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FAR MORE OUTSPOKEN A CENTURY AGO! IN J. V. RON IS STRONGER FORTY-NINTH YEAR TWO INTER By JOSEPH FADEOUT Tells how and why our people Their Constitutional Right discussion of the Klan and A $1.00. From Five This is Mr. Manning's life 1870 to 1880 BOTH BOOK T. A. HEBBON 184 W. 185th St. THE COM BASE Rarely a Swee Offered at the 84 for women A sensational sale of slipp Springiest thing ever. Pun necks, many are lacy wee charm. We don't guaran these sweaters will help you THE MAY O Save Eagle TWO INTERESTING BOOKS By JOSEPH C. MANNING FADEOUT OF POPULISM show and why our people of the South are de- prir Constitutional Rights. Brought down to the location of the Klan and Anti-Saloon League Postul From Five to Twenty-Five. Is Mr. Manning's life story embracing the per- 1870 to 1895. Price, $1.00. BOTH BOOKS FOR $1.50. T. A. HEBBONS, PUBLISHER, 184 W. 185th St., Dept. B, New York City. 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BISHOPS? statistical Comparison of the African and the Methodist Epi- by Charl Item number of Church Edifices number of Church Members average Members per Church value of Church Edifices number of Bishops Active in U. S. churches per Bishop members per Bishop* value Churches per Bishop *With the number of A. M. E. Comparison of the African Methodist Episcopal Church and the Methodist Episcopal Church (White), by Charles E. Hall. African Methodist Episcopal Church Edifices 6,708 Church Members 545,814 Bers per Church 81 Church Edifices $32,092,549 Bishops Active in U. S. 13 Bishop 516 Bishop* 41,985 Bers per Bishop $2,468,657 The number of A. M. E. bishops restored to 17 o Statistical Comparison of the African Methodist Episcopal Church (A. M. E.) and the Methodist Episcopal Church (White), by Charles E. Hall. Item African Methodist Episcopal Methodist Episcopal (White) Number of Church Edifices 6,708 26,130 Number of Church Members 545,814 4,080,777 Average Members per Church 81 156 Value of Church Edifices $32,092,549 $406,165,659 Number of Bishops Active in U. S. 13 21 Churches per Bishop 516 1,244 Members per Bishop* 41,985 194,323 Value Churches per Bishop $2,468,657 $19,341,222 *With the number of A. M. E. bishops restored to 17 or to 16 active bishops in the United States, the average membership per bishop would drop to less than 35,000 (34,113) as compared with an average of 194,323 per white bishop. Although there was an increase of ONLY seventy-five A. M. E. churches, during the ten-year period covered by the last U. S. religious census, the yearly expenditures jumped in excess of FOUR MILLION DOLLARS, or from $3,413,395 to $7,600,161. This is spite of the fact that, during the same period, there was an actual decrease, as REPORTED BY CHURCH OFFICIALS, of 2,541 members and 22,804 Sunday school scholars. THE GAZETTE ESTABLISHED, AUGUST 25, 1883 And Issued Every Week on Time Since CLEVELAND, OHIO, SATURDAY, MARCH 19, 1932. FRESH OHIO NEWS 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. DAYTON.—Edw. C. Huff, Jr., and Nellie E. Porter were married, recently. He is a local motorcycle policeman and manager of the Dayton Marcos, local baseball team. — S. H. Grant, an old citizen, died, recently, the funeral of Mr. Muffie Willex was held from the residence. — A grand rally was held at St. John Baptist church, Sunday. Prof. C. L. Ridley spoke in the evening. — Miss Jennie Porter of Cincinnati was here for a day, recently. YOUNGSTOWN. — Miss Isabelle Lawson, ex. sec. of the Cedar Ave. branch. Y. W. C. A., Pittsburgh, made an interesting talk at the Belmont "Y.'s" annual membership drive, last week Thursday evening. — Rev. W. H. Trus, P. E., admin. morning, and Lord's supper, Sunday morning, and Lord's supper, W. E. Church, creating an excellent impression. — Elmer Harvey, who was arrested, recently, has been reinstated as an employee of the washroom in the Terminal Bldg, it is said. ZANESVILLE. — Our people of this city have organized and are making a united effort to secure positions in business places largely patronized by them. Committees are interviewing managers of the various stores, and in a short time the fight will be on in earnest. — A former here are arranging to attend a M.E.E. conference to be held in Cleveland in May, Dr. Oliver W. Childers of Boston, former successful pastor of a number of churches in Ohio, will get some support for the bishopric from here. He is an ideal candidate for a place on the bench. CORRESPONDENTS must mail all letters for publication at their main postoffice sufficiently early on Sunday or Monday 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, and send them about returned copies, if proper care it for them is desired. Lists of names, wedding presents, programs, obituary notices, inquiries for relatives and advertisements of all kinds, including items announcing entertainments to be held in the near future, must be paid for in advance at the rate of 15 cents a line, six words to a line, and rates for display advertisements will be sent on application. CADIZ—James Cochran, a former resident here, died in Oberlin and was buried here. Monday afternoon, from St. James A. M. E. church, Rev. W. H. Lucas officiating. A number of relatives from Oberlin attended the funeral—Mrs. Parthena Doubt was called to Martin's Ferry by the death of the infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Booker Lucas.