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Our rates for display advertisements will be sent on applica- CADIZ—Mrs. Emma Tyler has returned from a visit in Youngstown—Mesdames Ethel Walker, Frances Worthington, Myrtle Faithful and May Steward were here, Tuesday evening—Miss Helen Lucas visited in Steubenville, Sunday afternoon—Mrs. Louise Carey is visiting in Smithfield—The funeral of Miss Naomi, age 20, daughter of Mrs. Lizzie West, was held on Sunday afternoon, Rev. W. E. Watson officiating, assisted by Rev. R. L. Hughes and Rev. W. H. Lucas. A large crowd was in attendance. Among those from a distance were: Mr. and Mrs. Rufus Smith and sons, Mr. and Mrs. Edward Smith of Smithfield, Mr. and Mrs. John Smith and daughter, Elnora, of Bridgeport; Mr. and Mrs. Alfred West of Cannonsburg, Pa.; Emory West of Wierton and Mrs. Deborah Simpson of Dolefo—The Simpson at Simpson M. E. church, last Sunday afternoon, was well attended—Revival meetings are in progress at St. James A. M. E. church. HILLSBORO—Mr. and Mrs. Edward and Mrs. Calvin Dixon and daughter attended the funeral of the former's uncle, James Beechfield, last Thursday—Mrs. Faith Goodson of Dayton spent the week-end here with relatives—Richard and Willard Kittrell visited in Georgetown, Saturday eve EXPANDING! F. D. Patterson's Greenfield Bus Body Co., One of Our Biggest Business Enterprises in The Country—Sherwin-Congrat hailings! Greenfield, O.—A deal of more than average importance to Greenfield was made, recently, when F. D. Patterson of the Greenfield Bus Company purchased the south side school building from the board of education. The deal includes the large brick building and a number of lots. Mr. Patterson plans to remodel the building to suit his factory needs, erect another building necessary in his manufacturing business and move from the north side to Washington and Lafayette streets, during the coming summer. This move was made necessary on account of the increasing business in the manufacture of bus bodies, the product of the local company being known throughout many states. Mr. Patterson has developed the most complete school bus body there is on the market and has been a leader in this line for many years. He is growing the existing bus business and has already made quite a number of these, the demand increasing all the time. The Bus Body Company is a real assett to Greenfield, employing from 25 to 35 men the year round at good salaries. The proposed expansion will carry with it a larger payroll and increased production. Mr. Patterson has been offered inducements to take his factory to other cities but he has preferred to remain in Greenfield, where he was born and grew up in the business the existing bus business being carried on here for many years under the name of C. R. Patterson & Sons, the Patterson buggies being known all over the country. The present factory building of some 12,000 square feet of floor space will after its abandonment, be either improved or available for improvement. Mr. and Mrs. E. E. Kelley, E. 103rd St., has as guest, their sister, Miss Remintha Ford, one of Dayton's efficient social workers. Miss Ford is recovering from a recent illness and will be in the city for a visit. Mrs. Kelley, her brother and sister-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Truman Ford, E. 101st St. ning.—Mr. Tom Pierson is no better, Mr. Clara Evans entertained the Baptist Ladies' Aid society, last Thursday afternoon.—Miss Tea Williams has returned from Indianapolis.—Dwight Trimble, an Ohio Wesleyan student, was here night. Zikkah died on night night, after a long illness. Funeral services, Sunday at 2 p.m. conducted by Rev. A. M. Gilmer. He leaves a wife, brother, other relatives and many friends, Lyman Killour and family were called here by his death. Toye Williams has returned to Springfield and his fine living pictures were here, this week. He was the guest of Mr. and Mrs. C. M. Gragston. ALLIANCE—Mrs. Margaret, the daughter of M. and Mrs. Wm. Jefferson of Youngstown, is our only student at Mt. Union College. She is a very promising young woman and makes her home with Mrs. Minnie Ford.—Mrs. Cora Roach visited a cousin, Mrs. Nan Dillon, in Beaver Falls, Pa. Mrs. Dillon is staying with Mrs. Maund Dillon.—Mrs. E Bell is also on out. D. Josiah Tinker is ill at his son's, in E. Patterson St.—Mrs. Mabel Williams of Akron is ill at her mother, Mrs. Sarah Cisco's. Mr. and Mrs. Dewey Young of Ravenna motored here to visit her grandmother, Mrs. Cisco.—Ms. Chas, Garner returned, Saturday evening, from a three weeks' stay in Huntington, W. Va, where she was called by the illness and death of her mother, Mrs. Cisco.—left three daughters and a son, Mr. Garner spent several days there, last week.—Miss Mary, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. L. Williams and grand-daughter of Mrs. Sarah Cisco, was married to Mr. Stewart Melton by Rev. E. Newsome at Mr. and Mrs. Teddy Murrell's.—In their absence, Saturday night, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Pickett's splendid residence was found to have been saturated with oil. The police are investigating. Loss $5,000. Mr. and Mrs. Pickett have the earnest sympathy of the community. NATHANIEL DETT An F. H. Goff Discovery—Harmon Foundation Prize Winner— Interesting! Robert Nathaniel Dett, the well known composer, the other day received first prize in music awarded by the Harmon Foundation in its annual recognition of conspicuous work done by Afro-Americans in art, science, religion and education. Dett was the first American to use a black tune for classic development. I met Dett in one of those Pullman smoking room conversations on a train out of Washington. When he learned I was from Cleveland he asked if I knew the late Fred H. Goff, and then he told this story of his own life. Job is now 45, was born in Ontario. He learned a boy to play the piano, and in Niagara Falls, N.Y., he played as a sideline while he was employed as a waiter in one of the resort hotels. Dett was a guest there and Dett was his waiter in the dining room. Goff inquired as to his ambition in life, found that he wanted to study music, and asked for his education in the conservatories. Dett studied for several years and Goff paid the bills. "Did Mr. Goff ever say," I asked Dett, "what it was that first interested him in you?" "He said he noticed the way I walked."—John D. W. Love, in the *Dear Dealer*, Jan. 14, 1985. While a student at Oberlin, Mr. Dett frequently visited Cleveland and was a guest at the Goff home in Brathenal, being treated as one of the family. Mrs. Goff is still interested in Mr. Dett, George A. Myers of this city writes *The Gazette*. We Have a Woman Legislator. Welch, Va.—Mrs. E. Howard Harper, Saturday, was recommended by the Republican committee to Governor Gore for appointment as a member of the house of delegates to fill the vacancy created by the death of her husband who was serving his third term. Mrs. Harper will be the first woman of the race to be a member of any legislature. The governor is required by law to follow the committee's recommendation. --- Except Delaware, a Half or Two- thirds Southern State, Open to All Students—Only Southern States, as Usual, Separate Them — Presi- dent Wilkinson's and the U. S. Interior De- partment's Explanations. Cleveland, O., Jan. 9, '28. U. S. Department of the Interior, Office of the Secretary, Washington, D. C. Dear Sir: Your "memorandum for the press; please Jan. 9, '28" just received contains the following sentence which we feel may be in error: Therefore ask concerning it. The sentence referred to: "There are 60 Land-Grant colleges, each State and Territory maintaining colleges for white students, and 17 operating additional colleges for Negro students." Obtain other northern states could not legally maintain any kind of a college for "white" students only. I wish to ask if a mistake has not been made in the sentence quoted? Please oblige you with an imme- mediate reply. Thanking you for the same, I am Yours truly, HARRY C. SMITH. "The Old Reliable" Is Right! The Secretary of the Interior, Washington, D. C., Jan. 14, '28. Hon. Harry C. Smith, My dear Sir:—I have your letter of the 11th (address to Dr. Hubert Work, Secretary of the Interior), commenting on press release issued on Jan. 9, '28, with reference to the land-grant college survey of the bureau of education. I regret that an error was made in reference to the number and character of the colleges. The statement should be amended and followed; "There are 69 land-grant colleges of which 35 are maintained by states and territories for both white and 'Negro' students, and 17 exclusively for white students and 17 exclusively for 'Negro' students." Thanking you for calling our attention to the ambiguity, I am, President Wilkinson Explains! State Agricultural and Mechanical College Office of the President. Orangeburg, S. C., Jan. 16, '28. Hon. Harry