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Burr arrived, Friday, from Maryland to spend the summer vacation with her parents, Rev. and Mrs. J. Burr. — Mrs. Arthur Ames, daughter and son Oscar, and sister, were terminated by Mr. and Mrs. H. Ames, Sunday. — Mrs. C. M. Gragston royally entertained the Get-Together club, last week Wednesday afternoon. — Rev. R. L. Bray baptized, Sunday morning. — Mr. Squire Willis and son, Richard, visited in Washington C. H. Sunday. — At the Get-Together club, Sunday afternoon at the Baptist church, an interesting program presents. — Miss M. Tilton of Ripley was here, Sunday. — Mrs. Martha Thomas and family of Chillicothe Two "Crackers" Fined. St. Louis, Mo.—Last Friday week, Frank Mooney and Travor Tucker, both from benighted Dixie, were fined $50 each for assaulting an Afro-American on a street car. After Judge Rosecan found that they were from Alabama and Tennessee he told them they could not get away with that kind of stuff in St. Louis. And while the two muts were turning beet-colored, the Judge plastered on the fines. Teachers Resign to Wed. New York City.—Alfred O. Hodge and his bride (white) of two weeks, the former Mathilda A. Yockel, whom he married in Philadelphia, last Thursday week, resigned their positions as city school teachers. Hodge, who is 41 and divorced, was a physical training instructor at Harlem school, where his bride was a teacher. visited Mr. and Mrs. A. Holland, Sunday. ALLIANCE—Mr. Alex Neal, age 40, who died, Wednesday, was buried, Friday, from St. Luke's A. M. E. church of which he was a member, Rev. E. H. Newsworth officiating. His mother and other relatives have the sympathy of the community—Mrs. M. Bather is convalescing. —Mrs. Dorothy Howard is visiting her father. She is a sister of Lawrence Tull our only graduate from the high school, last Thursday evening. —Mrs. Mabel Williams of Akron is visiting her mother, Mrs. Sarah Cisco. Mrs. Glenn Lancaster of Cleveland and Mrs. Bertha Tull of Johnstown, Pa., attended the graduation exercises. They visited Mrs. Cisco, Saturday. Ruth Sanders, Hattie Dixon, L. B. Robinson, Nellie Ross, Virginia Jackson were promoted to the high school from the college to the dayton Academy returned from Wichita College for the summer vacation. —Mr. John Shaves and Mr. Franklin Banks were entertained by Miss Lillian Miller, Sunday. —Mrs. Victoria Clay of Toledo visited Mrs. Robert Johnson, last week. An excellent children’s day program was rendered by St. Luke’s S. S. Sunday. They were well trained by Mrs. Ella Sanders (music), Mrs. Luella Board, Mrs. M. McWilliam and Adell Johnson, directors. Second Baptist S. S. pupils also rendered a free program. Directors: Meshaw and Northington. Likewise, Zion A. M. E. S. S. children of Dover. Rev. McD. Sharpe, pastor, preached at the afternoon service of the Baptist church. Mrs. M. Williams has been quite ill. Mrs. W. P. Miles has returned from a visit with relatives in Detroit —Bessie Smith and Mamie Miles visited relatives in Cleveland over the week-end. Mr. Earl Grier of Cleveland was the guest of Miss Miles, Sunday. —Cards have been received, announcing the graduation of Miss Charlotte Cooney and Mr. George Central High school, June 13 —St. Luke’s W. M. M. S was largely attended, Sunday afternoon. Mr. Chas. Garner and Mrs. Jeanne Cooney spoke and “mite” boxes, containing $27, were turned in. President of Our Defunct Memphi Bank—Six of Its Officials Now Sentenced to the "Pen". Memphis, Tenn. — Disappointment and amazement swept over the criminal courtroom here, June 1, when a jury after deliberating three hours found T. H. Hayes, G. W. Atkins and J. L. Yancy, officers of the defunct Solvent Savings Bank and Trust company, guilty of fraudulent breach of trust in connection with the theft of $21,403.35 of the bank's funds. Hayes, president of the wrecked financial institution, credited with engineering the wholesale steals, instead of getting a 20-year conviction, received only a one-year sentence. Atkins, vice president, and Yancy, assistant cashier, were referred to five years each. The latter two were also found guilty of making false entries and were given an additional five years on this count, but the sentences are to run concurrently. Motion for Retrial The prosecuting attorneys, court attaches and the spectators who crowded the courtroom were at a loss to explain why Hayes received such a light sentence when all proof showed that he was the master-mind who led the looting and who most benefited by the vault robberies. It was the accounts of Hayes that was padded through a series of false enquiries, immediately following the convictions attorneys against the three former bank officials made a motion for a new trial, June 15. In the event that the motion is overruled the case will be carried to the supreme court on appeal. The first group of rascally officials (three) of bank were sentenced to the penitentiary five minutes after being arraigned in court, several weeks ago. The Lake pleasure steamer, "Goodtime", made its first cruise of the season, Sunday, clearing for Cedar Point and Put-in-Bay, in the morning. The trip, operated by the Cleveland and Put-in-Bay turned in the evening in time to inaugurate her moonlight ride trips, which schedule it will maintain throughout the season. THE GILPIN PLAYERS A Tremendous Success at The Little Theatre—Leading Characters Particularly Show Dramatic Skill Above That of the Amateur. The Gilpin Players have scored a tremendous success at The Little Theater all this week in the Pulitzer prize play, "In Abraham's Bosom," by Paul Green. Mrs. Rowena Jelliffe's patience and care-taking work for the past eight years, with our little group of amateur actors and actresses in the organization, have turned out wonderfully well. This is the general verdict of the critics of the local daily press which is generous indeed in its praise of the almost professional dramatic skill shown in the exhibition of the play. All of the many members of our group we have met, who have attended The Little Theater, the past week, are unanimous in their praise of the work of the Gilpin Players, appearing in a first-class legitimate theater for the first time in their career and, too, offering to the general public of Cleveland a legitimate attraction. Our people of the community and many others of other groups are justly proud of their success because it bids so very fair for the future of the organization and is such splendid encouragement to all groups interested in drama. If you have not witnessed the play, do not miss it as it will be continued next week, every evening, including Sunday evening, with three matines, Wednesday, Thursday and Saturday, at The Little Theater, E. 9th St, and Chester Ave. Don Muir Strouse, in The Cleveland Daily News of Monday, has the following to say of the play and players: "In Abraham's Bosom" is written in episodic fashion. There are seven scenes. It concerns Abraham McCranie who tried to educate his race and through "schooling" from slothfulness into which it had fallen during the period of slavery. There is a touch of miscogenation in the play, adding to its dramatic power. It deals, in a measure, with the racial problem and the climax comes when McCranie's own son turns an ignorant mob against him. It costs him his life. The lighter touches in the drama are natural exuberance on the part of the charm. The play is free. And then the play is interlarded with lovely spirituals sung with good voices. Acting Is Splendid. But it is the acting itself that rises to the highest heights. Fitzhugh Woodford in the name part is as finished and polished an actor as one would hope to see, using an admirable restraint during intensely emotional moments, yet winning from them, through his interpretation, every ounce of feeling there is in the lines. Olive Hale, his sweetheart and later his wife, is called upon to reach the ceiling of part of the seventh and last scene. At the same time, she must portray reactions to a situation that brings the drama to a thunderstorm climax. She acquits herself excellently. Children Are