—Miss Elizabeth number of the debating team of McKenna Canton, carried off the honors of the evening, and won the debate from the St. Clairsville team. Monday evening, at our high school auditorium. Question: "Resolved, That the Several States Should Eact Legislation Providing for Compulsory Unemployment Insurance." SPRINGFIELD—Mrs. Matilda J. Davis, age 81, a member of North St. A. M. E. church for 35 years, died, recently, at her niece, Mrs. A. A. an Knapper's. She was an annuity of the La Laws and Vm, and Fred Adams of Cleveland and Funeral from Patterson's parlor, Rev. C. N. Harris officiating. Burial in Urbana —The Consolidated Investment club has fed more than 2,000 persons during the depression.—Mrs. Thos. Green and daughter, Lavada Davey, have returned to Detroit.—Mr. S. Blanchard, 519 S. Center St., has taken over the agency of The Gazette for this city and nearby cities to supply a glad to supply all persons with care to papier who will notify him that they desire it, and will also receive from them local news for publication in this letter, each week. So get in touch with Mr. Blanchard immediately and tell your friends and acquaintances to do likewise. "The Old Reliable" Gazette has been published now nearly fifty years, every week on time, and as an advocate and defender of the race, all thru these years, needs no introduction to curry up the field, or Ohio, and about all of the rest of the country. Read The Gazette regularly and keep up-to-date. HEAR! HEAR!! The ROUNDER WHAT'S DOING! Prof. Carter G. Woodson of Washington, D. C., in a "release," under date, March 9, 1932, asks: "Do we get what we deserve? No, we get what we SHOW we deserve. According to the U. S. census of 1930, 67% of our local population were 21 years of age, making 47,953 eligible to vote here in Cleveland. The report states that our vote is 8½% of the total voting strength of Cleveland. Cleveland's total registered vote in 1931 was 246,338. Our local contemporary, The Call-Post, which finally succeeded in being issued on Saturday afternoon, three weeks ago, was unable to get out, two weeks ago, until last week Sunday morning when it applied reduced one-half in size, a four page paper instead of eight pages. Last week, it had a little better success even if it did fail to send "The Old Reliable" its exchange copy. Isn't it just a little strange that "The Cleveland Daily News," of all the three daily papers of Cleveland, failed to mention the fact that Mrs. Viola Montgomery was coming to band with "Theother Mooney to participate in the 2014 Engineers' auditorium, Wednesday evening?" "The News" was furnished the same release, giving the above information, that the other daily newspapers were furnished, and yet it apparently purposely omitted any mention of Mrs. Montgomery, the mother of one of our Scottboro, Ala. newspapers. Would it "The News" really cares for the patronage of our people? --- Local Democrats of color (so-called) who want a few good positions more than they do jobs, and who refuse to be satisfied with the appointment of about 150 Afro-Americans to jobs at the garbage plant, are beginning to lose confidence in their leader, Mike's promises of better representation than the Republicans gave our people under Daniel E. Morgan, former city manager. We predicted in the beginning that the many Democratic promises to our voters would not be kept. Indeed they cannot be unless they are placed at the disposal to give out are placed at the disposal of those of color whom they agreed to take care of in event of a Democratic victory. JOHNSON'S GOLD! The President of Howard University Charged With "Lining His Pockets" With That Useful Article by Charging Even Howard Alumni Meetings for His Public Speeches. Washington, D. C.—In a release received, this week, from "The Howard University Alumni Investigation Committee" the statement is made that althou Pres. Mordecai W. Johnson of Howard University, this city, receives a salary of $15,000 he "has been secretly lining his pockets with gold by demanding not less than $100 for each of his many public speeches, even in the case of locations as close to Washington as Baltimore" and even when out of the city speaking for alumni. Stronger charges were brot against President Johnson by this same committee in a telegraph to Howard at their special meeting at St. George hotel in New York City, Monday, urging his dismissal. PONSELLE SISTERS IN "LA GIOCONDA"! Their First Appearance Together in Grand Opera to Be Here in Cleveland—the "Mets" Season, This Year, to Be Really Great. For the first time in grand opera, the two Ponselle sisters will be together in the ninth annual spring festival of the Metropolitan Opera Company of New York in the great public auditorium in Cleveland, April 21 to 23. Years ago, when they were last together, it was in a sister act in vaudeville and in those days the family looked to Carmela O ROSA PONSELLE The great dramatic soprano of the Metropolitan Opera will be beamed in "La Gioconda" on Saturday evening, April 23, in Cleveland's ninth