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Will Serve or Rent to Clubs or Private Parties for Weddings, Parties or Receptions. Six O'Clock Dinners, Dally, by Reservation. ALSO SUNDAY DINNER FROM 3 TO 6 and Supper From 6 to 9. LUNCHES, ALL KINDS of Sandwiches and Salads. Ice Cream and Ices. MRS. MAUD W. RHODES, Proprietor We Save you $20. Order Your Suit or O'Coat at the Lyon Tailoring Co. and Save the Middleman's Profit. We Save you $20. FALL WOOLENS ARE READY SUITS, TOPCOATS Union Made to Order in Our Own Shop All Wool—All One Price $27.50 Made to Fit You The Only One Price Tailors in Cleveland FIVE STORES IN GREATER CLEVELAND 1920 EAST 9TH ST. 845 PROSPECT AVE. (App. the Union Trust, Rose Bide.) 5305 WOOLLAND AVE. (At E. 55th St.) 1980 WEST 25TH ST. (App. Meckes Dept. Store) All Stores Open Sct. Night LYON TAILORING CO. Broadway Woodland W. 25th St. OPEN EVERY NIGHT SALE 1500 DRESSES 1920s THE GAZETTE Eagle Stamps Are An Additional Savings of 3% ESTABLISHED, AUGUST 25, 1883 And Issued Every Week on Time Since CLEVELAND, OHIO, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 9 1926. FRESH OHIO NEWS Written By "The Old Reliable" Gazette's Correspondents What Our People Are Doing Each Week—Church, Personal, Social, Lodge, Literary and Musical—Marriages, Deaths, Etc. ELYRIA—George Johnson of Cleveland, arrested and indicted on a manslaughter charge, plead guilty before Judge A. R. Webber and was sentenced, Tuesday. He was charged with cutting the throat of Bert Edwards, of Cleveland, in a fight at a railroad camp near here, several months ago. CORRESPONDENTS must mail all letters for publication at their main postoffice sufficiently early on Monday (or Sunday) of each week to have them reach The Gazette office on Tuesday morning, and always write their names and that of their city or town on the outside of the wrapper about returned copies. Unless this latter is done, proper credit cannot be given you. Lists of names, wedding presents, etc., obituary notices, inquiries for relatives and advertisements of all kinds, including items announcing entertainments to be held in the near future, must be paid for in advance at the rate of 25 cents a line, six words to a line. Our rates for display advertisements will be sent on applica- her parents, Mrs. and Mrs. Milton Day, Sunday—Mr. and Mrs. Lyman Ames and baby, Miss Ina Ames and Mr. Ray Burns were entertained at dinner, Sunday, by Mrs. Louisa Kilgour—Mr. and Mrs. Edward Jones and son, Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Riggs, Mr. and Mrs. Alex. Holland and sons visited in London, Sunday. SOUTHERN WHITE WOMEN Trying To Save a Misguided Negro Slayer From The Gallows. Mobile, Ala.—Members of the Counter League of Women voters (white) at a meeting, last week Thursday, adopted a resolution to assist in circulating a petition asking Gov. Brandon to commute the death sentence of Hayes Leonard, slayer of Judge Samar Smith of Wetumpka, to be imprisonment. The nation was taken. We answered, as a result of several requests, and the apparent attitude of many that Leonard was less re- WILBERFORCE.—At a meeting of the board of trustees of the Combined Normal & Industrial (State) department of Wilberforce University, held here for usual, on the occasion of three cottages, costing $20, 320, were let to J. E. Evans of Columbus, one of the race's leading building contractors. The plans and specifications for these cottages were drawn by the state architect and engineer and Mr. Evans of Columbus. The members of the satisfactory bid. The members of the trustee board are: Miss Helen C. Walker of Cincinnati, Capt. Walter S. Thomas of Mansfield, Rev. B. F. McWilliams of Toledo, President Gilbert H. Jones and Bishop J. H. Jones of Wilberforce. Rev. Charles C. Smith of Cleveland, Rev. J. S. Jackson and Dr. Jos. L. Johnson (president) of Columbus. HILLSBORO—Mrs. E. D. Rivers, of Jacksonville, Fla., is here visiting—Mr. and Mrs. John Hancock's infant daughter died, Sunday—Mrs. Faith Goodson and daughter of Dayton were here, Sunday. Mrs. Charles Williams returned to Wilmington, the same day. She visited her daughter, C. C. M. Hancock, Mr. and H. C. Williams accompanied her home—Mrs. Clifford Lamb is visiting in Dayton. Aaron Young of Cincinnati visited his mother, last week—Mrs. Lucinda Young entertained, Sunday, at a family dinner. Her daughter, Mrs. Rosetta Alsop returned to Cincinnati, Monday, and Mrs. Doyle, recently—Mr. and Mrs. Doyle, recently—Rev. and Mrs. J. A. Young were dinner-guests of Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Ames, Sunday—Mr. and Mrs. Enoch Frye of Cincinnati visited A recent arrival, offering a choice selection of all the new styles and colors. Over 100 stunning Fall and Winter styles, each different and individual. See them! New Blouse Effects Navy Blue Wine Drapes Straightlines Jungle Green Rust Panels Pleats Chanel Red Rustic New Sleeves, Etc. Black Claret, Etc. Materials are those that have proven their popularity for this season: flat crepe, crepe satin. Canton crepe, etc. There are styles for every occasion, street, sport or dress. A complete size range for women and misses. Special in the Basement. her parents, Mr, and Mrs. Milton Day, Sunday.—Mr. and Mrs. Lyman Ames and baby, Miss Ia Ames and Mr. Ray Burns were entertained at dinner, Sunday, by Mrs. Louisa Kilgour.—Mr. and Mrs. Edward Jones and son, Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Riggs, Mr. and Mrs. Alex. Holland and sons visited in London, Sunday. SOUTHERN WHITE WOMEN Trying To Save a Misguided Negro Slayer From The Gallows. Mobile, Ala.—Members of the County League of Women voters (white) at a meeting, last week Thursday, adopted a resolution to assist in circulating a petition asking Gov. Brandon to commute the death sentence of Hayes Leonard, slayer of Judge Samar Smith of the county of Ala. The action was taken. it was announced, as a result of several requests and the apparent attitude of many that Leonard was less responsible for the crime than was Clyde Bachelor, (white). son-in-law of Judge Smith, who is alleged to be the victim of crime. Bachelor and Leonard are both under sentence of death. ALL MUST REGISTER! Oct. 15 and 16 are the registration days in Cleveland for the Nov. 2 election. All precinct booths will be open from 9 a. m. to 3 p. m. and from 5 to 10 p. m. Go to the one nearest your home if you are in the neighborhood, or call the election board, Main 4468, for the location of your precinct booth. If you expect to vote, Nov. 2, and everyone eligible should vote you must register on Oct. 15 or 16. If you neglect to register, or if you do not register, mainting days you will not be able to register, and therefore you cannot vote, Nov. 2, 1926. "Nobe." Sissle's Wife Arrested. New York City.—Charged with larceny, Mrs. Harriet Rissler, age 30, of 211 W. 141st St., wife of Noble Sissle, formerly of the "Shuffle Along" Co., was held in $300 bail for further hearing when arraigned in Heights court before Magistrate Gottlieb, Sept. 29, "25. Sissle was warranted on complaint of Mrs. Lana Holsey, 2427 Seventh Ave., who charged that Mrs. Sissle was withholding unlawfully $40 given her as payment of a debt incurred with Mrs Mattle Fleming, who formerly resided at 211 W. 145th St. The Social Workers' Roundtable sponsored the mass meeting at Mt. Zion Cong, church. Tuesday evening, at which Mr. Philip Randolph spoke on the subject: "Can Labor Save the Negro Race?" Dr. Herbert A. Miller, of the department of sociology at Ohio State University, just back from Russia, presided over the meeting. The New York Times, a writer of many labor articles in "The Nation," "The Independent" and "The New Republic" was also a speaker. STATEMENT FOR OCTOBER 1, 1926 Of the Ownership, Management, Etc., Required by the Act of Congress of August 24, 1912. Of The Gazette, published weekly at Cleveland, Ohio for October 1, 1926. State of Ohio. County of Cuyahoga, ss. ing against The Gazette. 