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Large Athletic Field. Manual Training, Domestic Arts, Vocal, Violin and Instrumental Music Teacher Training, State Certificates and Placement Bureau. Expenses Moderate. Ideally Located. Fall Term begins Sept. 20th, 1927. Send for Catalog. JUDSON S. HILL, D. D., President Morristown, Tennessee. THE GAZETTE ESTABLISHED, AUGUST 25, 1883 And Issued Every Week on Time Since FRESH OHIO NEWS 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. GALLIPOLIS.—Rev. J. S. Percy, a local minister, was arrested, recently, and placed in jail at ironon, charged with obtaining money under false pretenses. It was stated that Rev. Percy obtained $142 from Ironon business men for the "Jerusalem Sisters of Mercy". Percy said the money was for the Fourth St. Baptist church, it is said. dredes of persons from all parts of Ohio participated... Mrs. Annie E. Malone, of Poro College, St. Louis, with a party of ten, was the outstanding guest of the occasion. On the river front are several beautiful cottages which business men of Columbus use as summer homes for their families. The club house is modern in every respect. All forms CORRESPONDENTS must mail all letters for publication at their main postoffice sufficiently early on Monday (or Sunday) of each week to have them reach The Gazette office on Tuesday morning, and always write their names and that of their city or town on the outside of the wrapper about returned copies. Unless this latter is done, proper credit cannot be given you. Lists of names, wedding presents, etc., 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- HILLSBORO.—Mrs. Lucy Lucas is quite ill.—Mrs. and Mrs. John H Johnson of Cincinnati visited the latter's mother, Mrs. Josephine Parson Sunday.—Miss Susan Day is spending several weeks in Cleveland visiting her brother, Gerald and wife.—Mrs. and Mrs. John H Johnson is visiting her grand-parents, Mr. and Mrs. Milton Day.—Mrs. Oral Clements visited his brother in Georgetown, Saturday and Sunday.—Mrs. Louisa Young keeps poorly.—Mr. and Mrs. Howard Powell, Mrs. Maude Pease and daughter of Dayton visited here, Sunday.—Miss Helen Johnson, who is attending summer-school, visited her mother, Mrs. grand-mother, Mrs. Julia Kilgour.—Mrs. Nettie Barber of Cincinnati visited her mother, Mrs. James A. Young, Sunday to Tuesday.—Clarence Hudson, Mrs. Gertrude Christy, Milburn Baker and Miss Virgalline Paxton attended the ball-game in Sardinia, Sunday. COLUMBUS.—Near the village of Gahanna, about nine miles from here, the Walnut Country club had its formal opening on July 4th. Hun- ANOTHER VICTORY. Kluxers Barred From Meeting in Public School Buildings—"Jim-Crow Negroes" Promote Segregation in Order to Get a "Jim-Crow Y", Ete. (Special To The Gazette.) Dayton, O.—The West End Welfare association is one of those kluxer residential segregation affairs. For about a year, it has been holding its meetings in Roosevelt high school contrary to the state law which requires the session to be exclusive and opening meetings only in school buildings. Last week, the board of education at a special manager gave orders to the business manager of this city to look into the matter of the W. E. W. association's meetings in Roosevelt high school with the result that it was denied further use of the building for its meetings. This has angered its members and they are threatening to defeat the management board at the next primary and election. The foregoing was the result of our people's protest against the use of the Roosevelt school building by an anti-race organization. Dodgers, announcing a meeting of the W. E. W. association in Roosevelt high school were circulated, July 13, on which was printed: "Are we going to let the Negro take the west side? This is for you to decide. Don't wait until the Negro moves, next door! All white residents of the slaves' school were allowed." This caused the protest of our people, with the very favorable result noted above. The efforts of some of our thousands of working people here to get out of "Tin-Can" alley (mud and rubbish) in "Tintown", and from another section called "Gettysburg", a community of shacks, into better living-quarters that are aroused the W. E. W. associates all of our people in such living-quarters as "Tintown" and "Gettysburg", if it could. We regret greatly to write that several of our leading business and professional men of color have developed into "jim-crow Negroes" and are promoting the main object of the W. E. W. kluxer association because has promoted a building for a "jim-crow" and other segregated social activities. As the editor of The Gazette would say, Lord, have mercy! dreds of persons from all parts of Ohio participated.. Mrs. Annie E. Malone, of Poro College, St. Louis, with a party of ten, was the outstanding guest of the occasion. On the river front are several beautiful cottages which business men of Columbus use as summer homes for children. The city house is modern in every aspect. All forms of athletic sports have been amply provided for. Boating, swimming, fishing, golfing, tennis, baseball. N. B. Allen is president and founder. J. E. Jones, vice-pres. and gen. mgr.; Dr. W. A. Method, treas.; A. E. Calloway, sec. Other members of the board of directors include J. P. Bowles, R. E. Hughes, Attle, H. J. Jones, vice-pres. and gen. mgr.; Tribbitts, Dr. Wm. J. Woodblin, and P. W. Williams. The club is situated at the fork of the Big Walnut and Rocky Creek. ALLIANCE—The people of Alliance gladly opened their homes to the delegates to the 31st annual W. M. m convention held, last week, in St. Luke's A. M. E. church. Mrs. Sada Anderson, pres. and presided, and interested conventions held here are Seventy-eight delegates were in attendance. Saturday, officers were elected for the coming year: Pres. Mrs. Anderson, Cleveland; first vicepres. Mrs. Savannah Allen, E Liverpool; second, Mrs. Maude Barrett, youngstown; sec., Miss Maude Ford, edio; assist, Miss Catherine Lyons, Mrs. Marie T. Browne, Cleveland; supt's of the Cleveland and Youngstown districts, Mrs. Flora Byers and Miss Mytter Miller of Alliance. The delegates reported a prosperous year, financially and spiritually. They brought in $3,685. Quinn chapel, Cleveland, won most of the banners through the zealous efforts of co-workers. Mrs. Ida Forte, wife Rev. Forte, formerly of Alliance, attended the convention—Mr. George Howard, formerly of Alliance, died of tuberculosis, Friday, in Columbus. Burial services and interment at Steubenville, Monday: Rev. Arnold, officiating, -Miss Louise Jackson of 89th St., Mrs. Mary Craig, -The Second Baptist church will celebrate men's day, Sunday. Our Church Debts We want our readers, particularly the local ministers, to read carefully and ponder—the following partial list of our local churches: indebtedness: Cory M. E. church, $4,000; Shiloh Baptist church, $4,500; Zion Hill Church, $1,500; Gethsemane Baptist church, $,000; Triumium Baptist church, $18,000; St. James A. M. E. church, $30,000; E. 71st and Cedar Ave., $30,000; Temple Baptist church, $20,000; E. Mt. Zion Baptist church, $6,000; E. 41st and Kinsman Rd., $5,500; church in Quincy, $4,000; E. 64th and Quincy Ave., $25,000; St. Paul A. M. E. Zion, $30,000; 2nd Emmanuel Baptist church, $8,000; E. 33rd and Central Holy Ghost church, $7,500; Providence Baptist church, $6,000; Lindale churches, $8,000; Frank Ave. Baptist church, $6,000; Mount Emmanuel Baptist church, $17,000; Baptist methodist churches in Collinwood, $12,000; Tripledstone Baptist church, $9,000; Friendship Baptist church, $13,000; Miles Avena church, $2,000; Mt. Nebo Baptist church, $2,000; Mt. Zion Cong. temple, $50,000; churches on each side, $9,000; Macedon Baptist church, $9,000; C. M. E. Chapel, $10,000; St. Mark's Presbyterian church, $10,000; Stewart Memorial, E. 74th St. and Central Ave., $13,000; St. Paul Baptist church, $6,800; Antioch Baptist, $15,000; New Hope Baptist church, $7,000; Tabernacle Baptist church, $10,000; two little churches, $15,333; W. 25th St., $1,275; Phillis Wheatley Association, $158,000. Total $667,213. "Very Uplifting." Baltimore, Md., July 16, '27. Hon. Harry C. Smith. Editor, Gazette, Cleveland, O. Dear Sir:—You will find enclosed money order for two dollars for another year's subscription. I enjoy reading The Gazette. It is small, but very uplifting. Yours truly, Robert Stewart. Mail, addressed to H. B. Phillips, editor, "The Progressive Herald" Buffalo, N. Y., brought a notice from the Buffalo postoffice which read, "Not found." K. K. K. BUSY In Alabama—Their Lash Leaves a Bloodied Body. All Victims White—One a Woman. Birmingham, Ala.