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FRESH OHIO NEWS WRITTEN BY "THE OLD RELIABLE" GAZETTE'S CORRESPONDENTS. What Our People Are Doing Each Week—Church, Personal, Social, Lodge, Literary and Musical—Marriages, Deaths, Etc. MASSILLON. — Miss Consuela Glendenning, who is studying to become a nurse, returns to New York, tomorrow. Her parents and Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Warmack motored to Cincinnati, recently, to visit her grandmother.—Mrs. F. Dillard officiated as president of the Week-End club in the absence of Mrs. Lowrie who was out of the city visiting a sick relative. Next meeting or the club at Mrs. Bates'.—Mr. Grant Haggard of Canton was here and Mr. and Mrs. Harry Thompson visited in Akron, recently. wrapper about returned copies. Unless this latter is done, proper credit cannot be given you. Lists of names, wedding presents, etc., obituary notices, inquiries for relatives and advertisements of all kinds, including items announcing entertainments to be held in the near future, must be paid for in advance at the rate of 25 cents a line, six words to a line. Our rates for display advertisements will be sent on applace. ELYRIA. — Thirty-three converts MT. VERNON—Vernon Lodge, F. and A. M., annual election of officers resulted as follows: Horace K. Rouse, W. M. Webster Dean, S. W.; W. F. Newsom, J. W.; George B. Key, sec.; Chas. Turner, treas.; Fred White, S. D.; Dana Jones, J. H. Turner, tyler; Joseph L. Booker, L. Booker; Walker went to Lebanon for a two weeks' visit with her sister, Mrs. Sherman Singleton—Mrs. Daniel Hill of Cleveland visited her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Liney Bird—Mr. Harry Hill is ill—Mr. Roy Carter visited in Columbus—Mr. George Sites is very ill—The A. M. e. church's children's day exercises were fine—Miss Marie Turner is convalescent. CADIZ. P. T. Brown has returned to E. Liverpool after a visit with his sister here—Mesdames Court—Noble Robinson Taylor—Barnsville visited here, Sunday—At the rally services, Sunday, at St. James A. M. E. church, the congregation listened to a very spiritual message from Rev. J. A. Halthcox, D. D., of Columbus. His lecture, Monday evening, was well attended.—Miss Mary Wallace has returned from Cleveland. — The Married Ladies' club members were guests of the Harmonica Research club of Belgrade. — Mrs. Hattie Brooks and children of Cleveland are visiting Prof. and Mrs. W. H. Lucas.—Mrs. Willard Stewart of Flushing was the week-end guest of Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Johnson. 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 Three Hundred Graduated at Last Week's Commencement—Both Trustee Boards Meet. Wilberforce, O.—U. S. Senator Simeon D. Fess delivered the address at the sixty-fourth annual commencement exercises of Wilberforce university last week Thursday. The university hired graduates of the colleges and departments of one of our largest and oldest institutions of higher learning received degrees, diplomas and certificates. The class is the largest in the history of the school. Plans for raising a $200,000 endowment fund were discussed by alumni at their business meeting, last week Tuesday. Bishop W. A. Fountain of Atlanta preached the baccalaureate sermon. Rev. L. Acton Hick of Louisville addressed the religious societies and Grand Council of the colleges and Rev. J. C. Caldwell of Nashville preached the annual sermon to Payne Theological seminary, on June 12. Rev. H. E. Stewart of Chicago delivered the annual address to the literary societies, on June 13. On June 14, the university's board of trustees held its annual meeting, an organ recital by Prof. Wm. A. Sykes, home economics demonstration, and annual prize speaking contest. On June 15, the university's chapter of hibition, senior class-day federation exercises, senior college class-day program, a spring pageant, annual alumni business meeting, annual address to the alumni association by Rev. T. D. Scott of Columbus. A PRISONER 37 YEARS! Finally Paroled—Gone to Chicago— Took $2,000. With Him. Atlanta, Ga.—Sam Moore, dean of prisoners in U. S. institutions, left last week, for Chicago to enter the employ of C. A. DePrist, real estate operator. Moore was held a prisoner 37 years following his conviction on charges of murder, but at the last meeting of the parole board of the Atlanta federal institution, he was recommended for parole. The Constitution carried an appeal for a "first friend" for the prisoner, who was 37 years old, and authorities were duquesne. Moore took with him about $2,000 in cash he had earned as an employee of the duck mill at the prison wrapper about returned copies. Unless this latter is done, proper credit cannot be given you. Lists of names, wedding presents, etc., obbary notices, inquiries for relatives and advertisements of all kinds, including items announcing entertainments to be heard 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. ELYRIA. — Thirty-three converts were the result of a two weeks' revival which ended, last week Monday night, as the result of the labor of B. M. M. Jones, evangelist of Pittsburgh, with Mrs. and Mrs. Hugh Thompson while in the city. —Miss Evelyne Wicks motorized to Cleveland to visit Mrs. Mary Bradley of Proble Ace, and Mr. and Mrs. Henry Carter and two sons visited in Akron, Wadsworth and Cleveland, recently. —Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Morris are rejoicing over the arrival of a baby boy while Mr. and Mrs. D. Glenn have a new daughter. Mr. and Mrs. Ross Loney moved to Cleveland, recently. —Mr. and Mrs. Irene Henry and two children, Sharpburg, Ky., are guests of Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Triplet. Mrs. Chas Lee visited her mother, Mrs. Etta Tucker, last Frida? —The S. S. Chauquette will be held at Highland Park, Lorain, July 4 to 16. HILLSBORO.—Mr. Joseph Cole attended the Masonic torn-out in Washington C. H., Sunday.—Mrs. Jane Young, Mr. and Mrs. Edward Jones, Mr. Lang Young, Mrs. Hazel and Myrtle Riggs, Mr. and Mrs. Alex Holland and sons, Miss Florence Lamb, Miss Annita Burr, Miss Lamb, Miss Annita Burr, Mrs. Ethelbel Colter and Mrs. Corina Cole attended Wilberforce commencement, last week Thursday.—Mr. and Mrs. James Blanton, Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Williams, Mrs. C. M. Grasston, Mrs. Jessie Williams and Mr. Ike Hudson attended the Odd Fellows' annual day, Tuesday, March 16, 2014. Mrs. America Williams, Mr. Jerrill Williams, sons and Mrs. Jessie Williams attended Wilberforce commencement, last Thursday.—Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Graine, of Adrian, Mih. passed last week-end with the latter's mother, Mrs. America Williams.—Miss Lillan Harewood is here visiting.—Miss Rosalie Clark spent Sunday in Day SHOT AND KILLED Because He Caddied out of Turn—How it Is done "Down Home". Birmingham, Ala.—Alec Garhars, age 24, a caddy at the Highland Park golf course here, was shot and instantly killed, June 4, by W. H. Derrick (white), caddy master. Derrick said that he killed Harris because he used a "blight" "Kegel" of turn. He followed Harris to the first green of the course and ordered him to return to the clubhouse. Harris drew a golf club and the caddy master shot in self-defense, he said. Of course this is not true. David R. Stevens (white), for whom Harris was caddying, said he had called for the caddying at the first tee, and denies that Harris seized a club when Derrick approached them. This is the second member of the race killed here in less than a week and right when the tee of thousands, convention when tens of thousands, and more coming daily to spend their money to make the whites of this city richer. Absolutely nothing has been done about these cold-blooded murders either, as usual. U. S. SOUNDS "LAST CALL". Veterans Have to July 2 Only to Convert Insurance. The right to reinstate and convert World War insurance expires at midnight, July 2, and arrangements have been made for the Cleveland office to open the main open from 6 to 8 p.m. Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays during the two weeks. This is to take care of all ex-service men who work days and who wish to secure information concerning government insurance and assistance in completion of their applications. Vets calling at the office during the above mentioned hours should use the Peppoe Ave. entrance to the Hanna building. The veterans' bureau is in Room 229. Bureau medical officers will be on hand to provide necessary examinations. The funeral of Thurman Smith, E. 344th St., who fell from the 20th floor of the new union station, the first of two week, was held, last week Thursday. STILL REBELS! Carried a Rebel Flag in Their Parade — Collars and Sleeves Trimmed With Gray—White Jailer Killed—24th Inf. Band Concert. Columbus, Ga.