opera festival in the Public Auditorium. This will be part of "All-Ohio Day," when Lily Pons, Lucrezia Bori and Grace Moore will sing "Tales of Hoffmann" as the matinee. Ponselle is the one who would bring fame and fortune to the name. In time, both girls made good with the Metropolitan, but it was Rosa Ponselle's dramatic soprano that won world-renown and over-shadowed the rich contralto of her sister, Carmela. Both have been with the Metropolitan for some years now, yet never before have they been cast together in grand opera and all Ohio will hear this world premiere on "All-Ohio Day," with Rosa Ponselle as "La Gloconda" and Carmela Ponselle as "Laura" in the Ponchelli opera in "April," with the supporting cast will Giovanni Martinelli, the great-voiced Italian tenor; Henrietta Wakefield, Mario Basiola, Ezio Pinza and the ballet headed by Rita De Leporte. Unusual interest attaches to the Saturday matinee, when "Tales or Hoffmann" will be sung with three great sopranos in the leading roles, Lucrezia Bori as "Antonio"; Lily Pons as "Olympia" and Grace Moore as "Giulietta." Lawrence Tibbett, Frederick Jagel, Pavel Ludikar, Leon Rothier, Gladys Swarthout, Henrietta Wakefield, a host of the cast. The evening's performance, April 21, will be Lily Pons' sensational new East Indian success, the revival of the French opera "Lakme," with a gala cast including Georges Thill, Gladys Swarthout. Aida Doninelli. The ballet is headed by Miss De Leporte, Alexis Mendez Kosloff and Joseph Levinoff. Friday evening's production will be the favorite opera, "Manon," with Lucrezia Bori in the title role and with Beniamino the will be the "Laurel." Lucrezia Botti, Rothier the "Des Grieux" and a dozen other stars complete the brilliant cast. Season ticket orders, at special reduced rates, are being accepted now at Lyon and Healy's. 1226 Huron football will be startled the last of the month. MOTON AND SPINGARN New York City.—The 18th award of the Spingarn medal, given annually for highest achievement of some Afro-American, goes to Major Robert Russa Moton, principal of Tuskegee Ala. Institute. The gold medal, given by Major J. E. Spingarn, N. A. A. C. P. president, will be presented to Major Moton at the annual conference of that organization in Washington, D. C., in May. In making the award the committee stated that it had been made to "Robert Russa Moton for his thoughtful leadership of conservative opinion and action on the Afro-American, as shown in the U. S. Veterans hospital controversy at Tuskegee; by his stand on education in Halif; by his support of equal opportunity for the Afro-American in the school system; and by his expression of thanks to the Afro-American in his book, "What the Afro-American Thinks." SINGLE COPY FIVE CENTS THEY STOOD THEIR GROUND AND FOUGHT "JIM-CROW" PROPOSITIONS OF ALL KINDS. And Announced That They Would Not Permit Others to Formulate Programs for the Race, But Would Fight to the Bitter End for the Freedom of Their People. Washington, D. C. — When the free Negroes were advised a hundred years ago to go to Africa they replied to their traductors that they would never separate themselves from the slave population of this country as they were brethren by the "ties of consanguinity, of suffering, and of wrong." When in 1816 a men-men-men-James Warren, Fonsec and Robert Jump were referred to as a foreign element whose social status might not be secure in this country, instead of permitting the colonizationists to shove them aside as criminals to be deported to a distant shore, they replied in no uncertain terms that this soil in America which gave them birth is their only true home. "Here their fathers fought, bled, and died for this country and here they intended to stay." Today when such things come up you find Negroes appearing upon the scene to see how much pay the colonizationists had to bear in the race. Further emphasizing this thought of resistance a few years later, Nathaniel Paul, a Baptist preacher of Albany, informed the colonizationists that the free Negroes would not permit their traducers to formulate a program for the race. "You may go ahead with your plan to deport this element to make slavery secure, but we will never emigrate to Africa. We shall stay here and fight until the foul manhunt for the slavehunter and these Negroes ago stood their ground and fought the pro-slavery deportationists to a standstill, for with the exception of a few pioneers the emigrants to Liberia were largely slaves manumitted on the condition that they would settle in Africa. These freed-men could have no ideals but those of the slavehaving section from which they were sent. They established, therefore, a slavevacancy in Liberia. If Liberia has failed, then, it is no evidence of the failure of the Negro in government. It is purely evidence of the failure of slavery. The Negroes attacking a monstrous " Jim-crowism" almost a century ago fearlessly questioned the constitutionality of such a provision. Speaking through Charles Lenox Remond of that day, they said: HELP MONROE TROTTER! By Sending Your Subscription to His Paper, "The Guardian"—A Fearless and Aggressive Leader Boston, Mass., Mar. 27, '32. Hon Harry C. Smith. Eddie Harry, O. Dearnry. Dear Harry:—As