—The lash—weapon of the K. K. K. self-masked masked "law enforcers"—is "raising Calin" in Alabama, these days. So far it has left in its wake the bruised and welted bodies of six persons, all white but one. No one, thus far, has been brought to justice in any of these cases. As usual! Each of the floggings is blamed upon Kluxers, and their victims from their beds, which ed them away to secluded woods and plied their whips on their backs until the blood came. When their friendish torture had been meted out, they left their victims to their own fate. The most recent case and the one which has stirred the state to its greatest indignation is that of an Afro-American, Arthur Hitt, who lived on the farm he had tenanted thirty-five years until he sold them to a masked man. Hitt was flogged with a life sentence, because one day a man who owned adjoining property called him offered $600 for sixty acres of land valued at $6,000. Hitt refused to sell. A few days later the same man appeared and raised his bid to $800. Again Hitt refused and the man with an oath hurled the threat: "I can get you out of here in twenty-four days later at midnight a knocked up automobile, kidnapped and taken to the woods, where he was beaten unmercifully. The following day he moved his household goods to another territory and a deed was recorded showing the purchase for $800 of his land by W. J. Worthington, former cycler of the Ku Klux Klan, who could consider a notoriety in Birmingham by leasing several raids on Chinese restaurants about a year ago. Worthington, convicted in recorder's court on this charge, later was acquitted when he appealed the case. MARINES STILL KILLING! Over Thirty-five Hundred Natives Wiped Out and Hundreds of Women Outraged By Them. Port Au Prince, Haiti.—A U. S. marine, serving as a military policeman, shot and killed a Haitian laborer, mortally wounded another laborer and slightly wounded a woman, Tuesday. It is said he was full of Haitian rum. Accounts conflicting as to the cause of the shooting, the marine was taken before the court, Wednesday, for examination. The court will in all probability Jewish this case as it has many others. U. S. marines have been killed by U. S. marines since the "American occupation" and hundreds of Haitian women outraged. The marines are still, and have from the beginning been largely southern American "crackers". THIRTY DIXIE WHITES Put Their Fool-American Prejudice on Exhibition in a Paris Hotel. Paris, France—When Dr. Wilberforce Williams of Chicago and his party of our U. S. doctor tourists entered the dining room of Hotel Dederman at Rheims, France, fifteen strong, a party of 30 southern American tourists (white), objected to their presence. The management towed to the guide, Delahaye, to take the first American tourist to another hotel across the way, but they refused and finally the prejudiced Americans arose in a body and left the dining-room. This section of France which is in the neighborhood of Chateau Thierry is thick with white Americans. The guide, Delahaye, takes its highest terms of the doctors. He got a fifty-dollar tip from them. When asked why he had not worked for white people instead of "Negroes", by a white American he replied: "What, leave people who give me a hundred franc tip for those who give me an American." No hesitation to say that such an incident would not have occurred if the persons in the dining room were Europeans or some Americans. Former Ohioan Dead. New Haven, Conn.—Harry G. Tolliver, assistant corporation counsel and serving his third term as alderman from ward 19, died here, recently. He was an alumnus of Ohio State university, a graduate of Yale law school and lived in Rendville, O., years ago. A widow, four children and his mother survive him. Mayor Tower and other city officials attended the funeral. Other Clevelandanders attending the state convention of our Ohio Federation of Women's clubs were: Mrs. Sophia Balley, Mrs. G. W. Carroll, Mrs. Da Moore, Mrs. Flossie J. Frey, Mrs. Emma Mink, Mrs. Beame Crawford, Mrs. Fannie Morton, Mrs. Nettie and Miss Alice Green, president of the Junior federation, and Mrs. Gertrude Fisher and daughter, Miss Dorothy, and Miss L. O. Meyer. SINGLE COPY FIVE CENTS SELF-IMPOSED POLITICAL LEADERS W. M. N.'S WHO ARE BUT POLITICAL "THUMBSCREWS" OF WHITE POLITICAL BOSSES. Injustice Upon Injustice Heaped Upon Many of Our Flood Sufferers—The South Has Simply Increased Its Sins Against Our People, Neval Thomas Says DOINGS of the RACE Washington, D. C., July 11, 1927. Editor Boston Herald:—I wish to thank you for your accurate report of my speech, made there on Bunker Hill on the 17th ult., in commemoration of the 152nd anniversary of the battle and the heroism of the men who fought in the issue of June 27th that J. L. Taylor of Gulfport, Mississippi, takes issue with my condemnation of the notorious injustice which that backward commonwealth works upon my people daily in every phase of its life. It was refreshing, indeed, to learn that such an enlightened and influential journal as the Boston Herald had invaded the darkness of Mississippi. Let us hope that some of the men who have made a message of democracy. Everything I said in both of my speeches, in Faneuil Hall and on Bunker Hill, is true. The appalling affliction that this flood has visited upon that state has meant no mercy, and no finer sense of justice to the Negro; but, on the other hand, the whites have simply increased their sins against us. They have extended their infiltration into the community, apportioned the generous gifts that have come from all over the Nation on the only basis that they know. A state that will deny her majority all participation in government, monopolizing every office, be it federal, state, county or municipal; that will lynch black men with impunity and advertise the lynching in advance; that will deny them every civil right; that will deny them the right to attribute school funds so inequitably that a white child receives ten times as much as an aspiring black, cannot distribute anything with equity. You must remember that there are a few Negro leaders all over the South, as there are here in Washington, who trade the rights and interests of their people away in order to secure office or money from white men who possessed. And there are white men who possessed. And there are white dares to risk all hopes of personal preferment by telling the real truth about the submerged condition and constant sufferings of black America. This accounts for the indignant denial that it was rushed from distant Appalachia to the great journal in Massachusetts that made a specialty of deceiving the colored people. They render the race no service, but seek stage seats and prominent places on all public oc- Detroit and Louisville are refusing to permit Kluxers' parades. It is announced that ninety per cent of the flood refugees, or 580, 000, are "Negroes". Philip Jackson, on trial for murder at Washington, D. C., is claimed by his attorney to be the son of a brother and sister. The National Pythian Temple corner-stone at Chicago will be laid, Aug. 15. Supreme lodge and other officers are to be in attendance. Miss Emma Mae Irwin has been separated from the government service as superintendent of nurses at Freedmen's Hospital, Washington, D. C.