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ALL MUST CONTINUE WEAVER FIGHT! FORTY-SIXTH YEAR. No. 28 ALL MU Attorneys JOHN E. BALLARD and PERRY H. Wish Their Many Friends and Clubs A Happy Prosperous New Room 404 Superior Bldg CHerry 2583 FADEOUT OF POPULI —AND— THE POT AND KETTLE IN By JOSEPH C. MANNING Formation of the Populist Party and histi- list-Republican Fusion Movement in Alabama, giving also, the facts as to Disfranchisement. Diagnosis of the Southern Political Situation of existing Political Conditions. Smith-Vare contests in the United States S. Saloon League and its working in connection with the Lynching of the 15th Amendment. These of present interest discussed. Price $1.00--First Edition in Press T. A. HEBBONS, Publish Dept. B 184 West 135th Street FORTY-SIXTH YEAR. No.21. JOHN E. BALLARD and PERRY B. JACKSON Wish Their Many Friends and Clients a A Happy Prosperous New Year Room 404 Superior Bldg. 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CORRESPONDENTS must mall 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 entertainments to be held in the near future, must be paid by 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. of the normal division of the department are the Misses Lucinda Cook and Anna Williamson, two of the very best national teachers in the state of Ohio, without reference to color or race. So says the State Education Department at Column 9. O. Harold F. Lee of Cadiz is one of their several exceptionally capable assistants. CADIZ. The Masonic lodge will hold its annual banquet, New Year's night at the lodge room. A number were here from Martin's Ferry, attending the Sunday evening service at Simpson M. E. church. Mrs. Susie Brown is seriously ill with little hope of her recovery. Melvin and Thomas Christian are visiting their WILBERFORCE. — The board of trustees of the Combined Normal & Industrial (State) department of the university met, Thursday, to receive bids for a new power-house, tunnel and spur, much-needed improvements that will greatly benefit the department. C. Bundy has ploied along for years building up the department until now it is not only a credit to our people of Ohio but also a credit to the great state itself. At the head BLACKED THEIR EYES! American Sailor-Ruffians "Got What Was Coming to Them", This Time—A "Much-Needed Lesson!"! New York City.—Because one of our young workers, on a crowded I. R. T. Flushing local, did not give up his seat to a woman, six members of the U. S. Navy, attacked him and tried to evict every Afro-American occupant of the train. Filled with "giggle water", the sailors attempted to instruct our occupants in courtesy, but ended in hasty retreat before the counter-attack of infuriated Afro-Americans who refused to have ruffians as instructors. Two of our young workers were slightly injured in the melee, while several sailors carried black eyes back to their ships. The police, as usual, arrived when it was all over, and after the sailors had disappeared. Wills to Fight Firno Again? St. Thomas, Virgin Islands.—Harry Wills, pagillist, and his manager, Morris, passed through here, last week Thursday, en route to Trinidad to fight Luis Firpo. It is said that Firpo has been accumulating weight since he returned to Argentina, after his fight with Dempsey in 1923. In 1924, Wills defeated him at Boyle's Thirty Acres in New Jersey, U. S. A., before a crowd of 75,000. Wills is one of several well-known American boxers invading South America, at this time, for a boxing elimination tournament that Wills and Trine meet be in Buenos Aires and the latter is to meet the man who successfully fights his way through the tournament. Morris is Wills' manager pro-tem, for Paddy Mullins, Wills' personal friend and manager for years, is his pilot. Prohibits "Uncle Tom's Cabin" Birmingham, Ala.—This city, in a state which has hundreds of ku klux klan lynchings and whippings to its credit, so many that last year, 84 were recorded in one county alone, has barred the showing of "Uncle Tom's Cabin" in the court. The ruling of business men and white planters fear that it would encourage rebellions on the part of our innumerable workers held in peonage and serfdom in this state. The legal excuse given is that "it might excite hatred." Same old one! "Cold-Blooded" Murder! Baton Rouge, La.-Willey Allen, (white) a trusty at Camp E., Angola prison farm, shot to death Jeff Brown, another convict. Allen's excuse for the murder is that Brown "cursed" him, whereupon, for this great (?) provocation, Allen shot him six times and concluded by knocking his brains out with the butt-end of his revolver. Allen is a second termer, and about a year ago shot and killed Lee Bell, a convict, who he claimed was trying to escape. For this he was made a trusty. Dies En Route From Liberia New York City—Thomas B. Wells (white), age 26, Vale graduate, died on board a French line steamer returning from Liberia, last week, where he had contracted malaria fever. Wells went to Liberia, west coast of Africa, to work on the new Firestone, rubber plantations. of the normal division of the ment are the Misses Lucind and Anna Williamson, two very best normal teachers state of Ohio, without refer color or race. So says the Stacation Department at Colum Harold F. Lee of Cadiz is one several exceptionally capable ants. CADIZ.—The Masonic lod hold its annual banquet, New night at the lodge room.—A were here from Martin's Feeding the Sunday evening at Simpson M. E. church.—Mie Brown is seriously ill wiho of her recovery.—Mel Thomas Christian are visitin parents.—M. M. Moore of bus is wiho her sister, M. Mole. Mr. Ward Johnn is, is spending the holidays.—The A. M. E. choir sacred canta to an appreciation, Sunday evening. The gave one and a treat to the Xmas.—Mattle Brooks a dren of Cleveland are visit parents.—Mrs. Frances How children are spending the hot Greenfield. EDITOR DABNEY'S DI To Some of His Old Friend ceptional Social Pupet Cincinnati, O. — An octogenarian dinner party was recently given by Editor Wendell Phillips Dabney, of "The Union" our local weekly. It was attended by six guests, the eldest being over 87 years of age, the next in point of seniority, 86. Every person seated around the table had accomplished something useful. The guests were Hon. George W. Hays, 57 years u. S. court crier, 50 years a. S. S. superintendent and for four years a member of the Ohio Legislature; Prof. John R. Blackburn, an extrustee of O. S. u. and a well-known educator; Samuel J. Lewis, former clerk of the Ohio Legislature; Samantha C. Civil War warrior Joe Early, first man of color, it is said, elected to office in Ohio and Hon. Wom. Copeland, ex-member of the Ohio Legislature and for years a deputy sheriff. On Hoover Inaugural Committee. Washington, D. C.—Dr. Emmett J. Scott, John R. Hawkins and R. R. Horner were named, last week members of the inaugural committee by Lieut. Col. U. S. Grant, 3d, to assist him in planning a celebration in honor of President-elect Herbert Hoover's inauguration, March 4. The committee as announced consists of 138 persons. Mystery surrounding the finding of a headless body in the basement of a house in E. 40th St. last week, was partly dispelled. Saturday, with the identification of the body as "Pump" Bradbury, age 59 of 3740 Scovill Ave. Identification was made at the county mourn by Bradbury's wife. The body was mutilated before resurrection, but Mrs. Bradbury said the clothing made her certain it was her husband. He had been missing, since Dec. 4, she said. Doss Wade, age 27, voodoon doctor, was recovering at city hospital, Saturday, from bullet wounds, suffered as police fired on him in arresting him as a suspect in the slaying. A confession was obtained from Wade, but he named the victim as a man still living. Atty. Robert Barcus of Columbus, our special assistant in the office of the attorney general of Ohio, is being opposed for reappointment by Councilman Tom Fleming of this city, it is said, on the ground that Barcus "has held the position long enough". This is RICH, coming from Tom who has "held" the office of councilman for sixteen years, are not advocating for reappointment of a fellow, either, because as the head of our Ohio Knights of Pythias, with others we hold him responsible for the leasing of the new theater in our K. P. headquarters' building at Columbus to a man (white) who has a chain of movie theaters in Columbus from some of which our people are barred, and otherwise discriminated against in others. Of course, this ought to recommend Barcus to the Columbus Public Bureau governor, Myers Y. jimmy, Tom's political servility has made him persona grata to the leaders of the local Republican party for the past sixteen years. DECEMBER 29,1928. IS HAYES A SHEIK? His Alleged Engagement to Miss Crystal Byrd, and the Viennese "Countess" Story Again—$35,000 Heart Balm. New York City.