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The children sang splendidly their solos and choruses and showed excellent training by Mrs. Newswome and Mrs. Ella Sanders.—Mrs. Thomas Prestley, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Smith and Mr. and Mrs. Ben. Rucks are attending "the religious congress of the triumph of the new age" in Cleveland.—Mr. and Mrs. W. Johns are rejoicing over a new book of lyrical laggaripo.—Mr. H. Reese is still ill.—Mrs. Carrie Williams has neurtis.—The "Tom Thumb" wedding, given by Robbed of His Championship. Chicago, Ill.-That alleged middleweight championship battle held at the Coliseum in this city, last week Friday night, between Micky Walker (white) of New Jersey and Benny Yang (white) of Chicago, both enforced into a fight-fiasco by Referee Benny Yang (white) who decided in favor of Walker in spite of the fact that Tiger had won eight or nine of the ten rounds. Yang's decision was so raw that the great majority of the 11,000 persons in attendance greeted with boos after they were heard a block away. Their judgment was concurred in by nearly every one of the daily newspaper sport-writers who witnessed the contest as well as the majority of the Illinois State Boxing Commission. When the battle ended, blood was streaming down Walker's chest from a gash over his left eye, sustained in the second round, and that blackjack and pistol shooting threats influenced the Yanger decision and caused Walk Miller, Tiger's manager, who felt it coming, to exact before the fight from Jack Kearns, Walker's manager, an agreement to a return-match within ninety days, which also required a $65,000 deposit, guaranteeing the fight to be won. The fight was the first challenger. It is also reported that there was an arrangement between Kearns and Miller, whereby the latter and Tiger were to get $20,000 more by losing by winning. There doesn't, however, seem to be any basis for this report. The Illinois boxing commission, at a meeting was held, by a member whose name was withheld, that the body reverse Yanger and return the title to Tiger Flowers. The two other members of the commission were reported to be in accord with the author of the resolution and announcement that Yanger's decision will not stand is expected daily. "Hon John C. Righeimer, president Illinois athletic commission, Chicago, Ill.; "Dear sir—Subsequent to my conference with you, I have consulted with friends, and as the result of the conference I have concluded not to file any protest with the commission in relation to the unfair referee's decision on the Walker-Flowers bout at the Coliseum. I am of the opinion, and this is being by reason of majority of the commission, were personally present and saw for themselves together with press reports which uniformly agree that the decision was grossly unfair, that it is the duty of the commission, on its own motion, to immediately reverse the decision, which all, except the referee, agree was manifestly unfair and unjust. "Very truly, "WALK MILLER." Prior to the Flowers-Walker flasco Walcott Langford of this city, middleweight, knocked out Jack Elkhart (white) of Dallas, Tex., in the fourth round of a scheduled eight-round bout, and George Godfrey, also of Chicago, a heavyweight, scored a knockout over Cowboy the Baptist S. S., was greatly enjoyed. —Rev. N. R. Burris will be installed pastor of M. Olive church, this week. —Miss Vera Satchell had tonsillitis, last week. HILLSIMORO. —Revival services at the Baptist church will not begin until January. —Charles R. Day was seriously injured, last week. A tree he was cutting, fell on him. Mrs. Milich, Mrs. William, Jr. spent Sunday afternoon in Wilmington. —Mrs. C. M. Gragston was hostees to the Get-Together club, last week Wednesday, and on Thursday, entertained the Ladies' Aid. —Miss Helen Johnson was dinner-guest of Mrs. John Hudson, Friday. —Mr. and Mrs. Starlie Bolden and Mr. Alvie Bennett of Mt. Sterling visited here. Sunday. —Miss Lower Carr has returned from Chechnia. —Mr. Olive Bolden and Mr. Alvie Bennett of Mt. Sterling and sons attended the funeral, Sunday, of a little nephew in Chilchotte who died from being badly burned, two weeks ago. —Rev. Mrs. Gertrude Holland of Wilberforce is to preach, Sunday afternoon, at the A. M. E. church. —Mr. and Mrs. John Williams, Jr. spent Sunday with their daughter. Mrs. Donald Highwarden. —Prof. O. C. Bullard spent the week-end in georgetown with parents. Clarence Rudd visited parents. Sunday. —Mrs. Gertrude Christie returned, Sunday, from a visit in Dayton. —Mrs. Arnetta Hough of Jamestown visited her grand-daughter. Mrs. Charles Colter, this week Billy Owens (white) in the eighth round of the semi-final. The bout TIGER 'FLOWERS was stopped with Owens, a protege of Jack Kearns, out on his feet. "Tiger" Building a New Home. Atlanta, Ga.-Tiger Flowers has presented his wife with a new home which is now under construction. It is a 14-room house, situated in the midst of a 220-350 foot lot on the top of Simpson St. A sunken flower garden, a private playground for little Miss Flowers and her friends and a most superb piece of landscape gardening will make this one of the show places of the city. The local board of imamts has appointed the men that they will erect at the entrance of Simpson St. two large concrete posts with electric lights adorning each, similar to those which grace the street entrances to the house the fashionable districts here. The house is of red glazed brick with a flat interior. Our-car garage will be built on the rear of the lot, above which Flowers will have his training quarters. Made Hospital Head. MIDDLE HIGH Charles W. W. Va—Dr. C. C. Barnett, a graduate of Howard university, has been made superintendent of the State hospital for our insane, in Mason county by Gov. Gore. The institution has 205 patients and it is believed to be the only one of its kind for Afro-Americans in the country. Fighting Segregation. Philadelphia, Pa. Roscoe