had kidnapped Mrs. Pickney and lashed her with leather straps in the woods. Between 5 and 60 people were trapped en by masked night-riders near Palatka within the past year with the connivance of the sheriff and the police. Many Thousands of Them. Hon. Harry C. Smith, editor of The Cleveland (O.) Gazette, ran fifth among twelve candidates for the Republican nomination for Governor of Ohio in the primary, recently, beating seven of the eleven white candidates, one a woman. There are some people in that state who are running for that office—John Mitchell, editor, Richard (Va.) Planet. VA. LYNCHING! SEPTEMBER 25,1926. WHO IS RESPONSIBLE? The Editor of "The Old Reliable" Gazette, The Hon. Harry C. Smith, Asks Two Pertinent Questions! Cleveland, O., Sept. 14, '26. Mr. W. P. Dabney. Editor, "The Union", Cincinnati, O. Dear Sir:—THE "NEGROES OF CINCINNATI WHO LED THE EFFORT FAVORING "JIM - CROW" SCHOOLS FOR YOUR CITY, ARE DIRECTLY RESPONSIBLE FOR MRS. MINDY GLASS" TROUBLE, AND THE "NEGROES OF CINCINNATI ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR THE CONTINUED EXISTENCE OF "JIM-CROW" SCHOOLS IN THAT CITY WHEN ALL OHIO LAW IS AGAINST THEM, ARE THEY NOT PLEASE ANSWER IN "THE OLD RELIABLE" UNION AND OBLIGE, Yours for the Race, HARRY C. SMITH. Editor "The Cleveland Gazette." The above interrogations are made by the Hon. Harry C. Smith of Cleveland, father of our Ohio Civil Rights and Anti-Lynching Laws. He has several times made a most credible showman as a candidate for the Republican nomination for Governor of this State. THE ANSWER TO HIS QUESTIONS, I REGRET TO SAY IS, YES, OUR COLORED CITIZENS ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR THE PRESENT LAMENTABLE CONDITION! MANY OF THEM WANTED COLORED SCHOOLS AND THE WHITES EVERYWHERE WELCOME OPPORTUNITIES FOR SEGREGATION! REGARDLESS OF YOUR SUCH INSISTENCE, THE ONLY REAL REASON IS—MONEY! The knowledge that Negro teachers and principals could be more easily placed in colored schools, has caused them to work towards that end rather than in the right direction, which would have necessitated a fight for the establishment of our teachers, where they really belong, in accordance with the State laws; that is, in mixed schools. OUR PEOPLE WILL SOME DAY REALIZE THAT THE SACRIFICE WILL CHANGE FOR MONEY, WILL ENTAIL UNTOLD MISERY ON THEIR CHILDREN AND THEIR CHILDREN'S CHILDREN, WE CALLED ATTENTION TO THE EVIL, YEARS AND YEARS AGO, BUT "PHARAOH WOULD NOT HEED." DABNEY. ANOTHER "NEGRO" BANK FAILURE. Nearly a Half Dozen in the South and One in The North "Went To The Wall. Last and This Year. Charleston, S. C.—The People's Federation Bank of this city, operated for our depositors by "Negro" officers, did not open its doors, last week Tuesday morning, on orders of the state bank examiner. The reason given for closing the bank was that it was unable to receive sufficient amount to meet current demand. It had deposits amounting to about $200,000. The same old story, told entirely too eloquently by about six of our banks in the South and one in the North (at Philadelphia), last and this year! This latest failure recalls also that of the Standard Life and the Co. of Atlantic last year and what the late Dr. Booker T. Washington meant when he referred to his people in this section of the country as constituting "a child race". More Bank Trouble. Chicago, Ill.—Local business circles, as well as those in New York, are stirred by the announcement that Robert S. Abbott, publisher of The Chicago Defender, has resigned from the board of directors of the Binga State Bank, and that his resignation has been accepted unanimously. Advices from the East, where Abbott is travelling, state authorities may have the board. The close association which has hitherto existed between President Jesse Binga of the bank and Publisher Abbott lent considerable surprise to the announcement that the two had parted ways. SOUTHERN "NEGROES" Responsible For "Jim-Crow" Mistreatment Accepted Oug list! Detroit, Mich.—By a change of policy, now in effect at the Ford Company motor plant here, asked by southern Negro employees, colored guides are used to escort colored visitors around the plant, and white messengers for white visitors. Inquiry of several of our teachers, parents, and party, recently, brought out the fact that they were to be given separate guides. The officials of the Ford Co., when asked, said flatly that it was its policy now to make the separation. Donald J. Marshall, said to be in charge of colored employees, said the change had been made because it had been found impossible to get fair treatment from white guides and in order to give employment to colored men, the main reason for the change. There had been no complaint of mistreatment from the white messengers or guides. SINGLE COPY FIVE CENTS DR. GALLOWAY'S TRIBUTE TO HIS LONG-TIME FRIEND, NOTED EDUCATOR AND SCHOLAR, DR. W. S. SCARBOROUGH The Latter's Address at the University of Virginia Cardinal Mercer's Invitation While Dr. Scarborough Was in Cambridge, England, to Go to Belgium—the Funeral. Wilberforce, O.—Dr. W. A. Galloway, (white), of Xenia, who wrote the Scarborough obituary, published in The Gazette, last week, at the request of Dr. Scarborough, has followed it with this personal tribute: "The writer's acquaintance with Dr. W. S. Scarborough has extended over many years past. It was personal and always pleasant and profitable. During his long presidency of Wilberforce University, he was ex-officio member of the board of trustees of which board the writer was president for twenty-four years. His great value to this important work was therefore sincere appreciation is here given to his valuable educational labor for the cause he loved so much and served so well. It must be added to the history of this distinguished educator, that his active life's work extended not only to the uplift of his own race, but as well and sincerely to every race and people of many grafting and interesting incidents of his work as a publicist, two stand out in my recollection as showing that worth makes the man and that in the higher realm of matters no racial prejudice exists. These are: When he delivered an address before the American Philological Society at the University of North Carolina, and among numerous had never admitted Negroes in his capacity except servile. There he stood under the portrait of Robert E. Lee in the presence of a large audience, discussing a passage from Thucydides and received an applause. Another was the initiation while in Cambridge, Eng. during the laying of the cornerstone of the New Louvain Library in Belgium. Many other notable incidents have been a part of his remarkable career, but these two well illustrate the exceptional place he enjoyed in scholastic fields. In the best interpretation of the word, he was awarded as an educator, patriot and publicist. It has been written that 'no man is a hero to his own physician' but this cannot be written of Dr. Scarborough. The writer was his physician for all the period between 1890 and the hour of his departure. This friend of humanity, patient and forebearing, during long times and long and busy life, never faltered in life's amenities, never failed in his optimism and never ceased to labor for the public's welfare." Services for Dr. W. S. Scarborough were held in Galloway hall, of Wilberforce University, Sunday, and in the body lying there in state from 10 a.m. Floral offerings were numerous and beautiful, coming from all parts of the country, from Wilberforce clubs and from individuals, friends, and from Mrs. Scarborough's relatives, and from the facilities, trustees and community clubs. The services were most impressive, opening with a favorite hymn, "In the Cross of Christ I Glory", by a selected quartette. Dr. J. C. Caldwell of Nashville, representing the University, M. E. Church of which publications Dr. Scarborough had long been one of the editors, followed with a beautiful prayer. Mr. W. A. Anderson, an old student of the Doctor's, read the biography and obituary. Miss Helen Ferrison renamed the book "The Dean Dean Woodson of Payne Seminary preached a brief