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John Also, an American born national attention last year, attracted Hollywood high school oratorical contest, thereby becoming eligible to represent California at the final of the National Oratorical contest on the constitution promoted by a group of American newspaper men and held last June in Washington, D. C. Because of his feeling, regarding the well-known American viewpoint on all things racial, John herobically withdrew in favor of his co-engineer and winner of second place in the high school oratorical (white). A few weeks ago, Wenig arrived in Hollywood amid the plaudits of the press and public hailed as the high school oratorical champion of the world, just home from a long tour of Europe as a part of his reward gained by his oratorical prowess in winning the national contest. John Also, the real champion, is happy in his knowledge of the hard part he has played in helping his friend to school to national fame. During his school-years in Los Angeles, John Also made perhaps the highest record ever given to a single student. In Junior High he was president of the student body. In Hollywood high, he was a member and later manager of the famous winning debating-team; was chosen graduation speaker of his class and was one of the very few students chosen to represent Hollywood high national attention as well as a member of the baseball team and leading member of the school's R. O. T. C. The Afro-American Week before football Los Angeles daily papers carried blazoned in big type across the entire width of their sport pages the following words. "Polytechnic's Players Instructed To Watch Jones." And the slogan in the ears of the thousands of Hollywood and Los Angeles scholastic football fans is "WATCH JONES." The Jones in question who bears watching is the student athlete in full-back on the Lincoln high school (Los Angeles) football team. Just how Jones stands in southern California is best shown in the following article by Jack James of the COOPER AND MILLS Republican Candidates for Governor and Lieutenant-Governor, Respectively—Why They Were Defeated. Editor. Ohio State Journal:—It is well known that Myers Y. Cooper's principal business venture has consisted of real estate development. The colored citizens of Hamilton County say Mr. Cooper has sought to prevent colored people from occupying homes purchased in the estates of neighborhoods; that his deeds of transfer all have a restrictive clause. Those colored people who know Mr. Cooper told others all over the state of Mr. Cooper's activities in this behalf. As to Mr. Mills, Negroes all over Ohio know that they are not only not the patrons of his restaurants but that they would be refused service, the law to the contrary notwithstanding. Mr. Cooper and Mr. Mills are doing only what many others are doing in Ohio, but it is just a little too much to expect that his humiliated by such treatment, to place a premium upon his own insult and humiliation by helping to elevate to power and honor those who thus insult him. The vote of the Negro in Ohio is not to be desplied. He is learning that the ballot is a mighty weapon; and, with all his patience and long suffering, are some things that he will resent when the opportunity affords. In casting about for an explanation of the recent defeat of these men, think of these things. Successful Mfg. Company, Jersey City, N.J.—The Standard Enameling and Mfg. Co., of Palmyra, this state, is a new enterprise, recently launched by progressive business men of the race, that specializes in the manufacture of porcelain enameled signs, which are made in any combination of colors. A factory, of cement construction, is located in New York, gives employment to 21 persons, including stenographers, draftsmans, and agents. Even though the venture is a new one, some of the largest concerns in the country are listed among the Standard's customers 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. "Evening Herald", the one sport-writer of the big coast dalles who has the nerve to pay tribute to an Afro-American and do without the usual "Uncle Tom" stuff which practically all white sport-writers hereabouts feel is necessary to incorporate when writing commendable reports of our activities. James writes as follows: The Golden Heart (*a* a Black Boy "Not much of a story this as stories we go. Rather trivial, perhaps, when addressed with reported efforts of scientists to sign Mars or the latest development in the Milky son case. Yet decidedly worth- while, withal, despite its relative unimportance, for it reveals the heart of a boy who was big enough to put the greatest number above selfish interests. This is the story as it came to me: A lad named Winston Jones attends Lincoln high school. He is a best back for the school eleven. Those follow preps closely declare that he is one of the best ball-carriers in the city league—powerful, fearless, aggressive, heady. Elected Captain of Football Team. He was elected captain of his team and functioned as such early in the season. And that's where the team went. Jones, though the best football player on his school eleven, though a hard-working, unassuming sort of lad who did not let his honorary position go to his head, is colored and certain Caucasian members of the team resented his elevation. The white boys left the squad and Lincoln high school fared ill in consequence. Whereupon Winston Jones, colored, resigned his captaincy that the team might not be disrupted by internal dissension. The five white boys came back to the fold, elected one of their members captain of the team and Lincoln high school is now carrying the team in the story, as stories go. Just a little human interest yarn, revealing the golden heart of a boy whose skin is black." FRESH OH! WRITTEN BY "THE OLD 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., obliquy notice, inquiries for relatives and advertisements of all kinds, including items announcing entertainments to be healed 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- ALLIANCE—Rev. J. M. Humphrey, of Los Angeles, Cal., a forceful and persuasive speaker, held a series of meetings at St. Luke's church, last week.—Mrs. Mayona McGowan has been appointed local missionary.—The Misses Irene and Juanita Roseman of Cleveland are guests of Mr. W. Wilson.—Mr. R. Lawson, of St. Joseph, has apparently injured, last week.