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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 ..... NEW YORK DRESS SHOP 5023 Woodland Avenue You Have To Know Persons To Understand Them You Are Misunders About Y MISS CLEV A Record of R The Cleveland Assoc Will Int TO THE are Misunderstood Because Too Little About You Is Known S CLEVELAND 1927 A Record of Race Achievements By Cleveland Association of Insurance Men Will Introduce You THE WORLD You Are Misunderstood Because Too Little About You Is Known MISS CLEVELAND 1927 A Record of Race Achievements By The Cleveland Association of Insurance Men Will Introduce You THE GAZETTE 5 ESTABLISHED, AUGUST 25, 1883 And Issued Every Week on Time Since ASSISTED BY "JIM CROW NEGROES" ORGANIZE TO FORCE SCHOOL AND RESIDENTIAL SEGREGATION. "Negro" Members! Dayton, O., Feb. 28, 1927. Editor Gazette, Dear Sir:—Some weeks ago white residents of the west side of this city, where about all of our people here live, started an organization and called it The West Side Improvement Association" an organization that the white member will not sell, lease or rent property to our people. When a person becomes a member he signs a contract with the organization to this effect. An attorney (white) told me these contracts will hold in law. (But they won't.) Editor: The organization has 400 members and is very active in determining what shall be the policy for Afro-American Dayton. It has some "Negroes" in it. In their latest meeting they did the most outrageous thing I have ever heard of and, sad to relate, got the approval of some of our professional men in the white district and is not directly affected by their move, was present at their meeting and agreed to their program, so it is reported. As reported, this is their program: (1) To set a boundary or "dead" line over which our people shall not pass to buy or rent homes: Those streets upon which a majority of the residents are white are to become entirely white and those where the majority is now colored will become entirely colored. Certain streets of the colored district. White and colored real estate men who sell to our people over this line are to be published and boycotted. Fresh Ohio News COLUMBUS.—No logical reason exists for discrimination between different races since science agrees there is no underlying inferiority of people. Dr. Herbert A. Miller of the sociological department of Ohio State university told members of the Interracial society, last week Thursday. "Racial problems are cultural." Dr. Miller declared. "There is no biological, psychological or ethical difference and no indisputable proof of inferiority among people." he continued. ALLIANCE—Revival will begin at St. Luke A. M. E. church, Mar. 13 conducted by Mrs. Lulu Turner. The basketball game between Alliance and Salem ended in a tie. Mrs. Ella Baldwin is better, after several weeks' illness. The Girl Reserves' basketball team played the white girls. Score, 17 to 13, in favor of our girls. Miss Alice Spears married Mr. Clarence Hayden, last week. The happy couple have located in E. Palestine. Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Bolden of Cleveland are residing with them. Children, Bolden and Chil-ders are sisters. Mr. Eugene West spent Sunday in Smithfield and Mr. Raymond Hall, the week-end in Columbus.—Mr. C. Tinker is seriously ill.—Mr. Willis McConahey spent Sunday in Canton.—Mrs. Mae Golden has been quite ill. CADIZ—Mrs. Martha West is visiting in Wheeling—Mrs. Cora Ivy and Mrs. Nancy Danebal have returned from a business trip to Cherry Valley, Pa.—Mrs. Maggie West entertained at dinner, Sunday, in honor of her daughter, Miss Margaret's birthday.—Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Walker and family have returned to Cleveland after a visit to the school. Mrs. Taylor, who has been seriously ill, is regaining his health.—Charles LLucas, one of our boys serving on the high-school basketball team, received a medal, being one of the best players at the basketball tournament, Saturday evening, at Waters' auditorium. He was also the recipient of several other presents.—Rev T. W. Woodson, F. E., held quarterly meeting Sunday, and K. M. E. church, preaching morning and evening.—Sarah V. Rudolph entertained in honor of her tent birthday, recently. PIQUA—Mr. and Mrs. Homer Collins visited in Dayton Sunday, and motored to Franklin when called on Mrs. Ida Sims—Mrs. Carter and Mrs. Simons left Tuesday, for Detroit. They visited Mr. and Mrs. Collins.—Mrs. Mary Kennedy (2) To take our children out of the great new Roosevelt high school, a new grade and junior high school together is to be built south of Fifth St. and west of Broadway. The school board, in violation of an injunction of the court, has joined this move and promised $225,000 or more in building a building constructed by the city. (3) A community center for our people, on the Penn, R. R. tracks, is to have a building constructed by the city. (4) An arrangement has been made with all banks and building & loan associations to limit loans to our institutions to $1,000—and individuals to $1,000—and when the holdings arp his credit is limited to this amount. This is to prevent the purchase of first-class property on the part or our churches, lodges and individuals. (5) To promise peace and protection to all our people who will agree to this program. Captain Robert H. Mallory, whose name and program they approve, it, and whose social service director at our community center. These white residents say they are protecting themselves from the "black wave" as a young white lawyer, who does not approve of it, told me. Atty. Wade. Burdven, who won the case against the school board, attempted to get in this meeting and was told he must get in touch with Dr. Heine hey. He will deal only with him, it is said. Our people are to have a meeting to counter the whites, in the Roosevelt high school move, next week. F. H. R. is about again. She was very ill...Mr. Hilliard Davis was here, Sunday...Mrs. Josephine Adams visited her mother, Sunday...Mrs. Gladys Wills, Miss Helen Roberts, Jack McKinley, Mr. Williams, Mr. Clarence Kendal, George, Jimmy and Robert Evans saw "Lucky Sambo" in Dayton, Sunday...Mrs. Addle Colleen, Virgil Wailson, on Saturday...Mr. Dan Collins, George Brown and Bob Freling were here, Saturday...Mrs. Nancy Collins is better...Mr. George Thomas entertained the husbands of members of the Ladies' Aid society, last evening. HILLSBORO. —Miss Lucia Page, of Seattle, Wash., visited here, recently. —Mr. and Mrs. Herschel Williams are with the former's parents, temporarily. —The Baptist Ladies' Aid Society had great success with their entertainment, the 22nd. —Born to Mr. and Mrs. In Donna, a daughter of Archie Coin and Mary M. Donaldson, visited the former's sister, Mrs. Faith Goodson, in Dayton, last week. —Mr. and Mrs. Donald Higharden entertained Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Ames and family at dinner. Sunday. —Mrs. C. M. Gragston and Mrs. C. H. Williams spent the week-end in Wilmington with the former's mother, Mrs. Mary Williams, and her sister, Mrs. C. M. Gragston. Sunday being their mother's birthday, Mrs. Taylor entertained several Sunday, at an elaborate dinner in honor