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Editors of Leading Local Daily Newspapers Also Opposed to It—"The Old Reliable" Gazette Leads Dwight Williams, the Mercy Hospital Association's expensive and voluble $200 a month publicity agent, and a Dr. Rogers appeared before the Baptist Ministers' Conference, Monday afternoon, at Gethsemane church, cor. E. 30th St. (activities) and at Gethsemane church, to it for help for the proposed "jim-crow" hospital, also asking for the membership rolls of their churches in order to canvass for funds, etc. Of course you know what happened then. The conference fastly and very wisely refused to endorse the abortive Mercy hospital movement and also unanimously refused to arm over their church rolls, as requested. Some of the ministers said they, their churches and many of their members needed $200 a month just as much as Dwight, and furthermore regarded a "jim-crow" hospital, such as the proposed Mercy hospital wuld surely prove to be, if ever e ablished, as a positional干架 to干架 in this community. Exit Dwight dr. Rogers from the confe ceet. An official of the Commi- tory Chest has assured Dr. H. C. I. ey and Miss Jane Hunter, ex. sec. of the P. W. A., that the Mercy Hospital Association will get no funds or assistance from it. Good. One of Our Oldest Physicians! Cleveland, O., March 4, '27. Hon. Harry C. Smith, Editor Gazette, City. My dear Harry:—Now comes the "Mercy Hospital!" The "Mercy hospital movement asks the citizens of Cleveland to give of their hard- earned increment $220,000 to establish "Mercy" hospital. This so-called "Mercy" hospital is a deceiver. In its very inscription it was a deceiver. The men back of this project are deceivers. What they want is a job. That is all. But not only do they want a job, but they want to get their hands in the Community Chest. I regret that I have to tell you this. But the situation comes to a "show-down", and it is important that the "Mercy" hospital should go through it will work the most discriminating hardship upon my people of this community that we have ever experienced. Surely, since men like President Charles F. Thwing, the editor of "The Old Reliable" Gazette, Mr. George A. Myers, Rev. H. C. Balley, Mr. Ben P. Bole, of the Plain Dealer, and Mr. T. A. Robertson, of The News, all condemn this move, it is surely must be made, which does not meet with the approbation of the best citizens of this community. City Manager Hopkins Writes. In reply to a letter, from the editor of The Gazette, which embodied the essential statements made in the editorial, under the headline, "That Mercy Hospital Movement", put the Gazette of February 26, 27, City Manager Wm. R. Hopkins has sent us the following reply: Cleveland, O. March, 3, 27. Hon. Harry C. Smith, Editor Gazette, Cleveland, Ohio. For your letter:—Thank you for your letter of March 1, regarding the Mercy hospital proposition. I think you will understand the embarrassment in which the friends of your people find themselves in the face of radical differences as to which institutions will best promote the real welfare of all our colored people. I think you know without my telling you, also, my sincere desire to be helpful in any matter which will really be of service to your people. In any case, the needs will always exceed the ability of your best friends and your own people and I therefore hope you will find some way in which to reach an agreement as to which propositions you would support and to support people who are sincerely desirous of doing everything within their power to aid you in meeting your really great problems. Reply: Cleveland, March 4, '27. Mr. Wm. R. Hopkins, City Manager, Cleveland, Ohio. Dear Friend:—Your letter of the 3rd inst. received and your reference to "radical differences" among my people noted, particularly. They are for all the world just like your people in that respect, at least. The "radical differences" of your people on all subjects, even relig- ious, are most marked. Of course, it is natural. I suppose, under the circumstances, just as in the case of my people. This phase of the unnecessary and very harmful ("jim-crow") local Mercy Hospital Association movement ought not to give you the concern it apparently does, because it is unnecessary and very harmful ("jim-crow") local Mercy Hospital Association movement is entirely contrary to the progressive spirit of this community. Second: Such an institution, as I have said, would prove a hundred times more harmful to my people in this community than helpful. Third: It is unnecessary and would prove an additional burden to all of people of the community, particularly your people, because my people are not financially able to either finance or support such an institution. They do not and cannot support their churches without the help of your people and are now struggling under a total debt of at least a quarter of a million dollars! For the one claim of the proponents of Mercy hospital, that such an institution is necessary in order to make an opening for two or three yearly graduates of local medical institutions to train as internes, is ridiculous. Such an opening can be made without a two-hundred-thousand-dollar expense and with a hundred-thousand less trouble, if it I am fully aware of your lifelong desire to be helpful to my people in all matters of consequence and it is true that their needs will always exceed the ability of their best friends and themselves to meet them fully. I am also thoroly impressed with the fact that there is no possibility of an agreement, either among my people or your people, on any proposition worthy of support of people who are sincerely desirous of doing everything in their power to aid them in meeting their really great problems. They always have differed, even on the recognition of the Lord and Jesus Christ, and I presume will continue to do so until the end of time. The great element of RIGHT, from every viewpoint, should be carefully addressed in this matter, well as about all others, and well to be weighed carefully and play a very considerable part in the conclusion you reach, and, too, without any concern for the "radical differences" of opinion that exist among either your people or my people. Trusting you will receive this communication in the same kindly spirit it is sent and reach a conclusion to say and do the thing in this abortive effort. Association that best conserves the interests of all the people of this community, without reference to race, color or class, I am with best wishes always. Very truly yours, Harry C. Smith. Hopkins To Myers. Cleveland O., March 3, '27. Mr. George A. Myers, Care for Hollenden, Cleveland, Ohio. My dear George—It seems like old times to have one of your letters. They are always very much to the point and decidedly worth reading. With reference to the suggestion made by the proponents of the Mercy Hospital movement, it does seem to me that nobody should want "a jim-crow hospital". My understanding of the hospital in which they wished to hospital in which proponents nurses and patients would have a prior right but where the doors were open to everybody who might apply. I think you know that my own attitude in these matters is that I want to do anything I can do to help any group of colored people to render any