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ESTABLISHED, AUGUST 25, 1883 And Issued Every Week on Time Since CLEVELAND, OHIO, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1929. THE REPUBLIC'S "AMERICAN CONTROL" WASTING HAITIAN FUNDS AND RUINING HAITIAN SOCIETY. Economic Misery—27 Editors Imprisoned—Dr. Millspaugh Resigned, Too—The Spirit of the Haitian Nation Being Crushed By Americans. New York City.—The systematic crushing of the spirit of the Haitian people, under an administration that has wasted public funds, overpaid Americans and underpaid natives, shown gross discrimination and failed to redeem the promises with the United States states, the black public of the Caribbean is charged by Capt. Napoleon B. Marshall, attorney, who served under Col. Wm. Heyward in the 15th N. Y. Infantry. Capt. Marshall, who served as clerk in the American consulate at Port au Prince, capital of Haiti, from Sept., 1922, to Jan. 1, this year, when he resigned, presents his charges to an artillery officer in the New York World, Jan. 10. The World followed this article, on Monday, with an editorial demanding that the facts be cleared up. In his article, Capt. Marshall asserts that in the six years of his official residence in Haiti he observed a change from a cheerful, light-hearted people with confidence in the future to a mood of bitter disappointment and despair. "It seems that many Americans the Government has sent down to Haiti," reports Capt. Marshall, "look with disfavor and contempt upon the cultural side of the Haitians. Perhaps this attitude springs from the fact that in education and refinement of manners, as well as in personal appearance, the Haitian society is immeasurably superior to anything beyond that of Americans has exhibited there." Capt. Marshall further charges that bridges, built by American engineers in disregard of the advice of Haitians have been repeatedly washed out at great expense to the country. The leading social club of Port au Prince, he says, was closed and sealed under Government orders. "From that moment down to the present state", states Capt. Marshall, WHAT KIND OF JUSTICE DID WE GIVE HERE? Framing and Arrest of Bellboys by Prohibition Agents Scored by Mrs. Walter Ferguson In a certain popular hotel of a certain capital city in a certain state of the American Union, there occured a prohibition agents called, one by one, into a room nine Negro bellboys and arrested them for violation of the dry law. The agents stated later to the press that they had made 14 liquor purchases getting the evidence on these particular culprits. That sort of thing is a bit nauseating. Somehow, in pondering such an occurrence, one can vision as clearly all the prominent citizens from everywhere who frequent this hotel, and all the politicians and legislators who make their secrecy during Senate sessions. Because it was for such as these that the bellboys took to bootlegging. The average Negro bellhop is a servile person and accustomed to obey, and also accustomed to looking up to the white man who orders him about so glibly. It is his pleasant task to put many a souse to bed. Then comes the federal agent, acting exactly like any other influential man who tips generously, and after 14 times of getting Hour preens the price of a young black boys. That kind of enforcement may be legal, but nothing in the world can ever make it right. Taking into custody these poor underpaid Negroes while the sumptuously padded and important buyers are unmolested, may be called by any name you wish, but surely it can't be justice. What Kind of Justice. I don't care if the laws do read that way. By allowing the drinker to escape at the expense of the poor downtrodden and obscure seller, we violate the very spirit of fairness and moral decency. Such things going on long enough will create in the community a never square with our old-fashioned idea of American democracy —Cleveland Daily Press. Accustomed to Obey. What Kind of Justice "Haitian society has ceased to exist. The other clubs, a half dozen or more, have ceased to function out of sympathy with the 'Cerule Bellevue' and the time honored weekly 'at homes' of the Haitian society are a thing of the past. People do not even visit one another". The social penalties visited upon the unhappy nation declared Capt. Marshall, are accompanied by economic misery affecting all classes. Exorbitant import duties, overpayment of American employees, "famine salaries" paid to natives, boycoting of Haitians from employment, release of foreign funds to foreign enterprises are among the circumstances cited by Capt. Marshall as producing an exodus of peasants from the plantations. According to Capt. Marshall twenty-seven editors of Haitian publications have been thrown into prison during his residence in Port au Prince. He charges that the resignation of Dr. A. C. Millspaugh as American Financial Adviser was brought about by his unwillingness to tolerate the methods he found in force for the expenditure of Haitian funds. When accountants, demanded by Dr. Millspaugh, were to be sent to Haiti, fire broke out in the Ministerial Building and destroyed accounts and vouchers for millions of dollars expended in the Department of Public Works. Dr. Millspaugh's resignation and the charges made by Capt. Marshall are only two episodes in a conference of the American seizure and occupation of the republic of Haiti. Charges of brutality, treaty violation and illegal warfare, as well as unwarranted interference with the internal affairs of the country were made in 1920, resulting in a Senatorial investigation. Later, when Senator King of Montana proposed to visit the country, he was barred, ostensibly by the Borno government. NEW TRIAL GIVEN WEAVER Leaves Death Houso After Twenty Two Months' Wait—Will Go To Cleveland at Once. Columbus, O.—The shadow of the electric chair, which has hung over Joseph Weaver of Cleveland, during the 22 months he has spent in the Ohio state penitentiary, was lifted, Wednesday when the State Supreme Court set aside his conviction for the murder of Jasper Russell, a night watchman, and granted him a new trial. Five stays of execution were granted Weaver since he heard the death sentence pronounced upon him on April 1927, by Court Judge Irving Carpenter, assigned to Cleveland from Norwalk. Twelve men, his companions in the death house, have said goodbye to him and paid the extreme penalty, during his long stay in the death house here at the penitentiary. Attys Cook and Marsteller of Cleveland, who represent Weaver, express the belief that the state would be forced to nolle the first degree murder charge in view of Maynor's confession, in the abolition of whiteness, by Court ruling Weaver will be returned to the county jail in Cleveland, immediately, to await his second trial. Cook and Marsteller came to Columbus, Wednesday to confer with Weaver. BLOCTON, ALA., ITEMS. Mr. and Mrs. H. Y. Kerse have named their new-born ten-pound baby girl Sadie M. Kerse—Mrs. E. D. Dobbins is very ill at her home. We wish her a speedy recovery—Mr. W. D. Jones died, Feb. 11; buried, Feb. 17, in Bucktown cemetery. He is survived by his wife and two sons, brother and sister, Mr. and Mrs. E. R. Jones of Buffalo, N. Y. President W. J. Hale of the A. and I. State College of Nashville, Tenn. brother-law of E. E. A. Bailey, brother-in-law of the N. A. subsequent's annual meeting being held in Public Auditorium, this week Fleming's Successor! REV. RUSSELL S. BROWN. Rev. Russell S. Brown, pastor of Mt. Zion Cong. church, was elected to the City Council, Monday night, to fill the unexpired term of former Councilman Thomas W. Fleming, who resigned, recently, following his conviction on a charge of bribery. Dr. Brown received the solid bloc of fourteen Republican votes and also those of the two Afro-American councilmen, Gregg and George. The Democrats divided their eight votes, five going to Dr. James A. Owens and five to Dr. Michael A. Short talk to the Council. Dr. Brown pledged his best judgment in carrying out his duties as a councilman and made it clear that he intended to remain in office only the unexpired part of Fleming's term. He was nominated by Councilman Herman Finkle, Republican floor-leader, who described him as "a recognized leader in this community, well