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B THE GOLD CITY TELEPHONE BILLI SYSTEMS THE GOLD CITY TELEPHONE BILLI SYSTEMS THE GAZETTE New York City ESTABLISHED, AUGUST 25, 1883 And Issued Every Week on Time Since CLEVELAND, OHIO, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1928. To Whom It May Concern! Mr. Myers Y. Cooper, Republican candidate for Governor of Ohio, was the cause of great humiliation to my sister, Miss Amelia C. Taylor, and me, 12 years ago last July. We pur- 48 MYERS Y. COOPER. ing loud remarks and trying to intimidate us. On another occasion, Mr. Cooper sent three or four men to survey the back lawn, saying they were going to cut a street through our premises to Carlin St. which faces JUDGE GEIGER THANKS "The Old Reliable" Gazette for Its Presentation of Facts—Says He Is Not Prejudiced Against the Race. Springfield, O., Oct. 15, '28. Hon. Harry C. Smith. Edwardette, Cleveland, O. Dear Sir;—Yours of recent date together with a copy of the issue of The Gazette of Oct. 13th, duly received. I first want to thank you sincerely for the way you have presented the matter to your readers. I am so constituted that I do not believe courts have any right to make decisions to gain votes and a threat of defeat if I did not not a decision, conveying the matter to the court would be improper to use the authority of the court to gain an election. I was perfectly aware of the danger in which I stood, but was not willing that a final decision in an important case should be unduly hastened so that I might reap political advantage. The election did result in my defeat by a little over 100 votes, contributed to largely by the school controversy. This could have been avoided had I been willing to use judgment to gain political advantage. I have neglected that I did not so use my authority, having too high a regard for the integrity of the courts to believe that they should be used for personal advantage of the judge. After I was defeated, the final decision of the question naturally fell to my successor in due course of the court's business. He made permanent, the injunction which I granted on the preliminary hearing. The assertion of the writers that poorer people of this city will not support me and that I have a prejudice against the race, is absolutely untrue. Thanking you for your courtesies in this matter, I am, Yours very sincerely, Frank W. Geiger. P. S.—You can publish this if you wish.—F. W. G. And Wounded Several Others After a Reputation "Lost His Nerve" Richard Burrell, age 48, of 2273 E. 71st St., charged with manslaughter, after the automobile he was driving plunged into a crowd leaving a political rally at the Western Reserve Republican Convention. E. 55th St. Monday night, killing man and man, and several other people, was granted a continuance until Oct. 25, when arraigned before Police Judge Sawicki, Tuesday. He was released under $2,500 bond. John Riordan, age 36, Chicago, was killed in the accident and George Stahl, age 25, of 6712 Carnegie Ave., who was walking with Riordan on 55th St. and was on arm leg and bruises. Harry Spero, 13505 Woodworth Ave., and Ernest Bernstein, 10017 South Blvd., brother of Alex Bernstein, were among those slightly injured. Burrell, driving east on Cedar Ave., ignored the traffic signal at E. 55th St., then apparently became excited in an effort to avoid collision with another machine, according to the northeast curb, into the crowd. He failed to stop, but was beheaded off and arrested at Carnegie Ave. and E. 55th St. years ago last chased a home in a sub-division where he c ontrolled a great deal of the property. When he found out we were colored people, he sent a lawyer to buy us "out," telling us they would m ake things very impleasant for us if we insisted on living here. Finding th is visit of the lawyer met with no success, they had an indignation meeting just o u r house, across the street, mak- KILLED ONE the rear of our house. These and other indignities were thrust upon us until we engaged Squire Dumont to defend us, after which we heard no more until Mr. Cooper went to Mr. F. M. to show our people that Mr. Myers Y. Cooper is a bitter enemy to the Negro. Very truly yours, HETTIE G. TAYLOR. 3252 Delaware Ave., Cincinnati, O., Oct. 15, 1928. Prime Sport News Kid Chocolate Wins From O'Dowd New York City.—Kid Chocolate, Cuban bantamweight, won the decision over Eddie O'Dowd (white), of Columbus, O., in a hard fought ten-round bout, at the Manhattan Sporting club, last week Wednesday night. The "Kid" has been winning regularly ever since he landed here, some months ago. Scherer and Jackson Sign. Sandusky, O.-Tut Jackson, the Washington C. H. "sensation" of a few years back, and Charley Scherer (white), of Cleveland, will be the principals in the ten-round main of the boxing show, Oct. 26, at Crystal Rock park, between this city and Fremont. Xarbo Kayoed by Courtney. New York City.—George Courtney, Oklahoma middleweight contender, knocked out Wilson Yarbo of Cleveland in the ninth round of a ten-round bout at the St. Nicholas arena, Monday night. It was Courtney's fight all the way. He dropped Wilson for a count of nine in the seventh round and had him in distress on seven other occasions. By judiciorum Wilson, Yarbo weathered the punches only to run into the knockout punch in the ninth. Courtney weighed 164.2, Yarbo 165. Johnny Risko as Referee The Gazette's going to press on Thursdays made it impossible for us to announce, this week, the result of the ten bouts, Thursday evening, at the Elks' club in E. 55th St. The main bout, Jones vs. Clifford, was refereed by Johnny Risko, the local fighter, given a decision over Godfrey Godfrey, several months ago. he did not deserve. WAR VETERANS BREAKING AWAY From the "Grand Old Republican Party" Also Many of Our Los Angeles Voters. National Soldiers' Home, Los Angeles Co. Calif., Sept. 26, '28. Hon. Harry C. Smith. Hon. Harry C. Saiten Editor Gazette, Cleveland, O. Dear Harry:—As a matter of interest to your readers, I wish to state that this home has an Afro-American population of about 100 and 90 percent of them wear the Smith and Robinson badge with the avowed intention of voting the Democratic ticket. Some of them are 80 and more years of age. In the "Central American" district of Los Angeles, the black belt) the percent is about 50-50. Each and every one I have talked to are set in breaking away from old threadbare traditions. Mr. and Mrs. Louia S. Jones, E. 101st St., recently purchased a new home in Drexel Ave., and moved into it, this week. They are among our roast thrifty residents and are the parents of Louia V. Jones, the talented violinist, who is making a debut in Paris and other European cities. Russell, our principal at Doug Ias a school where my sister and I taught, and tried to have Mr. Russell insist on us buying in a neighborhood close to the school-house. Failing in this attempt, he visited Sup't. Condon (white), and asked him to see that we left his sub-division. Mr. Cooper cares nothing at all for Negroes only to use them as menials. SMITH AND HOOVER! The Latter's Alleged Plan to Build a White Republican Party in the South—She Balked at Ohio's Democratic "Jim-Crow" Bureau. Columbus, O., Oct. 7, '28. Hon. Henry C. Brunner. Chair, State Democratic Committee, Columbus, Ohio. Sir:—I am enclosing herewith a letter which I received, Oct. 6, '28, from the National Smith for President headquarters in New York, incorrectly addressed to Miss Catherine Johnson, advising her that she is to speak in Springfield, O., Oct. 9. Herbert L. Hoover. For your information, I beg to advise that I called Miss Johnson as her home in Chicago early Oct. 7 '28, and advised her of the contents of this letter. Miss Johnson was positive as to the meeting at Springfield, saying that while she is supporting Smith as loyal and supportive under the direction of Mr. Dickerson's, or any other "jim-crow" organization, this year. Furthermore, she thinks that since she served twenty-two months with the boys in the trenches in France at the special request of President Wilson, her feelings were not properly regarded when such a request was made of her. Very truly yours, J. L. Johnson, M. D. The South's "Lily-White" Dr. Joseph L. Johnson of Columbus, O., former U. S. Minister to Liberia, has given out the following statement with reference to the movement which has the express approval of Herbert Hoover regarding the establishment of a party in the South on a white basis as one of the principal reforms he ALFRED E. SMITH ALFRED E. SMITH expects to carry out if elected to the presidency. Dr. Johnson said: presidency. Dr. Johnson said: "The Republican party in the South, particularly in Kentucky and Tennessee, never had a legislative vote for the colored vote in those states. Since the war of the rebellion, the Republicans have carried Kentucky, several times, for President, and have elected four Republican governors. Each time, it was accomplished by the colored vote, which if it had been given to the other side would have turned the election the other way. In Tennessee, the Republicans have carried that state for president, and then the governor, several times, besides numerous members of Congress, and other local officers. In Louisville, Ky., it is a well-known fact that but for the colored vote this city would be Democratic overwhelmingly. "Now in return for all this loyal service, these loyal soldiers of the Republican party who have helped them win all their victories, are to be put aside like a faithful friend. This reason and another wife taken up. This has been discovered in time for the colored people to resent such treatment as this. Their votes are SINGLE COPY FIVE CENTS N.A.A.C.P. SURVEY DOES THIS. THEY FIND THE KU KLUX KLAN "STUFF" RAMPANT AND ALSO NAME THE Won't Wipe It Out. (Special to The Gazette) Washington, D. C.