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CORRESPONDENTS must mall all letters for publication at their main postoffice sufficiently early on Monday (or Sunday) of each week to have them reach The Gazette office on Tuesday morning, and always write their names and that of their city or town on the outside of the wrapper about returned copies. Unless this latter is done, proper credit cannot be given you. Lists of names, wedding presents, etc., obituary notices, inquiries for relatives and advertisements of all kinds, including items announcing entertainments to be held in the near future, must be paid for in advance at the rate of 25 cents a line, six words to a line. Our rates for display advertisements will be sent on appli 18 Social club will have a St. Patrick's party at Hollie Martin's, Mar. 16. All members will bring a guest. All persons having news for this column will please communicate with Harry R. Blotts, B50, Phone 3334-J by Friday.—Mr. and Mrs. R. K. Baldridge spent Sunday in Columbus, where she attended the state conference of worthy recorders of Households of Ruth.—Mesdames Elizabeth Pritchett, Lewis Black and Margaret Hargraves spent Tuesday at Ironspot, guests of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Smith.—Nelson D. Cavender is convalescing.—Lewis Conway, son of Mr. and Mrs. Caleb Masterson, March I, after a lingering illness. He was highly respected. Funeral advertisements will be sent on appli C A D I Z.—Mrs. Margaret West gave a dinner, Sunday, in honor of her daughter, Margaret's birthday. Many useful presents were received.—Rev. and Mrs. W. E. Watson and Miss Helen Lucas attended Miss Mary Smith's funeral in Steubenville. Mary Smith's friend chanced. Worthington and May Steward and daughters were here, Sunday.—Mrs. Frances Christian gave a "slumber" party, Saturday evening, entertaining the following young ladies: Marilu Strother, Dorothy Ramsay Charlotte and Sidney Redmond. An enjoyable time was spent. Reserval services are on at Simpson M. E. apel, compiled by the pastor, Rev. Richard Hughes.—Mr. and Mrs. James Titus of Cancon visited her mother, Mrs. Susan West, Sunday. HILLSBORO.—For NEWS buy "The O.Reliable" Gazette.—James West was in Cincinnati, Monday.—Rev. and Mrs. James Young entertained Mrs. Lucinda Young at dinner, Sunday.—Mrs. Grace Trimble was called to Newark, Saturday, by the illness of her daughter, Mrs. Leon Worley and her daughter, Milton Worley, the guest of Mrs. James West, Friday evening.—Mrs. Edward Dixon entertained the Wesleyan Ladies' Aid. last Thursday evening. Refreshments.—Mrs. Mary Donaldson, Mrs. Archie Cole, Mrs. Wm. Young, and Mrs. Clarence Lamb visited Mrs. and Mrs. A. F. Donaldson in Columbus, last Tuesday.—The Harmony Five visited Mrs. and Mrs. O. C. Bulard was dinner-guest of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Johnson, Sunday.—Clarence Hudson was in Dayton, Saturday.—Mr. and Mrs. Walter Johnson have returned to Cleveland with a two-week visit with her mother, Mrs. Bulard Waters.—Wm. Tatum is ill.—Friends here are glad to learn that L. R. Carey is recovering.—Mrs. Clarence Hudson has visited the families of the former, Mrs. Mary Williams in the former, Mrs. Saturday and Sunday. The latter remained for a longer visit.—Revival services at the Baptist church.—Mr. and Mrs. Albert Williams, Jr., visited in Washington, C. H. Sunday.—Mr. Wm. Hancock died, Monday morning, after a brief illness. Heart trouble and dropsy have not completed at this writing.—Born to Mr. and Mrs. Frank Trimble, Feb. 29, a son, David. Mrs. Trimble was formerly Leona Heyde.—Rev. J. J. Burn preached in Washington, C. H., Sunday.—Friends here received the sad news of the death of Charles Hendricks, who lived here years ago. Mrs. Charles Metalfam entertained the Baptist Ladies' Aid. Thursday, March 16, and Mrs. Charles and Mr. and Mrs. Archie Cole visited the former's son, Jay, at Soldiers home, Dayton, Sunday.—Miss Amelia Donaldson, who underwent an operation at a hospital in Columbus, is getting along nicely. ZANESVILLE——Samuel M. Portis and Mr. Geo. Geo are ill—Mrs. Muriel Duffy entertained, last Friday evening. Cards, dancing and buffet-lunch—A Valentine party was given at Mr. and Mrs. Walter Simpson's, last Friday evening, by the Rajah club. Refreshments—Sunshine class, West End Ave. Wesleyan M. church, held pew services, Sunday evening. Atty. A. A. George, principal speaker, assisted by Dr. McCune. An excellent program was rendered. Large attendance—Mrs. Dakota Newell and daughter, Faustina, who were called here by her mother, Mrs. Fannie Moore's illness has returned to Chicago. A. M. E. church's re-board, No. 1, the Patrick's captain, will have a Patrick's day social at Mrs. Horace Webb's, March 16. Each member is to bring a guest. Special arrangements are being made. Miss Faustina Newell was honor-guest at a handkerchief shower given by Miss Ruth Harris—The Jolly 18 Social club will have a St. Patrick's party at Hollie Martin's, Mar. 16. Each member will bring a guest. All persons having news for this column will please communicate with Harry R. Stotts, Box 530, Phone 3334-J, by Friday. Mr. and Mrs. R. K. Baldridge spent Sunday in Columbus, where she attended the state conference of worthy recorders of Households of Ruth. -Mesdames Elizabeth Pritchett, Lewis Black and Margaret Hargraves spent Tuesday at Mrs. R. K. Baldridge, Nelson D. Cavender is convalescing. -Lewis Conway, son of Mr. and Mrs. Caleb Tate, died at his sister, Mrs. Mayme Masterson's, March 1, after a lingering illness. He was highly respected. Funeral services, Saturday afternoon, at the residence, Rev. C. J. Powell officiating, assisted by Mrs. Mary Smith, evangelist. Interment in Wooddawn cemetery. EXHIBIT OF OUR ARTIST New York City.—The first one-man show, in a New York art gallery, of the work of one of our artists, has been opened at the New Gallery, 600 Madison Ave. The paintings are of those of Archibald J. Motley, Jr., 36 years old, of Chicago. One of his portraits, "A Mulattress," includes the press exhibition, won Frank C. Loehmer, medal at the Chicago, Art Institute exhibition in 1825. His study, "Syncapation," also won the Joseph N. Elseendrath prize in the same exhibit, and his portrait of his grandmother, called "Mending Socks," was hung in the Newark Museum's exhibition last March. The artist was born in New Orleans and has in him French and Indian blood as well as African. He was reared in Chicago and New York. The pictures in the present exhibition include portraits, several of cabaret life, and six are imaginative portraits of voodoomism. BUNDY VS. ROUNDTREE. The protest, against the candidacy for presidential delegate in the 21st district of Dr. L. N. Bundy, of John E. Roundtree, also a delegate in the same district, as well as the one against Roundtree filed by Clerk Hirstius of the board of elections, were heard, Tuesday noon, by that body. Both protests were based on Dr. L. N. Bundy. the ground that the candidates named were not bona fide residents of that district. Bundy is for Hoover and Roundtree, for Willis, the former claiming new residence at the Lincoln Hotel, since Feb. 18. Both protests were thrown out by the board after a rather hectic hearing. Since it is an "organization" body, it was a foregone conclusion, before the hearing, that the protest against Dr. Bundy would avail nothing to the latter says. Watch my snake! Not only going to seep to mop up the district with and simply overwhelm my opponent. Roundtree. So watch the fur fly." A BLACK FRENCHMAN Is Inspector-General of Customs—Fisk Singers Make Them Cry—Damphool American Prejudice Causes a Fight. Paris, France.