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DAMNED BY OUR SO-CALLED LEADERS! IS STRENGEN FORTY-SIXTH YEAR DAMN FADEOUT OF THE POT AND KNIFE By JOSEPH Formation of the Populist list-Republican Fusion Movement giving also, the facts as to Disf Diagnosis of the Southern B of existing Political Conditions Smith-Vare contests in the Saloon League and its working the Lynching of the 15th Ame of present interest discussed. Price $1.00–First Edition T. A. HEBBO 184 West 185th Street The Kazdi 6006-6008 C RAndo OPEN for With a Complete Line Hart Wallpaper Paints Screen Doors COME IN AND CO We Also Carry a Comple Barley Remarkable Be Gives amazing in lightening SIXTH YEAR. No. 23. FADEOUT OF POPULISM —AND— THE POT AND KETTLE IN COMBAT By JOSEPH C. MANNING Location of the Populist Party and history of the Populistic Fusion Movement in Alabama and the South; the facts as to Disfranchisement. Basis of the Southern Political Situation and an Analysis of Political Conditions. 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FREE: If you want to try before you buy, send 4c in stamps for free sample of Skin Whitener Ointment, Face Powder and Skin Whitener Soap. Address Dr. Fred Palmer's Laboratories, Dept. A-382, Atlanta, Ga. STRESSES SQUARE DEAL BEFORE LAW Herbert Hoover, Nominee of the Republican Party for the Presidency of the United States, accepted of the nomination before more than 75,000 persons, August 11, 1932. "The founders of our republic propounded the revolutionary doctrine that all men are created equal and should have equality before the law." He further stated: "Equality of opportunity is the right of every Ameri- ESTABLISHED, AUGUST 25, 1883 And Issued Every Week on Time Since SAYS HAMPTON INSTITUTE PROFESSOR MINISTERS, DOCTORS, LAWYERS, TEACHERS, COLLEGE AND FRATERNAL HEADS And Real Estate Operators "Skinning" the Masses for Money—Contemptible Betrayal of the Best Interests of the Race. New York.—Damned, ignoramuses, clever politicians, buccaneers, ogres, shell-game artists and contemptible betrayers are some of the epithets applied by Prof. Allison Davis to leaders of the race in his article, entitled "The Negro Deserts His People," as printed in the January issue of "Plain Talk" magazine. The writer is a radice of Washington, D.C., a graduate of Williams College and Harvard University, a member of the Phi Beta Kappa and now professor and head of the English department at Hampton, Va., Institute. In his article, he says: obtained a home in spite of his real estate agent. The Remedy. "Thrown in the midst of a developed and relentlessly competitive civilization we can hope to take our proper share in American opportunities only by refashioning and directing our southern masses. Negro business must not expect to run solely or principally upon the profit motif; the Negro professional classes must not refuse to put their training into the work of developing the people. So long as our upper class prospers by keeping these masses Damped in Its Leaders. Damned in Its Leaders. "The Negro has been a race damned in its leaders since the days when the overseer demoralized any group loyalty by giving his favor to the treacherous. A whole people, however, can scarcely be made or broken by its self-styled leaders. We have come in spite of the Negro's dull, full-paunched soldiers-out of their own blood, but from the ideals set up by the upper class which has developed in the last 20 years. It will be understood that I am not speaking of those producers, scientists, writers, composers, scholars—who are making the Negro's contribution to the civilization of America. Their achievements, wrought out in quiet and isolation, justify both themselves and the race. I am speaking of the mass of ministers, lawyers, doctors, school teachers, real estate sharpers, business men and society women whose contribution is limited to furcoats, Packards, armchair solutions of the race problem, football classes and fraternity dances. I am saying, that in just half a century they have forgotten the tragedy of the Negro in the South, and that the ideals they have pursued for our youth are the most pernicious influence in our life today. School and Fraternal Heads. School and Fraternal Heads. "Our school and college administrators and our fraternal heads are the chief offenders in the South. Negro college presidents, with a few notable exceptions, would be jokes, if they were not exerting so harmful an influence upon our younger generation. One class of such presidents run colleges as a good business proposition to fill the members' own pockets. They are perpetrating on intellectual crime upon our eager students. The second group are the heads of land-grant 'colleges.' They are almost without exception, ignoramuses or clever politicians, who whisper from the white state officials. One of the great, tragic ironies of Negro life is the spectacle of a hopeful and energetic youth in the hands of these 'educators.' Of the fraternals there is no need to speak. They are the great shell-game of the South, as stupendous a money-making hoax as the Klan. The Doctors and Lawyers. "The Doctors and Lawyers. "For our doctors, medicine is the shortest and surest route to money and social position. Our young physicians get their start by prescribing dope and nostrums for the slum Negroes, taking their money with no serious effort to help them. The free clinics and wards of our hostels are butcher shops, where our frankly uneducated doctors cure their contempt for the poor. I diseased blacks. Not even the assurance of financial success can lure our physicians from the large cities to the millions of Negroes in the South who are without hospital or medical service. In the most progressive southern state, North Carolina, eighty-four per cent of the Negro children are today delivered by midwives. The slogan of the average Negro lawyer is, 'Get all they have.' He lives on the ignorance of the common Negro, frightening him by the bugaboo of the law into paying out his last cent. The largest share of his spoils comes from the settlement of estates. Since Negroes, especially of the poor and rural classes, are likely to make no will, the fear of the Negro lawyer as an executor is proverbial throughout the South. The Real Estate Operator. "The Negro real estate operator, in certain circumstances, his white employer, has succeeded in making groves pay the highest prices for the least desirable property, thereby forcing their living wage still farther down. He is the most unabashed of all those who exploit the Negro. He has done nothing to improve the Negro's credit and everything to betray him to the white sharper. In the case of a Negro with a cancer and, in the popular fancy an ogre. It is added proof of the perseverance of the Negro that he has obtained a home in spite of his real estate agent. The Remedy. "Thrown in the midst of a developed and relentlessly competitive civilization, we can hope to take our proper share in American opportunities only by refashioning and directing our southern masses. Negro business must not expect to run solely or principally upon the profit of the professional must not refuse to put their thinking into the work of developing the people. So long as our upper class prosperbs by keeping these masses poor and suppressed, it is distinctly a menace to the future of the Negro. The white man chuckles to see us pride ourselves upon our attainment of comfort and relaxation like his. 'Safely stowed!' Booker T. Washington's economic panacea made those Negroes who are above serf just what the white man wants them — comfortable and safe. The Negro as a result has developed few or no man in the South the masses have steadily lost courage and given up hope of such central necessities as the ballot and justice from the law. Danger to Young People. "The greatest danger today is that our young people will be modeled by this grasping and spiritless barricading of women and women of marked ability come out of college only to be disillusioned by the stagnation of this upper class and, worse, then to fall gradually in to its way of life. This upper class of the near future ought to be stimulated to accept the challenge which the present generation has ignored. The challenge has a more vital basis than the urge toward 'service' and humanitarian uplift; it is the urge for a development of a great people. There ought to be some organized effort of this younger generation to refashion the aims of Negro life and to apply them to the life of the masses." WHAT WE LACK IN BUSINESS! The Technique Absolutely Necessary to Success—"Blow-bagging" A Great Hindrance. Washington, D. C.