I approach 60 years, fighting segregation, you seem Editor Wm. Monroe Trotter. all the more a marvel to me, going so strong at your years and fighting segregation and the hardest of all, self-segregation. I am going over the cards of my Ohio subscribers. Yours is, of course, marked "free." However, you have some cards: "Gazette" tree and have also donated to "keeze" the "Guardian" going. I was dedicated to work for race equality from five years on by exelling and at 20 was in Howard Piihet Betta Kappa, the first colored. Now at 60 all I ask of my race is a congratulation trial and supplementary, the Guardian and supplementary, a dollar member in the National Equal Rights THE GAZETTE is the oldest class publication of the kind, and has the largest boma fide circulation among Ohio Afro-Americans, double that of any other newspaper published in this or any other state, and comparison with any will immediately establish its rank as one of the NEWEST AND BEST published in the interest of Afro-Americans. THE COPY FIVE CENTS Y AGO! FOR LEADERS GROUND AND FOUGHT SITIONS OF ALL KINDS. They Would Not Permit Others s for the Race, But Would End for the Freedom "There is a distinction between social and civil rights. We all claim the privilege of selecting our society and associations, but, in civil rights, one man has not the prerogative to race (race) distinctions react in all their wickedness—to say nothing of their concocted and systematized odiousness and absurdity—upon those who are illiberal and mean enough to practice them." In our day, however, I find some highly educated Negroes approving such behaviorism." The trouble with the Negroes of today, as I have said before, is that they have not the moral courage to fight. They are now seeking the line of least resistance, each one trying to feather his own nest. The so-called educated Negro is the worst coward of the whole group. His education "has masqueraded him into a court of Kurtney" in "jim-crow" car, into Ohio. I witnessed this demonstration. In facetious fashion, showing how lightly he took the humiliation of his race, the porter yelled: "We now cross the Mason and Dixon line. Pull down the "jim-crow" sign. Ladies, put on your powder and paint. And begin to look what you ain't. Just at that moment a stout, husky, dark-brown Negro hod-carrier of fifty, or fifty-five leaped from his seat and, showing fire in his eye and giving expression to stirring emotions in his bosom, cried out: "Yes, we are crossing the Mason-Dixon line, and it seems it again! I will never raise my children in the land of jim-crow!" For such a spirit, we cannot look to the so-called educated Negro. Such training as our traduces have provided for Negroes makes them feel that they do not amount to anything and that their case from within is hopeless. The Negro, then, is taught to fall back on the superstition that God will miraculously cause something to happen. In one respect he is right, for it is the Negro who will go, but what will happen will not be what the Negro is praying for. The Negro must learn to answer his own prayers. (Prof.) Carter G. Woodson. League, my two efforts for the race. If in your columns you can ask the race to thus tush a hand to Monroe Trotter at 60, it will encourage me more than money. Long live the 'equal rights champion, Harry C. Smith. Yours for the cause of equality, Wm. Monroe Trotter. 56 Pembertin St., Boston, Mass. "Black and White," a Soviet Movie, Moscow, Russia.—"Black and White" is to be the title of a film just going into production here which will portray the historic struggle of the Afro-American from African days down to the present. It is intended largely for foreign consumption, though it will be shown in this country. Lovett Whiteman, a Chicago Afro-American and Commander now professor of mathematics and physical sciences here at the American school, will also sit in on meetings of the production staff. J. W. Ford, another Afro-American, is in America assembling a troupe of actors and collecting necessary properties. "Gorilla" Wouldn't "Beat Him Up!" Holyoke, Mass. — State Boxing Commissioner Daniel J. Kelly, in attendance here Monday night, ordered the ten-round bout between "Gorilla Jones" of Akron, world middleweight champion, and Frankie O'Brien (white) of Hartford, stopped at the end of the eighth round. Kelly asserted the middleweights were not trying. Referee Jesse Watson there disqualified Jobe who was held up. O'Brien received the referee's verdict and the wages promised him. This looks one-sided and bad! Millions for Tuskegee and Hampton Rochester, N. Y.—George East- man, founder of the greatest kodak industry in the world who commit- ted suicide at his home here, March 14, after giving away more than $75. 000,000, included among his many benefactions a gift of $2,362,000 to Tuskegee, Ala. Institute and $2,000. 000 to Hampton, Va. Institute. The GAZETTE 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 226 W. Superior Ave., Cleveland, O. (Bell Phone: CHerry 1259) Member Ohio Legislature: 1894 to 1896; 1896 to 1898; 1900 to 1902 UNION IS STRONGTH 10,000,000 Afro-Americans. 