Stars. The drama calls for a schoolroom scene during its first part. Three colored children, William Hunt, Winifred Smith and Roy Stewart, play the parts. The youngsters, though on the stage, before hundreds of people seem no more aware of the fact that this is all make believe than if they were playing marbles Young as they are, these three seem to have a natural aptitude for acting. All of the members of the Gilpin Players' group, of course, are not in the play, but most of them were at the theater for the first night. They were there in colorful costumes and was not beneath their dignity to play. Paul Banks, the latter of whom plays Abraham's son, designed the sets that are used. The first night audience gave the Gilpin players an ovation and several curtain calls. T. THOS. FORTUNE DEAD: The "Dean of The Race Press" a Brilliant and Exceptionally Capable Editor—Born in Florida. Philadelphia, Pa. — The dean of Afro-American journalism, Timothy Thomas Fortune, was laid to rest here, June 6, after simple and impressive rites, held in the home of his beloved wife, Wanda, 18th St. He died, June 2, in his 72d year at St. Mark's hospital from a complication of diseases from which he had suffered for nearly a year. Perhaps there has been no character in race journalism that has had so brilliant a career as T. Thomas Fortune. For a number of years he was a special writer on the New York Daily Sun, regarded as the best of the American newspaper at the time. A Cain Dawn, editor. In recent years Mr. Fortune has been editing The N. Y. Negro World, organ of the U. N. I. A. He wrote most of its editors' until he came here about six months ago to be under the personal care of his son. Miss Virginia Wing of the Cleveland Health council has been appointed one of the judges who will examine the country best observed our National Health week. SINGLE COPY FIVE CENTS Doings of the Race The General Education Board has made a gift of a half million dollars towards the further endowment of Talladega, Ala., college, on condition that the institution itself raise a like amount within five years. The birthday of the great liberator, Toussaint L'Ouverture, was commemorated in a fitting manner at a memorial meeting held in N. Y. city, May 28, under the auspices of our American Labor Congress there. Dr. John Hope, president of Morehouse College, Atlanta, Ga., has announced that the General Education Board of N. Y. City has offered the college $300,000 toward an endowment fund, provided it raised an equal amount within three years. On "the insistence, request and advice of Mr. Wm. Green, president of the American Federation of Labor, the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters have postponed their strike, set for Friday noon, June 8, to a date to be fixed in a conference with and with the co-operation of President Green." Having won three consecutive Class A scholarships at New York university, Theodore G. Miles, of Jersey City, N. J., is to be presented with the Phi Beta Kappa key at class graduation. Young Miles is president of the Eta Sigma Phi fraternity, the first chapter granted in New York state. Monroe N. Work, director of records and research at Tuskegee, Ala., Institute, has completed a bibliography of "The Negro in Africa and America" which will be published, nex monograph by W. Wilson, V. Clyde, is the most complete and about the only thing of the kind in existence. HARLEM, A HUNTING GROUND For Would-Be Reformers and Scandal - Mongering Authors, Says Editor George W. Harris—A Hot One. New York City.—"Harlem has long been the hunting ground of would-be reformers and scandal-mongering authors who have painted that locale in altogether undeserved color," declared George W. Harris, editor of the Y Weekly News and an address over WABC. "It has been the lure of the play children of the midnight sun and the slum hunters, the sociologists, the savants, the proverbial long-heared men and short-heired women have sought it as a fertile field for exploiting their pet theories on miscegenation, immorality and excessive mortality." "Harlem, he continued, is now morganegative section of New York City. Assemblymen, aldermen, assistant county and U. S. district attorneys and hundreds of other competent men and women holding city, state and federal positions mark the remarkable advance of New York." He declared that Harlem will never be the scene of race riots such as have occurred in other cities because there is less race trailing of the students and racializing of the standing of all races in schools, hospitals and the police department. FRANCE'S BLACK STATESMEN. Three Re-elected While One Is De-feated—One Is Seek another Term. Paris, France—Three of the five Colored deputies were returned to parliament at the recent elections. They are Gratian Candace of Guadeloupe, Blaise Diagne of Senegal, and A. Delmont of Martinique. All have held various high positions in the government and are outstanding figures in the chamber of Deputies. On May 1, M. Severe of Martinique, did not run, and the other, Jean Francois, was defeated. The one member of the senate, M. Lemery of Martinique, remains. He is a former secretary of state under ex-President Poincare. At a recent reception given at the house of Deputy Delmont a brilliant assemblage of French, West Indians, and others of both races, were present, several of the deputies, the army, navy and the government among them being Senator Lemery and Colonel Morpengol, who commanded the air defenses of Paris during the last war. SHOULD GET OUT NOW! Washington, D. C. — President Louis Borno will step down and out of the presidency of Haiti in 1930. This promise made public, recently, by Senator Oddie, (Rep. Neb.) is taken from an official document read, recently, to the Haitian Council of State by Borno. This important document, which Senator Oddie said came to him from official sources, also promises elections in 1930 and forecasts American withdrawal from the republic in 1936. American "control" should be discontinued long before 1936. The Hon. Hannibal Beecher, the former U.S.ornamental last week, called by the Haitian government. He had represented this country there since Feb. 10. 1925. His successor has not as yet been announced. 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 with any will immediately establish its rank as one of the NEWSIEST AND BEST in the country. E COPY FIVE CENTS ORED! SPINGARN MEDAL Awarded, This Year, to Atty. Charles W. Chesnutt, the Well-Known Author—Merits It—A Native of Cleveland. The fourteenth annual award of the Spingarn medal, this year, is to go to Atty. Charles Waddell Chesnutt, of Atty. Charles W. Chesnutt. this city, novelist, short-story writer, and public spirited citizen. The medal, which is given, each year, to the Afro-American, male or female, for most distinguished achievement in some field of honorable endeavor, is given to Mr. Chesnut for his "pioneer work as a literary artist depicting the life and struggle of Afro-Americans, and for his long and useful career as scholar, worker, and teacher in the greatest cities." The medal is to be presented in Los Angeles on July 3. by Lieut-Gov. Buron L. Fitts of California, at the nineteenth annual conference of the N. A. A. C. P. Mr. Chesnutt was born in Cleveland, June 20, 1858, and moved in early youth with his family to North Carolina, where at the age of 16 he began teaching the art and the value of the state normal school at Fayetteville, N. C. He went to New York City in 1883 to do newspaper work, and then on to this city where he obtained employment as a stenographer, being admitted to the bar in 1887. In that year, he began in the Atlantic Monthly a series of stories, later collected in a book, entitled "The Conjure Roman," and the value of books treated to him in 1899, "The Wife of His Youth and Other Stories of the Color Line," and a "Life of Frederick Douglass." They were followed in 1900 by "The House Behind the Cedars," in 1901 by "The Marrow of Tradition" and in 1905 by "The Colonel's Dream." He is one of the first writers to have carefully studied the African-Americans, as