The Gazette
Saturday, October 8, 1927
Cleveland, Ohio
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What Our People Are Doing Each Week—Church, Personal, Social, Lodge, Literary and Musical—Marriages, Deaths, Etc.
NEW VIENNA.—Many persons of both races, in this village are greatly pleased to again meet and greet L. R. Carey of Cleveland, who has been here, two weeks, visiting his mother and old home. Mrs. Rose Rollins and Mr. Walter Price dined with Mrs. Carey and son, Tuesday evening. The Careys were the honour guests at a dinner in Greenfield, Monday at Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Johnson. They made several social stops en route to and from that little city.—Mr. Leonard and Johnie Rollins were in Greenfield, Sunday.—Mrs. Edgar Peele and son, Isaac Newton, spent Sunday with her daughter, Mrs. Vivian Bunch, in Chillicothe.
recently broke an arm, is rapidly convulsing.—Miss Veetta Jackson of all visitors visited Miss Clarice Lewis Sunday—Miss Thelma Curtis of Pittsburg is visiting her grandmother Mrs. Irene Johnson.
HILLSBORO.—Mrs. George Williams of Dayton was here, Sunday.—Mrs. Ella Johnson has returned to Cleveland after a visit here with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. V. Wallace.—Mr. and Mrs. Edward Jones and son spent Sunday in Xenia and Wilberforce.—Miss Lyne Hudson entertained at lunch, Sunday evening, Miss Lillian Harewood, Harold Hennison
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ALLIANCE—Mrs. S. Ratliff, of Port Smith, Ark., is visiting her son Wendy Gordon, George Sanders, Mr. and Mrs. Edward Oliver and daughter, Josephine, motored to Youngstown, Sunday, visiting Rev. and Mrs. Luther Gordon and family—Little Ethelene Mitchell was quite ill with a cold, last week.—Mrs. Luella Board, Misses Beatrice Cain, Myrtle and Lillian Miller left, Monday, to attend conference at Columbus.—Mrs. Dorothy Moxley (nee Tull), is convalescing in Pittsburgh.—Miss Elizabeth Prisbie entertained a host of friends, last Saturday afternoon, with a party. All report a fine time.—Mrs. Mayoma McGowan is assisting Mrs. Ida Burton with revivals in Pittsburgh.
WILMINGTON. — Misses Esther, Bertha and Mr. Frank Chatman entertained, last week Thursday evening, Mrs. I. B. Carey of New Vienna and son, L. R., of Cleveland, who were touring in their new car to the Sabina street fair. Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Graham had them as guests at the A. M. e. church, Sunday.—Rev Wm. Ridley, M. e. pastor, preached a very interesting sermon, Sunday morning. The solo was "Jesus Is Tenderly Calling, Today"—Miss Cordelia Anthony, very ill for some time, is slowly convalescing.—Miss Ruby Graham of beberforce University spent a spell with relatives. Mr. and Mrs. Graham.—The coagregation of the M. E. church was greatly pleased to greet L. R. Carey of Cleveland at Sunday morning's services.
CADIZ.—Mrs. Maude Mayle of Zanesville is the guest of Mrs. Alice Howard, who leaves for Cleveland, Saturday, to locate.—Mrs. Alice Cole of Youngstown is here visiting.—Rev. and Mrs. C. M. Hogans are in Columbus attending the quadrennial missionary convention.—Mr. Verle and Virginia Redmond have returned from a visit in Canton and Akron.—Mr. and Mrs. Roy Clark, Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Lucas, Mrs. L. Smith and Mrs. M. Gilliam of Martins Ferry visited here, Sunday.—Mr. Austin died early Monday morning after a few days' illness. He was prominent in church and lodge work. A widow, son, grandchildren and many friends mourn his demise. Funeral, Wednesday afternoon, from St. James A. M. E. church, Dr. C. M. Hogans officiating.
WELLSVILLE.—Rev. I. A. Brown, pastor of I. A. Mrs. Myrtle Lewis attended annual conference in Lima, this week.—Mr. and Mrs. W. T. Jackson and family of Alliance spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. U. Lewis.—Mr. Homer Winslow spent Sunday with relatives in Pittsburg.—Mrs. Olive Payne, Mrs. Myrtle Lewis and Mrs. Lena Brown, and Mrs. Savannah Allen of E. Liverpool will leave, Monday morning, for Columbus to attend the quadrennial convention of the Women's Parent M. M. society.—A baby-contest, under the direction of Lee's chair, was held, Sept. 28. First and second prizes were awarded to Arthur J. Winslow and Margaret Jenkins, respectively.—Miss Verna Lewis, who
recently broke an arm, is rapidly convalescing.—Miss Veetta Jackson of Alliance visited Miss Clarice Lewis Sunday.—Miss Thelma Curtis of Pittsburg is visiting her grandmother Mrs. Irene Johnson.