—Mrs. M. Wynne of N. Y. City, Mrs. S. Heacock and Mrs. F. Mayette (white) met the Girl's Reserve and members of the P. H. C. at the "Home" to discuss plans for a separate Y. W. C. a. which some of our people here are said to desire. Their group being too small to act as sponsors for and to finance a separate "Y," they were cordially invited to join the white "Y" now occupied by Rev. Charles D. P. E., administered communion to 74 men here, Sunday, at St. Luke's. CADIZ.—Fleming Williams, of Weirton, W. Va., visited his mother, Mrs. W. Wilson, of St. Joseph, Mr. and Mrs. James Chinney of Weirton were here for a few olerons.—Rev. T. W. Woodson, the new P. E. of the Columbus district, will preach, Sunday, at St. James A. M. E. quarterly meeting.—The many --- DR. ROBERT R. MOTION On a Tour of Europe For His Health —Been Ill About a Year— Wealthy Friends Finance The Trip. New York City.—Dr. Robert Russa Moton, principal of Tuskegee Ala. N. & I. Institute and president of our National Business league, sailed. Nov. 11, on a tour of the world. Touching at Cherbourg, he is to visit London, Paris, Switzerland, Scotland, and then to go to Miami, Florida, and to respect his respects to President C. B. King of Liberia. Singapore, India, is scheduled as the next destination after which the party will tour parts of Asia, Japan, and the Philippines. Dr. Moton, who is accompanied by Mrs. Moton, travelling secretary Nathan Hunt, and special assistant Lake Jones, Dr. Making the trip for his health. Yielding to the board of trustees of Tuskegee Institute, who since his protracted illness have insisted that he take a long and well-deserved rest, Dr. Wm. Jay Schieffler, president of the board, and several New York and Boston students, made the tour possible. Dr. and Mrs. Moton plan to make the trip leisurely, tarrying wherever they feel to, and expect to be gone a year. Lyncher Gets Life Term. Douglas, Ga.—Major Brown, leader of a mob that lynch-murdered David Wright (white) here in September, pleaded guilty, Wednesday, and was sentenced to life imprisonment. He won't be in long. Eleven other members of the mob remain to be tried. Wright was taken from the jail and shot a few days after he was arrested for the murder of a woman. IOIO NEWS O RELIABLE" GAZETTE'S CONDENTS. Going Each Week—Church, A Literary and Musical— Deaths, Etc. friends of Mrs. Elizabeth West, who is ill at Ohio Valley hospital, Wheeling, are pleased to learn that she is improving, Mr. and Mrs. Roy Clark and Mr. and Mrs. J. Giland of Martins Ferry motored here, Sunday.—A reception was given Rev. and Mrs. C. M. Hogans and the St. James glee club in the lecture room, last Monday evening.—Mrs. Wesley Duling is visiting her daughter in Cleveland.—The ladies of the steward's board will serve a Thanksgiving dinner at the church. Mrs. Mamie Mason, a former Cazle resident, died, recently, in Los Angeles, acting district upt', visited Simpson M. E. church, the past week. **HILLSBORO.**—Mrs. Oliver Mitchell is quite ill.—Rev. B. D. Thoreau of Wilberforce, pastor of the A. M. E. church, spent the week-end with Mr. and Mrs. John N. Johnson—John Prosser, Leo Bullard and James Baker of Georgetown spent Saturday evening here.—Mrs. Archie Cole entertained at dinner, Friday evening, in honor of her sister, Mrs. Pamela D. Duncan. Mrs. Archie the seventh anniversary of her marriage.—Clarence Hudson and marriage. Gertrude Christy visited in Dayton, Sunday.—Mr. Oliver Young is quite ill.—Rev. P. H. Smith preached, Sunday morning at New Hope Baptist church and Rev. J. J. Burr preached in the evening. The pastor, Rev. Bray, has been ill.—Mildred Waters was hostess to the Get-Together club last Wednesday afternoon. Mrs. Hoda Newman of Mrs. Bray extended visit with her daughter, Mrs. Edward Jones, and family.—Clifford Lamb is better.—Mr. and Mrs. Frank Brace have returned from a visit with relatives.—Mr. Charles Bolden, Mrs. Faith Goodson and Mr. Joe Bolden of Leesburg visited relatives in Columbus, Sunday. Little Miss Mary Margaret Donaldson returned home with them after an extended visit with her cousin, Mrs. M. Coyle Enosco. Frank Frye of Cincinnati are visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Milton Day. The former will hunt. THE FOUNDER OF THE WORLD SINGLE COPY FIVE CENTS THAT IS WHAT PREJUDICED AND JEALOUS AMERICANS ARE SEEKING TO DO. Madam Colloredo, an Austrian Countess' Name Linked With That of Roland Hayes—They Are Not to Wed—Why the Vicious Story Is Sent to and Carried in American Daily Newspapers—The Plot Will Fail. New York City.—Rumors that Roland Hayes, internationally famous tenor, is engaged to an Austrian countess were emphatically denied, last week. by those closest to the popular singer. The stories of his engagement, published, last week Monday, under date lines from Vienna, Austria, were mere propaganda to injure the tenor's success in his American tour. Hayes opened in Boston, Monday, before being hired by the musician Mr. Hayes has won the friendship of men and women high in European social life, and on numerous occasions had been the guest of the wealthy Countess Colloredo the color-line newspapers of this country raised the cry of "wolf" and sought to spread the impression that Roland Hayes was about to marry a white woman. The story was disseminated, friends of Mr. Hayes asserted, implyly that Mr. Hayes was that America harbored a large enough number of petty-minded people to embarrass HR. Hayes' success here if the rumor gained credence. The Hayes management joined in the denial of the rumors. The story that came here from Vienna, Austria, said that Hayes was engaged to marry the Countess Colloredo. who is said recently to have divorced her husband. The house of Colloredo is one of the most famous of the tenor's recent tour of Austria he was the guest on numerous occasions of Countess Colloredo. It is said that Nora Islin of New York, whose social history dates back to PRIME SPORT NEWS A New York Color-Line. New York City—Sol Butler, one of the best known athletes in America and a member of the Canton, Ohio, "Bull Dogs", professional football team, all white but Sol, was barred from the team because of a contempt between the Ohio eleven and the New York Giants. It was stated that several southernners, who were members of the New York team, protested against his playing opposite them and the coach left the former Dubuque star on the side-line. Suggs vs. Finnegan. Boston, Mass.