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Kest, has just returned from the New York Market after a most successful purchase of 50 coats for "spot cash". SAM KEST & SON 5123. WOODLAND AVENUE Removal Sale! VICTROLAS, $10 and up RADIOS, $5 and up All the Latest Blues and Popular Records MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS, ETC., AT COST PRICES All Sold on Easy Terms and Small Down Payments at Kellner's Music Shoppe 4421 WOODLAND AVENUE Winter Coat Week at SPRITZ'S PAY JUST $5.00 DOWN and $4.00 EVERY 2 WEEKS and Wear a Fine Warm Overcoat Fine Coats for Ladies, Too, at Reasonable Prices and on the Same EASY TERMS Between Enelid and Prospect SPRITZ Next To Columbia Theatre 2067 East 9th St. THE GAZETTE ESTABLISHED, AUGUST 25, 1883 And Issued Every Week on Time Since CLEVELAND, OHIO, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1925. DARROW RIDICULES LINCOLN'S EMANCIPATION EDICT AND SAYS "IT WAS A DEVIL OF A PROCLAMATION". Discusses the "Race Problem" and Slavery, Calling Attention to the Period of White Slavery—Says There Is No Inherent Difference, Speaking of Races or Groups—Interesting. Detroit, Mich.—Clarence Darrow spoke genially and pessimistically of life in general and the race question in particular before 1,500 of our people who packed the gymnasium of the St. Antoine St. ("jim crow") branch of the Y. M. C. A. Sunday afternoon. The noted lawyer and humanitarian also expressed his view of prohibition with an ironic grim. It is: "I used to drink before prohibition—moderately. I still drink. The Volstead act hasn't seemed to have the slightest effect on my appetite." Talks on "Race Problem". Of the race situation in Detroit, Darrow said: "I shall not discuss the case now being tried (the trial of Dr. Ossian B. Sweet and 10 others), but it is certain that a district built to house 5,000 Afro-Americans will prove a bit too small to accommodate the 80,000 now in Detroit. Obviously, they have to live somewhere. If they move into white neighborhoods they depreciate property values. That is true, and I confess I don't know what can be done about it. There will always be difficulties. If the race problem is solved, there will come along new maladjustments," he continued. "Always the man on the ground has feared the newcomer, because he did not understand him. If a white man went into the Congo he would be hated, and misunderstood. That is your lot here. You have a long, hard road to travel, an arduous foe to fight, and that foe is prejudice, which we have always had with us." Atty. Darrow turned to the topic of slavery, and merrily took a dig at Lincoln's emancipation proclamation. "It was a devil of an emancipation proclamation," he declared. "Did you ever read it. Well, it told the south that if it quit fighting it could re-enter the union and keep the Negroes as slaves. Lincoln was not an abolitionist of the stripe of Summer and Garrison. He only resorted to emancipation later. It was part of his program from the first." Discuses Slavery. "Slavery," he went on, "is as old as time. White men and women have been slaves, a great many of them, up until 300 years ago. In those days a man was either a ruler or a slave. Greece and Rome, conquered white peoples and enslaved them. "And it may be," declared Darrow, in the first gesture of oratory he had employed, "that without slavery your race would never have its chance for civilization. You might still be savages in Africa—and at that you might be better off there. But still, I think that civilization is worth the price we have to pay for it, what the white man paid in his upward struggle, what you are paying today." "I say to you—improve yourselves. Improve your calling. Get rid of tips. Get out of the class that takes tips and into the class that gives them. It won't be easy. But if you can, get your own banks, and work hard. You'll have to work hard, harder than the white man, because you're on his home grounds. No. Insecure. Difference. "You are making progress. There is no inherent difference between your capacity for growth and that of any other man, whatever his color. There is only, I regret to say, a difference in opportunity." Mr. Darrow talked for nearly two hours, in an easy conversation manner, with frequent jests and to the accompaniment of keys that rattled in his hand. There was about him nothing of the "dignity" of the "successful man." His white string tie was hardly fashionable; his shaggy hair innocent of comb or torsional attention. Now and then, apparently by accident, he would reiterate his pessimistic opinions on life and the things of life. He followed no set discourse. One minute he would ask his audience why they; were Christians; in the next he would wonder aloud if they would not enjoy existence more if they were back "playing with the crocodiles and eating the breadfruit by the Congo's shores." "Hope is the salvation of the