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THE GAZETTE ESTABLISHED, AUGUST 25, 1883 And Issued Every Week on Time Since CLEVELAND, OHIO, SATURDAY, JUNE 18, 1927. FRESH OHIO NEWS WRITTEN BY "THE OLD RELIABLE" GAZETTE'S CORRESPONDENTS. Marriages, Deaths, Etc. 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 books, would give you information on obeying 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 apples. ALLIANCE.—Rev. E. Humphrey's sudden death in Los Angeles, Cal., last Thursday, was a great, shock to Alliance people. He was a well-known preacher and evangelist.—Mr. Edward West of Smithfield visited his daughter, Crawford Clark, last week.—Mrs. Orritch Coleman, of Ft. Madison, Iowa, is visiting her brother, Mr. Leroy Smith.—Mrs. Howard Kelly has improved since her operation, some time ago.—Little Duward, son of Mrs. Ethel Childers, ill with the rickets at the city hospital, is improving.—St. Luke and the Second Baptist churches held interesting meetings.—Miss Lillian Miller graduated from the local high school, Thursday evening.—Our Girl Reserves have planned a domestic science class, president, Miss Lillian Miller. CADIZ—Mrs. Bessie Thompson of Smithfield was buried, Sunday, from her sister, Mrs. Nina Alexander's, Rev. B. A. Galloway officiating, assisted by Rev. C. M. Hogans. Among her colleagues was Mr. Paul Thompson of the U. s. mail service. Pittsburgh—Mrs. Francis Christian and Miss Helen Lucas have returned from Washington, D. C. They attended the commencement of the Christian, Jr. B. S., was one of the graduates.—St. James A. M. E. rally, WILL LOSE HALF MILLION. Echoes of the Standard Life Insurance Company's Failure And, Its Subsidiaries Atlanta, Ga.—Many of our people are losing their homes in this city during the "Coolidge good times." Many of them bought houses thru the Service Company, a subsidiary of the defunct Standard Life Insurance Co. of Atlanta, which put them at the mercy of the speculating white brokers. Many of the prominent figures of the high salaried defunct company have infested our northern communities with their big ideas and blow-bagging. "These men better know how to live in their home" and where they will not be looked upon as "poor colored people" and their misdeeds glossed over. Our people have lost or will lose around a half million dollars as a result of the Standard Life Insurance Co. of Atlanta failure in 1924. Goodrich Giles Dead. Piqua, O.—One of our best known and most successful residents of this section of Ohio, Mr. Goodrich Giles, dled, last week. A widow survives him. Mr. Giles was an active 33d degree Mason, a member of several secret organizations and a vice-president of the Anchor Life Insurance Co. of Cleveland. The widow has the sympathy of not only this community but of Mr. Giles' host of friends and acquaintances throughout the state. New Presbyterian Church. New York City—The St. Nicholas Ave. Presbyterian church, at West 141st St., has been sold to the congregation of St. James Presbyterian church, the most prominent colored Presbyterian denomination in this city. The first service was held last Sunday. Rev. William Lloyd James, the pastor of the church, thrust through the East, particularly because of stirring revival services which he conducted at Washington, D. C. two years ago. Mrs. Annie E. Malone Washington, D. C.—Mrs. Annie E. Malone, of Poro College, St. Louis, and party of 30, were here, last week-end. Headquarters, W. Y. C. A. Mrs. Malone, accompanied by the Poro orchestra, was in New York City to attend the graduation of a Poro Class of 135 at Mother Zion College. She attended exercises here at John Wesley church. June 13 the St. Louis party was in Boston and on the 14th at Philadelphia. Sunday. Rev. J. A. Haitcoch, D. D. of Columbus will preach, morning and evening.—Miss Genevieve Lee has returned from Fisk University, and Thomas Christian from Ohio State University.—Children's day exercises were held at the S. S. hour at the A. M. E. church, with a good attendance.—The friends of Rev. C. J. Powell, D. D., of Zanesville were grieved to learn of the death of his wife, Mrs. Bessie Reed Powell.—Our Martins Ferry band gave a concert and J. A. Haitcoch the last week.—Rev. J. A. Haitcoch will give a stereotype lecture, Monday evening.—Mr. Charles Christian visited in Scio, Sunday.—Mr. Malcolm Nurse of Trinidad, B. W. L., a student at Fisk University, visited Miss Lee, last week. HILLSBORO.—A large sumber from here attended the services at the Second Baptist church in Georgetown, Sunday. Rev. R. L. Bray preached a soul-stirring sermon in the morning. Rev. J. J. Burr and congregation gave us a cordial welcome and a bountiful dinner was served—Mrs. Algie Blair of Dayton spearheaded Sunday he with Grand and Miss Rosalea McIlroy and Mr. Raymond Williams attended the musicale in Greenfield, last week. Mrs. Jessie Williams entertained the Get-Together club, last Wednesday afternoon. — The cantata, "King Saul", was well rendered, Friday evening, at Wesleyan church.—Rev. W. W. Stephenson of Columbus, exporter of W. church, assisted Rev. A. P. Mayle, Sunday, at quarterly meetings with Mrs. Nelson and sons, Richard and Robert, Mrs. Thomas McGown and Mrs. Eva Jones of Ripley visited Mr. and Mrs. C. M. Graggon, Saturday to Monday. Rev. James A. Young preached here two Sundays, at the A. M. e. church in the absence of the pastor, Rev. B. D. Thorpe.—Mr. and Mrs. Enoch Frye and niece, Miss Juanita Smith of Cincinnati visited Mr. and Mrs. C. M. Graggon, Nelson entertained young friends at a six o'clock dinner, last Thursday in honor of his daughter, Miss Rosetta. Women in Medicine Washington, D. C.—Of the nearly 7,500 female physicians and surgeons in the United States only about 70, or less than one per cent, are colored. Women have demonstrated that in some lines of the medical profession they are better than men. Dr. John Stewart Rodman of Philadelphia, declared at a recent dinner of graduates of the Women's Medical College of Pennsylvania. He urged more women to go into medicine. "You women of today have passed beyond the pioneer period of women in medicine," he said. You of tomorrow, your peers toward success in your chosen field are clearing a broader path for the medical women of the future. The first woman was admitted to membership in the American Medical Association in 1878, according to Dr. Rodman. Flood Miseries Break Down Racial Barriers. New Orleans, La.