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The local patrons of The Gazette will please hand, or send their news items for this letter, to the local agent before Monday of each week. were in attendance. Mrs. M. Thompson of Cincinnati visited her daughter, Mrs. Ware, and Mrs. S. Newman of Greenfield visited her aunt, Mrs. E. Jones, Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Woods have returned from Sidney to visit their parents. Mr. and Mrs. D. Highwarden, Mrs. J. West and Mrs. J. Williams visited Springfield. Saturday. Annual Odd Fellow services, Sunday, at Wesleyan church were largely attended. BRIDGEPORT. — A number attended the baptizing in Emerson, Sunday. —Miss Doris Oliver is seriously ill. —Mrs. George Richardson has returned from Detroit. She visited her daughter who was ill. —Mrs. Daisy Verse left, Saturday, for Columbus to visit her daughter, Mrs. Viola Merrill. —A number attended a party given by the Ever Ready Charity club in Martins Ferry, Saturation lab. —Mrs. Thomas Thurman is better. 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ALLIANCE.—Fred and Clarence Mayfield and James Briggs of Youngstown were guests, Sunday, of Miss Margaret Jefferson, Laura Carson and Veeta Jackson.—Richard Beltz and Laurence Tull spent Sunday with Miss L. Lee of Salem.—Mr. Roy Miller spent the weekend with his parents.—Mr. Abri Dixon was the Sunday guest of Miss Mabel E. Mason of Warren.—Mr. George Board, Francis Jackson, E. West and Frank Ruffin spent the Sunday. St. Johnville has women of the W. M. M. S. will meet at Miss Beatrice Paine's Monday.—Miss Amelia Simmons was in Akron, and Mrs. Florence and Luther Phillips, and Edward Johnson visited Mrs. M. Southern in Denison, Sunday.—Last Sunday, Second Baptist church young people, organized the young Christian Training Circle to conduct the S. S. at 11 a. m., the pastor preached an excellent sermon and an interesting program was rendered. Rev. R. T. Harris of Canton preached in the afternoon and Prof. Geo. Mays of Lorain gave an interesting talk on the importance of an allowing officers are installed; Louise Jackson, pres.; Willie Teague and Vern Adams, conductors; J. D. Snodgrass, sec.; Melvin Oswald, treas.; Sallie Snodgrass (pianist). V. Jackson and A. Burruss, ushers. V. M. Scott, a former-resident but now of Mt. Clair, N. J., visited here, Sunday.—Mrs. A. Jackson has returned from a visit with her daughter in Chicago.—Men's day at St. Luke's, Sunday. A chair will sing and a program be rendered.—Miss Virginia Garner of Cleveland is visiting her parents. HILLSBORO.—Mr. and Mrs. J. Whitmore, Revs. Braxton and Heester of Greenfield, Mrs. G. Jones of Wilmington were here, Sunday.—Jay J. B. Jurr received the sad news of the death of his eldest sister, Mrs. S. Prosser, in Georgetown, May 15. Funeral services there, May 17, at the Baptist church. She leaves a husband, son, daughter, three brothers, six sisters and many other relatives and friends. Rev. and Mrs. J. B. Burr, Mrs. Jennie Dawn, a sister, and Miss Mary Burr of Cleveland attended the funeral—Born to Mr. and Mrs. H. Johnson of Chicago, a son. "The Rise of Ethiopia," a play given, Friday night, by Lincoln school, was well rendered. Eighth grade graduates were: Martha Williams, Virginia Wilson, Frieda Cole and Vonley Trhine. Music furnished by The Harmony Five orchestra. A. Ware of Wayman chapel baptized two candidates at the close of morning service. Sunday. In the evening candelight services, and four baptized. Many from out-of-town were in attendance—Mrs. M. Thompson of Cincinnati visited her daughter, Mrs. Ware, and Mrs. S. Newman of Greenfield visited her aunt Mrs. E. Jones, Sunday—Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Woods have returned from Sidney to visit their parents—Mr. and Mrs. D. Highwarden, Mrs. J. West and Mrs. J. Williams visited in Springfield, Saturday. Annual Odd Fellow services, Sunday, at Wesleyan church were largely attended. The pastor preached a very instructive sermon. Many visiting members, of the Household of Ruth and the Juvenile. Among them were: Mr. and Mrs. Wope, Mr. and Mrs. E. L. Rockhold, Mrs. S. A. Minor, Mrs. H. Bryant and Miss Iona Hall of Columbus—Mrs. L. Dent of Columbus is visiting her mother, Mrs. A. Buller—Mrs. M. Thompson, Mrs. S.肪ord, Mrs. E. Anderson, Mrs. S. Simpson, Mrs. P. Price of Xenia and Mr. B. Douglas of Cincinnati visited Rev, and Mrs. Ware, and Mrs. Peter Lamb and grand-daughter, Helen, of Leesburg visited her son, Clarence, Sunday—Mrs. N. Byrd, Jesse and Scottie Smith, Miss Belt, Vera and Leo Bullard of Georgetown, Mrs. Faith Goodson of Dayton attended the play here, last Friday night.—Mr. and Mrs. L. Colter, Mr. and Mrs. R. Woods visited in Wilmington, Saturday evening.—Mrs. L. Young returned, Sunday, from Cincinnati. She visited her daughter, Mrs. A. Alsop. BLOCTON, ALA., NEWS Mr. M. Mingo and Mrs. R. E. Russ are very ill in South Highland Infirmary, Birmingham—Mrs. C. L. Rainer of Allenville is the guest of Mrs. W. H. Conwell—T. L. Lockhart and Mrs. J. S. Johnson, very ill for two weeks, are improving rapidly—Mrs. E. A. Blackledge of Pratt City is spending the weekend with Mrs. I. S. Dooley of W. Blocton. —W. Blocton High school closed its exercises May 17 and 18 with special lectures by Prof. G. W. Crumption. —Our T. C. I. schools will have their final field-day exercises, May 26 at Arden Forest T. C. I. stadium in Infirmfield. The second quarterly in Bosmaosa will be held in New Hope A. M. E. church, May 26 and 27. Dr. D. C. Edmondson, P. E. of Birmingham, and Rev. C. M. Hayden, pastor, will be in charge of it. —Miss Maggie D. Carr has returned from Birmingham Baptist college to spend the summer with Mr. and Mrs. B. E. Carr. —The T. C. I. ball-club will play a double-header with the Gray Sox in Brierfield park, May 26. S. Wilson, manager. —Buy a Gazette from R. B. Maxwell. GILPIN PLAYERS OFFER PRIZE PLAY. The Karamau theatre, 3807 Central Ave., will present (all next week) The Gilpin Players in their closing performance of the 1927-28 season; Paul Green's Bosom, awarded the Pulitzer Prize for 1927, the highest award given America drama. Frank Wilson, now playing in "Porgy," first came to play the title role of McClellan; Rose McClendon, playing "Serena" in "Porgy," played the role of "Goldie," and Abbie Mitchell the fine role of "Muh Mack." The Gilpin Players will offer in the corresponding roles, Fitzhugh Woodford, Olive Hale and Hazel Walker. The turpentine workers will be played by Charles Jackson, Dwight Gordon and Festus Fitzhugh. Rozell Ingram will play "Douglass," Elmer Cheeks will play "The Colonel" and Paul Banks that play "Noble nie." The Roy children will be played by Roy Stewart, Winifred Smith and William Hunt. This last offering will open, Sunday evening, at 8:30, and close, next Saturday evening, June 2. For reservations, call R.And. 8055 or the Playhouse Settlemen, 2239 E. 38th St. Welcome T. Blue, Jr., of this city was one of eight persons sentenced, Tuesday, by the Ohio Supreme Court, as the result of its bar fixing probe. The court ordered that the licenses of those who were attorneys be revoked and that they be bared from taking the bar examination in Ohio in the future. Blue was one of four Clevelanders, all of whom failed to pass the last bar examination, charged in the case by putting in payment Miller money secure passing grades. They were also fined $100 and costs and ordered to stand committed until fines and costs were paid. RAISED OVER $1,000. Rev. B. J. Prince and his congregation are highly elated, and justly so, as the result of a rally at E. 46th St. and Woodland Ave., Sunday. Encouraged undoubtedly by the soulful singing of a choir of about 200 voices, over $1,000 was raised for their new church. Undertaker Forbes gave $50; Dr. E. A. Balley $50; The American Life Ins. Co. $25; Mrs. Kibby McLeod, florist $100, and flowers for eighteen months to the pastor and congregation. Dr. Prince, a church-builder de luxe, sure has an indefatigable and wonderfully successful assistant in his good wife, and in that respect he has been a great friend. The loyalty and aggressiveness of the church work of his congregation must not be overlooked, either. WEAVER STILL HOPEFUL And Thanks All, Persons and Organizations, That Have and Are Still Working to Help Secure Him Justice and Liberty. Hon. Harry C. Smith, Editor, Gazette, Cleveland, O. Columbus, O, May 15, 28. Dear Sir:—You have been so kind to me and sympathetic as to write to the Governor and publish many editorials and articles asking justice for me because you are of the opinion that I am innocent of the brutal crime that was "put over" on me. You have also voluntarily-sent me copies of "The Good Old Reliable" Gazette. I take the greatest pleasure, this morning, in making a report to you again, because it is worth your attention. Gazette which gives me much cheer. This letter leaves me still in hope and prayer with confidence that I will get justice when the court of appeals of Cleveland takes up my case. My attorneys wrote me, recently, that they are still working hard for justice for me. Some white ladies of Cleveland, who are members of the W. C. T. U., and state legislators, say they will not leave anything undone in trying to see that I get justice. I know I will be a free man again because I am charged with another man's crime. My attorneys say they are expecting success in their latest effort to get me a trial. The white ladies say that I may feel sure that I have many friends in Cleveland and that they are working hard for me. Mr. Smith, if you have anything to say in regard to me in your later issues of The Gazette, I wish you would publish my sincere thanks and appreciation to the missionary volunteer society of the Seventh Day Adventist church, E. 71st St., and Cedar Ave., for ten dollars raised in a collection S. D. A church raised that amount for me after reading about me in The Gazette. My church in Georgia, and some others down there, are doing the same thing. Oh, how much help it would be to me if all the other churches of Cleveland would give as much as the missionary workers of the Seventh Day Adventist church did to help a poor innocent man obtain a fair and square deal. My attorneys say I could demand speedier justice but for the lack of funds. I have nothing to fear because the Lord has kept a guardian-bay watching over me by day and by night, as he watched over Daniel in the lion's den. My endless thanks, Mr. Smith, for the acts of Christian kindness you have rendered me. Yours in Christ. JOS. WEAVER. WINS FIRST PRIZE! Atlanta, Ga. — Freeman Ledbetter, student in the high school department of our A. & T. college, Greensboro, N. C., was last week, awarded first prize ($50) in the "tenth man" theme contest conducted by the Commission on Interracial Cooperation, which was open to all high school students in the country. The second prize, thirty dollars, was awarded Ernst H. Krugman High School and third prize ($20) to Miss Peggy Williams, of Crystal Springs, Miss. High school. SINGLE COPY FIVE CENTS AND DISAPPEAR AS A RACE! SAYS A NATIVE WHITE SOUTHERNER, BROADENED BY TRAVEL AND CONTACT. Amalgamation Ceaseless and Relentless—The Original and Modern Greek—Haiti, Santo Domingo and the Virgin Islands—Very Interesting. Galveston, Texas. — A little delving into ancient history will show that the ancient Greek was golden haired and blue eyed, with a pink and white complexion. Brains rule brawn always everywhere and have since the world began and will until it ends. It is that that makes the elephant the servant of puny man. So history shows that these fair-haired Greeks, enjoying an intellectual civilization than which there has never been any higher, went into Africa and conquered tribal nations there and transported numberless black slaves into the world, though in captivity and subjection, altered the entire racial characteristics of the fair Greek and made him what the modern Greek is, black eyed, black haired and of olive hue. In America the slaves that were imported were pure blacks, many with a genealogy back to the traceable in tribal traditions to the days of Solomon. The present king of Abyssinia claims direct descent from King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba, and his claim is undisputed so far as I know. I believe I can safely say that fully one-half of these twelve slaves in color with the oceans being absorbed immediately in large numbers into the white race, where they wish to be, their outward color and physical characteristics being the same as the white in toto. The process of amalgamation is as ceaseless as the turning of the earth on its axis, being accomplished by means classed the legitimate or illegitimate, according to one's viewpoint. Yet the process goes on just the same, whether approved or disapproved by either or both races. / It will be a number of generations of pure black complexions that are altered and absorbed entirely, but it is quite reasonable to believe that, barring further black importations, in the course of time the race will be absorbed wholly and disappear as a race in the same manner A BISHOP CALLS HIM A "LIAR"! Hot Times in the A. M. E. General Conference in Bishops Elected Chicago, Ill., May 18.—Efforts of the A. M. E. general conference to elect four bishops out of the more than 100 candidates for the positions, are causing riotous scenes in the Eight Regiment armory here, where the sessions are being held. The conference was still deadlocked today (Friday) after a spirited all-night session, during which Pressling Bishop Sampson the Preamble to to be thrown out of Indianapolis thrown out of the armory. Pope had climbed to the rostrum during one of the most heated periods to object strenuously to Bishop Sampson's ruling that a motion to adjourn was out of order. Pope is one of the candidates, and he charged Bishop Sampson with favoring certain of his rivals. He is a liar, sir!" shouted Bishop Sampson above the din. "Get off this rostrum at once or I'll have you thrown off and out of the building!" Bishop Sampson, resident bishop of the Republic of Liberia, Africa, has ruled that the conference must remain in unbroken session until the four bishops are chosen. OUR CHURCH MEMBERSHIP Washington, D. C.—Our four leading church organizations, according to the number of members and in the order named, are the National Baptists, with 3,253,369 members; the A. M. E., with 781,692; the Zion A. M. E., with 500,000; and the C. M. E., with 332,002 members. Comparing the above figures of Dr. H. K. Carroll with the U. S. Census of religious bodies, taken ten years ago, the membership of these organizations has increased during the ten-year period as follows: A. M. E. Z., 95 per cent; the A. M. E. 43 per cent; the C. M. E., 35 per cent, and the National Baptist, 11 per cent. Patrons of The Gazette in the vicinity of E. 30th St. and Central Ave. will find copies of the paper on sale at leader. Singer a news store. S. E. corner of E. 30th St. and Central Ave. and at J. S. Hall's jewelry store. 3133 Central Ave. We have discontinued the agency at Morris Kleiman's news-store. cor. of E. 30th St. and Central Ave. 