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What Our People Are Doing Each Week—Church, Personal, Social, Lodge, Literary and Musical—Marriages, Deaths, Etc. GADIZ.—Miss Nannie Robinson of Philadelphia and Mrs. Eva Montgomery of Connellsville are visiting their uncle, Rev. C. M. Hogans. A number of social affairs have been given in their honor—Miss Helen Lucas has returned from Cincinnati.—Mr. and Mrs. Willard Steward and family of Flushing were guests of Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Johnson, recently.—Mr. E. and Miss Elizabeth Lucas of Martins Ferry were here. Sunday.—Misses Naomi West and Fayetta White entertained at a Hollywood party. Saturday evening.—Mr. and Mrs. J. Fulton, guests of Mr. and Mrs. Noble Mason, hae returned to Ravenna. ments 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- HILLSBORO.—Prof. O. C. Bullard visited his parents in Georgetown, Sunday.—Howard Kilgour had his left foot badly mashed with a 50 lb. weight at the foundry, Saturday.—Brev and Mrs. Mas. A Young were dinner-guests, Sunday at Mr. and Mrs. Albert Williams Jr.'s.—Mrs. Zack Lewis of Springfield, visited her mother, Mrs. Alline Burton, over the week-end.—Clarence Pleasant, Jos. Cole and CORRESPONDENTS must mail all letters for publication at their main postoffice sufficiently early on Monday (or Sunday) of each week to have them reach The Gazette office on Tuesday morning, and always write their names and that of their city or town on the outside of the wrapper about returned copies. Unless this latter is done, property cannot be seized. Lists of wedding presents, etc., obituary notices, inquiries for relatives and advertisements of all kinds, including items announcing entertain- DR. JOSEPH L. JOHNSON Arraigns the Republican Party And Praises Ex-Senator Atlee Pomerene and Gov. A. V. Donahay. The following communication, mailed at Columbus (according to the Columbus post-office stamp) on the day of his election, received the following day, Friday, Oct. 29, '26, too late for publication in our issue of that week which was printed and mailed on Thursday, Oct. 28, '26, and delivered through Ohio on the following day, Friday, Oct. 29, '26, as usual: Columbus, O., Oct. 28, '26. Hon. Harry C. Smith, Editor Gazette, Closure on Monday. Dear Sir:—For the last thirty years it has been my good fortune to read "The Old Reliable" Gazette and particularly your editorials. I have always taken a deep interest in your publications because of their absolute fairness and fearless opposition to anything which would tend to lead our people to follow the twelve courses. However, why did you (during the campaign just closed) mention the support of Senator Willis in the confirmation of Judge Cobb and make no mention of the fact that Senator Pomerene led the fight for the confirmation of Judge Terrell? Furthermore, Senator Pomerene voted for every colored man who name him on the Senate for confirmation during the twelve years he was a member of that body. Why did you not tell our people why Senator Willis and fifty-five other Republican Senators permitted one southern Senator to fillbuster the Dyer Anti-Lynching to defeat. The republicans made this unimaginable bill a party measure in order to bring about its defeat and were quite successful in their hellish design. They had a good majority in the senate and could have passed it any time they really wanted to do so. Why did you not tell our people that Senator Willis for years held a professorship in the only white school in the only white school in the Negro child of a chance to prepare itself for citizenship which is so vital at this time? Your editorial goes on to state that the Democratic State Committee is bringing Pat Harrison into Ohio as one of the big speakers in behalf of Senator Pomerene. This is no trifling situation but it is certainly surprising that you would go so far as to base an editorial, on a matter of such vast importance to our people without first establishing the fact. The Democratic Committee has not brought Pat Harrison into Ohio and does not intend to do so. The truth of the matter is the statement about Pat Harrison who is Ohio is just a plain political lie, propaganda broadcasted by the Republicans to tighten the chain of political slavery around the neck of the Negro. Now, Mr. Editor, our race is under many obligations to you for the most excellent service you have rendered during the last forty-three years. Nobody feels this obligation more deeply than I do, but in the name of the people, once it not besmirch our record the late day by stooping to little things. The young Negro is thinking, acting and voting independently and he should be encouraged to so do. The race needs friends every- The race needs friends every day, and we need one who has proved himself. ments 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 applia- tion. HILLSBORO.—Prof. O. C. B. Cull- bard visited his parents in Georgetown, Sunday.—Howard Kilgour had his left foot badly mashed with a 50 lb. weight at the foundry, Saturday.—Rev. and Mrs. Jas. A. Young were dinner-guests, Sunday, at Mr. and Mrs. Albert Williams, and Mrs. Zack Schmidt of Spyring field, visited her mother, Mrs. A. Aline Burton, over the week-end. —Clarence Pleasant, Jos. Cole and Jas. Blanton visited in Greenfield, Sunday.—Mr. Oliver Young, con- fined to his bed, two weeks, has improved.—Prof. Bullard and Miss Florence Burns, a Lincoln school teacher, attended the S. O. A. M. E. district convention in Cincinnati, last Friday.—Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Pope of Columbus are visiting their dau- daughter, Mrs. Blanton.—Mr. and Mrs. James, William and Ray Captain and Mr. Blanton attended the funeral of the formers' sister, Mrs. Annie Woodley, in Springfield, last thursday.—Rev. J. J. Burton visited relatives in Georgetown, Saturday, and preached there, Sunday. as Senator Pomerene has, it is our duty to ourselves and to our race to throw aside partisan politics and show him that ingratitude is no part of our make up. Senator is not as easily far to us while in the Senate and deserves your recommendation instead of your condemnation. The party of Lincoln and Frederick Douglass is long since dead and its ghost in the form of the present Republican party is stalking about trying to make us believe that it is the same Republican party. The old party is not what used to be and the former Negro comes to a realization of the fact, the better. That old "South before the war" stuff—that the Negro owes an allegiance to the Republican party—is no longer applicable to our political situation and should be scattered to the four winds of the earth. At present, here in Ohio, the Negro does the more friendly than the Republicans. This is evidenced by the fact that at Wilberforce University teachers and professors labored for more than 20 years without an increase in salary, and did not get