-for the good of the service. Dr. J. E. Aggre, for many years a professor of Livingstone College Salisbury, N. C., but now vice-president of English University, at Accra, Gold Coast, Africa, is in this country on a visit. Miss Lucy Hale Tapley has been succeeded as president of Spelman college, Atlanta, by Miss Florence Reed of New York City. Miss Tapley was unanimously elected president emeritus. Clarence E. Martin of Oakland and Walter E. Swagerty, the former at one time an air-mail pilot, and the latter an experienced aviator, are listed among the probable entrants to the non-stop $35,000 Hawaiian American flight. President John Hope of Morehouse College, Atlanta, Ga., sailed Saturday for Geneva, Switzerland, to attend the World Committee Meeting of the Y. M. C. A., the last of this month. He is our only representative in the meeting. Atty. Wm. T. Francis, for nineteen years employed in the law depart- IN-UNION IS STRONGER COPY FIVE CENTS ARDS! POLITICAL LEADERS BUT POLITICAL "THUMB- E POLITICAL BOSSES. Heaped Upon Many of Our the South Has Simply Against Our People, Thomas Says casions. At the great Darrow meeting here, which gave us the greatest outpouring of colored people ever witnessed in this capital. I had to defend the stage from these veteran stage lizards as a general would a Prof. Neval H. Thomas. beleaguered city, and one perennial patronage-hunter forced his way to the stage in spite of the fact that he was the least wanted, and standoff none of the principles of great Darrow and the N. A. A. C. P. or The National Equal Rights league. At our annual competitive drill of high school cadets they make it a business to walk out upon the field before the multitude to witness the award of the medals to the winning company, when they never do a single thing, year in year out, toward securing an equal opportunity for the gallant little black soldiers about to face a cruel world. Now and then they get messy and messy. They town for patrons, secure only a few who make apologies for being there, and then send out lying press reports to the country, naming speakers who never appeared and trebling the number there. These are the ones who rush to press to attack every manly utterance of a Negro, and then they make report of their loyalty to the white political bosses of their community. the RACE ment of the Northern Pacific R. R. at St. Paul, Minn., has been appointed minister to Liberia to succeed Minister Hood, who resigned, some months ago. Mr. Francis has been practicing law in St. Paul for several years. Standing on a dias under a glaring light at the recent national convention of the Christian Endeavor, Mr. Will M. Alexander of the Interracial Commission of Atlanta, pointed his fingers at the thousands of young Christian Endeavor workers and judged: "You can have race prejudice, or you can have Jesus—but you can't have both." Rev. Ernest Lyon of Baltimore, Liberian consul-general to the U. S., handed the U. S. Treasury a check for $35,600, last week, which was principal and interest on Liberia's war debt to this country. Liberia is the first nation to pay fully its war debt to the U. S. The $5,000,000 loan floated in New York City, some months ago, enabled Liberia to fund its debts. Though organized for nearly two decades our National Business League has never become established. There is no interest in its existence. It would not even be attended were it not that the convention comes at a time when people are naturally taking their vacations and it therefore affords the chance for a social gathering of "big Negroes" throut the country—Chandler Owen, in The Messenger. Bishop E. T. Demby and wife of Little Rock, Ark., and Ex-State Senator John P. Green of Cleveland, O., say "The Old Reliable" Gazette is not the largest but one of the best of the many race papers and they are right. Tell your friends to subscribe for it. DO YOU SUPPOSE YOUR DAUGHTER WOULD LISTEN TO ME IF I PROPOSED, MR. GEEVUM? ASK HER MA! SHE CAN TELL YOU! --AH--ER--FARDON ME, MRS. GEEVUM-- WHAT IS IT, "CURLY"? YOU'VE PROBABLY NOTICED HOW BADLY IN LOVE I AM, SO I WANT TO ASK YOU IF? HOW DARE YOU!--YOU SNAKE IN- THE GRASS! YOU'RE THE '1ST MAN' IN THE WORLD ID LEAVE MY FAMILY FOR! Tim Early The GAZETTE PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY SUBSCRIPTION RATES (In Advance) One Year ..... $2.00 Six months ..... 1.00 Subscribers are requested to remit by postoffice money order or registered letter. Entered at the postoffice in Cleveland, Ohio, as second-class mail matter Address all communications to HARRY C. SMITH Editor and Proprietor THE GAZETTE $26 W. Superior Ave., Cleveland, O. (Bell 'Phone: Cherry 1259) Member Ohio Legislature: 1804 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, JULY 23, 1927. Atty. Wm. T. Francis, appointed minister to Liberia, Africa, this week, is a fine and capable member of the race. The only thing in the world we have against him is that he supported the candidacy for re-election of President Calvin "Segregationist". Coolidge, three years ago. JEWISH KLUXERS? Dr. James D. Merida of 3002 Central Ave., insists that Jewish residents in the vicinity of his new home at 9108 Parmalea Ave., are at the bottom of much if not all of the trouble he has had with that property. Windows have been broken and walls splashed with paint, resulting in about three or five hundred dollar damages before he has occupied the property. A Jew, Herman E. Elsier, is attorney for the Neighborhood Improvement Association, recently organized in that vicinity, we are informed. Gentiles in the same neighborhood do not wish Jewish residents there, either. Wonder if Mr. Elsier knows this? Strange as it may seem, the prejudice against the Jew in this city, even in the face of his wealth and business success, is greater than that against our people and ought to make the Jews the last ones in this community to join in an effort to enforce illegal residential segregation against any other class. Then, too, such prejudice is exhibited by the residents of the Parmalea Ave. neighborhood in Dr. Merida's case and in the Wake Park Ave. neighborhood, in the Garvin case, is the very foundation of the Ku Klux Klan which is as strongly opposed to the Jews as to the Catholics, foreign-born citizens and the Afro-American. The American damphool prejudice sure makes strange "bed-fellows". And what kind of a Jew is it, please, that will link up with the Ku Klux Klan or its fundamental sentiment or tenet? We know many Jewish people in this community who will never endorse Mr. Elsier's course in the Merida matter or that of those of any other Jews who may be working in harmony with him and the association it is said he is attorney for. SOUTHERN MOBS RAGING. Flogging of men, women and children seems to continue in the southern states in spite of the laudable zeal shown by officials in proceeding as far as arrests and indictments, if found possible. Victims usually are captured at night and taken to the woods for torture by small and efficient mobs of men disguised in costumes such as are worn by members of the Ku Klux Klan to prevent recoognition. A Georgia village has reported, among other floggings, the thrashing of a woman before