HILLBORO—Mrs. George Williams of Dayton was here, Sunday.—Mrs. Ella Johnson has returned to Cleveland after a visit here with her parents, Mrs. and Mrs. V. Wallace.—Mr. and Mrs. Edward Jones and son spent Sunday in Xeniaxia and Wil伯force.—Miss Lyne Hudson entertained at lunch, Sunday evening, Miss Lillian Harewood, Harold Hennison and James West.—Wallace and Charles Nelson and Miss Alice Cole visited the formers' sister, Mrs. Rosie Moore, in Georgetown. Saturday.—Mr. John Lewis spent the week-end with his family in Ripley.—Mr. and Mrs. Enoch Frye of Cincinnati visited her parents. Sunday.—Read "The Old Religious" Gazette, a real race paper. Rev. D. P. Thorpe has returned after spending the summer in the East. Preached, Sunday. E. Church.—Miss Violet Greeriana has returned from a visit in Cincinnati.—Mr. Clarence Hudson and Mrs. Gertrude Christy visited in Cleveland, several days last week.—F. L. Reynolds and Mrs. Blanche Voirs of Columbus, Ohio Baptist state workers, were guests of Mr. and Mrs. C. M. Mragston, Saturday evening.—Mrs. Ajen Thomas is improving.
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Of The Gazette, published weekly at Cleveland, Ohio, for October, 1927. State of Ohio, County of Cuyahoga, ss.
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African Segregation Hits Jews.
Capetown, S. A.—The African World reports that the residential segregation has hit the Jew here. Jewish school teachers are unable to obtain posts in certain cases because of their religious beliefs. Deeds to property in the Cape sometimes contain an endorsement to the effect that the property is never to be transferred to a Jew. Publication of the fact that a colored doctor had charge of a practice among white women led to the proposal that South African black doctors hereafter shall practice only among their own people.
DOINGS OF THE RACE
There have been 89 lynchings in Oklahoma since 1889.
Ten kluxers of Jefferson County, Ala., were indicted by special grand jury, last week, for flogging and Spelman College, Atlanta, opened its forty-seventh session, last week, wit ha total enrollment of 559 students.
The National Equal Rights league will hold its annual meeting in John Wesley A. M. E. Zion church, Washington, D. C., Oct. 25-28, '27.
The legislative council of Sierra placed under bonds totaling $100,000. Leone, W. Africa, has unanimously enacted a law providing for the freeing of all slaves in that English protectorate after Jan. 1, 1928.
Noble Sissle has been engaged by the Okeh Recording Co. to record a number of his popular love ballads and "hit" songs. Current rumor has it that he and Eubie Blake have dissolved their partnership of long standing.
Harry T. Burleigh, composer and baritone soloist, of N. Y. City, was guest-artist of the New York Edison Co. Station WRNY, at its recent broadcasting program. He sany a group of spirituals, principally of his own composition.
W. J. Worthington, ex-klan official, who admitted purchasing Arthur Hitt's farm, near Birmingham, Ala., valued at $20,000 for $800, was indicted, Sept. 27, by a special grand jury in Jefferson County, Ala., and placed under a $30,000 bond. Klux-ers took Hitt from his home at night, flogged and forced him to sell, and leave the community.
Mme. Evanti (Mrs. Lillian Evans Tibbs of Washington, D. C.), a very promising lyric composer, soprano, who has spent several seasons abroad particularly in Italy, studying and singing in opera, is soon to leave for a 3 years' stay in Europe. Before leaving, however, she will make a concert tour of this country which will include this city.
ALMOST A RIOT!
Bad Negro Kills a Police Captain and Wounds Other Officers—Our People's "Open Letter" Had a Good Effect.
(Special to The Gazette)
(Special to The Gazette)
Dayton, O.—The recent shooting of several policemen, one, Capt. Post, dying of his wounds, by bad "Negroes" has fanned the mob spirit in this city to fever heat. The Ku Klux Klan of this community has been for many months promoting segregation of one kind and another in every conceivable way, with the help of "jim-crow Negroes", several of whom are among our most prominent residents of the one time, "Gem City". The kluxers are delighted with the most recent turn of events and of course our real leaders here are correspondingly sad. It is the old, old story of bad "Negroes", which includes the "jim-crow" kind, wilfully placing bludgeons in the hands of our enemies to beat us out of our rights and privileges in public places, if not to beat out our brains. Capt. Post's death precipitated things, with the result that prejudiced whites and the police made it more less unarmamentable days, or all our residents of this city. A letter to the safety director of the city sent by leading members of the race, in which was written:
"Regardless of race or creed, desperados, professional crooks or law breakers of any hue do not have the sanction of the better element of the Colored people. But we stand for law and order."
This letter had a salutary effect upon the entire community and helped considerably to allay the anti-rage feeling. This letter was signed by J. E. Bush, president of the N. A. A. C. P. local branch; Rev. O. W. Childers, pastor of Eaker St. A. M. E. church, representing our local ministral alliance; E. W. Jackson, president of Union Body of Civic Societies; and David Poe, president of our West Side Men's Improvement association. While conditions are not so critical, at this writing, they are far from being good. The bad "Negroes" recent crimes are such as are not to be easily and readily forgotten.
The editor of The Gazette is slated to address our employees of the local post-office and postal employees, Sunday afternoon, at 3 o'clock at the Cedar "Y". His subject will be "Segregation". The meeting will be open to all who wish to attend it, we are informed.
The Inter-Racial Study club met, Monday, at Mrs. J. I. Arnold's, E. 82nd St. After a delicious luncheon, served by the hostess, the president, Mrs. Ida M. Burton, opened the meeting. The club decided on a five-course progressive dinner dance, Oct. 19. First course, at Mrs. J. Perry's, E. 83rd St. After a vote of thanks to the hostess, the meeting adjourned until, Oct. 10. Mrs. May Hunter, reporter.
