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Nearly Two Hundred Thousand in Refugee Camps Lost All—Many Heart-Rending Scenes Sickness and Death—Great Amounts Must be Contributed. FRESH OHIO NEWS APPEAL TO CHURCHES FOR FLOOD RELIEF. New York City. "After visiting refugee camps near Memphis, Rev Worth M. Tippy who is in the flood area as the representative of the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ America, wired on April 30 that his "understanding of the magnitude of the disaster increases every hour". He reports by wire that "aid in great amounts must come from outside the inundated area", and appeals to the churches to give the most generous support the American Red Cross in its effort to cope with the situation. The message from Dr. Tippy was as follows: "The understanding of the magnitude of the flood disaster increases in this section every hour. I visited a refugee camp today and it taught me more than any amount of statistics. Negroes are the greatest husbands, wives, children and bedded puddle huddled together. Practically all have lost hogs and poultry, their standby for meat and eggs. They have practically nothing left and since this year's crop is being ruined they have little prospect for the year. Five million acres of growing land under water and destroyed, and it is too late to do much replanting. "One hundred eighty-seven thousand people are in refugee camps; eighty per cent of them are Negroes. That many people in Mississippi alone are driven out of their homes to do people from Greenwich alone. Ground floors of houses in the whole area will be under eight inches of mud. Cellars are flooded. Wells are full of contaminated water. Hundreds of towns and small cities have no water or only contaminated water. All food for man and beast is contaminated. In financial struts as the waters subside. A plague of insects will doubtless follow and scourges of 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., obbiliary 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 applica- HILLSBORO.—Baptizing at the Baptist church, May 22, and K. P. annual sermon in the afternoon.—Baptizing in Georgetown, June 2. Rev. J. J. Burr, pastor. All welcome.—For the best reliable race news in the few words, The Gazette is commended in all parts of the country. Tell your friends to read it regularly, each week. A warrior, at the Old Plows and H. of R. annual services, Sunday. Sermon preached by Rev. R. L. Bray. Four state officers in attendance. Also visitors from Greenfield, Washington C. H. Springfield, Franklin and Ripley.—Mrs. Mary Mason of Sabia is visiting her brother, Mr. James Captain.—Mr. and Mrs. Charles H. Williams entertained, Saturday evening, in honor of her marriage and anniversary. A delicious Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Woods of Sidney visited their parents, Sunday.—The Gates Ajar", given last Friday night at the Baptist church, with Mrs. Emma Jackson as director, was a great success.—Rev. Wm. Bell, of Lexington, Ky., spent the week-end with relatives and preached, Sunday morning and evening, at the Baptist church.—Rev. J. J. Burr received word, Friday evening, of the death in Georgetown. He and his sister, Mrs. Robert Day, attended the funeral, Sunday. ALLANCE.—Rev. Edward Newsome, pastor of St. Luke's A. M. E. malaria and dysentery, and, unless immunization can succeed, smallpox and typhoid. Ald in great amounts must come from outside the inundated area, in addition to what the seven states affected by the flood of 1915 do to their,limit. The government must arrange credits for agriculture. The entire nation must get under the engineering problem of the control of the great river. "But the things of immediate and overwhelming importance are rescue shelter, medicine, nurses, sanitation, and immunization against pestilence while the river sliding. Then there will be a demand for vast sanitation projects, restoration of building, return of people to their homes, care of the sick and injured. The whole intense problem of rehabilitation will have to be faced and this is doubly rural, and sequester the population is rural, and sequester the population in some of the most inaccessible parts of the United States. This is the job of the Red Cross, immediate, pressing, literally staggering. They need all the money a generous and prosperous people can give, and they need it quickly. The 1900 in the Florida disaster. The present need is several times greater." In Memphis, Dr. Tippy met with a group of the local ministers. They were greatly pleased that a representative of the national organization of the Protestant churches had come to the scene of the disaster. Building resolution was passed as expressing their judgment of the situation: "Resolved, that it is the sense of the Protestant pastors of Memphis who are met on Thursday morning, April 28, 1927, that the flood emergency is so great that the churches of the United States be urged to co-operate with the ADR Cross in every practicable way in arousing public support and raising funds for the relief and rehabilitation of flood sufferers." church, was taken ill, Saturday Heart trouble. He was unable to preach his sermon for the mothers Sunday morning. In his absence Rev. McWilson officiated. In the evening, a short program was given. Solos by Mesdames McGowan and Roach, and several excellent papers "The Origin of Mothers' Day," Day, "The Origin of Mothers' Day," Mrs. El Sanders; "Mothers' Duty," Mrs. J. Cooney, and a very instructive talk on "Mothers' Love, Influence and Sacrifice," by Mrs. Sarah Cisco, age 76, the oldest member of the church. Quite a number from Salem attended, Sunday evening. The Second Baptist church had a very successful musicale, Mothers' Day. A duet by Mrs. Cora Hammett and Mrs. Wilmer was Mothers' ill. McMuffy ill. Pneumonia and pleurisy. Mrs. M. Barharews has been quite ill.—Wm. Johnson has recovered from a recent illness.—Many people of Alliance are and have been ill with heart-trouble which seems to be brought on by the least worry or trouble. 38d DEGREE MASONS CONVENE 33d DEGREE MASONS CONVENE Indianapolis, Ind.—The forty-sixth annual session of the United Supreme Council of the thirty-third and last degree, ancient and accepted Scottish rite of free Masonry (Prince Hall affiliation) for the northern Masonic jurisdiction of the U. S. A., convened here, this week, in Masonic building with an unusually large and representative attendance. Dr. Sumner A. Furnish. M. P. S. G. C. since 1922, presided. Charles Gordon of Cleveland, G. M. of C. and Jos. J. Lee of Columbus, G. S. H. E., were the Ohio officers present. $1,000 In Prizes Philadelphia, Pa.—Only about two weeks remain before the closing of the contest for the $1,000 in prizes, generously offered to musical composers of the race by Mr. Rodman Wanamaker of Philadelphia. All those who contemplate submitting compositions are urged to complete them immediately and send them to the contest. In addition to the of the John Wanamaker Store in Philadelphia, through which Mr. Wanamaker made his offer. "FIRE PAEBEN" Should Be The Slogan of Our People of St. Louis—His Autocratic Ways Still Objectionable—Has "Toned Down". St. Louis, Mo.