—Chick Suggs of New Bedford, and New England champion of his class, and "Honey Boy" Finnegan, of Dorchester, met Monday night, in a bout, the winner of which (Finnegan) will be regarded by the Massachusetts boxing commission as the world's featheryweight champion in succession to Kaplan, of the former Kaplan, of the fifth, because he could no longer make the weight. The fight went ten rounds to a decision. Suggs and Finnegan differ widely in style, but both have been victors over some of the best men in their class. Suggs recently defeated Red Chapman for the New England title, while Finnegan has disposed of both Chapman and Babe Herman, one of the top notchers in the featherweight ranks. Suggs has the advantage as a boxer of still, while Finnegan, as left, is best known for his rugged style of fighting. Both, however, have shown ability to pack a sleep-producing punch. Langford Given The Decision Langtock Given The Decision. Chicago, Ill.—The Illinois state state commission, Tuesday, suspen- dent for Hoss local referral for ninety days for awarding a fight to Jack Egan over Wolcott Lang- ford, Afro-American wetterweight, on a foul, after the examining physi- ician reported that no foul had been committed. The commission reversed the decision declared the winner and end- ed Egan for sixty days, claiming that he displayed indications of des- iring to quit, rather than fight. S. C. State Trounces Benedict 13-0. Orangeburg, S. C.—South Carolina State College gridders met Benedict, opposing her chari- ment of the Georgia-South Carolina league, before a large crowd at our Orangeburg county fair, and held the champions scoreless while State by sweeping end runs and drop kicks piled up a score of 13. The fast backs for the State were the champions, and on several occasions they swept the ends for long gains, carrying the ball from one end of the field to the other. Finnegan Not Champion Boston. Mass. — Mitchell Hambro- secretary of the state boxing com- mission, denied. Tuesday, that the commission had ever recognized the boxing team. IN UNION IS STRENGTH THE COPY FIVE CENTS ESS! BIN THE TENOR NICED AND JEALOUS NS ARE SEEKING TO DO. Brian Countess' Name Linked Hayes—They Are Not to us Story Is Sent to and can Daily Newspa- lot Will Fail. the McAllister 400, married into another branch of the family and is known as the Countess Colloredo Hansfordin. The fact that Hayes was frequently honored at social gatherings in this lofty Austrian circle angered prejudiced white Americans who were not successful in getting in, and so they started the rumor that Hayes was getting face pain in the prejudiced white American mind that is always the first call ('knock') to raise when a member of the race is seen in company with a white woman. Although the rumor has been emphatically denied, many of Mr. Hayes' closest friends openly express the wish that it had been true. They resented bitterly, they said, the attitude of the white press that it was a way cause for Mr. Hayes to make his cause for marry the Countess Colloredo or any other countess. In their notion, it was nobody's business but that of Mr. Hayes and the countess. Least of all, they said, was it the business of low-browed whites who had spent their entire family history since the landing of the Mayflower in sprinkling their unwanted blood over families of the race through brute force. Now they want to raise a hue and cry because in Hayes' own social class thinks enough of his society to seek it often. What if she thought enough of him to want to marry him, whose business would it be but hers and his—in case he happened to return the feeling —Chicago Defender. night, as a championship battle. Hambro said that it was not the policy of the commission to designate champions and that the newspaper sport-writers and not the commission, had the nerve to announce the mythical crown as prize for the winner. HAS ONE NEWSPAPER. New York City — The Empire of Abyssinia, whose sovereign is the Negua Negusti, or King of Kings, possesses but one newspaper. It is called Berhanena Salem, which means "light and peace", and has been published as a weekly for the last two years at Addis-Abeba. It is printed in the massive Ethiopian newspaper number bears the signature of the Emperor, tenths comprise the inevitable "Chronique Scandaleuse", elaborate descriptions of court and church celebrations on the 150 holidays of the Abyssinian calendar, reports from the various provinces of the empire and, of course, all the implemnts, the rest of the world, the four-page manual to pay little attention. Possibly this is explained in part by the fact that all news from outside has to pass through the censorship of the Italian Embassy, which boasts of the only redio outfit in the realm. OUR CATHOLICS TO CONVENE In a National Meet at The Nation's Capitol, Next Month. Washington, D. C. —The second annual convention of Federated Afro-American Catholics will be held in St. Augustine's church, this city, Dec. 5 and 6. Delegates from thirty-five states will discuss problems of interest to our Catholic lalty. Our Catholic schools will membership, etc., may be summarized in flows: Eight Afro-Americans have been ordained as priests and assigned to work in this country. There are between 250,000 and 300,000 Catholic Afro-Americans: 87 churches with resident pastors 87 churches with churches; 22,000 of our children in parish schools; 134 schools; 5 academies; 3 industrial schools; 11 orphan asylums, etc. This Brother, Sure Was "Goin' Some". Los Angeles, Calif.-Theft of $75,000 from the Los Angeles branch of the Federal Reserve bank of San Francisco was disclosed by the police, early Nov. 5, with the arrest of Wesley Davis, janitor of the bank and member of our group, in his home. A new automobile which Davis declared he purchased with a part of the money was seized. He said he found the money in a bundle on the floor of one of the cages. The lynching of three persons, one a woman, near Houston, Texas, last week, brought the number of lynchings to that date, for 1926, up to 31 as against eighteen for the entire year, 1925. "— AND IN CLOSING, I REPEAT, 'THE SCHOOLHOUSE IS THE BULWARK OF CIVILIZATION!' FINE, SIS!