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Ask for and get Dr. FRED Palmer's Skin Whitener Preparations THE GAZETTE ESTABLISHED, AUGUST 25, 1883 And Issued Every Week on Time Since CLEVELAND, OHIO, SATURDAY, JANUARY 19, 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, Etc. CORRESPONDENTS must mail all letters for publication at their main postoffice sufficiently early on Monday (or Sunday) of each week to have them reach The Gazette office on Tuesday morning, and always write their names and that of their city or town on the outside of the wrapper about returned copies. Unless this latter is done, proper credit cannot be given you. Lists of names, wedding presents, etc., obituary notices, inquiries for relatives and advertisements of all kinds, including items announcing entertainments to be held in the near future, must be paid for in advance at the rate of 20 cents a line, six words to a line. Our rates for display advertisements will be sent on application. The remains of John, eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. John Kilgore, were brom here, Saturday, from Chicago for burial. Mrs. Theorel Campbell of Cincinnati visited Mrs. A. Burton, Friday and Saturday. WEAVER AND SABO! The Afro-American and Hungarian Victims of Circumstances—Their People—The Difference! 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 BELLEFONTAINE.—W. E. Stewart is very ill. Pneumonia. "I lost every white precinct in my district by majorities of two to one and carried every black precinct with the resulting majority of 3,185", said Hon. Oscar DePriest, congressman elect from the first district (Chicago) of Illinois, at a banquet in his home in Kansas City, "Now that I have been elected, will represent all people and work for legislation for all". Walthal M. Moore, G. M. Allen, of St. Louis, and L. A. Knox of Kansas City, our members, took their seats in the Missouri legislature when it opened, last week Wednesday. ALLIANCE—After eight weeks' illness from an affected foot, caused by stepping on a rusty nail, Rev. McD. Sharpe was able to resume his duties as pastor of A. M. E. Zion church, Dover, Sunday. Mrs. Catherine Oliver and Mrs. Lucy Frazier are all M. A. Allen Adele of Urchlerville and Mrs. Margaret Christian of Jewett visited Mrs. Roach, recently. Mr. and Mrs. Freed Blackburn were called to Cleveland last week, by the death of his mother, Mrs. Mary Overstreet. Pneumonia.—Wm. Cisco is ill and Charles Herrell has heart trouble. Milton Merrel and family have the flu. Mrs. Merrel have recovered.—Mrs. Vivia Flinney spent several days in Detroit, last week.—Miss Virginia Garner spent the week-end with her parents. WASHINGTON, C. H.—Rev. J. J. Burr, pastor of Rawling St. church, preached two excellent seminars, Sunday, Wm. Brandon, president B. Y. P. U. and other officers were installed, Sunday night. They are doing excellent work. The S. S. is progressing nicely. Rev. C. Smith, supt.; Mrs. Peulah Kelly, assist—Rev. W. Allen, pastor of Second Baptist church, preached two very interesting seminars, Sunday and Monday conducted a funeral in Xenia on Friday. Reubel's Gazette, each week. It is our ordering race paper in Ohio as well as the oldest. Give your news to Mrs. Beulah Kelly.—Rev. W. M. Cook is still confined to his bed.—Mr. and Mrs Wayne Jones and Mr. and Mrs Frank Willis were dinner-guests of Mrs. M. Mayo, Sunday.—Pew rally Sunday, from 2:30 to 4:30 p. m., at Rawlings St. church. Mrs. Ada Willis, president St. church, will pres. club 2. will chair the program. All welcome. Rev Burry was entertained at dinner, Sunday, by Mr. and Mrs. R. Williams, and at lunch by Mrs. Brandon. HILLSBORO.—Mrs. Mildred Watters entertained at luncheon, Wednesday evening. — Mrs. Gertrude Christy of Dayton, who visited her mother, returned, Wednesday. — Earl Turner, age 16, son of Mrs. John Robinson of Glist Settlement, died at a local hospital. Funeral. Saturday. by Carthage church, conducted by I. L. John. Jane Young entertained. Sunday, at a four course dinner. — Miss Mary Thomas and Mrs. Herschel Williams are ill. — Born recently to Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Hunter of Yellow Springs, a son. She is former Miss Constance Gee. — Miss Fern Cole entertained at clock dinner her sister. Freda, and Mrs. Herschel Harris. — The play, "Out in the City," was last week Friday night, was successful. Zack Lewis, Mr. Jas. Perkins of Springfield and Mrs. Annabel Campbell of Columbus visited Mrs. Alline Burton, Friday. — Miss Harriet Williams returned, Sunday, from a visit with her sister, Mrs. W. Bingham, in Columbus. Mr. and Mrs. G. Littlefield accommodated her here and spent a day at Albert Williams, Sr. — Mrs. C. M. Griggs was called to Wilmington, last week by her mother's and sister's illness. The remains of John, eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. John Kilgore, were brohere, Saturday, from Chicago for burial—Mrs. Theoree Campbell of Cincinnati visited Mrs. A. Burton Friday and Saturday. WEAVER AND SABO! The Afro-American and Hungarian Victims of Circumstances— Their People—The Difference! Columbus, O., Dec. 17, '28 Hon: Harry C. Smith, 1515 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 nurseries is John Sabo, a young Hungarian in poverty like myself. He is new in this country and knows very little of the English language. It is believed, even by some of the officers, that Sabo is innocent of the crime he is under sentence of death for. He is a 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, not half as strong as mine. And yet, 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 seems 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 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 the Baptist Church, land; you and a few others. Atty Cook and Marsteller asked me, after I was "convicted," 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 Blocton, Ala., Notes. Bibb Co. extension courses met Jan. 12, at no. 2 school house, with Mrs. M. Tossie, Oliver co. supt., in charge—Mrs. Susan Boyd, age 39 died, Jan. 7, in Cleveland. Buried in Bucktown cemetery, Jan. 13, Rev. E. G. Massey officiating. She is survived by her husband, mother, two sisters and two brothers—Mrs. Ida Carmack, after spending the holidays with relatives, has returned to Garry. Ind—Mrs. Mary Foster, of Logan W. Va., is visiting her sister, Mrs. Lella Williams. Bob Pelham Resigns! Washington, D. C. After 28 years' continuous service in the Bureau of the Census, here, Robert A. Pelham of Detroit has elected to retire and devote his entire time to government research work and to the up-to-the-minute race news. On Nov 28, 1928, he handed to the chief clerk of the bureau the following memorandum: "My seventieth birthday will occur on Jan. 4, 1929, and I am desirous of retiring." On Jan 4, Mr. Pelham took steps to incorporate the Capital Consulting Co., and the Capital News Service, two ventures, in which he holds the controlling interest and will personally direct. The Maple Hollow Country club, of which Hon. Harry E. Davis is president, and the trustees and advisory board of which include leading Atro-Americans of Cleveland, Akron, Youngstown and Warren O. C., among others, is tending, thru its membership committee, an invitation to 200 Cleveland to join the club. KING VIDOR'S "HALLELUJAH"! Our First Big Picture With Sound Sequences Will Soon Be Seen in the "Movies"—Leading Members of the Cast. Los Angeles, Calif. — The Southern Pacific pulled into Los Angeles last fall, on a sunny November morning, and landed twenty-six Afro-American actors and actresses—the cast of our first big picture. They were the cynosure of all eyes. And King Vidor, director of "The Big Parade," was the man responsible for their arrival. Well-known stars and players of the screen flocked about the newcomers and when at work the idiot they burst into song, singing their epic plight with white actors and actresses burst into rounds of applause. This was their first welcome to the newest in aders of the screen, among whom are: Daniel Haynes, of "The Show Boat" Co., an understudy for Paul Roberson in New York. Haynes, a graduate of Morris Brown college, Atlanta, and Chicago University, and possessed of a magnificent bass voice and a splendid musical voice and the newplay, plays "Zeke," the hero of the new Vidor drama, "Halleluja," the lively little blue singer who quiet, scholarly