but impressive sermon with the central thought that great learning and honors had not dimmed Dr. Scarborough's faith. It was maintained to the last and knew no fear. He went down long enough, with his hands in those of Jesus. Then Bishop R. C. Ransom gave the address, tender, appreciative, eloquent, saying that Dr. Scarborough had given the University dignity and standing that constituted its most valuable asset in its recognition and appraisement by the scholastic world, making it known nationally and internationally, bringing to its halls an atmosphere of gentility and culture which was the chief refining influence of its early crudeness and lack of academic flavor, opening by his scholarly articles in leading journals the the worth and work of scholarly black men everywhere. He spoke of the affection and esteem in which Dr. Scarborough was held by students, graduates and friends, of the sweet atmosphere of his home life, of the oneness of purpose and singleness of alm he and his noble wife held with beautiful poise, IN-UNION IS STRENGTH COPY FIVE CENTS HING! RY'S TRIBUTE END, NOTED EDUCATOR W. S. SCARBOROUGH The University of Virginia— on While Dr. Scarborough England, to Go to the Funeral. standing between the two races. He referred to the desire of friends to give Dr. Scarborough honor as he left Wilberforce, and how utterly palsied and futile the hands are now that sought relentlessly to stay them and bar him from the halls where he had so long served, but now in death he had ascended to high and honorable distinction—"a crown of glorious achievement Dr. W. S. Scarborough resting on his brow". He said that the Doctor's quest for knowledge, his air of culture and his abounding optimism would ever abide in the halls of Wilberforce. "Jesus, Lover of My Soul" was then sung by the quartette and Rev. Howe, of the Second Beauty, Karlisha Dr. Scarborough's friend, spoke a few words, recalling his smile and cheery words, his ever ready helpfulness and his unostentatious manners—a friend to high and low alike. Dr. J. C. Caldwell, reading a list of telegrams and resolutions, spoke of the thousands of students who will mourn and sympathize with the horrific war, many telegrams received was from Gov. A. V. Donahcy! Fraternities, sororities and clubs sent resolutions. Miss Hallie Q. Brown then touchingly read three favorite poems of Dr. Scarborough, breathing "No Death; but Life 'Eternal' and 'Rest' the best. Then with a last look at the calm, serene face all the students, the simple dignified service closed with benediction, and the remains were borne from the midst of the large gathering of friends, the funeral cortege took its way to the cemetery where the body was laid bowered in flowers. (It is Mrs. Scarborough's intention to gather the full service, including messages and resolutions, for friends—Editor.) Dead. My Lords. Dead, my lords and gentlemen! Stilled the tongue and stayed the pen; Cheek unflushed and eye unlit— Done with life and glad of it. Curb your praises now as then— Dead, my lords and gentlemen— What he wrought found its reward In the tolerance of the Lord. Ye who fain had barred his path, Dread ye now this look he hath? Dead, my lords and gentlemen— Dare ye not smile back again! Low he lies, yet high and great Looms he, long thus in state. How exalted Oer ye when Dead, my lords and gentlemen! James Whitcomb Riley. Barred From State Tourist Camps. Baltimore, Md.—Our people will not be permitted to use the state camping sites along the National Pike between Baltimore and the Pennsylvania state line, according to Director of Public Works John N. Mackell. This action followed the complaint of Mrs. C. S. Alexander, of Stephen, Va. who was refused admittance to the state free camp site at Frederick, Md. and appealed to Director Mackall. He replied that the camps had the same status as hotels (white) in this state. Flogged To Death. Goldsboro, N. C.—Isaac Best, age 70, of this city, was flogged by a band of brutes who said he was a "conjure doctor and liable, to poison our wells". Six alleged members of the band have been arrested. 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; 1896 to 1898; 1900 to 1902 THE GAZETTE is the oldest and has the largest bona fide circulation, double that of any newspaper in the interest of Afro-Americans published 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. 10,000,000 Afro-Americans. 350,000 in Ohio. 40,000 in Cleveland. Our bank failures, last and this year, coupled with that heart-rending Standard Life Insurance Co. failure, at Atlanta, Ga., last year also, will cause many to think that "Negroes" are not yet ready for "big business". The failures hurt! Editor Wendell Phillips Dabney, of the Cincinnati Union, certainly did answer our questions, didn't he? Well, our conferee did all in his power, as he says, to warn our people of his city of the great mistake they were making in permitting the establishment of "jim-crow" schools there and now they are reaping (only in part, as yet) what they sowed against his pleas and entreaties. "Twas ever thus: It ought to be a warning to the advocates of a "jim-crow" hospital here in Cleveland. But will it? CONVENTION PLAN, MOST EXPENSIVE When a candidate could obtain a nomination from a convention, he needed to be favorably known only to the delegates or their leaders. But to obtain one at the hands of voters throughout a state, he must gain the good opinion of thousands or hundreds of thousands. That requires advertising on some fairer. That means a connection, particularly to a new and little known candidate—Cleveland Daily News. Some old-time politician, who has been a candidate when the old convention plan of making nominations was in vogue, ought to tell the editor of The News that it cost the great majority of successful candidates a great deal more than it does under the popular vote plan of today. The political bosses of the convention and the heads of the party executive committees simply had to have the money. And we know whereof we speak! There are others who know, too. If they only would speak up. BIRD MAY HAVE BEEN INNOCENT! The second account of that Wytheville, Virginia, lynching is out. We are wondering what the third will reveal. Maybe Raymond Bird, the unfortunate victim of "Old Dominion" lynch-murder, did not do what he was charged with doing, after all. His refusal to leave the Grubb farm, where he had been employed for years, when asked to do so by the parents of the Grubb girls, and the girls themselves he is said to have misused, would indicate that he was innocent of the charges which resulted in his untimely death. Then, too, there is the girls' refusals to bring any charge against him and the parents's lenency also, in the face of so serious charges. It looks very much to us as if this case will stand a careful grand jury investigation in which "Pe" Grubb should play a stellar part. The statement of a hospital nurse that she thought the baby, born to one of the Grubb daughters before the lynching, was "colored" may and then may not be true even if it did result in the lynch-murder of Raymond Bird. THE POPULAR VOTE PRIMARY. The politicians, backed by certain big corporations, are trying to knock out the popular vote primary now in effect, claiming that "only 10 or 15 percent of the total vote of the people is cast at primary elections". This is not often true, but if it were the popular vote primary is infinitely, to be preferred to a return to the old convention plan of making nominations, dominated as they always are by one or more political bosses. That is what they want again and are working for when they ask you to vote to modify the popular vote primary at the next election. This same effort has been made, several times in the past, with the result that the politicians and polit- local bosses were voted down and the popular vote primary endorsed and retained. It is far better to have nominations made by 10 or 15 percent of the total vote than to have them dictated by a few political bosses who do not constitute one per cent of the total vote. Surely the great mass of thinking voters