The Gazette
Saturday, May 25, 1929
Cleveland, Ohio
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CLEVELAND, OHIO, SATURDAY, MAY 25, 1929.
Cleveland's De Lux Public Hall
Where the Great Sunday School, Congress Will Hold Its Sunday Afternoon Mass Meeting, June 9.
Dr. Henry Allen Boyd was a visitor in our city, Monday, making his final arrangements with Dr. Ernest Hall for the great Sunday School Congress, which meets in Cleveland, June 5-10. Drs. Boyd and Hall secured the city auditorium, better known as Public Hall, in which to hold the Sunday afternoon mass meeting on June 9th at which time 10,000 Sunday School workers will march in a parade to the place of meeting to listen to a great program which will be the climax of the great Congress gathering.
Prof. H. B. P. Johnson of Chicago arrived in the city, this week, to re-
Too Strong a Combination for Merit to Beat, So Mrs. Roberts, An Ohioan, Lost.
Boston, Mass.—Battling courageously against an unbeatable combination of racial prejudice and sympathy for a blind contestant, Mrs. Nadyne Roberts Waters, dramatic soprano of Wyoming, Ohio, lost a cash prize here, recently, in a contest held by the National Federation of Music clubs in its second biennial contest at Steinert hall. All of the 15 contestants were white with the exception of Mrs. Waters, who were a well-known conductor and many of the audience that Mrs. Waters had won, congratulations were showered upon her immediately after she left the stage.
Mrs. Waters wrote a music critic on one of the leading Boston daily newspapers, who was one of the judges and this was his reply:
"In good faith I gave my vote for first prize to a young Colored girl (Mrs. Waters) and left the hall. There was no doubt but that she sang far better than any of the other contestants".
JOE VISITED HIS MOTHER.
Cleveland, O., May 22, '29.
Hon. Harry C. Smith,
Editor, Gazette, City.
Dear Sir: I—received from Georgia, last week Thursday evening, at 6 o'clock. I received the package of Gazettes just before I left Midville, Ga. and distributed some, and had the others distributed among my friends whom I need to see.
My visit with my mother and relatives was enjoyed in the highest degree. My mother had regained half of the weight she lost while I was in the death cell at Columbus, O. I will call again to see you. As I wrote you from Midville, recently, I called on Mr. Benj. Davis while stopping over in Atlanta, en route to Midville.
Yours respectfully,
Joseph Weaver.
Wilberforce Wins!
Washington, D. C.—The young women of the Mu Lambda Debating society of Howard University lost to Wilberforce, last week Friday evening, in a well conducted forensic contest. Howard had been successful at Wilberforce. The subject discussed was, "Resolved, That the Power of the Supreme Court to Declare Laws Unconstitutional Should Be Abolished". The negative won in both instances.
Girls to Get Their Jobs.
Spokane, Wash.—R. C. Taylor, assistant superintendent of dining-car service on the Northern Pacific, has announced that girls (white) are being trained to replace our waiters, chefs and assistant chefs on their trains running between Livingston and Gardiner, Mont. Taylor must sure be a southern "cracker". This is the kind of dirty work they do in the North whenever they get a chance.
this chorus.
Dr. Hall reports that all of the churches in the city, without regard to denomination, have opened their doors to receive delegates and most of them have pledged their support in every way needed. An invitation is hereby extended to every Sunday School in the city to participate in the parade. This parade will have children of all ages playing music for those who march. One of the bands, known as the Congress band, consisting of 23 persons, will come from Nashville, Tenn., on the Congress's special train. Let everyone get ready to enjoy a week of good things when the great Sunday School Congress meets, June 5 to 10.