—Wm. T. Andrews, a special legal assistant, and Walter White, an assistant secretary, of the Department of the Interior for "check up" on segregation in the government bureau in this city, supplementing the exhaustive account of it written especially for The Gazette, several years ago, by Prof. Neval H. Thomas and republished on page 4 of this paper frequently since, have just made the following report, fully endorsing Mr. Thomas' carefully made and correct survey: Treasury Department: 30 Negro clerks in Liberty Loan checking division under Negro position chief negroated in Room 308. Five Negro clerks stating accounts, in Room 341, whites doing same work being assigned elsewhere. Interior Department: Miss Gretchen McRae, colored stenographer, set apart from stenographer pool. Five Negro clerks grouped at south end of room on fifth floor, white clerks being at the other end. Post Office Department: Preferred routes said to be given white carriers in Room 307. Post Office Negro not assigned to window duty and unable to rise in the service beyond the rating of "Special Clerk." Negroes never made foremen or assistant foremen. Veterans Bureau: 15 Negro clerks in Room 219 under a colored section chief. Government Office: Separate rest rooms and lavatories for white and colored girls, colored girls obliged to go from 4th to 3rd floor, not allowed to use accommodations Navy Department: White clerks in front, Negroes in rear of Room 3747-3750. Cafeterias in which segregation is practised are as follows: Bureau of Printing and Engraving; tables in rear of room used solely by Negroes though both races use same steam tables. Government Printing Office: separate tables tables and eating tables. Navy Department: Negroes assigned three tables in rear. Cafeterias in which Concession shops Separate the races in the Department of the Interior (separate room assigned to Negroes); Washington Post Office (separate tables for Negro clerks and carriers); U. S. Post Office Building (separate steam and eating tables); General Accounting Office (separate tables). Separate Lockers are maintained for Negroes and whites, (men and women) in the Bureau of Printing and Engraving, and for colored and white men in the Washington City Post Office. Separate Rest Rooms are maintained for women in the Bureau of Printing and Engraving, the Government Printing Office. counted upon to deliver the states of Kentucky and Tennessee to Hoover, and then they are to be dumped bodily and receive no consideration whatsoever at the hands of the party they have sustained for half a century. I can imagine the Methodist and Baptist preachers of the colored people in the South reading this news with great pleasure, and I can imagine how enthusiastically they will preach to their congregations to vote for Hoover who after all is nothing but a renegade Democrat. "The Democratic party in the South owes nothing to the colored vote because they have never given their votes to the party. The Republican party, however, has always relied on a new proves its base ingratiitude by allying itself with the movement to exclude the colored people from any participation in the councils of the Republican party. "I was certainly surprised when I read this account which appeared in the Chicago Daily Tribune of Oct. 3, the leading Republican newspaper of the mid-west, in the article of Arthur Sears Henning, who is the leading writer on that newspaper and who always speaks by the card whenever he writes. Among other things he says: "The plan to build a white Republican party in the South received the approval of Hoover, early in the campaign, according to somewhat varying versions obtained from southern Republican leaders. Some say that the program was mapped out prior to the Kansas City convention, and contrasted for the delivery of certain Negro delegates from the south, but promised rival "lily-white" delegations to recognize them in the party reorganization after the convention. According to another version, the project did not THE GARETTE is the oldest and has the largest house done elsewhere in Ohio, double that of any newspaper in the interest of Afro-Americans published in this or any colony state, and established itself in rank as one of the NEWSIEST AND REST in the country. THE COPY FIVE CENTS TION! SURVEY DOES THIS. LUX KLAN "STUFF" RAM- LSO NAME THE aus and Places—Our Wom- r Most—Coolidge No indications of segregation were found in the Departments of Agriculture, Labor or State. In his report Mr. Andrews states: "During the investigation upon which the instances set out were gathered, I heard many complaints from our clerks of unjust and unfair treatment in matters of rating and promotion. They felt they were Prof. Neval H. Thomas. discriminated against on account of race and color, citing instances of white co-workers whose efficiency and capabilities were less than thels. This discrimination may be termed subjective and is probably harder to pin down. Our work seem to involve more from race discrimination than do the men. This is true of employees graded as clerks. Our employees graded as laborers and messengers are not confronted with race distinction as a general rule. This may be due largely to the fact that most laborers and messengers are Negroes." Mr. Andrew further reports that the photographs required by candidates for civil service require to be viewed in advance selection and appointment of Negroes, and adds: "The colored clerks told me they believed that the policy of subjection and silent discrimination in civil service rating and appointment which they are undergoing is due to section, division and bureau chiefs and not to the department heads; that they believe the latter ignorant of or indifferent to what is actually going on in this respect." Mr. White in his report stressed the difficulty of remedying the problem of the colored workers are fearful of their jobs and will register no complaints to their department chiefs. actually take form until shortly before Hoover's acceptance speech, when a number of southern white Republicans headed by Col. Jennings C. Wise of Richmond, Va., visited the candidate at Palo Alto. They explained to Hoover the opportunity of annexing the anti-Smith Democrats permanently to the Republican party if he would authorize the elimination of the Negro and the reorganization of the southern G. O. P. as a white man's institution. They particularly sought a declaration in Hoover's acceptance speech which could be used in the south to convince the holding Democrats the Republican party houseforth is to be the party of white supremacy no less than the Democratic party. "All this, written by Mr. Henning, goes to show that the Republican party managers in its National Committee are perfectly honest in show overtly forged votes in the house forgetting that if the colored vote was removed from the Republican column in New York, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, Ohio, Indiana, West Virginia, Illinois, Missouri, Oklahoma and ever so many other states in the north, they would have absolutely no show whatever." "What do you think the colored people of the north are going to say when they hear that the Negrohous party and its candidate for President have deliberately entered into a scheme to cast the colored voters overboard in the southland? I am my guess if hundreds of thousands of them will be cast in the south but in the north be casting their votes with the Negrohous party housed by Gus. Alfred K. Smith." Joseph L. E. Johnson, M. D. Jennings, L. J. Jackson, M. D. TUBBY IS HOME FROM SCHOOL THIS WEEK RECUPERATING FROM AN ATTACK OF MEASLES ZING! PLOP! ZING! SQUAWK! CRASH! ZING! LOOK AT ME THROW A "IN AN OUT FLOATER" WITH THAT FLAT STONE, HANK, I BET EVER'BODY'LL BE SURPRISED WHEN THEY FIND OUT I CAN THROW CURVES LIKE THIS PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY 226 W. Superior Ave., Cleveland, O. (Bell 'Phone: CHerry 1259) Member Ohio Legislature: 1894 to 1896; 1896 to 1898; 1900 to 1902. IN UNION LIFE IS STRONG 10,000 Afro-Americans 350,000 in Ohio. 40,000 in Cleveland. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1928. Beware of the paid-political worker of color, or other, who comes to you urging you to vote for the color-line Republican candidates, Myers Y. Cooper or Frank W. Geiger, and the traitorous "Negro" who would have you vote for that Arkansas "cracker." Joe Robinson, candidate for vice-president on the Democratic ticket. Drive such W. F. N.'s away from you as you would a mongrel dog with the mange. Elsewhere in this paper will be found a letter, from Judge Frank W. Geiger of Springfield, received the first of this week. It does not add anything to our Geiger publications of last week which will be found on the last page of this paper. Judge Geiger must be defeated! He is undoubtedly guilty as charged which is more than sufficient for every self and race-respecting Afro-American in the state who has one ounce of manhood or womanhood. Bids will be received at city hall, Oct. 25, for construction of temporary quarters for the third precinct police station, for which $25,000 has been allotted by city council. The new building, at E. 35th St. and Scovill Ave., will replace the old one at E. 37th St. and Orange Ave., purchased recently by the Van Sweringen interests. City Manager Will Hopkins and the council seem to have turned down Councilman Fleming and his objections to this waste of money. In his speech at Triedstone Baptist church, Sunday evening, City Manager Will Hopkins never mentioned his City Hospital color-line and no "Negro" in the audience seemed to have guts enough to ask him about it. Yes! we are "a great people." But how? The meeting was held under the auspices of the Washington Civic club, Chester K. Gillespie, president, and it was an open affront and insult to our people of this community to ask Hopkins to address it. Whither are we drifting? It is rumored that Councilman Clayborne George like his Democratic colleague, Councilman E. J. Gregg, has just "turned Republican", too, to get the aid of the local Republican machine in the next councilmanic election. Neither will ever be re-elected, machine or no machine. George's latest "switch" has broken up the East End Political club which backed him as an independent Republican candidate, last fall, and many of his best supporters state that they will fight him, next fall. Goodbye! Councilmen George and Gregg! MYERS Y. COOPER GUILTY! It is not a question of how many "Colored people" Myers Y. Cooper, color-line candidate for Governor on the Republican ticket, this fall, employs or has employed through his many years in the real estate business in Cincinnati, his home town; or how many ministers or churches he has sought to subsidize by gifts of money, up to building a home for a "Negro" minister who is now campaigning for him; or what he does in any other way. His color-line activity in his business, extending over many years, so well pointed out by Mrs. Hettie A. Taylor in her statement headed, "To Whom It May Concern", published on the first page of this paper, is what Ohio Afro-Americans with self and race respect, manhood and womanhood, object to. It is really an insult for any man, treating any class of people in such a way, to come to members of that class asking them to support his candidacy for anything. If a candidate for office were to treat any other class of Americans in such a way would or could they regard the matter in any different light from that in which all loyal and sensible members of our race, who know the truth, regard it? Cross Cooper's and Geiger's names from your ticket when you go to vote in November! And may God have mercy on the "Negroes" who now know the truth, yet persist in their support of the candidacy of either one of these two color-line candidates. Beware of them and "the prominent Negroes" who are being paid to come into Ohio to speak during the remainder of the campaign. FRANK W. GEIGER GUILTY! Judge Frank W., Geiger is wrong and trying to mislead, in his latest letter to The Gazette, published elsewhere in this paper. It is true that he rendered a decision, which was not sufficient, and refused to hear our attorneys in the Springfield "jim-crow" school case, week after week thereafter, when they appeared in his court seeking to extend it so as to secure the action in full they absolutely needed. This was weeks before the election and had nothing to do with the matter of votes. The Judge was simply "side-stepping," delaying the final outcome of the contest, so as not to fully affront; before the November election, the Ku Klux Klan element in that city that was sponsoring the fight for "jim-crow" schools. In plain words, Judge Geiger, by refusing to do as our Springfield attorneys (Messrs. Jaymes and Daniels) asked repeatedly, every Monday morning, kept the "jim-crow" Fulton school for many weeks so scores of "Negro" pupils, that Color-line Supt. McCord had forced into line, could be kept there. He could and should have done what his successor Judge Krapp did promptly—compiled with the request of our attorneys and rendered a full decision, closing the school, and thus DO HIS FULL DUTY to our people of Springfield. But he wouldn't. And too there would not have been any need for the little "play to an empty gallery" that he makes in his latest letter to The Gazette, which we are publishing in this paper as a matter of courtesy only. More, he would have been re-elected judge of the common pleas court of Clarke county and would not have been defeated by "a little over 100 votes" if he had only felt that justice should not be delayed or deferred (to promote his • election) out of deference to any person or organization, least of all the Ku Klux Klan of Springfield and their prejudiced kidney. MR. COOPER CALLS. Accompanied by the Hon. Harry D. Silver of Columbus, assistant state auditor and chairman of the State Republican Executive committee, and a Mr. Fetterman, his local political manager, Myers Y. Cooper of Cincinnati, Ohio's Republican gubernatorial candidate, called at The Gazette office, Monday, Oct. 15 at 11:30 a. m., for a conference that lasted until 1:30 noon. Mr. Silver being compelled to leave before its close in order to catch a train. Mr. Cooper enumerated in detail about all the things he claims to have ever done for our people of his home-city during his business career of many years, in the real estate business. He opened his talk by saying that two years ago when he was first a candidate for Governor and was defeated, he had been advised not to confer with the writer who led the fight against him at that time, as far as our people were concerned, just as he is doing in the present campaign. Mr. Cooper said the advice was a mistake, that this time he was doing what he wanted to do, two years ago, and furthermore that leading Republicans, mutual friends, had assured him that the editor of the Gazette, the writer, was fair, wanted to be right and would treat him courteously. We told him that it was not a question of service he claims to have rendered various members of the race by giving some of them employment, etc., but it was a question of rights and privileges he has denied our people in the conduct of his business and the mistreatment of others who had purchased property of which he sought to dispossess them solely on the THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, O., SATURDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1928. FRESH OHIO NEWS WRITTEN BY "THE OLD RELIABLE" GAZETTE'S CORRESPONDENTS. What Our People Are Doing Each Week—Church, Personal, Social, Lodge, Literary and Musical—Marriages, Deaths, Etc. BELLEFONTAINE. — Mr. and Mrs. Carl Harper and family, Mrs. Clara Johnson and children, Lucille Hicks and Charles Harper motorized to Cleveland, Saturday, to visit over Sunday. They returned, Monday—Mrs. Henrietta Newsome has returned from a visit in Caddiz.—Tell your friends and acquaintances to be sure to read Mrs. Hettie A. Taylor's statement elsewhere in this paper and to call their friends' attention to it. It is of special interest to all loyal members of the race. spending the week-end with rela- tions in Wyoming.—Rev. Frank Locust has returned to Covington, Ky. He conducted a ten-day evangelic campaign at St. John Baptist church which was closed with much suc- cess.—Many regret to hear of the death of Mrs. Mazie Brakle.—Mrs. Achsa Smith of Cleveland and Mr. Alphonso Frye of Zanesville were called home by their sister's death.—Mr. and Mrs. Garvin Payne of New York City, playing in the Miller & Lyle Co., "Keep Shufflin." 