—Monsieur J. Germany, a black native of Martinique, who has been decorated with the Legion of Honor, Croix de Guerre, and other medals, has been appointed inspector-general of customs for all of French equatorial West Africa. This post must be claimed by U.S. minister Liberia or Haiti, for M. Germany has a large number of men of all races working under him. He was for several years Inspector of customs in France. The second appearance of the Fisk Jubilee Singers at Salle Gaveau was again highly successful, a full house being present. The audience composed of the elite of this city, was highly appreciative, and there were many encores. On the singing of "Swanee River," and "My Old Kentucky Home," several persons, mostly women, said to be southern Americans, seem to be crying. "Bursted" Colored Americans were in an all-night restaurant on Rue Notre Dame de Lorette, recently, when white southerners entered, one of them objecting violently to the former's presence. One of the "Negroes" was Eugene Bullard, who won considerable attention in the French army during the war, and allied French citizen. One of the southerners, it is alleged, called Bullard a "name" whereupon, a Frenchman (white) remonstrated with the American, reminding him that he was in France. The incident was reported, next day, in all the papers, and one of the leading dailies, said. "A splendid 'Negro' entered the establishment. An American had preceded him by a few seconds, and began to show in his violent (ignorant American) fashion his hatred for men of color. The black man, musician by occupation and boxer, of the love of the game, took care enmeshed." The game, American battle ensued. Projiced the American ways get the worst of it here as a result of such coarse and inexhaustible (in this country) "exhibitions." MEDAL OF HONOR Awarded Dunbar Apartments, Roscoe C. Bruce, Manager—Roster of Inmates Used Like Society Blue Book. New York City.—The Rockefeller Apartments, formally christened the Paul Lawrence Dunbar Apartments, founded by Seventh and Eighth Avenue, and the 100th streets, were awarded the medal of honor for outstanding apartment house development during the year of 1927. This medal is given by the New York Chapter of the American Institute of Architects. Announcement was made at its annual dinner at the Harvard club. A singular coincidence lies in the fact that the first resident manager of these apartments was Cochlear University, Harvard University graduate, a Phi Beta Kappa scholar, and for years assistant superintendent of (colored) schools of Washington, D. C. SINGLE COPY FIVE CENTS EQUALITY! SCIENTISTS AGREE AND SAY NO HARM CAN POSSIBLY COME FROM IT. Dr. Johnson, O. K. Washington, D. C.—Dr. Mordecal W. Johnson, president of Howard University, stands for full race equality including amalgamation and social equality. More power to him! He expresses his views before the University, and he has recently. Sunday he spoke before the Y. M. C. A. forum in Stambaud auditorium. Youngstown ,O., on "Christianity and the World's Race Problem." Youngstown advertised Dr. Johnson as "the greatest orator of his generation." Wants All of Our Rights. Speaking in New York, Dr. Johnson,aid he, dissident, for the sake of marrying a white woman, but he thought that when two sane persons wanted to marry, there should be no law to prevent them, and that while he could not stop amalgamation of the races, he did not believe that we should wait for amalgamation to give us full manhood rights. It is too long a process, he said. He will MLM. He said he included social equality without equivocation or retreating a single inch, which in turn included intermarriage. Dr. Johnson emphasized the fact that anthropologists and other scientists are agreed that no harm can come from intermarriage. As a mat- The Blind Really Ranked Third in the First Ten on the Honor Roll at Oberlin College—He's a Wonder Student. Cleveland, O., March 2, '28. Hon. Harry C. Smith, Editor Gazette, City. My dear Mr. Smith:—You know of course of Joe Himes who was graduated from East High school a ago and will is now attending Oberlin College. Oberlin College has an honor roll consisting of those who distinguished themselves for high scholarship. A special honor is to be a member of the first ten. Only those are eligible for this list who have carried fifteen hours of work. Joe Himes started with fifteen hours, but because of his blindness he withdrew from the course in physical training. As a result he is credited with only fourteen hours work instead of eight. Inducted he would not be eligible for the special group of ten he is given honorable mention on the honor list sent me by the secretary. The following comment is made: "A splendid record: General average 90.57%. Number of Freshmen: 326. "Rank in Class: Would have ranked No. 3 in the class if he had taken 15 hours instead of 14." You can see then that the boy is keeping up the splendid record he made and I talked to George A. Myers and he suggested that I confer with you and ask you to publish the information that I have given you above. I am glad to have an opportunity to renew old acquaintance. I hear from you now and then but rarely have the opportunity to greet you. With kind, personal regard, I am Sincerely yours, DANIEL W. LOTHMAN, Principal, East High School. Thanks, Many Friends. The undersigned desires to thank all of the many friends, in Cleveland and throut the state, for courtesies of various kinds shown him while ill here at St. Vincent's hospital for several weeks. He feels that he could not have been treated better and is therefore very grateful to all for the same. Signed, L. R. CAREY. Willed $50,000 Raleigh, N. C.-According to the will of the late Ivan M. Proctor (white), Miss Hettie Chamblee, for many years a servant in the Proctor home, is to receive $50,000 "with which she is to be comfortably taken care of for the rest of her life." The remainder of the estate was equally divided among his five children. Miss Dorothy Myers' Washington birthday celebration, honoring the Ye-Buz-Fuz club was an exceptional success. Refreshments and cards. Prizes were awarded Mrs. Leon Evans, Mrs. C. George and Mrs. F. Kenney, Mrs. J. T. Suggs was honor best. The Mrs. have a charity benefit, "500 and bridge" party, at the Metropolitan club, March 16. Prizes will be awarded. Thanks. Many Friends Willed $50,000 THE GAZETTE is the oldest and has the largest bona fide circulation in Ohio, double that of any newspaper in the interest of Afro-Americans published in this or any other country. It is the only one immediately establish its rank as one of the NEWSIEST AND BEST in the country. LE COPY FIVE CENTS ALITY! VAGE, ALRIGHT AND SAY NO HARM CAN COME FROM IT. In Type as It Has the Southern American—Favors Religious "Social Equality"— tre of fact it improves the American type. Religion. "The white man's religion," said Dr. Johnson, "has made the mistake of leaving the public under the impression that Protestant religion is the white man's religion. This is untrue. It is an Asiatic religion." The South lost its big opportunity during the days of slavery by interpreting the Bible in a philosophical manner instead of an ethical manner." Dr. Johnson explained. He said one set of white men in the South took the Book of Genesis and proved that slavery was right and another set took the Bible