—Returning to Washington after an absence of several years, Mr. Roscoe Conkling Bruce, son of U. S. Senator Blanche K. Bruce of Mississippi who wed a Miss Wilson of Cleveland, O., many years ago, appeared before the Mu-So-Lit club, one evening last week, and delivered a most interesting talk on the Paul Laurence Dunbar Apartments of New York City. Mr. Bruce is the resident manager of this $3,000,000 project and is also a director of the Paul Laurence Dunbar National Bank, located in the building, at 150th St. and Eighth Ave. With lantern slides and a graphic word description of each, Mr. Bruce entertained a number of visitors and Washington friends. In speaking of the bank, Mr. Bruce said among other things: "It is far simpler and easier, of course, to establish and operate a grocery store or a fish and meat market or a haberdashery or a ladies' dress goods store than any kind of bank. Less capital is required; the technique is less exacting. And yet, in our Harlem (the city) today a man can buy nine-tenths of 200,000 Negro consumers — nobody can be exact about it — buy groceries, fish and meat, men's furnishings, ladies' dress goods and the like from white storekeepers. That is today, the business men who sell consumers' goods to Negro Harlem are by a very overwhelming majority not Negroes. Our men and women lack capital. We lack credit facilities. Above all, we lack the technique essential to any business. How and what are they and display and sell those things are fundamental. But, only a very, very few of us have mastered these vital problems. More and more we are placing a deservedly high premium upon business achievement, and praise to the National Negro Business League. Many a trained and talented man or woman breaks away from the unfailing but inadequate salary and the dignified lock-step of public school teaching in commercial schools only to find that these adventurous tasks apply unexpectedly searching tests to all one's intellectual and moral powers". TWELVE HARMON AWARDS GRANTED To Our Men and Women—Gold and Bronze Medals with $8000 in Honoraria Given for Creative Work. New York City.—Twelve Afro-Americans were accorded recognition, Jan. 3, '29, for creative work in the third year of the series of the Harmon Foundation's awards for distinguished achievement among our people. Judges in each of the fields of Literature, Fine Arts, Business including Industry and Education named recipients for an award of a gold medal with $400 honorarium, and a bronze medal with $100 honorarium. In religious service, we gave gold medal and $400 honorarium, and one bronze award with $100 honorarium were granted; in music, a bronze award only was given. And no awards were made in science. Recognition is given only for achievement which is of national significance and which measures favorably with the best that has been done in that particular field by any race or nationality: Claude McKay, age 38, formerly of New York, poet and novelist, was granted the gold medal with $400 in literature for his power, skill and originality in both poetry and prose. Nella Larsen Imes, age 35, of this city, received a bronze award with $100 in literature for achievement shown in her novel "Quicksaid" published in 1928. Hilda Mottley, Jr., age 27 of Chicago, was accorded a gold medal and $400 in fine arts for his artistic ability particularly shown in an oil painting. Mrs. May Howard Jackson, age 51, of Washington, D. C., received the bronze award with $100 in fine arts for work in sculpture. S. W. Rutherford, age 62, also of Washington, D. C., received the gold medal and $400 award in business for his sound management and leadership in the insurance business. Frederick Masslash, age 36, of Philadelphia, Pa., was granted the bronze medal and $100 in business for outstanding work in building engineering, especially concrete construction. N. W. Work, age 62, of Tuskegee Ala. Institute received the award of a gold medal and $400 in education for scholarly research and educational publicity through his periodic compilation and publication of the Negro Year Book and his recent exhaustive "Bibliography of the Negro in Africa and America". John M. Gandy, age 58, president of the Virginia State College, Ettricks, Va., received the award of a bronze medal and $100 in education for developing his institution from a non-accredited school to one offering a four year course in high school education; a two year normal course and a four year college course with "A" in their Ivy League. J. Harold Brown, age 26, director of music, Attucks High School, Indianapolis, was granted the bronze award in music for the earnestness of his work and its wide range, especially in orchestration. The two gold awards in religious service with $400 honoraria accompanying each, were granted to Rev L. K. Williams, age 57, of Chicago for his development of M. Olivet Baptist church, one of the largest institutional churches in America, and leadership of the Afro-American Baptists; and to Rev. James S. Russell, age 71, of Lawrenceville, Va., archeacon of the diocese of southern Virginia, for his outstanding work as a missionary minister and administrator in the development of church missions and a parish school in Virginia. Rev. Channing H. Tobias, age 66 of York, a secretary of the national "Y" council, was given a bronze award with $100 honorarium for his leadership of our men and boys. LIKES "THE OLD RELIABLE". Cleveland, O. Jan. 5, '29. Hon. Harry C. Smith. Editor Gazette, Cleveland, O. Dear Mr. Smith—I have just read the Dec. 22nd issue of The Gazette which you were so kind as to send me. In spectacular fashion week after week, you courageously attack deeply intrenched racial abuses; you advocate sound reforms; you scourge unethical men from public life. Like Greeley of the Tribune, your personality dominates your every page. No doubt even a man of your status and ability is discouraged at times because of apprehension of the birth of your realism for all that you are doing for them. However, Lincoln realized the importance, responsibility and dignity of an Oswald G. Villard and a Harry C. Smith when he said: "He who molds public sentiment goes deeper than he who enacts statutes or pronounces decisions!" Most cordially and sincerely yours, Nathan Friedman. Wins $250 Prize. New York City.—A painting of the spiritual, "Swing Low Sweet Charity", by Malvin Gray Johnson, age 32, of this city, won the special prize of $250 in the exhibit of work of our artists which is being held here under the auspices of the Harmon Foundation, in co-operation with the Commission on Race Relations of the Federal Council of Churches. SINGLE COPY FIVE CENTS ARE HOPKINS AND BLOSSOM KLUXERS? THEIR MOST FLAGRANT INSULT AND DENIAL OF CITIZEN-TAXPAYERS' RIGHTS. A Terrific Indictment of Them by Messrs. Myers, George and Gregg—Disgraceful Segregation and Discrimination at the City Hospital. Colored Investigators Told It's Not Practiced in Hospital A delegation (Mrs. L. L. Gibson, N. L. McGhee, Dr. U. S. Tarter and Chas. W. White) of colored investigators, headed by Councilmen E. J. Gregg and Clayborne George, met yesterday with City Manager Wm. R. Hopkins and charged that segregation was being practiced at City Hospital. Investigators went through the hospital, Saturday, and found three out of 35 divisions in which colored patients and white patients were not in the same rooms. Supt. P. J. McMillian and he had shown them 23 divisions of the hospital in which colored and white patients were occupying the same rooms. Hopkins told the delegation it was not the intention of the city to segregate patients on account of color.—Plain Dealer, Jan. 5, '29. Cleveland, Jan. 5, '29. Hon. Harry C. Smith, Editor Gazette, City. My Dear Harry. — A little more vindication for us. There IS segregation at the City hospital and I have the proof! Irving Graves, an employee of mine, told the City hospital for eight weeks, in Division 11, sixth floor, and as no time was there a white patient in that ward (Division) or in the smaller ward across the hall. Aside from this, Mr. George (Councilman), at my home on Tuesday night, when we talked this matter over, brought out the fact that, so far as he was able to see, there was not a single colored employee in discrimination, added to this. What makes it worse is that St. Luke's, "Charity", Lakeside, Huron Rd., the Cleveland Clinic and Mt. Sinai hospitals, all have Negro employees by the score, and many in responsible positions, too, this place (the City hospital) which we are taxed to help maintain and support, the sole one to discriminate in hiring them. The city manager (Hopkins), some day, will wake up and give us credit for being "ahead of the show". Our present satisfaction is our reward. Editor Plain Dealer—Sir: There appeared in the columns of your paper on Jan. 5, Page 17, an article entitled "Segregation Is Denied." Having heard the administration side of the affair, a matter we considered confidential, we take it that the public will be interested in hearing the side of the investigators. In the first place, the committee that made the investigation did not visit 35 divisions. The committee visited only twelve divisions and found the following: In most divisions the committee found no appearance of segregation. In one division it found a modified form of segregation. In Divisions 16, 2 and 15 it found bold and fragrant segregation. In Division 16 there was not a single colored patient in the ward. What colored patients were in that division were in rooms to themselves. The senior nurse stated very easily that they were all been in that division and it had been the common practice to separate white and colored patients and whenever by reason of circumstances they were mixed the first opportunity to separate them was taken advantage of. In Division 2 the committee found conditions the same as in Division 16. The head nurse stated that it had been the practice ever since she had been there to separate white and colored patients. She said that colored patients being of the same race had been placed to themselves. Mon were placed to themselves. When asked of what nationality those patients were in the ward, she stated that they were Italian, Polish, Hungarian and