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SENDS HIM A STINGING LETTER ON SEGREGATION IN HIS DEPARTMENT.
Tells Him He (Thomas) Is Not an "Outsider" and Why—Twenty Examiner Jobs Lost in the Last Few Years—36 Sign an Appeal to Work.
Washington, D. C.—Neval H. Thomas, president of the local N. A. A. C. P. branch, has written to Dr. Hubert Work, secretary of the interior, relative to the segregation of our clerks in his department. In his letter, Mr. Thomas refers to Mr. Work's resourcefulness in the situation, "I beg to repeat," writes Mr. Thomas, "that I am not an 'outsider' but one of the 120 millions of citizens from whose pockets the great Department of the Interior and all of its servants are maintained. And I must state again that I came to you in the name of this great nation-wide organization, that I am from colored people come and whose wrongs it must seek to right. So please do not consider me an 'outsider'. You said that the colored clerks were satisfied. Certainly some one has misled you, for this splendid group are stung to deep hurt at this unnecessary and unjust discrimination. Did not 36 out of 42 of these segregated servants send you a respectful though vigorous response from colored people to the group appear before you in appeal and protest? Have you not received appeals from colored employees from divisions of your vast department other than that of pensions? I beg to assure you that there is almost unanimity among them in the feeling that you have made an undemocratic distinction in assembling them in one place. In the case of the few who did not protest the protest failed only for fear of possible reprisal. Let me emphasize again, your colored clerks are not satisfied. You told me with great emphasis that there is no segregation in this novel arrangement in the pension office, and that you were only considering efficiency, and that I did not know the workings of your office how to run your office, but I must repeat my reply of yesterday that color and efficiency have no possible relation and the congregation
THE ELKS' REAL JOB!
The Organization Establishing Civ
Liberties Department—A Wonderful Opportunity For
Service.
Washington, D. C.-At the recent grand lodge meet of Elks, a resolution was adopted providing for the appointment of a commission of five to be known as the Department of Civil Liberties, said commission to consist of the grand exalted ruler, the grand legal adviser, and the G. E. R. J. Finley Wilson, who has named Robert J. Nelson, of Wilmington, Del., as executive director. The other two members are to be appointed later. The commissioners are to provide ways and means to look into the civil and political welfare of our group with a view to help them remedy harassment and conditions, speaking of the program to be developed by the Civil Liberties department, Mr. Nelson made the following statement:
What it Proposes To Do.
"We propose making a survey of the states having equal rights bills, investigating segregation both nationally and locally; discrimination in the courts, both with respect to seating and failure of our group to be recognized in the drawing of juries; ascertain what proportion of school funds is allocated to the colored schools, where colored schools obtain; inquire what Land schools are involved in the share of appropriations for said schools; request information from State and municipal governments with respect to colored people being given employment under such government; ascertain whether the conditions in the penal and charitable institutions are equal for colored and white. The commission also intends going into the number of colored citizens who register for the purpose of filling in addition to those made the ascertain whether or not the failure of protection to the Afro-American in the South is due to lack of suffrage. When we shall have gathered the information above enumerated through questionnaires sent out to the lodges throughout the country it will be the purpose of the commission to help correct the evils through proper recommendation of remedial measures. Starting as we do with lodge units ramifying into all parts of the country the Elk have at the beginning a most powerful machine which can be successfully used to help correct evils from which the race suffers. It is our purpose to co-operate with agencies already in existence."
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WORK!
OF INTERIOR
G LETTER ON SEGREGA-
DEPARTMENT.
Is Not an "Outsider" and
er Jobs Lost in the Last
an Appeal to Work.
of nearly all of your colored employees in one division is no accident. It is segregation pure and simple. I also made it plain that the colored people feel the gradual
Prof. Neval H. Thomas.
dwinding of numbers of colored examiners and other colored clerks in your department. Today, there are but 5 colored examiners on your rolls, when but a few years ago there were 25. Some of these vacancies have occurred under your administration, but more than surprised to have you ask me if those cultured employees wanted to be with white people and white women. I repeat that they do not and that that is in no wise the issue. They simply want to be let alone, to rise to the level of their merit and to have their government officials for their pariads, an insult that will work discriminations in salaries, working conditions and character of work."
CLEOTA COLLINS
Captured the Great Ocean Steamer,
"Celtic", While En Route to
Melbourne.
Paris, France.—The Celtic arrived at Cherbourg, Sept. 18th, from which port the Legionaires boarded a special train for Paris. The one person who, perhaps during the ninety voyage did most to advance the cause of the race was a little woman whose name is already well known to music lovers throughout the United States—Mrs. Cleota Collins-Lacey, of Columbus, Ohio. Mrs. Lacey, a resident of Cleveland, Ohio, years ago, is in Europe to continue the study of music. The passengers on board the "Celtic" were organized along state lines, and of course, when Ohio held its meeting Mrs. Lacey was present. When her musical ability became known the leaders in her state unit after a consultation, invited her to preside at the piano at all of their entertainments afloat. She at once consented and as the only member of our group in that unit thus became the representative of all of us in this sphere, both afloat and ashore. Her talent was at once organized and appraised at its true value. Mrs. Lacey's numbers opened the concert program, a unique honor in itself. She was rendered with dhanam and grace that were irresistible in their appeal to music lovers who cheered her to her. As an encore she sang "Lil Gal," a delicate tribute to our own Paul Lawrence Dunbar of her native state, as well as to J. Rosamond Johnson, to both of whom she referred before rendering the number. Mrs. Lacey accompanied herself in this last number, thus displaying a versatility of which many in the audience were hitherto unaware. Many concerts were given on the "Celtic", but none excelled the one in which our own Cleota Collins starred. After the performance a few of her friends held a delightful buffet luncheon in her honor.