C. Smith, Editor Gazette, Cleveland, Ohio. Dear Sir:—Replying to your editorial inquiry, directed to me, in The Gazette, of Jan. 14, '28, regarding a "memorandum for the press," released Jan. 9, '28," by the U. S. President R. S. Wilkinson. Department of the Interior, containing the statement that "There are 60 land-grant colleges, each state and territory maintaining colleges for white students, and 17 operating additional colleges for 'Negro' students," I would respectfully advise that the writer evidently was misinformed. There are 69 land-grant institutions in the United States and its territories. At least one in each state in the Union and one each in Porto Rico, Hawaii, and Alaska. Massachusetts has two such institutions, and the 16 southern states have additional institutions provided exclusively for our students. It is well known that these institutions originated as a result of the federal policy in education, set forth in the Act of Congress, fathered by Senator Morrill of Vermont, and SINGLE COPY FIVE CENTS Figures in Weaver Case ATTORNEY WILLIAM F. JOSEPH WEAVER WEAVER INNOCENT! Maynor Confesses at Last and Names The Real "Killer" in the Case—"Trigger Man" Being Sought by Police. Two moves to save Joseph Weaver from the electric chair, this week Friday, were instituted, last week Friday, by Attys, Nathan E. Cook and Wm. F. Marsteller. They appealed directly to Gov. A. V. Donahay and also submitted an application to the board of clemency, asking a commutation of Weaver's sentence, charged with the murder of Jasper Russell (white), night watchman, at the Parrish-Bingham plant of the dale tree firm. On December 13, 1927. Submitting statements attributed to the state's chief witness, Alex Maynor, Weaver did not have a gun on the murder night, was not connected with the crime at all, and therefore innocent, the lawyers ask the annulment of the sentence. Weaver was convicted on the basis of Maynor's testimony, recently contradicted in his own statements to the chaplain of the Ohio Penitentiary, where he is serving a life sentence for the crime. Aty, the move was instituted Monday, in the filing of an application with the Supreme Court for permission to ask a motion for review of the Ohio tribunal's previous decision which denied a retrial on the grounds of insufficient evidence. Gov. A. V. Donahay has granted a thirty-day stay of execution of sentence in which time it is now confidently expected that the condemned, innocent, Weaver, will be well on his way to the freedom taken from him when arrested on the charge, charged with the death sentence for "Frank Jones," named as the "trigger man" in the killing of Russell, is being made by police as a result of the confession of Maynor which exonerated Weaver, who was doomed to die in the electric chain signed by President Lincoln, July 2, 1862. The second Morrill Act (Aug. 30, 1890), applying a portion of the proceeds of the public lands to the more complete endowment and support of these colleges, provided that "no money be paid out under this Act to any state or territory for the support and maintenance of a college where a distinction of race or color is allowed to students, but the establishment and maintenance of such colleges separately for white and colored students, as is customary in certain states, shall be regarded as a compliance with the provision of the Act if the funds received in such states or territories be equitably divided." Traditionally there are thirty-five instances where no colleges exist exclusively for white students; approximately in the northern states, Alaska, and our insular possessions. Only in 16 southern states and 1 northern state (Delaware), 17 in all, are to be found separate land-grant colleges from universities. Very truly yours. R. S. WILKINSON. IN UNION IS STRENGTH COPY FIVE CENTS EATH! Weaver Case ATTORNEY WILLIAM F. MARSTELLER CHAPLAIN T. O. REED.... —Courtesy of The Cleveland News. for the crime, this week Friday. Jones, Maynor said, suggested carrying out the safe-breaking and shot Russell when the two were running from the plant's office. He added that Weaver had no part in the bruising crime. Maynor confessed implicating Weaver, he said, "to save my own neck." This in the office of Warden Preston E. Thomas and in the presence of Weaver and Prison Chaplain T. O. Rted. "My conscience wouldn't allow me to keep up the lie any longer," Chaplain Reed quotes Maynor as having told him, last week. "Before my Maker, I swear it, this man (pointing to Weaver) is entirely innocent. He didn't have anything to do with the safe breaking or murder. Another man did the shooting, but I mentioned Weaver, because I thought it would be easy to hang the crime on him. Now let him 'burn.' But he instead, he hit him. He didn't do it. Didn't know a blessed thing about it," said Maynor. Weaver broke down and wept like a child as Maynor sought to lift the burden of the awful charge from his shoulders. "I knew Maynor would tell the truth in time and I'm glad he didn't wait until it was too late," Weaver said. "Surely they won't let me suffer for another man's crime now." Maynor's confession and the witness's defence of Weaver's attorneys in his innocence of any connection with the brutal crime. Nathan E. Cook and Wm. Marteller, appointed by the court to defend Weaver when the first degree trial opened, have been giving their services free of charge since the conviction, to prove their client could not have been guilty of the killing. Chaplain Reed declared the confession did not come as a surprise to him. He have long thought Weaver was guilty of having no criticism, while he have no criticism of the courts, I advised his attorneys of my opinion to use as they saw fit." A motion for a new trial and a petition for a review of evidence in the case of Joseph Weaver, Cleveland colored man under death sentence for the murder, last March, of Jasper Russell, night watchman, were filed with Criminal Court Clerk Heidt late Wednesday. The motion for a new trial, filed by Attorneys Nathan E. Cook and William F. Mastielher, was accompanied by an affidavit of Chapainl T. O. Reed of the state penitentiary, which told of a confession of Alex Maynor, colored lifer, convicted for the same crime, exonerating Weaver. F. P. Carey writes The Gazette from Detroit that he had a wonderful time on his recent visit here in his old home. 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 226 W. Superior Ave., Cleveland, O. (Bell Phone: Cherry 1259) Member Ohio Legislature: 1894 to 1896; T806 to 1898; 1900 to 1902 IN UNION IS STRONG 10,000,000 Afro-Americans. 850,000 in Ohio. 40,000 in Cleveland. SATURDAY, JANUARY 21, 1928. THE NEXT PRESIDENT! FRANK B. WILLIS OF OHIO. The editor of The Gazette is indebted to Atty. Simon Michelet, 719 Albee Bldg., Washington, D. C., for a printed copy of his "Primary Elections in 1928," an interesting compilation, valuable for reference. About every councilman in the city has secured or is trying to secure improved street-car service for his or her constituents but the three "Negro" councilmen. Lord, have mercy! The poor old Central Ave car-line seems to have no one "to do it honor." O, for a real, honest-to-goodness Afro-American councilman. --- It is currently reported that the "Negro" bank at Indianola, Miss., "went to the wall," recently, too. Some more southern "brothers" who started at the top instead of at the bottom of the ladder! And there have been many of them in the last few years. --- President Coolidge's recent talk to the Pan-American Congress in session at Havana, Cuba, will not promote a good feeling on the part of South American countries toward this country because they have Haiti's and Nicaragua's miserable experiences with American marines "staring them in the face." --- Tho Gazette has just learned of the candidacy of Atty. Chester K. Gillespie for the Legislature and does not hesitate for a single moment to endorse his candidacy, too, because he would make an excellent legislator and represent to their entire satisfaction our people and all of the people of Cuyahoga county Chester is a "live-wire." _____|||||| All but three of our children in attendance at Emerson High school, Gary, Ind., have been dismissed. This is a new step by the Gary school authorities to enforce segregation, after the defeat of the city authorities, compelling them to rescind the ordinance which appropriated $15,000 of the city funds for a separate high school building for our pupils. The matter will be taken into the courts immediately by the N. A. A. C. P. and we trust settled right and soon. Fred D. Patterson of Greenfield, this state, is one of the all too few real, honest-to-goodness business men of the race. He was trained by a father, C. R. Patterson, who was just such, naturally; thoro and experienced. The foregoing largely explains the splendid success of the C. R. Patterson & Sons' business in the past and