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We Also Carry a Full Line of Ladies' Ready-to-Wear Dresses, Coats and Millinery—Reasonable Prices! We will make up a dress to $ your own measurement, any Special of the four fall styles, when you furnish your own material, for ..... 5 NEW YORK DRESS SHOP 5023 Woodland Avenue To Understand Them You Are Misunders About Y MISS CLEV Are Misunderstood Because Too Little About You Is Known S CLEVELAND 1927 You Are Misunderstood Because Too Little About You Is Known MISS CLEVELAND 1927 A Record of Race Achievements By The Cleveland Association of Insuran Will Introduce You TO THE WOR Cleveland Association of Insurance Men Will Introduce You TO THE WORLD The Cleveland Association of Insurance Men Will Introduce You THE GAZETTE 5 ESTABLISHED, AUGUST 25, 1883 And Issued Every Week on Time Since ASK COOLIDGE AGAIN TO HALT SEGREGATION EQUAL RIGHTS LEAGUE DELEGATION AT WHITE HOUSE AND CAPITOL. Washington, D. C.—A delegation from the national Lincoln-Douglass celebration here visited the White house, the U. S. Senate and House of Representatives, Feb. 14, '27. This gathering was made up from officers of the National Race Bureau and National Race Congress, the Washington Branch of the N. A. A. C. P., our National Association of Women's clubs, the National Political Study club, and prominent Methodist, Baptist, Presbyterian, Episcopalian, and others of our clergymen. At the White House, at noon, P. Pinkett read resolutions and signed an A.S. agreement and disfranchise. Rev. T. S. Harten of Brooklyn presented a petition signed by several thousand persons, regarding our twenty martyr soldiers, who have already served ten years for their alleged participation in the Houston riot. T. H. Clarke, president of the Lincoln-Douglass Conference, James T. Nell, recording-secretary, Naval H. Tail, National League, naval of the Washington Branch of the N. A. A. C. P.; Rev. W. H. Jernagin, president of the National Race Congress, and Mrs. Mary Church Terrell, presented facts regarding segregation. Then the delegates divided in two groups and visited congress. Editor Wm. Monroe Trotter, chairman and Rev. Wm. Tail, National League, naval of the Washington Branch of the National Race Congress, George Holden Tinkham in the House of Representatives. Rev. W. H. Jernagin, chairman, Mrs. Mary Church Terrell and Prof. George A. Parker, secretary, led their delegation, which presented the petition to Senator Frederick A Gillett and interviewed Vice-President and House of Representatives, the petition to the House of Representatives and the Senate closed as follows: To those ends and in honor to the memories of Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglas at the natal anniversaries of these noble servants of the republic, we do petition Congress for legislation. (a) To递交 state representation in the federal house in proportion to adult disfranchisement. (b) To forbid denial of accommodation or segregation, by or for race or color, in interstate carriers and in all public places and facilities in federal property or in other federal domains. (c) To more quickly detect and more adequately punish the crime of peonage. (d) To make mob murder and lynchings a federal crime and finally. (e) To refuse to seat those elected under conditions of disfranchisement because of race and color. Petition to President Coolidge. To The President:— —SEGREGATION- At a general Lincoln-Douglas race conference held on the evening of February 12th, by representatives from many of our national organizations, we were deputized to present to you this petition against the segregation of many colored employees in the federal civil service. That this segregation is based upon race and color is based upon understanding, not forth that under the other racial elements under your administration are subjected to this indignity. Under our form of government, the title of citizen is the highest and most honorable title that any American can bear and to which, under our constitutional system, there can be no qualifying application. Special privilege and titles of nobility are forbidden by the fundamental law of the land and when, at the close of the war, reeling the more important acts were passed, the federal government was bound to abolish any vestige of discrimination in any of its departments, based upon color or creed. Many of your subordinate officials are attempting to perpetuate an official caste system, based upon color, and in violation of the constitutional rights of colored men and women. You have the power to abolish this discrimination and we will work together to make sure for an early administration act in this direction. The files of your office will show in what departments this segregation exists. LYNCHING We respectfully request that, in view of the recent atrocious lynchings of colored persons in the state of South Carolina and in other states of the South, a special message be sent to the Congress of the United States recommending the enactment of the Dyer anti-lynching bill. DISFRANCHISEMENT The spirit of Abraham Lincoln, the emancipator, and Frederick Douglass, the abolitionist, whose birth anniversaries these race organizations have been celebrating, inspires us to respectfully request of you that the attorney general of the United States, with the national means at his command, investigate Editor Wm. Monroe Trotter. the whole subject of disfranchisement of persons of color in the states of the South to the end that you may be accurately informed of this grave peril to the peace and perpetuity of our government. The slavery of unlettered men and women brought on the catastrophe of the great civil war; the disfranchisement of millions of educated people of color who pay taxes; who are drafted in our wars; who perform their share of the work of the world, cannot end in but another catastrophe. Rev. Geo. Frazier Miller, chairman; A. S. Pinkett, secretary. FRESH OH WRITTEN BY "THE OLD CORRESP What Our People Are Do Personal, Social, Lodge FRESH OHIO NEWS WRITTEN BY "THE OLD RELIABLE" GAZETTE'S CORRESPONDENTS. Marriages, Deaths, Etc. PIQUA.—Mrs. Emerson Clemons and Mrs. David Bowdry have returned from a visit with relatives in London.—Mr. Goodrich Gilles spent Sunday in Cleveland on business.—Mr. Fred Huggard is up and around again.—Rev. Mickens has returned from several weeks' visit in Jacksonville, Fla.—Mrs. Bertha Williams of Troy spent Sunday with Mrs. Barrimore.—Rev. Maxwell of Xenia was here, recently.—Mrs. Frank Evans is ill.—Vera Adams of Chivalrous (?) New Jersey South emers Show Their Real Attitude Toward Our People—Dr. Robinson's Candidacy. (Special to The Gazette.) Madison, N. J.