world, inasmuch as it has any salvation." he remarked once. "I believe sometimes it should be spelled 'dope': because that's about what it is. Life is a mystery. We don't know what we are, or why we are, or whence we came." But as long as 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. we're here, we might as well make the best of it." And with that glorious peroration, alleviated a trifle by jim twinkling eyes, Clarence Darrow, the defender of evolution at Dayton, the lifelong opponent of what he regards as injustice, and incidentally, the most famous criminal lawyer in the world, stepped down from the platform. DOINGS OF THE RACE. A school for the training of Afro-American librarians has been established at Hampton, Va. Institute Florence R. Curtis, (white), a graduate of the Universities of Illinois and Minnesota, and the N. Y. state library school, is its director. James Gaffney, former member of the 24th U. S. Inf., was paroled from Ft. Leavenworth, Nov. 1, with permission to locate in Charlotte, N. C. This leaves 22 of the original 67 members of the regiment, victims of the Houston, Texas riot, still incarcerated in the prison at Ft. Leavenworth, Kans., who are also expected to be paroled by the full of 1928. Mrs. Josephine Y. Kane, of N. Y. City, recently deceased, willed the N. A. A. C. P., $1,000. FRESH OF Written By "The Gazette's Co. What Our People Are D Personal, Social, Lodge, Marriages, CADIZ.—Mr. and Mrs. Rufus Smith of Smithfield visited Cadiz relatives, Sunday.—Mrs. Martha Gross entertained a number of the younger set in honor of her daughter, Merl's 18th birthday.—Master Wm. Freeman, who has been seriously ill, died, Sunday evening.—Mr. W. Cole of Hopedale was here. Sunday.—Mr. and Mrs. R. Hawkins of St. Clairsville and Mr. and Mrs. Rufus Smith were the honor-guests at a dinner-party given by Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Ramsay. Mr. Fred Ramsay of Columbus was here. Sunday. CORRESPONDENTS must mail all letters for publication at their main postoffice sufficiently early on Monday (or Sunday) of each week to have them reach The Gnazette office on Tuesday morning, and always write their names and that of their city or town on the outside of the wrapper about returned copies. Unless this latter is done, proper credit cannot be given you. Lists of names, wedding presents, etc., 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 25 cents a line, six words to a line. Qur rates for display advertisements will be sent on application. HILLSBORO.—Mrs. C. M. Gragston is ill.—Mrs. Gertrude Christy was hostess to the Industrial club, last Friday evening. Refreshments.—Mr. Clarence Pleasant left, Sunday, for Chicago to visit his mother and attend the marriage of his niece, Alice Onetia Johnson, Nov. 12.—Mrs. J. J. Burr was the dinner guest of Mrs. Cora Young. Thursday.—Baptist church trustees will serve Thanksgiving dinner.—Mr. and Mrs. Enoch Frye of Newport were Sunday guests of Mr. and Mrs. Milton Day.—Mr. and Mrs. Edward Jones entertained Mr. Felix Johnson of Monroe, Mick., at dinner, Sunday.—Charles W. Johnson, age 58, died, Nov. 4. Nurial services. Saturday, 2 p. m., at the Baptist church, conducted by Rev. R. L. Bray and the local K. P., He was a member of the Dayton lodge. Mr. Johnson was a fine man and highly respected; a UNDERTAKER. SENTENCED For Defrauding The County and the War Veterans' Bureau for Funeral Expenses. Detroit, Mich.—Judge Charles C. Simons in the Federal Court, last week Friday, sent Charles C. Diggs, age 29, an undertaker at 1391 Mullet St., to the Detroit House of Correction for a term of three months when he was found guilty of swearing to a false affidavit before the local branch of the War Veterans' Bureau, Mrs. Dinnie Stokes, the complaining witness, testified that when her son, Edward, a veteran of the World War, died, recently, she arranged with Diggs for his burial, the consideration to be $250. Of this amount she made a down payment of $130, she said, and arranged to pay the rest in two installments. Testimony in the case showed that immediately afterward Diggs went to (Wayne-) county officials and told them he had received no money from the Stokes family for the funeral, so he was given $100. After that he went to the Veterans' Bureau and asked for $100 for the burial, assorting in an affidavit he had been given but $8 by the Stokes family, and saying nothing about the money from the county. Before paying the money the bureau with the aid of Federal secret service men, made an investigation of Diggs' representations and as a result he was arrested and convicted. Howard, Defeats, Wilberforce Washington, I. C. — Howard university's football team defeated Wilberforce University's athletic institution eleven, 6 to 0, last week Friday afternoon, at American League park, this city, outplaying the latter in every department of the game. Richie was the outstanding player of the visiting team. *Rv. Saul A. Lucas recently attended conferences in Williamsport and Washington, Pa. G. B. Randal of Windsor, Ontario, Ca. is visiting his nephew and niece, Rev. Lucas and Mrs. Mamie Gales. The I. B. C. club held its annual Halloween'en party, at Rev. and Mrs. Lucas.