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 state, and comparison is only established its rank in one case of the NEWSIEST AND BEST in the country. LE COPY FIVE CENTS ORBED YAR AS A RACE! TE SOUTHERNER, BROAD- VEL AND CONTACT. and Relentless—The Original —Haiti, Santo Domingo nds—Very Interesting. in which the black slaves disappeared in ancient Greece. The Creator will take care of this phase of human life in time, as He moves in mysteri- ous ways His wonders to perform. From my extensive travels I have gained a broad view of life. Born in the South, nurtured at the breast of a black saint, cared for as jealously by my black mammy as I was by my white mother during my teenage years, in the midst of the black race. I perforce acquired ideas and prejudices that it took many years of travel all over the U.S. and abroad to undo. I have been in countries where the entire population was black and the white man was the exception, Haiti, Santo Domingo and the Virgin Islands. It was a revelation to me to travel in a country where all the business, professional, political and social classes were black. I lived in a black man's hotel, did my banking in a black man's bank, transacted my business with black men of the legal profession, lawyers, judges, legislators and fortunately gained an insight to their home life. I found there were low modulated voices, keen wits, human hearts that had been polished by ample education. The more I traveled among other lands and peoples the more liberal minded I became. My residence in the North of some five years' duration was northern and it is a northern born Negro that creates race trouble in the North, but it is the southern born cotton field hand, who goes North and is like a child blinded by the sunlight after being confined in a dark room, or like a traveler long away from home who suddenly arrives at his own door by accident. The sudden transition is too much for many of them who have not been properly instructed beforehand to conduct themselves exactly as their northern born brothers do. A few years there though remedies that. M M BERTER COUCH Room 6 Nart 1. Ins. Bldg. -Chicago, Defender CLIFFORD APPOINTED Customs Inspector—Salary $5,000—A Cleveland "Boy", Veteran of the World War—A Promotion. Washington, D. C.—I Williams Clifford has recently been appointed a U. S. inspector of customs at New York city. Salary, $5,000 a year. This new position came to him as a recognition of his ability. He had made a fine record in the government service, the army and as a narcotic agent. The late Senator Frank B. Willis, and Senator Simeon D. Fess, of Ohio, and Charles D. Hilles, of New York City, vice-chairman of the committee, supported him for the place. For the past nine years, Jay has been in the government service. He began as a clerk and served as vault custodian in the office of the register of the treasury, correspondence clerk in the treasury department, insurance expert and special representative of our discharged soldiers and sailors in the veterans' bureau and as a federal narcotic investigator. He was regarded as one of the best undercover men handling narcotic cases. He is a graduate of Howard University and was one of the volunteers who went to the officers' training school at Fort Des Moines, Iowa, being commissioned first lieutenant of infantry. He distinguished himself in being the first officer of his outfit to capture a German machine gun. His native home is Cleveland. O. his father, the Hon. Wm. H. Clifford, served two terms in the Ohio legislature, thirty years ago. His mother, Mrs. Carrie Williams Clifford, is a native of Columbus, O. and his brother, Maurice, is a teacher in Armstrong Technical High school here. Jay has been living here for the past 15 years. His wife, former Miss Rhetta Wilson of Charleston, S. C., is a teacher in our local public schoola. They have one child, Jeane, age 4, and will locate in N. Y. City. The editor of The Gagette acknowledges the receipt of an invitation from the trustees, faculties and graduating classes of Howard University to attend the events of commencement week, June 3 to 4, including the conferring of degrees, June 9 at 3:20 p. m., on the university campus, Washington, D. C. TUBBY That Would Make Anybody Sore. BA-A-AW-AWW WHY, DEAR, WHAT IS WRONG? BOOO HOOO OH, WELL, I WOULDN'T CRY FOR THAT THAT FRESH OLE SISSY SMITH SOCKED ME ON THE BUTTON I'M NOT! BUT HE RAN INTO THE HOUSE BEFORE I COULD GET AT HIM WINNER 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 220 W. Superior Ave., Cleveland, O. (Bell Phone: Cherry 1259) Member Ohio Legislature: 1894 to 1896; 1896 to 1898; 1900 to 1902 IN UNION IS STRICTLY 10,000,000 Afro-Americans. 850,000 in Ohio. 40,000 in Cleveland. SATURDAY, MAY 26, 1928. The editor of The Gazette acknowledges the receipt of an invitation from the faculty and High School graduates of Elliott Academy, Valliant, Oklahoma, to attend their commencement exercises, May 18 to 22. Major Allen S. Peal of Columbus, O., principal of Elliott High school, whose parents were long-residents of Cleveland, many years age, is one of the race's most progressive men, an educator of experience and superior ability. We are thanking him for this very kind and thoughtful remembrance. Cleveland's Board of Education's re-election of Superintendent R. G. Jones of the local public schools for a term of five years, with an increase of salary to $15,000, gives general satisfaction in this community. As far as our people are concerned, we believe Mr. Jones has sought to be fair even though at times there has been disposition to criticize. This has always proven to have been the result of unauthorized action, of members of his large staff of assistants, which he has been prompt to settle satisfactory. --- Decidedly the best piece of business transacted at the A. M. E. General Conference, in session at Chicago, was that providing for the transfer of its bishops from one district to another, after having served the second consecutive term in any one district. In compliance with this legislation, Bishop Joshua H. Jones of Wilberforce, for many years of the third Episcopal district which includes Ohio, is transferred to the first district which includes the New York, New Jersey, Philadelphia and New England conferences, presided over heretofore by Bishop W. H. Heard of Philadelphia who will succeed Bishop Jones in charge of this district. OUR CIVIL RIGHTS! Attys. Gillespie & Dillard settled for a neat sum of money, last week, the Henry C. Crawford-Ohio theater case, instituted under Hon. Harry C. Smith's Ohio Civil Rights law. On Jan. 22, '28, Crawford, over the telephone, reserved three seats in the mezzanine section of the theater which he called for in the afternoon and was refused with the explanation that the management felt it necessary to segregate "Colored" people. Let others of our people "go and do likewise," whenever the occasion requires. It is to be regretted that this case was not fought to a finish in court and the result published in all of the local daily papers for the benefit of others who are not familiar with the fact that such mistreatment of patrons of public places of accommodation, amusement, etc., in this state, is forbidden by the laws of Ohio. All victories of this kind should be widely published in every community in the state where they are won for the reason stated and others. Here is another "virgin field" in which the N. A. A. C. P. local branches in Ohio and all such organizations should operate, and prompt, too. THE OTHER SIDE R. H. McQueen, secretary of the Young Men's Republican club of this city, in a communication to a local daily paper, recently, asks: "What excuse can a Negro give for voting for a party in the north that disfranchises him in the south, that he not welcome their Negro delegates at Houston, Tex., but suggests that the Negro Democrats meet in a northern city?" Without attempting to answer the young man's question, but leaving that to "Mr. Peter Boult, vice chairman of the (local) Negro Democratic convention committee" to whom his questions are directed, we would ask him, what excuse can a "Negro" give for voting for a party in the North that has, and has had for many years, the power in the Congress of the United States to stop all disfranchisement in the South and steadfastly refuses to do so; a party that will not secure their Negro delegates at Kansas City, Mo., anything but "jim crow" accommodations and treatment in public places and offers no excuse whatever for it? Continuing, the young man asks: "How can we consciently vote for the party that will not allow the Negro to vote in South Carolina unless we can get ten white men (try and get them) to vouch for our character? Other southern states controlled by Democrats have laws that effectually bar the colored man from voting." Again we ask him, how can we consciently vote for the party that has the power to compel South Carolina and every other southern disfranchisement state to allow the Negro to vote in the federal elections in those state, and steadfastly refuses to do so? The United States, all of them not only southern states, are amenable to the laws made by the Congress, both branches of which are controlled by Republicans. In the last analysis, which party is really responsible for disfranchisement, the one that practices it or the one that has the power to stop it and refuses to do so (over two score and more years)? The young man also asks: "We can only judge what a party will do for us in the future by what it has done for us in the past and on that theory we are willing to leave the future of our race in the hands of the Republican party and will work for its success next November." Right there is undoubtedly where Atty, Peter Boult and his Afro-American Democratic associates, and young McQueen and his Republican club members, differ and have a perfect right, as American citizens (THEORETICALLY, at least), to do so. "Go to it!" young men of both parties, and to "joy be with you." Your experiences on both sides of the political "fence" will do you, and we sincerely trust our people of this community, too, some good. The young man closes his article with the following: "We firmly believe that a colored Democrat is a greater menace to our progress than even a white Democrat of the Helfin or Blease type." A political platitude, a political platitude, young man, that is all. FORGET IT! AGAIN, HOUSING IN "THE ROARING THIRD." Now come the women! The woman's point of view was brought to bear, Tuesday, on the alleged housing situation when a committee of the Woman's Civic Association "toured the dilapidated streets of the forlorn third district" and resolved to demand a cleanup of City Manager Wm. R. Hopkins and Health Commissioner Harry L. Woodward. Hopkins, a civil association president, declared that never before had she had an adequate conception of how "the other half" of Cleveland lives, and that she expected to appoint a committee to demand action of city officials. What form this action will take was problematical, but at a minimum the Association will demand a strict enforcement of the building and sanitary codes, Mrs. Griffin said. "I am ashamed beyond words" she said, that such conditions could exist in a supposedly enlightened city. The district is a "breeding place for disease and crime." Accompanying Mrs. Griffin were Mrs. Alma Lewis, Mrs. T. R. Beckwith, Mrs. Nellie Hess, Mrs. C. E. Allen, Mrs. John McMahon, chairman of the city council committee of the Cleveland Federation of Women's Clubs, and Mrs. Selene Corlett. — Wednesday's Plain Dealer. Ladies, ladies, ladies! "The other half" of Cleveland does not mean only those in "the forlorn third district" but those in all the oldest sections of the city, all of which, except "The Roaring Third," are inhabited MORE LARGELY by poor WHITES, and which are in just as bad condition as the third, and in SOME CASES EVEN WORSE. Why give out the impression that "the forlorn third district," largely populated by "Colored people," is the worst, and the only "breeding place for disease and crime"? In some of the other sections, inhabited most largely by foreign elements, blackhand and other crimes, predominate, too. Councilman E. J. Gregg, one of our three Councilmen, ought long ago to have made this phase of the mat- "SO NEAR AND YET SO FAR". Why grieve or mourn o'er what eludes our sight! Since things most precious, we have never seen: The banal forms of life, take wings of flight; Yet leave with us their sacred mem'ry green. The golden sun, whose pure effulgent rays, We cannot visage, face to face and live; Yet in his warmth and moisture he displays The blessings which we wait on him to give. The lovely moon, embah Tho distant untold le The lovelorn vigils of e And o'er each couch h The twinkling stars, whi But sang so sweetly That heaven's gates we Give canopy no crown Resounding chords, call Through ages stamp' Now come to us adown And fill our homes w There's none "so far"— Tho forms may change And in each heart whi Telepathy inspires a life But if in mundane sphe Surround and guard However distant then H God is amongst us fr The lovely moon, embalmed in am'rous songs, The distant untold leagues from human tread, The lovelorn vigils of each swain prolongs, And o'er each couch her silv'ry sheen doth spread. The twinkling stars, which seem to be far, But sang so sweetly on that blessed morn, That heaven's gates were moved to stand ajar, Give canopy no crown could e'er adorn. Resounding chords, called "music of the spheres", Through ages stamp'd as mere poetic myth, Now come to us adown the fleeting years, And fill our homes with God's eternal gift. There's none "so far"—all present with us dwells; The forms may change and even vision fall; And in each heart which true affection swells, Telepathy inspires a love that will prevail. But if in mundane spheres great powers we see, Surround and guard us in our works of love. However distant then High Heaven may be, God is amongst us from his home above. ter known to the general public so Mrs. Eva L. Griffin and all others, male and female, would know the truth and stop unwittingly placing a stigma upon our people only of the third district. "I believe the city has the power under existing ordinances to compel landlords to keep their property in repair." Mrs. Griffin said. "When a building is condemned it should be put in proper condition at once or not. The city are numerous instances of families continuing to live in shacks that have been condemned." All of which is very true, FOR ALL OF THE OLDEST SECTIONS OF THE CITY and not only for "the forlorn third district." It, too is ALL that is necessary to be done AT THIS TIME, to care for the alleged housing question in any section of the city, so very many suites of rooms and houses for rent are there throut the city these "Coolidge good times." The American Telephone and Telegraph Co. now is a $4,000,000 concern, the first in the world. As such it is the apostle of a new economic order. Thirty years ago the announcement that a concern had grown until its financial statement totaled a few millions was the signal for a hue and cry against the octopus—big business. The poison squad of journalists dragged out their pens and literally tore the hide from the earth-gobbling corporation. Today there is no caustic attack on this biggest of businesses. It is not called a "trust," nor an octopus. Yet it has become, perhaps, the most monopolistic corporation in the history of mankind, controlling the communication system of a nation of 110,000,000. People have come to trust big business to a high degree. Or perhaps it would be better to say big business has come to be worthy of trust. With very few exceptions those corporations we call "big" business are honorable. In the days gone by, big business represented something beyond the ken of most of us. It was