—Spanish-American war veterans carried a rebel flag in their parade here, recently, and their (U. S. W. V.) uniform was trimmed around the collar in gray with gray cuffs on the sleeves. Our 24th U. S. Inf. band gave a concert on Hotel Watsonown and our people had to stand off on one side to themselves, mostly women and children. There was not one of our Spanish-American war veterans to be seen. A number live here. The court-house wall here is still full of bullet holes made when a brave white jailer gave his life to protect an Afro-American prisoner. He killed four, however, before they got him (from the rear). The city commission (white) advocated "colored" policemen, threatening to appoint them and discharge the white prisoner, whom they were not doing their duty. The next day, about noon, the commission members were beat up unmercifully. I have the particulars of a pea-age case in Alabama, across the river from here: Forty persons are being held in actual bondage. NIAGARA FALLS' ADDED CHARM Wonderful Opportunities Offered All on Summer Vacations by the Detroit & Cleveland Navigation Company—Automobilists Cared For. The nightly illumination of the cataracts and rails at Niagara Falls with all the coloration has added so much to the charm of this natural wonder that tourists in ever increasing numbers have visited the falls since the elaborate illumination program was put into effect last year, and there is every indication that more visitors will be entertained there this summer than in any previous season, prophiesed J. T. McMillan, vice-president and general manager of the Detroit & Cleveland Navigation company, operating passenger stairboat lines between Detroit, Buffalo, Cleveland and Chicago. "Judging from advance bookings already received for the boats operating on our Detroit, Niagara Falls and Chicago route thousands of automobile tourists will make Niagara Falls the principal object of their vacation outing this summer," said Mr. McMillan. "Automobile tourists it quite a pleasure to learn that their road journeys to drive their automobiles on one of our big boats and enjoy the fresh air, the capital meals and restful nights, not to mention the dancing, music, deck games and other enjoyable features incident to a trip on the Great Lakes from Chicago to Detroit and on to Buffalo. Easterners, on the other hand, place their automobiles on our boats. But the most important thing the next morning resume their road journey refreshed by the pleasant trip across historic Lake Erie. "The boat trip from Chicago to Detroit requiring somewhat less than two days and nights, includes a three-hour stopover at Mackinac Island, the queen of the Michigan summer resorts, noted in this automotive age as the one spot on North American continent where automobiles pristine solitude of the island and disturb the dignity of the pedestrian. The horse and buggy is the only means of transport, and it is like a page out of the past to see the gay rigs come down to the dock or jog along the streets. From Mackinac Island it is an overnight run to Detroit and passengers bound for Niagara Falls and the East may have a day of sightseeing in Detroit and another day for Buffalo at 5:30 p.m. m, enjoy a daylight trip down the island-crowded Detroit river, a night ride across Lake Erie, and arrive in Buffalo at 8:30 the following morning. ALICE WILL FIGHT KIP Mrs. Rhinelander to Contest Divorce Suit—Klip the operation it is Acalá said. New York City.—Alice Beatrice Jones Rhinelander, daughter of a New Rochelle hack driver (colored), will fight "to the last" the suit for divorce that Leonard Kip Rhinelander, of the New York Rhinelanders, is in Reno, Nev. to file as soon as possible. She will probably residence. Her fight will probably be of a dual nature. She will bring suit here for a separation, and will contest the western action as well. Her attorney, Judge Samuel F. Swinburne, announced that for ten days his detectives had been fruitlessly hired to him with papers in a separation suit, in which Alice will charge desertion. $750,000 For Fla. School. Tallahassee, Fla.—An appropriation totaling more than $750,000 has been allotted the Florida State A. and M. College here, for the next two fiscal years. Among the items is an appropriation of $290,000 for new buildings, which has been augmented with $100,000 from the General Education Board. J. R. E. Lee is president. SINGLE COPY FIVE CENTS Says Prof. Neval H. Thomas THE N. A. A. C. P. LEADER AT THE NATION'S CAPITAL. Segregation the Greatest Issue Before the American People—Lynching Is Making Americans Murderous in Speech—Thomas' "Bunker Hill" Speech on Peter Salem Day. Boston, Mass.—The National Equal Rights League's national headquarters here signalized "Salem Day" not only by a two-days' commemoration, on the 16th in Faneuil Hall, "Cradle of Liberty", and outdoors at Bunker Hill monument on the 17th, but by having a national officer of the N. A. A. C. P., Prof. Neval H. Thomas of Washington, D. C., local president, and member of the Association's board of directors, as orator-guest for both observances, an encouraging example of amity and union of civil rights organizations. At Faneuil Hall, in the course of a great oration, one of the greatest excoriations of "jim-crowism" ever heard here, Prof. Thomas, leading authority as to federal segregation, declared emphatically: "Segregation is the greatest issue before the American people, this country's most widespread evil. It is war against democracy and human progress, hence against the Constitution of our country. It was invented in Washington there is more segregation than self-respect of a great people, and to motive the conceit, the intolerance, and the political, civil and economic advantage of the dominant group. I am thankful for the splendid traditions of equality that fill the pages of Massachusetts history, but I deplore the fact that with this same great commonwealth in the saddle Washington there is more segregation than self-respect of a great people. Civil War. In every department of the federal and municipal government at Washington, D. C. there is pronounced discrimination in positions, salaries, quotas of appointments, toilers, rest rooms and restaurants. Nearby, I saw the status of Summer, Phillips, and Garrison, and the house of Crispus Attucks, and the black man of fame. We have just marched from the spot where black and white blood flowed in one crimson stream in the Boston Massacre, and we are here celebrating the 153rd anniversary of the daring and tide-turning heroism of Peter Salem and Salem Poor at Bunker Hill, and in the name of all of these services and sacrifices let us remember the student Coolidge for the abolition of every vestige of segregation from the federal service and the nation's capital, most of which can be done by mere Executive order. This great commonwealth must not lose her heritage. We must resist the march of the unchristian "Y' s HOSPITALIER every other civil distinction that is so generously offered to us." At Bunker Hill monument on Friday, after being the city's guest in viewing the military parade through the League, which had secured the presence therein of the Peter Salem Garrison, Army and Navy Union, Prof. Thomas declared that the license given lynchings is giving blood and ammunition to a federal character which seriously mutilated the government and demanded that President Coolidge get sincerely behind a federal anti-lynch law. At this meeting there were many more whites than our people. At both meetings, a Peter Salem resolution, offered by W. Monroe Trotter, was adopted calling upon President Coolidge to abolish federal segregation by executive order, and to urge and back stronger laws against peonage and a federal anti-lynch law. G. O. A. Muriel, the local Equal Rights League presided at Faneuil Hall, and Rev. C. C. Somerville, vice-president-at-large, at the monument. Mrs. M. Cravath Simpson scored lynchings at Faneuil Hall where Rev. Chellis V. S墨, (white), and Rev. Leroy Ferguson also spoke and Rev. B. W. Swain, first national vice-president of the N. E. R. League, offered prayer. The other speakers at the monument were Dr. Alice W. McKanal, Dr. James W. McKanal, Dr. Thomas was the guest of Boston's big New Parker House hotel and was entertained by officers and members of the N. E. R. League till Sunday. Thomas Writes The Editor. Parker House, Boston, Mass., June 17, '27. Hon. Harry C. Smith Editor, Gazette, Cleveland, Ohio. Delivered your faith of fifty years within the sacred walls of Faneull Hall, and again upon the blood-soaked slopes of Bunker Hill. At Bunker Hill there were many more whites than colored. The soul of New England is not dead, but the migration of southern or rather American ideas of racial ostracism is on the move. Trotter, add a Keset, to the hard at every