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Milson, Dentist St Bldg., 5400 Woodland Ave. , RAn. 1454. to Chronic Diseases of men and Men St Bldg., 5400 Woodland Ave. Res., CEdar 1178. ESTABLISHED, AUGUST 25, 1883 And Issued Every Week on Time Since Urges Catholics To Assist Urges Catholics To Assist MSGR. JOS. F. SMITH HITS PREJUDICE AND PLEADS FOR A CHANCE FOR THE RACE. Geo. A. Myers Calls His Attention to "Charity" Hospital Discrimination and Receives a Favorable Reply. From the pulpit of St. John's Catholic Cathedral, Sunday morning, Feb. 3. Msgr. Joseph F. Smith paid tribute to the race and declared: "The Negro question is not a southern question but a national question. It is our right question here in Cleveland as well as in other cities of the north because of the migration of the colored people from the south and it is our duty as Catholics to do what we can to bring the knowledge of the faith before them. With the development of our industrial life, we are colored people have the north in the great numbers and Cleveland at the present time is the home of 50,000 of them. Traces Catholic's Prejudice. "The prejudice toward the colored race that prevailed has its root in the resentment of the south over the manner in which the Negro was given his freedom. We have not yet reached the spirit in which freedom was given to the Negro. We are not inclined to give him his rights as a citizen. In their attitude toward the Negro the Catholic people of America have been guided more by political affiliation than by the teaching of their faith. In the days of the Know Nothing party the Democratic party was the protector of the immigrant population of southern Democracy, the sympathy of the Catholics went to the slaveholders, and they have been guided more by that attitude than by their faith. Christ came for the salvation of all men. He had no consideration of color. More Favorable to the Church! "The colored people are better disposed toward the church than the majority of the people outside of the church. They have as great a capacity for virtue and religion as any other people, and, according to their means, make just as great contributions to religion and other good works as any other people. We have a duty toward these people here in our own city, and it should be our pride, as Catholics, to encourage the spread of the faith among them and to provide a knowledge and consolation. Great credit is due Rev. Thomas McKenney, a native of Cleveland, who has whole-heartedly and with apostolic zeal labored in the interest of the colored race here. The Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament, under the direction of Mother Katherine Drexel, take care of the school and the social work. Mother Katherine has given not only her life but all the resources of the immense fortune she inherited for this work. This congregation has one of the best choirs in Cleveland. The limit of the Catholic membership of the parish is determined almost entirely by our ability to give the children a Catholic education. If we had a school that could enroll 1,000 it would be filled within a short time." "Charity" Hospital Discrimination. Cleveland, Feb. 4, "29. Monsignor Joseph F. Smith. Care St. John's Cathedral (Office). Cleveland, Ohio. My dear Esteemed Friend:—I am writing first to thank and congratulate you upon your sermon of Feb. 3rd. "Catholics urged to assist Negro." Would to God that the heading had been—"Whites urged to assist Negro." You state: "We have not yet reached the spirit in which freedom was given to the Negro. We are not inclined to give him his rights as a citizen. We have a duty toward these people here in our own city, and it should be courage the spread of the faith among them and do everything possible to bring them a knowledge and consolation". These are good and grand words, and could only come from a Christian gentleman like you, who is interested in the spiritual, moral and physical welfare of my group. Knowing you as well and as long as I have, and your kindly spirit toward my people, was why I approached you in September, 1927, relative to the discrimination at St. Vincent, commonly called "Charity hospital", and at your direction by letter of Sept. 21st, 1927, called your attention to the same as a contributor of the same charity, and to late mutual friend Mr. M. B. Daly (rest to his ashes and peace to his soul), to the Charity hospital building fund, and not hearing from you, again wrote about the same matter, April 23, 1928. If you did not receive these letters I have copies and will be pleased to furnish you with them. Father McKenney is doing a noble work of uplift. I have on several occasions contributed of my limited means to his financial success and on one occasion received a beautiful letter of acknowledgment and thanks from the Sister In charge. I sincerely bespeak for Father McKenney a continuous success, and may "the Lord take a liking to him, but not too soon". With much regard I wish to misses for continued success. I am Cleveland, Feb. 5th, '29. Mr. Geo. A. Myers. The Hollenden, Cleveland, O. My dear Mr. Myers:—God bless your kind heart. I certainly do appreciate your thoughtful letter. I have taken that matter up with Charity hospital offender than you have called me. You keep at it, and I keep all at it and we will work it out sometime. OBITUARY. Charleston, W. Va.—C. H. James, our pioneer wholesale produce and fruit merchant, died, Feb. 22, after a year's illness. He was born in Galla County, O., Feb. 18, 1862, the son of Rev. Francis C. and Mrs. Eliza James. His father, after his discharge from the Union army, became our first licensed preacher and public-school teacher in this section. Young James remained 18 years in Ohio with his fraternity. Then to Waco he where a business life opened to him. Mr. James was a member of the chamber of commerce, a director of the Mutual Savings & Loan Co. and the Mountain State Building & Loan Assn. During the World War he was a member of the state advisory council of defense and served as a four-minute man. He was a member of the First Baptist church, the Masons, the K. P., and a large contributor to every movement for the uplift of the race. He was married to Miss Roxy A. Clark of Meigs County, O., Sept. 24, 1884. Of this union, four children were born. He is survived by his wife, one son, Edward L., who has been managing the business since the retirement of his father, three years ago; two daughters, one a principal of a local school; a brother, Edward R., a building contractor in Auckland, New Zealand; and two sisters, residents of Columbus, O. Prime Sport News "The Keed" Bests "Chick" Suggs. Havana, Cuba. — Kid Chocolate Afro-Cuban, outpointed "Chick k" Suggs of New Bedford, Mass., in a ten-round bout he. Sunday. A crowd of approximately 2,000 people saw the youthful pugilist stage a comeback, after being floored in the first round, to take a unanimous decision. Suggs was repeatedly cautioned for his holding tactics and appeared in bad shape as the fight ended. The "keed" will go to New York, March 3, and his manager, Pincho Gutierrez, announced that he had received a cable offering Chocolate Suggs, with Tommy Paul, March 22. Gutierrez said that he will clinch the offer. Edwards and Major Win. New York City. — A second meet record fell, last Saturday, in the 600-yard final before the flying feet of Phil Edwards. New York university and Canadian Olympic star, who succeeded himself as champion, scooting around the course here in 1 minute 12 seconds. Our flyer cut one and one-fifth seconds from the championship mark made by George Levens in 1927 and missed the world's first victory. Alain Helfrich four years ago by just a fifth of a second. Ed Blake of the Boston A. A. was second, several yards back, and Fred Velt, N. Y. U., third. Charley Manier, our high jumper, who formerly competed for St. Bonaventure college, was crowned champion in his speciality with a leap of 6 feet 3 inches. Hal Osborne, Illinois A. C. star, was second, two inches below this mark, and George Wolfe of Yale third with 5 feet 11 inches. Members of the