service to their own people. But I do think that the rest of us ought not to be asked to decide which project should be supported and will be colored brethren will be able to present a united front on any project on which they desire any outside support. One of these days I hope to have a chance to talk to you about the possibility of doing something in the matter of housing people who are now living under such terrible conditions in the Woodland Avenue territory. Meanwhile, believe me as always, Yours sincerely. W. Hopkins Mr. Myers' Reply. Cleveland, March 7, 1927. Mr. W. R. Hopkins, City Manager, City Hall. My dear Mr. Hopkins;—I thank Fresh Ohio News ALLIANCE—Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Childers are rejoicing over the arrival of a baby girl—Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Hydden of E. Palestine, spent the week-end here—Mrs. Irene Hood had her right arm badly sprained by a fall down cellar stairs—The Second Baptist church's annual rally began. Monday, with preaching by Rev. E. J. Hoe and an excellent program, each night—James Snipe has recovered from the injury received while sledding down the viaduct. HILLSBORO.—Mrs. Alline Burton was called to Springfield, last week, by her daughter, Mrs. Zack Lewis' serious illness.—Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Easton were in Washington C. H. Saturday evening. Mrs. Carrie Goinis has returned from Columbus, Mrs. Eva Dawley dated him, Mrs. Elissa and formerly of Hillsboro, and Mr. Herman Blackburn of Chicago were married there, Feb. 17. 27. Wesleyan church entertainment, last Friday night, was a success. Mrs. Jane Young dined with her sister, Mrs. Mildred Waters, and Prof. O. Bullard visited his parents in Georgetown Sunday. Mrs. Ella Jones took the bus to Mildred Waters are better.—Miss Ella Jones of Toledo is visiting Rev. and Mrs. J. B. Jurr.—Henry Willis spent Sunday in Georgetown. The many local friends of Madame Helen Bass were pleased to see her picture in a Chicago race paper, recently, and note her progress. After five years of untiring effort, Mrs. Jurr. has her a patent on a medical appliance which is a great step forward in relieving suffering humanity. Mrs. Bass has formed a $50,000 corporation, known as the Bass Automatic Douche Can Co., to handle her invention. This being her former home, you can see her pressed to notice her splendid success in the columns of "The Old Reliable" Gazette. She is a sister of Mrs. Minnie Hudson of this city. you for your letter of the 3rd. Replying thereto, I beg to say that no one among my people of this city have any objection to "Negro" doctors of Cleveland establishing and maintaining a clinic or private hospital of their own in the "pimp right" but we are unalterably opposed to the plan of the proponents of the Mercy hospital, which all know would eventuate into a "jim-crow" hospital, to be, as all of our hospitals now are, supported by philanthropic white people and the Community Fund. So far as the "colored people uniting," on any project, on which they desired outside support: This is too ridiculous to be considered. They are no different from other nationalities, evidenced recently by the outbreak of our Italian police on the streets of Chicago, where police were called to guell the riot. Now then, I desire to call your attention to an agreement entered into and by the city of Cleveland (I think, when Hon. Tom L. Johnson was mayor) and The Western Reserve Medical college, whereby said college was to equip and maintain a medical staff at City hospital, there having been so many squabbles among the local medical fraternity (white) about the staff assignments at City hospital and in partnership. This agreement in force, gives The Western Reserve Medical college the absolute jurisdiction to assign their colored internes to City hospital, and carries the nurses' school. Was there no such agreement, and even with it in force (and I think it is), you as the city manager have the power to open the hospital and nurses' school to colored internes and appointees to the nurses' school. Why? Because we, as colored people, are taxed in common with all other municipalities in and maintain the City hospital in common with all the other departments incidental to the successful conduct of our city government. To me it occurs, that the proponents of Mercy hospital (and they are but few), could better serve the best interests of their people and help to protect their manhood rights, by securing a mandatory injunction to open the doors of City hospital to all nationalities, regardless of race, color or creed. This would have overburdened taxed community and their race at the same time. I will be pleased to confer with you at any time relative to the housing conditions in the district named by you. With much regard, I am Very truly yours, George A. Myers. Nat'l. Equal Rights League Wins. Washington, D. C.-President Coolidge has ordered a reduction of eighteen months in the sentences of twenty former members of the 24th U. S. Infantry who are the only remaining prisoners (martyr)s now under sentence as a result of the so-called Houston plan of Aug. 22, 1917. A report of the President's action, all of these twenty prisoners will become eligible for release on home parole within the next twelve months. Sixteen will be eligible in June, 1927; two in November, 1927; and the remaining two in February, 1928. SINGLE COPY FIVE CENTS THE GOVERNMENT ASSERTS ITS CONTROL OF PRIMARIES AS WELL AS ELECTIONS. Texas "White?" Primary Case Decided in Our Favor by a Unanimous Vote of the U. S. Supreme Court —Storey, Marshall and Spingarn. New York City—The U. S. supreme court (Monday) by a unanimous decision sustained the contention that the state of Texas had exceeded its rights in barring our voters from the Democratic party primaries in that state. In a sensational decision read by Justice Warren Holmes (68 years of age), the supreme court declared the Texas law of 1923 unconstitutional thereby crowning the fight carried through all the lower courts by the N. A. A. C. P. The court, in its decision, declared that "it seems to us hard to imagine a more direct and obvious infringement of the fourteenth amendment to the U. S. constitution than the Texas law. The decision also quoted from the Louisville "Warley" segregation case won in 1917, the quotation being as follows: "That amendment (the fourteenth) not only gave citizenship and the privilege of citizenship to persons of color, but it denied to any state the power to withhold from them the equal protection of the laws. . . . What is this but demonstration that the state shall be the same for the blacks as for the whites; that all persons, whether colored or r white, shall stand equal before the laws of the states, and, in regard to the colored race, for whose protection the amendment was primarily designed, that no discrimination shall be made against them, because of their color. The statute of Texas, in the teeth of the prohibitions referred to, to assumed to forbid Negroes to take part in a primary election the importance of which we have indicated, discriminating against them by the distinction of color alone. States may do a good deal of classifying that it is not possible to discriminate there are limits, and it is too clear