Cleveland's tax rate for 1928 will be $2.45 on every $100. County Auditor Zangerle estimated. Wednesday. This will be an increase of 4 cents over the 1927 rate and it will be increased 7 cents more, or to $2.52. if the voters approve the special assessment for salary increases for policemen and firemen at the November election. Zangerle said the estimated rate would have been $2.39. 2 cents less than last year's, had it not been for the special 6-cent levy that the state has laid in the move to rehabilitate its finances.
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CLEVELAND Social and Personal
Mrs. Alice Howard left Alliance, the last of the week, to locate here.
Miss Sarah Brewer, E. 43rd St. has entered college in Milwaukee, Wisc.
J. Finley Wilson, G. E. R. of Elks, and Sidney B. Thompson visited Dayton, recently.
Mr. Clarence Hudson and Mrs. Gertrude Christy of Hillsboro visited in the city, several days last week.
Mrs. Ella Johnson, who has been visiting her parents in Hillsboro, returned home, the first of the week.
John Alexander, former student of O. S. U. and Howard U., left, last week, for Meharry college, Nasu-ville.
Miss Frieda Rodgers, E. 90th St. our only member of her class at the Ohio College of Chiropody, will graduate in June.
Pupils of Mrs. Kathleen H. Forbes will give piano-numbers at Second Emanuel Baptist church, Sunday, at 4 p.m. Other local talent will also contribute.
Miss Lucille, daughter of Mrs. Amanda Taylor, E. 37th St., has entered the College for Women of W. R. U., preferring it to returning to O. S. U., Columbus.
Herbert King, a recent graduate of the theological department of Oberlin college, will study for the degree doctor of divinity. He is a graduate of Morehouse College.
Joe Jackson has returned to Ohio State University, Harold Johnson to the University of Michigan, Betty Stokes to Howard University and Will Lambright to Lincoln University.
The local branch of our National Association of Musicians will make a drive for a greater membership, starting, Oct. 10, and ending with a mass meeting, Oct. 24. Mrs. Grace
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Triedstone Baptist church has decided to continue to worship in the Presbyterian church, E. 46th St. and Woodland Ave. The congregation has outgrown its old quarters at E. 38th St. and Scovill Ave., its pastor, Rev J. R. Yewell, announces.
Miss Juanita Gregory, public health nurse, has returned from an interesting tour in Europe, visiting England, Holland, Belgium, Germany, Switzerland, Italy and France. She is the sister of Dr. Herman Gregory, the dentist, 5007 Woodland Ave.
Rev D. H. Hill, E. 46th St., junior pastor of Triedstone Baptist church, who underwent a successful operation at the Oxley Home, about two weeks ago, returned to his charge too soon and as a result sustained a relapse.
Albert M. Stokes and Josephine M. Mitchell were married, recently, by Rev. C. Lee Jefferson, pastor of St. Mark's Presbyterian church. Miss Elsie Stokes, sister of the groom, was bridesmaid and James Summerset, brother-in-law of the bride, acted as best man.
Mrs. Lulu Hall Alexander of Columbus, popular field-agent for the Mme. Walker Mfg. Co., has been in the city, several weeks, preparing for the opening of the new beauty parlor the company has located in the Frazier building, corner of E. 79th and Cedar Ave.
Miss Thelma Louise, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. O. A. Taylor, has returned from an extended summer trip in the East. In Philadelphia, she was highly entertained by Mrs. Thelma wife of the editor of The Philadelphia Tribune, and at Cape May she accompanied Prof. Carl Diton in a recital.
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Mrs. Ogla Gunn, wife of Dr. E. J. Gunn, entertained at an exceptionally enjoyable bridge luncheon, recently, in honor of her sister, Mrs. Mary Coleman of New York City. Beautiful prizes were featured. Mrs. Clayborne George won first prize; Mrs. U. S. Tarter won; Mrs. Mary Jones won third and Mrs. Coleman, the guest prize.
A 16 per cent reduction in lake steamer rates plying between Cleveland and Detroit goes into effect, today, Saturday, A. A. Schantz, president of the Detroit & Cleveland Navigation Co., announced, the first of three steamer season closes will remain in effect until the close of the present navigation season scheduled to end about Dec. 1. Navigation companies operating vessels on the lakes report the season so far has been financially successful.
Eugene A. Taylor was awarded judgment for $3500 (back salary as an accountant and auditor) in common pleas court, last week Friday, against The Anchor Life and Accident Insurance Co. Taylor was represented by Atty. Perry B. Jackson who made an excellent talk to the jury. The insurance company was represented by Atty. Alex. H. Martin and Charles W. White. Atty. Jackson has been honored with the degree of past exalted ruler by King Tut lodge, for "meritorious service."