American. There was not a single colored patient in that ward. In Division 15 the investigators found no colored patients in the ward. The senior nurse stated that whenever possible she would put the colored patients in rooms to themselves. She further said that whenever it was necessary to put colored patients in the room a screen was placed between their oeds. When asked what this was done she stated because of difference in color. During the interview with Mr. McMillan, superintendent, he stated that he was short of help in that interview and nurses and attendants off by reason of stinkness and further said that nurses could not be found to fill their places. Yet colored nurses (and "Nerro" in City hospital and of all the help in THE GAZETTE is the oldest and has the largest bone dome circulation in Ohio, double that of any newspaper in the interest of Afro-Americans published in this or any other state, and comparison with any will immediately establish its rank as one of the NEWSIEST AND BEST in the country. E COPY FIVE CENTS ADERS! WO BLOSSOM KLUXERS? NT INSULT AND DENIAL OF PAYERS' RIGHTS. of Them by Messrs. Myers, Disgraceful Segregation and at the City Hospital. the institution not a single colored person is employed even in the most mental capacity although the City hospital is a municipal institution supported by the taxes of all the people, while on the other hand private hospitals employ colored nurses and colored attendants. CLAYBORNE GEORGE, Councilman from Fourth District. E J. GREEG, M. D. Councilman from Third District. Cleveland. Cleveland, Jan. 7, '29. Hon. Harry C. Smith, Editor Gassette, City. Dear Harry.—The committee that waited on City Manager! W. R. Hopkins anent the City hospital segregation and discrimination was as follows: Gregg, George, Charley White. Mrs. L. J. Gibson, Rev. Boone, Norman McGhee and a representative from U.N. M. (Grayeyes). Alex. H. Martin and Rev. D. O. Walker were invited, but did not go. Rev. Walker is unalterably opposed to a "jim-crow" hospital here. He so declared from his pupil, yesterday A. M. and the congregation by a rising vote endorsed his position and pledged their support and loyalty. (I was there). Gregg is still urging a separate hospital. He seems obsessed with that southern "jim-crow" idea. Stress the non-employment of any of our people in the City hospital. City Manager Hopkins is such a stickler on "quota", he should give us our "quota" of employees at the City hospital. Very truly yours, George A. Myers. HAITIAN WORKERS PRO- TEST U. S. TERRORISM Port-au-Prince, Haiti. — The following statement was issued, Jan. 2, 29, by the Haitian Patriotic Union of Port-au-Prince: "Three of our bravest workers in our struggle against U. S. intervention in Haiti and all Latin America, Elle Gerlin, George Petit and Jacques Romain, editors of our new and militant paper, 'Le Petit Impartial', have been brutally arrested by the Yankee assistant chief of police, Gen. Bill Cohn, with a gang of his men (U. S. marines), and failed for protesting against the vile policy and race prosecution. U. S. imperialism. "The charge against them is that they published 'outrageous', but true articles against President Louis J. Borno, exposing the grafting of the high Haitian clergy, composed of over 300 French and six Haitian priests; also exposes of numerous crimes and burglaries committed by the U. S. marines and marine officers in Haiti from July 27, 1915 to Nov. 1, 1928. The arrest followed the publication in 'Le Petit Impartial' of Nov. 1, of the picture of our heroic resistance against the vile policy committed on a tree, and of Benoit Batraville, cut in pieces. These atrocities were committed on Oct. 24, 1518, at the town of Mirabalas, 170 miles from Port-au-Prince, by U. S. Col. Hooker and a band of Yankee marines, using machine guns, gas bombs, airplanes and so forth, to destroy the Haitian people. SCORE LYNCH MURDER! And Race Prejudice — Other "Nations" Picture of Christianity in America". Memphis, Tenn. — Four speakers at the international missionary conference of the Methodist Episcopal church, South, joined with the college of bishops, Jan. 2, in assertions that race prejudice, and mob law in particular, had retarded the progress of Christianity, and the South, too, that race prejudice had ledlege adopted a resolution opposing lynching after Dr. Frank S. Onderdonk, sup't. of the Texas-Mexican mission, in an address referred to the burning of Charley, Shepherd convict-murderer in Mississippi, Dec. 31, and three other speakers had alluded to racial problems. There are many, Dr. Onderdonk said, "who are not African-American, but can't keep from being burned in America". Occurrences similar to the Mississippi lynching, he said, give other nations "their picture of Christianity in America". Blocton, Ala., News. Mr. R. Hayden of Chattanooga is visiting his father, Rev. C. M. Hayden.—Mr. and Mrs. E. E. Kearsh has named their new-born 15 pound baby boy, Jessie, Jr.—Rev. E. G. Massey will preach, Sunday at 11:30 a. m. in Liberty Baptist church. F. K. Vandergraft, C. C. TUBBY NOW, LOOK HERE YOUNG MAN, YOU'VE GOT TO PRACTICE YOUR MUSIC LESSON FOR AN HOUR BEFORE YOU GO OUT OF THIS HOUSE HELLO, TUBBY, I'VE COME OVER TO SPEND THE DAY - WHAT DO YOU SAY TO A GAME OF BALL? AW, THAT'S NO GOOD COME ON IN AUS WE'LL BANG AWAY ON THE PIE-AN-O GO AHEAD, YOU CAN PLAY FIRST - PLAY AS LONG AS YOU WANTA THANK YOU YOU MUST LIKE TO HEAR ME DO MY CHORDS FOR YOU INSIST ON MY PLAYING THEM OVER AGAIN AND AGAIN IT AIN'T THAT, BUT IF YOU KEEP IT UP MOM'LL THINK IT'S ME PRACTISING One Year ..... $2.00 Six Months ..... 1.00 Subscribers are requested to remit by postoffice money order or registered letter. Entered at the postoffice in Cleveland, Ohio, as second-class mail matter Address all communications to HARRY C. SMITH Editor and Proprietor THE GAZETTE 226 W. Superior Ave., Cleveland, O. (Bell 'Phone: Cherry 1259) Member Ohio Legislature: 1894 to 1895; 1896 to 1898; 1900 to 1902. IN UNION IN UNION 10,000,000 Afro-Americans. 850,000 in Ohio. 40,000 in Cleveland. SATURDAY, JANUARY 12, 1929. Just when all were rejoicing that only nine human beings were lynch-murdered in our "free" republic in 1928, the great, tolerant, Christian, Democratic state of Mississippi brought the number of them up to eleven, on Dec. 31, '28—five, instead of three, in one year for U. S. Senator Pat Harrison's ballwick! The last man for 1928 was burned at the stake and Gov. Bilbo has no "time or money to investigate 2,000 people". Well, it's no surprise that a state like that stands at the foot of the list in all those respects by which social well-being is measured. How long will Americans be disgraced by even one lynch-murder in a year? While politicians talk, invention goes on changing the face of human affairs. The first of two recent inventions to come to public notice is good. The successful printing of an entire newspaper on paper made from pulp of corn stalks is likely to do more for the farmers of the corn belt than Hoover and Smith and all their promises put together. It is also likely to do more to spare our forests and help the process of reforestation catch up with destruction than all the efforts of those who have warned us against the dangers of the ruthless destruction of forests. The second invention, unless by chance it helps to scare us into peace is of no such admirable sort. We refer, of course, to the announcement of Dr. H. I. Jones that a new poison gas named cacodyl isoacylan already known to the chief governments of the world "is a deadly poison which would destroy armies as a man might snuff out a candle." In the event of any large scale war, of course the governments will use this gas, in spite of paper agreements to the contrary. Our hope lies in building peace, in killing the tiger of war, not in trying to file down his teeth. FIFTY YEARS! The Louisville (Ky.) American Baptist, always edited and owned by our longtime friend and confere, Wm. H. Steward, one of our oldest and most highly respected residents of that city, entered its fifth year of continuous publication with its issue of last week. Like all of our really loyal publications, the American Baptist has rendered our people (and the great Baptist Church) invaluable service without anything near like adequate returns. It has been practically "a labor of love" in the case of Editor and Publisher Steward as with the others referred to. This we can and do attest. Their only reward, in life, is the consciousness of work well done which to them suffices if it does not thorny satisfy. Fifty years is a long period of time and for forty-six of those years, the editor of "The Old Reliable" Gapette can and does bear testimony to the fact that Editor Steward and the American Baptist have ever been loyal, faithful and wise in their advocacy of all things beneficial to the race (and the Baptist Church). Sincerest congratulations, longtime friend, for you and yours, and best wishes for many more years of service with larger and butter returns from a people that are slow, entirely too slow, and backward in showing appreciation to the best of their own. If this race of ours has furnished any martyrs to its cause, they are its newspaper publishers in the last fifty years. It is difficult to get up any very great amount of New Year enthusiasm for the Kellogg Fact outlawing war. He will be a very stupid statesman, indeed, who cannot find some excuse under its various