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Election Day, Tuesday, Nov. 6, 1928 THE GAZETTE ESTABLISHED, AUGUST 25, 1883 And Issued Every Week on Time Since FRESH OHIO NEWS WRITTEN BY "THE OLD RELIABLE" GAZETTE'S CORRESPONDENTS. Marriages, Deaths, Etc. 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 advertisements of all kinds, including items announcing entertainment 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. CADIZ. R. Raymond Myers of Wheeling and Miss Josephine Lucas were married, July 26, at the bride's parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Lucas, by the bride's grandfather, Rev. W. H. Lucas—Rev. H. P. Jones of Cleveland delighted a large audience at Simpson M. E. church with a lecture full of wholesome advice. —Edgar Brown, age 28, of E. Liverpool died suddenly from an operation. The remains were buried from St. James A. M. E. church, Sunday afternoon, Rev. W. E. Watson officiating, assisted by Revs. Lucas and C. M. Sexton. A number, including Elks, came from that city to attend the funeral. The deceased was at the head of the lodge there. The family have the sympathy of the community in the improvement. Fourth quarterly meeting, Sunday, at St. James church —Miss E. Genevieve Lee left, Friday, to attend the summer-school at Fisk University, Nashville, Tenn. —Mr. and Mrs. Oliver Ramsey and daughter of Akron were among those called here by Edgar Brown's death. —Mr. and Mrs. James Pettress motored to New London, Sunday, to visit Rev. and Mrs. Richard Hughes. ALLIANCE. —Mr. Silas Brooks and Mr. Alex Roach of Cleveland visited their mothers, Mesdames Woodworth and Roach, last Wednesday. —Mrs. Irene Hood left, Sunday, for Barberton to visit a sister, Mrs. Georgia Williams, who is ill. —Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Anderson were called to Pittsburgh, last week, by his mother's sudden death. Mrs. Celia Neal, visiting Mrs. George Williams, Blackburn. At the W. M. M. S business meeting, last Tuesday evening. The following officers were elected: Pres., Miss Myrtle Miller; vice pres., Mrs. Luela Harrell; sec., Mrs. Luella Board; cor. sec., Mrs. Dorance Travis; treas., Mrs. Lucy Frazier; ex. com., Mrs. Irene Hood, Mrs. Ella Sanders and Mrs. Cora Roach. —Rev. N. R. Burruss preached a very interesting sermon at the missionary Circle's rally, Sunday at Seven O'Clock Church. The pastor. —Rev. C. W. Chapman, preached at First Baptist church in Irondale, that day. —Mr. W. Harbin and Mr. Fennie Jones of Warren visited Second Baptist church, Sunday morning, and were guests of Rev. and Mrs. Burruss. —Rev. J. Coleman of Ravenna called on Rev. Chapman and family, Sunday afternoon. —Rev. E. Bell held special services at his church in Sebring, Sunday, and Mrs. Burruss, very pleasing solos. —Rev. and Mrs. McD. Sharpe have returned from Toledo. They attended the K. P. meeting. It was an exceptional success. —Mrs. Mary Paradise and others spent the week and in Detroit. HILLSBORO.—Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Blakey, employed four years at the hospital, have accepted positions in Cincinnati.—Mr. and Mrs. Wilbur Jackson, Mr. and Mrs. Dorsey Minor, Miss Jeanne Goins, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Minor were in Chillicothe, Sunday evening, and visited draughtor, of Richmond, Ind. visited her parents, last week.—Mrs. Martha Gay of Columbus visited her mother, Saturday and Sunday.—Mr. and Mrs. Elmus Miller of St. Louis, and mother, Mrs. Edith Jackson, en route to Niagara Falls, arrived Saturday, to visit Mrs. Alline Burton, of Coopersville, of St. Louis, to visit Mrs. Milton Day, last week.—Miss V. Paxton entertained the Baptist Ladies' Aid, Thursday afternoon. Refreshments.—Miss Rosetta Nelson of Dayton is visiting her father.—Rev. W. L. Brasco, of Youngstown, H. & F. mission worker of the Nat'l Baptist board, visited Rev. R. L. Bray and preached at the Church of Gilbert Willis, Columbus visited his mother, Saturday and Sunday.—Mr Paul Kilgore and Mrs. Edith Cottman were mar- ried, Saturday, at Mr. and Mrs. John Hudson's, by Rev. J. J. Burr—Mrs. and Mrs. Starlie Bolden of M. Sterling visited her mother, Wednesday evening. — Baptist church members had a great time on the picnic tour, Sunday, motoring to Willmington, meet the Chillicothe Muses, Matz Zack Lewis has returned to Springfield. — Cast your vote for Harry C. Smith for Governor, Aug. 14. — Mrs. C. H. Williams visited her husband in Cincinnati. HON. HARRY A. TILDEN A Candidate for State Senator Every Afro-American in Cuyahoga County Should Atty. Harry A. Tilden was born and reared in Cuyahoga County. He is a direct descendant of the founders of Cleveland, a former member of the Ohio Legislature where he took an active part in passing the Automatic Car Coupler law, since adopted throutout the United States and in Canada, and lately adopted by the French government. He also supported the Smith Ohio Anti-Lynching bill, one of the two best crime-preventing laws in the Ohio Hon. Harry A. Tilden. statutes. Not only in this but also in everything of interest to Afro-Americans that came before the State Assembly while Atty. Tilden was a member of that august body he evidenced a true friendship for our people that the editor of The Gazette, who was also a legislator at the time and a colleague of Mr. Tilden, freely attests and, at the same time, urges our people to vote for him because they can absolutely vote for him. Tilden is a candidate for a Republican nomination for State Senator Primaries. Aug. 14. Show him by active support of his candidacy that we appreciate him and the assistance he gave our people freely while a member of the Ohio Legislature years ago. *Vote for Tilden!