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Our rates for display advertisements will be sent on applica- HILLSBORO—Mrs. Arnita Hough, Mrs. Theodore Rose, Miss Mae Hough, Mrs. Esther Bramlette and son visited Mr. and Mrs. Charles Colter, Sunday, Mrs. Mellie Carlisle of Jamestown is at her daughter, Mrs. Colter's. She is improving—Robert Day and Mrs. Jennie Johnson were married, Sept. 17. Mrs. Theodore Hill of Jamestown visited the altar, Mrs. Edward Jones, Sunday—Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Lamb, Mrs. Mary Donaldson and Mrs. Cora Young visited Mr. and Mrs. A. F. Donaldson in Columbus, Sunday, Alese Donaldson, their daughter, is quite ill. Mrs. C. M. Gragston returned, Saturday, from a visit with her sister, Mrs. Louis Streets, in Columbus. She was accompanied home by Mr. and Mrs. Streets and Mrs. Charles Williams of Wilmington. The late daughter—Miss Hudson and daughter—Miss Hudson and daughter—Joseph Williams, Jr., are ill.—The basket-meeting and home-coming was a great success and enjoyed by all. Rev. Hester of Greenfield preacher), Sunday afternoon, and several of his congregation were present. Oct. 7 a play "Dust of the Earth" will be given by the Baptist church Wootson and others of Washington C. H—Mr. and Mrs. Henry Waldroph and Mr. Arthur Hoosier of Columbus were and Mrs. John Williams, Jr.—Richard Willis, Mrs. Alline Burton and Clarence Hudson spent emancipation day in Dayton—Mr. John Johnson has received the sad news of the death of the Baptist pastor of the A. M. E church here who now has a charge near Boston, Mass—John Taylor and Deacon Fleming of Georgetown attended the basket-meeting here Sunday—Mr. John West passed the week-end with relatives in Springfield. CADIZ—Mrs. Henrietta Newsome of Bellefontaine visited her daughter, Mrs. Florence Mason, last week—Mrs. Elva Wallace and Miss Martha Madison were ill, last week—Miss Beatrice Wadeker of Brilliant had resumed teaching in Dunbar school—Mr. Lewis Johnson and Miss Georgia West were married, recently, at the bride's mother's wedding. Mrs. Wadeker, Mr. and Mrs. James Green have moved to Zanesville—Mrs. Rezin Cooper, ill for six months, died, Sept. 18. Funeral services, conducted by Rev. Hogans at St. James A. M. E. church, Sept. 20. Among those attending from out-of-town were: Mr. and Mrs. Lawson Heath, Mr. and Mrs. J. and Miss M. Fields of Bridgeport, and Mrs. N. Freeman of Gleeble Club gave an entertainment at Pledgont and Flushing, recently. The St. James choir with the pastor were in charge of the anniversary services at Quinn A. M. E. church, Steubenville, Monday evening.—Miss Genevieve Lee left, Wednesday, for Fisk University, Nashville, Tenn. to continue her schoolwork.—Miss Dorothy Robin-Baldwin, of Masonville, Massillon, are here visiting.—Mr. Alonzo Howard, who was sent to the state hospital at Massillon, is in a serious condition.—Miss Helen Lucas is visiting in Cincinnati. Miss Katherine Johnson is teaching in Dunbark school.—The Ohio conference meets in Urbana, Oct. 20th.—Melvin M. Christian, a senior in the school of Liberal Arts at Howard University, Washington. He is an assistant instructor in the Physics Laboratory classes.—Mr. and Mrs. Ira Wallace and son, and Mr. David Taylor of Lorain visited Mr. and Mrs. Melvin W. Christian, Sunday. SPRINGFIELD.-Miss Dellahl L. Beasley, former resident of this city and Cincinnati, who was here on a visit, last year is a special writer on the Oakland (Calif.) Daily Tribune. She is alsc author of an excellent book "The Negro Trail Blazers of California". The following is more than a tribute to Ms. Beasley and in the Tribune of Sunday, Sept. 19, '26: "Hon, Harry C. Smith has recently celebrated his 44th year as editor and publisher of The Cleveland Gazette, a weekly. It is an interesting paper filled with live eastern news. The editor was a candidate for Governor on the Republican ticket during the August primary election in Ohio. He ran fifth in a contest of twelve candidates and was the former mayor of the city. Smith believes colored candidates entering political races for any kind of an office, whether they win or not, will eventually arouse the colored voters to the value of the vote, and the sacred duty of every citizen to exercise this privilege. It will also bring the two races closer together, as tax payers, in meeting an equal responsibility of government. He served for several terms as a member of the Observer League, and he produced many bills and was successful in getting most of them passed. One was a civil rights bill and another an anti-lynching bill which makes any county in the state, whose officials permit a lynching, liable in damages up to $5,000 to the relatives of the victim. If a mob maltreats its intended victim, and does not lynch-murder him, the victim of the assault can recover damages from the county." Public sentiment, including that of the great army of fight-fans throut the country, will eventually force a Wills-Tunney championship contest in spite of the efforts of prejudiced pinhead daily newspaper sport-writers and their kidney. WHAT A COLORED BOY DID. The Associated Press, careful and reliable, sent out of Miami this report of the work of one colored boy, while the havoc of the hurricane was at its worst: "During the height of the Moorehaven flood a young Negro boy stood on a bridge, drenched canal, and rescued eight white and twelve Negro children as they were swept along in the flood beneath him." That, all must agree, was a hero's contribution to the noble and generous aspects of human nature, under