for extended argument that color cannot be made the basis of a statutory classification affecting the right set up in this case." James Weldon Johnson, secretary of the N. A. A. C. P., hailed the decision and the importance won for the Afro-American since the adoption of the Civil War amendments. "This decision will have a far-reaching effect on the petrified South," declared Mr. Johnson. "It justifies the energy and the money that has been expended in carrying this case through the court of Texas and the lower federal court to the highest tribunal in the land. It is, furthermore, a justification of the generosity and sacrifice of those who backed up the appeal of the N. A. A. C. P. for an adequate legal defense fund. The supreme court' decision is a shock to the generosity, violation of the fourteenth and fifteenth amendments in southern states. Furthermore, it establishes that the primaries are part of the general election system and, as such, subject to federal control. This is a case profoundly affecting not only the political and civic status of the Afro-American Cleveland, March 5, '27. Hon. Harry C. Smith, Editor Gazette, City. Dear Harry:—In this morning's mall, I received a post-card which reads as follows: Mr. George A. Myers:—This is to inform you that Mr. Charles Mar- shall died, this morning, Mar. 3rd. Funeral services will be held, Satr- dary, Mar. 5, at 2:30 p. m., from the residence, 236 Sip Ave., Jersey City, N. J. "Charley" was a good fellow, deserves much credit for taking care of his father in his old age and helping his brother and sister. When they talked of moving Erie St. cemetery, "Charley" came here and moved his family lot to Highland Park cemetery. On his last visit here, a few years ago, he was in poor health. For years, he was shipping clerk for Butler Bros., New York City. When his health failed, they pensioned him. "Charley" was married, owned his own home and had saved some money. He had no children. The old Clevelanders remember him well. Very truly yours. George A. Myers. IN UNION IS STRENGTH COPY FIVE CENTS STED" UL VICTORY ERTS ITS CONTROL OF LL AS ELECTIONS. se Decided in Our Favor by e U. S. Supreme Court all and Spingarn. well. Our people may well be proud to have been instrumental in obtain-but many other political issues as Moorfield Story, Esq. ing a definite decision on this issue which lawyers have been vainly putting up to the supreme court for decades. Especially ought the membership and friends of the N. A. A. C. P. be grateful for the magnificent work done by the national president, Mr. Moorfield Storey, as well as by Mr. Louis Marshall, member of the legal committee, and of the board of directors and president Arthur B. Spingarn, and president Bob Woodruff, and chairman of its legal committee. These gentlemen have given of their time without stint and without any compensation whatever, and the reply-brief they framed to the contentions put forth by the state of Texas, is a masterpiece of close reasoning and clear exposition." ALICE'S LAWYERS GET $1,500. Kip's Father's Counsel Opposed Request for $5,000 Made to Court. White Plains, N. Y. — For presenting the case of Mrs. Alice Jones Rhinelander in the annulment action of her husband, Leonard Kip Rhinelander's father, in the court of appeals at Samuel F. Swinburne, her attorneys, were granted an allowance of $1,500 by Supreme Court Justice Morschauser, Tuesday. The attorneys sought $5,000. Isaac N. Mills, counsel for the elder Rhinelander, opposed the allowance, stating that the $18,500 they had received for their work during the trial and in the appellate division was sufficient. Lincoln Embroidery club officers for the ensuing year: Mrs. B. M. Shook, pres. emeritus; Mrs. Cornelia Nickens, pres.; Mrs. N. K. Moon, pres.; Mrs. C. N. Conners, -sec.; Mrs. C. A. Jordan, assist.; Mrs. C. F. Hunnicutt, treas.; Mrs. M. W. Gassaway, critic. LIBERIAN RUBER BOB! Firestone Addressing The University Club Says It is a Tremendous One. Developing 1,000,000 acres of rubber trees in Liberia involves everything from road building to establishing schools for planters' children, Harvey S. Firestone, Jr., told branch managers of the Cleveland Trust Co., one night last week, at a dinner at the University club. With the aid of the government of the little black republic on the west coast of Africa, the Firestone interests in two years have planted 20,000 acres of rubber trees, employed 12,000 natives, and made a road on breaking the British rubber monopoly. Firestone, continuing, said: "The government we found to be decidedly sympathetic toward America, and the advent of American capital, and we found that law and order prevailed. Health conditions are better than exist in nearly any other tropical country. Liberia has a population of 2,000,000, and most of the natives are eager to work. We anticipate no difficulty with the labor supply." "Crackers' Threaten Darrow. Mobile, Ala.—Threatened with mob violence, Tuesday, following a speech encouraging our people, Clarence Darrow, noted Chicago attorney, was escorted to his summer home at Fairhope under protection of county officers. --- IT'S TERRIBLE THE WAY THAT OWL KEEPS US AWAKE! HURRY UP AND SHOOT IT-AND COME TO BED! THERE! I GUESS HE WON'T KEEP US AWAKE ANY MORE WITH HIS HOOIN! WHY THAT OWL, OF COURSE! WHAT DO YOU THINK I'VE BEEN SHOOTING AT THE MOON? Tim Early PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY Gns Year.....$2.00 Six Months.....1.00 Subscribers are requested to remit by postoffice money order or registered letter. Entered at the postoffice in Cleveland, Ohio, as second-class mail matter Address all communications to HARRY C. SMITH Editor and Proprietor THE GAZETTE $226 W. Superior Ave., Cleveland, O. (Bell Phone: Cherry 1259) Member Ohio Legislature: 1894 to 1896; 1896 to 1898; 1900 to 1902 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, MARCH 12, 1927. The anti-inter marriage bill in the Massachusetts legislature has been killed. Similar K. K. K. bills are pending in the New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Maine state assemblies, and ought to suffer a similar fate. While Jewish, Italian, Greek and Afro-American business men in Central Ave. "sleep on soundly" preparations are going on to remove the street-cars from that street and substitute bushes with increased fare—ten-cent fare—making an automobile thorofe of the avenue. That would ruin it as a business street. Somebody should inform City Manager Wm. R. Hopkins that the alleged "Coolidge Good Times" have settled the "terrible housing conditions in the Woodland Avenue territory" of the city of Cleveland that existed during the World War and for several years thereafter. The writer lives in that section of the city and knows whereof he speaks. There are now plenty of good rooms, houses and stores FOR RENT! --- The "Coolidge Good Times" have been so very bad, hereabouts, for several years, especially in recent months, that they have killed many business enterprises among all classes of residents. Among the number, the Mary Jane Hostess House at 2180 E. 83rd St. This is a matter of keen and general regret as Mrs. Maud W. Rhodes and sister, Mrs. Grace W. Brown, had a beautiful and up-to-date place of business and conducted it in a first-class manner. Membership in an evangelical