* VOTE AGAINST BONDS Asked by the City Welfare Department Because Our Internes and Girls Are Barred From the City Hospital and Its Public-School of Nursing. Editor Gazette, Dear Sir:—A new phase of the City hospital matter is in the making to further allow the City Welfare Department, under City Manager Hopkins, to continue to bar our high school girls from this city's public-school of nursing while they are taking in girls of every other race in the city. A new bond issue will be asked by the Department for extensions to the City hospital which bars our internes and girls. Our voters of Cleveland should not be mislead into believing that to put our girls in this city's public-school of nursing is a privilege. This is a right that belongs to them along with our girls of this city, and is not "a special privilege". We do not ask or demand "special privileges". Don't let anyone fool you into voting the City Welfare Department any more money as long as they keep our internes and girls out of the City hospital and its public-school of nursing. Mrs. John E. B. Ballard and daughter, Helen, are visiting Atty, Ballard's sister, Mrs. J. F. Chambers, in Oll City, Pa. COOPER MEETING A REGULAR FROST! Only Forte Persons Attended It and They Loudly Applauded References to the Hon. Harry C. Smith's Candidacy for the Republican Nomination for Governor. Editor Gazette, Dear Sir;—After attending the "Cooper" meeting at Messiah Baptist church, last week Tuesday evening, the Central Voters' League is convinced that only a small part of our race, about forty in all, were at the meeting, know that one of our local ministers, Rev. Boston J. Prince and other "trimmers", affect not to know that we have candidates of our own in the field. How long must we wait for new colored voters who will not be lead like sheep by "trimming" Rev. Boston J. Prince. Wm. Y086h Chair. Ex. Com. Central Voters League. DOINGS OF THE RACE There are 100,000 more Afro-Americans than "Whites" in Mississippi and 50,000 more, in South Carolina. St. Ema Industrial and Agricultural College, Belmean, Powhattan Co. Va., has just been left $230,000 by Mrs. Anne Lee (white) of St. Louis. Decreases in mob violence and lynching, together with continued progress of the Ku Klux Klan on the road to oblivion, are noted in the annual report of the American Civil Liberties Union, just issued. For the protection of all patrons at Woodland Hills bathing pool, Safety Director Edwin D. Barry has one police captain, two lieutenants, one sergeant, five patrolmen and two firemen on guard. SINGLE COPY FIVE CENTS A NATIONAL OUTRAGE OF TEN MILLION LOYAL AMERICANS WHO WILL RENT IT AT THE POLLS IN NOVEMBER Afro-American Government Clerks, Male and Female, Huddled Together in Small Rooms, Paid Low Wages and Denied Advancement— Otherwise Mistreated, Too! Washington, D. C.—The following open letter has just been sent to Secretary of the U. S. Treasury Andrew W. Mellon by Prof. Neval E. Thomas: "As to the office of Treasurer of The United States, I will say that we have had numerous conferences with Gov. Frank T. White, the treasurer, and his assistant, Mr. Thiel, and have climbed the many tall steps with him to the point of posing in the out-of-the-way places of the huge treasury structure. You deny that those five faithful and able black clerks whom we found on the fifth floor, huddled in a small room away from thousands of their white co-workers, on poor work and low pay, are segregated. To quote you verbatim, you say, in the office of the treasurer there, no grouping of white men and women by season, though it so happens that the separation of certain white women and colored men employees in a separate room resulted. Why are they segregated from the thousands of white men and women who work together in the same room? Why are they kept in the lower levels of the building opposite the front interior of white men who have passed over them to executive places solely on account of their color. All of these five clerks are above the THE GAZETTE is the oldest and has the largest bona fide circulation in Ohio, double that of any newspaper in the interest of Afro-Americans published in this or any other country. We immediately establish its rank as one of the NEWSIEST AND BEST in the country. THE COPY FIVE CENTS MILLON! ON IN U. S. DEPARTMENT E OF TEN MILLION LOYAL O WILL RENT IT AT IN NOVEMBER Sent Clerks, Male and Female, A Small Rooms, Paid Low Bied Advancement— Mistreated, Too! average by far—fine education, native ability and culture. The Hon. John T. Howe was once a member of the North Carolina legislature, and a product of the schools, both of his state and New England, yet both Gov. White and Mr. Thiel told Prof. Neval H. Thomas me he was 'responsible for all of the trouble.' Think of it, 'trouble' because he doesn't like the humiliation of segregation, low pay, and the sight of his white apprentices soaring over him to lucrative offices on account of the color of their skin and the knowledge he has given them. I was glad we saw him situate the prevalence of segregation in the dressing-rooms of the Bureau or Engraving, but there is other discrimination there in abundance. There is no colored person in a directive position, yet you have some of the most refined and capable women to be found in the service anywhere, white or black. We have numerous complaints from that institution. You state the number of colored employees among