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HOW THEY DO IT "DOWN HOME"! IN UNION IS STRENGTH FORTY-FOURTH YEAR HOW See Us First for A JOHN Prices Reasonable. JEWELER A 8133 Central Ave., Cleveland FOOD AND SERVICE Pool's 2308 EAST 55TH ST. LOWES STRAW HAT Buy Here Famous C 4507 Cen FOURTH YEAR No. 51. HOW T Us First for All Goods in Our HALL JOHN S. HALL Prices Reasonable. Satisfaction Guaranteed. JEWELER AND OPTOMETRIST Central Ave., Cleveland, O Pro FOOD AND SERVICE UNEXCELLED Sol's Restaurant T 55TH ST. CLEVELAND LOWEST PRICES —on— LAW HATS and C Buy Here and SAVE Famous Cap Factory 4507 Central Avenue FORTY-FOURTH YEAR No. 51. See Us First for All Goods in Our Line JOHN S. HALL Prices Reasonable. Satisfaction Guaranteed. JEWELER AND OPTOMETRIST 133 Central Ave., Cleveland, O Prospect 3659 LOWEST PRICES on— STRAW HATS and CAPS Buy Here and SAVE Famous Cap Factory 4507 Central Avenue W. H. MOTON'S Cut Rate COMMERCIAL SIG HI QUALITY 2725 CENTRAL AVENUE CANT. I Fine, modern, 8-room single little 6-room house. Price $ around 19% investment. Big Suburban home in Mayfield in the path of the great Van S money! Will double in value. big yard. Only $3,000. $1,5 Beautiful 7-rm. single on Garage. $8,500—$2,000 down Neat 6-rm. single on G Garage. $7,500—$1,500 down See or Phone ALLEN H. Chave 8704 Cedar Ave. Ced Cut Rate Sign Service MERCIAL SIGNS AND SHO K HI QUALITY — LO PRICES NTRAL AVENUE CLEVELAND CAN'T BEAT THIS! modern. 8-room single, garage, furnace. In a house. Price $9,000—about $1,800 to $1,900 investment. Big yard. E. 8,24d St. near an house in Mayfield Hgts. 20 minutes to one of the great Van Sweringen development. All double in value. 5-room cottage and garage. Only $3,000. $1,500 to $2,000 will swim 7-ram. single on Columbia Ave., off E. 5,500—$2,000 down. 5-ram. single on Greenlawn Ave., off E. 7,500—$1,500 down. Phone ALLEN H. DORSEY—"Honest and Chavous Realty" Ave. Cedar 2811 Res. C Fine, modern, 8-room single, garage, furnace. In rear, a neat little 6-room house. Price $9,000—about $1,800 to swing it; around 12% investment. Big yard. E. 82nd St. near Quincy Ave. Suburban home in Mayfield Hgts. 20 minutes to the Square. In the path of the great Van Swingen den college and garage. Make some money in Mayfield Hgts-6, college and garage. Great big yard. Only $3,000, $150 to $2,000 will swing it. Beautiful 7-rm. single on Columbia Ave., off E. 105th St. Garage. $8,500—$2,000 down. Neat 6-rm. single on Greenlawn Ave., off E. 105th St. Garage. $7,500—$1,500 down. See or Phone ALLEN HORSEX—"Honest and Square" Chavous Realty 8704 Cedar Ave. Cedar 2811 Res. Gar. 6261-J ATTENTION! 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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 ALA. K. P.'S ALLEGED SHORTAGE SAID TO BE $55,000—THE APPOINTMENT OF A RECEIVER ASKED! The Failure of the Standard Life Insurance Co. of Atlanta Recalled—Also Our Southern Bank Failures—Interesting! FRESH OHIO NEWS Birmingham, Ala.—It begins to look like some of our people of this state have "outdone" the Standard Life Insurance Co. of Atlanta and the several bank failures, in recent years, in this section of the country. Our Alabama Pythians are stirred anew by the life insurance company, the tortory General of the state has filed a bill in chancery before Judge Wm. Walker, asking for a receiver for the endowment department of the order. This bill was argued, July 9, and passed until July 13. After argument the case was deferred again until July 26. The charges grew out of numerous complaints that general extravagance was being carried on. It is charged in the bill as shown by an actuarial report, that the insurance company has two have been used from the mortuary fund by the officers in violation of the law of the insurance department of the state, as well as violating the law of the order. Before the court and charged in the bill, are four audits, one in 1925, where Grand Chancellor R. A. Blount is charged with being thirteen thousand dollars short of the mortuary funds; and reports for 1925, 1926 and 1927 allege collusion on the part of officers. It has been reported that the hundred thousand dollars have been borrowed without proper security to protect the loans. $6000 To a White Lawyer. $6000 TO a White Lawyer. One white lawyer, it is charged, has received nearly six thousand dollars within the last twelve or thirteen months when the order has had no cases in court, notwithstanding the organization has an attorney of the organization, a liberal and who has been the grand attorney for more than twenty years. One report shows nearly four thousand dollars charged against the insurance department of the state, when the license from that department is fifty-one dollars a year. Four Year Fight. The fight has been on for more than four years to have officers make detailed statements of their accounts. Our Alabama K. P.'s have a membership of some fifteen thousand, all paying a dollar a month for endowment and receiving a policy benefit of four hundred and fifty dollars at 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., obtrudary notices, inquiries, honored awards and achievements of all kinds, including items announcing entertainments to be held in the near future, must be paid for in advance at the rate of 25 cents a line, six words to a line. Our rates for display advertisements will be sent on apples. ALLIANCE. — Mrs. Cora Roach went to Steubenville, Friday, to attend a lecture by Dr. Howard, devoted items of announcing entertainments to be held in the near future, must be paid for in advance at the rate of 25 cents a line, six words to a line. Our rates for display advertisements will be sent on apples. She was the only sister of Mr. Howard who died, last week, in Columbus.—Mrs. Margaret Christian of Steubenville visited Mrs. Cora Roach during the W. M. m. convention.—Mr. Bruce Peterson of Scio visited his sister, Mrs. Martha Roundtree, and Mrs. Cora Roach, Saturday. Mrs. Roundtree was called to Scio by the illness of her father.—Mrs. Alle B. Rucks of Berkeley has joined her B. Rucks in an employment—Mrs. Frank B. Dyer of Cleveland is visiting her sister, Mrs. Geo. Sanders.—Mrs. Luella Board, St. Luke's delegate to the S. convention, returned, Monday, and reports a splendid meeting. HILLSBORO. — Clarence Pleasant was the local delegate to the K. P. grand lodge meet in Columbus, this week. — Mr. and Mrs. Enoch Frye of Cincinnati spent Sunday here and attended a dinner. Mr. and Mrs. John C. H. — Mr. and Mrs. James Hill entertained at dinner, Sunday, Mr. and Mrs. John Williams and Mr. and Mrs. Donald Higharden. — Mrs. A. McFarland and son of Indianapolis are visiting Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Edna Ellott. — Mr. and Mrs. Wm. death, but this policy matures to its full value at the end of four years. The Pythians have property in Birmingham, carried on their books for more than four hundred thousand dollars, rented out from which it is owned. The Pythians have they not averaged a profit of two thousand dollars annually. Drivers' Expenses. Records further show that one W. B. Drivers, who is not a grand lodge officer and who has attended about three grand lodge sessions during his life time, is charged with receiving nearly eleven thousand dollars during fourteen months, and this is noted by the auditors as various expenses incurred in traveling to and from district meetings. The auditor was told that Driver served as a missionary of the order and was paid for missionary service. It is shown in the report where one white man received two thousand and five hundred dollars, and where another man received When Dr. U. G. Mason, endowment treasurer, explained this check, he said it was for "influence". 12,000 Members. It is alleged that Morris Smith, endowment secretary, received more money by nineteen thousand dollars, when he had twelve thousand members than he has with an average of fifteen thousand, all financial. Officers especially cited to bring their books and records into court are R. A. Blount, grand chancellor; W. H. Blount, chief apperant of records and seals; Morris Smith, endowment secretary; U. G. Mason, endowment treasurer; I. B. Kigh, chairman, board of endowment; R. L. Mabry, grand master of exchequer; and E. A. Brown, grand attorney, who had to do with certain land purchase, charged as fraudulent. Pythian Farm. The Pythian Farm is a farm near Montgomery, Ala., that appears to be a relay station for much cash. Nearly twenty-five thousand dollars have been spent for and on the farm in the past three years that has not apparently yielded the organization as much as nine hundred dollars. The order paid eleven thousand dollars to the organization as actual purchase price was asked to be nine thousand dollars. Blakey spent Sunday in Cincinnati. —Miss Matilda Blair entertained the Get-Together club, last Wednesday. —Mrs. Alice Ely of Indianapolis was called here, last Tuesday, by her mother's serious illness. —Miss Cassie Essex was called here. —Miss Eda Elliott of Detroit was Miss Virginale Paxton's guest, the past week. —Mrs. H. C. Pierce returned to Richmond, Ind. Saturday. She visited Mrs. Clifford Lamb, two weeks. —Rev. James T. Crabble of Cleveland, field secretary, O. B. C. a, preached, Sunday morning, at New Hope Baptist church. —Mrs. J. B. C. a, and Mrs. Harley Rickman and daughters spent Sunday in Ripley, and Henry and Richard Willis and Glenn Speech were in Georgetown. Rev. J. J. Burr preached there, Sunday. "Brothers and Sisters From Down Home" Dayton, O.