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Men's Hats—Main Floor, Ontario Men's Surety Six Shoes More than forty styles, including all the popular lasts and leathers in tan or black. Surety Six shoes are made exclusively for The May Co. and sold in Cleveland at The May Co. only. Men's Shoes—Third Floor The May Co. THE GAZETTE ESTABLISHED, AUGUST 25, 1883 And Issued Every Week on Time Since CLEVELAND, OHIO, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1924 LEWIS SAW COOLIDGE! Asked President to Stop Segregation of Our Clerks and to, Give Us Wilmington, Del.----"In addition to his silence on the Ku Klux Klan, I deserted President Coolidge because he refused to open jobs to our people, and stop that insulting and humiliating segregation of our clerks in the departments at Washington, D. C.," declared the Hon. Wm. H. Lewis in his first campaign address, last week, telling why he is supporting John W. Davis for president. Seated on the stage were: Maurice E. Rousseau, Prof. R. S. Grossley, Charles F. Brown and Robert J. Nelson, Dr. Samuel G. Elbert, president of the Independent Citizens League, presided. Mr. Lewis was a former assistant U. S. attorney general under Roosevelt and his bolting from the G. O. P. ranks is being and will continue to be felt. Telling of an interview, some months ago, with President Coolidge, Mr. Lewis said: "I called on him and told him I was glad to see him in the chair occupied by Lincoln and Roosevelt. I urged that he see that our group be properly represented in the matter of Presidential appointments and that segregation in the departments be broken up. Mr. Coolidge told me, in a few words, that when he needed me he would send for me. But Mr. Coolidge is running true to form, for he never has done anything for our people. When he was governor of Massachusetts, it was the same. He showed his great love for us when he appointed C. Bassomb Slemp, his private secretary. Mr. Slemp is the author of the illy-white policy of the Republican party. I told Slemp what the Democratic party of New York City was doing for our people; that Ferdinand Q. Morton was getting $7,500 per annum as municipal civil service commissioner and that Atty. Thos. MacDougal, another Afro-American, was receiving $10,000 per annum as an assistant attorney general of N. Y. State under Gov. Smith. All Mr. Slemp could say was that we did not appreciate the friendly gesture of the Republican party and that the colored people would not vote the Democratic ticket. The only way I can save my self and race respect is by walking out of the party and by helping to give them a good wallop. If I can get the support of a certain number of my people, I shall teach the Republican party such a lesson that the leaders will respect our protests in the future." ARCHITECT FOR $84,000 BUILDING. Splendid Success and Career of a Young Member of the Race In the West. Los Angeles, Cal.—About 150,000 children thronged the public schools here at the fall opening, last week. Approximately 20,000 of these were Afro-American. To care for this vast enrollment it was necessary to build 16 new structures, the designing of which was awarded to architects of unquestioned ability. Paul R. Williams, a young Afro-American architect and former pupil of the local mixed schools, which have 20 Afro-American instructors, including a principal, has been appointed by the Board of Education as architect for one of the schools to cost $84,000. He has been a member of the Los Angeles City Planning Commission for three years, and is our only member of the American Institute of Architects. Mr. Williams was recently elected one of a committee of five to represent the South California Chapter of the American Institute of Architects. Three national and four western architectural competitions have been won by him—from local and foreign competitors of national repute. His most recent achievement was the offering of a design for a civic center for a western city of 35,000 inhabitants which was accepted and upon which he and his large office force are now at work on the "working drawings." John D. Wilkerson and Miss Alice next summer. Mr. Wilkerson is a student of W. R. U. law school. EDITOR T. THOMAS FORTUNE Dean of Race Journalism, a Life-Long Republican, to Support the Democratic Candidate for President. New York City.—F. Thomas Fortune, for many years editor and partowner of the N. Y. Age, now editor of Marcus Garvey's "Negro World", organ of the U. N. L. A., contributing editor of the N. Y. Tattler and one other race newspaper; one of the most brilliant writers and journalists, the race has produced, and for forty years an ardent supporter of. Republicanism, an independent thinker, a maker of men, has become so thoroughly disgusted with the rank deception, and nootlicking "Fly-white" leadership of the "Grand Old Party" that he has openly avowed his support of the Hon. John W. Davis and the Democratic party. In taking this step, Mr. Fortune has followed the lead of several of our ablest and best known men, namely, the Hon. Wm. H. Lewis of Boston, Prof. Roscoe Cockling Bruce of Washington, D. C., and Atty. Edward Henry, president of our largest Republican club in Philadelphia. Also Mrs. Alice Dunbar-Nelson of Delaware, who was Paul Lawrence Dunbar's widow. The following letter to the Hon. Franklin D. Roosevelt is self-explanatory. New York, Sept. 8, 1924. Hon. F. D. Roosevelt. Nat. Democratic Headquarters. New York City. Dear Sir:—I have today written the Hon. William H. Lewis of Boston that I will support the candidates of the Democratic party and co-operate with him in any way he may be effective during the campaign in helping to avoid Afro-American support for Mr. Davis, whom I consider one of the most resourceful and courageous Americans in public life, and whose record on the vital question of race, creed and nativity should make him acceptable to all good Americans. I have been forty years in journalism, I supported Mr. Cleveland against Mr. Blaine and In. 1892, against General Harrison. I am now associated with three Afro-American newspapers, but my position does not affect that of any of them except The Tattler, which is committed to the Democratic ticket. I vote in Trenton, New Jersey. It may interest you to know that for very many years I enjoyed the friendship and confidence of Col. Theodore Roosevelt and went on a special mission to the Philippines for him, in 1900. With sentiment of high regards, Yours truly. T. Thos. Fortune. Regardless of the frantic efforts of the old "Negro" Republican leaders to have Mr. Coolidge break his silence as regards governmental segregation of our employees, and the Ku Klux Klan, the gradual conversion of men the type of T. Thomas Fortune, Roscoe C. Bruce and William H. Lewis to the standard of Mr. John W. Davis and the Democratic party, shows that the impregnable line that the Republican party held so long against invaders of our votes is not only being vigorously attacked, but is being mercilessly