the strain and horror of a terrible calamity. It was a feat possible only to rare presence of mind, immense to risk everything for others, strength and endurance in very unusual measure, in short, unwearying efficiency in doing good. But when this boy of African origin, generations back, a lad who knows only this country and can never think of another land as his, grows old enough to be entitled to the suffrage, under the constitution that he will be heavily against him if he wants to vote in Florida in an election of much importance. The color of his skin, the race which he has honored by his heroic record in a time of real trial, will take away his country's highest law confers. This republic will never stand as squarely on the solid foundation of justice and righteousness as it ought always to be, until a man's skin counts less and his heart and mind and character more in such matters as the rights oficans like to boast that we love—Benj. Karr (white) in the Cleveland (O.) Daily News. EDITOR HARRY C. SMITH Of the Cleveland Gazette Runs Fifti In The Primaries in The Race For the Republican Nomina, tion For Governor of An official count of the vote for the twelve candidates for Governor of Ohio, showed that a brother editor, Hon. Harry C. Smith, of The Gazette, a weekly paper published in Cleveland, Ohio, the Gazette entered its forty-fourth year this week. It has been published every week on time since its first issue, Aug. 25, 1883. It is one of the oldest newspapers edited, and published by a member of our group in the United States. More than this, "Harry" Smith, by which familiar name every one knows him, is one of the finest type of men in the country. No cringing, no toadying, no side stepping, and no jim-crowning, in his programme. In short, the kind of man he is, always has been and always will be, is shown in the very fact that he aspired to hold the highest office in the gift of the people of the state, with a clean up so many years been with a clean up, upright, citizen, capable of rising to any occasion, and worthy of the confidence and respect of the people as a whole—Louis F. Baldwin, formerly of Boston, Mass., now of San Francisco, in the San Francisco (Cal.) Western Appeal. HAND-TO-MOUTH POLICY! In a bulletin on vocational education in agriculture, for "Negroes", recently issued by the federal board for vocational education, the lack of thrift among "Negro" farmers in the South is revealed. "In common with other farmers in the South", says the Bulletin, the "majority of Negroes have very few modern farms and farm favors/advantages". It is common report that when the Negro farmer has money he is a free spender, but that he does not always spend his money for those things which are most needed on his farm or in his home. One very frequently finds some expensive article of furniture in the poorest home and an automobile on a rundown farm. He has not formed a business. This is largely due a good crop one year, he will commonly spend his surplus, with the result that he must go in debt the following spring for fertilizer and other supplies in order to carry on his farming. He is a creature of the present and usually follows a hand-to-mouth policy rather than one of preparation for the future and investment in permanent equipment and improvements. This combination largely due to lack of education of his desires. When once convinced of a need he will gladiate and consistently sacrifice until he has secured the thing which he desires." OUR TWO EDITORS TRIED FOR LIBELS Louisville, Ky.-Wm. Warley and I. Willis Cole, editors respectively of the News and Leader, our papers published here were on trial at Madisonville this state, Sept. 27, charged by the county attorney, the judge. The alleged name was part of editorials in which the News and the Leader condemned the double standard of justice prevailing in Kentucky, whereby a man of the race, charged with murder and assault, had been promptly hanged whereas a man of the race, charged with arowned eleven-year-old girl of the race, had been declared insane when it was found that there wasn't any question of his guilt of the crime. The two editors are being tried for alleged violation of the "criminal syndicalism" and the "sedition" law. The Kentucky State Court county attorney declaring that the editorials in question "were design-edly written to create race hatred." Rats! SINGLE COPY FIVE CENTS [Name] PRIME SPORT NEWS PRIME SPORT NEWS The Social Workers' Round Table will present A. Philip Randolph, editor of "The Messenger" and general organizer of The Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters. Monday evening, Oct. 5, 8 p. m. at Mt. Zion Congregational church. Dr. H. A. Miller of the chair of Flowers to Fight McTigue. Atlanta, Ga.—Tiger Flowers is scheduled to meet Mike McTigue in a 15-round non-championship bout at Tia Juana, Mexico, Oct. 15. Walk Miller, Flowers' manager, stated he had accepted a $25,000 guarantee on the match. Flowers Scores K. O. Memphis, Tenn.