325,000 in Ohio. 75,000 in Cleveland. SATURDAY, MARCH 19, 1932. Some one has well said that the lynch-murderer and the kidnapper are twin brothers. The law cannot be made too severe for them. Some of these days the committee en awards of the Spingarn medal will get ashamed of itself and give to the relatives of Prof. Neval H. Thomas (deceased) a Spingarn medal. He was the N. A. A. C. P.'s best worker during the closing years of his life. Narrow-minded officials of the N. A. A. C. P. prevented this from being done, several years ago. Congressman Oscar De Priest has introduced a bill calling for pensions ($30 a month) for former slaves seventy-five years of age and over who were freed by Lincoln's emancipation proclamation of Jan. 1, 1863. As a member of this country's highest legislative body, Mr. De Priest has been anything but a "howling" success Col. Chas. A. Lindbergh's desperate resort to enlisting members of gangdom to the effort to rescue his kidnapped baby son is regarded in Great Britain, we are told, as "the last indictment of American civilization." It also reminds the British of China, where such a state of affairs is common. And the British are quite right in their criticism. Our country too often interferes in the affairs of other countries and is continually sending missionaries abroad to teach their our "civilization," says a friend who also asks, why should any country want it? Yes, why? Especially when we recall the disfranchisement, lynching and "jim-crowning" of American citizens so prevalent in the southern part of this country of ours. --- We call the attention, particularly, of all of our many readers to the communication elsewhere in this paper from Editor Wm. Monroe Trotter of "The Boston Guardian" and trust that as far as they are able to do so, they will not hesitate to accept and act on the suggestion made therein. If memory serves us correctly, Mr. Trotter and his father were many years ago residents of Chillicothe. That fact ought to cause our people of Ohio to have a special interest in Editor Trotter and "The Guardian" because of their splendid work for the race, extending over a very long period of time. WOODSON AND THE YOUNG MAN. In his latest "release" to our newspapers, Prof. Carter G. Woodson of Washington, D. C., tells of a young business man of the race's flippant talk to him relative to the wisdom of issuing a daily newspaper in that city, and shows plainly how he was influenced by it. This, too, after the professor had told the young man, and very properly, too, how foolish it was to undertake any such thing at this time. Since 1917, there have been scores of business failures, large and small, started in this section of the country by members of the race, like Prof. Woodson's flippant young man, who came north in that year and since. All of them had too big ideas of a business nature, but little or no experience and less capital, and yet expected to succeed because others (whites with experience and sufficient capital) in the same line had succeeded. They need experience in the business engaged in, nor sufficient capital, two essentials absolutely necessary. How foolish, and yet Prof. Woodson would encourage this sort of thing, judging from his "release" which he heads "Youth Trying to Find a Way." When our youth, and others, recognize the fact that capital and experience are absolutely necessary in business, along with several other qualifications almost equally as important, and indulge in far less flippant talk about what they DON'T DO THAT-DON'T YOU KNOW THERE'S A LAW AGAINST GETTING THE PARK ALL MUSSED UP? I HAVE NOTHING TO LIVE FOR. I INVESTED ALL MY MONEY IN A FAKE STOCK TO MAKE DIAMONDS OUT OF SAWDUST AND I'M MORE BUSTED THAN A TOY BALLOON ABOUG A LOT OF CIGARETTE BUTTS. HERE'S $100 FOR A FRESH START IN LIFE THANKS, MISTER-ILL NEVER PUT A NICKEL IN ANOTHER STOCK AS LONG AS I LIVE AND $0 TIME PASSES AND OUR FRIEND BECOMES A PROPER- OUS AND RESPECTED CITIZEN AGAIN- BUT NOW, LISTEN, THIS IS ONE CHANCE IN A LIFETIME- WE HAVE ONLY 100 SHARES OF CONSOLIDATED BOLONEY LEFT AT $100 A SHARE WE GOT $10,000 SAVED UP AND THIS MAY REALLY BE MY BIG CHANCE I HOPE I'M NOT TOO LATE CONSOLIDATED BOLONEY CO. THEY ALWAYS COME BACK FOR MORE THIS STOCK WILL DOUBLE ITSELF IN A MONTH BOLONEY! F IT'S SO GOOD, WON'T YOU KEEP IT YOURSELF! are going to do, the better it is going to be for this race of ours. Then try to do well little things of a business nature before attempting "big things." Monday midnight, we received a telegram from Prof. M. F. Whittaker, acting president of our State Agricultural and Mechanical college at Orangeburg, S. C., announcing the death. Sunday, of Robert Shaw Wilkinson, president of that institution. Funeral, Tuesday afternoon. It has been many years since the editor of this paper felt the passing of a friend like he feels that of Prof. Wilkinson. He was one of our boys — employed in the office of The Gazette while a student at Oberlin college, many years ago. We watched his steady rise, to the presidency of the South Carolina A. & M. college at Orangeburg, and from time to time during the past 20 years, we have PETER H. HARRIS noted in The Gazette the improvements in the way of added buildings etc., that totaled a cost of more than a million dollars under his leadership. Only recently, as our many readers