--YOUVE GOT YOUR SPEECH DOWN PAT! AUDIENCE -- AND IN CLOSING, I REPEAT, THE SCHOOLHOUSE IS THE BULWARK OF CIVILIZATION! THE SPEECH I TAKE GREAT PLEASURE IN INTRODUCING MISS GEENUM, WHO WILL ADDRESS YOU ON "THE SCHOOLHOUSE IS THE BULWARK OF CIVILIZATION!" GONE! L-LADIES, AND-GENTLEMEN TH- THE B-BULLHOUSE IS TH- THE 3-SCHOOLHOUSE OF - CIVILIZATION. LOUDER, AND FUNNIER! Tim Early The GAZETTE PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY SUBSCRIPTION RATES (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 Address all communications to HARRY C. SMITH Editor and Proprietor THE GAZETTE $26 W. Superior Ave., Cleveland, O. (Bell Phone: Cherry 1259) Member Ohio Legislature: 1894 to 1896; 1896 to 1898; 1900 to 1902 THE GAZETTE is the oldest and has the largest bona fide circulation, double that of any newspaper in the interest of Afro-Americans published or circulated in the state of Ohio, and comparison with any will immediately establish its rank as one of the NEWSIEST AND BEST in the country. 10,000,000 Afro-Americans. 350,000 in Ohio. 40,000 in Cleveland. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1928. Winter is upon us! Good "stock" to buy is winter coal. You cannot depend upon the gas for heat, as you know. So put in your "stock" of coal. --- Just how "small" and contemptible American racial and color-prejudice can make the average "white" American is aptly illustrated in the cases of that Afro-American and that Japanese high school boy. See article on Page 1 of this paper. What the prejudiced American newspapers and their correspondents in Austria, and elsewhere abroad, are seeking to do is to estop, as far as possible, the attendance, upon Roland Hayes' concerts in this country, of white Americans. His success abroad "got on their nerves" and that he has had in this country grieves them greatly. Too bad, isn't it? Success will not crown their contemptible efforts, however. WHY "WE HAVE NO LEADERS" We have plenty of members of the race with "educational background, political influence, cultural leadership" but none with the "confidence of the people". This is the latter's fault largely. The fact is "this race of ours, 15,000,000 strong" has not as yet reached the degree of development which will (apparently) permit them, or any great number of them, to place confidence enough in any member of the race to enable him to become a real leader. The fault is with our people and explains in a large measure why we have no leaders. It is true that nearly all of our "men who have been placed in positions of leadership" have been selfish and have "betrayed us"; also, that many of them have used and are still using the race "as a pawn to further their own ends"; also, in politics our leaders are busy selling us out to the highest bidder; that educationally, in the south where we need it most, we are being betrayed by those trusted to enlighten us", etc. This accounts in part only for the lack of leaders. But the main reason is the inability upon the part of the great mass of our people to concentrate their confidence in any one of the nationally prominent members of the race capable, fit and willing to lead if they were permitted to do so and supported, as they should be, by a large number of our people, especially intelligent members of the race. When Perry W. Howard, "special assistant" U. S. s. attorney general, Washington, D. C., was elected a member of the Republican national committee for Mississippi, he was chairman of the Republican state committee of Mississippi. He promised to resign this position when elected to the other one but has failed to do so. Now come the Republicans of that state with that complaint and another, to the effect that he has not only failed to give Mississippi Afro-Americans appointments of any kind but has opposed all of their efforts to get some places. This does not surprise us in the least because we have always regarded Perry as being that kind—a W. M. N. He apparently desires to be the only Mississippi Afro-American to hold public-office, and his is not a regular one, either; only a "special assistant" job. "INDEPENDENT" RIGHT. Myers Y. Cooper's and James O. Mills' defeat, by such small pluralities, show conclusively that Ohio Afro-American's refusal to vote for those color-line Republican candidates for governor and lieutenant-governor, respectively, was the prime cause of their down-fall on the recent election day. So Gov. A. V. THE GEEVUM GIRLS Donahaye and Lieutenant-Governor-Elect Earl D. Bloom have our voters of the state to thank for their triumphant re-election, especially since hundreds, yes thousands of our men and women, voted for them in their determination to help defeat Cooper and Mills. So "Independent", in his communication to the Columbus Ohio State Journal, (daily), a portion of which is published elsewhere in this paper, is entirely correct in his statements. Cleveland, O., Nov. 6, 1926. Gov. A. V. Donahey, Capitol, Columbus, Ohio. Dear Governor:The enclosed are but a few of the many letters received from my people in various parts of the state. Read them carefully, please, and return them. Dr. Joseph L. Johnson of Columbus told me, Thursday, at Wilberforce, where we were attending a meeting of the Board of Trustees of the State Department, that the state Democratic campaign committee had circulated 100,000 copies of my letter to Mr. Townsley, publicity manager of the Republican state campaign committee, throut the state, prior, of course, to the recent election day. Judging from the letters and telegrams received and what I saw when down the state, this week, the job was thorny done What I want to call your attention to, particularly, Governor, is the fact that my people throut the state undoubtedly furnished both you and Lieutenant-Governor-elect Earl D. Bloom the balance of necessary to insure your re-election, on Tuesday of this week, and should be given credit for it, if for no other reason than to encourage independent voting, especially when it means so much to (the vital interests of) my people. There is absolutely no question as to the far-reaching effect, in every part of the state where circulated, of my letter to Mr. Townsley. It could not possibly have been otherwise. With sincerest congratulations upon your most recent political victory and with very best wishes, I Very truly yours, Harry C. GOV. DONAHEY APPRECIATES Office of The Governor. Columbus, O. Nov. 17. 1926. Hon. Harry Clay Smith, Editor Gazette, Cleveland, Ohio. My dear Mr. Smith:—I beg to acknowledge receipt of your favor of Nov. 6. 