Florida has run true to form again by lynching a white man that was jailed after the chief of police had shot to death his wife. Florida that voted the Republican ticket at the last election and is now being considered a trophy and valuable recruit to the Republican party, not changed one whit. It is a lawless and lieing as it always has. The life of no one is safe in Florida, white or black, if that life seeks to protect itself from Florida injustice. It is now time for the Republican party to insist that Florida, as a Republican state, cease lynching and obey the law. The Republican party should look to the best citizens of Florida, who have the recommending of persons fit to hold federal positions, to put an end to choking and to commit themselves or any one else to be pound-keepers. How can the President expect the rest of the country to enforce the prohibition amendment and the Democratic party sit quietly by and see human life sacrificed by officers of the law? The coroner's jury, composed of the worst liars in the world, found that the dead man was killed by parties unknown to the jury; and it is barely possible that the mob helped to make up the jury. The sheriff reported that he did not know any of the mob. He shoed the hanged by the bank until he was found of what the law of justice demands of sheriffs. It added that two Negro prisoners were in jail but could not identify any of the mob. True they would not, for had they the rope and bullets that killed, the white man would have taken them away. Let us enforce the law that protects human life before we run mad about the law that prohibits a drink. Then, too, Florida is the play-ground of our elite millionaires of the North who go there and become involved with the Florida either of lynching or indifference toward it.
Los Angeles, Calif.—Nate George, unheralded and unnoticed Afro-American spinner of Whittier college, pulled one of the most unexpected upsets in southern California track and field history at the Coliseum, Saturday afternoon, May 11, when he defeated Frank Wyckoff and Charley Borah, favorites in the 100-yard dash at the annual A. A. U. track meet. George ran a smooth race, winning time 9:4-5 seconds. Wyckoff is remembered as the 19-year-old youngster who defeated Charles Paddock last season.
Another great upset of the afternoon was the spectacular running of Harry Chance, an Indian youth, who won the world championship in 1904, when he lapped his field and won the six-mile run in 29 minutes, 44 seconds. Winning the dash assures George a trip to the National A. A. U. meet to be held July 5 in New York City.
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Cleveland have had for period of one week. Prof. Johnson is nationally known as one of the best chorus-trainers in the country. Every one, who wants to learn more about singing, should extend himself of the opportunity to join
Denounce Lynching and Characterize it as Barbarity and Are Right.
Memphis, Tenn. — Denouncing lynching as "a badge of shame to our civilization", the Southern Baptist Convention (white) at its recent annual session in this city, urged that every effort be made to build up and maintain "a public sentiment that will establish justice and banish from our borders the appalling practice of mob violence".
Continuing, the convention said: "Never should we be content until every vestige of this barbarity is eradicated and every individual has secured to him the right of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness".
The significance of this statement is found in the fact that the convention represents the largest religious group in the South, with 20,000 churches and a membership of more than 3,800,000.
Must Scent Another War!
Tuskegee Institute, Ala.—For the first time since the close of the World War, our officers of the U. S. Reserve corps in the South will receive military instructions. An Officers' Training camp is to be stationed here, May 25. Col. Benj. O. Davis of Cleveland, O., our ranking officer in the U. S. Army, now attached to the O. N. G., will be the instructor. He will be assisted by Capt. Arthur P. Hayes, military instructor here, who will serve as adjutant.
A. Naval Cadet?
Annapolis, Md.-Charles E. Wier of Chicago nominated for the local U. S. Naval Academy by Congressmas Oscar DePriest of Chicago, has passed the mental examination. He was an alternate from his district. Lawrence A. Whitfield, nominated as principal, did not appear for examination. Claude Hanson Burns, the second boy named as principal, failed to pass the examination. Wier goes in with June class, if he is not "framed" in the physical examination, June 18. Of the 1000 who took the examination, 802 were successful.
Parham a West Point Cadet
Chicago, Ill.—Alonzo S. Parham is the cadet major in the R. O. T. C. now taking a post-graduate course in algebra at the Wendell Phillips high school, this city, from which he graduated in February. He is 18 years old, five feet nine inches tall and weighs 159 pounds. He will be the first of our race to enter West Point since 1889.
The Editor Wins!
Oklahoma City, Okla.—The suit for $50,000, brought against "The Black Dispatch" and Editor Roscoe Dungee of this city by Rev. E. J Cain, a local preacher, was thrown out of court, recently, after three years' litigation, by Judge Wiley Jones
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MURDEROUS U. S. MARINES
SLAUGHTER THREE THOUSAND HAITIANS, SAYS U. S. SENATOR WM. H. KING.
Peasants Who Never Had Deeds to Farms, Being Ousted and Ownership by a Foreign Company Follows—Hoover Has Power to Withdraw the Marines—Outrage After Outrage!