church has been dropped as a qualification for membership in the Cleveland Y. M. C. A. Under the new regulation any man of good moral character, who believes in God and who wants to advance "the kingdom of God", may become a participating member of the corporation whether he belongs to a church or not. The foregoing means that the color-line and sectarianism must henceforth be dropped by the Cleveland Young Men's Christian Association and as a result membership requirements liberalized after twenty years' agitation. Looks like the word "Christian" in its name is finally to mean something and to be fully recognized by the local "Y". Good. TEXAS PRIMARY CASE DECISION Monday's U. S. Supreme Court decision knocking out the Texas "law" which denied Afro-Americans the right to vote in the Democratic primaries of that state, is undoubtedly one of the most important and far-reaching we have had from that august body since the close of the war of the rebellion. It not only vindicates our right (or privilege) as citizens to participate in all primaries held for the nomination of federal candidates (for electors and members of the Congress) but in ALL primaries—state, county, etc. In plain English, it makes clear that no state can enact a law, based on color or race, which denies a citizen the right to vote at any primary. This stands good, too, for all elections, federal, state and local, and is a death-blow to the disfranchisement laws of southern states. It gives the government the power, or rather calls attention to the fact that the government has always possessed the power, to nullify all laws, both primary and election, which discriminate against citizens, on the basis of color or race, in elections, federal, state or local. The decision also calls attention to the fact that the government has the power to step in and regulate federal primaries as well as elections just as it did the latter in the South during the days of reconstruction, and drives home in the minds of the American people, generally, the fact that the fourteenth amend- THE GEEVUM GIRLS ment to the U. S. constitution now means something when it guarantees to citizens "the equal protection of laws". PRIME SPORT NEWS The Elks scored a 38 to 35 decision over the Canton Rogers cagers at Elks' hall, last week Thursday night. The local outfit was leading the game. In the prelimil the Williams Billards took over the Sectors, 22 to 18. The Cleveland Buckeyes The Cleveland Buckeyes. Work will begin on Hooper field as soon as the weather permits. Geo. R. Hooper, owner, says that he intends to have everything in tip-toe position. He is also interested in the company financially. The following players from Buffalo, have been signed: Willie Spearman and Square Moore, pitchers, Collins and Juran, infielders, Brannigan, Summers and Spencer are the players in the city; Stephen, Rial, Roberson, Dixon, formerly with the American Giants; Foreman, Evans, Taylor and Jones make up "the Indianapolis bunch" while Duff, Milton, Zamphier and Barnes are on hand, from Houston and Blanker from San Houston college. Mer, Duncan is well pleased with the trade for shortstop—Riggins from Detroit. Howard Slaughter will have a good team to play at Hooper field while the Buckeyes are away, this season. Some interesting news will come from St. Louis, next week—after the schedule meeting. Meantime, read The Gazette, and keep posted. - Investment Management Wilberforce 35. Alcoes. 34. Wilberforce, 35, Alcoes, 34 Washington, U. After subduing the Washington team, subduing 20 in 13 in their gymnasium, last week Thursday night, the inimitable big green five of Wilberforce U. came down town and defeated the fast Alcoe Tossers 35 to 34, an hour later at the Lincoln Colonnade. The Collegians were substituted for the Cleveland Elks team, which was unable to make the team win, and an automobile accident at Detroit. With Ward performing at guard and Carter at center, the visitors got away to an early lead, and had the locals trailing 23 to 11, at the end of the first half. The Klan "Blows Up" in North Carolina Raleigh, N. C.—The Klu Kux Klan of North Carolina is practically dissolved. Judge Henry A. Grady, grand dragon, has resigned following a break with Imperial Wizard Hiram W. Evans. Sixty-six of the 86 local Klu chapants are said to have surrendered their charters. Bills have been introduced in both houses of the state legislature against the use of masks and robes by secret organizations. The U. S. Supreme Court upheld, on Feb. 24, the constitutional right of the state of Kansas to outlaw the Klan if it functions without state permission. Virgin Islanders Citizens. Washington D. C.—President Coolidge, last week Friday, approved and signed two congressional acts affecting the Virgin Islands. One is to confer citizenship upon the inhabitants and to extend our naturalization laws to the Islands. The other bill authorizes an appropriation of $100,000 to enable the Secretary of Agriculture to construct and maintain public highways in the islands of St. Thomas. Mr. Walter York, of Norman Ave., well and favorably known here for the past fifteen years, died, last week Wednesday, after a lingering illness. He was buried from St. John's A. M. E. church, of which he was a member, last Saturday afternoon. Charles Gordon, city probation officer, received congratulations from friends and fellow-workers, last week, on his seventieth birthday, Feb. 26. In the outer office of the police-court probation department fellow officers, in a bulletin, expressed their best wishes. "I honor the man who in the conscientious discharge of his duty dares to stand alone; the world, with ignorant, intolerant judgment, may condemn the countenances of relatives may be averted, and the hearts of friends grow cold, but the sense of duty done shall be sweeter than the applause of the world, the countenances of relatives or the hearts of friends."—Charles Sumner. OUR LESSON We must learn to govern ours and work together for our own advancement. If we do not learn to govern ours and work together for our own advancement, we may be very sure that we will be governed by others in their own interest as well as worked by others for their own advancement and not ours.—George W. Blount THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, O. SATURDAY, MARCH 12, 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 lots at $575 and up; $50 down-payment and up. For particars, phone Glencille 4223, or write SETH NICKENS, Real Estate Office. 12225 Hirst Avenue, Cleveland, Ohio. Disease PROTEST! PROTEST!! To submit in silence when we should protest makes cowards out of men. The human race has climbed on protest. Had no voice been raised against injustice, ignorance and lust, the inquisition yet would serve the law, and dillows the defense, the law disputes. The few who dare, must speak and speak again to right the wrongs of many. Ella Wheeler Wilcox. 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 richest men, is all that. 