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E. church, Tuesday, June 26, assisted by Miss Dorothy Scott, a talented pianist of Sandusky. The society will feature a new composition, "Music in The Mine" (by Nathaniel Dett), the obligato being sung by Cleota Collins Lacy who directs the organization. Silver offering. No admission charge. New York City ESTABLISHED, AUGUST 25, 1883 And Issued Every Week on Time Since CLEVELAND, OHIO, SATURDAY, JUNE 30, 1928 FRESH OHIO NEWS FRESH OHIO NEWS WRITTEN BY "THE OLD RELIABLE" GAZETTE'S CORRESPONDENTS. Marriages, Deaths, Etc. WILBERFORCE. — Wilberforce University graduated 175 students at the 65th annual commencement, last week Thursday. Honorary doctor of laws degrees were conferred on Patrick B. Prescott and Bishop A. J. Carey of Chicago; Bishop Mathew J. McGill of the M. E. Church, and Dr. Leo M. M. Rouge, La., field agent of the General Education Board of Louisiana, commencement orator. Among those in attendance were Bishop W. H. Heard, Dr. W. G. Huffman of Richmond, Ind., and the editor of The Gazette. The general attendance, this year, was larger than that of last year in spite of the threatening weather. CORRESPONDENTS must mail all letters for publication at their main postoffice sufficiently early on Monday (or Sunday) of each week to have them reach The Gazette office on Tuesday morning, and always write their names and that of their city or town on the outside of the wrapper about returned copies. Unless this latter is done, proper credit cannot be given you. Lists of names, wedding presents, etc., obituary notices, inquiries for relatives and instruments of all kinds, including items announcing entertainments to be held in the near future, must be paid for in advance at the rate of 20 cents a line, six words to a line. Our rates for display advertisements will be sent on application. BELLEFONTAINE.—P a u l K i nchen and Ellen Johnson, Wilberforce students, are home for the summer.—Mrs. Sarah Williams' many friends are pleased to have her among them again.—Those who attended Wilberforce commencement from here were: Mr. and Mrs. Royal Mason, Prof. W. E. Stewart, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Goens and daughter, Laura; Mrs. Harrison Oblesy and daughter, Othella; Robert Burns, John Turner, Ralph and Edwin Kinchen, Guy Scott, Lewis Roberts, Donald Payne, Trail Roberts, Ashyte邓ayne, Mr. and Mrs. Earl Burns and daughters, Carrie Belle and Katherine; Mrs. Fred. Johnson, daughter and son, John and Ruth, and Mrs. Sanford Hicks. Miss Juanita Brannan, class of '28, from the commercial department, Wilberforce, returned, Friday, for a brief visit before leaving for Dayton where she has employment. ALLIANCE. — Mrs. Sarah Cisco, age 77, was given a very enjoyable birthday surprise, last Wednesday evening, when invited to Mrs. Irene Hood's, next door, where she found a host of friends who wished her many more returns of the day and presented useful gifts—Communion services at St. Luke's, Sunday morning, were in charge of the pastor, Rev. E. Hume Newsome, in the evening. Quaint and inference members are well pleased with the presiding elder, Rev. Truss, who delivered an excellent sermon, Sunday evening. He is a forceful and convincing speaker. — Mr. Granville Woods, son and daughter of Salem visited Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Cisco, grandparents. Last week, Mrs. Mary Williams, J. C. Phillips and family accepted Mrs. Pearl Philips of E. Liverpool to consult Dr. K. Chambers. The people with Mrs. Cisco and other friends—Mrs. Cora Roach visited her son, Alexander, in Cleveland, recently, and attended the commencement exercises of Central High school when Miss Charlotte Cooney graduated.—Rev. Burgess of Pittsburgh visited Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Frazier, last Wednesday.—The men had a great day at Second Baptist church, Sunday. Rev. Burruss preached a fine sermon. Prof. Mays spoke in the afternoon and a cornet solo was played by a blind man from Chicago. The people their fine music, Sunday, with Rev. C. Chapman at the piano. He attended the mass meeting in E. Liverpool, last Thursday.—A program will be rendered by the Gospel Singers of Second Baptist church, Friday evening. HILLSBORO.—Mr. and Mrs. W Johnson of Dayton visited the latter's mother, Mrs. M. Waters.—Mrs. C. Young, Mrs. M. Donaldson, Mrs. C. Lamb, Rev. and Mrs. Ware, Mrs. A. Gilmier and Mrs. C. Easton attended Wilberforce commencement—Mrs. A. Hill of Detroit will spend the summer with her mother, Mrs. A. L. Ford, Rev. R. L. Bray, C. R. Baldwin, Colle. Cole Bolden heard the Masons' annual sermon in Greenfield, Sunday.—Miss Rosetta Nelson returned to Dayton Sunday, accompanied by Miss Alice Cole who will visit a week. Miss Nelson visited her father.—John Harewood, a Wilberforce student, is spending his vacation here. Mrs. R. Zimmerman is convalescent. — Ulrich Day of Dayton is visiting his grandparents. — Mrs. F. Johnson entertained the Get-to-Gether club, last Wednesday afternoon. Delicious refreshments. — Mrs. V. Young and daughter visited the former's parents, Mr. and Mrs. H. Hill, at Wilberforce, last week. — Miss V. Paxton of Detroit is visiting her father. — Mr. and Mrs. V. Jones, Jr. — Young and Mrs. F. Johnson were in Grafton Wednesday evening, Mr. C. Colter, a Wilberforce student, and wife are visiting his parents. — C. Hudson and Mrs. G. Christy visited the former's mother in Springfield and attended the K. P. services in Jamestown. Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Archie Cole, C. Pleasant, S. Graves and L. Young also attended the services. — Rev. and Mrs. C. A. Grainie visited her mother, Mrs. A. Williams, over the week-end, after attending Wilberforce commencement. Mrs. Williams attended Saturday, for a week's visit. then Saturday, for a week's visit. then Mrs. Edward Jones and son, Misses Florence Burns, Myrtle Riggs, Mrs. Fred Williams, Mrs. J. J. Burr and daughter, Mrs. Hazel Riggs and Mrs. Catherine Williams attended Wilberforce commencement. — Miss Helen Johnson is attending Summer school at Cincinnati University. She spent Sunday here with her grandmother. — Mr. and Mrs. E. Fry of Cincinnati visited relatives, J. Starks and J. S. Hudson were in Illinois the day and Miss Golie and Miss Cassie the day. Sunday. — Rev. and Mrs. A. Ware delivered the district M. A. meeting in Circleville. — The Masons observed St. John's day, Sunday evening, at the A. M. E. church, the pastor delivering an excellent sermon. Friendship club's lawnfete, this 'saturday evening, at Mrs. F. Williams'. DOINGS OF THE RACE. Twenty Afro-Americans graduated from the University of Pennsylvania, this year. Georgia Republicans are without a member of the National Committee. Ben Davis failed of re-election at Kansas City. Mrs. Mima Jones Polk of Douglass National Bank, Chicago, was under arrest, last week, on charges growing out of the theft of $7,000. Her husband is implicated, too, it is said. Prof. Geo. W. Cook of Washington, D. C., who retires, this year, from active work at Howard university, was recently selected executive secretary of its alumni association. Edgar Rasberry and wife of Columbia, Ala., who had a well equipped shoe shop were forced to leave that town, recently, under penalty of death, because he would not sell his business for half its market value. Atty. John T. Risher, of Washington, D. C., was the first reading-clerk to call the roll at the recent Republican National Convention. It was a vote on the report of the credentials committee. Risher is so fair in color that few of the delegates knew he was an Afro-American. Texas has one of the worst lynch-murder records in the country. Seven persons were lynched in that state in 1926, more than in any other state except Florida. In thirty-five years Texas mobs lynched 337 victims—fifty-four of them white and 283 colored—being outdone in disgracing America only by Mississippi with 345 lynchings and Georgia with 457, though equaled, by Louisiana with 337. Our resolutions urging the enforcement of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments, deploring the efforts of the "lily-white" elements of the party in the South to eliminate our citizens from party management and direction there, condemning peonage and discrimination against the race in the classified government service, criticizing segregation and the government in "government departments were thrown out bodily, so to speak, by the Republican National convention's resolutions committee at Kansas City, recently. The Thomas Choral Club, Rev. J. H. Grinage, director, serenaded Shirley Niverna Freeman, six weeks old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Marvin G. Freeman, at their home in E. 90th St. Tuesday, June 19. Solos were rendered by Mrs. Emma Robinson, W. T. Thomas and Rev. J. H. Grinage. It proved very enjoyable. ROASTS THE CONVENTION "Jim Crowism" and Segregation Almost Everywhere in Kansas City For Our Delegates and Visitors. Pittsburgh, Pa.