your sixty-seven thousand that you have served in the service, but you fail to state white monopoly of high positions and live emoluments. The colored army which you are glad to bring out to the public gaze is one of messengers, charwomen, helpers, laborers, and a very small number of low-paid, segregated clerks. Your statistics, Mr. Secretary, mislead unless explained. You state, finally, that you are 'deeply interested in everything that concerns the welfare of the colored race in the society' and receive everywhere the just and fair treatment to which they are entitled.' My dear sir, yours is the supreme opportunity! The great world-figure that presides over the largest department of a great government, a perfect king in national and international banking, can usher in that perfect day. May he set that example in the Treasury Department, a beneficial act that will influence every other department and liberalize the practice of private employees everywhere in the nation. Very truly yours, Noval H. Thomas." BLOCTON, ALA., ITEMS Miss Freddie M. Baskins of Birmingham is visiting relatives in W. Blocton.—Mrs. N. A. Laverder of Tuscaloosa spent the week-end with Mr. and Mrs. E. D. Dobbins.—Mrs. G. E. Parker of W. Field is here visiting relatives.—Mrs. M. Avery of Brent is spending the week-end with relatives. Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Avery. Mr. S. Phillip of Selma is the guest of Mr. and Mrs. F. Smitherman.—Tuggle Choice lodge met, last Thursday, in Hargroo hall. Mrs. E. D. Ward lectured.—Mr. and Mrs. B. Wilson will manage a rooming and boarding house for the Red Ash Coal Co., starting Tuesday. YOU'LL STAY IN THE HOUSE ALL DAY AND THAT SETTLES IT! — I CAN'T HELP IT IF IT DOES MAKE YOU ANGRY YOU'VE GOT TO BE PUNISHED I TOLD YOU TO TAKE GOOD CARE OF THAT NICE NEW HAT I BOUGHT YOU AND YOU DELIBERATELY LET THAT OLD GOAT EAT IT. NOW GET IN THERE AND STOP YOUR FUSSING! WHAT IN THE WORLD IS THE Matter WITH YOU ANY WAY? THREEHUN'REDSIXY THREEHUN'REDSIXY ONE THREEHUN'REDSIXY TWO THREE!!! I'M COUNTIN' YOU TOLE ME WHEN I GOT MAD TO COUNT A HUN'RED YES I DID WELL, I'VE COUNTED UP TO THREE HUN'RED AN' SEVENY-EIGHT AN' I'M MADDER'N WHEN I STARTED. The GAZETTE PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY One Year ..... $2.00 Six Months ..... 1.00 Subscribers are requested to remit by postoffice money order or registered letter. Enferred 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 STRENGTH 10,000 Afro-Americans. 350,000 in Ohio. 40,000 in Cleveland. SATURDAY, AUGUST 4, 1928. Our people should NOT vote for any of our candidates that insult them by going to color-line Luna Park to attend a picnic or anything else. If they have not any more manhood, self and race respect than to do so insulting and disgusting a thing as that, DO NOT VOTE FOR THEM at the primary, Aug. 14, '28. The organizations or persons of color that are circulating color-line Luna Park picnic tickets ought to be ashamed of themselves. Castigate them! the twentieth annual conference of the N. A. A. C. P. is to be held in Cleveland, O., in June, 1929. Since Prof. Neval H. Thomas lived here for years when a youth it is expected that he will be one of the principal speakers of the meet. Also, it is expected that the local branch of the organization will "perk up" and accomplish something material before June, 1929. It has been of very little use to our people of this city since its inception. President Charles W. White has the opportunity of his life and can easily "outpoint" any of his predecessors—if he will "strike out" and lead the local organization in doing something—anything worth while. And "The old Reliable" Gazette will help him all it can. THAT "JIM CROW" MENACE A row between the white and "Negro" musicians' local unions was climaxed, Saturday, July 21, with an injunction issued by Common Pleas Judge Homer G. Powell to the Ohio Theatre Co., restraining Al Waldon and Musicians' Local, No. 550, (colored), from withdrawing Waldon and his orchestra from the theater (on order of Nat'l. Press. Weber, white, of N. Y. City), before the close of the present run of "Broadway" of the national president of the musicians' organization, ordered Waldon and his orchestra out of the theater, Waldon said in court. Saturday. "Im in between, on this row," Waldon said. "E. D. Haug, business agent of the white local, wanted his men in the theater. They first tried to get us out on the charge that we were working below the union scale. That didn't work. Then Haug went to New York. This morning (July 21), I got orders from Weber to pull my orchestra (take it out of the theater). It's simply a row between the white and colored locals." E. P. Strong, vice president of the theater company, told Judge Powell that Waldon and his orchestra had been employed to play for the run of the show and had been especially trained in their cues. The orchestra plays incidental music backstage. "The Cleveland Press. July 21. '28." The writer, the editor of The Gazette, then a musician, helped to organize the local musicians' union, the first in Cleveland, many years ago, and was elected a member of its first executive committee, receiving more votes than any other member of the committee. Anderson H. Bowman, another member of the race, a leading local musician at the time, and still a resident of this city, was also elected a member of the executive committee at the same meeting. All its other members were "white." The members of this mixed (as to race or group) union got along beautifully together for years and until there