qualifications and interpretations, permitted by the treaty itself or the explanatory notes that accompanied it, to justify almost any war. On the other hand he will be a very stupid advocate of peace, indeed, who cannot use the treaty as psychologically a great point of vantage in fighting war. After ages of glorifying war it is a striking thing that the nations should solemnly renounce it. Hence the ratification of the treaty is desirable without encumbering it with further reservations obviously designed to stifle it. The only reservation for which there seems to be any need or excuse is a declaration that the United States does not accept in advance any obligation to go to war with a nation which may be presumed to have broken the treaty. Even such a reservation as this is not necessary on the face of the treaty and ought not to be pressed if it will cause trouble. Its importance lies in the fact that already opinion in Europe in certain quarters has jumped to the conclusion that the Kellogg Pact indirectly commits us to an obligation to enforce peace which we have not accepted directly. Perhaps the weightiest argument for the ratification of the treaty is that the failure of our Senate to approve it will vastly increase European suspicion and distrust of America. Any future administration will be impotent to take any initiative for world peace for fear of the Senate. Let the U. S. Senate therefore ratify the treaty and release the energy of peace forces for those constructive activities that can save it from becoming a mere plious New Year's resolution soon to be broken. S'MORE HOPKINS HOKUM. The members of the committee that investigated conditions at the City hospital and those of the one that called on City Manager Will R. Hopkins, to enter a vigorous protest against the insulting segregation and discrimination in vogue at the hospital, are entitled to the thanks of our people of the entire community. Their reports will be found elsewhere in this paper. They show that Hopkins and his subordinate, Dr. Dudley S. Blossom, are guilty as charged! Both ought to be removed from office at the first opportunity. They show unmistakably that they are unfit to serve ALL the people in a law-abiding and proper manner and show it beyond all question or doubt by the fragrant insults and denials of citizen-taxayers' rights and privileges in their control and conduct of that public institution, the City hospital. Hopkins' denial of the existence of segregation at the place and Blossom's insulting statement of many months ago, to a committee of our citizens that called upon him, that segregation would be continued there in spite of anything we said or did, ought to make every red-blooded Afro-American in this community start now to help hasten another charter election which will help us to get rid of Hopkins hokum and Blossom brass. Some Buried Alive—Dum-dum Bul lets Used—"American Methods Washington, D. C. Jan. 8. 29' The savvagey, with which the Colombian government at the instigation of U. S. imperialists represented by the United Fruit Company, smothered in blood the recent strike of the banana plantation workers, who struck against that company last month, is at last coming to light in spite of the official censorship. The Colombian government's official report admitted that its troops had murdered 200 workers, but stories of eye-witnesses, given by the Dominican republic, El Llorenzi" show that nearly 1,400 workers were killed and 2,000 wounded by the Colombian soldiers at the behest of the United Fruit Company. Dum-dum bullets were used. Hundreds were buried while yet alive in unmarked graves and others were thrown into rivers and swamps. Most of the banana workers are Jamaican Negroes. New York City — A "tim-crow" division of the Socialist party has been organized in Harlem, in line with the definite swing of that party towards capitalists, as manifested in the last election-campaign when the party soft-pedded on the "Negro question." No explanation was given. The most important source from the cardinal principles of Socialism. THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, O., SATURDAY, JANUARY 12, 1929. 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, Efc. CORRESPONDENTS must mail all letters for publication at their main postoffice sufficiently early on Monday (or Sunday) of each week to have them reach The Gazette office on Tuesday morning, and always write their names and that of their city or town on the outside of the wrapper about returned copies. Unless this latter is done, proper credit cannot be given you. Lists of names, wedding presents, etc., obituary notices, inquiries for relatives and advertisements of all kinds, including items announcing entertainments, be held in the near future, must be in advance at the rate of 20 cents and agreed to a line. Our lates for display advertisements will be sent on application. WASHINGTON C. H. — Rawling St. Baptist church celebrated its pastor, Rev. J. J. Burr's anniversary, Sunday. At 11 a. m., Rev. E. R. Smith, formerly of St. Louis, preached; at 3 p. m., Rev. W. Allen, pastor of Second Baptist church, and, at 3 p. m., Hawkins, pastor at Roxobel. The following also rendered: Paper, Mrs. Ada Williams; oration, Miss Pearl Brandon; paper, Mrs. Frank Willis; addresses, Messrs. Spencer and Wayne Jones. Pew-rally, Jan. 20. All invited. Our people of Washington C. H. ought to take The Gazette. Its news itself is from week to week in order to know the truth about things essential for us to know. LORAIN,—The New Years entertainment at Second Baptist church was a success.—7th St. church had a turkey contest, recently. Mr. Perkins was the winner.—Rev. and Mrs. Young are visiting Mrs. Elisha Worthington, tueir daughter.—Rev. A. J. Simmons is assisting in revival services at Gilead, Mich. He will start his, the 13th.—Mrs. M. Doss has returned from Huntsville, Ala., where she was called by her son's illness, two weeks ago. He is better.—Stanley Wallace returned, last week Friday, from Pittsburgh. He spent the holidays with his mother and other relatives.—Mr. Wm. Cosby, of Ann Arbor, Mich., spent the week-end at St. Mathews's parsonage and made an excellent address to the S. S. HILLSBORO. — Ralph Woods of Sidney was here, Monday. — Mrs. Chas. Cole and daughter visited her sister in Dayton, Friday. — Mr. and Mrs. Frank Vaughn have returned to Port Huron. They spent the holidays with his father. — Mrs. Flora West entertained at luncheon, New Years, Miss Ella Hardin, Mrs. Jas Captain and Mrs. Wm. Woods. — Mrs. Edw. Carlisle and daughters of Jamestown spent the week-end with Mrs. Jane Young. — Clarence Hudson captain and Mrs. Wm. Woods. — Mrs. Wilbur Harper and daughter of Greenfield spent Sunday with her sister. — Nina Klgore and Harold Henison are ill. — Mrs. Flora West visited her daughter in Dayton, Friday. — Mrs. Clarence Carr entertained the Get-Together club. last Wednesday. — Mrs. Burr was dinner-guest, Sunday, of Mr. or Mrs. Edw. Jones. CADIZ. — Mr. and Mrs. Winfy Smith and Smith, Mrs. Susie Hahn of E. Liverpool visited Mrs. Frances Christian, Sunday. — Mrs. Mary Wallace was called, to Cleveland, recently, by a daughter's illness. — Rev. J. M. Ross, pastor of M. A. E. church at Smithfield, died, last Wednesday, Funeral, Saturday, Revs. B. A. Galloway and T. W. Woodson officiating. The remains were taken to Springfield for burial. Mesdames Alberta Madison and Florence Mason attended the tunnel. Many years ago, Elder Ross pastored in Cleveland. — Rev. L. C. Ridley spent Monday here after two weeks in Steubenville, assisting Rev. R. S. Hutchinson. Mrs. Carrie Guy of that city visited her parents over the week-end. — Mrs. Annie Alexander of Zanesville was called here by her parents' illness. — Revival services at St. James A. M. E. church. ALLIANCE.—Edna Bell spent the holidays with Mrs. Robert Lake at Depew, N. Y.—Mr. and Mrs. C. Donahue left, last week, to spend the winter in Pittsburgh. She is very ill—St. Luke's W. M. M. S.'s monthly meeting was very interesting. Among the program-numbers rendered two excellent violin solos by Joseph Loften of Akron. Miss Beatrice Cain, accompanist. Short talks were made by Miss Myrtle Miller of this city, Mesdames E. Bell, C. Bailey and M. McCloud of Sebring. Rev. Bell will preach, Sunday afternoon, at Mt. Olive church. His members will attend the services. A revival began, Sunday, at St. Luke's. Dr. E. Truss, evangelist, will preach next week also, with Rev. E. H. Newsome assisting. The choir's service, from 7:30 to 8 p. m., each day, will be returned from Kansas City — Rev. E. Richardson's family have the flu. Prime Sport News Morehouse Swamps Howard. Atlanta, Ga. — Morehouse's college's "Big Maroon Team" trimmed Howard University basketball team, Saturday, 51 to 23. Gunn of Hampton was referee. Godfrey Loses on a Foul. Philadelphia, Pa. — Al Walker of Jacksonville, Fl., won from George Godfrey of Leiperville, Pa., on a foul in the third round of their scheduled ten-round fight here, Monday night. Both "Afros." Thompson to Fight J. Dundee. New York City. — A return match between Joe Dundee, Baltimore, world's bestweight champion, and Yancey Jack Thompson, Los Angeles Afro-American who knocked him out in two rounds in Chicago, last year when Joe's title was not at stake looms as more than a possibility. The New York state athletic commission, in reinstating Dundee, Jan. 4 following a six weeks' suspension, ruled that Dundee's next opponent in New York must be Thompson. Godfrey Put Risko on the Toboggan Washington, D. C.