appearance of its wicked head, and Cleveland must live up to her traditions. Here at the New IN-UNION IS STRONG COPY FIVE CENTS LIDGE! Royal H. Thomas BORDER AT THE NATION'S MENTAL. Issue Before the American making Americans Murder- omas' "Bunker Hill" over Salem Day. Parker House I am received with real welcome and the poison of seg- regation has not entered her "Y"'s. Prof. Neval H. Thomas. hospitals, theatres, schools and other public places, although some whites and short-sighted Negroes have advanced such proposals. For a race to do the dying and another race to get the living is criminal policy. The sacrifices of our black heroes in all of our national emergencies means nothing if their blood-kin are not to enter into all of the privileges that government can bestow. STAND BY YOUR RACE. In the coming city political campaign the political aspirations of some members of the colored race will manifest themselves and there will be several Afro-American candidates for the judiciary. Why should not these citizens of Cleveland have a man or a woman of their own race on the judicial bench of Cleveland? Local Afro-Americans should not be represented by one of them but be represented by one of their identity but they should have proper representation in our city government as a recognition of their ability and intelligence as individuals and as recognition of the advancement of the race. The problems of a people, of a race, of a group are never understood, to the extent of bringing them to a satisfactory solution, better than by one of their own. America may be the great multitier-pot of the world and the under the star and stripes we will all kind—citizens. But no matter how assimilated we become to American ideals we cannot let go of some of our racial characteristics and religious scruples. They very often develop problems that can only be understood by those who are part of those characteristics and scruples. The local colored population has a right to have its own men and women heard in our city council and from the bench of the judiciary. The men and women who are a credit to their race and who can shoulder any responsibility that their people are inclined to give them. In the coming municipal election, local Afro-Americans should stand united for one of the many who will aspire for the municipal bench and elect him. Their votes should be organized, solidified and used for the advancement and betterment of their candidates. They should use their votes to use them to their own advantage and should resent the overtures of all who want their votes simply to bolster up a weak political organization. They should realize their contribution to Cleveland's growth and supremacy, should realize their own strength and responsibility to one another and show their proper recognition of other races that proper recognition of the Afro-American's capability and ability must be materially appreciated. Maurice Kalm. Died With His Horses. Pittsburgh, Pa.—Charles Boggus, age 60, lost his life, Saturday, in a futile attempt to rescue two horses from a burning stable in Ben Avon. Occupying the second floor of the structure with Charles Chapman, age 64, and partially blind, Boggus led his roommate to a window, where he jumped to safety, and then (Boggus) descended to the ground floor, where the horses were leaping about in their stalls. His charred body was found beside the carcasses of the horses after the fire burned itself out. GO IN AND SPEAK TO MY SISTER. MR WEIDMAN!...SHE'S CRYING AS THOUGH HER HEART HAD BEEN CRACKED! THERE THERE, LITTLE GIRL!... DON'T CRY!...TELL ME WHAT'S THE MATTER! HONK HONK! WELL, (SNIFF) I ASKED MR GAZINKUS TO GET ME SOME CANDLES FOR MY BIRTHDAY CAKE AND THE LITTLE BRUTE SENT THIRTY-SIX! WELL, DON'T CRY! I'll GO OUT AND GET YOU ANOTHER DOZEN IMMEDIATELY! AND IS THERE ANYTHING I CAN DO BEFORE I GO? SURE! JUST HOLD STILL A SECOND! Tim Early The GAZETTE PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY One Year ..... $2.00 Six Months ..... 1.00 Subscribers are requested to remit by postoffice money order or registered letter. Entered at the postoffice in Cleveland, Ohio, as second-class mail matter Address all communications to HARRY C. SMITH Editor and Proprietor THE GAZETTE 826 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 25, 1927. All race prejudice is not on one side, but much of that on our side is the direct result of the prejudice on the other side. Cleveland Afro-Americans have been good to J. Finley Wilson, grand exalted ruler of our Elks. J. Finley Wilson shows that he appreciates this fact by selecting Cleveland for his order's annual meeting place, this year, although they met here last year. This proves that J. Finley's newspaper experience has not been in vain. The editor of The Washington (D. C.) Eagle is "a wise little bird." LEST WE FORGET. Some years ago when the Hon. Harry E. Davis of this city was a candidate for the legislature and our other candidates for a similar position were Sydney B. Thompson and Sam Woods, and Wm. R. Green, a candidate for the state senate, all four were nominated but counted out, Mr. Davis' nomination being finally conceded nearly a week after the date of the primary and then only as a result of an indignation mass-meeting held in one of our local churches on a Sunday afternoon, the day previous to the one on which Mr. Davis' nomination was finally conceded. Our highly esteemed contemporary, The Baltimore Afro-American, says: The color-line is rapidly moving North. The more intelligent the Negro becomes the harder he must fight to hold his place as a citizen." TRUTH! And not the least harmful section of that color-line is the "jim-crow", ignorant, and thoroly disheartened and hopeless "Negro" who is willing is bow to if not encourage every color-line prejudiced whites in the North face him with. These are the bane of the self and race respecting Afro-Americans of this section of the country. We really believe that they are more harmful than all other sections of the color-line in this part of the country because they are used by prejudiced whites to promote color-lines that are most harmful to our people. The local Republican boss, Maurice Maschke, at a meeting of the Attuck's Republican club held one evening last week, is alleged to have "pledged his support to the candidate of former State Senator Wm. B. Green for the municipal bench in November". The club also endorsed Green's candidacy. Atty. Wm. R. Green is undoubtedly the one referred to. It would have been State Senator Wm. R. Green, we feel sure, if the boss (Maschke) had "let Willie thru", some years ago, when a candidate for state senator, as he did the Hon. Harry E. Davis (also a candidate at that time) after that Lane Memorial C. M. E. church indignation mass meeting, referred to elsewhere in this paper. Maschke's pledge of support does not mean that Green will be elected "muny" judge, this fall, any more than his pledge of support to Atty. Alexander H. Martin, several years ago, when a candidate for the same position. We gave Mr. Martin this warning at the time. Meantime, our readers and others are awaiting an answer from Mr. Green to the questions propounded to him by The Friendly Aid society, June 6. '27. One question the society asked was how Candidate Wm. R. Green could harmonize his support of the principles of the N. A. A. C. P., which is unalterably opposed to all racial segregation, with his support of the local "lim-crow" Mercy Hospital as- Telephone Operators Carry On in the Mississippi Flood Towns THE GEEVUM GIRLS sociation movement? It ought to be answered, too,—if possible. Continued silence on Mr. Green's part can be taken in only one way and that is that he is unable to answer it. THAT "JIM-CROW" HOSPITAL MOVEMENT. Benjamin Johnson, the new manager of the Mercy Hospital association campaign for funds, has had enough already to discourage almost anyone. The much advertised meeting at Shiloh Baptist church, recently, was attended by only nineteen persons while the free dinner at the P. W. A. annex, last week Thursday night, for workers (solicitors), to which the thirty-odd members of the local Baptist ministers' conference were also invited, was attended by only six people. Johnson's appeal to the conference also fell flat as a result of the firm stand in opposition to the proposed "jim-crow" hospital taken by Rev. C. C. Aler, last week Monday afternoon. Dr. Aler told the conference in plain English how he felt about it. Geo. Hinton, an official of the M. H. association, is alleged to have said that there were not six of our local doctors who were in favor of the movement to establish a segregated hospital, and apparently is ready to "ground arms", too, in the matter. Therefore, it does not look as if the association's campaign for funds will open on June 27, as