Workers' Communist party and the Young Workers' league met, last week at Spirah, 3804 Scovill Ave., to voice their indignation at the appointment of Rev. Russell S. Brown as Tom Fleming's successor in City Council. "Fleming never did anything for his race or for the workers of Cleveland," he will not do anything, either, because he also is a part of Maurice Maschke's Republican machine." FLORIDA AND HOOVER By Joseph Columbus Manning. If any what passes as a state in the Union down there in far Dixie deserves to be put down, is already down without being put, as just already and naturally imbred and lowbred "Hoover Democrat", that sand and swamp, lizzard and snake, lake and alligator, bigot and ignoramus state of Florida is simply it and it simply. Even northerners and westerners who have long ago gone down there hunting health, or something, found mostly mosquitoes, malaria and poverty; and soon what little of anything they had, if of the common herd, dwindled into the Floridian status quo, while their sun baked heads grew as thick and callous as Hon. Joseph C. Manning, that of the natives and with absorption of all the general narrowness of the Klan producing and "Hover Democrat" breeding atmosphere. Perhaps there are some impregnable souls who can live in "Hell's Half Acre", running with the gang, and come through as though they had spent a life-time in "spotless town". These are they, they alone, who stem the current and come thru unspotted with prejudice and hate for the people they work for, a sailor, hungging a street lamp-post near a Jacksonville, Fla. speak-easy, bawled out, "hurrah for hell!" A dozen Floridians answered back, "hurrah for Florida!"! Hell hasn't gotten a thing on Florida. The Klan and the devil didn't need any help to carry Florida "Hoover Democrat", although John Roach Straton should be given credit for with them. Once a guilless Yankee asked a Florida man where a prominent colored man lived, who was a resident of that town. The "one-gallus" native resented the manner in which the inquiry was framed, for he had been asked where "Mr. So and So, a colored gentleman". lived. "They haint no such thing as a colored gentleman down here and we don't call no damn mister in this town" to whom the man really constitutes a good "Hoover Democrat" spat a puddle of tobacco juice in the sand and busied himself working up the puddle in the sand with a big toe of one of his bare feet. Here was Florida contempt for both the Yankee and the "Negro", in all its inglorious ignorance and irredeemable political repression. There are other local politicians and wearing a bit more of apparently decent disguise, but a Klan Florida "Hoover Democrat" is right on the level, in prejudice and in narrowness, with this type. The sort of Republican party that carried Florida in the last election has not changed sentiment a bit in Florida. That Florida Klan "Hoover-Democrat" bunch have formed the opinion that the Republican party, North and South, has changed to support its way of doing. My own judgment is that the Florida "hill-billy" is pretty much correct in his conclusion. When George H. Moses, a Republican and U. S. Senator from New Hampshire, sends Klan literature into a southern state, to be circulated as "hot stuff", you have "the hand" of the G. O. P. North. With Senator Watson of Indiana juggling with the Klan in his state, you have the right view of what the G. O. P. has done in the West. While Hoover fishes in Florida he will get caught a darn sight more by the wile and the intrigue of the bourbon repressed South than he catches fish. Protests Segregation! Washington, D. C.—Miss Gretchen McRae, who resigned a position as a clerk in the U. S. Interior Department here, last October, in protest against the treatment accorded our employees, has sent a letter to the top cop of the Interior department, protesting against the continuance of those conditions. Miss McRae calls attention to the segregation of our clerks in the land office, the appointment of only four of our women clerks as against thousands of white women, to "unfair and demoralizing efficiency ratings" of the clerks, and to a race qualification prescribed by the chief of the steppegraph section. SINGLE COPY FIVE CENTS CAPTURED HOOVER? IF SO, IT MEANS THE UNDOING OF HIS ADMINISTRATION AND The Downfall of the Republican Party—Our Vote in the North Must Divide—Prohibition and the Franchise. (Lilly-white) Republicanism will overthrow the Republican party quitter the running else. The south has been claiming for this for many years. If Mr. Hoover sanctions it now he may retain within the Republican ranks the states that voted for him in 1928. These six states may mean the undoing of the Hoover administration as well as the downfall of the party. There is no real enthusiasm on the part of Senators and Representatives for the Negro as a citizen. Many white Republicans are willing to accept the attitude of the south if the south will vote Republican. It is now in the hands of the colored voters not living in the south. The breaking up of the "solid south" means an open door for the colored voter of the North and East to enter the Democratic party. It is now a thing of cleancut and clear-sighted bargaining. The Republican party is composed of the aristocracy of wealth. The common folk, white or black, simply vote for the Republicans because they think it is better for them, economically. This may be a myth. In the near realignment of parties the common folk must look after own interest and closing of the doors of opportunity to advance should make the common folk change this by the sheer power of the ballot. There must be nothing done to drive a wedge between these voters. An Abraham Lincoln must arise. Humanitarianism in politics versus devotion and promotion of great industries must fight a battle that is now darkening the horizon. Government exists for the benefit of the masses and when the few disgustingly roll in their wealth while the many scarcely can exist, it is high time that a more equitable era sets in. It is now time for the colored vote to divide up. Solidarity of the colored vote in the North is as repressible here as it is long time in the South. The on question to be asked is, What is our best interest? Which party is more sympathetic with us in our struggles? Where can we drive the best bargain to enable us to enjoy American citizenship on equality with all other groups? How can we secure legislation that will break down the barriers that capital and labor have erected which shut us out? Believe no party nor man until he is forced FLEMING'S APPEAL FILED? Claims to Have New Evidence Case Will Be Reached in May, It Is Said. Thirteen claims of error were contained in the appeal filed, last week Wednesday, in the Court of Appeals by Atty. George W. Spooner (white) on behalf of former Councilman Tom Fleming, sentenced, recently, to at least two years and nine months in the Ohio Penitentiary for accepting a $200 bribe. Spooner set up virtually the same claims in his appeal that he used unsuccessfully in arguing a motion for a new trial before Common Pleas Judge N. Craig McBride, assigned here from Hillsboro. It is unlikely that the case will be reached in Court of Appeals before the middle of May, according to court attaches. Spooner has 30 days longer to prepare his bill of exceptions, and more than a month will be allowed both state and defense for preparation of briefs. Among Spooner's grounds for asking a reversal of Fleming's conviction were claims of irregularity in the trial proceedings, error in the court's charge to the jury, error in the court's failure to dismiss the charge to the Republic's organization, Eleventh Ward leader, and misconduct on the part of the jury and the prosecuting attorney. Spooner said he had new evidence which could not with reasonable diligence have been discovered and produced at the trial. Some "Please-isms" Washington, D. C.—U. S. Senator Cole Blease of South Carolina is authority for the statement that "The Negro can not work in the cotton mills. The hum of the machinery puts him to sleep". The Senator also said, "Put a colored man on an engine as a fireman and he's a great success. But he will go to sleep if placed on the opposite side on the engineer's seat with his hand on the throttle." 