—Johnny Risko, the Cleveland baker boy (white) who got a much disputed decision from George Godfrey in a fistic encounter at Ebbet's Field, Brooklyn, last summer, is now showing what the referee and judges tried to cover up in that case. It was clear that he watched the fight that for six of the ten rounds Godfrey put it on the baker boy for fair. It will be remembered that at one stage of the fight, Godfrey held both hands above his head as an indication that his opponent could wade in if he cared to. Johnny, however, was wary and did not take advantage of the opening shot. In De'Bray, 28, says: "The Cleveland baker boy dropped a few more rungs down the fistic ladder here tonight when he lost a close ten-round decision to Ernie Schaaf, the rugged Boston ex-sailor heavyweight." Risko will soon be a candidate for the association of "punch drunk" fighters and he can charge it up to "the big yellow", Godfrey. "Gorilla" Wm. Jones, great young Afro-American welterweight from Akron, knocked out Arthur Schackels, leading Belgian "welter" in the first round of their scheduled ten-heat main bout. Public Hall north wing. Tuesday night. The time was two minutes and eleven seconds. Schackels, revived after a minute of hard work on the part of his handlers, burst into tears as he started for his dressing room. he said, "I didn't feel anything" he said. "Just it was perfect right cross to the European's jaw that finished the bout. A few seconds previously the "Gorilla" had rocked him with another of those rights. The only blow Schackels landed during the short-lived argument was a light left to the jaw. Arturo Shackels and "Gorilla" Jones will try it again, Monday night, in Buffalo, where the former is said to be a great drawing card. Additional Locals Tillman M. Farlice, E. 63d St. an old resident, died, Dec. 30, '28, after a brief illness. Paralysis. For nearly thirty years he was our most trusted employee of the Cleveland Trust Co. A son survives him and has the sympathy of the community. Funeral is on weekends from Antoch Baptist church of which he was an official for many years. Dr. C. B. Shaw, voice specialist, music rooms at 2606 Euclid Ave., is giving a series of free Sunday lectures during this and next month, each with special music, to which he will be invited. His degree, doctor of music, he received from the great Chicago Conservatory of Music, and those of A. B. A. M., and D. Litt., from Baldwin-Wallace college. Subscribe NOW! TUBBY, COME OVER AND THE WHAT DO AY TO A OF BALL? AW, THAT'S NO GOOD, COME ON IN AIS WE'LL BANG AWAY ON THE PIE-AN-O SAVE WEAVER! OUR WOMEN CALL! Columbus, O. Dec. 17, '28. Dear Club Members: — Joseph Weaver is still in the death row of the Ohio Penitentiary, condemned to die for a crime in which, in the strong opinion of many, he took absolutely no part. That he is still alive is due to those who have championed his cause. First to be mentioned in this connection is Rev. T. O. Reed, chaplain of the Ohio Penitentiary, to whom in company with Warden P. E. Thomas was made a confession by another prisoner (sentenced to life imprisonment for the crime) exonerating Weaver, since which time Chaplain Paul has not seen such concern and effort Atty's, N. E. C. K. and Warden teller, Room 518. Leader Building, Cleveland, are giving unstintedly in time, effort and money in behalf of their client of whose innocence they are convinced. They have knocked at every legal door for relief and are still engaged. They will frankly discuss the case with anyone interested. Hon. Harry C. Smith., editor of The Cleveland Gazette is doing splendid work in keeping before the public the case of this young man whom editorially he calls "innocent Joseph Weaver." The Baptist Ministers' Association, the Interdenominational Ministers' Association, the club of our lawyers, all of Cleveland, have passed strong resolutions expressing willingness to co-operate in any way and every way in the movement to save Joseph Weaver. Wm. R. Conners, ex. sec., Welfare League, pres. Cleveland N. A. A. C. P. and Walter F. White of the New York office, in attendance at the Interdenominational Ministers' Alliance at Cleveland stand ready to assist. Mrs. Dovey King Clarke, who formerly taught him in the evening schools of Cleveland, is now visiting the city to pass over to these audiences her affection for her former pupil, feeling that to anyone who has known him closely it is unthinkable to connect him with a sordid crime. The greatest anxiety now prevails to get this matter properly before Gov. A. V. Donahue at once and this anxiety is made most tense by the fact that only a few days remain of his administration. I am asking the minister of our institution writing him letters at once asking for the pardon of Joseph Weaver: from individual clubs and from federations as well. Do not wait for regular meetings of your clubs, but get together on this, at once. Gov. Donahue's term of office expires. Jan. 14; the matter should be closed days before then. Let every club not only send a letter to the governor, but influence ministers and influential persons and organizations to do the same, this month! ANNA V. HUGHES. Chair., Legislative Com., Ohio Federation of Our Women's Clubs. 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 my Sabo, who is poor and poverty stricken myself. He is new in this country and knows very little of the English language. 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 people. John Sabo’s evidence, his insinuations, his own strong as mine, and let me tell you that money from nearly every state in the union has been raised by the 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 am not a slave. I have less than 800 Sabo letters, since I have been helping him, thanking the Hungarian people for what they are doing to help 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 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 of St. John’s A. M. 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Mrs. Henrietta Cross' mother, Mrs. Mary Wallace of Cadiz, visited her during her recent illness. Miss Dorothy Gordon of Painesville, spent the holidays with Miss Julia Gants, E. 89th St. Miss Helen, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Joe Thomas, E. 40th St., gave a delightful New Years Eve party. Mrs. John P. Green proved an exceptionally gracious hostess to the Wistaria club at its Christmas party. Mrs. Grace Willis Thompson, of Earle Ave., was our leading representative at the recent Chicago musical convention. Miss Leota, daughter of Mrs. Kibble McLeod, florist, E. 55th St., graduates from Central High school, this month. Rev. Russell S. Brown of Mt. Zion Cong. church attended the A. P. a fraternity convention in Philadelphia, recently. Among the deaths from flu, last week, were those of Mrs. Junitia Dobbins, E. 344 St. and Ronwell Harbinson, age 31, of Central Ave. Pl chapter of the A: P. A. fraternity through its secretary, George P. Pinton, sent a wire to Gov. A. V. 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Weaver's drug store in the Hotel Majestic was closed, several weeks ago. At the recent annual meeting of the League of Republican clubs of Cuyahoga county, Hon. Perry B. Jackson was elected one of the vicepresidents and Atty. Chester K. Gillespie a member of the board of directors. The newly elected officers and heads of auxiliaries were installed Sunday morning at Antioch Baptist church by the pastor, Rev. W. H. McGinty, Rev D. O. Walker of St. James church, installed the newly elected officers of his church. Sunday morning. The Junior Council Girls gave a very enjoyable party during the holidays at Miss Geneva Scott's. E. 100th St. Fort-five were in attendance and the Xmas spirit prevailed. Messdames James M. Williams, Moses Dixon and Wm. Scott were the chaperones. The new county prosecutor, Ray T. Miller (Dem.), has appointed Walter L. Brown to a $2800 a year clerkship in lieu of the assisting prosecutorship expected. This is at least some recognition for the local "Negro" Democrats. He should also appoint Atty. Peter Boult as an assistant prosecutor. John Henry Early, Jr., of Bryant Ave, was our only member of the 250 piece "All Ohio High School Orchestra" which furnished music for the annual midwinter Ohio Teachers convention in Columbus, recently. John was chosen with 15 other students to represent Cleveland. He is a very promising vigilist. Miss Anita Bolden has arrived from Africa where she spent the past five years as missionary. Her host of friends are delighted over her return. She is at home with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. George Bolden of Eashtam Ave., and brother and sister-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Bolden of Everton Ave. Rev. C. B. Patterson, pastor of Temple Baptist church, E. 84th and Cedar Ave., addressed the stockholders and officials of the Empire Savings & Loan Co. Tuesday evening, at his church. It was the annual meeting. Officers of the company for 1929 were elected. Mr. and Mrs. C. o. A. Myers' Xmas "informal" was thorily enjoyed by a number of friends. They were assisted by their son, Herbert, and daughter, Mrs Dorothy, one of our local public-school teachers. A beautiful tree, refreshments, cards and music featured the exceptionally successful social function. The effort to make the unfortunate hospital experience of Marvin Freeman an argument in favor of a local "jim-crow" hospital is positively silly and will avail those using it in that way absolutely nothing. Cleveland has more than enough of Jim-Crow hospitals, the Negro" doctors and others who continue to agitate for one should go back down South where they came MICHESTER, LEARNED FOR TODAY MOMENT SO OVER IT OUT ONCE YES BIR THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, O., SATURDAY. JANUARY 12. 