The Gazette
Saturday, June 11, 1927
Cleveland, Ohio
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THE GAZETTE
ESTABLISHED, AUGUST 25, 1883 And Issued Every Week on Time Since
CLEVELAND, OHIO, SATURDAY, JUNE 11, 1927.
NATION-WIDE STROKE FROM “SALEM DAY” TO
“INDEPENDENCE DAY” PROJECTED
"INDEPENDENCE DAY" PROJECTED
Peter Salem, Colored, Shooting British Commander, Bunker Hill, June 17, 1775
Boston, Mass., May 28, 1927.—A Call just issued by the National Equal Rights League with headquarters here proposes to the race everywhere exercises or public celebrations of the anniversary of the Battle of Bunker Hill, June 17th as "Salem Race Day" in honor of Peter Salem, an outstanding hero of this first regular battle for founding the U. S. A. and Salem Post, who was a prominent member of the Union Army committed to white Americans of valuable service and sacrifice for them from the country's birth, and demand equal rights as a just return, also to give the race confidence in its own claim to respect.
The plan is to have these observances all over the country adopt and send resolutions to Pres. Collidge, with addresses of promoters, for federal ant-lynching bill and against all federal segregation. The meetings are be held at the United States Capitol, and the committee of existing race bodies or churches, or for all lodges, etc., to do this at their own meetings nearest June 17, and the Churches June 19th.
Heads of all national bodies and orders are asked to send this recommendation to every unit. The League asks that a copy of every resolution with signatures be sent to it here, so all these may be presented at the House of Representatives, and the National Independence Day, for United Race parties against lynchings per week, the latest rate. League lifeshes leaflet for $6'c in stamps postpaid.
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HILLSBORO.—Mr. Joe H. Williams visited his father in Brown County, recently—Milburn Baker visited in Detroit, Decoration day. Mr. and Mrs. Enoch Frye of Chicago visited her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Milton Day, and Mr. and Mrs. John H. Johns of the same city visites sephine Parson, Sunday—Mrs. Jenie Morris of Cleveland is visiting her mother, Mrs. Louise Young, this week. The latter has been ill for some time. Mr. and Mrs. Charles A. McFarland and son of Indianapolis visited here, Decoration day.—Miss Arnita E. Burr, who has taught two years in Maryland, returned, Saturday, to spend the vacation with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Herchel Williams, daughter, Mrs. Catherine Williams, and her daughter, Louise, visited Mr. and Mrs. Wilbur in Dayton, Sunday.
—Miss Rosetta Nelson, who taught in Maryland, this year, has returned to spend the vacation with her father, Mr. Wallace Nelson.—Mrs. Martha Gay of Columbus visited here, Decoration day.—Mrs. Herschel Williams has returned from a visit with her parents, Rev. and Mrs. E. Richardson near Frankfort.—Miss Ruth Hudson will spend the summer with her mother.—Mr. Joseph Cole visited in Washington C. H., last week.—Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Locust and daughter, Mabel, of Cleveland visited relatives or her son. In Kensilah weert her former Godmother of Dawn visited her sister, Mrs. Archie Cole, Sunday.—Mr. Clarence Pleasant and Mr. Sam Graves attended the K. P. annual sermon in Sabina, Sunday.—Mr. Frank Blair of near Greenfield and sister. Miss Jessie Toller, of Cincinnati visited their sister, Mrs. Ora Clemens here, two weeks ago.
"CLEAN, FAIR, FEARLESS"
For The Gazette, I can say it is worthy of the support of the race. It is clean, fair, fearless, and treats subjects of grave importance to the race in such convincing terms that its position regarding the race cannot be mistaken—Rev. L. W. Johnson. Jamestown, O.
If the Following Statements are True, Our People Cannot Support Wm. R. Green's Candidacy
Cleveland, June 6th, 1927.
Hon. Harry C. Smith,
Editor Gazette,
Cleveland, O.
My dear sir:—You, having been solicited for the interests of the colored people in Cleveland for more than forty years, and a man whose opinion and good judgment are recourse to, will probably, please tell us how Mr. Wm. R. Green can work heart and soul, mind and body, for the N. A. A. C. P., which organization stands against all race segregation and discrimination, and at the same time lend himself to the Mercy Hospital movement, which, in the last analysis, is nothing more or less than a baneful and most menacing undertaking for our people of this community.
Mr. Green does this while being himself as a candidate for judge of the Municipal court, six year term.
It will not be forgotten, nor is it now forgotten, that only a few years ago, when Dr. W. S. Biggs bought his residence opposite to Mr. Wm. R. Green, on Earl Ave. it was said that Mr. Green and his wife arose in fiery protest against Dr. Biggs' moving there and immediately placed a sign, "For Sale," on their property. Now, if Mr. Green, as alleged, would protest against so fine a family as he was, he would be being colored, how could we imagine that Mr. Wm. R. Green is conscientious in his work for the N. A. A. C. P. No one can sponsor the principles of the N. A. A. C. P. and at the same time object to having for neighbors such a family as Dr. Walter S. Biggs'. Nor at the same time can one advocate a "jim-crow" hospital for Cleveland. Any man so divided in his convictions as this is unfit for the judiciary.
Please let us know just where Mr. Wm. R. Green, who straddles a fence is neither on one side nor the other. Please let us know just where Mr. Wm. R. Green stands.
PEONAGE IN GEORGIA.
Danville, Va.—Startling evidences of peonage in Georgia were forwarded last week to Gov. Walker of Georgia by the authorities of this city. This step was taken after a rigid cross examination of James Hammond, a female, fashiled and exhausted after his escape from forced detention on a large farm in the neighboring state. Felton told his story with minuteness. Details are with-held by the local police less publicity embarrass the course of justice in Georgia. It was learned, however that Felton told Hammond that the farm since January, when his automobile broke down as he was passing by en route from Florida; that fifty others were being held there in unlawful detention and treated with utmost brutality, including mutilation and murder. Felton says two teen guards on May 15, and made his way northward as far as this city where he collapsed.
DOWN IN HELL!
A Veteran of the Spanish-American War, "On the Ground" Tells What He Sees—Our People "Shot Down Like Dogs".
Columbus, Ga., June 5, 275.
Hon. Harry C. Smith.
Editor Gazette, Cleveland, O.