—The harrowing experiences of one hundred and fifty thousand or more victims of the Mississippi floods, who realize in sympathy with each other that their troubles came from a common cause and call for a common remedy, have, in contrast to the racial antipatients which have existed for years along the Mississippi river. Both white and colored refugees are now being clothed, sheltered and fed in the same camps; and, for the first time, it is said, Negro women and children are given respective places in the mess lines, next to the white women and children and ahead of the white and colored men. Discipline matters aid communia in assuaging the plight of the flood sufferers, have taken precedence over imaginary matters of 'superiority' and 'inferiority' based upon color alone. Black Star Line Loses Insurance. New York City—Whether a marine insurance company is liable for a loss when a fifty-year-old wooden steamship, after being in the mud at low tide, sprang a leak and sank, and when pumps working vigorously failed to pump water, sol whenever the tide receded, has just been decided by the Appellate Court. The court has reversed verdicts against six insurance companies obtained by the Black Star Line, Inc., the ill-fated venture of Marcus Garvey Nergis & Negris for $35,000, for a loss on the steamship "Shadside" THE PERRYS "STAR" In a Minstrel Show—The Participants pants on the Press Association—Win Praise. From All. Dayton, O.—Four whites and eleven of our people gave, last week, at the workhouse what is termed here "the summer edition of Lou's minstrels" and thoroly captivated large and appreciative audiences at both performances. At the matinee there were some 462 inmates crammed into the dining room, listening attentively and applauding vociferously, with a discrimination, however, that was amazing. Those in the show, it seems, were mostly men since he was a slave since Mr. Volstead decided to curb the bibulous appetites of the great American public. So they were not averse to having their names mentioned, not considering themselves criminals in the ordinary sense. In fact, the high average of intelligence was rather remarkable and possibly they will heed the line, "I am the master of my fate," as sung so beautifully in the "Invictus" by John Perry of the "Dawnman" such songs as "A Dawnman and Machree" also, with a bearing, feeling and voice that would do credit to the professional stage. So it wasn't surprising afterwards to learn that this is just what he been doing off and on for 10 years. His brother, Samuel V. Perry, a fine, upstanding young man, who, we learn, is studying law, was the handsome interlocutor and jokes flew hick and lash through the audience, and were the butt of their own foolery, which naturally brought a big hand. Perry, too, gave splendid imitations of a cornet. Special service workers to the number of 250 saw the show in the evening. It sure was almost a regular show, with a stage erected over the tables in the far end of the dining room, drapes tastefully arranged by a man from the Lyric theater. All were newspapers, lavish in their praise of the entertainment, referring at greater length to the Perry brothers than to any of the other participants all of whom were exceptionally good, as indicated in the foregoing. Training For Race Leadership Washington, D. C.—Dr. Robert W Patton, Director of the American Church Institute for Negroes, is trying to solve the so-called "Race Problem" in the South through the training of an educated Negro leadership Training schools are being established in each of the fifteen southern states. The school is Fort Valley, was founded 25 years ago, and thus far, ten states have founded one each. This plan, which represents the national interests of the Episcopal Church in the education of celored people has the support of the Rockefeller Foundation, which has donated $200,000 toward the institute's goals. The institute's program. Chicago has pledged $35,000 for a practice building and Ohio has donated $75,000 for another. "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. Additional Locals --- Dr. W. H. Davenport, 'editor of The Star Zion, Charlotte, N. C., official organ of the A. M. E. Zion Church, accompanied by Rev. J. P. Foote, pastor of St. Paul A. M. E. Z church, paid The Gateset sanctum a very pleasant visit. Monday, June 16, 2015, nationally able and interesting sermon at St. Paul, Sunday, and left, Tuesday, for the South. Rev. Dr. Walker, pastor of St. James A. M. E. church, this city, in recent sermons has been speaking very plainly against the fearfully immoral 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 condition 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 and enforcement of city 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 to have the aggressiveness and ability necessary to father an effort of this kind in our local ministers advance and improve the compartment and result desired. We nicely 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 to the Commission of Matt J. Potts, superintendent of criminal investigation, to Director of Safety Edwin D. Barry. SINGLE COPY FIVE CENTS BILAL IBN RAHAB A NEGRO AN AFRO-AMERICAN NEWSPAPER CORRESPONDENT WRITES OF HIM. St. Augustine, a Numidian Negro, Helped to Advance Christianity, Also Says James A. Rogers, Writing From Africa DOINGS of the RACE New York City. J. A. Rogers, the New York City Mayor, said the New York, Messenger, for the mayor. well-known correspondent, writes in the N. Y. Menger for this month: "When the Christian Negro points with pride to St. Augustine, the Numidian Negro, and tells what he did to advance Christianity, the Monammedan one can point to Bilal, and tell what he did for Christianity's greatness. He did so hardly likely to do so, as Islam, not only in theory, but in actuality, knows no color line. This Bilal Ibn Rahab whom Mr. Rogers dubs the "Warrior-Priest" is described as "dark, gaunt, with Negro features and bushy hair". He was the only one of Mahomet's original followers who did not recant when tortured by their masters for taking up the new religion. "In the depths of anguish the persecutors could not escape." Abad! Abad! (One, only one God). When the Mohammedanism had spread with the aid of the sword from India to advance Christianity, the Mohamm- "The important task of keeping alive these ideals (of Mohammedanism) in the minds of the faithful was left to Bilal, while Mahomet was busy Our Elks now number 150,000, it is claimed. Howard University, Washington, D.C., has awarded 235 degrees, this year. Wilmington, Delaware's two Afro-American councilmen, were re-elected, last week. Dr. D. L. Washington of Bowie, Md., has been elected a town commissioner. Blind Boone, famous pianist, who for forty-seven years traveled through America with his company, recently retired from the concert stage. Thomas Dyer (white), age 22, and Margaret