—A more thorny disguised lot of people never left a Republican National convention than the Afro-Americans who attended the recent Kansas City convention. On all sides one hears the same caustic comment and complaint. Not one has a word of praise or even of satisfaction for that great party affair. All agree that it did more among our people to boost the Democratic candidate than anything else possibly could. "Jim Crowism and segregation at the Republican National convention in Kansas City were inexcusable," Armond W. Scott said. A minority attorney told an audience of 2,500 Elks at the Elmore Theater, recently, in their annual session of sorrow. Said Mr. Scott: "Even our members of the Republican National Committee were 'jim crowed' and humiliated. If they did not feel humiliated, certainly the race throut the country whom they are presumed to represent feel that sting. Leaders of the Republican party are seeking to make it a 'illy-white' organization and to defeat the opposing party in the American with guts and backbone who has the manhood to stand up for the rights of his race and to demand an equal part in the council of the party. The Afro-American does not owe all he is to the Republican party but the Republican party owe that it is successful to the faithful and loyal Afro-American, because had it not been for the call of Abraham Lincoln for black volunteers the war of the rebellion would have ended in favor of the South and the opposing party would have even remained in control of the government. Woodrow Wilson (Taft did it!) inaugurated the 'jim crow' government departments in Washington and a Republican president has been willing to let them stand. It is up to the thinking Elks to stop following political parties like cattle and sheep and to vote for men instead of measures; and for men only, whatever their political affiliation may be, who stand for equal justice and equal rights for all people, who have passed away race which has never produced a rebel and never given birth to a traitor." Speaking of the so-called white Christianity in America, Atty. Scott declared that the nearest the black Christian can get to the white Christian territory in the South is to listen to preaching, Sunday, over the radio. PRESENTED LOVING CUP. Alumni Honor Prof. Charles S. Smith on Completing a Quarter of a Century's Service as an Instructor. Wilberforce, O.—Twenty-five years of service at Wilberforce University, given by Prof. Charles S. Smith as director of the school of commerce (state department), was recognized by alumni of the school, commencement day, when he was presented a beautiful loving cup. President Gilbert H. Jones, in making the presentation speech and that as a teacher of the present token Prof. Smith, who had served so faithfully and well for so very many years. He took the commerce department when it was small and today, under his guidance, it is one of the largest sections of the university, with none to compare to it in any of our other colleges in the country. On behalf of the alumni, President Jones presented Mrs. Smith a chest of silver, styling her hair in the service he received. Her service the graduates of the department during the quarter century of her husband's service, were given their share of praise. Charles F. Points, Jr., of the class of '15; Miss Mamie Winbush, '20, and Miss Olivette Winbush, '28, represented the alumni in making the presentation. The cup was engraved: "Presented to Prof. Charles S. Smith, the director school of commerce by graduates and friends in appreciation of 25 years of meritorious service at Wilberforce University." AMASSED GREAT WEALTH ABROAD The Exceptional Career in Business of an Afro-American in Russia and Turkey. Constantinople, Turkey. — George Thomas, who 20 years ago went to Moscow, Russia, died in a French hospital here, June 10. He had been confined, several weeks, suffering from acute heart ailments. Thomas was an Afro-American from Macon, Ga. He had traveled through the states as head of a minstrel troupe, and went to Russia as an entertainer. He engaged in the amusement business shortly after reaching Moscow and amassed fortune. He was owner, before the revolution, of a large amusement park covering several acres known as the Aquarium. It was a veritable city—a city within a city. In it, besides its numerous amusement establishments and exhibitions, were residences, hotels, cafes, restaurants and other facilities. Mr. Thomas was a confidential agent of the late Czar Nicholas and SINGLE COPY FIVE CENTS look part in war activities. He aided the Wrangel army that attempted to get control of Russia from the Bolshevik forces and when his side lost he was forced to flee to Turkey. In the restaurant business and was reputed to have the finest establishment in Turkey. His patrons were of the royal class as were his waiters, who were formerly counts and high-titled citizens under the regime of the czar. His place was known as the Maxi-land, an American laz band was introduced. He was wealthy at his death. THE ARISTOCRACY OF ACHIEVEMENT. From The Vancouver (B. C.) Sun. That unveiling, last week, (June, 1927) of a memorial to Joe Fortes, who for years presided as life guard at English Bay, was not only an aider to a very kindly, able and well-loved man, but an honor to all men who have served in the army. His skin was as black as any African who was ever put up for sale in the Boston slave market. It is a far cry from the brutalities of slavery to the unveiling of a monument on this continent to a man whose race was subjected to those brutalities on this continent so few years ago. It is an indication not only that the people of Vancouver are willing to pay honor where honor is due, irrespective of race, creed or orion, but a cruel and vicious barrier against color is gradually being broken down. The greatest obstacle that colored people in North America have had to get over is the inferiority complex among them, induced by whites, who have perpetuated the doctrine of racial prejudice. What the colored people of America have achieved—and their achievements are of no little magnitude—has been done in the face of despair. Joe Fortes, a people's appreciation career, show that the old false standards of aristocracy are fast going by the board. Dogma, snobbery and caste are being ironed out of society. The world is being forced to the conclusion that the only aristocracy is the aristocracy of achievement. The super-competition of modern life is tearing down the walls of caste. To be honored today, a man must "deliver the goods." Joe Fortes, like thousands of others of the aristocracy, delivers the goods" abundantly. It was good for Vancouver to have had him here. It was good for Vancouver to have had the grace to give him honor. (Fortes was a Roman catholic.) M. HABIB BENGALIA. Senegalese Actor, the Sensation of France—A Beautiful French Actress His Leading Support. Paris, France—M. Habib Bengalia, noted Senegalese, one of the leading actors on the European stage and perhaps the greatest of African race or decent, is playing the leading role in "Gutlibi," the play that is the sensation of the day in this city and located at the de luxe Madeleine Bengalia, portraying him is white and the drama deals with the race question, warning the "Negro" to be on his guard always when dealing with members of other groups, classes, or races. Bengalia is superb thrust the play with his almost perfect enunciation, well-carrying voice, fine athletic physique and spirit of impulsive kindness and sympathy. He re-engages audiences with each performance and is splendidly supported by Mille Marguerite Valmond, one of the most accomplished and most beautiful actresses on the French stage. Bengalia has appeared in "Faust" and other noted plays, and only recently starred in a motion picture entitled, "Yasmina." Vardaman In A Mad House. Utica, Miss.—Ex-Senator James K. Vardaman of this state, a Negro hater and baiter while a member of the upper house of the Congress, is not dead as generally supposed but an inmate of an insane asylum in Alabama. Violent prejudice, of the inmates, has been known to have driven Vardaman mad and made a paralytic of ex-Senator Benj. R. Tillman of South Carolina. Hon. Herry C. Smith, Editor Guzman Cleveland, may denote Squinty. —In behalf of The Gilpin Players, I wish to thank you for the very fine articles published in your paper concerning the production of "In Abraham's Bosom" at the Little Theatre. Your support of the project was most encouraging to their efforts. Thanking you for this help, I am Very happy. Russell W. Jelliffe, Director, The Playhouse Settlement. Bishop W. H. Heard of Philadelphia, recently assigned to the third Episcopal district, of which Ohio is a part, paid his first official visit to St. James' A. M. E. church, Sunday, preaching at 10:30 a. m. In the afternoon the bishop, a former U. S. minister to Liberia, Africa, preached at 2:30, and at St. John's church at 8 p. m. Bishop Heard came here from the Wilberforce commencement. 