Port-au-Prince, Haiti—These advises predict an over-population at no distant day, of particularly the fertile rural districts of this island republic. The peasants are the owners of practically all of the agricultural country, there being no individually extensive land ownership. Therefore, no large agricultural exploitation is possible, unless the present small owners are dispossessed of their properties. How is this being accomplished? By the quite simple expedient of ordering these hard-working unschooled people of the hinterland to show their territorial claim to their property possibly a century or 50 years ago, has disappeared, the present occupant is charged with unlawful possession of territory belonging to the state and is driven by American officers, installed by puppet President Borno, off the premises. (Property of a parent is distributed among his children without resort to court procedure, a custom not readily understood by the controversial American heir or heirs.) Ownership by some foreign company rapidly follows. The Haitian Constitution provided specifically against ownership of any portion of its soil by foreigners. This situation is not the case with the American marine invaders (American Occupation) by forcing a revision of the century-old Constitution. Quoting from a former Charge d'Affaires of the Haitian Legation at Washington and the president of L'Union Patriotique d'Haiti, Monsieur Percival Thoby:
No Room for Business
"The area of the Republic of Haiti is 26,000 square kilometers. There is consequently no room for business on a large scale. Life has been inexpensive because everyone is the owner of a piece of land, or of a house, and each family obtained their food from their country land. With the persistent confiscation, under the American Occupation, of these small properties the commodities of life are rapidly disappearing and the cost of living mounting in proportion to the scarcity of native produce.
Girls Must Work
"Previous to 1915, when the U.S. landed bayonetted troops (marines), the young girl whose family had an income that permitted leisure was, as is customary in the United States, kept at home. The policy of land confiscation has deprived many of these families of their incomes and these girls are forced to look for work in the stores, government offices, etc. As a result, hundreds have been ruined! It is economic necessity, that they work, and not because of deprived American education. Haitians in general despise the Americans for the destruction of that custom which protected these girls from the immoral habits of the gynaees."
4000 Slaves
The assertion recently attributed, in a New York daily, to Commander Cooke that, in the public works of Haiti there were employed only 33 Americans and 4,000 Haitians is, according to our correspondent, meticulously correct. The 4,000 Haitians, however, are 4,000 slaves with a daily wage of 30 cents, paid every 22 days (the average late), when there are no fines levied against their pay envelopes. The 32 Americans are 32 high officials with salaries aggregating thousands of dollars monthly.
$40,000,000 Debt
In reply to the statement of the author, H. P. Davis, relating to the reduction of the $40,000,000 internal debt, Monsieur Thorey says: "When Haitian territory was invaded by U. S. marines we had an internal debt of about $10,000; interested in some unsettled claims. The American Occupation forced upon Haiti an International Claim Commission. As soon as this Commission was created a mass of previously rejected claims were again presented amounting to $32,000,000, of which $9,000,000 were American. The fictitiousness of $8,000,000 of these American claims becomes at once apparent because the decision of this International Commission the $9,000,000 shrivelled to $400,000; the exact amount previously recognized by the Independent Haitian Government as valid." And the United States is maintaining marine bayonets in Haiti "to preserve order" where there is no disorder, pretending to be motives of the most disinterested benvolence—Baltimore Afro-American.
THE GAZETTE is the oldest class publication of the kind, and has the largest bona fide circulation among Ohio Afro-Americans, double that of any other newspaper published in this or any other state, and comparison with any will immediately establish its rank as one of the NEWSIEST AND BEST published in the interest of Afro-Americans.
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U. S. MARINES
HOUSAND HAITIANS, SAYS
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Mad Deeds to Farms, Being
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Has Power to Withdraw
outrage After Outrage!
Washington, D. C. — President Herbert Hoover has the power to withdraw American marines from Haiti without authorization from Congress, according to U. S. Senator Wm. H. King, of Utah. The U. S. military forces have been held in Haiti by executive authority since 1979, and if the executive department says so, and if no legislation would be required to compel the withdrawal of the American marines, "But the executive department," says Senator King, "has been deaf to the appeals of the Haitian people and to the liberal sentiment of this country and has pursued a reactionary and imperialistic policy". Senator King has sought to apply legislation upon the appropriation of his adopted, would compel the withdrawal of the American marines from Haiti. Each year when the Navy Department appropriation bill is under consideration in the Senate, he has offered an amendment which would prohibit the use of any part of the naval appropriation for the maintenance of any officer or enlisted man in the military or naval service in Haiti. His efforts have been in vain.