an increase until they were given one by a Democratic legislature. Governor Donahay, who is running for election, has shown himself time and again to be our true friend. In appreciation of this, Negroes by the thousands should cast their votes for him. He is asking for a Democratic Legislature and it is the duty of the Negro, as well as the duty of all good citizens everywhere in Ohio, to see to it he gets done. With the highest personal regards and best wishes for your continued success, I have the honor to be, sir. Very sincerely and respectfully yours, (Dr.) Joseph I. Johnson. FINE, BROTHER KAHN! Flowers Walker New York City — Mickey Walker, former welterweight champion, will get a chance at Tiger Flowers' middleweight crown in a ten round bout at Chicago Coliseum, Dec. 3, according to Walker Miller, manager. NOVEMBER 6, 1926. HON. HARRY E. DAVIS Re-elected a Member of the Ohio Legislature, Tuesday—Our Only Representative on the Republican Ticket. "THE PALMS" With Countee Cullen as Editor—Dr. Carter Woodson's New Book—Both Literary Gems. Washington, D. C.—Countee Cullen is the editor of a recent issue of *The Palms* "a magazine of poems," *Guildaqlajara*, Mexico, by Miss Idella Purnell. The October issue is entirely the work of Negro poets and in addition to editors' by Prof. Alain Locke and Walter White, contains poems written by Countee Cullen, William Stanley Braithwaite, George Dougall, James Lissard, and Johnston Hughes, Waring Cuney, Helen Johnson, Bruce Nugent, Albert Rice, Louis Alexander, Gwendolyn Bennett, Anne Spencer, Jessie Faucer, Anna Botempe, and W. E. B. DuBois. In comparing Paul Lawrence Dunbar and Langston Hughes, Prof. Locke says: "Dunbar is supposed to have been the people the poignant book of his people; but Dunbar was the showman of the Negro masses." "Here," speaking of Hughes, "is their spokesman." Woodson's New Book Dr. Carrie G. Woodson, Harvard scholar and our leading historian and social research expert, has announced the publication of his latest book, "The Mind of the Negro as Reflected in Letters During the Crisis, 1800-1860." This copious collection of letters written by Negroes through more than a half century of slavery makes an interesting contribution to the record of the sociologic and psychologic features of that African individual are represented, several of them by more than one letter. Dr. Woodson has classified them in four groups: namely, letters written to the American Colonization Society, which organized and administered the movement to send free Negroes to Liberia, to form a self-governing colony; those to anti-slavery workers and agencies; a large number chiefly personal and private; a small group dealing with racial matters. In addition, the editor quotes in his introduction letters from several Negroes of some achievement, who were well known prior to the period which limits the selections in the body of the volume. Among the Negroes whose letters are quoted with reference to the colonization scheme is John B. Russworn, who was the first black man to receive a college degree. He stated that he was graduated from Bowdoin College and some time later, in the early eighteen-thirties, joined the colony in Liberia, where he played an important part. DOINGS OF THE RACE The American Collegiate Athletic association, organized at Howard University, May 7, 1926, will hold its first annual meeting, Friday and Saturday, December 10 and 11, 1926, at our North Carolina State College, Durham, N. C. Since the first of January there have been twenty-four lynchings—six more within the first ten months twelve more than occurred in the full thirty-eight years, thirty-eight years, there have been 3,583 lynchings in this country, an average of nearly 100 a year. The percentage of those who were charged, truly or not, with 'the crime' was 20 percent. Since 1889 a total of ninety women have been lynched. Lynchings occurred in all states of the Union except seven. "A TRAIL-BLAZER" Washington, D. C., Nov. 2, '26. Hon. Harry C. Smith, Editor Gazette, Cleveland, O. Dear Friend:—You are brave, Editor Harry C. Smith. As a trail- blazer in Ohio politics, you have no equal. I often wonder who will take your place. I hope you feel the authority with which I pen these lines. (Mrs.) Eva Nichols Wright, (formerly of Xenia, O.) SINGLE COPY FIVE CENTS U.S. SENATOR FRANK B. WILLIS Triumphantly Re-Elected—Our People Practically Unanimous in Their Support. [Picture of a man in a suit with a tie]. As we go to press (on Wednesday, this week), the early election returns indicate the triumphant re-election of U. S. Senator Frank B. Willis and Gov. A. Vic Donahay, and of course the defeat of Myers Y. Cooper and James O. Willis, the door-line Republican and landowner, in the governor-governor, respectively. The triumphant re-election of Supreme Judges Mathias and Jones and Attorney General Edward C. Turner is also very sat- GOV. DONAHEY APPOINTS DAVIS To Represent Ohio at the Dedication of the Col. Charles Young Monument in Arlington Cem- Nora Thaddeus Cry, Next Thursday. Columbus, O. H., Harry E. Davis of Cleveland, a member of the Ohio Legislature from Cuyahoga county, has just been designated by Gov. A. Vlc. Donahey to represent the state at the dedication of the monument in Arlington cemetery, near Washington, D. C., to the late Col. Charles Young. As a member of the Assembly in 1823, Mr. Davis secured the adoption of a joint resolution in recognition of the distinguished military services of Col. Young, and also the appointment of a committee to represent the state when his remains were interred. Col. Young was a resident of Wilberforce where his widow and children still reside. He received his appointment to West Point from Ohio and during the Spanish-American war as major of the Ninth Ohio Battalion, Infantry. As variably appointed by the war department as instructor of military science at Wilberforce University, Col. Young also served with distinction in the Philippines in Haiti, on the Mexican border, in the World War, and was on duty in Liberia at the time of his death. During a prior tour of Liberia, he organized and trained a constellation for that country for the war he was awarded the Spingarn medal. Shortly after Col. Young's remains were intered at Arlington, the Omega Psi Phi fraternity sponsored a movement to place a suitable monument on his grave, a portrait of which is given herewith. A fraternity committee has completed plans for its dedication, next month. It is also probable that there will be a public memorial service on the day preceding the dedication. When the fraternity, of which he was a member, communicated with Mrs. Young, the widow, and asked permission to place a stone over his grave, she replied that she was then making arrangements for the erection of one, but that she would be able to do so if she would be a splendid tribute. She further said that under no circumstances would