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. THE COPY FIVE CENTS PARTY! CHESNUTT GETS SPINGARN MEDAL The committee on award of the Spingarn medal announces that the fourteenth annual award is made to "Charles Waddell Chesnutt, of Cleveland, novelist, short story writer and public spirited citizen." The Spingarn medal is supposed to go to some Afro-American for most distinguished achievement in some field of honorable endeavor. It is given to Mr. Chesnutt for his "pioneer work as a literary artist depicting the life and struggle of Afro-Americans, and for his long and useful career as a scholar, worker and freeman of one of America's greatest cities." All that the committee on award of the Spingarn medal says about Mr. Chesnutt is true. Prof. Neval H. Thomas. As there have been made thirteen other awards of the Spingarn medal, and as Mr. Chesnutt wrote and published two books in 1899, one in 1900 and another in 1905, why the delay in awarding him the medal at this late day? It would seem to us that if he was entitled to the award, and we do not deny that he was, he has been unjustly treated by being compelled to wait for thirteen years after his last book was written and published. This newspaper along with other agencies throughout the country felt that Neval H. Thomas, of Washington, D. C., should have been awarded the Spingarn medal, this year. Mr. Thomas is the head of the largest branch the N. A. A. C. P. has. Located as it is at the capital of the nation it is in position to do the work no other branch is able to do. Mr. Thomas at great personal sacrifice the brides of the race in Washington he was rallied about him forces that have broken down segregation in the federal government. He is looked upon all over the country as the relentless foe of racial discrimination. In the past year there is no Afro-American anywhere who has done as much for the general good of the race as has Mr. Thomas. He is feared by the intrenched powers in Washington as no Afro-American and very few white men are feared. The east coast of the United States the highest medal could have done was to show their appreciation of this fearless and relentless fighter for the equal rights of the race. The belated award to Mr. Cheesnutt should not satisfy him. The failure to give Mr. Thomas what is justly due him is a grave injustice. He has also self-sacrificing leader the race has.—Washington (D. C. Eagle). HOUSTON'S LYNCH-MURDER! Lynch Probe Uncovers Six of the Eight Unmasked Houstonians Who Killed Robert Powell. Houston, Tex—Indictments charging murder were returned here, June 22, against six whites accused of having lynched Robert Powell 24-year-old Afro-American, allied slayer of City Detective A. W. Davis. The indictments named John Kent, age 27, ambulance driver; Charles Oldham, 24; F. T. Shuck, 32; Howard Minton, T. J. Reese and Allen M. Kent. A. B. Wheeler, 26, boiler-maker, who made a statement to the police admitting he participated in the lynching and naming the others, was not indicted. Powell was taken from a hospital, where he was being treated for wounds received in a gun fight with the slain officer, and hanged from a bridge outside the city, early last week Wednesday. Wheeler in his statement said Powell was not killed when he was first dropped from the bridge with a rope about his neck. Powell was put back on the bridge, the rope shortened and thrown off a second time, the fall dislocating his neck. One Year ..... $2.00 Nine 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 820 W. Superior Ave., Cleveland, O. (Bell 'Phone: 1259) Member Ohio Legislature: 1894 to 1896; 1896 to 1898; 1900 to 1902 IN UNION IS STRENGTH SATURDAY, JUNE 30, 1928 Thirty young women, comprising the class of 1928 of the City Hospital School of Nursing, were the possessors, last week Thursday, of graduate nurses' diplomas, awarded at exercises in the garden of the nurses' home, Valeneine Ave. and W. 17th St. Dr. Carl A. Hamann, dean of the school of medicine of W. R. U., presented the diplomas and City Manager Hopkins and Rev. David Bovington spoke. Welfare Director Dudley S. Blossom presided. It is time we were taking that City Hospital in the courts and opening it up to ALL citizens. See that the local branch of the N. A. A. C. P. takes the lead in this matter. Realizing that the bottom has about fallen out of his talk-propaganda for better-housing conditions in "The Roaring Third", Councilman E. J. Gregg has started off on another tack or two and on Wednesday of this week announced that he was preparing two resolutions, one of which he will introduce in City Council, Monday evening, calling on City Manager Wm. R. Hopkins to purchase land between Charity Hospital at E. 22nd St. and Central Ave., and E. 28th St., for a city park because the Central Ave. area has no public park. He might have added that that area has practically nothing in the way of public recreation facilities enjoyed by other sections of the city. His other resolution, he says, will ask that a branch of the City hospital be located next to St. Ann's Maternity Home. E. 35th St. and Woodland Ave., to take care of the poor of that district. Right there is where Gregg's "cat jumped out of the bag", for he really is espousing a "jim-crow" hospital with his second resolution. This, too, with the newly enlarged Charity Hospital only a few blocks away and the great, large St. Alexis Hospital not much further away from E. 35th St. and Woodland Ave. There is little or no prospect of Hopkins' consenting to the purchase of land for a park in that section of the city and we do not believe he would dare attempt to comply with Gregg's resolution-request for a "jim-crow" hospital in that vicinity. Gregg is sure one "amosin" cuss." "THROWING AWAY VOTES". Columbus, O., June 22, '28. Hon. Harry C. Smith. Editor Gazette, Cleveland, O. My Gee Mr. Smith:—This is to congratulate you on entering your name as a candidate for the Republican nomination for Governor of Ohio and to assure you of my intention of voting for you. This will not be my first time to do so. I expect as usual to be told that I am "throwing away my vote" but since we seldom are aware of anything else than throwing away our votes in voting for candidates of either party, that protest will not agitate me at all. If all of the two hundred thousand voters of our group in this state would do the same, every political and social problem would soon be cleared up. And that would be worth more than the election of any one man to any one office. Doyle King Clarke. Ever since 1922, Ohio has had one Democratic governor. Three primary elections and three regular elections, making six in all, have been held in the last six years. There have been at least a score of candidates for the Republican nomination for Governor and three Republican candidates for Governor, in that period of time. Every vote cast for any and all of these candidates, totaling twenty-five or twenty-six at least, "was thrown away", because all were defeated, either at the primaries or on election days, and this includes the vote of every Afro-American in the state of Ohio who voted at any primary or regular election, or both, in the last six years. This proves the correctness of the statement in the foregoing communication from Mrs. Dovle King Clarke, wife of the pastor of St. Paul's A. M. E. church, Columbus, and one of the brightest women in the state of Ohio, without reference to race, class or group. She has sensed the matter and got it correct, and those "Negroes" in the state, who like parrots repeat the "throwing away vote" talk given them for a purpose obvious by shrewd white politicians of their communities, ought to sit up and take notice particularly of the two points made in Mrs. Clarke's letter. If we ever expect to get anywhere in the political and civil life of this great commonwealth of Ohio, we have simply got to stop being parrots and do our own thinking and voting. If Ohio Afro-Americans will only register, they will have easily fifty thousand more votes than would be necessary to nominate one of their own as a Republican candidate for any state office and to elect him, too, providing of course they will do their own thinking and voting as do the loyal, self and race respecting members of every other racial group or class of voters in the state and country. Mrs. Clarke is entirely correct in what she has written. Will Ohio Afro-Americans heed? Two years ago, when a candidate for the Republican nomination for Governor of Ohio, we received more votes than five or six of the eight white candidates for the same nomination. That was glory enough for that time. This time, we should win and will do so, if our people will but do their clear duty—register and vote right! There is not an outstanding candidate for the nomination, the four or five candidates being very "ordinary". POLITICAL LYNCH-MURDER. "Eight unmasked white men" (brutes), early last week Wednesday morning, took Robert Powell age 24, alleged "slayer", from a hospital cot and hanged him from a bridge outside of Houston, Tex. It is in that city that the Democratic National convention is being held, this week, and Powell's lynch-murder is evidently intended as a notice to certain alleged Democrats (of color) to stay away from Houston. If our surmise is correct this is outhering Kansas City and the Republican National convention's mistreatment of Afro-American Republicans who were foolish enough to attend that gathering, recently, in the face of the nation-wide announcement that the general discrimination native to Kansas City was to be maintained that convention week. When it comes to insulting and humiliating American citizens of color there is little difference as far as the present control of the two old parties is concerned. Indeed, this has been true in a general way for some years, with the sole exception that the Republican party never before dared to go to the extremes it did, as far as our people are concerned, when it completed its arrangements for the accommodation and treatment of its delegates and friends in Kansas City, convention week. What hurts more than anything else, in connection with the miserable Kansas City experience, is the knowledge of the fact that our two members of the Republican National committee, Editor Ben Davis of the Atlanta (Ga.) Independent, and Perry Howard of Mississippi, special assistant U. S. Attorney General, consented to the miserably insulting and humiliating Kansas City Republican convention arrangements, and to "rub it in", as it were, capped this nefarious act by lining up with "illy-white" to help vote out of the convention Afro-American delegates from several other southern states for the sole purpose of conserving their own selfish, personal, political interests. We are patiently waiting to note the consensus of opinion of our newspapers as to this, and wondering when this race of ours is ever to make any progress in the face of its retrogression, political and otherwise, of the last fifteen or twenty years, with such selfish, disloyal and pseudo "leaders in the saddle", placed and retained by white leaders of the party who have little or no respect and regard for our people or their rights and privileges as Republicans and American citizens. Furthermore, just so long as we quietly submit to the alleged leadership in national politics of such individuals as Davis THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, O., SATURDAY. JUNE 30. 