—The N. Y. News and the Baltimore Afro-American said, last week: That Roland Hayes the internationally famous tenor, has settled out of court for $35,000 a threatened breach of promise suit by Miss Crystal Byrd, W.C. secretary, is the widely circulated rumor persisting among the close friends of the couple. At any rate, Miss Byrd has gone to Europe for two years' study, sailing recently. Her close friends are responsible for the story that their many year-old engagement, beginning in the obscure, poor days of both in Boston, has been broken. Many of them declare that the large settlement was paid by Mr. Hayes out of the goodness of his heart, feeling as he does that he was responsible for her long sinisterhood. The Countess Story. Again. Another says that it is confirmation of the reputed marriage of Hayes to the Viennese countess. Another says that Miss Byrd's departure for Europe is for the purpose of ultimately marrying Hayes and safeguarding the great singer against the wiles of designing European admirers. Miss Byrd is said, however, on good authority, to have declared before leaving that their engagement was broken. Two years rumors that he and Miss Byrd were to be married soon. Hayes was then on the high seas en route to Europe alone. Miss Byrd had just resigned her National W. w. secretary's work in order to study abroad. At that time it was said she had resigned so as to "facilitate plans for her marriage". BRAZIL WONDERFUL COUNTRY! No Color-Lines There—Larger Than the U. S.—Colored Brazilians High Government Officials both the Army and Navy. Rev. John R. Scotland was for eight years pastor of Glennville Cong. church and is now substituting in the pulpit of the Hough Ave. Cong. church until the selection of a minister to succeed Dr. Harry Samuel Fritsch. Mr. Scotland spent the first six months of this year in South America, devoting his time to an intensive study of the countries he visited. Of Brazil, the France of North and South America as far as our people are concerned, Dr. J. R. Scotland writes: "The size of Brazil astonishes most visitors. Her area is slightly larger than that of the 48 states of our union, the covered partly half of the South America and includes half of the population. When her undoubted resources are developed she will become one of the richest nations in the world. Ignore Color Line "In racial matters the Brazilianes are color blind. The Portuguese have some Moorish blood in their veins to start with, while in the new world they found themselves far from home with Negro slave women readily available. "Today the only feasible place to draw the color line would be between the jet-black and the near-black, but no one is interested in that distinction. Most of the population seems to belong in a racial light zone of discrimination against his race has had a favorable effect upon the character of the Brazilian Negro. He neither smirks like an inferior, nor shoves himself forward as one seeking to demonstrate his equality. He blends perfectly into his environment." BLOCTON, ALA., NEWS. Mrs. W. M. Watkins is visiting her daughter, Mrs. H. P. James, who is very ill at Bluefield, W. Va.—Mrs. Josie F. Thomas died, night night. Mrs. Thomasuckton cemetery, Rev. W. S. Sandford, officiating at the funeral. SINGLE COPY FIVE CENTS LATEST APPEAL TO STATE SUPREME COURT ATTORNEYS NATE COOK AND WM. MARSTELLER FILE PETITION IN ERROR. The fight to save Joseph Weaver, an innocent man, sentenced to death in the electric chair for the murder of a nightwatchman of Midland Products Co., was resumed in Columbus, Monday, when his attorneys, Messrs. Cook and Marsteller, filed a petition in error in the state supreme court, appealing the Cuyahoga county appellate court decision which 10 days ago refused a new trial to the most unfortunate victim of the designing-guy man, Maynor, who has confessed to committing the crime and swears Weaver's innocence. Weaver was "vaccinated", Jan. 12, 1928. Since Aug. 12, the first date set for his execution, he has been in the death house in the Ohio penitentiary while his attorneys have battled for many months without pay, to save him from the chair. They have won three respites. At present Weaver is under an indefinite stay of execution. Sunday the judge of Gazzette drives to several of our local churches (by James V. Peterson, in his car) to he made strong appeals to the members of the congregations to write Gov. A. V. Donaye, State House, Columbus, strong letters in Weaver's behalf, asking him to pardon Joseph Weaver, an INNO-CENT man. All of our people that can, should do, at once. Senator to Governor. Senator to Governor: Cleveland, O. Dec. 25, '28. To His Excellency, Gov. A. Vic Donahue, Coast Guard Chief My dear Governor:—The undersigned, near eighty-four years of age, a resident of the city of Cleveland for more than seventy-one years, a practicing attorney for nearly fifty-nine years, an ex-member of the Ohio State Assembly (House and Senate), and for nine years, 1897-1906, U. S. Postage Stamp Agent, at Washington, D. C., herein and hereby do most humbly pray that you do pardon Joseph Weaver, now under sentence of death, in the Ohio penitentiary, for the reasons that in my own jigzig-jigzig, I have been accused of a very large percentage of the citizens of Cleveland and other parts of Ohio, there is, to say the least, very grave doubt as to his guilt; especially for the reason that the man known to be guilty of the murder, for which Weaver is sentenced, exonerates him from all complicity in the crime. My dear Governor, this is my first plea to a Governor of Ohio for the life of a man since 1874 when, at Fruit Hill, Chillicothe, Ohio, I pleaded with the late save man. Please horn "All men save man. Please this plea and I and a very large percentage of your constituents will ever pray Columbus, O., Dec. 17, '28. Hon. Harry C. Smith. Editor Gazette, Cleveland, O. Dear Sir!—Ever since I've been here, since I had no other job, I've been writing for other men as many of them cannot write for themselves. Among the number is John Sabo, a young Hungarian in poverty like myself. He is new in this English language. We are English languag. It is believed, even by some of the state officers, that Sabo is innocent of the crime he is under sentence of death for. And since the Hungarian people are of the same conviction, word to that effect has been circulated among Hungarian-American citizens by Hungarian newspapers. John Sabo's evidence, proving his innocence, isn't half as strong as mine. And yet, let me tell you that money from nearly every state in the union has been raised by Hungarian people and sent to the treasurer of the fund for him at the headquarters in Akron to help him demand justice. Total amount, over $4,000. Our newspapers have published repeatedly the fact that I am an innocent man and about to be executed! Our race seem to believe they have more and better religion than any other race on earth, and I feel ashamed while answering not less than 800 Sabo letters, since I have been helping him, thanking Hungarian people for helping him. Not more than a few out of the ten million of our people in this country, have made a move to help me and those few consist of the Mission Volunteer society 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. It is the only newspaper immediately establish its rank as one of the NEWSIEST AND BEST in the country. THE COPY FIVE CENTS FIGHT! PEAL TO PREME COURT OK AND WM. MARSTELLER TION IN ERROR. ing Killed the Nightwatchman as Not With Him the Night Committed—Write ahey at Once! of