broken. Mrs. Alice Dunbar Nelson is an author and speaker, and contributes to leading periodicals, and magazines. She was associate editor of the Wilmington (Del.) Advocate from 1920 to 1923. In 1920 she was head, of the work of our Republican women of Delaware and on the national speakers bureau. She was also a member of the Republican state committee of Delaware in 1922 and was elected, last April, to the Republican state convention. When our people are voting, this fall, they must not forget Clement V. Hull, a candidate for judge of the common pleas court. All who know him concede his exceptional ability as a jurist. Add to this the fact that he is an old resident of Cleveland and a life-long friend of the race who is not a member of the K. K. K., and you have enough to justify your voting for him and getting all the friends and acquaintances you can to do likewise. ANOTHER OF OUR GIRLS Inaulted, Humiliated and Mistreated By The Coolidge Administration —An Outcry! We had arrived, late, the last of April, the year. Mrs. Grove, of point ville, Okla., was notified that she was a successful candidate, in a recent U. S. civil service examination and that she had been certified for a position as stenographer and typist. She was told to come to Washington and present herself for the position. When she arrived, May 2, and reported to the Civil Service Commission, she was informed that the position had been filled (the same old He) but that if the bonus bill passed Congress she would possibly be given a position. She remained in Washington waiting for the bill to pass, finally grew weary of waiting and left, for New York City. The Coolidge civil service bureau boosts of the fact that it has never had an Afro-American clerk in its offices, on its payroll, since it was organized. During the war, there were two of our girls sent there from the "Veterans" Bureau, and worked for a short time, but they remained on the Veterans Bureau payroll. We need an official position on the Civil Service Commission but will never get it while "Silent Call" Coolidge is President. "SEVEN-ELEVEN", RACE HORSE "Seven-Eleven", the Afro-American musical comedy to appear at Vail's Theater. E. 8th St. and Huron road, beginning Sunday matinee, is a play quite different from what one would glean from its title. It does not in anyway stoop to the game that its name is taken from, as "Seven-Eleven" is a racehorse that happens to win, and adds much to the plot of the play. Many who saw the play, at the Globe Theater, will agree that it is one of the fastest shows seen in this city in many days. The favorites, that will add to the entertainment, are such well-known artists as Garland Howard, Mae Brown, Sam Cook, Speedy Smith, Leigh Whipper, Andrew Fairchild, Billy Mitchell, John Turner, Evon Robinson; Maude De Forrest, Al. Young; Cecil Graham, Sterling Grant and the Fast-Dancing-Famous-Creole-Tiller Girls. The engagement, will last one week, opening with a matinee on Sunday, and having its "Mite-Nite Ramble." next Friday. Tickets on sale at the leading hotels. Remember, "Seven Eleven" is coming to VAIL'S THEATER, on Huron road near E. 9th St. It certainly is a very pretty theater, too. Tell your friends not to miss this treat. MINNEAPOLIS CLIPPINGS. Minneapolis, Minn. — The Hamilton Political club is now firmly planted here. Atty. Scott, pres. Other leading officials and members are: Dr. O. C. Lawrence, Prof. Black and M. Saanders. The club insists that "the powers that be" and all candidates that seek our support, must DO! We have been overfed on promises, hypocrisy and the like. The club is insisting that we receive something more material. There are too few of our people holding any kind of a position. Yet the educational advantages and enlightened opportunities cannot be surpassed anywhere in this country. Organization and effective work only will accomplish what we desire. We must make our votes count for something better than empty promises, hypocrisy, etc. We are 8,000 strong here; many taxpayers, etc., and yet we are denied representation in the city and county's employ. The Hamilton club insists that we shall have it and to that end is working carefully, intelligently, and effectively. —Send local news to J. H. Golfin, 319 Aldrich Ave., N. FIVE MORE LIBERATED Leavenworth, Kan.—Five alleged Houston, Tex., rioters, having served six years and ten months of life sentences, they ought never to have received, were paroled from the Federal penitentiary here, last Wednesday, free men until they violate terms of their paroles. Ruben Baxter, who went to Washington state: Douglas T. Golden, to Iowa; Gerald Dixon, for Missouri; Toy Tylef and Joseph Williams, to Illinois. All five were "convicted" along with sixty-seven others as the result of the riot at Houston, Texas. Thirteen of the rioters were hanged and four died in prison. There are still forty-nine of the alleged rioters incarcerated. None should have been hanged and all should never have been "convicted." They only struck back in defense of Negro womanhood and in self-defense. Presidents Harding and Coolidge should have pardoned them; long ago. Bem's Sinclair, who won the survey scholarship to O. S. U., has gone to Columbus to take a pro-medical course. SINGLE COPY FIVE CENTS URGESOURPEOPLETOFIGHT Emancipation Day Program Badly "Messed Up" by Rain and Opposition—Much Serious Criticism Former Governor Harry L. Davis and the Ku Klux Klan (Special to The Gazette) Springfield, O.—Gov. Vic. Donahay and James Welden Johnson, sec. of the N. A. A. C. P., were the principal speakers at the emancipation celebration held, last Saturday, under the auspices of the C. R. P. League and the local branch of the N. A. A. C. P. A rain, which began in the morning and continued inter- JOHN H. HARRIS mittently throughout the forenoon, prevented the prompt movement of the parade which had been scheduled for 10 a. m., but finally got in motion about 1:30 p. m. The speaking, which was to have been held at the Fair Grounds, was transferred to Memorial Hall, thus causing more confusion to what had been the most adversely criticised emancipation day program arranged here in years. As was to be expected, the bringing of a democratic candidate for governor to speak to an audience of our people was opposed by the local Republican organization which still labor under the DELISION that our vote is the perpetual property of the organization that still masquerades under the name of "the party of Abraham Lincoln." The most serious criticism came from those of our people who resented the idea of turning what they considered a "sacred" day into an opportunity to advance anybody's political ambitions. The declarations of the promoters of the celebration, that the event was without any political significance and that the presence of the Governor was only because of his position in the state government, did not satisfy the skeptical who note that he is also a candidate for rejection and that, while he is our