and literally "bronze Hercules," "Honey" Brown, a dancer and star in Club Harlem, N. Y. City, will play the leading feminine role. One of our best-known character actresses, Fannie Ball de Knight, is in the company too. For three years she was with Belasco in his "Lulu Belle" production and has played in many dramatic companies. Nina McKenney, the lively little blue singer who quiet, scholarly and literally "bronze Hercules," "Honey" Brown, a dancer and star in Club Harlem, N. Y. City, will play the leading feminine role. One of our best-known character actresses, Fannie Ball de Knight, is in the company too. For three years she was with Belasco in his "Lulu Belle" production and has played in many dramatic companies. Nina McKenney, the lively little blue singer who quiet, scholarly and literally "bronze Hercules," "Honey" Brown, a dancer and star in Club Harlem, N. Y. City, will play the leading feminine role. One of our greatest successes in pictures, or one of the greatest hits doesn't say "blue" but "dolly" which—believe that when colored drama succeeds as it does on the stage, it must also, be good for the screen. At any rate it has injected some new ideas into pictures". Eva Jessey, well-known composer, heads the Dixie Jubilee singers, who are in the cast to render the famous spirituals. She is musical directress of the song "The Singer," and the singers will be heard while at work in the Mississippi cotton-fields. "HALF-WIT" TORTURED For 45 Minutes Cursed and Spit on His Barbara Tormentors and He Died. Jackson, Miss. — The brutal lynchmurder of Charles Sheppard, Dec. 31, '28, was advertised seven hours in advance so that it was possible to collect a crowd of 6,000, more than 3,000 in autos. Disgusting details of the horror were shamefully printed in various Mississippi daily newspapers and gloated over. Sheppard, a prisoner, killed Sergeant Duvall, a white, shibing and hammering his helmet, shibing and assaulted his daughter. A beating which Duvall had given him for overstaying a leave of absence, some time ago, caused Sheppard to kill Duvall, he told captors when he was shown to the crowds, which gathered for the burning of a human being. The man lynched was a half-wit. "You could tell he was a half-wit. You cooked at him," said Deputy Sheriff Cooke. The 400 state highway aided in the three-day search for Sheppard, made no effort to use their gas and phosphorous bombs to disperse the mob of howling barbarians. THE HELPING HAND The tender heart and open hand. Which leap responsive to com- mand— Of highest Law, to mortals given. Must guide us on our way to Heaven. They're, "stepping-stones," that pave the way. Which all must travel, day by day. Some, drawn by swiftly neighing steeds, And seek success by gold—not deeds; While others, bound on Duty's quest, Like Pilgrims, find but little rest; And bow'd like Jesus, 'Neath His Cross, Need "Helping Hand," or all is loss. The road to Jericho, today, Is still a rude-infested way; And many weak, who cannot stand. Are in great need of helping hand. Then, like the good Samaritan, The one who has the Helping hand. Must pour the oil and wine that's red. And give him care on friendly bed. O. Father, while we sing and pray. That we may see the perfect day. May we, by deeds of Mercy, prove. That we are Friendly, by our Love. JOHN P. GREEN SINGLE COPY FIVE CENTS THE "METROPOLIS" "FEDERATION OF CHURCHES AND "UNCHRISTIAN PREJUDICE" —This Is Encouraging. New York City. — An educational campaign by the New York City Federation of Churches to overcome "un-Christian prejudice" that results in discrimination against Afro-Americans in hotels and restaurants of the metropolis was advocated in a resolution adopted, Dec. 28, '28, by a group of 100 white and Afro-American ministers and church-workers of different denominations at the Russell Sage Foundation, 130 E. 22nd St., this city. The gathering was a seminar under the auspices of the social relations department of the national education society of Congregation Church, Hubert C. Heringer, director, Rev Edward W. Card, pastor, Rep. Cong. church, Richmond Hill, Queens, presided. The resolution was presented by a committee of which the chairman was Rev. Bradford Young, assistant rector, Holy Trinity P. E. church, Brooklyn. The resolution: "Whereas many members of our Christian churches in New York are disturbed over the un-Christian exclusion of or discrimination against 'Negroes' by hotels and restaurants; "Whereas they recognize this and other forms of racial discrimination as a result largely of indifference to the implications of Christian ideals, which the church of special concern to all the churches of New York be "It be resolved that this summary on the Church and race relations recommend to the New York City Federation of Churches that it make a study of discrimination against 'Negroes' in hotels and restaurants and of the public attitude back of OBITUARY. Safety Director Edwin D. Barry, representing the city of Cleveland, did "the handsome thing," last Saturday afternoon, when he sent a mounted detail of police, his horses draped in mourning, to head the funeral of the Hon. Wm. H. Clifford, are sixty-six years and nine years old, the Oyahoga county member of the Ohio State University, and 1898-9, and a Cleveland "baby." It was a very gracious act which is thoroly appreciated. Director Barry may rest assured. Rev. Henry P. Jones of St. John's church, officiated at the funeral which was largely attended and in charge of the J. W. Willis Co., undertakers. Interment in Woodland cemetery. Mrs. Carrie Williams Clifford, widow, and a son, Marion, accompanied the remains here on the cemetery in Washington, D. C., arriving last week day. The other son, Lieut. Jay W. Clifford, in the federal service at N. Y. City, was unable to attend. Safety Director Barry, the Hon. Harry L. Vall, under whom the deceased had served as a deputy county clerk for years, many years ago, and a number of other prominent Recruitment including city officials, attended the service. The floral tributes were beautiful, for the deceased had many warm friends at the nation's capital and in this city, his home for much of his life since infancy. When Mr. Clifford and the editor of The Gazette were first elected (at the same election) members of the Ohio Legislature from this county, in the time two members of the was the first time he been so honored anywhere in north. The family of the deceased have the earnest sympathy of the community in their bereavement. Ben Davis Got $11,682 Washington, D. C.-B. J. Davis, former G. O. P. national committee-man from Georgia, got $11,683.24 for salary at $250 per month, office rent, telegrams, stamps, stationery and trips to this city, according to Chairman Brookhart of the U. S. Senate sub-committee, delving into the sale of jobs in the south. John W. Martin, treasurer, received $8,953 for salary at $250 per month. Rosce Pickett received $2,276 for expenses at headquarters and trips here. All these items were from July 20, 1925, to June 1, 1928. Time card indexes showed that some of the jobholders paid as much as $500. **Germans Translate Our Poetry.** New York City.-Under the title, "Afrika City" (Africa sings), a German publisher has issued a collection of Afro-American poetry in German, accompanied by bibliographical notes on the poets represented. The poems are by Hughes, Toonem McKay, Dau Bois, J. W. and Fenton Johnson, Bohannan, Cotter, Horne, Cuney, Georgia Douglass and Helene Johnson, Bennett, Grimke, Fauset, Bontemps and Alexander. THE GAZETTE is the oldest and has the largest bona fide circulation in Ohio, double that of any newspaper in the interest of Afro-Americans published in this or any other state, and comparison with any will immediately establish its rank as one of the NEWSIEST AND BEST in the country. E COPY FIVE CENTS JUDICE! ED THEM, AT LAST FEDERATION OF CHURCH- ISTIAN PREJUDICE" solution Adopted Calling for Connell's Timely Address these discriminations and that it publish the results in the form of a report suitable for group study for the purpose of. (a) Encouraging church people to use every opportunity to influence these concerns in the direction of complete race equality. (b) Inviting attention to opportunities which the churches themselves may have by changes in their practices and policies to produce attitudes more favorable to the reception of 'Negroes' freely in public places". The seminar closed with an address by Rt. Rev. Francis J. McConnell, bishop of the New York area, M. E. Church and recently elected president of the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America. "The self-assertive consciousness of the 'Negro' ought to be developed more and more". Bishop McConnell said. "The amount of resentment that still persists in some communities when they are on the part of the colored people to do something themselves is astonishing. On the other hand, however, I am disturbed by those who place all emphasis upon 'group consciousness'. In certain respects the black people ought to maintain their own culture but if you say to them, 'This is your destiny' you do away with the principle that man can choose and go and belong where he chooses. There must be some way of cross-fertilization of cultures. The problem is that the group on the other hand on the basis of the group, at the same time giving a member of that group the right of moving along with others". A SHOCKING CASE! New Orleans, La.