the Seventh Day Adventist church, E. 71st St. and Cedar Ave., Cleveland; Rev. Dr. Clarke and his family of Columbus, he a former pastor JOSEPH WEAVER of St. John's A. M. E. church, Cleveland; you and a few others. Atty's Cook and Marstolber asked me, after we "complied," did I have any money to pay for carrying my case up to the higher courts. I told them no. They said since we are convinced of your innocence, we are going to spend our own money and look to your people to pay us if they can. Thanks, thanks to the highest, for the stand you and others have taken for me, an innocent man. I am WORLD'S BEST TAP DANCER Is a Member of the Race Says a Local Exponent of the Rare Art. Burr Dwan (that is his real name) is the young hoofer in an opening dance act at Keith's Palace, this week. Four years ago, he was a restless occupant of his parental home at 4772 W. 17th St., Cleveland. These later years he has spent greatly steadily on the stage as a dancer. "Who," Mr. Dwan was asked, "is the best tap dancer in America?" "Bill Robinson and Jack Donahue." The answer came without hesitation. Bill Robinson is the Negro vaudeville tap and shuffle artist now playing in a colored show, "Blackbirds," on Broadway. Jack Donahue is the comedian and eccentric hoofer of next week's "Rosalie." "How do you measure the merits of a tap dancer, by the number of taps he is able to make per minute?" of the taps, responded Mr. Dwan. "Negroes are all marvelous at tap dancing. They've got rhythm. "I've seen unknown Negroes in Harlem cafes that were much better tap dancers than Bill Robinson. But they weren't such good showmen. They couldn't sell their stuff." "One of the hardest things in tap dancing is the nerve roll. You hold your leg stiff and a slight nervous reflex makes the tap—Cleveland Daily Plain Dealer. AN ORANGE BLOSSOM A little blossom, blown and clinging to its stem of Life; Unheralded, in silence comes, midst turmoil and in strife; It brings no word of introduction, penned by friend or foe; Nor rings the bell, or sees the usher standing at the door. Each vernal leaf, with aspen move, smiles and lifts up its head; And welcome shows, in Nature's way, the words are never said. No Destiny stands holding in mailed and fatal hand. The life of that sweet blossom, which blooms at God's command. The germ encased within that bud, which blooms for woe or woe; The torried heat may threaten it, and chilling winds may blow. Yet, nurtured on its native stem, and lavish of its charms Exhales sweet odors, bears its fruit, unshaken by alarms. All hall, thou modest little bloom! at dawn thy task begun. 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J reas” . Ne Foto = Se ne OG cep. so Aes ing? 4 10,000,000 Afro-Americans, 350,000 in Ohio. 40,000 in Cleveland. es SATURDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1928 Happy New Year, to all. We trust all of our readers had a very pleas- ant Christmas. —ai— Write Gov. A. V. Donahey, State House, Columbus, 0., to pardon Jo- seph Weaver, an innocent man, You will sleep and feel better! = We need more men lke those New York Afro-Americans who taught the sailor-raffians on that Flushing 1o- cal, last week, “a much-needed les- son”. More power to their kind. lll The Negro group may be assisting to maintain the intolerable status it now fills, by boasting too much of its progress, and by posing as mar- tyrs, holding its ‘hands everlastingly in slings to get sympathy from its (white) neighbors.— Dr. W. W- Waker, Washington, D. C. Brazil is “a wonderful country”, Herbert Hoover and all who go there say, And yet It is one of the few on these two American continents that know no color-lines. America could be “a wonderful country”, too, it it would discard much of its damphool prejudice, racial and religious. —tilli—— Tt was very kind and thoughtful of the many friends thruout the coun- try to remember the editor with “Christmas Greetings”, letters and beautiful cards. We surely appreci- ate the remembrances, Some came from “beyond the Rockies”; others from the extreme South and East. ‘Thank you, good friends. —tit— It begins to look as if President elect Herbert Hoover is going to give the Anti-Saloon league, Dr. Hiram Wesley Evans’ Ku Kiu klan and Dr. Hubert Work’s Republican National committee a decided “‘turn-down” in the appointment of an Irish Catholic as U. 8, Attorney Gencral and a Jew as U, 8, Secretary of Commerce. We trust he will not only do this but also have the courage to appoint an Afro-American to membership in his eabinet; and make a thoro and com- plete job of it while he fs at it, This country {s in great need of just such ‘an experience, these days. WEAVER STILL LANGUISHES. Addressing the Sam 8. Williams Voucher club at the Buclid Avenue Baptist chureh, Chaplain T. 0. Reed of the Ohio penitentiary repeated his contention that Joseph Weaver, now in death row awaiting execution for participation in the murder of Jasper Russell, + <**"rland” wateh- man, is innocent of the crime for which he was convicted. Meanwhile, his attorneys, Nathan E. Cook and Wm. F. Marsteller, are asking the Ohio supreme court for leave to file ‘a petition in error. Inasmuch as the Gvidences of doubt continue unabat- ed, the contemplated legal move ought to meet with success. Chaplain Reed's plan to interest tho Federation of Women's Clubs of ‘Ohio in a campaign to obtain com- mutation of sentence for Weaver Seems to us, however, to be an in- correct step. If Weaver it guilty, ‘commutation fs not warranted. If he fs innocent, he should be freed. Should grave doubt continue to exist in the minds of those who were close iy connected with the case and are thoroughly conversant with all its de- fails, Weaver should be granted a hew trial. Life imprisonment | fs hardly a sensible compromise be- tween the death penalty and complete freedom. But so tong as the element of doubt troubles not only bis legal rep- Fesentatives, giving of their time without hope of remuneration, but iso an experienced prison chaplain, Weaver's execution would be a grave miscarriage of justice, If the death penalty ts to continue ae an effective deterrent against crimes of violence, it cahnot be au- thorized when there lurks even the faintest suspicion that a condemned mon is actually guiltless. In the Weaver case there is obviously more than a svspicion.—Editorial, Cleve- jand Daily News, Dec, 21, °28. Weaver has been steadily denied SRM Der A + pe als ae AR aie te a TT hw ey a new trial because of a legal techni- cality: Because his attorneys did not apply for it immediately after his convigtion. The common pleas court, the court of appeals and the Ohio state supreme court have all refused him a new trial (the first two a second time) and all for the same reason. There is now more, stronger and better evidence of his {nnocence than there ever was of his alleged guilt: Alex. Maynor’s sworn confession that Weaver was not with him when the crime was committed, and the fact that the night-watch- man's clock which he used to ring in with, every hour, showed that he was alive at least a half-hour or more after the time street-car employees testified (at the trial) they saw May- nor and Weaver on a street-car the night of the murder, coming from the Midland Products Co. plant. ‘Weaver is innocent of the charge, just as Alex, Maynor, confessed mur- derer, now swears, and should either be granted a new trial by the state supreme court, something we do not look for in the light of Weaver's at- torneys’ experience in the recent past in that court, or Gov. A. V. Donahey must pardon him. Ohio cannot at- ford to electrocute an innocent man to help the Cuyahoga county prosecu- tor's office maintain its record for convictions, for that seems to be the cause of its continued activity in the Weaver ease, ever since the trial. ‘There should be no commutation of sentence, just as The News editor says. Weaver, an innocent man, must be given his freedom, either as the result of a new trial or thru psrdon by the Governor. His execution would be more than “a grave miscarriage of justice”. This state cannot afford and ‘we do not believe it will permit such a blot on its escutcheon. Our people, at least, should never cease writing Gov. A. V. Donahey, State