qualified by reason of training and education to represent the people of his district". Councilman E. J. Gregg seconded the nomination and Mayor Marshall announced that Rev. Brown would succeed to Fleming. He accepted that he would be only a member of the fire and police committee instead of chairman. The chairmanship will go to Councilman Sam B. Michell. Brown also will sit on the judiciary and finance committees and the steam railroads committee. "I am not unmindful of the responsibility or honor that has been bestowed upon me," Brown told the Council. "I realize my task is difficult. Tonight the eyes of a great many people look back over the period of sixteen years during which my predecessor occupied this seat, and I am ready to duty to my people and the urge of my soul to personal preference. If I had yielded to personal preference, I would not be here tonight. Yet I feel it is not amiss for a minister, who ought to love all people, both sinned against and sinning, to represent the people until the electorate have an opportunity to voice their preference at the polls. Why should politics and religion be so different? I ought to be the beginning of applying the fundamental principles of the church to legislation as well as business. I pledge the best judgment I have in carrying out my duties as a councilman." For the last year, and until last week Monday, Dr. Brown was president of the Congregational Ministers' club, composed of all the local pastors in the denomination. Shortly after his arrival in Cleveland he met with the committee on missions of the sect and has continued in this capacity ever since. A New Councilman. The City Council majority appears to have made a good selection in Dr. Russell S. Brown, chosen last night to succeed Thomas W. Fleming as a representative of the third district. As pastor of the Mt. Zion Cong. church, he has by personal and professional ministration come into close contact with the problems that concern the colored people of Cleveland. Dr. Brown has had wide experience in welfare work, is a scholar and teacher and is said to possess the merit of not having been identified with any political faction. Critics of Dr. Brown declare that he is so closely allied with the Maschke or other political group that likely to be merely another yes-man when the boss speaks. Dr. Brown himself can best answer this criticism. He is elected to represent not only his district and his ward but the entire city. The public eye will be on him to see whether he makes the most of his opportunity—Edder Dauber, Feb. 19. (29) Plain Deal Dealer, Feb. 19. (29) "Intellectual Leadership". Two of the colored members of the City Council appear to have about the only social program to be found in the city, and the membership gets an idea now and then on housing, recreation, crime and so on, but if the other delegates have worked out any co-ordinated philosophy for social improvement it has never been disclosed. It is probably a coincidence that Dr. Gregg and now Rev. Dr. Brown both have platforms definitely set forth—one ran on his and the other made it an annual report of a church organization. But I imagine the colored people have been doing a great deal more thinking along these lines than the white people have. They find living harder, and the opportunities to change their circumstances are fewer. The colored members of the city, and the impoverished, the intellectual leadership on the intellectual social questions of the city, so far as these questions are allowed to come up in the Council.—John W. Love in The Plain Dealer, Feb. 19, '29. Additional Locals Federal Judge Paul Jones Monday granted former Councilman Tom Fleming until March 1 to show reason why he should not be disbarred from practicing in the U. S. District Court. Judge Jones' action followed receipt by Bertram Miller, clerk of the court, of certified copies of Fleming's conviction of violating a law he has already agreed to discontinue practicing law in the county courts. The P. W. A. financial statement, last week, showed an expenditure for 1928 of $84,117.22; that the earning capacity of the girls and cafeteria staff was $44,117.22; that it is fifty-four per cent self-supporting. The P. W. A. received $39,300 from the Community Fund. Mrs. J. A. Reaugh, the new president, invited the board of trustees and all of the P. W. A. committee members to meet in the central association for lunch, Feb. 20, at noon when Mrs. Ada C. Franklin will speak on "The Milestones of a Race", which is to be presented by the Music Department of Auditorium, April 2 and 3. Six hundred voices will feature the spectacular show. Abraham Lincoln, whose birthday was celebrated, Feb. 12, was described, that evening, by Wm. Pickens, field secretary of the N. A. A. C. P., as "the humblest citizen of a nation and the greatest statesman of his time." Pickens spoke at St. John's A. M. E. church, and under the auspices of the women's auxiliary of the local A. M. C. P. branch, H.B. Newey, "coach of robbery" of the Afro-American was of the worst sins against him, today. He declared that "if oil is discovered on a colored man's farm in Texas, today, no matter how long that farm has been in his family, he ceases to be the owner". Declaring his belief in the unjustness of the lynchings and mob violence of past years, Pickens added that he believed "the safest group of men a white woman can pass by in America is a group of african masas, the years of african masas have been fighting for easy years for their right to be clean and decent and to preserve their self-respect." SINGLE COPY FIVE CENTS 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 IAITI" COUNCIL SEEKS BENEFIT OF CLERGY. There have been repeated rumors that Council majority was going to make an appointment in Tom Fleming's place which would be salve for the organization hurt of Fleming's conviction and removal from Council. Mrs. Lethia Fleming, the councilman's wife, was prominently mentioned in that connection. Now the majority in caucus comes as near to a Fleming appointment to Fleming's old job, as it dares. It appoints an estimable gentleman of good personal reputation, the Rev. Russell S. Brown, to take Fleming's job in Council. The Rev. Mr. Brown is a high-grade man of good education, good record, and creditable standing among thoughtful people, both colored and white. But the Rev. Russell S. Brown was not appointed of his good qualities, we think, but because the Republican majority wanted to traffic in his good reputation, and at the same time to come as near to a the same appointment as that majority dared. The Rev. S. Brown is not a Fleming man, a character witness at the Third District councilman's trial. We do not blame him for either of those relationships, but we do say that for purposes of Republican manipulation in Council, those relationships make the Rev. Mr. Brown a member of the Fleming official family. Herman Finkle and his le伙enants figured, we think, that the clergyman was an appointment which would have been the presence of the Rev. Mr. Brown in Council would not greatly interfere with the operation of the Republican majority, and that the appointment would seem to make "all right" the Fleming conviction and removal. We hope that the Rev. Mr. Brown disappoints the Republican majority, as he well may. We hope that he proves independent enough to make Majority Leader Finkle very sorry indeed. The naming of the Rev. Mr. Brown is with what he called the bad appointment of a good man. It is in no sense such an appointment as that of Attorney Alexander Martin, for instance, would have been. — Editorial, The Cleveland (Daily) Press. OPPORTUNITY A Hot Shot for "Jim-Crow" Hospital Advocates.