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OUR LOCAL CHURCHES AND THE PHILLIS WHEATLEY HOME. Two Hundred Thousand More for the "Jim Crow" Mercy Hospital Would Make Our Local "Negro" Controlled Institutions' Indebtedness Nearly a Million Dollars. The indebtedness of our churches in this community is nearer a half million of dollars than a quarter of a million, as suggested in our last issue. This vast sum of money our people of this community can never hope to raise among themselves and have an awful time getting it, if they have an excellent career, or people, local and at a distance. Adding to that sm the one hundred and fifty-eight thousand dollar debt on the new Philips Wheatley home, the known total aggregates more than six hundred thousand dollars! And this does not include the indebtedness of a number of our churches in this community we have as in other institutions, a few people, local and at a distance. Then for a few backward "Negro" physicians, in the face of this, ask this community to finance and support a hospital for them to cost at the start two hundred and twenty thousand dollars, making the total indebtedness of the Negro controlled institutions here more than nearly a million dollars, more than nearly a million dollars, is ridiculous and out of the question. This is only emphasized when one recalls the fact that there is the total need of a hospital controlled by "Negro" physicians; that it would entail the more harmful "jim-crow" affair, another "Negro" burden on the community; that it could have no effect on the situation in all of the other hospitals in the community a number of which have Afro-American physicians connected with them, some on their staffs. The one claim of the proponents of Mercy hospital that such an institution is hospital for that in order to make an opening for two or three hospitals to serve as hospitals to train as internes, is also ridiculous. Such an opening can be made without a two-hundred thousand-dollar expense and with a hundred times less trouble, if it is really necessary. All that is necessary is for City Manager Hopkins to open the City hospital and nurses to be nurses. If he fails to do this, our people as citizens and tax-payers can use the courts to compel him to do so, and it will not cost any $220,000 to do this, either. We want our readers, particularly the local ministers, to read carefully and ponder—the following partial list of our local churches: Indenture Church, Cory M. E. church, $80,000; Shiloh Baptist church, $45,000; Zion Hill Baptist church, $15,000; Gethsemane Baptist church, $18,000; St. John Baptist church, $18,000; St. James A. M. E. church, $30,000; E 71st and Cedar Ave., $30,000; Temple Baptist church, $25,000; Zion Hill Baptist church, $6,000; E 74th and Kinsman Rd., $5,500; churches in Mt. Pleasant, $3,500; E 64th and Quiney Ave., $2,500; St. Paul A. M. E. Zion, $30,000; 2nd Emmanuel Baptist church, $8,000; E 33rd and Central Holy Ghost church, $7,500; Providence Baptist church, $50,000; churches in Collinwood, $2,000; Frank Ave. Baptist church, $2,000; Monumental Baptist church, $17,000; Baptist and Methodist churches in Collinwood, $12,000; Triedstone Baptist church, $9,000; Friendship Baptist church, $13,000; Miles Avenue church, $2,000; M. Nebo Baptist church, $8,000; churches on West Side, $3,600; Phillis Wheatley Association, $158,000. Total, $612,900. Crucifying Car Posterity. Some time ago in an editorial we called upon the trustees of Mercy hospital to indicate what the policy of the proposed institution was to be. Although we have not as yet received a reply, we have come into possession of a pamphlet entitled "Does Cleveland Need A Negro Manned Hospital? Facts are the answer" which carries the names of officers and the association. Six out of the ten graphs purporting to relate the "facts" deal with the question of discrimination and segregation and attempt to point out the extent to which colored people are discriminated against in present hospitals. To this we reply: There is no record of the local branch of the N. A. College and the organized agency making any RBI effort. It is pointed out that the last three colored graduates of local medical school (we suppose the pamphlet refers to Western Reserve Medical school) were not accepted as internes in City hospital. That is partially true but the citizens of the community offered to "go to the front" for those graduates and get them an hospital, but this effort was unmade. If so, most vitally concerned will not make the fight, what can the rest of us do? The pamphlet states that "Let us not crucify our posterity incess of internship." -Cleveland Call DARROW GETS THREAT OF TAR AND FEATHERS. Lawless Ku Klux Klan Arouses Mobile Residents When the Great Lawyer Gives Pro-Aff-American Talk—Forced to Leave for Home. Mobile, Ala. — Threatened with "tar and feathers" because of his speeches friendly to our people, Clarence Darrow, famous attorney, was on his way back to Chicago, last week Tuesday night, leaving behind an enraged K. K. K. His three-month vacation on the Gulf Coast ended abruptly when a series of addresses he made on the racial question Infractions of mobile county K. K. K. The embattled champion of evolution left here. accompanied by his wife, for Chattanooga, enroute to Chicago. Local K. K. K. In Action. Local K. K. K. In Action. Ku Klux Klan leaders started an animation to ride the atmospheric out of fear of being sentimentally against them against Mr. Darrow became strong when he delivered an address at our school in Fairhope. Klan circulars, quoting Darrow as advising our people to resent mistreatment, were distributed in Mobile. In his speeches at our schools, Mr. Darrow was told, "I love you sing 'Sweet Land, Liberty,' but I don't see how you could. I don't sing it because I know it isn't true. "You are being recognized and have some friends not afraid to sit at the table with you. I have done so, and so have many other real Mothers." When Mr. Darrow appeared to lecture, Sunday night, in a Mobile theatre before a crowd of more than 1600, officers were detailed to guard the attorney against threatening mob violence. He was heckled when he championed "social justice for negroes, even over肢es with suitable shoes." On advice friends, he left the theatre and retired to Chicago via Fairhope. MARCH 19, 1927. Fresh Ohio News ALLIANCE.—Miss Louise Harris was given a party, Wednesday, her 18th birthday, by her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Satchell. She received many pretty and useful presents.—Mrs. Jane Bolden spent Sunday in Canton.—Rev. Hoe preached congregations, each night, last week. Lula Turner was warmly welcomed by her many friends here. She delivers her messages in a forceful and sympathetic manner. CADIZ.—Mrs. Elva Wallace was called to Pittsburgh by the serious illness of a cousin, Mrs. Carrie liver Thomas.—Mrs. Frank Worthington and daughter, Alma, of Flushing were here, Sunday.