Douglass, cashier of the Keystone Cooperative Banking Association, has filed a writ of mandamus forcing the board of education to show cause why his son, Robert, 6 years old, should not be admitted to Keyser school, two blocks from his home, and not be forced to attend a school four blocks away. President Wilkinson of Our State College of South Carolina Meets Their Association. Orangeburg, S. C. — President Wilkinson has just returned from a trip of unusual importance to the College and its general educational interests. His first stop was at Washington where he attended the Association of Land-Grant colleges, Nov. 16-18, serving on an important joint committee of representatives of the general association and our conference of Land-Grant colleges of which he is president. Thru his counsel and effort resolutions were adopted by the Land-Grant College Association whereby close relations between the white and colored colleges in each southern state will hereafter be more effective thru a steering committee composed of three members from the faculty of the white, and two from our colleges. This committee will endeavor to work out problems of mutual interest to the institutions and the welfare of the state. Another forward step of this joint conference was the adoption of a resolution to place a representative of our Land-Grant colleges on the general program, annually. By this privilege, these colleges thru the representative will present to the public their problems and operations thus becoming better known, respected and supported. After several days of hard work at Washington President Wilkinson, he visited his trumpeter to practice either east, visiting New York and New Haven. At the latter city, as guest of the Yale Athletic association, he had the special privilege of witnessing the greatest football classic of the country, the Yale-Harvard game, in company with his son Robert Jr., who is a senior medical student at Harvard University. The trip was crowded with business as well as recreation. It was described in general by the more active chapel talks, and the ideas disclosed will be of much benefit in shaping future activities of the institution. ALABAMA GUILTY, TOO! Women Face Unpleasant Facts and Plan for Improvement of Sad Condition Birmingham, Ala.—Pledging themselves to seek more adequate educational provisions for our children of Alabama, better public health facilities, and an institution for the care of our delinquent girls, the woman's section of the Alabama National Interracial Cooperation held its annual meeting here, Nov. 29, '26, with an attendance of fifty representative women (white) from over the state. Their resolutions contained the following facts as to the unfair distribution of educational funds and facilities in Alabama: Average school term for white children, 143 days. Average school term for Afro-American children, 112 days. Current expenses per white child, $119.0. Current expenses per Afro-American child, $3.72. Capital outlay per year per white child, $4.25. Capital outlay per year per Afro-American child, 61 cents. Property values per white child, $55.88. Property values per Afro-American child, $9.21. Number of white high school teachers, 60. Number of our high school teachers, 90. Average salary per year for white teachers, $696. Average salary per year for our teachers, $315. 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 contesting, and are holding of universal discrimination, and are winning even social rights today. The Irish at 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, "these are not worthy of equal rights; they are by nature without self-respect and have no 'guts.'" 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 freedom in the animal rights in our native land, however long race discrimination may continue. To submit is to deserve a contempt. — Boston (Mass.) Guardian. SINGLE COPY FIVE CENTS PARTICULARLY, ITS FINANCIAL AFFAIRS ALLEGED "INVESTIGATORS" STIR UP THE LITTLE COLLEGE TOWN. With Their Visit and Threats—A New and Much-Needed Sewage Plant Ordered by the Trustees of the State Department of the University —Bishop Jones Ill. (Special to The Gazette.) Wilberforce, O.—This little "college town," the home of Wilberforce University is pretty thorny stirred up. The school and community was in great excitement, this (Monday) morning, and several days, last week. It seems that two men of color or three, accompanied a meredied man, said to represent a Chicago race paper, came in and demanded that they be permitted to investigate the books and other affairs of the University. They also went over on the C. N. & I. (state) department side, asked questions about that department and asked to inspect the reports in the office of its superintendent. These parties also went around interviewing teachers, other employees, plant. They said "where there is smoke there must be fire." Declaring that he would ask for an investigation, into the financial affairs of the University, by Ohio's Attorney General (C. C. Bureau), Sheridan A. Brusaeau, a Chicago detective, one of the Afro-American would-be "investigators" left here, Saturday, for Columbus, Brusaeau, who said he was employed by alumni organizations of the A. M. E. Church, said he had obtained permission of trustees of the University to make a private investi- ALL OF JOHN BROWN'S ALIENS Bodies Were Not Dissected By Medical Students (white) Says The Nephew of One of Them. Cleveland, Dec. 3rd, 1926 Hon. Harry C. Smith, Editor Gazette, City. Dear Friend:—I am enclosing you a clipping, an article taken from a local daily paper and republished in The Gazette, this week. I take exception to the statement of the 'old-school surgeon' that the body of Copeland was one of the three men scarcely buried after the hanging before the students of Winchester, Va. Medical college dissected the bodies, and he saw whom brought to the college with a rope still around their necks, and brand the statement