well as of white people in their relation to our people, and to give literary form to these studies in his stories and novels. A new novel by Mr. Chesnutt is in preparation. The committee making the award, this year, is composed of Bishop John Hurst, chairman; Col. Theodore Roosevelt, Dr. John Hope, president of Morehouse college; Oswald Garrison, H. H. Dillard, director of the Jeanes and Slater Funds; Prof. W. E. Du Bois, editor of The Crisis. COMPENSATION No effort is made or suffring endured. Which is not repaid, or some way assured: The blood that was shed, on Calvary's Cross. Was given that souls might never be lost. The maiden's warm tears,—sad tokens of pain. Resemble the clouds which shower the rain; The day is not far, when spring will appear. And crown her with flowers,—sweet gifts of the year. The agonized flesh, which burns at the stake. No trial has had:—no motive, but HATE: Yet, God's Word is true; in His time and way. No shadow of doubt,—He's sure to repay. Thou friendless, sad soul, in dark lethal cell. By perjury joul, condemned to earth's hell; Cling fast to your courage; hope, ever, and pray: The darkest of all, is just before Day. Does courage grow less, as age comes apace? And, falling in speed, you fear for the Race? As evening draws near, your shadow grows long? Then lean on His arm, and you shall be strong. JOHN P. GREEN JOHN P. GREEN PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY One Year ..... $2.00 Six Months ..... 1.00 Subscribers are requested to remit by postoffice money order or registered letter. Entered at the postoffice in Cleveland, Ohio, as second-class mail matter Address all communications to HARRY C. SMITH Editor and Proprietor THE GAZETTE 226 W. Superior Ave., Cleveland, O. (Bell Phone; Cherry 1259) Member Ohio Legislature: 1894 to 1896; 1896 to 1898; 1900 to 1902 IN UNION IS STRONGER SATURDAY, JUNE 16, 1928. O. if only our people would buy homes as rapidly as they do expensive autos, what a blessing it would be! What has become of Councilman Gregg's "Roaring Third" housing agitation? Has it died already? The bottom seems to have completely fallen out of it, just as predicted. And so soon! --- We cannot just "warm up" to President Wm. Green's anti-strike advice to the Pullman Porters' union. He does not seem to be consistent in giving it; tho it may be for the best. We shall see. Col. Beck, in charge of the Soldiers' Monument in public square, displayed its flags, Wednesday, in honor of Mr. Spencer Knight, great artilleryman during the war of the rebellion and leading citizen of Cleveland for many years thereafter. Tuesday was Mr. Knight's ninetieth birthday. The Colonel never forgets. He's really "one man in a million." The Spingarn medal, this year, goes to Atty. Charles W. Chesnutt of this city and his many friends here in Cleveland and throut the country are greatly pleased. Unlike several, at least, who have been so honored in the past, Mr. Chesnutt has really done something that justifies this year's award of the medal. His book, "The Marrow of Tradition" alone would make him worthy of it. Dr. Leroy N. Bundy of Cleveland, 20th district delegate, who drove to the Republican National convention at Kansas City, Mo., arrived there too late to attend the Ohio delegation's organization meeting. This was unfortunate because it deprived him of the opportunity, he greatly desired, to make an effort to help accomplish some things of racial interest and importance he was anxious to have done. With the passing of T. Thomas Fortune of the N. Y. Globe and Age, and recently with the N. Y. Negro World, but few, very few of our old editors, "the old guard", those many years in the harness, remain. At the moment we can recall but two, J. R. Clifford of Martinsburg, W. Va., who retired from the business, some years ago; Editor Wm. H. Steward of the Louisville (Ky.) American Baptist and the writer, and we are beginning to feel very, very lonely. Murphy of Baltimore, Knox of Indianapolis, others, and now Fortune! Who'll be the next? City Manager Wm. R. Hopkins, last week Thursday, "let the cat out of the bag" when he disclosed that completion of two major improvement programs to which the city is already committed will take at least a million dollars more than is now available for the work. These disclosures came under a verbal barrage from the Council's Finance Committee. The Gazette warned the people of this sort of thing, from the city manager, before last fall's election and also again before this spring's election. And the foregoing is by no means all. As a matter of fact, it is only the beginning. A SADLY NEGLECTED DUTY. The accustomed Central Ave.-E. 55th St. parades, in Cleveland, by our lodges, have been on for several Sundays and hard-earned and much-needed money is being spent for them with a liberality and an utter abandon that all but staggers the thoughtful and shows conclusively that there is an absolute disregard of the "Coolidge" hard-times that have had the masses of the people, and especially our people, in its grip for over three years. If there is a class of people in this country that is in dire need of instruction along economic lines it is our people. Many of them have absolutely no concern OH WHAT A BIG FAKER YOU ARE! THOSE FALSE WHISKERS AN' THAT OLE HAT DON'T MAKE YOU A DETECTIVE for the future. Winter is sure to come again bringing with it the suffering for the necessaries of life one would think had long ago taught them the much-needed lesson. Our ministers have a duty to perform, along this line of activity, all seem to ignore, for you never hear of them urging the members of their congregations to save, to prepare for the future and to be far more economical in their living. Teach them how to live, as well as urging them to prepare to die, is a sad neglected duty of our ministry and press. AN APPRECIATION Cleveland, O., June 8, '28. Hon Harry C. Smith. Editor Gazette, Cleveland, O. Dear Mr. Smith: I—want to express my appreciation of the very fine news article you gave The Gillpin Players in the current issue of The Gazette. Sometimes seems to me that we are people, are not appreciative enough of the accomplishments of our own members. A few words written in a sympathetic veo go a long way toward giving honest satisfaction to those who strive to really do something. I feel that the distinction conferred upon this group of players is something we can all share in. With best wishes am. Cleveland, Ohio, June 13, '28. Hon. Harry E. Davis, City Civil Service Commissioner, 202 Engineers Bldg., City. Dear Harry:—Your letter of June 8, 1928, voicing your appreciation of the news-article given The Gilpin Players in our issue of last week, just received and its contents care- fully noted. In my judgment at least, you are right—our people are not near as "appreciative of the accomplishments of our own members" as we oft-times feel they should be. My experience as an editor and publisher of a race newspaper for forty-five years continuously, as well as my experience with matters of prime concern to our people when in the Ohio Legislature, twenty-eight, thirty-two, and thirty-four years ago, has thorny convinced me of this. It is, however, only another indication of the fact that our racial development, along intellectual lines particularly, is not as yet what we sometimes think it is and, of course, hope it will be some time in the not too distant future. Your letter impresses me particularly, with the point you make and we agree heartily upon, because it is one of the all too few of the kind that have come to The Gazette in the last forty-five years, as all of our many old readers, patrons and many others will undoubtedly agree. Thanking you kindly for it, because "it too, will go a long way toward giving honest satisfaction," I assure you, and with best wishes, I am sincerely. Yours for the race, Harry C. Smith. FLEMING, A DETHRONED "KING". Richard L. Maher, The Cleveland Daily Press "Politics Editor", writing that paper from Kansas City, Mo., Wednesday, said: "Thomas Fleming, councilman and 11th ward 'king' and Mrs. Fleming sat in