1926, and in reply will say that I have made most sincerely a册册 effort you made in my behalf. I appreciate the great honor that has been conferred upon me and will do the very best to serve the people of my state without re- gard to their race, creed, or color. I am returning the letter of Mr. Stewart for your files. When you come Columbus way drop in to see me. With every good wish, I beg to remain, Sincerely yours, Vic Donahey, Governor. GIVE THEM CREDIT, GOVERNOR! Cleveland, O., Nov. 16, '26. Gov. A. V. Donahey, Capitol, Columbus, Ohio. Dear Governor:—Your letter of the 12th, with enclosure, just received. The letter written upon the back of a circular by a member of my race, a resident of Youngstown, was the one of the several letters, enclosed in my last communication to you, which I desired returned most. The letter written by Mr. Stewart, which you returned, is only one of several. I enclosed in the communication to you, the return of which I asked. What I desired most in your reply to my previous communication, Governor, is some statement recognizing the direct and indirect support you received at the recent election from the thousands of Afro-Americans who voted for you, and the thousands of others who refused to vote for the color-line Republican candidates for Governor and Lieutenant-Governor, respectively—Myers Y. Cooper and James O. Mills. I appreciate, of course, what you write relative to the support rendered your candidacy in the recent campaign by "The Old Reliable" Gazette, but prefer what I have referred to in the preceding sentence for the reasons stated in my previous communication to you. It will encourage independent think- ing and voting upon the part of my people of Ohio, something I have striven for more than thirty years to encourage. Trusting you will be able to locate the Youngstown letter referred to, if not the third one, I am Write to the editor of The Gazette, 226 West Superior Ave., Cleveland, O., and terms will be sent promptly. Our readers will oblige us greatly by sending at once the addresses of persons in the cities named, and others in the state to whom we can write relative to the matter. Dr. Samuel Barrett's New Book—Something All of Our Homes Should Have. 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Monthly Bulletin, No. 9, of The Cleveland Humane Society, announces that the number of our children receiving its care is 185 (84 boys and 101 girls), a much larger number than usually supposed because of the large increase in our local population in the last nine years. The Bulletin says "Facilities for the care of colored children in Cleveland are limited". Will the Bulletin tell us why? Some cowardly "Negro" in this community, signing himself or herself ("A Lover of Truth and Right") and pretending to be a Christian (just think of it) seat the editor of "The Old Reliable" a letter, the first of the week, he or she was ashamed to sign every editor, particularly for the cowardly anonymous-writer, cannot be measured in words. The signature to the letter in question undoubtedly belies the facts in the case. Attys' Roy C, Green and David Ingalls, of the law firm of Squires, Sanders & Dempsey, assisted Atty, Roger M. Dillard in defending Robt. Swint E. 37th St., this city, charged with second degree murder, in criminal court, last week Friday. Atty, Andrew Squires, senior member of the law firm mentioned, withdrew from the case on account of his presence. Swint was charged with shooting to death John Pruitt and Mrs. Sarah Evans, Oct. 10, in a fight at 2494 E. 37th St., where he lived. A fourth stay of the execution of Emanuel Ross, age 18, sentenced to die in the electric chair, Nov. 26, is being sought from the state supreme court. That august body refused a second time to hear a motion for leave to file petition in error to the court of appeals of Cuyahoga county. The stay is asked so his counsel can take the case OR PITY'S IT'S THAT? OH IS IT THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, O. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1926. sitions at the moment—and Ethel Waters could give all of them lessons.—Archie Bell in the Cleveland News, Mr. Bell is wrong—Miss Mills could give either her life that she could give either Miss Mills or Miss Baker "lessons". She is fine all right, but not in the class of artists in their line. Certificate of Deposit THE CERTIFICATE purpose of increase PANY to $200,000 making it THE COMPANY IN The following of Insurance of the EVENT: "I would the Co. increase the sales The amendm and acc This forward progressive organ a larger service build a company at the lowest po Victory L 36 $3, $3.50 Values 4,000 More Men's Shirts $2.50, $3, $3.50 Values Just arrive our 26th The M to the U. S. supreme court in an effort to have the death sentence commuted. The imposition of the death penalty by Judge Walter McMahon after Joseph Kadassi had assisted in the conviction of the man who led him into the crime of shooting Isidore Steeck, a confectionery proprietor, during a robbery, started a bitter legal battle to save the youth. His companion in the crime, an older man, was killed. The man is contended that Ross should have been tried in juvenile court and a controversy arose over his age which was 17 at the time the crime was committed. Donahey refused a reprieve but granted a stay. Two years later, the man right went into the courts again. The state supreme court, Tuesday, refused to review the appeal. The local Legal News of next week will again announce the sale of the tailor shop furniture, supplies, equipment, etc., of the Miller Barber shop at 4804 Scovill Ave. This by virtue of a certain writ of execution issued from the Municipal Court of Cleveland against a judge, the result of a judgment rendered in Judge Bradley Hull's court, for $18.97, "house and water rent, due since Oct. 19, 1924", when Miller lived at 2417 E. 82d St., this city (and court costs). A petition filed in Municipal Court, last week Monday, by a brother of Miller, who claimed to be the owner of the things sold in his H. Mayer's office,iffs sale advertisement, estopped the sale, last week Monday, pending the outcome in court, Tuesday, of said Charles H. Miller's brother's suit to establish his claim to the ownership of the things advertised for sale, last week Monday morning. The brother lost his suit, Tuesday, to a judge in H. Mayer's office, avoid paying the rent he has owed so long to a local resident bids fair to cost him several times as much as his rental indebtedness, referred to. Ethel Waters, the bronze colored comedienne at the Metropolitan, was not taught to sing or act. She just grew. When she was a young-places, this does not surprise us as