* OHIO NEWS The Old Reliable" correspondents Doing Each Week—Church, Literary and Musical— Deaths, Etc. christian and a regular reader of "The Old Reliable" Gazette ever since there has been a correspondent here. He leaves one brother, Felix; a nephew, niece and sister-in-law to mourn their loss. The brother of, Monroe, Mich., and sister-in-law, of Dayton, attended the funeral.—Mrs. Alline Burton returned, Monday, from an extended visit with a sister in Flint, Mich., a daughter in Springfield, and son in Dayton who with his wife and son accompanied her home for a day's visit.—Mrs. Rhoda Neuman of Greenfield is visiting her daughter, Mrs. Edward Jones, and family. ZANESVILLE.—Our candidate for councilman, Harry R. Stotts, ran exceptionally well at the recent election. Although defeated, he received votes in every precinct in the city a total of 1112, which is excellent when it is considered that his candidacy for an elective position was our first in this city. Many more of our people might have registered and voted for him than did. While those who did vote, and failed to vote for Mr. Stotts, made the mistake that is doing most to prevent our progress in politics when it comes to electing members of the race to office. The mayor-elect (Wm. H. Webster), a Republican, held the same position about eight years ago when Mr. Stotts was an employee for four years at the city cemetery. They are still friends. There were 13 candidates for the council, only 4 to be elected, and all white but Mr. Stotts who was fifth man (runner-up) on the list. The white voters supported him liberally and he made a splendid showing of which he is very proud and for which he thanks all who gave his candidacy support. He intends again to stand as a candidate two years hence when three councilmen are to be elected.—Daniel R. Palmer is recovering from injuries received from an auto. He is an employee of the Penn. Ry. Co. office.—Guilding the Star lodge. Odd Fellows, infiltrated several new members at its last meeting. The grand lodge meets here, next year.—Mr. and Mrs. Theo. Sampson have moved into their new home on State St., where he has an auto repair shop. --- SINGLE COPY FIVE CENTS A PROSECUTION WITNESS, TOO! HEARD GLASS BREAKING AND STONES STRIKING BEFORE SHOTS Were Fired From the Sweets' Home—Names of Jurymen—Attorneys Darrow and Hayes Doing Splendid Work—The Prosecutor's "Bill of Particulars"-A Kluxer "Fired" From the Jury—Outlook Good. Detroit, Mich. - The, jury, which was completed and sworn in at 3:35 p. m., last week Wednesday, consists of the following: John A. Welke, 3742. Columbus Ave. retired. William A. Bapp, 1639 Belyidere Ave. painter. Philip J. Yates, 3207 Blaine Ave. tool designer employed by the Ford Motor Co. Charles F. Naas, 1721 Beldwin Ave. superyisor in the Packard Motor Co. plant. Wm. Whalen, 5738 Linwood Ave. real estate. James Middleton. 457 Melbourne Ave. street car conductor. John Nelson. 1799 Sheridan Ave. machine operator employed by the Ford Motor Co. John C. Zang. 2745 Carter Ave. plate glass salesman. Harold Anderson, 5218 Clarendon Ave., south, factory foreman. John F. Moralee, 787 Wilde St. axio assembler axe assembler. Wm. M. Irvine, 9001 Beverly Ct. electrical experimenter, employed by the Ford Motor Co. John J. Gles. 4551 Brooklyn Ave. foundry superintendent. Because of the nature of the case and the questions involved, the selection of a jury proved a tedious task for both Atty. Darrow and Prosecutor Toms. The first veniremen were called from the regular jury panel. By last week Monday all veniremen from the regular panel had been exhausted and selection from that time on was from a special panel called by Judge Murphy. In all 108 veniremen were examined. Of that number, the prosecution challenged 17, the defense challenged 20 and 59 were excused for cause. On the insistence of Atty. Arthur G. Hayes of New York City, one of Mr. Darrow's six associates in the case, Prosecutor Toms was forced, last week Thursday, to file the following "bill of particulars": "The theory of the people in this case is that the defendants premeditately and with malice aforethought handed themselves together and armed themselves with a common understanding and agreement that one or more would shoot to kill in the event, first, of threatened or actual trespass on the property wherein they were assembled; or second, of the infliction of any damage, real or threatened, however slight, to the persons or property of them or any of them. Further, that the deceased came to his death by a bullet fired by one of the defendants aided and abetted by all the