came to Cleveland some years ago. "Negro" musicians from the South who were insistent on having "a separate union for Negroes" (doubtless encouraged by prejudiced "white" musicians), so some of them could get all of the offices of a local organization. they said. They were given the "jim crow" union asked and of course got the offices they hungered for. This is the way "jim crow Negro" teachers sometimes get positions—when they and their "jim crow" friends (colored and "white") insist upon separate or "jim crow" schools in northern cities and towns. Ku Kluxans are always ready and willing to promote segregation. This same desire for "a job" is all that is behind the local effort of two or three "Negro" doctors who advocate a "jim crow" hospital for Cleveland. They, like the "jim crow" teachers referred to and those local "jim crow Negro" musicians, of some years ago, would have positions or jobs at any expense to the race and its vital interests. We warned the latter, the "Negro" musicians, of the inevitable result of such fool-action as they contemplated, but in vain. We have repeatedly warned our people of this community and the few "jim crow Negro" doctors, who have thus far failed in their effort to establish a "jim crow" hospital, that it would sooner or later close the doors of every other hospital in the city to our people, and now we are again doing the same thing only in a little different way. We have a concrete example in this Al Waldon orchestra—"jim crow" and white musicians' unions "squabble" which never have been possible but for the fact of the existence of the local "jim crow" union. When colored and "white" musicians were members of the one union, we helped to organize and "put on its feet," many years ago, there was never any such friction, nor would such be possible now but for the organization of that "jim crow" tail to the old union's kite. And "jim crow Negroes", anxious for a job and positions as officers of a union, are directly responsible for it. A "jim crow" hospital in Cleveland means a few jobs for "jim crow Negro" doctors and others and the loss of the service our people of this community are now enjoying in all of the hospitals of the city, among the best in the country. They would, very soon after its establishment, be told: "You have a hospital of your own, take your desperately ill mother, father, sister, brother (or whoever is your own) in your own hospital, this one is crowded;" This is exactly what we would get, and all know it. And who would want to trust the life of a near and dear relative to the "tender merries" of a "jim crow Negro" doctor? Would you? Put this question to yourself. Those "jim crow Negro" local musicians, of some years ago, would not listen and we sure plead with them in behalf of those of the race in this community, largely because one "jim crow" affair of the kind always means others since "jim crow" feeds on itself and thrives especially where prejudiced "whites" are able to encourage "jim crow Negroes" to apparently take the initiative in such contemptible movements. Business Agent Haug (mark the name), of the "white" local union "wanted his men" (white) in the theater," says Waldon, and this in the face of the fact that both unions were under the same national organization; headquarters, New York City. This would never have been possible with our musicians members of the old or what is now termed the "white" (Clarence Darrow says grey; no "white") union, and Darrow is right! In plain words, the latter organization, the "white" or rather grey one we mean, was simply trying to play the hog under a Haug's leadership, and would have gotten away with it, too, but for the righteous intervention of the court, Judge Powell's "restraining order" or injunction did the business and again proved the absolute necessity for the injunction in law. May the good Lord have mercy on the "jim crow Negro" and encourage manhood, self and race respect among our people, is our prayer. MYERS Y. COOPER Myers Y. Cooper of Cincinnati was from 115,000 to 350,000 below (in votes) previous Republican candidates for governor. "Color-Line" Cooper was also weak in Hamilton county, where he lives! Our voters in 1924 Harry L. Davis of Cleveland received 88,845 votes for governor in Hamilton county; in 1926, Cooper received only 64,514 votes in his own county (Hamilton). It was mainly the refusal of our voters to support Cooper two years ago, because of his color-line activities in his business, principally, that brought about his defeat. He is as open, today, to the color-line charge as he was then. The result is that an Ohio Afro-American is known. To support Myers Y. Cooper, a candidate for the Republican nomination for Governor at this time, surely must be totally lacking in manhood, self and race respect. Pass the word along to all of our people that you meet. THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, O., SATURDAY, AUGUST 4, 1928. HARRY C. SMITH for GOVERNOR ADMIRES COURAGE SAYS DR. BAILEY! Cleveland, Ohio, July 17, '28. Hon. H. C. Smith, Editor Gazette, City. Dear Friend:—I learned, recent- ly, that you had filed your petition for the Republican nomination (primary election, Aug. 14, '28) for govern- ment. I hope you to state this note, that I hear yellowly approve of it and will give my earnest support by my own vote and strive to influence others to vote for you, also. Why shouldn't you Rev. Horace C. Bailey. aspire for this honor? You are a man and citizen, and are "to the manner born." You have all the genius of our American