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 does properly do so, given you. Lists of names, wedding presents, etc., obituary notes, inquiries for relatives and advertisements of all kinds, including items announcing entertainments to be held in the near future, must be paid for in advance at the rate of 20 cents a line, six words to a line. Our rates for display advertisements will be sent on application. SPRINGFIELD. — Mrs. Hattie Walker of Cincinnati was the weekend guest of Mr. and Mrs. John Hilton. — Mrs. Eva Henderson is ground of color or race or both. We told him also that complaints of this nature had been sent The Gazette by very reliable members of the race who live in his home city, Cincinnati, two years ago and had been renewed, this fall. He made no direct denial of these charges but sought to "side-step" them. We then offered to go to Cincinnati, the last of this week, and make a personal investigation of the charges, if he desired it, charging him absolutely nothing, but this did not seem to impress him at all favorably because he made no reply to the same, and has not up to this time. (Wednesday evening). Our readers can draw their own conclusions, and it sure will not be difficult for them to do so either after a careful and thoughtful reading of the letter from Mrs. Hettie A. Taylor of 3252 Delaware Ave., Cincinnati, published on the first page of this paper. Myers Y. Cooper is guilty as charged and must not be elected governor of Ohio. No Ohio voter of color who respects himself or herself, and their race; and has the manhood or womanhood we all should have, can possibly vote for him in November and retain the same. We must defeat him again, just as we did, two years ago. It is going to require greater effort to do so, this time, owing to the fact that this is Presidential year which always brings out an increased Republican vote. But we must do it: It is simply a matter of self and race respect. No man unfriendly to the race should be elected to public office that we can defeat and we can defeat Myers Y. Cooper of Cincinnati and Judge Frank W. Geiger of Springfield. Be MEN and WOMEN; and not political bootlickers, traitors to the race you are one of. We owe this to our children and young folk more than to ourselves, if this be possible. Defeat Cooper and Geiger! Pass the word along to all you meet. ASSAILS THE KLAN! Hon. Joseph C. Manning, 58 W. 119th St. New York City, long a sterling friend of the race, has just published a pamphlet, bitterly assailing the Ku Klux Klan. The latest portrait of the author appears in the pamphlet. Send ten cents in the envelope and word, "Mr. Manning and receive the pamphlet by return mail. He is a native of Alabama, a former postmaster there and an ex-member of the Alabama state state. Mr. Manning is critically ill in a New York hospital and ought to have our help. He does their duty by him. He is surely entitled to our help and is in every way deserving. spending the week-end with relatives in Wyoming.—Rev. Frank Locust has returned to Covington, Ky. He conducted a ten-day evangelic campaign at St. John Baptist church which was closed with much successthrough the death of Mrs. Mazie Brakle.—Mrs. Achsma Smith of Cleveland and Mr. Alphonso Frye of Zanesville were called home by their sister's death.—Mr. and Mrs. Garvin Payne of New York City, playing in the Miller, Lyle Coe.—Keep Shufflin, visited grampians, Mrs. Chas. Scott.—Mr. and Mrs. Lemuel Randolph and children spent Sunday in Cincinnati. LOIRAN.—The 7th Street M. E. church, Rev. Gilles, pastor, is celebrating its anniversary with a special program, each night, this week. The public is invited. Rev. A. J. Simmons, pastor of St. Mathews A. M. E. church, preached a wonderful sermon in the forenoon. Sunday—Mr. Lewis Thompson fell, Saturday night, and broke a leg. The Elks' State Past Exalted Rulers council was entertained here, the 14th. Visitors and delegates numbered about 250 and it was the largest session held in the city in week in Stenbruenville in January, 1929. Mrs. Elvira Wallace returned, last week Tuesday, from a two weeks' visit in Cadiz and reports a fine time in her old home-town.—The Harvest-home entertainment, under the auspices of the Willing Workers, was a success. ALLIANCE—Miss M. Cooper of Salem was here, Sunday. —Mr. and Mrs. E. Redman of Wellsville visited St. Luke's, Sunday. —Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Garner spent Sunday in Cleveland. —Miss Dorothy Davis is taking a course in nursing at Lincoln hospital, N. Y. City. —Mr. Wade Davis, employed in Buffalo, visited his family, last week. His wife, who recently underwent an operation in city hospital there is rapidly convoying. —Mr. H. Simmons reverencing. Paralysis. —Mrs. Hattie Rattelife has been quite ill. —Mt. Olive opening. Oct. 28. —Mesdames Louella Board and Della Johnston entertained their S. S. pupils at a halloween party, Monday evening. Mrs. Wm. Thomas' sister at Martins Ferry was seriously injured when her auto overturned, en route to youngstown, recently. Dorence Travis. Jeannette Couny and Ella Sawyers have recently appointed officers and means commit to St. Luke's S. S., to increase attendance, interest in lessons and spiritual interest. Three attendance banners, a register and several pennants are to be purchased. Miss Myrtle Miller, pres. W. M. M. S., announces that missionary study begins, Tuesday. —Bishop Wm. Ternon spoke on Wednesday in favor of the mayor, the officials, and many of the other race also attended. Yet, no mention of the meeting was made in the Alliance Daily News. Read "The Old Reliable" Gazette. CADIZ.—Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Lacy have returned to Salem. They visited Mr. and Mrs. Reece Duling.—Mr. and Mrs. Josiah Smith and family of Smithfield were guests of Mrs. Lizzie West. Sunday.—Mrs. Bertha Redmond visited her brother, Mr. Archie Strother, in Latrobe, Pa. last week.—Mr. and Mrs. Wintrey Smith and family and Mrs. Susie Murrell were Sunday guests of Mrs. Melvin Christian.—Mrs. orira Wallace has returned to Lorain.—Mrs. Henrietta Newsom has returned to Bellefonte.—Mrs. Margaret West has opened a lunch room at her home. W. E. Watson, of St. James A. M. E. church, was sent to Xenia by the recent Ohio conference and Rev. C. H. Young, to Sandusky.—Mr. James Manley of Toronto, who was here hunting squirrels, has returned home having met with much success.—Mr. and Mrs. Sherman Foster, Mr. J. Durham and Mrs. Walls, of Cannonburg, Pa. were recent guests of Mr. and Mrs. Luther Wheeler. Mrs. Lizzie West visited Mr. and Mrs. Rufus Smith in Smithfield, recently, and Miss Susie E. Loe visited in Canton.—Miss Laura White of Belfortverified visited her mother, Mrs. Alice Whitney, Mrs. Maud May returned to Zanesville. 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(Opposite, Hotel Cleveland.) Notary Public Bell 'Phone: Cherry 1259 (Call, in the Afternoon.) Classified Advertising Department FOR SALE—A good bedroom set of three pieces. A BARGAIN—in good condition. Also a Way-Sagless spring and a first-grade mattress. Both practically now; used less than two weeks. Call, CHerry 1259 In the afternoon. CLEVELAND Social and Personal Mr. and Mrs. Chas, Garner of Alliance visited in the city, Sunday. Mrs. Paul Kilgour and James Blanton of Hillsboro were in the city, Sunday. Augustus A. Washington has been added to the coroner's staff, succeeding Geo. Slaughter. Mrs. Gerald Day and Rev. James Smith returned from visits in Hillsboro, the first of the week. Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Billups have relocated in Cleveland after two years' residence in Cadiz. Heilth is a real fall tonic. Any one who has used it will tell you so. Try it and be convinced. See advertisement elsewhere in this paper. Mrs. Bertha Lyons of Seattle, Wash., is visiting Mrs. Lillian Starkey, E. 90th St. She is a former resident of Akron. The Swastika Glee club's musicale will be given, Nov. 11. Miss Carrie Wynn pres.; Miss Julia Gants sec. The club has about 35 members. Miss Phoebe L. Wells of McDonald, Pa., a cousin of Mrs. Olive Wells Ball and Miss Gladys Wells, will visit Cleveland soon. She may locate here. The Aldrich Dramatic club will give the comedy, "Grandma Pulls a String", next month. Leo Dixon, pres.; Alice Green, sec.; Mrs. Louise Thompson, directress. Miss Waltina Green, pianist, a graduate of Central high school, was quietly married, recently, to George A. Lewis. They are living with her parents in E. 80th St. The Harmony Trio left with Miller & Lyles "Keep Shufflin'" company that played the Ohio theater, recently. Mrs. Olive Wells Ball, Mrs. Gladys Wells and Mrs. Pearl Clege make up the popular trio. Wm. H. Holland, leading New York basso in the Harry L. 