—Tiger Flowers, middleweight champion of the world, added another victim to his knock-out record when he floored Happy Hunter, Memphis, in the third round of a scheduled eight-round bout, recently. The Contemptible "Color Line." Already it is given out in high pugilistic circles that the new heavyweight champion will never give Harry Wills, big and formidable Negro, a chance to win the championship, which would certainly have called his position on the court if he had been allowed to fight Dempsey, as Tunney was. Tunney himself is quoted as saying that he will draw the color line strictly, as long as he is champion. He said that months ago, and then he added that he had his own ideas about such things as mixing races in the ring. It is a stand which will make Tunney only the champion of white fathers. If he does not broaden and change his mind. There is no logic or common sense in the assumption that colored men are not good enough, or of the right social standing to be given an opportunity to win the heavyweight championship. They are not barred in the lighter classes. They would never be shut out of any part of the pugilistic domain the man has. If they could defeat all dark-skinned challengers, Tunney is proud, with reason, that he was once in the marines, splendid fighters on shore who are much at sea. But he knows that plenty of colored men did brilliant service, also, in the great war. They were good enough to fight and die under the flag that Tunney and his comrades were fighting. And now he takes the absurd stand that the colored fighters are not fit for him to battle with in the ring!—BenJ. Karr, Cleveland News editorial writer. Harry Wills vs. Jack Sharkey. New York City—Harry Wills, heavyweight de luxe, and title contender, will fight Jack Sharkey of Boston, in a fifteen-round match at Ebbets field on Columbus dag, Oct. 12. Promoter Humbert Fugazy announced Tuesday, taking the Wills through his manager, Paddy Mullins, announced a campaign to meet any and all rivals picked by promoter Fugazy with the purpose of again demonstrating his contention that he is the "uncrowned heavyweight champion of the world". Mullins, Harry's manager, issued a statement scoring the cowardly Dempsey, former champion of the Mullins for five years; criticizing Gene Tunney, the new titleholder, for permitting certain prejudiced sport-writers of daily newspapers to say that he intended to draw the color-line, and concluding with a roast of Tex Rickard, who, it is said, has declared he will not match Wills with any opponent. Referring to Rickard's alleged attitude, Mullins declared the circumstances for the Madison Square Garden promoter, and Mullins has plenty of backbone and money. He is intensely loyal to Wills. IN UNION BY IN STRENGTH COPY FIVE CENTS sociology, Ohio State University, and Benjamin Stolberg of the New York Times will be additional speakers on the program. The public is urged to attend to hear the man who was chosen orator for the Sesquicentennial at Philadelphia. The admission is free. The Dempsey-Tunney Fiasco. Philadelphia, Pa.—Any one who witnessed that alleged championship Jack-"Gene" fight here, last week, as we did, and will pronounce it a championship bout either does not know championship fight callate when he or she sees it or has a reason for making an untrue statement in that the score of their showing in that "battle", a second rate one at best, could have stood before Harry Wills in a ring long enough "to work up a sweat". The fight was either "a frame-up" or Jack Dempsey had really "gone back" not a little but a very great deal. The second-rate notin the class of Harry Wills, or that Dempsey was supposed to occupy before the fiasco of last week. Tunney is young and "coming" fast but sure has a great way to go if his last week's showing is honestly considered. The stuff one reads in the columns of daily newspapers about him, Tunney, the prod, pure and simple, most of it for a purpose easily read "between the lines". Maj. A. J. Drexel Biddle of the marines, who was also in attendance, says: "The fight demonstrated that the good boxer is superior to the fighter all of the time". For at least five years, Harry Wills has been generally accepted that the good boxer was the days of Jack Johnson's championship. In addition to this he is a better built man, according to the measurements, than either Tunney, Firpo or Jack Dempsey—has a better physique—and as all know is the best (without any question he weight pugnates). All of their heavyweights FEAR hey, because they know that defeat stares them in the face whenever they enter the ring with Harry. As one of the daily newspaper sport-writers said immediately after last week's Dempsey-Tunney fiasco: "The dark cloud on the sunny horizon of the gymnasium and the Absolately doubt about it. These six-round bouts, with one exception, preceded the fiasco: Tommy Loughran, of Philadelphia, won a decision over Jimmy Delaney, St. Paul, six rounds. Harry Persson, of Sweden, defeated Sergeant Jack Adams, St. Louis, on a technical knockout in the fourth round. George Godfrey, of Leiperville, Pa., won a decision over Bob Lawson, Alabama, six rounds. These two were "Afros." Monte Munn, Lincoln, Neb., knocked out Hugo Clements, Camden, N. J., in the first round. Jack De Mave, of Hoboken N. J., knocked out Joe Srossel, New York, in the third round. Yale Okum, of New York, won decision over Bethin Burke, New Orleans, six rounds. The Pennsylvania state athletic commission announced, last week Friday, that the official receipts totaled $1,895,733.40. The money was distributed as follows: Sesqui exposition share—$170. 000. State tax—$86,150. Government tax—$172,339.40. Total attendance—125,732. Paid attendance—118,736. Complimentary—6,998. The GAZETTE PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY One Year ..... $2.00 11 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 26 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. 850,000 in Ohio. 40,000 in Cleveland. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1926. The Federal Automobile Association is the latest "national jim-crow" effort of our people. Headquarters, Washington, D. C. Its promoters are already offering its "stock" for sale. Now comes the government with criticism of southern "Negro" farmers for "lack of thrift". Not only the farmers, but the great mass of our people, South and North, are open to the same charge and for the same reasons given in a bulletin on vocational education in agriculture, issued recently by a federal board. Elsewhere in this paper, under the heading, "Hand-to-Mouth Policy", will be found an interesting excerpt from the bulletin. Read it carefully and pass it along to your friends' and acquaintances'. TIME TO STRIKE BACK. Some months ago when a delegation from the National Equal Rights League called upon President Calvin Coolidge, protesting against the segregation of Afro-American employees in the departments at Washington, D. C. and elsewhere in the government service, they were told by Mr. Coolidge, so it was announced at the time, that much of the segregation had "already been removed" and that the iniquitous practice was "gradually" being discontinued. At that time, The GAZETTE insisted that the President had been misinformed, because the statement he made was not true. Since, members of the League have investigated and found that our statement was correct—that President Coolidge had been misinformed by subordinates. U. S. Senator Wm. M. Butler, who is such by appointment, to fill out an unexpired term, a candidate for the senatorial nomination at the time of the conference between the President and members of the league, promised to do all he could to assist in wiping out the insulting segregation complained of. Mr. Butler, you know, is President Coolidge's righthand man, chairman of the Republican National Committee. He was nominated alright, and is to be voted on in November. Recently in Boston, our people held a mass meeting, celebrating the sixty-fourth anniversary of the issuance of the emancipation proclamation. Several of the speakers called attention to the fact that President Coolidge had been misinformed and had therefore made an incorrect statement anent segregation and that Senator Butler of Boston had failed to keep his promise to do all in his power to wipe it out of the government service. Resolutions were adopted, at this meeting, calling upon the President "to make now a tangible removal of federal employee segregation of the race to save the country from disruption by the white South". All of which, while very good will NOT have the influence with President Coolidge and Senator Butler necessary to secure the results against segregation desired by our people of the entire country. They will not move either of the gentlemen named to take the necessary initiative and action in accordance with their statement and promise. Indeed, the only thing that will secure the desired results is for the loyal, intelligent and aggressive members of the race in Massachusetts to come out in the open and fight Senator Butler's election with all the strength and power at their command. That is what any other race or class of Americans, but ours, would do, under the circumstances. We repeat, it is the only thing that can be done that will bring about the removal of federal segregation of Afro-American employees. THE·GEEVUM GIRLS SEE THE HOUSE I HAD BUILT FOR THE POOR LITTLE BIRDS! VES! LET'S GET SOME BREAD CRUMBS FOR THEM!--AND SOME DARROW RIGHT, AGAIN! New York City.—Writing on "Crime And The Alarmists" in the October number of Harper's monthly magazine, Attg. Clarence Darrow points out that the crime of "Negroes" is vast, "exaggerated. In the colored population," declares Mr. Darrow, "is charged with a share in the commission of crime quite out of proportion to their number. This, too, should always be considered in connection with the fact that' in the North they live in industrial centers and in restricted, crowded areas and that people have living to race prejudice and poverty, are much apt to be accused and convicted than the whites." Our Performers Abroad, Please. London, Eng.—Florence Mills' revue, entitled "Blackbirds", continues to captivate London lovers of a high type of dance and melodious singing. At a recent performance the Prince of Wales was interested member of the audience. Josephine Baker, our only member of the Parisian Follies, continues to star as the headliner of the Parisian company. Her photograph is front-paged upon programs and souvenirs of the French troupe, which will remain in Paris through the autumn season. The dancing of Miss Baker and Miss Mills is said to be infinitable. Cost This Theater $200. Cost This Theater $200. East Rutherford, N. J., because he was told that all "reserved" tickets could be sold when he attempted to buy a ticket for admission to the new Oratani theater in Hackensack, it was decided by Judge Ely of the District Court here, last week, that Thomas P. Hearn of Hackensack has been discriminated against. The judge awarded James a verdict of $200. $500 a Week for Sammy. 500 a Week for Sammy. Hollywood, Calif.