civilization and government. Our groups are opening their mental eyes, more and more, to the fact that it is their privilege to aspire to any office in the gift of the people, if they have the requisite qualifications. I admire a COURAGEOUS man, even if he opposes me, and I have always termed you a man of that type (courageous) even you the stand alone. I am ever yours. (Rev.) H. C. BAILEY. PROF. NEVAL H. THOMAS Again Endorses Our Candidacy for the Republican Gubernatorial Nomination and Issues a Call to All to Help. Hon. Harry Clay Smith, Editor Gazette, Cleveland, O. My dear Harry;—I am happy again to learn of your candidacy for the Republican nomination for Governor of Ohio, and, since I know you will have many expenses to meet in your campaign, and large sums of money to fight, I enclose the modest sum of ten dollars, and appeal to my black fellow countrymen all over the nation to send contributions, however small. It is a common cause we are fighting, and your splendid campaign has taught both white and black America the fitness of Afro-Americans being in any office, both appointive and elective. You are one of the few of America's outstanding characters who have remained true to the great ideals of a once great party. You remain true to the Constitution of these United States, while the great mass of our American leaders have bowed the knee to Baal, and degenerated into time-servers, hypocrites, cowards, and villains. Your Gyril Rithrath law is one of the best pieces of legislation in the history of this country, and your Anti-lynching law is far ahead of the benighted states of America. I wish that our white statesmen, especially those posting under the banner of Lincoln, Summer and Frederick Douglass could rise to your vision, patriotism, and loyalty to the public weal. Today these posers refuse to promise anything in their platform, embrace the Ku Klux Klan, insult us with secret enemies, mobilize the elitist enemies do ignore the merit system for the fast dwindling numbers of colored employees in the government, and hurdle the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments in hypocritical pretensions of enforcing the 18th. I know we can depend upon an outraged black citizenship to turn out at the polls on primary election day, and those outside of the state of Ohio to contribute their bit by helping to bear the expenses of your campaign. Sincerely yours, NEVAL H. THOMAS. All men who served in the U. S. forces during the Spanish-American war and wish to co-operate in the establishment of a post in this city will please send their names and addresses to R. W. Welch, 2359 E. 85th St. Messrs. Silas Brooks and Alex. Roach visited their mothers in Alliance, last week. An Old Remedy Fails. "THROWING AWAY VOTES". Columbus, O. June 22. '28. Hon. Harry C. Smith, Editor Gazette, Cleveland, O. My dear 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 I see we seldom are aware of anything else than throwing away our votes in voting for candidates in either party, that protest not agitate me at 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. Sincerely yours, Davis, 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. Dove 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 class or group. She has sensed the matter and got it correct, and those "Negroes" in the 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 easily easily fifty thousand more votes than would be necessary to nominate one of their own as a Republic candidate for any state office and to elect him, too, providing 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." BEATY AND COOPER The Hon. A. Lee Beaty of Chicago, incumbate, 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 of the loyal, self and race respecting Afro-Americans in the State of Ohio. Myers Y. Cooper, the Republican candidate for Governor two years ago, declared as a result of the result of thousands of our voters throughout 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 obvious—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, if enacted by the State Assembly, would have greatly weakened the law. Luckily the bill was never enacted. Why he ever introduced it, it has been 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, state and national leaders. Lord have mercy! 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. organization "widely admired" was a result 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 in ning true to our belief that is making perverse for our why it is almost impossible 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 voters in this state to nominate their candidate if two thousand of them are elected to the chair. 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 non monetary expense to them as he therefore. Obviously he must do so to you! So often the claim is made, that you do not have a chance. Here is your opportunity. Will you take advantage of it? SMITH FOR GOVERNOR! Pittsburgh, Pa. July 16 '28. Hon. Harry C. Smith, Ohio. Dear friend:—How pleased I am to read that you are again a candidate for the Republican nomination for Governor of Ohio. Twice, while I was a resident of Ohio, I voted for you and would gladly do so again, next month (August) were I still there. You are affording our people A GREAT OPPORTUNITY if you would willingly do it. I am hopeful they will open their eyes and teach the Republicans a good lesson. With so many candidates (white) in the field, your chances are better than ever! Let me congratulate you and wish you success. If the feeling in every locality is as I find it in the neighborhood where I live, the Republicans are going to have a job on their hands This is how we will win against Gov. A. Smith. Many Afro-American Republicans here say they are going to vote for him. Many people do not feel Hoover is sincere in waiting seven years and then, only when he wanted votes and was pressed to do, so abolished segregation in a part of his department. They look upon it as salve. I spoke to seven of our men on a street-car that constituted the Republican ticket. Now two will vote for Hoover and five for Gov. AL, Smith. With every wish for your success and the hope that you will win, I am Yours as ever, (Rev.) Oliver W. 