At Phillip's C. M. E. chapel, Rev G. W. Samples, pastor, 2633 E. 63rd St. (just south of Woodland Ave.), Rev H. Pinckney will deliver a special sermon at 11 a. m., Sunday, when a special men's day program will also be rendered. At 3:30 p.m., the speakers will be Dr. E. J. Gregg, Councilman Herman Finkle, Atty. Clayborne George, the editor of The Gazette and others. In the evening Miss Jennie E. Hunter, executive secretary of the P. W. A., and Atty, Chester K, Gillespie will speak. An all men's chorus, directed by J. H. Marshall, will furnish musle throughout the day. Everybody invited, the pastor announces.
Rev. Russell S. Brown, who for two years has been pastor of Mt. Zion Cong, church, was formally installed, Monday evening. Preceding the installation, there was a dinner at 6 p.m. and the Cleveland Cong, church, at 4:30 p.m. the charge, to the people, was delivered by Dr. Dan F. Bradley of Pilgrim Cong, church, and the charge, to the minister, by Dr. Ferdinand Q. Blanchard of Euclid Ave. Cong, church. Rev. Brown came to Cleveland, two years ago, from Atlanta. Mt. Zion has adopted a community program and is in a campaign to raise money for the congregation's work. The installation ceremonies continued Tuesday and Wednesday evenings.
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Our Parents of High School Pupils Are Said to Have Foolishly Accepted Such Disgraceful and Harmful Treatments of Settlement.
Gary, Ind.—The pupils of Emerson High school, who were prompted to strike by the K. K. K., last week, because of the enrollment of additional Afro-American students, returned to their classes, last Friday, following a ten-minute mass meeting at which terms of settlement were explained. All but three of our students were removed to parlor, in junior high, funding erection of the $15,000 building provided for in an ordinance passed to final reading in the city council, last week Thursday night. The three remaining are seniors and have attended Emerson for three years. The ordinance providing for the new building came up for final action, last week Friday. Gary has several "jim-crow" junior high schools but no senior ones. According to Sup. Wm. ten, the 36 of whom are registered in schools also attended by whites. The N. A. A. C. P. is seeking means to avert the threatening segregation and has wired Supt. Wirt to stand firm against it.
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"Chickens Are But Coming Home to Roost"—Segregation Begets Segregation.
We desire to speak of two occurrences so as to emphasize the lesson that they teach.
When our editor was lecturing at Dayton, Ohio, in 1915, he protested a Colored primary school insisted upon by Colored parents to give their daughters positions as teachers, and in 1921 he found Colored doctors, dentists and saloon-keepers had asked the white ones to refuse to serve Colored people. Now the killing of two white police by two Colored desperados led the white people to seriously attempt to slaughter all the Colored. Segregation begets hatred!
When speaking at Gary, Indiana, we found prominent Colored people had insisted upon Colored elementary public schools. Now we see white high school children striking, refusing to attend school, parading in protest to the attendance of eighteen Colored students, and they won an award, a "tim-crow" high school. We said so. White children in white grammar schools will not tolerate mixed high schools. It is a lesson. Self-segregation begets segregation.—Wm. M. Trotter, editor, Boston Guardian.
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HOW SEGREGATION IS USED
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How Much Longer Will Our Self and Race Respecting Press, Pulpit and People Submit to This Rank Injustice?
Washington, D. C., (Special).
- There is more segregation in Washington today under President Coolidge than there has ever been since the Civil War. The beginnings of segregation were under President Tatt. It was greatly extended, under President Wilson; increased, still further, under President Harding; and reached its maximum. President Coolidge. For instance, in 1915 our parks President Wilson never troubled, but the present administration has found time and desire to introduce it even there.
To many people, segregation is a Democratic scheme of insult, but such is not the case. Mr. Taft introduced it in the bureau of engraving. He segregated the census-takers in this city in 1910, restricting white workers to 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 a Democratic one. It was begun by Republicans, and carried on to its all-embracing extent by Republicans!
There is far more of it in the departments, today, than at any time since the Negro first appeared, close upon the close of the Civil War. The picture requirement in the civil service, which makes it next to impossible for a colored lady or gentleman to enter the civil service, since their color is disclosed in their photograph which must accompany their papers, is tenaciously held on to by our Republican President. On last week, a colored girl appeared after having passed been examination, and 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 special favorite of Secretary President Coolidge. He hails from North Carolina, the home of the other faction 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 decoration on a presentation 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 issues 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 postfive segregation is rampant. The faithful colored clerks work under constant humiliation and physical disadvantages. The department maintains a spacious cafters for whites only, where these inferior white clerks can buy appetizing luncheons and chat in comfort while eating, while the colored clerks must bring cold luncheons from home and eat them any place they can. The physical discomfort, disadvantageous as it is, is far less galling to the coored clerks as is the trouble of their government during their taxes, for the government 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 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 solitary for whiche and neglect of colored. It maintains a well-appointed club room with pool tables and other games, 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 department, including the postmaster general, in the postoffice building, announced dancing with the 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 get around their colored co-workers by giving the function at a local hotel.