of her mother. —Mr. and Mrs. John Williams visited Mr. and Mrs. Frank Johnson. Sunday. —Mr. Lafayette Goins of Cincinnati is visiting his mother, Mrs. Permella Essex and his sister, Mrs. Cassandra Wilder, cat fell, last night, night and painfully injured a hip. She has been unable to walk. —Vernon Young spent Sunday in Greenfield. —Rev. J. J. Burr preached in Georgetown. Sunday. TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE! White Girl Convicted As Flogger of Two—Penitentiary Sentence is Suspended, of Course, After She Is Found Guild. Thonaston. Ga—Ruth Foster. (white) age 18, member of a prominent family of this county, was, on Saturday, under suspended sentence of twelve months in the state penitentiary as the result of her conviction on a charge of participating in the flogging of an Afro-American and his wife. The others convicted were Claudia Foster, Connie McLean, the victim of Maulding, all white. Frank Gill and his wife, the victim of the flogging, testified that the five mobocrats and the girl came to their home one night, about two weeks ago, and accused them of stealing liquor. Despite their pleas of innocence the victims said their assailants took them from their house and met them in the courtyard. The Foster girl admitted she accompanied the men but denied actual participation in the assault. MARCH 5, 1927. Attorneys Louis Marshall, Moorfield Story and Arthur B. Spingarn Frame Stirring Reply Brief For Supreme Court in The Texas Case. New York City.—A stirring reply (brief) to the contents of the state of Texas has been framed by attorneys for the N. A. A. C. P. in the "white, primary" case now before the U. S. Supreme Court, arising out of the Texas statute of 1923 which prohibits any "Negro" from voting in the Democratic party primaries of the state. Moorfield Story, Esq. The brief is signed by Louis Marshall of New York, famous authority on constitutional law and member of the N. A. A. C. P. board of directors; Moorfield Storey, Esq., of Boston, president of the N. A. A. C. P.; Arthur B. Spingarn, vice-president and chairman of its national legal committee; by Messrs. Baldwin and Rearver J. Channel of El Paso, Texas. The brief characterizes as a "contemptible plaintiff that is in itself an insult to the Constitution" the statement of the Texas attorney general that the "Democratic party of the state is a white man's party". It points out that party lines in southern states are so drawn by the Democratic primary is equivalent to an election; and continues: "The real contest takes place in the primary or preliminary election. The general election is nothing more than a gesture, in which but few participate, everything having been determined for all practical purposes at the primary." "Negroes," who are in good faith attached to the principles of the Democratic party and are otherwise attended, are prevented from voting at a Democratic primary, they are virtually denied the right to vote, so far as the right possesses any value. The mere fact that they, too may go through the form of voting, initation, in ratification of what has been done at the primary, is a tragic joke. Though citizens, they are rendered negligible, because their votes, to all intents and purposes, have been nullified. To them the right of suffrage would cease to be that thing of substance which it was intended to be, and would be denied to the Sea apple, the lifeless corpse of a constitutional right, if the legislation now under consideration were to be upheld." The brief also points out that the 15th amendment to the Constitution forbids denial of the "right to vote" and must apply to voting for any purpose, not excluding primaries. In conclusion, the brief implies citing numerous clericist decisions, opinions of books on civil rights, says of the Texas "white primary" law: "If this is not arbitrary classification by race and color; if it does not constitute a complete deprivation of the equal protection of the laws; if it is not an abridgment of privileges and immunities of a citizen, or impossible to conceive of any acts which come within those terms. Every white man and every white woman who possesses the qualifications mentioned in the act, however ignorant or degraded, or mentally unfit, whether naturalized or native, may vote without let or hindrance, and all the Negroes possesses by the statute, however intelligent and patriotic and industrious and useful a citizen he may be, though he and his ancestors may have lived and labored within the state from the time of its organization, is denied that right. We are not here concerned with a political question. We are not here concerned with a transgender question. We are not here concerned with a K. K. K. TURNED DOWN FLAT! Washington, D. C.—The Ku Klux Klan, last week Thursday, lost in the supreme court its claim of the right to carry on activities in any state without obtaining permission from the state. The question reached the court from Kansas in an appeal by the Georgia Klan Corporation, the sought by court, to conduct activities without obtaining permission as required by the Kansas law relating to corporations organized in other states. Senator Willis, of Ohio, last Friday, poll. CA, Jones of Delaware, SINGLE COPY FIVE CENTS "Jim Crow" Hospital Would Be Very Harmful Segregation—Hurts Our Churches, Financially. A Symposium by Dr. Charles F. Thwing, George A. Myers and Rev. Horace C. Bailey—Our People of Cleveland Too Poor to Finance or Support a Hospital—Our Churches Need Over $200,000. Cleveland, Feb. 28, '27. Mr. George A. Myers, The Hollenden Hotel, Cleveland, Ohio. My dear Mr. Myers:—Thank you for sending to me a copy of The Gazette, having this important article upon a most important theme. All kinds of segregation have my hearty antagonism. Let us remember that men are one. We all recognize the principle of diversity, but we also recognize the principle of unity. Separation upon any artificial basis is to be worked against. Believe me, with much regard. Ever yours, Charles F. Thwing. (Former President of Western Reserve University.) OPPOSED TO MERCY HOSPITAL MOVE George A. Myers Writes City Manager Wm. R. Hopkins—Segregated Hospital Not Wanted—Charches Need Money. Cleveland, O., Feb. 28, 1927. Mr. W. R. Hopkins, City Manager My dear Mr. Hopkins:—As a proponent and ardent admirer of you and your administration, I am taking the liberty to enclose you an editorial from The Cleveland Gazette of Feb. 5th, 12th, 27, which is self-explanatory, and sending under separate cover The Gazette of Feb. 26th, with three marked articles. Please do me the good favor. As carefully read the statements, I will observe better thinking colored people of Cleveland, have no objection to all of the colored doctors (and they are divided) establishing and maintaining a clinic or hospital of their own, as white doctors have done, but it seems incomprehensible to believe that a few misguided, and selfish "Negroes" have sought to enlist your support, in asking the public to establish and maintain a "jim-crow" hospital. This, too, the face of what is often called wageless of race, color or creed, when the hospitals now planned and in the course of construction are completed, making Cleveland second to