—Growing bitterness marks the continuation of the white receiver, Conrad Paeben, at Poro College. The case was called again for, last week Monday, but postponed. Prof. Aaron E. Malone is being closely guarded at an Illinois farm, owing to his mental condition, and it is not likely that his suit for divorce or the hearing to make the receiver at Poro College permanent can come up for some- Mary E. Mrs. Annie E. Malone. time. The city is impatient that Receiver Paeen (white) should be kept in charge waving, theoretically at least, a stick of vengeance over a race institution. Mrs. Annie E. Malone, they contend, can furnish as large a bond as necessary. Why is necessary and make her the receiver under bond? Whites Slipped In. Citizens point out that our people have few rights that whites are bound to respect here. They can not eat in a single white restaurant in a city, and when a receiver is necessary and make her the receiver under bond? But when an institution has been developed by Afro-Americans and for Afro-Americans and is prosperous, the whites seem to be awaiting an opportunity to step in and take control. Some of this indignation from Poro. The receiver and his assistants walking in the perfectly appointed Poro dining room and ordering meals which are charged to the institution. Even the department heads of Poro College must pay for what they get. Whites are eating free there. Tune Down a Little. Paeen the latter. The habit of ordering Mrs. Malone's Cadillac and chauffeur to haul him up from downtown. Public protest and the action of Mrs. Malone's lawyers have caused the high-handed receiver to tone down his tactics. He returned a $500 check which he had drawn to his own account and has furnished for mula, and has not discharged any more of Mrs. Malone's employees in the past several weeks. Fee Uncertain One of the reasons for this change of attitude is the uncertainty of where his fee will come from. If it is decided, as Mrs. Malone's lawyers contend, that no partnership exists, then there will have been no reason for the appointment of a receiver, no reason for Mrs. Malone paying him unless it is taken from the $10,000 bond which Mr. Malone posted. Hon. Harry C. Smith, Editor Gazette, Cleveland, O. St. Louis, Mo., May 11, 4 P. M. The Malone case settled. Monday, College returned to its owner. Mrs. Annie E. Malone, by court order. Pro. Aaron E. Malone, however, received small cash and real estate settlement. Amount not divulged. Divorce suit, still pending, will be tried later. Not affected by divorce To Break British Monopoly—Harvey Firestone Says Tire Prices Not To Go Up This Year. Los Angeles, Calif. (Pacific Coast News Bureau)—With 1200 men clearing and planting 1,000,000 acre trees, which in 5 years' time will begin to produce rubber, Harvey S. Firestone, Sr., of Akron, O., who is here for a conference with his west coast representatives, declared that he expected to break the monopoly which British rubber planters now have on rubber productions. Under the personal direction of his son, Harvey Firestone, Jr., the Liberian rubber farm is expected to produce at least one fifth of the world's supply of rubber, which is amounted to 618,000 tons produced on 4,983,000 acres controlled by British and Dutch planters. SINGLE COPY FIVE CENTS "ROARING THIRD" ECHOES CONDITIONS IN THAT POLICE PRECINCT ARE ROTTEN TO THE VERY CORE. The Following Items Will Give All a Correct Idea as to How Very Bad They Are—Stabbed to Death Throat Slashed—Other Crimes of the Week. As to "Negroes" of the "Roaring Third" police, prefect: third police precinct: One year in the penitentiary for a pair of pants worth $2. This final punishment of the trumpeters was imposed upon Charles Jackson, 558 Central Ave., Monday, by Common Pleas Judge Roscoe G. Hornbeck, assigned here from London, O., after a jury had found Jackson guilty of burglary and larceny. Stabbed to Death. Boyce Taylor, age 33, 2491 E. 25th St., was freed of a murder charge placed against him by police, when the county grand jury, late Monday, returned a "no bill" in the case. Taylor admitted he stabbed Anderson Crawford to death in his home, and self defense. Assistant County Prosecutor Evelyn Cohen urged the grand jury to dismiss the charge because of lack of evidence. Charles Jackson of Cleveland, who has served five years of a minimum term of ten years at the Ohio state penitentiary, imposed on a robbery charge, was pardoned, last Friday, by Gov. A. V. Donahey. The pardon was recommended upon the grounds that the robbery occurred as a result of a "roaring third" crap from the man took the stakes. Jackson was released upon condition he return to Cleveland and provide for his wife and child. His Throat Slashed. Frank E. Baker 10816 Superior Ave., victim of a vicious attack by a bandit in the "roaring third" police precinct, was near death at Charity hospital, Monday. Baker was suffering from a wound in the throat, inflicted by a razor-wielding robber who accosted him at Scovill Ave. near E. 30th St., demanding his money. Baker handed him $21, quickly enough to suit the other man, the robber, razor followed, as the assailant turned and fled. Another victim was relieved of $85, Monday night, at the same place. Two men arrested, last Friday, in front of the Majestic hotel, 5591 E. 55th St., having in their possession $7,000 worth of narcotics, were held by the police, jury, Commissioner Monahan. The pair, James Owens, age 28, 5706 Thackeray Ave., and Ferdinand Harris, age 38, of Akron, are accused of having sold $4 worth of drugs to MOB LAWLESSNESS. That Lynch-Murder and Burning at The Stake in Arkansas, Last Week, Inexcusable in a Civilized Country—Fear. It is sickening to read of such an incident as occurred in Little Rock on Wednesday. You cannot reconcile the idea of lynching a Negro and then burning his gasoline-soaked body in public with the principles and standards that are supposed to prevail in this country. Admitting that he assaulted a white woman and that this is one of the reasons for his execution, the lawless manner of his execution is still more offensive. It is to be hoped that the grand jury which indicted him, and which warned the people of Little Rock that it was prepared to investigate and punish mob violence will do its duty. Lawlessness on the part of white people never was and never will be an effort remedy for lawlessness on the part of colored people. Gov. Martineau of Arkansas says that he is convinced the police and sheriff's forces could have prevented the lynching of John Carter in Little Rock, last Wednesday. His opinion is borne out by the attitude of the police, in their criticism of city and county authorities. It is also borne out by the explanations of Mayor Moyer and Alderman Bilheimer. Mayor Moyer declares that the City Council's decision not to order police interference with the mob probably saved the lives of 250 citizens. Alderman Bilheimer, who was acting as the mayor, told the indores this view, explaining that the mob was in no humor for argument. Lynch law is based on fear of the mob. In nine cases out of ten it operates only where the officers become scared after counting noses. Once in a blue moon some sheriff is easily speaking, the mob is glad to accept a nery man's argument. M. E. Tracy in The Cleveland Press. IN-UNION LE BRUNICHE THE COPY FIVE CENTS RERS! THIRD" ECHOES THE POLICE PRECINCT ARE THE VERY CORE. Give All a Correct Idea as to re—Stabbed to Death— —Other Crimes e Week. Federal Agents Joseph Murphy and Bell. Fred Loweney, age 40, 1385 Gale Ave., was arrested also, accused of having interfered with the officers. Another Stabbed To Death. Stonewall Hazard, 1259 E. 30th St., charged with manslaughter in connection with the death of Rivers Smith, who was stabbed to death during an argument over a card game in a rooming house at 2625 E. 31st St., was bound over to the county grand jury, Monday, by Police Officer John Baldus. Baldus waived examination. The killing of Smith was only one of the many slayings in the notorious "roaring third" prison since the first of the year. Smith lived at 2623 E. 47th Pl. Marking the culmination of another gambling argument in the roaring third, Baldus Pursued 30th St. was bound over to the county grand jury by Judge Sweeney, the same day, under $1,500 ball, charged with shooting to wound. Police officers said they arrested Police Monday, as he ran from a residence at 3125 Orange Ave., where Aldrich Vaughn, 2014 Woodland Ave., had been fired for shooting earlier. Pugh pleaded not guilty. All of the crimes committed, within the week, by "Negroes" in the "roaring third" precinct are not mentioned in the foregoing; only some of them. They are weekly occurrences, too, and have been for many years. The office of "Negro" pastors and churches in that precinct which is practically without police-patrol protection. There will be no change in the