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 CONTEND FOR RIGHTS? Colored Americans are the only race, responsible members of which are in favor of submitting to discrimination on the claim that their race "always will be discriminated against." The Jews are still contending, after over 190 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 will die rather than submit. The race that says it's of no use to resist, downs itself and the world then will say, "Negroes are not worthy of equal rights; by any means they must 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 in every war to vindicate the title of their place 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. "The Old Reliable" Gazette desires an active agent and correspondent in an urban town in Ohio and neighboring states having a number of Afro-American residents. Only a little time on Fridays or Saturdays is required. We are especially desirous of hearing from persons in the following named cities: Springfield, Columbus, Toledo Steubenville, Zanesville, Wilmington, Xenia, Washington C. H., Lancaster, Hamilton, Piqua, Lima, O., and other places, particularly in Ohio, where we have none. Write to the editor of the Gazette, 226 West Superior Avenue, A. O., and he will be sent promptly. 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Notary Public son Bell ‘Phone: Cherry 1259 ooo oe, Classified Advertising Department THE GEEVUM GIRLS EXCHANGE REAL ESTATE APARTMENT, THACKERY AVENUE. 6 rms, al-tarniahod, always rent cae comtfally located.” Our-ot-town Gwanet desires to. dispose of property a once WHIT tage” What have sou to omer? | $34,800, 8% bank ean. ° Price only’ $96,000; terms. ‘Tite HERMAN TARONGE CO. 1D Whitamson, Bide, Cherry 36 319 Williamson Bldg. Social and Personal Miss Dorothy Hughes and broth- er, Demond, visited in Massillon, recently. Mrs. L. J. Dean, of 1680 Elberon ‘Ave., is hostess ‘to the Minerva Reading club, today. St. John’s choir has presented the pastor, Dr. Henry P. Jones, with a beautiful leather, gilt-edged Bible. The Get-Together club officers are: Mrs. 0. D. Brown, pres.; Mrs, Alice Drysdale, sec.; ‘Mrs, Walter Hill, reporter. ‘The officers: of the Home Build- ers’ club are: Mrs. Cecil Smith, pres.; Mts. Amanda Hall, sec.; Mrs, Clarence Robinson, cor. sec. Andrew Weeks of Atlanta and Nashville arrived, recently, to locate, ‘He ig stopping’ with his mother, Mrs, Paul White, of Cedar Ave. Mr, and Mrs. Augustus C. Fraz- fer, EB. 83rd St., the latter former Miss Thelma Rudd, have a baby daughter born, last week Monday. ‘Mrs, Hattie M. Patrick received $3,100 damages from the Penn. Ry. Go. instead of $3,000, as announced in our last week’s issue. $ Miss Beatrice Davis of Akron was the guest of Mrs. Mollie DeBraun, BE, 80th St., last week. ‘The latter is recovering from injuries sustained in a recent auto accident. Wm. B: Fountain, son of Mr. and Mrs, J. E. Rountain, E. 80th St, led the “Four Chocolate Dandies”,’ one of the best quartets on the road, at Keith's EB. 105th St. theater, last week, Applications to take examinations for the position of file clerk for the U.S. Veteran’s bureau will be re- ceived by the civil service commis- sion until March 23. ‘The position pays $1,140 to $1,320 a year, St. James’ choir will ‘be assisted, tomorrow afternoon, in its musicale, from 4 to 5 p. m., by Miss Martha Swan, pianist; A. G. Grist, baritone; and Harry T. Ford, cornet smitator. Miss Marguerette Sanford, organist. Miss Jane Hunter, ex. sec. of the P. W. A., delivered an address at Grace’ Presbyterian church, west side, Feb. 27, at a union service with the First Reformed church. ‘The P. W. A. quartet rendered sev- eral numbers, ‘At the meeting of-the East End THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, 0. SATURDAY, MARCH 12, 1927. FOR SALE. $7,000, $1,000 cash, 9 rooms, modern single, garage, large lot, near Codar Ave. on E, 89th St. Call, Main 5265. WANTED — AGENTS — NEW PLAN, makes it easy to earn $50.00 to $100.00 weekly, selling shirts direct to wearer. No capital oF ex- Derience needed. Represent a_ real manufacturer. Write for FREE SAMPLES. Madison Shirt. Makers, Ege cocoaaway: Now ork. Political club, Atty. .Clayborne George, president, last week” Tues- day ‘evening at Cedar “¥", the program for'1927 aud the advocacy [of an Afro-American for a municipal Sudgeship, were discussed. ‘The Tuesday Afternoon Thimble club' met, last’ week, at Mrs. Mary Hamilton's, Edmondson Ave. Mra Maggle Rogers, retiring president, was presented with a beautiful sei of salad plates by the club. Mrs. Ida Burton, her successor, recited a poem, “Strew Your Flowers on the Living”. The Optimistic club's new officers are: Mrs. Della Offer, founder and former president fora number” of Years, pres; Mrs. Janie Craighead, first vice-pres.; Mre. Jennie Johnson, second; Mrs, Beatrice Huston, sec.: Mrs." Nettle Davis, (re-elected) treas.; Mrs. Janie Johnson, chair. investigating com. The local branch of the N. A. A. ©. P, will hold a special meeting, to: day at 4 p. ma at Mt. Zion Cong. shureh to” consider the abortive Mercy Hospital movement. The pub- ile'Is invited, “The editor of ‘The Gazette regrets that. business ab- |pointments make it impossible for him to accept the special invitation to attend the meeting. ‘The Youthful Philosophers’ liter ary and social club elected. the fol lowing officers at its last meeting: Leroy Dabney, pres.; Mildred Rid- ley, "wee-pres.; ‘Ossie Carter, sec.; and Leroy Hawking, treas. (re-elect ed). Outstanding’ events “of the Slub, under the administration of Ex-President Douglass Weaver, were securing a club-room at Alpha Omega elub-house and the new Year eve dance at the Caterers’ Associa: ton ‘elubsrooms. J. Henry Davis, age 69, of 9603 Quebec Ave., father of Hon. Harry E. Davis, member of the iegislature and one of our old. eltizens, was buried, Tuesday, in Lake View com etery after funcral services “at. Mt Zion (Cong. church. For thirty years, Mr. Davis was a letter car- Her, retiring from the government Service about tree years ago. Since then he had been letter carrier at city hall, He wae born in Zanes- ville, ©.” A widow, several boys and airs, all grown, survive him. and Lee ee eae nity, Rudolph Jackson, age 24, of 2314 Mulberry. St, an asphalt-worker, of a highway construction compday, who attempted to rob the Johp Hartman retail grocery store, 1288 Main Ave., in the “flats”, last week Monday, was Instantly “Killed by a \“burglar trap”, set with shot-gun, Oo trigger-string and lever being lald |with an accurate precision in the ‘Hartman store basement. Jackson lived only a half block away from the grocery store, At the recent local “Negro” Wel- fare Association's dinner at Hotel Winton, the presiding officer, in an- nouncing Rev. B. F. McWilliams of Toledo as the next ‘speakers is said to have declared that the gehtleman had been selected as such from a large number under consideration because it was believed that he would be “discreet” in his remarks. Why “discreet”? A number of per- sons present at the dinner ‘have ever since been trying to answer ths question, ‘The Inter-racial Study club met, Feb. 28, at Mrs. J. J. Arnold's, E. 82nd St. A delicious luncheon ‘was served and officers for the ensuing year elected, as follows: Ida M. Burton, pres.; Elizabeth Jackson, viee-pres.; Lottie Stewart, see.; Lilt lian Green; treas.; Mabel Perry, his- torian; Maud Arnold, dramatic teacher; Mesdames Cox and Walker, entertainment com.; May Hunter, reporter. The club ¢elebrated its anniversary, Saturday night, with a program and box-party at Mrs. Brent Stewart's, AN! had a delighetul