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. The newspaper immediately establish its rank as one of the NEWSIEST AND BEST in the THE COPY FIVE CENTS ITES" D HOOVER? UNDOING OF HIS ADMINIS- TION AND publican Party—Our. Vote in Divide—Prohibition e Franchise. to do beforehand what we demand. Political promises are white lies which are as damnable as black lies. The recent discussion of the sanctity of The Constitution is very ap- propriate. If the Constitution must be kept inviolate in our enforcement of prohibition, let the same thing be true in regards to the franchise amendments that made us American citizens. Enthusiasm and determination to fight to preserve the prohibition amendment must take on the entire Constitution or else the fight is hypocritical and deserves to fail. It is now time for black voters to begin fighting as never before with their ballots. Our vote must be as sacred in South Carolina as it is in Massachusetts. The U. S. Senate must again speak and act so as to enforce the entire Constitution. If the Negro voters the country don't fight now for their equal and full exercise of the franchise they deserve to be re-enslaved. If it is healthy for the leaders of the Republican party to hobnob and fraternize with the bourbon South, it is also healthy for Negro voters to hobnob with any party that will give us a square deal. We have the votes and the opportunity to force in the North, East and Middle Atlantic states. Let us do it! (Rev.) Wm. A. Byrd. 22 MONTHS OF HORROR. Thanks largely to the untiring efforts of two Cleveland attorneys, Nathan E. Cook and William Marsteller, Joe Weaver, a penniless colored man, will get a new trial on the charge of complicity in the murder of Jasper Russell, a watchman. The News is frankly gratified at this turn of events. Weaver may be equally as guilty as Alex Maynor, now serving a life term, who first testified against the former and then repudiated the evidence he had previously given. But the element of doubt in the minds of Weaver's loyal attorneys was shared by Chaplain Reed at the penitentiary. Criminal Judge Irving Carpenter of Norwalk, who presided at the trial, was also skeptical concerning the validity of the testimony which proved most damaging to Weaver's defense. The setting aside of Joe Weaver's conviction by the state supreme court is a victory for justice. Full credit must go to Attorneys Marsteller and Cook for steadfastly maintaining the highest ethical principles of the bar. They have labored for their client at a great personal sacrifice. The state can never make amends to Weaver for the horrors he has endured during his 22 months in the death house. If he should finally be exonerated, the least it can do at this time is to assure him a fair and speedy trial. — The Cleveland Daily News. Women Strike! Philadelphia, Pa.—Over 100 of our unorganized women-workers at the world's largest cigar factory, Bayuk Brothers, corner Ninth St. and Columbia Ave., this city, walked out, a few weeks ago, in protest against the miserable conditions they had to work under. Given a rate of 25 cents for stripping 12 and a half pounds of tobacco, the pay envelopes of the group for a full week ranged from $3.50 to $11, the average being around $9 a week. WHAT DO YOU SAY, CHESTER, WE GO IN HERE AND HAVE A SODA? GOSH, GRAN'PA, THAT'D BE SWELL FOR LAND SAKES, CHESTER I NEVER SAW A BOY EAT ICE CREAM LIKE YOU DO. YOU'VE FINISHED TWO SODAS ALREADY AND I HAVE HARDLY STARTED ON MINE. GUESS YOU NEVER SAW A BOY EAT THEN-CAN I HAVE NOTHER GRAN'PA? DON'T YOU THINK YOU'VE HAD ENOUGH, SONNY? I MIGHT FEEL SO, BUT I DON'T THINK SO HOW IN THE WORLD CAN YOU EAT SO MUCH? I DON'T KNOW-GUESS IT'S JUST GOOD LUCK 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 1890; 1900 to 1902. IN UNION IS STRENGTH President Calvin Coolidge's last term of office expires, Monday, so recently he had his picture taken with a "Colored woman and girl" who visited him at the White House. Mrs. Coolidge might have been in the picture, too, but she wasn't. Coolidge is one President we have absolutely nothing to thank for. What Prof. Allison Davis of Hampton, Va. Institute said about "Negro Leaders and Leadership", several weeks ago, was "truth and nothing but the truth". Just recall Perry Howard's taking $4,000 from the Pullman Company, last year, to help it beat down the threatened strike of its underpaid Afro-American employees, male and female. Perry's action in that case is the rule, as far as "Negro leadership" is concerned, and not the exception. A communication from City Manager Hopkins to the Council, Monday evening, with reference to Garrett Morgan, one of the rescuers in the water works tunnel explosion, July 24, 1916, declared: "Even at this date it would seem that the city owes Garrett A. Morgan compensation for a service actually rendered at the request of the city, a service dangerous in the extreme and one which resulted in the saving of one life for which the city might have been held legally responsible". Morgan saved more than "one life", and led the way in the tunnel when all others hesitated. We well remember the incident. His confidence in his "white friends" and his refusal to listen to the editor of The Gazette, at the time, caused him to "lose out" all the succeeding years. Others (white) were given credit for Morgan's work. BROWN, GREGG AND GEORGE. Again we call attention to the fact that our people of Charleston, W Va., have recently forced the board of education of that city to open the Charleston public library to them. Now let Rev. Russell S. Brown, our new member of the City Council, lead the fight to open the City hospital, also a public institution maintained by the tax-payers, to our internes and its school of nursing to our girls. Our taxpayers of this community (and that means tenants, too) should no longer be forced to send their boys to the nation's capital, or elsewhere, to interne and their girls to Lincoln hospital, N. Y. City, or elsewhere, to enter schools for nurses. It is an insult that amounts to outrage for them to be longer subjected to any such damnable mistreatment by City Manager Will R. Hopkins and Welfare Director Dudley S. Blossom, simply because one or both of them are prejudiced or desire to cater to Kluxers and other prejudiced persons. We now have three members of the City Council again in Brown, Dr. E. J. Gregg and Atty. Clayborne George, and if they do not start immediately, and work together energetically, to accomplish the opening of the City Hospital to our people in common with all others in this community, they need never again ask the support of their people of this community for any public office. "Jim-crow Negroes" to say nothing of "jim-crow Negro" councilmen, are not wanted in Cleveland by the great mass of our people here, the great majority of whom are most decidedly and unalterably opposed to all forms of public segregation and discrimination on score of race or color. Get busy, Councilmen Brown, Gregg and George! Councilman Brown has been styled "a leader of his people in this community" by the local daily press (white). Now let us see you do something concrete and practical, in the way of real leadership, something that affects favorably all of our people of this community, "Brother" Brown, and we, too, will acclaim you "a leader" of our people "in this community", and that will really mean something. Yes, "the eyes of the community are on you", and this City hospital matter is by far the most important, from a local race viewpoint, you will have to deal with regardless of how long you remain a member of the City Council. Next, in importance, is the matter of improved street-ear service on the Central, Scovill and Cedar Ave. lines. Something Councilman George started after with a resolution in the Council, some weeks ago, but which he apparently has allowed to sink into innocuous desuetude along side of Councilman Gregg's much-heralded "housing" resolution of many months ago. Atty. T. Gillis Nutter, head of the Charleston, W. Va., N. A. A. C. P. branch, lead the fight to open the library of that city to ALL of its residents when he took the matter into the courts, promptly. Something Atty. Chas. W. White, president of the Cleveland N. A. A. C. P. branch, should have done, many months ago, in the case of the Cleveland City hospital and doubtless would have done if permitted to do so by those in control of the local and always ineffective N. A. A. C. P. organization. Early in January last our highly esteemed contemporary. The Cincinnati (O.) Union, Wendell Phillips Dabney, editor and proprietor, passed into its twenty-second year of continuous publication. In its issue of Jan. 31, Editor Dabney in a very proper and yet too modest a way refers to the splendid service he and his paper have given our people of that city, the state and the country during that period of time. We noticed it, of course, and wanted to say something in "The Old Reliable" about "The Union" and its sterling editor, but unfortunately for us the flu intervened and that settled it until today. The so late, we want to add our praise of Editor Dabney and "The Union" for exceptionally telling work for our people of Cincinnati, the state and the country through the twenty-two years, and to command them both, particularly for their stand out in the open against segregation, especially that in the schools of the one-time "Queen City of the West". May both paper and editor live at least twenty-two years longer because our people need them greatly. DOINGS OF THE RACE. Atty, Francis E. Rivers is our first member of the Bar Association of New York City. Signalizing the recent appointment of Dr. Louis T. Wright to the position of a surgeon in the New York City police department, a group of friends and admirers arranged an elaborate testimonial dinner, at $10 a plate. After completing a century of life, during which period he raised three families, totaling more than forty children, old Uncle Cart Young died at Old Ridge, N. C., recently, and was buried at Bethel, N. C. "A cracker" down in New Orleans, beat his wife, recently. She said a "big Negro" had assaulted her in a "downtown vacant lot". Her father characterized her story a lie. Result: She had her husband arrested for beating her. "The Book of Achievement", recently issued by Oberlin college "in honor of 100 famous alumni and alumnae", includes Mary Church Terrell, of Washington, D. C., who received the degree of A. B. and A. M. from her alma mater. Fred R. Moore, age 72, editor of the N. Y. Age and alderman of the 19th district of "The Empire City", is a newly-elected director of the Dunbar National Bank, N. Y. City, of which John D. Rockefeller III is chairman, and the director of this bank is Roscoe C. Bruce, manager of the Dunbar Apartments of that city. Mr. and Mrs. H. Y. Dobbins have moved to Piper—Mrs. Ann Jack-son has returned to Lynch, Ky.—Mrs. M. L. Turner of Cypress is spending the week-end with relatives, Mr. and Mrs. J. Robertson.—The first quarterly conference and meeting of New Hope A. M. E. church was held Saturday, Sunday. Rev. D. C. Edmondson in charge—Rev. C. C. Hayden will preach at Moffat, Sunday. Subscribe Now THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, O., SATURDAY, MARCH 2. 1929 Fresh Ohio News WASHINGTON C. H.—Rev. J. Allen, pastor of Second Baptist church, had a basket-meeting, Sunday, which was a great success. Rev. C. Johnson of Jamestown preached in the afternoon. Rev. H. Calman and his A. M. E. congregation and Rev. J. J. Burr and his Rawlings St. Baptist congregation also assisted. Club No. 2 rally was a success. Mrs. Clara Willis, pres. The B. Y. P. U. rendered a good program, Sunday evening. Rev. W. E. Cook was the principal speaker. CADIZ. — Mrs. Myrtle Christian and Miss Elizabeth Redmond of Canon were guests of Mrs. Bertha Redmond. — Mr. and Mrs. Frank Alexander, who were called here by Mrs. Susie Blanchard's death, have returned to Zanesville. — A son has arrived at Mr. and Mrs. Clarence West's. — W. L. Johnson was given a surprise by his S. s. class on his 87th birthday. — Mrs. Alma Ramsey of Wheeling visited here, Sunday. — Mr. and Mrs. Ellsworth Guy of Steubenville spent the week-end with Mr. and Mrs. F. W. Lucas. — The pastor of Simpson M. E. church will move in the Spring, from Bellaire, into the parsonage. LORAIN.—Mrs. R. Martin has returned from a visit with relatives in Atlanta, Ga.—Mrs. M. Gates of Toledo is the guest of the Stevens family.—Mrs. Laura Ferris and Mrs. S. Callaway are ill.—The junior chair is giving good service at church, Sundays, in the absence of the senior choir. The Allen-Endeavor League gave a very interesting program, Sunday, at their regular meeting. The attendance was good. Mr. Claude Harris deserves much credit for the way the league is working. He is a very zealous superintendent.—Much interest is being manifested in the revival service at Second Baptist church. CORRESPONDENTS must mail all letters for publication at their main postoffice sufficiently early on Monday (or Sunday) of each week to have them reach The Gazette office on Tuesday morning, and always write their names and that of their city or town on the outside of the wrapper about returned copies. Unless this latter is done, proper credit cannot be given you. Lists of names, wedding presents, etc., obituary notices, inquiries for relatives and advertisements of all kinds, including items announcing entertainments to be held in the near future, must be paid for in advance at the rate of 20 cents a line, six words to a line. Our rates for display advertisements will be sent on application. HILLSBORO.—Mr. Venoah Wallace has been quite ill. His daughter, Mrs. Ella Johnson, of Cleveland is visiting her parents. Mrs. Goldie and Miss Helen Lamb of Leesburg visited Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Lamb, Friday evening. —The Washington birthday social at the Baptist church was a success. —Chas, Kilgour, who was taken ill, Sunday night, is better. —Mrs. Gertrude Christy of Dayton visited her mother. —The social, Thursday night, at Florence Burns' for the benefit of the A. M. E. church, was a success. —Vivian Hudson and Richard Kidd of Dayton were here, Sunday, at Mrs. Alline Burton's. She is ill. —Rev. A. M. Gillmer held quarterly meeting, Sunday. Rev. A. Ware delivered an exerted speech at Dent, Mrs. Francis Harris, and Alice Cole were ill, this week. —Mr. and Mrs. A. Carter and daughter, Mrs. George McCowan and daughter of Cincinnati were here, Sunday. —Mr. Jos. Williams preached his trial sermon at the Baptist church, Sunday morning. —Rumor has it that one of the deacons of New Hope Baptist church is soon to wed. ALLIANCE. — The Jolly Club Girls' sled-diving party, Friday evening. n was chaperoned by Miss Veaeta Jackson. — Miss Mary Reese and Mr. H. Tinker were married. Monday. — Mrs. Mary Thompson was recently appointed advisor or Friendship club, Girls' Reserves. — Mr. Herbert Baker is convalescent. — Mrs. Margaret Davis, who returned recently from tharanaoga. Tenn. is assisting in tharanaoga. Seriously ill. — Monthly missionary meeting at St. Luke's, Sunday, at 3 p. m. A minister from the Cleveland Alliance mission will be the speaker. — The concert and play, "Uncle Toby", at Mt. Olive church was a success. A large attendance. — Many here will attend the Dayton Westminster choir concert. Mrs. Ella Sanders has tickets to sell. Rev E. Burruss preached an excellent church, the Dayton Westminster church, in the absence of Rev. C. W. Chapman. — Mrs. Mary Palmer is better. — Mrs. Eva Hutchinson has the gripple. (This letter arrived a day late. Please mail news on Sunday, or Monday at the latest.) -Editor.) OHIO'S MOB VIOLENCE ACT Against the Mob and Lynch-Murder-Three Years' Work of a Member of the Race-Also His Ohio Civil Rights Law. Section 6278. "Mob" and "lynching" defined. 6279. "Serious injury" defined. 6280. Damages in case of assault. 6281. Damages in case of lynching. 6282. Damages recoverable by legal representative of victim of lynching. 