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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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Ohio St., Chicago cig = — ea ees est cern te facts eS SS % . : R . a: am Peace eels ns , . S35 ae : : : a ~ SEGREGATION AN OUTRAGE! Help The “Old Reliable’’ to Increase Its Circulation Don’t Throw Away Your Copy of The GAZETTE After Reading It But give ittoa Eriend or Acquaintance who might Subscribe after Reading a Copy of I. _ Mes ; a = — Rar rss _ - i aa aan SST si Cpe vata : x ad COOLIDGE PERMITS IT! Haw ‘Our Men And Women Are Insulted And Humiliat ed 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 bas ever been since the Civil War. The beginnings of segregation were. under President Fart. It was greatly extended, un- der President Wilson; increased, atin further, under President Hard- ing; and reached ite zenith under President Coolidge. Sor instance, the largest of our parks President Wilson never troubled, but the pres- ent 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 caso, Mr. Taft in- troduced it in the bureau of engrav- ing. He segregated the census-takers in this city in 1910, restricting white workers to white people, and black to black, often duplicating work as fost blocks had white and black residents. And, worst of all, ap- nounced in his official capacity that Negroce sbvald not hold office where white people complained. Ses- Tegation, then, 8 8 Republican in- Siitution and not a Democratic one. it was begun by Republicans, and carried on to its all-embracing ¢x- vent by Republicans! ‘There is tar more of % in the de- partments, today, than at any time fince the Negro first appeared, close €pon the close of the Civil War. The ploture requirement in the civil serv- fee, which makes it next to impos- sibie for a colored lady or gentleman fo enter the civil service, since their color {8 disclosed in thelr photo- graph which must accompany thelr Dapers, 1a, tenaciously held on to by ‘ur Republican President. Only last eek, a colored girl appeared after Raving passed the best examination, And atter baving Deon telegraphed for by the department. The photo- graph had failed to tell her true folor, and they flatly refused to ap- point her when she appeared, and they saw her complexion. Commis sioner Blair of the internal revenue bureau with thousands of clerks will not appoint a Negro clork, and his word is law there, as he is the spec- Tal fayorite of Secretary Mellon and President Coolidge. He halls trom North Carolina, the home of the other favorite and leader of the seg- Fegation forces, Col. Sherrill, super- Intendent of buildings and grounds, it te no use to complain of elther of these southern gentlemen. ‘The colored people here who know the President could destroy. sogre- gation in the departments of the fovernment, and the photograph Fequirements in the civil service by the mere nod of his head, are at loss to understand why he does not put bis splendid declarations, on Aemocracy into operation here, where it would not even cost him a single vote and where he has full power and obsolutely no opposition. ‘hey wonder if he is not a firm be- lever in segregation, especially since segregation is one of the chief ten- ets of the Ku Klux Klan which has found its “welcome home” in the Republican party, and receives no condemnation from the Republican ‘President, i /enactal to The Gazette.) Washington, D. C.—In the postof- five segregation is rampant. The faithful colored clerks work under constant humiliation and physical disadvantages. The department maintains a spacious cafteria for whites only, where these inferior white clerks can buy appetizing luncheons and chat in comfort while eating, while the colored clerks aust bring cold luncheons from home and eat them any place they can. The physical discomfore, disadvantage- Ous a8 it fs, is far less galling to the cowored clerks than is the thought of their government taking thetr taxes, as it takes those of the wiiites, for the comfort of the latter, end setting them off as though they ‘were lepers. The injustico stings all the more when they reflect thet they are tar more capable than the whites, and render the government more intelll- gent and efficient service—the white fan of thelr attainment being able to get far more lucrative employ- ment. ‘The department goes even farther 1m Its solicitude for whives and nog. lect of colored. It maintains a wel appointed club room with pool tables and other games, comfortable lounges and other equipment for rest, sociability, and recreation, and nothing for these same colored em- ployee. ‘This private club is in the magnificent postoftice bullding, Dullt and