—An excursion left here, Saturday night, for Chicago Our people "jim-crowed" themselves by demanding a separate coach and of course, got it. About a dozen of them, who were unable to get into the separate coach, occupied the end of the next coach. This I saw. A street car and four automobiles got tangled up in a skidding party on Cedar Ave. S. E. at E. 68th St. last week Friday night, and one man was injured. Sidney C. Thompson. E. 93rd St., tried to pass an east-bound street car. He nicked an auto parked on the south side of the street, skidded and banged head on the car. He was taken to a auto, hit another parked car, and turned over, police reported. "Syd" was sure "goin' some", as Bert Williams used to sing. The street car, unable to make a quick stop on the slippery street, smashed into Dr. Reagan's and Thompson's cars, damaging them. Wm. F. Grant, age 70 of E. 84th St., who was riding with the only person injured. He suffered severe cuts on the right leg. NUDE DANGERS ALL THE RAGE IN PARIS AS THEY WERE IN NEW YORK CITY. Popular "Jo" Baker, the Afro- American Stage Artist in Paris, "Dressed" in a Few Feathers or Bananas—White Danc- ing Partners the Vogue. Paris, France.—Montmartre! The jazziest and sexiest spot on the two contents! The first place visited by all good Americans! Three Principal Halls. The three principal music halls of Montmartre, the Folies-Bergere, the Moulin'Rouge, and the Casino de Paris, frantically enter to the mute. Scores of ladies throng their stages, some with figures eclipsing that of the Venus de Milo, and almost eclipsing her in the matter of clothing or lack of it. The Paris ladies, who are the way, are mostly English girls, do wear a garment about one-fiftieth of an inch larger and thicker than the piece of ham one gets in a railroad sandwich. I visited Montmartre in 1825. It's the same this year, only one sees more, much more of the ladies. "Unmentionables". In 1925 at the Folies-Bergere it was Benglia, the magnificent Negro dancing with one of the white ladies clad in the above mentioned unmentionables. This year it is Josephine Baker, dressed in two tiny tufts of red and yellow feathers, back and neck, with a blue plaque when she appears, which looked as if they would fall off any minute. There is also a moving picture at the Folies with nudes and then ever so many more nudes. Casino de Paris. At the Casino de Paris, which is even more gorgeous than the Folies this year, is a black girl of such matchless figure and bust (what I really mean to say is, breast) that she makes a plaque when she appears, which is all she does. French audiences applaud little, since the actors are in the habit of hiring their own applause, better known as the claque. U. S. Dancer At Moulin Rouge. At the Moulin Rouge, the black dancer, Harry Fleming, of Philadelphia, dances with a white girl. When she walks into falls into him, or expects the roof to fall in, or an earthquake, or at least a riot, but truth to tell nothing happens. West Indian. In the Bals a Opera a very dark Negro, Joe Santiago from the French West Indies, dances with Madame Sandraly, holding her over his head, their almost nude bodies close together. It is easy to understand why the Kikers so eagerly give a hempen reception to their soldier boys when they got back from "over there." Tourists Increase. The same sight may be seen in any of the dance halls in Paris; sometimes a white man and a black girl, but more often the converse. I have been taking some of the colored tourists to these dance halls so that they may see for themselves. The colored population of Paris seems to have increased since I was here last.—Baltimore Afro-American. A. Natiro Ohio on Honored! A Native Ohio-oan Honored! New York City.—Among those seated at Table A at the city of New Yorks banquet to the commander and crew of the airship "America", Messrs. Byrd, Acosta, Novella, Balchen, and the pilot of "The Columbia", Clarence C. Chamberlain, Tuesday evening, July 19, 27, was the Hon. Charles W. Anderson, one of the three U. S. collectors of internal revenue, located in this city. The long seating list for this banquet apparently included the name of only one group, the Honor Society, is indeed a honor which our residents of his native state, Ohio, and his adopted state, too, may well feel proud. Mr. Anderson also lived in Cleveland, many years ago. Often in years gone by has he been similarly honored. About 400 tables were used at the banquet. Not a Millionaire. Atlanta, Ga.—This city's wealthiest Afro-American is dead. As a monument to himself, he leaves the largest barber shop in the city, a life insurance company and a cemetery association in which he was largely interested, and an estate valued at approximately $300,000. He was not a millionaire as erroneously stated by daily papers throut the country, July 22 and 23. Alonzo F. Herdson came to Atlanta when in his early twenties and opened a one-man barber shop. His courteous manner won the respect of all whom he served, and his shop grew. Alonzo lived to see more than 700 employed in his enterprise and others he was connected with. He was 65. All of the "Sweet" cases (11—Detroit), were dismissed, July 21. Thus ends the famous cases in which Atty. Clarence Darrow played the stellar role SINGLE COPY FIVE CENTS THE KU KLUX KLAN RIOT AT WOODLAND HILLS BATH-HOUSE AND BATHING-POOL, TUESDAY EVENING. A White Youth Stabbed—One of Our Boys Struck With a Club—Several of Both Groups Injured—Directors Harmon and Barry's Statements—Where Is Tom Fleming? There was practically a riot at the new Woodland Hills bathing pool, Tuesday evening, which the police made very weak efforts, indeed, to control, the result being that four members of the race, the fighting back bravely, were more or less badly injured by a gang of white hoodlums numbering nearly three hundred. They sure punished severely some of them, too. Messrs. Burnham, Burton, Johnson and a boy by the name of Scott, whose skull, it is said, was fractured, were the principal objects of attack on the part of the mob. Everyone of these persons, and all others injured by that mob, Tuesday night, have right of legal action against this (Cuyahoga) county for damages under our Ohio Mob Violence act or Anti-Lynching law and we sincerely trust they will avail themselves of it. There could never have been such an unfortunate affair at that city-owned bath-house and bathing-pool if the police, the city's alleged guardians, had done their clear and full duty. Last week, Mr. and Mrs. Emmett Meade, E. 130th St., had trouble at the same place when their son and several companions of color sought to and did finally, use, after much difficulty, the new bathing-pool. It is clear to be seen that the Ku Klux Klan element in that section of the city has made up its mind to bar our people from that pool. That is why it is absolutely necessary for our people of this community to make it equally clear to all that we are determined to exercise all of our rights and privileges under the law in that public bathing-pool. Here is another splendid opportunity for our local branch of the N. A. A. C. P. to demonstrate its real value and worth to our people of Cleveland. DOINGS of the RACE The Coolidge organization in Arkansas is made up of "lily whites". Two of our girls are typists and one a clerk in the Baltimore, Md. city offices. Roger Williams university and Howe institute, both located in Memphis, Tenn., will merge. Our National Business League will hold its 28th annual meeting in St. Louis, Aug. 10, 11, 12. The postoffice department has appointed two Afro-American foremen in the New York City district. Pres. C. B. B. D. King of Liberia, Africa, and his retinue have left France and arrived in England. David Hawley of Chicago has been appointed an assistant superintendent of The Armour P. O. station, that city. A regimental history of our famous 25th U. S. Infantry has been published by a Denver, Colo. printing company. A young man of the race has for many months been manager of a store in Boston