—Responsibility "Negroes have quite naturally preferred living in hell as equals than living in a 'jim-crow' heaven supervised by white folks". Thus Dr. E. Franklin Frazier appraisals the spirit of the Chicago Afro-American in the number of opportunities", which is the "Chicago number" Edward E. Wilson of Chicago, for 15 years an assistant states attorney, writes with brutal frankness on the responsibility for crime among our people in Chicago. The fight for economic advancement is well treated by Claude Barney. Many other interesting features. The March number is also profusely illustrated. ATTENTION: POST OFFICE EMPLOYEES Cleveland, O., Feb. 13, '29. Hon. Harry C. Smith. Editor Gazette, Cleveland, O. My Dear Sir:—At the Cleveland Post Office in the city division in the parcels post building, West 2nd St. and St. Clair Ave. there is a growing condition that is certain to continue and the fellows do not change. In the long letter-rows there are about nine or ten cases on each side with the back of the cases together. Along one of these long letter-rows, and particularly at night, there are a number of our clerks 'who persist in working at these same cases, day in and day out. This works a disadvantage on our other clerks who it is their privilege to work where their seniority allows them. But by these (invariably the same) clerks insisting on working at this same row, the foremen are beginning to take to the idea of sending our other clerks to that particular row. I am writing you for my assistance in this matter and I hope that your good editorials will hit this unconscious fostering of segregation so hard that it will die forever. Bruces Get $15,000. Boston, Mass.—Roscoe C. Bruce won a verdict of $3,000 and his wife, Mrs. Clara B. Bruce, $12,000, in their suit for personal injuries against the Shepard Norwell Company for injuries received 'in the fall of an elevator in December, 1926. Mrs. Bruce had asked $50,000. The Bruces claim that the store management knew that tae elevator was unfit to run. HEY, D'YA WANTA SEE SOMETHIN' SWELL? - LOOK OUT THE DANDY 'CORDION I GOT, I MADE THIRTY-FIVE CENTS WITH IT ALREADY - TEN CENTS FOR PLAYIN' AN' TWEN'Y-FIVE FOR STOPPIN' GEE, D'YA WANTA SELL IT, TUBBY? - ILL GIVE YA A QUARTER FOR IT AWRIGHT I ONLY GOT A NICKEL, NOW - ILL OWE YA THE REST WELL, GIMMIE IT AN' ILL SELL IT TO YOU FOR A NICKEL, THEN WHAT DIDJA SELL IT TO HIM FOR A NICKEL FOR, WHEN HE OFFERED YOU A QUARTER FOR IT? HE WOULDN'T TA PAID ME THE TWEN'Y CENTS ANYWAY - AN I AIN'T GONNA GIVE ANYBODY A CHANCE TO BEAT ME OUT! ANY MONEY WINNER SUBSCRIPTION RATES (In Advance) 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 Afro-Americans. 350,000 in Ohio. 40,000 in Cleveland. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1929 "The Lord works in a mysterious way" is an old and very familiar expression. He took "Eddie" Stanton and his "crew" out of the county prosecutor's office and then gave Joseph Weaver a new trial. Thank the Lord! Councilmen Gregg and George did the right thing, Monday evening, at Council meeting when they voluntarily voted for Rev. R. S. Brown as Fleming's successor in that body. The former (Gregg) voted for a Bohemian Democrat in preference to Hon. Harry E. Davis, a member of the race, for City Civil Service Commissioner, some months ago, while George voted for Davis after much outside pressure, and against his best judgment, he said. Gregg and George were Democrats then, they said. Just what are they now? THAT "STRING"; A member of the local Republican organization who was prominently mentioned, last week, as a very probable successor to former Councilman Tom Fleming in the City Council is quoted as saying, Monday that he would not accept the position because of "the string to it", the "string" being that in event of Fleming's getting out of the present trouble, he was to resign immediately from the Council and permit Tom to be re-elected to that body at once. This he would not consent to he says. As a matter of fact, the foregoing "string" reference was common talk, locally, all last week. Another angle of the contest was unexpectedly developed, when the Central Voters' League, Thos. Bird, pres, and Wm. Young, see, our only independent organization in the Third District, in a few hours on last week Friday, secured over 500 signatures of voters in the district to petitions asking the Council to elect the writer to the position. This in spite of the repeated request of the editor that this be not done because he was not a candidate for the place and did not want it. These petitions were filed with the Council, last Saturday morning. Others mentioned in connection with the position were: Mrs. Lethia Fleming, Atty. L. O. Payne, Selmo Glenn, Dr. L. N. Bundy, Attys. Alex. H. Martin, Rev. R. S. Brown, W. R. Green and C. K. Gillespie. Rev. R. S. Brown, pastor of Mt. Zion Cong, church for four years, coming here from Atlanta, was finally selected as Fleming's successor in the Council by Mr. Maurice Mashke, leader of the local Republican organization, on the suggestion of Mr. and Mrs. Fleming, it is said. We do not like to see one of our ministers of standing step down to such a political position even temporarily but since Dr. Brown has seen fit to do so we wish him well in his dual position and shall try to help him. It is, however, a tough job, trying to mix religion and politics, something rarely, if ever, done successfully. Mr. Brown's statement to the local daily papers that he was to serve "a few months", is illuminating, and encouraging to his congregation we feel sure. THE TWO OLD PARTIES. It is apparent that both the Democratic and Republican parties are out to capture territory that was not theirs. Massachusetts is no longer solidly Republican. Democratic U. S. Senators seem to be the expected order of things. Our voters, hitherto bound to Republican Senators from Massachusetts, seem to be deeply in love with Senator Walsh of that state. Even our Republican leaders speak softly and vote approvingly for Senator Walsh. In other words, Massachusetts can no longer be expected to send to Washington at all times a Republican Senator. Rhode Island is nationally Democratic. How long both of these states will remain in the Democratic column, no one can tell. The "Solid South" is a dream of the past. Its going (in part) into the Republican column does not mean better times for our southern voters. Between "illy-white" Republicans and bourbon southern Democrats, there is no choice and, if there be any, the preference lies with the high-toned southern Democrat who allows every one to know where he stands on the Afro-American voter. In fact the two parties have come together on all things that once separated them. The Democrats now believe in a protective tariff and the Republicans believe in "Negro" disfranchisement. If our voters of Tennessee, Kentucky, Oklahoma, West Virginia, Delaware, New Jersey, New York, Maryland and Massachusetts would turn and support a Democratic party that is fair and just toward our people, the Republican party would immediately become the minority party. Our vote in Indiana and Ohio can swing those two states into the Democratic column. Evidently Mr. Raskob intends to bring about this change. To do so, he must bring out of the Democratic ranks some man firm and bold like Abraham Lincoln who saw an evil and had the courage to express himself concerning it, and risked his political fortunes in going before the people to kill that evil. Gov. Al Smith was not of the Lincoln caliber. Had he been so, more states than Massachusetts and Rhode Island would have gone for him. Mr. Smith "trimmed on the Negro issue" and by so doing lost the advantage he had in the states already named. It is a fair question to ask now will the Republican party give our citizens the same rights that white citizens enjoy? The answer is, not as the party is now governed and controlled. Has the Republican party a strong human appeal that will draw uncoerced into its ranks the majority of the voters of this country? Not as now controlled. The Democratic party has allowed its anti-"Negro"-record to remain and seems unable to grasp a real opportunity to make itself the party of humanity. Sectionalism, the rancer of the Civil War period and the hypocrisy of reconstruction days still control the Democratic party. If Mr. Raskob can evolve a new human party out of the discordant Democratic ranks, he will do great service for the world and America especially. If Mr. Raskob can bring the Democrats of the states we have named to the point of adopting and advocating a human platform instead of falling in with the Republican platform, looking first after the interest of "big business," he will be the man of the hour in this country. Our voters must stop being foolish and look for their own interests wherever they may, be obtained. The Republican party is only