she, she conceived the idea of singing songs. Presto! She learned to dance on the bottom of the ladder in the theaters that had a low rate of admission. For something like six years, she felt her way. When audiences didn't like a song, she shelved it and found one that they would like. Wandered around with various troupes in the south and when she went to New York, she sold her. She standardized and taught the people who heard and saw her, realized that she was an exceptional artist and quickly stamped her work with approval. Her salary jumped from the original ten or twelve dollars a week to $600 a week and it has been on the rise since the time it in Paris. Josephine Baker is the vogue in London; New York has several colored comedians in prominent po Ask for Eagle Stamps THE CERTIFICATE OF DEPOSIT shown above was used for the purpose of increasing the Capital of VICTORY LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY to $200,000.00 FULLY PAID, and its Surplus to $100,000.00 making it THE LARGEST CAPITALIZED OLD LINE LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY IN THE WORLD owned and operated by Negroes. The following extract is quoted from the letter of the Superintendent of Insurance of the State of Illinois announcing this EPOCH MAKING EVENT: The other legal requirements having been complied with the amendment was recorded in this Department on September 27th and accordingly it is hereby declared to be effected and in force." This forward step is in keeping with the policy of this young and progressive organization to offer to its policy-holders and the general public a larger service than ever before, and to continue in its determination to build a company that will give to its clients the largest insurance service at the lowest possible cost. These are the same fine quality shirts that caused such a sensation last week when first offered in our remarkable "Pre-Christmas Sale." Lucky indeed to get 4,000 more. It's an opportunity for you that calls for immediate action. 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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. COOLIDGE PERMITS 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. dancing and a pleasant social evening with the officials for "the post office employees," yet not one was delivered to the colored clerks. He ruried 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 itself in appointments, assignments and salaries. Colored applicants are 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 citizens in this city in white clothing while the white people, and black to black, often duplicating work as most blocks had white and black residents. And, worst of all, an announced in his official capacity that Negroes should not hold office where white people complained. Segregation, then, is a Republic's situation and not a Democratic one, it was begun by Republicans, and it ensured 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 the papers, is tenaciously held on to by our Republican President. Only last week, a colored girl appeared after having passed been examination, and after 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 of the special favorite of Secretary Mollard and President Coolidge. He halls from North Carolina, the home of the other governor 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 head, are at a loss to understand why he does put his splendid declarations on one page in operation here, where it would not even cost him a single vote and where he has full power and absolutely no opposition. They wonder if he is not a firm believer in segregation, especially since segregation is one of the tenets of the Islamic which has the phrase "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 postitive segregation is rampant. The faithful colored work under constant humiliation and physical antagonism. The department maintains a spacious cafeteria for whites only, where these inferior white clerks can buy appetizing lunches and chat in comfort while eating, while the colored clerks must bring cold luncheons from home and eat them any place they can. The physical discomfort, disadvantageous as it is, is far less galling to the colored clerks than is the thought of their government taking their as it takes those of the whites for the comfort of the clerks and setting them off as though they were lepers. The injustice stings all the more when they reflect that they are far more able than the whites, and under 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, a 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 has attempted in the collets. And all of this is against the most dependable and faithful employees. Last year. White employees placed 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 off, and he the clerk was 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 with him, one after another, though many of the colored employees have won an in quickness and accuracy in the 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 apartment, all 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 barspromote the poor. In the inferior whites pass over our superior employees to directive positions, and higher salaries. The whites have a large recreational center in this public building with many fine appointments for rest and amusements. During lunch and dinner hours they repair to this restful retreat for sociability and dance. Last fall, a young Afro-American wife with a spiked rudiment in work, felt injustice of this exclusion of our employees so keenly 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 on the subject, those smart Negroes" who believe in "those smart" and then dismissed on a trumped-up charge. He was a night-employee, hence he carried a pistol. Right after the dance incident a fire broke out in the office. He was quickly accused of setting the building after 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 on one or warning beheaded weapons of which he was immediately dismissed. By this severe punishment our employees are taught that there is no way of escape for one who dares to resent the daily insults that their government (under President Coolidge) gives them. Many of the employees have expressed their deeply-wounded feelings to me at being considered a pariah by the government whose institutions they are serving so faithfully, and I have taken up a number of cases only to be met by a denial that the conditions complained of exist, and a request for the names of my informants. 