time. Lucy R. James, age 52, the first person to receive’ insulin treatment for diabetes in a Cleveland hospital, ‘and our first woman to be admitted to the staff of the Visiting Nurses’ Association, was buried at Spring- field, Wednesday. She died in City ‘hospital, last week Thursday. She was born in Virginia, educated in the public schools there and attend- ed Tuskegee, Ala. Institute. She had been ill, many months. Mrs. James was for years active in wel- fare work. A sister In the South, and a brother-in-law, Mr. Hawkins of E. 43rd St. survive her. St. Mark's Presbyteran church ladies’ H. M. society's recent pew rally netted over $26. ‘The pastor of the Central Ave. Christian church and its choir were in attendance as special guests. St. Mark's “went over the top” in raising its quota ($850) of the $250,000. ministers’ pension fund, G. Hy’ Ambrose, cam- paign manager, reported over $1,- 031, exceeding the quota by about $200. The musicale-dinner at Mrs. Hall's, Hf. 63rd St, under the aus- plees of the pulpit’ guild, was suc- cessful, Miss La Verne Gregory resigned, recently, as teacher of French, Lat- in and English at Fisk University. She was given many, beautiful pres- entg before leaving Nashville. Miss La Verne is a graduate of Woman's college, this.city. She will teach in Dunbar high school, Washington, D.C. her former home. Her father is principal of Miner Normal school, that city and her mother, Mrs. Ed- nah Anderson Gregory, and grand- mother, Mrs, Julia Burdine, are liv- ing here until her two brothers, J. Francis and Monroe have completed their education. Samnel Perry, accused of con- spiracy and aiding in a forgery, was found guilty in U.S. court,” last Week. “This is to be regretted as his recently widowed mother ig not in good health. His brother, John, ‘who. testified, ‘several months ago, ‘that he had been In the office of the secret-service men’s bureau and had a talk with his brother, and Wilbur Whitley who was charged with forgery and convicted. will soon go on trial on the charge of perjury, secret service operators testifying ‘that no such conversa- Hon took place between the three men, We believe John. On the occasion of his sixty eighth birthday, recently, George A. Myers was the recipient of many tokens of esteem from his many friends, chief among which were three beautiful birthday cakes. The ‘one from the Hotel Hollenden, sent by Manager Theodore DeWitt, was beautifully decorated in pink and white colors and “forgetmenots” and artistically lettered” with his initials “"G. A.M." and “Many Happy Returns” while in the center was one lone pink candle. Mr. De- Witt claims that he was unable to find similar candles enough in town to provide the remaining sixty- seven, Many were the expressions of thanks and sincere appreciation at Mt. Zion Cong. temple, after regular Sunday morning service, on the un- yelling of three large, beautiful oil paintings, given by Mr. Guerdon S. Holden to the church for the ladies’ parlor. The paintings came from the L. B, Holden private art gallery, which aiso housed the Holden col- Ieetion now at the Cleveland Mu- seum of Art, and were given Mt. Zion thru the solicitation of George A. Myers, proprietor of the Hol- jenden Barber shop. Mt. Zion, and her many friends in the community, feel very grateful to Mr. G. S. Hol- aikae SA Charo anroriate bat Guaranteed and Efficient Work TWENTY YEARS’ EXPERIENCE Phone: Bell, Randolph 6978 Sundays by Appointment @ BIRTHDAY SPECIAL—— La) $17.50 to *22 Spring fs Coats y Va ) ‘ ph ANE ‘3 ih Ke a fe Only by veglgnese coats can RL al you reali amazing val- Mai || ues we are offering at $13.85. Le v Coats for every and any purpose. | Dress and sports models for misses and .matrons. Fur | irimmed ‘coats—plain coats—new black and white coats— | tailored coats—sport coats—and many others. Too many || for a detailed description in this limited space. Sizes for 1! women and misses, Basement. \| * Ohio's Largest Ask for Bare Eagle’ stamps |Mr. Myers did for it in the matter. ‘The public is cordially invited to visit the church and view these beautiful paintings. "An unusual opportunity 1s that ‘all will have when the Fisk Univert "ity quartette’sings and Dr. Thomas ‘Elsa Jones, new president of Fisk, speaks at "Mt. Zion Cong. church, this (Saturday) evening. at $ o'clock, ‘The quartette, besides fll- ing concert engagements most sic- ‘cessfully, is’one of the de luxe per- Hormers’ on Nashville radio. pro- siams, and comes to Cleveland with ‘dest musical organizations sponsored ‘by Fisk in many years. Dr. Jones, ‘newly inaugurated president of the university, is making -a tour im the interest ot higher education for our people and may be expected to out Tine hig plans and dreams for the future of the institution he so ably heads. Since assuming the duties of president, in September, Dr. Jones has succeeded in planting in. the student body and alumni a spirit of optimism and high hope for the fu- ture of Fisk. He andthe quartette will “undoubtedly he greeted by a large audience, this evening, at Mt Zion. Do not fail to hear them! City Manager Wm. R. Hopkins: ‘The best man to secure the prop- erty desired by the elty, to ‘open Carnegie Ave, thru to Central Ave., is Joe Hedges, president of the Star- light Realty Co., located in that section of the city for many years. He has been &o very helpful for years in that section to the Repub: Hiean organization that he is. en- titled to the consideration suzgest- ed, too, Our people should have some business consideration as well as political, City Manager Hopkins. Guess “The Old Reliable” Ga- zette’s weekly inveighing, for many, many months, against federal seg rogation, 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 per- sons for our persistence, but we Kept it up just the same and the end is not yet, either. LORD, HAVE MERCY! “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 adja- cent to Western Reserve; the new Huron Road ‘hospital in Bast Cleve- Tandy tie Ste Lake hospital fn ‘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 elty of ‘its size in the country, fully equip- ‘ped and manned with some of the See Us First for All Goods in Our Line JOHN S: HALE SS | W. H. 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Thee and other institations of @ like na- ‘tire, ‘supported in part. or whole DY ‘public funds, are burdens enough of eae kind upon the community with- out adding the unnecessary $220,000 Merey hospital which, we under- stand, the aforementioned Negro doctors are ‘abundantly able to finance, of themselyes,,if they feel {hey must. have It, hon, too, the focal public is just at this time be- ing asked by a considerable number of “Negro” churches of the city for funds to. help. pay. thelr indebted- ness: Mt Zon_-Congregational wantoh ie making foe $60,060; ShHON ‘Baptist church $45,000, St. James A. M. EB, church $27,000. The other (over fitty) local ‘Negro” churches are burdened with debts possibly not so large but more than the colored people can pay without the assist- ance of thelr white friends in this community. Why load another and an unnecessary burden on the pub- lic-spirited citizens of this city to satisfy the whim of a few “Negro” doctors and their friends? Appar- ently, they do not seem to care how much additional segregation they load upon our people of this com- munity just so their selfish, personal ends are. attained. Lord, have mercy! 