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The Harpers are relatives of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Harper, E. 77th St. If you are not reading The Gatezette regularly, each week, you are missing much. Start immediately to enjoy Ohio's oldest, most reliable and most interesting race newspaper. It tells you the truth about persons and things, without fear or favor, and the time. That is generally known and acknowledged. Tell your friends! Mme. Malinda P. F. Farmer, coloratura soprano, sang at the morning service of Antioch Baptist church, Sunday. Miss Hurst was a victim of the Shoah. She M. E. Zion Baptist church, Monday evening, and at St. Paul A. M. E. Zion church, Tuesday evening, under the auspices of the local Tuskegee association. The Junior Council girls, that meet at the Cedar "Y", have elected the following officers for the ensuing year: Lettle Williams, pres.; Dorotha Arnett, vice-pres.; Bernice Armond, and; Frances Lewis, assist.; Margaret Harris, treas.; Mary Tutter and Midred Williams, reporters. An opening party has been arranged for club members. Accompanied by the Hon. Harry D. Silver of Columbus, chairman of the state Republican executive committee, and a Mr. Fetterman, his local political manager. My Cooper of Ohio's Republican candidate for Governor, had a two-hour conference with the editor in the *Gazette* office, Monday noon. See editorial, "Mr. Cooper's Call" on Page 2 of this paper. P. W. Lemon was elected superintendent of St. John's A. M. E. Sunday-school for the 23d consecutive year, last week. Other general officers elected are: Assist. Sup't. Perry B. Jackson; sec. Bedella Smith; assist. Vyre Paris; sec. to sup't. Grace Porter; tereus. Eugene Atam; assist. Wm. McIntire; clerk. George H. Guinon; assist. clerk. Ernestine Garner, Emma McCants, Marion Simmons. Mrs. Ida Brown of Chicago, former Miss Ida Thomas of this city, recently decorated her home so beautifully and artistically that much very favorable, public as well as private comment, has been elicited. Charles Alfred Fox of this A THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, O.. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1928. Adonis Thinks He's a Snapping Turtle. city, who visited his niece, Mrs. Brown, last week, returning to Cleveland, Monday, is loud in his praises of her exceptional ability as a housekeeper and decorator, and says what she herself has done along the decorating line is really wonderful. Dreams of particularly rosette hues were thought to have been interrupted by Robert Artis, chief of federal narcotic agents here, when John Nixon, age 22, and his wife, Dorothy, 27, were arrested and charged with violation of the Harrison narcotic act in their room at the Majestic hotel, the first of the week. They and John Hale, 27 of 43, who was arrested as he left their room, had been smoking opium, Artis said. All were to be arraigned, Monday, before U. S. Commissioner Monahe. The local organization of the Supreme Castle of Beavers of the World, Inc., held an exceedingly interesting meeting, Saturday evening, and elected the following officers for one year: Royal prin. Mrs. I. Fountain; vice-prin. Mrs. I. Adams; in se. Mrs. I. Mayne treas. Mrs. Mary Windsor; treas. Mrs. Mollie DeBraun; counsellor, Mrs. Rhoda Wilson; messenger, Mrs. A. Yarborough. If you wish to belong to a thrifty wideawake organization, join the Beavers, says Mrs. Fountain. There is a special dispensation now at $2.50. Mrs. D. B. Adams, reporter. The remaining registration days are Oct. 19 and 20 your last chance. If you wish to vote at the November election, *Everybody must register this time.* You simply cannot vote for Myers Y. Cooper, Republican candidate for Governor, and Frank W. Geiger, Republican candidate for the State Supreme Court, and retain your self and race respect, manhood and womanhood. Pass the Passport our province in Ohio. Race interests. 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WHAT HE REALLY DID AND DID NOT DO IN THE "Jim Crow" School Fight at Springfield, Ohio, Several Years Ago—Our People Must Not Vote for Him and Cooper. Springfield, O., Sept. 29, '28. Hon. Harry C. Smith, Editor, Gazette, Cleveland, O. My dear Mr. Smith, O—I have this day received a copy of your editorial of Sept. 29, in which you state that I have been unfriendly to the colored people in reference to the school case, etc. I feel sure that you must have been misinformed in this matter, as there was absolutely nothing in connection with that case or any other case, that could justify any such conclusion. The case was heard before me and an injunction promptly granted on preliminary hearing. No countenance or support was given by me to the then superintendent of schools in his attempt at segregation. There was no "flirting" with any one. The case was clear cut and one. The petitioner promptly granted after preliminary hearing. The court aroused great interest among our citizens and it's quite possible that some one may have made statements that, if true, could be the basis of such an editorial as you have written and such statements may have reached you. I am quite sure you do not want to be unjust to any person or to a position not justified. The colored people city have always been in their support to me. I have always treated them with the utmost consideration. When I first took office twenty-five years ago, I appointed a colored Deputy in the Probate Court, Sula Butler, who is still there and a very fine Deputy. The colored people of this city know that my record does not justify the position you have taken, but of course your citizens and the readers of your paper, do not know the facts. I would pleased to have you move thoroughly investigation here. I was of course, quite surprised at the editorial I had regarded you and those people as friendly to me. Mr. Fanning of your city has always been an earnest supporter of mine and knows my record and you might consult him. I would be pleased to hear from you and I am sure you will give the matter thorough consideration. I would be glad to furnish you facts concerning both this case and other matters if you care to have them. The three letters below this one are self-explanatory and are in answer to the following communication: Cleveland, O., Oct. 2, '28 Dear Friend:—Judge Frank W. Geliger of your city writes us taking exceptional care of our editorial note in dignity, in a recent issue, which you have doubtless read. He says that he has always treated our people of your city with the utmost consideration and that our people of Springfield know that his record does not justify him as his canon. The Gazette has taken, so we make to make a thorou investigation. I am trying to do. In the memorable Fulton school case in your city, some years ago, he claims to have "granted the prayer" of the petitioners prompt after the preliminary hearing. My memory told me that I failed to see that the petition was carried into effect, thus delaying the outcome of the fight for weeks and until he was defeated for re-election and his successor, Judge Krapp, took office and "made good" on the petition he, Judge Geiger, admitted but billed him into effect. My memory is that this information came from you in conversations we held at different times in your city. What about it? Is Judge Geiger entitled to the support of our people of your city and the state, or isn't he? If not, why not? I have with an immediate reply. Springfield, O, Oct. 3, '28. Hon. Harry C. Smith, Editor Gazette, Cleveland, O. Dear Friend;—In my file of The Gazette, of the period of the Fulton school fight, I find that its issues of Sept. 30, Nov. 4 and Dec. 2, 1922, and Jan. 6, 1923, contain the record of Judge Geiger's activities in con- nection with the legal phases of the fight and the interpretations we put upon them. yet been entered in the records of the court, a committee visited Judge Geiger at his home and got a statement from him that the injunction granted "all petitioned for." When the attorneys for the G. M. League and the School Board met, agree the decision of entry of the Mr. M. Ray Welkett, representing the Board of Education, contended that the decision, as he understood it, was the same as that reprinted in the daily papers as be- FRANK GEIGER 176 (R) ing announced from the bench. Notwithstanding, Judge Geiger ordered that the entry be made as including "all petitioned for." This was on the eve of the election in which Judge Geiger was a candidate and against whom a decided opposition was forming. From this time on to the end of the year, when his term expired, Judge Geiger made no attempt to have a bearing for a justice of the court, the attorneys for the League, a request that he do so was made every Monday morning. Subsequently, to a committee of ministers who visited him to see why nothing had been done in the case, he is reported to have told them that there was nothing before him and that they should see the lawyers of the League, and further that the temporary injunction only restrained the further action of the