—Mr. and Mrs. Clarence West and Mrs. Elizabeth West spent Sunday with Smithfield relatives.—Mrs. Minnie Robinson and Mrs. Jessie Thompson and Mrs. Elizabeth Mother, Mrs. Susan West, recently, Bertha Redmond, who visited her parents, Mr. and Mrs. I. L. Strother, in Canton, has returned.—Mrs. Susie B. Hogans was hostess to the Married Ladies' club, Monday eveiing Mrs. Baitie Jones, evangelist of Pittsburg.—The younger set gave a covered dish supper, Wednesday, complimentary to Miss Jones. CORRESPONDENTS must mail all letters for publication at their main postoffice sufficiently early on Monday (or Sunday) of each week to have them reach The Gazette office on Tuesday morning, and always write their names and that of their city or town on the outside of the wrapper about returned copies. Unless this latter is done, proper credit cannot be given you. Lists of names, wedding presents, etc., obbary notices, inquiries for relatives and advertisements of all kinds, including items announcing entertainments to be held in the near future, must be paid for in advance at the rate of 25 cents a line, six words to a line. Our rates for display advertisements will be sent on applace. PIQUA.—Misses Alberta McPheeters and Lena Warsham spent the week-end in Urbana—Mrs. Ethel Harrington has been ill.—Cyrene church's Sunshine club was entertained, Tuesday, at Mr. and Mrs. Friedlich's, by four young men. Refreshments were served after an excellent program.—Mr. Leon Evans, ill in bed again, is not much impatient, Tuesday. Mrs. Friedlich Tate is spending a few weeks with her daughter, Mrs. Leonard Rockwell.—Mr. Geo. Lett, recently moved home from the hospital, was re-admitted again, last week, for further treatment.—Mr. John Mills was also taken to the hospital, Thursday.—Mr. Jas. Benson and Mrs. Wesley Miller went to Richmond, Saturday, to attend a relative's funeral.—Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Hamilton and children of Yellow Springs were Sally Harrington, Miss. Mrs. Ethel Harrington.—Miss. Dorothy Friedlich was home for the week-end from Midtownetown, where she is teaching school.—Mrs. Harriet Pendleton was called here by her brother, Mr. John Mills' illness. HILLSBORO—Glenn Jones, Raymond Colter and Vernon Young visited in Greenfield, Saturday evening.—Mrs. Mary Bridges, wife of Rev. Jas Bridges, died in Gallipolis, Mar. 5, after a long illness. Burial at Wilmington. She was Mrs. Louisa Young's sister. Mrs. Ida Day, and daughter, Mamie, visited the former's daughter in Cincinnati, last week. Otho Hudson has returned to Dayton. Mr. and Mrs Enoch Young, his spinster, spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Milton Day. Mrs. Rachel Ash and Ibe Johnson are ill—The Get-Together club raised a goodly sum of money in their rally, last Thursday night. Byrdie Williams won first prize Tryphosa Hunter, second, and Diana Thomas, third. Mrs. Catherine Williams and son, Raymond, were called to Dayton, last week, by the illness of her daughter, Mrs. Rachel Wilbur. Pearl Zimmerman and Jay Cole of Columbus visited relatives here. Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. John Williams were dinner-guests of Mr. and Mrs. Gragston, Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Woods of Sidney are visiting the latter's parents. MINISTERS FIGHTING Residential Segregation and "Jim Crow" Schools in Ohio's "Gem CITY—Encouraging. Davcoe O. O. Our ministers of this city, headed by the Children's pastor of Eaker St. A. M. E. church have issued a fine statement to all the residents of this city in opposition to the announced efforts of the West Side Improvement Association (K. K. K.) which is seeking to promote separate schools and segregate students. We cannot be commended too high. It is very encouraging, especially in view of the fact that it was only a year or so ago that we won our fight in the courts against "jim-crow" schools, and the U. S. Su-terrorism against residential segregation. We shall have more to say relative to this matter in our next letter. SINGLE COPY FIVE CENTS AND TO BEGIN AT ONCE TO STRIKE BACK IN THEIR OWN INTEREST. The Only Way the Race Can Ever Hope to Come Into Its Own-Northern Republicans Have Joined Southern Democrats in Their Determination to Hold Us Back and Down. IN UNION IS STRENGTH COPY FIVE CENTS TERS AND WOMEN E TO STRIKE BACK IN INTEREST. In Ever Hope to Come Into publicans Have Joined in Their Determination ck and Down. If the Republican party stood in fear of our forsaking it, the Dyer Anti-Lynching bill would be passed. Rev. William A. Byrd. If the Republican party believed we would treat it as it does us, the President would wipe out discrimination in federal departments and elsewhere in governmental affairs. We are whining and complaining while we are fighting for hands. It is ours to strike out for our liberty. Colored men can we measure up? Have we the manhood to do for ourselves and children what other men have done for themselves and their children? Let colored voters in these states that support the Republican party gram and go out and put it over by spending our money and our time. If the Republican party will reform, we are with it. If not, we are in for a house-cleaning. DECLARES LYNCHERS ARE ALL COWARDLY. An Old-Time Southern Sheriff Assets Courage of Officials Will End Flouting of Law. New York City—An old-time southern sheriff, long ago retired to spend the remainder of his life in the home of a son who had prospered in business here in New York City, was entertaining a group of his cronies at his favorite "hang-out" on the subject of lynching, in lieu of the police, he advanced what he called a "certain and sure" remedy for this blot on American civilization. All that is necessary, according to the venerable former officer of the law, is moral courage on the part of those having in custody persons awaiting trial for crime. I stress the term 'moral courage' he said. "Most sheriffs are brave and men in physical agony all my time I never encountered or heard of but one 'white-livered' sheriff. The great trouble is, they are elected officials; they depend upon the votes of their fellow-citizens to hold on to their jobs, and that is why they so often adopt the easiest way out of a clash with mobs—by abjectly giving up the prisoner for whose life the lynchers are clamoring. The next election would be in their course of action when the mob demands the keys of the jail. "The luckless victims control no votes, whereas the mob members might very well hold a balance of power, or at least wield a strong influence at the polls. At any rate, that is about the way the sheriff reasons the matter. He is absolutely wrong, of course. In the end public sentiment invariably backs the sheriff who refuses to truckle to the mob, and sheriffs who have given the lynchers a taste of accurate gunfire in protecting prisoners in their care are re-elected in about ninety-nine cases out of a hundred, if they again are candidates for the office. "For nearly fifty years I held various law-enforcement positions—in the South and southwest, and for a while lived in Alaska during the gold rush period of thirty years ago. I have seen a number of mobs in action, and I say unhesitatingly that the average lynching mob is the most cowardly lot of 'yellow' jackals that God Almighty ever breathed life into. I have seen them turn tall too often in the face of real courage not to know whereof I speak." GOODBYE, UNCLE SVERAGACH! YOUR TERRIBLE EYES WON'T HAUNT ME ANY MORE! OH DEAR!