3,000 Haitians Slaughtered!
5,000 Haitian men murdered.
Senator King does not blame the American people for their inference. "The people not the fathers," he declares, "that American battleships took possession of Haitian ports and American military forces waged warfare upon Haitian soil, killing more than 3,000 Haitian people. They do not know that since 1915 the Haitian people have been deprived of the right to govern themselves, and have been subjected to the will of the United States; nor do they know that the United States overthrew the government, abolished their constitutions, and legislated from their legislative chambers, and have prevented the Haitian people from having any voice in the control of their internal or foreign affairs".
If American battleships and marines were withdrawn from Haiti, Senator King says there would be universal rejoicing among the Haitian people. But he entertains no illusions. "Military control of Haiti is still the same as the liberal forces of this country aroused. Thousands of Haitians have left their native land, and many others have been forced from, lands which they and their fathers occupied for many years".
Extrayagance.
Authentic information which he has received from Haiti, Senator King states, confirms the statements made by Atty. Napoleon B. Marshall, who was a clerk for six years in the U. S. consulate at Port au Prince. Capt. Marshall recently resigned his position and returned to this country. In a recent newspaper article the U.S. newspaper charged that a mysterious fire burned unaudited accounts and vouchers and that Haitian road-making has consulted American convenience rather than Haitian needs. He also charged extravagance on the part of some of the American officials in Haiti.
"Poor "Bleeding Haiti" the little blue republic! The great librator, emancipator and martyr, Toussaint L'Ouverture, drove from its shores the flower of the great Napoleon Bonaparte's army, under his brother-in-law, Gen. Le Clerq, to achieve its independency.
FIRST COMMUNITY CHURCH
Rapidly Forging to the Front—Baptismal Services and Other Church Notes
Jersey City, N. J.—The first baby baptized in the First Community church was Miss Gloria Louise Boulden, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Boulden of 312 Halliday St. Mrs. Louise Smith, secretary of the church and also grandmother of Miss Gloria, was God mother. This baptismal exercise took place on Easter Sabbath. May 19, two children of Mr. and Mrs. J. Woolridge, of Newark Ave., were baptized. Mrs. J. P. Woolridge, grandmother of the children, stood with the parents as God mother. Rev. Dr. Wm. A. Byrd, pastor, ofcled at the baptismal service. On May 23rd, a house-warming turkey dinner was given at Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Banks, 42 Neptune Ave. The sale of tickets was large and there was a the meeting of friends of the church to make merry with Mr. and Mrs. Banks.
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CLEVELAND Social and Personal
Expert watch-repairing. Scars Bros., 2526 East 55th St.—Adv.
There is a letter at The Gazette office for Samuel Hull. Tell him, please.
Miss Emina Williams, nurse at the Old Folks Home, will recuperate at Idlewild, this summer.
Clocks of all makes repaired. Scars Bros., 2526 East 55th St.—Adv.
Isaac Turner, an old resident and for years a city employee, died at the Old Folks Home, recently, and was buried, last week Monday.
Graduates of local high schools and colleges will be given a reception, June 24, at Shiloh Baptist church, by the C. A. of C. M. A program will be rendered.
Atty. Chester K. Gillespie has been appointed a member of the Cleveland Bar Association's committee on informal conferences. Our only representative on it.
Maj. W. T. Anderson left, last week, for Philadelphia to attend the supreme council of Scottish Rite Masons and inspect the new shrine. Mrs. Anderson accompanied him.
Cornelius Young and Lester Stewart played with John Adams high school band in the state contest held in Oberlin, three weeks ago. John Adams band won second honors.
Wm. E. Fountain arrived, recently, from Hollywood, Cal., where he has been taking part in the making of the new all-talking picture, "Hallalujah." He visited his parents.
Thelma, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Brooks Jackson of E. 130th St., has won the honor-ribbon for proficiency in art at Longwood High school and is competing for a scholarship at the Cleveland School of Art.
Albert L. Bernard, secretary of King Tut lodge, announces the selection of a special committee by the lodge and Mary B. Talbert Temple, Elks, to arrange for a home-coming and anniversary festival. June 9 to 15.