court to Fulton school. In this brief is Judge Geiger's record in the Fulton school case as taken from the accounts written at the time. When Judge Geiger occupied the bench in the Juvenile Court, he took occasion to denounce real estate dealers who would rent the two sides of a double house to white and colored people, respectively. Also in a civil rights case, in which he did not sit, yet by other acts he showed his disapproval of a verdict favorable to the plaintiffs. I have asked Atty. Geo. W. Daniels to write you in regard to this case as he represented the plaintiffs. There are other matters of which he knows that do not inspire any hope for Colored people in cases, involving people would have to be decided by Judge Geiger. Signed X. Y. Z Springfield, O., Oct. 6, '28. Hom Editor Harry Clerk. Editor George Clerkland, O. Dear Friend Harry:—I am in receipt of your letter of letter O, 2. '28, concerning the candidacy of Judge Frank W. Geiger of this city. I wish to say that, if my memory serves me right, your impression is correct that Judge Frank W. Geiger of this city, in the Law of Fulton school case, about forty days before the November election, that year, and he refused to put the same into effect during his term of office. I know that Judge Frank Knapp executed Judge Geiger's decision immediately after he took office on the first of January the first week that he closed the Fulton school. I do not know just what Judge Geiger's idea was for handling the matter in that way, but I do know that it appeared to the citizens of Springfield that he was side-stepping the issue until and after his the fact that Judge Geiger did not execute his ruling, he lost out in the election to Judge Krapp by a very small margin. Had he done what Judge Krapp did, he would have been elected by a substantial major at that time because the Colored citizens showed much use in my precinct alone of those who did not vote to have elected Judge Geiger. These are the facts in the case, and in my best judgment. With these facts I believe you will be able to arrive at a decision as to just how you want to proceed. Personally, I had always been an admirer of Judge Geiger until that time, and I pled with him for weeks not to lose the election on that account, but to no avail. Atty. Sully Jaymes called on him at his residence and pleaded the night before to close the Fulton school on election morning, and assured him that if he would do this, his election was assured. My recollection is that he lost by only 128 THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, O. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1928. votes or at least a very small number, and you can readily see how easy it would have been to put him over at that time if the Colored people had felt so disposed. I was very pleased indeed to receive a letter from you, and understanding why I never hear from you. With my best wishes, I remain. Yours very truly, Chas. L. Johnson, Pres. Charles Funeral Supply Co. (President, C. R. P. League, 1922 and 1923.) Editor Gazette, Cleveland, O. Friend Harry:—Now as regards Judge Geiger: Your statement of the case is substantially correct, and can be verified by the court records here. I conferred with Chas. Johnson about this matter, last Saturday. Geiger did the court record McCord school-board crowd, which in effect was saying that our petition, from a legal point, was correctly brought. But it was impossible for us to get Judge Geiger to set the case down for hearing so we could get a final decision on its merits and close the school. During all of this time McCord, our legal decision was continuing to run the school as a "jim-crow" school. We were insisting that he (Geiger) enjoin the operation of the school, pending a final hearing. This he refused to do, because he was up for re-election and was anxious to get the support of both the Ku Klux Klan and the clerics. He missed that this because the Neo-Nazi here passed resolutions condemning him and refused to vote for him, and he was defeated by a very small margin. He has never had much use for Johnson, Atty. Daniels and myself since, but we don't give a d a b a b about that have nothing personally to prove but we are the real facts. The night before the day of election I headed a committee that went to his house and tried to advise him that the colored people would not support him unless he gave the order closing the school before election. We could not convince him. But as soon as his successor took over the job of his mansion and Judge Krapp sustained us and closed the school. Geiger is shot full of race prejudice and the colored people here know it. They have never supported him, and ninety per cent of them will vote against him in November. I can substantiate that statement made in this communication. Yours very truly, U. V. W. FUTURE IS PICTURED BY 'PHONE EXPERTS FUTURE IS PICTURED BY 'PHONE EXPERTS Accuracy of Their Predictions Is Tested This Year In Two Ohio Cities The future growth of a community is an important consideration in the operation of a telephone system, for telephone extensions must be designed to take care of new service requirements for many months or years in advance. Therefore, telephone companies make careful studies to determine population trends and increases that can be expected five, ten and 20 years in the future. On the strength of this and similar information, they base their expectations for telephone installations and the requirements for new lines and equipment. It is interesting to see how these estimates work out. Occasionally a city may have abnormal growth and it may exceed the telephone estimates, or the opposite may happen. In two important cities past estimates of The Ohio Bell Telephone Company have been brought into review this year, however, and it was found that the predictions for growth had been realized very closely. In 1921 the survey engineers estimated that Cleveland and its near-by suburbs would have 1,252,000 persons by 1930. So far the increase has been in proportion to that estimate, the present population being about 1,200,000. In Akron, local developments have made civic interests very optimistic, and in a recent editorial citing industrial expansion the Beacon-Journal of that city says, "Every element of current local growth has been in line with the survey recently made by the Bell Telephone Company." That Ohio as a whole is easily keeping up with expectations for business growth during 1928 is shown by the fact that 21,537 telephone were added to the company's system during the first six months of the year. The estimated gain for all of 1928, made late in 1927, was 38,000 telephone. On July 1, the company had 623,410 telephone. RACE PREJUDICE! "I am convinced myself that there is no more evil thing in this present world than race prejudice; none at all!" "I write deliberately—it is the worst single thing in life now. It justifies and holds to other things, but urges and abomination than any other sort of error in the world." SEGREGATION USED AT THE NATION'S CAPITAL TO LOWER OUR STATUS AS AMERICAN CITIZENS. How Much Longer Will Our Self and Race Respecting Press, Pulpit and People Submit to This Rank Injustice?—Protest, Protest! (Special to The Gazette.) Washington, D. C.—There is more segregation in Washington, today, under President Coolidge than there has ever been since the Civil War. The beginnings of the segregation were under President Taft. It was greatly extended, under President Wilson; increased, still further, under President Harding; and reached its zenith under President Coolidge. For instance, the president Wilson never troubled, but the present administration has found time and desire to introduce it even there. To many people, segregation is a Democratic scheme of insult, but such is not the case. President Taft introduced it in the bureau of engraving. He segregated the censurers in this city in 1881, writing white people as black, white people, as black, often duplicating work as most blocks had white and black residents. And, worst of all, announced in his official capacity that Negroes should not hold office where white people complained. Segregation, then, is a Republican institution, and not a Republican institution by Republicans, and carried on to its all-embracing extent by Republicans! There is far more of it in the departments, today, than at any time since the Negro first appeared, close upon the close of the Civil War. The picture requirement in the civil service, which makes it next to impossible for a colored lady or gentleman to enter the civil service, since their color is disclosed in their photograph which must accompany their papers, is tenaciously held on to by our Republican President. Some month ago, the civil servant our her passed the best examination, and after having been telegraphed for by