announced several weeks ago. Also, there is every probability of Campaign Director Johnson's early return to Canton, or wherever he resides. Several Mercy Hospital association officials, it is said, still owe their pledges to the Phillis Wheatley association's building fund. The circular letters sent out, last week, by Campaign Director Johnson were minus both address and date, and in other respects reflected upon his executive ability. Has Known It Since 1887. Hon. Harry C. Smith, 226 West Superior Ave., Cleveland, Ohio. Dear Sir--I want to thank you you for your promptness and kindness in helping the widow, Mrs. Moody Thompson. It is so often that people are so slow and neglectful in such matters. I remember when you were begin- ning your career as an editor with The Gazette. In fact I helped to get up a list of subscribers for you in 1878, or about the time you were at home in Yellow Springs. Your paper has done much good for the race. British O. K. On Anti-Slavery. Geneva, Switzerland, June 21. Great Britain, in behalf of England and India and other dominions except Canada and the Irish Free State, has forwarded to the league of nations an anti-slavery convention drawn up at Geneva in September, 1926. The convention now is automatically in force throughout the British empire. MANY stories have come out of the Mississippi flood regions of the heroism and public spirit of telephone workers there. Naturally, the flood waters carried some lines down, and even inundated central office buildings at some points, but communication was maintained wherever possible. It was realized that once this rapid means of communication was unavailable, the danger to threatened communities would be much more grave. A press dispatch from Baton Rouge tells of the heroism of operators of St. Joseph, Newellton and Waterproof, La. The water invaded the buildings where the girls were handling a volume of calls that seemed to increase in proportion to the rush of the water. As the water swished dangerously close to the message-carrying wires of the switchboards, the boards were raised on scaffolds. There, for days, as the flood waters maintained their high level, the girls "carried on," maintaining service for the towns as well as calling danger signals across long miles of wire in back country districts. Fortunately for the stricken districts, the telephone lines formed such a complete network that when some of them failed, it was usually possible to reach a flooded THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, O. SATURDAY, JUNE 25, 1927. DOINGS of the RACE A BIRDS-EYE view of the tortuous, narrow bends in the Cuyahoga river, obtained from the upper stories of the new headquarters building of The Ohio Bell Telephone Company in Cleveland, shows better than any map or description to what extent traffic is hampered in negotiating the stream. The picture was made from the sixteenth story of the telephone building as a lake freighter was going under one of the bridges at Collision Bend. Some of the boats that go up and down the river are larger than the one shown here, and lose much valuable time in getting past this sharp angle. The fourth Pan-African Congress will meet in New York City, Aug. 21-24, '27. To Detroit's twenty Afro-American patrolmen are to be added fifty more, July 1. Tiger Flowers and Maxie Rosenblum are all set for a battle at Chicago, July 4. Mrs. Annie E. Malone of Poro College, St. Louis, has just given Howard university, Washington, D. C., $5,000 for its endowment fund. Out in Los Angeles, Calif., two sisters married two brothers and shortly after they instituted proceedings for divorce, charging non-support. The Rockefeller foundation has pledged $75,000 and the Duke estate $25,000 to the A. M. E. Zion Church for its Salisbury, N. C. College drive of $250,000. Joseph and Max Fox, brothers, were burned at the stake at Louis- Fine View of from New Te A BIRDS-EYE view of the tortu river, obtained from the upper building of The Ohio Bell Telephon ter than any map or description to negotiating the stream. The picture was made from the building as a lake freighter was Collision Bend. Some of the boa are larger than the one shown he getting past this sharp angle. On June 13, at Gethsemane Baptist church, our local Baptist ministers' conference endorsed the candidacy of Wm. R. Green for "muny" judge; Clayton George for councilman in the 4th district and Dr. E. J. Gregg in the 3rd. After this action was taken, Green left and Dr. C. C. Ailer informed the conference that their endorsement of his candidacy would not amount to anything and that they were wasting time as far as Green was concerned because he could not be elected; that there were six judges, good ones, too, who were ators Carry On ppi Flood Towns town by some roundabout route. The telephone men co-operated in every way with the Red Cross and other relief agencies, holding the lines open for emergency calls where necessary. The methods employed by telephone workers there are similar in many respects to those in Ohio. When the Ohio river goes on a rampage, and towns on the eastern border of the state are threatened, The Ohio Bell Telephone Company wire chief, by consulting his office records, knows the location of every telephone that might be put out of service. Foot by foot, as the river rises, he can tell his men which telephones to disconnect and recover, so that they will not be damaged by the water. And, as it goes down, he has the addresses of the places first liberated by the receding flood, and can install the instruments as soon as the places are habitable. In all places liable to be visited by floods, the telephone men are instructed to place the instruments and wiring where they will be least likely to be reached. By this forethought, many telephones are kept in service in flood time that might otherwise go out of service. At one point - Marietta - it is possible to raise the switchboard above the flood level by means of special equipment. IM GIRLS TO MY SISTER. IN'...SHE'S CRYING. HER HEART HAD CRACKED! ville, Miss., last week Monday, by one hundred unmasked men. They were accused of killing a (white) saw mill foreman. Edward Waters college, Jacksonville, Fla., last week, received $23,000 from A. M. E. Churches in that conference. Prof. Chas Wesley and Prof. Ernest Just of Howard university refused $4,500 positions at Fisk university. Prof. St. Elmo Brady of Howard accepted a similar offer and Prof. Alain L. Locke, former member of Howard's faculty, is considering a like offer. Fisk needs only $15,000 to complete its million dollar endowment fund. Dr. Scott Wood, a former Episcopal rector in Allegheny, Pa., is the new alumni secretary of Howard university. Prof. Alain Locke, Alnoo, Prep Met Locke and Instructor Orlando Thorpe, dropped by President Durkee, a year ago, have been made eligible for reinstatement by Howard's board of trustees. River Bends telephone Bldg. ous, narrow bends in the Cuyahoga er stories of the new headquarters the Company in Cleveland, shows bet- what extent traffic is hampered in the sixteenth story of the telephone going under one of the bridges at ts that go up and down the river re, and lose much valuable time in candidates for re-election and who would be re-elected regardless of the candidacy of Green or others. When asked why he did not make this statement while Mr. Green was present, Dr. Aller's reply was: "I thought I would let the conference go ahead and do what it wanted in the matter because the members thought they knew so much." 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Green has closed his restaurant at the corner of E. 49th St. and Central Ave. Longwood High graduated two members of the race, last week Wednesday: Catherine Belle and Mildred Ridley. Miss Alice Wilkerson, a native of Kent, a member of St. John's A. M. E. choir, died recently at the Warrensville sanitarium. The Harmonic Choral society has suspended rehearsals until September. Its annual picnic will be held at Gordon park, Aug. 2. The following Elks attended the convention in Springfield, recently; Dr. Leroy N. Bundy, Steve Ball, Atty R. N. Dillard, Sidney B. Thompson and Clarence Shaw. Antioch Baptist church will hold a S. S. membership campaign, opening today a special services at 11 a.m. and 7:30 p.m. The speaker will be Rev. B. L. Murrell of Quincy, IL. Miss Georgianna Mottley, sister of Mrs. Frances Mottley Smith, E. 74th St., left this week, for a three months' trip to Europe which will include England, Scotland, Belgium and other European countries. 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FOR SALE.