maintained by ALL of the peo- ple, In the locker rooms there is segregation, and segregation is even attempted in the tollets. And all of ‘this is against the most dependable ‘ang fatthfal employees. Last year the white employees) passed ground invitations to the white employes, tn the very pres- ence of the. colored, to attend a re-| ception to the heads of depaxments, Including the postmaster general, in the prstoffice building. Yt announced dancing and a pleasant social eve- ning with the officials for ‘the post- office employees,” yet not one was delivered to the colored clerks. I nurried a protest to the postmaster general the day before it was to come off, and he ordered the post- master to invite the colored as well as the white. These olerks 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 ex- amination was superior No Negro, however efficient or old ia the serv- ice, 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 col- ored 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 tor nothing else than the color of thetr skin. emieenet tn fae ‘Gasetts.? Weshington, D. G-—7he_ govern- ment printing office Keeps faith with the government's universal scheme of segregation. Some of the best and ‘prigbtest, of our girls are forced to [accept infenier positions there on ac Sount of the better and more lucra- five avenues of employment being Closed to them because of thetr col or. The whites are generally of fery mediocre group, far from equal: Ing our girls in educational equip: ment, culture, aud working efficten- ty. . Yet these superior girls are set off from the whites with the latter, Of course, having the better w sratinibed, salntton aad rocrcatioln 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 employeos (am glad to say that few, very few, of our people patronize ‘the place, preferring a little physical incon- Fentence to the ‘open; vem!-public bu- mmiliation of. segregation. 1n toller facilities, dressing-rooms, and. work, assignments, wherever possible, the law of segregation ts In fall force, and, of course, this same ndemocratic practice reveals {tselt Sn the salary ‘roll and in the hard “aste toat bare promotions. — Here, as. elsewhere, the inferior whites Pass over our superior employees to Alrective positions, and higher sal- aries. ‘The whites have a large recrea- tional center in this public building with many fine appointments for Test and amusements. During lunch and dinner hours they repair to this Testful 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 s0 keenly that he secured the company of young lady of the race to take part in the dance, As soon as this couple started to dance the music was ab- Fupuly stopped, and the young man reported for attempting to” take art in an entertainment, provided for employees. He was called to the office, lectured for’ belng vone of those smart Negroes” who believe in “goelal equality,” and then dismiss- ed on a trumped-up charge. He was @ night-employee, hence he carried ® pistol. Right after the dance in- ident 4 fire broke out in the office. He was quickly accused of setting the building afire in revenge for his exclusion from the dance floor. De- tectives came to the Duilding to ar- Fest him, and failing to secure any evidence searched him only ‘to dis- cover the pistol. They quickly drop- ped the arson charge and substituted one for carrying concealed weapons for which he was tmmediately die- missed. By thls severe punishment our employees are taught that there {a no way of excape for one who dares to resent the daily insults that thelr government (under President Coolidge) ives them. Many of the employees have ex- pressed their deeply-wounded fecl- ings to me at being considered a pariah by the government whose In- stitutions they are serving 80 falth- tally, and I have taken up « number of cases only to be met by a dental “nat the conditions complained of ex- ist, and a request for the names of mylatormants. Iknew the fate these informants would suffer so T have never given a single name!! The de- partment then taking the position that ft cannot take up the case. It cs wieiihe aioak that this tai@uitons ‘THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, 0. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1926. scheme of segregation is a difficult, thing to fight, since the goverament is so well settled upon it, and the complainants cannot bear witness to tt. (Special to The Gazette) ‘Washington, D. C.