--I MISSED IT! I'M GOING TO BUST THIS THING IF IT KILLS ME! UNCLE! Tim Earley The GAZETTE PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY SUBSCRIPTION RATES (In Advance) One Year ..... $2.00 Six Months ..... 1.00 Subscribers are requested to remit by postoffice money order or registered letter. Entered at the postoffice in Cleveland, Ohio, as second-class mail matter 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 im- mediately 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 19, 1927. Of course "lynchers are cowards". They always have to take a big crowd to lynch one poor "Negro". While Monday's U. S. Supreme Court anti-residential segregation decision is great and might welcome, it is but an endorsement of the Warley decision of 1917. So do not forget Editor Wm. Warley of the Louisville (Ky.) News. Atty. Clarence Darrow's "introduction" to the Alabama "cracker" last week, is at least illuminating to a large number of people (white) of this country that need it, and badly, too. This is indeed the "land of the free and home of the brave", particularly in the South. Ask Mr. Darrow! --- The National Employed Officers and the National Staff Conference of the Y. M. C. A., to be held May 26-Junel, have changed their place of meeting from the West Baden Springs Hotel, West Baden, Ind. to the Edgewater Beach hotel, Chicago, because the West Baden management refused to accept Afro American secretaries as guests Good! HAITI OUTRAGED AGAIN. Senator King, Democrat, of Utah has been a consistent friend, in the Congress of the United States, of "poor, bleeding Haiti". The American Marine control of that country has refused to permit this U. S. Senator, who is in that vicinity, to visit the island because of his activity in its behalf in the Senate of the United States and hides behind a statement it caused to be sent to the American newspapers, the first of the week, that "Haiti bars Senator King". As a matter of fact, Haiti is doing no such thing but the outrageous American Marine control is the guilty party. This is but another of the many outrages it has committed on that helpless and defenseless little republic, the home of the great Toussaint L'Ouverture, its liberator and founder. The Wilson administration sent southern "crackers" in the U. S. navy to "control" that country and succeeding Republican administrations have kept them there in spite of the repeated earnest protests of leading Haitians and their many friends in this and other countries. It is one of many reasons why Mexico and all Central and South American countries dislike and distrust this country. What is most heart-rending to all fair-minded Americans, familiar with the situation in Haiti, is the fact that President Coolidge and his Secretary of State, Mr. Kellogg, will undoubtedly side with that despicable American Marine control of the little island republic because of the influence of American "big business", directly represented by the great banking houses centered in New York City, which has valuable commercial and other interests in Haiti, and because our army and navy departments insist on the control of that country. NO MERCY HOSPITAL. In a letter to the editor of The Gazette, published in our last issue, one of Cleveland's oldest and leading physicians of color, who is in a position to know whereof he speaks, and having reference to the disintegrating "jim-crow" Mercy Hospital movement of this city and speaking of the "Negro" doctors sponsoring the movement, said: "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 on it. But that I have to tell you this, but the situation has come to a "show-down" and it is imperative. This is true!" There you have it in a "nutshell". At however great cost to the race's progress in this community, a few "Negro" doctors would have a job and money. 'Twas always thus, in the case of "jim-crow Negroes". They are willing that even the greatest sacrifices may be made upon the part of the race just so their selfish ends are attained. There will be no "jim-crow" Mercy Hospital in Cleveland! Rest assured of this! In another letter, published in our last issue, and sent to The Gazette by Mr. George A. Myers, one of its oldest patrons, the crux of the hospital matter is brought out so well that it will bear republication at this time. The one claim of the "jim-crow" Mercy Hospital proponents is that such an institution is necessary to provide places for our two or three yearly internes (graduates of local medical schools) and would-be-nurses. Mr. Myers calls attention to the fact that this could easily be secured from Cleveland's city manager who has the power to open Cleveland's City hospital and nurses' training school to our people in common with all other citizens and tax-payers of the community. And if he falls to do this promptly on request, we have recourse to the local courts which would surely compel him to do so. This would not cost $220,000, either In still a third communication, sent to The Gazette by Rev. Horace C. Bailey, one of our leading local ministers, attention has been called to the fact that "our people of this community are now grooming and writhing with great church debts, saddled upon them unnecessarily", and that "during and since the World War, they have been exploited by unscrupulous speculators of both races", closing that paragraph of his letter with this appeal: "Doctors, I pray you, give a breathing spell to our 'overworked' people." Truth, too, every word of it, the Lord knows. As we said in our letter to City Manager Hopkins, the proposed "jim-crow" Mercy Hospital is entirely contrary to the progressive spirit of this community, would prove a hundred times more harmful to our people of the community than helpful, and is unnecessary because we have wonderful hospital facilities here in Cleveland open alike to all of its residents. Then, too, there is that indebtedness of our local churches approximating a half million dollars which with the Phillis Wheatley indebtedness totals more than a half million dollars. Add to this $220,000 for the "jim-crow" Mercy Hospital and the indebtedness of the "Negro" controlled institutions of the city of Cleveland would be nearly one million dollars—over $800,000 to be exact. Our people of this city, almost helpless in the face of their present church and Phillis Wheatley indebtedness, with the most generous assistance upon the part of their white friends here and everywhere cannot for a single moment consider adding to it the sum asked by the few doctors sponsoring