the most promising outlook for the future. Congratulations and best wishes, Friend Patterson! See Greenfield, Ohio, letter elsewhere in this paper. Until his death a few years ago, Frederick H. Goff, mentioned in the "Nathaniel Dett" article elsewhere in this paper, was one of the two "first citizens of Cleveland." Mr. Samuel Mather being the other. Mr. Goff's kindness and helpfulness to one of the race does not surprise us in the least, because we knew Mr. Goff from our school days until his death, one of the greatest losses this city of ours has ever sustained. He was much more than a real asset to Cleveland, as The Cleveland Foundation, a lasting monument to his memory, will ever attest. In a letter to the editor of The Gazette, under date, Dec. 31, '27, the Hon. Bert B. Buckley, treasurer of state, writes, in sending his check for a subscription for one year: "After reading The Old Reliable Gazette, I will hand it to our colored CLERKs. Force is 12% Colored in the treasury, and responsible, respectable jobs, too." And this is the man we were told, THEM DAYS ARE GONE FOREVER YOU ARE A VISION, GWENDOLYN, WHAT HAUNTS ME NIGHT AND DAY. I DON'T LIKE PATENT LEATHER HAIR -- THAT'S ALL I'VE GOT TO SAY! during his campaign for nomination and election, was a member of the Ku Klux Klan. We did not believe it, of course. Thanks for 'best wishes for 1928." Mr. Buckley. The same to you, sir. --- The Madam C. J. Walker medal, given each year to the person doing the best work for the race during the previous year, was given to Prof. Neval H. Thomas of Dunbar High school, Washington, D. C., last week, and sure was correctly placed, this time. His work in 1927 for our people against federal segregation in the departments at the nation's capital easily outclassed that of any other person. Now let all, who properly appreciate Mr. Thomas' splendid service, insist that he be given the Spingarn medal, too. Write the Committee of Award, at once, addressing your letter to Oswald Garrison Villard, 20 Vesey St., New York City. THE WEAVER CASE. Judge Carpenter of Norwalk, who presided by assignment in the local common pleas court when Joseph Weaver was convicted of the murder of Russell, some months ago, says he "had some apprehension since the verdict was returned, as the evidence consisted solely of one man's word against the other's." And that man, Maynor, at the time, a self-confessed participant in the crime, known to the prosecutor to be endeavoring to save his own life by "turning state's evidence." Weaver, at the time, was innocent of any participation in it. This, because all persons in court are innocent until proven guilty. Then why did the jury in the case accept a confessed guilty man's "word" against that of the innocent man? There was no other "proof." Maynor's admission of guilt to the prosecutor should have made his statement of far less importance to the jury than Weaver, the innocent man's denial of connection with the crime. In plain words it was NOT "one man's word against another's." It was only a part of a man's word against that of a whole man's word, for Weaver was innocent in the eyes of the law until proven guilty, and he had not at the time been proven guilty. This phase of Weaver's case seems to have been overlooked by about every one and especially the jury, or Weaver could never have been convicted of a brutal crime of which Maynor now says in his confession he is not only innocent, but that he, Weaver, "didn't have anything to do with." This city, county or state should be made to pay and pay big for the harrowing experience Joseph Weaver has had ever since his first arrest on the false charge of murdering Jasper Russell. Did the fact that Russell and the jury were white and Weaver and Maynor Colored have anything to do with this awful miscarriage of justice? To say the least, the verdict of the jury is open to as much criticism and Attys. Cook and Mársteller are deserving of unstinted praise for saving Weaver's life, practically at their own expense. The failure of E. K. Burlew, an administrative assistant in the Interior Department at Washington, D. C., to state plainly that 17 land-grant colleges each for Afro-American and white students are "maintained by states and territories" IN THE SOUTH, is just another "ambiguity," we presume, made for the same reason as was the first, relative to which we wrote Dr. Hubert Work, Secretary of the Interior, last week, and for whom Mr. Burlew wrote the letter that does not fully explain, published elsewhere in this paper. Our statement, that the 35 land-grant colleges "maintained by states and territories" in the North were open to ALL students, Colored and white, is correct, it seems, although still another "ambiguity" apparently prevents Mr. Burlew from saying so plainly as he might have done. President Robert S. Wilkinson's letter makes it all very plain, however. See letters, in question, on page 1 of this paper. THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, O. SATURDAY, JANUARY 21, 1928 PRIME SPORT NEWS Uzcudun Signed. Los Angeles, Calif.-The signing of Paolino Uczudan and George Godfrey, heavyweights, for a ten-round decision about here. Washington's birthday, has been announced by Jack Doyle, boxing promoter. "Silenced" Boxing Deacon. Elmira, N. Y. — "Rev." George Williams, boxer, was silenced, as a deacon in the Zion A. M. E. church, at a conference here, as a result of the preacher-purplist's appearance in the ring at local shows. Williams, known for several years as "Cyclone" Williams, returned to boxing, recently under the name of David Campbell to appear on boxing programs to obtain money to complete his education. Morehouse "Cleans Up." Atlanta, Ga. — Morehouse College's football team humbled Atlanta University's, by a score of 23 to 15 last Saturday. It was an exciting and well-played game. The college's basketball team won from the Virginia Seminary team, C. I. I. A. champs, 32 to 29, a few days previous. As a very natural result, there was "a hot time" in this old town, Saturday night. Trimmed at Last—Elks' Quintet! The Corry (Pa.) Keystone quintet handed the Elks their first back of the season, Monday night, defeating the local outfit, 27 to 16, at Elks Hall. Chuck Brewer, former Rosie player, located the hoop most often for the visitors, while Pat White of the same team showed his foul shooting ability by sinking eight free throws. Allan and Ross performed best for the Elks. Jack Johnson Did It "Any fighter who can be hit with a right-hand smash to the chin isn't a really great battler—and that goes anyway anybody wants to take it," quoth "Gentleman Jim" Corbett. "The easiest kind of a punch to avoid is a right hand. A boxing novice is taught that trick about first of all. If he's an apt pupil and he keeps right on learning, then the only time thereafter when he gets hit on the chin with a right hand is when he grows careless. "I bow to the superlative courage of Jack Dempsey, his wonderful ability to take punching and to his slugging power. But in my opinion, he is a great gutter fighter he has not—and never had—a defense against a right-hand smash. Even the dubs could lay a right hand on Dempsey's jaw with almost monotonous regularity. "I shall always feel that if Jack only had learned a-defense from right-hand blows that he would still be champion—and would continue as such for many years. For it was the right hand of Geoff Tunney, the best player of the Dempsey both of the Tunney fights. "I was knocked out twice during my career—but a left hand did it. Bob Fitzsimmons, even though he was not supposed to be great as a defensive fighter, never really was hit solidly with a right hand during his heyday. And it was the same thing with Jim Jeffries."—James J. Corbett Johnson hit Jeffries, when he whipped him, with both hands, many, many times, and "kidded" Jim Corbett "almost to death" at the same time. As time rolls on, it makes perfectly clear to all what unprejudiced fighters are free to admit even now and that is that Jack was the greatest heavyweight boxer and fighter of all time, with the position of Jackson. As time progressed Jackson who fought Jim Corbett for about forty rounds, the last twenty or more with a sprained wrist. BLOCTON, ALA. NOTES. Mrs. Lena Ward has returned from a two weeks' stay with relatives in Unionfown. —Mr. F. Duncan has returned from a visit with relatives in Gordo. —Miss Rebecca Hughey of Westfield is the guest of Mr. and Mrs. O. Drisco. —Mrs. Julia Wilson has moved to Vicks to farm. —J. H. Ingraham has returned from a visit with relatives in Yolanda. —Mrs. Susie Hill, who was Mr. and Mrs. W. to Majestic, Mrs. Emma Oden, a guest of Mr. and Mrs. J. Johnson, has returned to Birmingham. —Mr. Oscar Drisco has returned from a visit with relatives in Brent. —H. A. Williams and Miss Ora D. Watkins were married, Jan. 13, at the groom's parents by Rev. E. G. Massey, of the liberty Baptist church. —The White Robes Glee club of Bessemer will sing, Jan. 27, at New Hope A. M. E. church. All local clubs are specially invited. No. Ladies club will hold W. R. Church, Jan. 28. —Liberty Baptist church. The program will be under the supervision of the president, Mrs. M. Caffrey. —Mrs. Ida Williams, very ill for a week, is improving rapidly. —Mr. F. Caddell of W. Blocton is visiting relatives in Birmingham. —Mr. and Mrs. Willie Wood of W. Blocton have a fine baby girl. —Mrs. V. Heard has returned from a two weeks' visit with relatives in Brent. Clean, Clear, Healthy Beautiful Eyes Are a Wonderful Asset Murine is Cleansing, Soothing, Refreshing and Harmless. You Will Like It. Book on "Eye Care" or "Eye Beauty" Free on Request The GREATER YOUTH'S COMPANION only 2 a year Twelve Big Monthly Issues 25 Entertaining, Informative Articles 75 Thrilling, Action-Filled Short Stories Our Boys—The G. Y. C. 