the eyes of her young son and then his thrashing before her eyes, their punishment being for failure to attend church regularly. A young married woman of Plainfield, Indiana was flogged by eight men said to have worn Klux robes and hoods. What she was accused of is not stated, but the floggers so frightened her with threats of banishment, if she dared tell, that she kept her sufferings secret for three days. In another Alabama case, apparently attracting more attention than usual, a fatherless and motherless youth of nineteen was flogged by nuns. In another woods because half-pint of liquor was found in his possession However admirable total abstinence from liquor, regular attendance at church and other moral or plausible habits may be, they are not important enough to justify compulsive drinking, and the fact that not rendered more respectable by abominable terrorism resorted to in their names. Such efforts as southern authorities make to end the reign of the cat-of-nine-tails ought to have the hearty support of sane citizens properly concerned for the safety of their children and not caring to see them used to shelter violent bigotry and pharisaism gone mad.—The Cleveland Daily News, July 13, '27. Flogging men, women and children is not all of the despicable work THE GEEVUM GIRLS of the mob that continues in southern states, but lynch-murder, including burning at the stake, still flourishes down there without "the laudable zeal shown by officials in proceeding as far as arrests and indictments are concerned". Then, too, "arrests and indictments" are very rarely indeed made unless the victim happens to be white. Where the victim is a "Negro", whether of flogging, lynch-murder or burning at the stake, there are no arrests or indictments except in very rare instances. That the Ku Klux Klan of that section is responsible for nearly all of the criminal action of the mob, there can be no doubt, even the our local contemporary, "The Daily News", seems to indicate that there is. Furthermore, there is absolutely no excuse for the lawlessness of the Klan in that or any other section of this country. The trouble is that the efforts of southern authorities to put an end to the reign of Klan lawlessness are so weak and ineffectual that they rather encourage than discourage such Klan activity. Furthermore, they are not such as to encourage the hearty support of sane citizens or any other kind. The bald fact is that the dominating influence in all the communities of the south does not intend to, nor does it want to, stamp out mob violence, especially that directed toward the so-called "Negro". "KNOCKING" WILBERFORCE. Cleveland, O., July 20, 1927 Editors, "The Dayton Herald" and "The Xenia Gazette", Ohio Dear Sirs:—A Xenia friend has kindly sent me a clipping, taken from your paper of a recent date, in which it is stated that Representative R. D. Williamson of Greene county has made the statement that ten members of the State Department at Wilberforce "were discharged at the spring meeting of the trustee board because they aided in the investigation into financial affairs of the university conducted last December by State Examiner E. Frank Brown". As a member of the board of trustees of the State Department at Wilberforce, I was present at the meeting in question and wish to say that that statement is untrue. The eight (not ten) employees were dismissed for good and sufficient reasons and not because they aided in the investigation into the financial affairs of the university (State Department). There has been no investigation into the financial affairs of the university. The writer was not present at the subsequent board meeting which reinstated two of the eight employees dismissed. Equally untrue is the statement that "the trustees carried out threats to 'fire' all employees who refused to 'know nothing' when questioned by the state examiner". I judge that the preceding quoted part of the sentence is the language of Representative Williamson. If so, he is wrong again. There is absolutely no truth in any such statement from him, anyone or anything else. If State Examiner E. Frank Brown "uncovered serious irregularities against certain university officials, including Superintendent R. C. Bundy", the board of trustees of the State Department at Wilberforce are not aware of the fact. I do not believe that this is true, either. Neither do I believe that the state examiner ever said he only "scratched the surface", in his report. It occurs to me that Representative Williamson, if quoted correctly in your article just received, is apparently determined to harm the State Department at Wilberforce by rushing into the newspapers with statements that are not founded in fact but evidently the result of tales carried to him by disgruntled persons, former employees and others. This shows very poor judgment, to say the least, and is not the first time that gentleman has done this very thing, either. The board of trustees has twice refused to elect Carl Jenkins to the position in the State Department as Bishop J. H. Jones, a member of the board, recommended. That is why he is now trying with the assistance of Representative R. D. Williamson of Greene county to force Jenkins' THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, O. SATURDAY, JULY 23, 1927 Instruction in Keeping Well Given Ohio Telephone Women THE WORKSHOP THE average telephone girl is a picture of health. This may be attributed to two causes—telephone companies usually employ only intelligent, healthy girls and, second, the companies are careful to instruct the girls in health measures. Recently The Ohio Bell Telephone Company inaugurated a Health Course for its women employees, organizing classes in which the girls were taught how to keep well, how to render first aid and how to help in the sick room. The classes so far have been held selection by the board. He will not succeed. Much more could be written in relation to the foregoing but possibly this is sufficient, at least at this time. Thanking you for giving space to the foregoing, I am PRIME SPORT NEWS Jack McVey Vs. Bob Sage. Local fans wanted to see more of Jack McVey after his last great fight here. This promising welterweight, who not only can sock but does, met Bob Sage of Detroit in the top feature of the card at Taylor's bowl, Wednesday evening. McVey won alright, but was only gritty enough. This is only another example of a thing that has happened, several times, at the Taylor bowl. Winners, both black and white, have been robbed of decisions for reasons obvious. Sage was 11 pounds heavier than McVey and several times struck the New Yorker below the belt. For these he drew warnings. McVey erred once in this respect. It looked as if Sage was endeavoring to win by clinching and tiring out his lighter rival. McVey did this, but left eye even. A draw is a victory for McVey considering Sage's greater pugilistic experience and additional weight. McVey carried the fight to him in seven of the ten rounds and is sure "coming" fast as a fighter. Hornets Sting Canton. Canton, O., July 20.—The Cleveland Hornets defeated the Canton Noakers of the O. and P. league, 10 to 6, here today, for their second victory this year over the local club. The visitors drove Gantz to cover in the fourth inning after scoring seven runs. Lash held them in tow until the fourth inning, when extra base hits accounted for three more tallies. Canton had plenty of chances to score, but was unable to hit with men on bases. Risko to Meet Flowers. Detroit, Mich.