alternates' seats." Some one ought to inform Mr. Maher and The Press' readers that Tom (Fleming) as 11th ward "king", was dethroned, last fall and again this spring, when the voters of that ward turned him and the charter forces down flat and went to the support of the Davis amendment movement. As a matter of fact, Tom never was and never will be "king" of that ballwick, known as Ward 11, in the very heart of "The Roaring Third." It was this section that did most to elect Councilman Gregg whom Tom opposed most strenuously. Present indications are that next time it will "trim" both Gregg and Tom. SMITH AND CHAFIN Our representative at the Citizens' league dinner, Tuesday, in Hotel Cleveland ball-room, for veteran city employees of twenty-five years or more, and there were twenty-eight of them, was Charles S. Smith, now secretary of the police department, and he was a worthy representative, too, a credit to the race and the city alike. It was about thirty years ago TUBBY TME GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, ., SATURDAY. JUNE 16, 1928 Prime Sport News Prime Sport News The Birmingham Barons "wiped the ground" with the Cleveland Tigers. Tuesday afternoon, by handing them a double defeat; 10 to 2 and 6 to 5. The concluding game of the series was played, yesterday. The Tigers are proving a sad disappointment to local fans. Hawkins Tries to Kayo Himself. Hawkins Triess to Kayo Himself. S spurred by Pugilist Willis Yarbo, flat broke and deserted by his wife, "Smiling Dave" Hawkins, our chief local fight-manager, Sunday afternoon nogged life was getting hopeless, and shot himself. Sunday, Yarbo came back to Cleveland from California, where he went following his row with Hawkins, eight months ago came home. He looked at Hawkins. He drove all around the "Roaring Third" and wouldn't even wave to his old manager on the street. But Hawkins was excited and only succeeded in shooting himself in the right shoulder. Sunday night, he was patched up at Mt. Sinai hospital and sent home to his room at 7912 Golden Ave. Divide a. Double-Header Divide a double-header. The Cleveland Tigers split even with the Birmingham Barons in a double header, 13 to 11, afternoon losing the opener, 13 to 11, but coming back in the second, 4 to 1. Theyy losing the struggle in the first tilt, tallying six runs in the last of the ninth, but falling two short of tying the score. Duff's home run with the bases filled in the ninth raised the Tigers' hopes but the Barons tightened up. Dean, their star-twirler, permitted the Barons just three hits in the second contest. Duff, Summers and Singer were the Tigers' leading switters while McAllister, Wesley and Poindexter led the Barons. Tom Young Won Net Honors. Tom Young Won Net Honors. Columbus, O.,—Following several athletes who won freshman and varsity athletic honors at Young State university, Thomas W. Young of Norfolk, Va., was recently awarded his numerals for tennis, being runner-up for the university freshman leadership to William Brown (white), who burned up scholastic tennis circles in Ohio before entering Ohio State. Young was a member, this year, of the Alpha Phi Alpha basketball team that in two years lost but one game while playing the best college and amateur teams in the country. He is a sophomore, but having transferred from New York university, was ineligible for varsity competition until after a year's residence. His brother, Bernard, was on the freshman team two years ago. Hubbard World's Best. HUBBARD world cup Cambridge, England—Eddie Farrell, Harvard and Olympic track coach, says there are two Olympic events to be staged at Amsterdam, next summer, that should not cause the United States any uneasiness regarding the outcome. Thanks to DeHart Hubbard of Cincinnati, O., the great "Michigan" jumper, this country should not have any difficulty winning both the Olympic broad jump and the hop, step and great jump. The greatest flat jumper in the world, today. He now holds the world's broad jump record of 25 feet 10% inches, and his mark for the hop, step and jump is 50 feet. Four years ago the great Australian, A. W. Winter, registered 50 feet $11\%$ inches in this event in France. During the past four years Winter has slipped back while Hubbard has advanced. I am positive he can break the hop, step and jump record any time he hears a jump. He has three-in-one performance. Only a rugged jumper can hope to be successful. Rhythm, speed and then perfect balance to maintain speed is needed to be successful. The hop, step and jumpers should start off with their right foot, make their hop, land, then step off, and after landing the second time make a broad jump. Most of the jumpers outside of this country can that mayor Robert E. McKisson appointed (on the same day) Charles S. Smith and John F. Chafin, now on the retired (pension) list, both members of the race, for the editor of The Gazette, and they have rendered such service thrust out their careers as police officers of this city as would make anyone proud of them, especially the writer. For many years "Charlie", as he is familiar and generally addressed, was first stenographer, then secretary to the various chiefs of police. It was Mayor Fred Kohler who made him secretary also of the police and fire departments, and it was Chief Frank Smith (retired) who secured Mr. Smith his first raise in salary. There have been other raises since, if memory serves us correctly. All merited. Until his retirement because of ill-health, "Big" John Chafin, as he was generally known, was too one of the best-liked and most capable patrolmen and traffic-officers in the Cleveland police department. We are proud of them and justly so we feel all will agree. HERE YOU'VE BEEN LOOKING FOR TWO DAYS TRYIN' TO FIND OUR CAT AN' YOU HAVEN'T DONE IT YET I KNOW IT do but 45 feet in this event. They hop for 18 feet, step nine feet and then jump 18 for a total of 45 feet. I have watched Hubbard many times in this event and am positive he can break the world's record by hopping 19 feet and then jumping 19 feet. That would give him a total distance of 52 feet, a safe margin on Winter, even if the Australian was at his best. Laughs Any one who has ever traveled on the New York subway in rush hours can easily appreciate the following: A little man, wedged into the middle of a car, suddenly thought of pickpockets, and quite as suddenly remembered that he had some money in his overcoat. He plunged his hand into his pocket and was somewhat shocked upon encountering the fist of a fat fellow passenger. "Aha!" snorted the latter. "I caught you that time!" "Leggo!" snarled the little man. "Leggo my hand!" "Pickpocket!" hissed the fat man. "Scoundrel!" retorted the little one. Just then a tall man in their vicinity glanced up from his paper. "I'd like to get off here," he drawled, "if you fellows don't mind taking your hands out of my pocket." The aviator's wife was taking her first trip with her husband in his airship. "Wait a moment, George," she said. "I'm afraid we'll have to go down again." "What's wrong?" asked the husband. "I believe I have dropped one of the pearl buttons off my jacket. I think I can see it glistening on the ground." "Keep your seat, my dear," said the aviator. "That's a lake." General Hugh Drum, apropos of the war in the Riff, told a story in Washington the other day. "It seems," he said, "that a young French lieutenant, serving in Africa, found a lion that was laid up with a thorn in its foot, and like Androcles took the thorn out. "Well, the lion was so grateful that it ran over the list of officers in the young lieutenant's regiment and devoured them all, so that in a few weeks the fortunate young man found himself promoted to a colonel." MUST BE GOING NOW— She—The man I marry must not smoke, drink, gamble, or stay out nights. He must be quiet and not easily led off. He (departing)—Yes! 