6283. Person suffering death or injury by mob trying to lynch another. 6284. Limitations of action. 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-relef from prosecution. Our mo-violence or anti-lynching bill was introduced in the Ohio legislature in 1894 and re-introduced in 1896. It took the Hon. Harry C. Smith, editor of The Gazette, just three years to secure its enactment into law. The Ohio Supreme Court has several times upheld the constitutionality of the law and it has been Section 6278. A collection of people assembled for an unlawful purpose and intending to do damage or injury to any one, or pretending to exercise correctional power over other persons by violence and without authority of any person, shall be deemed a murderer. An act of violence by a mob upon the body of any person shall constitute a "lynching" within the meaning of this chapter. (93 v. 161 2.) Section 6279. The term "serious injury," for the purpose of this chapter, may be 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 be convicted of murder, 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 exceed five thousand dollars damages for such unlawful killing. Such sum shall be applied to the maintenance of the family and education of the minor children of such person so lynched, if any survive him, until such children are of legal age, and then be distributed to the survivors, share and share alike, the widow receives a amount equal to a child's share. If it can be no widow or minor children surviving such decedent, such sum shall be distributed among the next of kin according to the law of the distribution of the personality of an intestate. Such sum so recovered shall not be a part of the estate of such person so lynched, nor be subject to any of his liabilities. (93 v. 162 6.) Section 6283. A person suffering death or injury from a mob attempting to lynch another person shall come within the provisions of this chapter. He or his legal representatives shall have a like right of action as one purposely injured or killed by a mob (93 v. 162 6.) or another (93 v. 162 7.) for the recoveries provided or 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 succeeding tax levy for such county, shall be a part of the judgment in every such case. (93 v. 162 8.) Section 6286. If the decedent so lynched has minor children surviving him, the fund shall be turned over to a regularly appointed guardian. Such guardian shall administer such fund under the direction of the probate judge, allowing not more than five hundred dollars for counsel fees in the action for such recovery. (93 v. 162 9.) Section 6287. The county, in which a lynching occurs, may recover the amount of a judgment and 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: BBS. ed. representative of victim of lynching try by mob trying to lynch another. costs in tax levy. just member of mob just 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 member of the mob carries a prisoner into another 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 10.) 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 enforced while a member of the 71st General Assembly, in 1894: The General Code of Ohio: Sec. 12940. Whoever, being the proprietor or his employee, keeper or manager of an inn, restaurant, eating House, barber-shop, public conveyance by land or water, theater or other place of public accommodation and amusement, denies to a citizen, except for reasons applicable alike to all citizens and regardless of race or color, the full enjoyment of the commissions, advantages, facilities, privileges thereof, shall be fined not less than five dollars nor more than five hundred dollars imprisoned not less than thirty days nor more than ninety days or both Sec. 12941. Whoever violates the next preceding section shall also pay not less than fifty dollars nor more than five hundred dollars to the person aggrieved thereby to be recovered in any court of competent jurisdiction in the county where such offense was committed. This law has repeatedly been held constitutional and good law by the Ohio Supreme Court. The trouble is our people will have to do 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. H., Lancaster, Piqua, Lima, O., and other places, particularly in Ohio, where we have none. Write to the editor of The Gazette, 226 West Superior Ave., Cleveland, O., and terms will be sent promptly. Our readers will oblige us greatly. Our readers will oblige us greatly in the cities named, and others in the state to whom we can write relative to the matter. DON'T YOU THINK YOU'VE HAD ENDUGH, SONNY? An Appetite to be Proud Of. She Has Unusual Record of Service Miss Irene Hawes Twenty-five years in the same office—without missing a day, except during vacations. Such is the record which will be marked this month by the presentation of a 25-year service emblem to Miss Irene Hawes, chief operator in Yellow Springs for The Ohio Bell Telephone Company. Miss Hawes, who lives at 111 Center College street, Yellow Springs, is a native of the Blue Grass State, her birthplace being Hawesville, Kentucky, where she attended high school. Her first job was as a clerk in her brother's store in Kentucky, Later she became secretary at the Methodist Home in Yellow Springs. Miss Hawes' service in the telephone business began on the morning of November 17, 1903, the day on which the Yellow Springs exchange was opened. Since then, she has been on the job in the Yellow Springs office, rain or shine, without missing a day through illness or anything else. "No matter how bad the weather might be, Miss Hawes always manages to reach the office," said R. D. Eyler, district commercial manager of the Telephone Company. "Even the worst of blizzards could not keep her away." Miss Hawes has two hobbies—her work and her radio. Patronize Our Advertisers Patronize Our Advertisers Gain more leisure You can gain so many hours of leisure by using O-Cedar Mops and Polish—and it is so remarkably easy to keep floors and furniture clean and gleaming. The triangular O-Cedar Mop reaches into corners and other hard-to-get-at places. Get yours today. At stores everywhere, O-Cedar Corp n, Chicago, IL. O-Cedar Mops Polish 25¢ —is the right price to pay for a good tooth paste— LISTERINE TOOTH PASTE Large Tube 25¢ An Appetite to b IGHT FEEL BUT I T THINK SO HOW IN THE WORLD CAN YOU EAT SO MUCH What Some Editors Say Telephone subscribers have now become accustomed to the innovation which did away with the practice of having the desire number repeated by the operator. We believe that the great majority of telephone users will agree that the new method has proved satisfactory. One thing it certainly has done is to improve diction. The telephone user who now discovers himself frequently connected with the wrong party must properly assess a reasonable degree of the biame upon himself, after discounting heavily for a percentage of errors occasioned by the imperfect mental reactions of the young lady at the switchboard. It becomes p mark of pride these days to know that you can recite numbers in a clear voice. 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Call, CHerry 1259, in the afternoon. Rental charge, reasonable. CLEVELAND Social and Personal Mrs. Ella Johnson is visiting her parents in Hillsboro. Joe Smith, the veteran Central Ave. barber has been confined to his bed with heart trouble. Mr. and Mrs. S. Gist, E. 55th St., entertained forty persons, Feb. 22, in honor of their son, Ray. A three-course dinner. L. R. Carey gave a recital, last week Thursday evening, at Triedstone Baptist church and lost an overcoat while there. Tom O. Queen, E. $33rd St., well-known N. Y. Central private car steward, who has been very ill with the flu, is convalescing. Miss Julia Gants, daughter of Mrs. Mildred Gants, E. $99th St., has been selected to represent "Miss Cleveland", for the Junior organization, in the N. A. A. C. P. popularity contest. Mrs. Stanley E. Brown entertained in honor of her husband who left for Harvard university, Feb. 16, to take a six weeks' special course in the treatment of the ear, nose and throat. Evangelist Kathryn R. Player will conduct revival services at St. John's A. M. E. church from Mar. 3rd to Mar. 17th. Men's day, March 10th, and women's, the 17th. Dr. Henry Jones, the pastor, will assist her. Thelma Louise, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Oliver A. Taylor of Crawford Rd., spent a few days in Columbus, recently, going from there to Chicago, where she was maid of honor at the Evans-Harris wedding. 