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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 Afro-Americans, is all wrong. The sooner we face these facts, the quicker we will begin to work for our own salvation, the sooner will we attain our rightful place as American citizens. —Philadelphia Tribune. THE GAZETTE ESTABLISHED, AUGUST 25, 1883 And Issued Every Week on Time Since CLEVELAND, OHIO, SATURDAY, FRESH OHIO NEWS WRITTEN BY "THE OLD RELIABLE" GAZETTE'S CORRESPONDENTS. Marriages, Deaths, Etc. BELLEFONTAINE. — Wm. Bray, formerly a barber here, died, Thursday, at the Logan county home. Interment in the local cemetery, Saturday afternoon. — Our leaders were given no time to submit a recommendation for the office of Register of the U. S. Treasury when a vacancy in that office occurred, recently. The next day after creating the vacancy, President Coolidge hurriedly filled it, surprising those who expected to make a fight to regain this office for a race. The president couldn't finish his term too soon. Goodbye! 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 house. The president cannot lose 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 our address. Our office for display advertisements will be sent on application. WASHINGTON C. H. — Mr. and Mrs. Weaver Johns lost their ten month's old son, Jan. 26. — Mrs. Willis Lovings, sister of Mr. Wayne Jones, was buried, Monday, from the Second Baptist church, Rev. Allen of Xenia officiating. — Rev. J. J. Burr and a few members of his church called on the sick, Sunday afternoon, including Mr. Alonzo Anderson and Mr. Sanford Evans, and where the death Angel had visited — Mr. and Mrs. Weaver Johns and Mr. and Mrs. Jeff Scott. — Edward Kelley, president of Men's club, will have a school, Feb. 8, on a charter entitled "The Train of Mauno." No door-admission. All welcome. At Third Baptist church. All of Hillsboro is invited. LORAIN. — Mrs. Hendron Tate is out of the city for an indefinite stay — 7th St. church Ladies' Ald which met, Thursday afternoon, is doing good work, but needs encouragement. The Willing Workers met, Wednesday afternoon, at Mrs. L. Kane's. Mrs. Sarah Simms of Stop 48 visited her sister, Mrs. Wm. Brown, in Elyria, Thursday afternoon. — St. Mathews church revival will continue thru this week. — Mr. Ira Wallace has resumed Young after a week's layoff caused by an injured back. — At the mid-year High school commencement, recently, 93 were awarded diplomas, one, Master Wood, being of our group. We are very proud of him and wish him success. HILLSBORO. —Born to Mr. and Mrs. Jas. C. West. Jan. 21, a son, J. C. W. Jr.—Mrs. Chas. Day has been very ill since Sunday. —Mrs. C. M. Gragston returned, last week Thursday, from a visit with her mother and sister in Wilmington. —Mrs. Theo. Campbell of Sinkling Springs was the guest of Mrs. Alline Burton, several days. She and her husband moved here, this week.—Mrs. Marie Young returned from Delaware, Saturday, for a visit. —Mrs. C. M. Gragston entertained the Get-To-Gether club. Wednesday. —Rev. R. L. Bray and family have been ill. —Rev. Harvey Johnson preached Sunday night at the Baptist church. —Mrs. Ada Highwarden entertained Mrs. H. Hennison and son at dinner. Sunday. —Mrs. Chas. Cole and Mrs. Jas. Captain are better.—Miss Ethel Ames spent the week-end with her brother and his family. ALLIANCE—Four small children, one 2 months old, were left motherless, when Mrs. Dolly Young, age 22, was shot, last Saturday, at her home by Chas. Eagles. She died en route to the hospital. Eagles was arrested in Cleveland, brot here and indicted on a first - degree - murder charge. — Friendly Circle and Jolly clubs are having their basketball games at Christian church gym. Miss Winona Ayers, manager. — Rev. E. H. Newsome is convalescent. He preached two interesting sermons, Sunday. — St. Luke's Allen League will render a program, Feb. 10. — Mr. and Mrs. Robt Harrell, son and daughter motored here to express their sympathy to Mr. and Mrs. Theo. Merrell in the loss of their little daughter. Mr. Robt, and Mrs. Geo. Burns and their mother motored, from Cleveland, Sunday, to the bereaved home. Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Harrell and Mrs. Ethel Burns returned to Cleveland, Monday.—Mr. and Mrs. Chas, Proctor of Ravenna visited Mr. and Mrs. Theo. Merrell, Sunday.—Mr. Wm. Cisco continues ill. Sebring's First Baptist church held a successful missionary meeting. Sunday.—Mr. Nolan Davis has received word of the death (pneumonia) of his infant son, in Chattanooga. Teen, where his wife is spending the winter. THE WEAVER CASE HEARING! (Special to The Gazette) Columbus, O. Jan. 26, '29. Hon. Harry C. Smith. Edition of Glencoe. Editor Gazette, Cleveland, O. My dear Mr. Smith: It occurs to me that I've been so busy trying to carry out your suggestions that I have failed to report as to the copies of The Gazette received by Miss Hughes and me, for free distribution. The Dec. 22 and 29 issues I rushed out over the state. I have given a few of the later issues out locally but thought to hold them back until our next campaign for sentiment. The Weaver Case Hearing I succeeded in getting some of our representative people to attend the Supreme Court hearing, Jan. 18; Rev. Isom, Rev. Clarke, Mr. Gibson of the Supreme Life Ins. A., now president of the local N. A. A. C. P.; Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Dickinson, officers of the N. A. A. C. P.; Mrs. Rosa Morman, founder of our Franklin Co. Women's Republican club; Mrs. Mayme Artis, member of the legislative department of our State Federation of clubs. The Weaver case was the last called. Atty, Marstellar at the stand. For the first time, that morning, the bench of judges unentb and gave a glint of personal feeling. Following a dialog between Justice Jones and Atty, Marstellar, the Chief Judge "Mr. Marstellar, I think you see that you have one vote here, possibly others". Judge Florence Allen was fine, too, in emphasizing certain favorable features (to Weaver) of the case. Atty, Marstellar was magnificent in his presentation of the case. And when the Chief Justice made the remark just quoted. — No, it was in answer to Judge Jones that he replied: "Your honor, you make me very happy by saying so. This case is a pet of ours. Mr. Cook and using our time and money without a penny of pay because we believe in the innocence of our client". When it was over we all had something to say to the attorneys (Messrs. Cook and Marstellar). They said that all that is needed is a new trial to establish beyond doubt the innocence of their client. We came away hoping for the best, for Joseph Weaver, and feeling that a movement should be started to reimburse the attorneys. I'm sure you will be the one to do that in time. In the meanwhile, I have heard no news from the hearing; not anything further at all. Yours sincerely, (Mrs.) Dovie King Clarke. "Jonny Americanized" New York City.