Governor, his attitude, as a candidate, toward the K. K. K., is not as yet entirely satisfactory. This, and other disingenuous explanations, blunders and misunderstandings, created quite a bit of hostility which resulted in a lack of interest and the refusal of several organizations to take part in the parade. Owing to the change in the place of the speaking, less than a thousand people were in Memorial Hall to greet the speakers. Atty. Sully Jaymes presided. Gov. Donahaye, who spoke first, after the usual references to the day and the history and significance thereof, devoted much of his time to accounting the many advantages of the state of Ohio and the extent to which many of our citizens had taken advantage of their opportunities. In referring to the educational advantages of the state, the Governor mentioned the high standard of our schools, "many of which are maintained by the colored people themselves." Altogether it was a carefully prepared, inspiring address without any reference to controversial subjects. James Weldon Johnson, who followed, elucidated along the lines of the policy adopted by the N. A. A. C. P., as to the attitude the Afro-American voter should take towards the various parties and candidates. Woman and Two Men Win! Boston, Mass.—Mrs. Harriett C. Hall and Atty. Joseph S. Mitchell, of Ward 13, were nominated for representatives at the Republican primary, Sept. 16. Clifford H. Plummer, of Ward 7, was nominated by the Democrats for representative. All three are members of the race. IN-UNION IS STRENGTH LE COPY FIVE CENTS ERS! EOPLETOFIGHT they One Of The on Speakers am Badly "Messed Up" by Much Serious Criticism— Harry L. Davis and the lux Klan The Klan was vigorously denounced and our people were warned not to be deceived by the seeming friendliness or indifference of the Klan toward them, as it was not concerned as to individuals but aimed to get control of the government so that our whole group could be reduced and subordinated on masse. The voters were particularly enjoined to seek out and withhold their support from candidates having the approval of the Klan, like former Gov. Harry L. Davis, who is the Republican nominee, this year. The following are the "high spots" in Mr. Johnson's address, the best one of the day; "If am in favor of taking-independent action right now. I am not speaking for Republicans, for Democrats or LaFollette. In New York the Negro has largely achieved political independence. What has been done there can and should be done elsewhere. They have elected black Democrats to offices in New York. We have got to do this in the north and in the south. We have got to fight the Ku Klux Klan. We must fight the lawless organization. Many are fooled by the thing. Many say the Klan is against other groups. Well, if that is the case, we should come to the aid of, the other groups to abolish oppression. The Ku Klux Klan is playing a bigger game, today, than many realize. It is not tarring, feathering and lynching Negroes. No, it is engaged in a struggle to get political power, even to the selzing of the government. After it gets into power and has seized the Atty. Sully Jaymes, government, it won't have to resort to tar and feathers, but can hit the whole race. Where will you be then? Every Nogro who has an ounce of wisdom should make it a point to vote against any candidate who is a Klansman or is backed by the Klan, whether he be Democrat or Republican. It is a matter of self-preservation that you do this. It is a matter of common dignity and we would be less than tools, if we did otherwise. We must hit the Klan; it is a real menace. We want organization and group strength. With group strength we can work for our advancement. We must make ourselves fit for American citizenship. No one will do it for us; we must use our own efforts. By using group strength socially, economically and politically, we will achieve our complete emancipation. Judge James Johnson; former justice of the Ohio Supreme Court, and Gen. J. Warren Keifer, veteran soldier and former speaker of the National House of Representatives, were also present and made brief speeches. The closing talk was made by Mrs. Lethia Fleming of Cleveland, a Republican campaign worker. It was the same old stereotyped "stuff" like Henry "Link" Johnson of Georgia poured out when he was here, before the recent state primaries. Many in the audience missed, and earnestly wished for, the clarion voice and wisdom of "the old reliable" editor of The Gazette. They were sadly needed. Elected Presbyterian Moderator. Pittsburgh. Pa.—The Pittsburgh Presbytery of the Presbyterian church, largest of the denomination in the country, will be presided over, the next six months, by Rev. Charles A. Trusty, a member of our group, who is pastor of the Grace Memorial church, north side, following his election as moderator, at its fall meeting, Sept. 17, in First-church. PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY One Year ..... $2.00 Six Mouths ..... 1.00 Subscribers are requested to remit the post office order or answer Entered at the postoffice in Cleveland, Ohio, as second-class mail matter Address all communications HARRY C. SMITH Editor and Proprietor THE GAZETTE (Bell Phone: Cherry 1259) 214-215 Blackstone Bldg. 1426 W. Third St. Cleveland, Ohio 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 in the state of Ohio, and comparison with any will immediately establish its rank as one of the NEWS-TEST AND BEST in the country. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1924 And they presented the Hon. John W. Davis with a loving cup! Surely, "the world do move." --- It would be real interesting to know just how many Afro-Americans have been emancipated from Coolidge "Republicanism" and have gone to the support of La Follette and Davis. --- The Ohio Ku Klux Klan clamboth the Republican candidate for Governor (Davis) and the Republican candidate for Leutenant Governor (Lewis) as their candidates. And what is more, the gentlemen, referred to, do not dare deny it, either. President Coolidge will not even permit his Secretary of the Navy, Mr. Wilbur, to mention, in public speech, the mistreatment of our people, doubtless fearing the Democrats might expose his own shameful denial of our rights and privileges, and his outrageous segregation. Apparently, the Coolidge administration's contempt for Afro-Americans has no limit. Note the contemptible mistreatment of the Misses Groves and McGavock elsewhere in this paper. It is simply another most aggravating insult to the entire race. "Silent Cal." President Coolidge, is daily losing thousands of votes as a result of his studied refusal to abolish governmental segregation and to speak out against the Ku Klux Klan. Listening to his Virginia "illy-white" Republican (?) secretary, Ex-Congressman C. Bascomb Slemp, will prove his downfall in November. There are, already, indications of this. THE DAYTON SCHOOL FIGHT. Dayton, Ohio, Afro-Americans have a separate school contrary