—"Tiger" Flowers, former middleweight champion, and Johnny Risko, Cleveland heavyweight, have been matched for a ten-round heavyweight boxing contest here, Aug. 5. The men will fight to a referee's decision and "Tiger" needs to be careful because Johnny is no "set-up" but some "pug" as all hereabouts know. The Hornets Win. Sunday afternoon, the Cleveland Hornets shut out the Nashville Elite Giants, 6 to 0, at Hooper field, making it two successive whitewash victories over the Tennessee club. Ross pitched the Hornets to a 4 to 0 win, Saturday. Miller of the Hornets struck out seven batsmen, Sunday. Dixon and Evans starred at bat with a triple and double respectively. Dimp Miller's celebrated floater was working out at Hooper field and the Hornets got an even break in a twin bill with Nashville, coping the twilight tilt, 3 to 1, after dropping the first, 12 to 5. Miller allowed but four hits, breezed seven and banged out a pair of bingles. Evans got a "two- in Cleveland, Columbus and Akron. Out of 707 girls enrolled this spring, 577 were graduated. This was the largest percentage of graduates among all the telephone companies in the United States that conducted health course classes. The picture shows a class of employees of The Ohio Bell Telephone Company receiving health instruction. The instructor is an experienced telephone woman who was given a special course in the preservation of health. "bagger" in the second-game. Spearman, Wilson and Williams worked for the Hornets in the first game. Looks like President Landon O'Neal has sure strengthened the Hornets, the way they are playing, these days. A TALKATIVE PEOPLE Recent telephone statistics prove that the United States is the most talkative nation in the world. During each minute of the 24 hours a day, on the average, it is estimated that 50,000 telephone calls are made in this country. The traffic is much heavier than this during the peak hours, of course, and much lower at night. Not only are Americans the world's greatest users of the telephone, but the telephone habit is still growing. In the years since 1920 the increase in telephone traffic is said to be the highest of any similar period. In round numbers, we make 70,000,000 telephone calls a day in the United States, as compared with 52,000,000 six years ago. In 1900 our telephone calls numbered only 6,000 a minute and as late as 1910 the rate was only half what it now is. There are said to be 17,000,000 telephones in use in this country, while all the telephone wires that carry them, if strong end to end, it is estimated, would make 15,000 strands across the continent. Like so many other modern conveniences, we have come to take the telephone quite for granted, yet it seems only yesterday since the telephone was something of a novelty. So much of a fixure has it become in our mode of living that we do not realize how dependent we are upon it. The average business man, or the housewife, for example, probably would be surprised if he knew how many times he made a telephone call or answered the phone in the brief space of a week. It would be a different world, even with the radio, if all of the telephones were suddenly put out of commission for only a day. It has been something of a pastime to criticize the telephone and to rail at the service, but the fact remains that the telephone is one of the chief props of our day and generation and is likely to continue to be so.—Columbus (O.) Dispatch. The diversified farmer's time is worth something every day in the year; and the telephone is the cheapest, best time-saver ever invented, for much of the business of the farm. The telephone is a hired man who eats nothing, who will not forget his orders, who will not flirt or elope with the hired girl, who will not set fire to the farm with his careless pipe or cigarette, who will not strike for higher wages just when the need is greatest. A farm phone is almost as necessary as land or house or barn.—Napoleon (O. J.) News. THE NAME TRADE PORO MARK A SYMBOL OF QUALITY Your name defines your character and personality and is a symbol of what you are. "PORO" is the trade-name of very exceptional Hair and Toilet Preparations and a System of Scientific Hair and Beauty Culture used and praised by ever increasing thousands. Mrs. A. M. Turnbo-Malone, Founder of this great business, has put into PORO her character, personality and ability. PORO Products and Treatments are amazingly efficient. Try PORO Products and Treatments dispensed by PORO AGENTS everywhere. YOU WILL BE HIGHLY PLEASED If you don't know a PORO AGENT, write us and she'll call. PORO COLLEGE 4300 St. Ferdinand Avenue ST. LOUIS, MO.. U. S. A. DEPT. Telephone Personalities The Long Distance Operator SHE is the girl who has the whole country at her finger-tips. She puts through calls to neighboring towns, or to San Francisco or New York with equal sincerity. Even voices in England and Scotland come into local homes at her command. In some larger telephone central offices, two operators are required to handle a long distance telephone call. One girl writes on a ticket the information necessary for making the call, and the other actually calls the distant city. In other offices, the same long distance operator who takes the directions for the call also completes it, if the person calling knows the number of the distant telephone. The modern tendency is for the long distance operator to complete the connection for the subscriber when he holds the line. The person who is required for operators of The Ohio Boat Telephone Company to complete connections to distant cities was reduced by more than one-third. The long distance operator now has more responsibility, but she measures up to her task and is giving the user of long distance service quicker connections than he ever received before. Keeping Up It isn't the payments for upkeep that are the deterrents; it is keeping up the payments.—Wall Street Journal! Spouting Fish Stops Telephone Service FISH stories and snake yarns are so often greeted with snickers of unbelief that the newspaper reporter in Natchez, Miss., who wrote this one during the Mississippi flood probably had his fingers crossed when he was plugging away at his typewriter: "At Ferriday the operators of the telephone exchange underwent an unusual experience today when a large fish, supposed to have been a porpoise that found its way up from the Gulf, swam into the exchange office under the platform on which the switchboard was located and put the board out of commission by discharging a stream of water upon it. The story is vouchered by operatives, Mrs. Dale Orr and Miss Fannie Allibritt. "During the high water of 1922 when Ferriday was flooded Mrs. Orr was compelled to keep a large club on the switchboard platform to prevent snakes from crawling up on it." Telephone Draws People to Church At the Christian Endeavor convention in Cleveland during July a meeting of the Endeavor public representatives was held to discuss a campaign of "telephone evangelism." It was agreed that the telephone affords an excellent means of reaching young people and persuading them to come to the churches. Guy P. Leavitt of Cincinnati, former telephone employee who is a leader in Endeavor work, believes that the telephone can be most effective in drawing the interest of young people to religion, and gave numerous suggestions for making appeals by telephone to combat the interests which tend to keep people away from the churches. A demonstration of the proper and improper methods of telephoning was given by operators of The Ohio Bell Telephone Company to aid the Endeavor representatives in inviting people to church. Some twenty-five or thirty appointments (for one year) to the staffs of five local hospitals were announced by Community Fund headquarters. 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HOW SEGREGATION IS USED 21 oo rr AT THE NATION’S CAPITAL TO LOWER OUR STATUS AS CITIZENS. 