and proved that it was wrong. China Laughs China, he declared, laughs at the American missionary who brings him religion and segregates the Afro-American. Dr. Johnson recalled a church that sent two white missionaries to Africa to convert the heathen and thirty days later, led by the pastor, protested against two respectable colored people moving into the neighborhood of one of its members. He said he hoped our people would become more radical along social and economic lines, but especially along religious lines. DOINGS OF THE RACE A testimonial banquet was given, March 1, at the Unity Club, Chicago, in honor of Bishop A. J. Carey, our civil service commissioner of that city. Mrs. Sadie Alexander practising law with her husband, Raymond P. Alexander, has been appointed one of 15 assistant city solicitors of Philadelphia. Segregation of employees in the general land office of the Department of the Interior, Washington, D. C., has been upheld by Dr. Hubert Work, President Coolidge's Secretary of the Interior. Brigadier General John H. Sherburne, former commander of our artillery units in France, recently announced his resignation from the "40 and 8," an honorary society of the American Legion, in protest against their excluding Afro-American veterans from membership. In all the world there are 32,000-000 square miles controlled by colored people. There are only 22,000-000 square miles controlled by white people. In all the world there are 1,700,000,000 human beings and only 550,000,000 are white. There are 1,150,000,000 colored. DEFUNCT BANK HEAD Out of Jail on a $25,000 Bond—How It Is Done "Down Home" by Some of Our "Business Men." Memphis, Tenn.—Alfred F. Ward, president of the defunct Fraternal Solvent bank, was released on $25,000 bond here, Feb. 25, Dr. Ward, Wood Home, Elkridge White signed the bond. Dr. Martin was vice president of the defunct bank and vice president of Ward's American Home and Investment Co. He has been severely criticized for urging numerous people to deposit during the final days of the bank when he must have known that it was insolvent and at the same time had withdrawn his balance. The opinion here is that, due to the above, he must have signed because an investigation might be required by the attorney general office. Dr. Martin has been a constant visitor to the jail to see Ward, and has carried him boxes of cigars and magazines. He is the brother to Dr. A. T. Martin, who was indicted in Federal court for selling morphine to a government narcotic agent. The bond was made in open court here which automatically placed a lien on cash on the property he rebuilt by Dr. Ward. William White, Roy Williams and E. J. T. Walker assistant cashier and bookkeeper, respectively, arrested with Ward, are still in jail while Dr. J. T. Walker has been cut on bond for some time. Seek $12,000 Estate Claimants. Central Falls, R. I.—Unless relatives or heirs come forward and claim the $12,000 estate left by the late Richard Arthur Butler, who died here, last September, it will revert to the state. He is thought to have relatives in the South. China Laughs PUMUnKAY byBI saLcKwar SUBSCRIPTION RATES (in Advance) Cae Year oe ece cece ee enn $2.00 Sik Mouths ...........--2+5 1.08 Gubscribers are requested to remit | by postoffice money order or registered letter. Watered at the postoftice In Clove- land, Ohio, as second-class ‘mail matter Address all communications to BARRY ©. SMITH Editor and Proprietor HE GAZETTE e26°W. Superior Ave., Cleveland, O. {Bell ‘Phone: Cherry 1259) Member Ohio Legislature: 1804 to 1806; 1896 to 1898; 1900 to 1902 ae ey ie F ae Os x Pe ANGE f 10.000,000 Afro-Americans. Bra.nn0 tm Ohio, 40.000 tn Cleveland, SATURDAY, MARCH 10, 1928. We sincerely trust that Patrolman Patton's injury is not as bad as re- ported. He was a g00d officer. —tilli— County Auditor Zangerle hired Or- monde Forte before an election and “let him out” after it. Query: Was the auditor playing politics? Ask him. —iii— We failed to announce in our last iaaue that Tho Gazette 1s again in- debited to The Cleveland Plain Deal- er. This time for the splendid por- traits of George Godfrey and Paulino Urudun given in ite issue of last cock Dr. Mordecai W. Johnson, presi- dent of Howard University, Wash- ington, D. C., we salute you as a real Ieader of the thought and ce- termination of the advanced and progressive Afro-American—if you are quoted correctly in the article on our first page. It is such a re- lief to read such a public expression from the lips of a member of the race! When have we heard the like ‘eaten’. County Auditor Zangerle an- nounced, Inst week Friday, that with the total taxes due on levies for last year amounting to $86,942,073.92, taxpayers of this, Cuyahoga County etill owe the treasury $48,475,- 695.43, The many for rent signs on empty stores, rooms and houses are ‘additional mute testimony to the coal condition of business, regardless of the dally newspapers’ “twaddle” about “Coolldge good times.” Have you noticed that these same papers have been publishing, in the last two or three weeks, the annual state- ments of the largest corporations, every one of those we have seen an- nouncing that in 1927 they ran mil- Lions of dollars behind their receipts in 1926? And business conditions generally thruout the country have mot improved. The for rent signs are steadily Increasing in number. — | — We cali the attention of our many readers, particularly to the letter of Principal Daniel W. Lothman of East High school, published elsewhere in this paper. Joe Himes, one of our boys, is blind and yet led in his classes at East High school before entering Oberlin College, last fall. ‘That interested Principal Daniel W. Lothman, an old and highly respect- ed “Clevelander,” one of this city’s est educators. Prof. Lothman, proud of his former pupil, is fol iowing Joe Himes’ career at college, as his letter to The Gazette indicates, and like all of our people of this city and Oberlin is more than pleas- ed with the lad’s latest showing as a student, handicapped as he is by both blindness and racial connec- tion, Joe is not merely an excep- tion; he is u wonder student. We are very, very proud of him, and Prof. Lothman, too, whom we have known well since “the days of our youth.” More power and success to both of them! CATERING TO PREJUDICE. To the question, “what is your opinion of the melting pot idea?” Rabbi B, R. Brickner of the Buclid "Ave. Temple replied over the radio, on @ recent Monday evening, as fol- lows: “I believe the fusing of races into a more homogeneous American race, fs inevitable with the cessation of immigration, Already it {s produc- ing a new and different racial type. “Firstly, the difficulties are with tho Negroes who cannot be fused with the whites, and who should be encouraged to develop their own psychological and racial traits as a contribution to American culture; and secondly, I believe the melting pot is melting too fast, and therefore ‘America 12 not getting the benefit of the spiritual and cultural contri- putions in the character and life of the immigrant races who settled in this country.” “pirstly" (as he would say), the THEM DAYS ARE GONE FOREVER Follow This With Fervor. ghee ri Siens oo ein inaiiet Renainat — i tas 2S 2 YOUR MAIR! Tue QOES FLY. T DECLARE! HOW YOUNG SOU JERE ~ A? AND RuMeLE Ue SOUS AAK GONE FOREVER! Hh ¢ * z . - es). ZI otal ne 2 [>] fl SB ~ EB ae pee RSET: EO), |S & Sse CO etd CE x ae; on a” es Cae reso Me 8s poe 2 Ce ie E> 3 NA Pt Coe: = Ke od