sad conditions existing there until that protection is re-installed by Safety Director Edwin D. Barry. Our ministers' and churches' duty is clear, particularly because many girls of tender years, to say nothing of children in the "roaring third", every month. Preston Green, 3724 Woodland Ave., lost $680, late Tuesday, in an age-old confidence game wherein the envelopes are switched, he told police. Approached by three men at E. 23d St. and Woodland Ave., Green was persuaded to draw $680 from his bank account. Later an envelopment was given to Green in exchange for the envelope containing his $680. The envelope was void of money. DOINGS OF THE RACE James W. Johnson, sec. N. A. A. C. P., has been re-elected president of The Garland Fund. Walter S. Emerson was elected and Warner T. McGuinn re-elected to the Baltimore, Md. city council, last week Tuesday. Recently, police, of St. Louis, Mo., shot and mortally wounded a white man, in a fashionable resident-section of that city, who was masquerading as colored, having his hands and face blackened. The Baltimore legislature has voted our Morgan college, of Baltimore, Md., for a science hall $125,000, available in January, 1929, and has increased its annual appropriation for that institution from $7,000 to $17,000. This fund will be available, July 1, 1929. "The Messenger", N. Y. City, for May, has an exhaustive and splendidly article on "Negro Land-Grant Colleges" by Prof. Robert Shaw Wilkinson, president of our State A. & M. College, Orangeburg, S. C. Also an excellent portrait of Dr. Wilkinson who is an Oberlin College graduate of years ago. The Colored Embalmer", Chicago, for April, has an excellent portrait and sketch of Miss Mabel White of Columbus, daughter of the veteran A. M. E. minister, Rev. C. D. White of that city, Miss White is secretary of White & Sons, funeral directors of Ohio's capital city, secretary of the Tril-State Association of Funeral Directore and our National Association of Funeral Directors Gives $1,000. New York City.—In appreciation of the work of Max Yergan, 1926 Harmon medal winner and Y. M. C. A. secretary in South Africa, the Phelps Stokes Fund has subscribed $1,000 towards the $35,000 fund being raised for a building at the South African Native College, at Alice, Cape Province. ; TLE AVIOUN BETER)] — (HoMI.- you! i! = m fae ae | a] « [meet] Res a foe A All — GER va ha? ea | st ‘er Re 6 ; gy vr a ry pe He = ; oi ; LSet LY Los Ey, 4 BS. i ; ~~ — ss . 2S Ne ee {! ne { Fe a eh Le a. i ince an N “Boe “1h =e TERULaTIS a, Cate, oars "A rtm Faved Laat 2 TeROAMS uae ey eS sel Peis ree ee nie ———— a en ~. i es Mae 0) ea. i Ra 2 il RNR nl wuld ip aaa ae Ne Sy ut a AL a iM eS. eee The GAZETTE PUBLISHED. EVERY SATURDAY SURSCLUPTION RATES (in Advance) ne Year ciceecce cee cree 82:00 Six Months .......eeeeeeee5 1.06 Subseribers are requested to remit by postoffice money order or Fogistered letter. Gntered at the postoifice in-Cleve- Tend, Ohio, as second-class mail matter Address all communications to HARRY ©. SMITH Riitor and Proprietor THE GAZETTE 20 W. Superior Ave., Cleveland, 0. (Bell Phone: Cherry 1259) Member Ohio Legislature: 1894 to 1896; 1806 to 1808; 1900 to 1002 THE GAZETTE is the oldest and has the largest bona fide circulation, double that of any newspaper in the interest of Afro-Americans publish- ed 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. 859,000 in Ohio. 40,000 in Cleveland, SATURDAY, MAY 14, 1927. ‘We trust that none of our many readers’ will fail to read carefully Dr. Tippy's statement and appeal, elsewhere in this paper, for the flood sufferérs of the South. He says that our people are the greatest sufferers and undoubtedly 1s telling tlie truth. Our duty, therefore, 1s clear. eo (Rather than provide a school of higher education, the West Virginia legislature has enacted a law which provides funds for the higher edu- cation of Afro-American pupils of that state in institutions of other states, providing they pursue courses taught In West Virginia university Qwhite). ‘This is sure an anomaly, something away out of the ordinary in thingg educational. eaalites Conditions in the “Roaring Third” police precinct of this city are TER- RIBLE, from a moral viewpoint, and it is positively silly for any one to try to create the impression in this community that such fs not the case. Why our churenes in that section of the city continue to fail to do thelr clear duty in the matter is one of the things it is simply im- possible to explain, Lord, have mercy! Al DISHONEST PASTORS. Bishop J, A. Johnson, presiding over an A. M. 8. Church annual con- ference meoting in Baltimore, last week Thursday, scored some of its members for withholding goodly portions of the Easter Sunday col- lections, for the A. M. E, Church misslonary department, and for not contributing to it more lberally themselves, saying: “It’s not to your credit as minis- tors of God! Let God's chureh live. You are strangling it out of per- sonal greed. ‘There hasn't been a year aince I've been a bishop but that I've paid $1,000 a year into the missionary fund. It’s God's money. I simply give it back to him without a parade, I wouldn't mention it now except that your niggardly contributions compel me to make an effort to shame you.” ‘One of the greatest hindrances to the progress of many of our church- es of various denominations, thru- out the South and the North, has tor years. been and still is the pas- tor .who will accept or take funds of his church to which he isnot en- titled! A grent deal of this is done, we regret to say, and it is high time that there were more expos- ures, even more direct and personal than Bishop Johnson's. a RBARNUM'S FAMOUS SAYING. A time-worn confidence game was blamed by police, Saturday, for the toss of $2,500 sustained by Clarence Sutton, 5808 Outhwaite Ave... in a fake real estate deal. Sutton told police he, with three others, agreed to draw their savings from the bank and pool the thoney to buy lots. His pankroll was placed in an envelope with the others’ money, and he was given it to take care of: Upon his arrival home he found another en- velope had been substituted for the original and he was the possessor of nothing but waste paper. This re- minds ua of the brother, but recent- ly from “down home”, who about five years ago made a down pay- ment of $300 on the public library in ®, 0th St. which a “sharper” was “selling him”. The brother awoke, the next day, but it was too late, of course, as usual. The great showman, P. T. Barnum, said “one was born every minute”. That was years ago, and before the popula- tion of this country had grown so great. Now, one is born every sec- ond, it seems. j ‘The U. 8. state department, last week, notified Financial Secretary John’ R. Hawkins of the A. M. E. ‘Choreh that ft must send Bishoo Sampson W. Brooks $5,000 with whieh 10 clear up his debts tr Li- heria, Africa, before he would be al- Towed fo return to this country. The pisbop. was jailed on account of ee nut recently Mberated. THE GEEVUM GIRLS SOME “PHILLIS WHEATLEY” HISTORY. ticularly those in Cleveland, to read what Miss Mabel Head, general sec- retary of the Cleveland Y. W. C. A., said, Sunday afternoon, May 1, 1927, in her address at Alliance, Qhio. The occasion was the dedi- cation of the new “Y¥" building there. Miss Head is reported, by our Alliance representative, to have said: “The ¥. W. ©. A. is open and free to all women and girls, regard- less of race or color. All are wel- come and a great work is to be done im behalf of humanity.” What is uppermost in our mind just at this time is, was Miss Head speaking for. the Alliance “Y", or for the Cleveland “Y", or for the Y. W. C. A. thruout the North? In connection with this, we re- call an Alliance incident, of some months ago, which is pertinent. Some of our people there who came North from “down home", in recent years, effected a temporary organi- zation to promote a “jim-crow” Y. W. ©. A. and approached leading white ladies of that city for #inan- cial assistance. The latter. frankly and truthfully