1929. VERY WELL, LET ME HEAR YOU PLAY IT YES SIR GEE, I'M GONNA GET OFF EASY TODAY, I ONLY HAFTA PLAY MY LESSON ONCE! from and get it. It drove them here, we regret to say. Cleveland does not need them. Mrs. Jefferson Coe, reference to whose serious illness is made elsewhere in these columns, died, last Wednesday night. This, too, we learned as The Gazette was going to press for this week. Funeral, Saturday morning. As we go to press, we learn of the death, Wednesday night, at his home in Washington, D. C., of the Hon. Wm. H. Clifford, former member of the Ohio Legislature and resident of this city. Mr. Clifford had been an almost helpless invalid for several years, the widow, Mrs. Carrie Willis, Clifford, former resident of Columbus, arrived yesterday noon, with the remains of her husband. The funeral, Saturday or Monday. J. W. Wills & Son, undertakers. E. 55th St., in charge. Have YOU done your duty to Joseph Weaver? It doesn't make any difference where you live in Ohio, or out of the state for that matter. That man is innocent and must not be electrocuted. Do not delay writing Gov. A. V. Donahay, State House, Columbus; O. Only a few more days left in which to do so. Shiloh Baptist church's total receipts for 1928 were $72,881.55. Total expenses, $72,310.94. Balance on hand, $570.61. Mortgage on church property, $35,500. Lon on the old church, $4,350. Total liabilities, $41,983.93. Total assets, $185,112. Assets over and above liabilities, $143,128.05. The membership was increased by 400 during 1928. Rev. A. L. Boone, pastor Atty. Norman L. M. McGhee resigned as editor of The Call-Post, last week. Ormond Forte is temporarily substituting in his place. W. L. Porter, "make-up man on the paper, is organizing a company to publish and remember what P. T. Barnum, the great man of many years ago, used to say about 'one being born every minute?' Well, there are about ten born every second now days, it seems. Atty. Chester K. Gillespie, founder of the Washington Civic club, Wednesday was re-elected president of the organization for 1929. Other officers chosen were: Mrs. H. P. Jackson, first vice president; C. W. Smith, second; Mrs. E. R. Thompson; C. W. Claybrook, assist; H. E. Bradshaw, treas.; Rev. A. Dotson, chaplain, and A. J. Maxwell, chairman, board of directors. Mrs. Jefferson Coe, 2168 E. 74th St. wife of one of our oldest and most substantial residents and "Old Reliable" "Gazette" the first sub-owner of the firm to live the week and not expected to live through the day, when this paper went to press. Mrs. Coe has always been a lovely woman, a splendid wife and helpmate, mild-mannered, friendly, fine! Her husband, Mr. Coe, has friends and acquaintances of both races, in this community. In his session, last Sunday morning, at St. James, A. M. E. church, the pastor, Rev. D. O. Walker, denounced in the strongest terms the "jim-crow Negro" doctors and others who advocate a "jim-crow" hospital for Cleveland. A rising vote of the congregation showed unmistakably its opposition to any such harmful thing for our people of this community, and to the colorline segregationists doctors should take the money they spend for "hooch" and other kinds of "booze" and start a private hospital of their own, if they must have one, and sure "knocked them for a goal". Councilman Clayborne George protested at Monday night's City Council meeting against "the wholesale arresting and finger printing of the police," a recent "Roaring Third" roundup. "I don't want anyone to have the impression that I'm making a brief for real crooks." George said, "nor is my protest inspired by the fact that 95 per cent of those arrested were colored people." This last, unnecessary, Clayborne. They knew you did not mean it. Councilman Fleming and George of "the crooks" sat in their seats silent as the wooden Indians that years ago adorned the front steps of cigar stores. A delegation of our people, headed by Councilman Clayburn George and E. J. Gregg, called on City Manager Wm. R. Hopkins, late last Friday, to protest against the segregation of our patients prevalent at City hospital. They told Hopkins that on Monday they found three divisions each containing 25 to 40 patients in which there were none of our people. Further, they asserted three nurses told them, it was "customary to house Guaranteed and Efficient Work TWENTY YEARS' EXPERIENCE 'Phone: Randolph 5870 Sundays by Appointment STOP! STOP! WHY DON'T YOU PAUSE THERE - DON'T YOU SEE IT'S MARKED 'REST?' BAM BAM BAM "Negro" patients in one section and white patients in another". In the face of this Hopkins, Welfare Director Dudley "Segregation" Blossom and Parker J. McMillen, superintendent of the hospital, "had the nerve" to declare that segregation is not the rule (and will not be). McMillen produced a list of 23 rooms in which both patients of both races were quartered but could not say as much for the others because of their segregation. By the way, has any one from Tommy the mean Councilman Tom Fleming. Where does he stand in this matter. Ask him! Mrs. Elhora Craig, E. 85th St., whose reputation as a hostess de laux is so thoroly established and generally recognized in this community, entertained a few old friends of hers and her guest. Wednesday evening, in honor of Lonia V. Jones, violinist, and son of Mr. and Mrs. L. S. Jones, of Drexel Ave., who is in old home from Paris, France, few weeks ago, to visit his parents and many friends and acquaintances in this country. St. John's Octette, an excellent organization, capably directed by Russell B. Scott with Mrs. Scott at the piano and including Attty John. E. Ballard, and with Marian L. Coprich doing splendid violin obligato work, sang beautifully "Bells of St. Mary" "Sweeten the Moments," the famous Louise Coprich played "Son of Puszta" by Keller Bela and "Sous Bois" by Victor Staub, and Mrs. Kathleen Forbes, pianist, gave "Butterfly" by Greig, both playing brilliantly. Among the thirty in attendance were: Mr. and Mrs. Jones and the editor of The Gazette. Mr. and Mrs. at whose residence the very successful man as given, were most gracious indeed in assistance of Mrs. Craig who has every reason in the world to feel proud of a social function that is rarely indeed equaled in this city. Left $100,000 to Flsk. Nashville, Tenn.—Prof. James Dallas Burrus, age 82, the first Afro-American to take a bachelor of arts degree in a southern college, who died of a heart attack on a street car here, Dec. 5, left about $100-000 to Fisk University. He was a graduate of Fisk, taught school, then obtained work surveying in the White Mountains of New Hampshire but gave it up to start a drug store in Nashville. Later he began investing in property. A Baby in Your Home The Remarkable Influence of a Doctor's Prescription After Years of Cruel Disappointment 1920 Hundreds of married women, childless for years, suddenly find themselves in a state of the most bifurcated society. I met a doctor's most wonderful prescription, Mrs. Annie M. Middleton, Glencore, N. Y., writes: "I know just how much I love her. I was as I had long for a baby and two years ago I took a six weeks treatment and now we have a fine baby. I don't know how much she hasn't words to express how much this medicine has done for me." Every married couple who really want to have a baby must doctor and get a free trial of this prescription together with his insistence. For your convenience fill out the coupon and mail it today. WHERE'S MARY WALKER? Information is desired by the U. S. Veterans' Bureau as to the present whereabouts of Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Walker, formerly living at 2424 E. 61st St., this city, Cleveland. A relative of Mrs. Walker, living with her at that address was Howard Dyall, who is now deceased. Dyall was a soldier in the World War. Information of the whereabouts of Mrs. Walker is not necessary, or information of her deceased, information which might lead to the whereabouts of any heirs of Mrs. Walker, if deceased, may be transmitted to the U. S. Veterans' Bureau, Hanna Building, Cleveland, O. or to the office of this newspaper, The Gazette. FOR SALE! Shaker Heights Property. Unrestricted! A Beautiful Home! 