Baylor, age 21, and Herman Crawford, age 25, and Margaret E. Fargo (white), age 23, were married in Washington, D.C., last week. Chief Solomon, a South African Zulu, has been awarded $300 damages against Natal newspaper which against Phin as disloyal and hostile during the visit of the Prince of Wales in 1925. He asked $10,000. St. Elmo Brady, Ph.D., professor of chemistry at Howard University, has tendered his resignation. He is now a professor at Fisk University at a salary of $4,500 a year and a residence. The board of trustees of Howard University, Washington, D. C., at its recent meeting established a Department of Commerce and Finance, to begin with the school year, 1927-28, under the College of Liberal Arts, and made Prof. Geo. Wm. Cook head of the Department. Mrs. Sarah Rector-Campbell of Kansas City, Mo., wealthy Oklahoma oil-lands-owner, recently won a case involving approximately $300,000 in disputed oil royalties under a decision of the U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals. The dispute had been under way for fourteen years. At the nineteenth annual convention of the Baha'is, of the U. S. and Canada, held at Montreal, Quebec, about a month ago, Mr. Louis Gregory was elected to membership in the National Spiritual Assembly, the central committee of nine, holding supreme authority in the administration of Baha'is affairs in America. At the biennial meeting of the National Council of Congregational Schools, held in Omaha, New county, Dr. George E. Haynes, secretary of the Commission on the Church and Race Relations of the Federal Council of Churches, was unanimously elected assistant moderator. Willard M. Menard, a teacher, has been found guilty of having committed an offence against morality and good order in violation of the rules of the Board of Education of Washington, D. C. Superintendent Frank W. Bell (called "W") has announced that first assistant superintendent John Wilkinson would immediately recommend to the board the dismissal of Mr. Menard. Prof. Neval H. Thomas, president of the N. A. A. C. P. of Washington, D. C. has been appointed a day on Bunker Hill, June 17, in commemoration of the 152nd anniversary of the Battle of Bunker Hill and the IN-UNION IS STRONGER COPY FIVE CENTS NISM! HAB A NEGRO NEWSPAPER CORRESPON- TES OF HIM. Negro, Helped to Advance; James A. Rogers, from Africa with the plans of battle and of government. Bilal took care that prayer was held no matter what was about to happen. At the battle of Ohad, while the enemy was advancing, he made the soldiers kneel for them. When image was shown at the zeal, after which they rose and swept all before them although outnumbered and deserted by one of their allies just before the battle. "Mahomet thought so much of Bilal", writes Mr. Rogers, "that he granted him precedence in Paradise, but none. At the capture of Jerusalem, Bilal rode at Omar's right hand, and saw that all the Christian images, as well as the idolatrous ones, were thrown out of the temples, and the places prepared for the worship of Islam." Bilal's influence lated until he died. heroes of our patriot, Peter Salem, displayed in that great battle. The evening of June 16, Prof. Salem was the main speaker, a celebrant. Fauci Hall held under the auspices of the National Equal Rights League. Eighteen months ago Herr Gustav Reiss, a German explorer, on a shooting expedition in East Africa, came upon a beautiful half-caste girl, whose father was a white trader, living with a family of baboons. He rescued her and brought her back to civilization. Love has come to crown the strange romance, and Herr Reiss is shortly bringing his strangely won girl to the object of having her educated at a fashionable girls' college, so Herr Reiss told the Berlin correspondent of the London Sunday Chronicle. THIRTY-FOUR GRADUATES At Commencement at Talladega College, you are successful Your New Teachers Talladega, Ala. The commencement exercises, this year, when Rev Dr. C. A. Vincent of Winter Park, Florida, gave the address, marked the end of one of the most successful years in the life of Talladega College. Although the graduating class numbered only thirty-four from the college department, yet eighty-five entered the freshman class, last year. Four graduated from the college department. Two new teachers were added in the college department and one or two must be added, next year, to meet the requirements. Much was added in equipment especially in the science department. More Peonage in Georgia. Atlanta, Ga. It is said that Governor Clifford Walker has started a rigid inquiry on charges made by James Felton, a Negro, at Danville, Va. that he had been kept in peonage for nearly a year and a half on a farm owned by a "Dr. King" in Oglethorpe County, Ga. He said that fifty other Negroes were being held in a virtual state of slavery there and five men were ordered to work five men to prevent their escape. He said that he was on his way to Virginia from Florida, and when his automobile broke down near the plantation of "Dr. King", he was shanghailed to work there, escaping only two weeks ago. It was pointed out recently that Dr. W. R. King of Oglethorpe County has been indicted on charges of peonage, involving not only the Negroes but white men. Dr. King is a prominent physician and farmer. His trial will begin in the United States Court in Athens on Monday. Wins U. of P. Degree. Philadelphia, Pa.—Saidie Mossell Alexander received the degree of bachelor of laws at the commencement exercises, the first of the week, of the University of Pennsylvania. She is the first woman of the race to be so honored and was the first one in this state to receive the degree of doctor of philosophy. She will practise law here in the office of her husband Raymond Pace Alexander. She is the daughter of Aaron A. Mossell, our first male graduate of the U. of P., and a niece of Henry O. Tanner, our greatest artist, a resident of Paris, France, and a chevalier of the French legion of honor. IVE BEEN TURNING THIS FREEZER FOR AN HOUR AND I'M ALL IN!...SURELY THE CREAM IS FROZEN BY THIS TIME! SIS!--I-I-I-ER-ER- THE FREEZER--I-I- WELL,YOU WHAT? I-I-FORGOT TO PUT THE CREAM IN! GOSH!--WHAT A TURRIBLE DARK NIGHT!...I'D GIVE MY SHIRT T'SEE A COUPLE O'STARS! Tim Early The GAZETTE PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY (In Advance) One Year ..... $2.00 Six Months ..... 1.00 Subscribers are requested to remit by postoffice money order or registered letter. Entered at the postoffice in Cleveland, Ohio, as second-class mail matter 829 W. Superior Ave., Cleveland, O. (Bell Phone: Cherry 1259) Member Ohio Legislature: 1894 to 1896; 1896 to 1898; 1900 to 1902 THE GAZETTE is the oldest and has the largest bona fide circulation, double that of any newspaper in the interest of Afro-Americans published or circulated in the state of Ohio, and comparison with any will immediately establish its rank as one of the NEWSIEST AND BEST in the country. 