as mean, wicked and odious. John Copeland, who was with John Brown in the raid at Harper's Ferry, the only man by the name of Copeland arrested, was my uncle and the brother of my mother, Catherine Smith. Regarding the body of John Copeland, permit me to say that Prof. James Burke of that college was by president James H. Fairchild, the faculty and citizens of Oberlin to attend the execution and bring the body of John Copeland to Oberlin which he did, although meeting with many obstacles and protests by the southern rebels at Charleston. Prof. Monroe returned to Oberlin with the body of Uncle John Copeland a few days after Dec. 16, 1859, where the burial took place at Westwood cemetery, Oberlin, and thousands of people and colored throughout the state of Ohio attended the funeral which was preached by President Fairchild of Oberlin College, assisted by Prof. James Monroe who told of the difficulties and trouble he had in obtaining the remains and the influence he had to bring to bear at Charleston to do so. Uncle John Copeland's father, mother, sisters, brothers and relatives were alive at the time of his death. My mother have long since joined Uncle John in the other world and are buried by his side in Westwood cemetery at Oberlin. I could not pass up such a reflection on my relatives. Therefore, give The Gazette, for which I have subscribed for thirty years, this information and thousands of others who may have read the Wheeling, W. Va. later copied from a local daily newspaper. Very truly yours, Charles S. Smith, Secretary, Dept. of Public Safety NOTICE! FORMER MRS. ALICE JOHNSON. The address of Mrs. Alice Johnson who married a man by the name of Collins and later married again after locating in Cleveland, is desired by her son, Charley Johnson, 1126 N. Channing St., St. Louis, Mo. There is also a sister, Annie, and a brother, Samuel. Charley has not seen his mother for about fourteen years and is, of course, very anxious to hear from her. Any information relative to her will be thankfully received. Write him at once, please.—Adv. IN UNION IS STRENGTH THE COPY FIVE CENTS TED! ERLY, ITS MAL AFFAIRS TORS" STIR UP THE CLEGE TOWN. eats—A New and Much- Ordered by the Trustees ent of the University gation but that permission later was withdrawn. He also said that he based his request for official action on facts he discovered showing misappropriation of state and private funds for the maintenance of the school. Brusaux, evidently, has a very vivid imagination. That's all. A sewage disposal plant for Wilberforce university will be built at a cost of $45,000. Contract for construction of the plant, which will be built on university property along the banks of Massie creek, was awarded by the board of trustees of the combined normal and industrial (state) department to McCurren Bro's, contractors. It will be implemented weekly Friday. The local firm was the lowest of three bidders, it is said. The contract specifies that the plant must be completed within seven months. It is expected to start the construction work within two weeks if the weather permits, the contractors announced. Bishop Joshua H. H. Jones, of the fourth episcopal district of the A. M. E. Church, is ill of pneumonia here at his home. While his condition is serious he is happy to work favorably. Mrs. Jones is suffering from the grip. Bishop Jones has been ill, since last week Tuesday. THE GOVERNOR APPRECIATES The Splendid Support Ohio Afro-Americans Gave Him Direct And Indirectly in Refusing to Vote For the Color-Line Republican Candidates, Cooper and Mills. Columbus, O., Nov. 29, '26. Hon. Harry C. Smith, Editor Gazette, Cleveland, Ohio. My dear Mr. Smith—This will acknowledge receipt of your favor of Nov. 16th and note what you say about the return of certain letters that you directed to this office. I am having a complete search made for these letters and will return them to you as soon as I locate them. I regret that you have not received them before this. I want you to know I appreciate the support from you. There is no doubt in my mind but what the colored voters throughout Ohio gave me splendid support and it speaks volumes for their intelligence and independence. I have always claimed that independence among colored voters is the one thing that will give them a better position with both political parties. He Found the Letter. Columbus, O., Dec. 2, '26. Hon. Harry C. Smith, Editor Gazette, Cleveland, Ohio. He drew the letter from Smith: I made inquiry about the letter which you enclosed with a communication to me recently, and which we failed to return to you. I learned that it became detached from your letter and one of the clerks filed it with some campaign clippings and publicity matter. As soon as I inquired about the letter she immediately remembered the same, and it is enclosed to you herewith. Thanking you for your kindness and interest, and regretting the delay in returning the letter, I am, WILL BE REMEMBERED. Chicago, Ill., Dec. 1, '26. Hon. Harry C. Smith, Editor Gazette, Cleveland, O. Dear Friend:—I want to thank you for the service you gave the Victory Life Insurance Co. and the Victory folks are greatly pleased. What you did to those race-hating Republican candidates—Cooper and Mills—was "a plenty." I read The Gazette with a great deal of interest and it is evident that you are still the old "watch-dog" who began when things were tough and has maintained right up to the minute, despite raps and knocks! Maintain, "Old Man"; your name will be remembered long after many of the present day "leaders" have been forgotten. Yours sincerely, Tony Langston. Very truly yours, Vic. Donahey, Governor. AWK! UK! G-RK! FOR PIT'S SAKE!---- WHAT'S THAT? OH, FATHER! WHAT IS IT? -- WHAT IS IT? O-UR-K!-- IT HURTS WHEN I TAKE A BREATH! GOSH!-- WHAT SHALL I DO! -- WHAT SHALL I DO! I HAVE IT, DAD!-- DON'T BREATHE! Tim Eardy The GAZETTE PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY One Year ..... $2.00 Six Months ..... 