4. That the two paragraphs next above, giving the names of the owners, stockholders, and security holders, if any, contain not only Before me, a Notary Public, in and for the State and county aforesaid, personally appeared Harry C. Smith, who having been duly sworn according to law, deposes and says that he is the owner of The Gazette, and that the following is, to the best of his knowledge and belief, a true statement of the ownership, management, etc., of the aforesaid publication for the date required by the Act of August 24, 1912, embodied in section 411; Postal Laws and Regulations, printed on the reverse of this form, to wit: 1. That the name and address of the publisher, editor, managing editor, and business manager is Harry C. Smith. 2. That the owner is Harry C. Smith. 3. That the known bondholders, mortgages, and other security holders owning or holding 1 per cent or more of total amount of bonds, mortgages, or other securities are: a. no bonds and no mortgages or other securities outstand- JUDGE GEORGE P. BAER Presiding Judge of the Cuyahoga County Bench, Is a Candidate for Probate Judge—Splendid Ability. Editor Gazette, Dear Sir:—Permit me to say a few words in behalf of an exceptionally capable and deserving servant of all the people of Greater Cleveland and Cuyahoga county: Seven years, prosecutor; the same number of years, a municipal judge and seven years a common pleas judge, twenty-one years in all of most efficient and satisfactory public service, make Judge Baer a formidable candidate, particularly for any judicial position, or for any other, for that matter, in the gift of the people of this city and county. There has never been a politicized work; nothing but praise. Therefore, too, he is progressive, as his latest move in the interest of the people of Cyahoga county attests. The judge has been making a study of the unified court plan for several months and believes its adoption would make unnecessary much of the remedial legislation suggested by the Cleveland Bar Association to the public, and only other desired results without the creation of an excess of new machinery, in advocating the adoption of the unified court for Cleveland, he asserts that Cleveland's legal machinery for handling criminal business is seventy-five or a hundred years behind the times and no one questions the correctness of his statement. Indeed, the Cleveland bar association of our local legal "lights" and many citizens are of the same opinion. Judge Baer is not alone in his opinion of the unified court plan for Cleveland's judicial ills, or most of them, can be cured by unification of its criminal courts, say Detroit judges, prosecutors and lawyers after a ten-month test of the plan in the Michigan metropolitan area, will make no mistake if they elect George P. Baer probate judge on Nov. 2 and he is a candidate for the position. Shiloh Baptist church trustees are: Steele Tolliver, $. L. Henderson, A. B. Seay, Wm. Caskey, Samuel Waters, Charles Baldwin, Fetter Pace and James D. Hamilton. Some of these were elected. Sept. 14, 2014, the trustees be added at the next church meeting and a full board of deacons elected. The pastor and a few selected women-members of the church have been managing its affairs, for about six months. The trustees are reported to have asked the church to foreclosure of a $17,000 mortgage the, quarterly interest (about $2500) on which is past due. The members are hopeful of raising the money and expect to prevent delay in payments in the future. There are also $5,000 in the church, it is said, the interest (about $1400) on which is about due, also. ing against The Gazette. 4. That the two paragraphs next above, giving the names of the owners, stockholders, and security holders, if any, contain not only the list of stockholders and security holders as they appear upon the books of the company but also, in cases where the stockholder or security holder appears upon the books of the company as trustee or in any other case as trustee of the person or corporation for whom such trustee is acting, is given; also that the said two paragraphs contain statements embracing affiant's full knowledge and belief as to the circumstances and conditions under which stockholders and security holders who do not appear upon the books of the company as trustee of the person or corporation in a capacity other than that of a bona fide owner; and this affiant has no reason to believe that any other person, association, or corporation has any interest direct or indirect in the said stock, bonds, or other securities than as stated by him. Signed, Harry C. Smith. Sworn and subscribed before me this the first day of October 1926. Apple Paul. (My commission expires Aug. 6, 1927.) SINGLE COPY FIVE CENTS "SOCIAL EQUALITY" Promoted By a Virginia White Woman And an "Old Dominion" Barber. Charleston, W. Va.—George Manuel, Winchester, Va. barber, was fined $250 and sentenced to nine months at hard labor on several charges here, recently. The docket read, "operating a car while drinking", "transporting and possessing liquor", "resisting officer", "at tacking an officer, with attempt to maime, disfigure and destroy". Actually Manuel's only crime was the fact that his companion was a white woman. The charge of carrying concealed weapons was also filed against the barber when a Spanish automatic was found in the side pocket of his car. The liquor charge grew out of the charge that a half pint flask lay beside it. State policemen had been watching the couple driving in the barber's Studebaker touring car for some week. Week before last, they placed him under arrest, one of them taking Manuel into the side car of his motorcycle and the other trailing behind the touring car with Manuel's white "sweetie". Just outside the city, Manuel humiliated and enraged, ditched motorized troopers by grasping the handle bar and turning it into an embankment. He and the policeman grappled and the barber who had seized the policeman's gun was getting the best of the encounter when the other state trooper arrived on the scene and began to club the barber with his blackjack. During the melee, the woman escaped, and has not been apprehended. They went to Letters found on Manuel and in the car, written by the woman, whose name the state withholds, indicate that their relations had been intimate for some time. GIVING SPLENDID SERVICE! Juvenile Judge Harry L. Eastman Ought to Be Elected to the Position in November—He Was Appointed. Our Juvenile Court (legally known as the Insolvency Court) is one of the most vitally important in our judicial system. To secure the most beneficial results from its work, it is absolutely necessary that the judge presiding over this court should be a person of broad, human sympathies and a determination to sweep aside legal technicalities when they stand in the way of the best interests and fu- ture of the child, for this is the result that the juvenile court law contemplates. Judge Eastman, of this court, possesses these qualities, and is bending every energy to extend the benefits of the mothers' pension fund which has for its object the keeping together of widows and their children. The judge has appointed a woman of excellence and experience to hear in private the cases of unfortunate girls and report to him, and in other ways has made wonderful progress in maintaining and increasing the splendid service of the court. He should by all means be retained. Therefore, we urge our readers to give his candidacy, on election day in November, their united support. FINED 850 AND COSTS! The Proprietor of the Delicate Punished for Drawing a Color-Line. Iadore B. Cohn, manager of The Delicate, 45 Public Square, was fined, last Saturday morning, fifty dollars and costs, by George Thomas E. Green, for refusing to serve Atty. Chester K. Gillespie in the restaurant, Sept. 2, 1926. Atty. Gillespie says: "Judge Green permitted this case to be passed four times in order that the defendant could bring in witnesses and was most unfair and unwilling to do justice, every time, the case came up for hearing