operated by a chain grocery system. A woman of the race has been made traveling instructor for a New York novelty paper company, traveling in the south. Helen Lee Worthing (white), former follies girl, and Dr. Eugene Nelson of Los Angeles, Cal., were married, recently, it is said. A student of our A. & T. college, Greensboro, N. C., is employed in the tool-making department of the Richmond, Ind. International Harvester Co. Alberta V. Adams, formerly of Annapolis, Md., and Dr. Booker T. Harris of Columbus, O., were married in Baltimore, July 16. The doctor is a Columbus dentist. The Indianapolis Ledger, a race IN UNION IS STRONGER COPY FIVE CENTS OME"! UX KLAN RIOT BATH-HOUSE AND BATH- SDAY EVENING. -One of Our Boys Struck Both Groups Injured— Barry's Statements— What About Scott's Assailant? Cleveland, O., July 27, '27. Mr. Edwin D. Barry, Director of Public Safety, City Hall, Cleveland. Dear Ed.:—On reading the local daily newspapers, this (Wednesday) evening, I was simply amazed to see where you had ordered "the immediate apprehension of a youth who stabbed a bather (white) during the fight" at the Woodland Hills bathing pool, last (Tuesday) evening, and had failed to do so in the case of the brute (white) who struck the fourteen-year-old lad, Leander Scott, about the same time and in the same place, "fracturing his skull" and putting him in Mt. Mt. hospital "where he is fighting for his life". There is something wrong somewhere: I have known you so well for so very many years, and always thought you fair, that it is very difficult indeed to believe that you can be guilty as indicated in the daily newspaper accounts of this (Wednesday) evening as referred to above. Let me hear, thru these same papers, that you have done so—ordered the immediate apprehension of the brute who struck the Scott youth—and that you, too, frown down upon the Klux, with whom criminal misconduct of those hoodwalls out at Woodland Hills bathing pool, last (tuesday) evening. Persons at the pool, inform me that there was no time, last evening, that the police on duty there could not have handled the situation properly if they had wanted to do so. Investigate this phase of the matter, too, while you are at it and do not forget the complaints Mr. and Mrs. Emmett of E. H1304th St. registered with you, last week, when hoodwalls at the pool sought in vain to prevent their son and his companions from using it. Park Director Harmon is right when he says: "It must be remembered by every one that Woodland Hills bath-house and swimming pool are for the use of every citizen, regardless of race, creed or color." Very truly yours, Harry C. Smith f the RACE publication, received $1320 for publications favorable to Gov. Jackson, the Ku Klux Klan candidate for election to the position, at the time. One of our girls is cashier in a large key factory in Milwaukee, Wis., and the Family Welfare society of that city has employed its first Afro-American visitor, Miss Anna Howard, a graduate of Psk university. Mr. Walter White, an assistant secretary of the N. A. A. C. P., and family are in France to spend a year. He will write two books, one a novel. His trip is financed by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation of New York City. It was Harriet Beecher Stowe who said: "When you are getting in a tight place, and everything goes against you till it seems as if you couldn't hold on a minute longer, and give up them, for that's just the time and place that the tide will turn." Wilberforce Quartette in New England States. Burlington, Vermont.—The Wilberforcq University quartette, which is making a summer tour of the East and part of Canada, appeared in recital, July 17, before the U. S. troops stationed at Plattsburg, N. Y. Following their appearance at Lake Placid club, July 10, the singers were given recommendation for all the exclusive resorts in the East and Canada. The members of the quartette are: Homer Smith, first tenor; Raglan Reid, second; John Ballon, baritone; Dallas Saunders, basso. Elwood S. Jewett is the manager. The singers are directed by Prof. W. A. Hughes. The quartette was a regular feature over the air on WSAI at Cincinnati, last season. There is no questioning the statement that "the 'Negro' holds too many conventions". Judging him by what he spends, proportionately, his is the richest race in the world. Harry C. Smith YES, IVE GONE IN FOR ART! ---WHAT DO YOU THINK OF THIS PICTURE? WONDERFUL! EXQUISITE! BUT--AH---ISN'T A BALD HEAD A RATHER ANOUNDL SUBJECT FOR A PICTURE MISS GERVYUM? WHO THA? WHAT THA? WHERE THA? BALD HEAD! THE IDEA! MOONLIGHT Tim Eardy The GAZETTE PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY (In Advance) One Year ..... $2.00 Six Months ..... 1.00 Subscribers are requested to remit by postoffice money order or registered letter. Entered at the postoffice in Cleveland, Ohio, as second-class mail matter 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 NEWSHEST AND BEST in the country. 10,000,000 Afro-Americans. 850,000 in Ohio. 40,000 in Cleveland. SATURDAY, JULY 30, 1927. The "knocking" of the State Department at Wilberforce is only "a smoke screen" thrown out to cover up the crying need of a real honest-to-goodness investigation of Wilberforce University which would cover all of its doings for the past fifty years. J. Walter Wills, Jr., informs The Gazette that there is in the city "a brother from down home" who is endeavoring to organize "a Negro cemetery association" and that the aforementioned "brother" approached his father on the matter. A "jim-crow" hospital would make a "jim-crow" cemetery a necessity in time, wouldn't it? Come on! City Manager Wm. R. Hopkins and Director of Public Safety Edwin D. Barry, the forty-five thousand Afro-Americans of Cleveland want some telling action from you both in this Woodland Hills bathing-pool matter. Back up Director Harmon's statement to the letter, and promptly, too, or we will tell you both something real and lasting when the next election comes, whether it is a special or regular one. The attorney general of Ohio, the Hon. Edward C. Turner of Columbus, has ruled that the Cleveland board of education can assign a public-school teacher to the printing trade school being conducted in the city by the Cleveland Typographical union. This providing the school is opened to ALL, not only union and non-union printers but to all citizens which includes of course their boys and girls of proper age. We particularly call the attention of all our local readers to the foregoing. Where is Cleveland's "Negro" councilman when his people sorely need him? Where he always is whether he is in Cleveland or out of the city. He is and always has been of about as much use to his people of this city as the fifteenth wheel of a wagon with four good ones. Have you ever known Councilman Tom Fleming to "go to the front" in any matter such as the Woodland Hills bathing-pool trouble? Whether one or more of them were harmed by whites have you ever even heard of him doing anything for them? When he was approached and asked to do something, anything, what was invariably his answer? Ask anyone, and he or she will tell you. There is no better time than right now to give this careful thought and discuss- Cleveland, O., July 25, 1927 Editor. Dear Sir:—Permit me as a member of the Board of Trustees of the State Department at Wilberforce, Ohio, to inform you that your correspondent from that town is in error. In the first place, "the list of employees and salaries submitted by the trustees at the time the state appropriation was given, this year, for the normal department of Wilberforce was" NOT "returned to the board for modification." "The probe, last spring, conducted by State Examiner Brown at the direction of the Governor, following a private investigation, disclosed serious irregularities. Examiner Brown said he had merely scratched the surface at Wilberforce." This is also untrue. Mr. Brown's examination was ordered by the State Auditor and not the Governor. Mr. Brown has never made any such statement. "The Board of Trustees of the normal department at Wilberforce is composed of five men named by the A. M. E. Church which controls THE GEEVUM GIRLS Wilberforce university." This is also untrue. The A. M. E. Church appoints four trustees and the Governor of Ohio, with the consent of the Ohio State Senate, names the remaining five. It is true that eight employees of the State Department, teachers and others, were dropped by the board, and two of them reinstated, voluntarily. This was done before the State Board of Control became actively interested. The trustees have twice, in recent weeks, refused to elect Carl Jenkins, former secretary of Wilberforce university, chief clerk and auditor of the State Department at Wilberforce and