to Ohio law in the Garfield school which should have been attacked and put out of business months ago, and which should be in the fore-front of the present legal contest over the establishment of basement rooms for Afro-American children in the Willard school. If the fight on the Garfield school had been made, as it should have been, when it was established, the present fight would not have to be made. Why is no mention of the Garfield school being made at this time? Will some one of our loyal men or women of that city answer this question? It is vital. Such a school, as that Garfield school, cannot be continued for many months in any community of this state without the consent of our people of that community. RIFFIANS, ABYSSINIA AND WILLS The Riffians, an African tribe have "fought Spain to a standstill for twelve years" and have that country politely asking for a cessation of hostilities which the Spanish people are insisting upon. No sooner this than American daily newspapers stamp the Riffians as "Caucasians with scarcely a trace of negroid admixture" because, of course, they have whipped Spain, "have won the world's admiration" and will establish an independent Riffian state. It was "just so after Abyssinia had whipped it to a "standstill," years ago. If Harry Wills does not start soon to use a face-bleach, what in the world will they do, next year, when he whips Champion Jack Dempsey? No wonder they have done their utmost to keep Dempsey from getting into the ring with Wills. The defeat of Firpo, "the wild bull of the South American pampas," was almost as bitter a dose as that administered by Jack Johnson when he whipped Jeffries. The N. A. A. C. P. has again (this is the third time) written President Coolidge for "an unequivocal statement on the Ku Klux Klan, thus removing it as an issue from politics," and calling his attention to the fact that "both the other candidates, Mr John W. Davis for the Democrats and Mr. Robert M. La Follette for the Third Party, have declared themselves unequivocally and unmistakably on this matter, both of them naming the Ku Klux Klan, so that there could be no ayor of evasion about their utterances." A failure to comply with this reasonable request and a failure on the President's part to stop that insulting and humiliating segregation of our government employees in Washington, D.C., and elsewhere in the service, will cost him many thousands of Afro-American votes, in November, here in the North where they will be most needed. Better heed the call, Mr. President! GOV. DONAHEY AT SPRINGFIELD. According to a Columbus dispatch to the daily newspapers of the state, under date, Sept. 12, '24: "The chairman of the committee in charge of the celebration at Springfield (last Saturday) reported that he had been called on the long distance telephone, six times, from Washington, D. C., advising against the appearance of Ohio's Governor at the celebration as a speaker. Notwithstanding this, the committee refused to withdraw the invitation." We are proud of that committee for the stand it took and maintained, in the matter. It was right! Vic Donahay, regardless of the fact that he is a Democrat, is governor of Ohio and as such, and not because he is a Democrat, he was invited to become the principal speaker on that occasion. That he is a candidate for re-election at this time matters little. He was not invited to make a campaign talk and did not do so, but served our people of that city in a very proper manner as a speaker for their celebration. The committee has taught "Washington", presumably the Coolidge campaign, that out here in Ohio loyal, manly Afro-Americans do their own thinking and are no longer political slaves to be ignored and ordered about before election and promptly forgotten after the same while political plums and honors are being distributed to the faithful (whites). When President Coolidge was about to appoint as his secretary, EX-Congressman C. Bascomb Slemp of Virginia, a "illy-white" Republican (half southern Democrat) and a well-known enemy of our people, did he pay any attention of our nation-wide protests, against the appointment? We should say not. Then why should any of our people in Ohio, or elsewhere, pay any attention to his or his white and black henchmen's protests, like those directed against the selection of Gov. Donahay as a speaker at Springfield, last Saturday? Thank the Lord for the action of that Springfield committee. "STAYING POWER." "Harry C. Smith, the redoubtable editor of The Cleveland Gazette, is again on the warpath in Ohio politics. This year he is running for Governor in order to rebuke the Republican organization for its sins of omission and commission. Incidentally, he took occasion to rebuke Henry Lincoln Johnson as follows: "Line" said sarcastically or ironically, at Springfield, that he had no ambition to be governor. Because his ambition has been crushed out in Georgia, is it any reason why he should come to Ohio, where we have the ambition and "guts" to try to be, and, too, have a good chance to be, sooner or later; we repeat, is it any reason he should come to Ohio and try to discourage his people here who are trying to get somewhere in the political sun?" This recently entered its forty-second year of existence under the same editor and owner, so his staying power needs no vindication. —New York Age. Yes, "The Old Reliable" has "staying power" and what is more, Editor Moore, all the "Line" Johnsons and "Negro political bootlickers" this side of Jericho are not going to stop us from trying to "put our people of Ohio somewhere in the political sun." It hurt us "to the heart" to learn that Johnson has a Georgia "bandanna" so tightly wound about that broad expansive brow of his. We thought him a vastly different sort of man—a man of exceptional ability, too big to stoop so low as to become the tool of the white political masters who had him touring this state before the primaries in an effort to discourage the loyal, progressive members of the race who were struggling with us in the effort to force recognition so long denied us. In spite of "Line" Johnson and Ohio's "Negro political bootlickers" we have made splendid progress and, the Lord willing, we will go on with the work until success crowns our efforts. Yes, loyal Ohio Afro-Americans have "staying power." Coolidge Endorses This! Raleigh, N. C.—Recent efforts of a committee of our prominent Republican of this state to have Republican State Chairman Bramham and Col. Isaac H. Meekins, Republican candidate for governor, declare their positions with reference to the support of our qualified electorate were unavailing, the state chairman ignored the address to him andigned by Chas. H. Moore and A. M. Rivera of Greensboro, and S. H. Vick of Wilson. THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, O. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1924 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. ZANESVILLE.