Dear Sir:—If this is not a hell hole, there never was any. It is sad to look at our people here as cowardice is depicted in too many of their faces. A population of about 20,000 (colored) and no high school. If they want higher grades than a common school, the children are sent to Atlanta. A colored person's life is worth nothing. The business men, with one exception (Dr. Turner), haven't the "sand and guts of a louse"; do not dare and will not open their mouths in defense of a single race principle no matter what comes up. A policeman's word is taken in every instance, even if he brings in a man or woman of the race, bloody from the too free use of his long billy; and not even a minister to offer a word in defense, tho he has a fat salary drawn from the knuckles of the hard-working women that labor for $4 to $5 a week, from sunup to bed-time. I walked around one of our school buildings here and counted 51 window-panes broken, ten being broken entirely out. "Negroes" are shot down here like dogs and not even an arrest is made, as a result. Even colored eye-witnesses are afraid to open their mouths. Many "Negro" women are openly running houses of ill-fame for white men. One is across from one of the principal colored churches and no one dares to open his or her mouth about it, either.
C. W. Cordin.
JOHN BROWN, MARTYR!
His Descendants Hold Annual Reunion at Ohio Farm of Famous Abolitionist.
Twinsburg, O. — Thirty-six descendants of John Brown of Harpers Ferry and Pottawatamie fame gathered, Sunday, for their annual reunion at the old Ohio farm, three miles south of here, where he lived as a youth of 20. They dined, elected officers, heard speeches and roamed again over the farm and rum-maged through the house in which the martyr once lived and in which he was married to his first wife, Mrs. Lucy Brown and Mrs. Flora Brown Baitse of Kent, both more than 75, nieces of the famous abolitionist, were the oldest descendants present. John Brown of Fort Wayne, Ind., a great-nephew of Mr. Brown, was one of the most distinguished descendants' society. He attended the reunion with his wife and three sisters. Rev. John Logan Saindiy of Hudson, in the only address of the reunion, spoke of the great and lasting good of John Brown's work. Mrs. R. Kalbrunner, 103 Olivewood Ave., Lakewood, was re-elected secretary of the reunion, marriage she was Miss Edna Brown, daughter of Charles Brown of Canal Fulton. John Brown, the martyr to a great cause, was the father of twenty children, eight of whom died in childhood. Five of his sons fought with him in Kansas against the "Missouri ruffians" and four were with him at Harpers Ferry. Owen Wheeler, a soldier for many years was the sole survivor of the harpers Ferry raid.
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IS IT ANY USE TO CONTEND FOR RIGHTS?
Colored Americans are the only race, responsible members of which are in favor of submitting to discrimination on the claim that their race "always will be discriminated against." The Jews are still contending, after over 1900 years of universal discrimination, and are winning even social rights today. The Irish at home have contended for 700 years and are winning because they will die rather than submit. The race that says it's of no use to resist, downs itself and the world then will say. "Nerrores are not worthy of equal rights; they are by nature without self-respect and have no 'guts.'" The world respects only those who resent and resist proscriptions for race.
Let us be worthy of the abolitionists, worthy of our own fathers who have died 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.
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AN INTERESTING DISCUSSION
OF PROBLEMS IN THE NORTH RESULTANT LARGELY FROM IMMIGRATION.
Many Southern "Whites" Emigrated, Too—Twice as Many as Our People, Between 1910 and 1920, Says Speaker—In the Fields of Industry and Education—Church Relations.
Omaha, Neb.—Speaking here, last week Thursday, at the eighty-first annual meeting of the American Missionary Association and the twenty-second regular meeting of the National Council of Congregational Churches of Europe, the secretary of the Commission on the Church and Race Relations, Federal Council of Churches, discussed "The Challenge of Race Adjustments," he said. World War gave a tremendous increase to the trend of America from agricultural pursuits to manufacturing, mechanical and commercial occupations. This change in occupation was accompanied by a rapid movement of the population from the rural districts to the urban centers. Today between 50 and 60 percent of the population is an urban population.
"One person in every ten of the total population is an Afro-American. They are part of the great urban-industrial development. Their migration to cities and to northern industrial centers during the World War was so outstanding a fact that it attracted the attention of all observers. The country was from the country to the city and from the south to the north has been going on for more than forty years preceding. In 1920, 35 states and the District of Columbia had 6,000 or more Afro-American population. These numbers have increased every year since the last census. Of course, the large majority of them still reside in the southern states. While this is true, it is also a fact that the border states like North Carolina, Kentucky, Ohio and Indiana are increasing in their population of this country. The population is significantly than the states farther south; in fact, as near as we can estimate, some of the states of the far south have had an actual decrease thru migration of the Afro-American population. Another significant fact in the situation is that the white population of the south has migrated to northern industrial and commercial centers in larger numbers than the Afro-Americans. Between 1910 and 1920 the number of people migrated to northern industrial and commercial centers as Afro-Americans.
In the field of industry, white and Afro-American workers by the thousands in all of the northern and border cities and in many of the southern cities are in keen competition in the same occupations and often in the same industrial plants. The white worker to a large extent is in the same occupations as the other associations. The Afro-American to a large extent is unorganized except thru his churches. The organized white worker looks with prejudice born of fear upon the potential competition of the Afro-American because he believes this means lower wages and less power to bargain and contend with his employer. The Afro-American worker, on the other hand, because he has suffered at the hands of workers in the oppressive conditions of them and cautious about joining them in any organized way.
"In the field of education, he is knocking for the door of opportunity to open wide to his as for other groups. The Afro-American, today, is just as ambitions for the education of his children—if not more so than the generation. They are no longer dependent, however, upon mission schools and funds for that education. More and more are they coming to the conviction that education should be furnished from public funds and in public schools. In the south there are there are separate schools, a curricula and a fair division of public school funds. That there can be liberal-handed justice, fair play and hearty co-operation by both races in the distribution of public school funds has been emphatically illustrated in the state of North Carolina, where during the past eight or ten years a liberal policy was adopted to provide for the education of Afro-Americans from college down to the lower school grades as justly as for the education of white citizens. "The housing, sanitary and health conditions in the neighborhoods and communities into which these people come by the thousands must be faced and handled. Another phase of the problem is that another mentioned as a challenge to America today is the racial relations within the churches themselves. Nine out of ten Afro-Americans who are members of churches are affiliated with distinctive race denominations and practically all their members of the church are grouped together in separate congregations; the result is
IN-UNION IS STRONGER
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THE NORTH RESULTANT
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Church Relations.
that we practically have a unified division along racial lines within the church itself. The Afro-American church in history, tradition, organized strength and financial support is by far the greatest institution they have and have built up. It is their very own by virtue of its history—the fidelity with which it has been supported and the enthusiasm it arouses. Most of the channels of group expression are more or less unified, which has nished a great outlet for this expression. It is still the greatest agency for social adjustment for the Afro-American group.