the "jim-crow" Mercy Hospital movement. We repeat, there will be no such institution in this city. BANS RESIDENTIAL SEGREGATION AGAIN! The U. S. Supreme Court Rules, As in 1917, That Law Cannot Bar Our People From Any Section. Washington, D. C. —Afro-Americans won another victory in the U. S. supreme, court, Monday, when that tribunal ruled that property owners have no authority under the constitution to pass laws which bar our people from living anywhere they please in communities. The Louisiana segregation law, under which white and colored communities were established, was held invalid by the court, reversing an opinion of the Louisiana supreme court. The U. S. supreme court also granted a petition for review of a law that prohibited the "colored shrimpers" from using the name and paraphernalia of other shrimpers. Set Aside "Texas" Law. A week ago the U. S. supreme court set aside a Texas law which barred Afro-Americans from voting in Democratic election primaries. Benjamin Harmon of New Orleans carried this appeal to the supreme court, on the Louisiana segregation law. He alleged that a New Orleans ordinance, based upon state law, was a violation of property rights without due process of law and in contravention of the fourteenth and fifteenth amendments to the Louisiana law it was made unlawful for white persons to establish a home residence on any property located in THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, O. SATURDAY, MARCH 19, 1927. --- a "Negro" community, or for any "Negro" to establish a home residence on any property located in a white community, except on the written consent of a majority of the persons inhabiting such community residing within 300 feet. Another great victory! It reaffirms the "Warley" U. S. supreme court decision of 1917. STATE COLLEGE NOTES. Orangeburg, S. C.—President R. S. Wilkinson spent several days in Washington, the past week, in conference with the executive committee of State Colleges, of which association he is president. While there, personal conferences were held with government officials of the Interior and Agricultural Departments on matters pertaining to the work of these colleges. Vocational programs of great benefit will be announced in the near future as a result of his efforts. Dr. Wilkinson was recently appointed the Ph.D. program at Furterity, an organization of national distinction devoted to scientific pursuits. It is said his recommendation was from unknown sources, coming as a recognition of merit along scientific lines. 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 citizens is all wrong. The sooner we face these facts, the quicker we will begin to work for our own salvation, the sooner we will attain our rightful place as American citizens. — Philadelphia Tribune. IS IT ANY USE TO CON- TEND FOR RIGHTS? Colored Americans are the only race, responsible members of which are in favor of submitting to discrimination on the claim that their race "always will be discriminated against." The Jews are still contending, after over 1900 years of a universal discrimination, that they are winning the right to today. The fresh 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; they are by nature without self-objective and guis." The world respects only those who resent and resist proscription 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 race to equal liberty, and forever resist denial of rights in our native land, however long race discrimination may continue. To submit is to deserve contempt.—Boston (Mass.) Guardian. "The Old Reliable" Gazette desires an active agent and correspondent in every city and town in Ohio and neighboring states having a number of Afro-American residents. Only a little time on Fridays or Saturdays is required. We are especially desirous of hearing from persons in the following named cities: Springfield, Columbus, Toledo Stenbenville, Zanville, Wilmington, Xenia, Washington C. H., Lancaster, Hamilton, Plqua, Lima, O, and other places, particularly in Ohio, where we have home. Write to the editor of The Gazette, 226 West Superior Ave., Cleveland, O., and terms will be sent promptly. Our readers will oblige us great, by sending at once the addresses of persons in the cities named, and others in the state to whom we can write relative to the matter. --- 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 guillotines decide our least disputes. The few who dare, must speak and speak again to right the wrongs of many. Ella Wheeler Wilcox. OUR LESSON We must learn to govern ourselves and work together for our own advancement. If we do not learn to govern ourselves 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. 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All reading matter for publication in current issues of The Gazette must be in the office by 4 p. m., TUESDAY of that week, at the latest. Display advertisements accepted until noon, WEDNESDAYS! HARRY C. SMITH. 226 West Superior Avenue, Cleveland, O. (Opposite, Hotel Cleveland.) Notary Public Bell 'Phone: Cherry 1259 (Call in the Afternoon.) Classified Advertising Department $7,000—$800 CASH: Modern 8-room single; garage. Near E. 79th St. and Cedar Ave. Very good value! Act quickly! 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 or ex- perience needed. Represent a real manufacturer. Write for FREE SAMPLES. Madison Shirt Makers, 562 Broadway, New York. CLEVELAND Social and Personal Bernie B. Whiting has been very ill. Mr. Phil Dennie, who has been very ill, is reported much improved. J. Henry Davis, who died, re- cently, was 78 years of age, according to the daily papers. Miss Georgia Curtis of Erie is spending the month with her mother, Mrs. Myrtle Berry. The annual P. W. A. style-show and promenade will be held in public auditorium, Apr. 26. Hon. Harry E. Davis' wife's father, a Mr. Wormley, of Washington, D. C. died there, last week. Geo. Howard Fields and Ammon Brown, Cleveland boys, are playing with orchestras in Milwaukee, Wis. Loula V. Jones' mother accompanied him to Columbus, recently, going from there to Lancaster, to visit a relative. Report it that Mrs. Grace Gregg has been granted a divorce from Dr. E. J. Gregg. They lived at 10839 Drexel Ave. Mr. and Mrs. L. R. Forbes have returned from a trip to Jamaica via Havana, Cuba. They covered over 6,000 miles on their tour. Mrs. Alice V. Burton, pianist; Mrs. Agnes Gould Garnett, soprano; and Harry T. Ford, cornet imitator, concerted in Youngstown, Mar. 17. Mr. Cory Adams, of Findlay, state representative of the A. R. Cooper Mfg. Co., that city, was a caller at The Gazette office, Monday afternoon. Mrs. Emma R. Coram and daughter, Mrs. Hazel Lyon, will concert in Toledo, soon, under the auspices of the Working Girls' home of that city. John H. Perry was given 90 days on a plea of guilty for perjury in U. S. court, Tuesday, and leaves for Dayton, Monday, to join his brother, Sam. We're sorry for the boys. The Masters Singers Quartette, with Miss Lena J. Donald, dialect