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 | i Washington today under President Goolidge than there has ever been since the Civil War. The heginp’ngs Of segregation Were ander 2 -esidens Taft. It was greatly extended, un- der President’ Wilson; increased, still further, under President Hard- tug; and reached its zenith under President Coolidge. Sor instance, the largest of our parks President ‘Wilson never troubled, but 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 guch is not the case. Mr, Taft m- troduced it in the bureau of engrav- img. He segregated the census-takers jn this city in 1910, restricting white workers to white people, and black to black, often duplicating work ss fost blocks had white and black residents. And, worst of all, an- houneed in bis official capacity’ that Negroes shald not hold office where white people complained. Ses- Tegation, then, is a Republican in- stitution and not a Democratic one. It was begun by Republicans, and carried on to ite all-embracing x vent by Republicans! ‘There is far more of it in the ae partments, today, than at any time ‘since the Negro first appeared, close upon the close of the Civil War. The picture requirement in the civil serv- fee, which makes it next to impos sible for a colored lady or gentleman fo enter the civi? service, since thel color is disclosed in their photo graph which must accompany thei 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, an¢ they saw her complexion. ‘Commis sioner Blair of the internal revenus bureau with thousands of clerks wil not appoint a Negro clerk, and his word is law there, as he is the spec: im) favorite of Secretary Mellon and President Coolidge. He hails trom North Carolina, the home of the other favorite and leader of the seg- regation forces, Col. Sherrill, super- fatendent 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 segre gation in the departments ot the government, and the photograph Fequirements in the civil service by the mere nod of his head, are at a Joss to understand why Le 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. Jhey wonder if he is not/a firm be- liever in segregation, especially since wegregation is one of the chief ten- ets of ghe Ku Klux Klan which has found its “welcome home” in the Republican party, and receives no eondemnation from the Republican President, Capit aes /¢Snectal to The Gazette.) Washington, D. C.—In the postof- five segregation is rampant. The faithful colored clerks work under constant humiliation and physical disadvantages. The department maintains a spacious cafteria for whites only, where these inferior white clerks can buy appetizing Tuncheons and chat in comfort while eating, while the colored clerks must bring cold luncheons from home and eat them amy place they can. The physical discomfort, disadvantage- ous as it is, is far less galling to the corored clerks than is the thought of their government taking their taxes, as it takes those of the whites, for ‘the comfort of the latter, and setting them off as 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 tntellt- gent and efficient service—the white man of their attainment being able to get far more lucrative employ- ment. ‘The department goes even farther fm fits solicitude for whives and a lect of colored. It maintains s - 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 em- ployess. ‘This private club is in the Magnificent postoffice building, built and maintained by ALL of the peo ple, In the locker rooms there ts segregation, and segregation is even attempted in the tollets. And all of this {s against the most dependable| and faithfal employees. Last year the white employees: passed sround invitstions to the! white employees, in the very pree- ance of the colored, to attend a re- ception to the heads of depastments, fncluding the postmaster general, in the pestoffice buflding. It announced | dancine and a pleasant social eve-| ning with the officials for “the post-| office emplorees,” yet not one was Gelivered to the colored clerks. 1 hurried # protest to the postmaster general the day before it was to! 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. Tt is inevitable that the wicked spirit of segregation would express itself in appointments, assignments, and salaries. Colored applicants are often passed over though their ex- amination was superior No Negro, however efficient or old in the serv- ice, must ever dream of a promotton to 'a directive position. The hard, unyielding caste passes whites over him, one after another, though many of the colored employees have won ‘contests in quickness and accuracy in the handling of mail. The col- ored clerks have dared to form a union which meets regularly and ‘often sends manly and intelligent ‘protests to the postmaster, and often Appeals from bis decisions to the ‘postmaster-general. Jt 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. | Weiabtal (0: Ske ‘Gasetbo:) Washington, D. ©.—The 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 lucra- ive avenues of employment being closed to them because of thelr col- or, ‘The whites are generally of a sery mediocre group, far from equal- ing our girls in educational equip- ment, culture, and working efficien- cy, ’ Yet these superior xirls are set off trom the whites with the latter, of course, having the better working conditions, salaries and recreational facilities. ' There is a large cafeteria im this huge structure where all of the employees may go, but there are a few tables in an out-of-the-way section reserved for our employees. {am glad to say that few, very few, of our people patronize ‘the place, preferring a little physical incon- venience to the open, semi-public hu- miliation of segregation. In toilet facilities, dressing-rooms, and work assignments, wherever possible, the law of segregation is in fall 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 and @ance. Last fall, a young Afro- American with a splendid record in his wérk, felt the injustice of this exclusion of our employees so keenly that he secured the company of a young lady of the race to take part in the dance. As soon as this couple started to dance the music was ab- ruptly stopped, and the young man reported for attempting to take part in an entertainment provided for employees. He was called to the office, lectured for being “one of those’smart Negroes” who believe tn “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 @ fire broke out in the office. He was quickly accused of setting the building afire in revenge for his exclusion from the dance floor. De- tectives came to the building to ar- rest 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 ithmediately 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 their government (under President Coolidge) gives them. Many of the employees have ex- pressed their deeply-wounded teel- ings to me at being considered a pafiah by the government whose in- stitutions they are serving so faith- tally, and I have taken up a number of eases 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 T have never given a single name!! The de- partment then taking the position that ft eanuot take up the case. It is perfectly clear that this iniquitous scheme of segregation 1s » difficult thing to fight, since the government is so well settled upon it, and the complainants cannot bear witness i (Special to The Gazette) ‘Washington, D. C.—Segregation im the bureau of engraving and printing has an interesting histors involving President Thomas Wood: row Wilson and members of his tam- 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 GAZETSE, CLEVELAND, 0. SATURDAY, JULY 23, 1927. ber of his tamily 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 not ed tor 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- ored 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- Uonal 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. C. 