10,000,000 Afro-Americans. 850,000 in Ohio. 40,000 in Cleveland. SATURDAY, JUNE 18, 1927. It is an old and often very true statement—"you cannot keep a good man down". The Dayton daily press, last week, praised highly the brothers, John and Samuel V. Perry of this city. See Dayton letter elsewhere in this paper. The effort being made by certain persons of color to put the "Negro" vote in pawn to President Calvin Coolidge for the promise of the release of Marcus Garvey from the government penitentiary at Atlanta, Ga., is almost a criminal act. Even he ought to know that the traitorous persons of color, who are making the effort, cannot possibly deliver. A California clergyman, in a recent address to San Francisco Congregationalists said the Afro-American's destiny is in the hands of the white women of the country. Better there than in the hands of the white men, the Lord knows. But the fact is our destiny rests and will continue to rest in our own hands and it will be just what WE make it. Our friends of all colors or races can help it is true but that is all that they can do. RAS TAFARL Menelik, king or emperor of Abyssinia, Africa, placed his country in the sun of the powers of the world when he defeated the Italian army in a great battle, many years ago, and compelled them all to respect him and his country until the day of his death. Menelik's successor is Ras Tafari, prince regent of Abyssinia, who to date has maintained the status of the country made by his wonderfully successful predecessor, King Menelik. Abyssinia is still respected by the powers of the world and Ras Tafari continues to "carry on". Recently he sent President von Hindenberg of Germany two beautiful full grown zebras, as a token of his esteem, which the president has turned over to the Berliner zoo, after properly acknowledging the receipt of the same. Ras Tafari may not be as wise as his illustrious predecessor but is showing very satisfactory progress. He is young and has most of his life still before him. A local daily newspaper editorially takes Mr. Edward C. Turner, attorney general of Ohio, severely to task for quoting in a recent speech what it terms "an old false charge" against the men who put to death persons accused of witchcraft in Salem, Mass., more than two centuries ago, saying "uncounted Americans, who ought to have known better, have told this same falsehood making a black page in the history of their country blacker. The truth is bad enough and the truth is that twenty victims of superstitious frenzy were executed as witches in one small colonial town. But they were never burned at the stake. That savagery did not make a foul record more infamous. The method of putting the so-called witches to death was hanging". It seems, therefore, that it remained for barbarous residents (white) of the South to make "a foul record more infamous" by the introduction of the savagery of burning hapless victims of color at the stake. RACE PREJUDICE! "I am convinced myself that there is no more evil thing in this present world than race prejudice; none at all! "I write deliberately—it is the worst single thing in life now. It justifies and holds together more baseness, cruelty and abomination than any other sort of error in the world." Two Telephone Employees Are Presented With Hero Medals TWO employees of The Ohio Bell Telephone Company have been awarded Theodore N. Vall bronze medals for noteworthy acts of public service during the year of 1926, it has just been announced. The two are Mrs. Jeannete Griswold, a night operator at Worthington, and Ezra P. Allison, an installation foreman at Dayton. Mrs. Griswold was awakened at 2:30 A. M. on November 27th, 1926, to find the building, which housed the telephone exchange, in flames. She called the fire department, warned persons living nearby and attempted to save the office records, all this at great personal risk to herself as the fire had obtained a good start before she was awakened. Her citation reads for "courage and devotion to duty in the presence of grave danger." Allison's medal was awarded for "courage, prompt action and good judgment in saving human life." He and a fellow employee were testing a cable on a pole when the latter received a high voltage current through his body. He collapsed in his safety belt. Allison caught him and applied artificial respiration methods while still on the pole, finally bringing the man back to consciousness. He then assisted in lowering him from the pole by means of ropes supplied by the fire department. Allison was burned on the hands during the rescue. Thirteen other Ohio Bell employees received honorable mention and eight were awarded letters of commendation for noteworthy public service. THE GEEVUM GIRLS LIVING up to the best traditions of their profession, two telephone operators in the little city of Castalia, near Sandusky, displayed the heroism that seems to have become a part of the telephone operator's work. When fire broke out in a building across the street from the telephone exchange, these two operators, Miss Freda Gruhike and Mrs. R. C. Golden, staked at their posts despite stairs and blazing brands which showeded and at times set fire to the building, which houses the telephone office. Newspapers in Sandusky and citizens of Castilia give the two girls credit for saving the town from destruction as they called out the fire department and private citizens until the fire was under control. Neither girl desires any credit for her actions. THE MAN WHO DARES "I honor the man who in the conscientious discharge of has duty dares to stand alone; the world, with ignorant, intolerant judgment, may condemn, the countenances of relatives may be averted, and the hearts of friends grow cold, but the heart of friends is sweeter than the applause of the world, the countenances of relatives or the hearts of friends."