—Dr. A. E. Robinson recently announced his candidacy for the board of education, filing his petition with the proper number of signatures of voters of this community. It created quite a stir. The other candidates were: Wm. H. Force, Jr. and Frederick A. Miller, both white. The latter a member of the early seeking reelection committee immediately all sorts of rumors and some threats, all designed to discourage the Robinson candidacy. They were successful! He withdrew his petition (nomination) and issued a statement which was published in a local paper. In it Dr. Robinson said his withdrawal was not due to any political conditions or any agitation in the part of any party but was the fierce result of the many unpleasant threats made to him and his petitioners by one of the present school-board officers and their friends; that he was told that if he elected a member of the school-board it would bring about certain unpleasant conditions that would affect not only the signers of his petition and himself but also the organization of the people. Rather than bring about such a condition, which would mean unnecessary suffering and hinder the progress of our people of Madison, he withdrew from the contest. Dr. Robinson closed his statement: "I did not feel the honor of the office worthy of the sacrifice." Force and Miller were elected, of course, and the agitation for a woman member of the board of education, the revoked Rev George Wilson Brent, a retired Methodist minister and a real friend of the race, has the following to say in a letter which he sent to the editor of The Gazette: "There is no 'color-line' here, 'no race discrimination' etc., but when the colored citizens secured a man to be a candidate for an honorable position notice the dirty work done—250 prepared for an emergency!" Would you call that an honest election? The candidate personally threatened and the interest of his race to be damaged if elected—is that the sentiment of 'a christian community?' NOTICE! There was nothing said about his character, nor his ability to honorably fill the position. Simply, he was a Negro! A week later (to 'add insult to injury'), the leading theater of this city booked 'The Birth of a Nation', Tuesday, to off-set the big program on Lincoln's birthday. No protest, to date (Feb. 15, "27"). OHIO NEWS O RELIABLE" GAZETTE'S CONDENTS. Going Each Week—Church, Literary and Musical— Urbana is ill at her grandmother's. —Mr. John Hawkins of Anna was here, Sunday. —Mr. Bob Dobbins, formerly employed here, stopped in Plaquia, Sunday, en route to Florida from Detroit. —Mr. and Mrs. Homer Collins had as guests for the week, the wife of the sister, and Mr. Jennings Carr, a bride Miss Leona Smith and Mr. Erma Newton, all of Detroit. Mrs. Collins will entertain. Monday evening, with a card party in honor of her guests. WILBERFORCE. Mr. Sheridan Brusseaux's report of the Wilberforce investigation has been made public. Its 26 typed pages constitute a damboyant but futile attempt to placate public resentment against one of the worst outrages in the history of our educational system. Here is a detective agency hired by anonymous parties descending with lawyers upon a university campus and demanding that they be permitted to make an investigation of its affairs. This is not the worst. Newspapers were informed that the university was in wretched shape; that its president was incapable, its cancellor an embezzler; that inefficiency and graft prevailed. Now, Mr. Brusseaux reports no graft at Wilberforce; the president is capable, the chancellor is not a grafter, in fact that he has used his own funds to aid the university; that the bookkeeping system is modern and efficient. Further the report shows Wilberforce is worth today a million dollars more than it was three years ago when it had 27 college students. Today it has 260-15 teachers and is worth $1,890,000. Wilberforce is in the position of a useful citizen who has been set upon in the dead of night by detectives, sandbagged, thrown in jail, accused of horrifying crimes and eventually released with the excuse SINGLE COPY FIVE CENTS PROF. NEVAL H. THOMAS ADDRESSES THE AMERICAN FRIENDS' SOCIETY They Were Abolitionist Workers With the Great Frederick Douglass—Warns Cleveland Afro-Americans Against Hospital and School Segregation—Northernize the South. (Special to The Gazette.) Washington, D. C.—Prof. Neval H. Thomas, a member of the national directorate of the N. A. A. C. P., was invited to speak before the American Friends' society, a large group of quakers assembled here in National convention at The Friends' Meeting house, 1811 Eye St., N. W., on Thursday. Mr. Thomas laid all of the evils of the race at the door of segregation, even lynching, because, as he put it, "whenever you are considered an inferior being you invite lynching". Continuing, he said: our people. They would be referred to it and eventually compelled to go to it for service needed. This would bring about segregation such as Cleveland has never as yet known and I hope will never know. I was pleased greatly to read your editorial against the benighted proposal of "You, a noble band of earnest truth-seekers, have behind you centuries of loving service to my suffering race. I do not forget that it was the wisest and noblest man of the colonies, Benjamin Franklin, the quaker abolitionist, who stood almost in solitary grandeur among the many slavemaster signatories to the Declaration of Independence, for he had preached the love of man and organized the first antislavery society long before he stepped forward to sign his death warrant to that sacred document." He then told of the ancient services of the Afro-American to this country in every line of human endeavor, and then gave them a long list of our rewards for our devotion and service, namely: segregation, exclusion from the public service, the church and press, the hiring of self-seeking "Negroes" to preach peace and patience to their fellow sufferers, the eternal barrier of color that dooms us to an inferior status. "Had I the genius of an Edison, I could not even get an ignorant white man's job as motorman on an electric street car in 'democracy's capital, and were I Alexander Hamilton the founder of our fiscal system I would remain in the suburbs where we are and be segregated in order to further break my spirit, with resultant injury to the public service", he continued. "May you, with your worldwide influence, with your ancient traditions of beauteous service, come to the rescue of a struggling, pinioned group, and appeal to the white church and press, the white employer, the officials and legislators of the nation, and of every state, county and city in the nation for greater tolerance, for greater tolerance, for greater justice, which is equality in every right and privilege guaranteed to us by the thirteenth, fourteenth and fifteenth amendments to the U. S. Constitution which black as well as white men helped to make." "Southernizing" The North. Editor Gazette, Dear Sir:—I read with keen regret of the movement of certain "Negroes" in my former home city, Cleveland, to establish a hospital with funds secured by an appeal to the public which they expect this same local public to supply, if not emitted in case they are successful. This, too, in the face of the fact that the hospital facilities of Cleveland, open to all residents, are ample and better equipped in every way than a "Negro" controlled hospital can ever hope to be. The Mercy Hospital, if established, would unquestionably close the doors of most, if not all, of the other Cleveland hospitals to that the detectives that him a highwayman. If anonymous mischief makers can hide behind a detective agency in a matter like this, no institution is better than how large or how efficient:—Baltimore (Md.) Afro-American. "THE OLD RELIABLE" CELEBRATES BIRTHDAYS. "The Old Reliable" Gazette celebrated Douglass, Lincoln's and Washington's birthdays, Monday evening, at the Mary Jane hostess house, Mrs. Maude W. Rhodes and her sister, Mrs. Grace W. Brown, chefs and caterers, de luxe, serving the editor and his four office-assistants a delicious course dinner in their beautiful home: First course—Grapefruit cocktail. Second course—Boost chicken, mashed potatoes, buttered