1928 Prime Sport News Datto Wins From Suggs. Detroit, M.I.c. — Johnny Datto Cleveland Filipino featherweight shield, in ten rounds, Mass, In, ten rounds here, last week Johnny sure must have been "goin some" for Chick is a good one. "Baby Joe" Gans The Attraction. The Olympic arena staked a sterling ten-round attraction, Thursday night, which featured Tommy Jones, Atlanta youngster and Baby Joe Gans, the great little Afro-American scraper from the Pacific coast. Gans, arriving under the guiding hand of Larry Lichtenstein, veteran scraper to the eastern fans. He started his eastern debut by being robbed of a verdict over Manuel Quintero, sensational Spanard. The newspapers were unanimous in criticizing the decision which favored Quintero. The classy affair, however, afforded opportunity for Gans to show his wares. He appeared in Madison Gade's Garden of Dreams stacked up against Jackie Brady of Syracuse. Brady had previously stopped Sammy Vogel in the garden and was expected to give "Baby Joe" a hot time but failed for the little scraper simply "cleaned up." "The Only One" Philip Granville, Canadian walker, who says he is an Indian and not a "negro," is the holder of a British medal for style of walking, being the best he and her performer in the U. S. or Canada ever to win this medal. Hubbard Wins With 23 Feet. Hubbard Wins, Win 23 Feet. Cincinnati, O.—De Hart Hubbard, of this city, Afro-American de luxe athlete and 1824 Olympic winner, the running broad jump, the event, jumped 23 feet 1 inch, last Saturday, to win the event in the Alleghany regional Olympic tryouts. Hubbard, who is ambitions to turn a double into the 1928 Olympics by winning both the broad jump and the hop, step and jump, did not participate in the latter event today. Officials said he was favoring his ankle, which was sprained early in the summer, but it was likely that he would be permitted to compete in the final national Olympic tryouts. Hubbard jump—Won by De Hart Hubbard, unattached, 23 feet 1 inch; second, C. W. Anson, Ohio State, 22 feet 2 inches; third, O. C. Cunningham, Dayton, 22 feet 1 inch; fourth, Al Rose, Pittsburgh, 21 feet, 6-10 inches. Jack Earned a Million and a Half. Jack Earns a Marian and a Law Gary, Ind.—A gym, to be conduct- ed along the same lines as the one he now has in Chicago, will in all probability be opened here with the short time by Jack Earns. He was here, recently looking over half a hail a suitable place for his gym. He says that he intends to open it to young men between the ages of 17 and 22. He will also have physical culture classes for business and professional men. Asked how much money he had earned during his prize fighting career, Johnson placed it at a million and a half. His biggest purse, one 161,000, was received for his fight with Jim Jeffries at Reno in 1910. Godfrey's $35,000! Ridley Park, Pa. — Jimmy Dougherty, Geo. Godfrey's crafty manager, has signed the Leiperville pugilist to do battle with Paulino Uzucud, whom he has already decisively defeated, in sunny Spain for a $35,000 purse. It will take place in Barcelona, and a few days after the Risko contest Godfrey will leave for Europe to begin training. Week before last, Dougherty recounts how he and his crew must company to the effect they had been made representatives of the Banca de Bilboa, of Barcelona, and that they had in keeping a letter of credit to Dougherty, ordering him to collect the sum of $35,000 at the Barcelona bank after the fight with Uzucud. Tigers and Stars Split. The Cleveland Tigers divided a double-header with the Cuban All-Stars at Dunn field, Sunday afternoon, winning the first game 10 to 3 and dropping the second 4 to 2. Diaz of the Tigers could not hold the Tigers to a victory, but he lasted the route. Tom Cox, a new Tiger hurler, went to the rescue in the third frame of the nightcap after Williams and Boggs had been hit and Howard just so long may we expect such miserably insulting and humiliating mistreatment of our political and civil rights and privileges. Let the race press speak up and in no uncertain tones, and show the people that it has not lost all manhood, self and race respect. It cannot afford to harbor the Ben-Davis-Perry Howard selfishness and disloyalty and, apparently, their heart-rending lack of self and race respect. Their selfish and voluntary political slavery is stabbing vital racial interests "to the very heart" and amounts to almost a crime against our people. hard. Cox fanned the first four and only one hit in the next four innings. Jones Shades Alger Akron, O. — "Gorilla" Jones, local welterweight, plugged his way to a shade of victory over Billy Alger (white), of Phoenix, Ariz., here Monday night. For ten rounds Alger bored his way between the Akronite's rany arms, slashing at Jones' body with hard rights and lefts and landing smarting blows in open warfare. Jones couldn't wear Alger down to a point where he could hold him at his left arm's length and put a solid right. Alger was quick to get into a clinch or break away. Jack Rose, Akron heavyweight, whipped Monk Eller (white) of Pittsburgh in a sizzling six-round bout in the main preliminary. Atty. Chester K. Gillespie has withdrawn from the "legislative" race. There are still a number of our candidates in the contest. Atty. Turner, who was backed by the pastor of St. James' church, did not enter the race because The boss"s team had him down when they asked for the organization's endorsement. Walker fought Svd. Thompson's candidacy. The following are our June graduates from E. Tech high school: Dorothy Billingsley, Catherine and Mabel Bryant, Archie and Earl Coleman, Pompey Davis, Leonard Dunn, Eloise Frazier, Marie Harlan, Carrie Harris, Edgar Hunt, Louise Lucas, Porta Maggott, Edward McCants, Pauline McMillan, Lillian Paterson, Camille Russell, James Rush, Ruth Smith, Jace Stewart, Forrest Thomas, James Todd, Frances Walker and Mattie Webb. The following will graduate in August: George Hanserd, Julius Robinson, Julia Russell, Dorothy Morton, Georgia Whitelaw, Madeline Carter, Ethel Payne, Annabelle Stoudemire and H. Williamson. Saturday night, policemen rushed and searched the home of Mrs. Staples who lives in E. 93d St., north of Cedar Ave., and ordered a member of the race who conducts a gasoline station, at the cor. of E. 93d St. and Cedar Ave., to close it at twelve o'clock, midnight, it is said. Mrs. Staples retained as her attorney, Councilman Claybourne George. George, a former Monroe Judge Mary B. Grossman's ("Muny") court, it was postponed until Aug. 2. It looks like prejudiced white residents of the neighborhood are trying to force both of them from that vicinity. Here is another case for the local branch of the N. A. A. C. P., the executive committee of which with other residents, held a meeting, Tuesday evening, in Mt. Zion Cong, church parliors to discuss the four proffered solutions of the City Hospital matter. The real and only right solution of this controversy is for a city Manager Wm. R. Hopkins to open that institution to our internes and girls desiring to enter its nurse training school. It is open to all other groups, classes or races in this community. Why not ours? 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 200 years of universal discrimination and winning even social rights today. The Irish at home have contended for 700 years and are winning because they will die rather than submit. The race that says it's of no use to resist, downs itself and the world then will say. "Negroes are not worthy of equal rights; they are by nature self-objective, have no guts." The world respects only those who resent and resist proscriptions for race. Let us be worthy of the abolitionists, worthy of our own fathers who have died in every war to vindicate the title of their race to equal liberty, and forever resist denial of rights in our native land, however long race discrimination may continue. To submit is to deserve contempt.—Boston (Mass.) Guardian. He Carries the Fight to Tommy. The Truth! Telephone Conduits Pass Between Roots But Old Shade Trees Are Undisturbed TRENCHES ARE DUG BY MACHINE EXCEPT WHERE THEY GO UNDER THE TREES ```markdown ``` CLOSE UP SHOWING HOW CONDUIT IS LAID UNDER TREES 25¢ —is the right price to pay for a good tooth paste— LISTERINE TOOTH PASTE Large Tube 25¢ C&B LINE Side Trips From Niagara Falls At Special Excursion Rates Toronto and return ... $3.45 Clayton, N. 