giving "lip service" so far as the Abraham Lincoln policies are concerned. NEW TRIAL FOR WEAVER. A telegram, Wednesday noon, from Columbus to the County Prosecutor's office, this city, promptly relayed to The Gazette by Walter L. Brown, our representative in that office, announced the very interesting fact that Joseph Weaver had just been granted a new trial by the State Supreme Court in session in that city. This is certainly good news to many thousands of people of both races in Cleveland and throughout the state of Ohio, some of whom have been very active in Weaver's behalf for many weeks and months. A glorious victory that is sure to save the life of an innocent man who for many months has been incarcerated in the death cell of the Ohio penitentiary at Columbus. Our people of Ohio particularly, as well as Joseph Weaver, are very, VERY grateful for this relief and thank Supreme Judge Carrington T. Marshall, Associate Judges Florence Allen, Day and all the others who contributed in anyway toward the granting of a new trial to Joseph Weaver. Subscribe Now THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, O., SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1929 Where Not to Park Your Steam Show Telephone linemen once thought that there were just so many ways in which telephone service could be interrupted, and no more. But every now and then they have to add another cause, and they're beginning to believe that there is no limit. Several linemen and splicers in Lancaster, Ohio, were called from their Sunday dinner recently to find out what had happened to a cable just outside the city. Arriving on the scene, they found that some one had absent-minded parked a steam shovel for the week-end alongside the road just beneath the cable. Unfortunately, the smoke stack was directly under the cable. The heat from the banked fire had gradually melted the lead sheathing on the cable and had damaged the insulation. Eight hundred wires in the cable were short-circuited, putting Lancaster telephones out of service and cutting off communication to Baltimore, Millersburg, Newark, Pleasantville and Thurston. Before service was restored, it was necessary to find some one who could play chauffeur for the steam shovel. The mer worked steadily into the night to splice in a new section of cable. The plan recently devised by Cleveland police and telephone officials to capture fleeing lawbreakers has been adopted also in Columbus and Canton, Ohio. Police have numbered lists of authorities in other towns, arrange, according to direction and distance. When a warning is to be sounded, they simply give the numbers of the lists of places to be called, and long-distance operators make the connections as fast as the police can repeat the look-out warnings. Telephone Service This country leads all others in the number of telephones in use, a fact which business men and women in the homes well know. Yet, while regarding telephone service as a necessity, they have little knowledge of the extent to which the industry has grown and when interruption of service occurs they fail to note the difficulties facing those dependent upon the telephone for livelihood. Nearly 43,000 people are employed in the industry, considerably more than half of them being women in the operating branch. Between 4,000 and 5,000 persons are engaged in research work in the laboratories where new ideas are worked out and discoveries are made which contribute to the service. People are still living who read the news of Bell's invention and its exhibit at the Philadelphia Centennial Exposition. As they note the development of one of the greatest public services of the time they are amazed at what has come in their lifetime and wonder how the last generation got along without it. It was a look far into the future a friend of the inventor took when he advised that the invention be held instead of being sold and proposed a plan for what has become one of the country's great business organizations. As great a wonder as the telephone was at first and still is, greater wonders are being unfolded. Today people talk across the seas, pictures are sent by telephone, the radio industry and millions of people entertained by radio programs are dependent upon the telephone, and it is only a matter of time and patient working in the research department until we shall have television.—Youngstown Vindicator. Patronize Our Advertisers 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. He Knows Runt's Financial Standing. Our mo-violence or anti-lynching bill was introduced in the Ohio legislature in 1894 and re-introduced in 1896. It took the Hon. Harry C. Smith, editor of The Gazette, just three years to secure its enactment into law. The Ohio Supreme Court has several times upheld the constitutionality of the law and it has been Section 6278. A collection of people assembled for an unlawful purpose and intending to do damage or injury to any one, or pretending to exercise correctional power over other persons by violence and with 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" in this chapter, shall include such inquiry apparently 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, miscreants or other manner may recover, as hereafter manner, not to exceed one thousand dollars as damages from the county in which the assault is made. (93 v. 161 4.) Section 6281. A person assaulted and lynched by a mob may recover, from the county in which such assault occurred, five hundred dollars; or, if the injury received therefrom is serious, a sum not exceeding one thousand dollars; or, if such injury result in permanent disability, to earn a livelihood by manual labor, a sum not to exceed five thousand dollars (93 v. 12. 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 thousand, and damages for such injury to a child's 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 lynchings, 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 next succeeding tax levy for such recovery, 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, and such guardian 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 y. 162. 9.) A county, in which 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 'aw. 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: UBS. ed. and representative of victim of lynching by mob trying to lynch another. d costs in tax levy. a. Inst member of mob b. 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.) A person present who carries a prisoner into another county, or comes from another county to commit violence on a prisoner brought from such county for safekeeping, the county in which the lynching is committed may recover the amount of the judgment and costs from the county from which the mob came, unless there was contributory negligence on the part of officials of such county in failing to protect such prisoner or dispurse such mob. (93 v. 162.) 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 enclosed while a member of the 71st General Assembly, in 1894; the text of the Act of Congress, Sec. 12940. Whoever, being the proprietor or his employee, keeper or manager of an inn, restaurant, eating house, barbershop, public conveyance by land or water, theater or other place of public accommodation and amusement, denies to a citizen, except for reasons applicable alike to all crimes and regardless of race or religion, the will enactment of the accommodations, contracts, facilities or privileges thereof, shall be fined not less than fifty dollars nor more than five hundred dollars, or imprisoned not less than thirty days nor more than ninety days, or both. Sec. 12941. Whoever violates the next preceding section shall also pay the next five hundred dollars or more than five hundred dollars, or more 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. The trouble is our people will not use it as often as they should, but expect it to do for them what they should and must do for themselves, under it, in the courts. HERE'S AN OPPORTUNITY! "The Old Reliable" Gazette desires an active agent and correspondent in every city and town in Ohio and neighboring states having a number of Afro-American residents. Only a little time on Fridays or Saturdays is required to make some money. We are especially desirous of hearing from persons in the following named cities: Springfield, Columbus, Toledo, Steubenville, Zanesville, Wilmington, Xenia, Washington C. 