—Segregation in the bureau of engraving and printing has an interesting history fnvolving President Thomas Wood- tow Wilson and members of his fam- ily, three heroic young colored wom- en who lost their positions as a re- sult of thelr protest, and the noble wife of Senator Robert La Follette, Shortly after the accession of Mr. Wilson to the White House, a mem- ber of his family visited the bureau where she saw white and colored girls working together in perfect harmony, oblivious to any thought ot race. Shortly thereafter came an order for segregation of the races, and a white lady who had been not- ed 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 col- ored people. to stay in their places.” Three of the voung ladies resisted the order to the last ditch and were summarily dismissed! Senator La Follette lodged a pro- test with Secretary McAdoo to no avail, and his noble wife began a crusade against the undemocratic in- novation. She took the platform here in Washington and Boston be- fore 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 na- tional gathering of the National As- sociation for the Advancement of Colored People in New York. When our people here were so profoundly discouraged, she came out one stormy atternoon to the Y. M. C. A. to urge them to continue the fight, for democracy was at the crises. Os- wald Garrison Villard came to town to attack White House and Cabinet and arouse our people, and the Na- tion 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 segregators, name- ly, the elimination of the ‘colored employees from the bureau alto- gether. ‘The same segregation which some of our people think is the cherished institution of the Democratte party 4g. still there, in all of its fullness, mer the administration of the party that “brabem Lincoln, Charles Sumner and Frederick Douglass helped to found. Our girls are em- ployed there in far larger numbers than in any other branch of the pub- Hic service. THEY ARE SEGRE’ GATED in thelr rest rooms, toilets, and working stations, and of course none are ever thought of for promo- tons to executive places. They are girls from our beet nomes, most of them with high axé normal school training, and fine culture. The white girls are of no such grade, as there 18 no segregation for them in the great world of things. They have unlimited flelds at high wage for even mediocre talents. The best of our girls must take these inferior positions, the inevitable result of s0- gregation. Our people are still hop- ing for the issuance of an order de- stroying this iniquitous practice in all of our government departments, for it not only humiliates the best of the government servants but im- pairs the government service. (Spectal to The Gazette) Washington, D. C.—The treasury department, according to the Presi- dent’s recent acceptance speech, is now under the ablest financial genius since the days of Alexander Hamil- ton. It is to be remembered that the great Hamilton came from the West Indies, and in that long sweep of his- tory that the President traversed are the mighty Salmon P. Chase, secretary of the treasury in Lin- coln’s cabinet, who, in a national ex- tremity such as this country has never known, devised the national banking system which financed the Civil War; and Ohio's master finan- cier, John Sherman. These men never knew what segregation was! ‘The present head of the depart- ment of internal revenue, Mr. Blair from North Carolina, has mot ap- pointed a colored clerk since his in- cumbency. While his predecessor, Mr. Dantel Roper, a Democrat from Texas, appointed and promoted sev- eral of them. Since the income tax legislation and the numberless new taxes that the recent war necesst- tated, this ts by far the largest de- partment of the treasury, employing several thousand clerks. Yet Ne- groes are so scarce there that they can't be noticed. ‘There is the same general complaint here among our clerks and other employees as there is in the other branches of the gov- ernment—failure to recognize \their efficiency when promotions are due; ability to go so tar and no farther. ‘The various forms of segregation exist here as well as elsewhere—the restaurants closed or divided along color lines, and special toflets, lock- er rooms, rest rooms, etc,, set off for colored. The toflets for the colored are few in such a large structure Hence, the segregated clerks are forced to endure physical inconven- fence at times, and are forced to travel long distances when they de- sire the use of them. The depart- ment maintains a huge, magnificent eafeteria, in the splendid sweep of woodland alongs our national drive way, where white people of every class can come to rest, dine, and 80- clalize 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 din- ers with space te spare; but mot one Negro! His only share is in the taxes he is forced to pay for this luxury for another group! ‘The registership of the troasury, which