she desire any one organization to erect the stone IN UNION IN STRICTURE COPY FIVE CENTS ED! FRANK B. WILLIS —Our People Practically Their Support. isfactory, indeed. All of which is the very best of news. Thank the Lovel for it! Likewise, the election of the Hon. Harry E. Davis and the rest of the county (Cuyahoga) Republican ticket with the possible exception of Kohler, for sheiff, and Charles Heyner, for county auditor, Hanratty and Zangerle, their Democratic opponents, respectively, winning. Harry C. Smith. but that it should be erected by subscription from the many organizations of which he was a member and the general public which he ever loved. She further stated that any surplus which might be collected and above the cost of a modest stone be used for the establishment of a scholarship fund, the interest of which might be used to aid needy boys and girls in obtaining an education. Cost of stone, $2,300. The accompanying document does not do justice to the beauty of the monument, which is a stone of Vermont granite, of a size comparable with the surrounding monuments and the realities of the cemetery. The effect of the whole is dignified and simple, a fitting interpretation of the life of this great man. 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Entered at the postoffice in Cleveland, Ohio, as second-class mail matter Address all communications to HARRY C. SMITH Editor and Proprietor THE GAZETTE 226 W. Superior Ave., Cleveland, O. (Bell Phone: Cherry 1259) Member Ohio Legislature: 1894 to 1896; 1896 to 1898; 1900 to 1902 THE GAZETTE is the oldest and has the largest bona fide circulation, double that of any newspaper in the interest of Afro-Americans published or circulated in the state of Ohio, and comparison with any will immediately establish its rank as one of the NEWSIEST AND BEST in the country. 10,000,000 Afro-Americans. 850,000 in Ohio. 40,000 in Cleveland. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1926. ANOTHER SERIOUS COMPLAINT The same hoothcrazed individual who came near stabbing Tom McAlpin to death, several weeks ago, and was only prevented from killing another member of the race, one day the first of last week, by the exercise of a little good judgment upon the part of the latter, Sunday night in E. 29th St., near Central Ave., while again under the influence of dope or hoothc, killed a member of the race by striking him in the head with a rock which left a hole from which it is said, the victim's brains oozed. This was only another one of the usual several or more crimes committed in the 11th and 12th wards, Saturday and Sunday nights and the week preceding, all because of the notorious lack of police protection to which we have called attention so often in the last year or two. When the hoothcrazed individual was arrested for the murderous assault upon McAlpin, several weeks ago, the simple example of drunkenness was placed against him at the Third Precinct Police station, with the result that he was at liberty and on the street again in an hour or two after his arrest. This sort of thing is very prevalent, especially in the Third and Fourth police precincts of this city, which include most of the section most thickly populated by our people the great majority of whom came to Cleveland from the south in the last nine years. Coupled with a lack of police protection in that section, they form the basis of one of the most serious complaints against the city government our residents of the 11th and 12th wards have. How long, Lord! Oh how long? DR. JOHNSON'S LETTER. Elsewhere in this paper will be found a letter from our long-time Democratic friend, Dr. Joseph L. Johnson of Columbus, Ohio. We regret greatly the fact that the letter was received, last week, too late for publication in our issue of Oct. 30. '26. Being mailed at Columbus on Oct. 28, '26, the day we mailed The Gazette of last week, it of course did not arrive until the following day, Oct. 29, '26, when the copies of our paper were being delivered thrust out the state of Ohio and elsewhere in the country. We would have much preferred to publish our friend's letter in that issue, rather than in this one. And it is not our fault that this was not done. We do not recall that Senator Pomerene led the fight for the confirmation of the appointment of Judge Terrell to the Municipal Court bench of the District of Columbia. But, of course, accept the doctor's statement that he did do so and regret exceedingly that the Senator, the doctor or some other friend of Mr. Pomerene did not furnish us that information during the campaign just closed. We surely would have been pleased to have promptly given him credit for doing that good work for the race and also for voting "for every colored man who came before the Senate" for confirmation during the twelve years he was a member of that body" if such be the case. Senator Willis is not to blame for the rule of the Republican majority of the U. S. Senate which "permitted one southern Senator to filibuster the Dyer Anti-Lynching bill to defeat". On the contrary, the Senator has been one of those members of that august body, the upper branch of the Congress, who has advocated a change in the rule which would make impossible such a filibuster. The editor of The Gazette feels toward that rule just as do Dr. Johnson and thousands of other good citizens, Republican and Democratic. Our friend's statement "that Senator Willis for years, held a professorship in the only 'ily-white' school in the state" is news to us. We have never before heard that Ada, Ohio, University refused admittance to our youth, but have always been led to believe that just the opposite was true. As a member of the University's faculty, Mr. Willis could not be held responsible for so reprehensible a policy even if the Doctor's charge was or is true. The statement, relative to Pat Harrison "being brought into Ohio as one of the big speakers of campaign in behalf of Senator Pomerene", was made by both Democratic and Republican daily newspapers of the state and never contradicted, to our knowledge, by either individual or newspaper until the receipt of Dr. Johnson's letter. We therefore feel fully justified in making editorial or other reference to and using it in the way we did. Indeed, we are now of the belief that if the Democratic State Campaign Committee did not bring Pat into Ohio, as announced, our friend had much to do with its failure to do so. There can be no argument between the doctor and ourselves as to the race's dire need of friends, whether they be Democratic or Republican, and our duty to show appreciation of them whenever there is an opportunity so to do. If Senator Pomerene has been the friend to the race that Dr. Johnson claims—and Senator Willis produces evidence to prove that he has not been—no one will be more pleased to know it than the writer, and we trust no one will be quicker to show