will recall, The Gazette published an excellent portrait of Dr Wilkinson and his institution's new gymnasium, just completed and equipped, at a cost of $56,000. Since then we have received several communications from him in none of which did he refer to being ill, but on the contrary, wrote that he hoped to visit Cleveland and his many old friends here and at Oberlin during the summer months of this year. It sure hurts to announce that "Wilk," is many of his old and close friends, hereabouts were want to address him, has "checked out" so suddenly and unexpectedly. His family has the heartfelt sympathy of all in this great loss to them, his many friends South and North, and the institution over which he presided so ably and successfully for so very many years. A close and dear friend has passed out. Judge Wm. C. Keough, president of the Citizens' League, in addressing the Cornell Club at Hotel Statler, this city, last week Thursday, made the statement "that over twenty per cent of the votes in the colored wards were for Mayor Ray T. Miller." The judge is in error, if he means to impress the impression that over twenty per cent of the colored votes in the wards mentioned were cast for Mayor Miller. Daniel E. Morgan received a total of 22,489 votes in wards 11, 12, 17 and 18, which he refers to as "the colored wards." Mayor Miller received a total vote in these wards of only 4,744 nearly 4,000 of which were cast by the Jewish, Italian, Irish and other voters that are not colored. As a matter of fact, there were not 500 colored votes cast for Mayor Miller in wards 11, 12, 17 and 18, because there are not that many colored Democrats (so-called) in the city of Cleveland. The southern leadership of national Democracy is what has always made it impossible for any considerable number of colored voters to ally themselves with the Democratic party, and local Democrats will never be "clever enough" to overcome this as long as southern leadership of their party is in control of the states that disfranchise, "jim-crow" and lynch "Negroes." THE GAZETTE. CLEVELAND. Q. SATURDAY, MARCH 19, 1932 OHIO'S MOB VIOLENCE ACT OR ANTI-LYNCHING LAW LEADS THE COUNTRY IN EFFECTIVE LEGISLATION Against the Mob and Lynch-Murder-Three Years Work of a Member of the Race-Also His Ohio Civil Rights Law. Section 6278. "Mob" and "lynching" defined. 6279. "Serious injury" defined. 6280. Damages in case of assault. 6281. Damages in case of lynching. 6282. damages recoverable by legal representative of victim of lynching. 6283. Poisoning or 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 mo-violence or anti-lynching bill was introduced in the Ohio legislature in 1894 and re-introduced in 1896. It took the Hon. Harry C. Smith, editor of The Gazette, just three years to secure its enactment into law. The Ohio Supreme Court has several times upheld the constitutionality of the law and it has been MOBS 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 person receiving 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 inquiry as per the terms of the order from a person receiving from earning a livelihood by manual labor. (93 v. 161 3). Section 6280. A person taken from officers of justice by a mob and assaulted with whips, clubs, missiles or in any other manner, may recover as he needs it, and be issued one thousand dollars as damages from the county in which the assault is made. (93 v. 161 4.) Section 6281. A person assaulted and lynched by a mob may recover from the county in which such assault is made a sum not to exceed $10,000. A person may receive therefrom is serious, a sum not exceeding one thousand dollars; or, if such injury result in permanent disability, to earn a livelihood by manual labor, a sum not to exceed five thousand dollars. (93 v. 3) 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 re-earns an amount equal to a widow or a share, share be equal to a widow or minor children surviving such decedent, such sum shall be distributed among the next 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 against such person, who is 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 8.) 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 8.) 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 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 the amount of a restitution to 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.) See Us First for All Goods in Our Line JOHN S. HALL Prices Reasonable. Satisfaction Guaranteed. JEWELER AND OPTOMETRIST Eyes Carefully Examined and Glasses Properly Fitted. 