Republican Presidents have given the Negro since Garfield ap- pointed Blanch K. Bruce, is now filled by a white man, and the col- ored people are congregated in 8 sep- arate room which is publicly pro- claimed as “a colored division.” When it is discovered that Negro clerks are “working as white” in other divisions, they are promptly transfered 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 dilemna, fearing to act. Our clerks must accept se- gregation or elimination, and being Poor, with no other opportunities in this southern atmosphere, must take the former. They are depressed at the wrong, but economic stress com- pels endurance of it. By a single stroke of bis pen, President Calvin Coolidge can stop every bit of this damnable segrega- tion, just as he can condemn that lawless organization the Ku Klux nian; COOLIDGE'S SEGREGATION Washington, D. C.—We wish to call attention to the fact that in the fight against the segregation of our gov- ernment 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, beaver board walls were maintained until recently. In the latter there have been two cases of discrimination on account of. color brought to public view. The words, announcing the election of President Coolidge, were hardly cold before the effort to in- crease segregation in the depart- mente here Was on again at full speed. It had slowed up a little dur- ing the campaign, Investigation of Bureaus An investigation of the executive departments and bureaus listed be- low shows that segregation prevails in them as follows: Office of the Register of the ‘Treasury, there are two segregated sections—ong with 30 Atro-Ameri- can employees and the other with 4. Navy Department — one sogre- gated section of 18 of our employ- ees, as well as a segregated lunch room, Census Bureau—a segregated section of 60 Afro-American empioy- Bonus Section Bonu» section of the War Depart- ment—one segregated section of 180 vt our employees. Veterans Bureau—a segregated section of 16 employees. Department of Justice—a segre- gated section of 10 employees in the file room, Internal Revenue Internal Revenue Bureau—a seg- regated section of 7 employees. Office of the Treasurer of the Un!- ted States—a segregated section of 4 employees, War Department, Transportation Diviston—a segregated section of 5 employees. P. O. Separate Lunch Room Post Office Department—a segre- ‘gated tunch cones. RACE PREJUDICE! “I am convinced myself that there is no more evil thing in fis [present world, than race prejudice;-none at all! “I_write deliberately—it is the worst single thing in life now. Tt justifies and holds ‘o- gether more baseness, cruelty and abomination than any other ‘sort of errr in the world.” —H. @ Wells. SSS SS SS “WORTH ITS WEIGHT IN Fels Cleveland, O., Aug. 28th, 1926. Hon. Harry ©. Smith, Editor, Gazette, Dear Friend:—I have read the latest copy of The Gazette through and after reading it, I can truthfully say: Ie 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, it possible smite it. You and I have frequently, during the forty-two years since the birth of The Gazette, been, as the Scotch would say, like two MeNells, but when I find a man, such as’ you, who consistently, and persistently, through near- ly 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 Ute to you and The Gazette. ‘Yours for the right, John P. Green. (Former Member, Ohio State Senate.) 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 59 eae 6278. “Mob” and “lynching” defined. 6279. ‘Serious injury” defined. : 6280. Damages in case of asssult. 628}. Damages in case of lynching. 6282. Damages recoverable by legal representative of victim of lyacning 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. 6296. Guardian's custody, otc., fees. 6287. County's right of action against member of mob. 6288. County's right of action against another county. Our mob-violence-or anti-lynehing pill was introduced in the Ohio leg islature in 1894 and re-introduced in 1896. It took the Hon. Harry C. Smith, editor of The Gazette, just three years to secure its enactment Into law. The Ohio Supreme Court has several times upheld the con- stitutionality of the law and it has Section 6278. A collection of peo- ple assembled for an unlawful pur- Pie'ana Invonding to 40 damage oF Penury to any ober or pretending to irae” correctional "power over other persons by violence and with- other Prority of iaw, ohall be deemed SeURGe tor the purpose of this tuaptor, Am act of violence by trod upon the body of any person shall constitute a “lynching” within the meaning of this chapter, (93 ¥. er 2) Section 6278. The term “serious nary.” for tne purpose of this chab- retail Include such InSury a8 per manently or temporarily disables the patton vecaiving, It from earning Weaee Sa Gr manual inners C08 © 112) Section 6280, A person. taken com officers of Justice by & mob Se ected wiek wipe: ofa ae ‘Hise’ or in any other ‘manner, may ‘eeower, as hereafter provided, © sum aot to exceed one thousand dollars ie aamages trom the county to whicn thelaoseult te mages (98 ¥. 