directly opposed to us. It represented capital. And all of us who weren't a part of it, whether we were clerks or laborers or small businessmen, were labor. But now it is those same small figures in the financial world who really represent capital. It is their money which finances big business. And their money which has hired that new third leg of the economic triangle, management. Concerns like A. T. and T. don't represent the investment of one or two or ten individuals whose wealth is enormous. A. T. and T. represents the investment of linemen, telephone operators, widows, bankers, doctors and the like. And at its head are men who manage it by the will of those whose investment it represents—Akron Times-Press. RACE PREJUDICE1 "I am convinced myself that there is no more evil thing in this present world than race prejudice; none at all! "I write deliberately—it is the worst single thing in life now. It justifies and holds together more baseness, cruelty and abomination than any other sort of error in the world." —H. G. Wells. AW-AWW BOO HOO --- named in am'rous songs, magues from human tread, each swain prolongs, her silvery sheen doth spread. such seem to be so far, in that blessed morn, we moved to stand ajar, could eer adorn. and "music of the spheres", as as mere poetic myth, the fleeting years, with God's eternal gift. all present with us dwells; be and even vision fall; with true affection swells, love that will prevall. less great powers we see, us in our works of love, high Heaven may be, from his home above. Prime Sport News Barnes Another Hansbary. Oberlin, O. — When poor Ted Hansbary of Cleveland "passed out", a year or more ago, our ascendancy in champion athletics here seemed doomed for some time to come, but we are more than pleased to say that it is very much otherwise just at this time, thanks to Jim Barnes, a most promising athlete and Oberlin's "star", these days. In the third annual northeastern Ohio meet, last Saturday, Barnes was sure "the big noise", taking both sprints in sensational time, winning the broad jump with his third leap the it was the first time he had tried it, this year, and then running a marvellous 49.3 km run in the "observer" story. The remarkable work of the sophomore speedster was the main factor in Oberlin's victory over a field of eight other schools. Oberlin was expected to win, but not with the high score of 68½ points. Other schools, however, failed to cut in as expected, so the two contenders—Oberlin and Wooster—scored more than had been predicted. Barnes had no competition at all in the first of his victories, the 100-dash dash. He had the worst lane of the six, but stepped in front of the six and was not pushed in the slightest. His second contest came in the 220-yard dash, and it was by far his most impressive performance. It was a race for only one hundred yards. Barnes then forged into the lead and loafed for the remainder of the event, winning to what appeared to be from ten to fifteen yards. He then tried the broad jump for the first time this year, owing to himself any too much here. On his third jump he made the meet record of 21 feet 3 inches. He still had to run the relay, so he updied the rest of his chances. That relay, final event on the program, was a real thriller. Reserve had to the pole and Howard Stephans got off to a great star, leading the field but only for half a lap. Then the race resolved itself into that Oberlin-Wooster duel as had been anticipated, but Oberlin's first two runners were no match for Taylor and Harding of Wooster. When Chuck Miller handed his baton over to Barnes, Monroe was at least twelve yards ahead of the Oberlin ace. Monroe is a star quarter-miler, but Barnes started off as if in a yard dash and before the halfway mark the first curve could see him make a ground. Jim passed Monroe the back stretch and steadily increased his lead, and when Harrar got the pass, Barnes was about five yards ahead of Hanna. They ran a great race, better than their quarter-mile, but Harrar, fighting desperately as always and here holding a lead Jim gave him, could not be beaten a second time and he finished with about the same margin with which he had started. Barnes, on his remarkable lap, was timed in 49.3 seconds. Sport Items. George Godfrey of Philadelphia will "entertain" Johnny Risko (white), June 20, at Ebbets field, Brooklyn, N. Y. They are heavy-weights (7 to 6), as usual, at Birmingham, Ala., Monday, by our National League team there. The local club has proved a consistent loser on this trip away from home. Attention! Readers! Our advertisers want your trade. Those who do not ask for it in the columns of "The Old Reliable" Gazette certainly care little, if at all, for it. 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Notary Public Bell 'Phone: Cherry 1259 Classified Advertising Department STUDEBAKER — 4-pass. coupe fine condition, 19,000 miles; price $600. Riehl Printing Co., MAin 4175. 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. CLEVELAND Social and Personal CLEVELAND Social and Personal Mrs. U. S. Tarter visited relatives in Virginia, recently. Miss Virginia Garner is visiting her parents in Alliance. Mrs. Louise Anderson and Stevé Badge are to wed, June 2. Miss Mary Burrell attended a relative's funeral in Georgetown, last week. Mrs. Roberta Queen is in Los Angeles, visiting her son, Bud, a native of this city. L. R. Carey was in the city from Canton, Saturday and Sunday, and expects to return to the city soon to reside. Afro-Americans everywhere are urged by our National Equal Rights league to celebrate Peter Salem day, June 17. The Aldrich Dramatic club will present "The Drums of Ode", soon, under the direction of Miss Hague, social service directress. The Gilpin Players will present the 1927 Pulitzer prize-play, "In Abraham's Bosom" (by Paul Green) at Karamu theater, next week. Miss Freda Rogers will be our only representative in the annual commencement exercises of Ohio College of Chiropody, at Hotel Winton, June 2. Our auto and fashion news (on page 4) is positively the best to be secured in this country. Read the articles carefully and you will agree with us. Tell your friends. Ex-service men are invited to accompany Lemuel T. Boydston post to St. James A. M. E. church, Sunday, at 1:30 p. m. to hear its annual sermon. Assemble at 7511 Cedar Ave. at 9:30 a. m. Mrs. Ethel McGee, who came from Pittsburgh for treatment at St. Luke's hospital, is convalescing at the Mitchell home in E. 95th St. She is a sister of Mr. O'Neal and Miss Peararl Mitchell. May 18. The Gazette was given judgment, by Judge Griffin of municipal court, against Dwight R. Williams for $43.14, due for nearly six years. Atty. Chester K. Gillespie represented The Gazette. Mr. and Mrs. Bruce N. Tyson, who have been living in Akron, since last TUBBY SAY, DO YOU KNOW WANTA BARGAIN LOOK WHAT I GO YA FOR TEN CEA PLATED CLOCK THEN ON THE HOUR AND A BELL- YA BETT THIS IF YA WANT SAY, DO YOU KIDS WANTA BARGAIN? JUS' LOOK WHAT I'M GONNA SELL YA FOR TEN CENTS, A SOLID PLATED CLOCK THAT RINGS ON THE HOUR AN' AIN'T GOT A BELL- YA BETTER GRAB THIS IF YA WANTA BARGAIN AIN'T GOT TEN CENTS TOCK *M. KLEINMAN'S 2928 Central Ave. *THE S. & S. DRUG CO. 7325 Central Ave. ROSENBERG'S DRUG STORE, N. W. Cor. 