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Those who do not ask for it in the columns of "The Old Reliable" Gazetto certainly care little; if at all for the Therefore, we urge our readers and all of our friends to patronize those who ask in this paper for your patronage. Editor. The Truth! What would cause other people to gnash their teeth and gird their loins is question of debate for us. Kick us, beat us, pile depredations upon us, revile us, abuse us, lie about us, malign us and even impugn our valor and we are not unanimously insulted. It seems impossible to establish unanimity of insult in the black race.—Chicago (Ill.) Whip. --- IS IT ANY USE TO CON- TEND FOR RIGHTS? Colored Americans are the only race, responsible members of which are in favor of "always will be discriminated submitting to discrimination on the claim that their race against." The Jews are still contending, after over 1900 years of universal discrimination, and are still right to fight today. 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Notary Public Bell 'Phone: Cherry 1259 Classified Advertising Department FOR RENT —Three nice, furnished rooms; modern, suitable for gentlemen, or light housekeeping, at 2247 E. 86th St. Phone, GAr. 6293-J. WONDERFUL OPPORTUNITY! FOR SALE. —Two-family house, modern, in good neighborhood, four baths, 16 rooms. Can be used for four families if desired. Must sell on account of being transferred to another city. Call PROs. 2257. WANTED —Capital needed, with or without services, to further finance a good business. Excellent proposition to the right party. State fully what amount you can invest. Address, Proprietor, Box 1606, P. O. Station C, City. CLEVELAND Social and Personal St. John's deacons or trustees held a very important meeting, Tuesday evening. The Assembly Study club's barbecue dinner will be served, June 2, at Mrs. Mildred Gants, E. 89th St. Lydia and Sara, daughters of Atty and Mrs. Alex. H. Martin, arrived, last week, from O. S. U., Columbus. Local Elks are making preparations to attend their state association which convenes in Youngstown, June 17 to 19 inclusive. Mamie Miles and Bessie Smith of Alliance were in this city, and Mrs. Glenn Lancaster and Mr. Earl Grier visited in Alliance, last week. Mrs. Juana Harrison, E. 93rd St., left, last week, for southern Ohio to visit her mother whom she has not seen for seven years. Atty. Perry B. Jackson filed his declaration of candidacy, last week Thursday, for membership in the lower house of the State Assembly. George W. Buchanan was called to Wheeling, recently, by the death of an aunt, Mrs. Clara Jennings. He also visited in Chicago and Kansas City, Mo., recently. Undertaker Elmer F. Boyd attended the recent convention of our National Funeral Directors' association in Birmingham, Ala., and also visit ed Tuskegee institute. Atty. James M. Williams has moved his offices from E. 55th st to 3710 Scovill Ave., phone, RAn. 0811, where he will be pleased to see his many clients and friends. The following graduated, recently, from John Marshall law school: G. C. Lacy, T. Tyler, Charles Carr and Edgar Dixon. Atty. J. E. Roundtree received his master-degree. Hon. John P. Green's poem, in a recent issue of The Gazette, has brot him fine letters of commendation from St. Louis, Washington and other cities of the country. Mr. and Mrs. Edward Brown of Chicago, the latter former Miss Ida Thomas, a resident of this city where TUBBY YOUR NEW MUSIC TEACHER WILL BE HERE SOON, SO YOU SIT RIGHT THERE UNTIL HE COMES *M. KLEINMAN'S 2028 Central Ave. *THE S. & S. DRUG CO. 7325 Central Ave. ROSENBERG'S DRUG STORE, N. W. Cor. 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Both practically new; used less than two weeks. Call, CHerry 1259 in the afternoon. she was born and reared, visited Mrs. Leah Tillman. E. 43rd St., Sunday. The Ohio, Indiana and Michigan Tri-State Funeral Directors' association will hold its annual convention here, June 25, 26 and 27, at Mt. Zion Cong. church. Public reception, June 25, 8 p. m. John H. Gourley, city commissioner of recreation, announces that thirty experts will give free instruction in swimming at the local public beaches. Perhaps life-saving instruction will be added. George Hooper, Jr., of Blaine Ave, brought home a medal for high jump from the Ohio high schools' track meet, held in Columbus two weeks ago. He also won second place in the recent track meet at Lakewood. Arthur R. Johnson, president of the Miles Heights Village council, filed his declaration of candidacy for membership in the lower house of the State Assembly, last week. Mr. Johnson resigned his membership in the village board of education in order to become a member of the council, and would make an excellent legislator. At the first graduation exercises of Our Lady of the Blessed Sacrament parochial school, E. 79th St., Sunday, in the church, Marie Richardson, Sarah West, Herman Smith, Earl Redd and George Joseph finished the grammar department. The editor of The Gazette acknowledges the receipt of an invitation to attend. S. V. Robertson, president of Cleveland division, No. 59, U. N. I. A., says in a communication to a local newspaper, Wednesday, that Atty, Peter Boult was speaking without authority when he announced that the members of that organization would vote the Democratic ticket, this fall. Cleota Collins Lacy presented Deola Ingersoll, Benjamin Dorch and other pupils in a second very pleasing recital at her studio, Tuesday evening. Mrs. Lacy is an exceptionally fine soprano and teacher of voice. She gave a very successful recital in Sandusky, at Carnegie library auditorium, recently. Mrs. Elia White and Mrs. Georgia Hamlett attended the peace conference dinner at Hotel Cleveland, recently, and Mrs. White and Mrs. Flora Byers, representatives St. John's OUR NEW MUSIC RICHER WILL HERE SOON, YOU SIT RIGHT HERE UNTIL HE COMES THIS IS I SUPPORT CHESTER TU THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, O., SATURDAY, JUNE 16, 1928 THIS IS LITTLE CHESTER, I SUPPOSE? GOOD MORNING, CHESTER, I AM YOUR NEW TUTOR MY NEW TOOTER ? He Starts His Piano Lessons. W. M. M. S., attended the "Ministers' Retreat" and annual feast for ministers and friends of the federated churches, at the beautiful estate of Mr. Fred Ramsey, near Gates Mill, last evening. Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Brewer, E. 80th St., joined the Cleveland Alliance Gospel quintet in McKeesport, Pa. The two closing days of their engagement there then with Mr. and Mrs. E. Parker, and A. E. Talbert of the quintet motored to Danville, Ky., where a family reunion was held. Mrs. Parker's niece and Mr. Talbert's daughter were there from their first year at Knoxville college. Our East high school graduates, Tuesday evening, were: Cyril Crawford, Jr., Marjorie Mitchell, Cecilia Wright, Anne McKoin, and Clifford Leverett; from John Adams high, Thursday evening, were: Margaret Oweta Stoster, Owen Fears high, and Darius Owen, from Shaw High, Wednesday evening, Albert Adams, Culbreth B. Cook, Jr., and Louise Cheeks, daughter of Mrs. Miranda Cheeks; from Central high, Charlotte Cooney and others. St. Elizabeth council, A. U. K. & D. of A annual election of officers resulted as follows: Anna Ray, M. E. Q.; Rosie Phillips, B. P.; Emma Jones, W. R.; Pearl Peaks, W. T.; Salle Redus, W. C.; Sahler Butler, wand; John Crowder, I. I.; Wm Jones, O. S.; Irene Gold, L. M. H.; M. H. H.; M. H.; Boyd, W. M. T. H. Butler, D. D was present. Mrs. Anna Ray, E. 36th St. has served as most excellent queen for six consecutive terms. Afro-American Democrats are said to be increasing in number in Cleveland and will support Sheriff Ed. J. Hanratty for re-election, according to Atty, Peter Boult, secretary of our Democratic council, which is preparing for their national convention here, next month. Boult says that many former city hall workers, dismissed because of City Manager Hopkins' fight on Thomson, ex-street commissioner, are turning Democrats. He added that members of Zion Hill Baptist church, and the U. N. I. A. will vote as Democrats. This is prime news, if true. A very successful reception and musicale was given by Mrs. Althea Price, her mother, Mrs. Ella Robinson, and Miss Josephine Taylor, E. 85th St., Sunday evening, honoring Miss Rebecca Davis who leaves very soon for Liberia, Africa, to work in the mission field. There were forty persons in attendance. Musical numbers were rendered by Mrs. Althea Cooper, Miss Elaine Dole Aldi, pianist; Miss Irene Austin, reader; Mr. Edgar Blair, tenor, and Mrs. Mable Blair, accompanist; Miss R. Davis sang and Mrs. Norma Strickland, pianist, gave several numbers. A dainty lunch was served. King Tut lodge and Mary B. Talbert temple annual memorial services were held, Sunday afternoon, at St. John's A. M. E. church, the pastor dellware, in the temple, participated in by the several auxiliaries of the lodge and Temple, and Cuyahoga lodge and Glenara temple, preceded the services. The church auditorium was filled. Atty. Perry B. Jackson, newly elected exalted ruler was master of ceremonies. Mrs. Nellie Bernard. D. R., was in charge of King Tut lodge, elected June, 9; were Perry B. Jackson, E. R.; Z. E. Brown, Gus. Maxon and F. M. Johnson, E. L. K.; Robert Gentry, E.; George Turner, I. G.; W. Branch, T.; A. L. Bernard, sec., and Richard H. McKee, treas—to hold office until January. 