have not so soon forgotten what forced the "junking" of the old convention plan of making nominations. It's rottenness and bad results brought about the "junking", and ought never to be lost sight of for a single moment. The popular vote primary with its few imperfections is far and away superior to the convention plan of making nominations for reasons stated and others, and until a better poplar vote plan is found, the one we have should and doubtless will be retained, regardless of the political bosses' and their corporation allies' efforts to discredit it for the sole purpose of substituting the old or any convention plan, thus 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 old 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 of the specious arguments of politicians or others into voting for any change in the present popular vote primary law. All that we have written in the foregoing applies with almost equal force to the women voters of Ohio. All should know that the political bosses are depending largely on the notorious crookedness (they more than anyone or anything else is responsible for), which is invoked on 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 from now until election day in November. Charles S. Gilpin Out! Universal City, Calif.—After but two days of actual work before the camera, Charles S. Gilpin is leaving Universal City and the role of "Tom", in "Incle Tom's Cabin", and returning to the stage. According to west coast reports, Gilpin is an author and name for himself in the drama has lost his chance to become a movie star if he does not stop fighting "Demon Alcohol". It is said that practically from the time he arrived on the coast, liquor consumption took up most of his life and was unmanageable around the set—Baltimore (Md.) Afro-American. President Jones Speaks St. Louis, Mo.—President Gilbert H. Jones of Wilberforce University, delivered the annual educational address of the Young People's Fellowship of All Saints Episcopal Church. Sunday evening week. Gilbert, a graduate of education and encouraged every boy and girl to equip themselves with the armour of knowledge to fight the hard battles of life that they must face in the later years. A fair sized audience of representatives of the church addressed the press. Atty. John A. Davis delivered the welcome address. Rev. Clarke, the rector, presented Prof. Frank L. Williams, who made a brief talk. Woman Nominee For Justice of The Peace. Tulsa, Okla.—At the recent primary election, Mrs. Ellen Lathon was nominated as a Republican candidate for justice of the peace in the fourth district. She won over her nearest opponent, a man (white), by 1,720 votes to 1,520 votes. Her husband was at one time a justice of the peace. She has never practiced law and is not a graduate of school. She is better a justice as a result. Her knowledge of a justice's work was gained from her husband while he was in office. Bledsoe In "Deep River". Bledsoe In "Deep River". New York City - Julius Bledsoe, very promising baritone soloist, who appeared last season in concerts, will be cast as a principal in "Deep River", the new Fountain Hopkins show. It has its recent premi- nation in Lancaster, Pa., it moved to Philadelphia for a two weeks' run. It is booked for New York City later in the season. '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 ob- durate 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. THE GAZETTE. CLEVELAND. O. SATURDAY. SEPTEMBER 25. 1926 PRIME SPORT NEWS Dempsey Knocked Out! Philadelphia, Pa.—An attachment for Jack Dempsey's share of the purse of the Tunney fight, Thursday night, was issued in common pleas court, Tuesday, at the request of counsel for Jack Kearns, Dempsey's attorney. Rickard was named as garrisones, and the bail to secure Dempsey's assets was fixed at $600,000. Kearns is suing for money alleged to be due him under the terms of his former contract with the heavyweight champion, covering the last three years to August 2, '26. Granting of the attachment, which is a financial knock-out for Jack, took place in one common pleas court, Rickard in another common pleas court against the issuance of an injunction restraining Rickard from paying Dempsey and Tunney any money in advance of the fight in violation of the Pennsylvania law. This action was started, last week, by a "taxpayer and ticketholder" representing Kearns, and will be another knock-out for the pseudo champ. Motion to dismise the officer to ticketholder's action, made by Ira J. Williams, of Rickard's counsel, was denied by the three judges hearing the case, and argument proceeded on the injunction suit. Philadelphia, Pa., Sept. 22. Threatened injunction proceedings to stop the Jack Dempsey-Gene Tunney heavyweights championship bout have not materialized, as yet. Attorneys representing B. C. Clements, president of the Chicago Co-operative Club, were in consultation most of Tuesday and today. They were trying to decide which would be the better method to press Clem- FRESH OI FRESH OHIO NEWS 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. Listes of names, wedding presents, etc., obbary 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 applica- CINCINNATI—"There will be no discrimination between citizens in considering applications for positions in the post office department." That is the substance of a letter of Postmaster General Harry S. New to Dr. Clifford Mitchel, (white), of Chicago, who had written him complaining about our carriers serving in white districts and charging that our carriers were neither efficient nor loyal. Segregatin is rampant in the post office department at Washington, D. C. and a number of local post offices like here in Cincinnati and even in Cleveland. Somebody ought to tell Postmaster No Secrets to Me Perfect Can Be Achieved By F Rules Says Famous No Secrets to Making Perfect Cup of Coffee By Mildred Maddocks Bentley Formally Director of Good Housekeeping Institute What is the secret of first-rate coffee—the kind that starts the day right—that makes you feel "like a million dollars"? Literally hundreds of women—and a surprising number of men—have asked me this question in one form or another. And it's an important one—for what can be more blighting to domestic happiness than a cup of muddy coffee or coffee improperly "creamed"? And, on the contrary, what can be more exhilarating than a good cup—fragrant, golden, delicious? What is the secret of first-rate coffee—the kind that starts the day right—that makes you feel "like a million dollars"? Literally hundreds of women—and a surprising number of men—have asked me this question in one form or another. And it's an important one—for what can be more blighting to domestic happiness than a cup of muddy coffee or coffee improperly "creamed"? And, on the contrary, what can be more exhilarating than a good cup—fragrant, golden, delicious? Luckily there's no hidden secret about making and serving the perfect coffee—it's just a matter of minding your p's and q's and following a few simple directions. easily be spoiled by using cream of inferior quality or the "top of the bottle" if carelessly poured off. In my study of food habits, I am finding that every year more and more people prefer sweetened condensed milk in their coffee. You see this kind is twice as rich and creamy as ordinary milk and furthermore already contains sugar, thus serving the additional purpose of sweetening the coffee. Try it for a few days, and I think you will agree that the condensed milk gives a delightfully rich, smoothly blended drink, bringing out the real coffee flavor. And of course it is very convenient, as it keeps fresh without ice even after the can is opened—and the cost is extremely moderate. Selection of Coffee There are many excellent brands of coffee in the market—the choice of one of these is largely a matter of individual taste. But I do want to say that usually coffee in the bean retains its flavor longer than in the ground form—so, if possible, buy the whole beans and grind your coffee fresh for each meal. If, however, the breakfast hour—or fifteen minutes—is too hectic