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THAT'S A FINE WAY TO FIGHT, HIT A GUY AN'T THEN RUN UP A TREE - WE WON'T STAND FOR IT Travelers between Columbus and Delaware, as well as residents along the highway, have watched with interest progress on the telephone cable which is being laid underground on the west side of the road. Such construction is taking place at numerous points in Ohio, out the Columbus-Delaware cable is of unusual interest because of the way in which the conduit goes under long rows of spreading shade trees without damaging the roots. Some of the trees are a hundred years old, all are on private property and have been cherished by residents of the suburban communities and towns north of Columbus. When engineers staked out the course of the cable, there probably was much conjecture on the part of property owners concerning the fate of 'ir trees, for the path of the conduit was shown to pass beneath many of them. The people's interest was stirred even before the work started. Just how the trees were saved is told by the Ohio State Journal, of Columbus, in a recent editorial commending the telephone workers. "Men from the telephone com- HERE'S AN OPPORTUNITY! "The Old Reliable" Gazette desires an active agent and correspondent in every city and town in Ohio and neighboring states having a number of Afro-American residents, Only a little time on Fridays or Saturdays is required to make some money. pany called on the property owners, explained their plan, promised to safeguard the trees," it relates. "It was an appeal for fair play and reason, not a hard and fast legal proposition. "The trench is about eight feet deep, it is run under the trees, but the roots are not cut, the dirt being taken out carefully, and replaced when the conduits have been placed. Engineers and foresters knew that most tree roots spread and the space directly beneath the towering tree is vacant if one will dig down eight feet. The tunnels beneath the trees have been run between the roots and without damage to the trees. Where the work has been completed there is little to show what had been done. "What are the results? The company was able to run its conduits along the line chosen by its engineers, has been able to dig the trench along the lot line of property owners, with good will in evidence and relations of perfect friendship and confidence. The trees are unharmed, the smallest property owner has been treated fairly by this billion-dollar public utility corporation. The wires will disappear from the poles, the We are especially desirous of hearing from persons in the following springfield, Columbus, Toledo, Steubenville, Zanesville, Wilmington, Xenla, Washington C. H., Lancaster, Piqua, Lima, O., and other places, particularly in Ohio, where we have none. street will be much prettier for the change." The new cable is costing the company $400,000. It is 28½ miles long, and utilizes existing conduit in High street, Columbus, as far north as Dunedin road. From there on, new conduit is being constructed as far as Flint Junction. There the cable comes above the ground and for some distance leaves the highway to go over a private right of way. The cable will contain 232 pairs of wires and will provide additional telephone facilities from Columbus to Worthington, Westerville and Delaware. The people of Worthington are so well pleased with the way the work is being done that their town council has passed a resolution commending the telephone men for "the prompt, thorough and efficient manner in which, so far as possible, they had expedited the work of laying the underground conduit pipes through the village." The State Journal, in its editorial, says, "The telephone company is spending a large sum of money, and it is winning a vast treasure in public confidence and good will, something quite worth while to the largest corporation." 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A Fisher Brothers "chain" store has given employment to Mrs. Linwood H. Hogan. Miss Hester Parker, of Windsor, Ont., is the guest of Miss Dorothy Scott, E. 87th St. Sidney Thompson, Jr., a student of Wilberforce university, is home for the summer. L. R. Carey, accompanied by Mr. John Freeman, read at Mt. Haven Baptist church, Sunday afternoon. Olive E., who teaches in Bluefield, W. Va., is home to spend the summer with her parents, Col. and Mrs. B. O. Davis. Mrs. R. W. Hixon left, last week Monday, to attend the summer session at Wilberforce university, seeking a degree. Mrs. Basel Ramsay, of Detroit Ave., was hostess to the West Side Neighborhood club, last week Tuesday evening. Albert Adams graduated from Cleveland Heights high school, recently, and was our only member of the class of 216. Mrs. Laura Brooks, of Blaine Ave., has a new Buick sedan. Mr. and Mrs. Brooks motored to Youngstown, recently. Clarence Johnson, of Thackeray Ave., was called to Hillsboro, Tuesday, by the illness of his mother, Mrs. Nancy Clay. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph L. Pickett, of Scovill Ave., report a very pleasant motor trip to Kansas City, via Chicago, recently. Carroll L. Scott, director of St. John's choir, has just celebrated his 23d year as traffic manager for the Printz-Blederman Co. Edward D. Noble has announced the marriage of his sister, Mrs. Mary Allen, to Wm. H. Holmes. They are at home at 2161 E. 43d St. A. R. Johnson, Mose Dixon and Perry B. Jackson are now our only candidates for a Republican nomination for the legislature. Joseph P., grandson of George W. Carroll of this city and son of Dr. Joseph Carroll of Columbus, graduated from Capitol college, recently. TUBBY MY SISTER GOT A NEW PIANNE FROM THE SECOND HAND STORE. YOU OUGHTA HEAR H SING WHEN SHE P IT'S JUS' LIKE A SHE MY SISTER GOT A NEW PIANNER FROM THE SECOND HAND STORE. 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Christine and Anna Smith, Central high athletes, made a fine showing at the recent girls gymnastics show at Central high. They won several honors. Mr. and Mrs. Louia Jones, E. 101st St., left for the East, last week, and will spend the summer in Philadelphia and New York City. Fifty applicants have petitioned M. W. G. M. Frank E. Hall of Cincinnati for a special dispensation to set up a U. D. lodge of F. and A. M. at Ravenna. Miss Nanna Thomas and sister Miss M. Hughes, E. 87th St., entertained, last week Tuesday, in honor of their guest, Miss Zephyree Hunter of Washington, D. C. Mrs. Francis Young and Miss Jenny Gray visited their mother in Detroit to witness the graduation of a brother, Dr. John Gray, from the dental department of the U. of M. A free circus and street fair staged by Cuyahogaoga, Elks, in Thackeray Ave., will run from last Saturday through July 1, for the benefit of the charity fund of the order. Dr. and Mrs. D. C. Styles motored to Ypsilanti, Mich., recently, where the latter will spend several weeks with relatives. Dr. Leon S. Evans accompanied them as far as Detroit. Rev. D. W. Hill, pastor of Second Mt. Sinai Baptist church, invites all children to the junior services, every Wednesday, from 5 to 6 p. m., at 5912 Central Ave. Miss Margaret Tubbs, of Marion, Ala., is visiting her aunt Mrs. Ernest W. Ingram, of Morrison Ave., for the summer. Two weeks ago, the latter's nephew, Robert Tubbs, spent a day with her. Mrs. Fannie Hamlett, E. 90th St., was called to Roanoke, Va., recently, by the death of a sister. She was accompanied by a niece, Miss Pauline Jackson of Akron, daughter of the deceased. Dr. and Mrs. F. D. Webster and daughter, E. 93d St., recently motored to Port Clinton to visit Camp Perry where the 372d infantry, O. N. G., was encamped. They had as guests, Dr. and Mrs. O. A. Taylor. Councilman Herman Finkle is right in his contention that the city recreation plant, with swimming pool, be located north of the present designated site, the old Jewish orphanage property, cor. E. 55th St. and Woodland Ave. Our local Federation of Women's clubs elected the following delegates to the state convention in Akron, last week: Mesdames L. M. Gibson, Madeline Early and Julia Thurston. Alternates: Mesdames Lulu Dockett and Bessie Cawford. Among the boys and girls appointed by the city park department, for the summer are: Nell Hackney, at Marion playground; Dorothy Smith and Helen Clinthorn, at Grant; Na- MY MOM IS THE BEST SINGER THERE IS—SHE DON'T NEED ANY PIANO WHEN SHE SINGS EITHER THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, O., SATURDAY, JUNE 30, 1928 MY SISTER SAID GOOD SINGERS GOTTA HAVE MUSIC WHEN THEY SING OR THEY CAN'T! LIKE FUN THEY CAN'T! AN' MY MOM CAN SING OPERAS IF SHE WANTS TO, TOO omi Smith, at Putnam; Ella Smith, at Peskind, and Roy Buckner, at Marion. The Jay Dee club has elected the following officers for the ensuing year: Eugene Apple, pres.; Helen Sims, vice-pres.; Lloyd Wright, fin. sec.; third term; Helen Troy, rec.; Roelz Threat, treas.; Frank Williams, parl.; Mrs. Equilla Morris, stt.