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Guaranteed and Efficient Work TWENTY YEARS' EXPERIENCE 'Phone: Randolph 5870 Sundays by Appointment $18,000,000 Telephone Plant Growth In 1928 Would Build Fair-sized Town 180 SWITCHBOARD SECTIONS WILL BE ADDED RANDOLPH EIDE WHO WRITES OF EXPANSION PROGRAM $5,000,000 IS REQUIRED FOR OUTSIDE EXCHANGE PLANT 274,000 TELEPHONE ORDERS ARE NECESSARY FOR A GAIN OF 38,000 TELEPHONES $5,000,000 IS REQUIRED FOR OUTSIDE EXCHANGE PLANT Just what is required of a big telephone company in keeping up with—and ahead of—the demand for service is told by Randolph Eide, vice president of The Ohio Bell Telephone Company, in its monthly magazine, the Ohio Bell, for March. The construction program of the company for 1928 calls for the expenditure of $18,000,000, writes Mr. Eide. This money is for new switchboards, lines, cables and other equipment and does not include the operating expenses of the company. It is to provide facilities for the 38,000 telephones which the company expects to add, and to handle the normal growth in use of the local and long distance telephone. spend for new year. "For new board equipment we have mittened the state of type local positions. N opened in Yen and Cleveland 000." Private brass of all than a milli says, the total station equipment. For new poliions and uni provide excha will be spent for the long quire $3,000.0 "Our imagination must be called upon to understand the magnitude of this program," Mr. Elide says. "Working eight hours a day, six days a week, one individual would have to spend $57,700 a day, or $120 a minute, to dispose of $18,000,000 in one year. Ten thousand dollars buys an attractive home in most cities today. The equivalent of a fair-sized city, 1,800 such homes, could be purchased with an amount equal to the money we JAMES M. WILLIAMS Attorney-At-Law 3710 Scovill Avenue RAndolph 0811 Cleveland, O. 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"Further extension of the toil cable plant in 1928 will include a cable from Massillon to Cambridge, connecting with a cable now under construction which crosses the entir state," he writes. "Entering at the east from Wheeling, this cable follows closely the route of the railroad bridge, Zanesville, Columbus, Dayton and on west into Indiana. Columbus and Delaware also will be joined by cable in 1928. A Restful Night on LAKE ERIE C & B LINE STEAMERS Each Way Every Night Between Cleveland and Buffalo offer you unlimited facilities, including large, comfort- able staterooms that insure a long night's refreshing sleep. Laundry cabin, wide decks, excellent dining room service. Courteous attendants. A trip you will long remember. Connections at Buffalo for Niagara Falls, Eastern and Canadian Points. Daily Service May 1st to November 14th Leaving at 9:00 P. M.; Arriving at 7:30 A. M. Ask your ticket agent or tourist agency for tickets via C & B Line. New Low Fare $4.50 ONE WAY BOUND THRU $8.50 AUTOS CARRIED $6.50 AND UP The Cleveland and Buffalo Transit Company East 9th Street Pier :: Cleveland, Ohio SHE WANTS ME TO LEARN TO PLAY THE PIANO - NOT TOOT A HORN! WINNER- "About $450,000 is required for office furniture and fixtures, shop equipment, motor vehicles and such general equipment. The largest single item is the purchase of 200 new trucks and automobiles to care for replacements and additions needed in 1928 in our motor fleet." Mentioning the estimate of 38,000 telephones to be added to the system, Mr. Eide says: "In order to care for this station gain, and the frequent moving of families and business firms from one city to another, or from one address to another within the same city, our installers, framemen and clerks will make some 122,000 connections, 84,000 disconnections of telephones and handle 68,000 changes of address. To put in 38,000 telephones in itself is a good sized job, but to make a 38,000 net increase in telephones is something else—we must handle 274,000 telephone orders of various types, or seven for each station gained, two every working minute. In addition there will be about 25,000 manual instruments changed to the dial type." The construction program for the five-year period 1928-1932 inclusive is now $93,000,000, Mr. Eide says. Don't Throw Away Your Copy of The GAZETTE After Reading It But Give it to a Friend or an Acquaintance who might Subscribe after Reading 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 time segregation were under President Taft. It was greatly extended, under President Wilson; increased, still further, under President Harding; and reached its zenith under President Coolidge. For instance, the largest of our parks President Wilson had built by 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 censu-takers in this city in the white people and black to black, often duplicating work as most blocks had white and black residents. And, worst of all, announced in his official capacity that Negroes should not hold office where white people complained. Segregation, then, is a Republican institution and not a Republican, because by Republicans, and carried on to its all-embracing extent by Republicans! There is far more of it in the departments, today, than at any time since the Negro first appeared, close upon the close of the Civil War. The picture requirement in the civil service, which makes it next to impossible for a colored lady or gentleman to enter the civil service, since their color is disclosed in their photograph which must accompany their papers, is tenaciously held on our Negro institution. Some mother go 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 Edgar Hells 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 comprehend why he does so a splendid declarations on democracy into operation here, where it would not even cost him a single vote and where he has full power and absolutely no opposition. They wonder if he is not a firm believer in segregation, especially since segregation is one of the reasons why Khan which has 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 constant humiliation and physical disadvantages. The department maintains a space for colored clerks only where inferior white clerks can buy appetizing luncheons and chat in comfort while eating, while the colored clerks must bring cold luncheons from home and eat them any place they can. The physical discomfort, disadvantage as it is, far less galling to the colored clerks than is the thought of their government taking their taxes, as it takes those of the whites, for the comfort of the latter, and setting them off as though they were lepers. The injustice stings all the more when their duties, they are far more capable than the whites, and render the government more intelligent and efficient service—the white man of their attainment being able to get far more lucrative employment. The department goes even farther in its solicitude for 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, sobility, and recreation, and nothing less. 