reader, will concert, Tuesday evening, St. James A. M. E. church B 84th St. and Cedar Ave, for the benefit of its building fund. An educational mass meeting was held at Elks' hall, Sunday afternoon, to plan for the scholarship contests sponsored by the Elks. Their cru THE GEEVUM HURRY, SIS! WE'RE GOING MR MENUTY OUT IN THE AND TAKE A WALK! I CAN'T GO WITH HE'S THE GEEVUM GIRLS *M. KLEINMAN'S 2928 Central Ave. *THE S. & S. BRUG CO. 7325 Central Ave. The Gazette regularly should notify copy delivered promptly. business matters to The Gazette n. 226 West Superior Ave., oppo- wish to see the editor call carefully examine The Gazette's purchases. Business men who have the patronage of our people. assurance that they want it. location in current issues of The by 4 p. m., TUESDAY of that advertisements accepted until C. SMITH, Avenue, Cleveland, O. Del Cleveland.) Bell 'Phone: Cherry 1259 (Call in the Afternoon.) Rising Department FOR SALE. $7,000. $1,000 cash, 9 rooms, modern single, garage, large lot, near Cedar Ave. on E. $9th St. Call, Main 5265. Atty. Emmer Lancaster has resigned his post at the Hiram House and opened a law office in Akron, his home city. Atty. John D. Wilkerson, also recently admitted to the oar, has succeeded Mr. Lancaster at the Hiram House. sade for higher education is a high light in our fraternal organizations. Rev. P. H. Hill, pastor of Third Baptist church, Youngstown, will preach at Antioch Baptist church, Sunday at 1 p.m. under the auspices of the Young People's Baptist league. the choir will render Gaul's "Holy City", at 7:45 p. m. The Survey club met, Mar. 12, at the Cedar "Y" and discussed the greatest Afro-Americans. Mr. Johnson, a W. R. U. freshman and a new member, spoke on Toussaint L'Ouverture while Mr. Addison Spencer spoke on Alexander Dumas, father and son. The following have joined the staff of The Middle Western Insurance Co.; C. M. Dabney, Wm Chandler, N. H. Powell, Geo. Howard and Mrs. Blanche Crittenden. The company is starting its fifth anniversary campaign. Scott Sharp, E. 30th St., was held, Monday, on a charge of assault to kill in connection with an attack on Mrs. Irene North, age 20, E. 30th St., who was struck about the head and body with a fence picket. She is in Charity hospital. Dwight Williams ($200 per month), a Dr. Owens and several ministers met at Mt. Zion Cong. church, Monday afternoon, the first two named in an effort to inject a little "oxygen" into the dying "jim-crow" Mercy hospital movement. The Elks' educational committee presented an interesting educational program, Sunday afternoon, in the Elks' auditorium, E. 55th St. Rev. Russell S. Brown of Mt. Zion Cong. church and Atty. Perry B. Jackson were the speakers. Music was provided by the ladies' band of the Elks' club and the Elks' quartet. The figure 13 didn't prove a hoodoo to the Elks in their game with the Chicago Fifty club five at Elks hall, Monday night. They broke a 13-13 tie at the intermission with the second half that netted a 31 to 26 triumph. Ross starred for the victors and scored nearly half of his team's points. 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 busses with increased fare—ten-cent fare—making an automobile thorafore 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 M GIRLS TO MEET PARK SEE WHY YOU THAT MAN! A NUT! WHAT D'YE FELLOW, QUIT CA THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, O. SATURDAY, MARCH 19, 1927. 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! Mr. Landson O'Neal, vice-pres. and general manager of the Cuyahoga Amusement Co., and Mr. Hicks, sec., attended our National Baseball League meeting in St. Louis, this week. They took with them $1,000, to add to the $200 already paid, the league for our local team, and are expected to return to the city, today. The Inter-racial Study club met, March 14, at its president, Mrs. Ida M. Burton's. After a delicious bacon dish, the was opened. Next meeting, March 28 at Thos. Cox's, E. 87th St. "Clubbing a Husband" will be given at St. James A. M. E. church, March 11, by the club. May Hunter, reporter. The N. A. A. C. P. local branch meeting at Mt. Zion Cong. church, last Saturday afternoon, was addressed by several speakers, for and against the Mercy Hospital movement, and by at least one doctor (Gregg) who said he was "neutral". The great majority of the audience was unaltered opposed to the proposed "jim-crow" hospital. Mrs. Grace Willis Thompson announces the second of a series of musicals to be given by her advanced students at The Institute of Music and Dramatic Art, 2164 E. 6th St. Sunday, from 5 to 6 p.m. Mt. Zion Cong.剧院 is also the B. Ruffan and Mary Jones, soprans; Mary Branch, contralto; Andrew Wiggins, tenor; Constance Barksdale and Lydia Davis, pianists. A joint mass meeting will be held, Sunday afternoon, by the N. A. A. C. P. local branch and the Cleveland Council for the Protection of Foreign Born Workers at M. Zion Cong. temple, E. 55th St. and Central Ave. The following will speak: Judge Bradley Hull, Peter Witt, Clayborne George and Jennette D. Pearl. Chas. W. White, press, N. A. A. C. P. local branch, will preside. Wm. R. Coners, ex. sec. Welfare league, and associates gave a dollar-dinner at the City Club, Hollenden hotel, last Saturday noon, in honor of President Thomas Elsa Jones, new president of Fisk University*, Nashville, Tenn., which proved a very enjoyable and satisfactory experience, and Paul D. Baker, dean of Fisk, were guests of Dr. and Mrs. E. A. Bailley, 8014 Cedar Ave. Saturday, leaving Sunday morning for Columbus. The East End Political club meeting, last week Wednesday, at Cedar "Y" considered one of our group as a candidate for a municipal judgeship, for appointment as an assistant U. S. district attorney in northeastern Ohio and for the city council from the east end. The club proposes that a big banquet in the future to stimulate interest in that section of the city in its political program. The organization intends to be very active in the fall campaign. Atty. Clayborne George, president. Attys. Alex. H. Martin. Clayborne George and Wm. R. Green are to stand as candidates for nomination for municipal judge, this fall, it is said. Mr. Green resigned, last week, as "director general" of the Mercy ("jim-crow") (Hospital movement). Atty. Alex H. Martin led the way, several weeks ago, when he resigned from its incipient board of trustees, and said that Roy (C. C. Aler, pastor of Zion Hill Baptist church, has publicly announced that he will ask his church members to boycott all our doctors connected with the (Lord have) Mercy Hospital movement. Addison's disease is due to certain changes in the suprarenal glands, which are located just above the kidneys. The patients start changing color until they have a bronzed or excessively tanned appearance. Anemia, languor and dehydration are common irritability of the stomach, goes along with the pigmentation. Diagnosis of a woman of the race's case is considered something of a feat among physicians. She was