1.00 Subscribers are requested to remit by postoffice money order or registered letter. Entered at the postoffice in Cleveland, Ohio, as second-class mail matter 226 W. Superior Ave., Cleveland, 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, DECEMBER 11, 1926. The information that the bodies of all of John Brown's allies were not dissected, is welcome indeed. That any of them were is distressing information even after a lapse of so many years. We wonder if all or most of the southern states handle their educational funds as do Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi? It seems incredible, in this day and time, that even southern whites could be so mean and contemptible! If President Robert Shaw Wilkinson of our South Carolina State college (a Gazette alumnus) is not more careful, he will ere long make himself the leading Afro-American educator in the south. --- At Alliance, Ohio, a few weeks ago, some of the "sisters from down home" wanted a "jim-crow" Y. W. C. A., but were told by one of the wealthiest white ladies in the city that their "group was too small to act as sponsors for and to finance a separate Y", and finished her talk by cordially inviting them to join the white Y. W. C. A., assuring them that they would be welcomed and that any ladies objecting to them would be dropped from membership of the organization. Fine! Imagine U. S. Senator Cole Blease, of South Carolina, and Earle Mayfield, of Texas, talking political morality! Senators Vare of Pennsylvania and Smith of Illinois should counter with a demand for thorough enforcement of the fourteenth and fifteenth amendments to the U. S. constitution. If there is to be a senatorial housecleaning, make it thorough. Begin by ousting every senator who owes his office to the disfranchisement of a large section of the adult, native-born population of his state, something that should have been done, years ago. MOTHERS' PENSIONS. Ohio law provides that a county may pay a needy mother a pension of $25 a month, with $10 more for each child under sixteen. It is a good law and it would be hard to name a better use for some part of the millions collected from the taxpayers every year. The great trouble in this (Cuyahoga) county is that many a mother in dire need is unable to collect the pension allowed her by law because of "lack of funds"—according to the county commissioners. The fact seems to be, as usual, that hundreds of mothers are paid and other hundreds are left unpaid. We believe the commissioners would gain unanimous approval, for once, if they were to adopt a permanent policy of paying every mother in need every dollar the pension law provides, even though it were necessary to economize somewhere else. PROGRESSING. Elsewhere in this issue of The Gazette will be found a couple of letters from Gov. A. Vic Donahue, in one of which he expresses thorou appreciation of the support he received at the last election from Afro-American voters of Ohio. Every one of our votes cast for the Governor and his running mate, Earl D. Bloom of Bowling Green on the date mentioned, counted two for them and every vote we withheld from the color-line Republican candidates for Governor and Lieutenant-Governor respectively, Messrs. Cooper and Mills, counted one for the victorious candidates, Gov. A. V. Donahey and Lieut. Gov. Elect Earl D. Bloom. This is the most encouraging exhibition of independent thinking and voting and of self and race respect our people of the state have given in many, many years. Thank the Lord for it, because it is an indication of progress, most encouraging indeed. May it continue! The direct and indirect support given Messrs. Donahey and Bloom was more than double the majority of the former over his Republican opponent (Cooper) and was at least five times the latter's majority over his Republican opponent (Mills). BRUSSEAU'S CHARGES. We do not know who Sheridan S. Brusselux of Chicago is but we do know that the "Wilberforce noise" he is making is but a duplicate of that "stirred up" by residents of color at the nation's capitol, Washington, D. C., several years ago. Also, that it will amount to just about as much. As far as the Combined Normal and Industrial (State) department of Wilberforce University is concerned, his charges are without foundation in fact but will result, if persisted in, in lessening the financial and other support given the State department by the Ohio Assembly. And that is, we presume, all he and his allies hope to accomplish outside of a little cheap notoriety. His claim, that he "is representing two million five hundred thousand members of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, is just about as ridiculous as his charges against Wilberforce University's State department. 1930 THE MUSICAL THEATRE "KENTUCKY SUE"! 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Business men who advertise in this paper should have the patronage of our people. The fact that they advertise is assurance that they want it. All reading matter for publication in current issues of The Gazette must be in the office by 4 p. m., TUESDAY of that week, at the latest. Display advertisements accepted until noon, WEDNESDAYS! HARRY C. SMITH, 226 West Superior Avenue, Cleveland, O. (Opposite, Hotel Cleveland.) Notary Public Bell 'Phone: Cherry 1259 (Call in the Afternoon.) Classified Advertising Department FOR RENT.—5618 Whittier Ave. Six rooms. Modern. Newly decorated. With or without garage. Reasonable rent. For information call Cherry 8928. FOR RENT.