appreciation. Our good friend, Dr. Johnson, therefore has a duty to perform which we trust he will not delay. There is more truth than poetry in what the doctor says about "the party of Lincoln and Frederick Douglass", the Republican party, "The Grand Old Party" of years ago is no more. The Republican party of today has drifted so far from its moorings that it readily embraces even the Ku Klux Klan in preference to its faithful Afro-American supporters. And if it were not for southern Democracy's dominance of the national Democratic party, there would, long ago, have been an exodus of Afro-Americans from the Republican ranks that would have very materially affected the political status of the states thrust out the north. The so-called "Negro" owes allegiance only to his race. While we are not yet ready to admit that Ohio Democrats "are much more friendly to our people than the Republican's", it is a fact that Governor Donahaye and other leading Democrats in this state have in recent years shown a friendship at times for our people that has been both practical and most encouraging indeed. Our people of Ohio have shown appreciation of this on more than one occasion, too, but have not made the mistake of mistaking them for the Democratic party of Ohio or the Nation. We trust our readers will read carefully Dr. Johnson's letter, published elsewhere in this paper, because it is very interesting and illuminating in parts. The Property Near That Bought For A Tenement For Our People. New York City.—Purchase of five city blocks in Harlem by John Rockefeller, Jr., became known, last week Friday, with the filing of deeds. The property is close to a block bought by Rockefeller, last spring, for a model tenement for Afro-Americans. For what purpose the additional five blocks were bought has not been announced, nor has the purchase price been revealed, although the assessed value of the block it built should turn out to be for low-rent tenement uses it will be the fifth such project undertaken by Rockefeller. Indianapolis, Ind.—Mrs. Ella S. Noble, wife of Rev. C. M. Noble, pastor of Phillips Memorial C. M. E. church, this city, died, Oct. 17, 26, after only three and a half days' illness. Bright's disease. Dr. Noble pastored the Second C. M. E. church of Cleveland, Ohio until coming here, some months ago. Mrs. Noble was a great church and Sunday school worker, a splendid teammate, who were married 25 years. The funeral, Oct. 19, was largely attended. Dr. S. J. Mashaw of Springfield, O., officiating. The remains were taken to Montgomery, Ala., for burial. Pickens To Lecture Abroad. New York City.—Prof. Wm. Pickens, field sec., N. A. A. C. P., has been engaged by the Society of Friends, in London, to deliver lectures on "The Afro-American" in England, previous to sessions of an annual conference on the question of minority races and peoples, to be held in Brussels, Belgium, in January. "Knocking" Emanuel Ross! Young Cleveland murderer's execution has now been postponed four times, but we suppose the law only its course time, if only by accident—The Cleveland Daily News. THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, O. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 6. 1926 TELEPHONE GROWTH MEANS ADDED COST TELEPHONE GROWTH MEANS ADDED COST One Telephone Added to System Requires Many New Connections LARGE scale production results in many economies. The more automobiles built the greater the savings in the cost of production and the lower the cost of each car to the buyer. Why does this rule not apply to the telephone? Why is it that telephone service in the larger cities costs more than in the smaller cities? In reality there is a remarkable saving in the cost of telephone service as the number of telephones in an exchange increases. Telephone service is more valuable as the number of telephones in the exchange increases. If a business man in a small town has access to only 400 telephone users in his exchange and pays $4.00 per month for service he is paying one cent per month per user or per possible buyer of his commodity. He can reach that number of families to sell his goods, or that number of families can call him to order from him. If this same rate for service were effective in Ohio cities, a business telephone in Columbus would cost $600.00 per month, in Cleveland $1,800.00. In some of the smaller Ohio cities the rate would be: Lancaster $40.00, Marietta $43.00, Middletown $45.00, Plqua $28.00, Springfield $120.00, East Liverpool $43.00, Massillon $52.00, Steubenville $62.00, Findlay $45.00 and Sandusky $5.00 Each exchange must be designed to enable any telephone user to reach any other telephone on a moment's notice. Telephone companies have to provide the interconnecting equipment to make this possible. The subscriber having a telephone in his residence may not desire to call even 5 per cent of the telephones in his exchange, but equipment must be provided so that he may reach any one, for he never knows when he will call a new number that he has never before desired to reach. Take a sheet of paper and make five dots on it. Draw lines connecting each dot with every other dot. There will be ten lines. 4-11-44 With The Great Eddie Hunter at The Columbia Theater, Next Week—Also a Galaxy of Stars and Performers. For years and years, Hurtig and Seamon have been coming to Cleveland with the best. Afro-American shows in the business. Next week they bring Columba Theater, E. 9th St. and Prospect Ave., the "4-11-44" company which is recognized, from one end of the KING'S STREET country to the other, as a de luxe organization. The great Eddie Hunter heads "4-11-44", ably supported by Andrew Tibrew, GEO, W. Cooper and a galaxy of race stars such as is seldom seen in one show. In addition there are thirty "brownskin dancing Shebias", who might well be styled artists in their line and Lieut. Tim Brymyn's famous jazz Harmonic Orchestra of ten lesses and two performances daily and those desiring seats will sure have to purchase them at once. Do not miss "4-11-44" at The Columbia Theater, next week, opening Sunday. Ask for KRAFT CHEESE At your dealer's. Former Ohioan Made Michigan Bell Head [Picture of a man in a suit with a tie]. MURCH FORAKER, a native of Ohio, having been born at Hillsboro, Ohio, has just been named president of the Michigan Bell Telephone Company. He had been serving the New York Telephone Company as general manager of its upstate area. Mr. Foraker received his early education in the Hillsboro public schools and then entered Ohio Wesleyan University at Delaware. He completed his college work at Cornell. The selection of Mr. Foraker as president of the Michigan Bell marks the second advancement of native born Ohioans by Bell system companies inside a month, C.P. Cooper, former president of the Ohio Bell Telephone Company, having only recently been made a vice-president of The American Telephone & Telegraph