—Mr. and Mrs. A. G. Moore of Ironton spent the weekend at Mrs. Mayme Masterson's.—Give you local news to the agent and correspondent. Mrs. Woods entertained the Mothers club.—We are all thoroly enjoying "The Old Reliable."—St. Paul A. M. E. church is going to have a contest for the most popular baby on Nov. 2.—(Correspondent must mail his news-letter on MONDAYS. Never ed by our leading loyal citizens and Rev. R. W. Bagnall of the N. A. A. C. P. headquarters, N. Y. City. About $500 have been raised to date. The case had its preliminary hearing in court. It is the attempted Springfield, O. "jim crow" "Fulton school" fight and it, too, will be won. All our people have to do is stick and fight as our people at Springfield did and victory will surely perch on our banners. HILLSBORO.—Rev. S. H. Brown preached at the Baptist church, Sunday. His son, Virgil, accompanied him here.—Miss Josephine Harris is no better.—Mrs. Alline Burton was called to Springfield, Saturday, by her daughter, Mrs. Ona Lewis' illness.—Mr. Clarence Johnson and daughters, Miss Helen and Mrs. Roy Trimble and son, Mr. Lyman Ross, were at Wilberforce, last Tuesday.—Miss Mamie Hicks is convalescent.—Mrs. Mary Donaldson, Mrs. Cora Young and Vernon, Mrs. Archie Cole, Mr. and Mrs. C. Lamb and son attended the Dayton celebration. They were guests of Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Goodson.—Mrs. Alice Ely returned to Indianapolis, Monday. She visited her mother, Mrs. Lucy Lucas. YOUNGSTOWN—Mrs. E. Tocus is recovering from an operation—Mrs. Ruby L. Clark has been quite ill—Mrs. Mack Parm visited in Chicago, recently—Rev. W. H. Johnson's funeral was held, last week Monday. A large attendance. A wife, son and two daughters survive him and have the sympathy of the community. -Viola R. Howard and E. F. Williams were married by Rev. T. W. 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SMITH 3007 Scovill Ave. CHAS. E. JACKSON'S 4401 Central Ave. J. S. HALL'S 8183 Central Ave. WM. G. HARRIS 1922 Scovill Ave. *Open, Sundays. NOTICE TO Subscribers not receiving The us at once. We desire every copy. Send or bring locals and all office, 214-215 Blackstone Bldg. call there, please. We advise our readers to carry vertisements before making purtiise in this paper should have the fact that they advertise is assured. All reading matter for public Gazette must be in the office by at the latest. Display advertise NESDAYS! HARRY C. SMITH Cor. W. Third St. and Fr. Notary Public Classified Advertising ... Department ... CLEVELAND Social and Personal Mrs. Dailor Officers, E. 38th St., entertainance, last week Friday evening. Cards and luncheon. Mr. Hyden presided at the piano. Miss Bessie Early, E. 111th St., spent her vacation in Chicago with her sister, Mrs. Leroy Tucker. Mt. Zion Cong, church is in the midst of its sixtieth anniversary celebration, carrying out the program as announced in recent issues of The Gazette. Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Schooler, J. 90th St., motored to Niagara Falls, Labor Day. They had as guests Mr. and Mrs. H. Oglebsy. Mrs. Caroline Peele and daughter, Miss Florence Burton, guests of Mrs. Rurey Beard, E. 112th St., granddaughter of Mrs. Peele, have returned to New Vienna. The widow of Thomas McAfee, who died many years ago, died, last week Tuesday, and was buried. Thursday. Our oldest residents will recall the McAfee family. Mrs. Saul A. Lucas, accompanied by two little guests, Martha Collins and Annette Byrd of Lima, spent several days in Lorain, recently, and motored to Canada with Mr. and Mrs. Ed Gales. The cases of Patrolmen John H. Jones and Horace Jenkins were nolled in Judge Phillips' court, Monday, after almost a year's legal fight. They killed two Italianes in the 11th ward, in self defense while on duty. More later. Separate schools for Afro-American pupils in the state of Ohio are illegal institutions and cannot be maintained, unless our people quietly submit to the same. The State Supreme Court settled that, many years ago. Our ministers should join The Gazette in warning our people of the 11th and 12th wards, particularly, to be on the lookout for the "fake" insurance collectors (white) operating in that section of the city. Mr. and Mrs. Emory Sharber and Mr. and Mrs. Stewart Goins were members of a motor party that went to Indianapolis and Chicago, recently. They also accompanied Mr. Goins' father, Mr. Carl Jefferson, to Dayton. Atty. Louise J. Pridgeon, E. 55th St., returned from Chicago, last week, where she was called to the bedside of her husband, F. O. Pridgeon, who sustained a fracture of a leg when hit by an auto at Gary, Ind. Mrs. Dailor Officer, E. 38th St., Ave., spent last week, visiting in Buffalo, Niagara Falls and Toronto. Accompanied by Mr. Fortner, Mr. L. Ashford and C. S. Scott of N. Y. City who are here to locate, Mrs. Fortner paid The Gazette sanctum a very pleasant call, the first of the week. Accompanied by Col. J. H. Thomas, Wm. H. Fields of St. Louis, Nat'l. G. M. of the A. U. K. & D. of A., called on The Gazette, last week Friday. Mr. Fields is a member of our Missouri Industrial Commission and president of the company publishing the national magazine of the order. Robert R. Church, Jr., of Memphis, Tenn., who was recently dropped by the "illy-white's" from the Tennessee State Republican committee, was restored to it, recently, on the suggestion of Wm. M. Butler, chairman of the Republican National Committee. Mrs. Della Cochran, E. 65th St., a leader in lodge, church and club circles, was elected financial secre- --- THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, O.SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1924 *M. KLEIMAN'S 2028 Central Ave. D. BARBER'S 2006 Central Ave. BENJ. AKERS, 3519 Central Ave. *THE S. & S. DRUG CO. 7325 Central Ave. SUBSCRIBERS The Gazette regularly should notify by delivered promptly. Business matters to The Gazette If you wish to see the editor Carefully examine The Gazette's ad- censes. Business men who adver- the patronage of our people. The ance that they want it. Application in current issues of The 4 p. m., TUESDAY of that week, ments accepted until noon, WED- 215 Blackstone Bldg. Frankfort Ave., Cleveland, O. Bell 'Phone: Cherry 1250 tary of the ladies' department of the Order of Moose which held its convention in New York, recently. Mrs. Cochran is receiving congratulations from many friends for her rapid advancement in the new order among our group. The marriage of Miss Irene McQueen to Aaron R. Hamlin took place, recently, at the residence of the bride's sister and brother-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Clemen Hamlin, East 46th Street, Miss Bettie Hamlin, sister of the groom, was maid of honor and Floyd Burke of Painesville, was best man. The Miller Kola Tonic Co., located for nearly 20 years on the west side of the city, has moved into a new and more convenient location, at 402 Buckeye Blvd., where it will be pleased to meet its many friends. Miller's Kola Pepsin Celery Compound is rated among