—"Jonny Spielt Auf", a German opera, was given by the Metropolitan Opera Company, Saturday night week. but it was a far different affair from the opera as originally given in Dresden, Vienna, Paris and the other large European cities where it was a great success. In the first place, the hero, Jonny, an afro-American jazz band, was a college student all in the opera here and other changes were made in order to please the K. K. K. and other prejudiced Americans. Editor Gazette, Dear Sir;--Since they closed the Apex club on E. 46th St., because colored and white girls mingled, should they not close all night-clubs where Protestants and Catholics, Jews and Gentiles mingle? This would make it a 100% Ku Klux order. At present he (Barry), who issued the order, is only 33% K. K. K. "A Hot One". A Reader. LAST SUNDAY'S TEA-POT TEMPEST! Somebody blundered in suggesting, nay more, in calling the "Fleming" mass-meeting, last Sunday P.M., Jan. 20th. To me, it was ill-advised and will, if it has not already, prove a miserable fiasco. How any set of leaders of our group would allow themselves to be so swayed by selfishness from the base of good judgment, I am not able to comprehend. A mass meeting to rebuke a lawfully constituted body of men, to call before them any one to get facts of any crime that has been Rev. Horace C. Bailey. alleged or committed against the laws and dignity of the state, is unwise and can and may be termed intimidation and a menace to good government, and may prove to be a boomerang to its participants. Such unwise actions do more harm to society than good. Mr. Fleming has not been tried and no man or set of men has a right to condemn or intimidate the jury before hearing the evidence, and if after hearing the evidence and finding it is not sufficient to convict him by law, then meetings he held to condemn his persecutors. The county grand jury indicts Mr. Fleming for bribery but the court and jury will have to prove him guilty as indicted. Will the court and jury so find him; can it? Why not await the evidence in the case? I know little or nothing of the details in the case; therefore wisdom tells me to wait. If Mr. Fleming proves his innocence the courts and community, white and colored, will justify him and his record will shine out more lustrous; and if proven guilty, as he should be punished according to law. Our courts in Cuyahoga County are just to all alike. I have lived for the 26 years and have heard very little complaint by our group against the courts. Whitfield's case is an evidence of this fact. Mr. Fleming will get a fair trial in our courts. I thanked and inspected me, and the worse people of this community that has recently taken place in our city. We seem to want to verify the slanderous charge so often made, that are a criminal race. If we are honest we will admit that there is too much crime in our city; nay, the whole nation, by both groups. Law seems to be broken down and there seems no standard for living. Courts can't convict, especially for crookedness in politics. But what shocks me most is that while the other group is endeavoring to clean up and purge our city of its Augue stables, our Negro churches are opening their doors for the unthinking crowds to manifest their spleen and intimidate the law. Our ministry should be more guarded in what they say and do. To open their doors for this sort of business, let us close our bibles, nail up the church-doors, and go out and seek other jobs for a living. I live in the "roaring third." Of course, it roars and that too loud, and I have lived in 26 years and labor to quiet its roaring, but I hear roaring all over Cleveland now, even on the "Heights". It is an age of roaring. No district is pure and can boast of its purity. The only thing I resent, in the attempt to rid our city of undesirables, is the statement of Safety Director Barry, if the papers correctly quoted him, "that white and Negro girls must not associate in cabarets". I wonder what is the difference in a bad woman with a white skin and bad woman with a black skin? His remarks were foolish and savor of ignorance saturated with prejudice as is usual in the case of men of his mental caliber. Such statements engender race-hatred and bitterness. Mr. Barry and all others of his kind ought to blush in anguish of soul SINGLE COPY FIVE CENTS "SOLICITING AND ACCEPTING A BRIBE" THE BASIS OF THE LATEST INDICTMENT OF THE COUNCILMAN. County Prosecutor Ray T. Miller Says the $200 Check Is the Strongest Evidence Against Fleming, Who Pleads "Not Guilty"—That "Mass Meeting" Ill-Advised! Councilman Tom Fleming, for the second time within a week, was inflicted by the county grand jury, late Monday, on charges growing out of allegations by Walter Oehme, crippled former city detective, that the councilman accepted $200 from him in return for introducing legislation into council to pay Oehme's doctor bills. The new indictment charges Fleming with soliciting and accepting a bribe, whereas the original charged him only with soliciting a bribe. Fleming's bond in the first indictment was set at $1,000 and was posted when he surrendered for arraignment, last Tuesday. Prosecutor Miller asserted additional evidence against Fleming, uncovered since the return of the first indictment, was responsible for the voting of the second and amended charge. Atty. George W. Spooner (white). Fleming's counsel, declared he believed he could have beaten the original indictment on a motion to dismiss the case for lack of proof that Fleming Check Basis of Indictment. The new indictment was asked by County Prosecutor Ray T. Miller because, he pointed out, the strongest evidence against Fleming is the check said to have been accepted as payment for introducing the heist. The prosecutor, the evidence against the councilman therefore is that he "accepted" rather than "solicited" the alleged bribe. Legal authorities are of the opinion that attorneys for Fleming might have beaten the original indictment on a motion, arguing that the check constituted little if any evidence to show Fleming actually solicited the money even if it was proved that the check served the purpose Oehme declares it did. Hardly had the indictment been returned when Fleming appeared at the old courthouse, accompanied by his wife and attorneys. He walked swiftly into Presiding Criminal Judge Kramer's private room after attempting to evade reporters and photographers. He was arraigned in the judge's chamber, pleaded not guilty to the new indictment and was rejoiced by 500 persons property sized by Fleming who posted as security a frame dwelling at 2151 Central Ave. with an estimated value of $6,000. She claims a $2,000 equity in this property. when they speak of race-mixing. Where and whence came three to four million of mixed people in our country? They were not mixed by colored and white women, but by white men and colored women, clandestinely. It is cowardly and mean to make such remarks against a man from a weaved house to degrade. We mix in spite and church work. Why can't people of the same grade mix? Clean up our city and make it decent and fit to live in. I am for it, but not by besmirching some other group. I am yours for good government (Rev.) H. C. Bailey. "CONJURE WOMAN" REPRINTED New. York City.—"The Conjure Woman", earliest novel of Atty. Charles W. Chesnutt of Cleveland, O., who received the Spingarn Medal, last year, for his pioneering in this field, has just been republished by the Houghton, Mifflin Co., with a foreword by Major J. E. Spingarn. In his foreword, Mr. Spingarn says Mr. Chessnutt's novels "are the first in which an Afro-American has in any real sense portrayed the fortunes of his race," that "Mr. Chessnutt was the first Afro-American novelist" and that "he is still the best". Atty. Charles W. Chesnutt. THE GAZETTE is the oldest and has the largest bona fide circulation in Ohio, double that of any newspaper in the interest of Afro-Americans published in this or any other country. We immediately establish its rank as one of the NEWSIEST AND BEST in the country. THE COPY FIVE CENTS TIME! NG AND NG A BRIBE" TEST INDICTMENT OF THE CILMAN. . Miller Says the $200 Check ance Against Fleming, Who —That "Mass Meeting" advised! Fleming's bond in the first indictment was set at $1,000 and was posted when he surrendered for arraignment, last Tuesday. Prosecutor Miller asserted additional evidence against Fleming, uncovered since the return of the first indictment, was responsible for the voting of the court, and George W. Spooner (white), Fleming's counsel, declared he believed he could have beaten the original indictment on a motion to dismiss the case for lack of proof that Fleming solicited the arraignment. "So they noticed their mistake, did they?" he commented. The