told them that they were too few in number to finance or maintain a “Y”, and invited our people of Alliance to join with them in promoting the new “¥"” building, then in course of construction, and to become members of the organi- zation. This invitation, it seems, was accepted with the result moted in Miss Head's specch and also. in the Alliance letter published, last week, in this paper, Miss Head undoubtedly had reter- ence to the Alliance “Y¥". But whether she had in mind the Cleve- land “¥”, and ‘others in the North, at least, is*what ts agitating us just at this ‘time because we also recall another incident. ‘This one happen- ed in Cleveland, years ago, when some of our local ministers, led by Dr. Horace ©, Batley, were’ making a determined effort to secure mem- bership in the Cleveland Y. W. C. A. for several eligible young ladies of the race but were “‘side-tracked" by Mrs. Levi T. Schofleld, then its president. She refused the membership sought, and, with several other wealthy white women, promoted “for colored girls” the Phillis Wheatley home which ‘they and their successors (white) established and made what ft is today. Miss Jane Hunter (or Miss Jennie Hunter as she was known at that time) being used by them simply as a means, in part, to an end. Naturally, our leading and thoughtful people of those years op- Posed the white women's effort to |close the doors of the local “"¥" to our girls and establish the PB. W. A. in whieh to segregate them. They, and not Miss Hunter, made the P. W. A. what it is and only the op- position of our old, leading and thoughtful residents is what kept them from making it a “‘jim-crow” branch ¥. W. C. A.—a black tail to & white kite”. So it has remained, thru the years, practically a big boarding-house for our girls which We are frank to say- has become useful as such since the gréat influx of our people trom the South in the last ten years. | “More: "A Mrs, Baldwin, (white), a trustee or director of the P. W. A. was not entirely within her rights, a few weeks ago, when rail- ing against our people of this com- munity because many overly exuber- ant and notoriety-seeking “Negroes” subscribed sums aggregating $168,- 000 to the P. W. A. building fund, which sums many of them never in- tended to pay, nor can ever pay, it being openly whispered at the time that they Would never be required to pay. She,was not entirely within her rights because prejudiced white womien of this city forced the P. W. A. upon our people of this commu- nity in the face of earnest protests and our ministers’ insistence that the Cleveland Y. W. C. A. admit our girls to membership in common with those of all other nationalities or races in this city, just-as is be- ing done at Alliance ‘and possibly in other elties and towns here in the North. Therefore, if our people, in their financial assistance fail’ to meet the expectations and desires of Mrs. ‘Baldwin, and her associates in the control and conduet of the P. W. A., neither she nor they have the full right to feel as she evidently felt when writing the recent article for publication im the P. W. A. or- gan in which she inveighed bitterly against local ‘Afro-Americang in gen- eral because $158,000 of the $168, 000, ‘subscribed to the P. W. A. building fund, had not been paid by the subscribers of color. We sincerely trust that Miss Head, general secretary of the Cleve- land Y. W. C, A., in her recent ad- dress at Alliance was speaking also for other “Y¥"=, (particularly the one in Cleveland) as well as for the Alliance “¥" when she uttered the Sentences quoted in the first part of this leader. It certainly i high time all so-called CHRISTIAN or- ganizations in this prejudiced coun- try were opening their doors to our people in common with those of all Others just as is apparently being done by the Alliance Y. W. C. A. THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, 0. SATURDAY, MAY 14, 1927. \ Wills-Goatrey? list, and Frank Slavin, which pro- New York City_—A ten-round pout | Claimed Jackson the premler fighter between Harry Wills and George |of his day and, perhaps, of any day. Reuter in Sportsmen's “sarke ac, | If it had only been possible to have Louis, May 30, is in prospect. Lew brought Peter Jackson and Jack Diamond, representative of Gene | Johnson together we would have Straus, offered Wills and his man- | seen # gigantic bout between two of ager, Paddy Mullins $30,000 to meet| the greatest exponents of boxing Godfrey, who has already accepted | that ever lived—black men, it is terms. Mullins has not made known | true, but great boxers none the less. his decision. * . There never was, and I doubt Bee it there ever will be, a more finish- A New Star—Major Is First, [ed Doxer than Peter’ Jackson. | Not even Mace, Mitchell or Corbett at eS Bonntentare, Nw For she] Shee essere ealsd Mal Of existence, St Bonavanture's col-| rk, was always quick, clean and Toge has a national track champion, | (azzling. Tis eyes, blazed in hig He {6 Charles W. Major of New| ®bony, forehead like balls of fire York City, indoor high jump cham- | When he warmed to his work. Agile pion, who recently dethroned Har-|** 4 Panther he could hit where he aA ne a ae aronedara 1s | timed with marvelous precision and Gu fect 668 Inches. ‘Tho -Atro-| ct *vAy before tle opponent had American jumper's achievement in| s(tnces, nowever” the tide ebbed. oF the Mfllrose Athletic club games, | 5 i omer thee sec gobed. 0c ; flowed, for him or against him, Peter this year, bettered that of the for-|40%° _ = we Viainpion by more than, two| Jackson kept his head and his tem- ee per by which means he was always : oe Able to fet himself he seon and ‘elt his. best.” Hansbary Stars Again. (ek ck fame “Ach While Oberlin was winning a dual| wass' great ebier. and: probably track-meet from Case, Ted Hans-| put slightly less great than Jackeon. bary, a Cleveland Boy, took first|sie was a marvel at defensive box. honors, in the shot-put, tied for first | ing, despite the fact he was flat- ‘honors in the 120 yard high hurdies|footed and moved but little. His ‘and giao was Hird in the 100 yatd| shining’ black forearms caught all| ¢ ae dash. Hansbary is now a senior at Oberlin College where he has star- red on both the varsity football and track-team for the past three years. In his high-school days here, prior to going to Oberlin, he was ‘a star in athletics, ‘The Buckeyes Won One, Anyhow. ‘The (Buckeyes, our local team, de- feated the Chicago Giants at Hooper field, last Saturday afternoon, by a 4 to'2 score. Barnes, the local slab artist, proved very effective in the pinches. Willie Foster, ace of the Chicago mound corps, spoiled the day for 2,500 fans at Hooper feld, Sunday afternoon, by hurling the Giants to a 6 to 3 victory over the Buckeyes. ‘The game developed into a hurling duel between Foster and Dean. Each was touched for seven bingles, but three of Chicago's total were bunched in the ninth inning, giving the visitors their only earned Tuns of the contest. A pair of sen- sational catches by Watts and a pretty throw to the plate by Byans, Which cut off a rum, were folding features. The winning hits were driven past third where Miles, an outfielder, was stationed, owing to| the injury of Zomphier.” Summers got a double, The Giants won again, Monday afternoon, 9 to 5, in a hee tie contest. ‘The local outfit. made seven errors. Sweatt, of Chicago, was the batting star of the fray, col- Tecting two doubles’ and a single. Tuesday, the Buckeyes lost ‘again. Score 6 to 0. No game, Wednesday. Rain. ee ROO RAS Ree -SOMAOR:, In his autobiography, “The Roar of the Crowd”, Jim Corbett says of the great pugilist, Peter Jackson: “I went into Jackson's room to confront one of the most magnificent specimens of physical manhood I ever saw! There stood the Negro, stripped to his waist. 