none. Verily their action is reprehensible to say the least, and equalled only by "The Three Little Tailors of Toolley Street". This, too, in the face of a $6,000,000 drive now contemplated for the new Lakeside Medical Center. We, as a people, have suffered no more than others by the congested condition of present hospital facilities, and are now receiving the same benefits and privileges as other nationalities when the hospitals are finished. Then why should the many and future generations suffer to satisfy a few "Negro" doctors, that they may have a place to operate, (their only excuse). There are hundreds of white doctors, who do not operate at the various hospitals. Each hospital has its operative staff; but every doctor, white or colored, has the privilege of attending their patients. At present we have representation upon the staff of Lakeside, Huron Rock, and Montreal, indicating ability will always be recognized, regardless of color or creed. All of our churches more or less gre now in debt and planning campains upon the white people to help to free their churches of debt. This, too, in the face of the fact that the "Negroes" pledged $169,000 to the Phillips Wheateley campaign and to date have only paid in $11,400. Here you have the answer to the campaign would be among the "Negroes" for a "jim-crow" hospital. In the last analysis, they would be compelled to do, as will the Phillips Wheateley, until our now overloaded Community Fund to establish and maintain it. I there are hope, in view of this authentic information and the fact that Mr. Ben P. Bole of The Plain Dealer and Mr. T. A. Robertson, editor of The News have promised me to discourage the project and use their influence against it; that you will say to these misguided in- retary of the Senator, to the new radio commission. Senator Fess, twelve other Ohio representatives. The committee recommended the appointment. IN UNION IS STRONG COPY FIVE CENTS BUSY! MERCY HOSPITAL MOVE Id Be Very Harmful Segre- hurches, Financially. Clerks F. Thwing, George A. C. Bailey—Our People or to Finance or Sup- —Our Churches $200,000. dividuals—"Go in peace and sin no Very truly yours, George A. Myers. Says Dr. Horace C. Balley Who is Also Opposed to the Mercy Hospital Move—They Cannot Finance or Support A Hospital. Cleveland, O., Mar. 1, '27, Hon. Harry C. Smith, Editor, Gazette, City. Dear Friend:—I wish to express my hearty approval of your protest against the movement, by certain quasiphilanthropic men of our group, to establish and support a hospital managed exclusively by colored people. Let me say in short, it cannot be done! The project was born in a pleura mental mind, looking thrush that membrane, imagining that this large new influx of colored people are rich. Many of these people are equally from the South left their life's earnings behind them, such as homes, farms and cattle. Some disposed of them at a sacrifice and many have not and cannot at any price, because there was and is no one to buy them. These people have not (many of them) got their "bearings" as yet and why thrust upon or decoy them into unnecessary burdens? They are grooming and writhing now with great church debts, saddled upon them, unnecessarily. The poor things they have been exploited by unscrupulous speculators of both races. Doctors give, I pray you, a breathing spell to our "overworked" people. One hundred and sixty-nine thousand dollars were subscribed to the Phillis Wheatley Building Association by our people and only $11,000 has been paid in. We must, for our own self-respect and reputation raise the standards of our Hospital facilities are ample and will be more so, soon. No colored patient is denied entrance to any of them when rightly petitioned. Money or no money, there is a way of entering. The talked-of segregation in them is not always true. There is just enough truth in it to catch the unthinking man or woman who talks without investigation. I at least have not seen any of them in not one hospital have I visited (my latest visit was on Monday, Feb. 28, '27) have I seen an exclusive ward, all colored. Again: The Community Chest Fund would not endorse the project because our group would let it die from non-support. Of course, it is the prerogative of these projectors to pool their interest in the project. Dr. Crile and others did it. So go into it, yourselves, and let the burden-ridden Negro of this community rest. Let him pay his taxes and mortgage on his home, and feed and clothe properly his family. How can we establish and operate a hospital when there is not a self-supporting hospital in the city? They are all kept acting by philanthropy, and we cannot afford them, not as yet, anyway. Phillis Wheatley could not live and thrive but for the other group's goodwill and support. Let me, gentlemen, adjure you, in God's name, bear up off these poor struggling people of ours in this community. (Rev.) H. C. Bailey. Former pastor of Antioch Baptist church. The GAZETTE PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY SUBSCRIPTION RATES (In Advance) One Year ..... $2.00 Two Months ..... 1.00 Subscribers are requested to remit by postoffice money order or registered letter. Entered at the postoffice in Cleveland, Ohio, as second-class mail matter Address all communications to HARRY C. SMITH Editor and Proprietor THE GAZETTE 220 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. * 4,000 in Cleveland. SATURDAY, MARCH 5, 1927. Monday, the city council and fire and finance committee approved an increase in salary, for Lieut. Charles Smith, secretary to Safety Director Barry, from $3,081 to $4,000, and Charlie earns and deserves every dollar of it. Make him a captain, Director Barry; he deserves that, too. Mayor McKisson appointed Secretary Smith to the police force, nearly thirty years ago, for the editor of The Gazette who is justly proud of the splendid record he has made. When the Jews established Mt. Sinai hospital and the Germans the German hospitals they did not call upon the community for funds with which to accomplish their objects, and the Mercy Hospital association should not do so, either, particularly because of the local hospital segregation such an institution, financed and maintained by the local public, would surely entail. Let the "Negro" doctors, and their friends backing the abortive Mercy Hospital association, do as the Jews and Germans did—finance the hospital they want. And that is what they will have to do, too, if they ever get one in Cleveland. Rev. H. P. Jones, the new pastor of St. John's A. M. E. church, is apparently a loyal member of the race of exceptional ability. He is, too, it seems, a progressive and an aggressive contender for real race progress. Last Sunday morning, from his pulpit, he severely criticised the abortive Mercy Hospital Association movement of a few local "Negro" doctors and their misguided friends. And there was hearty response, in the shape of amens, from the large congregation. We are greatly pleased principally, because if there is a city in the country, where our people are assembled in great numbers, that is in need of an able, aggressive and fearless leader of its local clergymen, it is Cleveland, Ohio, and we are very hopeful that in