E: Wear — a | ype : ravbi is “apoofing”—catering to damphool American (U. 8.) preju- dice when he says “the ‘Negroes’ cannot be fused with the whites.” "bhe use of that word “cannot” is positively silly in the face of the fact that fusing with whites has been going on ever since the inde- pendency of this country was achiev- ed, and is going on at an ever ine creasing rate with each succeeding year. Thig same is true in southern Hurope, Soutt America and wher- ever “the two races” mingle to any appreciable extent. Rabbi Brickner knows better, but has not the cour- age to say what he knows is a fact. He may think that he is lessening the prejudice in this country against his own people by assailing the “Negro” and so catering to dam- phool American (U. 8S.) prejudicé, but he is mot. That is hardly the way to do it. He must take a man- ly stand against all such narrowness as prejudice regardless of what race or religion it is directed toward. The “Negro” or Afru-American’s “‘psy- chological and racial traits” are not ag mauy nor ag varied as those of the Jews (with whom Rabbi Brick- ner 1s identified), especially the ob- Jectionable ones, because the former are Americans to the manor born. As a matter of fact, there is less rea- von for a fusion of Jews and gentiles in this country than there is for that of the sc-called “Negro” and so-called whize Americans. To this, most of the rabbi's people will and do subseribe. And yet even it is go- ing on at an ever increasing rate. ‘The overwhelming majority of “the immigrant races who settled in this country” were not of those, in the parts of the world from whence they came, that possessed any con- siderable amount of “spiritual and cultural contributions” or attributes that would “benefit” this country but came here to get them, and other things, of course, and it 1s really an‘insult to the progressive people of the United States for the rabbi or any one else to make such a statement. Yes, “the fusing of races into a more homogeneous American race is inevitable with (or without) the cessation of immigration” and “it is producing a new and different racial type,” a better “racial type,” if you please, in which the so-called “Negro,” native American, is play- ing his and her part as thousands upon thousands of octoroons, “pass- ing as white,” attest. America is a “melting pot,” alright, and it is not “melting too fast,” either. More- over, the American “Negro’s psy- chological and racial traits" are be- ing developed” right alongside of and in the same way as those of other Americans “as a contribution to American culture.” Let the Jews and all other “immigrant races join the chorus’ and let Rabbi Brickner stop “playing to the gallery” of American (U. S.) prejudice which ig even more bitter against his peo- ple than it is against ours. He can- not lessen thet against the Jews by trying to promote that directed at our people but should denounce un- qualifiedly and openly all damphool race and religious prejudice. “PHILLIS WHEATLEY” HISTORY. Miss Nannie H, Burroughs, of Washington, D. C., was in the elty, recently, and stopped at the Phillis Wheatley home. While here, Miss Burroughs wrote an article for the newspapers which we presume was sent generally to our papers, the country over, from this city. There is Just one sentence in the article that needs elucidation and that one is as follows: “Jane Hunter has given to her women and girls a business and so: cial institution that takes high rank among the best in the world.” ‘While it is not our desire to take one iota of credit from Miss Hunter, for anything good she has ever done the TRUTH relative to the Phillis Wheatley home should be told tc Miss Burroughs and all others in terested. And that tuth, is, white people projected, built and maintain the place, and also started the Phil lis Wheatley Association, using Miss Hunter for that purpose. Why? Be cause they wanted to stop a move ment inaugurated by some: of ow local ministers to force open the doors of the local Y. W. C. A. & our girls and young women. Mrs ‘Ww. CG. Schofield, its president at th time, conceived the idea of establish- ing @ local ‘jim crow" ¥. W. C. A. and secured the assistance of Miss Jennie C. Hunter, a trained nurse, ‘as she was known at that time. The latter had first tried to start a “jim crow" hospital here. Failing in that effort, she readily enlisted under the banner of Mrs, Schoticla’s movement to start something that would re- Neve her institution from the pres- sire being brot by Rev. Dr. Horace ©. Bailey and others of our ministers to force open its doors to those of our young women eligible, Miss Jennie C., mow Jane Hunter, sald to the editor of The Gazette in his office, one day when she consulted him relative to a local “jim crow" hospital and heard his objections to such a very harmful thing to all of our people in Cleveland, she was g0- ing ‘to make a place” for herself, and later did so by enlisting under the prejudiced banner of Mrs. Scho- field, president of the Y. W. C. A. at the time and for years thereatter. That put ap the bars so solidly against our girls that they have been kept out of the local “Y,"" with Itt Ue or no trouble ever since, ‘They were and are sent to the Phillis Wheatley home, which Miss Bur- roughs very properly characterizes in her article, referred to above, as “the Diggest and best hotel for No- gro women in the whole world” and that fs about all it is, But the fact is the Frackeltons and other whites now control it just as Mrs Schofield and other whites did until her death, some years ago. They did and-do all the plauning and exe- cuting, and furnish about all the money, when it comes to the busi- [ness end of the institution and, too, ae reproach local “Negroes” because thny have paid but an in- significant part of thelr near $150,- 000 pledge to the new building and property of the Phillis Wheatley home. The foregoing is the ruth and nothing but the truth, And there is much more to be told when- over it is found necessary to do so. Since the influx of our people from the south, in the last dozen years, the Phillis Wheatley home has been a help as a “hotel.” There is no doubt of that, and maybe Miss Jen- nie, or Jane Hunter, as she now styles herself, should have credit for whatever she is doing, under the direction of white people, to make Mee cascosn, Bat we ina that sh ‘also be “credited” with helping Mrs. Schofield, and other prejudiced whites, leaders of the local Y. W. C. A, to close the doors of that “CHRISTIAN” Institution to our girls and women just as local hos- ‘pitals will be closed to our people it the same kind of “Negroes” ever succeed in establishing a “Jim erow” hospital in this city, as they are still struggling to do. LORD, HAVE MBRCY! ‘The poor “Negro,” beset from without and from within! GREGG AND GEORGE. Couneilmen Petrash and Sprosty fought like tigers, last week Mon- day afternoon, and evening at the council meeting to stop the rerout- ing of the Broadway and Union cars thru E, 4th St. to Prospect Ave. and back over E, 2nd St. What have Councilmen Gregg and George done to keep the Central Ave. cars from being rerouted thru E. 4th St. and east on Prospect Ave.? Absolutely nothing! The “African branch” (Central Ave. cars) were rerouted thru EB. 4th St. and east on Prospect Ave. the first of the week, making their patrons walk four blocks, in- stead of two, to get to the public square, Wonderful Councilmen! those “Negro” councilmen. = Noble Sissle Writing Song Hits. London, Eng.