first indictment against Fleming—of soliciting a bribe—will continue to stand, Miller said, and the original bond of $1,000 will remain in effect. The second indictment includes the first one. The foregoing is the County Prosecutor's reply to the "Fleming" mass meeting, Sunday afternoon, at Mt. Zion Cong. church, over which Sydney B. Thompson presided and which was addressed by Mrs. Hazel M. Walker, Hon. John P. Green, Rev. R. S. Brown, pastor of the church; Rev. C. C. Aller, of Zion Hill Baptist church; Dr. L. N. Bundy, A. E. Robertson, president of the local U.N. A. Councilman J. Jon Grego Mass Jan Hunter Rev. Boston M. Prince of Messiah Baptist church; Rev. E. E. Grannum of Cory M. E. church, and others. Resolutions expressing confidence in Fleming were drawn up by an appointed committee. The meeting did not voice the sentiment and feeling of the great mass of the intelligent Afro-Americans, and others, in this community because they are patiently awaiting the outcome of the court-proceedings in the Fleming indictments before reaching a conclusion. The attempt to make it seem otherwise is ill-advised, to say the least. "AN AUTUMN LOVE CYCLE" By Georgia Douglas Johnson Whom Wm. Stanley Braithwaite characterizes as "The Foremost Woman Poet of the Race." Washington, D. C.—Harold Vinal, publishers, 562 Fifth Avenue, N. Y. City, announce "An Autumn Love Cycle" by Mrs. Georgia Douglas Johnson, and in speaking of her have the following to say: "Georgia Douglas Johnson has been given a happy gift. She has come to poetry making well equipped; her poems, in consequence, are soaring and intense. Her adorations impelled her pen and she has given her poems a most tender bewilderment of a restless music. The beauty of the universe has impelled her; the glamorous enchantment of life has taught her cadence and serene faith. She has been beset by beauty. Her poems are distinguished for fine feeling and melodic line". The foremost woman poet of the race, whose lyrics have some of that name-like intensity and delicate music which make Christine Rossetti the foremost woman poet of England. I do not wish it to be understood that limit her horizon when I characterize the foremost woman poet of the race; she expands beyond into the universal, and interprets the mysterious and inexplicable secrets of femininity.—Wm. Stanley Braithwaite. Paris, France,—Al Brown, slim Afro-American bantamweight, knocked out Tiget Humery, former French featherweight champion, with one punch in the first few seconds of their bout at the Cirque de Paris. When the bell rang for the beginning of the bout, Wednesday evening, Brown walked to the center of the ring, connected with a right to the jaw and it was all over as soon as the referee counted 10. The Countess at Monte Carlo Paris, France.—The Paris Herald-Tribune reports Countess Colloredo and her daughter, Stephanie, at Monte Carlo. A photograph of the countess, whose name was connected with Roland Hayes, Afro-American tenor, in a Vienna scandal, last year, with her daughter, who is quite as tall as the countess, is reproduced. Al Brown Abroad HESTER, YOU'VE SIMPLY GOT TO GO TO THE DENTIST AND HAVE THAT TOOTH TAKEN OUT NO MAAM! I WON'T DO OUT! NO OLE DENTIST'S GONNA PULL OUT I'll GIVE YOU A QUARTER. THEN, IF YOU'LL TIE A STRING TO IT AND TO THE DOOR KNOB AND LET ME OPEN THE DOOR ALL RIGHT GIMME THE QUARTER ARE YOU READY, DEAR? YESSUM, ALL RIGHT OPEN IT WELL GEEWILLIKERS! YOU DIDN'T SAY ANY THING ABOUT HOW LONG A PIECE OF STRING I WAS TO USE WINNER 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 1896; 1896 to 1898; 1900 to 1902. IN UNION IS STRENGTH 10,000,000 *tro-Americans. 350,000 in Ohio. 40,000 in Cleveland. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1929. Either Director of Public Safety Edwin D. Barry said it or he didn't. It is said, he told Councilman Tom Fleming, last Saturday, over the 'phone, that he did say it, tho he wouldn't admit saying it at Monday evening's meeting of the city council when questioned by Councilman George. Barry is a Hopkins appointee, both of whom can be "reached" (ousted) when the charter amendment is voted on, this year. Last month, and the first of this brot "The Old Reliable" Gazette a big bunch of Christmas and New Years cards, some really beautiful. This week a number of birthday cards were received, two of the prettiest being from Mrs. Mabel Holmes Jackson, another "January bird", as she wrote, and Mr. and Mrs. Herbert L. Taylor of E. 90th St. Thank you, good friends, one and all, for the very kind and thouful remembrances of our natal day. Miss Naomi Fears of this city, left Cleveland, the first of the week, for Lincoln hospital, Harlem, New York city, to study to become a trained nurse. She is the second or third of our young ladies to do this, in recent years, because Cleveland's school for trained nurses, at the City hospital, is kept closed to our people only by City Manager Will R. Hopkins, in spite of the fact that we have three members of the City council; namely, Atty. Tom Fleming, Atty. Clayborne George and Dr. E. J. Gregg. Lord, have mercy! We want complete representation in the institutions which we help to maintain with our taxes. All these things can be attended to by our aldermen, and it is to them that we shall look. If they cannot get results, there are always others willing to try!—Chicago Defender. In the "Windy City" (Chicago), they are called "aldermen". Here in Cleveland, we call them councilmen. Now then Councilmen Fleming, Gregg and George if you will not or cannot get the results desired, others must be secured for your places who can and will. That Cleveland City hospital must be opened also to our internes, and girls desiring to become trained nurses. Get busy! Such prejudiced officials as City Manager Will R. Hopkins and Dr. Dudley "Segregation" Blossom MUST GO! This is a matter that should interest every Afro-American voter in the city. As The Defender well says: "Segregated hospitals are a disgrace to civilized communities at best. Not only do they constitute a drain on public funds, but they necessitate a double standard and are evidences of the unfairness of the American people toward each other". OUR WEAKNESS In spite of our numerical strength we are still "a child race" and a weak people. We are unable to unite on any program for our racial betterment. A multiplicity of group organizations, established and maintained for selfish ends, spells our doom. With millions of dollars spent every year by us, eighty per cent of it goes into the homes of other races. We are not producers, but spenders. Our leadership prefers to curry favor with the enemies of the race, rather than suffer with and help lift it. Politically, we could be a mighty force, but as we are now going we are political dupes and tools for insincere politicians. The two major parties, Democratic and Republican, have no outstanding differences. For job reasons, they remain separate. "Negro dupes" get promises and false praise. The historic South is partially Republican and so is the historic East. Neither party, as now constituted and led, cares anything about Negro welfare and citizenship rights. A careful analysis of the present leadership of both parties, shows a trend toward Anglo-Saxon interest without regard to black people. Should the South become Republican, the rights of southern Negroes would remain in status quo. There must be a new party soon which will express the cause of the common people. Much is being spoken and written about Abraham Lincoln but nothing is carried on in the Lincoln fashion. The unemployed, the bankrupt farm interests, the lightening of the burden of the poor, the making and enforcing of laws to make prosperous the masses and the curtailment of special interests, selfishly run, are spikes, very sharp, in the path of U. S automobiles on the