—Arriving home for a few weeks' rest, following his latest appearance at the Inter-State theater (Orpheum bookstore San Antonio, Texas, and the Iris theater, Houston, Texas, Joseph Morrison, his little son, "Sunshine Sammy," showed a telegram and contract from the E. Z. Keough Agency, Chicago, engaging "Sammys" for a 20-week engagement at $500 per week over the Orpheum Circuit, to open the week of Oct. 11, 26, at the Chicago Orpheum. Additional Locals Cards are out announcing the wedding of Miss Helen, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Gaines, of Greenlawn Ave., and Mr. Emmett Willis. Our churches in many parts of the country are having trouble of one kind or another, these days it heeds; mostly trouble with their ministers or pastors. Mr. George Buchanan, age 49, an old resident, 3544 Independence Road, and Estella Grayson, age 45, were married, last week. Best wishes, long-time friend. Bring on the cigars, George! A volunteer chorus of forty voices is being trained by Mrs. Sada J. Anderson to render music at the conference which meets at St. James A. M. E. church in the near future. Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Holloway royally entertained the Cosmopolitan 500 club. Among the out-of-town guests were Mrs. Boyd, Miss Miller of Huntington, W. Va., and Mrs. Emily Walker of Youngtown, meeting at Mrs. Bessie Bowley's sept. 28, was also very enjoyable. Miss Ruth, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Lewis, I Dean, clerk at the Phi Beta Sigma settlement house. E. 38th St. is recovering from an operation. Mrs. Lutie Styles was recently employed as a clerk at the settlement house by Mr. and Mrs. R. W. Jelliffe, directors. Among those who left for Ohio State university were: Lucille Taylor, Ed Murrell, Frances Goode, Edwin Grist, Charlotte Clark, Wm. Nelson of this city and Mrs. Clark of kronen and Mrs. W. Flemond has returned to Ann Arbor and Norman S. Minor to John Marshall Law school. Henry Glaze, E. 39th St., must be retrained for manslaughter because a jury hearing his case, last week, before Common Pleas Judge Fred H. Wolf of Waucone, sitting here, disagreed and was dismissed. He is accused of killing Kay Williams during an argument in a crap game, June 13. The increasingly better attitude of southern white women toward the race was the thing which most impressed Jennie E. Hunter, secretary of the P.O. Box International at Washington, Conference Room at Eagles Mere, Pa. Miss Hunter said upon her return to the city, last week. She said schools of North Carolina were complimented at the conference for their progress in handling racial educational problems. Do not fail to read and call your friends' and acquaintances' attention to the advertisement of the New York Dress Shop, 5023 Woodland Ave., near E. 55th 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. 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 own enterprises and are thus doing a great deal to help the growth and prosperity of our group. 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Putnam are occupying their new home at 10103 Yale Ave. Drunken U. S. marines came very near inciting "a race riot" at Miami, Florida, right after the recent storm. As a friend wrote The Gazette, last week, "it is their favorite pastime" in and out of the country. The activity of the Miami police is the only thing that prevented it. At that several marines were shot and about the same number of "Negroes." Among the many Clevelanders who attended the recent convention of the Knights of Tabor and International Order of Twelve, at Providence, R. I. were; Mrs. Mamie Jackson, Mrs. Amie America, Mrs. da America, Mrs. Victoria Bell, Mrs. Emma Roberts, Mrs. Metra Davis, Mrs. Kina McCard, Mrs. Mary Alphein, Mrs. Juanita Sellers and E. W. Sellers. Mrs. T. R. Crawford of St. Louis, who motored to the city, recently, enroute to Monreal, Ont., Can., was the guest of Dr. and Mrs. Leroy N. Buny E. 40th St. local law enforcementman named her, Judge Bradley Hull delivered an interesting address at Mt. Zion church, Sunday afternoon, under the auspices of the local N. A. A. C. P. branch, on the subject: "The American Home". Judge Hull is a real friend of our group. Dr. and Mrs. J. D. Merida, E. 30th St. and Central Ave., had as guests, recently, his mother of Dallas, Tex., and Miss E. Griffin of Chicago who was the recipient of many courtesies during her career. He was among those who gave very enjoyable parties in her honor. Miss Griffin returned to the Windy City, last week Wednesday night. Mechanical training in all lines will be given in evening classes at the School for Mechanical Training recently opened at 4123 Cedar Ave. in classes in engineering, carpentry, work, plumbing, painting, paper-hanging and electrical work. The school is operated in connection with the Building Maintenance Co. contractors for building jobs. The directors have years of experience. At Maxwell, 2647 E. 65th St., is president of the board, and J. E. Ray, sec. At the Shiloh Baptist church church that pay the Shiloh Baptist meeting, Monday evening, trustees three months, on a second mort- At the Shiloh Baptist church meeting, Monday evening, trustees THE GEEVUR IT CERTAINLY WAS OF BERT LINK TO THIS TIGER SKIN MAKES A PIPPLE A RUG! THE GEEVUM GIRLS *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. 220 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.lication in current issues of The by 4 p. m., TUESDAY of that advertisements accepted until C. SMITH, Avenue, Cleveland, O. Bel 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 ex- perience needed. 