will continue to do so. He will not be given the place, nor will any of the remaining six "ousted employees" be reinstated. Jenkins' selection has been and is being strenuously advocated by Bishop Joshua H. Jones, a member of the board. OHIO SHOULD HAVE SUCH A LAW Hon. Charles A. Griffin, one of our four members of the Illinois legislature, has done a splendid thing. He is father of a law, recently enacted by that August body, which provides that no school in that state which bars persons of any race or color can be considered in good standing by the state, and that graduates of such schools cannot be admitted to take examinations for licenses to practice their trades or professions in the state of Illinois. Ohio should have such a law. It would prove a splendid help-mate to our Ohio Civil Rights law and estop discrimination in a number of schools in this state which it is next to impossible to reach under our Civil Rights law because many of them are not public institutions of learning but either semi-public or private which places them without the pale of the law. Will the "brother" with the word "taxi" on his hat who was refused service and grossly insulted in the Bell restaurant on West Superior Ave. near W. 3rd St., Wednesday, July 20, or Thursday, July 21, '27, call at The Gazette office at once? Some good news! The foregoing local item appeared in our last issue. As the editor of The Gazette was hurrying to the press room, immediately after lunch last week Thursday noon, he was met by a friend (white), a business man, whose store is near The Gazette office, and told of the following incident which had occurred either that day or the one previous: A member of the race with the word "taxi" on his hat entered the Bell restaurant mentioned above, and ordered a "hot dog" sandwich. The proprietor of this place is a Greek. A sandwich was made and was being wrapped in a paper when the "brother" said to the Greek or whoever was waiting on him: "Give me a cup of coffee, too, I am going to eat it here". Immediately the sandwich was thrown to the floor and the Greek, or whoever that made the sandwich, turned away saying: "I am not refusing you on account of your color". Evidently he thought this would release him from the possibility of a lawsuit under our Ohio Civil Rights law, but of course it will not providing the "brother" can be located and will permit the editor of The Gazette to help him. Our business friend (white) said that he winked at the brother in an effort to try to assure him of his friendliness and offers to be a witness providing a case is instituted against the Greek proprietor of the Bell restaurant. Will our readers help us to locate that "brother" so that we may put that Greek proprietor's anatomy so high in the legal air that his feet will touch the clouds thru the medium of a civil rights case that will teach him and all of his kidney in this community a much-needed lesson. There is so much of this sort of thing in Cleveland, and elsewhere in Ohio, largely because our people fail to make proper legal efforts to fight it down and secure their rights and privileges in public places in common with all other law-abiding residents. THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, O. SATURDAY, JULY 30, 1927. PRIME SPORT NEWS PRIME SPORT NEWS Two Rotten Decisions. Two Rotten Decisions. Prince of the McVey-Sage bout at Taylor boy, in city Wednesday evening sport-writers of local daily papers, at some length, took pains to call attention to two facts, particularly: One was that Jack McVey of New York City showed in his bout at Taylor bowl, which he won a few weeks ago from Walcott Langford, a Chicago "pug," that he was a most promising welterweight, one who "could not only sock but doze." The other was that man (white) of other races more experienced fighter, generally rated better (and eleven pounds heavier) than McVey. All of the persons, who attended the fight, with whom we have come in contact, since last week Wednesday evening, agree with striking unanimity with the sport-writers of the local daily papers that impossible, or improbable to say the least—won and won decisively, and yet was only given a draw decision. This is rotten decision, number one! All of the first accounts of the Dempsey-Sharkey fight, in New York City, last week Thursday evening, stated in plain English, in detailing the incidents of the seventh and last round of the Sharkey below the belt, fouling him, and while Sharkey was trying to frame and speak the word, "foul," struck him the blow that knocked him out, Dempsey being declared the winner of the contest. Rotten decision, number two! Of course, many sport-writers of daily papers, on the following day (Friday) worked overtime trying to explain a way the fact that Sharkey below the belt, fouling him, when it should have gone to Sharkey, as a result of that foul blow. The similarity in the McVey-Sage and Dempsey-Sharkey contests is to be found in the fact that McVey was robbed of a well-earned decision because of his color or race, or both; while Sharkey, a Lithuanian, and not an Irishman as is generally thought, was robbed of a decision in little, old New York City (Irish) because he was not an Irishman. Charles Mathison, one of the judges, in his report to the New York box commission said Sharkey was fouled by Dempsey should have been disqualified. That the fight-game is rotten to the core, along this line, is so notoriously well-known that further comment is unnecessary. Over Million Dollar Fight. New York City.—Jack Dempsey and Jack Sharkey split a purse of slightly more than $450,000 for their battle, last week Thursday night, which drew a gate of $1,075,000 and attendance of $2,000, according to Tex Rickard's estimate. It was the fourth million-dollar fight in ring history, when Dempsey was been a principal. The former champion now is assured of a cut in his fifth big-money fight when he meets Gene Tunney in a return title bout. Rickard's contracts with the fighters called for Dempsey to get $27½ per cent and Sharkey $22½. Dempsey was understood to have been guaranteed $250,000 and on a percentage basis, it figures to go slightly over that, with Sharkey getting a little over $200,000. Here are the promoter's figures: Total receipts, $1,075,000. Dempsey's share, $252,759. Sharkey's share, $206,803. Potential, $453,750. Rickard's share, $454,188. Dempsey's Dividend Attached. New York City.—Jack Dempsey's share of the purse for his fight with Jack Sharkey is held up until a claim of $62,000, fled by Teddy Hayes, former assistant trainer of Dempsey, can be collected. Allegedly Dempsey owes him that amount for his fight with Hayes. He prevented Tex Rickard from paying over Dempsey's share of the purse by serving an attachment on the promoter. It is said that Jack Kearns, Dempsey's former manager, will also file a claim against him for a large sum of money he claims is long due him from Dempsey. Rain Sayes Cleveland Hornets. Massillon, O. — The Agathons lost a chance to defeat the Cleveland Hornets, last week Friday, when rain washed out the game in the fourth inning. The local team (white) was leading 11 to 2, having scored nine runs in the third, when the down-pour broke. General Tires Beat Hornets. Akron, O. — The Cleveland Hornets fell, 8 to 3, before Akron's General Tires (white), last week Thursday at a general field. The score was tied, but Akron during the battle. A decisive rally in the seventh netted the Tiremen five runs, enabling them to win. Savage and Watts shared batting honors, each getting three hits. Wesley, Shocker and Watts got doubles and Watts a triple, also. Hornets Win Double-Header. The Wheeling McConkeys, who claim the baseball championship of West Virginia, visited Cleveland, Sunday afternoon, to battle the Cleveland Hornets at Hooper field and lost a pair of games. Two hits were all "No Ball" Miller permitted in the first game, while "Square" Moore allowed only three in the second which was cut to five innings. The Hornets got 23 hits in the first game and 9 in the second. Summers, Dixon, Watts and Evans got doubles and Miller and Summers triplets in the first game while Evans and Duff got baggage, and Duff and Watts triplets in the second game. The Hornets lost, Wednesday, to the Fisher Bodies. Score 5 to 4. Good game, played at Fisher field. Yarbo-Chester and Spence-Jackson Bonts. Wilson Yarbo stacked up against Lew Chester (white), Wednesday night, out at the Olympic arena, this city. The latter was tasting as being about the best fighter that "Knock-Out" Yarbo has tackled. Before the fight, Mgr. "Rubber" Goldberger said: "All Yarbo has to do now is to get away with this Chess game, we will be able to real dough. It's a real chance for him; the rest is up to him." But Yarbo lost, the