—A real bargain, if you can pay $5,000 down. Near Central Ave. and E. 79th St.; a two family, with all modern conveniences, will come to suite 302, No. 226 W. Superior Ave, opposite Hotel Cleveland, in the afternoon. Will take prospective purchaser to see the property. $6800—$500 CASH. Balance like rent. Dandy 7 room single, furnace, garage, large lot. Very good condition. Near E. 71st St. and Cedar Ave. CALL OWNER, MAIN 5265. ter, Miss Julia Gants, E. 89th St. leave the last of this month on their annual trip to Christmas Cove., Me., with the Marshall family. Atty. A. T. Walden, president of Atlanta university alumni association, was in the city, recently, in the interest of that school's endowment fund. He is our leading attorney in Atlanta. The funeral services of Mrs. Maggie Burton, wife of Charles Burton, were held at Shiloh Baptist church, last week Thursday afternoon. Mrs. Burton was a leader in lodge work. The remains were shipped to Macon, Ga., for interment. Our graduates from Western Reserve university, this year, are: Albert L. Turner, bachelor of laws; James R. Granger and Wm. A. French, Jr., bachelor of arts. Both Granger and French will enter a medical school in the fall. Warren J. Cossey, who went to a hospital on the west side, recently, upon his return from a trip to the coast, is convalescing rapidly and expects to return to his employment in a week or two. His "break down" was the result of over work. Our local pastors, members of the Interdenominational Alliance, held their annual (dollar) dinner at St. John's Church in Montclair,ning. There were several speakers, and about one hundred persons in attendance, only four of the number being ministers. Mrs. Katherine Means (white), of Oregon Ave., an old resident, widow of Mr. Jas. Means (deceased) and mother of Mrs. Myrtle Means Johnson, pianist and organist, died the first of last week. Funeral from St. John's cathedral. Mrs. Johnson has the heart felt sympathy of the community. Thelma. daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George Childs, was our graduate from the Ravenna high school, recently, in a class of 80. She received many beautiful gifts. Miss Childs JUM GIRLS DOOR WHO SAYS Y IN THE HOUSE THAN FIVE ES! M IN BCK! ---AND I G -ON THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, Q. SATURDAY, JUNE 25, 1927. is the niece of Mrs. Lillian Starkey, E. 80th St., and a sister of Miss Leona Childs and Mrs. J. W. Dowden of Mt. Pleasant. At the request of Vice-president and General Maager R. S. Rector of the Middle Western Insurance Co. its editor, the Gazette, Dr. J.K. Nickles and C. Morgan Dabney addressed the agency force of the company, Tuesday evening, in their offices in the Temple Theatre building, E. 55th St. Col. Charles S. Royal of the Central Ave. bath house, who was taken to the city hospital, recently, very ill, is improving. Some time ago he was arrested for parapresence while on duty at the bath house, from which he never fully recovered. Col. Royal is one of the best known Pythians in the state. A. A. Robinson, E. 40th St., attended the funeral in Columbus of the late Rev. Bertah P. Crear, wife of Charles O. Crear, grand master of the Masons of Ohio, and embalmer for the J. W. Adams Co., Columbus. Mrs. Crear was the founder of the Christian Spiritualist church of that city and a minister in the Church. Albert Turner was a graduate of Western Reserve University law school, last week. He was taken into Coif, an honorary scholarship fraternity, and was an honor-student at Adelbert college. He worked at night in the post office. He will enter the office of Atty. A. H. Martin. Dr. J. D. Merida, E. 30th St. and Central Ave., one of our successful physicians, has purchased a beautiful home at 9106 Parmelee Ave., just west of Rockefeller park. The doctor is a native of Marshall, Texas, a graduate of McMurry University college. Since coming to Cleveland, four years ago, he has built up a very lucrative practice. He has a most interesting family. A wedding party which broke up in a wedding, Tuesday, placed James Williams, age 26, in Charity hospital with a bullet wound in the left hip. According to police, the party was held in Carolina Ave where Williams rooms. His alleged assailant was arrested near the house an hour after the shooting. He said he was coming back to see if he had hit the man he shot at, Lieutenant Peck reported. The corner stone of the new P. W. A. building was laid. Sunday afternoon. The attendance of the association for 1926 is claimed to have been 70,327, according to Jane E. Hunter, general secretary. This includes the attendance at the Central Camp Merriam at Carter Camp Merriam on Lake Erie, the music school, special recreational and social events and the total nights lodgings in the housing department. Joseph Weaver, sentenced to be electrocuted, Aug. 12, for the slaying of Jasper Russell, night-watchman at the Parrish & Bingham plant of the Midland Steel Products Co., was granted a stay of execution, Monday, until Oct. 12, by Appellate Judge Sullivan. The stay was granted pending an appeal filed by Atys. Nathan Cook and Wm. F. Marstellar before the court of appeal. It is expected the appeal will be heard by the court early in the fall term. Mrs. Mattie Lewis, 2354 E. 67th St., Tuesday filed suit in common pleas court against the Joseph Dyson & Sons Co., asking $25,000 damages for injuries sustained when, according to her petition, a rusty smoke stove in the basement at 5125 St. Clair Ave. fell through the roof of her home and into the bedroom in which she was sleeping. Mrs. Lewis charged the company with negligence in allowing the smoke stack to deteriorate to such a degree that it fell. Roy Stone, age 30, 3406 Scovill Ave., who stabbed George Johnson, 5218 Thackeray Ave., during a brawl in a "roaring third" precinct gambling house, was found guilty of cutting with intent to kill by a jury in criminal court, was sentenced to Wednesday. He was sentenced to life-terminate term in Mansfield reformatory. Stone was arrested, May 13, following a fight over a dice game in the Tattler club, 3304 Scovill Ave., in which he stabbed Johnson in the back. The Present Day Club has just elected the following officers: Mrs. Lutie Styles, pres.; Mrs. Wilberetta Pope, vice-pres.; Mrs. Mare Basey, sec.; Mrs. Amy Blue, assist.; Mrs. Olga Gunn, cor. sec.; Mrs. Sophia Bailey, tres.; Mrs. Welcome T. Blue, disarmamentarian. Mrs. Styles and Mrs. Bailey were elected delegates to our Ohio State Federation of Women's clubs meet to be held the last of this Guaranteed and Efficient Work TWENTY YEARS' EXPERIENCE 'Phone: Bell, Randolph 6978 Sundays by Appointment month in Columbus. Mrs. Lucille Mitchell is the new member. Next meeting, at Mrs. Ola Gunn's, E. 100th St. Mt. Zion Cong. church's recent young people's meeting named the following delegates to the Lakeside conference; India R. King, Jewel Trigg, Martha Harris, Raymond Harding, Enoch Owens and Percy Colson. They left, Monday, for a week on Lake Erie. It is hoped they will not be segregated this year, again. Two thousand dollars were raised. Sunday week, toward the church's $500 campaign fund,ariance Olden was the speaker, Sunday. The pastor, Rev. Russell S. Brown, addressed the inter-racial committee at the Hippodrome building, last week Wednesday. The following are our graduates from Central high school, last week: Edith Lee, Mazille Potts, Hazel Mosey, Dorothy Scott, Mcmute Hawkins, Lila Shields, Ethel Moore, Rosa Johnson, Willie Wright, Sylvanius Williams, Roderick Williams, Sam Mason, Gilford Hoiston, Jos Jackson, George Ford, Theodore Mahafey, George Neal, Douglas Weaver, Eric Mayley, Pummela Barr, Erne Johnson, Senora Owens, Mae Kane, Florie Thompson, Gladys Brooks. Miss Thompson is said to have stood second in her class with an average for the four years of 95 per cent. For the second successive year Cleveland will act as host for 35,000 to 40,000 members of our grand lodge of Elks who will again have their annual convention here, Aug. 21 to 28. The selection was announced, Friday, by D. Finley Wilson of Washington, D. C., grand exalted ruler, in preference to New York City, because of the numerous writings the wearing of embroids in parades. The local "grand lodge" committee is making preparations for the visitors. Housing of delegates will be in the hands of A. D. Wynne of the Frazier, Wynne & Lewis Co. W. Herbert King, son of Mr. and Mrs. W. H. King, of Pasadena Ave., arrived, last week, from Atlanta, accompanied by his mother, who witnessed his graduation from Morehouse college with the degree, bachloride, five honor graduates of the college and salutatorian. He will spend the summer with his folk, re-entering college in the fall. His sister, India Ruth King, graduated from Glenville high school, last week, having attended Atlanta university previous land where she she made a splendid record by completing her course in one year. Another murder, occurring just over the boundary of the "roaring third" precinct resulted, Tuesday, in the placing of a