by manager Coln would not have been found guilty had it not been for a deputy sheriff who told the unvarnished truth about the affair. He sat next to me in the restaurant, that day. Judge Green's heart is not right when it comes to rights and privileges guaranteed our people by the law. My opinion is that every colored man and woman in this city and county should remember his name and vote on the ballot. He is undoubtedly unqualified to sit on the bench in the North, especially here in Cleveland." IN UNION IT IS STRENGTH C COPY FIVE CENTS WAY AN APPRECIATION! The Only Judge Who Showed Real Interest in the Effort To Save the Life of Emanuel Ross. Judge Samuel H. Silbert started life as a newsboy, but grew an ambition to study law. He entered a local law school and today is a member of its faculty. The judge has had an interesting public career: police prosecutor, five years; municipal judge, nine years, and common pleas judge, two years. The judge has been a dedicated ticket! Judge Silbert established the night-court of domestic relations, and inaugurated and extended the conciliation system at the police court. He believes in justice without technicalities or "red-tape," believes that laws are merely rules, and that that the main thing about law is that we must have a striking exposition of this in recent weeks The Gazette needs only to recall and that was Judge Silbert's efforts in the Emanuel Ross case. All will recall not only his court-action but the splendid letter to Gov A. V. Donahue, he supplemented it with a plea to succeed himself—for re-election, to a six-year term—and to doubtless will be triumphantly re-elected. He surely will be if his other friends vote for him as well, proportionately, as ours will under the leadership of our local Federation of Women's clubs. This publication is not a paid publication, but an appreciation of one entirely worthy which Mr. Paul Apple and The Gazette's editor are pleased to give to the public. "HIGH STRUNG DUBOIS"! A Chicago Contemporary "Takes a Fall" Out of "The Crisis" And Its Editor—"Point Well Take". The Crisis magazine is advertising that insipid book of Carl Van Vechten, now appearing under the heinous and insidious caption of "Nigger Heaven." Maybe the "directors" consider the book a work of genius because the author has been hanging around with them from the devil seem artistic and ingenuous. This book should not be advertised in our periodicals. It would be an insult to any other people to caption a work in terms derogatory to them. The words "Nigger Heaven" no doubt will offend high strung DuBois, one of the Crisis' authors from Germany and Switzerland, where he has gone to study the race problem, but we will have to wait until he returns. Maybe the "Klansman," the "Leopard Spots" and some of Thomas Dixon's work will be advertising in the Crisis before he gets back on the job. Last week, we visited the "Shoot Crap Blues" and other revolting photographic records, until our gentle reminder awakened them.—Chicago Whip. FLORIDA INDIANS WISE. Quit The Storm Area Ten Days Before the Disaster—"Me Going"! Jacksonville, Fla.—Native Floridian Indians, who lived in the devastated territory, deserted their homes only ten days before the disaster and can boastfully say, "I told you so" as well as can other persons who possessed the ability to read astronomical signs. There were persons who were hearded our children and would return despite the warnings of police officials to stay out. They were jailed in many cases. One big Indian man, pointing to something in the elements and shaking his head said in a trembling voice, "See, see, that bad omen. Better go to highlands. Me going." Of course the incident did not impress his hearers so the children are alive in the area. Today, all are alive. Wrecked havoc with other citizens in the vicinity where the warning was not heeded. Freed in Siki Slaying. New York City.—Martin Maroney, who had been held in Tombs prison for nine months on suspicion of connection with the slaying of "Battling" Ski, Senegalese boxer, once world's light heavyweight champion, was discharged in court. Monday. Ski was shot (in the back) to death in W. 41st St., near midnight, Dec. 15, '25. SEE THE HOUSE I HAD BUILT FOR THE POOR LITTLE BIRDS! YES! LET'S GET SOME BREAD CRUMBS FOR THEM!--AND SOME WATER! NOW I KNOW WHY THEY CALL PRISONERS "JAIL BIRDS"--BECAUSE THEY LIVE ON BREAD AND WATER! TEE!HEE! THERE! Tim Early ALL OF WHICH GOES TO PROVE THAT LOTS OF KIND ACTS NEVER REACH THEIR DESTINATION. PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY (In Advance) One Year ..... $2.00 six Months ..... 1.00 Subscribers are requested to remit by postoffice money order or registered letter. Entered at the postoffice in Cleveland, Ohio, as second-class mail matter 226 W. Superior Ave., Cleveland, G. (Bell Phone: Cherry 1259) Member Ohio Legislature: 1894 to 1896; 1896 to 1898; 1900 to 1902 THE GAZETTE is the oldest and has the largest bona fide circulation, double that of any newspaper in the interest of Afro-Americans published or circulated in the state of Ohio, and comparison with any will immediately establish its rank as one of the NEWSIEST AND BEST in the country. 10,000,000 Afro-Americans. 350,000 in Ohio. 40,000 in Cleveland. Vance H. Marchbanks, Jr., son of Warrant Officer and Mrs. Marchbanks of the Tenth U. S. Cavalry, stationed at Fort Huachuca, Arizona, has been designated by President Calvin Coolidge, on the suggestion of the War Department, as a candidate from the United States at-large to take the examination for entrance into the U. S. military academy at West Point, N. Y. It would take a good deal to make us believe that the President knew Vance was an "Afro" when he appointed him. WELCOME INDICATIONS OF PROGRESS. The Mobile, Alabama, county league of women voters (white) is assisting in the circulation of a petition asking Governor Brandon to commute to life imprisonment the death sentence of Hayes Leonard, the "Negro" who was bulldozed into killing Judge Lamar Smith of Wetumpka, Alabama, by the judge's son-in-law, Clyde Bachelor (white) who it seems was after the judge's money and estate, and who is also under sentence of death. The women may not be aware of the fact, but they are "rocking the boat" and "rattling the dry-bones" of southern race prejudice, and too, in a way seldom heard of in the last quarter of a century or more. All of which would go to prove that the better class of white people in that section of the country are making a little progress, at last, along racial lines. That there has not been a general out-cry throughout the south, against this action of Mobile white women by the ultra-prejudiced press and people of that section of the country is another indication of progress along the same line. HOW COME, JUDGE THOMAS E GREENE? We understand that recently a common pleas judge of this city and county, in awarding damages in a case under our Ohio Civil Rights Law, gave an aggrieved plaintiff the minimum penalty of fifty dollars, as provided in the law. And then "remitted" forty of the fifty dollars, thus compelling the defendant, a restaurant-keeper, to pay but ten of the fifty-dollar judgment. What we cannot understand is how the judge of any court in this state can thus legally abrogate a specific penalty provided in a state law, thus arrogating to himself the right and power to override the State Assembly which enacted the law and the State Supreme Court which has repeatedly adjudged as good law our Ohio Civil Rights law. In our judgment, here is an important legal question which should be determined by the higher courts just as soon as possible. "BALLYHOOING." Wonder whether the race of us would not be more respected if we were sober citizens and voters. We are not referring to whiskey, but to cainess, common sense, solidity in political matters. We really make big fuss over nothing, grow jubilant and voluble about things in politics which mean nothing to us, directly, and very little to us, indirectly. We