Rev. Jones it has such a man. This community has suffered greatly from a moral view-point for about five years, or ever since Dr. H. C. Ballley left Antioch's pulpit, because of the lack of such an outstanding figure among our local pastors. "Negro" doctors, most of whom came to Cleveland from the South in recent years, are asking the local public for $220,000 with which to establish an institution to be known as the Mercy hospital. This in the face of the fact that this city has ample hospital facilities, or soon will have with the Lakeside unit, now in the course of construction adjacent to Western Reserve; the new Huron Road hospital in East Cleveland; the St. Luke hospital in Cleveland Heights, the Mt. Sinai hospital in East 105th St. and the additions to the new City hospital and Charity (St. Vincent's) hospital, Cleveland will then have hospital facilities second to no other city of its size in the country, fully equipped and manned with some of the ablest surgeons in the world. Those and other institutions of a like nature, supported in part or whole by public funds, are burdens enough of the kind upon the community without adding the unnecessary $220,000 Mercy hospital which, we understand, the aforementioned Negro doctors are abundantly able to finance, of themselves, if they feel they must have it. Then, too, the local public is just at this time being asked by a considerable number of "Negro" churches of the city for funds to help pay their indebtedness: Mt. Zion Congregational church is asking for $50,000, Shiloh Baptist church $45,000, St. James A. M. E. church $37,000. The other (over fifty) local "Negro" churches are burdened with debts possibly not THE GEEVUM GIRLS IM GOING TO HIRE THIS MAN TO THROW THAT TERRIBLE PICTURE OF UNCLE SVENGARLIC OUT THE WINDOW! so large but more than the colored people can pay without the assistance of their white friends in this community. Why load another and an unnecessary burden on the public-spirited citizens of this city to satisfy the whim of a few "Negro" doctors and their friends? Apparently, they do not seem to care how much additional segregation they load upon our people of this community just so their selfish, personal ends are attained. Lord, have mercy! "JIM-CROW NEGROES". The enemy from within is a hundred times more harmful than the enemy from without. That is why "jim-crow Negroes" are so tremendously injurious to the race. This has always been the case and, we presume, will continue to be until the loyal of our people make it so uncomfortable for that despicable element that it will either be forced out of the community or be compelled to remain silent and inactive. Prejudiced whites, when seeking to promote segregation of one kind and another, always seek out and enlist the assistance of "jim-crow Negroes" who are always ready and willing to help them, providing, of course, "there is something in it" for them, regardless of the harm done the rest of our people in their community. Just as it is in Cleveland, in the case of the abortive Mercy Hospital association move, so it is in the case of the West Side Improvement Association of Dayton, Ohio, referred to at length elsewhere in this paper. That they are assisting to retard the general progress of those of the race in their community, as well as throut the North, means nothing to them just so they derive some personal benefit. That they are materially assisting in making the community in which they live as bad as that in the South they were glad to leave because of so much segregation there and consequent mistreatment along a color-line, is of no concern to them. Lord, have mercy! There is but one remedy for all this, as we have already said in the foregoing, and that is for the loyal members of the race in every community here in the North to make the dislike of and contempt for the "jim-crow Negro" so great and so strong, respectively, as to either drive him from the community or compel him to remain silent and inactive. If this is not done, and soon, too, there is no hope because it will be only a question of time, and a short time, too, until this section of the country will be forced down to the unfortunate "citizen's rights" living-plane of our people that exists through the southland. There can be no other outcome of the baneful activity of prejudiced whites in any section, led by the Ku Klux Klan, and aided and abetted by "jim-crow Negroes", the bane of the race. DOINGS OF THE RACE The distinguished Portuguese aviators, Admiral Gago Coutinho and Sacadura Cabral are "colored." The former says: "Other men, also or dark complexion such as Corte Real, Colombo, Pinzon, Carbal, Solis and Magellan crossed the Atlantic and discovered America." Recently a Newark, N. J. Afro-American invented a new type of oil-burner which produces a much larger amount of heat from a given amount of fuel. Another member of the race has invented a device to regulate the light of a locomotive so that the headlight will not leave the track when the engine rounds a curve. Still another, in Texas, has devised a car-rail joint, designed to prevent the spreading of rails, another one in the Grand Rapids, another one in the "typephone" designed to record at the other end of the wire an exact duplicate of the message which the sender writes on a machine before him. In the field of invention our people have won and are still winning honors. OUR LESSON We must learn to govern ourselves and work together for our own advancement. 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New Show House Decorated in African Style—Three One-Act Plays on Program. One community dream, at least, has been realized. The Gilpin players officially opened their community theater at 3807 Central Ave., last week Thursday evening, with a program of three one-act plays. The new theater, formerly a pool room, is called the Karamu, which is taken from the Swahili and means "place of enjoyment and entertainment." The theater, above a wainscoting extending three feet above the floor are paintings of symbols taken from old cave walls in ancient African temples. There are five fabrics on the walls, one from central Africa, one from the Congo, one from northwest Africa, one from the Niger district and one from Abyssinia. For lighting effects, there are suspended from the walls, bowls copied from the African walls, and walls of the walls are masks, copies of the old African ceremonial masks. Every design and every nature were made by members of the club. 