government race course. Our vote alone can defeat or beat either one of the major parties, if rightly used. United States Senators that fight our rights in Congress are an extinct breed. We can defeat or elect the Senator in sixteen states if we had sense enough. We can defeat three-eights of the members of the House of Representatives if we vote right. As it is now, the say of the party caucus is more powerful than the votes of the electorate. It is our business to organize now for 1930. A Congress that is just, interested in and fair to us must be elected. Our votes can count. Are we willing to unite for our welfare? WANTS A HOUSE-CLEANING. Editor Plain Dealer — Sir: Your editorial, "Serious Indictment", was so fair and right that it cannot but commend Dr. Charles' L. DeBow's crusade against' the miserably immoral and other crime conditions, existing throughout the city, to all who read it. I have lived in the "Roaring Third Police Precinct" for more than a half century and am still residing there. Dr. DeBow has got told "half the story". Indeed, I do not believe that anyone can do so. If the masses of residents of this city but knew the facts in anything like their entirety, there would be an uprising such as Cleveland never has had. Dr. DeBow's crusade should have the support of every newspaper and good citizen in the community. Cleveland surely needs a "house-cleaning" if ever a city in this country needed one. Cleveland Daily Plain Dealer, Jan 22, '29. SUN-SET—A REVERIE. From floral mountain side, so steep I gaze afar, o'er glistning deep; Where sky and water seem to meet: Bewitching hour of twilight near, When spirits walk, and mem'ries dear, Commune with mortals, without fear. The setting sun, in Western sky, Now, visible to naked eye. Tho: still above the earth so high, Is shedding forth his golden rays, While birds and mortals, fill'd with praise. Are carrolling in tuneful lays. The busy day is ended now; The fields are furrowed with the plow. The dairy-maid now milks the cow and ev'ry sound, both far and near Brings inspiration and good cheer, To rustic homes, forever dear. While, on the bosom of the Bay, At closing of this winisome day, The golden ripples seem to say; A crown of glory, each has won; For, all your duties are well done: Receive it now, from setting Sun. John P. Green. "JIM-CROW" FIRE COMPANY "Ditched" For a Mixed Department *This Is Real Progress.* Chicago, Ill. "The city council, last week, adopted unanimously an order which has for its object the doing away with the "jim-crow" aspect of this city's fire department. The order, introduced by Alderman Louis B. Anderson of the Second ward, makes it mandatory for the civil service commission to place men in the fire department and all other departments under the civil service according to their eligibility and rating on the list. The order requires that department heads to make appointments from "certifications to any vacancy that may be open upon receipt of certified names transmitted by the civil service commission." THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, O., SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1929 Contrary to Ohio Law—Councilman George "Went After Him" While Gregg "Side-Stepped" as Usual. Councilman Clayborne George and E. J Gregg, Monday night, at City Council, criticized Safety Director Ewain D. Barry for a statement attributed to him that yesterday's Cleveland Plain Dealer that the work not allow any night club to run "where whites and Negroes mingle". "I notice the Rev. Dr. DeBow apparently is the leader of this fight. If he can wage war on vice and, seemingly, harbor in his heart prejudices against a certain race, that is for him to reconcile", said Gregg. "But when the reverend apparently can influence a public official to make a statement that will foster peace, he will think to create discord. I think it is mindful to want peace and harmony to continue in Cleveland". Gregg seemed afraid to talk direct to Barry as he should have. Why? Councilman George demanded to know if Barry had made the statement, which appeared in connection with announcement of the closing of the Apex Club, and read Hon. Harry C. Smith's Ohio Civil Rights statute which imposes a penalty for race discrimination in places operated for the convenience of the public. "I make no brief for the Apex Club," the councilman continued. "But I resent it when a public official says he will close a place where the races mingle, when the law says it cannot be prevented. If that is the attitude of the head of the safety department, accounts for the mob spirit at Woodland Hills Park, last fall a year ago. It is the way great trouble begins in a community of the Apex Club violated the law. It is closed, but I do resent it when any public official says he will close a place of public accommodation because white and colored people mingle. Nobody invited them to go there. They went because they wanted to and had a LEGAL and perfect right to do so." K. K. K. AND "LILY-WHITES" The Republican Party of Today, Says Mr. Luttrell—What Lincoln Said as Well as Did—"Negro" Harmful and An Insult. Allegen, Mich., Jan. 28, '29. Hon. Harry C. Smith. Very truly yours, R. E. Luttrell. 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 an editor therefore, we urge our readers and all of our friends to patronize those who ask in this paper for your patronage. Editor. OHIO'S MOB VIOLENCE ACT OR ANTI-LYNCHING LAW LEADS THE COUNTRY IN EFFECTIVE LEGISLATION Against the Mob and Lynch-Murder-Three Years' Work of a Member of the Race-Also His Ohio Civil Rights Law. Section 6278. "Mob" and "lynching" defined. 6279. "Serious injury" defined. 6280. Damages in case of assault. 6281. Damages in case of lynching. 6282. Damages recoverable by legal representative of victim of lynching 6283. Person suffering death or injury by mob trying to lynch another. 6284. Limitations of action. 6285. Order to include recovery and costs in tax levy. 6286. Guardian's custody, etc., fees. 6287. County's right of action against member of mob 6288. County's right of action against another county. 6289. Non-relief from prosecution. Our mor-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 Section 6279. (63 v. 161 2.) Section 6279. The term "serious injury," for the purpose of this chapter, shall include such inquiry as permanently or temporarily disables the person receiving it from earning a 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 from the county in which assault is made (93 v. 161 4). Section 6281. A person assaulted and lynched by a mob may recover, from the county in which 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 damage, may recover of the county in which 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 shares. If there be no widow or minor children surviving such decedent, such sum shall be distributed among the next of kin according to the laws of the distribution of the personality of an intestate. Such sum so recovered shall not be a part of the estate of the 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 a mob. (93 v. 162 6). Section 6283. Action or the recoveries provided for in this chapter must be commenced, within two years from the date of such lynching, in any court having original jurisdiction of an action for damages for malicious assault. (93 v. 162 7). Section 6285. An order to the commissioners of a county, against which such recovery is had, to include it with the costs of action, in the county, shall be a part of the judgment in every such case. (93 v. 162 8.) Section 6286. If the decedent so lynched his minor children surviving him, the fund shall be turned over to a regularly appointed guardian. Such guardian shall administer 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 the amount of money 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: OBIS. ed. l representative of victim of lynching by mob trying to lynch another. l costs in tax levy. lust member of mob lust 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 from another county or comes from another county to commit violence on a prisoner brought from 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 dispurse 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: The General Code of Ohio: Sec. 12940. Whoever, being the proprietor or his employee, keeper or manager of a building, a house, a 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 allike to all citizens and regardless of race or color, the full enjoyment of the accommodations, advantages, facilities, or amenities 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 less than fifty dollars nor more than fifty dollars, and son 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. 