others in pursuance of their common understanding as above set forth. Further, that such understanding and agreement was to commit an unlawful act, to wit, to shoot to kill without legal justification or excuse." After the filing of this statement the jury was brought in and Toms began to outline his case against the Sweets. He said that Dr. Sweet bought the Garland Ave. property last June, but made no attempt to move in until Sept. 8, when a small quantity of furniture was brought to the house. Sept. 9, Toms said, a substantial quantity of groceries was bought, and the defendants came singly to the house, before nightfall. The prosecutor said he expects to prove there was no disturbance outside the house and but 50 or 75 persons on the other side of the street. Two volleys of shots were fired from the house, he said, one bullet hitting Breiner in the back and passing through his body. No shots were fired by anyone else beside the defendants except a police officer stationed in the rear of the house, who shot above the heads of two men firing from an upper porch in the back of the Sweet house, Toms said. At the time of the shooting, Toms told the police had been stationed about the house and were keeping order. Curiosity as to the KluK Llan reached a peak when Charles D. Kinee, 4635 Vinewood Ave., a ventreman who had been in the jury box since the morning (Thursday) session, admitted membership in that lawless organization and was permeantly excused. Police Inspector Schuknecht and Lieut. Paul Shellenburger clearly showed their determination to help convict the accused. If possible, Many members of the local police force are kluxers. Ray Dove, who lives across the street from the Sweets' home and on whose property, Breiner and Hoberg IN UNION IT IS STRONG LE COPY FIVE CENTS CASE IN WITNESS, TOO! ING AND STONES STRIK- ORE SHOTS sets' Home—Names of Jury- row and Hayes Doing The Prosecutor's "Bill A Kluxer "Fired" —Outlook Good. were standing when they were killed and wounded, respectively, claims both were shot in the back and that 20 or 25 shots were fired from the Sweet home. Also that many of the bullets entered the outside walls of his home. Prosecutor Toms offered photographs showing the bullets-holes, but Judge Murphy sustained Attorney Hayes' objection to their being offered in evidence. Both police officer-witnesses testified that there were no attacks being made on the Sweet home when the shots were fired from it, and that only a small number of people were in the vicinity at the time. Attorney Darrow called their attention to their testimony at the preliminary and earlier examination which shows that they said they saw 150 or 200 people about the Sweet home at the time of the shooting. Attorney Darrow made them look pretty cheap at time, comparing the statements they were with those made in the preliminary examination, several weeks ago. His cross-examination of these two officers was very searching. Inspector Schuknecht admitted that a large number of automobiles passed through the district, in which is located the Sweets' home, some of them allowing passengers to alight from them; that when he went through the Sweets home after the shooting, he found stones and glass on floors of the house, and that he had not heard of the assault, upon two members of the race, in the vicinity of the Sweet home, the evening of the shooting. Edward Wettlaufer, 3032 Bewick Ave. witness for prosecution testified, Saturday, that he had heard glass breaking and the noise of stones striking against a house and falling on something hard just before the shots were fired from Dr. Sweet's home, the evening of Sept. 9, and that he was only about fifteen feet from Breiner when he was killed. Dr. Sweet's contention is that the shots were fired from his home in an effort to protect it from a moth which was breaking the windows and stoning the house. This his witnesses will testify to when called, later in the week, and strengthen that of the prosecution's witness. Wettlaufer. Practically all of this week will be devoted to the examination of witnesses of both sides. More anon. F. J. P. AN AFRICAN CHIEF Visits Hampton Institute, Accompanied by Rev. Aggery, a former Subject—Addresses The Students. Hampton, Va.