spinach, hot rolls and butter, celery, pickles and strawberry jam. Third course—Lettuce and tomato salad. Fourth course—Apple pie a la mode. Fifth course—Coffee Table decorations: beautiful candles and daffodils. The following were the participants: Mrs. Ida M. Cash, Miss Milfred Ridley, George Urban, Walter Silwa and the editor of The Gazette. All were delighted not only with the beautiful furnishings of the Mary Jane Hostess house but also with the splendid service and food. IN UNION IS STRENGTH THE COPY FIVE CENTS ATION AGAINST BOTH THOMAS ADDRESSES THE ENDS' SOCIETY Workers With the Great Warns Cleveland Afro- Hospital and School hernize the South. our people. They would be referred to it and eventually compelled to go to it for service needed. This would bring about segregation such as Cleveland has never as yet known and I hope will never know. I was pleased greatly to read your editorial against the benighted proposal of Prof. Neval H. Thomas, the short-sighted "Negroes" who are asking for what would eventually prove to be a very harmful segregated hospital in th estate of Giddings and Wade that gave aid to the great Frederick Donglass in the stirring days of the '50's, and of Foraker in later years. I have never seen it fail yet that when a "Negro" fits in with the reactionary schemes of white America by asking for segregated institutions, he has already been promised the profits of the infamy. Here in the South we have never known anything else. At present we are an institution that promotes education and ignorance "jimkrow schools and NO schools. In the more favored North you have no such cruel alternative to face. You must not come back to us, but hold the ground you have and bring us up to you. Don't southernize the North, but help us northernize the South. As one who has worked in segregated schools for years, and sought to change the white schools in physical equipment and per capita costs, let me urge you to keep up your long and vigorous opposition to their advent in the North. You can get no equality under a system that is invented to prevent equality. They exist to keep the black child from discovering his equality with all races; to perpetuate the groundless Nordic superiority of Europe; to south the discrimination is worse. Nowhere are black school systems cared for as the whites are. Thru no such system can we get equality. Every time I go to protest against any one of our numberless wrongs here, white officials and their "jim-crow Negro" hirelings throw up our separate schools, hospitals, Y. M. C. A's, etc., as a reason for the discrimination we are fighting. Keep up the fight for you are laboring for America and the last generation that is to live here. NEVAL H. THOMAS The Outragious "American Control" of the Former Now Planned For the Latter. Washington, D. C.—A permanent or semi-permanent American protectorate in Nicaragua, similar to that in Haiti, apparently is to be the outcome of the present intervention there. Such a protectorate would afford the necessary insurance for large American commercial interests in Nicaragua and at the same time protect in perpetuity the American government's rights to the canal route purchased ten years ago. The Haitian protectorate is carried out through a treaty which gives the American government a dominant voice in the management of the republic. There is a permanent garrison of American marines, and there are American "advisers" to the president of the country, appointed only with the approval of the U. S. state department. Rossville Fire. Piqua, O.—Fire on the roof of the home of Geörge Ford at Rossville was quickly controlled and extinguished by chemicals used by the Piqua firemen early in the afternoon. The damage was confined mainly to the roof. The blaze is thought to have originated from a defective flue. Dearest:— Please accept these humble tokens of my great love. I wished to keep them for myself, as the nearest substitute for you, dear; but I feel they can help me express the sentiment which I shall attempt to put into words tonight. Ever thine, Steve. OH!--ISN'T LOVE WONDERFUL! WHAT'S UP, SIS?--HAS YOUR FATAL BEAUTY CRACKED ANOTHER HEART? CRACKED: BUSTED! HE SENT ME THESE ROSES, AND HE'S GOING TO PROPOSE NOW BEAT IT, SIS!--HELL BE HERE ANY MINUTE! OH DEAR!! WONDER IF HE KNOWS HOW MUCH FEELING THERE IS IN A BUNCH OF ROSES? PLINK! 10-6 Tim Early PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY (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. (Bell Phone: Cherry 1259) Member Ohio Legislature: 1894 to 1896; 1896 to 1898; 1900 to 1902 THE GAZETTE is the oldest and has the largest bona fide circulation, double that of any newspaper in the interest of Afro-Americans published or circulated in the state of Ohio, and comparison with any will immediately establish its rank as one of the NEWSIEST AND BEST in the country. 10,000,000 Afro-Americans. 350,000 In Ohio. 40,000 in Cleveland. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1927. It is time for our contemporaries to stop giving space to the Wilberforce vagaries of one Sheridan A. Brussels of Chicago. Guess "The Old Reliable" Gazette's weekly inveighing, for many, many months, against federal segregation, made so plain in the first four columns on our fourth page, is not at last "bearing fruit". And maybe we are not pleased, too. We know this paper has been severely criticised by many short-sighted persons for our persistence, but we kept it up just the same and the end is not yet, either. Brother Dabney, editor of the Cincinnati Union, and our long-time friend, tell Wm. Gunn, "owner of the Pekin theater", that he made a most unfortunate mistake, if it was a mistake, when he consented to the return of the money he had paid for a ticket to a boxing match given by the 147th Inf., O. N. G. If men of his kind will not contend in the courts for their rights and privileges, they are a positive detriment to the race. Under the circumstances, we fail to see where he is entitled to such sympathy for his mistreatment at the hands of those chivalrous (?) prejudiced southern-sympathizers. THAT MERCY HOSPITAL MOVEMENT. Our people of Cleveland should not fall to read *helpful Prof. Neval H. Thomas'* comment (on page 1 of this paper) on the local Mercy Hospital Association attempt. Those doctors, responsible for it, and all associated with them ought to be ashamed of themselves. Lord, have mercy! Mt. Zion Congregational church, this city, has a debt which approximates $50,000; Shiloh Baptist church, one of $45,000; St. James A. M. E. church, about $27,000 and all the others are burdened with debts possibly not so large but more than our people of this community can pay without the assistance of their white friends of this community. We must not load another, and, too, an UNNECESARY burden on our people and their white friends of Cleveland to satisfy the whims of a few of our doctors and their misguided friends who are abundantly able to finance a hospital of their own if they feel that they must have one. It would eventually force a sacrifice of hospital privileges all out of proportion to the small and few benefits the aforementioned doctors would secure. It is high time, too, that our local pastors were taking a stand out in the open against the "jim-crow" hospital movement unless they wish additional barriers placed in the way of their raising the funds necessary to wipe out the debts on their churches. Our white friends in this community, to