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 institutions that have no presence of the colored, to attend a reception to the heads of departments, including the postmaster general, in the postoffice building. It announced dancing and a pleasant social evening with the officials for "the postoffice employees," yet not one was delivered to the colored clerks. I hurried a protest to the postmaster general the day after the clerks ordered the postmaster 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 union which meets reality and often sends many 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 Glazer) Washington, D. C. The government printing office sees health with the government's universal scheme of segregation. Some of the best and brightest of our girls are forced to accept inferior positions there on account of the better and more lucrative avenues of employment being closed to them because of their color. The whites are generally of a very mediocre group, far from equaling our girls in educational equipment, culture, and working efficiency. Yet these superior girls are set off from the whites with the latter of course, having the better working conditions, salaries and recreational facilities. There is a large cafeteria in this huge structure where all of the employees may go, but there are a few tables in an open-the-way section reserved for our employees. I am glad to say that few, very few, probably patronize the place, preferring a little physical inconvenience to the open, semi-public humiliation of segregation. In toilet facilities, dressing-rooms, and work assignments, wherever possible, the law of segregation is in full force, and, of course, this same undemocratic practice reveals itself on the salary roll and in the that caste that bars promotion. Here, as elsewhere the inferior whites meet 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 in this exclusion of our employees so heavily of 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 a pistol. Right after he left 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 employee was severe punishments there is no way of escape for one who dares to resent the daily insults that their government (under President Coxidge) 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 met by a deal 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 injury is not a difficult thing to fight, since the government is so well situated upon it, and the complainants cannot bear witness to it. (Special to The Gazette) (Washington, D. C.—Segregation in the bureau of graving and printing among an interest industry involving President Thomas Woodrow Wilson and members of his family, three herole 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. 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. She argued against a local white press, and 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 that what was thought to be the intention 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 the ARMS and the EAGLE rest rooms, toilets and working stations, and of course none are ever thought of for promotions to executive places. They are girls from our best 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 the people are all 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, and the extremeity such as this country has been known, devised the national bank, term which financed the Civil War, and Ohio's master financier, John Sherman. These men never knew what segregation was! The present head of the department of internal revenue, Mr. Blain from North Carolina, has not appointed a colored clerk since his incumbency. While his predecessor, Mr. Daniel Roper, a Democrat from Texas, appointed and promoted several of them. Since the income tax legislation and the numberless new taxes that the recent war necessitated, this is by far the largest department of the treasury, employing the most clerks. Yet Negroes are so scared that they can't be noticed. There is the same general complaint here among our clerks and other employees as there is in the other branches of the government—failure to recognize their efficiency when promotions are due; ability to go so far and 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 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 the high rented retreat, and the festive scene to their creates. It seats two thousand diners v v v 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 registries of the treasury, which Republican Presidents have given the Negro since Garfield appointed Blanch K. Bruce, is now a "working man," and the colored people are cohesive in a separate room which is public, 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 violation of the division altogether; so the Negro must fear, to act. Our clerks must fear segregation or elimination, and being poor, with no other opportunities in this southern atmosphere, must take the former. They are depressed at the wrong, but economic stress compels endurance of it. A single stroke of his pen, President Johnson's stroke can stop every bit of this damnable motion, just as he can condemn that lawless organization the Ku Klux Klan whenever he decides to do so. Subscribe Now THE LADY I all the bewildering fancies which play to "vanity fair"—thus does fashion solve milady's "what-to-wear" problem for now and until further notice When it comes to the styling of pretty dainty sheer frocks, fine knife plaiting is playing a most generous part. Tiers expressed in the plaited ruffle effect are fashion's favorite treatment for skirts. If the tiers be scalloped, as here pictured, the theme is all the more fascinating. Many women who do their own sewing are delighted with the idea of the plaited skirt. By taking their material to the platter and the hem stitcher, they find, at the cost of a few cents, their frock takes on that cachet, which removes the stigma of looking "homemade." With the material for the skirt plaited, the rest of SUMMERY STRAWS H A WELCOME THE much heralded and the much-hoped-for vogue of the straw hat has arrived, and it is all that fancy pictured it in matter of exotic beauty and feminine charm. AWS BRING WITH THEM COME REVIVAL OF BRIMS SUMMERY STRAWS BRING WITH THEM A WELCOME REVIVAL OF BRIMS THE much heralded and the much-hoped-for vogue of the draw hat has arrived, and it is all that fancy pictured it in matter of exotic beauty and feminine charm. The best of it is the return of summery straws brings with it a revival of brims, and brims mean the getting away from the recent almost stereotyped little bit which for so long a time reigned supreme. With the reappearance of brims, comes new and varied silhouettes which declare that from now on the persistent skull-cap types are not going to have it all their own way. Considering that it is summertime, and that brims are "in" again, likewise summery straws, it would seem that the world of fashion is about to experience a season of "real millers." There is a wonderful variety of straws registered on the immediate millinery program. At this moment it is the new linen-like smooth surface types which are receiving most attention. These are variously called sisol, bakon, ballibunt, and, of course, bangkoks are included. Contrasting these exotic smooth straws, is pallassion, a type of coarse weave and one which is proving very successful. Add to this list leghorn, hair, and tuscan, also soft yedda bodies, and one gets an idea of the infinite variety of The GAZETTE e who might Su copy of The maintenance w DEPARTED is the hour of glory for the "boyish" vogue. Fickle fashion has decided that women must again look feminine and lovely. The whole style stage is set for just that—a summer of picturesque and enchanting modes. Sheer frocks, with fluttery silhouettes, big drooping brims, portrait hats, to be explicit, her raiment lace-laden, beibrowed and befflowered, parasols, fans, jewels and the making of this dress is a simple matter which the home sewer need have no hesitancy in undertaking. A fuchu neckline like the one shown here is also suggested to the woman who makes her own clothes. This styling is very smart and being qualitly feminine, tunes in with the