—During his recent visit in America, Amoah III, chief of the Fantil tribe (30,000) of the Gold Const, visited Hampton Institute and appealed to its students, not for money, but to go to Africa and help the educational movement. The African looks to Afro-Americans of character, he said, to teach them and to take up research work that will reveal to the world the story of ancient African civilization. Chief Amoah was accompanied by Rev. J. E. Aggery, formerly his subject. Educated in America, Dr. Aggery became a professor at Bivington College, Salisbury, N. C.; was a member of the Educational Commission to Africa, sent out by the British Government, of which Dr. Thomas Jesse Jones, former associate chaplain at Hampton Institute, is chairman. Dr. Aggery has recently been appointed vice-principal of the native University-College at Achimota, Gold Coast, Africa, for which the British Government has appropriated half a million pounds. A new corner stone was laid Sunday afternoon, by Shiloh Baptist church in the temple it has purchased from B'nai Jeshurum Hebrew congregation at Scovill Ave. and E. 55th St. Rev. Boston J. Prince pastor of Shiloh church, presided at the ceremonies. The property is being purchased by Shiloh for $110,000. B'nai Jeshurum congregation is building a temple in Cleveland Heights. Shiloh was organized in 1850 and is our oldest Baptist church in Cleveland. The communicant membership is 2,020. A fall festival program will be given in the new building. The opening services will be held. Sunday, and the dedication the following Sunday. The GAZETTE PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY SUBSCRIPTION RATES (In Advance) One Year ..... $2.00 Six Months ..... 1.00 Subscribers are requested to remit by postoffice money order or registered letter. Entered at the postoffice in Cleveland, Ohio, as second-class mail matter 226 W. Superior Ave., Cleveland, O. 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 NEWEST AND BEST in the country. 10,000,000 Afro-Americans. 850,000 in Ohio. 40,000 in Cleveland. The attorneys for Dr. O. H. Sweet, and his co-defendants certainly have made great headway on cross-examination of the plaintiff's witnesses. A letter from Chas. A. Campbell, director of a division in the department of labor and industry of Michigan, announces that he has been instrumental in forcing the withdrawal of the Geo. W. Swigart (color-line) Land Company of Chicago from the Michigan real estate field. This is good work. The Swigart Company was selling practically worthless Michigan land to our people, who were paying prices far out of proportion to the quality of soil and its agricultural possibility. According to the Hon. Harry E. Davis, a member of the Ohio Legislature from this county, the recent vain attempt of the authorities of Shaker Heights village to oust twelve of our children living in Beechwood, an adjacent village, from their school, "was an act of reprisal against Dr. E. A. Bailey" who was refusing to vacate his new home in Huntington Drive, Shaker Heights. If Mr. Davis' statement is correct, it would have a tendency to cause one to credit the report that the mayor of Shaker Heights is a southern "cracker". A leading Detroit lawyer writing in the Detroit Free Press of Monday says: "The Sweets trial will eventually impinge on the legal and moral right of Negroes to live where they choose, and, if necessary, to defend with firearms their lives and property where they believe these things to be imperiled." Since the United States Supreme Court has settled the matter, and settled it right—"the legal and moral" right of our people "to live where they choose"—and the constitution of the United States gives them the right "to defend with fire-arms" or anything else "their lives and property when these are imperiled", there is no question as to the outcome of the "Sweets trial". WING AND GREGG. "The organization", which means the combined Democratic and Republican organizations, were determined that Finkle, Fleming and McGinty (Dem.) "go over big" at the recent election and they certainly did, being given many more first choice votes, we verily believe, than were cast for them in the third district. We also believe that Fleming's surplus "votes" would have elected Dr. E. J. Gregg had he not been given the "Marie Wing" treatment. Miss Wing will never know just how many votes she did receive in wards 11, 12 and 17, to say nothing of the rest of the district. Of all the fares in the world, just at this time, we honestly believe that elections in Cleveland are the greatest. DARROW ON LINCOLN'S PROCLAIMATION. Clarence Darrow, the noted criminal lawyer, who is leading the legal defense of Dr. O. H. Sweet and ten other members of the race on trial for their lives in that residential segregation case at Detroit, addressed about 1500 of our people. Sunday afternoon, in the "jim crow Y" at Detroit. His comment on prohibition was characteristic. Darrow is a positive character. Absolutely no question about that. Strong in his opinions, exceptionally outspoken, he is today undoubtedly the attorney with perhaps the largest personal following, largely because of these characteristics which, with exceptional ability, have made him the most successful criminal lawyer in the country. We firmly believe that if anyone can get justice in the courts of Detroit for the eleven members of the race he and his associates are defending, Clarence Darrow is the person. And there are thousands upon thousands of our people who feel just as we do about this. In his