House, Columbus, 0., requesting him to par- don Joseph Weaver, until that inno- cent man is given the freedom and Liberty he has been deprived of now for more than a year, It will be dif- ficult to find a stronger or better ar- gument, against a continuance of the death penalty in this or any other state of the Union, than this Joseph Weaver case, Write Gov. A. V. Don- ahey, State House, Columbus, 0., to pardon Weaver! Do YOUR duty! ‘A MUCH-NEEDED LESSON! Dr, James W. Eichelberger, Jr., of Chicago, a member of Zion A. M. E. Church, and one of the many dele- gates attending the Educational Com- mission's International Council of Re- ligious Education convention held, this month’ in this city, reserved ac- commodations (by letter) in the Cleveland Hotel, effective, Dec. 13, ‘28, When he arrived in the city, that day, and applied for his accom- modations, he was refused by the ho- tel manager who said: “No accommodations are here for you and my employees had no right to make reservations for you, and had no right to even check your bas- gage”. Whereupon, Dr. Elchelberger re- tained Attys. Gillespie and Dillard who have entered suit for $500 dam- ages, under Hon. Harry C. Smith's Ohio Civil Rights law, against the management of Hotel Cleveland and will of course, teach that manager who, it seems, is from the South, an Ohio lesson he undoubtedly needs much to know. This is the only way to stop that sort of thing in this state where we have an effective civil rights law. Go in court properly and right, and you cannot lose. And our people of the state should do much more of this very thing, too, than they do. ; FINKLE AND BERNSTEIN! ‘Tears came to Councilman Herman H. Finkle’s eyes, Monday, as he and ‘Atty. Alex Bernstein stood in front of the Jewish Orphan Home, 5000 Woodland Ave., handing out Christ- mas baskets to a line of 1,500 per- sons, most of them our people. Each pasket contained potatoes, an entire ham, eggs, apples, a loaf of bread and vegetables. The provisions were stacked up around the fountain in the middle of the yard, and the whole pile cost almost all of Finkle’s $1,800 couneilmanic salary and part of Bernstein's last year’s salary when ‘a member of the board of elections. se eee TUBBY - THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, 0., SA Prime Sport News ee ee pee ee cc een | meen ae Week, Friday night. Joe Seykra,| Four or five hundr Dayton (O.) lightheavyweight, who| turned away at the fir boasts a knockout of Knute Hansen, | week ago when Bob M aes gor oe Ret apa | weer eg aan B20 3 rows ta tey feature ovat, Bio | buted fo = dram Sear ces anes | eee bat Griffiths in New York, recently. Mul- - len plans to match the winner ——— against Johnny Risko, Cleveland, The Best Figh mid-west champions of 1927-28, with “Joe Dundee remair a better lineup than ever, played and | pion of the welters be team. The former are sponsored by | weigh above the clas: Cuyahoga lodge and are coached and |they met. Thompson captained by Howard Ross, former | Dundee in two rounds, Lorain guard. Sherman Mitchell,/he normally weighs n len, Howard university captain, |Joe Gans and Billy Pe coached by Nat Holman; Joe Helm, | turned in the best perfo Central High school. life when he defeated F oe ue Godfrey, the Best. Jackie Fields and Mr. W. E. Prestwood, Dear Sir:—In answer to your let- ter printed in Campbell's Punch Bowl, Friday, Dee, 21, I wish to say you are all wet on everything you say. In the first place Jim Dough- erty (who is Godfrey's manager) is far from being a millionaire. You also say, “Godfrey cannot fight.” ‘That creates a laugh, as every sport- writer, fight promoter, or even box- ing fan with only an ordinary amount of intelligence knows Godfrey ean beat Sharkey, Dempsey. Lough- yan or any other heavyweigh: in the business. Yon should throw away your hammer and buy a “i0rn for Christmas. Yours truly, ALEX HART. —Cleveland Daily News. Yarbo and Hybert Again. Wilson Yarbo, Dave Hawkins’ for- met protege, and Floyd Hybert, (white), Yarbo's only local rival, middleweight, will appear at the north wing of Public hall, New Year’s afternoon, in the feature bout of Wargo’s second professional boxing Dill, It will be their second meet, Hybert having won the first, a year ago, last summer, Yarbo improved considerably after the Hybert con- test and later that year knocked out Shuffle Callahan and lost to Middle- weight Champion Mickey Walker While four policemen labored to keep the main line in order, the youngsters were being handed can- dy. This year each basket bore a little card tied to the center of the handle, which proclaimed that the gift was from “Herman Finkle, coun- cilman, and Alex Bernstein, leader” of ward 12, Where was Councilman Tom Fleming? Did he so “remem- ber" his poor and needy constituents of ward 11? He did not and never has! No wonder Finkle and Bern- stein are well-liked by our people of ward 12, and vicinity. There is a reason! This last “Xmas doings” was not their first, either. Then there is the employment they have secured for hundreds of Afro-Americans out of work during the winter seasons, ete., ete. “WORTH ITS WEIGHT IN GOLD"! Cleveland, O., Aug, 28th, 1925. Hon naery G, susith, Ballon Uagetie, Mee end —t have read tap inlet cong of "ho Gaxctte through and after reading it, (urensh saealiy mys ie i Lect iis walghy ta” gold! I admire true manhood—a man who, seeing injustice and Ber uies tates, eiihin the limits of the law, to expose it And. It’possibte waite It Tou Sng" {five trequentiy, uring the, foreylows, Yours wince, the iy of ats Gaeerte, been. at tielctch would say, like two McNeils, but when I find a man, such as you, who consistently, and persistently, through near- ly half a century, puts his race Pent Sarnia’ aife etreeeie, I take off my hat to him, as being a true friend of our Raa cLeatriie ts yew oat ‘The Gazette. SFoure tor the right, Toke Po Groce. (Former Member, @hio State tense) SSS Patronize Our Advertisers here in the biggest bout of the last two outdoor seasons. His bout with Hybert will be Yarbo's first in a Cleveland ring since the night he fought Walker. Four or five hundred fans were turned away at the first program a week ago when Bob Moody of Pitts- burg and Frankie Simms (white), battled to a draw in a good heavy- weight bout that topped a great all- ee card. "Tha Heax Fighters. Ray Campbell, a leading sport-wri- ter, says. in the Cleveland Daily News: “Joe Dundes remains the cham- pion of the welters because he had the foresight to insist that Young Jack Thompson, able colored welter, weigh above the class limit when they met. Thompson knocked out Dundee in two rounds, but although he normally weighs no more than 144 pounds, he didn’t get the title. “Joe Glick fought quite well throughout the year and so did Baby Joe Gans and Billy Petrolle. Billy Wallace was out most of the year with bad hands, but he has seamed as good as ever in his recent come- back bouts. As a matter of fact, he turned in the best performance of bis life when he defeated Bruce Flowers here. Jackie Fields and Young Jack ‘Thompson furnished the fireworks in the welterwelght class, ‘Thompson knocked ont Joe Dundee and then was defeated by Fields in San Fran- tiseo, Fields also knocked out Jack Zivie, which wasn’t much of a feat, and Sergeant Sammy Baker, which was, ‘Gorilla’ Jones made temark- able strides during the year, too, ad- vaneing from the rank of opening bout performer, last December, to a Madison Square Garden attraction at the present time. Jones scored sev- eral knockouts and defeated Tommy Freeman, flooring the former Cleve- lander tree times. He was beaten by Sammy Baker but not by a great margin and he decisively whipped Pal Silvers in the Garden. “Fidel La Barba moved into the bantamweight division after retiring as flyweight leader and is an out- standing contender for the bantam title. His rivals are colored boys, Kid Chocolate and Al Brown. Cho- jeolate is the reigning sensation in New York. He is a Cuban who has been in the states but a few months. Bud Taylor has virtually retired. “The junior welterweight class is headed by Mushy Callahan, but the Los Angeles Hebrew is all washed up. Baby Joe Gans, Jimmy McLarin and Jackie Brady are the best fighters