the department. The photograph had failed to tell her true color, and they flatly refused to appoint her when she appeared and they saw her complexion. Commissioner Blair of the internal revenue bureau with thousands of clerks will not appoint a Negro clerk, and his word is law there, as he is the special favorite of Secretary Mellon and President Coolidge. He will be the home of the most favorite and leader of the segregation forces, the superintendent of buildings and grounds. It is no use to complain of either of these southern gentlemen. The colored people here who know the President could destroy segregation in the departments of the government, and the photograph requirements in the civil service by the mere nod of his head, are at a loss to understand why he does not hold up declarations on democracy in operation here, where it would not even cost him a single vote and where he has full power and absolutely no opposition. They wonder if he is not a firm believer in segregation, especially since segregation is one of the chief tenets of the Constitution, and found its "welcome home" here and in the Republican party, and receives no condemnation from the Republican President. ((Special to The Gazette.) (Spc. De B. C. Washington, D.C. - In the postoffice, secession is rampant. The faithful colored clerks work under constant humiliation and physical disadvantages. The department maintains a spacious cafeteria for whites only, where inferior white clerks can buy appetizing lunches and while the colored clerks must bring cold lunches from home and eat them any place they can. The physical discomfort, disadvantage as it is, is far less galling to the colored clerks than is the thought of their government taking over the whites, for the comfort of the latter, and setting them off as though they were lepers. The injustice stings all the more when they reflect that they are far more capable than the whites, and render the government more gentle and efficient servant. The white man of their attainment being able to far more lucrative employment. The department goes even farther in its solicitude for whites and noglect of colored. It maintains a well-appointed club room with pool tables and other games, comfortable lounges and other equipment for rest, sociability, and regression, and registration for these same colored employees. The club is in the magnificent postoffice building, built and maintained by ALL of the people. In the locker rooms there is segregation, and segregation is even attempted in the toilets. And all of this is against the most dependable and faithful employees. The white employees have even passed around invitations to the white employees, the very presence of colored, to the pretense to the heads of departments, including the postmaster general, in the postoffice building. It announced dancing and a pleasant social evening with the officials for "the postoffice employees," yet not one was delivered to the colored clerks. I hurried a protest to the postmaster general the day before it was to come off, and he ordered the postmaster to come white. These clerks got around their colored co-workers by giving the function at a local hotel. It is inevitable that the wicked spirit of segregation would express itself in appointments, assignments, and salaries. Colored applicants are often passed over though their examination was superior. No "Negro," however efficient or old in the service, must ever dream of a promotion to a directive position. The hard, unyielding caste passes whites over him, one after another, though many of the colored employees have won contests in quickness and accuracy in the handling of manpower. colored clerks have done to form a union which meets regularly and often sends to the postmaster, and often appeals from his decisions to the postmaster-general. It has secured some improvement in their working conditions, but they are still bitter over the huge injustice done to them for nothing else than the color of their skin. (Special to The Gazette.) Specification. Washington, D. C.—The government printing office keeps faith with the government's universal scheme of segregation. Some of the best and brightest of our girls are forced to accept inferior positions there on account of the better and more lucrative avenues of employment, closer to those of their collar. The whites are generally of a very mediocre group, far from equaling our girls in educational equipment, culture, and working efficiency. Yet these superior girls are set off from the whites with the least of course, having little access to their recreational facilities. There is a large cafeteria in this huge structure where all of the employees may go, but there are a few tables in an out-of-the-way section reserved for our employees. I am glad to say that few, very few, of our people are in a little physical inconvenience to the open, semi-public unification of segregation. In toilet facilities, dressing-rooms, and work assignments, wherever possible, the law of segregation is in full force, and, of course, this same undemocratic practice reveals itself on the salary roll and in the hard caste that bars promiscuous Here, as elsewhere in the inferior whites base on our superior employees to directive positions, and higher salaries. The whites have a large recreational center in this public building with many fine appointments for rest and amusements. During lunch and dinner hours they repair to this restful retreat for social abilities and to this young Afro-American with a splendid record in his work, felt the injustice of this exclusion of our employees so keenly that he secured the company of a young lady of the race to take part in the dance. As soon as this couple started to dance the music was uppeeled to the company who reported for attempting to take part in an entertainment provided for employees. He was called to the office, lectured for being "one of those smart Negroes" who believe in "social equality," and then dismissed on a trumped-up charge. He was arrested for assaulting a pistol. Right after the dance incident a fire broke out in the office. He was quickly accused of setting the building afire in revenge for his exclusion from the dance floor. Detectives came to the building to arrest him, and falling to secure evidence, they shot the pistol. They quickly dropped the arson charge and substituted one for carrying concealed weapons for which he was immediately dismissed. By this severe punishment our employees are taught that there is no way of escape or one who can escape without their government (under President Coolidge) gives them. Many of the employees have expressed their deeply-wounded feelings to me at being considered a pariah by the government whose institutions they are serving so faithfully, and I have taken up a number of cases only to be made by a demlal complained of exist, and a request for the names of my informants. I knew the fate these informants would suffer so I have never given a single name!! The department then taking the position that it cannot take up the case. It is perfectly clear that this miquitous scheme of segregation is a matter of course since the government is so well settled upon it, and the complainants cannot bear witness to it. (Special to The Gazette) Washington, D. C.—Segregation in the bureau of engraving and printing has an interesting history involving President Thomas Woodrow Wilson and members of his family, three heroic young colored women who lost their positions as a result of their protests and the arrest of Senator Boba Fellie (decaused). Shortly after the accession of Mr. Wilson to the White House, a member of his family visited the bureau where she saw white and colored girls working together in perfect harmony, oblivious to any thought of race. Shortly thereafter, a member of the bureau visited the races, and a white lady who had been noted for her philanthropy among our people and who was up- House appeared at the bureau to on intimate terms at the White tell our girls to be contented with the new order as "a great Negro leader had taught colored people stay in their places." The young ladies resisted the order to the last ditch and were summarily Senator La Follette, father of the present Senator of the same name, leded a protest with Secretary McAdoo to no avail, and his nobile wife began a crusade against the undemocratic innovation. She took the platform here in Washington and Boston before the famous Twentleth century club. She used the columns of the Senator's magazine, apart from other space for utterance. She leded against it in our local white press, and addressed the national gathering of the N. A. A. C. P. in New York. When our people here were so profoundly discouraged, she came out, one stormy afternoon, to the Y. M. C. A. to urge them to continue the fight, for