murder charge against Mrs. Mary L. Thomas, age 40. Mrs. Thomas, who was arrested when she was killed, told police she had shot her husband, Edward, age 40, when she found him with another woman in their home, was charged with murder after her husband died at Charity hospital. The wife, after her arraignment before Judge Meck, during waking hours, was charged in jury, collapsed in the city jail and was removed to a hospital cell at county jail. Mrs. Robert A. Corom of Lakewood, accompanied by her sister, Mrs. Wm. Gregory, and daughter, Mrs. Hazel Lyon, have returned from Toledo, where they were called by the sudden death of Mrs. Clara H. Jones, the well known hair culturist and manufacturer, wife of Calvin Jones. Others attending the funeral were Mr. and Mrs. Phil H. Denee of this city, Mrs. John O'Riordan and Mr. and Mrs. Ross Honley of Chicago. Mrs. Jones was one of our leading business women of the middle-west. She was most highly respected and esteemed by a host of friends and acquaintances. Another of Mrs. Jones' sisters, Mrs. Charles M. Williams of E. 86th St. was unable to attend the funeral. Mrs. Daniel Hill visited her parents ni Mt. Vernon, recently. Miss Evelyn Wicks of Elyria visited Mrs. Mary Bradley of Preble Ave., recently, and Mr. and Mrs. Ross Loney of that city was here, recently. The Masonic grand lodge of Ohio, Prince Hall affiliation, had charge of the ceremonies at the laying of the cornerstone of the new Phillis Wheatley association home at Cedar Ave. and E. 46th St., Sunday afternoon. About 1,000 marched in the parade that preceded the services. They were the officers of Elks and other lodges. Speakers were Dr. Henry P. Jones of St. John's A. M. E. church, Grand Master Frank A. Hall of Ohio grand lodge, Miss Jane E. Hunter, founder of the Phillis Wheatley association, and David E. Green chairman of the building committee. Under Dr. and D. Phillis grand harmless and sacred of ceremonies, gave the declaration and Rev. D. O. 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If Dr. Walker could persuade our ministers who pastor churches in the territory between (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 of the city, Dr. Walker seems 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 in the first half of the year, occurred in "the roaring third" precinct proper, according to a report submitted, June 7, by Detective Captain Emmett J. Potts, superintendent of criminal investigation, to Director of Safety Edwin D. Barry. Don’t Throw Away Your Copy of The GAZETTE After Reading It But give it to a Friend or Acquaintance whomight Subscribe after Reading a Copy of Ii. HOW SEGREGATION IS USED How Much Longer Will Our Self and Race Respecting Press, Pulpit and People Submit to This Rank Injustice? Washington, D. C., (Special). —Yhere is ‘wore segregation w Washington toaay under President Coulidge than were bas ever been ‘since the Civil War, The beginnings Of segregation were under President Fart, twas greatly extended, un- der "President Wilson; increased, will further, under President Hard- ing; and reached its zenith under President Coolidge, Yor instance, the largest of our parks President Wilson never troubled, Dut the pres ent 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 in- Groduced it In the bureau of engrav- ing. He segregated the census-takers in this city in 1910, restricting white ‘workers to white people, and black to black, often duplicating work as most blocks bad white and black residents. And, worst of all, ap- hounced in his official capacity that Negroes shuld not hold office where white people complained, Se8- Tegation, then, is a Hepublican in- stitution and not a Democratic one. ft was begun by Republicans, and carried on to its all-embracing ex tent by Republicans! ‘There is far more of it in the de partments, today, than at any time Since the Negro first appeared, close upon the close of the Civil War. The Picture requirement in thecivil serv- Jee, which makes it next to impos sible for a colored lady or gentleman to enter the civil service, since thelt color is disclosed In their photo graph which must accompany thelt papers, is tenaciously held on to by our Republican President. Only last Week, a colored girl appeared after having passed the best examination, and after having been telegraphed for by the department. The photo- Graph had failed to tell her tru: Color, and they flatly refused to ap- point her when she appeared, and they saw her complexion. Commis Moner Blair of the internal revenue Dureau with thousands of clerks wil not appoint a Negro clerk, and his word is law there, as he 1s the spec fal favorite of Secretary Mellon and President Coolidge. He hails trom North Carolina, the home of the other favorite and leader of the seg. fegation forces, Col. Sherrill, super fntendent of buildings and grounds It {s no use to complain of either o these southern gentlemen. ‘The colored people here who knov the President could destroy segre gation in the departments of the fovernment, and the photograpt Tequirements in the clvil service by the mere nod of his head, are at 3 loss to understand why he does not put his splendid declarations on democracy into operation here where it would not even cost him a single vote and where he has full Dower and obsolutely no opposition. ‘They wonder it he is not a firm be- Hever in segregation, especially since segregation is one of the chiet ten: ets of the Ku Klux Klan which has found its “welcome home” in the Republican party, and recelves no condemnation fro the Republican President. (Special to The Gazette.) ‘Washington, D. C.—In the postof- five segregation is rampant. The faithful colored clerks work under constant humiliation and physical Gisadvantages. The departrient Maintains a spacious cafteria for Whites only, where these inferior white clerks can buy appetizing luncheons and chat in comfort while eating, while the colored clerks mus! bring cold luncheons from home and eat them any place they can. The physical discomfore, disadvantage ous as it is, is far less galling to the co.ored clerks than 1s the thought o! their government taking their taxes 4s it takes those of the whites, for the comfort of the latter, and setting them off as though they ‘were lepers. ‘The injustice stings all the more when they reflect that they are éar more capable than the whites, and fender the government more intellt- gent and efficient service—the white fian of their attainment being able to get far mare lucrative employ- ment, ‘The department goes even farther th its solleiude for whives and neg- lect of colored. It maintains a wel ‘appointed elub room with pool tables and other games, comfortable lounges and other equipment for rest, sociability, and recreation, and nothing for theeq seme, colored em: ployees. This private club 1s in the magnificent postoffice building, bailt ‘and maintained by’ ALL of the peo- ple, In the locker rooms there is segregation, and segregation is even attempted in the tollets. 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 pree- ence of the colored, to attend a re- ception to the heads of depastments, including the postmaster general, in the pestoffies building. Tt announced @ancing and a pleasant social eve- ning with the officials for “the post- office employees,” yet not one was @elivered to the colored clerks. 1 hurried s protest to the postmaster general the day before it was tol ‘come off, and he ordered the post- ‘master to invite the colored as well as the white, These clerks get around their colored co-workers by giving the function at a local hotel. “in is inevitable that the wicked ae segregation would express liself in appointments, assignments, and salaries. Colored applicants are often passed over though their ex- ‘amination was superior No Negro, however efficient or old ia the serv- ice, must ever dream of a promotion to a directive position. The hard, unylelding 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. Tho col- ored clerks have dared to form a union which meets regularly and often sends manly and intelligent protests to the postmaster, and often appeals from his decisions to the postmaster-general. It has secured some improvement in their working Ronditions, but they are still bitter over the huge injustice done to them for nothing else than the color of their skin. (Special to ‘The Gasette.) Washington, D, C.