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"Jake" Reed is in charge of the Standard Oil gas station at the corner of E. 40th St. and Central Ave. Other officers of Cuyahoga lodge elected, recently, are: Tom Fleming, treas.; Marcellus Mason, cor. sec.; John Green, fin. sec. Alice, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Johns, and Samuel Lovelace were married, recently and are located at 6017 Thackeray Ave. Miss Dorothy Cowdry, assistant principal of Hough public school, recently underwent an operation for appendicitis at Clinic hospital, Euclid Ave. Robert F. Jones of Columbus and Goodrich Giles of Piqua attended the recent meeting of the board of directors of the Anchor L. & A. Insurance Co. Miss Othello Oglesby, pianist; Wayman Haitchcock, baritone, and Harry T. Ford, appeared in concert at Piqua, Feb. 25, and scored an artistic success. At least one of our dentists ought to be appointed, to serve the members of the polite and fire departments, by Safety Director Barry Salary $2400. Get busy gentlemen! Glom Roberts' funeral services were held at St. Paul's A. M. E. Zion church, the pastor, Rev. J. M. Poote, and Rev. Jos. Walker officiating. Cuyahoga lodge Elks was represented. Rumor has it that Policeman Patton has been suspended from the force pending an investigation of Officer Costello's recent raid in the Elks' Rest on a tip said to have been given him by Officer Patton. The Mercy Hospital movement was frowned upon at the inter-racial committee meeting at Hotel Statler, Wednesday. It’s rapidly reaching the stage of the Missouri hound-dog that was booted about. The Elks’ basketball team will once more try to conquer an eastern aggregation when it plays the THE SELVU ---AND THIS BOOK WILL TELL YOU--- REALLY, I’M NOT THE MARKET FOR A BOOK! I HAVE A BOOK! *M. KLEINMAN'S 2028 Central Ave. *THE S. & S. 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Mr. and Mrs. Warren J. Cossey, 4313 Cedar Ave, en route to Los Angeles and San Francisco, via Chicago, sent the editor of The Gazette a very pretty souvenir post-card, last week, from Salt Lake City, Utah. Jim Johnson, another old resident who for some years was in the employ of the city, died, last week Wednesday, the funeral being held from one of our local churches, the Elks participating. A large number of friends and acquaintances mourn his demise. The following attended the recent worthy recorders' conference of the Household of Ruth in Columbus: Mrs. Ellen Wormley, Mrs. Della Offer, Mrs. Gussie Ramsey, Mrs. Leona Pennington, Mrs. Laura Parrish, Mrs. Florence Cochran and Col. Arthur T. Abbott. Judge Wm. H. Harrison of Chicago delivered an address at Silhon Baptist church, last week Thursday evening. Others on the program were: Rev. J. M. Foote, Rev. John Smith, Mrs. E. Strickland, Mrs. M. Craft, Mrs. E. L. Alexander and Rev. Wm. Jackson. The following trustees of St. John A. M. E. church were elected, recently: E. F. Boyd, P. W. Lemon, W. E. Intiret, E. F. Montgomery, W. R. Gardner, W. M. Twine, W. E. Ingram, Milton Gibson and G. W. Buchanan, T. J. Berryman, a trustee many years, is to be elevated to the official board. The Gilpin Players repeated the program, last evening, given at the opening of their Karamau theatre, last week, for the benefit of season ticket-holders and others who were unable to secure reservations for the three performances of that week. Their next production, Mar. 24, 25, and 26. Mr. Henry Davis, an old citizen, sustained a stroke of paralysis, with a morphage. Sunday night. He was found on the floor in the kitchen of his home in Quebec Ave, and taken to St. Luke's hospital where he was still unconscious when last heard from, the middle of the week. Mr. Davis was city-hall mall-carrier. St. John's choir gave its regular recital, late Sunday afternoon. Among the new numbers rendered was Rosamund Johnson's "Walk Children". Mendelssohn's "Praise Ye the Lord" was given at the morning services. Dorothy Bush M GIRLS "HOW TO BEAUTIFIC CHARM! CLEOPA THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, O. SATURDAY, MARCH 5, 1927 and Ida Fountain sang the obligates. Carroll Scott, director; Miss Martha Swann, organist. Geo, Copes, carpenter, who came to Cleveland many years ago from Oberlin, died, last week, the funeral services being held in the Seventh Lay Adventist church in Cedar Ave. opposite E. 33rd St. Cuyahoga lodge, Elks, participating. A widow, a brother and other relatives survive the deceased and have the sympathy of the community. Loula V. Jones, violinist, and his mother, Mrs L. S. Jones, E. 101st St. returned from Columbus. Monkey, she gave a recital. Loula left for Youngstown, with Miss Margaret Sanford who will accompany him in a recital at Oakhill Ave. A. M. E. church, that city. Wednesday, Mr. Jones gave a' 11:30 a. m. luncheon for Boston friends. The recital of Hazel Harrison of Chicago at Mt. Zion Cong. church, Wednesday evening, was a treat but not as well attended as expected owing to the failure to properly advertise it. Miss Harrison returned from Germany, recently, having completed another post-graduate course in that country. She is a fine solist with a very promising future. Mrs. Hattie M. Patrick, 3133 Central Ave. wife of Rev. J. H. Patrick, has received $3,000 damages from the Penn. Ry. Co. as the result of injuries sustained, Aug. 6, '26, near Terre Haute, Ind., while route came to Cleveland. Congratulations, Rev. and Patrick! Mrs. Patrick has fully recovered. She was injured by a door when the train came to an abrupt stop. The Youthful Philosophers' Literary and social club met in its clubroom at the Alpha Omega clubhouse, last Wednesday. Five new members were added. After the transaction of business the program chairman, Miss Ossie Carter, presented an interesting and amusing program which consisted of group singing, a reading, dialogue, recitation and solo. Dancing followed. At the next meeting, officers for the year will be elected. The editor of The Gazette acknowledges the receipt, from W. C. Handy, veteran composer and music publisher, 1547 Broadway, New York City, of the following professional copies of vocal music with plano accompaniment: "You're Just the Flower That the Bees Haven't Found," "Door Biven Blues," "Aint Much Good in the Best of Men, Now Days," 'Golden Brown Blues,' "Boodle Am," and "Anything That Happens, Just Measures Me." City Manager Wm. R. Hopkins: The best man to secure the property desired by the city, to open Carnegie Ave. thru to Central Ave. to provide light Realty Co. located in that section of the city for many years. He has been so very helpful for years in that section to the Republican organization that he is entitled to the consideration suggested by the city. He has some business consideration as well as political, City Manager Hopkins. A bandit who told his victims that he had "a wife and five starving children at home" was sought by police, last week Thursday, after he had held up two Cedar Ave. stores and obtained $165. "Gentlemen, I'm afraid you have been gizmed to Harry Williamson and Alva Pope, clerks in the Weaven Drug Co., Cedar Ave., as he pointed a gun at them. As he took $60 from the pair, he explained his family's need of money, said it was his first robbery, and that he had pawned his overcoat to get the gun he brandished. "I need to try to follow me; I have a car here," he said as he left. "It isn't hard to teach colored people the use of the muscles of the mind and the power of the spirit." Miss Mary McDowell, commissioner of welfare in Chicago, declared, stating the text of her address at the Welfare Association's annual meeting in Chicago. "The 'Negro' race in America has made its marvelous progress by non-resistant methods. We must see that all the bitterness and hate is allayed. Civilization is only skin deep where a race riot is possible. Our only chance, and our inescapable opportunity, is intelligent, sympathetic, problem, black and white together," said Miss