Company. What Some Editors Say ON TELEPHONE SERVICE Condemning the telephone operator for giving a subscriber the wrong number is a popular sport with the public and one in which we all more or less occasionally like to indulge. But the question is raised as to whether the wrong number nuisance is always the fault of the operator. Along this line, a business man of Springfield writes the editor of The Daily News as follows: "Is the telephone operator always to blame when a subscriber is given the wrong number? In common with most other subscribers, I have on numerous occasions severely criticized the operator when I failed to get the party I had called. But recently I have been thinking the matter over, and I am inclined to the belief that we *bften do* the operator an injustice. "Once this thought came to mind, just for the fun of it, I determined to make a little investigation of my own. This investigation satisfied me, at least, that in a great many cases, the subscriber himself is at fault. "For instance, I found that as soon as I began to make certain that I had the correct number in mind for the person I wanted to call, and to give that number to the operator clearly and distinctly. I have not had a single wrong number in a period of a week, although I use the telephone a great deal. Previously, it was not unusual for me to give the operator the wrong prefix or to try to give her the number with my voice a distance from the transmitter. "Then, too, I found that many of my friends—as well as myself—often failed to answer the ring until after the calling subscriber had hung up. Can't blame the operator for that. Now I answer the call promptly. I think if we all tried this out, it would greatly improve the service." There is food for thought in the letter, not only as it regards telephone service, but for use wherever the public comes in contact with general public service. Sometimes we are inclined to criticize unjustly. Without placing the blame for poor service on any one in particular, the experiment suggested in the letter might be worth trying—Springfield Daily News. WANTED TO BUY PETER H. 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Prospect 3659 Subscribe Now COLOR-LINE LUNA PARK Because they will not invoke the aid of our Ohio Civil Rights law "Negroes" only are barred from Luna Park's dance-hall, roller skating rink and bathingpool. That ought to be enough for all self and race respecting "Negroes". Do not be inveigled into going to Luna Park for any celebration or anything else! SEGREGATION AN OUTRAGE! Help The "Old Reliable" to Increase Its Circulation Don't Throw Aw ay Your Copy of The GAZETTE After Reading It But give it to a Friend or Acquaintance who might Subscribe after Reading a Copy of It. How Our Men And Women Are Insulted And Humiliated In the Government's Departments—Will the Self and Race-Respecting Negro Press and People of This Country Continue to Stand for This Sort of Thing? Washington, D. C. (Special). - There is more segregation in Washington today under President Coolidge than there has ever been since the Civil War. The beginnings of segregation were under President Taft. It was greatly extended, under President Wilson; increased, still further, under President Harding; and reached its zenith under President Coolidge. For instance, the largest of our parks President Wilson never troubled, but the present administration has found time and desire to introduce it even there. To many people, segregation is a Democratic scheme of insult, but such is not the case. Mr. Taft introduced it in the bureau of engraving. He segregated the census-takers in this city in 1910, restricting white workers to white people, and black to black, often duplicating the most blocks had white and black residents. And, worst of all, an inbound in his official capacity that Negroes did not hold office where who people complained. Segregation, then, is a Republican institution and not a Democratic one it has begun by Republicans, and carried on to its all-embracing extent by Republicans! There is far more of it in the departments, today, than at any time since the Negro first appeared, close upon the close of the Civil War. The picture requirement in the civil service, which makes it next to impossible for a colored lady or gentleman to enter the civil service, since their color is disclosed in their photograph which must accompany their papers, is tenaciously held by our Republican President. Only last week, a colored girl appeared after having passed an examination, and having been telegraphed by the department. The photograph had failed to tell her true color, and they flatly refused to appoint her when she appeared, and they saw her complexion. Commissioner Blair of the internal revenue bureau with thousands of clerks will not appoint a Negro clerk, and his word is law there, as he is the special favorite of Secretary Mellon and President Cootidge, from North Carolina, the home of the other favorite and leader of the segregation offices. Col. Sherrill, superintendent of buildings and grounds, will use to complain of either of these southern gentlemen. The colored people here who know the President could destroy segregation in the departments of the government, and the photograph requirements in the civil service by the mere nod of his head, are at a loss to understand why he does not put his splendid declarations on democracy into operation here, where it would not even cost him a single vote and where he has full power and absolutely no opposition. They wonder if he is not a firm believer in segregation, especially since segregation is one of the chief tenets of the Ku Klux Klan which has found its "welcome home" in the Republican party, and receives no condemnation from the Republican President. (Special to The Gazette.) (Special to The Gazette) Washington, D. C—In the postoperative segregation is important. The faithful colonization works under physical illification and physical disadvantages. The department maintains a spacious caffeteria for whites only, where these inferior white clerks can buy appetizing luncheons and chat in comfort while eating, while the colored clerks must bring cold luncheons from home and eat them any place they can. The physical discomfort, disadvantageous as it is, is far less galling to the cooled clerks than is the thought of their government taking their taxes, as it takes those of the whites, for the comfort of the latter, and getting them of as though they were all the more when 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 whites 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 segregation, and segregation even attempted in the follof and all of this is against the almost dependable and faithful employees. In the white employees passed around invitations to the white employees, in the very presence of the colored, to attend a reception to the heads of