to admit of this extra step, at least keep your ground coffee in an air tight container—a glass fruit jar for instance. And it's well to remember that the more finely the coffee is ground, the easier it is to extract its full strength and flavor—consequently finely-ground coffee is economical and time-saving. Connoisseurs maintain that coffee in a metal pot has a less delicate flavor than in a container of glass, stone-ware or agate. Whatever kind of coffee pot you prefer—it should be scoured frequently and occasionally “boiled out” with water to which a pinch of baking soda has been added—then rinsed, dried, and left uncovered. If a percolator is used, the pipe should be carefully washed every day with a brush to remove all scum from the preceding brew. For drip coffee, if you do not have a special drip coffee pot, an ordinary one equipped with a double cheesecloth bag will serve the purpose. The cheesecloth should be washed in cold water after using and renewed at least once a week. Keep the bag always moist. The “Creaming” This I consider quite as important as the actual brewing. Good coffee can so This I consider quite as important as the actual brewing. Good coffee can so The Coffee Pot The "Creaming" ents' valid claim that Dempsey broke a contract to fight Wills, whom he fears. One method is to enjoy him from fighting Tunney. He buys a brief suit, to attach his receipts in brief suit, to attach night, and recover damages for alleged breach of contract. "I don't like to interfere with the fight here, Thursday night, but do demand that justice be accorded me and the Coliseum Club," said the Chicago promoter, an Tuesday. Calls Kearns an Ex-Convict and Thief Atlantic City, N. J. —Charging that Jack Kearns, his former manager, is an ex-convict and has defrauded him an out of $500,000, Jack Dempsey, Tuesday, filed an answer to the suit which has thrown him into a temporary receivership. The case was continued for two weeks of plea of Richard J. Mackey, of Jersey City's Dempsey's office, who said he had had no money in which to prepare a defense. In his affidavit, Jack said that he had learned Kearns was an ex-convict, having served time in the Washington state penitentiary for a statutory offense and that his wife, Mrs. Dempsey, former Estelle Tayler, was charged with embezzlement at Kearns' position to his (Dempsey's) marriage to her that he was compelled to break with Kearns for his own peace of mind. A very poor defense, this. Dempsey also disclosed the fact that he had received $50,000 in advance from Promoter Tex Rickard, but that this amount was used to a loan and but Rickard holds his note for the money. Rich; Eh? HIO NEWS General Harry New who seems to be broader and better, when it comes to the matter of prejudice, than the President and other members of the cabinet. HILLSHORO.—Mrs. Josephine Parson and Mrs. Louisa Young entertained, last Monday evening, in honor of Miss Arnita Burr who left, Thursday, for Maryland to teach.—Born to Mr. and Mrs. James Shane, nee Jeanetta Thomas of Dayton, son, Miss Rosetta Nellet, received their teacher. Mrs. James A. Young and Mrs. John Williams entertained the Get-Together club, last Wednesday afternoon, at the former's home.—Miss Ella Jones of Toledo arrived, Sunday, to visit Rev. and Mrs. J. Burr.—Mrs. Gertrude Christy has returned from Dayton.—Mr. and Mrs. Edgert Jones has as dinner attested. Sunday, their pastor. Rev W. M. McClelland.—Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Rockhold and family of Highland and Mr. Newton Peele of New Vienna called on Miss Arnita Burr, Sunday.—Otho and Clarence Hudson attended the moonlight picnic in Sabina. Saturday night.—Born to Mr. and Mrs. John Hancock, last week, a daughter.—Mr. and Mrs. Louisa Nellet, Hudson and daughter, Miss Burnice, Mr. and Mrs. Henry and Mr. Richard Willis were in Columbus, Sunday. Making act Cup of Coffee following A Few Simple us Cooking Expert easily be spoiled by using cream of inferior quality or the "top of the bottle" if carelessly poured off. In my study of food habits, I am finding that every year more and more people prefer sweetened condensed milk in their coffee. You see this kind is twice as rich and creamy as ordinary milk and furthermore already contains sugar, thus serving the additional purpose of sweetening the coffee. Try it for a few days, and I think you will agree that the condensed milk gives a delightfully rich, smoothly blended drink, bringing out the real coffee flavor. And of course it is very convenient, as it keeps fresh without ice even after the can is opened—and the cost is extremely moderate. Now as to the actual methods of brewing. There are several and your choice is entirely a matter of individual taste. If the directions are carefully followed, any of the methods will yield the "perfect cup of coffee"—mellow in flavor, with a delicate, fragrant aroma, free from sediment and of a dark golden hue. **Boiled Coffee** Rinse the pot with hot water, put the coffee in the pot one round tablepoon of medium-ground coffee and pour it into a spoon. Scoop "for the pot." Add a little white egg, or crushed egg shell and about one-fourth cup of cold water, stirring briefly. Add the milk and bring to a full bell. Place on back of the stone or over low heat for about ten minutes to settle, before serving. Do not allow to cool, as it will break the coffee. Percolated Coffee Use one cup of finely-ground coffee to six cups of boiling water. Place the coffee in the strainer in the bowl and pour it through the tube, percolating through the coffee into the lower part, until the coffee is of the desired strength, five minutes being the best. A percolator is good if allowed to cook after the required strength is reached. **Drip Coffee** Heat the pot by rinsing in hot water, and wet the strumpet with the coffee. Place one rounded tablespoon of coffee in the drip-medium and pour boiling water. Place on a stand and immediately do not allow the brew to cool. If service is delayed, place the pot on the over hot water. Never rebathe by plunging the Steeped Coffee In making steeped coffee, rounded tablespoon of coffee to each cup of water, with an addition of spoon for the pot. Add cold water. Fire and bring quickly to the boiling point. Either let it stand for a moment to settle or add a little cold water. Remember—the best coffee will lose its flavor if allowed to stand. 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CLEVELAND Social and Personal Crispus Attucks was the first to shed blood in behalf of U. S. liberty. Mrs. W. H. Corbin, of Pasadena, Cal., was the guest of Mrs. B. H. Smoot, E. 40th St. Several of our men were included among the "minute-men" of the Revolutionary War. A considerable number of our people owned slaves before the war of the rebellion. The marriage of Miss Gloria Vincent, E. 28th St., to A. C. Lassiter of Detroit has been announced for Sept. 26. Josiah Henson, prototype of "Uncle Tom" of "Uncle Tom's Cabin", was received by Queen Victoria. The University of Heidelberg conferred the degree of Doctor of Divinity upon J. W. C. Pennington, Maryland ex-slave. Mrs. Mary Green Goode, an old resident, died recently at the Old Folks' home. Funeral, last week Tuesday afternoon. Henry O. Tanner, with the eminent artist, Sargent, (white), represents the best America has produced in painting (artists). Get a Hoover Vacuum for fall housecleaning. Price $25 and up. 'Phone Evergreen, 1303-W for terms and demonstrations.