McDowell. She also said she could find nothing quite so fine in Chicago as the assembly she was addressing, and "I may be pardoned for bragging a bit about my city, because we use machine guns on our bootleggers there." Rev. Norman Duckett of Detroit, who officiated at Our Lady of the Blessed Sacrament church (for "Ne- Guaranteed and Efficient Work TWENTY YEARS' EXPERIENCE Phone: Bell, Randolph 6978 Sundays by Appointment OUR LADY of the BLESSED SACRAMENT CHURCH Father Duckette Praises the Catholic Church for Holding All Races Spiritually Equal. The equality of all people in the church and before God was set forth in a sermon by the Rev. Norman Duckette, young Negro priest from Detroit, at the Church of Our Lady of the Blessed Sacrament, 2354 E. 79th St., Sunday morning. Not beostingly, but convincingly, did the young priest quote scripture and cite the action of the Church to prove this spirit of brotherhood. The scriptural quotation was from St. Paul, the action of the Church was the canonization quote of the martyrs of Uganda by the Pope last year, and the prospective canonization of a Negro Dominican brother from a South American country this year. If custom permitted applause in a Catholic church at the close of a splendidly delivered sermon, the writer believes that the congregation would have given such evidence of its appreciation. Father-Duckette was the guest of the Rev. groes")', 2354 E. 79th St., Sunday morning, is not the first Afro-American priest to do so in a Catholic church in this diocese. The church was crowded. Father Duckette, age 26, came to Cleveland upon the invitation of Thomas E. McKenney (the pastor) and was his guest until Tuesday. Father Duckette outlined the progress of the race in education and social life since the Civil War. A native of Washington, D. C., he is organizing a parish for "Negroes" in Detroit. He caused on Bishop John McKenney (the nun) officiated and was dinner-guest with Father McKenney and a number of the younger priests of the city at the parochial residence. WILBERFORCE DEFEATS HOW-ARD. Washington, D. C. —Wilberforce defeated the Howard team, Feb. 24, 20-14. Both outfits flashed some brilliant basketball. "Wu Fang" Ward, the clever center for Wilberforce, played a great game and led the team to victory. Thompson at guard and Richie at forward were fine, too. Howard played well but lacked drive and the pep to overtake the westerners. LISTERINE THROAT TABLETS Antiseptic Prevent & Relieve Hoarseness Sore Throat Coughs W. H. MORTON'S Cut Rate Sign Service COMMERCIAL SIGNS AND SHO KARDS HI QUALITY — LO PRICES 2379 EAST 30th STREET CLEVELAND, OHIO Thomas E. McKenney, pastor of this parish, at whose invitation he came. The church was crowded to capacity and many white persons attend- Colored Choir Sings. Negroes comprised the choir, the ushers, the organist, the violinist, who gave several selections, and rye acolytes. A gratifyingly large number received Holy Communion from Father Duckette. Father Duckette is one of the four priests of his race in the United States. Sunday afternoon, he called upon the Rt. Rev. Joseph Schrembs, D. D., Bishop of Cleveland, to pay his respects. Early in the evening he was guest with Father McKenney and a number of young priests of the city at dinner. Later in the evening he visited among other places the headquarters for St. Philomena's parish in Ursuline academy hall, Euclid Ave. and Belmore Rd., East Cleveland. Says Negroes are Advancing. Father Duckette's sermon embodied a reference to the educational and social progress of the Negro race since the close of the Civil The second team started the game, but their inability to locate the basket resulted in their withdrawal. The varsity, going in with a 9 to 1 count against them, could not locate the basket, either, and the half war. This, he said, was most inspiring and was evidence that with favorable conditions the Negro can take his place in the ranks of industry, the professions and other callings. He referred to the recent convention of Catholic Negroes in Washington and said that it did bring to bring a knowledge of the fault to those who do not possess it. "Smothering of individualism and jealousies is necessary if our people are to progress as they should progress. Live the principles and the teaching of the Church and thereby edify your own people; know its teachings and be able to explain them if you are questioned on them; be true to the Church and your country and let love of God and your fellowman irrespective of your guide for life," he said. Father Duckette is a native of Washington, D. C., and was ordained in Detroit, February, 1926. He is now engaged in organizing a parish for his own people in Detroit — Cleveland Catholic Universe — Bulletin. ended, 14 to 14. The second half started with Hitchcock scoring from 10 to 14, and Browning leading the game, new spirit and drive resulted and Howard started to rally, but it was too late. NORTON'S Sign Service S AND SHO KARDS — LO PRICES CLEVELAND, OHIO LITAN Beginning Sunday day Matinee March 6th at 2:20 P. M. SATURDAY, MARCH 12 0; 300 Seats, 75c Attraction Ever Presented on, creamin', Red-Hot Show!! BILLY 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 that there has ever been since the Civil War. The beginnings of segregation were under President Roft. It was greatly extended, under President Wilson, increased, still further, under President Roeg, and, in the seventh 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, the segregated the census-takers in this city in 1910, restricting white workers 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 institution and a Democratic one, it was begun by Republicans, and carried on to its all-embracing extent by Republicans! There is far more of it in the departments, today, than at any time since the Negro first appeared, close upon the close of the Civil War. The picture requirement in the civil service, which makes it next to impossible for a colored lady or gentleman to enter the civil service, since their color is disclosed in their photograph which must accompany papers, is tenaciously held on to by our Republican President. Only last week, a colored lady appeared after having assured the best examination, and after having been telegraphed 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 was the favorite of Secretary Mellon and President Coolidge. He hails from North Carolina, the home of the other captain and leader 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 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 postofficial 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 thought of their government taking their taxes, as it takes them the whites, for the comfort of the latter, and setting them off as though they were lepers. The injustice stings all the more when they reflect that they are far more capable than the whites, and render the government more intelligent and efficient service—the white man of their attainment being able to get far more lucrative employment. The department goes even farther in its solicitude for whines and neglect of colored. It maintains a well-appointed club room with pool tables and other games, comfortable lounges and other equipment