—Noble Sissle, writ- er and producer of “Shuffle Along” and “Chocolate Dandies,” is scoring ‘a hit in the London music halls. He has written four new songs, and his “Nebraska” is considered the hit of the season. Local publishers are handling this song and the Keith- Prowse concern is working on an- other Sissle number, “Nothing Has Changed But You.” Convict, Shot by Guard, Dies. Columbus, O., March 7.—Aster Bethel, 25, convict at the Ohio peni- ventiary, died, today, from wounds ustained, Feb. 25, when he was shot ay Ben F, Howard, a guard, after Yethel had attacked another guard with a knife, Bethel was committed from Columbus in 1922 to serve sev- en to fifteen years for burglary and SATURDAY, MARCH 10, 1928. Flowers Beats Myers, Detroit, Mich., March 7.—Bruce Flowers, our New York lightweight r championship contender, won the de- cision over Spug Myers (white), of Pocatello, Ind., in a vicious ten- round bout here tonlght. Flowers,| | the more finished boxer, cut his op:| | Ponent with a flashing ieft jab that| | held off the rugged Pocatello boy. Flowers won nine of the ten rounds. Ea, Gardner Leading. | Barstow, Cal, March 7.—Losing| |= ‘the competition from the sturdy lexs of Willie Kolehmainen, Finnish star, Aisabled by swollen arches, contest: ants in the cross-country’ “bunion derby” trekked into Barstow, to- night, at the heels of a new leader, Bd. Gardner, strong Afro-American | | contender from Seattle. ‘This was the fourth lap of the race from Los Angeles to New York city. Py es te Philadelphia, Pa.—The largest price ever offered for an Afro-Amer- ican ball-player is reported to have been offered by 0. J. Gilmore, one of our National League commission- ers, for the services of Oscar Charle- ston, Harrisburg, Pa. player, who was’ wanted by Cleveland as’ man- ager of the “Tigers” of that city, it was reported two weeks ago. While Charles was not obtained, Judy Gans, ex-manager of the Lincoln Giants, has been secured to. pilot the “Buckeye” team. Gans was quite a favorite with. the Western fans when he waga member of Rube Foster's great club and reports that he has a line on several promising youngsters. “Heavy” Johnson, home- run king, and former member of the Monarchs, who has been playing in the East for the past three sea- sons, returns west to play with the Cleveland team, according to a de- cision reached’ by our National League moguls, in extra session here Elks Lose Their Second Game. Before a packed house, Union ‘Trust basketball team handed the Elks quintet its second defeat of the season, Monday night, at Elks ball. The score was 29 to 17, but the score was close all the way and the Tead see-sawed repeatedly. The Unions came through with a rush at the end. The game was the first of a two-out-of-three series adver- tised for the “northern Ohio semi- pro championship.” The Trust guards Tommy Coyne and Andy Morse, were the stars. How Ther Do it in Paris. | Paris, France.—A benefit perform- anee was recently given in this city for You You, Senegalese (black Afri- can) boxer,’ who went blind as the result of his activities, Before en- tering the ring, You You had been warned that axother blow on his eye and he would be totally blind. Nev- ertheless, he entered the fight in order not to disappoint the ticket- Iholders, and ag taken from the ring a blind men, ‘The benefit per- formance, man, leading Parisian stars, was in the ure of a tribute to his courage. Cirque d'Hiver, largest amphitheatre, was crowded, ‘and some $3,000 was raised. Several of the leading European boxers ap- peared in four-round bouts, among them being, Bugene Criqui, Ferrand, champion of Eurdpe; Biron, cham* pion of France; vaudeville stars. But the double hit of the evening was Johnny Hudgins, of the U. 8. A,, star of the Moulin Rouge, who appeared for the first time in his natural color. The audience was so delighted with his antics and his dancing that it simply wouldn't let him off the stage. A program sign- ed by all the stars was then put up at auction, and after keen bidding, in which ‘other stars of the Moulin Rouge took an active part, it went to Hudgins on a bid of 2,000 francs. Another Afro-American | star, who ‘won considerable applause, was Miss Babe Goins. Appearing algo was the New Yorker Jazz Band, Afro-Ameri- can performers, “With the sum raised, a cafe is to be bought for the blind boxer. Senegalese are French subjects (citizens). USE MARINES IN THE SOUTH Says Congressman Tinkham, Who Stirred Up Southern Democratic ‘Members—The “White” ‘Nonsense, Washington, D. C.—Two hours of statistics and accusations against the South, for disfranchisement of both blacks and whites, last week, pre- sented in the House Tuesday, by Representative Tinkham (R., Mass.), brought from Representative Till” man (D., Ark.), the assertion that the South is proud of its complete domination by whites and will con- tinue to support that pride with ac- tion. Toward the end of the second hour Tinkham hurled at William G. McAdoo the charge of reaching the “pinnacle of nauseating hypocrisy” by urging support of the Eighteenth Amendment while being ‘a conspic- uous sympataizer with the nullifica- tion of the Fourteenth, Fifteenth and Nineteenth Amendments”. Con- gressman Tinkham urged approval of a resolution to reduce the con- gressional representation of south- ern states according to the total votes cast. The marines now in Nicaragua “to guarantee constitu- tional and fair elections” might be wat te hettad dae tn the Gouth, Mr. Follow This With Fervor. 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Notary Public Bell 'Phone: Cherry 1259 Classified Advertising Department 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 now; used less than two weeks. Call, CCherry 1259 in the afternoon. COLORED CARPENTER WILLING TO EXCHANGE SERVICES FOR RENT! Address Box 2, The Gazette, 226 W. Superior Ave., Cleveland, Ohio. CLEVELAND Social and Personal Mrs. Wallace Bolden has been quite ill in recent weeks. Mrs. Thomas Berryman, E. 85th St., is slowly convalescing. Mr. and Mrs. Luther Stone, E. 40th St., have a brand new baby boy. Miss Mayme Miles, former resident of this city, is visiting her sister in Alliance. Mrs. Walter Johnson has returned from a two-week visit with her mother in Hillsboro. Mrs. John Rollins of Vienna has been highly entertained while visiting in the city. The Cedar Y volleyball team won the northeastern state championship at Akron, recently. Mr. and Mrs. John Cloud, E. 81st St. and Kinsman Rd., have a baby boy, born recently. Mr. Morris R. Mullin, E. 80th St., injured severely in an accident in his garage, is convalescing. Mrs. Hazel Langford and Mrs. Laura H. Davis left the first of the week for a trip to South Africa. The local N. A. A. C. P. branch will have a carnival at Elk's hall, April 18-19, under the auspices of its ladies auxiliary. Roderick Williams, Capt. Charles Frye and others represented the Gamma Tau club at the state convention held in Canton, recently. Mr. Wm. Gray, veteran employee of the Nickel Plate R. R., private-car steward, who has been very ill, is slowly convalescing. Rheumatism. Cory M. E. church men's club will have its annual banquet, Monday evening. J. S. Schooler, chair.; C. C. Robinson, sec.; arrangements committee. Our Federation of Women's clubs ought to pay more attention to the way some of our children are being treated in the local public schools these days. Mrs. Sadie Anderson, president of the N. O. branch of the A. M. E., W. M. M. S., addressed the Alliance organization, recently. Mrs. Anderson is the wife of Major W. T. Anderson. The Hi-Y club's basketball game HEM DAYS NO. BERT, WE CAN YOU'RE AN AWFU HEM DAYS ARE GONE FOREVER NO, BERT, WE CAN'T GET MARRIED YOU'RE AN AWFUL PIECE OF CHEESE YOU'VE NEVER DONE A STROKE OF WORK---NOW LEAVE ME, IF YOU PLEASE ROSENBERG'S DRUG STORE, N. W. Cor. Central Ave. and E. 55th 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.ication in current issues of The baby noon, WEDNESDAY, of that advertisements accepted until C. SMITH, Avenue, Cleveland, O. el Cleveland.) Bell 'Phone: Cherry 1259 Rising Department FOR SALE—10926 Drexel Ave. Fine 8-room house, hot water heat, deep wooded lot, dbl. gar., bargain! 