—Adv. George Early, a Ford salesman, has returned from a six weeks' vacation in the East and visiting at Gates, N. C., making the trip in his "Baby Lincoln". Dr. E. A. Clarks married Randolph Ward and Gertrude Williams, Harry R. Brown and Fannie Reese and John H. Cloud and Frances Hawkins, recently. Mrs. Anna Lucas, E. 100th St., entertained at dinner, last week Wednesday, at the Mary Jane Hostess House, 2180 E. 83d St., in honor of Mrs. Ida B. Carey of New Vienna. Our people of Cleveland now have a "Tuskegee Industrial school" right at home; in the new Trade School. Will they use it? That's the question. Councilman Tom Fleming has as much chance to be appointed U.S. Collector of Customs as "Hoofey" Lawson who is, of course, not a candidate for the place. Mr. and Mrs. R. W. Sellers, E. 101st St., accompanied by her sister, Miss Lucinda Davis, of Macon, Ga., and Mrs. S. L. Wilcox motored to Philadelphia, Newark and Atlantic City, recently. The 370th (old 8th Illinois) regiment (officered by Afro-Americans) received more citations and croix de guerre than any other American regiment in France during the World War. It seems impossible to organize a church in Atlanta among our people against immorality and loose living—Atlanta (Ga.) Independent. Same condition here in Cleveland, "Brother" Davis. Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Lee, E. 43d St., entertained at dinner, recently, in honor of Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Wilkinson of New York City. Mr. Wilkinson and Mrs. Lee had not met in 30 years. *M. KLEINMAN'S 2928 Central Ave. *THE S. & S. DRUG CO. 7325 Central Ave. The Gazette regularly should notify copy delivered promptly. business matters to The Gazette k, 226 West Superior Ave., oppo-you wish to see the editor call carefully examine The Gazette's purchases. Business men who have the patronage of our people. assurance that they want it. location in current issues of The by 4 p. m., TUESDAY of that advertisements accepted until C. SMITH, Avenue, Cleveland, O. Del Cleveland.) Bell 'Phone: Cherry 1259 (Call in the Afternoon.) WANTED — AGENTS — NEW PLAN, makes it easy to earn $50.00 to $100.00 weekly, selling shirts direct to wearer. No capital or experience needed. Represent a real manufacturer. Write for FREE SAMPLES. Madison Shirt Makers, 562 Broadway, New York. $8,000—$800 CASH FOR SALE—House—Modern ten room single; Garage. Large lot. Near Cedar Ave. at E. 99th St. Good bargain. Act quickly. MAIN 526.00 Prof. Francis Gregory and family returned, recently, from a two wheelchair. Vermillon He left, last week, for Washington, D. C., to resume his duties as principal of Miner Normal school. Miss Eleanor Alexander has returned from a three months' visit in Europe delighted with her experiences. This was her second tour abroad, having spent two months in Spain studying languages on her first trip. Miss Alexander is one of our public school teachers. Is the "Negro" Church on the decline, or is the "Negro," hitherto regarded by many as the most religious group in America, backsliding? Estimates based on close observation of the northern (and southern, too) "Negro" Church, would suggest an answer in the affirmative, says Lester A. Walton in the New York World. Rev. Mack T. Williams, pastor of Antioch Baptist church, on Monday, asked common pleas court to keep the church's seventeen deacons from "making his post vacant". Williams said the deacons wrote him a letter, last week, saying his services were no longer needed. He said the deacons had no right to discharge him without a hearing. Officers and members of Antioch have been trying for two months to get Williams to resign. Among the callers at The Gazette sanctum, Monday, was Louia Vaughn Jones, son of Mr. and Mrs. L. S. Jones, E. 101st St., who is again in this country after a number of years in Europe, principally in Paris, France, on a visit to his parents and many friends. Louia's long study and concert work abroad have made him an exceptionally well-known teacher of both English and his splendid parents are entitled to a great deal of praise and credit. More power to their kind of members of the race. Rev. A. C. Williams, pastor of Temple Baptist church, corner of E. 89th St. and Cedar Ave., until recently, was asked by the deacons of that church to resign. He hand-out a letter to the pastor out a contest, and bid them good bye. Now, he has a small church in Detroit. Like the pastor of Antioch Baptist church, he, too, came to Cleveland "with a flourish of impets" in teaching the Lord's Sounds "Negroes," hereabouts, seem to revel in the superlative in all things, especially talk, these days. The officers and members of Shiloh Baptist church, it is said, have asked their pastor to resign ever since the first of last March but he declares he will not do so. He has said he will pay more than four thousand dollars behind in its payments on notes. Foreclosure is threatened if payments are not made, at once. Blowing and bragging won't pay for big churches, especially when there are more than a million dollars to raise the money, fall as preachers and in the appointment and selection of honest church officials. Trooper Hayes Daniels of the famous Tenth U. S. Calvary, stationed at Ft. Leavenworth, Kan., in the army war college, is here on furlough, visiting his mother at 2203 E. 69th st. He is to be retired soon, having rounded out 20 years, continued service in the army. Daniels has been thus severe campaigns, is an expert pistol and rifle-shot and horseman, and wears a distinguished service medal. He is also a licensed locomotive engineer, holding an engineer's brotherhood card. A brother is Dr. Daniels of Philadelphia. THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, O. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1926 Do not fall to read and call your friends' and acquaintances' attention to the advertisement of the New York Dress Shop, 5023 Woodland Ave., near E. 565th St. It is one of the most reliable business establishments in the avenue, and Mr. Levine, its proprietor, one of the most courteous and obliging business men to be found in the city. The Gazette has known both for several years and unqualifiedly recommends them. In the opinion of the Rev. Harold M. Kingsley, director of "Negro" work in the North of the Congregational Church Extension Church, the "Negro" Church, faced with new conditions arising out of unadjusted city life, is losing ground in numbers and waning in power. As a deterrent from wrong or an inspiration for good, it the valuable explanation for this darring condition is that the change to city and industrial life presents life to the migrant in new and complex phases, says Rev. Kingsley. Recent examinations for file clerks, in the U. S. Veterans Bureau of this city, at salaries ranging from $1,140 to $1,320 a year have failed to produce a sufficient number of eligibles. C. F. Macklin, local secretary of the civil service commission, announced, last week Thursday. Applications for examination may be up on Sept. 29. Here is "yo opportunity," as Bert. Williams used to say. The Boyd Piano store, 4808 Central Ave., controlled and operated by members of the race, is surely proving that our people are gradually realizing that they are capable of entering fields of industry and business. Also, that they are learning rapidly to patronize our businesses and are thus growing a great deal to help the growth and prosperity of our group. Go in and see what a nice, neat and up-to-date place of business the Boyd Piano store is. It will please you greatly. We desire to call the attention of our readers and their many friends to the advertisement of The Diamond Business College, elsewhere in this paper, and advise them that there is very poor judgment shown in sending our children to other local business colleges when we have one of our students that we will slipped to do all for our youth that any other institution of the kind in the city is doing. The Diamond Business College is centrally located at 6008 Hawthorne Ave., near Central Ave. Address the registrar, at once; Alice E. Wilkerson. John Diamond Wilkerson, president, finished a business course in high school and college, and completed a law course of this course's leading law schools, of arts, the degree, bachelor of arts, and bachelor of laws, and is assisted by a faculty of college graduates and outstanding business men. Alger Wilson, age 28, of 2501 E. 28th St., shot and killed a man, according to police, fell and broke his leg, was routed out of a basement hiding place by a ferocious bulldog and, as the climax of a movie, as the victim of his own tacked by the dead man's sister, who slashed the already injured leg with a razor. He now is charged with murder and the woman, Mrs. Mary Reese, age 26, of 2479 E. 26th St., is charged with cutting to wound. Wilson, police say, shot Richard Reese, age 29, in a crap game and, in flight, fell from a house. Trailing the broken leg across two gards he is alleged to have taken refuge in the basement of a nearby home. Police, told he was armed with an automatic pistol, hesitated to enter but learning a bulldog was tied in another part of the same basement, loosened the dog. The fugitive made what speed he could crouch for shooting. Taken on the second day, afoul of Miss Reese, police reports have it, and there met his same waterloo of the day. Patronize Our Advertisers 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. 