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 iniquitous scheme of segregation is a difficult thing to fight, since the government is so well settled upon it, and the complainants cannot bear witness to it. THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, O. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 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 wife, Sister Senor Robert La Follette. Shortly after the reelection of Mr. Wilson to the White House, a member of his family visited the bureau where she saw white and colored girls working together in perfect harmony, oblivious to any thought of race. Shortly thereafter came an order for segregation of the races, and a white lady who had been noted for her philanthropy among our people and who was upon intimate terms at the White House appeared at the bureau to tell our girls to be contented with the new order as "a great Negro leader had taught colored people to stay in their places." Three of the young ladies resisted the order to the last ditch and were summarily dismissed! Senator La Follette lodged a protest with Secretary McAdoo to no avail, and his noble wife began a crusade against the undemocratic innovation. She took the platform here in Washington and Boston before the famous Twentieth Century club. She used the columns of the Senator's magazine, sparing neither space nor vigor of utterance. She thundered against it in our 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 Villard came 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* as helped to found. Our girls are employed there in far larger numbers than in any other branch of the public service. THEY ARE SEGREGATED in their rest rooms, toilets, and workstations, and 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 seizing the opportunity for building 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 that long sweep of history that the President traversed are the mighty Salmon P. Chase, secretary of the treasury in Lincoln's cabinet, who, in a national extremity such as this country has never known, devised the national Constitution, Civil War; and Ohio's master financier, John Sherman. These men never knew what segregation was! The present head of the department of internal revenue, Mr. Blair from North Carolina, has not appointed a colored clerk since his incumbency. While his 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 that there is the same general complaint here among our clerks and other employees as there is in the other branches of the government—failure to recognize their efficiency when promotions are due; ability to go so far and no farther. The various forms of segregation exist here as well as elsewhere—the restaurants closed or divided along color lines, and special lockers, locker rooms, rest rooms, etc., set off for colored. The toilers for the colored are few in such a large structure. Hence, the segregated clerks are forced to endure physical inconvenience at times, and are forced to travel long distances when they desire the use of the office. Numerous national facilities a large, magnificent cafeteria, in the splendid sweep of woodland along our national driveway, where white people of every class can come to rest, dine, and socialize of afternoons and evenings at minimum costs. The white press of the city is constantly telling of the thousands who take advantage of this "delightful retreat," and the festive scene that their presence creates. It seats two thousand diners with space to spare; but not one Negro! His only share is in the taxes he is forced to pay for this luxury for another group! The registries of the treasury, which Republican Presidents have given the Negro since Garfield appointed Blanch K. Bruce, is filled by a white man, the colliery worker who congregates in a separate room as "a colored division." When it is discovered that Negro clerks are "working as white" in other divisions, they are promptly transferred to this "colored division." Our people fear that protest against this segregation would result in the abolition of the division altogether; so they remain in a dilemma, fearing to act. Our clerks must accept segregation or elimination, and be poor, with no other opportunity, with this southern atmosphere, must take the wrong, but economic stress compels endurance of it. By a single stroke of his pen, President Calvyn 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 registrar of the treasury and the internal revenue department. In the former, bearer board walls were maintained until recently. In the latter there have been two cases of discrimination on account of color brought to public view. The words, announcing the election of President Coolidge, were hardly cold before the effort to increase segregation in the office of the treasury on again at full speed. It had slowed up a little during the campaign. Investigation of Bureaus Internal Revenue Internal Revenue Bureau—a segregated section of 7 employees Office of the Treasurer of the United States—a segregated section of 4 employees. War Department, Transportation Division—a segregated section of 5 employees. 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 bothhose 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, 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, to kill it. You can, frequently, during the forty-two years since the birth of The Gazette, been, as the Scotch would say, like two McNells, 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 Senate.) OHIO'S ANTI-LYNCHING LAW Against The Mob and Lynch-Murder—The Work of a Member of The Race—Also His Ohio Civil Rights Law 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 upheld the constitutionality of the law and it has Section 6278. A collection of people assembled for an unlawful purpose and intending to do damage or injury to any one, or pretending to exercise correctional power over other persons by violence and without authority of law, shall be deemed a "mob" for the purpose of this chapter. An act of violence by a mob upon the body of any person shall constitute a "lynching" within the meaning of this chapter. (93 v. 161 2.) Section 6279. The term "serious injury," for the purpose of this chapter, shall include such injury as permanently or temporarily disables the person receiving it from earning a livelihood by manual labor. (93 v. 161 3.) Section 6280. A person taken from officers of justice by a mob, and assaulted with whips, clues, missiles or in any other manner, may recover, as hereafter provided, a sum not to exceed one thousand dollars as damages from the county in which the assault is made (93 v. 161 4. 