in the division.” Thompson, Gans, Flowers, Jones and Brown are Afro-American pugil- pied Something Wrong! ‘There is something radically wrong with a group of people Who ‘refuse "to. help. rellove their own burdens. The day of“threwing bouquets is gone forever. Tho Afro-American must face the facts na they ex- tee. We won't gain anything by fooling ourselves into think- ing that everything is all right. Everything, affecting the lives of Afro-Americans, is all wrong. ‘Tho sooner wo tace these facts, the quicker we will begin to work for our own salvation, the sooner will we attain our rightful placo as American citizens. — Philadel- pita ‘Hbine. “NOT THE LARGEST, pr THe Best!" Little Ruck, Ark, June 16, '25. Hon. Harry C. Smith, Biltor, Gazette, Cleveland, ©. Dear Friend:—Long live The | Gazette! a welcome. friend to the Ricks-Demby family for forey-thsee years, We boast of boing among the oldest contin- Sous’ subscribers. of ‘The Ga- note aot the largest but the best in essentials and the most Gepondable of race. journala Wishing you continued good health and success, we are as oar Very truly yours, (Bishop) Edward T. and Nettie ‘M. Demby. eee ee Subscribe N Agents: $10 a Day Oates ramets hiaatest EEE onset a iceman: |e] cause f ef Wock Spare Time or Full Time), ° yostion te ham te eo KS See A een aces eo Hieeeee eres bebo ea oy ar eee ee Se ee agate ek SATURDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1928 S SAVE WEAVER! OUR WOMEN CALL! bout of the last ate, His bout with po's first in @ “DEEDS NOT WORDS!" e the night he — Ohip Federation of Women's Clubs. Columbus, 0., Dec, 17, '28. Dear Club. Members: — Joseph Weaver i still in the death row of the Onio Penitentiary, condemned to Gig for a crime in ‘whieh, in. the Strong opinion of many, he took ab- solutely no part, ‘That he is. still alive is due to those who have cham- Dioned his cause. First to be men- Honea in this connection ts Rev. ‘T- ©. Reed, chaplain of the Ohio Peni- tentiary, to whom in company with Warden P. E. ‘Thomas was made a confession by another prisoner (sen- tenced to life imprisonment for the crime) exonerating Weaver, since which time Chaplain Reed tas not ceased in strong’ concern and effort. Atty's. 'N. E, Cook and. Wm, Mars: teller, Room 518, Leader Building, Cleveland, are giving unstintedly in time, effort and money in behalf of their client of whose innocence they fare convinced. They have knocked at every legal door for relief and are Still so engaged, ‘They will frankly discuss the ease with anyone inter- Gsted. Hon, Marry C. Smith, ed for of The Cleveland Gazette, is do- ing splendid work in Keoping before the public the case of this young man ‘whom editorially he calls “in- ocent Joseph Weaver.” ‘The Bap- Uist Ministers’ Association, the Tnter- Genominational Ministers’ Alliance, f'club of our lawyers, all of Cleve- Tand, have passed strong resolutions expressing willingness to co-operate inany ‘way and every way in the movement. to. save Joseph Weaver. Wm. R. Conners, ex. sec, Welfare League of Cleveland: Mr. Charles White, pres, Cleveland N. A. A. ©. P. and. Walter F. White of the New York office, in attendance at the In- ferdenominational Ministers Ili ance at Cleveland stand ready to as- fist. Mrs, Dovie King Clarke, who formerly taught him in the evening Schools of Cleveland, 13 nov visiting Sur various Ohio organizations in an itort to. pass over £0 these audiences her affection for her former pupil feeling that fo. anyone who” has Known him. closely It is unthinkable {eeonnect him with a sordid crime. ‘The greatest anxiety now prevails to. tet, this matter properly before Gov. A.V. Donahey at once and this anxiety is made most tense by the fact that only a few days remain of his, administration. Tam asking that our clubs show co-operation by Writing him. letters nt omce asking for the pardon of Joseph Weaver: from individual clubs and from fed- erations as. well. Do not wait for Fogular meotings of your clubs, but Ket together on this, at once. ‘GOY. Honaney's term of office expires, Jan. Ti; the matter should be closed days before then, Let every club not only Send a letter to the governor, but in- fluence ministers and influential per- sons and. organizations to do the same, this month! Yours earnestly, ANNA V. HUGHES, chair, Legislative Com., Ohio Pederation of Our Women's ae CHARACTER, Character, like a fine old tree, matures slowly and is s riper growth than success that is forced as hothouse products are foreed. Character in a news- paper develops through’ years of Service to. the people. Fet forty-five years ‘The Gazette has been serving our people of this country. 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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. This is now; used less than two weeks. Call, Cherry 1253 in the afternoon. CLEVELAND Social and Personal Our Junior federation gave a kiddies box social at Miss Julia Gants', E. 89th St., Wednesday. Our Cleveland Federation of Women's clubs gave its monthly lunch-econ at the P. W. A., last week Monday. St. John's S. S. Vashti class entertained the inmates of the Old Folks home, during the holidays; their annual treat for them. Miss Beatrice Wright, W. 85th St., entertained the Ye-Buz club, last Saturday evening, honoring her sister, Mrs. Edith Wright Ryce of New York. Mrs. Benj. Shook, mother of Mrs. J. T. Suggs and Miss Willye Shook, was very ill, last week. She is one of our highly respected pioneer citizens. Mrs. Cora Cummings, a sister of Mrs. Saul A. Lucas, died at her daughter's, in Chicago; recently. She was a native of Lima, and had many friends here. The death of Mrs. James H. Weaver, E. 43d St., was reported, last week. A husband and two sons survive her and have the sympathy of the community. The remains of Bob Munts, who died at Mt. Sinai hospital, were shipped to Indianapolis for interment. He lived with Mr. and Mrs. George W. Carroll, E. 74th St. Mrs. Mary C. Blue was hostess to the Treble Cleff club when plans were inaugurated for a musical at the P. W. A. soon after the first of the year. Mrs. Olga Gunn, president. Mrs. Henry Thompson, of Cedar Ave., has gone to Pendleton, S. C., to visit her father, during the holidays. She is matron of Kingsley Arter center, P. W. A., E. 100th St. Rev. R. M. Carver, the new pastor of Bethany Baptist church, Kinsman Rd., has made an excellent impression and been well received by the congregation. He is a vice-president of a National Baptist association. Rev. Henry P. Jones, pastor of St. John's church, was a very interesting speaker on the subject, "The Spiritual Significance of Modern Inventions." Dec. 16, when twenty professors and teachers from W. R. U. attended the service. Henry Reed, a pioneer employee of the Cleveland Trust Co., at its main office, and a highly esteemed resident by all who knew him, died. TUBBY YOU'RE GONNE IT'S PAST SEVEN AN YOUR SU OVER -YOUR WAS LOOKING YOU EVER *BILL VASSILEFF, 2928 Central Ave. *THE S. & S. DRUG CO. 7325 Central Ave. ROSENBERG'S DRUG STORE, N. W. Cor. Central Ave. and E. 554th St. The Gazette regularly should notify copy delivered promptly. business matters to The Gazette, 226 Superior Ave., West, oppo-you wish to see the editor call carefully examine The Gazette's purchases. Business men who have the patronage of our people, assurance that they want it.lication in current issues of The by noon, WEDNESDAY, of that advertisements accepted until C. SMITH, Avenue, Cleveland, O. Bel Cleveland.) Bell 'Phone: Cherry 1259 (Call, in the Afternoon.) Rising Department FOR RENT.—Furnished rooms, in the East End. All conveniently. Nicely heated and well lighted. Rates reasonable. 