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AS I'M IN A HURRY BOONG BOONG 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 MOTOR SLEIGH RESEMBLES AN AIRPLANE MOTOR BELONGS IN THIS LOVE A Russian motor sleigh resembling an airplane, equipped with searchlight, navigation lights and motor, which was shown at the Second International Airshow in Moscow. BIG IMPORTANCE OF TIRE FLAP Correctly Designed It Will Protect Inner Tube From Injury. There is probably no part of a pneumatic tire as little understood or appreciated as the flap, and yet its importance can be hardly overestimated. The use of a correctly designed flap, properly applied in the casing, will insure full and satisfactory service from the tube, while an incorrectly designed flap or improper application of the correct flap is certain to result in damage to tubes, casings and dispositions. Function of Flap. The function of a flap is to protect the inner tube from injury by the bead toes and by the rim. This it does by forming a continuation of the smooth inner surface of the casing, against which the inner tube inflates from a point above the bead, down across the rim and up to a corresponding height on the opposite bead. In straightside tires for passenger cars the flap is supplied separately, since it has been found that " cemented in" flaps such as are furnished in motorcycle tires, soon work loose, on account of the heat generated by these larger tires, and become dislocated to such an extent as to cause tube pinching. The " floating" flaps supplied in most makes of tires of straightside type represent the highest development of this product. They are made of several plies of rubberized fabric, and in some makes are covered on the tube side with a layer of canton flannel, which is turned back over each edge and permanently vulcanized to the main body of the flap. The flaps are vulcanized into the concave shape they assume when mounted in the casing and are provided with a round hole in one end and a slot in the other to allow for proper length adjustment. Their edges are "featured" and cannot chafe the tube. Flap Properly Fitted. To fit properly, the flap must reach to a point on the inside of the casing, approximately even with the top of the rim flange. If the flap is so wide that the edges come above this point, the flap edges have been known to cut into the casing, the tube following, resulting in a ruined tire. On the other hand; if the flap is too narrow, there is great danger of one or both of these edges being folded under, when the tire is mounted on the rim. This will quickly lead to tube pinching. In applying the flap, the end having the round hole must in every instance be placed over the valve first and the slotted end last, thus permitting the flap to adjust itself circumferentially. Failure to observe this procedure is almost certain to result in damage to the tube. AUTOMOBILE NOTES When buying spark plugs, be sure to mention the make of the car and its particular model. It amounts to this then: The more patience in traffic, the fewer traffic patients By and by kindly snow will come and cover up the debris left at the tourist camps by the tourists. Spare inner tubes should be wrapped in cloth or soft bags, and not hung over a nail in the garage or cellar. Automobiles of Finland have welcomed the balloon tire for use on highways where solid and cushion tired vehicles were banned as detrimental to the road. Radiator glycerin mixed with a little lampblack makes an excellent dressing for spare tires. This combination answers all of the preservative needs of paint or varnish. It is reported that new life insurance is being taken out at the rate of close to a billion dollars a month. Which shows the public has been closely reading the automobile casualty lista. Mirrors Required on Cars in Many States Thirty-one states and the District of Columbia require the use of mirrors on motor vehicles in order to give operators a rear vision, according to the research department of the American Automobile association. The states requiring mirrors on motor vehicles are Arizona, California, Connecticut, District of Columbia, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Texas, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, Wisconsin and Wyoming. Good Points to Watch in Polishing Finish of Car While it's all right to polish the car generously in an effort to prolong the life of the finish, there are a few points to watch if the plan is to be a success. Generally speaking, the idea is to avoid too much rubbing of the finish at these points on the body where there are sharp edges, corners or joints. The rounded body has been a great factor in preventing finish from chipping, but if your car features sharp lines you can compensate for this by a little more care in its treatment. The front window sills are apt to get a good deal of rubbing from elbows parked on them by the driver and his front seat passenger, so avoid overdoing it here. Another point to watch is the stripping on the body and hood. You can brighten up these lines best by leaving them alone. They are put on top of the general lacquer and cannot be expected to withstand constant rubbing Get Rid of Annoving Fumes From Crank Case If your car lacks a device to carry off fumes from the crank case and prevent their entering the body of the PLUG UP, OR SOLDER SMALL HOLES BREATHER PIPE 1" 2 TUBE OIL PAN OUTLET FOR FUMES A Half-inch Pipe, Fastened into the Side of the Oil Filler Pipe and Brought Downward, Carries Off Crank Case Fumes. machine, you can fit such a device as shown in the illustration. A half-inch pipe is brazed or soldered into the side of the oil filler pipe and the end of it brought down below the motor. The holes in the cover are plugged. Popular Science Monthly. Judge Holds Dad Must Keep Watch on Junior Fathers who forbid their sons and daughters to drive the family automobile are liable for damages if the children disobey the parent, take the car and have an accident. A case of that character was disposed of by Justice Charles Brown of Buffalo, who refused to set aside a verdict of $2,000 for the plaintiff who was struck and injured. Mercely refusing children permission is not enough, Justice Brown declared, but it must be enforced by the parent making every possible effort to keep the car away from them. THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, O.. SATURDAY, JANUARY 12, 1929. HATS RETURN TO A PROGRAM OF THE PRETTILY FEMININE HERE'S a good test of the becoming-ness of your latest hat. If your friends greet you with: "What have you been doing to your-self? You are looking younger every day," rest assured that the new hat is a success. If, however, well—there are no "ifs and buts" about it, because the SEWING PROGRAM BEGINS WITH DAINTY HOUSE FROCKS AND APRONS 66 Inches 40 Inches Lengthwise fold Dewitt array of cunning little hats which are crowding to the fore for midwinter wear cannot do otherwise than flatter, for they are pliant, colorful and carry that touch of individuality which intricate design and elaborate hand work always impart. In the designing of matinee, dine and dance hats which fashion is spotlighting at present, milliners have come to the rescue of women who are reacting against being continuously hatted in simple felts, in that they are designing many fetching models which glory in ingenious hand work and intricate design. And have you noticed that subtle change which is taking place in the lines of the new hats? In brief it is this: They fit as snug as snug can be across the back of the neck and when it comes to the ears, flaps and tabs and widening brims quite conceal them, after which the line somehow contrives to lift off the brow, with the effect that the face seems framed by the hat. There is a feeling, too, in many instances that the hat is being worn back on the head somewhat after the manner of a baby's tight-fitting bonnet. The hats in the picture delicately SEWING PROGRAM DAINTY HOUSE WAS there ever so cozy a time for washing and planning one's clothes for the coming months as now. The very tasks against which we rebel in springtime when birds and flowers and blue skies say come, come, come! are welcomed as a privilege and a joy while midwinter holds the earth with in its icy grasp—that is, if you live in the North, and if not, well—it's a good time to get the family sewing out of the way in any event. So let's take inventory of what's needed in the way of sewing for the future. House dresses and aprons! There's "always room for one more" in every wardrobe. So why not add to the list a cunning hand-painted simple little frock like the one in the picture? The wonderful thing about paints and dyes these days is that they are so processed that they launder. That's why designers are willing to turn to hand painting as a mode of decorating washable materials. One could buy a few yards of rayon crepe or washbelt silk and rayon mix tire or say cotton household in some buy Your Cotton or an Acqu blint at the new bonnettie face-framing tendencies, but not to the extent that some of the recent felts are carrying the idea. In this group of winsome midseason models lace, metal fabrics and glittering headwork together with rich embroidery do their share in glorifying the art of millinery and in bringing the hat-beautiful back to a program of the pretty feminine. It's the bit of lace which flares a in Dutch bonnet fashion which adds such a captivating note to the first hat in this group. The manner in which the gold and silver brocade is knotted and draped on the hat in the center at the top is very effective. That very lovely little bonnet at the top to the right is of very sheer gold lace. The brim is left transparent, the lace being stretched over gold cloth for the crown. To the left below is a fetching gold braided and embroidered model. The group concludes with an exquisite satin model elaborated with a gorgeous gold-embroidered and beaded side crown band. JULIA BOTTOMLEY. (© 1929, Western Newspaper Union.) BEGINS WITH FROCKS AND APRONS 6.5 inches Longline fold 4.0 inches Dennis for the making of a dainty frock such as is shown here. The design which borders the hemline is hand painted. Note that it is copied from the decoration on the Hungarian water pitcher which this charming young woman is holding in her hands for us to see. If one prefers to arrive at the patterning in some way other than painting, hand-worked applique is suggested. Unbleached muslin with an appliqué of red calf cherries and green leaves makes up charmingly into aprons. The pretty pattern in the picture is suggested. Both the cherries and the leaves are button hole stitched all around, and all edges of the apron are bound with the red. The diagram to the right is a guide for cutting the bib and shoulder straps which cross in the back as shown in the little sketch in the oval. Measure of 40 inches of the muslin, fold this to a width of 6½ or 7 inches, then cut bib and straps as indicated by the dotted lines. JULIA BOTTOMLEY © 1929 Western Newspaper Union Copy of The maintenance w WEAVER STILL LANGUISHES. Addressing the Sam S. Williams Voucher club at the Euclid Avenue Baptist church, Chaplain T. O. 