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WOMEN DRIVERS MOST RELIABLE Logic, psychology and science have been commandered to build up a stronger case for the woman motorist as a more reliable and safer driver than man. Coming to her defense this time is Robert Clair, safety engineer and chairman of the taxicab and fleet owners' section of the National Safety council. Clair discards as unfair the old arguments that were used to prove the superiority of woman as a driver and resorts to more scientific evidence for the defense. His case is built up on answers sent in by 100 representative men and the same number of women pleasure car drivers, besides verbal statements from 300 commercial car drivers. Asking them whether they believe the average woman driver is as careful as the average man, he finds that 74 per cent of the men reply "No," while 84 per cent of the men shout back "Yes." On Woman's Side. But the word of these men and women isn't the deciding factor for woman's defense. Clair goes to Dr. F. A. Moss, of the department of psychology at George Washington university, who set out to learn which of the sexes responded more quickly to danger signals. The tests showed that the women students selected for the tests were as reliable as the mea- "if not more so." And they were more consistent. "In concluding his tests," Clair reports, "Doctor Moss stated there is no physical reason why a woman may not drive as well as a man and that he has also found no psychological reason." But Clair sees the fallacy in exalting women drivers on the basis of accident and license statistics. "The average woman drives proportionately many fewer miles than the average man," he points out. "Thousands of commercial vehicles roll up tremendous annual totals in mileage—20, 30, even 40,000 miles being common. "Much of men's driving is necessarily at the hazardous hours of maximum traffic congestion, while women drive, as a rule, exclusively for pleasure, for convenience or for shopping tours. "Thus not only does the woman spend many fewer hours behind the wheel than the average man, but her mileage figures are substantially lower." Nevertheless, Clair insists, science and a newer logic prove woman at least is as good a driver as man. British Building Wider Highways to Help State While son 1 of the individual states of this nation have almost as many motor cars as England, the same cannot be said of the development of the system of highways. Although no part of the English road network is designated as a national route, local authorities receive monies for the movement from the national road fund. In return for this help, the government may acquire a belt of land a quarter of a mile wide along the course of new arterial roads so that the enhanced values developed will benefit the state. Shines Around Curves Hazards of driving the automobile at night are reduced by a special headlight so adjusted that a wide beam is projected to both sides of the road, without glare to approaching cars and with better illumination of the highways on curves, says Popular Mechanics Magazine. The lamp plainly shows the road before the driver turns. It is not intended to take the place of the regular spot or headlights, but for special service on winding roads. Bracket Holds Outboard Motor on Front of Auto Many campers pass up the pleasures of an outboard motor because they have no space to carry it. The drawing shows a convenient method of disposing of the motor without sacrificing any space. A wooden bracket is attacked to the front end of the car as indicated. A 1 by 7 of 12-inch board is supported on $ \frac{1}{4} $ by $ \frac{1}{12} $ -inch iron brackets bolted to the frame of the car. Two $ \frac{1}{4} $ by $ \frac{1}{12} $ -inch bars ex- Wooden Bracket Attached to Front End of Auto Holds Outboard Motor Securely. Wooden Bracket Attached to Front End of Auto Holds Outboard Motor Securely. tend from the board to the front spring bolts, to give rigidity to the bracket. The length of these bars varies with each particular make of car, but if the top edge of the board is located about 3 inches below the top of the radiator, the height will usually be suitable. The outboard motor is attached to the bracket as indicated, and it will not obstruct the air circulation to any appreciable extent.