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 intention of the segregators, name- ly, the elimination of the ‘colored employees trom the bureau #1to- gether. ‘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 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 ther 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 training, and fine culture. The white git!s are of no such grade, as there fs no segregation for them in the great world of things. They have unlimited fields at high wage for even mediocre talents. The best o! 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 st 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 speech, is now under the ablest financial genius since the days of Alexander Hamil- ton, It is to be remembered that the great Hamilton came from the West Indies, and in that long sweep of his- tory ihat the President traversed are the mighty Salmon P. Chase, secretary of the treasury in Lin: coln’s cabinet, who, in a national ex- tremity such as this country has never known, devised the national banking system which financed the Civil War; and Ohio's master finan- cler, John Sherman, ‘These men never knew what segregation was! ‘The present head of the dopart- ment of internal revenue, Mr. Blair from North Carolina, has not ap- pointed a colored clerk since his in- eambency. While his predecessor, Mr. Daniel Roper, a Democrat from Texas, appointed and promoted sev- eral of them. Since the income tax legislation and the numberless new taxes that the recent war nocess!- tated, this ts by far the largest de- partment of the treasury, employing several thousand clerks. Yet Ne- groes are 0 scarce there that they can’t be noticed, There {a the same general complaint here among our clerks and other employees as there isn the other branches of the gov- ernment—faflure 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 toflets, lock: er rooms, rest rooms, etc., set off for colored. The tollets for the colored are few in euch a large structure. Hence, the segregated clerks are forced’ to endure physical inconven- fence at times, and are forced to travel Tong 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 class can come to rest, dine, and s0- clalize of afternoons and evenings at minimum costs. The white press of the elty is constantly telling of the thousands who take advantage of| this ‘delightful retreat,” and the festive scone that their presence creates. It seats two thousand din- ere with space te spare; but mot one Negro! His only share is in the taxes he is forced to pay for this luxury for another group! ‘The registorship of the treasury, which Republican Presidents have given the Negro since Garfield ap- pointed Blanch K. Bruce, is now filled by a white man, and the col ored people are congregated in a 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 Cee ae abolition of the division altogether; so they reriain in a dilemna, fearing to act. Our clerks must accept se- gregation or elimination, and being poor, with no other opportunities in this southern atmosphere, must take the former. They are depressed at the wroag, but eeonomle stress com- pels endurance of it. By a cingle stroke of his pen, President Calvin Coolidge can stop every bit of this damnable segrega- tion, Just as he can condemn thal lawless organization the Ku Klus ie Washington, b. C.—We wish to call attention to the fact that in the fight against the segregation of our goy- ernment employees, the Treasury Department will most likely be the center of attack, for segregation in several of its bureaus has bean most pronounced, This is particularly true of the office of the register of the treasury and the internal revenue bureau, in the former, beaver board walls were maintained until recently. In the latter there have been two cases of discrimination on account of color brougnt to public view. The words, announcing the election of President Coolidge, were hardly cold before the effort to in- creaso segregation in the depart- ments here was on again at full speed. It had slowed up a little dur- ing the campaign. Investigation of Bureaus An investigation of the executive departments and bureaus listed be- low shows that segregation prevails in them as follows: Office of the Register of the ‘Treasury, there are two segregated sections——one with 30 Afro-Ameri- gan employees and the other with 4. Navy Department — one _sogre- gated section of 18 of our employ- ees, as well as a segregated lunch room. Census Bureau-—a segregated section of 60 Afro-American empioy- Bonus Section Ronus 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 ser- regated section of 7 employees. ‘Office of the Treasurer of the Uut- 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 segre- gated lunch room. “THE WALK-IN-THE-WATER.” Interesting Reminiscence | of _ the Great Northwest Visited by ‘Tourists and Others, ‘Shouse Manaaiiasies. The season for holiday cruising on the Great Lakes is comparatively short, extending over a period of not much more than 70 days; beginning in earnest. when the public schools close for the summer vacation and ending in mid-September, although the line boats continue to run until November, according to Mr. A. A. Schantz, president of the Detroit & Cleveland Navigation company, oper- ating steamboat lines between De- troit, Cleveland, Buffalo and Chica- 80. “Phe educational value of a sum- mer outing in the Land 0 Lakes at- tracts thousands of cultured tourists to this ancient region for all of the romance of the early exploration of the great northwest centers in the vast basin of the Great Lakes, which constitute the largest body of fresh water in the world,” said Mr. Schantz, “Such relics of the past as the old fort at Mackinae Island and the grave of Pere Marquette in the little church at St. Ignace are vis- ited each summer by throngs who are interested in the story of the boid explorers like Nicolet, Joliet and La Salle who opened up the great north: ‘west to civilization, and the labors of Marquette and others to convert the savage Indians, “La Salle, in 1682, built the ‘Grit- fon’, the first boat that ever explored the waters of the upper lakes. The first American built boat on Lake Erle was put into commission in 1795, and the first steamboat, the ‘Walk-In-The-Water, was built at Black Rock, N, Y., in 1818. The Walk-In-The-Water and the steam- boats that followed her did a thriv- ing business transporting emigrants to the West. “The passenger steamers operating on the Great Lakes, today, are the largest and best equipped ships afloat on the inland waters of the world and are patronized by tourists who seek health, rest and recreation dur- ing the summer months in Michigan. ‘The broad decks of the cruisers are turned into playgrounds for the pass- engers, and concerts, dancing and deck games help to make these lake and river tours very enjoyable.” OUB LESSON ‘We must 1earn to govern our- selves and work together for our own advaneement. If we do not learn to govern our- selves and work together for our own advancement, we may be very sure that we will be governed by others in their ‘own interest as well as worked by others for their own ad- vancement and not ours.