It is inevitable that the wicked spirit of segregation would express itself in appointments, assignments, and salaries. Colored applicants are often passed over though their examination was superior. No Negro, however efficient or old in the service, must ever dream of a promotion to a directive position. The hard, unyielding caste passes whites over him, one after another, though many of the colored employees have won contests in quickness and accuracy in the handling of mail. The colored clients have dared to form a which sets regularly and often sends manly and intelligent protests to the postmaster, and often appeals from his decisions to the postmaster-general. It has secured some improvement in their working conditions, but they are still bitter over the huge injustice done to them for nothing else than the color of their skin.
(Special to The Gazette.)
Washington, D. C.—The government printing office keeps faith with the government's universal scheme of segregation. Some of the best and brightest of our girls are forced to accept inferior positions there on account of the better and more lucrative avenues of employment being closed to them because of their color. The whites are generally of a very mediocre group, far from equaling our girls in educational equipment, culture, and working efficiency. Yet these superior girls are set off from the whites with the latter, of course, having the better working conditions, salaries and recreational facilities. There is a large cafeteria in this huge structure in the employees may go, but there are 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 promotion. Here, the law of segregation is in force. Pass over our superior employees to directive positions, and higher salaries.
The whites have a large recreational center in this public building with many fine appointments for rest and amusements. During lunch and dinner hours they repair to this restful retreat for sociability and dance. Last fall, a young Afro-American, spindled white robe and belt. 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 abruptly stopped, and the young man reported for attempting to take part in an entertainment provided for employees. He was called to the office, lectured for being "one of the few people who have been called" "social equality," and then dismissed on a trumped-up charge. He was a night-employee, hence he carried a pistol. Right after the dance incident a fire broke out in the office. He was quickly accused of setting the building afire in revenge for his exclusion from the dance floor. Detectives came to the building to arrest him, and failing to secure any evidence searched him only to discover the pistol. He was only slightly charged and substituted one for carrying concealed weapons for which he was immediately dismissed. By this severe punishment the employees are taught that there is no way of escape for one who dares to resent the daily insults that their government (under President Coolidge) gives them.
Many of the employees have expressed their deeply-wounded feelings to me at being considered a pariah by the government whose institutions they are serving so faithfully, and I have taken up a number of cases only to be met by a denial that the conditions complained of exist, and a request for the names of my informants. I knew the fate these informants would suffer so I have never given a single name!! The department then taking the position that it cannot take up the case. It is perfectly clear that this iniquitous scheme of segregation is a difficult thing to fight, since the government is so well settled upon it, and the complainants cannot bear witness to it.
(Special to The Gazette)
Washington, D. C.—Segregation in the bureau of engraving and printing has an interesting history involving President Thomas Woodrow Wilson and members of his family, three heroic young colored women who lost their positions as a rebel during the Civil War, wife of Senator Robert La Follette. Shortly after the accession of Mr. Wilson to the White House, a mem-
BER of his family visited the bureau where she saw white and colored girls working together in perfect harmony, obvious to any thought of race. Shortly thereafter came an order for segregation of the races, and a white lady who had been noted for her philanthropy among our people and who was upon intimate terms at the White House appeared at the bureau to tell our girls to be contented with what she or her order was "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!
the former. They are depressed at the wrong, but economic stress compels endurance of it.
By a single stroke of his pen, President Calvin Coolidge can stop every bit of this damnable segregation, just as he can condemn that lawless organization the Ku Klux Klan.
Washington, B. 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
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 a white press, and addressed the national gathering of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People in New York. When our people here were so profoundly discouraged, she came out one stormy afternoon to the Y. M. C. A. to urge them to voluntarily the last day we were at the crises, Oswald Garrison Villard came to town to attack White House and Cabinie and arouse our people, and the Nation Association secured publicity in over six hundred influential white papers in the country. The right checked what was thought to be the intention of the segregators, namely, the elimination of the colored employees from the bureau ait together.
The same segregation which some of our people think is the cherished institution of the Democratic party is still there, in all of its fulness, under the administration of the party that Abraham Lincoln, Charles Sumner and Frederick Doug g as helped to found. Our girls are employed there in the office than in any other branch of the pubs. THEY ARE SGREGATED in their rest rooms, toilets, and working stations, and of course none are ever thought of for promotions to executive places. They are girls from our best names, most of them with high and normal school training, and one 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. They have our girls must be the more inferior the inevitable result of segregation. Our people are still hoping for the issuance of an order destroying this iniquitous 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 President was a man of indies, and in that long sweep of history that the President traversed are the mighty Salmon P. Chase, secretary of the treasury in Lincoln's cabinet, who, in a national extremity such as this country has never known, devised the national banking system, and John Sherman, the master financier, John Sherman. These men never knew what segregation was!
The present head of the department of internal revenue, Mr. Blain from North Carolina, has not appointed a colored clerk since his incumbency. While his predecessor, Mr. Daniel Roper, a democrat from Texas, appointed and promoted several of them. Since the income tax legislation and the numberless new taxes that the recent war necessitated, this is by far the largest department of the treasury, employing several thousand clerks. Yet Negroes are so scared of the government that 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 further.