-Popular Mechanics Magazine. Proper Type Spark Plug Vital to Car Efficiency Informing car owners of the importance of proper type spark plugs in order to obtain the best performance from an automobile, H. Habezana, research engineer, says in part: "When a plug is too short it does not bring the fire points far enough into the combustion chamber. Good ignition under this condition is impossible. The motor is bound to be sluggish and inefficient. "A plug that is too long extends too far into the firing chamber. This will cause the lower end of the plug to become overheated, resulting in igniting the fuel too early. "The correct length of plug fits so that the bottom of the spark plug shell is just flush with the inside wall of the cylinder head and the spark gap extends beyond into the combustion chamber. "To get maximum power and efficiency from an engine it is absolutely necessary that the proper type spark plug be used, as recommended by the manufacturer's spark plug chart." Probably nothing can run up more mileage and get nowhere than can a cruising taxicab. Now that the season for skid chains is past, see that they are laid away in a place where they will not rust. Undoubtedly the cave man was occasionally chased into his cave to seek refuge, but never by something on wheels travelling at the rate of 40 miles an hour. Women in Italy are showing an increased interest in driving their own cars. They may be seen attending lectures and demonstrations, and many of them learn to be mechanics before they are drivers. There were no motor vehicles in Turkey prior to the World war. The registry at the present time includes 6,000 passenger cars, 1,500 motor trucks and busses, 3,000 tractors and 400 motorcycles. THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, O., SATURDAY, AUGUST 4. 1928 VAGABOND TYPES AND OTHER SOFTBRIM EFFECTS ARE VERY LATEST MODES OF THE HOUR STRESS SUPREMACY OF THE CAPE Underwood Buffalo WOMEN who have sensed the recent turn in millinery styles, are, without delay, be taking themselves to the nearest shop that they may be hatted with one of the new vagabond felts, or a velvet machine-stitched ripple-brim cloche or that which is smartly in fashion a hat of soft "crushy" straw with a face-framing brim. It is very evident that brims are featuring a return engagement. They are again in style, not only for dressy types but the very latest street and sports hats have brims. The smartest item for immediate and general wear is the pastel vagabond felt, or it may be of softest pliable straw. These newest types have no trimming to speak of, usually a band of ribbon, possibly an ornament, but they make color outstanding. They are ever so becoming, these non-chalent brims, and the feminine world is certainly going "strong" for this vogue of brims which has so asserted itself for midseason. At the top of this group to the right the illustration presents a perfect example of the vagabond type of hat which fashion is now so enthusiastically highlighting. This particular model happens to be one of the new fabric-like soft woven straws, but it MODES OF THE HO SUPREM IN "LANNING "clothes" keep in mind the supremacy of the cape in the modes of the hour. There is nothing so smart in the way of a travel costume as a cape suit. At least they say so in Paris. The far-seeing woman in choosing a utility costume which is at once handsome and practical will seek a type which boasts a detachable cape, of which the costume in the picture is a stunning exponent. There is a three-fold mission in this outfit. When snappy sea breezes blow, or mountain motor trips chill, wear the cape. For town wear and shopping tours dun jacket and skirt, sams cape. If the thermometer records a rising temperature, welcome the simple skirt with its dainty lingerie or light crepe blouse. Yes indeed, there is a world of "efficiency" in a suit like this! Not alone to tailored themes do capes confine their activities, for capes y Your Co or an Acqu might as well have been a pastel felt, such as fashionables are at the present moment recognizing as outstanding. Centered in this millinery picture are two ripple-brimmed fabric hats. The one to the left is of faille silk with stitching done row and row in huge circles on the crown. The model to the right is of colorful stitched velvet for the "crown, the brim being of felt. Just below is a similar shape, fashioned of ribbon and straw sewed together in rows. A very smart bakon straw hat is shown at the very top. Paris is placing special emphasis on shapes whose brims widen at the sides and toward the back as does this one. It is noticed that many hats both straw and felt are revealing bonnet-like tendencies. JULIA BOTTOMLEY, (© 1928, Western Newspaper Union.) UR STRESS ACY OF THE CAPE appear in connection with every sort of gown and wrap. Young girls are looking their cleverest in navy flannel cape coats. Absolutely no trimming on these coats, save cunning capes which convey a message of coquetry and charm in their youthful lines. And there is the cape of print or plain silk or chiffon which tops the frock of same material. It is all grace and charm, being designed mostly for "looks" and not protection, although it does that, too, being a welcome wrap when the "shades of night are falling fast" on a summer eve, and her gown is sleeveless. The new navy georgette ensembles made with a cape are smart as smart can be. Some of them have a plaited skirt, a tailored blouse of the same georgette and also a cape, the latter bordered with a plaiting all around. JULIA BOTTOMLEY. py of The aintance w DAY DREAMS. A twisting little ballet Waterbath, babbler Brook; Telling stories of their wanderings, Never read in any Book: Where the leafy, cooly Bowers, Fanned by Zephyr's soft and sweet Hedged by modest little Flowers, Blooming in their deep Retreat. There the tuneful little Songsters. Welcome in the new-born Day; And the pretty, blushing flowers, Scatter perfumes in the Way; All these Offrings to our Father, Source of every earthly Good; Fill with pleasure mortal beings. Comes the lorn and dusty wand'rer From his travels, in the