6 feet 1% inches in height,’ weighing 204 pounds. Even at that weight he was so splendidly proportioned that he looked lean. I might add that Jackson, from my own knowl- edge of him, was one of the most intelligent pugilists that ever step- ped in a ring.” In his interesting volume “Thirty Years a Boxing Referee,” Eugene Corri, world. famous third-man, writes: “One of the finest fights 1 ever witnessed in my long career as a follower of boxing was that be- tween Peter Jackson, the black pugi- JEVELAND, 0. SATURDAY, MAY 1 list, and Frank Slavin, which pro- claimed Jackson the premier fighter of his day and, perhaps, of any day. If it had only ‘been possible to have brought Peter Jackson and Jack Johnson together we would have seen 2 gigantic bout between two of the greatest exponents of boxing that ever lived—black men, it is true, but great boxers none the less. . |. ‘There never was, and I doubt it there ever will be, a more finish- ed boxer than Peter Jackson. Not even Mace, Mitchell or Corbett at ther cleverest equaled ‘im. "His work was always quick, clean and dazzling. His ‘eyes blazed in his ebony forehead like balls of fire when he warmed to his work. Agile as a panther he could hit where he aimed with marvelous precision and get away before his opponent had time to retaliate. In all cireum- stances, however the tide ebbed or flowed, for him or against him, Peter Jackson kept his head and his tem- per by which means he was always able to let himself be seen and felt at his best.”” There is no doubt Jack Johnson was a great fighter and probably but slightly less great than Jackson. He was a marvel at defensive box- ing, despite the fact he was flat- footed and moyed but little. His shining* black forearms caught all manner of hooks, however, and then his beautiful right uppercut coun- tered them. Straight blows were picked out of the air by “Li'l Artha.” It was almost useless to jab at him; his right glove caught the jab as easily as a pitcher catch- —_ Bad 1 7 aK \ \ fc nae tere ere aia Hoasl ay eat arian ain ee ee ee Johnny Kilbane. 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Wallace, E. 30th St. and Scovill Ave., returned, last week, from a visit with relatives in Columbus. First reports of the campaign for $50,000 to pay the debt of Mt. Zion Cong. church, were made, Monday afternoon, and were very encouraging indeed. Robert Murphy, E. 86th St., visited his parents in Oberlin, Sunday. Wilburn E. Stepp, age 34, 2228 E. 80th St., went on trial for his THE GEEVU THANK HEAVEN, WE RID OF ALL THE FLIES YES IT THE GEEVUM GIRLS *M. KLEINMAN'S 2928 Central Ave. *THE S. & S. DRUG CO. 7325 Central Ave. The Gazette regularly should notify copy delivered promptly. business matters to The Gazette k. 226 West Superior Ave., oppo-you 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.lication in current issues of The by 4 p. m., TUESDAY of that advertisements accepted until C. SMITH, Avenue, Cleveland, O. Tel Cleveland.) Bell 'Phone: Cherry 1259 (Call in the Afternoon.) UNUSUAL OPPORTUNITY. Colored agents wanted (both sexes) to canvass exclusively among the better-class of colored people. $10.00 per day guaranteed. For particulars, address, THE CRYDERMAN CO., Desk A. (P. O. Box 1325), Indianapolis, Ind. John Green, age 26, was a free man, Monday, after a hunger strike in the county jail which he finally ended, Saturday, on its tenth day, in an effort to force his release. He was freed of a charge of being a suspicious person and was released to his sister, Mrs. Lillah Lestrick of Palnesville. life in criminal court, Monday, on a charge of first-degree murder in connection with the fatal shooting, April 5, of Rufus Tillman. The shooting occurred at Miss Rosetta Hummons', 2201 E. 33d St., police allege, when Tillman called on the young woman and found Stepp there. Since the P. W. A. cannot collect the $158,000, due from the subscriptions of our people, a wing of the building, as planned, is to be dispensed with. This carried with it useful equipment for the same, of course, and the swimming pool. Many subscribed $25 and a great many $100 and more, and cannot or will not pay a cent of their subscription. There is talk of also cutting out the gymnasium. L. R. Carey, 6313 Hawthorne Ave., writes The Gazette that a black dressing-robe, valued at $55, and a silver ash-tray were stolen from his rooms. Apr. 10, by a member of a company, that was playing at the Metropolitan theater, whom he entertained on Apr. 10. With the assistance of P. Payne, the Prosecutor O. Payne he has secured the return of the robe, but not the tray. It was sent to Mr. Payne in a damaged condition from Philadelphia. Mr. Carey still mourns the loss of the ash-tray. The Gilpin Players gave "Wappin Whart" at Karamu theater, last week, in such a manner as to elicit much praise from the local critics. Said Grace V. Kelly in the Cleveland Daily News: "After the play was over, Wednesday night, a few people went up on the stage, and among these were Marie Iika and Hamilton Abbey of the University of Chicago. This is Mrs. Samuel Insull's repertory theater. The visitors agreed with me that the performance was mighty good and that there's nothing so good for the soul as plenty of fighting and a happy ending, if it's done artistically." $10,000 Suit Against National Benefit Washington, D. C.—Florence L. Stewart, 320 Oakdale St., N. W., has filed suit against the National Benefit Life Insurance Company for $10,000 damages for injuries she alleges were sustained when a file case fell on her, Jan. 20 last. M GIRLS VE GOTTEN S, AT LAST! ISN'T NICE? LET'S THE D OF ICE ALL R HURR CLOSE FIVE THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, O. SATURDAY, MAY 14, 1927 RESCUED 25 FAMILIES And Cared For Them—Nursed Children Ill—Samuel White, a Flood Hero, Praised by Public And Press. New Orleans, La.—Following the flooding of certain sections of the city by the recent record rainfall, the heroism of Samuel White, Afro-American railroad employee who rescued and cared for twenty-five white families, is being warmly acclaimed as the hero of the rescue. When the waters began to overflow the suburb of Edgewood, White, who works in the adjacent stock yards, hastily built a raft from commandeered timbers, voyaged among the submerged homes and brought twenty-five families to safety at the disposal of the refugees, but that was soon crowded and he provided shelter and straw beds for the others in box cars in the railroad yards. Meantime, his wife was busy preparing hot coffee and food and from Friday night until Monday morning the two furnished meals to the refugees, and the family children who were ill with measles at the time of their rescue. Commenting editorially on the incident, the Times-Picayune says: "The submergence in that neighborhood persisted through Saturday and well into Sunday, but White and his wife faltered not nor failed in their well doing. They cooked unclever as we available and fed the rescued folk until Sunday night, when other relief finally reached them. This sustained and self-sacrificing service by an humble Negro family to its distressed white neighbors deserves place upon the permanent record, as surely as it will hold place in the memories of the family in the town for food and sheltered. All residents of Edgewood, it is reported, are loud in their praise of White's heroic work. The entire community joins in that praise, which might fitly be broadened, we think, to include Mrs. White, who cooked the meals drenched people who were brought out of their flooded homes by her husband and his hastily improvised raft." ALABAMA JUSTICE. Taxes Our Property Owners For $650,000 Bond Issue For Library To Which They Are Not Admitted. Birmingham, Ala.—Birmingham's new library, "a thing of beauty and a joy forever", a four-story building, costing $750,000, occupying a slim 100 ft. by 185 ft. at Park Ave. and E. 20th and E. 21st St. was built, and bond issued $500,000 bond issue authorized by an overwhelming vote 3 years ago. Not far away, on the ground floor of our masonic temple is the Booker T. Washington branch public library, the only public library for our people within the entire state of Alabama. This library was opened, in 1909, by Dr. J. H. Phillips, who gave to the library board $4,144.17, collected from entertainments in our schools of the city. With this as a nucleus for book-purchase, the library board has continued to add books to the branch until it now contains 43,521 books, including the last fiscal year were circulated 43,521 times for home reading. 