the great reliable tonics of this country and it is truly marvelous what it will accomplish, if taken for the purposes it is compounded for. Mrs. T. O. Queen is conducting classes in millinery at the P. W. A.; Mrs. Carrie Henderson Thornhill is giving instructions in dress-making. Miss Lula Hunt is teaching vocal music, Miss Eunice Pepesico has a class in cooking and catering, and Dr. Edward A. Clarke, a bible class. Rev. Joseph Evans is teaching a similar class at the Doan branch of the P. W. A. St. John's choir will open the season, Sunday afternoon, with its 25th recital. It will have the assistance of Doris S. Kaser, contralto; Edgar H. Blair, tenor, and the church's male chorus. The feature of the recital will be "The Pilgrim's Chorus," with Kathleen Forbes at the organ, Wm. Smith at the piano, and Dorothy Smith and Geo. Edwards, violinists. Marion Anderson, contralto, of Philadelphia, and Cleota Collins, soprano, will be soloists for the choir's concerts, this fall and winter. Aaron C. Lewis, age 19, of 2390 E. 33d St. went on trial before Judge Baer, Wednesday, charged with second degree murder in the killing in November, 1923, of John Fairfax, 3497 E. 30th St. The quarrel between them originated over a woman, according to police. Lewis was arrested several months later in Cleveland, who has spent six years Ohio penitentiary for murder, was free, Wednesday, on an "Emancipation day" pardon granted by Gov. Donahay upon recommendation of Warden Thomas, Common Pleas Judge F. B. Gott and the Ohio board of clemency. The low moral status of wards 11 and 12 was directly responsible for these crimes and is one of the many committed in that vicinity, every month; nearly all due to lack of police protection. Dr. H. C. Bailey is the La Follette orator of color in this "neck of the woods." He has visited many cities and towns in this section of the state at the request of the local and state La Follette campaign committe- es and has seen a splendid speaker and has met a meeting served everywhere the goes. Mrs. Julia Roberts, age 93, widow of Mr. Jesse Roberts, died, Sunday, at her daughter, Mrs. Alida McFarland's, E. 85th St. The deceased was born in North Carolina, her parents moving to Columbus in 1841. She came to Cleveland 52 years ago. Her husband, aged 86 at the time of his death, 17 years ago, was the first employee pensioned by the "Big Four" railroad, now a part of the great N. Y. Central system. He re-entered the railroad in 1841. Roberts, as she had been called by our older residents for many years before her death, was as wonderful a wife, mother and friend as she was in her remarkably long life. The McFarland family have the earnest sympathy of the community. The "La Follette" meeting in E. Tech High school auditorium, Monday evening, was a success that surprised its most sanguine friends. The attendance was fine and the speaker, Editor Oswald Garrison Villard of the N. Y. Nation, superfine. He has ```markdown ``` spoken here for our people, several times, in recent years, always greatly pleasing. A grandson of the great anti-slavery advocate, Wm. Lloyd Garrison, and "a chip off the old block," it could hardly be otherwise. Mr. Villard is a staunch friend of the race, one of the kind that will speak up and out for us whenever the occasion requires. This is also, and naturally, true of his magazine, The Nation. Rev. H. C. Bailey presided and there were several others who spoke briefly. The masteress, Mr. Villard, said Monday, in a local daily newspaper interview: "The Afro-American never has been given a square deal by the two old political parties. They are a wonderful people and some party should make use of their marvelous talents in the realm of drama, music, poetry and art." THE HOTEL MAJESTIC The Gazette does not indorse the unfair criticisms of the Majestic Hotel that are being indulged in by a few who would rather injure than help that business enterprise. The recent untoward episode is one of the reasons why sometimes does to even the best of them. It is one of the things Manager Geo. J. Tate, that they cannot always avoid, even after exercising the utmost care and "eternal vigilance": and everybody knows it. So stop knocking, and keep quiet—if you cannot boost. Manager Geo. J. Tate and his energetic assistant, Truvat Fox, are doing remarkably well, indeed; have a six-man job on their hands, dealing with the people they are oft-times compelled to handle, and all of us know it! The Hotel Majestic is alright! Jack Johnson, Evangelist. Jack Johnson, Englewood. Hamilton, O—Two days after making his debut in camelot in the public of the Baptist church here, Sept. 28, Jack Johnson, former world's heavyweight champion, will crawl under the ropes for another bout with a Baptist church at Washington C. H. The church row here, over Johnson's proposal to start his fight against the devil in this city, has apparently cooled down. He will address the congregation on "My Religious Experiences." Isn't that rich? Johnson is now in training in Chicago for both "bouts." The scrap with Jackson is to be a 10-round affair. GAVE DAVIS A LOVING CUP. Kansas City, Mo.—An incident of the celebration for John W. Davis, Democratic candidate for President, here, last week, was the presentation to him of a loving cup in the name of Missouri Afro-Americans. Dr. William J. Thompkins of Kansas City, a William J. Thompkins speech savvy, the gift was a token of our gratitude for the efforts put forth in their behalf by Mr. Davis throughout his public life. "We saw you standing before the legislature in West Virginia." Thompkins said, "fighting the jim crow law; we saw you fighting the nefarious grandfather clause before the U. S. Supreme Court; we saw you fighting in the cause of the West Virginia miners of our group and for thirty years I have seen you stand with unrelenting persuasion at the square deal for not alms, not for special legislation or for special favors, but for equal opportunity for the black folk to be MEN." Brookins To Leave Track. Iowa City—His hurdling days over after three years of competition, Charles R. Brookins, holder of world's records in the 220-yard low barriers, has turned his athletic ability to the football field when he reported for the University of Iowa team. He has had experience with Oskaloosa High school and with the Great Lakes team, during the war, but has never entered intercollegiate competition because of his valuable hurdling ability. He is a candidate for a berth in the backfield where his great speed should offset his lack of weight. More Coolidge Mistreatment. Washington, D. C.—After having been notified of her appointment to a position in the internal revenue bureau, Miss Aeleen L. McGavock, of 909 R. St., N. W., was told, last week, that the vacancy had been filled when she reported and the appointment officer saw she was an Afro-American. Patronize Our Advertisers MUSIC STORE Distributors of Paramount Records 3937 Woodland Avenue Mail Orders Promptly Attended To—the Same Day. 