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Display advertisements accepted until 4 p. m., WEDNESDAYS! HARRY C. SMITH, 226 West Superior Avenue, Cleveland, O. (Opposite, Hotel Cleveland.) Notary Public Bell 'Phone: Cherry 1259 (Call, in the Afternoon.) Classified Advertising Department FOR RENT. — Five nice rooms (down) in good condition in the East End. Bath, electric lights and gas. Large cellar and yard. Call. CHerry 1258, in the afternoon. Rental charge, reasonable. CLEVELAND Social and Personal Miss Carrie Wynn and Samuel Nickens were married, recently, it is said. Fayette White of Cadiz and Fred Wallace of this city were married, recently. Chester Anderson, mail carrier, is recovering from an operation at the Marine hospital. Take Hethol to ward off as well as to cure the flu. See adv., elsewhere in this paper. Mrs. A. Carter and sister, Mrs. B. Dean, of Cincinnati, are in the city visiting their mother, Mrs. Chas Gardner. Mrs. Cornelia Bedford Highgate, one of our local schoolteachers, who resigned, Jan. 25, '29, left, recently, for Chicago. Mrs. Herbert Douglass has presented her husband with a daughter. She is the stepdaughter of Col. A. T. Abbott. Herbert S. Chauncey will be the principal speaker for Price lycum, at St Paul's Zion A. M. E. church, Sunday at 5 p. m. There is a letter at The Gazette office for Mr. John Duke, formerly of 2246 E. 97th St. Tell him to call in the afternoon for it, please. Prof. H. A. A. Hunt of Ft. Valley, Ga., visited his son and daughter-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. H. A. Hunt of Parmalee Ave., while passing thru the city, recently. Mr. and Mrs. R. W. Jeliffe, 1552 Ansel Road, have a son, Roger Woodham Jeliffe, born Feb. 18. 29' Congratulations! Bring on the cigars, Friend Jeliffe! The B. H. club entertained, recently, honoring the birthday of Mrs. Geo. A. Myers of Pasadena Ave, Beautiful gifts and a delicious luncheon were the features. The past exalted rulers of Cuyahoga and King Tut lodges, Elks, recently organized the Past Exalted Rulers' club of Cleveland. Dr. A. J. Whitehead, pres.; Z. E. Brown, sec. Wm. H. Fields, N. G. M., A. U. K. & D. of A., died in St. Louis, Feb. 7, following an operation. Local auxiliaries of the order sent beautiful floral designs. Funeral, Feb. 11. 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! TUBBY *BILL VASSILEFF, 2928 Central Ave. *THE S. & S. DRUG CO. 7325 Central Ave. 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 carefully examine The Gazette's purchases. Business men who have the patronage of our people. assurance that they want it. lication in current issues of The by noon, WEDNESDAY, of that advertisements accepted until C. SMITH, Avenue, Cleveland, O. tel Cleveland.) Bell 'Phone: Cherry 1259 (Call, in the Afternoon.) tising 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. The U. S. Supreme Court, in the case of Buchanan vs. Warley, 245 U. S. 60, declared in 1917 that enforced residential segregation by municipal ordinance is unconstitutional. The home of Dr. and Mrs. James K. Nickens, E. $30 St., was the scene of a very brilliant affair when the Lincoln Embroidery club entertained their husbands at an elaborate turkey dinner, recently. The Ladies' East End Art club's new officers are: Mrs. Harper, pres.; Mrs. Alsenberry, see; Mrs. Bernard treas.; Mrs. Kinder, chaplain; and Mrs. Smith, chairman of the sick committee. Allen C. E. league, St. John's, has elected the following officers: Lillian Scott, pres.; Roscoe Davis, vice-pres.; James Brewer, sec.; Mrs. Eloise Green, rec. sec.; Mrs. Rose Bush, treas.; Marian Simmons, librarian. The Harlan club will hold an open-meeting at St. Paul's church, Sunday evening, to eulogize Frederick Douglass whose birthday was Feb. 12. Speakers: Alex H. Martin, Lawrence O. Payne and Roger N. Dillard, chair. Dr. Quinn F. Montgomery, an old Cleveland boy, and Dr. Frank H. Hendricks have moved their offices from central Ave. 497 Central Ave. corner E 55th St. over Rosenberg's Drug store, where Dr. E. A. Bailey was located until recently. Phone, RAn. 5996. Hon. Perry B. Jackson has introduced a bill providing for two shifts of election officials for the booths on election days in cities of 300,000 population or more. One shift will work from 6:30 a. m. to 6:30 p. m. The other is to count the votes. This particularly for the benefit of the women; so they will not have to work over 12 hours. Proceedings in error in behalf of former Councilman Tom Fleming were filed in Court of Appeals. Monday morning. The petition contends that there were errors in rulings by Common Pleas Judge N. Craig McBride during the trial and that the sentence of two years and nine months in the penitentiary, imposed on Fleming, was too severe, etc. The Mutual Educational club will have a debate at Woodman's hall, E. 83d St. and Central Ave., Tuesday evening. Subject: Resolved that the solution of better government is the election of women to higher offices. Aff. Norman L. McGhee and Jas. L. Smith. Neg. C. M. Dabney and C. M. Smart. The Ladies will furnish music and Mayor Arthur Johnston will speak. Joseph Weaver was granted a new trial by the State Supreme Court at Columbus, Wednesday noon! Judge COME, DEAR, GET READY FOR BED AND MOTHER WILL HEAR YOUR PRAYERS WHY COME, DEAR, TONIGHT RATHER COME THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, O., SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1929. Florence Allen had something to do with this splendid result as also did Judges Marshall, Day, and others. We must get and publish all their names, if possible. It was a good thing us that Former County Prosecutor Addie Stanton, and his "crew" were out of office, this time. "Milestones", a race pageant written by Mrs. Ada Cragman Franklin, is to have a cast of 600. It is said, that Brown was pageant committee, with Miss Pearl Mitchell as assistant. Mrs. Ola Gunn, chair, cast committee, has six assistants. Mrs. Gunn is exceptionally capable. Miss Theresa Boone, chair, music committee, has five assistants. Mrs. M. L. C. Lawrender, chair, costume committee, has three assistants. Mrs. L. C. Head of the speakers' bureau, has six assistants. Other committees are soon to be added. Fred. Klawon (white) received three votes for Fleming's seat in the city Council, at Monday night's meeting, while Dr. Jas. A. Owens received five of the eight Democratic votes. Rev. R. S. Brown received all of the 14 Republican members votes and also those of the two "No Man's Land" members, Gregg and George. "Payne is my choice", degree-founder Maryborne George, last week "by him". But he didn't! Gregg said his "mind was open" and that his "vote would be cast after consideration of the candidates". Did he see Maurice? Ten delegates to the annual convention of the National Federation of Post Office Clerks to be held in New York, this summer, were elected. Tuesday, following a meeting of local members of the organization, John Bulger, James Hervert, Jerry Shine, Neal Sheehan, John Henry, William Fahye, John Birmingham, John Fahye, John Tricia Young and John Basil were the delegates selected. John Bulger, president of the local association, was re-elected for a fourth term at a meeting, Sunday, in Moose hall. James Hervert was chosen treasurer and Harry Richardson, secretary. WHERE'S MARY WALKER? Information is desired by the U. S. Veterans' Bureau as to the present whereabouts of Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Walker, formerly living at 2424 E. 61st St., this city, Cleveland. A relative of Mrs. Walker, living with her at that address was Howard Dyall, who is now deceased. Dyall was a soldier in the World War. Information of the whereabouts of Mrs. Walker, if now living, or information of Mrs. Walker, which might lead to the whereabouts of any heirs of Mrs. Walker, if deceased, may be transmitted to the U. S. Veterans' Bureau, Hanna Building, Cleveland, O., or to the office of this newspaper, The Gazette. Attention! Readers! Our advertisers want your trade. Those who do not ask for it in the columns of "The Old Reliable" Gazette certainly care little, if at all, for it. Therefore, we urge our readers and all of our friends to patronize those who ask in this paper for your patronage. Editor. "HUMAN NATURE'S FOULEST BLOT." My ear is pained, My soul is sick with every day's report Of wrong and outrage, with which the earth is filled, There is no flesh in man's ob- durate heart. It does not feel for man; the natural bond Of brotherhood is severed as the flax That falls asunder at the touch of fire. He finds his fellow guilty of a skin Not colored like his own; and having power To enforce the wrong, for such a worthy cause Dooms and devotes him as his lawful prey. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Thus man devotes his brother, and destroys; 'Tis human nature's broadest foulest blot. —Cowper. Guaranteed and Efficient Work TWENTY YEARS' EXPERIENCE 'Phone: Randolph 5870 Sundays by Appointment FRESH OHIO NEWS FRESH OHIO NEWS WRITTEN BY "THE OLD RELIABLE" GAZETTE'S CORRESPONDENTS. Marriages, Deaths, Etc. WASHINGTON C. H. —Y. M. club. No. 3 program at Rowling St. Baptist church was a success. Revs. Allen, Cook, Mr. Banks and Mrs. Dock Brandon assisted. —Mr. Lee Brandon is out again after several week's sickness. —Lou Anderson, Jas. Tate and John Mitchell are still ill. —Rev. J. J. Burr dined, Sunday, with Mrs. Randall Williams and lunched with Mrs. Margaret Brandon in the evening. —Rawling St. church will be expecting Mrs. Brurr as soon as the weather will permit. LOIRAH.—The Dunbar Glee club of Hawthorn Jr. High school sang splendidly at the fifth anniversary of the Ladies' Aid society at 7th St. church, Sunday.—Mrs. Calle Tapis je convalescing.—Revival at Secel. School, Rev. E. Smith, pastor.—Mrs. S. McGraw, from a slight stroke of paralysis.—Mrs. M. Harper has returned to Chicago. She spent three months with her husband at Stop 48.—Rev. A. J. Simmons will return to Toledo to assist in a revival for another woman. Matthews trustees gave a supper, last week.—She was a success.—The Elks will give a dance on the 22d. The Boy Scouts attended a convention in Cleveland, this week Friday. 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, for in advance at the rate of 20 cents for six words to a line. Our rates for display advertisements will be sent on application. HILLSBORO.—Harold Hennerson, James West and Wilbur Jackson visited in Cincinnati, Monday, while Mrs. Jackson and daughter visited Mrs. West.—Mrs. A. Carter and sister, Mrs. B. Dean, of Cincinnati were here, Saturday evening, en route to Cleveland to visit their mother, Mrs. Chas. Gardner.—Miss Mary Thomas is quite ill.—Mrs. Velora Ames was a dinner-guest of Mrs. Mary Donaldson, Sunday.—Rev. Dalton preached for Rev. Bray, Sunday night.—Mrs. Frank Johnson entertained the Get-Together club, Wednesday afternoon. A delicious lunch.—Jas. Perkins and David Long of Springfield were Mrs. M. A. Burton, Sunday.—Mrs. Samantha Laugher, daughter of Gist Settlement were here evening.—Mrs. Dorsey Minor was called to Chicago, last week, by her aunt, Mrs. Byrdie Alls's illness.—Mrs. Margaret Madison of Springfield spent Sunday and Monday with Mrs. Alline Burton. Mrs. O. Lewis returned home with her.—Rev. W. Chavis conducted services at W. M. church, Sunday. CADIZ. — Miss Fayetta, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Geo. White, and Fred Wallace of Cleveland were married, recently. — Mrs. Lucille Williams of Columbus visited her father, W. L. Johnson. — Rev. Roy Clark of Martins Ferry has been appointed pastor of the A. M. E. church at St. J. Ross. — Rev. T. W. Woodson, P. E., held quarterly meeting, Feb. 10, at St. James' A. M. E. church. — The basketball team played in E. Liverpool, Friday evening. — A birthday party was given Miss Emma Strother, Monday evening. — Allen Day was observed Sunday evening, at St. James' church. — The district supt. preached an able sermon at Simpson M. E. church, Monday evening. — Mrs. Susie Hahn of E. Liverpool, Friday Feb. 10. — A birthday party was given Mrs. Alice Howard by neighbors and friends, Saturday evening, her 79th birthday. A large cake with candles, donated by Mrs. Mina Alexander, was the feature. — Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Matthews of Steubenville visited Mrs. Anna Williams. — Our community was shocked by the sudden death of Mrs. Susie Alexander-Blanchard, Saturday afternoon. Funeral, Tuesday afternoon, from St. James' church, Rev. E. Liggins officiating, assisted by Rev. W. H. Lucas. — Mrs. Josephine Myers of Wheeling and Mrs. Lucy Carey of Mt. Pleasant spent Sunday with their parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Lucas. ALLIANCE.—The B. T. Washington basketball club lost to a Lorain team, last Wednesday there. The party that followed was enjoyed by all. Edward Johnson president and captain. Mrs. Mayme McGowan is visiting her son, Edward. She and her husband will leave here to visit Hot Springs, Ark.—Mrs. M. Davis has returned from a Buffalo hospital and is seriously ill. Miss Dorothy Davis was called home from N. City by her mother's illness. —Linda Buxley by her W. Y. auxiliary of the W. M. S. at Mrs. D. Davis, last Tuesday.—Mrs. Emma Prisble entertained the 12 sisters, last Friday evening. A delicious supper.—Mr. D. Young of Ravenna is working at the American Steel works.—Mrs. Edward Herrell has acute indigestion, following the flu.—Mrs. Lulu Southern of Dennison visited St. Luke, Sunday morning.—Rev. W. Brown of Salem spent the week-end with Rev. E. H. Newsome.—Mt. Olive anniversary week.—A success. On Feb. 22, a concert with the L. Neal has returned after several months' absence.—Miss Lillian Miller is convalescent. The grip.—Mr. and Mrs. H. Bird of Youngstown is located with Mr. Robert Hood.—Mr. Willis McConahey played several piano solos at the musical given, last Saturday afternoon, by the Civic club of Akron. "I am convinced myself that there is no more evil thing in this present world than race prejudice; none at all!" "I write deliberately—it is the worst single thing in life now. 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EXELENTO MEDICINE CO. Atlanta, Ga. 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 AUTOMOBILES PARKED IN LARGE BUILDING T At 200 East Forty-third street, New York, stands a recently completed twenty-four story building that is devoted entirely to the garageing of automobiles. It is the first New York example of, the Kent Auto hotel system, developed in Kefosha, Wis. to eliminate traffic congestion because of parked cars. No human hand touches a car once it is run in on the ground floor into rail grooves. An electric parker under an automobile pulls it upon one of three of the largest elevators ever installed in a building. After a "room clerk" assigns a car its room and number it is shot up to its berth at the rate of a floor a second in a high speed elevator. At the proper floor the elevator doors automatically open for the self-leveling lifts and the parker shifts the machine either backward or forward to its place on the floor. The floors are capable of holding 1,000 cars. PROFICIENCY OF BOYS IS COUNTED Edward J. Tobin, Cook county (Illinois) superintendent of schools, has announced that the proficiency of members of the schoolboys' patrol will be graded and that that mark will be considered in their advancement from grade to grade as much as their standing in arithmetic and other studies. Patrol Fostered by Club. Mr. Tobin made the statement after a conference with representatives of the accident prevention department of the Chicago Motor club, which for nine years has fostered the patrol as a means of preventing traffic accidents among school children. "Education should comprise practical instruction, as well as knowledge from books," explained Mr. Tobin. "Members of the school boys' patrol are selected because of their qualities of character, manliness and leadership. They stand at corners in the vicinity of schools before and after the classes, and assist their classmates and younger pupils across the streets during lulls in traffic. They must be on duty for at least a total of an hour a day, outside of their school hours. Their work as a member of a patrol is bound to give them a broader knowledge of taking care of themselves and others, and I believe they should be given tangible credit for efficient performance of this task." Part of Achievement Course. Under the new plans, the patrol