shout when there no cause for shouting, praise when there is no reason for praising and approve when we have excuse for doing just the opposite—Louisville (KY). Leader. Worse than the foregoing is the southern Negro's penchant for exaggeration, talking in the superlative, particularly about his business affairs. With "ballyhooing" and exaggerating, we are rapidly impressing thoughtful people of all classes as a race of wind-bags or blowbags, which is anything but helpful, to say the least. It is time to call a halt, instead of our business and professional men and women. THE GEEVUM GIRLS and others, giving in to that sort of thing as they do generally thrust out both the North and South, these days. THE "SUPERLATIVE". A dispatch from Columbus to the local daily papers, last week, announced that Afro-American representatives of thirty-four counties of the state, had just assembled there and organized a non-partisan voters' league, electing Dr. E. J. Gregg, of this city, president, and Attorney Sully Jaymes of Springfield, vice-president. We are inclined to question that alleged "representation" from thirty-four counties of Ohio. It has the "ring" of southern "blowbagism". It would have been far better to have told the truth about that "representation", be it ever so small, because there is a place in the Ohio political sun, these days, for a non-partisan league of Afro-American voters. LINCOLN NEVER SAID IT! Editor B. J. Davis of the Atlanta (Ga.) Independent delivered the emancipation oration, last month, at the celebration in Columbus, Ohio, and among other things said, he had no patience with those scholars and philosophers of the race, who charged that Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves as a war measure; that the charge, on the part of these wiseacres, was largely due to their ignorance of the character of the man, or of their confessed-self importance; that Lincoln, at seventeen, when in New Orleans, saw a Negro girl being sold into slavery on the auction block to the highest bidder, and said then and there, "If I ever get a chance at that thing, I will hit it, and hit it hard." Meaning slavery, of course. Editor Davis is too harsh, coarse and even rough in his criticism of "those scholars, philosophers and wiseacres" who differ from him in their Lincoln estimate. Isn't it barely possible, "Brother" Davis that they may be right and you wrong; that their opinion may not be "largely due to their ignorance of the character of the man, or of their confessed-self importance" John Hay and John Nicolay were President Abraham Lincoln's secretaries. They wrote the best, the most exhaustive history of the martyr president ever printed in this country. Before its publication in book form, it ran for many months as a serial in the Century Magazine. Much that appeared in the Century did not appear in the history because the magazine publication was too voluminous. We well remember our careful reading of it at the time of the Century publication with a special view to deciding in our own mind the very point our distinguished conferee of the Atlanta, Independent brought up in his recent Columbus, Ohio, emancipation oration. We also read the Hay and Nicolay history of Lincoln soon after its publication in book form, and others, as well as hundreds of newspaper and magazine articles about the martyr president since that time, many years ago. Our friend Davis" "Lincoln" quotation did not appear in either the Hay and Nicolay magazine or book publications, or any other first-class history of President Lincoln we have ever read. Indeed, we have yet to read it in any authentic work on the emancipator. On the contrary, for reasons that would tend to strengthen the stand "those scholars, philosophers and wiseacres" maintain, President Lincoln did not favor the Generale Hunter and Fremont emancipation proclamations which preceded his by years, but revoked the latter's, removed him from his command of the Missouri department of the U. S. army as a result of its issuance, and (it is still very generally believed) broke the old pathfinder's heart as a consequence. While not one of "those scholars, philosophers and wiseacres", in common with the great mass of people of this country we heartily agree with them, despite the very pretty little "Lincoln" story (for that is all it is) that our friend Davis quotes. We agree that President Abraham Lincoln's emancipation proclamation was just what it appears on its very face—a war measure, pure and simple. THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, O. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 9. 1926. Support for Crank Case Quite Easily Attached The object of an invention of F. A. Goold and W. G. Baxter of Montfort, Wis., is to provide a crank case support specially adapted for attachment to certain light cars for supporting the crank case against downward move. Partial Side View Crank Case, Showing Support. ment, wherein the support is connected to the frame of the vehicle and to the supporting arms for the crank case. This support is easily attached, and once attached, requires no attention, it is firmly held by bolts and nuts.—Scientific American. Tire Wear Doesn't Show Score on a Speedometer You cannot tell how many miles a tire goes by the score on the speedometer. If you'll stop and think, there is a lot of tire travel that the speedometer can't register, for instance: When you back up; when you skid with your rear wheels locked, and when you have one wheel out of line that skewers along the road like a bootlegger in tow of the law. And while on the subject of poor wheel alignment I'll wager that not a day of your existence passes but what you see some car ambling along the street or highway with a drunken wheel or two. If you have an abundant sense of humor you can easily get a laugh out of the cars so afflicted, especially if they are piloted by those absent-minded drivers who sit up stiff and straight and let the world go hang. But it is really a serious matter—for the pocketbook, anyway. When the wheel wobbles, so does the tire. And that means that it covers a lot more territory than there is need of and scrubs off some tread besides. Then, when it is all over but digging down into your jeans for the purchase price of a new tire, maybe you wonder why you failed to get as much mileage out of one casing as from another. It is a safe policy to test out the wheel alignment of your car every so often. You may find something that will save you money.—Farm Life. Magneto Setting Vital to Obtain Best Results When setting a high-tension magneto it should first be seen that the proper cylinder is in firing position; that is, both valves closed and the piston brought up to the highest point, which can be ascertained by running a rod or wire through the spark plug or petcock opening. When this point is reached the motor should be backed up one-eighth of a stroke, which is where the spark should occur when the spark lever is fully advanced. If it is desired to throttle the motor down very low, the spark plug points should be opened until they are fully one-sixteenth of an inch apart. Did You Know That— An engine will knock if the spark gap at the distributor is too wide? The supercharger is being manufactured by a large electrical equipment company? Reduction in wind resistance has resulted in adding ten miles per hour in speed to one of the latest sport closed jobs? One camshaft will operate all the valves of a V-eight engine if one block of cylinders is set slightly ahead of the other? "Not the largest, But the Best!" Little Rock, Ark. June 16, '25. Hon. Harry C. Smith, Editor, Gazette, Cleveland, O. Dear Friend:—Long live The Gazette! a welcome friend to the Ricks-Demby family for forty-three years. We boast of being among the oldest continuous subscribers of The Gazette—not the largest but the best in essentials and the most dependable of race journals. 