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! Drive out and look it over—3559 Stoer Rd. Call, Washington 2133R and make an appointment if you wish to see the interior, a fine home. E. Mt. Zion Baptist church's recent revival netted 60 additions to the church-roll, 42 of whom were baptized. The pastor, Rev. Ernest Hall, will leave, Mar. 7th, for Tampa, Fla. Sunday night he spoke in Detroit Ave. M. E. church (white) and on Mar. 29th will address a second group of that race or class on the West Side. J. E. Branham's suit against the county (Cuyahoga), under Hon. Harry C. Smith's Ohio Mob Violence Act, for damages for injuries sustained in a Woodland Hills bath pool riot of 1927, was being heard TUBBY HANK, GET U THIS HOOP, H ME TO TEACH IF YOU DON'T YOU AN' GET JU *BILL VASSILEFF, 2928 Central Ave. *THE S. & S. DRUG CO. 7325 Central Ave. ROSENBERG'S DRUG STORE, N. W. Cor. Central Ave. and E. 551st St. The Gazette regularly should notify copy delivered promptly. business matters to The Gazette L, 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. relation in current issues of The by noon, WEDNESDAY, of that advertisements accepted until C. SMITH, Avenue, Cleveland, O. Bell Cleveland.) Bell 'Phone: Cherry 1259 (Call, in the Afternoon.) Rising 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. in common pleas court, the first of the week. Atty. Alex. H. Martin was his legal representative and Mr. and Mrs. Emmett Meade, E. 103rd St., star witnesses. Civil service examinations for laborers in the postal service, with receipt of applications to close, March 22, have been received by C. F. Macklin, local secretary of the U.S. civil service commission. The entrance salary is $1,500 and age limits, 18 to 45. In the government service there are laborers, messengers and clerks. No "porters" Porters are rated as laborers. It is said that love called Rev. Raymond H. Wilson, missionary stationed with the Kablaa tribe of Koranko, British West Africa, and, Tuesday, had wound up his 3,000-mile trip with a visit to the license bureau for permission to wed Miss Xerna Brown of 10605 Arthur Ave. of Coranko, where he spent night, prior to their departure for Africa, where he will rejoin the mission. House Bill, No. 304, by the Hon. Perry B. Jackson, will if passed and approved, be able to withstand the requirement of showing "public necessity" and require only that public convenience be shown. Thousands of small truck operators in the state will be affected favorably by the change in the law, to say nothing of other inhabitants. As it is now, it is practically impossible for a motor-transportation company, handling household goods over irregular routes to obtain a license from State Utilities Commission because the application must show "public necessity", something virtually impossible. Lemuel F. Wyatt, a mail-carrier at the Cleveland Heights' post office ever since it was opened, two years ago, died, last week Wednesday, two days after he had been appointed a regular carrier. His route was between Winslow and Scottsdale roads and from Center to Normandy roads in Shaker Heights. Wyatt was exceptionally well-liked by the people he served as postman and very popular with the children along his route. He was ill five weeks with typhoid fever. Just prior to his death, his mother transferred from the observation ward of City hospital to the State hospital "in Newburgh". the S. E. end of the city. A wife and other relatives survive him and the sympathy of the community as well as that of many persons in Shaker Heights. Funeral. Monday afternoon, from the J. W. Wills Co.'s undertaking parlors in E. 55th St. Subscribe Now P AN JUMP THROUGH OWD YOU EXPECT YOU ANY TRICKS THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, O., SATURDAY, MARCH 2. 1929 A Good Spring Fever Cure. O God, we bow Thy name before, All hallow'd, now and ever more; The wonders of this earthly sphere, Are all as naught, when Thou art near. Like incense in the early dawn, We rise to praise Thee, ev'r morn; As dews which melt on Hermon's height. And as we seek—those joys above, Attained by service, faith and Love O, give us wisdom, day by day, That we may never from Thee stray! LONG DISTANCE RATE REDUCTIONS SAVE $5,000,000 LONG DISTANCE RATE REDUCTIONS SAVE $5,000,000 Cuts of Five to Twenty-five Cents Made in Calls to Points Outside of Ohio Another reduction in long-distance telephone rates has been announced by the Bell System, effective February 1, 1929. It represents an annual saving to the public of more than $5,000,000. The new schedule of rates, according to E. F. Carter, president of The Ohio Bell Telephone Company, affects all inter-state calls to and from Ohio between points 130 to approximately 1,500 miles apart. The reduction cuts from five to twenty-five cents from charges for station-to-station calls in these mileage ranges. This reduction is the third that the Bell System has made in two years and four months and is in keeping with the system's policy of providing "the best possible service at the least cost consistent with financial safety," according to W. S. Gifford, head of the system. "Earnings more than sufficient to provide such service will, under our policy, either be spent for the enlargement and improvement of the service furnished or the rates charged for the service must be reduced." Mr. Gifford said. "Both things have happened, the rates have been reduced and the service improved. During 1928 there was a continuous improvement in the speed with which toll and long-distance calls have been handled. The fact that more than 90 per cent of these calls are now handled while the subscriber remains at the telephone has been one of the influences that has brought about the steadily increasing use of long-distance facilities that marked the year. Another improvement is the extension of the country's network of inter-city telephone cable, which is practically storm proof and provides dependable l.c.g-distance service between centers of population. The construction of 1,500 miles of such cable during 1928 is a record for any single year. "The new schedule of rates that goes into effect February 1 cuts from five cents to twenty-five cents from charges for station-to-station calls between points from 130 to approximately 1,500 miles apart. Middle distances rates will enjoy reductions as high as 13 per cent. An equivalent rate reduction is made for person-to-person service. Evening and nights rates remain at their present level." For a call from New York to Cleveland the basic station-to-station day rate is reduced from $2.05 to $1.80. A New York-Chicagocall costs $3.00 instead of $3.25. A New York-Palm Beach call or one between Denver and San Francisco costs $3.75 instead of $4. Separate rates for appointment and messenger service under the new schedule are eliminated, these services being offered after February 1 at regular person-to-person rates. The extra charges above person- Guaranteed and Efficient Work TWENTY YEARS' EXPERIENCE 'Phone: Randolph 5870 Sundays by Appointment This is your opportunity to buy a brand-new Spring model suit (2 pairs of trousers) for Easter at a real money saving. A prominent maker of men's clothing offered us his surplus stock at an attractive price concession. All wool cassimeres, all wool novelties, all wool mixtures and new weaves. Hand made button holes and hand felled collars. Two and three-button models, peak lapels, and conservative styles. 