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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 workers in this city in 1913 by restricting white workers in the city, and black workers, often duplicating work as most blocks had white and black residents. And, worst of all, an announced in his official capacity that Negroes should not hold office where white people complained. Segregation, then, is a Republican institution and not one, one, one, by Republicans, and carried on to its all-embracing extent by Republicans! There is far more of it in the departments, today, than at any time since the Negro first appeared, close upon the close of the Civil War. The picture requirement in the civil service, which makes it next to impossible for a colored lady or gentleman to enter the civil service, since their color is disclosed in their photograph which must accompany papers, is tenaciously held on to by our Republican President. Only last week, a colored girl appeared after having passed the best examination, having been telegraphed and by the department. The photograph had failed to tell her true color, and they flatly refused to appoint her when she appeared, and they saw her complexion. Commissioner Blair of the internal revenue bureau with thousands of clerks will not appoint a Negro clerk, and his word is law there, as he is the special favorite of Secretary and President Cootidge. He hails from North Carolina, the home of the other favorite and leader of the segregationists, Col. Sherrill, superintendent of buildings and grounds, in 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 more 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 postoffive segregation is rampant. The faithful colored clerks work under constant humiliation and physical disadvantages. The department maintains a spacious cateria 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, disadvantage as it is, is far less appealing to the colored clerks than in the thought of their government taking their taxes, as it takes them of the whites, for the comfort of the latter, and setting them of as comfort, 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 solitude for whines and neglects of colored. It maintains a well-appointed club room with pool tables and other games, a comfortable lounges and other equipment for rest, sociability, and recreation, and nothing for these same colored employees. This private club is in the magnificent postoffice building, built and maintained by ALL of the people. In the locker rooms there is segregation, and segregation is even attempted in the toilets. And all of this is against the most dependable and faithful employees. Last year the white employees passed around invitations to the white employees, in the very presence of the colored, to attend a reception to the heads of departments, including the postmaster general, in the postoffice building. It announced dancing and a pleasant ning with the staff to "the postoffice employee." yet not one was invited to the colored clerks. I hurried a protest to the postmaster general the day before it was to come off, and he ordered the postmaster to invite the colored as well as the white. These clerks got the colored as well. The workers giving the function at a local hotel. It is inevitable that the wicked spirit of segregation would express itself in appointments, assignments, and salaries. Colored applicants are often passed over though their examination was superior. No Negro, however efficient or old in the service, must ever dream of a promotion to a directive position. The hard, inwardly caste passes whites over him, one after another, though many of the colored employees have contests in quickness and accuracy in the handling of emails. The colored employees are dared to form a 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 print office keeps faith with the government's universal scheme of segregation. Some of the best and brightest of our girls are forced to accept inferior positions there on account of the better and more lucrative avenues of employment being closed to them because of their color. The whites are generally of a very mediocre group, far from equaling our girls in educational equipment, culture, and working efficiency. Yet these superior girls are set off from the whites with the latter, of course, having the better working conditions, salaries and recreational facilities. There is a large cafeteria in this huge structure where all of the employees may go out of the—a few tables, one out-of-the-way, men needed for our employees. I am glad to say that few, very few, of our people patronize the place, preferring a little physical inconvenience to the open, semi-public humiliation of segregation. In toilet facilities, dressing-rooms, and work assignments, wherever possible, the law of segregation is in full force, and, of course, this same undemocratic practice reveals itself on the salary roll and in the hard caste that barsprominent women. Here, the law is superior, where pass over our superior employees to directive positions, and higher salaries. The whites have a large recreational center in this public building with many fine appointments for rest and amusements. During lunch and dinner hours they repair to this restful retreat for sociability and dance. Last fall, a young Afro-American with a splendid record in his work, felt the injustice of exclusion of our society, specifically the company of a young lady of the race to take part in the dance. As soon as this couple started to dance the music was abruptly stopped, and the young man reported for attempting to take part in an entertainment provided for employees. He was called to the office, lectured for being "one of those smart Negroes who believe in the trumped-up charge. He was a night-employee, hence he carried a pistol. Right after the dance incident a fire broke out in the office. He was quickly accused of setting the building afire in revenge for his exclusion from the dance floor. Detectives came to the building to arrest him, and failing to secure any evidence searched him only to discover the pistol. They quickly dropped the arson charge and one or carrying coiled weapons by the government (under President Coolidge) gives them. Many of the employees have expressed their deeply-wounded feelings to me at being considered a pariah by the government whose institutions they are serving so faithfully, and I have taken up a number of cases only to be met by a denial that the conditions complained of exist, and a request for the names of my informants. I knew the fate these informants would suffer so I have never given a single name! The department then taking the position that it cannot take up the case. It is perfectly clear that this iniquitous scheme of segregation is a difficult thing to fight, since the government is so well settled upon it, and the complainants cannot bear witness to it. (Special to The Jazette) THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, O. SATURDAY, MAY 14, 1927. or of his family visited the bureau where she saw white and colored girls working together in perfect harmony, oblivious to any thought of race. Shortly thereafter came an order for segregation of the races, and a white lady who had been noted for her philanthropy among our people and who was upon intimate terms as the White House appeared before President Obama, would 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 white press, and addressed the national gathering of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People in New York. When our people here were so profoundly discouraged, she came out our stormy afternoon to the M.A. them to continue the fight; for democracy was at the crises. Oswald Garrison Villard came to town to attack White House and Cabinet and arouse our people, and the Nation Association secured publicity in over six hundred influential white papers in the country. The fight checked what was thought to be the intention of the segregators, namely, the elimination of the colored employees from the bureau altogether. 