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Su- ponor aie, opposite. tbe” Serel ees Social and Personal Mrs, Nancy Hollingsworth, E. 36th St., is ill; lumbago. Mrs. Anna L. Ray, E. 36th St., fell down steps and injured an arm and her face, Rev, JR. Yewell, B. 79th: st. pastor of “Priedstone Bapilst clureh, cor. 'B. 38th St. and Scovill Ave is reported very ill It is said Temple Baptist church, B. 89th and Cedar Ave.,. Is. still having trouble with its pastor, Rev. A. L. Williams, the founder, who Tesigtied, several weeks “ago. Bdward West, ue young drum- mer, returned to the ety having spent several months with his mothe er, Mrs. Jennie” Ross. in’ Detroit and friends in Columbus. Mrs. Walter Stratton, E. 90th st., went ‘to Richmond, Va... recently, to accompany home her’ daughter, Gertrude Lang, who graduated tron Hartshorn Memorial college. Louia V. Jones, our popular vio- Unist, recently a home-visitor, trom Paris, France, will be the radio att. ist over station WHK, today (Oct, 4). He will be assisted by a num- her of local artists, irs, Mattie Walker, ‘Terminal theater pianist and” organist, and Thomas MeCrary, painter and dec orator, were married, last week. Mrs. MeCraty is the mother of MS, Harry Walker and a long-time reek: dent of Cleveland, The Book and Thimble club, has the following officers: Mrs, Fan- hile Mopton, ‘pres.: Mrs. Grace Lit- sas, Heespies; | Mrs... Madeline Early, "sec; Mrs.” Pearl “Adams, assist.; Mise Plossie Hackett, treas, The club donated to the Ross fund. Goodrich Giles of Piqua, John au Lowry. (president), of | Massillon, Robert Sones of ‘columbus, sud Garfield“ Jones of Dayton” were among the men ‘who attended the meeting of the board of directors of the Anchor L.& A” Insurance company here, last week St. John’s gospel choir rendered the cantata, “The Galilean”, by | Herbert, Sunday, Assisting ‘were Mire. W. 7. Bide, Sry and Mrs. Sic ae oe ee asi THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, 0. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1926. 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. Represent a real manufacturer. | Write for FREE SAMPLES. Madison Shirt Makers, 562 Broadway, New York. FOR RENT.—Nice rooms.—At 3620 Woodland Ave. Will: redec- orate to suit tenant. ‘Two weeks’ rent free? Apply on premises. $8500—8500 DOWN Balance like rent. iodern ten room house, garage, large lot, near BH. 85th St. and Cedar Ave. CATT. MAIN 596% Hatcher was pianist and Mrs. Kath- len Forbes, organist. ‘Robert Crowler was in charge as director. Five nice rooms for rent, up- stairs, at 2417 EB. 82nd St. ' Rea- sonable rent; $30. Call Cherny 1259 Gn the afternoon) or apply at room 304, 226 W. Superior Ave., opposite the Hotel Cleveland. Miss La Verne Gregory, a grad- uate of the college for women of Western Reserve university, class of 1926, has accepted a position as a teacher in Fisk university, Nash- ville. She lett, Sunday night, for that city. Miss Gregory, who’ was on the honor roll at the college for women, is the daughter of Prof. Francis H. and Mrs, Edna Ander- son Gregory, the latter a native of this city and a former Cleveland public-school teacher. Do not fail to read and call your friends’ and acquaintances’ attention to the advertisement of the New York Dress Shop, 5023 Wooiiiand Ave., near E, 55th St. It is one of the most reiiable busi- ness establishments in the avenue, and Mr. Levine, its proprietor, one of the most courteous and oblig- ing business men to be found in the city. ‘The Gazette has known both for several years and unqual- iiiedly recommends them. A probe was ordered, Monday, oy Inspector George Matowitz, to ‘de- termine how burglars suceeded in entering the home of “Dr. Charles H, Garvin, 11114 Wade Park Ave., Saturday ‘night, despite the tact that a police detail. guarded the house. Garvin asked for the po- Nee detail when he received threat- oning letters, asking bim to move, and after Ki K. K. vandals twice bombed his home and. splashed it with paint. ‘The “burglars” took a Chinese rug, a watch and other trinkets. The Housekeepers Art and Study club met at. Mrs, ‘Charles Boyd's, E, S6th St., recently, and elected officers for the ensuing year: Mrs. J. L. Schooler, president (for the third consecutive term); Mrs, PB. Guinea, viee-pres.: Mrs." Katle Ir- vin, sec.; Mra. Jessie M. Beach, di- dectress; Mrs. Mary Roberson, treas., and Mrs, Emma Robinson, chaplain; all re-elected. Members program’ committee: Mrs. Thelma Bosd, chair.; Mrs. Emma Robin son, “Mrs. W. Webster and Yrs Charles Boyd; birthday com., Mr. 1. Wheeler, chair., and Mrs. Charles Boyd, Mrs| Mamie Early was. re- lected reporter. A dainty. lunch- ash! Gan Gcd te the Bostoe ‘The Boyd Fiano store, 4808 Cen tral Ave., controlled. and. operated By mentee or ts cae, rarely Pe eee ca ci yage ace eas: Aaily Couiiiog Use arate Sune Mo Gt eran sagan cul deste? ie untae fags tape dues ace learning rapidly to patronize our own enterprises and are thus doing Deane ae eee ie ane Rad osteo viey atone ae Sg ger eat mes cepa Se teante plas ol Aueiaee tae Beales aortas We Wi pieate you greatlly. teed orianenonavenemnte Ms a eee Se Ce ee es grease when lubricating the 7 spring bolts with a high pres: sure gun it Is possible to male { use of the grease that is still left in the flexible tube? Just put a little engine olf inthe gun, 4 ‘This will supply a substance § capable of transferring the pres: > sure to the grease in the tube. {That your car may have some 4 Little refinements you may have 4 overlooked? One car owner, for 3 instance, discovered that the 2 cap over the front end of the engine shaft could be used as the gas tank cap should the lat ter be lost. Every car has some ttle feature of its own—and these are often unknown to the owner, : ‘That tt saves straining the closed car body to allow the doors to catch in the semi- closed position, except when driving or parking the car? Filling Gasoline Tank While Out on the Road Every tourist and auto driver who has had occasion to pour gasoline into the tink on the rond appreciates the difficulty of doing this without the use of a funnel, Still, It is hardly advisable to take a ee along Just for this purpose, ad it takes much 0. Si ‘ES ae Uninterrupted Supply of Fuel in Carburetor It sometimes happens on ears where fuel is fed by pressure supplied by the exhaust gases that it Becomes increas creasingly dificult to maintaln the pressure at the requisite ticure. As a rule pressure does not drop qulekly but seems gradually to ooze away. The tirst thing to do in a ease of this kind is to examine the siller cap of the tank A leather or rubber gasket Is used at (luis point, and often the rubber be comes spongy or the leather gets hard and caked, or a siuall bit of foreign matter may have lodged between the cup and its seat, On the other hand. it sometimes oceurs that the pressure in the system ts built up to a point where the small valve operated by the carburetor flont will be unable to restrain the fuel and flooding of the instrument will result, As a rule a pressure of one and a half pounds is ample to insure an uninterrupted sup ply of feet in the cexburotor: : . ° ° Guaranteed and Efficient Work TWENTY YEARS’ EXPERIENCE x Phone: Bell, Randolph 6978 Sundays by Appointment wrery elty snd town in Ohio and RE se, = iittle time ou Fridays or Saturdary| ao ON Wal are sapectally desirous ot bene | peg fie hou! peroni iat ee tolwinel oy ae named cities: Springfield, Colum: | oe y bus, Toledo. Steubenville, Zanesville, | ee eee 1. se Wilmington, Xenia, Washington C.