black to start with, but kept getting blacker. Dr. Leon S. Evans of Central Ave., a physician at Lakeside dispensary, made the diagnosis, recently. The Hope Aid and Relief Association has been taken over by the Crusader Mutual Insurance Co., which it is said purposes assures the corporation of the business, the latter making its initial appearance, this week. This again reminds us of the great showman, TWENTY YEARS' EXPERIENCE 'Phone: Bell, Randolph 6978 Sundays by Appointment WE BOUGHT THE STOCK P. T. Barnum's favorite expression, to the effect that "one was born every minute". He really meant, every second. It is also said that the State Insurance department at Columbus required a hundred honors for a graduate of the Crusader Co. the assets and liabilities of the Hope Aid and Relief Association. The "Coolidge Good Times" have been so very bud, 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 regard as a husband and chodes and a sister, Mrs. Griggs W. Brinkley 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 tone and sectarianism of the church are 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. Thompson Wins. 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Sor instance, {ne largest of our parks President Wilson never troubled, Dut the pres- ent administration has found time ‘and desire to introduce it even there. To iany people, segregation is a Democratic Scheme of insult, but such Is not the case, Mr. Taft ine Groduced it in the bureau of engray- ing, He segregated the census-takers inthis elty 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, ao- hounced in his official capacity’ that Negroes shuld not hold office where white people complained. Seg: Tegation, then, Is a Republican n- stitution and not a Democratic one. it was begun by Republicans, and carried on to its all-embracing ex tent by Republicans! ‘There is far more of it in the de partments, today, than at any tmé since the Negro first appeared, close pon the close of the Civil War. Th picture requirement in the civil serv Tee, which makes it next to impos sible for a colored lady or gentlemat to enter the civil service, since thet color is disclosed in thelr photo graph which must accompany thei papers, is tenaciously held on to bi dur Republican President. Only las week, a colored girl appeared afte having passed the best examination and after haying been telegraphed for by the department. The photo: graph had failed to tell her true color, and they flatly refused to ap point her when she appeared, and they saw her complexion. Commis sioner Blair of the internat revenue Dureau with thousands of clerks wil not appoint a Negro clerk, and bis word is law there, as he is the spec lal favorite of Seéretary Mellon anc President Coolidge. He hails trom North Carolina, the home of the other favorite and leader of the seg regation forces, Col. Sherrill, super Intendent of buildings and grounds It 1s no use to complain of either o these southern gentlemen, ‘The colored people here who know the President could destroy segre gation in the departments ot the government, and the photograph Feduirements in the civil service by the mere nod of his head, are at 3 Joss 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 Dower and obsolutely no opposition. ‘hey wonder it he is not a firm be- liever in segregation, especially since segregation is one of the chief ten- ets 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 postot- five segregation is rampant. The fainfut’ colored. clerks. work under Gustane humiliation. and. physical disadvantages. The department Gaimaine s'spacious cafteria for Waites only, where. these interlor white clerks can buy appetizing Tuncheons and chat in comfort while tating, whilo the colored clerks must bring cold luncheons from home and fat them any place they can. The physical discomfort, disadvantage- ous as it is, is far less galling to the Chorea clerks than Is the thought of fioir government taking thelr taxen as it takes those of the whites, for the comfort of the latter, and setting them off as though they were lepers. The Injustice stings all the mare Ten thoy select that they are tar more capable than the whites, and Fender tho government more tatelll- Font and efficient service—the ‘white man of their attainment being able Teeyet tar mare. lucrative. employ- ment, ‘The department goes even farther tn {te solieleude for whives and neg- lect'of colored. It maintains @. well {Gotnted slab room with pool tables and other games, comfortable lounges and other equipment for rest, sociability, and’ recreation, and nothing for these same colored em- ployees. This private club is in the Rezuiteent postomtice building, built and maintained by ALL of the peo- ple, “In the locker rooms there Is Segregation, and segregation is even attempted in the toilets. And all of ‘this is against the most dependable and faithful employees. Last year the white employees passed around invitations to the faite employees, in the very pres- Thee of the colored, to attend a Fe- tention to the heads of dopaytments, {nclnding the postmaster general, in the pstoffice building. It announced fancine and. a pleanant octal ove- ning with the officials for “the post- Dirigo employess.” yet not one wan delivered to the colored clerks. 1 furried a protest to the postmaster hurried 9, protest toe ot wan tol come of, and he ordered the post- master to invite the colored as well asthe white, These clerks get around their colored co-workers by giving the function at local hotel. It is inevitable that the wicked spirit of segregation would express {sett in appointments, assignments, and salaries. Colored applicants are often passed over though their ex- amination was superior No Negro, however efficient or vld sa the serv- ee, 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 col: ored clerks have dared to form a union which meets regularly and often sends manly and intelligent protests to the postmaster, and ofter Appeals from his decisions to the postmaster-general. It has secure¢ Some improvement in their working conditions, but they are still bitte! over the huge injustice done to them for nothing else than the color o their skin, te Washington, D. C.