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USED PIANOS 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 OP PUSH WITHIN TAIL FOR TURN The latest to be brought out in the line of traffic signals is one which can be operated from a button placed conveniently in the supporting post. It is particularly adapted to crossings near schools where one of the children, acting as a monitor, can press the button and thus assure a safe crossing for herself and schoolmates. The latest to be brought out in the line of traffic signals is one which can be operated from a button placed conveniently in the supporting post. It is particularly adapted to crossings near schools where one of the children, acting as a monitor, can press the button and thus assure a safe crossing for herself and schoolmates. ASPHALT ROADS PROVED WORTHY Government Finds Surfacing Material Is Durable. Realizing that the cost of construction and maintenance of state highways, county roads and city streets affects the purse or bank roll of every citizen, whether or not he owns an automobile, motor cycle, pushmobile or horse-drawn vehicle, the United States bureau of public roads in 1911 and 1912 sponsored a test of various road surfacing materials, laid on Connecticut avenue in Montgomery county, Md., immediately adjacent to Washington, D. C., and found that the asphaltic pavements, according to the official report recently issued, had proved themselves to be remarkably durable in the face of 16 years of heavy traffic duty. These experiments included seven sections of bituminous maclam, two sections of asphaltic concrete, three sections of portland cement, one section of brick pavement. In the bureaual official report of this experiment there appears the following statement concerning the bituminum macadam sections: "Approximately 16 years have elapsed since these experimental stretches were constructed, and during this period they have carried severe traffic, and in their broken edges and repaired local failures they show the effects of the stresses and strains to which they have been subjected. Nevertheless, all are still in serviceable condition, and with continued careful maintenance should not require reconstruction for some years to come." Concerning the behavior of the bituminous, or asphaltic, concrete and the brick sections, the report declares: "The two bituminous concrete experiments, and the two brick experiments, have required the least maintenance up to this time and are still in excellent condition, and to all appearances should continue to give economical service for sometime to come." Meanwhite, R. W. Coburn, construction engineer of the Massachusetts state highway department, presents another report showing the comparative cost of maintenance for the various types of pavement and road surfacing materials used in the construction of the "Bay State" highways. The cost of maintenance per mile last year was as follows: "Cement concrete, $625; reinforced portland cement concrete, $545; bituminous macadam (tar and asphalt) $480; bituminous concrete, $220." Mr. Coburn also declares that on bituminous, or asphalt, macadam roads, from one to ten years old, the surface maintenance cost, which includes patching, frost breaks and surface treatment, was $124 per mile over the gravel foundations and $147 per mile over stone fills. Incidentally, the New York state highway department reports that the average age of bituminous macadam roads in that state, of which there are more than 3,000 miles, is in excess of ten years. Paris Policemen Must Learn to Drive Autos Ability to drive an automobile is now a requirement for all new Paris policemen. The rule is simply that candidates who can drive get the preference in appointment but the effect has been to make men get driving licenses before applying. Since there are only a million cars in France there are few men in the ranks who can drive, but the number has been increased by the requirement that all traffic officers must learn to handle cars. New Automobile Safety 'Device Is Quite Helpful The car rests on the small solid rubber-tired extra wheel when there is a flat tire. The car may thus keep T Pneumatic Tired-Wheel Permits Driving Ahead Despite Flat Tires. right on going without injuring the pneumatic tire. The extra wheel can also be used as a jack, by simply driving up a wooden block. Faulty Spark Plugs Are Cause of Motor Missing When an automobile engine misses at high speed or in climbing hills the trouble can often be traced to the spark plugs, according to engineers. Much of this trouble, they say, is due to the spark plug points being set too far apart or because the plugs are worn out. The gap between the points should not have more than .925-inch clearance or .920-inch in high-compression engines. As spark plug trouble is often mistaken for valve or piston-ring trouble, the proper thing to do before making repairs, the engineers say, is to have the plugs inspected, which will save unnecessary expense. AUTOMOBILE NOTES Better to ride slow in an auto than fast in an ambulance. There are two sides to everything but in motoring, keep to the right side. "Get a new body and have your top repaired," says an advertisement. Don't you wish you might? San Antonio, Texas, has one of the latest union terminals for bus lines to be erected. It was built at a cost of $300,000. Front-wheel beddings are benefited greatly by semiannual baths. It is well twice a year to remove, clean, grease and adjust them. The cleaning process is most successful if a stiff brush and gasoline are used. THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND OL. SATURDAY, MARCH 2, 1929 "BOBBY" SKIRT, TUCK-IN BLOUSE WITH SUSPENDERS FORM A CLEVER TRIO SEG THE NEW YORKER LIGHTSOME WOOL WEAVES CAPTURE FANCY OF THE FASHION-WISE FLOWERS, automobile, food, style and hundreds of equally as interesting "shows" staged in pomp and pageantry—thus modern art and in- WHEN a "bobby" skirt and a tuck in blouse and a pair of suspenders, yes, really and truly bona fide suspenders, form a threeseam the result is a very attractive sports costume. The picture proves just that. It's a bit happier, to be sure, which, no doubt, enhances it all the more in the eyes of the younger set. It seems that the suspender dress comes to us via Hollywood way, where it is extremely popular among the younger screen actresses, Barbara Kent, who posed for this photograph, being one of the first to take up the fad. Granting that it is the suspenders which give the thrill of novelty, yet for smartness and up-to-dateness the skirt and the blouse are sufficient unto themselves. In fact, they furnish a clew to two of fashion's latest trends. The plaited wool skirt, for instance, belongs in the wardrobe of the modern young girl. Not only for sports but for school wear; a skirt such as this is quite essential from a practical as well as a fashionable point of view LIGHTSOME WOOL FANCY OF FLOWERS, automobile, food, style and hundreds of equally as interesting "shows" staged in pump and pigmentary thus modern art and industry "tells the world" of Twentieth century achievement in this line or that. To those who would be fashion-wise the fates have been especially kind in the way of staging exhibits for their enlightenment as to style trends. The latest recruit to join the army of those who would tell a story of accomplishment is the wooden industry. An event which is history making in the fabric field is that presented in New York under the romantic caption, Golden Fleece Pageant. It reveals the fashion importance of woolens and worsteds down through the centuries. All the mills of the country have been invited to submit representative fabrics to a committee of stylists, numbered among which are editors of important fashion publications and leading authorities on dress throughout the country. Which means that woolen fabrics are playing an outstanding role on fashion's program. The lightweight woolens for spring y Your Co or an Acqu Of course a separate skirt calls for any number of blouses, and it is the tuck-in versions over which such an ado is made this season. The very latest ensembles, whether of tweed or knitted, whether with long coat or jacket, feature the tuck-in blouse. There is an exaggerated simplicity about the new tuck-in blouse which is really quite fetching. Among the many versions of the "tuck-in" there are none more