1872 E. 73d厅, 9 rooms, all accom., dbl. gar., lot 38 by 202. Good buy. 1873 Wadena Ave., E. C., 9 rooms. H. W. Ht. Must be sold at at once. Address or 'phone, Mrs. A. M. Gilman, 10826 Drexel Ave. EDdy, 0321-M. and dance at Cedar Y, recently, drew a record-crowd. Julius Robinson, pres.; Joe Davenport, vice-pres.; Archie Coleman, sec. Mrs. G. Evans, evangelist, of Indianapolis, who conducted a two-week revival at St. John's A. M. E. church, was given $500 at its conclusion, last week Friday evening. Mr. and Mrs. James L. Allen, E. 61st厅, recently lost a new Chevrolet coupe and Buick sedan, in a garage fire. Mrs. Allen had just returned from a trip to Delaware, taking a sister home. The Woodmen are planning a competitive drill at Woodmen's hall, March 22, between Star Calantha drill corps, under the leadership of Captain Lee, and the Woodmen's ladies' drill team; Captain Bell. Dr. J. Franklin Walker of Cincinnati will be the speaker at the East End Political club's banquet, Mar. 29, at M. Zion Cong, church. Atter. Peter Boult is chairman of the arrangements committee. The Junior Council, girls, presented Cedar Y with a beautiful floral and landscape picture which may be seen in the mothers' room. The Y is very proud of the picture. Mrs. Susie Williams is directress of the council. Mr. and Mrs. Booker T. Lewis royally entertained a number at dinner, March 4, in honor of her husband's birthday. The guests: Mr. and Mrs. Q. W. Dunn, Mr. and Mrs. Speckles, Mr. and Mrs. T. A. Harlin, A. A. Robinson and Mr. Thomas Lewis. The wife of Prof. Isaac Fisher of the Guggenheim foundation of N. Y. City addressed our Council or women at the Mary B. Talbert home, E. 40th St., Tuesday evening, telling of her experiences with African women on her recent trip abroad. Mrs. Fisher is a resident of Pasadena Ave., this city. Anna M. and Christine Smith are gym leaders at Central high. These two girls and Winfred, sister of Christine, have been leaders in athletics at Central high for several years. Christine and Winfred Quintz are sisters of Miss Naomi Smith one of our local public school teachers, and Miss Dorothy Smith, violinist. Mrs. Ida B. Carey of New Vienna left, Wednesday, for home after a six-week visit with relatives in the city. Mrs. Rurey Beard, E. 103rd St. and Mrs. Blanch Smith, E. 103rd Ave., entertained on an afternoon evening, respectively, in her honor L. B. Carey her son, has re- ARE GONE FOREV N'T GET MARRIED~ L PIECE OF CHEESE YOU'VE A WORK- THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, O. SATURDAY, MARCH 10. 1928. turned home from the hospital and is rapidly convalescing. Wm. J. Smith, E. $8th St., ill seven weeks, died, Friday midnight. The widow, Mrs. Mary N. Smith, survives him. Funeral Tuesday after him. Widow W. H. Dodson assisted by Rea H. Dodson and Second M. Sinai Baptist choir. Mrs. John Grimmet sagt "Steal Away to Jesus." Wm. Nell read the church's resolution, L. R. Carey read the obituary and Undertaker Wynne, representing our local Moose lodge, read "Thanatopsis." Interment in Highland Park cemetery. At the recent regular monthly meeting of the East End Political club the following committees were appointed: Legislation, W. B. Saunders, chair; Lottie Lottie Walker, Frank Lyons; publicity, L. L. Yancey, chair; Eugene Roy, Mrs. Fannie Thurston; investigation, Mrs. J. C. Thomas, chair; Eugene Cheeks, Mrs. Maud Queen; organization, Mr. W. R. Hooper; organization, Mrs. G. R. Hooper, Mrs. Iola Wimbs and Robert Ellis; auditing, Perry B. Jackson, chair; Mrs. S. P. Landrum, S. P. Spearman. Hon. Harry E. Davis, member of the City Civil Service Commission delivered an interesting talk on accomplishments during the reconstruction period of this country, to a meeting of the Douglass Republican Club on Tuesday afternoon. The following were selected as delegates to the League of Republican clubs: Holland Cooley, Frank C. Lyons, Harold T. Gassaway, Lawrence O. Payne, R. H. Smalls, Albert Williams and Alston Yancey. The club has endorsed the canvassing committee for the 20th, 21st and 22nd districts and the seven Hoover candidates for delegates at large. Old residents of the city will readily recall Mr. Cassander Sabb, who lived many years, and until he left the city to reside with his daughter, Mrs. Addie S. Bell of 2074 E. Prospect Ave. N. E., Grand Rapids, Mich, in what is now E. 37th St. near Cedar Ave., where he owned a plasterer company, was one of the leading plasterer companies for many years, and an old man, losing his sight, when he left to join his daughter. A letter received, Monday morning, from Mrs. Bell announces his death, last week Wednesday afternoon, at the age of 99 years, 3 weeks and 3 days. Excepting his sight, his health was very good. For his age, Mrs. Bell is now the only surviving member of the family. She is a widow, with a girl 13 years of age whom she adopted at the age of 5 months. At his request, Mr. Sabb's remains will be brought here for burial in the family lot, in the near future. They now rest in a vault in Oakhill cemetery. Mr. Sabb has the heartfelt sympathy of all the old residents of both classes. March Clean Player 25 Fine In All at I $600.00 Settergren Colonial Grand Piano ..... $600.00 Fine Colonial Grand Piano ..... $850.00 New Floor Sample Reproducing Grand ..... Fine Mahogany Milton Upright Player ..... $600.00 Solo Art Fine Upright Mahogany Player..... $550.00 Gulbransen Player ..... One Fine Walnut Upright Piano ..... 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Massey will review the S. S. lessons, Sunday at 10:30 a. m., at Liberty Baptist church—Blocton has been very lucky with births, the past week; Mrs. J. Washington, 11-bl. boy; Mrs. W. Mchtosh, a 12-bl. boy; Mrs. A. Laev, an 8-bl. girl. Get your copy of The Gazette from R. B. Maxwell, every week. The U. N. I. A. Loses Phone. New York City—As an evidence of the alleged lean times into which the Universal Negro Improvement Society unleashed, "The Negro World," have fallen, the disconnecting of the telephone connections in the paper's office is cited. Uriah Gitten, secretary of the New York local association, speaking in a meeting he said, "Through an unfortunate circumstance our telephones have been taken away." An Editor Admitted to the Bar. Knoxville, Tenn.—Webster L. Porter, editor of The East Tennessee News, has just passed the Tennessee state bar examination. He took the examination during the adult part of his career in Nashville. 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H. Von Schlick, President, Marvel Products Company, K. Marvel Building, Pittsburgh, Pa. DAYS ARE OREVER! Don't Throw Away Your Copy of The GAZETTE After Reading It But give it to a Friend or Acquaintance who might Subscribe after Reading a Copy of It SEGREGATION USED AT THE NATION'S CAPITAL TO LOWER OUR STATUS AS AMERICAN CITIZENS. How Much Longer Will Our Self and Race Respecting Press, Pulpit and People Submit to This Rank Injustice?