say nothing of our own people, must not be "sandbagged" in any such high-handed way. POOR BLEEDING HAITI. This country's unwarranted and indefensible interference in Nicaragua is for the sole purpose of conserving the interests there of "big business" in this country. That about every one knows now. It is true that the government is trying to justify its reprehensible interference in Nicaraguan affairs on the ground that it is endeavoring to protect American business interests there and for the purpose of insuring the retention of this country's canal rights and to protect the latter. But the real motive underlying its Nicaraguan action is disclosed in a report from Washington, published generally throughout the country, Sunday last, by daily newspapers, which opened with the statement that "a permanent or THE GEEVUM GIRLS semi-permanent American protectorate in Nicaragua, similar to that in Haiti, apparently is to be the outcome of the present intervention there". The above-mentioned report also says "there is a permanent garrison of American marines in Haiti." That "lets the cat out of the bag," again. Apparently, this government has no intention of withdrawing its "American control" of Haiti and wants control of Nicaragua for the same reason that it is holding Haiti—not so much, either, for the purpose of protecting the canal and its canal rights as to conserve the interests in those countries of "big business" in this country. In plain words, the government has stolen the little republic of Haiti and is now getting ready to take over Nicaragua, another weaker country. No wonder the South American states fear and dislike our imperialistic government, "the hired man of big business." DONAHEY AND BLOOM. Cleveland, O., Feb. 21, '27. Mr. Ernest Harvier, 1193 Broadway, New York, N. Y. Dear Sir:—Your letter of the 19th just received and in answer I desire to say that Governor Donahey and Lieutenant-Governor Bloom (Democrats) owe their election to the colored vote of the state and practically acknowledged this in communications which they sent to me and which were published in my paper, last fall. Cooper, the Republican candidate for Governor, was opposed because of his discrimination and segregation of colored residents in Cincinnati and Hamilton County. He not only advocated his "zone-ordinance" to segregate but carried it out in his real estate dealings with my people of that city and county, so they informed the rest of us in the state. Mills, the Republican candidate for Lieutenant-Governor, has a chain of restaurants throughout the state of Ohio many of which, if not all, draw a color-line, so the colored people of Columbus informed the rest of us in the state. The great majority of the colored voters of this city and county did not vote for Cooper and Mills; they could not. Some of the less intelligent and unscrupulous were misled or "influenced" into voting for them. But this number was small. Donahay lost the county as a result of election frauds and the failure of his party-members here to support him as they should have done. This, however, has always been the case because prior to the last campaign the Governor and the local Democrats did not work in harmony, were antagonistic. Ohio Afro-Americans gave the Governor votes far in excess of double the number of his majority over Cooper, the Republican candidate for Governor, and they gave Lieutenant-Governor Bloom ten times his majority over Mills. NEBRASKA, TO BE THE NEXT. Hon. Ferdinand L. Barnett, former resident of Cleveland, O., now a member of the Nebraska legislature, writes the editor of The Gazette that he is daily expecting the passage of his civil rights and mob violence bills in the lower house of the Nebraska State Assembly. The judiciary committee has recommended the passage of both bills. This is a great help and very encouraging, indeed. The bills are copies of our Ohio civil rights and mob violence or anti-lynching laws. Possibly more than half of the northern and border states have, to date, enacted effective laws of a similar nature most of which are copies of Ohio's pioneer mob violence act. We are still of the opinion that if mob violence is ever to be stopped to the minimum in this country it is going to be accomplished thru the medium of state laws and not as the result of a federal anti-lynching law, something we will never get. The following officers of the second battalion of the Uniformed Rank, K. P., have been elected for the year: R. N. Dillard, captain, Sherman Steward, first-lieut. M. M. Stowal, second. J. H. record, record, Jones, treas.; Henry Arnett, quartermaster-sergeant. The battalion met, Sunday afternoon. THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, O. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1927 Datto Defeats Suggs. Detroit, Mich. — Chick Suggs, New Bedford, Mass. — featherweight, was floored five times and lost to Johnny Datto of Cleveland in a ten-round boxing contest here, last week Fri. The 19-year-old in the second round, twice in the fourth, and in the eighth was on the verge of a knockout when he took the count of nine twice. Chick decisively defeated Johnny in Cleveland not so many months ago. It was the first time Flowers are "hipppodroming," so frequent have been their defeats in recent months. Elks' Team in The South. Eiks' Team in the South. The Cleveland Elks' basket-ball team invaded Baltimore, last evening, at New Albert Andrus. The "Greeks." The local team is one of the best in the country. They have won 35 out of the last 36 games played in the past two seasons, defeating some of the strongest teams in the country. Their lone defeat was administered when the local Athenians club defeated them, 35 to 32. The team is headed by "Pete" Willett. In forward is "Petey" John, center, "Sam" Hampton; guard, "Rock" Anderson and "Stonewall" Ross. Cleveland's League Team. As announced in a recent issue of The Gazette, the entire A. B. C team of Indianapolis, except "Bingo" DeMoss, its manager last year, will make up our league team, this season, with Frank Duncan as manager and L. S. N. Cobb, secretary. Among the players are Taylor and Evans outfielders, Robbin and Hainey outfielders, Foreman and Dixon, catchers, Miller, "Lefty" Stevens, Mitchell and Rile, pitchers. The manager was formerly leader of the Elites, a local semi-professional team. Some of the players will join the roster of the new club. Secretary L. S. N. Cobb has secured Hooper. He knows for the playing diamond and the practice will start April 1. The entrance of Cleveland into our National Baseball league gives the circuit eight clubs, namely, Chicago, St. Louis, Birmingham, Memphis, Detroit, Kansas City and the Cuban Stars. Hooper Field has one of the best club houses and stands in the league, and the new owners are going to play. League contracts have been mailed to the different club owners and each player has been sent a contract. Rev. A. L. Boone, of Ft. Worth, Tex., a vice-president of the National Baptist convention, has been called to pastor Shiloh Baptist church and arrived in the city, yesterday, to preach, Sunday, for Shiloh. He is expected to inform the congregation, whether or not he will accept the call, the first of next week. There is something radically wrong with a group of people who refuse to help relieve their own burdens. The day of throwing bouquets is gone forever. The Afro-American must face the facts as they exist. We won't gain anything by fooling ourselves into thinking that everything is all right. Everything affecting the lives of afro-American lives is all wrong. The sooner we face these facts, the quicker we will begin to work for our own salvation, the sooner we will attain our rightful place as American citizens. — Philadelphia Tribune. IS IT ANY USE TO CON- TEND 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 contending, after over 1900 years of universal discrimination, and are winning even social rights today. The Irish at home have contended for 700 years and are winning because they are the only nation to 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 equal rights; they are by nature without self-respect and have no 'guts.'" The world respects only those who resent and resist proscriptions for race. Let us be worthy of the abolitionists, worthy of our own fathers who have died with the title of their race to equal liberty, and forever resist denial of rights in our native land, however long race discrimination may continue. To submit is to deserve contempt.