democracy was at the crisis. Oswald Garrison Villard came to town to attack the White House and Cabinet and arouse our people, and the N. A. A. C. P. secured publicity in over six hundred influential white men in the country, and checked the night to be the intention of the segregators, namely, the elimination of the colored employees from the bureau altogether. The same segregation which some of our people think is the cherished institution of the Democratic party is still there, in all of its fullness, under the administration of the party that Abraham Lincoln, Charles Sumner and Frederick Douglass helped to found. Our girls are employed there in far larger numbers than in any other branch of the public service. THEY ARE SEGREGATED in their rest rooms, toilets, and working stations, and of course none are allowed to work in executive places. They are girls from our best homes, most of them with high and normal school training, and fine culture. The white girls are of no such grade, as there is no segregation for them in the great world of things. They have unlimited *fields* at high wage for even mediocre talents. The best of our girls must take these inferior positions, the inevitable result of segregation. Our people are still in the issue of whether or not order destroy this iniquitous practice in all of our government departments, for it not only humiliates the best of the government servants but impairs the government service. (Special to The Gazette) (Special to the Gazette) Warren D. D. Treasury department, according to the President's acceptance speech, is now under the ablest financial genius since the days of Alexander Hamilton. It is to be remembered that the great Hamilton came from the West Indies and in that long sweep of history he was the most mighty Salmon P. Chase, secretary of the treasury in Lincoln's cabinet, who, in a national extremity such as this country has never known, devised the national banking system which financed the Civil War; Warren D. D. Treasury, John Sherman, who never knew what segregation was! The present head of the department of internal revenue, Mr. Blair from North Carolina, has not appointed a colored clerk since his inception, but predecessor, Mr. Daniel Roper, a Democrat, Texas, appointed and promoted several of them. Since the income tax legislation and the numberless new taxes that the recent law necessitated, this is by far the largest demand by employees several thousand clerks. No grocers are so scarce there that they can't be noticed. There is the same general complaint here among our clerks and other employees as there is in the other branches of the government—failure to recognize their efficiency to go so far and no further ability to go so far and no further. The various forms of segregation exist here as well as elsewhere—the restaurants closed or divided along color lines, and special toilet, locker rooms, rest rooms, etc., set off for colored. The toilets for the colored are few in such a large structure. Hence, the segregated clerks are forced to take the physical inconvenience at times, and travel long distances when they desire the use of them. The department maintains a huge, magnificent cafeteria, in the splendid sweep of woodland along our national driveway, where white people of every class can come to rest, dine, and socialize of afternoons and evenings at minimum costs. The white press of the city is constantly telling of the thousands who take advantage of the delightful variety and the festive scene that their presence creates. It seats two thousand with space to spare; but not one Negro! His only share is in the taxes he is forced to pay for this luxury for another group. The registries of the treasury, which Republican Presidents have given the Negro since Garfield appointed Blanch K. Bruce, is now filled by a white man, and the colored people in the room are a separate room which is public, claimed as "a colored division." When it is discovered that Negro clerks are "working as white" in other divisions, they are promptly transferred to this "colored division." Our people fear that protest against segregation would result in the abolition of segregation so they remain in a dilemma, fearing to act. Our clerks must accept segregation or elimination, and being poor, with no other opportunities in this southern atmosphere, must take the former. They are depressed at the wrong, but economic stress compels endurance of it. The slave of his pen, President Calvin Coolidge can stop every bit of this damnable segregation, just as he can condemn that lawless organization the Klu Klux Klan whenever he decides to do so. Subscribe Now WIRE COMPANIES TO USE BELL LINES Bell System's Nationwide Net Work and Many Electrical Developments, Made Available to Postal and Western Union Use of a single wire route to carry telephone messages of the Bell tel.phone system and telegraph messages of the Western Union and Postal telegraph companies, will be the result of far-reaching arrangements recently consummated between the American Telephone and Telegraph Company, for the Bell System, and the two telegraph companies. A series of non-exclusive contracts made by the telephone system with the telegraph companies will insure the development of electrical communications along lines made possible by the latest devices and methods developed by the Bell System research experts. The companies, however, continue to maintain complete independence of each other. Still other contracts make the telephone system's telephote service available to the telegraph companies for transmission of facsimile messages between the cities in which telephote stations are maintained. What Some Editors Say Telephone Contributes to Civilization In standards of service and in size our telephone industry leads the rest of the world by a tremendous margin. There are 18,500,000 telephones in the United States, 60 per cent of all instruments in the world. In comparison South America has but 1.5 per cent of the world's total and Asia but 3.3 per cent. Europe, which follows us, has the comparatively low mark of 27.6 per cent. In 1925 there were 22,400,000,000 calls in the United States alone. The second country, Germany, had but 2,038,499,000 in the same period of time. It is not illogical to suppose that this telephone supremacy of ours is in a large measure responsible for our world leadership in many lines. Our modern social state, business and industry would be impossible without adequate telephone facilities. The telephone industry has made an important contribution to civilization and prosperity.—Pioneer (Ohio) Alliance. A Household Necessity The people of our country look upon the telephone as a household necessity. As a result no other nation has telephone service comparable to ours. There are as many telephones in the single state of New York as in the whole of Great Britain and of North Ireland. There are twice as many telephones in the United States as in all the countries of Europe. The telephone began in the United States and, due to American engineering and executive genius, vision and enterprise, has shown its greatest development here—Sidney (Ohio) Journal. America's Telephones Among the things which have made America a great united nation, the telephone is not the least conspicuous and effective. It has annihilated time and space, speeded up communication and vitalized social intercourse as has nothing else. Its usefulness is indicated by its tremendous growth. Millions have been spent in this industry, but the end is not even in sight. Telephone men say this year will mark a new high point in achievement in their industry. Extensions and improvements are being made to a greater extent than ever before. In addition to the millions authorized for this work in the early months of the year the further sum of more than $11,000,000 has been authorized for the construction of long distance facilities. This will bring the total to be spent on long distance circuits this year to almost $50,000,000, as compared with the $36,000,000 spent last year. Public use and demand have made further extensions necessary, it is explained. During the first half of this year an increase of 20 per cent over the corresponding period of last year was noted. Use is increasing not only among business men, but among the people generally. Tey no longer find distance a bar to conversation with friends and loved ones hundreds of miles away. It renders an indispensable economic and social service to the growth of the country and the improvement of the people. It is a source of constant expense, it is also a means for unlimited individual expression. Cent what it may, within reasonable limitations of course, it will always be worth it to bring people's voice to ear, regardless of natural limitations in time and distance - Daytona Harbor