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 Abraham Lincoln, Charles Sumner and Frederick Douglass are helped to found. Our girls are employed there in far larger numbers than in any other branch of the public service. THEY ARE SEGREGATED in their rest rooms, toilets and working rooms, and the thought of promotions to executive places. They are girls from our best nomes, most of them with high and normal school training, and fine culture. The white girls are of no such grade, as there is no segregation for them in the great world of things. They have unlimited fields at high wage for even mediocre talents. The best of our girls must take these inferior positions, the inevitable result of segregation. Our people are not doing for the better order doing this unintentional practice in all of our government departments, for it not only humiliates the best of the government servants but impairs the government service. (Special to The Gazette) Washington, D. C.—The treasury department, according to the President's recent acceptance speech, is now under the ablest financial genius since the days of Alexander Hamilton. It is to be remembered that the President was a man of Indies, and in that long sweep of history that the President traversed are the mighty Salmon P. Chase, secretary of the treasury in Lincoln's cabinet. who, in a national extremity such as this country has never known, been a man from which financed the Civil War; and Ohio's master financier, John Sherman. These men never knew what segregation was! The present head of the department of internal revenue, Mr. Blain from North Carolina, has not appointed a colored clerk since his incumbency. While his predecessor, Mr. Daniel Roper, a Democrat from Texas, appointed and promoted several of them. Since the income tax legislation and the numberless new taxes that the recent war necessitated, this is by far the largest department of the treasury, employing several thousand employees. There are searches that there can't be noticed. There is the same general complaint here among our clerks and other employees as there is in the other branches of the government—failure to recognize their efficiency when promotions are due ability to go so far and no farther The various forms of segregation exist here as well as elsewhere—the restaurants closed or divided along color lines, and special toilet, 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 required to travel long distances when they desire the use of them. The department maintains a huge, magnificent cafeteria, in the splendid sweep of woodland along our national driveway, where white people of every class can come to rest, dine, and socialize of afternoons and evenings at minimum costs. The white press of the city is constantly telling of the thousands who take advantage of the brightness of the day and festive scenes that their presence creates. It seats two thousand diners with space to spare; but not one Negro! His only share is in the taxes he is forced to pay for this luxury for another group! The registration of the treasury, which Republican Presidents have given the Negro since Garfield appointed Blanch K. Bruce, is now filled by a white man, and the colored people are congregated in a separate room which is publicly proclaimed as "a colored division." When it is discovered that Negro clerks are "working as white" in other divisions, they are promptly transferred to this "colored division." Our people fear that protest against this segregation would result in the abolition of the division altogether; so they remain in a dilemma, fearing to act. Our clerks must accept segregation or elimination, and being poor, with no other opportunities in this southern atmosphere, must take the former. They are depressed at the wrong, but economic stress compels endurance of it. By a single smoke 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 fight against the segregation of our government employees, the treasury department will most likely be the center of attack, for segregation in several of its bureaus has been most pronounced. This is particularly true of the office of the register of the treasury and the internal revenue bureau. In the former, bearer board walls were maintained until recently. In the latter there have been two cases of discrimination on account of color brought to public view. The words, announcing the decision President Obama would hardly cold be the effort to increase segregation in the departments here was on again at full speed. It had slowed up a little during the campaign. Investigation of Burcus An investigation of the executive departments and bureau lists 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 employees. 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 10 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. Did Not "Endorse". Cleveland, O., April 29, '27. Rev. C. Lee Jefferson. Pastor. St. Mark's Presbyterian Church. 2269 E. 74th St., City. Dear SIR:— Your letter of April 26, '27, received. A careful reading of it makes perfectly clear several things: First: that the statement you made recently in a local publication, and signed as "secretary" without authority so to do, was not the statement by the committee of which you were secretary and which was appointed (by the recent meeting of some of our local pastors, held in Gethsemane Baptist church) "to issue a statement to the public" anent the now defunct local "jim crow" Mercy hospital movement. According to your letter, just received, "Rev. James P. Foote served as secretary" of the Gethsemane church meeting, and not you. (It looks very much as if some one has taken a case in the Thief fore, your communication is not relevant and worthy of publication in "The Old Reliable" Gazette. Our statements, in a recent issue, were based upon information voluntarily given us by a prominent member of the committee of five of which you were secretary and which was authorized to make a statement to the public by the pastors' meeting in Gethsemane church. WHERE IS THAT STATEMENT? You were not secretary of the pastors' primacy and therefore not authorized to make a statement to the local public for it. Furthermore, the word "endorse" was thoroly discussed in the committee meeting at Mt. Zion Cong. church and a decision reached NOT to use it, we are reliably informed by a prominent member of the committee. The following expression, he insists, was adopted; "We recommend its merits to the public." You were secretary of this committee. Why have you failed to publish the statement to the public which we were authorized to make and publish. Was it because the abortive "jim crow" Mercy hospital movement had no "merits"? It would seem so. It is really a waste of time and space to pay further attention to this matter because it is now a dead issue if indeed it ever was an issue as far as this community was concerned. Yours for the race. Harry C. Smith. CHARACTER. Character, like a fine old tree, matures slowly and is a riper growth than success that is forced as hothouse products are forced. Character in a newspaper develops through years of service to the people. For forty-three years The Gazette has been serving our people of this country. It has gathered a reader/clientele whose tastes it reflects, and whose power and responsiveness to buy are direct measures of its present importance to every advertiser. EDITOR EDITOR. Pretty Things that are Made at Home 1 "SAYING it" with ribbon, that is what the mode is doing this season. Not only are ribbon bows trimming everything they can find an excuse to trim, but hand bags, belts, as well as the hats we wear are expressing themselves in terms of ribbon. A