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The typical combination man of the Ohio Bell Telephone Company installs telephones, makes repairs to lines, strings wire and keeps the switchboard and other inside equipment in good condition. Part of his job is to make regular tests of all the local lines and the long distance lines that connect the community with the rest of the world. It is no easy job. If there is a fire at night, he must be on the job to protect telephone cables, if any are near. In case of storm, he's ready to repair any breaks in the important lines, no matter what the hour. He and his runabout are known to nearly everybody in the community. About 100 combination men of the Ohio Bell company drive small cars every day in connection with their work, but one rarely hears of any of them having a collision. In those Ohio telephone exchanges where long distance connections can be completed while the caller holds the line, about 70 per cent of the out-of-town calls are new made by number. Only when the caller gives the number wanted can the operator make the connection as on a local call, but most such connections can be completed in less than a minute. The new telephone service recently established between the United States and Mexico was welcomed by Colonel Lindherch when he visited Mexico City. One of the first things he did was to call his mother, who was in Detroit. During December, 1927, The Ohio Ball Telephone Company reached the 600,000 mark in the number of telephones connected to its switchboards. MURINE FOR YOUR EYES Murine Co., Dpt. H. S., 9 E. Ohio St., Chica THE NAME TRADE PORO MARK A SYMBOL OF QUALITY Your name defines your character and personality and is a symbol of what you are. "PORO" is the trade-name of very exceptional Hair and Toilet Preparations and a System of Scientific Hair and Beauty Culture used and praised by ever increasing thousands. Mrs. A. M. 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Send or bring locals and all business matters to The Gazette office, Suite 302, Johnson Block, 226 Superior Ave., West, opposite the Hotel Cleveland. If you wish to see the editor call there, please. We advise our readers to carefully examine The Gazette's advertisements before making purchases. Business men who advertise in this paper should have the patronage of our people. The fact that they advertise is assurance that they want it. All reading matter for publication in current issues of The Gazette must be in the office by noon, WEDNESDAY, of that week, at the latest. Display advertisements accepted until 4 p. m., WEDNESDAYS! HARRY C. SMITH, 226 West Superior Avenue, Cleveland, O. (Opposite, Hotel Cleveland.) Notary Public Bell 'Phone: Cherry 1259 Classified Advertising Department FOR SALE NEW MODERN 5-ROOM TWO-FAMILY. If you can invest a moderate cash down payment, your rent and the income from the second suite will very soon pay for this home. Close to Kinsman and Buckeye carlines near Woodland Hills Park Opportunity knocks. Will you answer? CHerry 7472, Mr. Watson. CLEVELAND Social and Personal The publication date of the last issue of The Gazette in this month is January 28, the editor's birthday. Mrs. Harry Harper, of the H. & H. Realty Co., 2121 E. 71st St., has been very ill at City hospital for two months. The Christian Spiritual church began its meetings, Sunday evening, at Spira's hall. Mrs. Ida M. Jackson, 2250 E. 86th St., leader. The Federated Missionary society entertained 25 blind men and women at the Grasselli Home for the Blind, E. 55th and Hawthorne Sts., recently. Mr. Christine Little, captain of the Star Calanthe drill corps and a leader in local fraternal circles, was granted a divorce from her husband, Gus, recently. Silas McBriroy, one of our old residents, located at the Old Folk's Home, died, recently, at City hospital. He was, too, an old member John's church, years ago. Bishop Reverdy C. Ransom, of the Kentucky and Tennessee district of the A. M. E. Church, will speak at St. John's. Sunday. He pastored St. John's church, years ago. John H., older brother of Warren J. Cossey, who fell in E. 55th St., recently, breaking a leg, is at home from the hospital convalescing slowly. The Caterers' Association will give its LADIES' DAY reception, Saturday, Jan. 21, 1928, from 2 to 7 p.m. All ladies are invited. By order of the trustee board.—Adv. Capt. Chas. Royal, of the U. R. K. P., an employee of the Central Ave. bath-house, died and was buried, last week. He has been ill for a long time, was well known and highly esteemed. The members of Lemuel T. Boyd- ston post, American Legion, are still receiving praise for the splendid manner in which they entertained 200 needy children at Mt. Zion tem- ple during the holidays. Atty. L. O. Payne sponsored the movement. Mrs. Mildred Gants, E. $9th St., gave a party for 18 ladies, recently, which was an exceptional success. THEM DAYS IS MR. SMOOCH WE'RE OLD FRIEN THEM DAYS ARE GONE FOREVER IS MR. SMOOCH AT HOME TODAY? WE'RE OLD FRIENDS - HIM AND I - AIN'T SEEN HIM SINCE OUR COLEGE DAYS --- BY JOVE - HOW TIME DOES FLY! *M. KLEINMAN'S 2928 Central Ave. *THE S. & S. DRUG CO. 7325 Central Ave. ROSENBERG'S DRUG STORE, N. W. Cor. Central Ave. and E. 554th St. The Gazette regularly should notify copy delivered promptly. business matters to The Gazette 226 Superior Ave., West, oppo-you wish to see the editor call carefully examine The Gazette's purchases. Business men who have the patronage of our people. assurance that they want it.lication in current issues of The baby noon, WEDNESDAY, of that advertisements accepted until C. SMITH, Avenue, Cleveland, O. Bel Cleveland.) Bell 'Phone: Cherry 1259 Rising Department COLORED CARPENTER WILLING TO EXCHANGE SERVICES FOR RENT! Address Box 2, The Gazette, 226 W. Superior Ave., Cleveland, Ohio. FOR SALE.—A good bedroom set of three pieces. A BARGAIN—in good condition. Also a Way-Sagless spring and a first-grade mattress. Both practically new; used less than two weeks. Call, CHerry 1259 in the afternoon. A few evenings later, she had a dinner for six, the out-of-town guests being Mela Jackson and Zenobia Jones, school teachers from Covington, Ky. Norman McGhee, who has been a resident of the city and state but a few years, is another of the several newcomers who are candidates for a Republican nomination for the Legislature. "Goin' some, eh?" The Musical Magpies closed their 1927 season greatly pleased. The year was one of the most successful in their history and the organization is 10 years old. Jan. 25, 26, and 27 they are at Manor Theatre in Greenburg, Pa. From there they go East. Lulla Mathews was in jail, last Saturday, because, police alleged, she carried a "big knife" and Robert Crawford, age 27, of 7710 Central Ave. was in Charity hospital for the same reason, officers said. Lulla, who lives at 2328 E. 99th St., was charged with 'stabbing Crawford. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Scott and Mr. and Mrs. George Buchanan and son, Malcolm Grayson, sister vis-à-vis mother and brother, Rev. and Mrs. Harry Maxwell of Oak Hill A. M. E. church, Youngstown. Mrs. Scott also spent a week in Sharon, Pa. and was joined there by her husband. Major John C. Fulton, ill for many months, was sent to an Ashville, N. C. sanitarium by friends, leaving Tuesday afternoon. He is a very sick man and his wife is in a local hospital. Several friends and the American Legion made up a purse of $250 and presented it to him just before he left. Will the young man of the race, who lives in the East End and who spoke to his former classmate (white), a yellow Cab tax driver, at E. 46th or E. 49th St. and Centarl Ave., at noon on Monday, Dec. 19, '27, call at The Gazette office at once or call Cherry 1259 in the afternoon, before 6:30? IMPORTANT! Cuvahoga lodge, Elks' officers, who were installed at a joint ceremony with Glenara Temple, last week, Thursday night, are: Exalted ruler, Dr. Leroy N. Bundy; esteemed leading knight, Raymond Clarke; esteemed loyal knight, Atty. Chester K. Gillespie; esteemed lecturing knight, Robert Green; secretary, Henry Burrell; treasurer, Tom Fleming; esquire, Raymond Russell; in- ARE GONE FOREV AT HOME TODAY? DS- HIM AND I- AINT S COULEG THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, O. SATURDAY, JANUARY 21, 1928. Toot This on Your Tuba. ner guard, Wm. Sellers; tyler, Frank Jackson; trustees, Harold Gassaway, J. A. Johnson, John White, Atty Roger N. Dillard, and Leonard Fairfax. The Hon. Harry E. Davis spoke for Dr. E. J. Gregg, as well as for Atty Clayborne George, during the recent campaign, so he informs The Gazette. This only makes his race identity, as members of the City Council, to which reference is made elsewhere in these columns, all the greater. One of the seven Ohio delegates-at-large to the next National Republican Convention MUST be an Afro-American. The offer of an alternate-delegate-at-large would be a positive insult to our people of this state. It was made clear, eight years ago, during the Harding state campaign. We cast many thousands more than one-seventh of the Republican vote of Ohio. Hear, hear, Senator Frank B. Willis! Rumor has it that Atty, Chas. W. White, president of the local N. A. A. C. P. branch, wants to be our local candidate for the Legislature, this fall. How long has he been a resident of Cleveland, anyhow? Then an explanation is due from him as large in each of the Woodland Hills ining Pool riot victims' cases he settled—if what Mr. Emmett Meade writes The Gazette is true. Our esteemed contemporary, "The Cleveland Call," has "passed out," for the third or fourth time since it was started, some years ago. This makes twenty-one of our papers to die in Cleveland since the inception of "The Old Reliable" Gazette, forty-five years ago. A. Mr. Webber of Pittsburgh, who took the management of "The Call," several years ago, did not last more than a few weeks. We congratulate Mrs. O'Neill. We may get to out of the business as easily and quickly as she did. She sustained a considerable loss as it was. Another one of our banks in the South closed its doors, Dec. 31, '28. The shortage announced was $50,000. The National Benefit Life Insurance Company loaned the bank $101,000 which is secured by the bank. Again we remind the defunct bank. Again we remind that our so-called business men must stop "starting at the top of the ladder" and falling down instead of starting at the bottom and climbing up. Too many of them are starting banks, insurance and loan companies, etc., without the experience, and often necessary to办 business, absolutely necessary to win success. Hayes King of this city writes The Gazette from Indianapolis that Rev. A. A. Skelton of Chicago is doing a wonderful work thru the welfare branch of his church and that if proved very helpful indeed to him King is on route to Indianapolis. Hayes claims that D. Skelton's welfare branch has helped many Cleveland boys in distress. President Thos. W. Bird of the Central Voters' League writes The Gazette that his organization of about 1400 members, all of voting age, has lined up for the coming campaign (in April) and that all candidates must reckon from now on to be elected to the second and fourth districts. This is the organization that played so conspicuous a part in the recent campaign. Miss Geraldine Wanda Jones, of Leavenworth, Kan., sister of Hirth Jones of Hawneville, Atty. city, was arrested on Monday by Hurd of Kansas City, Mo., last month. Mr. and Mrs. Hurd will be at home at 723 W. 14th St., Junction City, kan. after Jung 20. '28. She has taught school in Leavenworth for some years, and will readily be recalled by all who attended the sumptuous dinner served by Mr. and Mrs. Allen Hurd, who is a friend and relatives at their residence in E. 81st St., early last fall. Mrs. Hurd is an exceptionally fine looking young lady. The new P. W. A. building opening has been set for early in April by the building committee (white). Work on the main building is practically completed and the gymnasium wing will be finished in time for the opening. Paid and unpaid pledges show that, of a total of $650,000 pledged, $161,000 was by local Afro-Americans. More than this remains to be paid. Pledges by other friends of the association are practically paid in entirely. Jane E. Hunter, executive secretary of the association, reported that the old building and other property owned by the association will bring in about $70,000 when sold. Guaranteed and Efficient Work TWENTY YEARS' EXPERIENCE 'Phone: Bell, Randolph 6978 Sundays by Appointment AH JIM WAS SUCH A CHEERFUL SORT -- A HAPPY, CAREERE GUY! Dr. Ernest Hall, pastor of E. Mt. Zion Baptist church, was named a delegate to the International Council of Religious Education, which meets in Los Angeles, Cal. He editor of the "Oriental Lights" department of the Baptist N. C. University, published by a national Baptist publishing board at Nashville. He is also a member of the World's Baptist alliance, which meets in Toronto, Canada, in June, and attended its session in Sweden, five years ago, making a tour of Europe at that time. He will leave the last of this month for a tour of the southeast, speaking in Baltimore, Washington, D. C., Cleveland, Pennsylvania, Palm Beach, Tampa, Key West, Daytona, Fla., and Atlanta. "Goin' some, eh?" DAVIS, GREGG AND GEORGE. The progressive element among the colored voters intends to work with Councilmen Clayborne George and E. J. Gregg and largely against Councilman Tom Fleming, who, previous to this year, was the only colored member of the City Council. The chances are that George and Gregg will receive the support of the Democratic minority in most of the measures they propose—Cleveland (Dally) Plain Mayor, for example, will "settle their hash" with their constituents who are all Republicans. It will, too, "settle their hash" with the Republican majority in the City Council. Councilmeir Gregg and George made the mistake of their one-term councillor career when they entered that Democratic City council and when they refused to announce promptly at the city beginning, that they intended to go to E. Davis, the leading and our only candidate for membership on the City Civil Service Commission. Instead of doing this,. Gregg, at the last minute and after about ten days' silence, voted for the election of A WHITE DEMOCRAT and plead with the Council to support the people (Polish) as if a single Pole, Republican or Democrat, had voted for him, and as if he was not sent to the Council by our people's votes to look after OUR interests in preference to those of all others, and expected to do so to the other groups in the community. WE need MORE of EVERYTHING than local Polish-American who, because of their color alone, have every advantage of us in this city and country of prejudice, because "blood is thicker than water" with every other group but ours, it seems. Then, too, the Poles had an opportunity to elect Orlikowski, the white Democrat referred to, a member of the Crown Prince of Chelsea Fielder Sanders well said, that evening, and failed to take advantage of it. Therefore, why Gregg's "crocodile tears" for "Polish representation" in the city's control? George, Councilman Clayborne George, if you please, at the very last minute, and after about ten days' silence, too, voted for Davis and apologized to the Council for so doing with a statement so "thin" that it made him look and seem as if he was as stood talking in the Council number, it was a pathetic spectacle, indeed, when considered from a race-loyal viewpoint. and what hurts our people of this community most is the unfortunate position in which they are placed in the world. We are thoughtful white friends and others here who believed we had developed and progressed far beyond the stage indicated by the most repreensible course followed in this Davis matter by both Gregg and George, one-term president of the detection, please. Lord, have mercy! We are free to confess, we did not expect the local Republican boss, Maurice Maschke, to make good his promise to support Davis and he sure is entitled to praise for holding 12 councilmanic votes in line for him for nearly ten days while Gregg and George refused to say whether either of them would vote the one vote more necessary to insure the election of Davis. And Davis, Gregg and George are all members of the race, too. But Maschke must see that an Afro-American is placed on the ticket for the State Senate, and elected, too, this fall, unless the entire local Republican ticket is defeated, if he is to get full measure of credit for the elevation of the governor in eight years' service in the Ohio House of Representatives to the position he now holds. An Afro-American candidate for the lower house of the State Assembly to succeed Davis will NOT satisfy our peo- ple of this community and we are here and now serving notice of the fact upon the head of the local Re- purpose organization, Mr. Maurice