-arms. York and Scottishrite Prince Hall Masons observed St. John's day with religious devotion, Sunday, at Tried-stona Baptist and St. John's A. M. E. churches. Solos were sung by Mrs. Lulu Brown and Mrs. Anna Moore. St. John's Gospel quartette and Carrol Scott, director, also sang. The Tri-State Funeral Directors Association of Ohio, Indiana and Michigan, Elmer E. Boyd of this city, president, closed a successful three-day session here, its fourth annual convention, this week Wednesday evening, with a banquet and dance at Metropolitan club. Dr. and Mrs. I. B. Scott and Dr. and Mrs. Wm. F. Saunders have, as guests for the summer, Bishop and Mrs I. B. Scott of Nashville, parents of Dr. Scott and Mrs. Saunders. They came from the M. E. general conference at Kansas City, via Chicago where they visited, several days. Mrs. Kathleen H. Forbes, organ and piano teacher, has returned from Hamilton, Ont., where she was called to the death of her father Thomas J. Holland, who was one of the original O'Bannon Jubilee singers, of years ago, who sang for Queen Victoria and other European celebrities. At the regular meeting of Emmanuel Commandery, K. T., last week Monday night, Leland D. French was elected eminent commander; Fred Green, generalissimo; A. A. Goodrich, captain-general; I. J. Johnson and Pete Asbury, senior and junior warders, respectively; Amos Rutland, prelate; H. R. Franklin, treas; Chas, Lewis, recorder; J. H. Norton, standard-bearer; Andrew Merrill, sword-bearer; Howard Holmes, warder, and Felix Fitch, sentinel. Deploring the lack of outstanding leaders of the race at the recent Republican national convention at Kansas City, "Col." Sidney B. Thompson, veteran local political "warhorse", addressed an interested audience at the regular meeting of the Douglass Republican club, last week in Roosevelt Hall, rooms in E. 55th St. Among the other speakers were a number of local candidates for office. Music was furnished by the Kelly orchestra and refreshments were served. Money obtained by the Gilpin Players for their performance of "In Abraham's Bosom", at the little theater, will be used to start a fund for sending worthy Afro-American students to the Cleveland School of Art. The players have been organized since 1920 and form the only organization of the school for so long a period of time. Ordinarily its plays are presented in their own theater, the Karamu, E. 37th St. and Central Ave. The announcement of the fund was made, last week Wednesday, by Mr. and Mrs. R. W. Jelliffe, directors of the players. Two drug-seeking gunmen were hunted by detectives, last week Thursday, after they bound and gagged Reeves Bryant in his apartment at 4927 Central Ave., taking $211, a diamond ring and a diamond the pin. Bryant was coosted by the dildy man who hid inside in his rooms, as he entered the apartment. They demanded narcotics and when Bryant said he never had any they bound and gagged him, ransacked his pockets and fled, locking the door as they left. Their victim managed to loosen his bonds and broke the door lock to get out to telephone police. Last week Friday morning Mr. Emmet Meade, one of our most successful contractors in the city, gave the editor a very enjoyable auto outing, driving thru much of the "heighs", that was a real treat. Mr. Meade is a pioneer resident of the Mt. Pleasant section of the city and lives in a building. Our people there have many very pretty and cozy houses conspicuous among which is the Meade home. 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Pershing's specially built limousine, which roared through the mud of shell-torn roads in France, is about to end its days in the quiet security of the Smithsonian museum. The photograph shows General Pershing with the car. AUTO ADJUSTED TO ITS DRIVER One of the Newer Trends in Building Motor Car Here and Abroad. Making automobiles that are adjustable to the individual driver, instead of compelling the driver to adjust himself to an uncomfortable position in the car, is one of the newer trends in motor-car construction, both in America and abroad. More than comfort is involved in a correct position. Sitting in proper relation to steering wheel, clutch pedal, brake pedal and controls, means freedom from fatigue and, even more important, safety in driving—for only when the driver is in proper position can he quickly and efficiently operate the controls. Means of effecting a comfortable driving position formerly was available only in the costlier cars; now a new brougham offers an example of what has been done in the lower-price class. A total variation of five inches in the position of the driver is provided by, adjustments in the clutch and brake pedals and also in the front seats. The rubber pedal pads are mounted on substantial bars that are clamped into the clutch and brake levers proper, and these clamps allow a variation of the pedal position totaling two inches. The adjustability of the front seat, in a fore and aft direction, totals three inches. The two adjustments, in combination, thus allow a total change amounting to five inches. The driver having unusually long legs can drop the pedals two inches and move the seat all the way back, and have five inches more room than a man of opposite build, who will raise the pedals all the way and adjust the seat in its extreme forward position. Made to Suit Driver. A combination of adjustments can be made to suit the stout driver. He can move his seat back to give him ample space between steering wheel and cushion, and raise the pedals to keep them in easy reach. Relative position of front seat and pedals is of prime importance. If there is too little room, the driver will be sitting in a cramped position and will be unable to operate the brake pedal with maximum effect. When the brake pedal is fully depressed, the driver's leg should not be extended to the utmost—there should be additional thrusting power in reserve, to exert greater pedal pressure if required. Engine Trouble Often Is Traced to Spark Plugs When an automobile engine misses at high speed or in climbing hills, the trouble can often be traced to the spark plugs, according to H. Rabezzana, research engineer. Much of this trouble, he says, is due to the use of improper type plug or spark plug points being set too far apart, or because the plugs are simply worn out. The gap between the points should not have more than .025 inch clearance or .020 inch in high compression engines. As spark plug trouble is often mistaken for valve or piston ring trouble, the proper thing to do before making repairs is to have the plugs inspected, which will save unnecessary expense, the engineer says. Here Is Way Jaywalker Is Cautioned in China The Chinese system of educating walkmakers might help in this country, according to the public safety department of the Automobile Club of Southern California. The club quotes the following admonition to the public in China: "Now the swift motor car and the street car are just like tigers and if you do not obey the policeman's signals you will not live to grow and acquire many sons, but will be killed, and your sons, too, so that your ancestral tablets will be untended. The road is like a tiger's mouth; from its center keep away." Towing Ropes Attached If you have to have your car towed, or you are going to tow somebody else be careful where you attach the tow rope or you may do your car or the other fellows a considerable amount of harm. Do not attach the tow rope to a bumper, radiator guard, or, In fact, anything else but the main structural parts of the car, such as the front axle, cross members, etc. When your car is to be towed the best place to hook on the tow rope is the front axle. This will have to be done on the side near the steering knuckle as the front apron will prevent the rope from being hooked on How to Attach a Tow Rope. in the center. Be sure that the rope is hooked on the same side of the towing car as it is on your front axle so there will be no tendency toward a cross pull. When you are towing another car you can sometimes use the rear axle, but generally there are parts in the way that prevent. In this case attach the rope to the rear spring horns, the rear cross member or even around the shackles. Do not use the rear bumpers or spare tire bracket. Always start gently when towing a car and always signal the car following in plenty of time when you are going to stop.—Cleveland Plain Dealer. Better Performance at Less Cost From Old Cars How to get better performance at lower cost from motor cars that are several years old, is told in a paper just prepared by H. Rabezzana, research engineer, and known as one of the country's foremost authorities on the internal combustion engine. To quote Mr. Rabezzana: "Some engines after they become old 'have a tendency to 'pump oil.' The reason is that the rings no longer fit tightly. In many cases even new rings are of little value when the cylinder itself is ever so slightly 'of round.' Sometimes the amount of oil that gets into the chamber is so slight that it cannot be detected as oil, but appears as a thick, or gummy soot upon the head of the piston, or on the spark plugs. "How to keep such motors running well has long been a problem with repair men. In nearly every instance, new plugs are fouled up within a short time after installation. "As a remedy, carbon-proof spark plugs of the correct type are the most logical plugs for engines that have a tendency to foul the spark plugs. These plugs also are desirable for cool engines. "They have what is known as a carbon-proof insulator, with a series of high-temperature fins girdling the lower end. These fins quickly attain sufficient heat to burn off any deposits of soot or oil, thus offering effective resistance to carbon troubles." AUTOMOBILE ITEMS A spare fan belt should be carried in every car. In Stockholm, says a dispatch, traffic officers carry swords. The idea sounds as if it might be worth importing. The exact holding power of each brake is easily determined, and an absolute equal adjustment may be made. The average modern man tries to perform the difficult feat of keeping his nose to the grindstone and running an automobile at the same time. THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, O., SATURDAY, JUNE 30. 