'Phone, GAr. 7067. Weaver's drug store in the Hotel Majestic was closed, several weeks ago. recently, after about a year's illness. The funeral from St. James A. M. E. church was largely attended. Mr. and Mrs. Emmett Meade, E. 130th St., entertained a number of friends at a dinner, Xmas, that proved a royal treat, from a culinary and social viewpoint. They are perfeet successes as host and hostess. This the editor of The Gazette can at test. John W. Byrd, messenger to Mr. Maurice Maschke, Republican national committeeman for Ohio, at local Republican headquarters during the recent campaign, and a former patrolman and private detective, has been appointed to a position in the State Senate rooms at Columbus. Mrs. Byrdie Randol, E. 130th St., had as recent guests: Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Wagner, Mr. and Mrs. Paul Foster, Miss M. Scott and Mr. R. Thomas of Detroit; George Carroll, son of Dr. and Mrs. Joe Carroll of Columbus. Dr. Carroll is a son of George W. Carroll, an old resident of this city. To cope with increasingly heavy mail deliveries in Cleveland, eleven additional carriers will be hired, the first of the year, Postmaster Taylor announced, Monday. The new postmen will be selected in order of their rank on the civil service examination list. "The Song and the Star," a very pretty Christmas cantata, was rendered by the choir of Temple Baptist church, Cedar Ave. at E. 84th St., Sunday evening, Miss Lucille Jackson, director, is making decided progress with the organization. Rev. C. D. Patterson, pastor. The "Manger" and "Child in the Stable" were given at Mt. Zion Cong. church, beginning Sunday. At night, exercises, and gifts to 200 children of the community. The choir and pastor provided the evening service at Dennison Ave. Cong. church, (white), Dec. 16. Mr. and Mrs. Walter B. Wright, Sr., of W. 85th St., had as guests for the holidays their daughter and her husband, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Ryce, New York city. Many social functions were given for their entertainment. Mrs. Ryce is a member of several leading clubs and an active Y worker. Mrs. Della Eubanks of Lakewood was hostess to the Wistaria club, Dec. 15. Bridge was enjoyed, the prizes being won by Mrs. John Wilson, first; Mrs. Lottie M. Green, second. The club's Christmas party was given at Mrs. Green's, E. 107th St. Mrs. Eubanks' guests were Mrs. Clayborne George, Mrs. Anthony Whitehead, Mrs. Basil Ramsay and Mrs. Benj. Whiting. The Y Indus club has elected the following officers for the ensuing WA GET IT. KEN O'CLOCK PER IS MOTHER U'FOR WHERE HUH? THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, O., SATURDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1928 It's a Good Scheme If It Works. year, at the Cedar D; Wm. Wright, pres.; W. Murdock, vice-pres.; James Hall, sec., and Melvin Hawkins, treas. Last Friday evening, the following were taken into the organization: Earl Coleman, Rayner Smith, Leland and Raymond Harding, James Hall, Melvin Hawkins and John Maddox. A dance was given, last evening. Wm. E. Beidleman sends greetings to his many local friends and acquaintances from the Masonic home at Urbana. After several days' wrestle with the grip, Rev. D. W. Hill officiated at Mt. Sinai Baptist church, Sunday. His congregation gave him a hearty Xmas welcome. The Union M. S. have a special program for Sunday at 3 p. m. Mrs. Henry Mc. Wright, pres. The Junior federation's "Up on a Housepet" party during the holidays and the pageant to be given early in the new year promise great things for the coming year. The officers: Fay Poindexter, pres.; Earline Holland, vice-pres.; Maud Mitchell, sec., and O. La Moyers, treas. This is an organization of girls affiliated with our Ohio State Federation of Women's clubs. The Sigma Gamma Rho sorority elected the following delegates to the annual convention, held in Indianapolis, this week; Clara Anderson, Beatrice Wright and Jane Foster, Others attending it are: Vivian Howard, national secretary; Lena and Ella Donald, Waverly Gray, Betty Perkins and Mrs. Althea Price. A neat sum was realized from the dance at the Metropolitan club, recently, for the benefit of the sorority's scholarship fund. The East End Women's Republican club, Mrs. Dora Howard, pres., presented Representative-elect Perry B. Jackson with a beautiful gold and mother-of-pearl fountain-pen. Dec. 13, at St. James A. M. e. Church. Preceding the presentation, Mrs. James K. Nickens introduced Wm. R. Conners, sec., Welfare league, who discussed briefly the most unfortunate local unemployment situation as it effects our group. Among others who spoke were: Mrs. Emma Hogan, Atty C. K. Gillespie, Rev. D. O. Walker and Mr. Jackson. Refreshments. The editor of The Gazette was "battling" for Joseph Weaver, last Sunday, at several of our local churches. Rev. Russell S. Brown, pastor of Mt. Zion Cong, church, promised to have at least fifty letters sent on Monday by members of the church to Gov. A. V. Donayhe, State House, Columbus, asking him to pardon Weaver, an innocent man. At Second Emanual Baptist, church nearly one hundred persons promised the editor to do likewise. The pastor was at home ill with the flu, Rev. W. S. Lowery substituting for him. Boydston post, Spanish-American war veterans and members of the American Legion, gave a most enjoyable dinner and program at Mt. Zion Cong, church, Tuesday, for about 200 of our poor children of the community that will be an everlasting credit to that organization. The post has taken on new life in recent months and now has nearly one hundred members. Atty. Lawrence O. Payne, assistant police prosecutor, is the prime moving spirit of the organization, these days. Boydston post sure has the very best wishes of "The Old Reliable" Gazette. The opening of the new Cedar Ave.-E. 90th St. branch of the Empire Savings & Loan Co., Dec. 15, was a very successful affair. It presented a very attractive appearance and is really an asset to the East end community. The floral presentations were profuse and beautiful, among the donors being the None such club. St. John's S. S., of which P. W. Lemon, manager of the branch, superintendent for 15 years; Gentles' and McLood's flower shops. Lemons' two assistants, Mrs. Peter Wilhelm and Mrs. Thelma Moon, were busy at their respective windows, during the day, opening new accounts for depositors. The East end members of our group are proud of this contribution to the business of that section of the city. MURINE For YOUR EYES Murine Co., Dpt. H. S., 9 E. 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OPTOMETRIST Don't Throw Away Your Copy of The GAZETTE After Reading It But Give it to a Friend or an Acquaintance who might Subscribe after Reading It FIRST AMFHIBIAN AMBULANCE IS SEEN The new ambulance, which travels either on land or water, the first of its kind ever built, which was on exhibition at the Berlin international air show. The ambulance is made in the form of a boat and is mounted on a motor-tractor platform which enables it to be used both ways. WHY SPARK PLUGS SHOULD BE CLEAN Must Be Kept Free of Excess Carbon and Oil to Function Properly. Spark plugs to function properly must be kept free of excess carbon and oil formations. Cleaning is easily done. Simply fill the lower part of the plug with alcohol, or any liquid metal polish, and allow to stand for a few seconds; take a piece of wire covered with one thickness of cloth and rub the carbon from the insulator; then wipe clean and dry horizontally before replacing in the engine. Use Cloth or Knife. In cleaning the sparking points use emery cloth or a knife. In cases where the electrode is badly worn away cleaning with emery cloth is of no avail; likewise when the insulator is coated heavily the best and most economical remedy is to change plugs since the coating cannot be cleaned off readily. When spark plugs are severely worn loss of power is often evident and D Illustration Shows Interior Carbon Accumulation. eventually missing of the engine will occur which in turn produces the following major troubles: 1. Oil pumping, causing formation of carbon and sticky valves. 2. Poor starting and excessive drain on the battery. 3. Poor running; loss of power especially on hills. 4. Higher/gusoline consumption. 5. Larger engine repair expense. 