—vhe govern- ment printing office keeps faith witn the government's universal scheme of segregation. Some of the best and brightest of our girls are forced to accept inferier positions there on ac- count of the better aud more lacra- sive avenues of employment being Glosed to them because of their col- or. The whites are generally of very mediocre group, far from equal- ing our girls in educational equtp- ment, culture, and working efficien- y, Yet these superior girls are set of trom the whites with the latter, of course, having the better working conditions, salaries and recreational acllities. There is a large cafeteria im this huge structure where all of the employees may go, but there are a few tables In an out-of-the-way Section reserved for our employees Lam glad to say that few, very few, ‘of our people patronize ‘the place, preferring a Uttle physical incon- venience to the open, semi-public hu- milliation of sezregation. In tollet facilities, dressing-rooms, and work assignments, wherever possible, the law of segregation ts in full force, and, of course, this same undemearatic practice reveals itselt on the salary roll and in the hard caste that bars promotions. Here, as elsewhere, the inferior whites pass over our superior employees to directive positions, and higher sal- aries, ‘The whites have a large recrea- tional 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” Afto- American with a splendid record in hie work, felt the injustice of this exclusion ‘of our employees so keenly ‘that he secured the company of a young lady of the race to take part in the dance. As soon as this couple started to dance the music was ab- ruptly stopped, and the young man reported for ‘attempting to take part in an entertainment provided for employees. He was called to the office, lectured for being ‘one of those smart Negroes” who believe in “social equality,” and then dismiss- ed on a trumped-up charge. He was a night-employee, hence he carried a pistol. Right After the dance in- cident a fire broke out in the office, He was quickly accused .of setting the building afire in revenge for bis exclusion from the dance floor. De- tectives came to tho building to ar- rest him, and failing to secure any evidence searched him only to dis- cover the pistol. They auickly drop- ped the arson charge and substituted one for carrying concealed weapons for which he was immediately dis- missed. By this severe punishment our employees are taught that there is no way of escape for one who dares to resent the daily tusults that thelr government (under President Coolidge) gives them. Many of the employees have ex- pressed their deeply-wounded feel- Ings to me at being considered a pariah by the government whose in- stitutions they are serving so faith- fully, and I have taken up a number of cases only to be met by a denial that the conditions coniplained of ex- Ist, and a request for the names of my {nformants. I knew the fate these Informants would suffer so I have never given single name!! The de- partment then taking the position that ft 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 {t, and the complainants cannot bear witness to ft. (Special to The Gazette) Washington, D. C.—Segregation in the bureau of engraving and printing has an interesting history involving President Thomas Wood- row Wilson and members of his tam- ily, three heroic young colored wom- en who lost their positions as a re- sult of their protest, and the noble wife of Senator Robert La Follette. Shortly after the accession of Mr. Wilson to the White House, a mem- THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, 0. SATURDAY, MARCH 19, 1927. ber of bis family visited the bureau where she saw white and colored girls working together in perteot Darmony, oblivious to any thought of race. | Shortly thereafter came an order for segregation of the races, and a white lady who had been not- ed 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 kreat Negro leader had taught col- ored people to stay in their places.” Three of the young ladies resisted the order to the last ditch aad were summarily dismissed! Senator La Follette iodged a pro- test with Secretary McAdoo to no avail, and bis noble wife began a crusade against the undemocratic in- novation. She took the platform here in Washington and Boston be- fore the famous Twentieth Century club. She used the columns of the Senator's magazine, sparing neither space nor vigor of utterance. She thundered against it in our local white press, and addressed the na- tional gathering of the National As- sociation for the Advancement ot Colored People in New York. When our people here were so profoundly discouraged, she came out one stormy afternoon to the Y. M. ©. A. to urge them to continue the Oghc, tor democracy was at the crises. Os. wald Garrison Villard came to town to attack White House and Cabinet and arouse our peopie, ana the Na- tion Association secured publicity tn over six hundred influential white papers in the country. The fight checked what was thought to be the intention of the segregators, uame- ly, the elimination of the ‘colored employees trom the bureau al to- gether. ‘The same segregation which some ot our people think is the cherished Institution of the Democratte party is still there, in all of its fullness, under the administration of the party that Pbrauam Lincoln, Charlee Sumner and Frederick Dou g1ass helped to found. Our girls are em- ployed there in far larger numbers Qian in any other branch of the pub- lic service, THEY ARE SEGRE: GATED in their rest rooms, toilets and working stations, and of course none are ever thought of for promo. tions to executive places. They are girls from our best nomes. most o them with high anc normal schoo training, and fine culture. The whit girls are of no such grade, as there 13 no segregation for them in the great world of things. They nave unilmited flelds at high wage for even mediocre talents. ‘The best 0 our girls must take these inferior positions, the inevitable result of se gregation. Our people are still hop ing for the issuance of an order de stroying this iniquitous practice tr all of our government departments for it not omly humiliates the bes! of the government servants but tm paire the government service. (Special to The Gazette) |, Washington, D. C.—The treasury department, according to the Presi- dent’s recent acceptance speceh, is now under the ablest financial genius since the days uf Alexander Hamil- ton. It is to be remembered that the great Hamilton came from the West Indies, and in that long sweep of his- tory that the President traversed are the mighty Salmon P. Chase, secretary of the treasury in Lin: coln’s cabinet, who, in a national ex- tremity such as this country has never known, devised the national banking system which financed the Civil War; and Ohio's master finan- cier, John Sherman. ‘These men never knew what segregation was! ‘The present head of the depart- ment of internal revenue, Mr. Blair ‘trom North Carolina, has not ap- pointed a colored clerk since his in- cumbency. While his predecessor, Mr. Daniel Roper, a Democrat trom Texas, appointed and promoted sev- eral of them. Since the income tax legislation and the numberless new taxes that the recent war necessi- tated, this is by tar the largest de- partment of the treasury, employing several thousand clerks. Yet Ne- groes are so scarce there that they can't be noticed. ‘There 1s the same general complaint here among our clerks and other employees as there is in the other branches of the gov- errment—taflure to recognize their effictency 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 toflets, lock- er rooms, rest rooms, etc., set oft for colored. ‘The tollets for the colored are few in such a large structure