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 without self-respect and have no 'guts'." The world respects only those who resent and resist proscriptions for race. Let us be worthy of the abolitionists, worthy of our own fathers who have died in every war to vindicate the title of their race to equal liberty, and forever resist denial of rights to all people, for long race discrimination may continue. To subunit is to deserve contempt. — Blesson (Mass.) Guardian. Guaranteed and Efficient Work TWENTY YEARS' EXPERIENCE 'Phone: Bell, Randolph 6978 Sundays by Appointment TRADE SCHOOL FOR BOYS GOES TO NEW HOME Apprentice Classes Locate in Their Own Building in Eagle Street—A Wonderful Opportunity for Our Youth! Cleveland apprentice training schools entered a modern new home of their own for the first time, Monday, when schools opened. The training schools, conducted on a plan of apprentice training so unusual that the system is known throughout the world as the Cleveland Plan, now are housed in the remodeled Eagle Grade School Building in Eagle. The school is to be known henceforth as the Boys' Trade School. Fully Equipped. It is headed by M. D. Jones, formerly an assistant superintendent, at a salary of $4,650. He will be under direction of H. L. Briggs, director of vocational and practical arts education, of the Cleveland public schools. The new building is equipped with every facility and the most modern equipment for the training of boys in the trades. The Cleveland Plan of vocational education involves computer operations not only with organized labor, but also with employers, open shop organizations, the Chamber of Commerce and with many individual employment managers or large industrial and mercantile concerns. Work and Study. This co-operation includes the assistance of the various trades and employers' bodies in placing apprentices in the schools and in the direction of their studies. The plan calls for instruction during working hours. Most of the apprentices students' time in the first year is put in at school and little in carrying out theoretical instruction. Their time is divided equally between study and work the second year, and the third year's studies are virtually all in the shops of their employers. The apprentices are paid for their full time, whether at work or at study. The main floor of the new Eagle building is equipped as a garage for training auto mechanic students, and the floor from Eagle Ave. The floor is equipped with a machine shop and an engine laboratory. Nearly 2000 Enrolled. The first floor is devoted to a bricklayers' shop and a machine shop, schools for electricians, planners and carpenters are on the second floor, while on the third are schools for messengers, tailors and sheet metal workers. The first enrollment in the new school reached close to 2000. Fourteen specially trained teachers direct the courses. Assisting Director Eggen is responsible for the courses are John Fintz, carpenter, co-ordinator, and Roy Rundy, foreman trainer, who conducts his classes in industrial plants throut the city. 'Phone, Randolph, 1325. BOYD'S PIANO STORE The Only Piano Store in the City Owned and Controlled by Our Group High Grade Pianos, Player Pianos and Phonographs One Price to All Terms to Suit You J. S. BOYD, Mgr. 4808 Central Avenue MRS. 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SEGREGATION 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. E. (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. To many people, segregation is a Democratic scheme of insult, but such is not the case. Mr. Taft introduced it in the bureau of segregation. He segregated the common workers in this city in 1910, restricting white workers to white people, and black workers to black, often duplicating work as most blocks had white and black residents. And, worst of all, announced in his official capacity that Negroes sh. old not hold office where white people complained. Segregation, then, is a Republican institution and not a Democratic one. It was begun by Republicans, and carried on to its all-embracing extent by Republicans! seception to the heads of departments including the postmaster general, in the postoffice building. It announces danding 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 or segregation assignments and salaries. Colored applicants are often overed though their examination was superior. No Negro however efficient or old in the service, must ever dream of a promotion to a directive position. The hard unyielding caste passes whites over him, one after another, though many of the colored employees have won contests in quickness and accuracy in the handling of mail. The colored clerks have dared to form union which meets regularly and often sends manly and intelligent protests to the postmaster, and often appeals from his decisions to the postmaster-general. It has secure There is far more of it in the departments, today, than at any time since the Negro first appeared, close upon the close of the Civil War. The picture requirement in the civil service, which makes it next to impossible for a colored lady or gentleman to enter the civil service, since their color is disclosed in their photograph which must accompany their papers, is tenaciously held by our Republican President. Only last week, a colored lady appeared after having assessed the best examination, and then having been telegraphed for by the department. The photograph had failed to tell her true color, and they flatly refused to appoint her when she appeared, and they saw her complexion. Commissioner Blair of the internal revenue bureau with thousands of clerks will not appoint a Negro clerk, and his word is law there, as he is the special favorite of Secretary Mellon and President Coolidge. North Carolina, the home of the other favorite and leader of the segregation force, Col. Sherill, superintendent of buildings and grounds. It is no use to complain of either of these southern gentlemen. The colored people here who know the President could destroy segregation in the departments of the government, and the photograph requirements in the civil service by the mere nod of his head, are at a loss to understand why he does not put his splendid declarations on democracy into operation here, where it would not even cost him a single vote and where he has full power and absolutely no opposition. They wonder if he is not a firm believer in segregation, especially since segregation is one of the chief tenets of the Ku Klux Klan which has found its "welcome home" in the Republican party, and receives no condemnation from the Republican President. (Special to The Gazette.) (Special to the Gazette) Washington, D. C.