Maurek JIMMY McGINTY AND TOM FLEMING Two policemen, one drunk it is said, had "a brother from down home" at the police call-box at the corner of E. 30th St. and Central Ave., Tuesday afternoon, while another "brother" was shooting to death his wife or woman, diagonally across E. 30th St., about 100 feet away. The "brother", under arrest, took a bottle of "booze" from his pocket and smashed it on the pavement. Whereupon, one of the policemen hit him a terrific blow in the mouth. This, by the way, is the reason Tom Fleming has never made any effort to stop it (because he does not want to "make enemies of the police", it is said). So some of the police "take the law into their own hands," making judge and jury of themselves, and often thus punish offenders or at least those they charge with being seen. Hardly had the two police and their hapless victim of color left the corner in the "wagon" than Councilman Jimmy McGinty appeared on the scene, went in Kleiman's store, S. W. 30th St. and Central Ave., called the prefect police station on the 'phone and found that the trio, the police and man in the "wagon", had not as yet reached their destination, the station. McGinty then rushed out of the store, jumped into a taxi and in less than the time it would have taken the wagon to reach the station, the "brother" of color was back on E. 30th St. and Central Ave., too. This little "episode" illustrates better than anything else the difference between a REAL Councilman (Jimmy McGinty) and a pseudo one (Tom Fleming). The "brother was one of McGinty's constituents and supporters. Therefore, he was not a "real" and "without charge", too. He did not ask the man: "Have you got any money; have you got a bank book?" Rev. and Mrs. Boston J. Prince have a true story of Fleming's activity you ought to hear, if you did not have this illuminating experience during the recent campaign. We must not fail to add, in conclusion, that Councilman McGinty is trying to locate the policeman that struck the 'brother from down home' in the mouth who broke the bottle of "booze". When he does there is going to be some more quick and telling action or we will miss our guess. NOTIFY MRS. LOTTIE CHANEY! The U. S. Veterans' Bureau, Room 229, Hanna Bldg., desires to learn the whereabouts of Mrs. Lottie Chaney, wife of Richard Chaney, who was a soldier in one of our regiments in the World War. Information of advancing soldiers of Mrs. Chaney is available at the Veterans' Bureau, if she will present herself. Any person knowing her present address is asked to forward it to the local bureau. 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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 I TRY APPLICANTS FOR DRIVERS' LICENSE THE TRAINING CENTER To convince examiners in the Los Angeles branch of the division of motor vehicles that they know the traffic laws, applicants for drivers' licenses are placed at a huge table containing miniature streets, boulevard stops, fire plugs, etc., and are asked to demonstrate their ability as drivers. As part of the driving tests, they are called upon to maneuver the tiny automobiles furnished them. By this means more than 600 applicants are examined daily. The photograph shows the tests with miniature automobiles in operation. Examiner Clarence Page disentangling a traffic jam and explaining to the prospective drivers how it occurred. To convince examiners in the Los Angeles branch of the division of motor vehicles that they know the traffic laws, applicants for drivers' licenses are placed at a huge table containing miniature streets, boulevard stops, fire plugs, etc., and are asked to demonstrate their ability as drivers. As part of the driving tests, they are called upon to maneuver the tiny automobiles furnished them. By this means more than 600 applicants are examined daily. The photograph shows the tests with miniature automobiles in operation. Examiner Clarence Page disentangling a traffic jam and explaining to the prospective drivers how it occurred. FAVOR ALCOHOL AS ANTI-FREEZE It Is Quite Efficient and Is Always Easily Obtainable. King Winter will not get any more of a grip on your radiator than you allow him to. The severity with which cold weather taxes the efficiency of your car depends entirely on the measures you take to fortify yourself against operating troubles. Observance of a few simple rules will keep your radiator in good condition, regardless of low thermometer readings. Water freezes at zero Centi-grade, or 32 degrees Fahrenheit. When water freezes, it expands, and it is this expansion which cracks the radiator and other parts of the cooling system. Although some of the newer cars have radiators which can stand a slight freeze without damage, it is not good policy to neglect any precaution in cold weather. How to Prevent Freezing. The only way to avoid damage to the cooling system through heavy freezing is to use an "anti-freeze" solution. In selecting such a solution, several factors should be considered. Choose a kind that will remain liquid at the lowest temperature encountered in your locality—do not use a solution made for use only in moderately cold weather. Try to find the chemical composition of the "anti-freeze" mixture you use, making sure that the mixture has a boiling point as near as possible to that of water, 212 degrees Fahrenheit. Otherwise, the mixture may cause overheating of the engine on a moderately cold day. Alcoholic Efficiency. Alcohol is probably the most commonly used "anti-freeze" agent, and is unquestionably efficient. It main disadvantage is that it evaporates quickly, necessitating frequent replenishment. An important advantage of alcohol for radiator use is that it can easily be obtained. Kerosene prevents the cooling system from freezing, but is likely to overheat the engine when the outdoor temperature rises, and, besides, has an unpleasant odor. Kerosene, if used for a long time, will also destroy the rubber hose connections between radiator and engine. If you take reasonable precautions, there is no reason why the efficiency of your cooling system should be impaired in cold weather. Filters Require Some Attention for Service Filters require a certain amount of service, as anything else attached to a car. This is well illustrated in the case of the gasoline filter which will become inoperative and cause the vacuum tank to go dry if the bowl fills up completely with water and is not drained off. The water blocks the gasoline in its process of passing through the chamois filter. It is easy to tell when water should be drained from these devices for the reason that a line can be seen to mark the level of water at the bottom of the glass bowl. It is always good policy to clean the chamois filter with gasoline whenever draining off the water. After long periods of use, it is advisable to insert a new chamois filter. Dirt Clogs Vacuum Tanks Vacuum tanks, among the most efficient units of the modern automobiles, rarely give trouble. When they do the cause usually is found to be dirt collected at the point of gasoline outflow. It can be removed fairly easily, but the motorist should be careful not to go beyond simple cleansing. Otherwise, the delicate mechanism may be upset. Real vacuum tank repairs usually are the province of the skilled mechanic. Good Remedy Suggested A little more "living-room courtesy" has been suggested by Edward Ver Linden, president of a motor car corporation, as a remedy for careless and reckless driving. Glaring, muttering and shouting at drivers of other automobiles are among the discourteous habits Ver Linden says American drivers have formed. In one's home charming manners would greet a stranger, but on the open road everything goes. After all, isn't it true? Haven't you come home from a Sunday drive on a crowded road with the memory of the way some fellow uncountly "hollered" at you when you had to swing out because that little car suddenly pulled out into the road in front of you? And after he was so "fresh" and "smart," didn't that make you feel just a little reckless? Didn't you try to speed up a bit and try to crowd him over in the road as you went past? In the good old days a man used to be "quick on the trigger" when he didn't think the company was as polite toward him as it ought to be. Now the trigger finger has given place to the accelerator toe says the Detroit Free Press. The reaction is to "step on the gas" the reaction ever some rude person tries to wress away the freedom of the open road. Which frequently results in accident stories for the Monday papers. Put Shield Markers on California's Highways California's federal aid highways are all to be posted with, United States shield markers in conformity with designation adopted some time ago American Association of State Highway Officials. This will be done by the two large motoring organizations CALIFORNIA US 99 of the state, the Automobile Club of Southern California and the California State Automobile association, co-operating in placing 8,000 new signs that will be needed along approximately 2,000 miles of highways on which federal aid is being extended, and which are included in the national numbering system. Locked Rear Bumper Is Often Hard to Separate Ever have some one back into the car or otherwise misplace his car as to lock a rear bumper with your front one? Such collisions usually are trivial that the drivers forget how it all happened. When bumpers lock it is quite a problem to get them apart without jacking up the cars or putting forth a lot of effort. The first step is to remember how the bumpers get together as they did. Getting them apart, then, simply is a matter of reversing the original process. THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, O. SATURDAY, JANUARY 21. 