The various forms of segregation exist here as well as elsewhere—the restaurants closed or divided along color lines, and special toilets, locker rooms, rest rooms, etc., set off for colored. The toilets for the colored are few in such a large structure. Hence, the segregated clerks are forced to endure physical inconvenience and travel long distances when they desire the use of them. The department maintains a huge, magnificent cafeteria, in the splendid sweep of woodland along our national driveway, where white people of every class can come to rest, dine, and socialize of afternoons and evenings at minimum costs. The white press of the city is constantly telling of the thousands who take advantage of this "delightful retreat," and the streets are so crowded that they create. It seats two thousand diners with space t. spare; but not one Negro! His only share is in the taxes he is forced to pay for this luxury for another group!
The resiliency 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 protected. When it is discovered that 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 secession, with no other opportunity 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, as he can condemn that lawless organization the Ku Klux Klan.
Washington, by 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 view. The words, announcing the election of President Coolidge, were hardly cold before the effort to indulge in segregation in the institutions here was on again at full speed. It had slowed up a little during the campaign.
Investigation of Burcus
An investigation of the executive departments and bureaues listed below shows that segregation prevails in them as follows:
Office of the Register of the Treasury, there are two segregated sections—one with 30 Afro-American employees and the other with 14.
Navy Department — one segregated section of 18 of our employees, as well as a segregated lunch room.
Census Bureau — a segregated section of 60 Afro-American employees.
Bonus Section
Bonus section of the War Department—one segregated section of 180 of our employees.
Veterans Bureau—a segregated section of 16 employees.
Department of Justice—a segregated section of 10 employees in the file room.
**Internal Revenue**
Internal Revenue Bureau—a segregated section of 7 employees.
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. Box 126, Separate Lunch Room
Post Office Department—a segregated lunch room.
LOCAL COURT "BUMPS"
UNION "COLOR-LINE"
Wills' Terrace Garden, a local restaurant, hired Afro-American waiters and paid union wages, last and this year. This year, the business agent of the local waiters union demanded that white union waiters be employed. This, the proprietor of the restaurant refused to accede to. Refused membership in the local union, at the request of their employer several of his waiters, who were national headquarters of the union and applied for a charter for a "jim-crow" local in Cleveland. They were referred to the local union which refused their request. Thereupon the local union began picketing the restaurant and stationed automobiles in front of it which bore signs reading: "Wills' Terrace Garden is unhappy to be abused. This controversy landed in the local courts which sustained an injunction against the "union boycott on racial grounds". The Afro-American waiters got what they applied for to the a "jim-crow" local, and the local union got what was coming to it for refusing our waiters membership, especially in view of the fact that the waiters race, under the face of the sun is represented in the present of the sun is membership. Our waiters at Wills' Terrace Garden, and everywhere else in this community, should stay out of the local union unit that organization sees to open its all others. There is no need, either, of a "jim-crow" location, the foregoing is all that is necessary to eventually open the doors of the color-prejudiced electrical workers' union and others in this community. Therefore, the sooner they are brought, the better. A thing that is not worth fighting for is hardly worth having, and certainly there ought not to be complaint, as a result of its denial when a proper fight was fought. The court's opinion in the Wills' Terrace Garden waiters' union case, in part:
"It appears that there existed no real trade dispute; both the employer and his employees are satisfied with each other, the standards of the union both as to wages and working conditions are being observed. The employees wanted to affiliate with the union and the employer wanted them to, and they went to a little refusal to do so, and even refused by these defendants, solely because of their race. The ideal of all union efforts is and must be the improvement of the social and economic condition of those who work, and the law seeks to protect the union in the fair accomplishment of such ideal. This boycott does not appeal to this court of equity as conforming to this standard. In its last analysis it is a case of white men opposing colored men. As this court sees it the only information that can be properly and truthfully give the public about plaintiff is that he employs colored people, and I do not believe these defendants care to advertise that fact as such. It does not appeal to this court of equity as fair for these defendants to say to the public that plaintiff is 'unfair to organized labor' under the undisputed facts. The motive prompting this attack on the plaintiff under these circumstances cannot be justified by this court. This is why this under all these circumstances matters requires that the temporary restraining order prayed for be granted and such order may issue on the execution by the plaintiff of a bond in the sum of $600."
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SEEKING enlightenment as to fall suit trends? Well, here is a "last word" model which speaks for itself in its mannish tweed fabric, its short skirt with its adroit plimsol at one side and its swagger-c coat. It is Marion Nixon, she who holds forth in movie-dom to the delight of vast audiences, who has sieped into the autumn picture clad as you see.
With this clementary correct and "easy-to-look-at" suit Miss Nixon wears a ravishing red suede vest. It tones the whole outfit. A bit of the red suede escapes from the vest to do duty as a boutonniere and on the pocket and collar as a "note of color." A sports felt hat of tan, with matching shoes and big, give a perfect finesse to this ensemble.
The sturdy rough tweed suits now so fashionable are directly in contrast to the elaboration movement of woman's costume which marks this season. For that reason they achieve a more than usual distinctiveness. As to length of skirts, this depends whether one is considering the sub-
HANDSOME FOX FU
ENRICHES THE
BRAVO for the girl who has remained constant to her fur neckpiece throughout torrid summer days. Now is the time of her reward, for autumn breezes do begin to blow, and what so "comfy" as well as satisfying to her vanity on a fickle fall day, as a good-looking fur about shoulder and throat.
To say that these fashionable neckpieces are "foxy" describes them in more ways than one. From the modish standpoint they are all of that. When it comes to the fur itself every branch of the fox family tree is represented in autumn's style parade. There is pointed fox in all its glory, blue fox, red, platinum and beige. As to white fox it holds its own trumpanthy, regardless of the fact that it has been doing strenuous duty the whole summer through.