becomes a part of the achievement course of the county schools. This course comprises 22 projects, such as the study of music, agriculture, live stock and similar subjects. Each pupil must enroll for one or more subjects. Boys who aspire to membership on a patrol must be nominated and approved by the other members of his particular achievement course, the teacher and the director of education. Patrol members must serve 30 weeks in order to obtain a mark, which will be determined by the teacher, the director of education and the accident prevention department of the Chicago Motor club. Mr. Tobin recently asked the Motor club to assist him in placing a patrol in every school under his jurisdiction. The members of these patrols are supplied with white Sam Browne belts and badges by the club without charge. Spring Control Devices Require Good Attention Occasionally mechanical or frictional spring control devices will need attention, just as any other useful accessory on the car. If you're not positive that they need attention, however, there is a way to decide the point without wasting a lot of time. Take off the instrument that is the most likely to be in need of attention. This is always the rear one nearest the exhaust pipe. It becomes heated and is certain to give trouble in time if any grease is used in its mechanism. The heat thins this grease and tempts it to work out where it doesn't belong. In the case of some devices it renders them useless until taken off and cleaned. Obviously if the hardest working device is all right there is little point in touching the other three. Overlubricating Spring Now that some manufacturers recommend covering springs "dry"—that is, covering them without packing the covers with lubricant—it is important to avoid lubricating the spring shackles. The owner of one car that is equipped with an automatic chassis lubricating system decided that he would be very generous with oil. Every day he pulled out the plunger and shot an excess of oil to the shackles, even though he did not travel far enough to warrant so much attention to these parts. And what was the result? The excess of oil worked down over the spring ends and entered the covers. It wasn't long before the springs were as limber as though they had been carefully lubricated. Overlubricating the shackles is a good way to keep the spring ends oiled, however, if your car requires this in order to get a comfortable ride. Blowing Starts Siphon to Work on Gasoline An ingenuous way to siphon gas from the tank of your car is illustrated. Insert one end of a rubber tube deep into the gas tank; the other into a container. Then, wrapping your fingers around the tube where it enters the tank so as to make as air-tight a Blowing Into the Auto Gas Tank Forces Gasoline Through a Siphon Tube Into a Container. connection as possible, blow into the trunk. The pressure will force the gasoline out. You may find that a tighter connection can be made by wrapping your pocket handkerchief around your fingers—Popular Science Monthly. AUTOMOBILE HINTS He who hesitates is run over. Police to pursue safety campaign.—Headline. Yes; also unsafe drivers. About 85 per cent of the automobiles in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, are open cars. Well, why shouldn't farmers spend their spare cash for automobiles instead of gold bricks? Throughout the world—not including the United States—there is a motor vehicle for every 277 persons. The Ohio State Journal remarks that "whatever their rights, the cooperation of both pedestrian and motorist is essential to a maximum of safety in city traffic," and the statement is so true that it might almost serve as a slogan. THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, O., SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1929. IN THE hands of a French modiste a bit of a colorful feather can work wonders in imparting a definite style SARTORIAL PREDICTIONS FORETELL SUPREMACY OF WHITE IN THE MODE I IN THE hands of a French modiste a bit of a colorful feather can work wonders in imparting a definite style touch to a spring chapeau. Hats arriving from Paris are demonstrating this fact daily. With les Parisiennes the hat with a feather has already become a leading favorite. The tiny feather motifs are not only most unique and sprightly in color but they are handled in ways quite unusual. They are always of the flat variety and they are at all times positioned with great cunning—perhaps inset through the crown or the brim, or in small brushes flattened over the ear. Pointed perky quills—a group of tiny-sized ones—offer a most pleasing one-side trim for a snug-fitting felt or soft straw. On the bright colored thin linenlike straw shapes gay little curious shaped feathers give a flattering note, and for early spring hats of this genre are indeed apropos. Each of the hats in this group can trace its modishness to the presence of a feather or feathers which have been SARTORIAL PREDIC SUPREMACY OF BEFORE Dame Fashion decides to announce "what's what" in spring and summer apparel—the secret's out! All because sunny-sky winter resorts have a way of luring a goodly number of the leisure class Southward and what they wear where 'tis summer in midwinter is a reliable forecast of modes-to-be for the rest of the world later on. Which accounts for Palm Beach and southern California fashions being of as fascinating interest to stay-at-homes as to those who blaze the trail to future modes. Here's one of the secrets revealed in regard to spring and summer styles—it's going to be a "white season." The sunburn fan in the fashionable Southland has brought white to the fore for everything from kid shoes to hats—everything but hosiery, for sunburn hose are the rule. Even the men are taking to white or near white. True to sartorial prediction the Palm Beach cloth suit for the masculine members of the smart set is more popular than ever. This dress for white is beige. This flair for white is having a y Your Co or an Acqu positioned by a deft hand. The first model is one of those pliable straws draped like a felt. A bit of a feather adds a pigment note, posed, as it is, so coquettishly over one eye. A curled quill motif in bright yellow trims the brown felt hat to the right at the top. An ornament of soft blon feathers is placed at each side of the off-the-face felt hat positioned in the group just between the two above described. The hat next below shows a long-side brim which also turns up smartly, for-off-the-face effects have been revived. The large flat motif is composed of tiny pasted multi-colored feathers. In the circle, two curled coque feather novelties are effectively posed on a simple felt toque. Iridescent coques enhance the straw shape which concludes the group. JULIA BOTTOMLEY. (® 1929. Western Newspaper Union.) TIONS FORETELL WHITE IN THE MODE marked effect on shoe fashions in that dainty white kid footwear becomes a necessary luxury in the feminine wardrobe. Even the men this season, so shoe stylists declare, are discarding heavier leathers for shoes of fine supple kid. As to milady's coat for the Southland, white is the thing, unfurred or touched with fur like the model in the picture. In this instance the collar is of honey beige fur. It's interesting to note that the little sports hat matches the fur in color, while the kid shoes are white like the cloth of the coat. Even the coats in more wintry climes reflect the vogue for white in that the most swagger are of colorful cloth, preferably tweed, trimmed with the exceedingly voguish off white caracul. It's a marvelous combination, this rich toned cloth and eggshell tinted or white flat fur. Speaking of this lovely fur calls to mind the coming vogue for pastel tinted furs used as trimming on cloth coats for spring. JULIA BOTTOMLEY. (@ 1929. Western Newspaper Union.) SEGREGATION USED AT THE NATION'S CAPITAL TO LOWER OUR STATUS AS AMERICAN CITIZENS. How Much Longer Will Our Self and Race Respecting Press, Pulpit and People Submit to This Rank Injustice?—Protest, Protest! (Special to The Gazette.) Washington, D. C.