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See ady., else- where in this paper. There is a letter at The Gazette oftice for Mr. John Duke, formerly of 2246 B. 97th St, Tell him to call in the afternoon for it, please. Rey. S. P. West, P. B., held quar- terly meeting and conference at St. John’s A. M. E. church, Sunday and Monday, respectively. Mrs. Wm. Lee's funeral services last week Monday, at St. Androw’s P. B. church, were conducted by the rectar, Rev. W. B. Suthern. Mr. J. Graves, E. 97th St., who has been very ill for several weeks, improves slowly. Mr. and Mrs. Graves are among our best residents of this city. Dr. N. K. Christopher's father died, recently, at Jacksonville, Fla. He has the sympathy of a host of friends and acquaintances in this city. 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! Mrs. Ada C. Franklin, of Kansas City, Mo., was the guest of Atty. and Mrs, Alex. H. Martin, recently. She had been called to Lorain by the ill- ness of her brother, Dr. Crogman. At a recent meeting of the trustee board of Antioch Baptist church, the following officers were elected: L. P. Smith, chair.; R. H. McKee, vice- chair.; Wm. Shaw, sec.; H. Lowe, assist.; Terence E. Blair, treas. The officers of St. John’s choir are: R. J. Gardner, pres.; Milton Floyd, vice pres.; Ethel Green, sec.: Ella L. Bell, assist.; Lucy Patterson, treas.; Mrs. Josie Johnson, chaplain. ‘The choir gave its regular monthly recital, Sunday afternoon. ‘The Central Board of Trade offi- cers, elected last week Friday, are: Pres., Wm. D. Neighbors; first vice- pres., W. C. Fisher; second, Brown Mannell; treas., J. W. Strode.; sec., 8. V. Perry. ' Several committees were appointed and a Wednesday noon forum inaugurated. Gordon H. Simpson of St. Louis is the new industrial secretary of the “Negro” Welfare association, E. 40th St.; Wm. R. Conners, ex. sec. 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Mrs. Ruth Hanna MeCormick of Chicago, congressman-at-large-elect from TlI- inofs, the speaker of the evening, re- membered Syd and was pleased to seo him. | Mrs. Wm. Hf. Claytor, E. 49th St., announces that she received her di- voree, Dec. 31, 1928, in Judge A. J Pearson’s common pleas court, from Wm. Henry Claytor, 2957 E. Sist St., naming Virginia Smith, of the same address, as the woman in the case. She ig also known as Mrs. Claytor, and formerly of 2359 E. Bist St—Aay, Atty. Chester K. Gillespie writes The Gazette requesting It to ask whoever borrowed his fountain pen, last week, to “please be good enough to return It, as the pon was a gift” Dr. Edward A. Bailey, “the sage of B. 55th St.." beat our birthday to ft, last week, by just two and one- half days, His gift was a demon- stration of real friendship such as Is far too rare in these days and times. ‘Thanks, Doctor Charles S. Smith, secretary of the police department, returned to_his desk, Monday, after a month’s illness (pneumonia) ‘and began his 30th year in his position. Secretary Smith has served under five chiefs of po- lice and two safety directors. Chiefs George Corner, Fred Kohler, W. 8. Rowe, Frank Smith and Jacob Graul have ‘been his bosses since Mayor Robert E. McKisson appointed him for the editor of The Gazette, about thirty years ago. ‘The following are our latest grad- uates from Central high school: Le- ota May McLeod, Murtis Howard, Florence Henderson, Beulah Bald- win, Willamae Scott, Edna Stinson, Mildred Brewer, Laura MeWorter, Catherine Watkins, Laumiser Wat- kins, Geneva Potts, Gussie Collins, Helen Morton, Mary Ivery, Jansetta Billups, Marfe Green, Lottie Wil- Hams, Veriah and John Cobbs, Mal- colm Patterson, Alex. Martin, Jr., Harold Bishop, Quendal_ Bishop, Quintin Collins, Norman Brown and Frank Fitzsimmons. Clayborne George, a third district councilman, criticized street-car ser- viee on the Central, Scovill and Ce- dar Ave, lines at a meeting of the street-railway committee of the city council, late Monday. ‘The couneii- man’s demand for better service, however, was met with a statement of Traction Commissioner Ballou that the Cleveland Railway Co. has been considering asking city council for permission to discontinue the Central Ave, line, where traffic has fallen off from 700,000 passengers monthly to only 200,000 in recent months. ‘The Central Ave, line was the second best paying line in the city, according to the Cleveland Rail- way Co., until Its service got to. be so bad, some months ago, by taking of crews, to economize. ‘The annual ladies’ day reception, Jan. 24th, of the Caterers” Associa: tion was’ a great success.” Many beautiful ladies graced the hall from 3 to § P. M., while the members and many friends danced in the evening. It was greatly enjoyed by all. The reception hall was beautifully dec- orated with cut-lowers and palms, and ‘an abundance of sandwiches, candies, muts, coffee and cocoa were served. ‘The beautifully decorated table was removed to the rear of the hall and remained there during the evening. | Music was Turnished im the afternoon by Mae Moore and by her orchestra in the evening. The officers of the Association are plan- ning its Easter dance which will in all probability be given at one of the new dance halls to be ready by that date. A “NEGRO” MAYOR! Arthur Johnston, the New Suburban Mayor, an Aggressive Member of the Race — “Smartest ‘Coametionan” = Arthur Johnston, repair foreman in the county road department and a candidate, last summer, for a Re- publican nomination for state repre- sentative, Monday, was believed to he the only Afro-American mayor in Ohio. ‘Tho there may be one at Rendville and Wilberforce, too. As president of Miles Heights council, Johnston became acting mayor, Sat urday, when Mayor Dennis H. Von Benken died, suddenly. He will be- come mayor, according to state law, as soon as he is sworn in by any notary public. Arrangements for the funeral of Mayor Von Benken, Wed- nesday, were in charge of a com- mittee headed by Johnston, the act- ing mayor, who hadn't taken the oath of office and said he wouldn't for several days. “We aren't thinking of that at all right now”, he said. “Mayor Von Benken was one of my best friends and one of the best-liked men here. His death was an awful shock to us, We haven't made any plans about the village yet. Funeral services for Mayor Von Benken were held, Wednesday morn- ing, at St. Timothy's Catholic church, E. 131st St. and Miles Ave. Village firemen were pallbearers and_police- men escorted the body to Calvary Cemetery. Johnston, who is 87, has been a councilman’ in Miles Heights since the village was incorporated, three years ago. He was elected as repre- sentative of the village's large Afro- American population and was made council president, last January. He led all other council candidates, get- ting more than 500 votes out of ap- proximately 600 cast. Johnston has been an active worker in the Re- publican county organization for sey- eral years, and was appointed to his post In the county road department, two years ago. He was born in Bat- tle Greek, Mich., and educated in the schools there. He attended a medi- cal school there for two years but gave up his pursuit of that profes- sion and came to Cleveland. Of Johnston several Miles Heights citi- zens said yesterday: “He's been the smartest councilman we've had”. ANOTHER SPLENDID VICTORY. | than Dr. James W. Eichelberger, Jr., of | the stand you a Chicago, a member of Zion A. M. E.