1928. SEGREGATION (Special to The Gazette.) Washington, D.C. There is more segregation in Washington, today, than in the past. The president has ever been since the Civil War. The beginnings of the segregation were under President Taft. It was greatly extended, under President Wilson; increased, still further, under President Harding; and reached its zenith under President Coolidge. For instance, the largest of our presidents Wilson and Coolidge, but the 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. President Taft introduced it in the bureau of engraving. He segregated the censurers in this city in 1910, restricting it to black 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. Citizens of 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. Some politician girl appears after having passed the best examination, and after having been telegraphed for by the department. The photograph had failed to tell her true color, and they flatly refused to appoint her when she appeared and they saw her complexion. Commissioner Blair of the internal revenue bureau with thousands of clerks will not appoint a Negro clerk, and his word is law there, as he is the special favorite of Secretary Mellon and President Coolidge. He hails from North Carolina, the home of the other favorite and leader of the 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 grave risk and may he do 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 assoufally no opposition. They wonder if he is not a firm believer in segregation, especially since segregation is one of the chief tenegs of the Ku Klux Klan which has been waged against him in the Republican party, and receives no condemnation from the Republican President. ((Special to The Gazette.) ((Special to The Gazette.) Washington, D. C.—In the postoffice, segregation is rampant. The faithful colored clerks work under constant humiliation and physical disadvantages. The department maintains a spacious cafeteria for those only where 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, far less galling to the colored clerks than is the thought of their government taking their taxes, as it takes those of the whites, for the comfort of the latter, and setting them off as though they were lepers. The injustice stings all the more when they reflect that they are far more capable than the whites, and that they are more gentle and efficient service—the white man of their attainment being able to get far more lucrative employment. The department goes even farther in its solicitude for whites and neglect of colored. It maintains a well-appointed club room with pool tables and other games, comfortable lounges and other equipment for rest, sociability, and recreation, and nothing for these same colored employees. It has a sufficient postoffice building, built and maintained by ALL of the people. In the locker rooms there is segregation, and segregation is even attempted in the toilets. And all of this is against the most dependable and faithful employees. The white employees have even passed around invitations to the white employees. In the office, they attend a reception to the heads of departments, including the postmaster general, in the postoffice building. It announced dancing and a pleasant social evening 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 the white. The white workers 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 clerks have dared to form a union which meets regularly and often sends manly and intelligent protests to the postmaster, and often meets plausible 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. [Image of three women in 1920s fashion, each wearing a headband and a dress with different patterns and colors.] UNIFORMAL SUPPLEMENT A SOFT silhouette the thing: Fluttering bows and streamers everywhere, on coat, on blouse and on frock, skillful drapes, graceful jabots and all the thousand and one fattering details which go to express a truly feminine styling are registered on fashion's calendar for 1928. There is no question about the supremacy of bows in the newer modes. These bows do not look like premeditated acts, they seem rather like last moment inspirations, tied as they are so nonchalantly and unconventionally. Especially at neckline and hipline are fashionists "saying it" with bows. For that matter the new bows are apt to occur at most unexpected places—likely as not at the back of the neck, maybe at the front waistline or "bewixt and between" the neckline and girdle in the form of a deep t-collar. Some very precocious bows have gone so far as to suggest a bustle effect, confining their eccentricity, however, to formal evening gowns. The self-fabric bow which is taking the lead, is really more of a constructive detail of the garment itself rather than an accessory item. The three Paris frocks of siliconeette in the illustration convey the idea of the trend of bows most convincingly. A tie-collar, also a bow which seems to help draw the dress yet a little snugger over the hips as it ties at the front of the waistline, distinguish the INTRIGUING DETAIL LAURELS FOR AGAIN Jersey is "it" when it comes to the outstanding preferred medium for sports and utility apparel. However, the jersey frock or ensemble of today emerges from workroom and atelier, a new creature of the imagination, endowed with fetching details which eclipse its every previous styling. There is a decided difference, too, between the jersey of the now and the past, which has to do with a certain subtlety of coloring as well as an interesting variety expressed in the very weave itself. With regard to the question of coloring, honey beige, natural grege shades, biscuit, fawn and many two-tone effects are given prominence. Likewise the new "faded" tones are in good style, also winsome pastel shades. Especially smart is the new angora jersey in delicate mauve or maize, pale-pink, dull light green and a range of blues. Diversity is also registered in patterned jersey, usually delineating copy of The e wh might model in the center and adds chic. The frock in the foreground of embroidered-with-plain crepe abounds in significant detail details. In the first place this dress combines patterned fabric with solid color, which is a characteristic feature of incoming spring modes. The fact of its high collar effect should not pass without comment, for many of the more recent necklines emphasize this tendency. The soft tie bow at the side which flutters its streamers so gracefully over the shoulder, is the very essence of smartness. So is the side drape at the hipline which itself suggests a huge drooping bow and so obviously achieves an irregular hemline—and what an important subject this brings to mind—neven, erratic hemlines. The "long and the short" of most of the new skirts is mostly a matter of dipping hemlines. The other frock in the picture also introduces a bow of the same material as that of the dress itself. JULIA BOTTOMLEY. (© 1928, Western Newspaper Union.) LS WIN NEW THE JERSEY FROCK dots, disks, crossbars and berring bone effects. Jersey, hand-painted in modernistic designs, likewise metal touched effects, all enter into the revised list of Jersey fancies for 1928. As said before the manner of styling adds greatly to the prestige of Jersey. Analyzing the models in the picture, with a view of discoverer just why two such apparently simple frocks are so convincingly chic, on arrives at the conclusion that it is all a matter of arresting details and subtle coloring. For instance the double belt, the skirt plaited to a tain required fullness, the monogram proudly displayed on the blouse, the Peter Pan collar and cuffs of sult these are the items which in the aggregate spell style. As to the dress shown to the right of this picture, it achieves its smoothness through clever lacings introduced at shoulder, wrists and beltline. The eyelets are enameled the same so green of the dress. JULIA BOTTOMLEY (©. 