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 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, under President Harding; and reached its zenith under President Coolidge. For instance, the largest of our parks President Wilson never troubled, but the present administration has found time and desire to introduce it even there. To many people, segregation is a Democratic scheme of insult, but such is not the case. Mr. Taft introduced it in the bureau of engraving. He segregated the census-takers in this city in 1910, restricting white workers to white people, and black to black, often duplicating work most blocks had white and black residents. And, worst of all, an official in his own capacity that Negroes should hold office where white people complained. Segregation, and not a Democratic institution, and not a Democratic one 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 their papers, is tenaciously held over 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 will a favorite of Secretary Mallon and President Coolidge. He heals from North Carolina. He home of the other father 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 postfoster segregation is rampant. The faithful colored clerks work under constant humiliation and physical disadvantages. The department maintains a spacious caferia for whites only, where these inferior white clerks can buy appetizing luncheons and chat in comfort while eating, while the colored clerks must bring cold luncheons from home and eat them any place they can. The physical discomfort, disadvantageous as it is, is far less gullous of the colored clerks than is the thought of their government taking their taxes, as it takes those of its 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 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 comf o r t a b l e 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 lobby there is segregation and segregation is even in the toilets. And all of this against the most dependable and faithful employees. Last year the white employees passed around invitations to the white employees, in the presence of the colors to attend a reception to the heads of departments, in the postmaster general, in the postoffice building. It announced dancing and a pleasant social evening with the officials for "the postoffice employees," yet not one was delivered to the colored clerks. I hurried a protest to the postmaster general the day before it was to come off, and he ordered the past-master to invite the colored as well as the white. These clerks get the job done. The function is slicking 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 employee have won contests in quickness and accuracy in the 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 printing 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 in which the employees may go, but there are other employees 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 hardaste 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 New York, attended an exclusive of our employees so keenly that he secured the company of a young lady of the race to take part in the dance. As soon as this couple started to dance the music was abruptly stopped, and the young man reported for attempting to take part in an entertainment provided for employees. He was called to the office, lectured for being "one of those smart people who believe in the truth" 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. He was charged and substituted one for carrying concealed weapons for which he was immediately dismissed. By this severe punishment our employees are taught that there is no way of escape for one who dares to resent the daily insults that their government (under President Coolidge) gives them. Many of the employees have expressed their deeply-wounded feelings to me at being considered a pariah by the government whose institutions they are serving so faithfully, and I have taken up a number of cases only to be met by a dental 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- THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, O. SATURDAY, MARCH 12, 1927. ber or 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 contact with the poor appeared at the bureau to tell our girls to be contented with the new order as "a great Negro leader had taught colored people to stay in their places." Three of the young ladies resisted the order to the last ditch and were summarily dismissed! Senator La Follette lodged a protest with Secretary McAdoo to no avail, and his noble wife began a crusade against the undemocratic innovation. She took the platform here in Washington and Boston before the famous Twentieth Century club. She used the columns of the Senator's magazine, sparing neither space nor vigor of utterance. She thundered against it in our 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 discuraged, 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. Observation of the actions of 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 segregators, 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* as 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 real rooms, toilets, and dining rooms. If none are ever thought of for promotions to executive places. They are girls from our best names, most of them with high age normal school training, and fine culture. The white girls are of no such grade, as there is no segregation for them in the great world of things. They have unlimited fields at high wage for even mediocre talents. The best of our girls must take these inferior positions, the inevitable result of segregation, and requiring for the issuance of an order destroying this iniquitous practice in all of our government departments for it not only humiliates the best of the government servants but impairs the government service. (Special to The Gazette) Washington, D. C.—The treasury department, according to the President's recent acceptance speech, is now under the ablest financial genius since the days of Alexander Hamilton. It is to be remembered that the great man 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, devised the national banking system which financed the war. He was the financier, John Sherman. These never knew what segregation was' The present head of the department of internal revenue, Mr. Blair from North Carolina, has not appointed a colored clerk since his incumbency. While his predecessor, Mr. Daniel Roper, a democrat from Texas, appointed and promoted several of them. Since the income tax legislation and the numberless new taxes that the recent war necessitated, this is by far the largest department employee, several thousand clerks. 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 more. The various forms of segregation exist here as well as elsewhere—the restaurants closed or divided along color lines, and special lockers, locker rooms, rest rooms, etc., set off for colored. The toilers 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 take care of their own needs to strete 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 process 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 Blanchard 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 Coolidge can stop every bit of the damnable segregation, just as he can condemn that lawless organization the Ku Klux Klan. COOLIDGE'S SEGREGATION Washington, D. C.