7709 Cedar Ave., Cleveland, O. HENDERSON 6028 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 north states and at least one border state (Kentucky) have also enacted anti-lynching laws, in recent years, like Pennsylvania and New Jersey. The Ohio law follows: Bs. ed. representative of victim of lynching try by mob trying to lynch another. costs in tax levy. last member of mob last another county prisoner into another county, or comes from another county to commit violence on a prisoner brought from such county for safekeeping, the county in which the lynching is may recover the amount of the judgment and cover from the county from which the mob came, unless there was contributory negligence on the part of officials of such county in failing to protect such prisoner or dispurse such mob. (93 v. 163 11.) Secure 6289 This chapter shall secure a person concerned in such lynching from the execution or homicide or assault for engaging therein. (93 v. 163 12.) OUR OHIO 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 enclosed while a member of the 71st General Assembly, in 1894: The General Code 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 and amusement, denies to a citizen, except for reasons applicable alike to all citizens and regardless of race or color, the full enjoyment of the commodities advantages, facilities, privileges and benefits afforded not less than fifty dollars nor more than five hundred dollars, or imprisoned not less than thirty days nor more than ninety days or both. Sec. 12941. 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Ralph Donato, a law student, was the speaker at St. James Forum, last Sunday afternoon. Miss Ida Gray, local public school-teacher, was called to Washington, D. C. by her mother's illness. The Paul Robeson concert, announced for last week Thursday evening, was called off because of the small advance sale. Miss Jane Hunter, ex-sec. of the P. W. A., will address the Parent-Teacher Association of Bolton school at its next meeting. One hundred of our employees (Republicans) at the garbage plant were let out, Monday, and their places given to others. Among the callers at The Gazette office, last week Thursday, was G. Lindsay Cheatham, former president of the Anchor Life Insurance Co. On March 5, Juanita Bell and Ruth Crowler, accompanied by Bernice Crowler, sang over WGAR; and Chas, Williams played a "sax" solo with H. Jones as accompanist. Mrs. C. Ricks, E. 90th St., who underwent an operation at Women's hospital, is rapidly improving and is expected to return home, this week. Frank Redd of Watterson Ave. is very ill with pneumonia. Mr. Pleasant Entre Nous club had a very interesting meeting, Friday evening, at Miss Nina Martin's, E. 126th St. New officers were elected, a leap year April-fool party is being planned for the first of the month. Augustus Grist, local baritone deux, will be presented by St. John's senior choir in a musical at the Mr. Crowler evening. Mr. Grist's popularity as a result of successful concert work in this city is such as to assure a splendid audience that evening. Harry Leonard, a clerk in the N. Y. City hall post-office, who years ago lived in this city, was murdered in New York City by a hold-up man, early last week Monday morning. He was trying to escape when shot. Leonard was born in Demarara, British Guiana, South America, and is survived by the widow. Elisha Freeman, E. 90th St., an old resident, now patrolman at Davenport station of the Penn. Ry. Co., fell in between two trains, last week Tuesday morning early, when making his rounds and sustained several broken ribs. At home contained Mr. Freeman has been in the employ of the Penn Ry. Co. for more than thirty years. Robert W. Bagnall, an assistant secretary of the N. A. A. C. P., will be the speaker at St. James forum, Sunday afternoon. Years ago Mr. Bagnall was rector of St. Andrews P. E. church, this city. He will also address the Women's Anxiliary of the local N. A. A. C. P. branch at Metropolitan club, Sunday at 6:30 p.m. Bray Harmonique Five were presented in a very enjoyable song-recital at Mt. Pleasant M. E. church, Monday evening. Women's day was celebrated, Sunday, with a very interesting program, and this coming Sunday is "young people's day" at which time a fine musical will be rendered. "Faise in the Wilder-ist night," Faye in the Wilder-ist night which proved a most enjoyable affair, was sponsored by Mrs. E. Lee, president of Aid No. 1. J. H. Rives, editor of the Dayton Forum, spent two days in the city, this week, in the interest of the candidacy of Secretary of State Clarence J. Brown for the Republican gubernatorial nomination. While here he called on "The Old Reliable" and had a very pleasant chat with the editor, who has been publishing The Gazette every week on time for almost fifty years. Mr. Rives was ac- H. SMITH'S 3007 Scovill Ave. THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, O. SATURDAY, MARCH 19, 1932. ROSENBERG'S DRUG STORE N. Cor. Central Ave., and 15th st. FOR RENT. — Five nice rooms (down) at 2417 E. 82d St., modern and in good condition. $28 a month. Call, Cherry 1259 in the afternoon, up to 7 p. m., or call at suite 302, No. 226 W. Superior Ave., opposite Hotel Cleveland entrance. WANTED. — Work — part or full time for a young girl; high school graduate and 'stenographer. Jeannette Russell, 7501 Central Ave. companied by his wife. They were guests of Mrs. W. A. Tedford. Dr. E. A. Bailey is our candidate for the Republican nomination for Dr. Edw. A. Bailey. coroner, and Attys. Mose Dixon and Chester Gillespie are our candidates for Republican nominations for state representative. Gilbert A. Clark and Frank B. Bryan, Jr., both insurance men (white), have been appointed permanent receivers of the Nat'l Benefit Life Ins. Co., headquarters Washington, D. C. Wm. E. Beidelman, a native of this city and a resident for many years, who has been an inmate