—Boston (Mass.) Guardian. 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Wilson were married, recently, and are liv- ing at E. Sist St. and Myrtle Ave. ‘The Vasht! class-entertained at a Martha Washington tea, Friday, at Mrs. Lillian Starkey’s, E. 90th St. ‘Mayme A. Richardson, soprano, Detroit, and Frances Galloway, pian- ist, Chicago, will appear here soon in’a joint recital. Miss ‘Theodosia Skinner and Mrs, Irene Kenner entertained the My- telene class at the latter's home, E. 79th “St, last week Monday night. Mrs, J. T. Suggs and sister, Miss Willye M, Shook, royally entertained at a Washington's birthday party at the Metropolitan club. Antioch choir rendered the sacred cantata, “The Woman of Sychar,” by Stroughton, Sunday evening, and acquitted itself very creditably in- deed. ‘The engagement of Miss Ida, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Bow- -man, E, 101st, and Robert Stafford has ‘been announced. Wedding in March, | Thelma L. Taylor was here trom Heidelburg University, Tiffin, 0.,. to spend Lincoln's birthday, aiso “the birthday of her mother, Mrs. Oliver A. Taylor of Crawford’ Rd. Mr. Anthony ‘Overton, president of the Douglass National bank, the Victory Life Insurance Co. and the Overton Hygiene Co., of Chicago, passed thru the city, recently. * Mr, and Mrs. Julius Lipsicomb, E. 78rd St., recently gave their daugh- ter a very enjoyable birthday party. Miss Weltha proved a clever hostess her parents serving a fine luncheon. Our Cleveland Federation of Wo: men's clubs held its monthly lunch: eon-meeting at the P. W. A., Mon- day. There were several speeches Mrs, Cora W. Robinson, president Jones A. M. B. chapel, located al E. 77th St. and Quincy Ave., was or ganized by Rev. 8. C, McMillan o Savannah, Ga., Nov. 3, "26. It i named for Bishop Joshua A. Jone: of Wilberforce. Mt. Zion’s campaign for $50,000 was endorsed last week by the Inter denominational Alliance, Rev. J. P THE GEEVUM GIRLS | WANTED. — Correspondent — ‘cntistian widow, settled, would like fo correspond "with a middle-aged, ‘sober and Christian man. Address, ‘Marina ‘Alexander, P.O. Gen. De- livery window, Cleveland, 0. WANTED — AGENTS — NEW PLAN. makes it easy to earn $60.00 to“s¥o0.00. weekly, selling “shirts direct to wearer. No capital or ex- perience needed. Represent a real Inanutacturer, Write. for FREE SAMPLES. “Madison Shirt Makers, Cae aisighe Nee Tone Foote, sec., and by the Social Work- ers’ Roundtable and Jane Hunter, ex. see, of the P. W. A. Ida, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charlés Stewart, EB, 126th St., was a recent graduato of Longwood High Scool. Her sister is a graduate of Hroedman hospital, Washington, D. G, as a student nurse. Chas. M, Williams, B. séth St, writes his family that he is enjoying the baths an@ balmy weather at Hot Springs, Ark. and that he hopes to be able to return to Cleveland, great- ly benefited, the last of next month The Harlin club celébrated Lin- coln and Douglass" birthdays at St. John's church, Feb, 13. ‘The speak- ers were: Rev. H. P. Jones, pastor; Hon John P. Green and Atty. Chas. W. White. Atty, W. R. Green, pres- ident of the club, presided. Dr, H. S, Fritsch, pastor of Hough Ave. Cong. church, and Rey. Russell 8. Brown, of Mt. Zion Cong. church, wr iw sd ye DNS: NE i es 3 Suds i BE OS ONS i ay < A F ot SN SN : SY = ° ° A Special Sale of Spring Patterns in . ’ 800 Spring HATS Women’s Footwear $1.95-$2.95 Values $3 and $3.50 Values Silk and straw or all-straw hats in small Blonde’ etd peepee tietype Nn tuae cgay and large headsizes. Tam ’O shanters, poke reptile straps—blonde reptile straps—patent effects, upturned brims, close-fitting hats and leather straps—and others, All new mer- many styles for matrons. Cleverly trimmed Viwm~ chandive made for this season's regular vith flowers, ons, ornaments, ete, 4 ise » Spanish, - milita: it Ue eemepcig deems rn vt OMY ; Laie sense staen Bergais Basements 7 d $9.59 ia tore ee $ J] .69 if GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, 0. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1927 HOUSES AND LOTS FOR SALE Six rooms and garage, $3,500. New six room and 2 garages, $4,000; $450 and up, down-payment, A few lois at $575 and up; $50 down-payment and up. url partisniats, “tore Gieavilig, (e4h vor rile SETH NICKENS, Heal Estate Oitice, 12225 Hirst Avenue, Cleveland, Ohio. exchanged pulpits on ‘interracial’ Sunday, Dr. Fritsch spoke on “The Religion of Lincoln” and Rev, Brown Jon “Love Is Stronger Than Wrath.” | Reuben Black, loca manager of | the Credential Bond and Mortgage Co., was called to Augusta, Ga., last week, to attend the funeral of a sis- ter, Mrs, Eunice Black Martin, who died suddenly at her home in New York city. Mrs, Mollie DeBraun, E. 80th St., state deputy of Lady Elks and Moose, while motoring to Warren to attend a lodge meeting, last. week, was crowded off the highway into a ditch, She sustained poinful but not serious injuries, Atty. and Mrs. Charles A. Chand- ler of Muskogee, Okla., visited her grandparents, Dr. and Mrs, Charles Bunday, E. 95th St., recently. Mrs. Chandler was former Miss Elsa Cox, one of our local public school-teach- ers. The editor of The Gazette ac- knowledges the receipt, last week, from E. 8. Bowerfind, ‘assistant to the director of the Cleveland Mu- seum of Natural History, of an or- der for two tickets to the Prince William lecture, delivered Monday, at the museum,’ , ‘The Tuesday Afternoon Thimble club has elected the following offi- cers for the year: , Mrs, Ida M. Bur- ton, pres.; Mrs. Mary Hamilton, vice- pres.; Mrs. Lottie Stewart, rec. sec.; Mrs.’Fannie Oglesby, assist.; Mrs. Ida B, Owens, treas.; Mrs, Amanda ‘Taylor, critic. Arthur Hutchingon and W. Holmes are in charge of the new Standard Oil gas station at B. 40th St. and Central Ave. Howland and Brown are still at B, 93rd St. and Cedar Ave. They have held the job, two. years, | Mrs. Anna Peterson, mother of ‘Mrs. Bessie Carter, E. 55th St., died, Feb. 11, at City hospital. Mrs. Pet: erson lived in Lorain and was in- jured in a fall while on a visit with her daughter, who has been ill, Mrs, Carter has the earnest sympathy of a host of friends, Our local Business Association, which met, last evening, elected the following ‘officers at a previous meeting: H. S. Chauncey, pres.; E. F. Boyd, vice-pres.; J. ©, Hudson, sec.; A. O, Taylor, treas.; 'R. H. Smalls, sgtat-arms.. Chauncey and Taylor’ were re-elected. Jarrett