—Five nice rooms, up-stairs, at 2417 E. 82nd St., near Quincy Ave. Reasonable rent. Call Cherry 1259 in the afternoon, or call at Room 304, No. 226 W. Superior Ave., opposite the Hotel Cleveland. CLEVELAND Social and Personal Dallas Terrell, well-known locally, died, recently. Miss Dorothy Hughes is now in the employ of the Boyd Piano Co. Mrs. George A. Myers and daughter, Miss Dorothy, of Pasadena Ave., were in Columbus, recently. J. C. Williams and Miss Catherine Price, newlyweds, are located in E. 40th St. Mrs. Mildred Gants entertained the Assembly Study club, recently. Rev. Saul A. Lucas was given a surprise party, recently. Miss Lydia, daughter of Atty, and Mrs. Alex. H. Martin, and Miss Frances Brown, students of Ohio State University, visited their parents, recently. The best and cheapest caps in the city are at The Famous Cap Factory, 3229 Central Ave. Buy at this neighborhood store and save money on headwear. The editor of The Gazette is in receipt of a letter from Miss Rush Anna Fisher of London, England, a former resident of Lorain, who has many friends in this city. The Apex Laundry Co. made an assignment last week Friday, by court order. The proprietors were Jesse F. Meeks, Mr. Hooker Page and Mr. Barksdale. Mrs. Laura Collins, an old resident of the city and an aunt of Mr. Burnie Whiting, who went to California, years ago, returning recently, died last week. Pneumonia, Funeral, Monday afternoon. The Pearlman Furniture Co. 3841 Woodland Ave. is an old established business house and one of the best in the city. Do not hesitate to patronize this company, because it is thorolly reliable and dependable. When selecting your Xmas gifts, Schreibman Bros., 2302 E. 55th St., shouldn't be forgotten. Here you can secure your gifts in jewelry, etc., now, with only a small deposit. They have many specialties to select from, too. Loula V. Jones, who went to Detroit, recently, with the Ethel Waters Co., to assist its orchestra, returned to the city the first of the week. The company went on to go on tour it played in a theater never before opened to our companies. THE GEEVU AND IN CLOSING SCHOOLHOUSE IS CIVILIZ AUDIENCE THE GEEVUM GIRLS *M. KLEINMAN'S 2928 Central Ave. *THE S. & S. 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Of the $16,000 he left, only about $6,000 remain, it seems. Robert B. Henderson, nephew, of Petersburg, Va., is the real heir. He arrived in the city, Monday, returning home, Thursday. Three men, early Wednesday morning, appeared at the Douglas club, 4418 Central Ave., where seventy-five men were gathered, studying "astronomy", and held them up in a tent. The guests were $200 from an "unlocked safe" and several watches from the "guests." The men fled in an auto and the "guests" fired several shots at them. The "joint recital" given by Miss Myrtle Wiggins, soprano; assisted by Loula Vaughn Jones, violinist, and Mrs. Alice Van Dirzee Burton, pianist, of Ashtabula, Monday evening, under the auspices of the Lyricrd Singers at Mt. Zilon Cong. church, proved an enjoyable affair. The fifty-five members, was organized in Royal hall, Nov. 27. R. S. Koiner, W. M. Elise Bostice, Lucille Swift, Gladys Watson, Jessie Woodall and Valare Hammonds are our girl members of the Four B class at Rutherford B. Hayes public school pictures of whom were published by my a local daily newspaper because the class made two quilts to add to the newspapers collection of presents to be given to deserving poor-children, Christmas eve. Mrs. Eda M. Ness, and Albert C. Jameson of Rochester, N.Y., were married, last week Monday evening, by Rev. Joseph M. Evans, former pastor of St. James A. M. E. church, now located in Pittsburgh. Following the ceremony, Mr. and Mrs. Jameson and about seventy-five guests, they left on a motor trip, the next morning, and are at home at 38 Danforth St., Rochester, N. Y. The officials of the Tennessee Afro-American State Fair, in addition to applying themselves to the formation of constructive plans for better farming and live stock Raising, will host the 192 exhibition at Nashville, will award six prizes to as many deserving young people. The prizes will be tuition and board and a certain amount of cash. The individual will be permitted to make the selection of any school of higher education in the state, including seminaries. There are many features in the musical comedy, "Kentucky Sue" which comes to the Metropolitan Opera this week. Our week's engagement: "The Jewell Vamp," sung by Chapple Chappell; UM GIRLS G, I REPEAT, 'THE THE BULWARK OF ATION!' FINE, SIS!...YOUVE GOT YOUR SPEECH DOWN PAT! THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, O. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1926 "My Old Kentucky Home", by Juanita Stinnett; the excentric dance, Dodo Green, and the hilarious comedy of Billie Maxle, assisted by the balance of the company in a skirt called the fast moving still. The company has charms and attractiveness with a colorful variety of costumes. There will be a matinee, Saturday, Dec. 18, and a midnight show, that Saturday night. Samuel V. Perry, acquired last week Wednesday, by a jury in federal court, for $974, was re-arrested at once on a charge of violating the adjusted service compensation act. The new charge is based on the transaction in which it was alleged that Perry collected $100 for getting service for the courtroom Mrs. Minnie Whitie. His brother, John, a deputy county clerk, who was arrested, last week Tuesday, on a perjury charge after testifying at Samuel's trial, is also on bond. An inquiry concerning the heirs of Marshall O'Bannon has been received by the Cleveland chapter of the American Red Cross from Waupun, Wisc. O'Bannon died at Wisconsin State hospital, Nov. 3, and left some property for which no direction as to its disposition were made while he lived. According to reports from Madison, Wisc., O'Bannon has a sister Marie, but efforts to locate her have been availing. Marshall O'Bannon was an ex-service man and saw service in France. He enlisted in Milwaukee but did not make clear the city from which he came. It is thought he came from either Cincinnati or Cleveland. Persons knowing of the whereabouts of relatives of O'Bannon are asked to get in touch with Miss Frances Ovlt, director of Information and service claims, Red Cross service section, at 301 Electric bldg., Superior 7000. Testimony was completed. Wednesday, before Probate Judge Addams