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They are living with her parents, in E. 80th St. WONDERFUL OPPORTUNITY! FOR SALE—Two-family house, modern, in good neighborhood for both baths. Used for four families if desired. Must sell on account of being transferred to another city. Call P.Ros. 2257. Rev. H. C. Bailey was the speaker at the Sunday morning services at St. James A. M. E. church and many of his friends were out to hear him, as usual. Dr. Bailey is an exceptionally interesting speaker and able minister. Dr. D. Gordon, who has opened fine dental offices at 8625 Quincy Ave., is a dentist of more than 15 years' experience, and most affable and courteous in his treatment of all. His terms are reasonable and our client will be greatly pleased with any and all work he may do for them. Give him a trial and be convinced. St. John's C. E. octet, which gave an excellent recital at E. Mt. Zion Baptist church, recently, is directed by Mr. Russell Scott. His wife, Mrs. Vashti Scott, is pianist. The following are members of the organization: Mrs. Helen Johnson and Mrs. Eleanor Alexander, sopranos; Mrs. Bertha Austin and Mrs. Mildred Williams, contraltos; Atty. J. E. Baldwin and Samuel Fitzsimmons, tenors; Charles Johnson and James A. Williams, bassos. Henry C. Graham, E. 38th St., a graduate of Central High school and now a sophomore at the University of Michigan, is our first student to make the varsity tennis team of institution. In the recent match between the University of Michigan and the University of Illinois, Graham won both his matches, a feat which none of the other of his teammates were able to accomplish. The Hon. Harry C. Smith, editor of "The Old Reliable" Gazette and father of Ohio's Civil Rights and Anti-lynching statutes, will address the Mt. Pleasant Mothers and Community clubs, Monday evening, at Quinn A. M. E. chapel, 3247 E 130th St, near Kinsman Rd. Everybody welcome. Admission free! This will be their final meeting of the season. The summer activities will then begin, which will include a number of events at the Woodland Hills bath-house and swimming pool. Dr. Rockwood, health commissioner, named a committee of social workers to co-operate with the city in finding a solution to the alleged KIDS R JUS' ANNA SELL ITS, A SOLID AT RINGS AIN'T GOT ER GRAB A BARGAIN AIN'T GOT TEN CENTS TOCH THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, O.. SATURDAY, MAY 26, 1928 I BETCHA THAT'S A FAKE - HOW'S IT GONNA RING ON THE HOUR IF IT AIN'T GOT ANY BELL GO AN ASK'IM Mr. Hoover was at the head of all the agencies placed there to help ALL SUFFERING HUMANITY. Hoover has never shown any friendship for our people and many, in the face of this fact, say they intend to vote for him, if nominated. Mr. Lowden was asked by a representative of the Pullman porters, that he has his biggest opponent, he replied: "Damm them!" The N. Y. World quoted him as saying that. Perry Howard and Ben Davis are being paid to campaign for Hoover but every one knows that they are jim-crow Negroes". It seems strange that the last two N. A. A. C. P. speakers of the local branch have "roasted" Hoover "to a turn", because some of its most ardent local members pictured Hoover as his politician. Hoover as his politician compares Hoover to ex-Gov. Lowden ever said what the N. Y. World is said to have charged him with saying. Miss Helen Heckman, Dayton Chief Operator, Adapts Biblical Commandments to Her Own Work Telephone operators have set rules for performing every duty, in order that a uniform standard of service can be given, but in Dayton, Ohio, the girls in "Long Distance" go still farther and voluntarily follow a "ten commandments" prepared by Miss Helen Heckman, the long distance chief operator. The first commandment is, Thou shalt not have any thoughts but of thy work while on duty. 2. 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The winner will compete in a sectional contest with winners from other cities in Ohio, West Virginia, and eastern Pennsylvania for a $250 scholarship and participate in the national contest at Chicago in August. In spite of the counter attractions, the Walter White N. A. A. C. P. local branch meeting at St. John's A. M. E. church and the parade of a number of local lodges, a good number of people assembled at King Tut lodge 'Rest' to hear the Hon. Harry C. Smith, editor of The Gatebook, who was the speaker for King Tut form, promised. Editor Smith gave a thrilling interesting address on the Woodland Hills bathing pool riot of last summer, explaining the favorable outlook for this season at that place and urging our people of the city to use the pool and bath-house at will as there will be no recurrence of last year's baneful experiences. 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The longest stretch of underground cable in Ohio is the Cleveland-to-Painesville section of the recently opened Cleveland-to-New York long distance telephone cable. More than 250 telephone messages can be transmitted over it at one time, in addition to a like number of telegraph messages. Dept. B 184 West 135th Street A. E. New York City Don't Throw Away Your Copy of The GAZETTE After Reading It But give it to a Friendor 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 more segregation in Washington, today, under President Coolidge than there 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. Because of our parks President Wilson never troubled, but the present administration has found time and desire to introduce it even there. To many people, segregation is a Democratic scheme of insult, but such is not the case. President Taft introduced it in the bureau of engraving. He segregated the censurers in this city in 1910, restricting a 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. It is not that it is begun by Republicans, and carried on to its all-embracing extent by Republicans! There is far more of it in the departments, today, than at any time since the Negro first appeared, close upon the close of the Civil War. The picture requirement in the civil service, which makes it next to impossible for a colored lady or gentleman to enter the civil service, since their color is disclosed in their photograph which must accompany their papers, is tenaciously assigned to a 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 Mellon and President Judge. He hails from Carolina and 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 holdould declarations on democracy in 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 Constitution, and found its "welcome home" here and 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 comfort humiliated and physic advantages. The department maintains, spacious cafeteria for whites only, where inferior white clerks can buy appetizing lunches and chat in comfort while eating, while the colored clerks must bring cold lunches from home and eat them any place they can. The physical discomfort, disadvantage 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 the whites, and that government more intelligent and efficient service—the white man of their attainment being able to get far more lucrative employment. The department goes even farther in its solicitude for 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 very presence of the colored, to visit the postoffice 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 co-colored to invite the colored as well as the white. These clerks got around their colored co-workers by giving the location 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 chieftain are used to form a union which meets regularly and sends manly and intelligent protests to the postmaster, and often appeals from his decisions to the postmaster-general. It has secured some improvement in their working conditions, but they are still bitter over the huge injustice done to them for nothing else than the color of their skin. (Special to The Gazette.) (Special to The Guardian in Washington, D. C.) government printing office seeks faith with the government's universal scheme of segregation. Some of the best and brightest of our girls are forced to take inferior positions there on account of the better and more lucrative avenues of employment being closed to them because of their color. The