"It seems to me it is the business of the church to stimulate white leaders to see that even-handed justice and full recognition of Afro-American manhood, day in and day out, is the only sure road to sound democracy. Let us remember in conditions are, above all, human relations, and the greatest factor in human relations is respect and sympathetic understanding of personality. Perhaps the greatest difficulty today is the fact that the white race has been entrusted for so many centuries with dominant power over other groups that it is difficult for white people to understand the experiences of his in other races' demanding and expecting recognition and respect equal to that which the white man seeks for himself. The great problem is to secure that respect and recognition for personality which makes for co-operation and fellowship between racial groups. The Afro-American has come to a realization of his own manhood and the realization of his white fellow-citizens full respect for his manhood and personality. He wants nothing more; he can be content with nothing less."
DOINGS OF THE RACE
Prof. Aaron E. and Mrs. Anne E. Malone of St. Louis have been divorced.
The recent Indiana cyclone spared our people but damaged greatly the property of kluxers, says Mrs. Olivia Taylor of Indianapolis.
The Coffeyville, Kans. Journal of May 30 admits that white rapists, and not "Negroes", caused the Coffeyville race riot, several months ago.
The Spingarn medal for 1927 was awarded to Mr. Anthony Overton, president of the Douglass National bank of Chicago, and a manufacturer.
A case of peonage was recently discovered in the nation's capital. A white man from Maryland had been hiring out a boy of the race for several years and taking the wages.
Applications of those desiring to take the U. S. civil service competitive examinations for technical positions in the U. S. bureau hospital at Tuskegee. Ala. will be received by the commission until June 30. '27.
Hampton Institute at sixteenth commencement, last week, graduated 186 men and women including 16 candidates for the degree of bachelor of science and 41 candidates for two-year collegiate diplomas in the schools of education, home economics, business and the library school.
DO YOU DRINK WHISKEY?
There is no good whiskey being sold by bootleggers in the United States, J. H. James, professor of chemical engineering at the Carnegie Institute of Technology and developer of "aldeol". a denaturant which the government places in alcohol, said, last week Friday, in a short address to the nineteenth semiannual meeting of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers' meeting at The Hollden. Dr. James said only wood alcohol is available for use, who attempt to distill off the poison, which they did not always do. Pure alcohol is guarded rigidly and only firms with a high standing are allowed to dispense it. This leaves only commercial alcohol for the bootleggers to use, he pointed out.
Used as "Warning".
"The government places aldeol in its wood alcohol as a warning, not as a poison", he said. "The denaturant is vile smelling and it is pretty well established that it cannot be distilled out of the alcohol. Government chemists are constantly experimenting with the method that placed in alcohol, will serve as a warning."
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WHAT'S THE BIG IDEA? WHY ALL THE ONIONS AND THE POSY?
MY POETIC FRIEND, MR GAZINKUS SAID THAT POOR FLOWER WOULD DIE LESS I WATERED IT WITH TEARS, AN THE ONLY TIME I LONDRY IS WHEN I DEEL ONIONS!
DO YOU MEAN TO TELL ME THESE AIN'T THE RIGHT KIND OF TEARS?—HONEST?
CERTAINLY! THE TEARS HAVE GOT TO DONE FROM THE HEART... FROM SADNESS OR ANGER OR SOMETHING!
I GUESS YOU'RE RIGHT, SIS! ILL HAVE TO WAIT TILL I GET A THRILL!...OH DEAR—
—IF SOMETHING WOULD ONLY HAPPEN!
Tim Early
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THE GAZETTE is the oldest and has the largest bona fide circulation, double that of any newspaper in the interest of Afro-Americans published or circulated in the state of Ohio, and comparison with any will immediately establish its rank as one of the NEWSIEST AND BEST in the country.
10,000,000 Afro-Americans.
350,000 in Ohio.
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SATURDAY, JUNE 11, 1927.
Atty. Wm. R. Green, a candidate for a nomination as judge of the Municipal court, is in a better position to answer the question asked by "The Fraternal Aid Society" than the editor of The Gazette. Therefore, we refer the society's communication, published elsewhere in this paper, to Candidate Wm. R. Green for answer. His connection with the Mercy Hospital movement alone ought to make his candidacy very objectionable to at least the thoughtful and loyal of our people in this community. No man of our race or class, who would favor such unnecessary, harmful, and insulting segregation as that, is in our judgment fit to sit upon the judicial bench of this or any other city in the north, at least.
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The St. Louis Argus is conducting a city-wide survey in that city to find out to what extent our people are employed in white stores that are located in our sections of the city and which cater almost exclusively to our trade. The purpose of the campaign is to open larger avenues of employment in such enterprises. The following sentence from the announcement of the survey is significant: "The big purpose of this survey is to stimulate business among our people and to secure employment for members of the race in stores which cater to colored trade." Both Cleveland and Detroit need such a survey and the action that should follow it. Many good positions would as a result be opened to our young men and women.
ANOTHER "FROST".
Just as we announced in our last issue, the much-heralded Mercy Hospital movement meeting at Shiloh Baptist church, last week Thursday evening, was sure a big "frost". Only nineteen persons were present and only four of these were doctors
—Lambright, Owen, Baumgartner and Garvin who left before the meeting was over so enthusiastically chilly was the atmosphere of the pitifully small gathering. Herbert Chaucey opened the meeting and announced that Benj. Johnson from the metropolitan (?) Ohio city, Canton, who was present, would have charge of the latest effort to raise funds and that he was to be given 5,000 names of persons to be asked for contributions. This campaign for funds is to be started, June 27, and a dinner for workers was given at the P. W. A. annex. Wednesday evening of this week. The speakers were Dr. Lambright, who came to Cleveland a few years ago from Kansas; a student (Jamieson) of Meharry Medical College, Nashville; and the presiding officer. Five women were in the audience of nineteen persons. So that's that'.
"THE ROARING THIRD".