-In the postoperative segregation is rampant. The faithful colored clerks under constant humiliation and physical discipline. The department maintains a spacious caffeteria 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 lepers. The injustice stings all the more when they reflect that they are far more capable than the whites, render the government the 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 whites and neglect of colored. It maintains a well-appointed club room with pool tables and other rooms, a comfortable lounge, and other equipment for 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 post-office employees," yet not one was delivered to the colored clerks. It 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 over through their examinations as supervisor. No Negro, cover efficient or old in the service, must ever dream of a promotion to a directive position. The hard, unfielding 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 menly 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 print 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 education. Yet these girls are often 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 there are a few tables in an out-of-the-way section reserved for our employees. I am glad to say that few, very few, of our people patronize the place, preferring a little physical inconvenience to the open, semi-public humiliation of segregation. In toilet facilities, dressing-rooms, and work assignments, wherever possible, the law of segregation is in full force, and, of course, this same undemocratic practice reveals itself on the salary roll and in the landlord's promotions. Here, as elsewhere, the inferior whites pass over our superior employees to directive positions, and higher salaries. The whites have a large recreational center in this public building with many fine appointments for rest and amusements. During lunch and dinner hours they repair to this restful retreat for sociability and dance. Last fall, a young Afro-American with a splendid record in his work, felt the injustice of this exclusion of our employees so keenly in their work. He was 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 dismuse a dead-end-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 and ordered one of carry agents to dismuse a dead-end-up charge, which was immediately dismissed. By this severe punishment our employees are taught that there is no way of escape for one who dares to resent the daily insults that their government (under President Coolidge) gives them. Many of the employees have expressed their deeply-wounded feelings to me at being considered a pariah by the government whose institutions they are serving so faithfully, and I have taken up a number of cases only to be met by a denial that the conditions complained of exist, and a request for the names of my informants. I knew the fate these informants could have under a single name!! The department then taking the position that it cannot take up the case. It is perfectly clear that this iniquitous THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, O. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1926 scheme of segregation is a difficult thing to fight, since the government is so well settled upon it, and the inhabitants cannot bear 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 heroes young colored women who were the first to suit 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 discuaged, she came out one stormy afternoon to the Y. M. C. A. to urge them to continue the fight, for democracy was at the crisis point. She came to town to attack White House and Cabinet and arouse our people, and the Nation Association secured publicity in over six hundred influential white papers in the country. The fight checked what was thought to be the intention of the segregates, namely, the elimination of the colored employees from the bureau altogether. The same segregation which some of our people think is the cherished institution of the Democratic party is still there, in all of its fullness, under the administration of the party that Abraham Lincoln, Charles Sumner and Frederick Douglas are helped to found. Our girls are employed there in far larger numbers than in any other branch of the public school system. 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 inferior positions, the inevitable result of segregation. The people of the issue 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 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 Constitution, 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 predestinacy, Mr. Daniel Roper and David Forsyth have 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 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 farer. The various forms of segregation exist here as well as elsewhere—the restaurants closed or divided along color lines, and special toilet, 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 use the toilet to stire the use of them. The department maintains 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 seats two thousand diners with space t. spare; but not one Negro! His only share is in the taxes he is forced to pay for this luxury for another group! The registration of the treasury, with the brightest residents have given the Negro since Garfield appointed Blanch K. Bruce, is now filled by a white man, and the colored people are congregated in a separate room which is publicly proclaimed as "a colored division." When it is discovered that Negro clerks are "working as white" in other divisions, they are promptly transferred to this "colored division." Our people fear that protest against this segregation would result in the abolition of the division altogether; so they remain in a dilemma, fearing to act. Our clerks must accept segregation or elimination, and being poor, with no other opportunities in this southern atmosphere, must take the former. They are depressed at the bureaucracy but economic stress compels endurance of it. By a single stroke of his pen, President Calvin Coolidge can stop every bit of this damnable segregation, just as he can condemn that lawless organization the Ku Klux Klan. COOLIDGE'S SEGREGATION 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 wails were maintained until recently. In the latter have been two cases of discrimination on account of color brought to public view. The words, announcing the election of President Coolidge, were hardly cold before the effort to increase segregation in the departments here was on again at full speed. It had slowed up a little during the campaign. Investigation of 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 employees. 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. P. O. Separate Lunch Room Post Office Department—a segregated lunch room. RACE PREJUDICE! "I am convinced myself that there is no more evil thing in this present world than race prejudice; none at all!" "I write deliberately—it is the worst single thing in life now. It justifies and holds totefulness, cruelty and abomination than any other sort of error in the world." "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 You and I have frequently, during the forty-two years since the birth of The Gazette, been, as the Scotch would say, like two McNeils, 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. (Fortress Member, Ohio State Senate.) AN OUTRAGE! OHIO'S ANTI-LYNCHING LAW LEADS THE COUNTRY IN EFFECTIVE LEGISLATION Against The Mob and Lynch-Murder—The Work of a Member of The Race—Also His Ohio Civil Rights Law Section 6278. "Mob" and "lynching" defined. 6279. "Serious injury" defined. 6280. Damages in case of assault. 6281. Damages in case of lynching. 6282. Damages recoverable by legal representative of victim of lynching. 6283. Person suffering death or injury by mob trying to lynch another. 6284. Limitations of action. 6285. Order to include recovery and costs in tax levy. 6286. Guardian's custody, etc., fees. 6287. County's right of action against member of mob. 6288. County's right of action against another county. 6289. Non-relief from prosecution. Our mob-vloeience 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 6273. 