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It made her hair fairly glow with life and gave it a pretty, glossy sheen. She was so delighted with Exelento Quinine Pomade, she tried Exelento Skin Beautiful for low complexions and used skin blemish cream used in this remarkable cream but a short time when her friends began complimenting her on her clear skin and improved appearance. ```markdown ``` Anyone who wants lovely hair and a beautiful complexion should immediately purchase Exelento Quinine Pomade and Exelento Skin Beautifier. They can be obtained at 25¢ each from nearly all drug stores, or will be sent post-paid upon receipt of price by the EXELENTO MEDICINE CO., Atlanta, Ga. AGENTS WANTED EVERYWHERE Write For Particulars RINGS AT ALL PRICES Help The "Old Reliable" to increase its circulation! Don't Throw Away Your Copy of THE GAZETTE After Reading it, But Give It to a Friend or an Acquaintance who Might Subscribe After Reading a Copy of It. Segregation COOLIDGE PERMITS IT! How Our Men And Women Are Insulted And Humiliated In the Government's Departments—Will the Self and Race-Respecting Negro Press of This Country Continue to Stand for This Sort of Thing? (Special to The Gazette.) Washington, D. C.—In the postoffice segregation is rampant. The faithful colored clerks work under constant humiliation and physical disadvantages. The department maintains a spacious caferia 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 colored clerks than is the choice of their government taking the threat of as it is of the whites, for the comfort of the latter, and setting them off as though they were lepers. The injustice stings all the more when they reflect that they are far more capable than the whites, and render the government more intelligent and efficient service—the white man of their attainment being able to get far more lucrative employment. The department goes even farther in its solicitude for whites and neglect of colored. It maintains a well-appointed club room with pool tables and other games, comfortable lounges and other equipment for rest, sociability, and recreation, and nothing for these same colored employees. This private club is in the magnificent postoffice building, built and maintained by ALL of the people. In the locker rooms there is segregation, and segregation is even attempted in the toilets. And all of this is against the most dependable and faithful employees. Last year the white employees passed around invitations to the white employees, in the very presence of the colored, to attend a reception to the heads of departments, including the postmaster general, in the postoffice building. It announced dancing and a pleasant social evening with the officials for "the postoffice employees," yet not one was delivered to the colored clerks. I hurried a protest to the postmaster general the day before it was come off, and he ordered the postmaster to invite the colored as well as the white. These clerks get around their colored co-workers by giving the function at a local hotel. It is inevitable that the wicked spirit of segregation would express itself in appointments, assignments, and salaries. Colored applicants are often passed over though their examination was superior. No Negro, however efficient or old in the service, must ever dream of a promotion to a directive position. The 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 form a union which meets regularly and offers them easily and intelligent contests to the postmaster, and often appeals from his decisions to the postmaster-general. It has secured some improvement in their working conditions, but they are still bitter over the huge injustice done to them for nothing else than the color of their skin. (Special to The Gazette.) Washington, D. C. The government printing office keeps faith with the government's universal school of segregation. Some of the best and brightest of former 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 the employees may go but there are a few tables out-of-the-way reserved for our employees. I am glad to say that few, very few, of our people patronize the place, preferring a little physical inconvenience to the open, semi-public humiliation of segregation. In toilet facilities, dressing-rooms, and work assignments, wherever possible, the law of segregation is in full force, and, of course, this same undemocratic practice reveals itself on the salary roll and in the hard caste that bars promotions. Here, as elsewhere, the inferior whites pass over our superior employees to directive positions, and higher salaries. The whites have a large recreational center in this public building with many fine appointments for rest and amusements. During lunch and dinner hours they repair to this restful retreat for sociability and dance. Last fall, a young Afro-American with a splendid record in his work, felt the injustice of this exclusion of our employees so keenly that he secured the company of a young lady of the race to take part in the dance. As soon as this couple started to dance the music was abruptly stopped, and the young man reported for attempting to take part in an entertainment provided for employees. He was called to the office, lectured for being "one of those smart Negroes" who believe in "social equality," and then dismissed on a trumped-up charge. He was a night-employee, hence he carried a pistol. Right after the dance incident a fire broke out in the office. He was quickly accused of setting the building afire in revenge for his exclusion from the dance floor. Dearest came to the building to arrest him, unable to escape any evidence searched him only to cover the pistol. They quickly dropped the arson charge and substituted one for carrying concealed weapons for which he was immediately dismissed. By this severe punishment our employees are taught that there is no way of escape for one who dares to resent the daily insults that their government (under President Coolidge) gives them. Many of the employees have expressed their deeply-wounded feelings to me at being considered a pariah by the government whose institutions they are serving so faithfully, and I have taken up a number of cases only to be met by a denial that the conditions complained of exist, and a request for the names of my informants. I knew the fate these informants would suffer so I have never given a single name!! The department then taking the position that it cannot take up the case. It is perfectly clear that this iniquitous scheme of segregation is a difficult thing to fight, since the government is so well settled upon it, and the complainants cannot bear witness to it. (Special to The Gazette) (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 young colored women who lost their positions as a result of their position, 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 affection harmony, oblivious to any thought of race. Shortly thereafter came an order for segregation