Rev. Dr. Walker, pastor of St. James A. M. E. church, this city, in recent sermons has been speaking very plainly against the fearfully imminal conditions existing in "the roaring third" police precinct which now, as a matter of fact, extends to E. 105th St. between Woodland and Cedar Aves., as far as said conditions are concerned. If Dr. Walker could persuade our ministers who pastor churches in the territory between E. 9th St. and E. 105th St. (on the west and east), and Woodland Ave. and Cedar Ave. (on the south and north), to join him in a united demand on City Manager Wm. R. Hopkins for proper police protection for that section of the city and get it, the problem would be solved in a very large measure and the conditions, that have caused all of that territory to be known as "the roaring third", would be greatly improved, indeed. Dr. Walker seems
THE GEEVUM GIRLS
to have the aggressiveness and ability necessary to father an effort of this kind in our local ministers' alliance and ministers' conference, and get the result desired. We sincerely hope that he will at least try to do so. It is interesting to note in connection with the foregoing that seven of Cleveland's unsolved murders, of which there have been 15 since the first of the year, occurred in "the roaring third" precinct proper, according to a report submitted, Tuesday, by Detective Captain Emmett J. Potts, superintendent of criminal investigation, to Director of Safety Edwin D. Barry.
Telephone Personalities
The Information Operator
HOW many people have used
the telephone regularly without, on occasion, consulting the information operator?
Very few, if any, telephone men may.
The information operator is forced to keep right up to the minute, on number changes, new telephone installations, moved telephone and other things that might happen to the telephone instrument.
The keeps the public informed and is always available. If she does not know the telephone number of some party not listed in the telephone book, it is almost sure that the party has no telephone.
"The Telephone Idea"
Various as are the tasks of the gigantic telephone army of America, its members are moved by a common purpose—to get the message through in the best possible way and the shortest possible time. In the morale of the telephone group of 1926 shines the same passion for promptness which thrilled weary Ica runners on their guelling journeys from tl. capital to the outposts of the empire. Now, as then, he who is intrusted with communications accepts the fixed idea of his craft—that upon the gobetween rests the well-being of the whole. Dramatically, this gallant answer to responsibility for communications flares forth whenever an operator sticks to the switchboard in the "bright face of danger," whenever a lineman ator storm-swayed pole risks his life to heal a broken nerve in the nation's wire system. Undramatically, with equal vigor, this spirit of the enterprise animates, as part of the unwritten law of their lives, many thousands of other workers in tasks which escape public notice. Thus this widespread army of telephone folk, though not under a single employer, has arrived at a rough-hewn solidarity of interest through their devotion to getting the message through.
"The Telephone Idea" is a good one and could be applied to other lines of business with pleasure and profit to all.—Ashland (Ky.) Independent.
A new cable employing telephone repeaters has been completed between Paris and Havre, France, a distance of 142 miles.
The population of Wisconsin gained about 1 per cent in 1926, while the number of telephones increased nearly 4 per cent.
There are 5,360 times as many telephones in Connecticut as there were when the first commercial telephone exchange in the world was opened in New Haven, Conn., on January 28th, 1878.
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The Cleveland Buckeyes lost a twelve inning game to the Akron "General Tires," semi-professional team, by the score of 5 to 4, June 2. Tough luck. Braum of Dayton, Roosevelt High, won the high jump at Chicago in the national high school track meet. The distance was 6 ft. 2 in. Case High track team of Detroit, composed of an Afro-American, a Mexican and a white American won third honors, and Northeast high track team of the same city, composed of three Afro-Americans and one white American, won the national high school track meet, at Chicago, Saturday. The high school track meet, May 28 five out of six places in the high jump were taken by Afro-Americans.
George Hopper of East Tech, is recognized as the best high-jumper in the local high schools. While he was representing his school at Columbus, recently, in the Ohio State University stadium, numbers of our group were barred from the "frat" house where all were to stay. Hooper says that our students can eat in only one place on the campus.
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The state meeting of our Elks was held in Springfield, this week.
Norman S. Minor graduated, recently, from the John Marshall Law School.
Misses Elzadia and Addie Williams spent the week-end with their father in Detroit.
Mrs. Jennie Morris spent the week with her mother, Mrs. Louisa Young, in Hillsboro.
Francis Gregory was awarded a scholarship of $150 at Case School of Applied Science, last week.
Mr. Louis Hamlett, E. 90th St., had a second fall down-stairs, last week, which proved very painful.
Charles L., brother of Mr. Joe. Smith, and Mrs. Elizabeth James, wife of Mr. Wm. James, died, recently.
Mr. George Randolph, well and favorably known because of long residence in the city, is slowly improving after several years' serious illness.
Rabbi Silver, well-known local Jewish pastor, spoke at Mt. Zion Cong, church, Tuesday, in an effort to assist in the church's great campaign for a $50,000 fund.
Supt. Richard C. Bundy, of the C. N. & I. (State) Department at Wilberforce, was in the city, Saturday evening and Sunday, visiting his parents and two brothers.
Miss Gladys Wells who has been in Los Angeles, Calif, for the last three years, has returned to the city for a six weeks' visit with her sister, Mrs. Olive Wells Ball, E. 37th St.
Mrs. Mabel Lockette returned to Youngtown, Sunday. She spent a week with her sister, Mrs. Francis L. Todd, 5718 Thackerey-Ave, who entertained, last week Thursday evening, in her honor. Mrs. Ella John-
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Mr. Robt. Bedford, E. 90th St., brother of Mrs. Lenora Craig and Mrs. Cornella Highgate, has been very all. He is at home convalescing after an operation at a local hospital for ulcers of the stomach.
C. W. Cordin, a veteran of the Spanish-American war and resident of the National Military Home at Dayton, writes the editor of The Gazette from Columbus, Ga.: "The seeing is believing." As a rule.
The sixth production of The Gillpin Players was given at The Karamu Theatre, June 8, 9, 10, 11, "Old Wash Lucas," "Neighbors" and "Rehearsal" were the plays that pleased the audiences greatly, each evening.
Sidney Johnson, age 42, truck driver for the Cleveland City Forge Co., was burned severely, late Tuesday, when a hot oil-feeding pipe burst when he drove his truck over the line at the plant, 4501 Lakeside Johnson, who lives at 2326 E. 63rd St., was taken to St. Alexis hospital.
Lieut. Jay W. Clifford, a son of Hon. and Mrs. Wm. H. Clifford, former residents of this city, but for years located in Washington, D. C., was in the city, a day or two this week, visiting his uncle, Mr. John Clifford, and other relatives. Mr. John Clifford is an old resident, well and most favorably known. Lieut. Clifford is in the government service. His father has been in very poor health, the past year or two.