—The following is an editorial from a local daily, The States, Dec. 31, 1928: "The Monroe (La.) News-Star tells of an unusually shocking affair that occurred near Eros, in Jackson parish, Christmas Day, in which two 'Negro' women were shot down and a third, perhaps fatally, wounded, white men doing the shooting. "According to the story, Mrs. J. W. Wingate, owner of the plantation on which the killings occurred, went to Monroe to spend the holidays. She charged a Negro tenant on her behalf for care for a valuable hunting dog that had been loaned to white neighbors. "The tenant sought to carry out the wishes of his mistress, but the men who had the dog refused to deliver it to him. Subsequently a party of white men, including those to whom the dog had been loaned, went to the tenant's quarters, some under the influence of liquor, and for the tenant but his wife, four daughters, and a grudgechild. "They told the Negro women they intended to keep the dog. Words passed, whereupon the visitors ordered the women to stand up in line to be killed. The latter, thinking the men were jesting, made no attempt to escape. Thereupon, one or more of the white party opened a fire at 15, another of 20 with a bait in his hand wounding a third daughter of the tenant and shooting the mother in the shoulder. "If the facts as related by Mrs. Wingate to the News-Star are correct, the murder of these Negro women was an inexcusable crime, and the fact that the men and ferocious, and the victims colored ought not to prevent the Jackson authorities from prosecuting the former to the limit." Dies Defending His Daughter. Dies Defending His Daughter. Crowley, La.-Charges of murder have been placed against Vincent Broussard, Paul, his nephew, and Dominic Daigle, three white brutes accused of slaying Paul Le Blanc in Rayne on Dec. 24. One of the men also charged with shooting Le Blanc's son at the same time. They tried to force entrance into the home of Le Blanc's daughter and the father was called to resist the invasion. The men killed Blance when he started to call the police. Paul and Dominic are under arrest while Vincent is under the care of a physician. A. Marian Anderson, Baptist A Marin Anderson Recital. Washington, D. C.—Howard University presented a capacity audience in Rankin Memorial chapel, last week Thursday evening, at the recital of Marin Anderson, our leading contralto. There is great improvement in Miss Anderson's art since her year in Europe. TUBBY Reaction. FOR GOODNESS SAKE, CHESTER, STOP THAT AWFUL RACKET HEY, SPIDER! SLAM! BAM! OH, THAT BOY! DID ANY ONE EVER SEE SUCH A TURN UP ROOM AS THIS? IM SO WORRIED, ABOUT CHESTER UP UNTIL TODAY HES BEEN THE BEST BEHAVED BOY, AND NOW HE ACTS AS IF HE HAD LOST HIS SENSES OR WAS A WILD INDIAN OR SOMETHING. WELL, CHRISTMAS IS PAST, YOU KNOW IN UNION IS STRONGER 10,000,000 Afro-Americans. 350,000 in Ohio. 40,000 in Cleveland. Councilmen Gregg and Tom Fleming went to the Columbus inaugural Monday. Wonder if they "shook hands," down there? Harry L. Davis and Maurice Maschke did. Page 11 of Jan. 13 Cleveland News contained a column and a half interview with the Hon. John P. Green, under the caption "Crinoline Days" that is sure interesting reading and part of which, at least, The Gazette hopes to reproduce in the near future. Ex-State Senator Green is a great source of some exceptionally fine reminiscences. "Porgy", the attraction at the Ohio theater, Cleveland, this week, after a long run in New York City, depicts the life (in part) of the low element of those of our people on and off the coast (on the islands) of Charleston, S. C. It is styled, by others than our people, "one of the finest dramatic entertainments of the season"—for them, but not for us. There is nothing helpful to us in the play, altho the "Negro" actors and actresses presenting it are praised highly for their work. It is unfortunate that only that kind of rot (in the shape of a play), such as "Porgy", seems to please them. It would be so much better for us, if it were otherwise. Atty. Clayborne George's City Council resolution for improved service on the Cedar, Central and Scovill Ave. lines will be discussed at St. James' A. M. E. church, Sunday at 3:30 P. M. All interested are invited to attend and tell what improvements they feel are due the car-riders of the three lines mentioned. It is expected that the resolution will be considered. Monday, by the Council's street Railway committee, of which Councilman George is a member, and a hearing given at that time to citizens interested. Our intelligent Cedar, Central and Scovill car-riders particularly should inconvenience themselves, it necessary, to back up and help Mr. George as the service on these lines mentioned is the worst in the city. There is crying need of the improvement, he is contending for. COOPER AND BARCUS. Gov. Myers Y. Cooper has nothing to do with the appointments under the Attorney General, "the state's legal department". If Atty, R. B. Barcus of Columbus has been re-appointed "a special assistant" in that department, Attorney General Gilbert Bettman, and not the Governor, has made the appointment. Barcus is head of our state K. P. organization and the man held responsible for leasing the theater in its new headquarters building at Columbus to a prejudiced white who conducts a chain of "movie" theaters in that city which discriminate in one way or another against our people. Barcus' people, too. His appointment, by the Attorney General will NOT please the loyal members of the race anywhere in Ohio, and Mr. Bettman should know it. Some member of the race, who has far more respect for his own people than Barcus seems to have, should be given the place. 'TWAS EVER THUS! The Pittsburg Guard is dead! That fact recalls a little local race-newspaper history. Its editor was brot to Cleveland, last year, to save "The Call", a local race publication, from "passing out", but was unable to do so. He was announced as the exceptionally successful publisher of two race papers in Pittsburgh. The Guard and another paper both of which have since "passed out" as well as "The Call". As a matter of fact, he was only one of several persons who were brot to Cleveland from other cities, at different times, in a vain effort to prolong the life of our deceased local contemporary. The Post, started last year, only took over "The Call's" subscription list, and not its numerous habilities, it was announced, last year, at the time. Now an effort is being made, by some of its former employees, to supplant The Post. OHIO'S COLOR-LINE GOVERNOR Ohio's color-line governor, Myers Y. Cooper, was inaugurated at Columbus, Monday. The "Colored man and brother" was very properly conspicuous because of his absence. There were even very few "jim-crow Negroes" in attendance. Other members of the race remained away of course. This is as it should be! Of all the appointments Cooper has made to date, not one of his "jim-crow" supporters has been designated for anything, as far as we have been able to learn, and about all of the desirable positions have been filled, too. During the campaign we expressed our earnest and honest belief that Mr. Cooper was a Kluxer because of the color-line activities in his real estate business in Cincinnati, for so very many years. To date, there has been absolutely nothing happen to change this belief in the slightest but much to confirm that belief. It was this, and this alone, that caused The Gazette to oppose his nomination and election, more than two years ago, and again, last fall. This we frankly 'old Mr. Cooper, last October, when he visited the editor at our office, for fully two hours, in a vain effort to win the support of "The Old Reliable". Two years hence, Gov. Myers Y. Cooper will not have a Hoover Republican landslide at election time to carry him into office but will face a defeat such as was administered to him, two years ago. 