Hence, the segregated clerks are forced to endure physical inconven- fence at times, and are forced to travel long distances when they de sire the use of them. The depart- ment mafntains a huge, magnificent cafeteria, In the splendid sweep of woodland along our national drive- way, where white people of every class can come to rest, dine, and s0- ctalize of afternoons and evenings at ‘minimum costs. The white press of the efty is constantly telling of the thousands who take advantage of this “delightful retreat.” and the festive scene that thelr presence creates. Tt seats two thousand din- ers with space tc spare: but not one Negro! His only share ts in the taxes he is forced to pay for this luxury for another group! The registership of the treasury, which Republican Presidents have given the Negro since Garfield ap- pointed Blanch K. Bruce. is now filled by a white man, and the col- ored people are congregated in a ser- arate room which s publicly pro- claimed as ‘a colored division.” When it is discovered that Negro clerks are “working as white” in other divisions, they are promotly transfered to this “‘colored division.” Our people fear that protest axainst this segregation would result in the abolition of the division altogether; So they remain in a dilemna, fearing to act. Our clerks must accept se- gregation or elimination, and being poor, with no other opportunities {n this southern atmosphere, must take the former, They are depressed al ‘the wrong, but economic stress com: pels endurance of it. By a single stroke of his pen, President Calvin Coolidge can stop every bit of this damnable segrega tion, Just as he can condemn thai lawiess organization the Ku Klux Klan, COOLIDGE’S SEGREGATION Washington, D. C.—We wish to cull attention to the fact that in the fight Against the segregation of our gov- eroment employees, the ‘Treasury ‘Department will most bkely 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 (reasury and the internal revenue dureau. In the former, bey er board walls were maintained until recently. In the latter there have deen two cases of discrimination oa account of color brought to_ public view. The words, announcing the election of President Coolidge, were hardly cold before the effort to in crease segregation in the depart: ments here was on again at full speed. Tt had slowed up a little dur- ing the campaign. Investigation of Bureaus An investigation of the executive departments and bureaus listed be- low shows tat segregation prevails in them as follows: Office of the Register of the Treasury, there are two segregated sections—one with 30. Atro-Ameri- san employees and the other with Navy Department — one _sogre- gated section of 18 of our employ- ees, as well as a segregated lunch room. Census Bureau -—a segregate section of 60 Afro-American empioy- Bonuy Section Bonus section of the War Depart ment—one segregated section of 18 of our employees. Veterans Bureau—a segregated section of 16 employees Department of Justice—a segre- gated section of 10 employees in the hla room. Internal Revenue Internal Revenue Bureau—a see. regated section of 7 employees, Office of the Treasurer of the nt: ted States—a segregated section o} 1 emplosees. War Department, Transportation Diviston—a segregated section of 5 employees, P. 0. Separate Lunch Room Post Office Department—a_sexr: gated lunch ronm. CHARACTER, Character, like a fine cld tree matures slowly and is a riper growth than success that is forced as hothouse products are forced. 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Plate atthe front ef tee ahs cole Foribe! toreoret (ne Tiie fact that 0 many of the new steals are sot and een “shct {ves impetus to the new graceful si JULIA BOTTOMLEY. New York City—The U. 8. su- preme court (Monday) ‘by a_unani- mous decision sustained the conten- tion that the staze of Texas had exceeded its rights in barring our voters from the Democratic party primaries in that state. In a sen- sational decision, read by Associate Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes (86 years of age), the supreme court de- Glared the Texas law of 1923. un- constitutional 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 infringe- ment of the fourteenth amendment to the U. S. constitution” than is contained in the Texas law. - The decision also quoted from the Louis- ville “Warley” segregation case won in 1917, the quotation being as fol- wk hs “That amendment (the four- teenth) ‘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 fs this but de- claring that the law in the states shall be the same for the blacks as for the whites; that all persons, whether colored o rwhite, 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 by law because of their color.’ The statute of Texas, in the teeth of the prohibitions re- ferred to, assumed to forbid Ne- groes 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 difti- cult to believe rational, but there are limits, and it is too clear for extended argument that color can- not 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. ©. P., hailed the de- cision and victory as one of the most important 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 triltumal 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 le- gal defense fund. The supreme court’s decision is a rebuke to the persistent violation of the four- teenth 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 con- trol, This is a case profoundly af- focting not only the political and civic status of the Afro-American, but many other political Issues as well, Our people may well be proud to have been instrumental in obtain- ing a definite decision on this issue which lawyers have been vainly put- ting up to the supreme court for decades. Especially ought the mem- bership and friends of the N. A. A. ©. P. be grateful for the magnifi- cent work done by the national pres- ident, Mr. Moorfield Storey, as well as by Mr. Louis Marshall, member of the legal committee, and of the board of directors and by Atty. Ar- thur B. Spingarn, vice-president of the association and chairman of its legal committee. ‘These gentlemen have giyen of their time without sunt and without any compensation whatever, and the reply-brief they framed to the contentions put forth by the state of Texas, is a master- plece of close reasoning and clear ‘pineniion.* The Trath! What would cause other peo- ple to gnash their teeth and gird heir loins is question of debate for us. Kick us, beat us, pile depredations upon us. revile us, abuse us, Me about us, malign us and even impugn our valor and we are not unan- imously insulted. It seems tm- possible to establish unanimity of insult in the black race. — Chicago (Ill) Whip. Attention! Readers! Our advertisers waut your trade. ‘Those who do not ask for it in the columns of “The Old Reliable” Gazette certain- ly care little, if at all, for it. Therefore, we urge our read- ders and all of our friends to patronize those who ask in this paper for your patronage. ‘Editor.