| See : G., Lancaster, Hamilton, Piqua, | YF Se Coa sas oie Pane A She ae Mieite (0 the editor of ‘Phe Gazette, | Loew UF ie ton ierm ine itsompis | — ama al Our readers will oblige us sreatl,| [gar 4) a 9 KS gn Rds Siena ae | el na : ers in the state to whom we can eo i vite relative to the matter.” "| 27 7 | re « : i IS IT ANY USE TO CONTEND ]| Py | : Colored Americans are the only race, responsible members of which’ are in favor of sub- mitting to discrimination on the claim that their race “al- ways will be discriminated against.” The Jews are still contending, after over 1900 years of universal diserimnina- tion, and are winning even so- cial rights today. The Irish at home have contended for 700 years and are winning because they will die rather than sub- mit. The race that says it’s of no use to resist, downs Itself and the world then wilt say, “Negroes are not worthy of equal rights; they are by na- ture without self-respect and have no ‘guts’. ‘The wortd re- spects only those who resent and resist. proscriptions — for race. Let us be worthy of the abo- Udonists, worthy of our own fathers who have died in every war to vindicate the ttle of their race to equal liberty, and forever resist dental of rights in our native land, however tong race discrimination may continue. 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How 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 has ever been since the Civil War. The beginnings of segregation were under President Taft. It was greatly extended, under President Wilson; increased, still further, under President Harding; and reached its zenith under President Coolidge. For instance, the largest of our parsons President Wilson never troubled, but the present administration has found time and desire to introduce it even there. seption to the heads of departments including the postmaster general, in the postoffice building. It announces dancers and a pleasant social evening with the officials for "the post office employees," yet not one was delivered to the colored clerks. married a protest to the postmaster general the day before; it was come off, and he ordered the post master to invite the colored as well as the white. These clerks go around their colored co-workers by giving the function at a local hotel. It is inevitable that the wicked spirit of segregation would express To many people, segregation is a Democratic scheme of insult, but such is not the case. Mr. Taft introduced it in the bureau of engendering. He segregated the city clerks in this city from the rest restricting white people in white people, and black to black, often duplicating work as most blocks had white and black residents. And, worst of all, announced in his official capacity that Negroes should not hold office where white people could regation, then, is a Republican institution and in the Democratic one. Negroes by Republicans, and carried on to its all-embracing extent by Republicans! There is far more of it in the departments, today, than at any time since the Negro first appeared, close upon the close of the Civil War. The picture requirement in the civil service, which makes it next to impossible for a colored lady or gentleman to enter the civil service, since their color is disclosed in their photograph which must accompany their papers, is tenacious held on to by our Republican President. Only last week colored girl appeared after passed the best examination, and after having been telegraphed for by the department. The photograph had failed to tell her true color, and they flatly refused to appoint her when she appeared, and they saw her complexion. Commissioner Blair of the internal revenue bureau with thousands of clerks will not appoint a Negro clerk, and his word is law there, as he has the favorite of Secretary Mellon and President Edge. He halls from North Carolina, the home of the finest favorite and leader of the segregation forces, Col. Sherrill, superintendent of buildings and grounds. it is no use to complain of either of these southern gentlemen. The colored people here who know the President could destroy segregation in the departments of the government, and the photograph requirements in the civil service by the mere nod of his heir, are at a loss to understand why he does not put his splendid declarations on motion to operation here, where it would not even cost him a single vote and where he has full power and absolutely no opposition. They wonder. If he is not a firm believer in segregation, especially since segregation is one of the chief tenets of the Ku Klux Klan to "believe in home" in the Republican party, and receives no condemnation from the Republican President. (Special to The Gazette.) Washington, D. C.—In the postofficial occupation is rampant. The faithful colored clerks work under constant humiliation and physical disadvantages. The department maintains a spacious caferla for whites only, where these inferior white clerks can buy appetizing luncheons and chat in comfort while eating, while the colored clerks must bring cold luncheons from home and eat them any place they can. The physical discomfort, disadvantageous as it is, is far less gifting to the colored clerks than is the thought of their government taking their clothes as it takes those of their whites, for the comfort of the latter, and setting them off as though they were lepers. The injunction all the more can they reflect that they are far more capable than the whites, and render the government more intelligent and efficient service—the white man of their attainment being able to get far more lucrative employment. The department goes even farther in its solicitude for whives and neglect of colored. It maintains a well-appointed club room with pool tables and other games, comfortable lounges and other equipment for rest, sociability, and recreation, and nothing for these same colored employees. This private club is in the magnificent postoffice building, built and maintained by ALL of the people. In the locker rooms there is segregation, and segregation is even attempted in the toilets. All of ants 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- ception to the heads of departments, including the postmaster general, in the postoffice building. It announced dancers 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 have unyielding caste passes with him, one after another, though many of the colored employees have won contests of quickness and accuracy handling of mail. The colored clerks have dared to form a union which meets regularly and often sends manly and intelligent protests to the postmaster, and often appeals from his decisions to the postmaster-general. It has secured some improvement in their working conditions, but they are still bitter over the huge injustice done to them for nothing else than the color of their skin. (Special to The Gazette.) Washington, D. C.—The government printing office keeps faith with the government's universal scheme of segregation. Some of the best and brightest of our girls are forced to accept inferior positions there on account of the better and more lucrative avenues of employment being closed to them because of their color. The whites are generally of a very mediocre group, far from equaling our girls in educational equipment, culture, and working efficiency. Yet these superior girls are set off from the whites with the latter, of course, having the better working conditions, salaries and recreational facilities. There is a large cafeteria in this huge structure but the employees may go, but there are others out-of-the-way section reserved for our employees. I am glad to say that few, very few, of our people patronize the place, preferring a little physical inconvenience to the open, semi-public numination 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 democratic practice reveals itself in the salary roll and in the hard work that bars promotions. Here, the law of segregation passes over our superior employees to directive positions, and higher salaries. The whites have a large recreational center in this public building with many fine appointments for rest and amusements. During lunch and dinner hours they repair to this restful retreat for sociability and dance. Last fall, a young Afro-American with a splendid record in his work, felt the injustice of this restful retreat, and that the secured the company of a young lady of the race to take part in the dance. As soon as this couple started to dance the music was abruptly stopped, and the young man reported for attempting to