West; And the weary, care-worn Toller, Searching for his needed Rest; Stretched upon the verdant Carpet, Seated on a fallen Tree; Thirst assuaged and Hunger sated, Sleep, from Care, has set then free. Are these sleepers all unconscious, Or do visions intervene? Or, do carmal things confront them, Living o'er the time that's spent? Til, like Hamlet, fill'd with wonder, Empty follies, they, repent? Guilty conscience is the Poison, That doth murder sweet Repose; Careful living, honest Labor, Give us peace, when eyelids close; Then, whatever may betide us, While we tarry here below, If we live a life of Honor, We shall rest forever more. John P. Green. DR. SIMON P. DREW OUR CANDIDATE FOR VICE PRESIDENT OF U. S Washington, D. C., July 22, 1928. Hon. Harry C. Smith. Editor Gazette, Cleveland, O. Honorable Sir: Accept my sincerest congratulations on your candidacy for the Republican nomination for Governor of the state of Ohio. 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Write Today. 25¢ —is the right price to pay for a good tooth paste— LISTERINE TOOTH PASTE Large Tube 25¢ GAZETTE who 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 authority of law, shall be deemed a "mob" for the purpose of this chapter. An act of violence by a mob upon the body of any person shall constitute a "lynching" within the meaning of this chapter. (93 v. 161 2.) Section 6279. The term "serious injury," for the purpose of this chapter, shall include such inquiry as permanently or temporarily disables the person receiving it from earning a good-buy manual labor. (93 v. 161 3.) Section 6280. A person taken from officers of justice by a mob, and assaulted with whips, clubs, missiles or in any other manner, may recover, as hereafter provided, a sum not to exceed one thousand dollars as damages from the county in which the 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 or lynched five hundred dollars; or, if the injury received therefrom is serious, a sum not exceeding one thousand dollars; or, if such injury result in permanent disability, to earn a livelihood by manual labor, a sum not to exceed five thousand dollars (93 v. 12.5). Section 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, and then be distributed to the deceiving an amount equal to a child's share. If there be no widow or minor children surviving such decedent, such sum shall be distributed among the 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 the deceased, so lynched, nor subject to any of his liabilities. (83 v. 162 6.) Section 6283. A person suffering death or injury from a mob attempting to lynch another person shall come within the provisions of this chapter. He or his legal representatives shall have a like right of action as one purposely injured or killed by such person (6283 v. 162 7). Section 6284. Action 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 inquire into the case of the next succeeding tax levy for such county, shall be a part of the judgment in every such case. (93 v. 162 8.) Section 6286. If the decedent so lynched has minor children surviving him, the fund shall be turned over to a regularly appointed guardian. Such guardian shall administer such fund under the direction of the probate judge, allowing not more than five hundred dollars for counsel fees in the action for such recovery. (93 v. 162 9.) Section 6287. The county, in which a lynching occurs, may recover the amount of a judgment and costs against it in favor of the legal person killed or seriously injured by such death of the persons composing such moth. 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 from which the negligence on the part of officials or county in failing to protect such prisoner or dispurse 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: OBS. ed. representative of victim of lynching. try by mob trying to lynch another. costs in tax levy. inst member of mob inst another county. MOBS. 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; 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 color, the full enjoyment of the facilities or privileges thereof, shall be fined not less than fifty dollars nor more than five hundred dollars, or imprisoned not less than thirty days nor more than ninety days, or both. Sec. 12941 Whoever violates the next preceding section shall also pay not less than fifty dollars nor more than fifty dollars to the person aggrieved thereon, to be re-arrested in any court of competent jurisdiction in the county where such offense was committed. This law has repeatedly been held constitutional and good law by the Ohio Supreme court. The trouble is our people will not use it as often as they should, but expect it to do for them what they should and must do for themselves, under it, in the courts. Judge Grant's Opinion of the Law. Misled by the foolishly manufactured 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. Bake Editor The Gazette, Cleveland, O. M My Dear Sir: Observing your letter to the Beacon-Journal, of this city, I would like to separate cover, the Ohio Law de- porter of Feb. 3, last, containing the opinion of the Court of Appeals in the Puritan Lunch Co. vs. Leonard H. Forman, decided in Akron, last fall, in which a judgment for ($500) five hundred dollars was sustained. The Beacon-Journal had known what was going on in its own town, there would be no occasion for criticism editorially. THE LAW OF OHIO IS UNDER NO RE- PROACH, nor our courts and juries, in administering it. Not a 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. Reading It For Reading It