161.4) Gestion 6261, A person aaaaultea and’ iynchod by @ meb may recover, trom"che ‘county’ In which such "as Thult is made e. sum not to exotod tre nundred dollars; or, if the to fury reccived teretrom ie serious, 6 Nim aor exceeding one thousand dol- lars; or, if suck injury result in per- manent disability to earn a@ livell- Sunt ty tauusl labor, a sam Bot ¢ tossed ave thousand dollars,” (38 ¥. 162 5.) Section .262. The legal represen- tative of @ person dying from injur- ‘es received trom iynehing by ® m0, thay recover of the county ia wBich tach injury seeurted, » sum not to cxceed, five thousand’ dollars dam- ages for such unlawful killing. Such sum shall be applied to the mainte- nance of the family and educetica ct the minor children of such person so lynched, if any survive him, until such children are of legal age, and tuen be distributed to the survivors, share and share alike, the widow re: ceiving an amount equal to a child's share. If there be no widow or minor children surviving such dece- dont, euch sum shall be. distributed song the next of kin according to the laws ‘of tho distribution of, the personality of an intestate. Such sum so recovered shall not be a part of the estate of euch person #0 IyBeh- oa, nor be eublect 10 any of his lis- bilities, "(98 7 162 6) Section’ 6283. A person suffering death or injury from a mob attempt- Ing. to lynch another person shall come within the provisions of thie chapter. He or bis legal representa- tives shall have a like right of action as one purposely injured or killed by such a mob. (93 v 162 6.) Section €284. Action for the re- coveries provided for im this. chay- fer must bo commenced, within two Yeare from’ the date of euch. lynch- ing, tn any court having original Sufiadiction of am action’ for aain- ages for malicious assnult. (98 ¥. 162 7.) Section 6285. An order to the commissioners of a county, against which such recovery is had, to in- ciude tt with the coste of action, In the next ucceeding tax levy for such county, shall be a part of the judg- ment in every such case. (93 v. 162 o) ‘Section 6284. If the decedent 0 lynched hee minor children eurviv- Ze him, the fend shall be turaed ier toa regularly appoinied gaat qlau. “Such guardian hall. adminis: ter such fund under the direction of the probate judge, allowing not more than fve hundred dollars for cous sel fece tn the action for such re: covery. (93 v. 162 9.) Section 6287. The county, in which a lynching occurs, may re- cover the emount of s Judgment and conte agatnet it in favor of tho legal seprenentatives of « pereon Killed oF seriously injured by 8 mob from any of the persons composing such mod. & pereon present, with hostile intent, a, Toach tyaching shall be deemed # momber of the mob and pe liable to such action. (93 v. 162 10.) Section 6288. If a mod carries » prisoner imto another county, oF omes from another county to com- 22 3) See See at been very effective. Illinois, Penn sylvania and New Jersey nave fol towed 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 ‘so enacted anti-lynching laws, in recent years, like Pennsylvania ano New Jersey. The Ohio law follows mit violence en a prisoner prough' from such county for sufexeeping. the county in which the lynching t+ committed may recover the amount of the Judgment and costs from the county from which the mob came gence on the part of officials of suct unless there was contributory negli tmprisoned not less than thirty day county in falling to protect such prisoner or dispurse such mob (98 v. 168 11.) Section 6289. ‘This chapter sha! not relieve a person concerned 11 such lynching from prosecution for homicide or assault for engagins therein. (98 v. 168 12.) OUR OHIO CIV, RIGHTS Lay Upon the request of many reader: ef The Gazette we. print below the text of the Hon. Harry C. Smith» Ohio Ctvil Rights Iaw which tn. editor had enacted while a mémbe: of the 71st General Assembly, 11 1894; ‘The General Coae of Ohio: ~ Sec, 12940, Whoever, being th proprietor or bis employee, keeper 0: Manager of ah inn, restaurant, eat ing house, barver-shop, public con yeyance by land or water, theater o: other place ot public accommodauio. ud amusement, denies to a citizen except f0F reasons applicable alike so ali citizens and regardless of rave or color, the full enjoyment of toe accommodations, advantages, facil. les