departments, including the postmaster general, in the postoffice building. It announced dancing and a pleasant social evening with the officials for "the post-office employees," yet not one was delivered to the colored clerks. I hurried a protest to the postmaster general the day before it was to come out and to invite the colored to invite the colored as well as the white. These clerks get around their colored co-workers by giving the function at a local hotel. It is inevitable that the wicked spirit of segregation would express itself in appointments, assignments, and salaries. Colored applicants are often passed over though their examination was superior No Negro, however efficient or old in the service, must ever dream of a promotion to a directive position. The hard, unyielding caste passes whites over him, one after another, though many of the colored employees have won contests in quickness and accuracy in the mail. The colored workers 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. (Spécial 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 number in this age group, where all of the employees may go, but there are a few tables in an out-of-the-way section reserved for our employees. I am glad to say that few, very few, of our people patronize the place, preferring a little physical inconvenience to the open, semi-public humiliation of segregation. In toilet facilities, dressing-rooms, and work assignments, wherever possible, the law of segregation is in full force, and, of course, this same undemocratic practice reveals itself on the salary roll and in the hard caste that bars promotions. Here, the law of segregation permits pass over our superior employees to directive positions, and higher salaries. The whites have a large recreational center in this public building with many fine appointments for rest and amusements. During lunch and dinner hours they repair to this restful retreat for sociability and dance. Last fall, a young Afro-American with a splendid record in his work, felt the injustice that he faced in this work, that he 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 "social equality, and that they dismay a laid-up charge. He was night-employee, hence he carried a pistol. Right after the dance incident a fire broke out in the office. He was quickly accused of setting the building afire in revenge for his exclusion from the dance floor. Detectives came to the building to arrest him, and failing to secure any evidence searched him only to discover the pistol. They quickly dropped the arson charge and substituted one for carrying concealed weapons for which he was accused by security unimprovement our employees are taught that there is no way of escape for one who dares to resent the daily insults that their government (under President Coolidge) gives them. Many of the employees have expressed their deeply-wounded feelings to me at being considered a pariah by the government whose institutions they are serving so faithfully, and I have taken up a number of cases only to be met by a denial that the conditions complained of exaggerated and inexplicable demands by the invigilantman. I knew the fate these informants would suffer so I have never given a single name!! The department then taking the position that it cannot take up the case. It is perfectly clear that this iniquilous scheme of segregation is a difficult thing to fight, since the government is so well settled upon it, and the complainants cannot bear witness THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, O. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1926 (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 member of his family visited the bureau where she saw white and colored girls working together in perfect harmony, oblivious to any thought of race. Shortly thereafter after an order or negotiation of the races, and lady Ady who had been nded for her philanthropy among our people and who was upon intimate terms at the White House appeared at the bureau to tell our girls to be contented with the new order as "a great Negro leader had taught colored people to stay in their places." Three of the young ladies resisted the order to the last ditch and wove summarily dismissed! Senator La Follette lodged a protest with Secretary McAdoo to no avail, and his noble wife began a crusade against the undemocratic innovation. She took the platform here in Washington and Boston before the famous Twentieth Century club. She used the columns of the Senator's magazine, sparing neither space nor vigor of utterance. She thundered against it in our local white press, and addressed the national gathering of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People in New York. When our people here were so profoundly discuraged, she came out one stormy afternoon to the Y. M. C. A. to urge them to continue M.C. A. for democracy; was at the crises. Ostensibly, Harrison Villard came to town to attack White House and Cabinet and arouse our people, and the Nation Association secured publicity in over six hundred influential white papers in the country. The fight checked what was thought to be the intention of the segregators, namely, the elimination of the colored employees from the bureau ait together. The same segregation which some of our people think is the cherished institution of the Democratic party is still there, in all of its fullness, under the administration of the party that *brahman Lincoln, Charles Sumner and Frederick Doug* g is helped to found. Our girls are employed there in far larger numbers than in any other branch of the public service. We have their best rooms, toilets, and working stations, and of course none are ever thought of for promotions to executive places. They are girls from our best nomes, most of them with high age, normal school training, and fine culture. The white girls are of no such grade, as there is no segregation for them in the great world of things. They have unlimited fields at high wage for even mediocre talents. The best of our girls must take their school, the most valuable result of segregation. Our people are still hoping for the issuance of an order destroying this iniquitous practice in all of our government departments, for it not only humiliates the best of the government servants but impairs the government service. (Special to The Gazette) Washington, D. C.