Chavous is chairman of the ways and means committee, Just as we anticipated, the Cleve- land board of elections has “white- washed” the election frauds com- mitted in the 11th and 12th wards and located a Democratic “goat” in Guaranteed and Efficient Work TWENTY YEARS’ EXPERIENCE Phone: Bell, Randolph 6978 Sundays by Appointment An Epoch Making Certificate Gespleas Miobonal Bile pias = fine Chacoge Jr $8 NR __gge_ gl. 0008 i Viory 888% Fe ee ainhentaosh es Pi Men ian ae nap an Le nate Co Sear gerne Pauanmennae = i THE CERTIFICATE OF DEPOSIT shown above was used for the Loe of increasing the Capital of VICTORY LIFE INSURANCE COM- i PANY to $200,000.00 FULLY PAID, and its Surplus to $100,000.00 if making it THE LARGEST CAPITALIZED OLD LINE LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY IN THE WORLD owned and operated by Negroes. ‘The following extract is quoted from the letter of the Superintendent i ef Insurance of the State of Illinois announcing this EPOCH MAKING ¢ EVENT: g “In regard to the amendment to the charter of your Company, : I would advise that the Report of Examination of the records of E the Company indicates thet the total amount of the proposed increas io the suthoried capital stock has been mbecribed for mad 9 the sales price thereof fully paid in cash. EE The other logl requirements having been complied with the ampendment Tis inl Ok Umsanens os Speke arm I find cordingly itis hereby declared to be elected and im fore.” {= ‘This forward step is in keeping with the policy of thie young and i progressive organization to offer to its policy-holders and the general publie @ larger service than ever before, and to continue in its determination te build « company that will give to its clients the largest inewrance service at the lowest possible cost. Victory Life Insuranee Company ; : 3621 South State Street | See TOS a judges and ‘clerks in’ those’ two|] Mme. Louella’s Method of Growing Hair an wards, atoleast itweasius ee See eee ee mae Mme. Louella’s Method of Growing Hair and Treating Scalp Disease Sty woman, fn Amer oo es eee eae ut trouble. ‘Corres- No.2 Scalp dl- No. 3, Hate 3 in. No. 4 tale § in. indie SSS: Write MMB, LOUELLA WILLTAMS, 221), Sh Ave, New York City Don't Throw Away Your Copy of The GAZETTE After Reading It But give it to a Friend or Acquaintance who might Subscribe after Reading a Copy of It. SEGREGATION AN OUTRAGE! How Our Men And Women Are Insulted And Humiliated In the Government's Departments—Will the Self and Race-Respecting Negro Press and People of This Country Continue to Stand for This Sort of Thing? Coolidge Permits It. Washington, D. C., (Special). —There is more segregation in Washington today under President Coolidge than there has ever been since the Civil War. The beginnings of segregation were under President Taft. It was greatly extended, under President Wilson, increased, still further, and under President Coolidge; and used its tenure under 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 commonwealth in this city in 1847, restricting white people to 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 situation and not a Democratic one, was begun by Republicans, and it was begun to its all-centracizing extent by Republicans! There is far more of it in the departments, today, than at any time since the Negro first appeared, close upon the close of the Civil War. The picture requirement in the civil service, which makes it next to impossible for a colored lady or gentleman to enter the civil service, since their color is disclosed in their photograph which must accompany their papers, is tenacious and on hold for our Republican President. Only last week, a colored girl appeared after having passed 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 and President Coolidge. He hails from North Carolina, the home of the segregation forces, Col. Sherrill, superintendent of buildings and grounds, it is no use to complain of either of these southern gentlemen. The colored people here who know the President could destroy segregation in the departments of the government, and the photograph requirements in the civil service by the mere nod of his head, are at a loss to understand why he does not put his splendid declarations on notice to 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 Constitution, that is "welcome home" in the Republican party, and receives no condemnation from the Republican President. (Special to The Gazette.) Washington, D. C.—In the postfive segregation 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 height of their government taking their taxes, as it takes those of the whites, for the comfort of the latter, and setting them of as though they were lepers. The illusion strikes 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, a com for t able 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. All of t able 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 dances and a pleasant afternoon for the postmaster employees, yet not one was delivered to the colored clerks. I hurried a protest to the postmaster general the day before it was to come off, and he 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 supervised by a show on 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 often sends manly and intelligent protests to the postmaster, and often appeals from his decisions to the postmaster general. It has been important 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 print office keeps faith with the government's universal scheme of segregation. Some of the best and brightest of our girls are forced to accept inferior positions there on account of the better and more lucrative avenues of employment being closed to them because of their color. The whites are generally of a very mediocre group, far from equaling our girls in educational equipment, culture, and working efficiency. Yet these superior girls are set off from the whites with the latter, of course, having the better working conditions, salaries and recreational facilities. There is a large cafeteria in this huge structure, but there are no few a few tables in an out-of-the-way section reserved for our employees. I am glad to say that few, very few, of our people patronize the place, preferring a little physical inconvenience to the open, semi-public humiliation of segregation. In toilet facilities, dressing-rooms, and work assignments, wherever possible, the law of segregation is in full force, and, of course, this same undemocratic practice reveals itself on the salary roll and in the hard taste that bars promotions. Here, the law of segregation passes 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 restful retreat, and 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 the truth of the truth, and 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. Detectives came to the building to arrest him, and failing to secure any evidence searched him only to discover the pistol. They quickly dropped the arson charge and substituted one for carrying concealed weapons in the building. The media dismayed. By this severe unimaginable 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) 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 rebel during the Civil War, wife of Senator Robert La Follette. Shortly after the accession of Mr. Wilson to the White House, a mem- ber of his family visited the bureau where she saw white and colored girls working together in perfect harmony, oblivious to