1928: Western Newspaper Union.) GAZETTE Subscribe af OHIO'S MOB VIOLENCE ACT OR ANTI-LYNCHING LAW LEADS THE COUNTRY IN EFFECTIVE LEGISLATION Against the Mob and Lynch-Murder-Three Years' Work of a Member of the Race-Also His Ohio Civil Rights Law. Section 6278. "Mob" and "lynching" defined. 6279. "Serious injury" defined. 6280. Damages in case of assault. 6281. Damages in case of lynching. 6282. Damages recoverable by legal representative of victim of lynching. 6283. Person suffering death or injury by mob trying to lynch another. 6284. Limitations of action. 6285. Order to include recovery and costs in tax levy. 6286. Guardian's custody, etc., fees. 6287. County's right of action against member of mob 6288. County's right of action against another county. 6289. Non-relief from prosecution. Our mob-violence or anti-lynching bill was introduced in the Ohio legislature in 1894 and re-introduced in 1896. It took the Hon. Harry C. Smith, editor of The Gazette, just three years to secure its enactment into law. The Ohio Supreme Court has several times upheld the constitutionality of the law and it has been Section 6278. A collection of people assembled for an unlawful purpose and intending to do damage or injury to any one, or pretending to exercise correctional power over other persons by violence and without authority of law, shall be deemed a "mob" for the purpose of this chapter. An act of violence by a mob upon the body of any person shall constitute a "lynching" within the meaning of this chapter. (93 v. 16, 69) The term "serious injury;" for the purpose of this chapter, shall include such inquiry as permanently or temporarily disables the person receiving it from earning a livelihood by manual labor. (93 v. 161 1.) Section 6280. A person taken from officers of justice by a mob, and assaulted with whips, clubs, missiles or in any other manner, may recover, as hereafter provided, a sum not to exceed one thousand dollars as damages from the county in which the injury occurred, or, if the injury received therefrom is serious, a sum not exceeding one thousand dollars; or, if such injury result in permanentability to earn a livelihood by man-made labor, a sum not to exceed five thousand dollars. (93 v. 12 5.) Section 6282. The legal representative of a person dying from injuries received from lynching by a mob, may recover of the county in which such injury occurred, a sum not to exceed five thousand dollars damages for such unlawful killing. Such sum shall be applied to the maintenance of the family and education of the minor children of such person so lynched, if any survive him, until such children are of legal age, and then be distributed to the survivors, share and share alike, the widow receiving an amount equal to a child's share, there be no widow or minor children, and such sum shall be distributed among the next of kin according to the laws of the distribution of the personality of an intestate. Such sum so recovered shall not be a part of the estate of such person so lynched, nor be subject to any of his liabilities. (93 v. 162 6.) Section 6283. A person suffering death or injury from a mob attempting to lynch another person shall come within the provisions of this chapter. He or his legal representatives shall have a like right of action as one purposely injured or killed by such a mob. (93 v. 162 6.) Section 6283. Action for the recoveries provided for in this chapter must be commenced within years from the date of such lynching, in any court having original jurisdiction of an action for damages for malicious assault. (93 v. 162 7.) Section 6285. An order to the commissioners of a county, against such recovery is had, to include in such action of action, in the next succeeding tax, for such county, shall be a part of the judgment in every such case. (93 v. 162 8.) Section 6286. If the decedent so lynched has minor children surviving him, the fund shall be turned over to a regularly appointed guardian. Such guardian shall administer such fund under the direction of the probate judge, allowing not more than five hundred dollars for counsel fees in the action for such recovery. (93 v. 162 9.) Section 6287. The county, in which a lynching occurs, may recover the amount of a judgment and loss of property against legal representatives of a person killed or seriously injured by a mob from any of the persons composing such mob. A person present, with hostile intent, at such lynching shall be deemed a member of the mob and be liable to such action. (93 v. 162 10.) Section 6288. If a mob carries a prisoner into another county, or comes from another county to commit violence on a prisoner brought into the county, the county in which the jailing committed may recover the amount of the judgment and costs from the county from which the mob came, unless there was contributory negligence on the part of officials of such county in failing to protect such prisoner to disperse such mob. (93 v. 163 11.) very effective. Illinois, Pennsylvania and New Jersey have followed Ohio's lead and enacted mob violence or anti-lynching laws which are copies of our Ohio law. Several other northern states and at least one border state (Kentucky) have also enacted anti-lynching laws, in recent years, like Pennsylvania and New Jersey. The Ohio law follows: **OBS.** ed. representative of victim of lynching. try by mob trying to lynch another. costs in tax levy. inst member of mob ost another county. Section 6289. This chapter shall not relieve a person concerned in such lynching from prosecution for homicide or assault for engaging therein. (93 v. 163 12.) OUR OHIO CIVIL RIGHTS LAW Upon the request of many readers of The Gazette we print below the text of the Hon. Harry C. Smith's Ohio Civil Rights law which the editor had enacted while a member of the 71st General Assembly, in 1894; The General Code of Ohio: Sec. 12940. However, the officer in charge, keeper or manager of an inn, restaurant, eating house, bar-shop, public conveyance by land or water, theater or other place of public accommodation and amusement, denies to a citizen, except for reasons applicable alike to all citizens and regardless of race or color, the full enjoyment of the community facilities or privileges thereof, shall be not less than fifty dollars nor more than five hundred dollars, or imprisoned not less than thirty days nor more than ninety days, or both. Sec. 12941. Whoever violates the next preceding section shall also pay not less than fifty dollars nor more than fifty dollars, and any son aggrieved thereby to be recovered in any court of competent jurisdiction in the county where such offense was committed. This law has repeatedly been held constitutional and good law by the Ohio Supreme court. The trouble is our people will not use it as often as they should, but expect it to do for them what they should and must do for themselves, under it, in the courts. Judge Grant's Opinion of the Law. Mislied by the foolishly manufactured outcry for the passage of the Battie Law a few years ago, the Akron, Beacon County, published an editorial to which the editor of The Gazette replied, calling its attention to the fact that the Ohio Civil Rights law was good law and did not need amending. The following letter from Judge Grant former presiding judge of the Court of Appeals of the Eighth District of Ohio, is self explanatory: Akron, O., April 25, 1919. Hon. Harry C. Smith. Editor The Gazette, Cleveland, O. M. Dear Sir: Observing your letter, to the Board on Journal, of this city, I venture to on record that you separate cover, the Ohio Law Reporter of Feb. 3, last, containing the opinion of the Court of Appeals in the Puritan Lunch Co. vs. Leonard R. Forman, decided in Akron, last fall, in which a judgment for ($500) five hundred dollars was sustained. If the Beacon-Journal had known what was going on in its own town, there would have been no occasion editarily to THE LAW OF OHIO UNION JOURNAL PROACH, nor our courts and juries, in administering it. Not a word was said by the Beacon-Journal when the Forman case was reviewed. OUR MOB VIOLENCE ACT A NATIONAL SCANDAU Is What Congressman Tinkham of Massachusetts Calls Southern Disfranchisement—Unparalleled County of Cuyahoga Cleveland, O. Jan. 10, '28. Hon. Harry C. Smith. Editor Gazette, Cleveland, O. Dear Sir:—In reply to your letter of yesterday, in reference to the chained arising out of the riot, July 26th, 2017, Woodland Hills Bathing Pool, and which the County settled under your Ohio Mob Violence Act, I wish to say that the following adjustments were made: Thomas Williams . . . $750 Jos. Ambler . . . 500 Won. Burton . . . 500 Goodwin Turner . . . 250 Jos. Walker . . . 200 Jno. Johnson . . . 750 And an allowance of $250 for Leander Scott, a minor, which amount will be paid over as soon as a guardian is appointed. Trusting this information is what you desire, I beg to remain, Very truly yours, J. R. ZMUNT. (The Cuyahoga County commissioners are J. H. Harris, pres.; John P. Fischer and J. R. Zmunt.—Editor.) ading It a Copy of It