—The treasury department, according to the President's recent acceptance speech, is now under the ablest financial genius since the days of Alexander Hamilton. it is to be remembered that the great Hamilton came from the West Bank of the Middle East; the history that the President traversed are the mighty Salmon P. Chase, secretary of the treasury in Lincoln's cabinet, who, in a national extremity such as this country has never known, devised the national Constitution, Civil War; and Ohio's master financier, John Sherman. These men never knew what segregation was! The present head of the department of internal revenue, Mr. Blair from North Carolina, has not appointed a colored clerk since his incumbency. While his predecessor, Mr. Daniel Roper, a Democrat from Texas, appointed and promoted several of them. Since the income tax legislation and the numberless new taxes that the recent war necessitated, this is by far the largest department of the treasury, employing several thousand clerks. Yet Negroes are so scarce there that they can't be noticed. There is the same general complaint here among our officers, for the department is in the other branches of the government—failure to recognize their efficiency when promotions are due; ability to go so far, and no farther. this "delightful retreat," and the festive scene that their presence creates. It seats two thousand diners with space t. spare; but not one Negro! His only share is in the taxes he is forced to pay for this luxury for another group! The registrieship of the treasury, which Republican Presidents have given the Negro since Garfield appointed Blanch K. Bruce, by his white man, 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 they must comply with regulations in this 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 this damnable segregation, just as he can condemn that lawless organization the Ku Klux Klan. COOLIDGE'S SEGREGATION Washington, D. C.—We wish to call attention to the fact that in the fight against the segregation of our government employees, the Treasury Department will most likely be the center of attack, for segregation in several of its bureaus has been most pronounced. This is particularly true of the office of the director of the treasury and the internal revenue department, 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 city was at full speed. It had slowed up a little during the campaign. Investigation of Bureans Internal Revenue regated section of 7 employees. Office of the Treasurer of the United States—a segregated section of 4 employees. War Department, Transportation Division—a segregated section of 5 employees. P. O. Separate Lunch Room Post Office Department—a segregated lunch room. CHARACTER Character, like a fine old tree matures slowly and is a riper growth than success that is forced as bothouse products are forced. Character in a newspaper develops through years of service to the people. For forty-three years The Gazette has been serving our people of this country. It has gathered a reader clientele whose tastes it reflects, and whose power and responsiveness to buy are direct measures of its present importance to every advertiser EDITOR "WORTH ITS WEIGHT IN GOLD Cleveland, Aug. 28th, 1925. Hon. Harry C. Smith, Editor, Gazette Dear Friend:—I have read the latest copy of The Gazette through and after reading it, I can truthfully say: It is worth its weight in gold! I admire true manhood—a man who, seeing injustice and oppression, dares, within the limits of the law, to expose it and, if possible smite it. You and I have frequently, during the foreword, since the birth of The Gazette, been, as the Scotch would say, like two McNells, but when you, I find a man, such as you, who consistently, and persistently, through nearly half a century, puts his race foremost in his life struggle, I take off my hat to him, as being a true friend of our class. Long life to you and The Gazette. Yours for the right. John P. Green. (Foruer 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 Section 6287. "Mob" and "lynching" defined. 6289. "Serious injury" defined. 6290. Damages in case of assault. 6291. Damages in case of lynching. 6292. Damages recoverable by legal representative of victim of lynching. 6293. Person suffering death or injury by mob trying to lynch another 6294. Limitations of action. 6295. Order to include recovery and costs in tax levy. 6296. Guardian's custody, etc., fees. 6297. County's right of action against member of mob. 6298. County's right of action against another county. 6299. Non-relief from prosecution. Our mob-violence or anti-lynching bill was introduced in the Ohio legislature in 1834 and re-introduced in 1896. It took the Hon. Harry C. Smith, editor of The Gazette, just three years to secure its enactment into law. The Ohio Supreme Court has several times upheld the constitutionality of the law and it has Section 6278. A collection of people assembled for an unlawful purpose and intending to do damage or injury to any one, or pretending to exercise correctional power over other persons by violence and with a out authority of law shall be deemed a "mob" for the purpose of this chapter and the 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 weapons, plus musles or in other manner, may not to exceed one thousand dollars as damages from the county in which the assault is made. (93 v. 161 4.) Section 6281. A person assaulted and lynched by a mob may recover from the county jail with 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 execlive the criminal labors a sum not to exceed five thousand dollars. (93 v. 162 5.) Section 1252. The legal representative of a person dying from injuries received from lynching by a mob may recover of the county in which such injury occurred, a sum not to exceed five thousand dollars damages for such unlawful killing. Such sum shall be applied to the maintenance of the family and education of the minor children of such person so lynched, if any survive him, until such children are of legal age, and then be distributed to the survivors, share and share alike, the widow receiving an amount equal to a child's share. If there be no widow or minor children surviving of dent, such sum shall be distributed to the widow of kin according to the laws of the distribution of the personality of an intestate. Such sum so recovered shall not be a part of the estate of such person so lynched, nor be subject to any of his liabilities. (93 v. 162 6.) Section 6283. A person suffering death or injury from a mob attempting to lynch another person shall come within the provisions of this chapter. He or his legal representatives shall have a like right of action as one purposely injured or killed by such a mob. (93 v 162 6.) Section 6284. Action for the recoveries provided for in this chapter must be commenced, within two years from the date of such lynching, in any court having original jurisdiction of an action for damages for malicious assault. (93 v 162 7.) Section 6285. An order to the commissioners of a county, against which such recovery is had, to include it with the costs of action, in the next succeeding tax levy for such county, shall be a part of the judgment in every such case. (93 v. 162 Section 6286. If the decedent soynched 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 than five hundred dollars for counsel fees in the action for such recovery. (93 v. 162 9.) Section 