6. Poor driving satisfaction. Spark plugs as a rule should be changed every 10,000 miles. Truck Equipment Is a Matter for Specialist When you have trouble with your eyes you go to a specialist. He makes a careful examination and then recommends the kind of lens you need in order to get best results. Why not exercise the same care when you are buying tires for your truck? "Properly equipping a truck is a matter for a tire specialist. Each truck has its own special problems of cushion, tractor and mileage, which are affected by the load, road, distance of haul, speed and other factors. The tire that is the best for one truck may be very inefficient on another. Explain Spark Plug in Very Simple Language There's a simple way to picture the spark plug that makes it altogether more understandable for the average motorist. It is, simply, to look upon the porcelain as a continuation of the insulation and the electrode as a projection of the wire leading from the distributor. It makes no difference what make of plug in question, this principle maintains throughout the field. A cracked porcelain, the cause of much plug failure, is identical with a break in the insulation of the wire leading to the plug. Motor Receipts Take Big Jump in Pennsylvania Approximately $1,000,000 more has been paid to the Pennsylvania state treasury by motorists this year than during the same period of 1927 and drivers have paid 631 per cent more in fines than last year. The total receipts of the highway department up to October 1 amounted to $25,760,620.08, as compared with $24,707,880.75 for nine months of 1927. These collections were on 1,396,969 motor cars this year and 1,340,742 last year, 216,720 commercial motor vehicles in 1928 and 210,376 in 1927. The total registrations this year have been 1,672,900 and in 1927, 1,600,915, while the total licenses are 1,945,710 for 1928 and I,844,476 in 1927. There has been a great increase in reckless driving and in ignoring the motor laws. The motor patrol and the state police during September shattered all records for enforcing the road laws. During the first nine months of 1927 collections from motor law fines aggregated $7,770.35. During the same period this year the total was $56,847.70, a gain of $45,077.35. Washing Always Makes Observing motorists often notice that their cars ride after a wash, but seldom come to know the reason why. The period of easy riding is, true enough, temporary, but it is long enough to be noticed. The truth of the matter is the springs get pretty well watered during a wash, especially if a high pressure system is used so that water is forced between the spring leaves. Under such circumstances water acts as a temporary lubricant. Just as exposed brakes will slip after a washing until they dry out on the spring leaves slip as though oil had been forced between when they are thoroughly wet. The motorist who continues to drive with springs uncovered, however, must suffer the penalty of the rust that follows as well as many other troubles that develop where springs are not protected. AUTOMOBILE NOTES Motor vehicles in Germany are required to have tail lights of orange color. The lion which bit into an inflated auto casing let out as great a roar as the man who owned the car. No manufacturer has had the temerity to introduce a radiator cap emblem designed like a bail and chain. Whatever became of the old-fashioned ad for the automobile that climbed Pikes peak in 11 minutes flat? The poet must have had the automobile in mind when he wrote the couplet, "Nowhere to go but On, nowhere to fall but Off." What other people can't understand is why the screech of automobile brakes doesn't annoy the people who are driving the cars. As to private roads for motorists, nearly any motorist can name a few who act as if they owned at least 80 per cent of every road they travel. American cars were prominent among the 350 shown at the "Rand show" conducted by the agricultural society at Johannesburg, South Africa, this year. Doctor Dublin finds that 65 per cent of automobile fatalities occurred to pedestrians, which will surprise those of us who didn't suppose there were that many pedestrians. An engineer in England has perfected a "clutchless car," which does not do away, however, with the one around the neck when the earnest young lovers borrow the coupe. The Ducal Automobile club of Brunswick, Germany, is erecting a system of signs with skull and crossbones, black on a white ground, for dangerous points on automobile roads. Census reports show there are 2,000,000 extra women in England representing a tremendous amount of potential back-seat guidance. THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, O., SATURDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1928 FASHION'S LATEST EVENING THEME IS SEMI-TAILED METAL CLOTH T WOULD seem that the ingenuity TO CONTEST the supremacy of transparent fluttery tuiles, chiffons and such for party, dine and opera gowns, fashion is introducing into the evening picture many fabrics of an entirely different nature. It is a long time since stiff satis and velvets were given any recognition among smart fabrics, but this season witnesses them moving to the very center of the stage. In addition to satins and velvets there are many beautiful crisp metal fabrics, also colorful moires vying for honors. Necessarily the fashioning of these heavier weaves has brought about a decided change in the aspect of modes in the formal group. That the silhouette is taking on lines of simplicity, if not of severity, is very apparent in regard to the frock in the picture. A crisp gold-metal brocade is employed for the making of this sumptuous gown. Note how the fullness occurs at the back, this being one of fashion's latest moves. Among fabrics of regal sipendor NO TWO SILHOUETT IT COMES TO IT WOULD seem that the ingenuity of the milliner would reach a limit when it comes to fashioning felts, but hats of last-minute styling give no evidence of such a possibility. The fact that brims are "in" again seems to have opened a new field for the play of imagination on the part of the designer. Then, too, self-trimmed hats are still in the majority and there is no medium which yields so successfully to this treatment as felt. Taking it all together, felts have not in the least "worn their welcome out" and there are no signs of them doing so at present. A happy instance of the self-trimmed felt with a brim is given at the top of this group. Even the bow is of felt and the entire hat is so designed as to becoming frame the face. Speaking of bows, not of ribbon but of felt, they are adding a pliant note to scores of new bats. Now that the vogue has started, milliners are "throwing" a clever bow where fancy directs. Sometimes a sprightly little felt bow finds its way to the very tip-top of the crown, or it saucy poses over one ear, or it jauntily rests between the eyes on the very edge of the rim or perhaps it finds placement across the back at the nape of the neck. y Your Co or an Acqu metallized moire in lovely colorings occupies an enviable position. The beauty of these magnificent weaves is that they require no trimming. Indeed, the aim of the stylist is to play up the elegance of the material. To do this many innovations are introduced in the way of minaret flonces which stand out from the figure at daring angles. Then, too, princess effects are being employed very effectively. One of the newest silhouettes being achieved has princess lines for the top with a sudden decided fullness placed far down on the skirt about the knees. Long straightline panels are also very much in evidence. The sophisticated styling of these new stiff fabrics is accented in that the decolletage is exceedingly low, especially at the back—also the lines trend to the severe. So it is that regal materials fashioned along strictly tailored lines for evening wear are bringing about a new era in formal modes—and formal they most surely are, compared to the picturesque alfairy creations of tule and gay chiffon which stand for all that is youthful and which for so long a time have dominated the style picture. JULIA BOTTOMLEY. (© 1928 Western Newspaper Union.) ES ALIKE WHEN FASHIONABLE FELTS Spotted felts are ever so smart. Sometimes they are pyrographed with a hot needle as was done in case of the French cloche model shown here at the top to the left. Then again hand painting is the method employed. The felt helmet to the left is a mode much favored, as it serves admirably to wear with fur-collared wrist coats. In black or gray colors it is alike favored. Side feather pompons effectively trim many a felt this season—both cloche (as pictured) and toque. Usually they are an accurate color