in the will contest over the estate of the late Edward R. Brandon, "white wing" and former driver of the "Black Maria", the old police wagon that used to conjoined the courtroom to the old workroom. A left an estate of $16,000. A nephew and several cousins of Brandon are seeking a share in the estate. Judge Addams announced he would not give a decision for several weeks, as he desired to first inspect the records of the case as handled by the late Probate Judge Alexander Addams, before his death. Brandon was believed to have been very poor when he died, but later it was found he had left the small fortune. MASONIC HALL—SUNDAY ROLAND HALL Mail Orders With Check or Pickard, 1310 Huron Road Tickets, $1.10, $1.65, THE STO CHRISTM Good Mail Orders With Check or P. O. Money Order to Kathryn Pickard, 1310 Huron Road, Are Now Being Received. Tickets, $1.10, $1.65, $2.20 and $2.75 Each CHRISTMAS GIFTS Low Prices and FAIR TREATMENT IS OUR MOTTO. A Small Deposit Will Hold Any Article Until Wanted. 3841 WOODLAND AVENUE ... AND IN CLOSING, I REPEAT, THE SCHOOLHOUSE IS THE BOLWARK OF CIVILIZATION! 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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. hurried 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 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 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 in this city in white writing white workers, white people, and black 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 demonstration of situation and not Democratic one. It was begun by Republicans, and to its all-embracing extent by Republicans! There is far more of it in the departments, today, than at any time since the Negro first appeared, close upon the close of the Civil War. The picture requirement in the civil service, which makes it next to impossible for a colored lady or gentleman to enter the civil service, since their color is disclosed in their photograph which must accompany papers, is tenaciously held on to by our Republican President. Only last week, a colored girl appeared after having passed the best examination, and after having been telegraphed for by the department. The photograph had failed to tell her true color, and they flatly refused to appoint her when she appeared, and they saw her complexion. Commissioner Blair of the internal revenue bureau with thousands of clerks will not appoint a Negro clerk, and his word is law there, as he is the special favorite of Secretary Mellon and President Coolidge. He has almost North Carolina, the member of the other favorite and the member of the segregation forces, Col. Sherrill, superintendent buildings and grounds, is not used to complain of either of our southern gentlemen. No 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 hit 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 postive segregation is rampant. the faithful colored clerks under constant humiliation and physical disadvantages. The department spacious caferies 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 covered clerks than is the thought of their government taking them as it takes those of the whites, for the comfort of the latter, and setting them off as though they were lepers. The injustice alling the more when they reflect that they are far capable than the whites, and render the government more intelligent and efficient service—the white man of their attainment being able to get far more lucrative employment. The department goes even farther in its solicitude for whives and neglect of colored. It maintains a well-appointed club room with pool tables and other games, a comfortable tongues and other equipment for rest, sociability, and recreation, and nothing for these same colored employees. This private club is in the magnificent postoffice building, built and maintained by ALL of the people. In the locker rooms there is segregation, and segregation is even attempted in the toilets. And all of this is against the most dependable is faithful employees. and matriarch. Last year 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 dances 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 no ordered masters to be served 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 handling of mail. The colored clerks have dared to union which men are regularly and often sends them mainly and intelligent protests to the postmaster, and often comes from his decisions to the postmaster-general. It has secured some improvement in their working conditions, but they are still bitter over the huge injustice done to them for nothing else than the color of their skin. (Special to The Gazette.) Washington, D. C.—The government printing office keeps faith with the government's universal scheme of segregation. Some of the best and brightest of our girls are forced to accept inferior positions there on account of the better and more lucrative avenues of employment being closed to them because of their color. The whites are generally of a very mediocre group, far from equaling our girls in educational equipment, culture, and working efficiency. Yet these superior girls are set off from the whites with the latter, of course, having the better working conditions, salaries and recreational facilities. There is a large cafeteria in this huge structure to meet the employees may go but there are a few tables out-of-the-way that are needed for our employees. I am glad to say that few, very few, of our people patronize the places, 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 promotion. Here, as elsewhere, the superior position over one of 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. Dunning lunch and dinner hours they repair to this restful retreat for sociability and dance. Last fall, a young Afro-American with a splendid record his work, felt the injustice of his experience and 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 for being 'one of those smart Negroes who bring