1). 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 results manifold, a manifold as a livelihood by manual labor, a sum not to exceed five thousand dollars. (93 v. 162 5.) Section 8282. 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, minor children submitting deceased, such sum will be distributed among the widows of kin according to 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 7.) Section 6286. If the decedent so lynched has minor children surviving him, the fund shall be turned over to a regularly appointed guardian. Such guardian shall administer such fund under the supervision 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 in the act, or the person complying such mob of the 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: DSS. med. fig. a representative of victim of lynching injury by mob trying to lynch another and costs in tax levy. es. 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 county or disperse such mob (93 v. 163 11.) Section 6289. This chapter shall not relieve a person concerned in such lynching from prosecution for homicide or assault for engaging therein. (93 v. 163 12.) OUR OHIO CIVIL RIGHTS LAW Upon the request or many readers of The Gazette we print below the text of the Hon. Harry C. Smith's Ohio Civil Rights law which the editor had enacted while a member of the 71st General Assembly, in 1884. The General Code of Ohio: Sec. 12940. Whoever, being the proprietor or his employee, keeper or manager of an inn, restaurant, eating house, bar-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 fined not less than fifty dollars not more than five hundred dollars, or not more than ninety days, or both. Sec. 12941. Whoever violates the tenancy on shall also pay not less than fifty dollars nor more than five hundred dollars to the person aggrieved thereby to be recovered in any court of competent jurisdiction in the county where such offense was committed. --- This law has repeatedly been held constitutional and good law by the Ohio Supreme court. The trouble is our people will not use it as often as they should, but expect it 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 her fact that the Ohio Civil Rights law was good law and did no 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. Edited by Robert E. Editor Yve Gazzetta, Cleveland, O. My Doe, you have given your letter to the Beacon-Journal of this city. I venture to send you, under a 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 ($5000) 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 editorially. THE LAW OF OHIO IS UNDER NO PROACH, nor our courts and juries in administering it. Not a word was said by the Beacon-Journal when the Forman office 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 Reafter Reading "TWO WRONGS DO NOT MAKE A RIGHT". "The Old Reliable" Cleveland Gazette in one of its recent issues lamentes the fact that President Coolidge is permitting segregation and discrimination in the government departments in Washington where Negroes are employed. We wonder if "The Old Reliable" knows the right here in the city of Cleveland, the home of Coolidge, that the "Old Reliable" of all hospitals segregate its Negro patients and that nothing is said about it. Then why object when self-respecting Negroes who resent such insults, seek to provide a hospital of their own. "The Old Reliable" is unbossed, unbiased and unafraid. Thou criticizer, first cast out the beam out of tine own eye, and then shall thou see clearly to cast out theOTE and thou eye.—The Open Door" Wickliffe, O. Miss Jane E. Hunter, editor Yes, "The Old Reliable" knows that some if not a majority of the hospitals of Cleveland now segregate Negro patients. It also recalls that it protested vigorously not once but many times, when a New Jersey nurse was seeking the segregation of Negro patients in St. Vincent's ("Charity") hospital in order that she might be employed as nurse to attend them. Of course her request was granted, as is invariably the case when "jim-crow" Negroes and prejudiced whites need temporary care in a principle that ensures the vital interests of the race. This was the opening wedge for the segregation of Negro patients in the hospitals of Cleveland. We object to a "jim-crow" hospital for the very same reason that we object to all other jim-crow hospitals and have stated our reasons so often that it is hardly necessary to repeat them at this time. The old saying that "two wrongs do not make a right" is as true today, as it was a thousand or more years ago. We have federal employees and others in the government service, and segregation in the hospitals of Cleveland do not make correct or justify the establishment of a "jim-crow" hospital in this city or a "jim-crow" hospital in another city. The Hotel, for that is about what the Phyllis Wheatley Association amounts to. We have never condoned IT, either. Self and racerespecting Negroes can never become "jim-crow" Negroes. That is why we are inclined to question the statement that Negroes are seeking to establish a "jim-crow" hospital in this city. Yes, "The Old Reliable" and "criticize" is unbossed, unbiased and unafraid" and has not the "jim-crow" beam his eye. He cannot feel that some unsophisticated young woman-supporter (black or white) of Miss Hunter, rather than the woman herself, is responsible for the above excerpt from "The Phyllis Whealey, Association. We agree with the N. A. A. C.P. as to the need of a federal mob violence or anti-lynching law that would be effective in the southern states. We also recognize the fact that there is no probability of the passage of such a bill in the Congress as long as the Republican majority or pro-lynching Republican majority (large or small) in that August body. Also, that if passed, such a bill as a law would be declared unconstitutional by the U. S. Supreme Court when it reached that high tribunal of the last legal resort in this country. The regulation of mob violence is a state right, pure and simple, say the most eminent jurist-members of Congress, who are of the vile lynching is to be stopped it must be done by legislation of the various states and not by the Congress.