match. A tendency to bring the trimming from the top crown is noted in some instances. The gold-braided quilts at the side of the felt cap in the oval are caught to the peak of the crown with an ornament. The girlish beret shown last is on burgundy felt with silver galloon trimming edging the crown band. A tiny rhinestone ornament catches the end of the band in position. JULIA BOTTOMLEY (© 1828 JULIA BOTTOMLEY) py of The aintance w HERE'S THE OPPORTUNITY! "The Old Reliable" Gazette desires an active agent and correspondent in every city and town in Ohio and neighboring states having a number of Afro-American residents. Only a little time on Fridays or Saturdays is required to make some money. We have sessions of learning from persons in the following named cities: Springfield, Columbus, Toledo, Steubenville, Zanesville, Wilmington, Xenia, Washington C. H., Lancaster, Piqua, Lima, O., and other places, particularly in Ohio, where we have none. Write to the editor of The Gazette, 226 West Superior Ave., Cleveland, O. H., where we will most promptly. Our readers will oblige us greatly by sending the addresses of persons in the cities named, and others in the state to whom we can write relative to the matter. IS IT ANY USE TO CON- TEND. FOR RIGHTS? Colored Americans are the only race, responsible members of which are in favor of "always will be discriminated submitting to discrimination on the claim that their race against." The Jews are still contending, after over 1900 years of universal discrimination, and are free to rights today. The Irish at home have contended for 700 years and are winning because they will die rather than submit. The race that says it's cf no use to resist, downs itself and the world then will say, "Negroes are not worthy of equal rights; they are by nature without so much guts." The world respects only those who resent and resist proscriptions for race. Let us be worthy of the abolitionists, worthy of our own fathers who have died in every war to vindicate the title of their race to equal liberty, and forever resist denial of rights in our native land, however long race discrimination may continue. To submit is to deserve contempt.—Boston (Mass.) Guardian. PROTEST! PROTEST!! To submit in silence when we should protest makes cowards out of men. The human race has climbed on protest. Had no voice been raised against injustice, ignorance and lust, the inquisition yet would serve the law, and guillotines decide our least disputes. The few who dare, must-speak and speak again to right the wrongs of many. "I am convinced myself that there is no more evil thing in this present world than race prejudice; none at all! "I write deliberately—it is the worst single thing in life now. It justifies and holds together more baseness, cruelty and abomination than any other sort of error in the world." H. G. Wells. THE MAN WHO DARES "I honor the man who in the conscientious discharge of his duty dares to stand alone; the world, with ignorant, intolerant judgment, may condemn, the countenances of relatives may be averted, and the hearts of friends grow cold, but the sense of duty done shall be sweeter than the applause of the world, the countenances of relatives or the hearts of friends."—Charles Sumner. The Truth! What would cause other people to gnash their teeth and gird their loins is question of debate for us. Kick us, beat us, pile depredations upon us, revile us, abuse us, lie about us, malign us and even impugn our valor and we are not unanimously insulted. It seems impossible to establish unanimity of insult in the black race.—Chicago (Ill.) Whfp. OUR LESSON We must learn to govern ourselves and work together for our own advancement. If we do not learn to govern ourselves and work together for our own advancement, we may be very sure that we will be governed by others in their own interest as well as worked by others for their own advancement and not ours.—George W. Blount. GAZETTE ho might Su OHIO'S MOB VIOLENCE ACT OR ANTI-LYNCHING LAW LEADS THE COUNTRY IN EFFECTIVE LEGISLATION Against the Mob and Lynch-Murder-Three Years' Work of a Member of the Race-Also His Ohio Civil Rights Law. 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 mo-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 with the 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, is defined as manently or temporarily disables the person receiving it from earning a livelihood by manual labor. (93 v. 161 3.) Section 6280. A person taken from officers of justice by a mob, and assaulted with whips, clubs, missiles or in any other manner, may be convicted of a crime 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 assault occurred, 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. 6.) 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 five thousand dollars damages for such unlawful killing. Such sum shall be applied to the maintenance of the family and education of the minor children of such person so lynched, if any survive him, until such children are of legal age, and then be distributed to the survivors, share and share alike, the widow receiving an amount equal to a child's share. If there be no widow or minor child, surviving such decedent, such sum shall be distributed to the next of kin according to the laws of the distribution of the personality of an intestate. Such sum so recovered shall not be a part of the estate of such person so lynched, nor be subject to any of his liabilities. (93 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 him in the course of the action. 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 bad, 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 lose against it in favor of the legal representant in a person killed or seriously injured by mob from any of the persons composing such mob. A person present, with hostile intent, at such lynching shall be deemed a member of the mob and be liable to such action. (93 v. 162 10.) Section 6288. If a mob carries a prisoner into another county, or comes from another county to commit violence on a prisoner brought to the county by the lynchings, the county in which the lynchings committed may recover the amount of the judgment and costs from the county from which the mob came, unless there was contributory negligence on the part of officials of such county in failing to protect such prince, to disperse such mob (93 v. 163 11). very effective. Illinois, Pennsylvania and New Jersey have followed Ohio's lead and enacted mob violence or anti-lynching laws which are copies of our Ohio law. Several other northern states and at least one border state (Kentucky) have also enacted anti-lynching laws, in recent years, like Pennsylvania and New Jersey. The Ohio law follows: OBJS. ed. representative of victim of lynching. try by mob trying to lynch another. costs in tax levy. must member of mob must another county. not relieve a person concerned in such lynching from prosecution for homicide or assault for engaging therein. (93 v. 163 12.) OUR OHIO CIVIL RIGHTS LAW Upon the request of many readers of The Gazette we print below the text of the Hon. Harry C. Smith's Ohio Civil Rights law which the editor had enacted while a member of the 71st General Assembly, in 1894: 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 the hundreds dollars to the persecutors 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 outry for the passage of the Beaty bill, a few years ago, the Beacon 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. Editor The Gazette, Cleveland, O. My Dear Sir; Observing your letter to the Beacon-Journal, of this city, I cannot to send you, under a separate cover, a letter to the porter of Feb. 3, last, containing the opinion of the Court of Appeals in the Puritan Lunch Co. vs. Leonard B. Forman, decided in Akron, last fall, in which a judgment for ($500) five hundred dollars was sustained. If the Beacon-Journal had known what was going on in its own town, there would have been no occasion for a lawsuit. OF OHIO IS UNDER NO REPROACH, nor our courts and juries, in administering it. Not a word was said by the Beacon-Journal when the Forman case was reviewed. "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 or Reading It