whites are generally of a very mediocre group, far from equa- ing our girls in educational equip- ment, culture, and working efficiency. Yet these superior girls are set off from the whites with the latter of course, having the better working conditions, salaries and recreational facilities. There is a large cafeteria in this huge structure where all the employees may go out—there a few tables and out-of-the-way section reserved for our employees to say that few, very few, of our people patronize the place preferring a little physical inconvenience to the open, semi-public umiliation 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 promiscuity as else there is inferior, white asses over 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, exclusion, so keenly secured the company of a young lady of the race to take part in the dance. As soon as this couple started to dance the music was abruptly stopped, and the young man reported for attempting to take part in an entertainment provided for employees. He was called to the office, lectured for being "one of those smart Negroes" who believe in "social equality," and then dismissed on a trumped-up charge. He was a night-employee, hence he carried the fire broke out after the 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. The unauthorized employee are thought that there is no way of escape for one who dares to resent the daily insults that their government (under President Coolidge) gives them. Many of the employees have expressed their deeply-wounded feelings to me at being considered a pariah by the government whose institutions they are serving so faithfully, and I have taken up a number of questions to be made by a detail that the conditions complained of exist, and a request for the names of my informants. I knew the fate these informants would suffer so I have never given a single name!! The department then taking the position that it cannot take up the case. It is perfectly clear that this iniquitous scheme of light 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 heroes young colored women, who were killed in the suit of their protest, and the noble wife of Senator Robert La Follette (deceased). Shortly after the accession of Mr. Wilson to the White 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. He hindered against our local whistleblower, addressed the national gathering of the N. A. A. C. P. 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 in the country. The fight checked the Senate's right to the control of the segregators, 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 REGATED by their training to follow certain 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 segregation our people are still hopeless. The issue is that we have strayed 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) (especially the duchess) 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, who, in a national extremity such as the country has never known, devised the well-known system which financed the civil war and Ohio's master financier, John Sherman. These men never know what segregation 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 be noticed. There is the same general hint here among our clerks and other employees as there is in the other branches of the government—failure to 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 toilets, locker rooms, rest rooms, etc., set off for colored. The toilets for the colored are few in such a large structure. Hence, the segregated clerks are forced to endure physical inconvenience and are forced to travel long distances to disfigure the use of them. The department maintains a huge, magnificent cafeteria, in the splendid sweep of woodland along our national driveway, where white people of every class can come to rest, dine, and socialize of afternoons and evenings at minimum costs. The white press of the city is constantly telling of the thousands who take advantage of the delightful retreat," and the festive scene of their presence creates. It seats two thousand ers 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 white. With his man, and the colored people are too man, and the separate room which is public, is 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 division altogether; so they remain in a separate room 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. A single stroke of his pen, President Obama could do in 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 BRIMS BRING WITH THEM ASSURANCE OF BECOMINGNESS I TO BE FASHIONABLE ONE SIMPLY MUST OWN A LACE-TRIMMED DRESS underwood underwear BRIMS? Yes indeed! And they are being welcomed into the realm of millinery with utmost enthusiasm. At last after so many seasons of watchful waiting, long-suffering women may again enjoy the privilege of wearing hats which are becoming brimmed. As if to celebrate the fact of their return to favor, brims are making a most spectacular re-entry. That is they are introducing all sorts of novel silhouettes. Seems as if designers have determined to give us becoming chapeaux at all hazards this season. Wherefore brims are slashed, folded, knaked, and submitted to all sorts of ingenious maneuvers on the part of the modiste. So if you are seeking a becoming hat, there's one for you somewhere just suited to your individuality. That is why millinery is so amazingly interesting this season, there's every class and clan from which to choose. Some of the hats in the picture are brimmed and some are not, which is exactly in accordance with the trend of millinery affairs at this moment. Those that are brimmed as here shown, present a most interesting study of the whimsical ways of new brims. Note the top hat, its brim is slashed and scalloped, which makes it very becoming. The pasted feathers TO BE FASHIONABLE MUST OWN A LA A LACE TRIMMED chiffon or garrette frock. Be sure to jot it down on your list of frocks to be, for spring and summertime. Since it has become fashionable to look pretty feminine, one simply must wear lace these days. If not a frock all of lace, then part of lace. When it comes to having real summer appeal there's nothing which surpasses these frocks of chiffon and lace. And how vastly interesting are the many interpretations given to this theme of lace with sheer fabric. Some types being carried out in monotone beige or gray color schemes, styled either in a three-piece ensemble manner or a smart blouse and shirt-sports effect, are really very practical. Others of the dainty flutter sort, with frills and furbelows in pretty confusion, with myrlands of floating panels, drapes, flounces and tiers, here, there and everywhere, are utterly feminine and intriguing. The happy medium between the two aforesaid lace and chiffon types is the georgette frock, conservatively styled in combination with lace, somewhat after the manner of the model shown in the picture. This handsome frock would grace any afternoon occasion. In a dress of this genre one will always find answer to the ever-present problem "what to wear." It happens that the original for this photograph was made of rose-beige georgette with ochre colored lace. However, the mode would be equally as effective if carried in a soft green, or dull rose, marine blue or violet shade, the lace dyed a perfect match. py of The e who might banding the crown are very Parisian, the newest French hats stressing many straw shapes trimmed with gay novelty pasted feathers. That charming hat to the right be bow is one of the new, exceedingly smart smooth linen-like straw weaves. The brim folds back over the crown in front, drooping at the back and over the ears. The amusing ornament is decidedly chic. The body and head of the crane are thickly set with rhinestones. The large, bakon