Imagination cannot picture anything more "swanky" in the way of a fall costume or suit enhanced with a fattering fox scarf. The autumn land-
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ject from the American or Paris staple. French contouriers are inclined to somewhat longer lengths, but women here, especially the flapper age, are proving quite defiant, many of them insisting on continuing a display of knees. Of course Paris usually wins in the finals, but just now brevity is the rule, especially for the youthful style enthusiasts in America.
Another item of interest—the smartest suits have not an inch of fur in sight as actual trimming, this because of the vogue for the separate fur piece. Every one who can afford it is going to own a beige or platinum fox fur scarf this fall.
Seems as if browns are to have their inning this season, lovely chest-but夕es, cocoa, deep leaf tones and the like, which of course establishes the color trend for novelty cloth suits.
More formal type suits appear in black and also in leaf-colored broad-cloth, but it is the sports suit which is the "nifty" thing for general wear.
JULIA BOTTOMLEY
(©, 1927, by Western Newspaper Union.)
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AUTUMN ENSEMBLE
scape will be crowded with just such. A fox neckpiece never fails to enrich the dressy three-piece ensemble, as this pictures so charmingly proves. With the smart tweed suit of autumn vogue, there is nothing so swagger as a handsome fox fur piece, preferably in beige or in platinum. Perhaps the newest in fox fur pieces are the double or twin animal types. These two-in-one models are necessarily luxuriously long, joining as they do two furs at the back of the neck which is in keeping with the trend toward heavily furred effects for fall and winter. In neckpieces there is also a marked tendency to wear sable. This fur, by the way, is receiving marked attention in the styling of garments of distinction. Flat-fur coats richly collared and cuffed with fox are conspicuously present in advance style showings. JULIA BOTTOMLEX. (© 1927, by Western Newspaper Union.)
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THE ROARING THIRD, AGAIN
CONDITIONS THERE SO ROTTEN THEY "STINK TO HIGH HEAVEN."
Dope-Dens — Speakeasies Galore — Drunken Men and Women — Prostitutes— And Hootch-Hounds— A Four A. M. Crap
A reporter of Cleveland's only morning daily newspaper, The Plain Dealer, seems to have stirred Director of Safety Edwin D. Barry to a little more action in the case of "the roaring third" police precinct. If it is to be another drive, Mr. Director, conditions in that section of the city will be bettered only temporarily, as has always been true in the case of drives in the past.
The fearfully immoral and degrading condition in "the roaring third" is bitterly worse than precluded by the Plain Dealer's report. Wednesday morning. Indeed, we do not believe that it is within the power of human endeavor to accurately describe it.
Director Barry says there are "one hundred officers and men in the third precinct, under the direction of Inspector Hughes—more than in any other precinct in the city". The writer lives in the heart of "the roaring third" and has resided there for more than a half-century and has known Director Barry, intimately, for many years. If there are "one hundred" or even ten policemen in the third precinct, those of us who live there do not know it because we rarely if ever see one. When we see someone or more persons for committing some crime. We believe it would pay Director Barry to find out considerably more than he seems to know about those "one hundred officers and men in the third precinct".
We tell him again, as we have on many occasions in the recent past, that that whole section of the city is without proper police protection. Speak-easies, dope-dealers, drunken men and women, prostitutes innu-
men and women, and the police in evidence through the roaring third". All night long it is one carousel after another. Tuesday morning at four o'clock, we were awakened by two half-drunk derelicts who were shooting craps on the sidewalk in front of our home. It is almost impossible to pass thru many of the derelicts without being hailed, time and again, by female-derelicts. Hoot-soaked men and women, cursing and stag-
gering along the sidewalks, are a common sight for not only adults but also for the hundreds of boys and girls of tender years who live in and pass thru that section of the city. They are 4000 (white) frequent "the roaring third", mainly at night, each week. They are the main support of the bad women of the district which Director Barry will never "clean up" until he drives them from the city. Their "Johnnies", who depend upon them for food and clothing, would speak-easies, dope-dens and boo-tenders, quarters, and the greatly desired relief will be afforded not only the precinct but the entire city.
A "Bareface" Lie
Cleveland, Ohio, Sept. 29, 1927.
Mr. Edwin D. Barry,
1927.
Director of Public Safety,
City Hall.
Dear Sir:—You are quoted in
Wednesday morning's Plain Dealer as
saying,
"The class of undesirabes that infest
the third (police) precinct have
lived all their lives".
If you are quoted correctly in the
foregoing, I wish to inform you that
whoever gave you that mis-information
told you a bareface lie and did
it for political effect. I have lived
in the third precinct for more than
sixty years and am still residing
there and know whereof I speak.
There are hundreds of old residents,
nearly all good people, still
living in the third precinct, who will
surely resent at the election this
statement at least attributed to
you in Wednesday morning's paper
unless it is retracted or the an-
nouncement made that you did not
make such an unfortunate mis-
statement.
Yours truly,
Harry C. Smith.
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The San Diego N. A. A. C. P. branch was victorious in its fight for admittance of our girls as nurses in the San Diego county hospital. Hear. HEAR: Cleveland N. A. A. C. P. branch!