— George W. Blount. Sa ance Rca TOTeTUTOTNTOOT Attention! Readers! Our advertisers want your trade. ‘Those who do not ask for it in the columns of “The Old Reliable” Gazette certain- ly care little, if at all, for it. ‘Therefore, wo urge our read- ders and all of our friends to patronize those who ask in this paper for your patronage. ‘Editor. PARIS ENLIVENS THE COSTUME WITH PARASOL AND FEATHER BOA ren a Ea | io “4/ i ‘=, We A Sas \ ie Didier! yl Nee EAN a Wy te _. Us at |) \ es \ ” et ae Oy (\ | EE a ha oy ty oY ea’ pa - Fy e of ei. VY ws FOR DANCE AND EVENING FROCKS 7 LACE PLAYS A WINSOME ROLE a very Da) 2 Ho 5 pe CP) 1 oe (| IN ¥ [jee Ne 4 e.. mh a ® eee Pie aay PLS. A, Ge Se Baa, Ween, A Ne ge SS E Sy ee os eS eg SG PUSS ees, Rey ne Ley S - 7 re : Pe HAS 270 SED entrenens sauce picts of flower-printed and filmy, lacy gowns Paris adds yet another enchant- ment and another this season in the way of pastel-tinted feather boas and bright-colored parasols. With that sense of fitness of accessories which fs second nature to the Parisienne, women in the gay French capital, and {ts environs of smart resorts, recog- nize in the colorful ostrich neckpiece a delectable accompaniment to the feminine-type summer costume. ‘As if to impart a touch of super- charm, gay hued parasols in endless variety are also gracing the summer scene. Not for @ long time have par- asols played so important a part In the costume ensemble. ‘An elaborate display of parasols not only animates the scene of every out- door social gathering, but women are carrying them on avenue and boule- vard as well. ‘The new parasols are as unique as they are lovely. Among the most un- ‘usual is the sunshade of fine all-white ee oe the alphabet to spell one of the biggest words, from point of influ- fence upon present modes, in the vo- eabulary. ‘That word 1s lace. One simply cannot follow In the footsteps of fashion, without encountering lace ‘at every tum, ‘This domination of lace in the style world may rightfully be accepted es fa declaration that the much-heralded feminization of the mode 1s indeed at hand. We have, undoubtedly, en- tered a period of pleturesque styling tn which lace, ribbon, floppy big brimmed hats, sheer fabrics in flower tints and all the charming frivolitles ‘which go with such, play leading roles. ‘pnts passion for lace which now exists, manifests itself not only in a trimming way, but the all-lace blouse, the all-lace dress and even the alllace cape, not forgetting the lace chapeau, are prominent among sum- mer styles. For the dance, choose © frock all of lace and be in fashion, ‘The one in the pleture is a lovely ingenue type. supple straw with an fvory-IIke com- position handle. Quite as out-of-the- ordinary 1s the crochet parasol of raffia or visea to match the hat. ‘Many smartly appareled women carry parasols to complete thelr sports ensembles. ‘To say these are colorful but mildiy expresses it. Some are of gay cretonnes in vivid floral pattern ings. Frequently the parasol ts of the same material as the dress or coat. Pongee, linen, taffeta, printed chiffon or georgette are all in the list of de- sirable fabries, ‘The younger set prefer parasols of Japanese make. These have cloth in side the frame with “Jazzy” outer cov: crings of paper. The one in the pic ture Is of this sort. ‘The feather boo which the figure in flowered chiffon ir wearing 1s shaded from rose to pink Matrons find their ideal of what a parasol should be in handsomely shirred black chiffon types. Lace par asols are carried at formal garden party affairs. JULIA BOTTOMLEY, ‘saa epaitag Wrintien Heaeekee ratony Its full skirt and semi-fitted bodice ‘emphasizes the trend toward a normal waistline. We hear considerably these days about a return to the natural waist line. Both lace and flowered chiffon dresses usually haye a touch of velvet ribbon about them. In this instance French blue velvet rib bon is arranged at one shoulder in a bow, whose streamers reach about the neckline. Not only is the lace gown fashion. able for evening. Enchanting ver sions for daytime wear are shown in gray, belge or black. ‘These, if the Jace be a small all-over pattern, are often made with finely plaited skirts and blouses. ‘Outstanding Is the vogue for frocks of filmy black lace. Sometimes these are all of lace, other times half-in half of lace chiffon. ‘The lace blouse enters into the en. semble mode. Charming costumes consisting of a crepe skirt and long coat and lace tunie oF blouse, dyed to match, are timely for dressy bridge party ‘and luncheon affairs, JULIA BOTTOMLEY. (@. 1921, by Western Newspaper Unies.) “JIM OROW” HOSPITAL, AGAIN. Cleveland, Obio, July 13, 1927. Editor The News, City, Dear 'Sir:— That the great majority of the Gol- ored people of this community, which includes a majority of their leading doctors, are decidedly opposed to the establishment of the so-called Mercy Hospital for Colored people of this city, which a yery few colored doctors are still trying to promote thra an ‘appeal to the public for funds, was evidenced for the third or fourth time, recently, by the doctors" failure to hold a mass meeting at Mt. Zion Cong. temple and to have success with a free dinner in the Phillis Wheatley annex. The meeting and the dinner were intended to promote the doctors’ campaign for funds. Ben- jamin T. Johnson, director of their campaign, is a recent comer to the city from Canton and in the employ of the aforementioned colored doc- tors. He is asking the friends of the colored people of this city for $220,000 which should NOT be con- tributed because there is no public need of a colored hospital in Cleve- land. If the few colored doctors must have such a thing, let them finance it themselves, as others have done in other cities, and not ask the public for funds with which to do it, ‘The total indebtedness of the lo- cal colored churches is between $600,000 and $1,000,000. Many of them have drives on now with a view to raising funds to wipe out their indebtedness. If the public, friends of the colored people in this commu- nity, have money to contribute to assist my people, let them give it to the colored churches that sorely need it and not make the mistake of help- ing to promote a colored hospital to satisfy the overweening desire of a few colored doctors for jobs and publicity. They can “make their contribution to medical science” thru the mediam of a private hospl- tal established and maintained by themselves. The colored people of this community have a church in- debtedness which they are wholly unable to liquidate. ‘Then there is that $158,000 indebtedness on the new Phillis Wheatley building which they have not as yet paid, as prom- ised. Yours respectfully, Harry C. Smith. The warring factions of the Elks have finally compromised their dif- ferences as to the place of their an- nual national meeting, this year, by agreeing to hold all’ of its social functions in New York City and the business sessions and parade in Jer- sey City, N. J. Much as we would have liked to have had the Elks with us again, this year, in Cleveland, much more pleased are we over this amicable settlement*of a difference that was bidding fair to split the or- der into two or more factions. The leaders of the organization are to be highly complimented on this very satisfactory settlement of their dif- ference as to the place of this year's aicuisa?l Gate RACE PREJUDICE! “I am convinced myself that there is no more evil thing in this present world than race prejudice; none at all! “J write deliberately—it is the worst single thing in life now. It justifies ard holds to- gether more baseness, cruelty and abomination than any other ‘sort of errer in the world.” —H. 6. Wells. 25° —is the tight price to pay for a good tooth P= LISTERINE TOOTH PASTE Large Tube aa Let Tanlac build you up te este ee Build back robust health with Tanlac. tis nature’s own body builder, made from roots, herbs, and barks. 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