straw hat is navy — one of the season's leading colors. A crease in the crown with a series of horizontal plaits across the front brim gives to this shape smart style. In contour and in quality the model to the center right is all that pleases most discriminating taste. The brim is manipulated to reveal the bandeau effect across the eyebrows. It too is one of the new linen straws in the much talked-of outfit shade. The last little hat really had no need of a brim, seeing that it had such a clever quill effect so arranged as to partly frame the face. It is a black, shiny linen weave. The all black chapeau is considered tres chic as an early spring number. JULIA BOTTOMLEY. (©) 1928, Western Newpaper Union.) E ONE SIMPLY CE-TRIMMED DRESS 2 favorite colors this season for the lace gown are flesh pink and dusty green. One sees lace frocks in either of these shades repeated time and time again. Wide all-over lace of a closely patterned type is especially employed for the making of the ensemble. The edges are usually picoted. Sometimes the matching wrap is a jacket, sometimes a three-quarter coat and the newest idea is the cape all of lace or of lace and chiffon. Insertions of sheer black chantilly lace add to the charm of many a colorful flowery transparent print frock. Then, too, cream, tea-tint lace and pure white, finds it way on many a black or navy dress, either satin or silk or chiffon. JULIA BOTTOMLEY. © 1988 Western Newspaper Union. GAZETTE Subscribe af GETS LICENSE PLATES AND WISE CRACKS 1530 121 11 1530 The photograph shows the car of Earl Deakin of Chicago-at Palm Beach, in which he is making a tour of the country, picking up a collection of license plates and "wise cracks" (inscribed on the car) on the way. DO NOT NEGLECT THE OIL FILTER Represents One of Greatest Advances in Modern Motor Cars. While automotive engineers have made tremendous advances in beauty, comfort and initial cost of the automobile, other engineers have made equally outstanding advances in greatly lessening the operating costs of cars, says C. W. McKinley, research engineer of Flint, Mich. Lengthen Life of Car. We know how research workers perfected a paint system that permitted quantity production in beautifully painted jobs; how the self-starter contributed so much to comfort and convenience, but do we stop to consider just what these same engineers have done toward lengthening the life of the automobile? There is the air cleaner, the oil filter, and many other devices that have contributed so much to the car's long life. The oil filter represents one of the greatest advances in the modern motor car so far as economy of operation is concerned, but to do its best work it is important that the millions of motorists who are driving oil filter equipped cars should understand how it functions and just what it is for. Dirt Is Trapped. The filter is usually installed so that oil from the main feed pipe is led through the filter and returned to the crankcase clean—the particles of dirt, sludge and grit being trapped in the filtration unit. Were it not for your oil filter, this dirt, sludge and grit, forming an abrasive compound, would cause a grinding wear on the engine's vital internal parts. As an illustration, in 10,000 miles of driving the oil filter traps about two pounds of this abrasive matter from the oil. After this mileage, the motorist should not neglect to have his service man put his filter in good shape again, as it is only natural that the foreign matter collected by the filtration unit impairs its efficiency. Hints Given Autoist on Checking Up Spark Plug Most car owners who are interested in keeping their cars in good condition know how to discover which spark plug is not fireing if the engine misses. But there is a more effective way of doing the job. The customary way is to disconnect each ignition wire separately, or to short circuit each plug with a screwdriver, and then note how the engine runs. If the engine does not run slower when this is done to any plug it is a foregone conclusion that the plug hasn't been firing anyway. The better way is to disconnect a few wires with the engine running fairly fast on three or four cylinders. Then attach the other wires one at a time. Each time a wire is attached the engine should speed up. If it doesn't, the respective plug or ignition lead is at fault. Russia to Build Auto Factory in Moscow City According to advises reaching the automobile division of the Department of Commerce, the Moscow municipal council has decided to build an automobile plant in that city, at an estimated cost of from 40,000,000 to 50,000,000 rubles f1 ruble equals 51.4 cents). It is thought that this plant should be able to manufacture from 10,000 to 12,000 light automobiles, the type of which will be selected from among the existing foreign makes. It will be necessary to have skilled labor for this new plant, since there are very few workmen in Russia who can be employed in this connection. A special commission will soon leave to purchase the equipment for this new plant. Worst Offenders Reckless driving and speeding constituted 82½ per cent of the offenses out of a total of 85,145 reported violations of the California vehicle act during 1927. The total number of these offenses was 67,062, according to records of the state motor vehicle division. Approximately 135,000 persons were fined, jailed or otherwise punished for motor vehicle violations during the year, the division estimates. Actual abstracts of violations reported to the state by courts totaled 85,145, but officials estimate that there were 50,000 additional violations for which punishment was meted out in courts, but which have not been reported. Owning Two Autos Will Lower the Repair Bill Does a motorist tend to neglect his property more when he has two cars than when he has one? This question recently has been discussed with increasing frequency, and now some new evidence can be submitted. The consensus seems to be that while it might be supposed that the servicing of two cars would be more than the average owner could afford, the fact is the convenience of two cars enables him to send his property to the repair shop at those times when service can prevent more serious troubles. Experience is demonstrating that the two-car family is enjoying freedom from serious breakdowns of its transportation facilities and that it is much less likely to be forced to purchase a new car because of a bad mechanical breakdown. It simply turries to its other car and has the troublesome one properly serviced. Removing Auto Motor by To remove auto motors quickly and with little trouble, one garage uses a pair of tongs with extension handles. The latter are 5 feet long, to provide considerable leverage and to enable two or four workmen to take hold of them from opposite sides of the car, as shown in the illustra- Long Tongs Enable Two Workmen to Lift Automobile Motor From or On to the Chassis Without Difficulty. tion. The tongs are made of $1\frac{1}{4}$-inch bar stock, bent as indicated and forged flat at the point where they are plvoted together with a loose bolt. With the aid of these tongs, the motor can be readily lifted from or returned to the chassis—G. A. Luers, Washington, D. C., in Popular Mechanics Magazine. Accessory Buying The motorist who is contemplating the purchase of an accessory to give the car greater comfort or efficiency can make good use of his friends' cars to compare various types of, say, shock absorbers or other devices. For instance, if one is unable to decide between two shock absorber makes or the salesman's merits, usually one will find cars among his friends or acquaintances which are equipped with both types. Try them out by actually riding in or driving the cars in question.