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. --- 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 have guttled guillotines decide our least disputes. The few who dare, must speak and speak again to right the wrongs of many. Ella Wheeler Wilcox. --- 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 on social rights today. The Irish at home have contended for 700 years and are winning because they will die rather than submit. The race that says it's 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 rights and are not given rights." 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 sub-mit is to deserve contempt.—Boston (Mass.) Guardian THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, O., SATURDAY, JANUARY 19, 1929. Prime Sport News Havana, Cuba—“Kid Chocolate” bantamweight champion of Cuba. Dec. 29, '28, distributed $3,000 among the poor in the suburb of Cerro, where he spent his childhood. The “Kid,” a former Havana newsboy, is reported to have earned more than $15,000, during the last six months, in New York fight clubs, with one opponent with one exception, who mocks enough to secure a draw decision. “Chocolate” is an Afro-Cuban. Godfrey Penalized for Foul Godfrey Penalized for Foul. Philadelphia, Pa.—The Pennsylvania state athletic commission, last week Friday, fined George Godfrey and indefinitely suspended him for fouling Al Walker, jacksonville, Fla. in a here, last week Monday night. The commission also announced that it had indefinitely suspended Walker for "unsatisfactory showing" in the bout which was stopped by the referee in the third round after Godfrey is alleged to have fouled Walker four times. "Gorilla Eats Him Up" Quickly. Buffalo, N. Y. "Gorilla" Wm. Jones, Akron "welter" flash, took a well-carned decision over Arturo Schackels, Belgian battler, in a ten-round bout here, Monday night. It was Jones' second victory over Schackels in less than a week. He kayaked Schackels, in less than a week, and Public Hall, last week Tuesday night. Jones sent Arturo to the canvas three times to the fray and won the hot easily. He made a distinct hit with the fans and will return to the ring here in about two weeks, to meet an opponent to be selected. Godfrey Kayos Cruz in Second. Lorain, O/—Slaughtered by a devastating, two-fisted attack, Francisco Cruz, Portuguese boxer, was knocked out by George Godfrey, heavyweight de luxe of Leiperville, Pa., in the second stanza of a scheduled ten-round bout here, Monday night, before 10 capacity crowd. Outweighed for 10 pounds, possessing little ring sensation, Cruz was a target for the blows showered upon him by George. A left to the stomach spilled Cruz for a count of seven in the first canto. The knockout came just seventeen seconds after the second round got under way, a left to the jaw and the right to the body flooring Cruz. He counted. Alex Heweran Lorain weltersweight, kykoed Young Jack Martin "After" of kikuchi, in the second session of a scheduled ten-round semi-final bout. Howard Proving a Consistent Loser Washington, D. C.—In Howard's new gymnasium, its "Iive" lost its first home game, last week Friday, when a intercollegiate basketball team scored of 32 to 25. Morehouse college "Big Maroon Team" literally swamped Howard in a game at Atlanta, the week previous. Howard's 1929 football schedule: The board of athletic control has announced the following for 1929: Oct. 5, 12, 19 and 26, Indiana; Oct. 10, Johnson C. Smith, here; Moorehouse, there, and West Virginia, at Institute, respectively. Nov. 2, 9, 16, 23 and 28, Bluefield, here; open date; Fiske, there; Morgan, here, and Lincoln, at Philadelphia, respectively. Howard has also announced the appointment of the Clerance DeLa, acting head of the physical education and as track coach for the coming season. "NOT THE LARGEST, BUT THE BEST." Little Rock Ark., June 16, '25. Hon. Harry C. Smith, Editor, Gazette, Cleveland, Dear Friend:—Long live The Gazette! a welcome friend to the Ricks-Demby family for forty-three years. We boast of being among the oldest continuous subscribers of The Gazette—not the largest but the best in essentials and the most dependable of race journals. Wishing you continued good health and success, we are as ever. Very truly yours, (Bishop) Edward T. and Nettle M. Demby. Something Wrong! There is something radically wrong with a group of people who refuse to help relieve their own burdens. The day of throwing bouquets is gone forever. The Afro-American must face the facts as they exist. We won't gain anything by fooling ourselves into thinking that everything is all right. Everything, affecting the lives of others, is all wrong. The sooner we face these facts, the quicker we will begin to work for our own salvation, the sooner we will attain our rightful place as American citizens. -- Philadelphia Tribune. OHIO'S MOB VIOLENCE ACT Against the Mob and Lynch-Murder-Three Years' Work of a Member of the Race-Also His Ohio Civil Rights Law. Section 6278. "Mob" and "lynching" defined. 6279. "Serious injury" defined. 6280. Damages in case of assault. 6281. Damages in case of lynching. 6282. Damages recoverable by legal representative of victim of lynching 6283. Person suffering death or injury by mob trying to lynch another. 6284. Limitations of action. Order to include recovery and costs in tax levy. Guardian's custody, etc., fees. County's right of action against member of mob County's right of action against another county. 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 without authority of law, shall be deemed a "mob" for the purpose of this chapter. An act of violence by a mob upon the body of any person shall constitute a "lynching" within the meaning of this chapter. (93 v. 161 2.) Section 6279. The term "serious injury" for the term of this chapter, shall include such injury as momentally 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 recover, as hereafter provided, a sum not to exceed one thousand dollars as done from the county in which the assault was made, or the injury received therefrom is serious, a sum not exceeding one thousand dollars; or, if such injury result in permanent disability, to earn a livelihood by manual labor, a sum not to exceed five thousand dollars. (93 v. 12. 5.) Section 6282. The legal representative of a person dying from injuries received from lynching by a mob may recover of the county in which such injury occurred, a sum not to exceed $10,000, ages for such unlawful killing. Such sum shall be applied to the maintenance of the family and education of the minor children of such person so lynched, if any survive him, until such children are of legal age, and then be distributed to the survivors, share and share alike, the widow rejoices, and the child is to share. If there be no widow or minor children surviving such decedent, such sum shall be distributed among the next of kin according to the laws of the distribution of the personality of an intestate. Such sum so recovered shall not be a part of the estate of such person so lynching nor be subject to any of his liabilities. (83 v. 162 6.) Section 6283. A person suffering or injury from a mob attempting to lynch another person shall come within the provisions of this chapter He or his legal representatives shall have a like right of action as one purposely injured or killed by such a mob. (93 v. 162 6.) Section 6284. For the recoveries provided for in this chapter must be commenced, within two years from the date of such lynchin, in any court having original jurisdiction of an action for damages for malicious assault. (93 v. 162 7.) Section 6285. An order to the commissioners of a county, against which such recovery is had, to include it with the costs of action, in which the taxing law may supersn 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 when a lynching occurs, may recover the amount of a judgment and costs against it in favor of the legal very effective. Illinois, Pennsylvania and New Jersey have followed Ohio's lead and enacted mob violence or anti-lynching laws which are copies of our Ohio law. Several other northern states and at least one border state (Kentucky) have also enacted anti-lynching laws, in recent years, like Pennsylvania and New Jersey. The Ohio law follows: OBS. ed. I representative of victim of lynching cry by mob trying to lynch another. I costs in tax levy. I inst member of mob I inst another county. 