| for me, an_inne Church, and one of the many dele- Your: rates attending, “the.” Havcadonel eee cna a teen! ee of Religious Education convention | Howard Disbar Be eee eae ee | eee Be ete ee hie ae AE re ees a ee Dec. 13, ‘28. When he arrived in|of Mississippi, the city, that day, and applied for|lawyer of Jack Bee ee deena riven coe ee of de ce nel See tee wees anne A Tough Break. you and my employees had no right to make reservations for you, and had no right to even check’ your baggage”. Whereupon, Dr. Bichelberger re- tained Atty. Roger N. Dillard who associated with him in the case, his Jaw-partner, Atty. Chester K. Gilles- pie. They promptly entered suit for $500 damages, under Hon. Harry C. Smith’s Ohio Civil Rights law, against the management of Hotel Cleveland and of course, haye taught that manager who, it seems, is from the South, an Ohio lesson’ he sure ‘needed so’ much to know. This is the only way to stop that sort of thing in this state where we have an effective civil rights law. Go in court properly and right, and you cannot lose. And our people of the state should do much more of this very thing, too, than they do. From others than our attorneys in the case, we have learned that the Cleveland Hotel management, to avoid goirg into the court to wage svat was clearly on its very face a loxing Dattle, have settled the case out of court by paying a sum in ex- cess of three hundred dollars, and the costs of the case. This is the sort of thing that county big for our people and only a sweeping victory in court with resultant publicity. in the local daily papers, even if Attys, Dillard & Gillespie or others of us had to pay for the latter, would count more for the race in Cleveland and elsewhere in Ohio. Attys, Dillard & Gillespie have ap- parently had more civil Tights eases than any other firm of lawyers, or individual attorneys in the eity, and their victories have been many and Very encouraging indeed. Come to think of it, we do not recall their having lost a case of the kind in the last few years. Keep it up, Roger /& Chester! WEAVER AND SABO! Phe Afro-American and Hungarian Victims of Circumstances — ‘Their People—The Difference! Columbus, 0., Dee, 17, "28. Hon, Harry C. Smith, | Editor Gazette, Cleveland, 0. Dear Sir:—-Ever since’ I've been hore, since I had no other Job, I've heen’ writing for other men as many of them cannot write for themselves Among the number is John Sabo, a young Hungarian in poverty like my- Self. He is new in this country and knows very Iittle of the English 1an- guage. It is believed, even by some of the state officers, that Sabo is ine nocent of the crime’ he is under sen- tence of death for. And since the Hungarian people are of the same convietion, word to that effect has been cirewiated among” Hungarian American citizens by Hungarian newspapers, John Sabo’s evidence, Proving his innocence, isn't half 5 strong as mine, And yet, let me tell you that money from nearly every Stato in the union has been raised by the Hungarian people and gent to the treasurer of the fund for him ‘at the headquarters im_Akren to help him demand justice. Total amount, cover $4,000, Our newspapers have published repeatedly the fact that T 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 T focl ashamed while answering not less than $00 Sabo letters, since T have been helping him, thanking the Hungarian people for what they are doing to help him. Not more than a fow, out of the ten million of our ‘people in this country, have made a move to help me and those few con= sist of tho Mission Volunteer society of the Seventh Day Adventist church, E, Tist Stand Cedar Ave., Cleve= land; Rey. Dr. Clarke and his fam- fly of Columbus, he a former pastor of St. John's A. ME. chureh, Cleve- land; you and a few others. Atty's Cook and Marsteller asked me. after T was “convicted”, did T have any money to pay for carrying my case up to the higher conrts. T told them ho. They sald since we are con: vinced of your innocence, we are 0- ing 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_imnocent man, Tam ‘Yours sincerely, Joseph Weaver Howard Disbarment Action Dropped. Jackson, Miss. — Disbarment pro- ceedings against Perry W. Howard, national Republican committeeman of Mississippi, and W. L. 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Cleveland, Ohio. Agents Wanted — See Doe Helihol at Steiner's Drug, 4602 Central Ave. 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 AUTO TURNS SOMERSAULTS AT 30 MILES A car is upside down in a large metal frame. A man stands beside it, observing the scene. A daring girl, Miss Estis, nineteen, strapped into her trick fluffer, which is snapped in the action of turning over on its special "rockers" at a speed of 30 miles an hour. After the car turns completely over it keeps right on going. An unusual action picture. THICK WEATHER AND CAR ENGINE Motor Does Not Operate More Efficiently in Damp Air, Say Scientists. Science has finally settled the average motorist's mystery of what causes his automobile engine to operate more efficiently and less noisily in wet weather. Science's solution of the conundrum is staggeringly simple. Science says the engine does not operate any more efficiently. There was never anything to the myster, except "air," science says. It concedes that the damp air might have some effect on acoustics, and thus serve to eliminate or at least minimize knocks and other alarming engine noises. Favors Damp Weather. Charles Laverne Bradley, who for 30 years has been a specialist in the idiosyncrasies and caprices of tickle automobile engines, was one of those who was convinced that cranky engines operated more smoothly and quietly in damp weather. But Mr. Bradley learned from Dr. J. A. Smallwood, professor in charge of automotive engineering at Johns Hopkins university, that damp air has no effect at all on the engine's power. "The contention that thick weather does improve the engine performance is a widespread fallacy," said Doctor Smallwood. "Several manufacturers, capitalizing the false idea, began several years ago to advertise water carburators, claiming that they increased power and efficiency, eliminated carbon and made a generally smoother running motor." Likes Cold Water. But the United States bureau of standards made tests and proved definitely, said Doctor Smallwood, that only one of the manufacturers' claims was true. The bureau of standards found that an internal combustion engine will run more smoothly when cold water absorbs some of the heat and decreases expansion. "It is one of my own speculations," Doctor Smallwood stated, "that water-laden atmosphere brings about a change in acoustics which deadens sound and gives the motoring talty a firm belief in better operation of their cars." Dragging Brake Test Is Outlined for Mete Outlined for Motorist To test for dragging brakes, speed up the car to 30 miles an hour on a smooth, level road, then shift to neutral and let the car coast. When the speedometer shows 25 miles an hour, begin timing the deceleration. If the car is not rolling five miles an hour, or faster, at the end of 60 seconds, have the brakes inspected. To offset the effect of wind, the driver should make the test in both directions over the same level stretch and note the average time taken to decelerate from 25 miles per hour to 5 miles per hour. The average should be 60 seconds or more. If the car