any thought of race. Shortly thereafter came an order for segregation of the races, and a white lady who had been noted for her philanthropy among our people and who was upon intimate terms at the White House appeared at the bureau to tell our girls as to be contented with the new order in 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! abolition of the division altogether; so they remain 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 this damnable segregation, just as he can condemn that lawless organization the Ku Klux Klan. Senator La Follette lodged a protest with Secretary McAdoo to no avail, and his noble wife began a crusade against the undemocratic innovation. She took the platform here in Washington and Boston before the famous Twentieth Century club. She used the columns of the Senator's magazine, sparing neither space nor vigor of utterance. She thundered against it in our loca white press, and addressed the national gathering of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People in New York. When our people here were so profoundly discouraged, she came out one stormy afternoon to the Y. M. C. A. to urge them to continue the fight, for democracy was at the crises. Oswald was 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 ait together. The same segregation which some of our people think is the cherished institution of the Democratic party is still there, in all of its fulness, under the administration of the party that braham Lincoln, Charles Sumner and Frederick Doug has helped to found. Our girls are employed there in far larger numbers than in any other branch of the public service. THEY ARE SEGREGATED in their rest rooms, toilets, and working stations, and of courses and opportunities to executive places. They are girls from our best names, most of them with high ante normal school training, and fine culture. The white girls are of no such grade, as there is no segregation for them in the great world of things. They have unlimited fields at high wage for even mediocre talents. The best of our girls must take these inferior positions, the inevitable result of segregation, the our people are in hopeless order, destroying this inquisitive practice in all of our government departments for it not only humiliates the best of the government servants but impairs the government service. (Special to The Gazette) Washington, D. C.—The treasury department, according to the President's recent acceptance speech, is now under the ablest financial genius since the days of Alexander Hamilton. It is to be remembered that the president was a man of indies, and in that long sweep of history that the President traversed are the mighty Salmon P. Chase, secretary of the treasury in Lincoln's cabinet, who, in a national extremity such as this country has never known, in which the national Civil War; and Ohio's master financier, John Sherman. These men never knew what segregation was! The present head of the department of internal revenue, Mr. Blain 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 war, the largest estates, this is by far the largest partment of the treasury, employing several thousand clerks. Yet Negroes are so scarse there 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 far no longer. The various forms of segregation exist here as well as elsewhere—the restaurants closed or divided along color lines, and special toilets, locker rooms, rest rooms, etc., set off for colored. The toilets for the colored are few in such a large structure—the segregated clerks are forced to end their physical existence 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 challenges 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 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 Obama can stop every bit of this damnable segregation, just as he can condemn that lawless organization the Ku Klux Klan. COOLIDGE'S SEGREGATION Washington, D. C.—We wish to call attention to the fact that in the fight against the segregation of our government employees, the Treasury Department will most likely be the center of attack, for segregation in several of its bureaus has been most pronounced. This is particularly true of the office of the register of the treasury and the internal revenue bureau. In 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 Burcans Investigation An investigation of the executive departments and bureaus listed below shows that segregation prevails in them as follows: Office of the Register of the Treasury, there are two segregated sections—one with 30 Afro-American employees and the other with 14. Navy Department — one segregated section of 18 of our employees, as well as a segregated lunch room. Census Bureau — a segregated section of 60 Afro-American 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 file room. **Internal Revenue** Internal Revenue Bureau—a segregated section of 7 employees. regated section of 7 employees. Office of the Treasurer of the United States—a segregated section of 4 employees. War Department, Transportation Division—a segregated section of 5 employees. P. O. Separate Lunch Room Post Office Department—a segregated lunch room. CHARACTER Character, like a fine old tree, matures slowly and is a riper growth than success that is forced as hothouse products are forced. Character in a newspaper develops through years of service to the people. For forty-three years The Gazette has been serving our people of this country. It has gathered a reader clientele whose tastes it reflects, and whose power and responsiveness to buy are direct measures of its present importance to every advertiser. EDITOR. "WORTH ITS WEIGHT IN COLOR" Cleveland, O., Aug. 28th, 1925. Hon. Harry C. Smith, Editor, Gazette Dear Friend:—I have read the latest copy of The Gazette through and after reading it, I can truthfully say: it is worth its weight in gold! I admire true manhood—a man who, seeing injustice and oppression, dares, within the limits of the law, to expose it You and I have frequently, during the forty-two years since the birth of The Gazette, been, as the Scotch would say, like two McNeils, but when I find a man, such as you, who consistently, and persistently, through nearly half a century, puts his race foremost in his life struggle, I take off my hat to him, as being a true friend of our class. Long life to you and The Gazette. Yours for the right, John P. Green. (Former Member, Ohio State Senate.) "NOT THE LARGEST, BUT THE BEST!" Little Rock, Ark. June 16 '25. Hon. Harry C. Smith, Editor, Gazette Cleveland, O. Dear Friend!