he fought well the ten rounds. Arvin Spence and Al Jackson, local race pugilists, were also on Wednesday evening's fight program at the arena, the latter winning in five and one-half hectic rounds. FROM BRICKYARD TO THE BISHOPRIC! Bishop E. Thomas Demby's Phenomenal Rise in Life—Helped By White Friends—Mrs. Demby, a Former "Clevelander." From brickyard worker to bishop of the Protestant Episcopal denomination seems like a big jump for a colored man. Yet that is the history to date of the Rt. Rev. E. Thomas Demby, according to test-mony given by him at the commencement exercises of the Howard High School, last Thursday night, when he was the chief speaker. Thirty years later, he was placed in the brickyards of South Wilmington. Now he is an Episcopal bishop in the Diocese of Arkansas, residing in Little Rock. "I left the brickyards," he said, "to educate myself in order to help my race." He told how his efforts had been encouraged and aided by members of the white race, who helped him overcome the many difficulties he experienced. His address was a vivid object lesson for the members of the graduating class in particular, as well as to all others who were within sound of his voice. The advice he gave, which was to educate the soul and intellect, as well as the hands, carried conviction, especially when his own achievement, based on this principle, was colored man can do what Bishop Demby has done, in the face of obvious handicaps, how much easier would it be for a member of the white race to make equal progress. The bishop's record is new evidence in support of the oft-repeated fact that the door of opportunity is never closed to the boys and girls of America—Every Evening, Wilmington, Del. 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Sanders, in Alliance. The latter is a former resident of Cleveland. Mr. and Mrs. Emmett Meade, E. 130th St., were visited, recently, by their cousins, James and Paul Meade, from Philadelphia. Atty. Wm. R. Green returned from Idlewild, Mich., last week, for a brief stay in the interest of his candidacy for a "muny" judgeship. Mrs. Hanna Booker and nephew, Jesse Jackson, Jr., of O. S. U., have gone to New York to spend the summer with relatives. "Germany" Hudson motored to Camp Merriam, recently, to visit his three little daughters who are spending the summer there. Miss Pearl! M. Robinson and Mr. Henry Pryor of Detroit were married, recently, at her parents' residence in E. 128th St. Mrs. Geo. A. Myers' recent bridge party proved an exceptionally enjoyable social function. Very pretty prizes were awarded. THE GEEVUM I DON'T CARE IS A DETECTIVE FOOL ME! THE GEEVUM GIRLS *M. KLEINMAN'S 2928 Central Ave. *THE S. & S. DRUG CO. 7325 Central Ave. ROSENBERG'S DRUG STORE, N. W. Cor. 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Gibson, E. 83rd St., have just returned from a wonderfully fine trip through Yellowstone and Glazier national parks and the Canadian Rockies. They had a delightful time. Thos. W. Fleming, Jr., a recent graduate of Howard University law department, was presented a new auto by his father as a graduation present. Miss Lucille Jackson, O. S. U. junior in its social administration department, is visiting her aunts, Mrs. Wm. Calloway and Miss Freda Rogers, E. 90th St. Dr. and Mrs. B. F. Rucker of this city and Dr. and Mrs. Youngblood of Youngblood are on an auto vacation tour thru the south which will include Nashville. Miss Eunice Simpson of Zanesville, school-teacher at Covington Ky., is attending the Cleveland School of Art and stopping with Miss Bertha Blue, E. 90th St. Mrs. Gertrude Fisher, chairman of our Junior Federation, took five of its members to Columbus, recently, to attend the meeting of our State Federation of Women's clubs. Riley Caney of Columbus, who was in the city, recently, presented Miss Catherine Bell, a recent graduate of Longwood high school, a diamond ring as a graduation present. Mrs. C. M. Jones, trained nurse, arrived in the city, the first of the week, from St. Paul to visit her husband, Rev. Henry P. Jones, pastor of St. John's A. M. E. church. Miss Jessie J. Jasper, a teacher in Calhoun institute at Evergreen, Ala., is visiting her cousins, Mrs. and Mrs. Eugene Smith, E. 101st St., who have a 7 1/2 lb. baby girl, born recently. Mr. and Mrs. Benj. Andrews of Springfield, relatives of Mrs. Oscar Moss of the Central Ave. hotel, passed thru the city, last week, in an auto en route to Niagara Falls. State Representative Harry E. Davis is urged to run for the city council in the district district by a resolution adopted by the Cosmopolitan club of the 18th ward. Mrs. Ella Johnson and sister, Mrs. Blanche Gilmore, of Thackery Ave., left, Thursday, for a two weeks' visit with their parents, Mr. and Mrs. Venoy Wallace, in Hillsboro. Mrs. W. B. Loveless of Milwaukee visited her father, James Brewer, E. GIRLS IF MR. GAZINKUS E!----HE COULDN'T DO YOU WANT TO MAKE A LITTLE BET? THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, Q. SATURDAY, JULY 30, 1927. 43rd St., last week. She was accompanied here by her sister, Miss Sarah Brewer, who had visited her several weeks. The Soldiers' Aid, a group of 30 young women, presented their former president, Mrs. Inez Richardson Wilson of N. Y. City, with a very pretty token of esteem during her recent visit here. Last week, Mr. and Mrs. Emmett Meade of E. 130th St. put up a hot fight to keep the city's new Woodland Hills bathing pool open to our people. The local branch of the N. A. A. C. P. ought to help them. Mrs. Mollie DeBraun was re-elected editor of "Queen's Garden", official organ of our Ohio Federation of Women's clubs, at its recent meeting in Lima. Mrs. Sophia Bailey was elected cor. sec. of the organization. The late Mrs. Harriet K. Price, historian of Mt. Zion Cong. church, secured some valuable documents in relation to it before her death. These, too, were placed in the corner stone, Sunday afternoon week. Miss Catherine Smith, a Kansas City, Mo. school teacher, who is visiting Mrs. Grace Cousins while attending the local normal school, sang beautifully Gounod's "Divine Redeemer" at Mt. Zion Cong. church, Sunday morning week. Will the "brother", with "taxi" on his hat, who was insulted and refused service in the Bell restaurant, on West Superior Ave, near W. 3rd St., on Wednesday, July 20, 1927, call at The Gazette office, at once? Some good news for him. Bishop E. T. Demby and wife of Little Rock, Ark, and Ex-State Senator John P. Green of Cleveland, O., Old Olive Hill. Gazette is not the largest but one of the best of our many race papers and they are right. Tell your friends to subscribe for it. Dr. Milton Hopkins of Alexandria, Va., who years ago married Miss Marjorie Wilson, one of our most popular girls of this city, a sister of Mrs. Bessie Thomas, of Dix Ct., died, recently. Mrs. Hopkins has the heartfelt sympathy of many old friends in this community. The N. O. conference 'S. S. institute was in session at St. James' A. M. E. church from Wednesday to Sunday, last week. It was largely attended and very interesting. Mrs. Francis Williams, conference evangelist, is conducting a ten-day meeting at St. Paul's church, W. Park. Mrs. Wm. Higgins and daughter, of Providence, R. I., visited her sister, Mrs. Oliver A. Taylor of Crawford Rd., last week. Dr. and Mrs. Taylor entertained at breakfast, last week. A.H. Roberts of Chicago, who were guests of Atty, and Mrs. Alex H. Martin while in the city. T. K. Gibson, pres, and A. P. Bentley, sec., of the S. L. & C. Co. of Columbus; Wilson Lovett, pres. of the Standard bank, Louisville, and C. S. Cox, undertaker, Atlanta, directors of the Supreme Life, attended the annual stockholders meeting of the company in Columbus, recently, and passed thru Cleveland, last week, in an auto on route East. H. L. Judy and A. A. Robinson spent the week and in Columbus guests of Mr. and Mrs. Wm. andbert. He is past-grandmaster of Ohio. They also conferred with the present grandmaster, C. O. Corear. The committee has about completed arrangements for the masonic grand lodge meet here, Aug. 8 to 14. A large representation from many parts of the state is expected. Also national grand officers from other institutions including S. S. Simmons, N. M. M. The sessions in a church and will include Master-Masons, G. R. Arch, chapter, grand eminent commandery and Ohio grand chapter of O. E. S. Committee; Quay Brown, chair; H. L. Judy, sec. A honeymoon trip that terminated in Buffalo when the bride learned that the bridegroom didn't have enough money to go further and when the groom found out that his wife wasn't wealthy as he had been when she was born, week Thursday, Mrs. Lena B. Gibbs, E. 97th St., the bride, was granted a divorce and $400 alimony from her husband, Alvin C. Gibbs, undertaker, by Common Pleas