CORRESPONDENTS WANTED! "The Old Reliable" Gazette desires an active agent and correspondent in every city and town in Ohio and neighboring states having a number of Afro-American residents. Only a little time on Fridays or Saturdays is required. We are especially desirous of hearing from persons in the following named cities: Springfield, Columbus, Toledo, Steubenville, Zanesville, Wilmington, Kiley, Washington C. H., Lancaster, Hamilton, Piqua, Lima, O., and other places, particularly Ohio, where we have none. We edit the editor of The Gazette, 226 West St., Steubenville, O., and terms will be sent promptly. Our readers will oblige us greatly by sending at once the addresses of persons in the cities named, and others in the state to whom we can write relative to the matter. RACE PREJUDICE! "I am convinced myself that there is no more evil thing in this present world than race prejudice; none at all! "I write deliberately—it is the worst single thing in life now. It justifies and holds together more baseness, cruelty and abomination than any other sort of error in the world." —H. G. Wells. The Truth! What would cause other people to gnash their teeth and gird their loins is question of debate for us. Kick us, beat us, pile depredations upon us, revile us, abuse us, lie about us, malign us and even impugn our valor and we are not unanimously insulted. It seems impossible to establish unanimity of insult in the black race.—Chicago (Ill.) Whip. IS IT ANY USE TO CONTEND FOR RIGHTS? Colored Americans are the only race, responsible members of which are in favor of submitting to discrimination on the claim that their race "always will be discriminated against." The Jews are still contended after over 1900 of membership in discrimination, and are winning even civil rights today. The Irish at home have contended for 700 years and are winning because they will die rather than submit. The race that says it's of no use to resist, downs itself and the world then will say. Negroes are not worthy of racial ties; they are by nature without future hope; they have no 'guts.'" The world respects only those who resent and resist prescriptions for race. 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The pastor and family is located at 10016 South Blvd. Joint indictments charging four men, including the night-porter, with the robbery of the Mall theater, Superior Ave., were returned by the county grand jury, Monday. The indictments name James Brown Nickles, E. 73rd St., porter Jesse Nance, E. 1950s Thackery, age, and Wille Johnson and George Sea, both of Detroit. They are said by police to have obtained $1,425 from the theater's safe in an early morning robbery. The Cleveland Musical association has elected the following officers for the ensuing year: Grace W. Thompson, pres.; Irene Dean, vice pres.; Lillian Starkey, sec.; Mary Branch, treas.; Kathleen Forbes, pres. young people's depart.; Dr. W. Saunders, chair. activities com.; Mrs. Eugene Mayo, member, com.; Capt. Charles Frye, chair, and Mrs. Eugene Mayo, member, excom.; Marguerite Sanford, pianist; Mrs. Forbes, assist. The second "HI Y" musclee will be held, Sunday, at Cedar "Y". 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SEGREGATION AN OUTRAGE! 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. 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., Oct. 4, 1924. —There is more segregation in Washington today under President Coolidge than there has ever been since the Civil War. The beginnings of segregation were under President Taft. It was greatly extended, under President Wilson; increased, still further, under President Harding; and reached its zeal under President Coolidge. For instance, the largest of our parks President Wilson never troubled, but the present administration has found time and desire to introduce it even there. To many people, segregation is a Democratic scheme of insult, but such is not the case. Mr. Taft introduced it in the bureau of engraving. He segregated the towns in this city from the rest, restricting white people, and black to black, often duplicating work as most blocks had white and black residents. And, worst of all, announced in his official capacity that Negroes should not hold office where white people complained. Segregation, then, is a Republican institution and not a Democratic it was begun in 1876 to its all-embracing exertion by Republican There is far more of it in the departments, today, than at any time since the Negro first appeared, close upon the close of the Civil War. The picture requirement in the civil service, which makes it next to impossible for a colored lady or gentleman to enter the civil service, since their color is disclosed in their photograph which must accompany papers, is tenaciously on to by our Republican President. Only last week, a colored lady appeared after having passed the best examination, having been