slows down too rapidly and the brakes are found O. K., then there is too much frictional resistance somewhere, and the quicker that is corrected the better. Dragging brakes will affect the acceleration and hill-climbing abilities of an automobile. They impose just so much extra load ability and increase its gasoline consumption. Dangerous places in the highways cause the fewest accidents, while the locations which look so safe that drivers relax produce more accidents, according to statistics reported to the public safety department of the California State Automobile association. Where the highway obviously is liable to invite accidents, drivers are extra cautious and negotiate the difficult places safely. However, where the open road looms ahead apparently free from obstruction and danger the relaxation and carelessness of drivers under such conditions increases the accident toll. There Are Several Good Anti-Freeze Solutions Winter is generally conceded by automobile engineers to be the worst enemy of the motor car next to bad or insufficient motor oil. Yet it can be combatted easily by the thoughtful car owner, through the use of any one of several anti-freeze solutions. But before the solutions are put into the cooling system it is wise to have the connections inspected, cleaned and tightened to insure proper functioning. Automobile club service experts point out that there are several good anti-freeze solutions from which the motor car owner may choose. They suggest that it might be wise to confer with the service manager of the agency from which the car has been purchased before definitely deciding upon one or another of the solutions. Alcohol and glycerine are the solutions most commonly used, they point out. Solutions that have solvent or corrosive qualities which may be harmful to the engine should be avoided. Emergency Repair of Fan Baby, Male, F Belt Is Made Very Easy If your auto motor is equipped with a plain, flat fan belt made of either fabric or leather, it is possible to repair it well enough to get to the nearest service station. You will have to loosen the belt-tightening adjustment to obtain the necessary slack so FAN DELT SAFETY PINS Fan Belt Repaired by Joining Broken Ends Together With Pins. that you can overlap the end, and fasten them together with safety pins, as shown. If that is not possible, you can pin a thin piece of leather to the two ends to hold them together. If the distance to the service station is not too far, tying the ends together with a strong cord may serve as an emergency repair. The belt should be replaced with a new one as soon as possible.—Popular Science Monthly. AUTOMOBILE ITEMS The packing commonly used on the flanged joints of the exhaust pipe is asbestos. * * * * The electric lights on the motor car call for the No. 10 gauge wire; be sure that no heavier gauge is used. * * * * Fill your radiator every morning at least. See that your gas and oil supply is adequate. Watch your car. * * * * If the ammeter does not register "charge" when engine is running at normal speed, consult the repair man immediately. * * * * Almost always a railroad crossing is in plain sight, but from the list of accidents a person might get the idea that they are secreted. * * * * The tiresome feature of eclipses, according to a young man who saw one at three a. m. the other morning, while driving home, is the similarity. If you find a batch of shattered glass on the road or any obstruction that might endanger motorists, stop the car and get these things off the highway. Experts are needed to solve traffic problems, but judging from some of the results there is further need of expert experts to pass on their recommendations. THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, O.. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1929. UNDERWOOD & UNDERWOOD ITS been casting its shadow before this many a day—the coat with a flare. As Paris sees it and has been seeing it for quite some time the flare's the thing! However, American women are so infatulated with the iden of straight slenderizing they are slow to react to the widened helmline. Be that as it may, the flare is gradually invigilating itself into the mode. Reluctant as some may be to adopt it, fashion's whims cannot be ignored by those who would be modern. The flared coat, it seems, as stylists explain it, is not, however, so much a caprice of the mode as it is the result of a cause and the cause is the trend to bouffancy in skirts. Acquiring as they have a multiplicity of tiers, many floues, many drapes and numerous voluminous bows, an accommodating fulness in the wrap under which they are posed becomes a necessity. Therefore it behoves the present generation of fashion followers to study the intriguing ways of flares as latest coat modes record them. Already it becomes apparent that there are flares and flares. Some register a circular treatment from the hips. The Paris-made coat in the pie- PRINCESS BASQUE SKIRT ACHIEV WHERE the younger set is present, taffeta in bouffant styles enlivens the evening picture. One simply must be young and slender to dare the picturesque full and lengthened hemline which flares from a long-waisted bodice, as pictured here. As one studies this lovely gown comes the conviction of a changing silhouette—which is true. The newest lines stress a molded princess basque effect, which takes on extreme fullness at a point much lower on the hipline than heretofore. Also, skirts grow longer and longer for the evening mode. However, their lines are so exquisitely modulated with sheerness and unevenness one feels in no sense that they are too long. The evening taffetas, for which youth shows such a fondness, revel in "delicious" colorings. The gown in which Dorothy Gulliver, a rising Hollywood star if you please, poses for this picture is an exquisite nile green. It seems that green is an outstanding favorite this season among the fashionable pastel shades. By the way, pale delicate green is as becoming to brunettes as blondes, which may account for its popularity. Crystals trim this prepossessing princess-fitted bodice outlining a V-shaped front opening. The bonfant skirt is twice scalloped, once around its taffetta edge and again about the hemline of self-colored transparent act. In selecting the new party frock do not forget that flowered taffeta is also coming into flattering notice. y Your Co or an Acqu ture adopts this movement. Of gray cloth is this charming sport coat and it is paneled and cuffed with gray astrakhan. Gray, by the way, is tremendously smart for coats and furs this season. With as striking a model as the coat illustrated pointing the way, even the most skeptical' have cause to become converted to the idea of flares. Not all flares are from the hips, but are achieved in various ways. Sometimes short godets from below the knee accomplish the trick. Then again definite flounce treatments are resorted to, or a low circular movement is introduced. Plaited godets are also in use for many of the French coats. Not only is there a fair for flares in fashion's realm, but considerable interest is being expressed for fitted lines which suggest the princess silhouette. In some of the smartest coats the two combine. Semi-fitted lines to below the waistline gradually develop a flare which finally accomplishes a widened hemline. Which would warrant the prediction that coat silhouettes for spring will feature many interesting innovations. JULIA BOTTOMLEY. (© 1929, Western Newspaper Union.) AND BOUFFANT E NEW SILHOUETTE In fashion's vocabulary "crisp" is a word which is acquiring considerable usage. We hear repeatedly about crisp taffeta, crisp nets, likewise stiff metal cloths. It is a fact nets and tulles are actually being processed to stand out "crisp" and lively in the making. To further the effect, fashionists style these