for rest, sociability, and recreation, and nothing for these same colored employees. This private club is in the magnificent postoffice building, built and maintained by ALL of the people. In the locker rooms there is segregation, and segregation is even attempted in the toilets. All of cats 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 anthems, and nudities, the officials for "the post-empire 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 on, and be ordered the postmaster to invite the colored as well as the white. These clerks get around their colored co-workers by giving the function at a local hotel. It is inevitable that the wicked spirit of segregation would express itself in appointments, assignments, and salaries. Colored applicants are often passed over though their examination was superior. No Negro however efficient or old in the service, must ever dream of a promotion to a directive position. The hard, unyielding caste passes whites over him, one after another, though many of the colored employees have won contests in quickness and accuracy in the handling of mail. The colored clerks have dared to form a union which meets regularly and often sends 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 office prints 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 caterain in this huge structure where all of the employees may go, but there are a few tables in the building of the house they are furnished for our employees. I am glad to say that few, very few, of our people patronize the places, preferring a little physical inconvenience to the open, semi-public humiliation of segregation. In toilet facilities, dressing-rooms, and work assignments, wherever possible, the law of segregation is in full force, and, of course, this same democratic practice reveals itself on the salary roll and in the hard taste that bars promotions. Here, the law requires that employees pass over our superior employees to directive positions, and higher salaries. The whites have a large recreational center in this public building with many fine appointments for rest and amusements. During lunch and dinner hours they repair to this restful retreat for sociability and dance. Last fall, a young Afro-American with a spoonful record of music and a keen sense of this exclusion of our employees so keenly that he secured the company of a young lady of the race to take part in the dance. As soon as this couple started to dance the music was abruptly stopped, and the young man reported for attempting to take part in an entertainment provided for employees. He was called to the office, lectured for being "one of the most intelligent and brave women" of social quality" and then dismissed on a trumped-up charge. He was a night-employee, hence he carried a pistol. Right after the dance incident a fire broke out in the office, he was quickly accused of setting the building afire in revenge for his exclusion from the dance floor. 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 of carrion for evidence and when he was immediately dismissed By this severe punishment our employees are taught that there is no way of escape for one who dares to resent the daily insults that their government (under President Coolidge) gives them. Many of the employees have expressed their deeply-wounded feelings to me at being considered a pariah by the government whose institutions they are serving so faithfully, and I have taken up a number of cases only to be met by a denial that the conditions complained of exist, and a request for the names of my informants. I knew the fate these informants would suffer so I have never given a single name! The department then taking the position that it cannot take up the case. It is perfectly clear that this iniquitous scheme of segregation is a difficult thing to fight, since the government is so well settled upon it, and the complainants cannot bear witness to it. (Special to The Gazette) 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 heroes young colored women who lost their positions as a slave and a 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, obvious to any thought of race. Shortly thereafter came an order for segregation of the races, and a white lady who had been noted for her philanthropy among our people and who was upon intimate terms at the White House appeared at the bureau to tell our girls to be contented with the new order as "a great Negro leader had taught colored people to stay in their places." Three of the young ladies resisted the order to the last ditch and were summarily dismissed! 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 novail, 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 coup. She used the columns of the Senator's magazine, sparing neither space nor vigor of utterance. She thundered against it in our loca a 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 disorganed, she came out one stormy afternoon to the Y. M. C. A. urge them to countenance the battle for democracy was at the crises, Oswald Garrard Vilard came to town 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 the intention of the segregators, namely, the elimination of the colored employees from the bureau alt 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 *Braun Lincoln, Charles Summer 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 SEGRETE the theater rooms, toilet, and working rooms, of which none are ever thought of for promotions to executive places. They are girls from our best names, most of them with high and 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 their inferior positions, the inevitable result of segregation. Our people are still hopeless in this situation, and destroying this iniquitous practice in all of our government departments, for it not only humiliates the best of the government servants but impairs the government service. (Special to The Gazette) Washington, D. C.—The treasury department, according to the President's recent acceptance speech, is now under the ablest financial genius since the days of Alexander Hamilton. It is to be remembered that the great Hamilton came from the West Bank of Egypt, a 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 bank, financed the Civil War; and Ohio's 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 taxes that the recent war necessitated, this is by far the largest department of the treasury, employing several thousand clerks. Yet there are other clerks that there 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 toilets, locker rooms, rest rooms, etc. set off for colored. The toilets for the colored are few in such a large structure. Hence, the segregated clerks are forced to endure physical inconvenience at times, and are forced to travel long distances when they desire the use of them. The department maintains a huge, magnificent cafeteria, in the splendid sweep of woodland along our national driveway, where white people of every class can come to rest, dine, and socialize of afternoons and evenings at minimum costs. The white press of the city is constantly telling of the thousands who take advantage of this "delightful retreat," and the festive scene that their presence creates. It