social equality, and then dismisses a then-updied-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 afire in revenge for his exclusion from the dance floor. Detectives came to the building to arrest him, and to secure any evidence searched him only to discover the pistol. They quickly dropped the arson charge one for carrying unsecured weapons for which he was immediately dismissed. By this severe punishment 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 parachy 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, DECEMBER 11, 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 came an order for segregation of the races, and 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 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 discouraged, 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 to attack White House, Cabinet members, our people, and the Nation. Association secured publicity in over six hundred influential white papers in the country. The fight checked what was thought to be the intention of the segregators, namely, the elimination of the colored employees from the bureau alt to 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 Abraham Lincoln, Charles Sumner and Frederick Douglass are helped to found. Our girls are employed there in far larger numbers than in any other branch of the public service. We have their rest rooms, toilets, and working stations, and of course none are ever thought of for promotions to executive places. They are girls from our best nomes, most of them with high apt. 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 wages for even mediocre talents, best for the most serious of these inferior positions, the inevitable 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 abest financial genius since the days of Alexander Hamilton. It is to be remembered that the great Hamilton came from the abest 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 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 can't be noticed; there is the same general complaint being our clerks and other employees as there is among other branches of the government—failure to recognize their efficiency when promotion 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 toilets, locker rooms, rest rooms, etc., set off for colored. The toilets for the colored are few in such a large structure. Hence, the segregated clerks are forced to endure physical inconvenience at times, and are forced to travel long distances when they desire the use of them. The department maintains a huge, magnificent cafeteria, in the splendid sweep of woodland along our national driveway. The students' 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 Blanche K. Brown, are filled by white man and the coloured people are congregated in a separate room which is publicly proclaimed as "a colored division." When it is discovered that Negro clerks are "working as white" in other divisions, they are promptly transferred to this "colored division." Our people fear that protest against this segregation would result in the abolition of the division altogether; so they remain in a dilemma, fearing to act. Our clerks must accept segregation or elimination, and be poor, or no longer in the southern atmosphere, must take the former. They are depressed at the wrong, but economic stress compels endurance of it. By a single stroke of his pen, President Calvin Coolidge can stop every bit of 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, 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 began. He was on again at full speed. It had slowed up a little during the campaign. Investigation of Bureaus Investigation of Bureau An investigation of the executive departments and bureaus listed below shows that segregation prevails in them as follows: Office of the Register of the Treasury, there are two segregated sections—one with 30 Afro-American employees and the other with 14. Navy Department — one segregated section of 18 of our employees, as well as a segregated lunch room. Census Bureau — a segregated section of 60 Afro-American employee. Bonus Section Bonus section of the War Department—one segregated section of 180 of our employees. Veterans Bureau—a segregated section of 16 employees. Department of Justice—a segregated section of 10 employees in the file room. Office on 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 hothouse 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 I have 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 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 Our mob-violence or anti-lynching bill was introduced in the Ohio legislature in 1854 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 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 enacted anti-lynching laws. In recent years, like Pennsylvania and New Jersey, The Ohio law follows: Section 6278. "Mob" and "lynching" defined. 6279. "Serious injury" defined. 6280. Damages in case of assault. 6281. Damages in case of lynching. 6282. Damages recoverable by legal representative of victim of lynching. 6283. Person suffering death or injury by mob trying to lynch another. 6284. Limitations of action. 6285. Order to include recovery and costs in tax levy. 6286. Guardian's custody, etc., fees. 6287. County's right of action against member of mob. 6288. County's right of action against another county. 6289. Non-relief from prosecution. 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 person upon the body of any person shall constitute a "lynching" within the meaning of this chapter. (93 v. 161 2.) mit violence on a prisoner brought from such county for safekeeping the county in which the lynching is committed may recover the amount of the judgment and costs from the county from which the mob camegence on the part of officials of such unless there was contributory negligence imprisoned not less than thirty day county in failing to protect such prisoner or dispurse such mob (93 v. 163 11.) Section 6289. This chapter shall 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.) Section 6281. A person assaulted and lynched by a mob may recover from the county in which the 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, such injury result in personnel disability to earn a livelihood by manual labor, a sum not to exceed five thousand dollars. (93 v. 162 5.) Section 6282. 