telegraphed for by the department. The photograph had failed to tell her true color, and they flatly refused to appoint her when she appeared, and they saw her complexion. Commissioner Blair of the internal revenue bureau with thousands of clerks will not appoint a Negro clerk, and his word is law there, as he is the special favorite of Secretary President Coulde. President Coulde halls from North Carolina, the home of the other favorite and leader of the segregation force. Col. Sherrill, superintendent of buildings and grounds. He use to complain of either of these southern gentlemen. The colored people here who know the President could destroy segregation in the departments of the government, and the photograph requirements in the civil service by the mure nod of his head, are at a loss to understand why he does not put his splendid declarations on democracy into operation here, where it would not even cost him a single vote and where he has full power and absolutely no opposition. They wonder if he is not a firm believer in segregation, especially since segregation is one of the chief tenets of the Ku Klux Klan which has found its "welcome home" in the Republican party, and receives no condemnation from the Republican President. (Special to The Gazette.) Washington, D. C.—In the postoffice a negotiation is rampant. The faithful colored clerks work under constant humiliation and physical disadvantages. The department maintains a spacious cafeteria 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 thought of their government taking their taxes, as it takes those of the whites, for the comfort of the latter, and setting them off as though they were the integrable ones. All the more 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 loft, the office is segregated and segregation is even permitted 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 the commissary, and 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 had to form a union which it's regularly and publicly manly and intelligent protests to the postmaster, and often appeals from his decisions to the postmaster-general. It has secured some improvement in their working conditions, but they are still bitter over the huge injustice done to them for nothing else than the color of their skin. (Special to The Gazette.) Washington, D. C. —The government printing office keeps faith with the government's universal scheme of segregation. Six of the best and brightest of our girls are forced to accept inferior positions there on account of the better and more lucrative avenues of employment being closed to them because of their color. The whites are generally of a very mediocre group, far from equaling our girls in educational equipment, culture, and working efficiency. Yet these superior girls are set off from the whites with the latter, of course, having the better working conditions, salaries and recreational facilities. There is a large cafeteria in this huge structure in the employees may go, but there are a few tables out-of-the-way I am trained 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, elsewere, those who pass a 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 office 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 dismised on a trumped-up charge. He was a night-employee, hence he carried pistol, and when he decided he fire broke out in the office. He was quickly accused of setting the building afire in revenge for his exclusion from the dance floor. Detectives came to the building to arrest him, and falling to secure any evidence searched him only to discover the pistol. They quickly dropped the arson charge and substituted one for carrying concealed weapons for which he was immediately dismissed. By this severe punishment our employees are taught that there was a way for them to 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. We should share the experience. The parition 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 THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, J. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1925. is so well settled upon it, and the complainants cannot bear witness to it. (Special to The Gazette) Washington, D. C.