of the races, and a white lady who had been noted for her philanthropy among our people and who was upon intimate terms at the White House appeared at the bureau to tell our girls to be contented with the new order as "a great Negro leader had taught colored people to stay in their places." Three of the young ladies resisted the order to the last ditch and were summarily dismissed! Senator La Follette lodged a protest with Secretary McAdoo to no avail, and his noble wife began a crusade against the undemocratic innovation. She took the platform here in Washington and Boston before the famous Twentieth Century club. She used the columns of the Senator's magazine, sparing neither space nor vigor of utterance. She thundered against it in our local white press, and addressed the national gathering of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People in New York. When our people here were so profoundly discuraged, she came out one stormy afternoon to the Y. M. C. A. of them to continue the fight, for democracy was at the crux of Oswald Garrison Villard to come to attack White House and Cabinet and arouse our people, and the Nation Association secured publicity in over six hundred influential white papers in the country. The fight checked what was thought to be the intention of the segregates, namely, the elimination of the colored employees from the bureau altogether. 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 Summer and Frederick Douglass helped to found. Our girls are employed there in far larger numbers than in any other branch of the public service. THEY ARE SEGREGATED in their rest rooms, toilers. THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND O. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1924 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 aptitude, training, and fine culture. The white girls are of no such grade, as there is no segregation for them in the great world of things. They have unlimited fields at high wage for even mediocre talents. The best of our girls must take these inferior positions, the inevitable result of segregation. Our people are still hoping for the issuance of an order destroying this iniquitous practice in all of our government departments, for it not only humiliates the best of the government servants but impairs the government service. (Special to The Gazette) Washington, D. C.-The treasury department, according to the President's recent acceptance speech, is now under the ablest financial genius since the days of Alexander Hamilton. It is to be remembered that the great Hamilton came from the West Indies, and in that long sweep of history that the President traversed the seas, he was the chief secretary of the treasury in Lincoln's cabinet, who, in a national extremity such as this country has never known, devised the national banking system which financed the Civil War; and Ohio's master financier, John Sherman. These men never knew what segregation was! The present head of the department of internal revenue, Mr. Blair from North Carolina, has not appointed a colored clerk since his incumbency. While his predecessor, Mr. Daniel Roper, a Democrat from Texas, appointed and promoted several of them. Since the income tax legislation and the numberless new taxes that the recent war necessitated, this is by far the largest department of the treasury, employing several thousand clerks. Yet Negroes are so scarce there that they can't be noticed. There is the same number of clerks and other employees as there is in the other branches of the government—failure to recognize their efficiency when promotions are due; ability to go so far and no farther. The various forms of segregation exist here as well as elsewhere—the restaurants closed or divided along color lines, and special toileters, 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, where white people of every class can come to rest, dine, and socialize of afternoons and evenings at minimum costs. The white press of the city is constantly telling of the thousands who take advantage of this "delightful retreat," and the festive scene that their presence creates. It seats two thousand diners with space to spare; but not one Negro! His only share is in the taxes he is forced to pay for this luxury for another group! The registrieship of the treasury, which Republican Presidents have given the Negro since Garfield appointed Blanch K. Bruce, is now filled by a white man, and the colored people are congregated in a separate room which is publicly proclaimed as "a colored division." When it is discovered that Negro clerks are "working as white" in other divisions, they are promptly transferred to this "colored division." Our people fear that protest against this segregation would result in the abolition of the division altogether; so they remain in a dilemma, fearing that segregation must accept segregation or elimination, and being poor, with no other opportunities in this southern atmosphere, must take the former. They are depressed at the wrong, but economic stress compels endurance of it. By a single stroke of his pen, President Calvin Coolidge can stop every bit of the damnable segregation, just as he can condemn that lawless organization the Ku Klux Klan. If he wants the votes, in November, of loyal Afro-Americans, male and female, thrust the length and breadth of this country, these are two things he will have to do. 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OHIO CIVIL RIGHTS LAW Upon the request or many readers of The Gazette we print below the text of the Hon. Harry C. Smith's Ohio Civil Rights law which the editor had enacted while a member of the 71st General Assembly, in 1894: The General Corte 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 accommodations, advantages, facilities or privileges thereof, shall be fined not less than fifty dollars nor more than five hundred dollars, or more than ninety days, or both. Sec. 12941. Whoever violates the next preceding section shall also pay not less than fifty dollars nor more than five hundred dollars to the person aggrieved thereby to be recovered in any court of competent jurisdiction in the county where such offense was committed. This law has repeatedly been held constitutional and good law by the Ohio Supreme court. The trouble is our people will not use it as often as they should, but expect it to do for them what they should and must do for themselves, under it, in the courts. Judge Grant's Opinion of the Law. Misdirect by the foolishly manufactured outcry for the passage of the Beaty bill, a few years ago, the Akron Beacon Journal published an editorial to which the editor of The Gazette replied, calling its attention to he fact that the Ohio Civil Rights law was good law and did not need a judge. Judge Grant former presiding judge of the Court of Appeals of the Eighth District of Ohio, is self explanatory: Editor The Gazette, Cleveland, O. 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