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Mr. and Mrs. Gray will return about the middle of the month. Their daughter, Mrs. Hicks, will be remembered by our older residents as one of our most popular young misses, some years ago. John A. Zangerle, county auditor, has just issued a leaflet in his campaign for re-election. He sets forth his 1922 endorsements by the local daily papers, the Civic League and almost every weekly newspaper. Interesting is the data showing the result of his previous elections: 10,354 plurality in 1912, 12,809 in 1914, 18,731 in 1916, 20,312 in 1918 and 37,060 in 1922. The latter is most noteworthy. It was received notwithstanding Re-election officials, elected by from 50,000 to over 75,000. Do you want a "Studebaker" that looks and acts like a new car? See advertisement elsewhere in this paper. Great opportunity! A mass meeting was held, Tuesday evening, in E. Tech High school auditorium, in connection with the child health demonstration being sponsored by the Welfare Federation. The work of the Children's fresh air camp, 11007 Buckeye was the main focus of the discussion at the meeting. There were also entertainment features and discussions of the work of other Community Fund supported organizations working for the health of children. The committee which arranged for the meeting was composed of Mrs. E. F. Boyd, president of the Council of Women; Edgge Moore of the University league and Mrs. L. J. Gibson, chairman, also chairman of the education committee of our Federation of Women's clubs. It seems that Shiloh Baptist church agreed to pay $2,500 every three months, on a second mort- M GIRLS IS NICE SEND ME -IT N'OF THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, O. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1926. gage of about $17,000. On the first mortgage (about $30,000) which the Union Trust Co. bank holds, about $1,400, principal and interest, are due 'every three months, too, making a total of about $4,000 that Shiloh should pay every quarter (three months). The two payments, approximating $4,000, are nearly three months overdue now, it is said, with the result that the bank has been notified by the Cleveland Builders Supply Co. which holds the second mortgage, that it must pay the $2,500 by Monday or foreclosure proceedings will be started in court. There was a church meeting. Monday evening. A long-drawn out fight by members of Antioch Baptist church to get rid of their pastor ended, Sunday, when Rev. Mack T. Williams accepted $1000 and gave up the pastorate, according to L. P. Smith and W. L. Goode, trustees of the church. Among other things, Williams was charged with withdrawal of curry from the Northern Ohio Baptist Conference and making it in the National Baptist Conference without the approval of the congregation. An effort will be made to reinstate the church in the N. O. B. Conference, Goode said. An injunction which was secured from Judge Ruhl by Rev. 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How Our Men And Women Are Insulted And Humiliated In the Government's Departments—Will the Self and Race-Respecting Negro Press 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. To many people, segregation Democratic scheme of fault, but such is not the case. Mr. Taft introduced in the bureau of engraving, that segregated the census-takers this city in 1910, restricting white workers to white people, and black to black, often duplicating work as most blocks had white and black residents. And, worst of all, announced in his official capacity that Negroes should not hold where white people complained. Segregation, then, is a Republican institution and not a Democratic one, it was begun by Republicans, and 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 papers, is tenaciously held on to by our Republican President. Only last week, a colored girl appeared after having passed, been examination, and having been telegraphed 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 familiar favorite of Secretary Melton and President Coolidge. He hails from North Carolina, the home of the other favorite and leader of the segregated schools, Col. Sherrill, superintendent of buildings and grounda, 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 people chose to put his splendid declarations on public information in 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 tenets of the Klan which has its "welcome home" in the Republican party, and receives no condemnation from the Republican President. (Special to The Gazette.) (Special to the Washington, D. C. — In the postoperative segregation is rampant. The faithful colored clerks work under constant humiliation and physical discipline. 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 the injustice stinging all the more when they rebel. That they are far more capable than the whites, and render government more intelligent and efficient service—the white of their attainment being able to get far more lucrative employment. The department goes even farther in its colleague for whites and negroes of colored. It maintains a well-decorated club room with pool tables and other games, a 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- caption 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 over though their examination was superior. No Negro, however efficient or old in the service, must ever dream of a promotion to a directive position. The hard, unyielding caste passes whites over him, one after another, though many of the colored employees have won contests in quickness and accuracy in calling for a 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 from his decisions to the postmaster-general. It has secured some improvement in their working conditions, but they are still bitter over the huge injustice done to them for nothing else than the color of their skin. (Special to The Gazette.) Washington, D. C. — the government printing office keeps faith with the government's universal scheme of segregation. Some of the best and brightest of our girls are forced to enter certain positions there on account of the better and more lucrative avenues of employment being closed to them because of their color. The whites are generally of a very mediocre group, far from equaling our girls in educational equipment, culture, and working efficiency. Yet these superior girls are set off from the whites with the latter, of course, having the better working conditions, salaries and recreational facilities. There is a large cafeteria in this huge structure where all of the employees may go, but there are a few tables in an out-of-the-way employee room. 