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 shall be distributed, such sum shall be distributed among the sons 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 4.) Section 6286. If the decedent **w** lynch 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 mob. 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- 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 in failing to protect such county or dispense such mob (93 v. 163 11.) Section 6229. This chapter shall not relieve a person concerned in such lynching from prosecution for homicide or assault for engaging therein. (93 v. 163 12.) OUK OHIO CIVIL RIGHTS LAW OOK CIVIL RIGHTS LAW Upon the request of 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 Coge 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 fined not less than fifty dollars nor more than five hundred dollars, or nor more than ninety days, or both. Sec. 12941. Whoever violates the next proprietor's challenge, 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 treaty will, a few years ago, the Akron Journal editorial to which the editor of the Gazette replied, calling its attention to the fact that the Ohio Civil Rights law was good law and did not need amending. The following letter from Judge Grant former presiding judge of the Court of Appeals of the Eighth District of Ohio, is self explanatory: Akron, O., April 25, 1919 Hon. Harry C. Smith. Editor The Gazette, Cleveland, O. Mear Dear Sir: Observing your letter, the Beacon-Journal, of this city I am pleased to 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 ($500) 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 RE PROACH, nor our courts and juries have been so wronged 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. EMANUEL ROSS When King Young, age 34, was sentenced to life imprisonment in the Ohio Penitentiary for the murder, about a year ago, of Isadore Steeck, a central Ave. store-keeper, he was convicted mainly upon the voluntary testimony given by his young accomplice in the crime, Emanuel Ross, age 17, at the time of the murder—so County Prosecutor Edward Stanton announced in the local daily newspapers, some weeks ago, when he refused to write a letter to the State Board of Clemency in Ross' behalf. It has been generally known for many months that Young, the older man, had led the seventeen year old youth into the crime. Ross claimed that Young forced him, while under the influence of "boocht", to fire the shot that killed Steeck. Whether this be true or not, we cannot restrain the feeling that the seventeen year old lad was not treated fairly by the county prosecutor, and the court in which he (Ross) was tried, over which presided Judge Walter McMahon. It has been a custom for many, many months for both prosecutor and court to show some consideration to the prisoner who "turns state's evidence". Ross did this, so County Prosecutor Stanton says, and the a mere lad was shown absolutely no consideration for having enabled the prosecutor and the court to convict and punish the major criminal of the two in the Steeck case. Under the leadership of the local Federation of Women's clubs, backed by our people and friends in this community who supplied the funds to enable it to employ attorneys Alex H. Martin and Louise J. Pridgue, every legal effort possible was put forth to save the lad's life. There is some satisfaction to be derived from this. But, as we said in the beginning we say in closing, we cannot restrain the feeling that the lad was not treated fairly by either the county prosecutor or the court in which he was tried, if the county prosecutor's statement referred to above is true and we have no reason at this time to believe otherwise. "THREW THEIR VOTES AWAY". Prior to the recent state primaries, some "Negro" voters, mostly those wearing a white politician's "jim-crow" collar, gave as a reason for not voting for the Afro-American candidate for the Republican nomination for Governor the silly statement that they did not "want to throw their votes away." At the time, we promised to tell them, after the primaries, how some of them "threw their votes away." And after election day, how ALL of them "threw their votes away" that voted for any of the Republican candidates for Governor, except their own, for whom of course they did not vote. We should have done this in our earlier November issues but have been so busy we quite forgot to do so. That part of the time was devoted to jollying over the defeat of Cooper and Mills, we are free to confess. All those "Negroes" who voted at the primary election or at the regular election for a Republican candidate for Governor (except their own) "threw their votes way" because all of their candidates were defeated either at the primary election or on election day in November, this month, just as we anticipated! Two years hence, we trust all of them will have enough race-loyalty to cast their votes for their own candidate because they will not "throw their votes away" whether he wins or loses. If three-fourths of our men and women in Ohio eligible to register and vote would vote for him, success would surely be ours. Therefore, encourage general registration and solidarity in voting for our candidates (competent) for office, regardless of what ticket they may be on. "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, and the hearts of friends grow cold, but the sense of duty done shall be sweeter than the applause of the world, the countenances of relatives or the hearts of friends."—Charles Sumner Patronize Our Advertisers