—Protest, Protest! (Special to The Gazette.) Washington, D. C.—There is now segregation in Washington, today, under President Coolidge than there was 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, parks President Wilson never troubled 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. President Taft introduced it in the bureau of engraving. He segregated the censurers in this city in 1910, restricting white workers in the city, 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 institution 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 tomorous to our own. President Some months ago, a colored girl appeared 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 Mollie and President Mollie. He halls from New Carolina, the home of the other favorite and leader of the segregation forces, 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 loss to understand why he does not vote, and unable to declare on democracy into operation here, where it would not even cost him a single vote and where he has full power and absolutely no opposition. They wonder if he is not a firm believer in segregation, especially since segregation is one of the chief tenets of the "Nixum law" that its "nixum home" here and in the Republican party, and receives no condemnation from the Republican President. ((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 cateria for whites only where infrequent, white clerks can buy appetizing lunches in comfort while eating, while the colored clerks must bring cold lunches from home and eat them any place they can. The physical discomfort, disadvantageous as it is, 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 they are far render the government more intelligent in their service—the white men 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 mothering. 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. And all of this is against the most dependable and faithful employees. The white employees have even passed around invitations to the white employees, and to attend a reception to the heads of departmental, 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 the was to come off the job and to invite the colored as well as the white. These clerks got 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 regular demands sends manly and intelligent protests to the premaster, and often appeals to his decisions to the postmaster-general. It has secured good improvement in their working conditions, but they are still bitter over the huge injustice done to them or nothing else than the color of their skin. (Special to The Gazette.) (Special to Washington D. C.—The government office keeps faith with the government's universal scheme of agregation. 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 they are generally of a very mediocre group, far from equi- gating 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 are the same in this huge structure where all of the employees may go, but there are few tables in an out-of-the-way section reserved for our employees. am glad to say that few, very few, if our people patronize, preferring a life of physical incon- tamination to the open, semi-public amplification of segregation. In toilet facilities, dressing-rooms, and work assignments, wherever possible, the law of segregation is in full force, and, of course, this same undemocratic practice reveals itself on the salary roll and in the hard caste that bars promotions. Here, as elsewhere, the雇主 over our superior employees to directive positions, and higher salaries. The whites have a large recreational center in this public building with many fine appointments for rest and amusements. During lunch and dinner hours they repair to this restful retreat for sociability and dance. Last fall, a young Afro-American with a splendid record in his work, felt the injustice of this exclusion of our employees in 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 those smart Negroes" who believe in "social equality," and then dismissed on a trumped-up charge. He was a light-employee, because he had been a dance instructor after the dance incident a fire broke out in the office. He was quickly accused of setting the building afire in revenge for his exclusion from the dance floor. Detectives came to the building to arrest him, and failing to secure any evidence searched him only to discover the pistol. They quickly dropped the arson charge and substituted one for carrying concealed weapons for which he was immediately dismissed. By this severe punishment our employees were taught the 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 of my request, including the existence, 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 iniquity has been 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) (Special to The Gazette) Washington, D. C.-Segregation in the bureau of engraving and printing has an interesting history involving President Thomas Woodrow Wilson and members of his family, three heroic young colored women who lost their positions as a result of their protest, and the noble wife of Senator Robert La Follette (deceased). Shortly after the accession of Mr. Abram House, a member of his family visited the bureau where she saw white and colored girls working together in perfect harmony, oblivious to any thought of race. Shortly thereafter came an order for the segregation of the races, and a white lady who had been noted for her philanthropy among our people and who was up- on intimate terms at the White House appeared at the bureau to tell our girls to be contented with the new order as "a great Negro leader had taught colored people to stay in their places." Three of the young ladies resisted the order to the last ditch and were summarily dismissed! Senator La Follette, father of the present Senator of the same name, 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 press, and addressed the national press, the N. A. C. A. C. in New York. When our people here were so profoundly discouraged, she came out, one stormy afternoon, to the Y. M. C. A., to urge them to continue the fight, for democracy was at the crisis. Oswald Garrison Villard came to town to attack the White House and Cabinet and arouse our people, and the N. A. A. C. P. secured publicity in over six hundred influential white papers that what was thought to be the intention of the segregates, namely, the elimination of the colored employees from the bureau altogether. The same segregation which some of our people think is the cherished institution of the Democratic party is still there, in all of its fullness, under the administration of the party that Abraham Lincoln, Charles Sumner and Frederick Douglass helped to found. Our girls are employed there in far larger numbers than in any other branch of the public service. They ARE armed with their tools, toilets, and working stations, and of course none are ever thought of for promotions to executive places. They are girls from our best homes, most of them with high and normal school training, and fine culture. The white girls are of no such grade, as there is no segregation for them in the great world of things. They have unlimited fields at high wage for even mediocre talents. The best of our girls must take these inferior positions, the inevitable result of their lack of training, hoping for the issuance of an order destroying this iniquitous practice in all of our government departments, for it not only humiliates the best of the government servants but impairs the government service. (Special to The Gazette) Washington, D. C.