—Long live the Gazette! a welcome friend to the Ricks-Demby family for forty-three years. We boast of being among the oldest continuous subscribers of The Gazette—not the largest but the best in essentials and the most dependable of race journals Wishing you continued good health and success, we are as ever. Very truly yours, (Bishop Edward T. and Nettie M. Demby. Subscribe Now PETERWOOD & BUDDWOOD THE MILLINER COMBINES STRAW WITH FELT OR FABRIC FOR SPRING H WHAT pranks the stylist is playing with fabric this season—cutting it into pieces one minute, only to sew it together the next, with cleverest sort of seamings, tuckings, plaitings, inlays, insets and endless "tricky" ways which bespeak a beugling modishness. And all the time Dame Fashion says bravo! bravo! and encores for more. Undoubtedly ingenious handling of materials is an outstanding feature of the mode. The unique side panel in the skirt of the frock is this picture is illustrative of the reigning vogue for intricate fabric manipulation. The fact that the crepe satin of which it is made has a dull and a luster side contributes to the charm of this darlingly "different" cut-out effect. THE MILLINER COM WITH FELT OR WHAT thrill of spring when the fair sex dons the little "first bats." Just the sight of a mere touch of straw after heavy furs and velvets breaks the spell of winter and even though snow and ice may not have yet said their adieux 'tis spring-time which reigns in our hearts. So it is that the straw-touched fabric hat as the first harbinger of spring assumes an air of vast importance. As usual the smaller hat is the preferred type for the beginning of the season, only this year it seems as if our chapeaux are more close-fitting than ever. The exception to the rule of the snug-fitting shapes is the felt and straw trim which young girls are wearing similar to the model centered in this group. Interesting, too, is the fact that some brims have taken to rolling away from the face. This tendency is emphasized throughout smart models just arriving, such as the saucy little felt shape shown to the lower left in this group. Note that its rolling brim is straw-faced. GAZETTE Subscribe af The importance of wide self-fabric inset belts such as this model exploils cannot be overstated in connection with the new spring styling. Then there is the skirt whose fullness is achieved with plaits. Most of the advance modes repeat plaits, plaits plaits in bewildering array. That "touch of embroidery" which fashion decrees for the informal afternoon frock of soft fabric takes form in a narrow banding in the instance of the dress in the picture, outlining very pretty both the cut-out skirt-panel and the plastron blousefront. It also accents the new style item of a high-collar effect which ties in a bow at the back of the neck. JULIA BOTTOMLEY © 1972 Western Newbern Union MBINES STRAW FABRIC FOR SPRING French milliners are showing in a very large way fabrics on the order of belting silk, taffeta, faille and bengaline, either in entire hats of these materials or in combination with straw. Typical of the manner in which straw and fabric are being worked together is the practical-plus-stylish chapeau shown first in the picture. Its crown is plaid with rows of tiny pedaline. The bit of straw forming the narrow rim of the hat pictured in the upper right corner says, "Welcome, spring." Ornaments such as one sees on this model and the one pictured opposite it are much in evidence on not only fabric hats but also on many of the deftly draped little fets which are so numerous in the mode's first showing. The concluding hat in this group be speaks the approach of spring by binding with straw each of the fabric scallops which so prettily frames the face. JULIA BOTTOMLEY (©. 1927, Western Newspaper Union.) E After Reading after Reading Additional Locals The Youthful Philosophers' literary and social club met, last week Wednesday evening, at Miss Eva Borders'. E. 69th St. After the business meeting, the members and many visitors were deliciously served. The club has secured a room at the Alpha Omega club house, E. 90th St., and met there, Wednesday. The "great volume of business", done under the Coolidge administration, which the daily newspapers of the country in the control of "big business down East" praised, are clearly reflected here. Cleveland in the large number of "For Rent" signs on residences and business buildings, and in the low stage of business generally for three years past. "Coolidge good times" is a joke, a serious one through the country, not only here in this city. The regional meeting of the Women's Auxiliary of the diocese of Ohio was held in St. Andrew's Church, recently, over 20 women attending. The program consisted of Syrian and Indian stories and songs directed by Dr. Wm. P. Saunders and Mrs. Claybourne George. Tea was served in the parish house by McNaughton. Dr. Leon S. Evans, in charge of the tuberculosis clinic at the Central Ave. bath house, was on the recent clinical and pathological program, under the auspices of the Academy of Medicine, at Lakeside hospital. It was the first time in history that one of our physicians has been so honored. Dr. Evans demonstrated a case of "Addison's disease." A series of musicales by Mrs. Grace Willis Thompson's advanced students at the Institute of Music and Dramatic Art, 2164 E. 46th St., was opened, Sunday between 4-5 p.m. The participants were: Edith Wright, soprano; Mary Branch, contralto; John H. Perry, tenor; Elrine Howland, pianist, assisted by Mrs. Dazella Wade, reader; Harriet Biggs and Margaret Sandford, pianists. The Gilpin players are indebted to the following for the guidance and advice in the construction of their little Central Ave. play-house: Mrs. Louise Dunn of the Cleveland Museum of Art: Paul Travis of the Cleveland School of Art: Max Eisenstadt of the Playhouse; Ardene Leatherman and Alfred B. Copes. The players are giving their three one-act play program again tonight. The same program was given last and Thursday evenings. Rev. B. F. McWilliams of Toledo gave an interesting talk on "The Race Relation Movement" at the annual meeting and luncheon of the Welfare league, Monday noon, at Hotel Winton. Dr. McWilliams is a graduate of the program were: Miss Mary McDowell, a commissioner in the Chicago department of public welfare, and Rev. F. Q. Blanchard of this city, both of whom gave interesting talks on the same subject. Wm. R. Conners is the executive secretary of the league. Dr. McWilliams has been re-appointed to the Department of Wilberforce University by Gov. A. Vic Donahue. One of the "stock" arguments in favor of the abortive local Mercy Hospital movement is the amount of segregation already in Cleveland, the bulk of which, if not almost all of it, has materialized in the last seven or eight years as a result of the efforts of the same kind of mercy effort. People behind the "Have Mercy effort" pose more concern to them than the race's vital interests. It was so with the others, responsible in the largest degree for about all of the segregation now practiced in the city. They would make Cleveland as bad in this respect as the section they were glad to leave when they came here. Lord, have mercy! JOSEPH HIMES. Practically blind from an accident in a chemical laboratory, Joseph Himes, eleven-year-old colored lad, tops his class at East High school with an average of 95.5. It is no mean achievement. Prejudice unfortunately closes many an avenue to the ambitious colored youth. It causes many of them to mistake before pursuing higher education. But Joseph Himes is of the type who refuses to be daunted. In spite of color, in spite of blindness and in spite of a defect in hearing he insists upon forging ahead. His motto is, "I will succeed." To all young men, whether handicapped by sensory defects or blessed with the full command of all his faculties, and particularly to the young men of his race, Joseph Himes remarkable career should be a model. The world needs that sort of youth.—Cleveland Daily News. 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. Attention! Readers! Our advertisers want your trade. Those who do not ask for it in the columns of "The Old Reliable" Gazette certainly care little, if at all, for it. Therefore, we urge our readers and all of our friends to patronize those who ask in this paper for your patronage. Editor.