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 been out authority of law, shall be deemed a "mob" for the purpose of this chapter. An act of violence by a mob upon the body of any person shall constitute a "lyching" 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 receiving it from earning a livelihood by manual labor. (93 v. 161 3. Section 6280. A person taken from officers of justice by a mob and assaulted with whips, clubs, missiles or in any other manner, may recover, as hereafter provided, a sum not to exceed one thousand dollars as damages from the county in which the assault 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 that injury received therefrom is serious, a jury received therefrom a 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 6282. The legal representative of a person dying from injuries received from lynching by a mob, may recover of the county in which such injury occurred, a sum not to exceed five thousand dollars damages for such unlawful killing. Such sum shall be applied to the maintenance of the family and education of the minor children of such person so lynched, if any survive him, until such children are of legal age, and then be distributed to the survivors, share and share alike, the widow receiving an amount equal to a child's share. If there be no widow or minor children surviving such decedent, such sum shall be distributed 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 within the provisions of this copter. He or his legal representatives shall have a like right of action as one purposely injured or killed by a mob. (93 v 162 6.) Section 6283. A person suffering death or injury from a mob attempting to lynch another person shall none within the provisions of this copter. He or his legal representatives shall have a like right of action as one purposely injured or killed by 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 adhere to 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 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, 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 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 28. ed. r. representative of our victim of lynching by mob trying to lynch another and costs in tax levy. s. member of mob. inst 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 failing 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 Upon the request or many readers of The Gazette we print below the text of the Hon. Harry C. Smitha Ohio Civil Rights law which the board had enacted while a member of the 71st General Assembly, in 1894; The General Code of Ohio: Sec. 12940. Whoever, being the proprietor or his employee, keeper or manager of an inn, restaurant, eating house, barber-shop, public conveyance by land or water, theater or other place of public accommodation and amusement, denies to a citizen, except for reasons applicable alike to all citizens and regardless of race or civil position, of the accommodations, advantages, facilities or privileges thereof, shall be not ned not less than fifty dollars nor more than five hundred dollars, or nor more than ninety days, or both. Sec. 12941. Whoever violates the next preceding section shall also pay not less than fifty dollars nor more than five hundred dollars to the person aggrieved thereby to be recovered in any court of competent jurisdiction in the county where such offense was committed. This law has repeatedly been held constitutional and good law by the Ohio Supreme Court the trouble is our people will not use it as often as they should, but expect it. As 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 did not need mentioning. The following letter from Judge G. Camer 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. Oklahoma State University. Editor The Gazette, Cleveland, O. Mear Dear Sir: Observing your letter, to the Beacon-Journal, of this city, I am pleased to 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 editorial. THE LAW OF OHIO IS UNDER NO REORGANIZATION or put under administration in administering it. Not a word was said by the Beacon-Journal when the Forman case was reviewed. Very truly yours, R. C. Grant. Our advertisers want your trade. Those who do not ask for it in the columns of "The Old Reliable" 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 Re after Reading SOUTHERN STATES "POWER- LESS". Northern states' legislation against lynch-murder IS effective. This is also true in the case of several border states that have anti-lynch-murder laws. In the southern states it is different because, in the case of one or two states that have any such legislation and the others, southern public sentiment favors lynch-murder. Our highly ed condurre of confidence (Va) Journal and Guide knows this but we believe in it rather too vague a way in his recent excellent editorial on "Lynchers". Southern states are "powerless to punish lynchers", for the reason stated, but northern states with anti-lynch-murder laws are not. Therefore, our contemporary is not wholly correct when it says "the state is powerless to punish lynchers". I undoubtedly means to say that the southern state is powerless to punish lynchers. For this reason, it is to be regretted that the Congress of the United States is powerless to enact an anti-lynch-murder law that the U. S. Supreme Court would not declare unconstitutional because the power to legislate against the mob and lynch-murder is vested in the several states and not in the U. S. Congress, and not in the Government, the power to so legislate, which it has not, the Democratic South's influence over the Congress with its Republican majority is always such as to bring about, in one way or another, the defeat of every anti-lynch-murder bill introduced and all that will be introduced for years to come in the future. The fate of the several Dyer brothers in the lynch-murder case lay anti-lynch-murder bills are still fresh in the minds of all our people and are concrete illustrations of the correctness of the final statement in the foregoing. There will be no federal anti-lynch-murder law. PAT HARRISON AND POMERENE Our readers have doubtless noticed that one of the “big” Democratic speakers to be brought into the state, by the Democratic state campaign committee, in behalf of Ex-U. S. Senator Pomerene is U. S. Senator Pat Harrison of Mississippi! This information is of particular interest to our people of Ohio at this time, because Pomerene is the Democratic candidate for U. S. Senator Pat Frank B. Willis, our candidate for the position. Willis is our friend; Harrison and Pomerene, our enemies! It was this same Senator Pat. Harrison of Mississippi, who is to come into the state as the chief spokesman for the Democratic candidate for U. S. Senator, who was the leader in the filibuster on Nov. 27, 1922, which resulted in the defeat of the Dyer anti-lynch bill. It was Senator Harrison who led the opposition, since that time, that a second time prevented the consideration of that bill. There were nine roll calls in connection with the filibuster. Every vote cast on the side of the filibuster was Democratic, including those of Harrison, Harrison, King of Utah and Pomerene, Harrison, who through the筹救 votes by simply going out of the chamber. The record shows he was present, every day, during the filibuster and did nothing against it. Every vote cast against the filibuster was Republican, except one, and Senator Willis was one of those who stood by us, supporting the Dyer anti-lynch law to the very end. Only a few weeks ago the last of the last session, it was Pomerene Harrison who led the bitter fight against the confirmation of Judge Cobb, not because of any question as to his ability, but simply because of his prosecution and this is the man that the Democracy are bringing into the state to help elect our enemy, Pomerene, and defeat our sterling friend, U. S. Senator Frank B. Willis—the man (Harrison) who rarely opens his mouth to refer to our people but to slur and abuse us. His coming to Ohio, to participate in the camaraderie, as a speaker or otherwise, is in itself an aggravating insult which we should not unanimously to resent in every honorable way at our command. As for Senator Pomerene’s candidacy, it is “out of the question”, impossible, as far as our people are concerned because his votes and acts, while a member of the U. S. Senate, were against us on important issues, the Dyer anti-lynch bill and the confirmation of the President’s appointment of Judge Cobb. They place him, as Judge Dale, “without the pale”, as far as we are concerned. Tell it, to every member of the race you meet between now and election day, in November next. 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.