—The treasury department, according to the President's acceptance speech, is now under the ablest financial genius since the days of Alexander Hamilton. It is to be remembered that the great Hamilton came from the West Indies and in that long sweep of history that the President traversed are the mighty Salmon P. Chase, secretary of the treasury in Lincoln's cabinet, a national extremity such as this country has never devised the national banking system which financed the Civil War; and Ohio's master financier, John Sherman. Those men never knew what sergregation was! The present head of the department of internal revenue, Mr. Blair 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 scarce there that they can be no complaint. There is the same 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 no further. The various forms of segregation exist here as well as elsewhere—the restaurants closed or divided along color lines, and special toilet, 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 at times, and are forced to abandon their work to dislike 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 people so seated that they create. It seats two thousand diners with space to spare; but not one Negro! His only share is in the taxes he is forced to pay for this luxury for another group The registrieship 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 collerk is a boy with a separate room which is publicly claimed as "a colored division." When it is discovered that Negro clerks are "working as white" in other divisions, they are promptly transferred to this "colored division." Our people fear that protest against this segregation would result in the Negro being forced to remain in a dilemma, fearing to act. Our clerks must accept segregation or elimination, and be poor, with no other opportunities in this southern atmosphere, must take the former. They are depressed at the wrong, but economic stress compels endurance of it. Single stroke of his pen, President John Coolidge can stop every bit of this damnable segregation, just as he can condemn that lawless organization the Ku Klux Klan whenever he decides to do so. Subscribe Now MORE BEAUTY-INSPIRED THAN EVER ARE THE SILK PRINTS FOR 1928 BROOKLYN ALL FASHIONABLE PARIS PAYS HOMAGE TO THE CAPE THE FASHION OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY IF ANY there be who think that gay prints "have had their day," they are very happily mistaken. 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Attractive models feature three-quarter length coats, maybe of kasha, of tweed or of popular basket cloth, which are lined with striking printed silks. These are posed over one-piece frocks of the self-same silk as the coat lining. Very exquisite afternoon ensembles use velvet for the coat, preferably black, although pastel tones are being featured for these in the South. It is expected that the chiffon-flora frocks will be outstanding when summer comes, for the reason that they are even at this moment being worn by fashionables who are spending their winter in the sunny South. These are styled with all the feminine graces of fluttering hemlines, which are charmingly irregular, with myriads of floating streamers, jabots and panels featured in connection with necklines and hiplines, girdles and sleeves. JULIA BOTTOMLEY. (© 1828, Western Newspaper Union.) PARIS IMAGE TO THE CAPE rock to form an ensemble. 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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 "junching" within the meaning of this chapter (93 v. 161.2). Section 6290. The term "serious insult" 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. 161.3.) 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. Section 6281. A person assaulted and lynched by a mob may recover, from the county in which such assault is made a sum not to exceed five hundred dollars; or, if the injury received therefrom is serious, a sum not exceeding one thousand dollars; or, if such injury result in permanent disability, to earn a livelihood by manual labor, a sum not to exceed five thousand dollars. (93 v. 12.5.) Section 6222. 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. If there be no widow or minor children surviving such decedent, such sum shall be distributed among the surviving child 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 6284. Action for the recoveries provided for in this chapter be communicated 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 which such recovery is had, to include it with the costs of action, in the next succeeding tax levy 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 costs against it in favor of the legal 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 lynching is 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, willing to protect such prisoner or 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: BBS. od. representative of victim of lynching. try by mob trying to lynch another. costs in tax levy. just member of mob just 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 Name of the Sec. 12940. Whoever, being the proprietor or his employee, keeper or manager of a restaurant, eating the barber-shop, public con- cession 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 accommodations, advantages, facili- ties or privileges thereof, shall be fined 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 five hundred dollars to the person 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 Misled by the foolishly manufactured outcyre for the passage of the Beaty bill, a few years ago, the Akron Beacon Journal 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. My Dear Sir: Observing your letter to the Beacon-Journal, of this city, I am to send you, under a separate cover, a petition to the porter of Feb. 3, last, containing the opinion of the Court of Appeals in the Puritan Lunch Co. vs. Leonard B. 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 to criticize editorially. THE LAW OF OHIO PROACH, nor our courts and juries, in administering it. Not a word was said by the Beacon-Journal when the Forman case was reviewed. Loss of Rubber Land Kills! New York City—Failure of the Liberian government to recognize his claim to a rubber plantation which was subsequently leased to the Firestone Company is said to have been a factor in the death of the Hon. Henry Downing, age 82, Civil War veteran, and former U. S. Consul at Angola, who died here, recently. Mrs. Margaret Downing, his wife, an English lady, survives him. Wills $2,000 to White Judge. David City, Nebraska — Porter and Robert Preckenridge, postoffice employees here and Jeanette Breckinridge, of Lexington, Ky., have filed suit here contesting the will of an aged relative (an "Uncle Tom") who left an estate valued at $2,000. These relatives all belonged to George W. Mattingly, who died here recently at the age of 100 was illiterate and fraudulently persuaded by a white judge to leave all of his property to him. Cleota Collins Lacy has opened a class in voice culture and, as a special attraction, will give instruction in sight-reading for those who do not speak English and prepared to give help in foreign languages and any coaching that may come under the head of singing. ading It Copy of It