Judge Walther. Mrs. Gibbs claimed that her husband evidently thought her wealthy when she married him and that she beamed him wealthy until they became stranded in Buffalo on their honeymoon. Improved Lots ON Rapid Transit AT Stop 30, A. B. C. Line (E. 220th St.) Northfield Rd. Lots 50x150 At $500—Easy Terms AN IDEAL VACATION Is a Trip "Up and Down The Lakes" —Thousands Enjoy it Every Summer — Niagara Falls, Mackinac Islands, the Old Fort, Etc., Etc. The lure of the Great Lakes draws thousands of tourists to Michigan every summer, for no vacation is complete without a cruise over the pleasant waters of the inland seas that form a broad highway from Duluth, on the north, down to the Atlantic ocean. The chief ingredients of an ideal vacation outing include water, sunshine and fresh air, and in "The Land O' Lakes" we have the greatest body of fresh water in the world; there is an abundance of sunshine, and the lakes would make your lungs give a hygienic laugh, declared A. A. Schanzt, president of the Detroit & Cleveland Navigation company, who for many years has been operating tourist steamers on Lakes Huron, Erie and Michigan. Niagara Falls and Mackinac Island are the most popular of interest for tourists from the inland states. So many bridal couples visit Niagara Falls during the summer season that the Detroit and Buffalo division of the D. & C. steamer line has long been known as "The Honeymoon Trail". Mackinac Island located at the junction point of Lake Huron, Lake Suwannee, Lake Michigan, is the queen of the multitude of Michigan summer resorts. It is certain that no better place than Mackinac Island can be found for sickly girls, puny boys and tired grownups, for here everyone is soon alive with animal spirits and eat in such a way as to demonstrate the paradox that the quantity contained may be greater than the container. The high hills of Mackinac Island are rugged and picturesque. The great pine groves fill the air with healing balsam. As the tourist steamer enters the Straits of Mackinac the island presents a striking appearance with its abrupt cliffs rising out of the lake and towering high in the air. The long white walls of the ancient fort crowning a huge eminence and commanding the crescent-shaped gem of the island to the beach and the busy village nestling below forms a picture that lingers long in the memory. RACE PREJUDICE! 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Book on "Eye Care" or "Eye Beauty" go Free on Request Don't Throw Away Your Copy of The GAZETTE After Reading It But give it to a Friend or Acquaintance wh might Subscribe after Reading a Copy of It. HOW SEGREGATION IS USED 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 in Washington today under President Coolidge than there has ever been since the Civil War. The beginnings of segregation were under President Taft. It was greatly easier for President Coolidge than it increased, still under President Hardy; and reached its zenith under President Coolidge. For instance, the largest of our parks President Wilson never troubled, but the present administration has found time and desire to introduce it even there. To many people, segregation is a Democratic scheme of insult, but such is not the case. Mr. Taft introduced it in the bureau of engraving. He segregated the blacks in this city from the whites, restricting white people, white people, and black to black, often duplicating work as most blocks had white and black residents. And, worst of all, announced in his official capacity that Negroes should not hold office where white people complained. Segregation, then, is a Republican institution and not Democratic one, it was neglected by Republicans, and moved on to its all-embracing extent by Republicans! There is far more of it in the departments, today, than at any time since the Negro first appeared, close upon the close of the Civil War. The picture requirement in the civil service, which makes it next to impossible for a colored lady or gentleman to enter the civil service, since their color is disclosed in their photograph which must accompany their papers, is tenaciously held on by our Republican President. Only last week, a colored lady appeared after having passed the best examination, having been telegraphed for by the department. The photograph had failed to tell her true color, and they flatly refused to appoint her when she appeared, and they saw her complexion. Commissioner Blair of the internal revenue bureau with thousands of clerks will not appoint a Negro clerk, and his word is law there, as he is the favorite of Secretary Mellon and President Coolidge. He halls from North Carolina to the home of the great favorite and leader of the segregation forces, Col. Sherrill, superintendent of buildings and grounds. it is no use to complain of either of these southern gentlemen. The colored people here who know the President could destroy segregation in the departments of the government, and the photograph requirements in the civil service by the mere nod of his head, are at a loss to understand why he does not put his splendid declarations on democracy into operation here, where it would not even cost him a single vote and where he has full power and absolutely no opposition. They wonder if he is not a firm believer in segregation, especially since segregation is one of the chief tenets of the Ku Klux Klan which has found its "welcome home" in the Republican party, and receives no condemnation from the Republican President. (Special to The Gazette.) Washington, D. C.—In the postoffive segregation is rampant. The faithful colored clerks work under constant humiliation and physical disadvantages. The department maintains a spacious cafeteria for whites only, where these inferior white clerks can buy appetizing luncheons and chat in comfort while eating, while the colored clerks must bring cold luncheons from home to eat them any place they can. The physical discomfort, as it is, is far less guiding to the colored clerks than in the thought of their government, taking their taxes, as it takes those of the whites, for their part 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 intelligent and efficient service—the white man of their attainment being able to get far more lucrative employment. The department goes even farther in its solicitude for whiche and neglect of colored. It maintains a well-appointed club room with pool tables and other games, a com for t able lounges and other equipment for rest, sociability, and recreation, and nothing for these same colored employees. This private club is in the magnificent postoffice building, built and maintained by ALL of the people. In the locker rooms there is segregation, and segregation is even attempted in the toilets. All of this is against the most dependable and faithful employees. Last year the white employees passed around invitations to the white employees, in the very presence of the colored, to attend a reception to the heads of departments, including the postmaster general, the postoffice employee, announced dances, and a pleasant social event with the officials for "the postoffice employees" yet not one was delivered to the colored clerks. I hurried a protest to the postmaster general the day before it was to come off, and he ordered the postmaster to invite the colored as well as the white. These clerks got up and colored. They gave giving the function at a local hotel. It is inevitable that the wicked spirit of segregation would express itself in appointments, assignments, and salaries. Colored applicants are often passed over though their examination was superior. No Negro, however efficient or old in the service, must ever dream of a promotion to a directive position. The hard, unyielding caste passes whites over him, one after another, though many of the colored employees have won contests in quickness and accuracy in the handling of mail. The colored clerks have dared to form a union which meets regularly and often sends manly and intelligent protests to the postmaster, and often appeals to the postmaster general. It has secured improvement in their working conditions, but they are still bitter over the huge injustice done to them for nothing else than the color of their skin. (Special to The Gazette.) Washington, D. C.