1928 THE MUSEUM OF THE WORLD ur, of ht ng h- in et ee lk ch le ll- in of st ce pe, or of ss ve le n- an n- by nd tropical cloth. The coat of natural cern color is lined with the material striped in wide green stripes to match the smart blouse. The ends of the stripes at the edge of the coat are left fringed to add a bit of decoration to the otherwise tailored effect. The skirt is made with deep plaits. Suits of silk crepe as well as those of black satin register frequently in the style parade. Beige is a favorite tone for the crepe costume and it is usually carried out in the monotone even to the accessories worn with it. The navy satin or crepe suit is fre- IT'S FASHIONABLE MANY ST ABLE TO WEAR NY STRIPES THIS SEASON THE FASHION OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY THE vogue for the ensemble costume reduces to the glory of the separate blouse. Wherefore considerable of the planning of the vacation wardrobe must necessarily center around the theme of the blouse. Nor is the blouse to be considered only from a utilitarian standpoint, for this season it is as often expressed in terms of extreme dressiness as in terms of practical service. This favor for the blouse de two-piece styling now carry prestige for both evening and daytime wear, which is really an innovation considered in the light of modes which have gone before. At mention of the dressy formal blouse, imagination immediately visions most beauteous creations of all-over lace, for the lace blouse ranks among the idols of fashion. Those of tinted lace are the loveliest, and they are tuned to complement the skirt over which they are posed. A soft green georgette for the finely plaited skirt, or it may be in flesh color, aquamarine blue or other of the newer shades, this with a blouse of lace in perfect match color, the entire topped with a coat of the identical georgette as that of which the skirt is made—such fantasies as this it is which are lending enchantment to the summer scene. But we digress. What we started to y Your Co or an Acqu Copy of The cquaintance w FOR summer town wear, the suit or ensemble of silk, or of silk with a slight wool mixture, is outstanding in the mode. Now that fashionables are thinking in terms of silk for their street costumes, the theme becomes of infinite interpretation. In the procession of silk suits and ensembles which are crowding into the style picture, one sees a versatile showing ranging from tailored jacket-and-skirt satin types, the same being of Parisian inspiration, to most beguiling three and four-piece versions, some of crepe, others of taffeta, bengaline or moire, while still others are of an interesting and novel class of fabrics which interweave some wool with silk. The three-piece ensemble in the picture marks the introduction of taj, which is an entirely new fabric of unusual qualities produced by a weave of cashmere and silk. The effect is of a light quently complemented with either a red, white or beige blouse. With the suit or ensemble of black satin the gayest of gay prints are favored for the blouse. Another of the silken suits whose soft silhouette furnishes a relief from the severe cloth tailleur, uses marine blue taffeta for the youthful jacket and skirt, with a jumper of white crepe, the same applied with a bordering of red taffeta stripes. Quite a patriotic color combination this, and one which fashion emphasizes in many ways. JULIA BOTTOMLEY. (© 1928 Newspaper Union.) tell about is the importance of stripes in the mode. It is the fashionable thing, nowadays to attend, the daytime bridge party—in stripes, to play tennis and golf—in stripes, or perhaps to stroll the flowered paths which lead to the country club—in stripes. It is indeed a fashionwise person who elects to wear stripes this season. Which accounts for the fact that the originals of the handsome blouses here pictured are included in the summer wardrobe of that always stylishly gowned screen artist Laura La Plante. In the picture to the right Miss La Plante is wearing a charming outfit of gray and rose silk. The blouse which is of striped rose and gray silk is enriched with a narrow silver belt. The sports blouse to the left is of multicolored stripes, navy predominating. The diagonal styling of these stripes adds to their attractiveness. Other new ideas in stripes stress tricolor, which is fashion's latest whim, also ombre effects, which reveal exquisite blending. Gay striped summer-weight flannel is very popular for the sports frock. In these models the blouse is usually sleeveless and for it the stripes are made up horizontally, armhole and neckline being finished with contrary stripes. The plaited skirt carries vertical stripes. JULIA BOTTOMLEY. © 1828 Western Newspaper Union. WOODLAND HILLS BATHING POOL. George A. Myers of the Hollendene, this city, sent us recently an editorial from the Cleveland Daily Plain Dealer of June 5 and correspondence between himself and others, and Safety Director Edwin D. Barry relative to the protection of all who desire to avail themselves of the bathing and other facilities for plains residents, seems that there was some trouble during a ball game at Woodland Hills Park, Sunday, May 6. Director Barry in his communication to Mr. Myers again assured all that arrangements had been completed which placed a "deuty inspector and the necessary number of the Woodland Hills bathing-pool and to keep them there until the pool closes, this fall. Park Director Newman and Safety Director Barry also promised the proper police protection in Woodland Hills Park on Sundays. Our people of Cleveland and vicinity should not fall to use all of the public parks, beaches and all of the places of entertainment, amusement, etc., freely and at will. Assert your rights in public places in a proper way at all times. That is the only way to get and retain them. BARCUS BOLTS Regardless of the fact that Ohio Afro-Americans have a candidate of their own for the Republican nomination for Governor of Ohio, Atty. Robert B. Barcus of Columbus is sending long letters to our voters of the state imploring them to vote for Edward C. Turner (white) of Columbus, present Attorney General of the state, who is also a candidate for the nomination. This man Barcus, a high official of our state K. P. temple, is standing and will lead in the movement which resulted in the leasing of the theater in our new K. P. temple or headquarters at Columbus to a white man who conducts a chain of "movie" theaters in that city from many if not most of which Columbus Afro-Americans are barred or otherwise discriminated against. If the foregoing be true, as communications from leading Afro-Americans of Columbus allege, Barcus is sure "running to form" and is making possible for our people, these days, to make any material progress along political and several other lines. (in supporting Turner's candidacy.) Lord have mercy! There is not a single outstanding candidate for the Republican nomination for Governor, this year. They are all very ordinary and it will be an easy matter for the more than two hundred thousand Afro-American candidates in this state to nominate a candidate to the register and vote for him. "That is the situation in a nutshell." They can win if they want to! They can have this nomination if they will but do their clear duty to themselves and the race. The writer is again affording them the opportunity to do this and, too, with absolutely no monetary expense to them as herefore. Ohio brothers and sisters, who are not the only one is made, that you do not have a chance. Here is your opportunity. Will you take advantage of it? BEATY AND COOPER. The Hon. A. Lee Beaty of Cincinnati, ex-member of the Ohio legislature and former assistant U. S. district attorney in southern Ohio, is one of the signers of Myers Y. Cooper's declaration of candidacy for the Republican nomination for Governor. This fact has caused an endless amount of caustic criticism because it is a miserable insult to all the loyal, self and race respecting Afro-Americans in the state of Ohio. Myers Y. Cooper, the Republican candidate, has governed two years ago, was defeated as a result of the refusal of thousands of our voters through the state to support his candidacy because of the insulting discrimination he thrusts upon our people of his city and county in business dealings. Beaty and Cooper live in Cincinnati. The former knows of the latter's color-line activity. Regardless of this, Beaty signed Cooper's declaration of candidacy, undoubtedly with a purpose objection—to help Cooper get Afro-American votes. May God forgive him! Beaty, when a member of the Ohio legislature, introduced a bill to amend our Ohio Civil Rights Law which, I noticed, greatly State Assembly, would be enforced the law. Luckily the bill was never enacted. Why he ever introduced it, we have never learned. It was doubtless but a move similar to his recent signing of Cooper's declaration of candidacy. One of the greatest drawbacks to the progress of our people in community, state and nation is just such most reprehensible action upon the part of members of the race who pose as local national leaders. Lord have mercy! "NOT THE LARGEST, BUT THE BEST!" Little Rock, Ark. June 16, '25. Hon. Harry C. Smith, Editor, Gazette, Cleveland, O. Dear Friend!