attractive than those of white jersey which lace at the front opening with a colorful cord. White washable silk, such as pongee and tussah, are equally as smart styled in a tailored way. With skirts and jackets of print or plain fabric the sleeveless tuck-in blouse is also sponsored, for "without sleeves" has become a hobby with the mode for the milder months to come. Which all goes to show that the tennis expert and the golf enthusiast are going to stress for comfort as well as "hooks" in the future. JULIA BOTTOMLEY (© 1929 Western Newspaper Union) WEAVES CAPTURE THE FASHION-WISE and summer frocks are enchanting Their lovely shades and vivid color- lings, their artful patternings and sheer textures bespeak for them an unpre- cedented vogue. The dainiest types seem to have captured the delicate green of spring foliage, the elusive blue of summer skies or perhaps the golden glow of a radiant sunset. Some are flowered, some are bordered, while still others are in delectable solid tones. Printed challis is among the love liest of these lovely new woolens. The naive frock in the picture is made of this charming lightseme weave and it is typical of the beguiling models which will grace the forthcoming ex- hibition of woolen fashions. Other of the novelty weaves shown include knitted woolen goods into which is spun a thread of metal. Chiffon flannel in adorable shades is delightfully wearable, while striped woolens for sports express ultra chic JULIA BOTTOMLEY. © 1992, Western Newspaper Union. py of The aintance w SEGREGATION USED AT THE NATION'S CAPITAL TO LOWER OUR STATUS AS AMERICAN CITIZENS. How Much Longer Will Our Self and Race Respecting Press, Pulpit and People Submit to This Rank Injustice?—Protest, Protest! (Special to The Gazette.) Washington, D. C. There is more segregation in Washington, today, under President Coolidge than there has ever been since the Civil War. The president and his advisers were under President Taft. It was greatly extended, under President Wilson; increased, still further, under President Harding; and reached its zenith under President Coolidge. For instance, the largest of our parks President Wilson never troubled, and the nation 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; it was begun by Republicans, 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 disclosed in their photograph which must accompany their papers, is tenaciously held on to by a woman's assistance. 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 President Coolidge. He hails from North Carolina, the home of the secretary, leader of the segregation forces, the apparatus 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 loss 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 Republican party, which has found its "welcome home" 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 has space for cedaritas for whites only, where inferior 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, 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 there are far more capable than the white to 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 nothings. This private club is in the magnificent 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 locker rooms, the white employees attend 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 the day before it arrived to 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 mall. The colored clerks have died 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 keeps faith with the government's universal scheme of segregation. Of the best and brightest of our people, we accept inclusion 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 section reserved for our employees. We are grateful to 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 record in his work, felt the injustice of this condition of our employees so keenly that he was unable to keep 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 right-eight employee, hence he carried out the investigation of an 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. By this severe punishment our employees are taught that there is no way to escape to 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 to be made by a demand that the conditions complained of exist, and a request for the names of my informants. I knew the fate these informants would suffer so I have never given a single name!! The department then taking the position that it cannot take up the case. It is perfectly clear that this iniquitous and unforgiving thing to fight, since the government is so well settled upon it, and the complainants cannot bear witness to it. (Special to The Gazette) (Special to The Gazette) Washington, D. C.—Segregation in the bureau of engraving and printing in an interesting history involving President Thomas Woodrow Wilson and members of his 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 the dames resisted the order, the last dames 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 Fox, and of the Senator's magazine, sparing neither space nor vigor of utterance. She thundered 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. in New York in 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 work stations, and working stations, and of course even 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 segregation. The inevitable result of segregation, the people are still shaping for the issuance of a order destroying this iniquitous practice in all of our government departments, for it not only humiliates the best of the government servants but impairs the government service. (Special to The Gazette) Washington, D. C.—The treasury department, according to the President's acceptance speech, is now under the ablest financial genius since the days of Alexander Hamilton. It is to be remembered that the great Hanoverian was a man of diligence and in that long sweep of faith 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, used the national banking system which financed the Civil War; and Ohio's main financier, 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 ap- pared a colored clerk since his incumbent, while his predecessor, Mr. Daniel Roper, Democrat from Texas, appointed an attorney general of them. Since the income tax legislation and the numberless new taxes that the recent war necessi- tated, this is by far the largest de- partment of the treasury, employing many clerks. Yet Negroes are so strong that they can't be noticed. There is the sur- general complaint here among our clerks and other employees as there is in the other branches of the gov- ernment—failure to recognize their effi- cency when promotions are due; ability to The various forms of segregation exist here as well as elsewhere, restaurants closed or divided along color lines, and special toilets, locker rooms, rest rooms, etc. set off for colored. The toilets for the colored are few in such a large structure. Hence, the segregated clerks are forced to endure physical inconvenience times, and are forced to travel long distances when they desire the use of the toilet. The department maintains a large, magnificent cafeteria, in the splendid building of woodland along our national driveway, where white people of every class can come to rest, dine, and specialize 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 diners with space to spare; but no one Negro! His only share is to pay these taxes he is forced to pay for this luxury for another group The registrieship of the treasury, which Republican Presidents have given the Negro since Garfield appointed Blanch K. Bruce, is now under white man, and the colored people are congregated in a separate room, where public proclamation 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 the division altogether; so they request a dilemma, fearing to act. Our clerks will engage segregation or elimination, and he 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. Single stroke of his pen, President Johnson will can stop every bit of this damnable segregation, just as he can condemn lawless organization the Ku Klux Klan whenever he decides to do so. Subscribe Now