—The government print office keeps faith with the government's universal scheme of segregation. Some of the best and brightest of our girls are forced to accept inferior positions there on account of the better and more lucrative avenues of employment being closed to them because of their color. The whites are generally of a very mediocre group, far from equaling our girls in educational equipment, culture, and working efficiency. Yet these superior girls are set off from the whites with the latter, of course, having the better working conditions, salaries and recreational facilities. There is a large cafeteria in this huge structure to meet the employees may go, but there are the employees out of the-way section reserved for our employees. I am glad to say that few, very few, of our people patronize the place, preferring a little physical inconvenience to the open, semi-public humiliation of segregation. In toilet facilities, dressing-rooms, and work assignments, wherever possible, the law of segregation is in full force, and, of course, this same undemocratic practice reveals itself on the salary roll and in the hard caste that bars promotions. Here the law of segregation passes over our superior employees to directive positions, and higher salaries. The whites have a large recreational center in this public building with many fine appointments for rest and amusements. During lunch and dinner hours they repair to this restful retreat for sociability and dance. Last fall, a young Afro-American with a splendid record in his work, felt the injustice of this exclusion of our employees so keenly that he was unable to join the young lady of the race to take part in the dance. As soon as this couple started to dance the music was abruptly stopped, and the young man reported for attempting to take part in an entertainment provided for employees. He was called to the office, lectured for being "one of those smart Negroes" who believe in "social equality" and then dismisses him as a night-employee, hence he carried a pistol. Right after the dance incident a fire broke out in the office. He was quickly accused of setting the building afire in revenge for his exclusion from the dance floor. Detectives came to the building to arrest him, and failing to secure any evidence searched him only to discover the pistol. They quickly dropped the arson charge and substituted one for carrying concealed weapons immediately dismissed. By this severe punishment our employees are taught that there is no way of escape for one who dares to resent the daily insults that their government (under President Coolidge) gives them. Many of the employees have expressed their deeply-wounded feelings to me at being considered a pariah by the government whose institutions they are serving so faithfully, and I have taken up a number of cases only to be met by a denial that the conditions complained of exist, and a request for the names of my informants. I knew the fate these informants would suffer so I have never given a single name! The department then taking the position that it cannot take up the case. It is perfectly clear that this iniquitous scheme of segregation is a difficult thing to fight, since the government is so well settled upon it, and the complainants cannot bear witness to it. (Special to The Gazette) Washington, D. C.—Segregation in the bureau of engraving and printing has an interesting history involving President Thomas Woodrow Wilson and members of his family, three heroic young colored women who lost their positions as a result of their prince's wife, wife of Robert La Follette. Shortly after the accession of Mr. Wilson to the White House, a mem der of his family visited the bureau where she saw white and colored girls working together in perfect harmony, oblivious to any thought of race. Shortly thereafter came an order for segregation of the races, and a white lady who had been noted for her philanthropy among our people and upon intimate terms the White House appeared at the bureau to tell our girls to be contented with the new order as "a great Negro leader had taught colored people to stay in their places." Three of the young ladies resisted the order to the last ditch and were summarily dismissed! abolition of the division altogetner, so they remain in a dilemma, fearing to act. Our clerks must accept segregation or elimination, and being poor, with no other opportunities in this southern atmosphere, must take the former. They are depressed at the wrong, but economic stress compels endurance of it. By a single stroke of his pen, President Calvin Coolidge can stop every bit of this damnable segregation, just as he can condemn that lawless organization the Ku Klux Klan. Senator La Follette lodged a protest with Secretary McAdoo to no avail, and his noble wife began a crusade against the undemocratic innovation. She took the platform here in Washington and Boston before the famous Twentieth Century club. She used the columns of the Senator's magazine, sparing neither space nor vigor of utterance. She thundered against it in our local white press, and addressed the national gathering of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People in New York. When our people here were so profoundly discouraged, she came out and offered him to the Y. M. C. to urge them to continue the fight, for democracy was at the crises. Oswald Garrison Villard came to town to attack White House and Cabinet and arouse our people, and the Nation Association secured publicity in over six hundred influential white papers in the country. The fight checked what was thought to be the intention of the segregates, namely, the elimination of the colored employees from the bureau altogether. The same segregation which some of our people think is the cherished institution of the Democratic party is still there, in all of its fullness, under the administration of the party that Abraham Lincoln, Charles Sumner and Frederick Douglass are helped to found. Our girls are employed there in far larger numbers than in any other branch of the public service. THEY ARE SEGREGATE, the theater rooms, toiletes, and working stations, of which none are ever thought of for promotions to executive places. They are girls from our best nomes, most of them with high age normal school training, and fine culture. The white girls are of no such grade, as there is no segregation for them in the great world of things. They have unlimited fields at high wage for even mediocre talents. The best of our girls must take these inferior positions, the inevitable result of segregation. Our people are still hopeless in this situation, and destroying this inquisitive practice in all of our government departments, for it not only humiliates the best of the government servants but impairs the government service. (Special to The Gazette) Washington, D. C.—The treasury department, according to the President's recent acceptance speech, is now under the ablest financial genius since the days of Alexander Hamilton. It is to be remembered that the great Hamilton came from the West Indies, and in that long sweep of history are the President traversed are the mighty Salmon P. Chase, secretary of the treasury in Lincoln's cabinet. who, in a national extremity such as this' country has never known, devised the national banking system which financed the Civil War; and Ohio's master financier, John Sherman. These men never knew what segregation was! The present head of the department of internal revenue, Mr. Blain from North Carolina, has not appointed a colored clerk since his incumbency. While his predecessor, Mr. Daniel Roper, a Democrat from Texas, appointed and promoted several of them. Since the income tax legislation and the numberless new taxes that the recent war necessitated, this is by far the largest department of the treasury, employing more than 100,000 groves are so scarce 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 government—failure to recognize their efficiency when promotions are due; ability to go so far and far no longer. The various forms of segregation exist here as well as elsewhere—the restaurants closed or divided along color lines, and special lockers, locker rooms, rest rooms, etc., set off for colored. The toilers for the colored are few in such a large structure. Hence, the segregated clerks are forced to endure physical inconvenience at times, and are forced to work in the dark, to stire the use of them. The department maintains a huge, magnificent cafeteria, in the splendid sweep of woodland along our national driveway, where white people of every class can come to rest, dine, and socialize of afternoons and evenings at minimum costs. The white press of the city is constantly telling of the thousands who take advantage of the city's numerous and festive scene that their presence creates. It seats two thousand diners with space & spare; but not one Negro! His only share is in the taxes he is forced to pay for this luxury for another group! The registries of the treasury, which Republican Presidents have given the Negro since Garfield appointed Blanch K. Bruce, is now filled by a white man, and the colored people are congregated in a separate room which is publicly proclaimed as "a colored division." When it is discovered that Negro clerks are "working as white" in other divisions, they are promptly transferred to this "colored division." Our people fear that protest against this segregation would result in the abolition of the division altogether; so they remain in a dilemma, fearing to act. Our clerks must accept segregation or elimination, and being poor, with no other opportunities in this southern atmosphere, must take the former. They are depressed at the wrong, but economic stress compels endurance of it. The worst stroke of his pen, President Calvin Coolidge can stop every bit of the damnable segregation, just as he can condemn that lawless organization the Ku Klux Klan. Washington, 12. C.