seats two thousand diners with space to spare; but not one Negro! His only share is in the taxes he is forced to pay for this luxury for another group! The registries of the treasury, which Republican Presidents have given the Negro since Garfield appointed Blank 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. A single键 of his pen, President Kevin Coolidge can stop every bit of this damnable segregation, just as he can condemn that lawless organization the Ku Klux Klan. COOLIDGE'S SEGREGATION Washington, D. C. — We wish to call attention to the fact that in the fight against the segregation of our government employees, the Treasury Department will most likely be the center of attack, for segregation in several of its bureaus has been most pronounced. This is particularly true of the office of the register of the treasury and the internal revenue bureau. In the former, bearer board walls were maintained until recently. In the latter there have been two cases of discrimination on account of coerced brought to view, 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 Burcus Investigation An investigation of the executive departments and bureaues 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 or 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 seg- grated section of 10 employees in the file room. **Internal Revenue** Internal Revenue Bureau—a seg- grated 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 ripier 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 power importance to every advertiser. EDITOR "WORTH ITS WEIGHT IN Cleveland, O., Aug. 28th, 1925. Hon. Harry C. Smith, Editor, Gazette. Dear Friend!—I have read the latest copy of The Gazette through and after reading it. I can truthfully say: It is worth its weight in gold! I admire true manhood—a man who, seeing injustice and oppression, dares, within the limits of the law, to expose it and I can possibly do it. 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LEADING FASHIONISTS PROPHESY SUCCESS OF TAFFETA FOR SPRING UNDERWEAR & FASHION FOR TOTS' WASHABLE DRESSES A B C D E F G I J K LOTS of taffeta, says the style foreline For the young girl plaid taffetas for daytime wear, with "delicious" tones and tints for evening wear are forespoken. For every age and complexion, from flapper to dowager, the mode prescribes black taffetas, also blue in every conceivable degree from navy, which is outstanding in this season's style program, to palest tints. Flowered taffetas, too, "they say," are coming in. First and foremost among newest colors is imperial jade, a green comparable to the well-known kelly, monkeyskin, which is a delicate pink; mother goose, an ivory tint, and slistine, a lovely light blue—and so the list continues from one adorable tone to another. Taffeta lends itself delightfully to the compose theme, which is, perhaps, the mode's greatest hobby at present. Just now it is the proper thing to combine plaid taffeta with solid-colored FABRIC COMBINATION FOR TOTS' ACCORDING to the arithmetic of the mode, either for adults or wee tots, a plain white or solid-colored wash-goods fabric added to fancy printed or otherwise figured dinty, linen, volle, percale or gingham equals the latest style combination. It is really an outstanding trend of the vogue—a plain and a fancy in compose. So see to it, in scanning the bargain counters for remnants for the making of the "kiddies" school and vacation dresses, for that for every gay print there be a yard or more of plain purchased for trimming or vice versa. Little girls' ginghams and English prints are being collared, cufted and pocketed with white plique or linen while their flowered volles swisses and organdles have silver embellishments of every whimsical sort. That is how it happens GAZETTE Subscribe a crepe. A glance at the picture will leave no doubt in the mind as to the tremendous vogue awaiting a compose such as this. In this model the blouse is navy crepe, the skirt taffeta plaided and plaited to perfection. The plaid ties at the wrist are just too cunning for words. As to the handsome necklece, it's the sort youth adores. And the pockets! Have you noticed that they are of a conical shape and that they are positioned at an angle? Well, pockets are indulging in all sorts of style "stunts" this season just such as this. Short jackets of plain taffeta posed over frocks of charmingly patterned printed fabrics, also crepe dresses complemented by taffeta jackets in bayadere strips share interest with dresses of fine checked taffetas, the latter to be worn with coats of solid-colored taffeta. JULIA BOTTOMLEY. © 1927 Western Newspaper Ltd. ONS POPULAR WASHABLE DRESSES that the cunning little blue-checked percale dress in the picture has pockets of white plique with matching cellar and wrist bands. With the aid of a wee bit of hand embroidery the pockets are made to resemble little baskets with handles. It is just such clever touches as these novel basket pockets which distinguish the new spring and summer frocks for tots. A wash-goods material exciting keen interest this season is printed linen. It is to be had in conventional patterns such as checks, stripes and dots, also in quaint flowered effects. It makes up handsomely for children with linen as a solid coloring. Two and three-tone effects are also effectively introduced in tots' frocks such as, for instance, bandings of linen in several shades trimming a plain linen. JULIA BOTTOMLEY © 1927 Western Newspaper Union E After Reading after Reading PETER H. Editor Gadette, Dear Sir: I read with keen regret of the movement certain beginnings in my movement, Cleveland, to establish a hospital with funds secured by an appeal to the public which they expect this same local public to support largely, if not in entirety, 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 permitted would be wound up close the door of most, if not all, of the other Cleveland hospitals to 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 yet known and I hope will never know. I was pleased greatly to read your editorial against the beighted proposal of the short-sighted "Negroes" who are asking for what would eventually prove to be a very harmful segregation of the buildings and Wade that gave aid to the great Frederick Douglass in the stirring days of the '50s, 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 forced to school between segregated and groomed schools and NO 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 in vain to make them the equal of other institutions, and equipment and per capita costs, I 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 the world and perpetuate the groundless Nordic myth of "superiority." Further 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 black school, I go to the white office 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 NEVAL H. THOMAS. 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 "Negro" as those behind the "Have Mercy" effort. Personal desire is of great importance to 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! Guess "The Old Reliable" Gazette's weekly invigling, 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. 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.