—Charles Sumner. THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, O. SATURDAY, JUNE 18, 1927 NEW NOW ONLY The YOUTH'S COMPANION $2 Y. C. Lab for Ingenious Boys — Department Exclusively for Girls — Radio — Games — Caleb Peaslee's Cape Cod Philosophy — Wood Craft — Nature Lore — The Best Children's Page DON'T MISS THIS GREAT YEAR! Check your choice and send this coupon with your remittance to the PUBLISHERS OF THIS PAPER, or to THE YOUTH'S COMPANION, Boston, Massachusetts. IS IT ANY USE TO CON-TEND FOR RIGHTS? Colored Americans are the only race, responsible members of which are in favor of submitting to discrimination on the claim that their race "always will be discriminated against." The Jews are still contending, after over 1900 years of universal discrimination, and are winning even social rights today. The Irish at home have contended for 700 years and are winning because they will die rather than submit. The race that says it's of no use to resist, downs itself and the world then will say "Negroes are not worth 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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SMITH, (has War Sepete Arson Cheveieall O° Oppose Hotel Cleveland’) Notary Public Bell "Phone: Cherry 1259 ate sates area 0 es ee ee Classified Advertising Department THE GEEVUM GIRLS HOUSE FOR SALE.—Six rooms Hain eames ate, Awa” tiooks soul of Lake Shore ‘Blvd, ane’ E. 185th St. Call Mrs. Moir, Main t92, FOR RENT—Modera § room sim gle, three garages, also brick hen- house, large lot. Right rent to re sponsible party. No other need ap- ply. Call at 2242 E. 70th St. FOR RENT —Wive nice rooms up-stairs, in the East End. Avail- Stic, Jose 4. “Gee ects ites, Re oe oes cette Very near Scovill-Quincy Ave. car. $25 a month. Call Cherry 1259 or call at Suite 302, No. 226 W. Su- Peer bes, epic, inet Sieve ay in thy eee Social and Personal Atty. Alex. H. Martin was in New York City, recently, on business. Raymond Cassidy, B. 43d St. cello player, will leave for New York City soon fo play with Roy Cooper's or- chestra, Bllen McNair, prize French stu- dent at Brownell, was recently awarded the medal given, each year, by the school. Raymond Smith, pianist, formerly of Cleveland, now of Chicago, was in the elty, recently, called by the death of his father. Do not overlook our classified ad. department, Tell your friends this, too. There may be something in it of prime interest to you and them. Miso Alice Jackson, B. 76th St., ‘who motored to Salem with a friend ‘for tire Decoration-day week-end, has ‘started a rumor, it seems, that she ‘Will be one of the late June brides. “The Cabaret Man”, a musical comedy, sponsored by Dr. W. P. Saunders, will be given at East Tech high school, this week Friday eve- ning, for thé scholarship tund of the Gamma Tau club, ‘The editor of The Gazette was at Wilberforce, last. week Friday and Saturday, to attend a meeting of the board of trustees at the State De- partment. Another meeting was held ‘on Thursday of this week. Mrs. W. A. Tedford’s nephew, Ce- cll Gross, graduated trom the Knox- vill, Tenn. high school, last week, and her daughter, Marguerite, grad- uated from East Tech high, this week Thursday. King Tutt lodge and Mary B. Tal- vort temple, Hiks, made a splendid showing at’ thelr annual memorial Services, Sunday, at Shiloh Baptist ehureh and thelr program of exer- elses was very good, indeed ‘The Homestead Grays again, beat the Akron General Tires (white) there, Sunday afternoon, 6 to 4, by scoring three runs in ‘the eighth ‘THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, 0. SATURDAY, JUNE 18, 1927. WANTED — AGENTS — NEW PLAN, makes it eaay to earn $50.00 to $100.00 weekly, selling shirts direct to’ wearer. No capital or ex- perience needed. Represent areal manufacturer. "Write for FREE SAMPLES. Madison Shirt Makers, 562 Broadway, New York. ech ee a fee FOR SALE.—A real bargain, if you can pay $5,000 down. Near Gen- tral Ave. and E. 79th St.; a two fam- ily, with all modern conveniences, for $8,300. Call Cherry 1259, oF come to suite 302, No. 226 W.’ Su- perlor Ave., opposite Hotel Cleve- land, in the afternoon. Will take prospective purchaser to see the Senmanee. inning. Both teams are semi-profes- sional. ‘The American Giants came trom ‘behind to beat the Cleveland Buck- eyes, 7 to 3, Sunday. Miller, who relieved Dean in the seventh, was wild, walking three men, forcing in one tun, while two more scored on a passed ball. ‘The East Bnd Political club held a meeting at Cedar “Y", Tuesday eve- ning, to receive the petitions, it has had ‘in circulation since May 1, to make its president, Clayborne George, a,candidate for the city council is district 4. Here are some of our graduates from Bast Tech high school: Lillian Edwards, Thelma Foster, Wilhelmina Styles, ‘Willie Ela Hill, Lowell Henny, Susie Murdock, Marguerite Tedford, Georgie Oliver and Robert Harris. | twas Mr, Maurice Cliford of Washington, D. C. (and not Lieut. Jay W. Clifford), son of Hon. Wm. H. Clifford of the nation’s capital, who was in the city, recently, to visit his uncle, Mr. John Clifford and other relatives. Dr. J. Reynolds Lee, dentist, of Conneaut, was in the city, récently, to secure office-space. He is to move to Cleveland, soon. Dr, Lee is a na- tive Clevelander, a brother of Mrs. Alberta Gamblee Wills who for years has made her home in California, ‘The editor of The Guzette acknow!- edges the receipt of an invitation to attend the marriage, June 21, of Miss Edythe, daughter of Mr, and Mrs. Walter B. Wright, Sr., W. 85th St., now employed in Brooklys, N. Y., to Mr. Arthur Rice of New York City, Rey. Chas. Bundy, presiding elder of this district of the A. M. Church, who has been quite ill for several months, is at Cleveland hos- pital, 2066 E. 93rd St., near Carne- gle Ave., for treatmest for stomach trouble." He was slightly improved, the middle of the week. The editor of The Gazette acknow!- edges the receipt, last week, of an in- [vitation from the trustees, faculties and graduating classes of Wilber- force University to attend the sixty- fourth annual commencement, Thurs- day morning, at Wilberforce, of its college, theological, normal, commer- W. H. 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Out of the two thousand children attending Lafayette school, E. 133rd St. and Abel Ave., Juanita Thomas, E, 126th St., was’ the only child of leolor to go with honors from 6A to junior high school without taking an examination. She has always been on the honor roll. Little Miss ‘Thomas will be remembered as an exceptional child-reader of the race. The newly elected officers of the Jay Dee club are: Eugene Apple, pres.; Helen Sims, vice-pres.; Lioyd Wright, rec. see.; Morris Fox, treas.; Florence Bundy, sgt-at-arms; Helen ‘Troy, cor. sec.) Wm. French, par- Hamentarian. “The ‘club's formal dance, June 30, when Wm. French, recent graduate of W. R. U., will be honored. An argumest over a dice game led to the stabbing of Sherman Williams, age 28, 3720 Scovill Ave., late Sun- day, which took placé at &. 