dainty crisp silks and transparencies with flaring floures and peppium flanges at the waistline and otherwise do they emphasize their sprightiness. A late vogue calls for stiff of crisp fabrics made up in tailored simplicity for evening wear. Moore is one of the definitely sponsored stiff silks this season, to which is usually given a tailored styling. The colorings of the new mores are a delight to the eye. Banana shade, egg shell and bright red are featured shades. The decollete neckline for the bodge of mores is usually extreme and severe in line. This simple decouletage which is so stressed by the mode makes an admirable setting for jewels and for coralage dowers. When it comes to the skirt, one tier after another stands out in aggressive circular flares, yet so adjusted as to retain a slender feeding. JULIA BOTTOMLEY. (© 1972 Western Newspaper Ltd.) copy of The Maintenance 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 ever been since the Civil War. Beginnings of the segregation were 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 administration has found time and desire to introduce it even there. To many people, segregation is a Democratic scheme of insult, but such is not the case. President Taft introduced it in the bureau of engraving. He segregated the censurers in this city in 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.险些, the Negroes are carried on to its all-embracing extent by Republicans! There is far more of it in the departments, today, than at any time since the Negro first appeared, close upon the close of the Civil War. The picture requirement in the civil service, which makes it next to impossible for a colored lady or gentleman to enter the civil service, since their color is disclosed in their photograph which must accompany their papers, is tenaciously held on to by our Republican President. Some unthinking civil applause 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 Mellon and President Coolidge. He hails from the South where he has 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 more than 100,000, are at a loss to understand why he 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.) Washington, D. C. In the postoffice, segregation is rampant. The faithful colored clerks work under constant humiliation and physical disadvantages. The department maintains a pausous coferia for these men, 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 under 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 sufficient 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 as well as the white. These clerks got around their colored co-workers by giving the location 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 whites 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 decided to regularly and often sends manly 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 Gazette.) Washington, D. C.—The government printing office with the government's universal scheme of segregation. Some of the best and most our girls are forced to accept 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, but there are a few tables in an out-of-the-way reserved area. The employees I am sure may feel 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, the law of segregation passes over our superior employees to directive positions, and higher salaries. The whites have a large recreational center in this public building with many fine appointments for rest and amusements. During lunch and dinner hours they repair to this restful retreat for sociability and dance. Last fall, a young Afro-American with a splendid a record in his work, felt the injustice of this restful retreat because that he secured the company of a young lady of the race to take part in the dance. As soon as this couple started to dance the music was 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-owner employee; he carried the plight of the victim, 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 there is no way of escaping, for that 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 questions to be met by a demonstration 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 iniquity requires an aggressive difficult 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 result of their protest, and the noble wife of the bureau of marriage (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 women and for the wife who had been noted for her philanthropy among our people and who was up- . House appeared at the bureau to on intimate terms at the White tell our girls to be contented with the new order as "a great Negro leader had taught colored people to stay in their places. Three of our women resisted the order to the last latch 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 either space nor against it. She said she was 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. C. P. was on six hundred influential white 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 its fulness, under the administration of the party that Abraham Lincoln, Charles Sumner and Frederick Douglass helped to found. Our girls are employed there in far larger numbers than in any other branch of the public service. THEY ARE SEGREGATED in institutional stations, in training 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 positions, the inevitable result of segregation. They are shopping 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 gentus since the days of Alexander Hamilton. It is to be remembered that the great benefactor came from the West Indies and in that year he was sent to 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, financed the Civil War; and Ohio's manchester, John Sherman. These men never knew what segregation was! The present head of the department of internal revenue, Mr. Blair from North Carolina, has not appointed a colored clerk since his 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, the largest department of the treasury, employing several thousand clerks, Negroes are so scarce there that they can't be noticed. There is the same general complaint here among our clerks and other employees as they is in the other branches of the government—failure to recognize their 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 toilets, locker rooms, rest rooms, etc., set off for colored. The toilets for the colored in such a large structure. Hence the segregated clerks are forced to endure inconvenience at times, and are travel long distances when they desire the use of them. The department maintains a huge, magnificent cafeteria, in the splendid sweep of woodland along our national driveway, where white people of every class can come to rest, dine, and socialize of afternoons and evenings at minimum costs. The white press of the city is constantly telling of the thousands who take advantage of this delightful retreat," and the festive scene that their presence creates. It scats two thousand diners with space to spare, not one Negro! His only share is in the taxes he is forced to pay for this luxury for another group. The registries of the treasury, which Republican Presidents have given the Negro since Garfield appointed Blanch K. Bruce, is now filled by a white man, and the colored people are congregated in a seperate room, which is public proclaimed as "a colored division. When it is discovered that Negro clerks are "working as white" in other divisions, they are promptly transferred to this "colored division." Our people fear that protest against this segregation would result in the abolition of the division altogether; they remain in a dilemma, fearing to act, but must accept segregation or elimination, 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 even the damnable segregation, just as he did lawless organization the Ku Klux Klan whenever he decides to do so. Subscribe Now