C. E. Jackson, for years propietor of the cigar and news store at 4401 Central Ave., has sold it to Frank L. Handy, a brother-in-law of Mrs. J. L. Pickett of Sowell St. and Mrs. Wm. Green, E. 86th St., and has gone to New York City and Newark, N. J., seeking a new location, Mr.
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Jackson has many friends who greatly regret his departure from the city and who wish him abundant success wherever he locates. Mr. and Mrs. Handy are wished splendid success in their new venture.
Although all of our employees of the Post Office department are eligible, less than 15 per cent of them are members of the National Alliance of Postal Employees, which is to hold its biennial convention in July 1973. The Alliance offers fraternal insurance, a sick heene fit, and interests itself generally in the protection, in the service, of postal employees.
The Kingsley Arter center, new P. W. A. playground, a 2314 E. 100th St. was dedicated, last week Thursday afternoon. It was named in honor of the deceased son of Frank A. Arter, donor of the land. In adaption to being a recreational center, it will be used by the P. W. A. to house the clubrooms of junior and senior high school girls. A drill team of more than 250 of our girls participated in the dedicatory exercises.
Jas. Ford Rhodes (white), historian and former wealthy Cleveland business man, who died Jan. 22 in Brookline, Mass., in his will be bequeathed his watch, chain, a gold and platinum locket with diamond and diamond cuff-buttons to Geo. A. Myers, proprietor of the Hollden House barber shop. Mrs. Myers, of Pasadena, delightfully entertained by I. B. clubmaster. Miss Dorothy Hughes, E. 82d St., popular local pianist, spent Decoration day with Miss Alma Ballinger in Massillon.
S. A. Jordan of Little Rock, Ark., international chief grand mentor of Tabors; G. E. Mustelle of Montgomery, Ala., international grand presiding prince, and C. R. Hubbard of Pittsburgh, chief grand mentor of Tabors. Mr. Hubbard will be June 13, in the interest of the twelfth triennial session of the International Order of Twelve, K. & D. of Tabor, which convenes in this city, August 16 to 19. Thousands of members from many parts of the country are attending the local committee of arrangements is headed by J. H. Drew and Rhoda Wilson is its secretary. Assisting are: Dora White, Mamie R. Jackson, Juanita Sellers, Emma Roberts, Julia Gamby, Kina B. McCard, Ida M. America, E. W. Sellers, C. A. Robinson and E. W. Sellers, will assemble at 6:311 Sevillin Ave., the evening of June 13 to receive their distinguished visitors.
Noah Yarbough, age 24, 2375 E. 28th St., was in the prison ward of city hospital, Monday, on a murder charge growing out of a stabbing and shooting fray in the "roaring third" police precinct. Joseph Vecchio, age 30, 2731 E. 51st St., was slain. According to information given Detective Lieutenant Frank Tidwell, two officers front of 4823 Hollyoke Ave, over Vecchio's alleged advances to Yarbough's wife. Yarbough was shot four times, but wrested the gun from Vecchio and fired once, the bullet striking the other man in the heart, police said. Yarbough was arrested by Detective Lieutenant Alfred Jones and Detectives May and Clark at the Yarbough prison. Yarbho prize fighter, at Central Ave, and E. 77th St. Noah is "game", alright. Another life "snuffed out" as a direct result of the lack of police protection in "The Roaring Third". There have been many, Joshua Hall, age 25, 2299 E. 55th St., was shot in the back of the head while riding along Outhwate Ave, near E. 55th St., in an automobile driver. He was shot in front of his St. last week Friday. He was taken to Charity hospital. The police are trying to find the person who fired the shot. Of course.
The local Democratic leader, W. B. Gonger, has not endorsed Willie Green's candidacy for "mumy" judge nor has the Republican "boss", Maurice Maschke, done so. Wait and see how correct this statement is. "Blowbaggaging" will not secure either of these things, either. It is said that George W. Bush has superseded the director of the defunct Mercy Hospital movement's campaign for funds.
The few remaining Mercy Hospital movement promoters tried to have another meeting, one evening this week, at Shiloh Baptist church, with the same result. Practically nobody went to it. Some individuals do not know when "a thing is deader than heck's pup". That thing is the M. H. movement. Who is getting some money now? Dwight Williams "took to the woods" and was off off off. It is also said that all but about $100, of the $1,500 the M. H. movement proponents
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FOUR HUNDRED AND THIRTY-FIVE feet in the air, legs twined about a thin steel pole and held only by a small rope was the feat accomplished by Jack Elish, Cleveland steeple jack, when he painted the flag pole on top the new general office building of The Ohio Bell Telephone Co., in Cleveland. Elish worked his own way to the top of the pole and then worked his way down again. When he reached the top of the pole, he looked almost as small as a fly to the people on the street. The close-up picture of Elish was taken by a camera with a special lens, the photographer being seventy feet below him at the time he snapped his were so long raising in the churches and elsewhere, was "used up", some weeks ago. What for? The misguided persons who contributed to the fund are entitled to know. There should be an itemized statement published. Unless this is done very soon, the contributors have a right to THINK what they please.
Elks from Cleveland, Akron, Lorain, and other surrounding towns will join King Tutt lodge and Mary B. Talbert Temple in their annual memorial services, Sunday, at Shiloh Baptist church. At 2 p. m., the Elks will leave King Tutt rest, 5610 Scovil Ave., for the church where an interesting program will be opened promptly at 3 o'clock. It will include vocal selections by Mrs. Nettie Berkay, Mrs. Caroline B. W. W. Whitfield; selections by Mary B. Talbert and King Tutt bands; remarks by Jas. F. Greene, E. R.; Lena G. Brown, D. R.; and Eleanore May, J. D. R.; taps by Sam Carter; reading, "Thanatopsis", by Wm. A French, jr.; and the lodge of sorrow. The principal speaker will be Rev. Henry P. Jones, pastor of St. John's A. M. E. church. Atty. Perry B. Jackson, legal advisor of King Tutt lodge, will act as master of orangeries; E. Z. Brown, chair; Eugenia Brewer Mayo, vice-chair; Atty. Perry B. Jackson, see.; Fannie Gabbard, asst.; Dr. W. B. Saunders, treas.; Carrie Lowery, asst.; Atty. J. M. Williams, Lelia Askew, Laura Porter, A. L. Acrey, Capt. Louis H. Gray, Alberta Gordon and Albert L. Bernard.