gay striped ribbon belt and purse to match have a wonderfully enlivening effect on a somber tailored dress or jumper frock. To buy "ready made," well, that is one way of doing it, that is, if your allowance is a generous one—but think of the fun and satisfaction one gets out of making these pretty things at home. In choosing ribbon for an envelope purse with a belt to match, the stylistic thing to do is to ask for the newest bayadere stripes, for striped ribbon is "it," according to latest fashion reports. Of course it is necessary to buy two widths, the narrow for the belt, the wide for the purse. For a few pennies any shoemaker will camp several brass eyellets in the belt length of ribbon. Then all that remains to BRIMS SHOWING A TO ROLL OR NOT rumor but fact says we are due to witness a revival of the upturned brim. Many of the little shapes from Paris are now showing that tendency. Sometimes in the newer hats the brim rolls up very shyly as if timidly announcing a coming innovation. Then again it adopts a bold course frankly declaring a decided cuff or flare. The group herewith, which includes both straws and felts, presents an interesting study from the standpoint of the brim which rolls off the face. Note the handsome leghorn at the top, its upstanding brim gives something "different" from the face-framing ripple brims which for so long a time we have had with us. The first little hat to the left, which is a crochet visca, gives a naive little roll to its ribbon-bound brim. GAZETTE Subscribe a do is to attach a suitable buckle and there you have it, a belt as handsome as one could wish. As to the envelope purse, cut a piece of stiff canvas or pasteboard so it will fold in three panels, one for the flap, the other two for the sides of the pocketbook. Insert gussets at each end and line everything with silk. At a glove-repairing counter one can get a snap fastener put in or one can be sewed on. If the ribbon is not as wide as the length of the panels, piece it, concealing the seams under a metal beading such as is used to finish lamp shades. From the outlook we are going to stage a revival of that vogue which waged at such a fast and furious rate some years ago. We refer to the making of the hand bag of handsome metal brocade ribbon, only this time a belt is added, as the picture shows. The silk square in the picture can be made at home by hemstitching a plain border as shown. JULIA BOTTOMLEY. @ 1827. Western Newpaper Union. TENDENCY TURN UP IN FRONT One of the latest whims of fashion is to dip the brim at the back, in contrast to a saucy uplift at the front. The nobly felt in the lower left corner illustrates this new movement. The felt to the right above boasts a cuff directly turned from the face. This is interlaced with narrow felt strips in contrast color. Because the last hat in the group is banded and trimmed with velvet it is very stylish, for hats are showing a considerable use of velvet, ranging from tiny narrow ribbons to very broad softly folded, draped and knotted effects. It is an interesting observation in regard to this shape that while the brim rolls, it also hints at a bonnet trend, and "they say" the cloche is considering a return engagement. JULIA BOTTOMLEY. (© 1927, Western Newspaper Union.) E After Reading KU KLUX KLAN! Segregation was born, many years ago, when Dr. Booker T. Washington made his famous Atlanta, Ga. speech, the outstanding statement of which was that "the colored and white people could live in this country separate as the fingers of the hand". From that day to this, prejudiced white people, particularly the Ku Klux Klan in recent years, have steadily worked for segregation until the end of the movement throughout the north to separate (segregate) the two races or classes in all public places of accommodation, amusement, etc. This "separate-as-the-fingers of the hand" segregation-idea, born, in Atlanta as we have said, many years ago, is now a Ku Klux Klan tenet or fundamental, as far as our people are concerned. When Dr. Washington spoke so unfortunately, many years ago, The Gazette was the only race publication in the country to take action against segregation, his statement as a most harmful one which the future would sure prove, and we were right, as all now know. Recently, The Gazette was informed, by those in a position to know, that the segregation of our people of this city in a separate or of "jim-crow" hospital is primarily promoted by the local Ku Klux Klan and that their "Gru" allies were old by the promise to secure ten thousand dollars and the use of an old, unsecured building for the proposed "jim-crow" hospital. This offer, it seems, and the probability of a few jobs and an opportunity to handle not only the ten thousand dollars promised but the two-hundred-twenty-two thousand dollars, asked for, which they hoped would come from the Community Chest and other local public sources, won them. And, too, regardless of the fact that underneath it all was the Ku Klux Klan, working to carry out its separation or to teach the ten thousand dollars the additional fact that the establishment of a "jim-crow" hospital meant separate schools in this city for our children meant nothing to them. Thereupon, the few local "Negro" doctors and their misguided friends became, knowingly or otherwise, the willing tools of the Ku Klux Klan of this city. That separate schools would mean the loss of about sixty of our seventy-five teachers, ten of our local public schools, some of whom are wives of some of these very same doctors and other "Negro" "jim-crow" hospital proponents, seems to give them no concern whatever but would undoubtedly do so, when too late to undo the harm done, should their scheme prove successful which there is now no likelihood of. The indebtedness of our churches in this community is nearly a half million of dollars. This vast sum our people here can never hope to raise among themselves and will have an awful time getting, if they ever do, from all sources and peoples, local and at a distance. Add to that the need for fifty-eight thousand dollar debt on the new Philips Wheatley home, the known total aggregates more than a half million dollars! And this does not include the indebtedness of a number of our churches in this community we have not as yet been able to get in touch "Negro" then for a few days toward "Negro" then to 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 "Negro" controlled institutions here more than eight hundred dollars, nearly a million dollars, simply because our office is only emphasized when one recalls the fact that there is positively no need of a hospital controlled by "Negro" physicians; that it would eventuate into a more harmful "jim-crow" affair, another "jim-crow" office on the joyful service our community is now enjoying 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 necessary in order to make an opening for two or three institutions to train as interns, 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' 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 of our local churches indebtedness. Cory M. E, church, $4,000; Shiloh Baptist church, $4,500; Zion Hill Baptist church, $15,000; Gethsemane Baptist church, 8,000; Icounium Baptist church, $18,000; St. James A. M. E, church, $30,000; E. 71st and Cedar Ave, $30,000; Temple Baptist church, $20,000; E. Mt. Zion Baptist church, $6,000; E. 74th and Kinsman Rd., $5,800; E. Hunt Rd., $5,800; E. 64th and Quincy Ave., $25,000; 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, $6,000; Lindale churches, $8,000; Frank Ave. Baptist church, $2,000; Monumental Baptist church, $17,000; Baptist and Methodist churches in Collinwood, $12,000; Tristeadone Baptist church, $9,000; Friendship Baptist church, $13,000; Miles Avenue church, $2,000; Mebo Baptist church, $15,000; Mt. Zion Church, $5,000; churches on West Side, $3,600; Macedonia Baptist church, $59,000; Phillips C. M. E, Chapel, $10,000; St. Mark's Presbyterian church, $10,000; Phillis Wheatley Association, $158,000. Total, $617,100.