—We wish to call attention to the fact that in the night 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, best board walls were maintained until recently. In the latter there have been two cases of discrimination on account of color brought to public attention, 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 Burcane 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. 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 us are direct measures of its success. Importance to every advertiser. EDITOR 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. "WORTH ITS WEIGHT IN COLD!" 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 possibly save it. You and I possibly recently, during the forty-two years since the birth of The Gazette, been, as the Scotch would say, like two McNells, but when 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.) THE HAT LAVISH LACE TRIMMING GIVES SHEERNESS TO SATIN LINGERIE THE BLOOMINGTON BLOOMINGTON WHO, having viewed a display of millinery designed for immediate and early spring wear, can say "nothing new under the sun?" It's a rule which does not apply in the realm of millinery this season. Such daring originality as is expressed in the new-vogue mottled felts, frosted felts, pyrography felts, and was there ever anything quite so unique as spotted calfskin such as designers have only just recently introduced into the styling of our hats and accessories. Then there's the list of colors smart for spring. They're "different." At least their names are—monkey skin (delicate pink), mother goose (ivory), also bon bon fondant (candy pink). "What's in a name?" say you. Let the answer be sought in the adorable felt hats which flaunt these very tones and tints for flair. Interesting are the things being done with felt. There are the new frosted felts; it's "love at first sight" the moment you glimpse them. They are just what their name implies, "frosted" all over, the loveliness of their color accented because of their LAVISH LACE TRIM SHEERNESS WHAT a feeling of serene self-satisfaction there is in the consciousness of a reserve supply of extra choice lingerie reposing most sachets of sweetest fragrance in one's chiffonier or dresser drawer in readiness for special "occasion." Right joyfully may any young girl accept an invitation to the dance, who knows that her wardrobe is stocked with all lovely essentials attributing to dainty dress, of course a diaphanous chiffon or a biblowy tule or a shimmering tuffeta frock is going to look its enchantment the more if it be worn over an adorable lingerie "dance set" such as this picture shows. Not a style point or a beauty detail is lacking in this exquisite creation of supple crepe-satin whose fluttering ribbons and sheer so add to its charm. Even a cunning little lace pocket is there and a modish lace yoke. Very important is the fact that unlike the straight unbroken lines of the GAZETTE Subscribe a musty wuntness which vells them Pyrography felt, processed just as we used to burn wood with a red-hot needle point, is creating quite a sati- sation in style circles. Quaint hier- ographics and figures, also scenic ef- fects are literally burned into the felt. There is a craze just now for motted and spotted effects. The little first hat in this group is smartly spotted, with brown on beige felt. And the tiny face veil! Yes, they are wearing them in Paris. Nothing quite so smart as "black and white!" The hat and purse of spotted caskfelt here pictured answers this style call with emphasis. Modish ness is interpreted by the frosted felt hat shown in the top corner to the right, for its crown is pinched and creased most cleverly. Furthermore its gros grain ribbon trim spells up most chic. Black felt sectioned with cocoa felt is the stylish compose theme expressed by the model in the lower left corner. A beret crown in- parts extreme stylishness to the hat pictured last in this collection. JULIA BOTTOMLEY. (©) 1927, Western Newspaper Union. MING GIVES TO SATIN LINGERIE regulation costume slip this garment which takes its place indicates a definite waistline. Please to observe also that the wide filmy lace which flounces it is finely plaited. Furthermore, the crepe satin itself is plaited, this being a characteristic feature of the latest French lingerie imports. There remains yet another "beauty secret" to disclose in regard to this entrancing bit of lingerie, and that has to do with its color which is pale yellow. To be sure it might just as well be peach or flesh pink, or rose shade, hydrangea or light blue or even orchid, for each is fashionable—but yellow is the "latest," so reads the most recent style message. As to night robes, they are trending to shorter lengths and to more frilly feminine effects. For these indestructible voile is a favored material and they are lavishly trimmed with lace. Interesting necklines and face yokes mark their styling. JULIA BOTTOMLEY. (© 1927, Western Newspaper Union.) After Reading OUR PEOPLE HERE "OVERWORKED" NOW! Says Dr. Horace C. Bailey 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 quasi-philanthropic men of our group, to establish and support a hospital managed exclusively by colored people, to say in short, it cannot be done! The project was born in a pleura mental mind, looking than that membrane, imagining that this large new infusion of colored people are rich! Many of these people, recently from the South, left their life's earnings behind them, such as homes, farms and cattle. Some disposed of them at a sacri- Dr. Horace C. Bailey. fice and many have not and not 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 for them to possess burdens? They are grooming and writhing now with great church debts, saddled upon them, unnecessarily. Poor things, during and since the World War, they have been exploited by unscrupulous speculators of both 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 fees. I have been injured and reputation raise this or an approximate amount. 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 catering. The talked-of segregation is an issue that is just enough truth in it to catch the unthinking man or woman who talks without investigation. I attend hospitals and I investigate, and in not one hospital have I visited (my latest visit was on Monday, Feb. 28, 27) have I seen an exclusive ward, a nursing unit, a charity 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 interests and establish and foster a hospital. Dr. Crile and others did it. So go into it, yourselves, and let the hurriedness on his own community rest. Let him may 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 agoying by philanthropists, and we have not got enough money to pay. Phillis Wheatley can 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. I am respectfully yours, (Rev.) H. C. Bailley, Former pastor of Antioch Baptist Church 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 was formed 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 during the years they have and that is what they ever get no in Cleveland. 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.