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— There is more segregation in Washington today under President Coolidge than there has ever been since the Civil War. The beginnings of segregation were under President Ettl. It was greatly extended, under President Wilson; increased, still further, under President Harding; and reached its maximum under President Coolidge. For instance, our parks President Wilson never troubled, but the present administration has found time and desire to introduce it even there.
To many people, segregation is a Democratic scheme of insult, but such is not the case. Mr. Taft introduced it in the bureau of engraving. He segregated the census labor in this city in his time by white workers in white people, and black workers, often duplicating work as most blocks had white and black residents. And, worst of all, announced in his official capacity that Negroes should not hold office where white people not hold office segregation, then, is a Republican institution and in a Democratic one, and 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 graph which must accompany their papers, is tenaciously held on to by our Republican President. Only last colored girl appeared after having passed the best examination, and after having been telegraphed for by the department. The photograph had failed to tell her true color, and they flatly refused to appoint her when she appeared, and they saw her complexion. Commissioner Blair of the internal bureau with thousands of clerks will not appoint a Negroork, and his word is that the Negro is the specimen of Secretary Mellon and President Coolidge. He halls from North Carolina, the home of the other favorite and leader of the segregation forces, Col. Sherrill, superintendent of buildings and grounds it is no use to complain of either of these southern gentlemen.
The colored people here who know the President could destroy segregation in the departments of the government, and the photograph requirements in the civil service by the mere nod of his head, are at a loss to understand why he does not put his splendid disarrhations on motion to operation here, where it would not even cost him a single vote and where he has full power and absolutely no opposition. They wonder if he is not a firm believer in segregation, especially since segregation is one of the factors of the acts of the government which has the "welcome home" in the Republican party, and receives no condemnation from the Republican President.
(Special to The Gazette.)
Washington, D. C.—In the postfive segregation is rampant. The faithful colored clerks work under constant humiliation and physical disadvantages. The department maintains a spacious cafeteria for whites only, where these inferior white clerks can buy appetizing luncheons and chat in comfort while eating, while the colored clerks must bring cold luncheons from home and eat them any place they can. The physical discomfort, disadvantageous as it is, is far less gullible of the colored clerks than is the thought of their government taking their taxes, as it takes those of the whites, for the comfort of the latter, and setting them off as much they were lepers. The justice sings all the more that they reflect that they are far more capable than the whites, and render the government more intelligent and efficient service—the white man of their attainment being able to get far more lucrative employment.
The department goes even farther in its solicitude for whikes and neglect of colored. It maintains a well-appointed club room with pool tables and other games, a com for t able lounges and other equipment for rest, sociability, and recreation, and nothing for these same colored employees. This private club is in the magnificent postoffice building, built and maintained by ALL of the people. In the locker rooms there is segregation, and segregation is 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 beads of depar tion, including the department general, in the postoffice building. It announced dancing and a pleasant social evening with the officials for "the post-empire employees" yet not one was delivered to the colored clerks. I hurried a protest to the postmaster general the day before it was to
come on, and he ordered the postmaster to invite the colored as well as the white. These clerks get the job done. The clerks give the function at a local hotel.
It is inevitable that the wicked spirit of segregation would express itself in appointments, assignments, and salaries. Colored applicants are often passed over though their examination was superior No Negro, however efficient or old in the service, must ever dream of a promotion to a directive position. The hard, unyielding caste passes whites over him, one after another, though many of the colored employees have won contests in quickness and accuracy in the handling of mail. The colored clerks have dared to union which me regularly and often sends appeals and intelligent protests to the postmaster, and often appeals from his decisions to the postmaster-general. It has secured some improvement in their working conditions, but they are still bitter over the huge injustice done to them for nothing else than the color of their skin.
(Special to The Gazette.)
Washington, D. C.—The government printing office keeps faith with the government's universal scheme of segregation. Some of the best and brightest of our girls are forced to accept inferior positions there on account of the better and more lucrative avenues of employment being closed to them because of their color. The whites are generally of a very mediocre group, far from equaling our girls in educational equipment, culture, and working efficiency. Yet these superior girls are set off from the whites with the latter, of course, having the better conditions, salaries and recreation facilities, and the large cafeteria of a 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. I am glad to say that few, very few, of our people patronize the places, preferring a little physical inconvenience to the open, semi-public humiliation of segregation.
In toilet facilities, dressing-rooms, and work assignments, wherever possible, the law of segregation is in full force, and, of course, this same undemocratic practice reveals itself on the salary roll and in the hardaste that bars promotions. Here, the law of segregation passes over our superior employees to directive positions, and higher salaries.
The whites have a large recreational center in this public building with many fine appointments for rest and amusements. During lunch and dinner hours they repair to this restful retreat for sociability and dance. Last fall, a young Afro-American wife with a spasm of guilt 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 abruptly stopped, and the young man reported for attempting to take part in an entertainment provided for employees. He was called to the office, lectured for being "one of the most important people" with "social equality" and then dismissed on a trumped-up charge. He was a night-employee, hence he carried a pistol. Right after the dance incident a fire broke out in the office. He was quickly accused of setting the building afire in revenge for his exclusion from the dance floor. Detectives came to the building to arrest him, and failing to secure an evidence searched him only to discover the pistol. They quickly dropped the arson charge and pursued one or carrying cooled weasel weapons immediately dismissed. By this severe punishment the employees are taught that there is no way of escape for one who dares to resent the daily insults that their government (under President Coolidge) gives them.
Many of the employees have expressed their deeply-wounded feelings to me at being considered a pariah by the government whose institutions they are serving so faithfully, and I have taken up a number of cases only to be met by a denial that the conditions complained of exist, and a request for the names of my informants. I knew the fate these informants would suffer so I have never given a single name! The department then taking the position that it cannot take up the case. It is perfectly clear that this iniquitous scheme of segregation is a difficult thing to fight, since the government is so well settled upon it, and the complainants cannot bear witness to it.