48th Pl. and’ Woodland Ave.. in “the roaring third” precinct. Will Jones, age 33, 4413 Woodland Ave. was booked on a charge of cutting to: wound, while Williams, slashed about the face and seck, was recovering in Charity hos- pital. Dr. F.C. Dominguez, graduate of Northwestern university, Chicago, passed the Ohio Medical board exam: ination and will locate in Cleveland, Mrs, Dominguez was Le Etta Rev- elis, formerly of Milwaukee. With her’ sister, Mabel, she is in George White's new show in New York City. The Revells girls are daughters of Mr. Walter Rovells, former Cleve- lander, for many years a resident of j Clarence . Martihg (white), con ductor on a double-teck bus, was cut about his hands pd arms and a sixteen-year-old passenger was ar- rested, Sunday afternoon, at Euclid Ave. and E. 6th St. Martin and the youth got into an argument in the bus. As the boy left at E. 6th St., he hurled back an epithet and Martin went after him. The youth, he said, drew a knife. He was booked, on a charge of cutting to wound, as John Blaine of 2264 E. 95th St. Councilman Tom and Mrs. Flom- ing and Dr. and Mrs... H. Garvin finally left ‘the city, Thursday, for New York City to sail, Saturday, on their belated trip to Hurope. They expect to remain two months, mak- ing a tour of the British Isles and the continent. A week or more each will be spent in London, Paris, Vienna and Berlin with side-trips into other sections. They plan to be back in Cleveland, the latter part of August. Miss Anita A. Bolffen of this city, a missionary in West Africa, writes interestingly of her three and a half years’ experionce among the natives ‘of tropical Africa, in a letter to Mrs. See Us First for All Goods in Our Line JOHN S. HALL Prices Reasonable, Satisfaction Guaranteed. JEWELER AND OPTOMETRIST 8183 Central Ave., Cleveland,O == Prospect 3659 Alex, O. Taylor, E. 103d St., and sends greetings to her many friends In this country, particularly those in Cleveland. She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Geo. A. Bolden of East- ham Ave., East Cleveland. Miss Bol. ‘den had hier term of service extended two gears, thus providing a five-year ‘stay in Africa, She will be glad to ‘hear from any of her many friends ‘and. well-wishers, Address her at Koballa, P. ., Sierra Leone, West Africa. In the electric engineering class (22 members) of Case Schoo! of AD- plied Science that went East, re- cently, on a two weeks" trip to visit important electric plants was Francis Anderson Gregory, who carries three medals for Case school. He has been on the Case honor roll since matricu- lation, three years ago, and is held in high esteem by the faculty and his classmates because of his fine record. He carries ‘medals from the inter- collegiate A. A. meet in Cincinnati, the Ohio relay meet in Columbus and the Northeastern track meet in Oberlin. He broke the Case record at the Cincinnati meet, placing his name on the college trophy record, and will be on the honor record in the college year book. Francis won the $150 ‘scholarship from Case school for his exceptional scholastic record. Milwaukee. 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 exclus- ively to our trade. The purpose of the campaign Is to open larger ave- nies of employment in such enter- prises. 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 em- ployment for members of the tace in Stores which cater to colored trade.” Both Cleveland and Detroit need such a survey and the action that should follow it. Many good posi- tions would as a result be opened to our young men and women. Just as we announced in our last fssue, the much-heralded Merey Hos- pital’ movement meeting at Shiloh Baptist church, last week Thursday evening, was sure a big “frost”. Only nineteen persons were presen! and only four of these were doctor: —Lambright, Owen, Baumgartner and Garvin who left before the meet- ing was over so enthusiastically chilly was the atmosphere of the pit fully small) gathering. Herbert Chauncey opened the meeting and announced that Benj. Johnson from the metropolitan (2) Ohio city, Can. ton, 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 speak- ers were Dr. Lambright, who came to Cleveland a few years ago trom Kansas; a student (Jamieson) of Meharry Medical College, Nashville; and the presiding officer. 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How Much Longer Will Our Self and Race Respecting Press, Pulpit and People Submit to This Rank Injustice? Washington, D. C. (Special); - There is more segregation in Washington today under President Coolidge than there has ever been since the Civil War. The beginnings of segregation were under President Taft. It was greatly extended, der President Wilson extended, still further, under President Harding; he reached its zenith under President Coolidge. For instance, the largest of our parks President Wilson never troubled, but the present administration has found time and desire to introduce it even there. To many people, segregation is a Democratic scheme of insult, but such is not the case. Mr. Tatt introduced it in the bureaucracy. He segregated 10,000 census-takers in this city of 10,000, restricting white people, and black to black, often duplicating work as most blocks had white and black residents. And, worst of all, announced in his official capacity that Negroes should not hold where white people not committed Segregation, then, is a Republican institution and not Democratic one, it was held by Republicans, and warned 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 Representation President. Only last week, a colored girl appeared after being 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 revenue bureau with thousands of clerks will not appoint a Negro clerk, and word is law there, as he the especial favorite of Secretary Mellon and President Coolidge. He halls from North Carolina, the home of the other favorite and the segregated forces, Col. Sherrill, superintendent of buildings and grounds it is no use to complain of either of these southern gentlemen. The colored people here who know the President could destroy segregation in the departments of the government, and the photograph requirements in the civil service by the mere nod of his head, are at a loss to understand why he does not put his splendid declarations on democratic operation here, 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 he found its accomplices to be 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, disadvantages as it is, is far less galling of the colored clerks than is the thought of their government taking their taxes, as it takes off the whites, for it takes off the latter, and setting them off as though they were lepers. The injustice stings all the more when they reflect that they are far more capable than the whites, and render the government more intelligent and efficient service—the white man of their attainment being able to get far more lucrative employment. The department goes even farther in its solicitude for whites and neglect of colored. It maintains a well-appointed club room with pool tables and other games, comfortable lounges and other equipment for rest, sociability, and recreation, and nothing for these same colored employees. This private club is in the magnificent postoffice building, built and maintained by ALL of the people. In the locker rooms there is segregation, and segregation is even attempted in the toilets. 