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 confesses to the murder, mit 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.) Section 6289. This chapter shall 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 for the accommodation and the employment of the accommodations, advantages, facilities or privileges thereof, shall be finet 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 manners section shall also pay not less than fifty dollars and imprisoned not less than fifty dollars to the person aggrieved thereby to be recovered in any court of competent jurisdiction in the county where such offense was committed. 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Classified Advertising Department FOR SALE—A good bedroom set of three pieces. A BARGAIN—In good condition. Also a Way-Sagless spring and a first-grade mattress. Both practically new; used less than two weeks. Call, CHerry 1259 in the afternoon. CLEVELAND Social and Personal Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Vena, E. 89th St., have a girl-baby, born recently. George Remmy and Nancy Carter were married, recently, by Rev. Jesse Smith. Girls, be sure to read the beauty culture advertisement, elsewhere in this paper. Take Helthol to ward off as well as to cure the flu. See adv., elsewhere in this paper. Mr. and Mrs. James S. Merideth celebrated their 29th marriage anniversary, recently. Mrs. Ince Burds, E. 74th St., sister of Mrs. Leland D. French, was buried, recently. Two sons, Arthur and Tillman, Jr. (instead of one), survive Tillman M. Farlice, recently deceased. Bishop C. H. Phillips, of Drexel Ave., left for St. Louis, this week, to visit his son and his two daughters. Col. Sidney B. Thompson spent Sunday in Detroit in conference with J. Finley Wilson, G. E. R. of Elks. Mrs. Araminta DuKette of Chicago is visiting her sisters, Mrs. W. E. McIntire and Mrs. Kate McKinney, E. 85th St. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Blackburn of Alliance were called to the city, last week, by the death of his mother, Mrs. M. Overstreet, who had pneumonia. Boydston Post fed 364 poor children, Xmas day, conveying them to and from the feast in autos. This is real clarity and more. Ladies: "All roads lead to the Caterers Association's annual reception, next week," says Col. Sidney B. Thompson, president. The Cleveland Texas club met, last evening, Mrs. J. E. Wallace, press, visited in Cleveland and Ft. Worth, Tex. last week. The women's auxiliary of the Y. M. R. club had a card party, Thursday evening, at its president, Mrs. Louise J. Pridgeon's, E. $5th St. That Shaker Heights property (unrestricted), advertised elsewhere in The Gazette is "the opportunity of a life-time" for any person who is looking for a home, a real home! A Central Board of Trade has been organized, headquarters in Hotel Majestic, Samuel V. Perry, sec. pro, tem. Permanent officers were elected, last evening. TUBBY OH, GOOD H WISH I HADN THE IDEA OF GOOD OLE H A MEASLEY I DOLLAR! O I WISH I HAD ROSENBERG'S DRUG STORE, N. W. Cor. Central Ave. and E. 55th St. The Gazette regularly should notify copy delivered promptly. b business matters to The Gazette nk, 226 Superior Ave., West, oppo- you wish to see the editor call c carefully examine The Gazette's purchases. Business men who have the patronage of our people, assurance that they want it. dlication in current issues of The by noon, WEDNESDAY, of that advertisements accepted until C. SMITH, Avenue, Cleveland, O. tel Cleveland.) Bell 'Phone: Cherry 1259 (Call, in the Afternoon.) FOR SALE—Blass Park Lots, selling for $15 each. Five dollars gets your contract. Write for information to George Blass, Baldwin, Michigan. W. Freeman, a senior at W. R. U. who visited relatives at Hampton Va., stopped in Washington, D. C., to take an examination for internate at Freedman's hospital. It is said that Henry Reed, who died, recently left his estate to St. James' A. M. E. church, of which he was a charter member. Mr. Reed resided in Colonial Ct., for years. The officers of the Triple T club, recently reorganized, are: Joe Al- son, pre; Royce Badger, see; Chester Gray, chair; pub.com.; Mrs. Susie Tyler. E. 96th St., sponsor of club activities. The first anniversary of Rev. A. L. Boone, a pastor of St. Holy Baptist church, will be celebrated, next week, beginning, Sunday, and closing with a banquet on the evening of Jan. 28, the editor's birthday. Officers of the local Junior N. A. A. C. P. branch which meets in St. James church, the first Sunday of each month at 3 p. m., are: Wyatt Brownlee, pres.; Dorothy Fisher first vice-pres.; Paul Kelly, second; Bernice Williams, third; Elizabeth Richards, sec.; Louse Hatcher, asst.; Calarous Adams, treas. The funeral services of Mrs. Jefferson Coe, E. 74th St., whose death last week Wednesday night, was an announced in our last issue, were held at St. Andrews E. p. church, E. 49th St. near Cedar Ave., Saturday morning officiating. The B. Sutherland rector tendance and many floral tributes A large circle of friends of both races sincerely sympatize with Mr. Coe in his great bereavement. Sunday at 4 P. M., there will be a meeting at Woodland Center, cor. E. 46th St. and Woodland Ave. Dr. Robert N. McLean of the Presbyterian Board of National Missions, will speak on the theme, "That Mexican." He has been very successful in promoting inter-racial good will where our Mexican population, are the largest. The public is cordially invited to attend this meeting. The Workers Inter-racial league will meet, Sunday, at 4 p. m., at Cedar "Y," to pi mote the organization of a local bra ch of the Florida Woman India P.ief committee. Clayborne Gorzelle, Guecher Gillespie, Councilman Gregg and others, expressed a willingness to support such an organization, it is said. A meeting is being arranged for next week to protest the two Mississippi lynch-murders, Dec. 31, and Gov. Bilbo's shielding of the mobocrats. Only thirty-five persons in all attended the annual meeting of the Empire Savings and Loan Co., at Temple Baptist church, E. 84th St. and Cedar Ave., last week Tuesday evening. This was not at all en- I DON'T DONE IT, S E SELLIN' ANK FOR HALF-A- A. BOOOOO HIM BACK THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, O., SATURDAY, JANUARY 19, 1929. couraging to the pastor, Rev. C. B. Patterson, who delivered the annual address or to the officers of the company who were re-elected. There should have been more than thirty-five of the stockholders alone at the meeting. The meeting at Cedar "Y," one evening last week, to try to organize a company to take over the Call-Post or publish a new paper, which W. L. Porter, make-up man on that day, was promoting, was not a success. There it is to be another fort soon, it is said. "Put your hand on your pocket-book and do not bite," says the "Sage of E. 55th St." "Member what P. T. Barnum, the great showman, used to say? Well, don't be one, and save your money! It sure looks as if "The Old Reliabar-Gazette is soon to be the only race that will be saved again, and soon, too. This has happened, several times, in the last decade or so. The P. W. A. annual meeting was held, last week Thursday evening, as announced in our last issue. Rev. B. F. McWilliams of Toledo, who spoke, professed to foresee the working out of problems, in contentment, than employment. No one asked him, however, what kind of employment. The program also included a story by Mrs. Clarence L. Collens, III., pictures of club-dramatic work, music by John Maxwell quartet and the P. W. music school glee club and orchestra. Four new trustees were elected: Miss Mabel gen. sec. of the local "lily-white" Mrs. Albert H. A. Mrs. T. H. White, Mrs. Albert H. A. Mrs. T. H. Benj. O. Davis. A board to off-financial advice was organized, composed of David E. Green, David W. Frackleton, Mark L. Thompson and Col. Benj. O. Davis. Mrs. Paul F. Sutphen was elected the first member of the new honorary board. 