—Long live The Gazette! a welcome friend to the Ricks-Demby family for forty-three years. We boast of being among the oldest continuous subscribers of The Gazette—not the largest but the best in essentials and the most dependable of race journals. Wishing you continued good health and success, we are as ever. Very truly yours, (Bishop) Edward T. and Nettie M. Demby. Patronize Our Advertisers GAZETTE ho might Su OHIO'S MOB VIOLENCE ACT OR ANTI-LYNCHING LAW LEADS THE COUNTRY IN EFFECTIVE LEGISLATION Against the Mob and Lynch-Murder-Three Years' Work of a Member of the Race-Also His Ohio Civil Rights Law. Section 6278. "Mob" and "lynching" defined. 6279. "Serious injury" defined. 6280. Damages in case of assault. 6281. Damages in case of lynching. 6282. Damages recoverable by legal representative of victim of lynching. 6283. Person suffering death or injury by mob trying to lynch another. 6284. Limitations of action. 6285. Order to include recovery and costs in tax levy. 6286. Guardian's custody, etc., fees. 6287. County's right of action against member of mob 6288. County's right of action against another county. 6289. Non-relief from prosecution. Our mob-violence or anti-lynching bill was introduced in the Ohio legislature in 1894 and re-introduced in 1896. It took the Hon. Harry C. Smith, editor of The Gazette, just three years to secure its enactment into law. The Ohio Supreme Court has several times upheld the constitutionality of the law and it has been Section 6278. A collection of people assembled for an unlawful purpose and intending to do damage or injury to any one, or pretending to exercise correctional power over other persons by violence and without permission to the victim, or "mob" for the purpose of this chapter. An act of violence by a mob upon the body of any person shall constitute a "lynching" within the meaning of this chapter. (93 v. 161 2.) Section 6279. The term "serious injury," for the purpose of this chapter, shall include such inquiry as permanently or temporarily it from earning a livelihood by manual labor. (93 v. 161 3.) Section 6280. A person taken from officers of justice by a mob, and assaulted with whips, clubs, missiles or in any other manner, may be tried for the same offence to exceed one thousand dollars as damages from the county in which the assault is made. (93 v. 161 4.) Section 6281. A person assaulted and lynched by a mob may recover from the county in which such as assaulted him, five hundred dollars; or, if the injury received therefrom is serious, a sum not exceeding one thousand dollars; or, if such injury result in permanent disability, to earn a livelihood by manual labor, a sum not to exceed five thousand dollars. (93 v. Section 6282. The legal representative of a person dying from injuries received from lynching by a mob may recover of the county in which such injury occurred, a sum not to exceed $10,000, ages for such unlawful killing. Such sum shall be applied to the maintenance of the family and education of the minor children of such person so lynched, if any survive him, until such children are of legal age, and then be distributed to the survivors, share and share alike, the widow rejoices, and the child is distributed, share. If there be no widow or minor or children surviving such decedent, such sum shall be distributed among the next of kin according to the laws of the distribution of the personality of an intestate. Such sum so recovered shall not be a part of the estate of such person lynched, nor be any of his liabilities. (93 U.S.C. 162.8) Section 6283. A person suffering death or injury from a mob attempting to lynch another person shall come within the provisions of this chapter. He or his legal representatives shall have a like right of action as one purposely injured or killed by such a mob (93 v. 162 6.) or another victim for the recoveries provided for in this chapter must be commenced, within two years from the date of such lynching, in any court having original jurisdiction of an action for damages for malicious assault. (93 v. 162 7.) Section 6285. An order to the commissioners of a county, against which such recovery is had, to include it with the costs of action, in which the shall receive tax levy for such county, shall be a part of the judgment in every such case. (93 v. 162 8.) Section 6236. If the decedent so lynched has minor children surviving him, the fund shall be turned over to a regularly appointed guardian. Such guardian shall administer such fund under the direction of the probate judge, allowing not more than five hundred dollars for counsel fees in the action for such recovery. (93 v. 162 9.) Section 6237. The county, in which a lynching occurs, may recover the amount of a judgment and cost of the lynching, or legal representatives of a person killed or seriously injured by a mob from any of the persons composing such mob. A person present, with hostile intent, at such lynching shall be deemed a member of the mob and be liable to such action. (93 v. 162 10.) Section 6288. If a mob carries a prisoner into another county, or comes from another county to commit violence on a prisoner brought from such county for safekeeping, the county in which the lynching is committed may recover the amount of the judgment and costs from the county from which the mob came, the county on which the lynching was engaged on the part of officials of such county in failing to protect such prisoner or disperse such mob. (93 v. 163 11.) Section 6289. This chapter shall very effective. Illinois, Pennsylvania and New Jersey have followed Ohio's lead and enacted mob violence or anti-lynching laws which are copies of our Ohio law. Several other northern states and at least one border state (Kentucky) have also enacted anti-lynching laws, in recent years, like Pennsylvania and New Jersey. The Ohio law follows: OBJS. ed. representative of victim of lynching. try by mob trying to lynch another. costs in tax levy. inst member of mob inst another county. not relieve a person concerned in such lynching from prosecution for homicide or assault for engaging therein. (93 v. 163 12.) OUR OHIO CIVIL RIGHTS LAW Upon the request of many readers of The Gazette we print below the text of the Hon. Harry C. Smith's Ohio Civil Rights law which the editor had enacted while a member of the 71st General Assembly, in 1894: The General Code of Ohio: Sec. 12940. Whoever, being the proprietor or his employee, keeper or manager of an inn, restaurant, eating house, barber-shop, public conveyance by land or water, theater or other place of public accommodation and amusement, denies to a citizen, except for reasons applicable alike to all citizens and regardless of race or national origin, public accommodations, advantages, facilities or privileges thereof, shall be defined not less than fifty dollars nor more than five hundred dollars, or imprisoned not less than thirty days nor more than ninety days, or both. Sec. 12941. Whoever violates the next preceding section shall also pay not less than fifty dollars nor more than five hundred dollars to the person aggrieved thereby to be recovered in any court of competent jurisdiction in the county where such offense was committed. This law has repeatedly been held constitutional and good law by the Ohio "Supreme court. The trouble is only when the judge must use them they should, but expect it to do for them what they should and must do for themselves, under it, in the courts. Judge Grant's Opinion of the Law Misled by the foolishly manufactured outcry for the passage of the Beaty bill, a few years ago, the Akron Beacon Journal published an editorial to which the editor of The Gazette replied, calling its attention to the fact that the Ohio Civil Rights law was good law and did not need amending. The following letter from Judge Grant former presiding judge of the Court of Appeals of the Eighth District of Ohio, is self explanatory: Akron, O., April 25, 1919. Hon. Harry C. Smith. Edward C. Harry. My Dear Sir: Observing your letter in the Beacon-Journal, of this city, I venture to send you, under a separate cover, the Ohio Law Reporter of Feb. 3, last, containing the opinion of the Court of Appeals in the Puritan Lunch Co. vs. Leonard R. Forman, decided in Akron, last fall, in which a judgment for ($500) five hundred dollars was sustained. If the Beacon-Journal had known what was going on in its own town, there would have been no occasion for criticism editorially. THE LAW OF OHIO IS UNDER NO PROHIBITION, or our courts and juries, in it. No word was said by the Beacon-Journal when the Forman case was reviewed. Very truly yours, R. C. Grant. 'HUMAN NATURE'S FOULEST BLOT." My ear is pained. My soul is sick with every day's report Of wrong and outrage, with which the earth is filled, There is no flesh in man's obdurate heart. It does not feel for man; the natural bond Of brotherhood is severed as the flax That falls asunder at the touch of fire. He finds his fellow guilty of a skin Not colored like his own; and having power To enforce the wrong, for such a worthy cause. Dooms and devotes him as his lawful prey. Thus man devotes his brother, and destroys: 'Tis human nature's broadest foulest blot. —Cowper. 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