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 caption to the heads of the departments, including the manager general, in the postoffice building. It announced damage and a pleasant social event with the officials for the "postoffice employees," yet not one was delivered to the colored clerks. I hurried a protest to the postmaster general the day before it was to come off, and he ordered the postmaster to invite the colored as well as the white as the colored co-workers by giving the colored co-workers by giving the function at a local hotel. It is inevitable that the wicked spirit of segregation would express itself in appointments, assignments, and salaries. Colored applicants are often passed over though their examination was superior. No Negro, however efficient or old in the service, must ever dream of a promotion to a directive position. The hard, unyielding caste passes whites over him, one after another, though many of the colored employees have won contests in quickness and accuracy in the mail. The colored workers have dared to form a union which meets regularly and often sends manly and intelligent protests to the postmaster, and often appeals from his decisions to the postmaster-general. It has secured some improvement in their working conditions, but they are still bitter over the huge injustice done to them for nothing else than the color of their skin. (Special to The Gazette.) Washington, D. C.—The government printing office keeps faith with the government's universal scheme of segregation. Some of the best and brightest of our girls are forced to accept inferior positions there on account of the better and more lucrative avenues of employment being closed to them because of their color. The whites are generally of a very mediocre group, far from equaling our girls in educational equipment, culture, and working efficiency. Yet these superior girls are set off from the whites with the latter, of course, having the better working conditions, salaries and recreation facilities. There is a large federation in this huge structure, where all of the people have strung up, 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 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 bars promotions. Here, the law of segregation further pass over our superior employees to directive positions, and higher salaries. The whites have a large recreational center in this public building with many fine appointments for rest and amusements. During lunch and dinner hours they repair to this restful retreat for sociability and dance. Last fall, a young Afro-American with a spoonful record of music and a large collection 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 in the 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 any evidence searched him only to discover the pistol. They quickly dropped the arson charge and substituted one for carrying concealed weapons, which they ultimately dismissed. By this severe punishment our employees are taught that there is no way of escape for one who dares to resent the daily insults that their government (under President Coolidge) gives them. Many of the employees have expressed their deeply-wounded feelings to me at being considered a parish 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 slave and a slave girl, and a wife of Senator Robert La Follette Shortly after the accession of Mr. Wilson to the White House, a mem- der 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 intimate terms at the White House appeared at the bureau to tell our girls to be contented with the new order as "a great Negro leader had taught colored people to stay in their places." Three of the young ladies resisted the order to the last ditch and were summarily dismissed! abolition of the division altogether; so they remain in a dilemma, fearing to act. Our clerks must accept segregation or elimination, and being poor, with no other opportunities in this southern atmosphere, must take the former. They are depressed at the wrong, but economic stress compels endurance of it. By a single stroke of his pen, President Calvin Coolidge can stop every bit of this damnable segregation, just as he can condemn that lawless organization the Ku Klux Klan. Washington, 12, C.—We wish to call Senator La Follette lodged a protest with Secretary Madoo 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 of stormy afternoon to the Y.M.C.A. 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 fullness, 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, thus they are the only ones working and 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 age normal school training, and fine culture. The white girls are of no such grade, as there is no segregation for them in the great world of things. They have unlimited fields at high wage for even mediocre talents. The best of our girls must take these inferior positions, the inevitable result of segregation. Our people are still hoping for the issuance of an education in all of our government departments 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 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 been the national banking system which financed 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 clerks. Yet New York's department 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 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 more in need of physical inconvenience at times, and are forced to travel long distances when they desire the use of them. The department maintains a huge, magnificent cafeteria, in the splendid sweep of woodland along our national driveway, where white people of every class can come to rest, dine, and socialize of afternoons and evenings at minimum costs. The white press of the city is constantly telling of the thousands who take advantage of the solitary retreat of their festive scene that their presence creates. It seats two thousand diners with space to spare; but not one Negro! His only share is in the taxes he is forced to pay for this luxury for another group! The registries of the treasury, which Republican Presidents have given the Negro in 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. The 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. 