—We wish to call attention to the fact that in the fight against the segregation of our government employees, the Treasury Department will most likely be the center of attack, for segregation in several of its bureaus has been most pronounced. This is particularly true of the office of the register of the treasury and the internal revenue bureau. In the former, bearer board walls were maintained until recently. In the latter there have been two cases of discrimination on account of color brought to public attention, unmounting the election of President Coolidge, were hardly cold before the effort to increase segregation in the departments here was on again at full speed. It had slowed up a little during the campaign. Investigation of Burcus regated section of 7 employees. Office of the Treasurer of the United States—a segregated section of 4 employees. War Department, Transportation Division—a segregated section of 5 employees. P. O. Separate Lunch Room Post Office Department—a segregated lunch room. JEWISH KLUXERS? Dr. James D. Merida of 3002 Central Ave., insists that Jewish residents in the vicinity of his new home at 9108 Parmalee 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. Eisler, 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. Eisler 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 as is exhibited by the residents of the Parmalee Ave. neighborhood in Dr. Merida's case and in the Wade 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 "bedfellows". 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. Eisler'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. OUR LESSON We must learn to govern ourselves and work together for our own advancement. If we do not learn to govern ourselves 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 advancement and not ours.—George W. Blount. Attention! Readers! Our advertisers want your trade. Those who do not ask for it in the columns of "The Old Reliable" Gazette certainly care little, if at all, for it. Therefore, we urge our readers and all of our friends to patronize those who ask in this paper for your patronage. Editor. FASHION 1 AND now it is cotton fabric from sheer to sheer weaves which mark the pathway to chic. If you would be smartly attired don a gingham or a printed sateen or a linen or a plaque frock, for the next bridge party or country club day-time event. If it is an evening affair, wear a flowered or pastel organdy. To be sure, there's nothing new in the idea of organdy for summer wear, however, it is tremendously important this season and designers are enthusiastically endorsing it for bridesmaids' costumes, as well as for dancing and dining. When it comes to the adaptation of gingham and such for wear at sports and afternoon events, there's the thrill of real novelty in that. This new enthusiasm of the mode goes so far as to create tailored frocks of gingham for smart street wear. The idea is unique and opens up a vast field of interpretation for wash goods in a "different" way. The model in the picture is of basket-wet weingham, combining threads of beige and brown. Many gingham sports frocks favor two-piece stylishs, which include belted jumpers posed over plaited skirts. HATS OF LACE OR ENTER THE WITH the arrival of summer comes the conviction that lace is a very smart millinery item. Now that lace or lace-trimmed hats have entered the picture, creative genius is being led into new fields of adventure, with a result that recent collections are including exquisite lace models. Among latest Paris arrivals black lace-covered wide-brimmed shapes compete with cunningly designed lace toques. An Agnes model uses black Spanish lace for a petite skull-cap, posing a pink rose at one side, which is partly velled by the lace. Contrasting this is a graceful shade-hat whose drooping brim and low round crown are entirely of lace. A maize-colored crepe facing with a black velvet ribbon band and bow complete this model. A pretty fashion is that of stretching lace so smoothly over straw or fabric, at first glance it appears as if the scrolls and florals were stencilled AZETTE A Subscribe a Sometimes a jacket of plain wash weave accompanies the blouse-and-skirt ensemble. Gay-pair cottons are very popular, too. Many of them, especially printed sateens, can scarcely be distinguished from silk. Small patterns vie with showy modernistic effects. The tiny colorful floral reminds one of the handsome "cravat" silks which are in vogue. Recently some attention has been given to white sateen printed in handsome large flowers or conventional designs. The very essence of style is expressed in a two-piece dress of sateen showing a large leaf design printed in black on a white background. Such a frock should be a temptation to the woman who makes her own clothes, to add another dress to her summer wardrobe. With a white or scarlet kid belt and black-and-white footwear, it spells cleth in capital letters. The hat should be either a large black milan or one of the extremely new big-of-brim white felt shapes, which is banded with black velvet ribbon. JULIA BOTTOMLEY. (© 1927, by Western Newspaper Union.) LACE-TRIMMED MILLINERY PICTURE with dye or ink upon their background. To complement the white-and-black costumes now so modish, milliners are designing large hats of white straw or leghorn, these plastered with black lace. The effectiveness of this mode is aptly illustrated by each of the large hats pictured in this group. Frills of lace about the face finish many a dalynt summer toque or bonnet shape. One sees many cunning hats which are lace-frilled like the two youthful little models in this picture. Very effective toques of black lace over white satin are being shown in shops which are the first to display the newer things. In these a becoming drop-side trim is attained with a soft bow of the lace. There are also many beige lace hats, also those in various browns. JULIA BOTTOMLEY. after Reading after Reading "KNOCKING" WILBERFORCE. Cleveland, O., July 20, 1927. Editors, "The Dayton \'Herald" and "The Xenia Gazette" 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 the trustee board failed to 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 because added in the investigation that 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 quotes “obligate me to represent the 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, 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 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 no one is now in position with the assistance of Representative R. D. Williamson of Greene county to force Jenkins' 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 Yours respectfully, Harry C. Smith. Our Church Debts We want our readers, particularly fully and ponder—the following partial list of our local churches' indebtedness: Cory M. E. church, $4,000; Shiloh Baptist church, $45,000; Zion Hill Baptist church, $15,000; Gethsemane Baptist church, 8,000; Ionclun Baptist church, $18,000; St. James A. M. E. church, $30,000; E. 71st and Cedar Ave., $30,000; Temple Church, $30,000; M. Zion Baptist church, $6,000; E. 74th and Kinsman Rd., $5,500; churches in Mt. Pleasant, $3,500; E. 64th and Quincy Ave., $2,500; 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 in Ameny Baptist church, $2,000; Monument Baptist church, $17,000; Baptist and Methodist churches in Collinwood, $12,000; Treedstone Baptist church, $9,000; Friendship Baptist church, $13,000; Miles Avenae church, $2,000; M. Nebo Baptist church, $2,000; Zionong empty church, $13,000; churches in St. Michael's, $3,600; Macedonia Baptist church, $9,000; Phillips C. M. E. Chapel, $10,000; St. Mark's Prebysterian church, $10,000; Stewart Memorial, E. 74th St. and Central Ave., $13,000; St. Paul Baptist church, $6,800; Antich Baptist, $15,000; New Hope Baptist church, $13,000; Tabernae churches, E. 17,000; churches E. 123rd St. and Superior Ave., $5,338; W. 25th St., $1,275; Phillis Wheatley Association, $158,000. Total $667,213. 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