(Special to The Gazette)
Washington. D. C.—Segregation in the bureau of engraving and printing has an interesting history involving President Thomas Woodrow Wilson and members of his family, three heroic young colored women who lost their positions as a female secretary to President Warren G. Wilson of Senator Robert La Follette Shortly after the accession of Mr. Wilson to the White House, a mem
ober or his family visited the bureau where she saw white and colored girls working together in perfect harmony, oblivious to any thought of race. Shortly thereafter came an order for segregation of the races, and a white lady who had been noted for her philanthropy among our people and who was upon intimate acquaintance with the White House appeared at the bureau to tell our girls to be contented with the new order as "a great Negro leader had taught colored people to stay in their places." Three of the young ladies resisted the order to the last ditch and were summarily dismissed!
abolition of the division altogether; so they remain in a dilemma, fearing to act. Our clerks must accept segregation or elimination, and being poor, with no other opportunities in this southern atmosphere, must take the former. They are depressed at the wrong, but economic stress compels and endures of it.
By a single stroke of his pen, President Calvin Coolidge can stop every bit of this damnable segregation, just as he can condemn that lawless organization the Ku Klux Klan.
Washington, p. C.—We wish to call
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 local white press, and addressed the national gathering of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People in New York. When our people here were so profoundly discouraged, she came out one stormy afternoon to the Y. Y. C.A. to urge them to continue the Right 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 e 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 fullness, under the administration of the party that /braham Lincoln, Charles Sumner and Frederick Douglass helped to found. Our girls are employed there in far larger numbers than in any other branch of the public service. THEY ARE SECRET and the only means they have of working stations, and of course none are ever thought of for promotions to executive places. They are girls from our best names, most of them with high and normal school training, and fine culture. The white girls are of no such grade, as there is no segregation for them in the great world of things. They have unlimited fields at high wage for even mediocre talents. The best of our girls must take these inferior positions, the inevitable result of segregation, our public service, the insistence of an order destroying this iniquitous practice in all of our government departments, for it not only humiliates the best of the government servants but impaire 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 has indies, and in the 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 been a governing system 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. Blair from North Carolina, has not appointed a colored clerk since his incumbency. While his predecessor, Mr. Daniel Roper, a Democrat from Texas, appointed and promoted several of them. Since the income tax legislation and the numberless new taxes that the recent war necessitated, this is by far the largest department of the treasury, employing several thousand clerks. Yet Negroes are so scarce, there they are not. The 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 lockers, toilet rooms, rest rooms, etc. set off for colored. The toilers for the colored are few in such a large structure. Hence, the segregated clerks are forced to 'endure physical inconvenience at times, and are forced to work in the same room to stire the use of them. The department maintains a huge, magnificent cafeteria, in the splendid sweep of woodland along our national driveway, where white people of every class can come to rest, dine, and socialize of afternoons and evenings at minimum costs. The white press of the city is constantly telling of the thousands who take advantage of this 'delightful retreat, and the people of woodland that they present creates. It seats two thousand dinners with space to spare; but not one Negro! His only share is in the taxes he is forced to pay for this luxury for another group!
The registries of the treasury, which Republican Presidents have given the Negro since Garfield appointed 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. A single stroke of his pen, President Calvin Coolidge can stop every bit of the damnable segregation, just as he can condemn that lawless organization the Ku Klux Klan.
Washington, 12. C.—We wish to call attention to the fact that in the night against the segregation of our government employees, the Treasury Department will most likely be the center of attack, for segregation in several of its bureaus has been most pronounced. This is particularly true of the office of the register of the treasury and the internal revenue bureau. In the former, 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 election of President Coolidge, were hardly cold before the effort to increase segregation in the departments here was on again at full speed. It had slowed up a little during the company investigation of Burcus
An investigation of the executive departments and bureaus listed below shows that segregation prevails in them as follows:
Office of the Register of the Treasury, there are two segregated sections—one with 30 Afro-American employees and the other with 14.
Navy Department — one segregated section of 18 of our employees, as well as a segregated lunch room.
Census Bureau — a segregated section of 60 Afro-American employee Bonus Section
Bonus section of the War Department—one segregated section of 180 of our employees.
Veterans Bureau—a segregated section of 16 employees.
Department of Justice—a segregated section of 10 employees in the file room.
Internal Revenue
Internal Revenue Bureau—a segregated section of 7 employees.
Office of the Treasurer of the United States—a segregated section of 4 employees.
War Department, Transportation Division—a segregated section of 5 employees.
P. O. Separate Lunch Room
Post Office Department—a segregated lunch room.
Our Church Debts
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, $45,000; Zion Hill Baptist church, $15,000; Gethsemane Baptist church, 8,000; Iconium Baptist church, $18,000; St. James A. M. E. church, $30,000; E. M. Zion Cong. temple Baptist church, $20,000; E. M. Zion Baptist church, $6,000; E. 74th and Kinsman Rd., $5,500; churches in Mt. Pleasant, $3,500; E. 64th and Quincy Ave., $25,000; St. Paul A. M. E. Zion, $30,000; 2nd Emmanuel Baptist church, $8,000; E. 33rd and Quincy Ave., $25,000; churches in Mt. 560; Providence Baptist church, $6,000; Lhundale churches, $8,000; 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; New York Baptist church, $2,000; Mt. Zion Cong. temple, $50,000; 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; Stewart Memorial, E. 74th St. and Central Ave., $13,000; St. Paul Baptist church, $6,800; Antioch Baptist church, $12,000; Baptist church, $7,000; Tabernacle Baptist church, $1,700; two little churches. E. 123rd St. and Superior E., $5,338; W. 25th St., $1,275; Phillis Wheatley Association, $158,000. Total $667,213.
"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 Sieubenville, Zanville, Wilmington, Xenia, Washington C. H., Lancaster, Hamilton, Plaqu, Lima, O., and other places, particularly in Ohio, where we are home to the city. The Gazette, 226 Westchester Ave., Cleveland, O., and term 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.
"NOT THE LARGEST
BUT THE BEST!" Little Rock, Ark., June 16, '25. Hon. Harry C. Smith, Editor, Gazette, Cleveland, D. Oear Friend:—Long live The Gazette! a welcome friend to the Ricks-Demby family for forty-three years. We boast of being among the oldest continuous subscribers of The Gazette—not the largest but the best in essentials and the most dependable of race journals
Wishing you continued good health and success, we are as ever,
Very truly yours.
(Bishop) Edward T. and Nettie
M. Demby.
Pretty Things
that are
Made at Home
MILLINERY DIVERSITY ACCENTS HATS FOR EVERY OCCASION
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NO MORE time to spend in working cross-word puzzles, now that the mode is calling so insistently for hand-painted scarfs, ties, kerchiefs and like accessories. Of course one can buy most beautiful specimens of neckwear, and silk squares, painted as only professional artists can paint them. Indeed, they are working overtime in studios everywhere in order to supply fashion's demand for accessories such as are here pictured.