—Segregation in the bureau of engraving and printing has an interesting history involving President Thomas Woodrow Wilson and members of his family, three heroic young colored women who lost their positions as a result of their protest, and the noble wife of Senator Robert La Follette. Shortly after the accession of Mr. Wilson to the White House, a memoir of his family visited the bureau where she saw white and colored girls who were together in perfect harmony, oblivious to any thought of race. Shortly thereafter came an order for segregation of the race 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 wove summarily dismissed! Senator La Follette lodged a protest with Secretary McAdoo to no avail, and his noble wife began a crusade against the undemocratic innovation. She took the platform here in Washington and Boston before the famous Twentieth Century club. She used the columns of the Senator's magazine, sparing neither space nor vigor of utterance. She thundered against it in our I o c a l 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 dis c o u r g e d , she came out one stormy afternoon to the Y. M. C. A. to urge them to continue the fight, for democracy was at the crises. Oswald Garrison Villard came to town to attack White House and Cabinet and association people, and association secured public in over six hundred influential white papers in the country. The fight checked what was thought to be the intention of the segregators, namely, the elimination of the colored employees from the bureau al t together. The same segregation which some of our people think is the cherished institution of the Democratic party is still there, in all of its fullness, under the administration of the party that Abraham Lincoln, Charles Summer and Frederick Douglass are helped to found. Our girls are employed there in far larger numbers than in any other branch of the public school system. GATED is their rest rooms, toilets, and working stations, and of course none are ever thought of for promotions to executive places. They are girls from our best nomes, most of them with high age, normal school training, and fine culture. The white girls are of no such grade, as there is no segregation for them in the great world of things. They have unlimited fields at high wage for even mediocre talents. The best of our girls must take these inferior positions, the inevitable positions, are still housing 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 the ablest financial genius of 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 are the mighty Salmon P. Chase, secretary of the treasury in Lincoln's cabinet, who, in a national extremity such as this country has never known, devised the national 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 destroys, the largest department of the treasury, employing several thousand clerks, Net Negroes are so scarce that they can't be noticed. There is the same general complaint here among our clerks and other employees as there is in the other branches of the government—failure to recognize their efficiency when promotions are due; ability to go so far and no farther. The various forms of segregation exist here as well as elsewhere—the restaurants closed or divided along color lines, and special toileters, locker rooms, rest rooms, etc. set off for colored. The toilets for the colored are few in such a large structure. 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The white press of the city is constantly telling of the thousands who take advantage of this "delightful retreat," and the festive scene that their presence creates. It seats two thousand diners with space to spare; but not one Negro! His only share is in the taxes he is forced to pay for this luxury for another group! The registries of the treasury, which Republican Presidents have given the Negro since Garfield appointed Blanch K. Bruce, is 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; they would be in a dilemma fearing to act. Our clerks 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. COOLIDGE'S SEGREGATION Washington, D.C.—We wish to call attention to the fact that in the fight against the segregation of our government employees, the Treasury Department will most likely be the center of attack, for segregation in several of its bureaus has been most pronounced. This is particularly true of the office of the register of the treasury and the department of finance, the former, beaver board walls were maintained until recently. In the latter there have been two cases of discrimination on account of color brought to public view. The words, announcing the election of President Coolidge, were hardly cold before the effort to increase segregation in the departments here was on again at full speed. It had slowed up a little during the campaign. Investigation of Burcauus An investigation of the executive department and bureaus listed below shows that segregation prevails in them as follows: Office of the Register of the Treasury, there are two segregated sections—one with 30 Afro-American employees and the other with 14. Navy Department — one segregated section of 18 of our employees, as well as a segregated lunch room. Census Bureau — a segregated section of 60 Afro-American employ-Bonus Section Bonus section of the War Department—one segregated section of 180 of our employees. Veterans Bureau-a segregated section of 16 employees. Department of Justice—a segregated section of 10 employees in the files room. P. O. Separate Lunch Room P. O. 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