—vhe govern- ment 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 inferier positions there on ac- count of the better and more lucrs- live avenues of employment being closed to them because of their col- or. The whites are generally of a very mediocre group, far from equal- ing our girls in educational equip- ment, culture, and working efficien- cy. Yet these superior girls are set off from the whites with the latter, of course, having the better working conditions, salaries and recreational facilities. ' There is a large cafeteria in this huge structure where all o! the employees may go, but there are a few tables In an out-of-the-way section reserved for our employees {am glad to say that few, very few, of our people patronize ‘the. place, preferring a little physical ‘incon: ¥anience to the open, semi-public hu. miliation of segregation. In toilet facilities, dressing-rooms and work assignments, wherever possible, the law of segregation 4s 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, as elsewhere, the inferior whites pass over our superior employees to directive positions, and higher sal- aries, The whites have a large recrea- tional center in this public building with many fine appointments for rest and amusements. During lunch and dinner hours they repair to this restful retreat for sociability aad dance. Last fall, a young Afro- American with a splendid record in his work, felt the injustice of this ‘exclusion of our employees 30 keenly that he secured the company of a young lady of the race to take part In the dance, As soon as this couple started to dance the music was ab- ruptly stopped, and the young man reported for ‘attempting to take part in an entertainment provided for employees, He was called to the office, lectured for being “one of those smart Negroes” who believe in “social equality,” and then dismiss- ed on a trumped-up charge. He was a night-employee, hence he carried a pistol. Right after the dance in- cident a fire broke out in the office. He was quickly accused of setting the building afire in revenge for his exclusion trom the dance floor. De- tectives came to the building to ar- reat him, and failing to secure any evidence searched him only to dis- cover the pistol. They quickly drop- ped the arson charge and substituted one for carrying concealed weapons for which he was immediately dis- missed. By this severe punishment our employees are taught that there is no way of escape for one who dares to resent the daily insults that thelr government (under President Coolidge) gives them. Many of the emplosees have ex- pressed their deeply-wounded teel- ings to me at being considered a pariah by the government whose in- stitutions they are serving so faith- fully, and I have taken up a number of cases only to be met by a denial that the conditions complained of ex- ist, 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 de- partment then taking the position that it eannot take up the case. It is perfectly clear that this iniquitous scheme of segregation {s a difficult hing to fight, since the government js 80 well settled upon it, and the somplainants cannot bear witness a (Special to The Gazette) Washington, D. C.—Segregation fn the bureau of engraving and printing has an interesting history involving President Thomas Wood- row Wilson and members of his fam- fly, three heroic young colored wom- en who lost their positions as a re- sult of their protest, and the noble wife of Senator Robert La Follette. Shortly after the accession of Mr. Wilson to the White House, a mem- THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, 0. SATURDAY, JUNE 25, 1927. Ser OC De SBMRy Yisitee tae Duress 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 not- ed for her philanthropy among our people and who Was upon intimate terms at the White House appeared at the bureau to tell our girls to be contented with the new order as “a great Negro leader had taught col- ‘red people to stay in their places.” Three of the young ladies resisted the order to the last ditch and were summarily dismissed! Senator La Follette lodged a pro- test with Secretary McAdoo to no avail, and his noble wife began a crusade against the undemocratic in- novation. She took the platform here in Washington and Boston be- fore the famous Twentieth Century club. She used the columns of the Senator's magazine, sparing neither space nor vigor of utterance. She thundered against it in our local white press, and addressed the na- tional gathering of the National As- sociation for the Advancement of Colored People in New York. When our people here were so profoundly discouraged, she came out one stormy afternoon to the Y. M. ©. A. to urge them to continue the fight, for democracy was at the crises. Os- wald Garrison Villard came to town to attack White House and Cabinet and arouse our people, and the Na- tion Association secured publicity in over six hundred influential white papers in the country. The fight checked what was thought to be the Sntention of the segregators, name- ly, the elimination of the colored employees from the bureau alt o- gether. ‘The same segregation which some of our people think is the cherished institution of the Democratic party 4s still there, in all of its fullness, under the administration of the party that “braiiam Lincoln, Charles Sumner and Frederick Douglass helped to found. Our girls are em- ployed there in far larger numbers than in any other branch of the pub- lic service. THEY ARE SEGRE: GATED in their rest rooms, toilets, and working stations, and of course none are ever thought of for promo- tions to executive places. ‘They are girls from our best nomes, most of them with high an normal school troining, and fine culture. The white git!s are of no such grade, as there is no segregation for them in the great world of things. They nave unlimited flelds at high wage tor even mediocre talents. The best of our girls must take these inferior positions, the inevitable result of se- gregation. Our people are still hop- ing for the issuance of an order de- stroying this iniquitous practice in all of our government departments, for it not only humiliates the best of the government servants but im- Pairs the government service. (Special to The Gazette) Washington, D. C.—The treasury department, according to the Presi dent's recent acceptance specch, is now under the ablest financial genius ‘since tho days of Alexander Hamil- ton. It is to be remembered that the great Hamilton came from tho West Indies, and in that long sweep of his- tory that the President traversed are the mighty Salmon P. Chase, secretary of the treasury in Lin- coln’s cabinet, who, ina national ex- tremity such as this country. has never known, devised the national banking system which financed the Civil War; and Ohio's master finan- cier, John Sherman,” These | men never Knew what segregation was! The present head of the depart. ment of internal revenue, Mr. Blair from North Carolina, has not ap- pointed a colored clerk since his in- cumbency. While his predecessor, Mr. Daniel Roper, a Democrat trom ‘Texas, appointed and promoted sev- eral of them. Since the income tax legislation and the numberless new taxes that the recent war necess tated, this {s by far the largest de- partment of the treasury, employing several thousand clerks. Yet Ne- groes aro so scarce there that they can't be noticed. ‘There Is the same general complaint here among our clerks and other employees as there is in the other branches of the gov- ernment—failure to recognize their efficiency when promotions are duc: ability to go so far and no farther. ‘The various forms of segregation exist here as well as elsewhere—the restaurants closed or divided along color lines, and special toflets, lock- er rooms, rest rooms, ete., set off for colored. The toflets for the colored are few in such a large structure. Hence, the segregated clerks are forced’ to endure physical inconven- fence at times, and are forced to travel long distances when they de- sire the use of them. ‘The depart ment maintains a huge, magnificent cafeteria, in the splendid sweep of woodland along our national drive- way, where white people of every elass can come to rest, dine, and so- clallze 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 festive scene that their presence creates, It seats two thousand din- ers with space tc spare; but mot one Negro! His only share is in the taxes he is forced to pay for this luxury for another group! ‘The registership of the treasury, which Republican Presidents have given the Negro since Garfleld ap- pointed Blanch K. Bruce, is now filled by a white man, and the col- ored people are congregated in 8 sep- arate room which is publicly pro- claimed as “a colored. division.”” When it Is discovered that Negro clerks are “working as white” in other divisions, they are promptly transfered to this “colored division.” Our people fear that protest against iui mabrakation wreult wesutt ta: he’ abolition of the division altogetner; ‘go they remaia in a ailemna, fearing to act. Our clerks must accept se- gregation or eliminauon, and being poor, with no other opportunities in this southern atmosphere, must take the former, They are depressed at the wrong, but economic stress com- pels endurance of it. By a single stroke of his pen, President Calvin Coolidge can stop every bit of this damnable segrega- tion, just as be can condemn that lawless organization the Ku Klux Lge Washington, b. C.