or privileges thereof, shall o ned not jess than fifty doiars nu: more than five hundred dollars, o) uor more than ninety days, or bots Sec. 12941. Whoever violates ta: uext preceding section shall also pa uot less than fifty dollars nor mor. (han nye Hundred dollars to the pe. Son aggrieved thereby to be recov ered in any court of competent ju: isdiction in the county where suc: offense was committed. This law has repeatediy deen he... constitutional and good Jaw by th Oho Supreme court. The troubie i our people will not use it as often us they should, but expec. it to do to, them what they should and must a. for themselves, under ft, tp tx courts. Judge Grant's Opinion of the Law Misled by the foolishly manufac tured outery for te yassage of th: Beaty bill, a few years ago, the Ak ron Beacon Journal published ai editorial to whicb the editor of ‘The Gazette replied, calling its attentio: to -he fact that the Ohio Civil Right: law was good law and did not nee amending. The following letter fron Judge Grant former presiding judy: of the Court of Appeals of the Bight» District of Ohio, is self explanatory Hon. Harry C. Smith, Editor The Gazette, Cleveland, 0. My Dear Sir: Observing your let ter in the Beacon-Journal, of this city, I ventare to send you, under » separate cover, the Ohio Law Re porter of Feb. 3, last, containing the opinion of the Court of Appeals tr the Puritan Lunch Co. vs. Leonars H. Yorman, decided in Akron. les fail, in which a Judgment for (3600 five hundred dollars was sustainen It the Beacon-Journal had knowt what was going on In tts own town there would have been no occasto’ tor criticism editorially. THE LAW OF OHIO I8 UNDER NO RE PROACH, nor our courts and jurie~ in administering It. Not a word wa said by the Beacon-Journal when th- Forman case was reviewed Very truly yours R. ©. Grant . : | Our advertisers want your i I trade. Those who do not ask # F for {t in the columns of “The = F Old Reliable” Gazette certain: 2 ly care Uttle, tf at all, for tt = 3 Therefore, we urge our read- = 2 ers and all of our friends to = I Giironlee thon. ws ackcin thi GE 2 paper for your patronage— i 2 Raditor, : THE POPULAR VOTE PRIMARY. ‘The politicians, backed by cer tain big: corporations, are trying to knock out. the popular vote primary now in effect, claiming :that, ‘only 10 or 15 percent’ of ‘the: totad vate of the people “ts Cast at” primary elections”. This Is not often true, but if it were the popular vote primary is infinitely to be prefer- red to a return to the old conven- tion 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, sev- eral times in the past, with the re- sult that he politicians and polit- ical bosses were voted down and the popular vote primary endorsed and retained. It fs far better to pave nominations made by 10 or 15 percent of the total vote than to have them dictated by a few po- litical bosses who do not const}- tute 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 nom- mations. I's rottenness and bane- ful results brought about the “Junk- ing”, and ought never to be lost sight of for a single moment. The popular vote primary with its few imperfections is far and away su- perior to the convention plan of making uominations for reasons stated and others, and until a bet- ter poplar vote plan is found, the one we have should and doubtless will be retained, regardless of the political bosses’ and their corpor- ation 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 con- vention 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 ‘at least, in common with all other ‘classes or races of, voters, be per mitted to stand as candidates for o public office, and should’ not again be barred from so doing as ‘we always were under the old con~ vention plan. Do not be misled by any of tae 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 ap- plies with almost equal force to the women voters of Ohio. All should know that the political boss- es 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 ex- plain this to all you come in con- tact with from now until election day. a Maven 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 lead- ers. But to obtain one at the hands of voters throughout a state, he must gain the good opinion of thousands or hundreds of thou- sands. That requires advertising of one sort or another. That means 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 nomi nations 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 1earn to govern our- selves and work together for our own advancement. If we do not learn to govern our- selves 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 thelr own ad- vancement and not ours.— jeorme W. Blount,