6287. The county, in which a lynching occurs, may recover the amount of a judgment and costs against it in favor of the legal representatives of a person killed or seriously injured by a mob from any of the persons composing such moo. A person present, with hostile intent, at such lynching shall be deemed a member of the mob and be liable to such action. (93 v. 162 10.) Section 6288. If a mob carries a prisoner into another county, or comes from another county to com- been very effective. Illinois, Pennsylvania and New Jersey have followed Ohio's lead and enacted mob violence or anti-lynching laws which are copies of our Ohio law. Several other northern states and at least one border state (Kentucky) have also enacted anti-lynching laws in recent years, like Pennsylvania and New Jersey. The Ohio law follows: ed. g. representative of victim of lynching injury by mob trying to lynch another and costs in tax levy. s. inst member of mob. inst another county. mit violence on a prisoner brought from such county for safekeeping, the county in which the lynching is committed may recover the amount of the judgment and costs from the county from which the mob came on the part of officials of such unless there was contributory negligence not less than thirty days county in failing to protect such prisoner or dispurse such mob (93 v. 163 11.) Section 6289. This chapter shall not relieve a person concerned in such lynching from prosecution for homicide or assault for 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's Ohio Civil Rights law which the editor had enacted while a member of the 71st General Assembly, in 1894: The General Cooge of Ohio: Sec. 12940. Whoever, being the proprietor or his employee, keeper or manager of an inn, restaurant, eating house, barber-shop, public conveyance by land or water, theater or other place of public accommodation to all citizens and regardless of race or color, the full enjoyment of the accommodations, advantages, facilities or privileges thereof, shall be defined not less than fifty dollars nor more than five hundred dollars, or nor more than ninety days, or both. Sec. 12941. Whoever violates next preceding section shall also pay more than fifty dollars nor more than five hundred dollars to the per person aggrieved thereby to the per person aggrieved in any court of competent jurisdiction in the county where such offense was committed. 一. This law has repeatedly been held constitutional and good law by the Ohio Supreme court. The trouble in our people will not use it as often as they should, but expect it to do to them what they should and must do for themselves, under it, in the 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 Journal published an editorial written editor of The Gazette replied, calling its attention to the fact that the Ohio Civil Right 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. Dear Judge, Editor The Gazette, Cleveland, O. My Dear Sir: Observing your letter to the Beacon-Journal, of this city, I ask you, under separate cover, the Ohio Law. Reporter of Feb. 3, last, containing the opinion of the Court of Appeals in the Puritan Lunch Co. vs. Leonard H. Forman, decided in Akron, last fall, in which a judgment for $6500 five hundred dollars was sustained If the Beacon-Journal had known what was going on in its own town there would have been no occasion for criticism artificially THE LAW OR OHIO IS UNDER NO PROHOC PROACH in our courts and juries in administering it. Not a word was said by the Beacon-Journal when the Forman case was reviewed Very truly yours R. C. Grant ```markdown ``` Our advertisers want your trade. Those who do not ask for it in the columns of "The Old Reliable" Gazette certainly care little, if at all, for it. Therefore, we urge our readers and all of our friends to patronize those who ask in this paper for your patronage.—Editor. Circulation E After Read after Reading "I honor the man who in the conscientious discharge of his duty dares to stand alone; the world, with ignorant, intolerant judgment, may condemn, the countenances of relatives may be averted; the sufferings of cold, but the sufferings of duty done shall be sweeter than the applause of the world, the countenances of relatives or the hearts of friends."—Charles Sumner. There is something radically wrong with a group of people who refuse to help relieve their own burdens. The day of throwing bouquets is gone forever. The Afro-American must face the facts as they exist. We won't gain anything by fooling ourselves into thinking that everything is all right. Everything, affecting the use of afro-American cleans is all wrong. The sooner we face these facts, the quicker we will begin to work for our own salvation, the sooner we will attain our rightful place as American citizens. — Philadelphia Tribune. PROTEST AGAINST WRONG To submit in silence when we should protest makes cowards out of men. The human race has climbed on protest. Had no voice been raised against injustice, ignorance and lust, the inquisition yet would serve the law, and guillotines decide our least disputes. The few who dare, must speak and speak again to right the wrongs of many.—Ella Wheeler Wilcox. RACE PREJUDICEI "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 the truth of arrogance and abomination than any other sort of error in the world." 'HUMAN NATURE'S FOULEST BLOT." My ear is palmed My soul is sick with every day's report Of wrong and outrage, with which the earth is filled. There is no flesh in man's ob- durate heart. It does not feel for man: the natural bond Of brotherhood is severed as the flax That falls asunder at the touch of fire He finds his fellow guilty of a skin Not colored like his own: and having power To enforce the wrong, for such a worthy cause Dooms and devotes him as his lawful prey. Thus man devotes his brother, and destroys: Tis human nature's broadest foulest blot. —Cowper. IS IT ANY USE TO CONTEND FOR RIGHTS? Colored Americans are the only race, responsible members of which are in favor of submitting to discrimination on the claim that their race "always will be discriminated against." The Jews are still contending, after over 1900 years of universal discrimination and are winning even social rights today. The home have contended for 700 years and are winning because they will die rather than submit. The race that says it's of no use to resist, downs itself and the world then will say, "Negroes are not worthy of equal rights; they are by nature self-respect and have no 'grue.' The world respects only those who resent and resist proscriptions for race. Let us be worthy of the abolitionists, worthy of our own fathers who have died in every war to vindicate the title of their race to equal liberty, and forever resist denial of rights long race discrimination, and however long race discrimination may continue. To submit is to serve c o n t e m p t. — Boston (Mass.) Guardian.