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 well. B. Blossom must be removed from office at the fairs. 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 flarrant insults and denials of citizen-taxpayers' 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, to a committee of our citizens that called for the abolition of 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. 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. 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WHY ENGINE OIL MUST BE CLEAN Important to Be Sure That Filter Is Functioning Properly. A graphic illustration of the importance of proper automobile lubrication is set forth in the following engineering news article: "Rub the palms of your hands together briskly for a few minutes, exerting a slight pressure. They soon become too hot for comfort. The heat you feel is the result of friction that works havoc with your automobile. Use Butter or Grease. "Now moisten your palms with water—better still, with butter or grease of some kind. Rub together again and note how much longer it takes for them to become hot." "You have lubricated them, and instead of the rough skin rubbing together, the grease keeps them apart and the rubbing is between the surfaces of the two layers of grease. "However, you will notice that finally your pains do get hot. The layers of grease have been worn away by the friction and if rubbing were continued, the skin would soon wear away." Lubrication Necessary. This, according to engineers, explains why lubrication is so necessary, and why it is important to be sure that the oil filter is functioning properly, thus keeping the oil clean. The filter, it is explained, functions without attention for 10,000 miles. After this mileage has been driven, the filtering unit becomes filled with foreign matter taken from the oil and it is important that the motorist drive to the service station for servicing it, which can be done in five minutes. AUTOMOBILE ITEMS An old-fashioned auto horn was one that said "Please" instead of "Shake a leg!" A motorist always misses a tack except it be that the pedestrian makes the wrong tack. Of course, in the old days large families were the rule, to help put up the one-man tops on early automobiles. The space in the hardware store window that used to be devoted to a rack of horsewheels is given over now to accessories. One of the hardest things to understand is a motorist who drives out to see the beautiful fall coloring—at the rate of 62 miles an hour. A storage battery can deliver an amperage of twice its capacity or more for a fraction of a second, providing it is in good condition. An English doctor says that 90 miles an hour in motoring is safer than 45 miles. Maybe that is why so many drivers try to make it. The 22,000,000 cars in operation in the United States travel approximately 220,000,000,000 miles annually based on an estimate of 10,000 miles per car per year. These cars use G5,000,000 spark plugs a year. The boundaries of Egypt will be patrolled in the future by soldiers in motor cars instead of on camels as soon as the ministry of France approves the expenditure involved in replacing camels by cars. Don't T But Give it Heard by Motorist "Wottyya think this is—a race track?" "Say—are you color blind?" "You're from the country—ain't ya?" "First time you've driven a car?" "Don't tell me that, brother—I know better." "Just wot's the idea?" "Now, don't get funny with me." "Well, wot's it this time—going for a doctor?" "Now, now, now—I drive a car myself." "The judge is receiving guests tomorrow to a. m. Here's your invitation." Army Signal Corps Nail Picker Removes Hazards The United States Army Signal corps nail picker, showing how the magnet is attached to the wagon, and picks up Government Nail Picker. nails. Thus the road is freed of hazards to automobile drivers and adds joy to the ride. The magnet picks up nails, pins or any other bits of steel that lurk in the path of tires. Compressed Air Harmful IN Drying Carburetor Blowing out the gas line or trying to dry out a carburetor with compressed air is not always a success. Compressed air, oddly enough, is wet. It's best to use a hand pump for blowing out lines. With this you can obtain the necessary pressure and the air that you pump will be dry. This applies especially to blowing out the air line of a gasoline gauge that operates on the pressure plan, excluding the special type which is connected with the engine vacuum system. This air line must be dry if the gauge is to be accurat. Compressed air, however, is useful in blowing water from around the spark plugs following a careless wash or if the car has been standing out in a cloudburst. Hard Starting Is Laid to the Old Spark Plugs Easier starting can be enjoyed this winter if motorists will make sure that the spark plug gap is adjusted to the correct space, which is between .020 and .025. Adjusting the gap also will save strain on the battery. In a summer's driving the gap expands to .030 or .040 through wear and service, according to H. Rabezzana, research engineer of the AC Spark Plug company. Such a wide gap, he says, requires an enormous amount of electrical current to jump it. The result is hard starting and extra strain on the battery. THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, O.. SATURDAY, JANUARY 19, 1929. WIDE WORLD PHOTO EVENING FROCKS MADE OF QUAINT POINT D'ESPRIT NET IN DARK TONES WIDE WORLD PHOTO THE rage for lace continues. The costume in which a distinguished guest chose to attend a recent smart wedding was a frock of lace and tulle—mostly lace. The bodice was entirely of exquisite lace, also lace tiers embellished the skirt. The significant style note is that with this costume the modish guest wore a capiake hat of matching lace. Which goes to show the extent to which the lace vogue is being carried. There are innumerable angles from which the theme of lace may be discussed. One of them is the important part lace is playing in the way of accessory touches on fashionable afternoon trocks of silks, satins and velvents. Another viewpoint of the lace mode has to do with color. Whatever your most becoming color, it is possible to find an all-over lace in the wanted shade. If one can sew and is accustomed to making one's own dresses, a lovely lace frock can be had at comparatively little outlay. Then there are the new metal laces. EVENING FROCKS M POINT D'ESPRIT THAT which was in the long ago, in matter of dainty material for the party frock, is again. Which being interpreted means that dotted point d'esprit net is, after an absence of many seasons, again listed among popular media for evening frocks. In fact, the flair is for all sorts of nets, especially beaded and spangled types. The vogue for the fanciful little transparent evening jacket particularly brings spangled and sequin embroidered nets into the modern picture. The colors of the new-fashioned old-fashioned point d'esprit nets are very interesting, for they express that latest whim of the mode which adopts street shades for evening wear. Ultra smartness calls for such unusual nues, unusual at least for party frocks, as brown, burgundy, independence or midnight blue, and even deep greens are in favor. A very sprightly silhouette is given to these colorful nets. In that they consume yards and yards and yards, styled in many flaring tiers which stress a crisp bournancy from waistline to hemline, accomplishing the uneven effects about the ankles through y Your Color or an Acqu which are gorgeous. More formal, of course, than the naive colorful laces are they, but then the mode trends to formality when it comes to evening apparel. One of the very gratifying things about many of the beautiful laces which leading American designers are fashioning into lovely gowns and wraps is that they are manufactured in our "ain countree." Which means more than we realize at first thought, for it has not been long since we looked to foreign countries for our best laces, but now the whole proceeding is changed and some of the most beautiful laces which we admire are American made. The exquisite hostess or tea gown in the picture is fashioned of American-made metal lace which adopts both an antique tonality and an antique