一 Washington, b. 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 Colledge, were hardly cold before the effort to increase segregation in the departments here was on again at full speed. It had slowed up a little during the campaign. Investigation of Burcus Investigation An investigation of the executive departments and bureau 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 employees. 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. regated section of 7 employees. Office of the Treasurer of the United States—a segregated section of 4 employees. War Department, Transportation Division—a segregated section of 5 employees. P. O. Separate Lunch Room Post Office Department—a segregated lunch room. 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, $4,500; Zion Hill Baptist church, $15,000; Gethsemane Baptist church, 8,000; Ionian Baptist church, $18,000; St. James A. M. E. church, $30,000; E. 71st and Cedar Ave, $30,000; Tempelhof church, $30,000; Mt. 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 Central Holy Ghost church, $7,000; Providence church, $8,000; Churches churches, $8,000; Frank Ave. Baptist church, $2,000; Monumental Baptist church, $17,000; Baptist and Methodist churches in Collinwood, $12,000; Triplestone Baptist church, $9,000; Friendship Baptist church, $13,000; Miles Avenue church, $2,000; Mt. Nebo Baptist church, $2,000; 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; Antich Baptist, $15,000; New York Baptist church, $10,000; Bernacchia Baptist church, $1,700; two little churches, E. 123rd St. and Superior Ave, $5,338; W. 25th St., $1,275; Phillips Wheatley Association, $158,000. Total $667,213. CORRESPONDENTS WANTED "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, Steubenville, Zanesville, Wilmington, Wiley, N.C., Washington C. H., Lancaster, Hamilton, Lima, O., and other places, particularly in Ohio, where we are none to the edge of the Gazette. 226 West Superior Ave., Cleveland, O., and we will be sent promptly. Our readers will oblige us greatly, 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, O. Dear Friend:—Long live The Gazette! a welcome friend to the Ricks-Demby family for fourth-year students. 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. BROOKLYN SOMEWHERE ON THE NEW COAT THERE SHOULD BE A SMART BOW APPEARANCE OF THE NEW FASHION MOTHER, may I go out to swim?" "Yes, my child, but do not go near the water." The color splendor of present-day beach attire seems just like that—as if it dare not "go near the water." However, the enlightened know to the contrary. Thanks to modern invention, no wave can wash away the gorgeous glamor of color and design, for the materials of which these resplendent garments and accessories are made are now processed to the point of being rendered waterproof. It is a fact, nowadays silks are being rubberized, likewise cretonnes and even velvet is actually being rubberized. So if the apparently conservative dresser is secretly beset with an urge for gay and hectic color, the beach is the place appointed by the mode, for a pageantry of attire as vividly colorful as the human eye can picture. The beach ensemble in the picture is typical of the trend to elaborate and fanciful effects. Beach coats are a SOMEWHERE ON THE THERE SHOUL WHEN buying that new coat for the vacation trip, see to it that there is a handsome bow somewhere in its make-up. The interesting part of the new bows are they keep one guessing as to where on the coat they will choose to locate. A bow is just as apt to be positioned on the shoulder as at the back of the collar or perhaps it may find placement where the coat fastens to one side, as instanced on the model here pictured. This coat of beige kasha is all that fancy would picture when it comes to patrician style as attained in exquisite line and smart detailing. As to swagger bow-trimming it elects to place little bows even at the wrists in addition to the self-material bow where it fastens. That is another fascinating eccentricity of the modern bow, it is no respecter of fabrics, it would as soon be of the cloth of the coat as of ribbon or marzipan it will be of velvet or, more GAZETTE Subscribe a favorite fashion topic of the day. The one illustrated is of cretonne, flowers of yellow, green and red being printed on a tan background. The clipped wool collar and cuffs make the garment ideal for a chilly day. Favorite media for the beach coat include terry cloth, moire fabrics, hand blocked linens, also tinted silks and crepe de chine. Most of the gay figured fabrics are either band-blocked in striking modernistic design, or brightly printed or what is exceedingly popular—hand-painted. Especially is the much exploited coille coat decorated with blazarre motifs. As to the bathing suit, the two-piece jersey comprising slip and trunks or tights is outstanding for practical use. As to silk bathing suits, taffeta in solid color or in gay plaids seems to be taking the place of the crepe de chine types which were so popular last season. JULIA BOTTOMLEY. (© 1927, Western Newspaper Union.) THE NEW COAT D BE A SMART BOW interesting still—of fur. A flat fur bow-trim at the side or back of the neckline is the newest thing out for coats. Another stunning effect is for the shawl collar of fur to finish at the low waistline with a bow of the fur tied in one loop with two sash ends. Often the same shawl-collar and bow treatment is followed, substituting moire or faille silk or crepe satin for the fur. The new summer coat models are most alluring, both as to fabric and color. There is a lovely new creamy beige shade which appears its hand somest in heavy double-faced satin—used reversibly. The effectiveness is heightened by clever manipulation of the material. A coat of almond-green velveten or of beige is another of the mode's novelties for summer. JULIA BOTTOMLEY (© 1927, Western Newspaper Union.) 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 throut 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 the state examiner who, but a few weeks preceding the date of Audit Tracy's order, had completed a careful examination of it reporting, as he also did after his re-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 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 seen it daily during the forty-two years since the birth of The Gazette, been, as the Scotch would say, like two McNells, 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.) ---