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 hard taste that bars promotions. Here, as elsewhere, the inferior positions assume some employee directive position, 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 that he secured the company of a friend who did the same 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 their dislike of the oppressed." 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 falling to secure any evidence searched him only to discover the pistol. They quickly dropped the arson charge and substituted for which he 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 exacerbated by the government's information. I knew the fate these informants would suffer so I have never given a single name!! The department then taking the position that it cannot take up the case. It is perfectly clear that this infrequent THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, O. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 2. 1926. scheme of segregation is a difficult thing to fight, since the government so well settled upon it, and the leaders cannot bear witness to it. (Special to The tazette) Washington, D. C.—Segregation in the bureau of engraving and printing has an interesting history involving President Thomas Woodrow Wilson and members of his family, three heroic young colored women who lost their positions as a result of their protest, and the noble wife of Senator Robert La Follette. Shortly after the accession of Mr. Wilson to the White House, a memoir of his life was published 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 woman of color." Oversighted 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 discoured, she came out one stormy afternoon to the Y. M. C. A. to urge them to continue the fight, for democracy was at the crises. Observation led 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 ait 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 'brahman Lincoln, Charles Sumner and Frederick Doug g'as helped to found. Our girls are employed there in far larger numbers than in any other branch of the public service. THEY ARE SEGREAT, the rest rooms, toilets, and working stations. 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. Our people are so hopeless that we are 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 Coast, and the history that the President traversed are the mighty Salmon P. Chase, secretary of the treasury in Lincoln's cabinet, who, in a national extremity such as this country has never known, devised the national banking system which financed the nation's economy and its master financier, John Sherman. 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 number of clerks and other employees there is in the other branches of the government—failure to recognize their efficiency when promotions are due; ability to go so far, and no farther. The various forms of segregation exist here as well as elsewhere—the restaurants closed or divided along color lines, and special toiletes, locker rooms, rest rooms, etc., set off for colored. The toilers for the colored are few in such a large structure. Hence, the segregated clerks are forced to endure physical inconvenience and travel long distances when they desire the use of them. The department maintains a huge, magnificent cafeteria, in the splendid sweep of woodland along our national 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 at its most crowded. Negro! His only share is in the taxes he is forced to pay for this luxury for another group! The registries of the treasury, which Republican Presidents have given the Negro since Garfield appointed Blanch K. Bruce, is now filled by a white man, and the colored people are congregated in a separate room which is publicly proclaimed as "a colored division." When it is discovered that Negro clerks are "working as white" in other divisions, they are promptly transferred to this "colored division." Our people fear that protest against this segregation would result in the abolition of the division altogether; so they remain in a dilemma, fearing to act. Our clerks must accept segregation or elimination, and be poor, with no other opportunities with them. They must take the former. They are depressed at the wrong, but economic stress compels endurance of it. By a single stroke of his pen, President 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 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 Burcus 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 18% 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 10 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 together more baseness, cruelty and abomination than any sort of error in the world." "WORTH ITS WEIGHT IN GOLD! Cleveland, Aug. 28th, 1925. Hon. Harry C. Smith, Editor, Gazette Dear Friend:—I have read the latest copy of The Gazette through and after reading it. I can truthfully say: It is