of the Masonic home at Urbana, for some years, died there recently. Charles Weaver of this city was recently admitted to the home there. Our readers will please The Gazette greatly if they will patronize The May Co. in preference to any other store of the kind in the city when it comes to making purchases that can be secured in that store. If any large business house in the city is entitled to our trade it sure is The May Co. Tell your friends and acquaintances. Optimistic club, No. I has elected the following officers: Mrs. Grace Williams, first vice-pres; Mrs. Alberta Jackson, second; Mrs. Fannie Wallace, sec.; Mrs. Roselle Strickland, assist; Mrs. Susie B. Powers, chaplain; Mrs. Alma Baltimore, parliamentarian; Mrs. Carrie L. Warfield, program chair; Mrs. Anna Davis, social; Mrs. Jennie Johnson, critic; Mrs. Ethel Canister, publicity chair; Mrs. Nettie Davis, treas. Mrs. Della Offer is founder and permanent president of the club. Mrs. Gladys Kenny, Mrs. Rita Adkins, Wm. Andrew, John Neal, A. J. Alexander and A. C. Trimble, caretakers at the Central Ave. bath house, have been succeeded by the following so-called Democrats: Mrs. Dorothea Harris, Mrs. Virginia Kaigler, Samuel Smith, Wm. Young, Charles Tolliver and George Tatum. All are members of our group. Joseph R. King, sup't, Mrs. Florence B. Fairax and Al Williams, directors of boys' and girls' activities, will also be replaced soon, it is said. Walter Wright of Chicago was in the city, recently, to help celebrate YOUVE GOT TO SHOW SOME THING MORE OR ILL ASK FOR WAVERS ON YOU I SUPPOSE I THINK THERE'S A RULE AGAINST BELITING A GUIT, AND YOU TOKED A WINDUP WITH COLLINS ON SECOND TODAY SO HE GOT TO THIRD BEFORE THE GALL REACHED THE CATCHER J. S. HALL'S 7709 Cedar Ave. day. The latter was for many years his father, Walter B. Wright's birth- secretary to several presidents of the Nickel Plate Ry. Co. Louis A. Williams' group of spirituals was given at a public recital by Mrs. Cleota C. Lacey, soprano, at the March meeting of the local branch of the Association for the Study of Afro-American Life and History which was held in the P. W. A. Thursday evening. Willis read several from his collection of folk-love and songs, and remembers many other spirituals he heard in his childhood in rural Alabama. Mrs. Lacey has written out the melody of about 30 of them. Mrs. Viola Montgomery, mother of one of the Scottsboro, Ala. boy victims, spoke over the radio from two local stations, late Wednesday afternoon, and with "Mother" Mary Mooney, age 84, of California, addressed a large mass meeting in Engineers' auditorium that evening. In public statement, Mrs. Montgomery tells the story of the "frame-up" of the Scotttsboro victims so often published in The Gazette in the last six months and commends the I. L. D.'s successful effort to get them a new trial and its continued efforts to win their freedom. Atty. A. J. Cunningham is engaged in a very laudable effort to secure the elimination from the county public libraries of a little publication known as "My Very First Little Arithmetic Book" in which there is a very objectionable (from a race viewpoint) illustration. Cunningham called at the office of the city librarian and was referred to Miss Thyberian, in charge of the county library work, who charged sympathetic and willing. So Atty. Cunningham, who is "still on the job," reports excellent progress thus far. That is the kind of work that helps! Schedule of examinations for April 5, special inspector, engineering construction, city; April 6, dirt street general foreman, city, promotional; April 7, chief power plant engineer, city; April 8, supervising probation officer, city, promotional; deputy chief probation officer, county, promotional; April 9, special inspector, breakwater, city; April 12, mechanical draftsmanship, city; April 14, probation officer (Municipal Court and Common Pleas Court); April 15, plumber, city; April 16, street permit inspector, city and county; April 19, battalion chief, fire department, city, promotional; April 20, watermeter repairman, city; April 21, senior public health nurse, city, promotional; April 22, ironworker, city As a result of that mob demonstration in Woodland Ave., this city, last fall, Wm. Hughey, a leader of the unemployed in the demonstration, was arrested and charged with assaulting the recently his release was secured by local police (Miss Yetta Land) for the I. L. D. which doubtless sponsored the demonstration in which two local Afro-Americans (Rayford and Jackson), unemployed workers, were killed. The I. L. D. with the support of our people of this community ought now to be allowed to apprehension and punishment who fired into the mob of unemployed and killed Rayford and Jackson. This matter ought not to be allowed to rest longer without action. Police who fired into the mob were white-washed at a hearing, several months later, and always is, but does not necessarily prevent further action in the matter. CHARACTER. Character, like a fine old tree, matures slowly and is a ripier growth than success that is forced as hothouse products are forced. Character in a newspaper develops through years of service to the people. 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