summer program for soft and graceful silhouettes. Speaking of necklines, a great deal of attention is being paid to them this season by fashionists. If not a scarf, then a capetail is often made of the same material as the dress. Note the exquisite transparent hat which tops this frock. Real summary picturesque millinery, like this, is one of the joys of the present-day mode. JULIA BOTTOMLEY. ( © 1928, Western Newspaper Union. ) straws which enter into the styling of milady's summer chapeau. The models pictured are all of the smooth-surfaced type, the sort that women of smart fashion are wearing for sports or informal daytime occasions. A very handsome black ballibunti is shown at the top. It has three large flat asters in coral, beige and old blue, made of narrow ribbon. Below to the left is a sisal straw in natural color. It looks almost as if it were made of linen, although it is really straw. Note the interesting turn-back fold at the front brim. The black manila straw to the left is trimmed with grosgrain ribbon edged with velvet. A huge chou of plaited malines forms a flower-like ornament. The group concludes with a hand some black ballibuntl straw, with an arrowlike ornament piercing the crown. JULIA BOTTOMLEY. (© 1928, Western Newpaper Union.) THE FARMER'S FESTIVAL Typical Motorist's Summer Camp. VACATION TOURS BY AUTOMOBILE Immense Amount of Money Will Be Spent This Year by Motorists. More than forty-four million people, over a third of the nation, will take vacation motor tours during 1928 and will spend the staggering sum of three and a half billion dollars, according to preliminary estimates of this year's motor tourist business made by the touring bureau of the Chicago Motor club. The Chicago Motor club's estimate for 1928 is based on a detailed study of figures for the 1927 season, with an allowance of 10 per cent increase for this year, which is about the normal annual growth in the gigantic industry of motor touring over the past few years. Approximately forty million people, ten million cars, took to the winding ribbons of paved highways and into the byways for their vacations last year, the Chicago Motor club declares, "One of the most impressive and important features of the motor tourist business in 1927," says the Chicago Motor club, "was the trend away from the tourist camps and toward the hotels and tourist homes catering to motorists. The better enjoyed a heavier business than in the previous year, despite weather conditions that somewhat handicapped the annual vacation movement. In this trend, amounting to an increase of 12 per cent in business, is seen a clear indication of the position of the resort hotel as a permanent fixture in the rest and play life of the motorists. "The figures for last year show that 29,000,000 people in 7,250,000 cars patronized hotels and tourist homes. On the basis of last year's figures, the Is Hard to Overcome Auto hoods on light cars and trucks often develop an annoying rattle which is difficult to overcome. Two long bands cut from an old inner tube and stretched over the hood, as shown in the insert, will remedy the rattle. If STRIP OF POWER TUNE Rubber Bands Cut From Old Inner Tubes Will Stop Rattle of Hood Whether Closed or Open. the bands are cut evenly and placed symmetrically on the hood, they will not detract from its appearance. It is often desirable to open the sides of the hood to permit better cooling of the motor, and then the rubber bands will hold the hood in the open position. -Popular Mechanics Magazine. Be Erected in Chicago Be Included in Chicago Chicago's tallest garage building, a 16-story structure, to cost $1,500,000, is scheduled for construction at 211-21 West Lake street. With the inauguration of the non-parking regulations in the loop, interest in garage construction and in potential garage sites in the close-in North, South and West sides has received a big impetus. Lake street seems to be attracting the garage men more frequently than any other thoroughfare. Half a dozen garage projects, representing investment of several millions of dollars, are said to be in various stages of promotion along the street. The project at 211 West Lake street is said to be backed by a syndicate. The site fronts north 100 feet in Lake street midway between Franklin and Wells and has a depth of 180 feet. The same syndicate is said to be planning a similar structure for the vicinity of Madison and Franklin streets. Annual Vacation Movement Annoving Hood Rattle Sixteen-Story Garage to total of this class of motorists should soar to $2,000,000 this year. "Figuring four people to a car and allowing each occupant an expenditure of $7.50 a day, for an average period of ten days, the army of motorists patronizing hotels and resorts would spend nearly two and a half billion dollars in 1928. "Wandering in gypsy fashion, tured by elate, scenery and history, more than 11,000,000 campers used their cars last year for vacations. The caravan numbered about 2,750,000 automobiles, including house cars fitted out for housekeeping and as trailers. This would justify the estimate that more than 12,000,000 campers will use over 3,000,000 pleasure cars to visit the great outdoors this year. "The camper spends three times as long away from house as the hotel tourist and on a basis of $3.30 per day, per person, nearly a billion and a quarter dollars will be left along the gasoline trail by this class of motorist. "These tentative estimates for 1928 may appear large, but they are in reality conservative and are based strictly on the figures for the past few years and the normal growth that each year has brought." Two Important Factors Two factors, according to the Chicago Motor club, which handled 250,000 tours last year, are playing a predominant part in the development of America's motor tourist business, namely, the establishment of standardized motoring services throughout the country and the growing appreciation of the importance of the motor tourist caravan as a creator of community growth and prosperity. The statement concluded: "All over the country, America is preparing for an unprecedented year in motor tourist travel. Thousands who stayed at home in 1927, due to the cool weather that hung over the nation in the summer months, plan to take to the open road during the present year and to spend more time touring." Test Oil Filters If you could see what goes on inside your automobile engine you'd be amazed at what happens to the oil. As the oil circulates through the bearings and moving parts, it is constantly picking up fine particles of metal, bits of dirt and other abrasive material, according to research engineers. To prevent serious wear and other trouble in the engine, this abrasive matter is being constantly removed from the oil by the oil filter. The filter works automatically and without attention, for long periods of time; and because of its purifying action, the same oil can be used for perhaps 3,000 miles. But remember this: That, after long use, about 10,000 miles, the filtering unit becomes filled with dirt, sludge, etc. taken from the oil, and can no longer do the job as it should. Therefore, be sure to have your oil filter tested from time to time. AUTOMOBILE NOTES It takes a billion dollars' worth of gasoline to feed America's motor cars every year. It is estimated that 500,000 passengers arrive in New York city in automobiles every day. Registration figures show that only 11 per cent of the automobiles are in the cities of the nation. More than two-thirds of the farmers in this country own and operate at least one automobile. It is estimated that 17,100 gallons of gasoline produced per minute every day and night of the week is necessary to keep the supply up to the demand in this country. More than 3,335,000 people are employed by the automobile industry. It is estimated that this number will be more than 4,000,000 during the current year. Hard steering may be caused by improper wheel alignment. Tires are worn unevenly and too rapidly. Also, a quick and inexpensive correction can be accomplished by any well-equipped service station.