However, if really ambitious there is no reason why the amateur should not try out the experiment of transforming lengths of silk, chiffon or velvet into charming accessories, by embellishing them with paint and dye.
It is such fun to work out one's own ideas and that is the keynote of interest in this vogue for hand painting—to illustrate one's finery, so to speak. He paints scenic views on the ends
MILLINERY DIVERS
HATS FOR
MILLINERY artistry and millinery diversity seems to have at last reached its goal—that of providing suitable hats for all occasions and for all wearers, no matter what their types and demands may be. For the woman who desires to express her individuality to the utmost and still be in the mode there has never been such millinery opportunity.
In sports hats the clever little cloet gives promise of holding its own. It can be had in infinite varieties from dalty viscas in esthetic colors to the new wool crochet. A hat of wool crochet with a stenciled design in contrasting colors and edged with bengaline ribbon would be a crowning glory to any sports ensemble. Such a model is shown at the top to the right in this picture.
For the more formal occasions, when good taste insists upon a more elaborate costume, the small hat need not necessarily be eliminated from the picture. Every wardrobe of hats for this summer should therefore include a
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of one's scarf, perhaps waves and a sailboat, and a figure or two across the sleeve of a sailor blouse, or a bizarre dragon on the back of one's satin bondou or beach coolie coat. Fashion's latest whim is to paint neckline and handkerchief to match. Clever for the equestrienne is a tie and handkerchief with a horse's head or figure painted on each as shown in this group of accessories. Other of the tie and handkerchief sets in the picture are also decorated with qualit objects. For the tennis player an appropriate motif would be a tennis bucket. Butterflies, birds and flowers are charming subjects for the artist. Hand-blocked silk squares, preferred by many to scarfs, are done in gorgeous colors and in bold modernistic patterns after the style of those here pictured.
JULIA BOTTOMLEY.
© 1927. Western Newspaper Union.
TY ACCENTS
R EVERY OCCASION
little afternoon type. What could be more charming than this chic model of brown lace portrayed first in the group? It boasts a tracery of gold and its brim is faced with gold cloth.
In the larger brimmed models, hair milan and ballibuntal will unquestionably dominate with a range of trim mings which begins with the simplest of ornaments and ends with the most elaborate arrangements of flowers and ostrich motifs. An exquisite exponent of the wide-brim type centers the illustration. Black velvet forms the crown and the deep flange is white hair brud.
Below to the left is a small hat in a jade speckled effect, stitched in square design. This model would be a delightful finishing touch to a shop ping and informal luncheon ensemble.
The last hat in the group is made of the new combination of yarn and visca, using coral pink and white for its color scheme.
JULIA BOTTOMLEY
(© 1927 Western Newspaper Union)
E After Reading
WILBERFORCE
When the much-heralded "Brusseaux investigation of Wilberforce University" was announced, some months ago, comparatively few of the great mass of our people throughout the country, who heard of the contemplated action, knew that the Combined Normal and Industrial (State) Department at Wilberforce, although a part of the university, was controlled by the state of Ohio which was represented on its board of trustees by five members, appointed by the governor of Ohio; three members, appointed by the A. M. E. Church connection and one ex officio member—the president of the university. Fewer members of the race throutout the country seem to know that there has not been any (Brusseaux) investigation of Wilberforce University which is controlled by the A. M. E. Church connection, the Combined Normal & Industrial (State) Department of the university excepted. The university's board of trustees, all appointed by the A. M. E. Church connection, did not permit any (Brusseaux) investigation. His activity, however, resulted in the state auditor of Ohio ordering a thorow investigation of the state department at Wilberforce by a state examiner who, but a few weeks preceding the date of Audit Trays' order, had completed a careful examination of it reporting, as he also did after his-examination, on the state auditor's order at the request of Brusseaux, everything in good shape. No dishonesty, crookedness or wrong-doing of any kind was found and the board of trustees and superintendent, the controlling power of the State Department, were again given a "clean bill of health". What Brusseaux started out to do, as we have indicated in the foregoing, he never succeeded in doing because he failed to bring about the investigation of the university proper which was sought and this fact should be, as it is not, generally known. In an effort to still further promote the interests of the state department, its board of trustees, last week Friday, took a long step in the advance which is bound to improve the department greatly and which will be found noted at length elsewhere in this paper in our Wilberforce letter. The Gazette commends in the strongest possible manner the determination and continued effort of the board not only to prove conditions but also to materially raise the standard of teaching and the quality of service rendered by the official staff of the State Department, under the direction of its very efficient superintendent, Mr. Richard C. Bundy.
The Truth!
What would cause other people to gnash their teeth and gird, their loins is question of debate for us. Kick us, beat us, pile depredations upon us, revile us, abuse us, lie about us, malign us and even impugn our valor and we are not unanimously insulted. It seems impossible to establish unanimity of insult in the black race.—Chicago (Ill.) Whip.
"WORTH ITS WEIGHT IN GOLD"
Cleveland, O., Aug. 28th, 1925.
Hon. Harry C. Smith.
Editor, Gazette.
Dear Friend:—I have read the latest copy of The Gazette through and after reading it,
I can truthfully say: It is worth its weight in gold!
I admire true manhood—a man who, seeing injustice and oppression, dares, within the limits of the law, to expose it and, if possible smite it. You and I have frequently, during the forty-two years since the birth of The Scotch, then the Scotch would say, like two McNeils, but when I find a man, such as you, who consistently, and persistently, through nearly half a century, puts his race foremost in his life struggle, I take off my hat to him, as being a true friend of our class. Long life to you and The Gazette.
Yours for the right.
John P. Green.
(Former Member, Ohio State Senate.)
My ear is pained,
My soul is sick with every
day's report
Of wrong and outrage, with
which the earth is filled,
There is no flesh in man's ob-
durate heart.
It does not feel for man; the
natural bond
Of brotherhood is severed as
the flax
That falls asunder at the touch
of fire.
He finds his fellow guilty of
a skin
Not colored like his own; and
having power
To enforce the wrong, for such
a worthy cause
Dooms and devotes him as his
lawful prey.
Thus man devotes his brother, and destroys:
'Tis human nature's broadest foulest blot.
—Cowper.