—There is more segregation in Washington, today, under President Coolidge than there has ever been since the Civil War. The beginnings of the segregation were under President Taft. It was greatly extended, under President Wilson; increased, still further, under President Harding; and reached its zenith under President Coolidge. In the past, most of the parks President Wilson never troubled, but the present administration has found time and desire to introduce it even there. To many people, segregation is a Democratic scheme of insult, but such is not the case. President Taft introduced it in the bureau of engraving. He segregated the censurers in this city in the district of white residents 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. One of the publicicans and carried on to its all-embracing extent by Republicans! There is far more of it in the departments, today, than at any time since the Negro first appeared, close upon the close of the Civil War. The picture requirement in the civil service, which makes it next to impossible for a colored lady or gentleman to enter the civil service, since their color is disallowed in their photograph, is unconscionous in their papers, is temnically held on to by our Republican 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 Mellon and associate Judge. He halls from North Carolina to 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 distance from 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 same name he has found its "welcome home" here 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, agree to rampant. The faithful colored clerks under constant humiliation and physical disadvantages. The department maintains a spacious cafeteria for whites only, where inferior white clerks can buy appetizing lunches and chat in comfort while eating, while the colored clerks must bring cold lunches from home and eat them any place they can. The physical discomfort, disadvantage 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 more they reflect that they are more capable than the whites, and render 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 lobby, and attended a reception to the heads of departments, including the postmaster general, in the postoffice building. It announced dancing and a pleasant social evening with the officials for "the postoffice employees," yet not one was delivered to the colored clerks. I hurried a protest to the postmaster general day after the postmaster to and he ordered the postmaster to invite the colored as well as 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. Colored applicants are often passed over though their examination was superior. No "Negro," however efficient or old in the service, must ever dream of a promotion to a directive position. The hard, unyielding caste passes whites over him, one after another, though many of the colored employees have won contests in quickness and accuracy in the handling of mail. The colored clerks have dared to form a union which meets regulars in often sends man and intelligent applicants 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.) (Washington, D. C.—The government printing office keeps faith with the government's universal scheme of segregation. Some of our girls are forced to 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 have to the 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, 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-America with a spandex record in work felt injustice, and the exclusion of our employees so keenly that he secured the company of a young lady of the race to take part in the dance. As soon as this couple started to dance the music was 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 asked to take a pistol. Right after the dance incident a fire broke out in the office. He was quickly accused of setting the building afire in revenge for his exclusion from the dance floor. Detectives came to the building to arrest him, and 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. He was severe punishment in our employees. There is no way of escape for one who 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 made by a department 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. "If it is perfectly clear that this iniquitous scheme of segregation is a difficult 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 Senator Robert La Follette (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 the races, and a white lady who had been noted for her philanthropy among our people and who was up- House appeared at the bureau to on intimate terms at the White tell our girls to be contented with the new order as "a great Negro leader had taught colored people to stay in their places. Three of our dames 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 Twentleth century club. She used the columns of the Senator's magazine, sparing neither space nor vigor of utterance. The thunderous press issued a local call, press, and addressed the national gathering of the N. A. A. C. P. in New York. When our people here were so profoundly discouraged, she came out, one stormy afternoon, to the Y. M. C. A., to urge them to continue the fight, for democracy was at the crisis. Oswald Garrison Villard came to town to attack the White House and Cabinet and arouse our people, and the N. A. A. C. P. secured publicity in over six hundred influential white papers in the country. The night checked that she was thought to be the mention of the senators themselves, the imitation of the colored employees from the bureau altogether The same segregation which some of our people think is the cherished institution of the Democratic party is still there, in all of its fullness, under the administration of the party that Abraham Lincoln, Charles Sumner and Frederick Douglass helped to found. Our girls are employed there in far larger numbers than in any other branch of the public service. THEY ARE SEGREGATED in their rest rooms, toilets, and working stations, and of course none are assigned to work in the same executive places. They are girls from our best homes, most of them with high and normal school training, and fine culture. The white girls are of no such grade, as there is no segregation for them in the great world of things. They have unlimited fields at high wage for even mediocre talents. The best of our girls must take these inferior positions, the inevitable result of segregation. Our people are still hopelessly this inquisition of an order destroying this inquisition of all 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 that he was a man of great 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 man the financier, John Sherman. These men never knew what segregation was! The present head of the department of internal revenue, Mr. Blain 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 are so scarce there that they can be noticed. There is the same general complaint among our clerks and other employees as there is in the other ones of the government—failure to recognize their efficiency when promoted due to inability to go so far and no due The various forms of segregation exist here as well as elsewhere—the restaurants closed or divided along color lines, and special toilet, locker rooms, rest rooms, etc., set off for colored. The toilets for the colored are few in such a large structure. The segregated clerks are forced to and more physical inconvenience at times, and are forced to travel long distances, when they desire the use of them. The cement 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 beautiful retreat," and the festive scene to their presence creates. It seats two thousand and dimers with space to spare; but the 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 the man, and the colored people are coerced into a separate room which is public, claimed as "a colored division." When it is discovered that Negro clerks are "working as white" in other divisions, they are promptly transferred to this "colored division." Our people fear that protest against segregation would result in the abolition of a division altogether; so they remain in a separate room to act. Our clerks must accept segregation or elimination, and be poor, with no other opportunities in this southern atmosphere, must take the former. They are depressed at the wrong, but economic stress compels endurance of it. The president Calvin Coolidge can pop 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