design. The clever touch about this gown is the sleeve drapes of gold lace which enfold the shoulders. The manner in which the long-at-the-back flounce is shirred on to the blouse is also quite thrilling. JULIA BOTTOMLEY (© 1933 Western Newspaper Union.) MADE OF QUAINT NET IN DARK TONES WIDE WORLD PHOTO means of trailing streamers, panels and similar details. The bodices for these net gowns vary. Some are that simple they trend to severity. In which event corsage flowers and costume jewelry are depended upon to play a leading part. Extremely low decolletage also gives distinction to these simply-styled bodices. Quite often, the bodice takes on the glitter of spangles or is elaborately beaded, or is of some contrasting material such as velvet, brocade, satin or metal cloth. In regard to the gown in the picture, it is a matter of pride with the designer that the point d'esprit net used is American made. Another style feature accented in this model is the invasiveness of denim displayed at the back of the frock Back views are a highly exploited theme in dress design this season Not infrequently the front of a frock is of almost tailored simplicity while to the back is shifted skirt fullness under the gulse of "bustle" bows and drapes. JULIA BOTTOMLEY. (© 1925 Western Newspaper Union.) py of The aintance w SEGREGATION USED AT THE NATION'S CAPITAL TO LOWER OUR STATUS AS AMERICAN CITIZENS. How Much Longer Will Our Self and Race Respecting Press, Pulpit and People Submit to This Rank Injustice?—Protest, Protest! (Special to The Gazette) Washington, D. C. There is more segregation in Washington, today, under President Coolidge than there has been since the Civil War. Many states were under President Taft. It was greatly extended, under President Wilson; increased, still further, under President Harding; and reached its zenith under President Coolidge. For instance, the largest of our parks President Wilson never troubled the present administration has found and desire to introduce it even there. To many people, segregation is a Democratic scheme of insult, but such is not the case. President Taft introduced it in the bureau of engraving. He segregated the censurers in this city in 1910, restrictive and black to black, often duplicating work as most blocks had white and black residents. And, worst of all, announced in his official capacity that Negroes should not hold office where white people complained. Segregation, then, is a Republican institution and not a Democratic one. The former was carried on to its all-embracing extent by Republicans! There is far more of it in the departments, today, than at any time since the Negro first appeared, close upon the close of the Civil War. The picture requirement in the civil service, which makes it next to impossible for a colored lady or gentleman to enter the civil service, since their color is disclosed in their photograph which must accompany their papers is continuous. Ruthie President, Some months ago, a colored girl appeared after having passed the best examination, and after having been telegraphed for by the department. The photograph had failed to tell her true color, and they flatly refused to appoint her when she appeared and they saw her complexion. Commissioner Blair of the internal revenue bureau with thousands of clerks will not appoint a Negro clerk, and his word is law there, as he is the special favorite of Secretary Mollon and Judge Hendry Hill from North Carolina, the home of the other favorite and leader of the segregation forces, the superintendent of buildings and grounds. It is no use to complain of either of these southern gentlemen. The colored people here who know the President could destroy segregation in the departments of the government, and the photograph requirements in the civil service by the mere nod of his head, are at a disadvantage, namely his does not put his splendid declarations on democracy into operation here, where it would not even cost him a single vote and where he has full power and absolutely no opposition. They wonder if he is not a firm believer in segregation, especially since segregation is one of the chief tenets of the Constitution, and found its "welcome home" here and in the Republican party, and receives no condemnation from the Republican President. ((Special to The Gazette.) ((Special to The Gazette.)) Washington, D. C. In the postoffice, segregation is rampant. The faithful colored clerks work under constant humiliation and physical disadvantages. The department must have a paean to the white clerks only where inferior, white clerks can buy appetizing luncheons and chat in comfort while eating, while the colored clerks must bring cold luncheons from home and eat them any place they can. The physical discomfort, disadvantageous as it is, far less galling to the colored clerks than is the thought of their government taking their taxes, as it takes those of the whites, for the comfort of the latter, and setting them off as though they were lepers. The injustice stings all the more when they reflect that they are far more intelligent than the government more intelligent and efficient service—the white man of their attainment being able to get far more lucrative employment. The department goes even farther in its solicitude for whites and neglect of colored. It maintains a well-appointed club room with pool tables and other games, comfortable lounges and other equipment for rest, sociability, and recreation, and nothing for these same colored employees. It has a well-equipped, significant postoffice building, built and maintained by ALL of the people. In the locker rooms there is segregation, and segregation is even attempted in the toilets. And all of this is against the most dependable and faithful employees. The white employees have even passed around invitations to the white employees, in the very presence of the colored, to the postoffice departments, including the postmaster general, in the postoffice building. It announced dancing and a pleasant social evening with the officials for "the postoffice employees," yet not one was delivered to the colored clerks. I hurried a protest to the postmaster general the day before it was to come off, and he ordered the clerks to come off the white. These clerks got around their colored co-workers by giving the function at a local hotel. It is inevitable that the wicked spirit of segregation would express itself in appointments, assignments, and salaries. Collected applicants are often passed over though their examination was superior. No "Negro," however efficient or old in the service, must ever dream of a promotion to a directive position. The hard, unyielding caste passes over him, one after another, though many of the colored employees have won contests in quickness and accuracy in the handling of mail. The colored clerks have dared to form a union which seemed to be mainly and intelligent protests to the postmaster, and often appeals from his decisions to the postmaster-general. It has secured some improvement in their working conditions, but they are still bitter over the huge injustice done to them for nothing else than the color of their skin. (Special to The Gazette.) (Special to The Galette.) Washington, D. C.