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, a Cleveland watchman, 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 evidences of doubt continue unabated, the contemplated legal move ought to meet with success. Chaplain Reed's plan to interest the Federation of Women's Clubs of Ohio in a campaign to obtain commutation of sentence for Weaver seems to us, however, to be an incorrect step. If Weaver is guilty, commutation is not warranted. If he innocent, he should be freed. Should he be acquitted to exist in the minds of those who were closely connected with the case and are thoroughly conversant with all its details, Weaver should be granted a new trial. Life imprisonment is hardly a sensible compromise between the death penalty and complete freedom. But so long as the element of doubtables not only his legal representatives, giving of their time without hope of commutation, but also an experienced chapelian, Weaver's execution would be a grave miscarriage of justice. If the death penalty is to continue as an effective deterrent against crimes of violence, it cannot be authorized when there lurks even the faintest suspicion that a condemned man is actually guilty. In the case of a murder, there is obviously more than a suspicion—Editorial, Cleveland Daily News, Dec. 21, '28. Weaver has been steadily denied a new trial because of a legal technicality: Because his attorneys did not apply for it immediately after his conviction. 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 innocence 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-watchman'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 Maynor 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 murderer, 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 attorneys' experience in the recent past in that court, or Gov. A. V. Donahey must pardon him. Ohio cannot afford to electuate an innocent man to help the Cuyahoga county prosecutor's office maintain its record for convictions, for that seems to be the cause of its continued activity in the Weaver case, 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 pardon 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. Donahue, State House, Columbus, O., requesting him to pardon Joseph Weaver, until that innocent man is given the freedom and liberty he has been deprived of now for more than a year. It will be difficult to find a stronger or better argument, 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. Donahue, State House, Columbus, O., to pardon Weaver! Do YOUR duty! GOLD!" Cleveland, O., Aug. 28th, 1925. Hon. Harry C. Smith, Editor, Gazette, Dear Friend:—I have read the latest copy of The Gazette through and after reading it, I can truthfully say: It is worth its weight in gold! I admire true manhood—a man who, seeing injustice and oppression, dares, within the limits of the law, to expose it and, if possible smite it. You and I have frequently, during and persistently, since the birth of The Gazette, been as the Scotch would say, like two McNeils, but when I find a man, such as you, who consistently, and persistently, through nearly half a century, puts his race foremost in his life struggle. I take off my hat to him, as being a true friend of our class. Long life to you and The Gazette. Yours for the right. John P. Green. (Former Member, Ohio State Senate.) 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. Our moo-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 just now. The Ohio Supreme Court has several times upheld the constitutionality of the law and it has been MOBS. Section 6278. "Mob" and "lynching" defined. 6279. "Serious injury" defined. 6280. Damages in case of assault. 6281. Damages in case of lynching. 6282. Damages recoverable by legal representative of victim of lynching. 6283. Person suffering death or injury by mob trying to lynch another. 6284. Limitations of action. 6285. Order to include recovery and costs in tax levy. 6286. Guardian's custody, etc., fees. 6287. County's right of action against member of mob 6288. County's right of action against another county. 6289. Person released. Section 6278. A collection of people assembled for an unlawful purpose and intending to do damage or injury to any one, or pretending to exercise correctional power over other persons by violence and without permission, to "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, include such an action that immediately 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 recover, as hereafter provided, a sum of money or damages as damages from the county in which the assault is made. (93 v. 161 4.) Section 6281. A person assaulted and lynched by a man may recover, from the county in which such assault is made a sum not to exceed five hundred dollars; or, if the injury received therefrom is serious, a sum not exceeding one thousand dollars; or, if such injury result in permanent disability, to earn a livelihood by manual labor, a sum not to exceed five thousand dollars. (93 v. 12 5.) Section 6282. The legal representative of a person dying from injuries received from lynching by a mob, may recover of the county in which such injury occurred, a sum not to exceed 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, such sum shall be such decedent, such sum shall be distributed the next of kin according to the laws or 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 security forces or by law enforcement. 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 such county, recovery is bad, to include it with the cost of the judgment 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 a judgment and costs against it in fact, regardless of representative representatives of a person killed or seriously injured by a mob from any of the persons composing such mob. A person present, with hostile intent, at such lynching shall be deemed a member of the mob and be liable to such action. (93 v. 162 10.) Section 6288. If a mob carries a prisoner into another county, or comes from another county to commit violence on a prisoner brought from such county for safekeeping, the county in which the lynching is committed may recover the amount of the judgment and costs from the county from which the mob came, unless there was contributory negligence on the part of officials of such county in failing to protect such prisoner or disperse such mob. (93 v. 163 11.) not relieve a person concerned in such lynching from prosecution for homicide or assault for engaging therein. (93 v. 163 12.) OUR OHIO CIVIL RIGHTS LAW Upon the request of many readers of The Gazette we print below the text of the Hon. Harry C. Smith's Ohio Civil Rights law which the editor had enacted while a member of the 71st General Assembly, in 1894: The General Code of Ohio: Sec. 12940. Whoever, being the proprietor or his employee, keeper or manager of an inn, restaurant, eating house, barber-shop, public conveyance by land or water, theater or other place of public accommodation and amusement, denies to a citizen, except for reasons applicable alike for color or regard, regardless race or color, the full, the fullest, accommodations, advantages, facilities or privileges thereof, shall be bound not less than fifty dollars nor more than five hundred dollars, or imprisoned not less than thirty days nor more than ninety days, or both. Sec. 12941. Whoever violates the next preceding section shall also pay not less than fifty dollars nor more than five hundred dollars to the person aggrieved thereby to be recovered in any court of competent jurisdiction in the county where such offense was committed. This law has repeatedly been held constitutional and good law by the Ohio Supreme court. The trouble 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. HERE'S AN OPPORTUNITY! "The Old Reliable" Gazette desires an active agent and correspondent in every town in Ohio and neighboring cities, a number of Afro-American residents. On a little time on Fridays or Saturdays is required to make some money. We are especially desirous of hearing 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., and terms will be sent 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. Attention! Readers! Our advertisers want your trade. Those who do not ask for it in the columns of "The Old Reliable" Gazette certainly care little, if at all, for it. Therefore, we urge our readers and all of our friends to patronize those who ask in this paper for your patronage. Editor. "HUMAN NATURE'S FOULLEST BLOT."