worth its weight in gold! I admire true manhood—a man who, seeing injustice and oppression, dares, within the limits of the law, to expose it and, if possible smite it. You and I have frequently, during the formative years of the birth of The Gazette, been, as the Scotch would like, say two McNells, but when you, 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, Ohio State Senate.) AN OUTRAGE! OHIO'S ANTI-LYNCHING LAW Against The Mob and Lynch-Murder—The Work of a Member of The Race—Also His Ohio Civil Rights Law 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. Order to include recovery and costs in tax levy. Guardian's custody, etc., fees. County's right of action against member of mob. County's right of action against another county. Non-relief from prosecution. Our mob-violence or anti-lynching bill was introduced in the Ohio legislature in 1834 and re-introduced in 1896. It took the Hon. Harry C. Smith, editor of The Gazette, just three years to secure its enactment into law. The Ohio Supreme Court has several times upheld the constitutionality of the law and it has Section 6278. A collection of people assembled for an unlawful purpose and intending to do damage or injury to any one, or pretending to exercise correctional power over other persons by violence and without authority of law, shall be deemed a "mob" for the purpose of this 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 and assaulted with whips, cluse, mules 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 the injury received therefrom is serious, a sum not exceeding one thousand dollars; or, if such injury demands a livelihood by manual labor, a sum not to exceed five thousand dollars. (93 v. 162 5.) Section 1282. The legal representative of a person dying from injuries received from lynching by a mason, 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 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 6233. 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 6284. If the decedent oynched has minor children surviving him, the fund shall be turned over to a regularly appointed guardian, such fund under the direction of the probate judge, allowing not more than five hundred dollars for counsel fees in the action for such recovery. (§3 v. 162 9.) Section 6287. The county, in which a lynching occurs, may recover the amount of a judgment and cost against it in favor of the legal representatives of a person killed or seriously injured by a mob, such mob of the person killed, by such mob, with hostile intent, at such lynching shall be deemed a member of the mob and be liable to such action. (§3 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-lyning laws which are copies of our Ohio law. Several other northern states and at least one border state (Kentucky) have also enacted anti-lyning laws, in recent years, like Pennsylvania and New Jersey. The Ohio law follows RS. ed. r. representative of victim of lynchingury by mob trying to lynch another and costs in tax levy. s. last member of mob. nst 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 camegence on the part of officials of such unless there was contributory negligence not less than thirty day-county in failing to protect such prisoner or dispurse 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 engagements therein. (93 v. 163 12.) OUR OHIO CIVIL RIGHTS LAW OUR OHIO CIVIL RIGHTS LAW Upon the request or 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, eating house, barber-shop, public convenience by land or water, theater or other entertainment and amusement, denies to a except for reasons applicable alike to all citizens and regardless of race or color, the full enjoyment of the accommodations, advantages, facilities or privileges thereof, shall be not less than fifty dollars nor more than five hundred dollars, nor more than ninety days, or both. Sec. 12941. Whoever violates the next preceding section shall also pay more than fifty dollars or more than five hundred dollars, nor more than ninety days, or both. 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 heed constitutional and good law by the Ohio Supreme court. The trouble in our people will not use it as often as they should, but expect it to do to them what they should and must do for themselves, under it, in the course. Judge Grant's Opinion of the Law Misdled by the foolishly manufactured outcry for the passage of the Beaty bill, a few years ago, the Akron Beacon Journal published an article which the editor of The Gazette replied, calling its attention to he fact that the Ohio Civil Rights law was good law, and did not need amending. The following letter from Judge Grant former presiding judge of the Court of Appeals of the Eight District of Ohio, is self explanatory. Akron, O., April 25, 1919 Hon. Harry C. Smith. Editor The Gazette, Cleveland, O. M. Dear Sir: Observing your letter to My dear Journal, of this city, I venture to seize your 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 ($650 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 editedially THE LAW REPORTER PROACH, nor our courts and juries in administering it. Not a word was said by the Beacon-Journal when the Forman case was reviewed 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 Reafter Reading THE POPULAR VOTE PRIMARY. 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. 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 the so-called "crowd," the expense, 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. 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.