—The government printing office keeps faith with the government's unified scheme of segregation. Some of the best and bright girls are forced to进ier inferior positions there on account of the better and more lucrative avenues of employment being closed to them because of their color. The whites are generally of a very mediocre group, far from equaling our girls in educational equipment, culture, and working efficiency. Yet these superior girls are set off from the whites with the latter of course, having the better working conditions, salaries and recreational facilities. There is a large cafeteria in this huge structure where all of the employees may go. We are out of-the-way section reserved for our employees. I am glad to say that few, very few, of our people patronize the place, preferring a little physical inconvenience to the open, semi-public humiliation of segregation. In toilet facilities, dressing-rooms, and work assignments, wherever possible, the law of segregation is in full force, and, of course, this same undemocratic practice reveals itself on the salary roll and in the hard caste that bars promotions. Here, as elsewhere the雇主 must cover over superior employees to directive positions, and higher salaries. The whites have a large recreational center in this public building with many fine appointments for rest and amusements. During lunch and dinner hours they repair to this restful retreat for sociability and dance. Last fall, a young Afro-American with a splendid record in his work, felt the injustice of this exclusion of our employees so keenly. He was a young lady of the race to take part in the dance. As soon as this couple started to dance the music was abruptly stopped, and the young man reported for attempting to take part in an entertainment provided for employees. He was called to the office, lectured for being "one of those smart Negroes" who believe in "social equality," and then dismissed on a trumped-up charge. He was a night-employee, hence he carried the weapon. He was a resident a fire broke out in the office. He was quickly accused of setting the building afire in revenge for his exclusion from the dance floor. Detectives came to the building to arrest him, and failing to secure any evidence searched him only to discover the pistol. They quickly dropped the arson charge and substituted one for carrying concealed weapons for which he was immediately dismissed. By this severe punishment our nurse taught me that there is no way of escaping for dares to resent the daily insults that their government (under President Coolidge) gives them. Many of the employees have expressed their deeply-wounded feelings to me at being considered a pariah by the government whose institutions they are serving so faithfully, and I have taken up a number of them, and have been by a dealmand that the conditions complained of exist, and a request for the names of my informants. I knew the fate these informants would suffer so I have never given a single name!! The department then taking the position that it cannot take up the case. It is perfectly clear that this iniquitous thing to fight, since the government is so well settled upon it, and the complainants cannot bear witness to it. (Special to The Gazette) Washington, D. C. —Segregation in the bureau of engraving and printing has an interesting history involving President Thomas Woodrow Wilson and members of his family, three heroic young colored women who lost their positions as a rebel of their protest, and the noble wife of President Woodrow Wilson (deceased). Shortly after the accession of Mr. Wilson to the White House, a member of his family visited the bureau where she saw white and colored girls working together in perfect harmony, oblivious to any thought of race. Shortly thereafter came an order for the segregation of black women and men, and been noted for her philanthropy among our people and who was up. House appeared at the bureau to on intimate terms at the White tell our girls to be contented with the new order as "a great Negro leader had taught colored people to stay in their places. Those cases resisted the order to the last ditch and were summarily dismissed! Senator La Follette, father of the present Senator of the same name, lodged a protest with Secretary McAdoo to no avail, and his noble wife began a crusade against the undemocratic innovation. She took the platform here in Washington and Boston before the famous Twentieth century club. She used the columns of the Senator's magazine, sparing the space for her own speech. She threw herself against it in our local white press, and addressed the national gathering of the N. A. A. C. P. in New York. When our people here were so profoundly discouraged, she came out, one stormy afternoon, to the Y. M. C. A., to urge them to continue the fight, for democracy was at the crisis. Oswald Garrison Villard came to town to attack the White House and Cabinet and arouse our people, and the N. A. B. secured publicity, and his hundred thousand papers in the country. The fight checked what was thought to be the intention of the segregators, namely, the elimination of the colored employees from the bureau altogether The same segregation which some of our people think is the cherished institution of the Democratic party is still there, in all of itsfulness, under the administration of the party that Abraham Lincoln, Charles Sumner and Frederick Douglass helped to found. Our girls are employed there in far larger numbers than in any other branch of the public service. We have their rest rooms, toilouses, and working stations, and of course none are ever thought of for promotions to executive places. They are girls from our best homes, most of them with high and normal school training, and fine culture. The white girls are of no such grade, as there is no segregation for them in the great world of things. They have unlimited fields at high wage for even mediocre talents. The best of our girls must take these inferior jobs, and we are segregation. Our people are still hoping for the issuance of an order destroying this iniquitous practice in all of our government departments, for it not only humiliates the best of the government servants but impairs the government service. (Special to The Gazette) Washington, D. C. — The treasury department, according to the President's acceptance speech, is now under the ablest financial genius since the days of Alexander Hamilton. It is to be remembered that the great man came from the West Indies and in the 1760s he was a man that the President traversed are the mighty Salmon P. Chase, secretary of the treasury in Lincoln's cabinet, who, in a national extremity such as this country has never known, devised the national banking system and the civil War; and Ohio's manager financier, John Sherman. These men must never knew what segregation was gone? The present head of the department of internal revenue, Mr. Blair from North Carolina, has not appointed a colored clerk since his incumbency. While his predecessor, Mr. Daniel Roper, a Democrat from Texas, appointed and promoted several of them. Since the income tax legislation and the numberless new taxes that the recent war necessitated, this is by far the largest department of the treasury, employing several thousand clerks. Yet Negroes so scarce there that they can't be counted. There is the same general complaint among our clerks and other employees as there is in the other branches of the government—failure to efficiency when promotions are due; ability to go so far and no further The various forms of segregation exist here as well as elsewhere—the restaurants closed or divided along color lines, and special lockers, locker rooms, rest rooms, etc. set off for colored. The toilets for the colored are few in such a large structure. Hence, the segregated clerks are forced to endure physical inconvenience times, and are forced to travel long distances when they desire the use of these department maintains a huge, magnificent cafeteria, in the splendid sweep of woodland along our national driveway, where white people of every class can come to rest, dine, and socialize of afternoons and evenings at minimum costs. The white press of the city is constantly telling of the thousands who take advantage of the "delightful retreat," and the festive it some that their presence creates. It some that their presence with space to spare, but not one Negro! His only share is the taxes he is forced to pay for this luxury for another group The registries of the treasury, which Republican Presidents have given the Negro since Garfield appointed Blanch K. Bruce, is now filled by a white man, and the colored people are congregated in a separate room which is publicly proclaimed as "a colored division." When it is discovered that Negro clerks are "working as white" in other divisions, they are promptly freed to this "colored division." Our people fear that protest against this segregation would result in the abolition of the division altogether; so they remain in the division and, fearing to act, our clerks must accept segregation or elimination, and poor, with no other opportunities, in this southern atmosphere, must take the former. They are depressed at the wrong, but economic stress compels endurance of it. By a single stroke of his pen, President Calvin Coolidge can stop every bit of this damnable segregation, just as he can condemn that lawless organization the Ku Klux Klan whenever he decides to do so. Subscribe Now