take part in an entertainment provided for employees. He was called to the office, lectured for being "one of those smart Negroes" who believe in "social equality, an equal and non-discriminatory charge." He was a night employee, hono he carried a pistol. Right after the dance incident a fire broke out in the office. He was quickly accused of setting the building afire in revenge for his exclusion from the dance floor. Detectives came to the building to arrest him, and failing to secure any evidence searched him only to discover the pistol. They quickly dropped the arson charge and substituted one for carrying concealed weapons. By this severe punishment our employees are taught that there is no way of escape for one who tares to resent the daily insults that their government (under President Obama) gives them. Many of the employees have expressed their deeply-wounded feelings to me at being considered a marsh by the government whose institutions, they are serving so faithfully, and I have taken up a number of cases only to be met by a denial that the conditions complained of exist, and a request for the names of my informants for the statetee informants could be offered so that I could have a single name! The department then taking the position that it cannot take up the case. It is perfectly clear that this iniquitous THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, O. SATURDAY. OCTOBER 9. 1926 scheme of segregation is a difficult thing to fight, since the government is so well settled upon it, and the inhabitants cannot bear witness to it. (Special to The Gazette) Washington, D. C.—Segregation in the bureau of engraving and printing has an interesting history involving President Thomas Woodrow Wilson and members of his family, three 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 great Negro leader had taught colored women to be brave." Three of the young ladies resisted the order to the last ditch and were summarily dismissed! Senator La Follette iodged 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 loca a 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 discuraged, 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. Oswald Garrison Virded came to our office, his wife 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 segregators, namely, the elimination of the colored employees from the bureau alt together. The same segregation which some of our people think is the cherished institution of the Democratic party is still there, in all of its fullness, under the administration of the party that 'braham Lincoln, Charles Sumner and Frederick Doug lass are helped to found. Our girls are employed there in far larger numbers than in any other group. THEY ARE SEGREGATED in their rest rooms, toilets, and working stations, and of course none are ever thought of for promotions to executive places. They are girls from our best names, most of them with high and 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 sequestration, and requiring for the issuance of an order destroying this iniquitous practice in all of our government departments, for it not only humiliates the best of the government servants but impairs the government service. (Special to The Gazette) Washington, D. C.—The treasury department, according to the President's recent acceptance speech, is now under the ablest financial genius since the days of Alexander Hamilton. It is to be remembered that the president was a man of indies, and in the long sweep of history that the President traversed are the mighty Salmon P. Chase, secretary of the treasury in Lincoln's cabinet, who, in a national extremity such as this country has never known, devised the national banking system which financed the lives of millions of Americans, John Sherman. These men never knew what segregation was! The present head of the department of internal revenue, Mr. Blair from North Carolina, has not appointed a colored clerk since his incumbency. While his predecessor, Mr. Daniel Roper, a democrat from Texas, appointed and promoted several of them. Since the income tax legislation and the numberless new taxes that the recent war necessitated, this is by far the largest department of the treasury, employing several thousand clerks. That the new tax law cannot be noticed. There is the sanguine complaint here among our clerks and other employees as there is in the other branches of the government—failure to recognize their efficiency when promotions are due ability to go so far and no further 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 toilets for the colored are few in such a large structure. Hence, the segregated clerks are forced to endure physical inconvenience at times, and are forced to use the toilet to strete 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 the presence of homeless persons with space t. spare; but not one Negro! His only share is in the taxes he is forced to pay for this luxury for another group! The registrieship of the treasury, which Republican Presidents have given the Negro since Garfield appointed Blanch K. Bruce, is now filled by a white man, and the colored people are congregated in a separate room which is publicly proclaimed as "a colored division." When it 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 proof of this. In cities in the southern atmosphere, must take the former. They are depressed at the wrong, but economic stress compels endurance of it. By a single stroke of his pen, President Calvin Coolidge can stop every bit of the 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 army and the recent 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 increase segregation in the army was launched at speed. It had slowed up little during the campaign. Investigation of Burcaus Office of the Treasurer of the United States—a segregated section of 4 employees. War Department, Transportation Division—a segregated section of 5 employees. 0. 1. 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 to together more baseness, cruelty abomination than any other sort of error in the world." H. G. Wells "WORTH ITS WEIGHT IN COLUMN" Cleveland, O., Aug. 28th, 1925. Hon. Harry C. Smith, Editor, Gazette. Dear Friend:—I have read the latest copy of The Gazette through and after reading it. I can truthfully say: It is worth its weight in gold! I admire true manhood—a man who, seeing injustice and oppression, dares, within the limits of the law, to expose it and, if possible smite it. You and I have frequently during my career since the birth of The Gazette, been, as the Scotch would say, like two McNeils, but when I find a man, such as you, who consistently, and persistently, through nearly half a century, puts his race foremost in his life struggle. I take off my hat to him, as being a true friend of our class. Long life to you and The Gazette. Yours for the right. John P. Green. (Former Member, Ohio State University) LEADS THE COUNTRY IN EFFECTIVE LEGISLATION Against The Mob and Lynch-Murder—The Work of a Member of The Race—Also His Ohio Civil Rights Law Section 6278. "Mob" and "lynching" defined. 6279. "Serious injury" defined. 6280. Damages in case of assault. 6281. Damages in case of lynching. 6282. Damages recoverable by legal representative of victim of lynching. 6283. Person suffering death or injury by mob trying to lynch another 6284. Limitations of action. 6285. Order to include recovery and costs in tax levy. 6286. Guardian's custody, etc., fees. 6287. County's right of action against member of mob. 6288. County's right of action against another county. 6289. Non-relief from prosecution. Our mob-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 uphold the constitutionality of the law and it has Section 6278. A collection of people assembled for an unlawful purpose an 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, clubs, 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 result in permanent disability to earn a livelihood by manual labor, a sum not to exceed five thousand dollars. (93 v. 162 5.) Section 1852. 