—We wish to call attention to the fact that in the fight Against the segregation of our gov- ernment employees, the ‘Treasury Department will most likely be the center of ateack, 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, bea zer board walls were maintained until recently. In the latter there have been two cases of diseriminution on account of color brougnt to pubitc view. The words, announcing the election of President Coolidge, were hardly cold before the effort to in- crease segregation in the depart- ments here was on again at full speed. It had slowed up a little dur- ing the campaign. Anvestigation of Bureaus An investigation of the executive departments and bureaus listed be- low shows taat segregation prevails in them as follows: Otice of the: Register of the Treasury, there are two segregated sections—one with 30 Atro-Ameri- gan employees and the other with 4. Navy Department — one _ segre- gated section of 18 of our emplos- ees, a8 well as a segregated lunch room. Census Bureau-—a segregated section of 60 Afro-American empioy- Bonus Section Ropus section of the War Depart- ment——one segregated section of 180 ot our employees. Veterans Bureau—a segregated section of 16 employees. Department of Justice—a segre- gated section of 10 employees in the file room, Internal Revenue Internal Revenue Bureau—a seg- regated section of 7 employees. Office of the Treasurer of the Unt. ted States—a segregated section of 4 employees, War Department, Transportation Division—a segregated section of 5 employees. P. 0. Separate Lunch Room Post Office Department—a segr- gated lunch room. Our Church Debts We want our readers, particularly the: local ministers, to read. care- fully and ponder-—the following Partial list of our local churches’ Indebtedness: Cory M. 1B. church, $4,000; Shi- loh Baptist church, $45,000; Zion Hill Baptist chureh, $15,000; Geth- semane Baptist church, 8,000; Ico- nium Baptist church, ‘$18,000; St. James A, M. E. chureh, $30,000; B. 71st and Cedar Ave., $20,000; Tem- ple Baptist church, $20,000; Mt. Zion Baptist church, $6,000; E. 74th and Kinsman Ra., ‘$5,500; churches in Mt. Pleasant, $3,500; E. 64th and Quiney Ave., $25,000; St. Paul A. M. E. Zion, $30,000; 2nd Emmanuel Baptist church, $8,- 000; BE, 33rd and Central ‘Holy Ghost church, $7,500; Providence Baptist church,” $6,000; Lindale churehes, $8,000; Frank Ave. Bap- tist 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 chureh, $2,- 000; Mi. Nebo 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, H. 74th St. and Central Ave., $13,000; St. Paul Baptist church, "$6,800; Anti- och Baptist, $15,000; New Hope Baptist church, $7,000; Tabernacle Baptist church, $1,700; two little churches, 1H. 123rd St. and Superior Ave. $5,888; W. 25th St., $1,275; Phillis 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 hear- ing from persons in the following named cities: Springfield, Colum: bus, Toledo, Steubenville, Zanesville, Wilmington, Xenia, Washington C. H., Lancaster, Hamilton, Piqua, Lima, 0., and other places, particu: larly in Ohio, where We have none. Write to the editor of The Gazette, 226 West Superior Ave., Cleveland, ©., and terms will be sent promptly Our readers will oblige us greatl; by sending at once the addresses oi Persons in the cities named, and oth ers 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, 0. Dear Friend:—Long live The Gazette! a welcome friend to the Ricks-Demby family for forty-three years. We boast of being among the oldest contin uous subscribers of ‘The Ga- zette—not the largest but the best in essentials and the most dependable of race journala ‘Wishing you continued good health and success, we are as ever, Very truly yours, (Bishop) Edward T. and Nettie M. Demby. ‘ TELL A FASCINATING STORY oa ia. 338 Kop? Ss | Nera Se COh oA A = Re (eo hy 8 Vis to Hy , ao 4 | ye GN | Por ok ee, Hy ie poe am ee a Hie 27 \S | ee | wif Jy Ve ee” © KE i sy AE VACATION WARURUDE SOrhUULD INCLUDE A SIMPLE JERSEY FROCK S a ‘ Le sh oe BL 2 9 oe ~ Exc) a ; LP ae P( 7. ay \A j ee ee | os '? ty i 7 y 4 fo es Oa ye Hl oe) wy s 4 7. wes ie Vy 2 i i 7 Doane emits enn enchanting a midsummer fashion scene as fancy can picture. For hoth matron and flapper the mode bas pre- pared delectable frocks of fluttery sheer chiffons, topped with biz droop- ing-brim chapeaus whose colorfulness will happily Join forces with the tones ‘and tints of growing flowers and sum- mer skies, ‘The gowns and hats in the picture fare typical of the mode whose reizn 4s foretold for this summer. While these lovely costumes portray the gen- feral trend toward jhats big of brim and frocks daintily sheer, only the individual ensemble can convey “the glory of color which will be achieved throughout dress, headwear, footwear; Ukewise every accessory. Long snuz-fitting sleeves are an out- standing feature of the multi-colored, deflowered chiffon frocks as now worn. A charming vigary of the mode 4s to omit applied trimmings In styling these sheer transparencies, arriving OF ee ee aan yet time to change your mind, and {t's fact your wardrobe would be sadly Nothing equal to jersey for faithful oe ‘The jersey frock in the picture is a likeable model, because of Its extreme simplicity; likewise Its extreme mod- aoe, such smart details as a to-the-front Subscribe af at effect by 4 inost intriguing handling of the fabrie, in multitudinous drapes, panels, tiers and the like. Side-filliness is becoming quite a factor in styling, This same is put Into practice in the instance of each of the gowns in the illustration, Fot the dress on the standing figure, a wide sash of self-material tled over the left hip answers to the call for the now-so-extremely-modish big-bow trimming, at the same time giving the Impression of a generous side-fullness, ‘The seated figure adopts a shirred side-insert which, while It assures the desired fullness, also attains an un- even hemline, which is also a matter of outstanding style importance, As to the printed motif for chiffons and georgettes, fashion runs to ex- tremes from tiny florals to huge flow- ers, especially roses, Colored. velvet ribboys, also shoulder flowers of self- fabric, are favorite trimming details, JULIA. BOTTOMLEY. (eo ae Weakare Mawicesen ei veing introduced in the styling of Jer- So eee eee In the knitting. Metallic Interknitted ace egg liens pastel colored or white Jersey frock: aoe Res | After R er Re . ter Reading War Herces Remembered by Telephone Co. oa pecan ae lige \ eS a se ie Ce Reta | | i il a he % ee parts of Ohio who lost their lives in military service during the World War were not forgotten when The Ohio Bell Telephone Company planned the new head- quarters building which it now occupies in Cleveland. A bronze tablet, on the wall in the main lobby, bears the names of ten former telephone employees who died in war service. In addi- tion to the names, the tablet pre- sents a_scene in relief showing a Signal Corps man stringing a tele- phone line through No Man's Land. Many telephone men were enlisted for special service of this sort, and it is due to them that the Allies had a complete telephone system serving them during the later years of the war. The men whose names are per- petuated on the tablet are Charles Hannon Butler, Dayton; Carroll Myers, Toledo; Homer’ Perdue, Washington Courthouse; Glenn Phillips, Niles; Walter Leo Prid- eon, Akron; Thomas Vernon Rob- inson, Youngstown; Daniel Ber- nard Ryan, Columbus; Harry Ray- mond Snyder, Mount Orab; Johr Mason Temple, Columbus, and Jo- seph Andrew Yoakum, Cleveland. At the end of 1926 there were 72\840 dial system telephones op- erated by The Ohio Bell Telephone Company. * A survey made by the Ohio Federation of Women’s Clubs shows that 57.2 per cent of all ur- ban Ohio homes have telephones. An average of 860,000 telephone calls.a day are made in the city of a aadies ‘The Truth! What would cause other peo- ple to gnash their teeth and gird cheir 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 unan- imously insulted. It seems im- possible to establish unanimity of insult in the black race.— Chicago (IIl.) Whip. “WORTH ITS WEIGHT IN Gums, basic nothes Cleveland, O., Aug. 28th, 1925. Hon. Harty 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 Gazette, been, as the Scotch would say, like two MeNeils, but when I find a man, such as you, who consistently, and persistently, through near- ly half a century, puts his race foremost in hi9'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.) “HUMAN NATURE'S FOULEST BLOT.” 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 {s 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.