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 in 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 deceit, such sum shall be being among the necessary funds according to the distribution of the life of an intestate. Such sum so recovered shall not be a part of the estate of such person so lynched, nor be subject to any of his liabilities. (93 v 162 6.) Section 6283. A person suffering death or injury from a mob attempting to lych 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 fe26 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 62 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 62 7.) Section 6288. If the decedent oynedol has minor children surviving him, the fund shall be turned over to a regularly appointed guardian. Such guardian shall administer such fund under the direction of the probate judge, allowing not more fees to be paid for counsel fees in the action for such recovery. (93 v 162 9) Section 6277. The county in which a lynching occurs may recover the amount of a judge's and costs against it in favor of the local representatives of a person killed or seriously injured by a mob from any of the persons composing such mob. A person present, with hostile intent to such lynching, may be liable to the mob and be liable to such action. (93 v 162 10) Section 6288. If a man carries a prisoner into another county, or comes from another county to him been very effective. Illinois, Pennsylvania and New Jersey have followed Ohio's lead and enacted mob violence or anti-lynching laws which are copies of our Ohio law. Several other northern states and at least one border state (Kentucky) have also enacted anti-lynching laws, in recent years, like Pennsylvania and New Jersey. The Ohio law follows BS. ed. s. representative of victim of lynching bury by mob trying to lynch another and costs in tax levy. s. must member of mob. must another county. mit violence on a prisoner orough 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 camgence on the part of officials of such unless there was contributory negligence not less than thirty day county in failing to protect such person in dispense such mob (93 v. 163 11.) Section 6228. This chapter shall not relieve a person concerned in such lynching from prosecution for homicide or assault for engaging therein. (93 v. 163 12.) OUR OHIO CIVIL RIGHTS LAW Upon the request or many readers of The Gazette we print below the text of the Hon. Harry C. Smith a Ohio Civil Rights law which tucked in enacted while a member of the 71st General Assembly in 1894: The General Cooge of Ohio: Sec. 12340. Whoever, being the proprietor or his employee, keeper or manager of an inn, restaurant, eating house, barbershop, public convenience or land or water, theater or other place of public accommodation and amusement, denies to a citizen except for reasons applicable to all citizens and regardless of race or color, the full enjoyment of the accommodations, advantages, facilities or privileges thereof, shall be denied not less than fifty dollars nor more than five hundred dollars, or more than ninety days, or both, except whoever violates the next preceding section will also be denied not less than fifty dollars nor more than five hundred dollars to the person aggrieved thereby to be recovered in any court of competent jurisdiction in the county where such offense was committed. This law has repeatedly been been constitutional and good law by the Ohio Supreme court. The trouble is our people will not use it as often as they should, but expect it to do for them what they should and must do for themselves, under it, in the courts. Judge Grant's Opinion of the Law Misled by the foolishly manufactured outcry for the passage of the Beaty bill, a few years ago, the Akron Beacon Journal published an editorial to which the editor of The Gazette replied, calling its attention to the fact that the Ohio Civil Rights law was good law and did not need amending. The following letter from Judge Grant former presiding judge of the Court of Appeals of the Eighth District of Ohio, is self explanatory: Akron, O., April 25, 1919 Hon. Harry C. Smith. Editor Carter Yor Guzzi, Cleveland, O. Sir. Observing your letter in the press, Sir. Observing your letter, this city, I venture to send you, under separate cover, the Ohio Law Re- porter of Feb. 3, last, containing the opinion of the Court of Appeals in the Puritan Lunch Co. vs. Leonard H. Forman, decided in Akron, last fall, in which a judgment for ($500 five hundred dollars was sustained in the Beacon-Journal, had known what was going on in its own town there would have been no occasion of OHO IS UNDER NO RE- PROACH, nor our courts and juries in administering it. Not a word was sayed 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, it 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 Many Drivers Are Careless in Residential and Outlying Districts. Approximately 31 per cent of all persons killed by automobiles are children under fifteen years of age. Many drivers are careful on congested business streets, but careless in residential and other districts where children are numerous. In spite of the danger, many children make the street their playground, or in chasing each other or a ball they may suddenly dash into the street right in front of a moving vehicle. Watch Children Closely. A driver should assume that every child on or near the street may dash suddenly in front of his car. You cannot tell by looking at a child what it is going to do. You should, therefore, drive slowly and have absolute control of your car; a. Not only when children are playing in the street, but also when they are playing near the curb or on the sidewalk. b. When passing schools or playgrounds. c. When approaching youngsters who are "hitching a ride" on the vehicle ahead. e. When passing ice wagons and street sprinklers. f. When passing any hill that may be used for coasting, in winter. Timely Suggestions. Drivers should remember the following; a. Caution your own and other people's children about the dangers of the street. b. Do not allow anyone to ride on the running board, rear tire, or bumper of your car. c. Persons on bicycles, or roller skates, or in carts should not be permitted to hitch on your car. d. It is bad practice to give children a "lift" to and from school because it encourages them to stand in the street while hailing. Such encouragement by motorists promotes a hazard to the children and to all motorists. In many communities school children are being taught "safety." Automobile drivers should co-operate in this good work and take every precaution to prevent accidents to children. If you expect other persons to avoid injuring your children, you should take care not to injure the children of others. Some Worry in Getting Gas Into a Vacuum Tank Gas into a Vacuum Tank Motorists who run out of gas on the road frequently have trouble in getting gas into the vacuum tank which his run dry. If the driver stalled on the road finds himself without a funnel or is unable to remove the filler plug from the vacuum tank, he need not worry. "It is unnecessary to refill a vacuum tank manually," says a bulletin issued by the mechanical first aid department of the Chicago Motor club. "If the engine is cranked by hand or by means of the starter, suction will act upon the fuel in the main tank and refill the vacuum tank. One precaution is necessary: The throttle should be closed. If this is not done the engine will suck air through the carburator instead of through the vacuum suction pipe." CONVENTION PLAN. MOST EXPENSIVE When a candidate could obtain a nomination from a convention, he needed to be known only to the delegates or theirers. 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 of one sort or another. That means expense, particularly to a new and little known candidate—Cleveland the mayor. 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 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.