Marie Amelia, daughter of the late Col. Chas. Young, gave a very pleasing and satisfactory piano recital Monday evening at Mt. Zion Cong church, assisted by Miss Floy Debman of Oberlin conservatory of music. She is a very promising pianist.
The Woodland Community Center opened its Spring exhibition, last night, and will continue it, this evening. The program starts at 7:30
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Some one of our business enterprises ought to want some of these office and bank fixtures. Price reasonable. Five cages (four closed), and a long counter. Standing desks belong to the cages. One short desk. See fixtures and Horace McCee at 2922 Scovill Ave., at once!
"Where the Negro's money goes" was the subject of an interesting address at Shiloh Baptist church, Sunday afternoon, by Dr. J. K. Nickens. He told how ten million dollars would help build business enterprises and pay every church debt, in two years. There was music and a good audience.
Miss Anita Bolden, missionary to Sierra Leone, W. Africa, on a visit with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. George Bolden of Eastham Ave., E. Cleveland, was the speaker, Sunday evening, at St. James A. M. E. church. She is on a year's furlough and will return to her post for another five years, late in the fall.
Thru her attorney, the Hon. Perry B. Jackson, Mrs. Dorothy Lyles has entered suit for $500 damages (under Hon. Hon. Harry C. Smith's Ohio Civil Rights law) against the Northern and Universal Air Lines for their refusal, recently, to take her on a pleasure trip in their planes from the Cleveland Air port, after selling her a $5 ticket for that purpose. Good! "Sting them, good and hard"", Mrs. Lyles.
The delegation from Boydston Post that accompanied Garrett A. Morgan, last week, to the Wakeman Country club grounds, to select a lot for a home for veterans, were given what they wanted by him and came away in fine fettle, greatly pleased with their gift and very grateful to Mr. Morgan. The latter is entitled to a generous amount of credit for so remembering our war veterans.
Boydston Post entertained the patients of the Psychopathic ward at the City hospital, last week Wednesday evening, presenting Louia V. Jones, Mrs. Ruby Slaughter, and the Maxwell quartet. Miss Sanford was at the piano. It was said at the hospital that never before had the patients received such a rare treat. The various posts in the county take place at the hospitals, and Boydston does not shirk a single duty or responsibility. At its meeting, last Friday, a rising vote of thanks was given those who lent their services to the affair.
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man who fills your prescription should be remembered. Lustig's drug store at 5427 Woodland Ave., corner of E. 55th St., has the confidence of your doctor and with a reputation of sixty years of the public's confidence invites you to bring your prescriptions to them for accurate compounding.
"A friend of the Gazette" must know that unsigned communications are always thrown into the waste-baskets of all properly conducted newspapers.
Dr. A. J. Whitehead, the Elks' state commissioner of education and president of the past exalted rulers' club, has been indorsed by King Tut lodge for the presidency of the state association, which meets in Lorain, June 2. The lodge has elected the following delegates to the convention: Dr. A. J. Whitehead, state deputy; Richard McKee, Allen E. Cale, Robert Gentry, Wm. F. Johnson, George Edwards, Alston Yancy, George Johnson and Percy B. Jackson, E. R.
Hon. John P. Green delivered a most illuminating lecture on "The Evolution of John Brown (marty) and His Immortals" at Triedstone Baptist church, Sunday evening. Judges Kramer and Ewing, who followed the Ex-State Senator with short talks, complimented him highly for his splendid effort and said he was very encouraging to the large audience which it also received very enthusiastically. Mr. Green also addressed a woman's meeting at the same church earlier that evening.
The establishment of Provident, Pentecost and Wilson Hospitals and Dailley Sanitarium (for "Negroes") in Chicago has just about closed the doors of all the other hospitals in that city to "Negroes" with the result that the situation has become so serious that Chicago Catholics "have proposed a million dollar hospital for Negroes." This is the condition Jim-crow would have of Cleveland would (if they would) foist on our people of this city with their advocacy of a hospital "on the East side, officered by colored and white physicians and help", or an out-and-out "jim-crow" hospital.
A. Phillip Randolph of N. Y. City with Max S. Hayes of this city will address a mass meeting at St. John's A. M. E. church, 4 p. m., June 2, on "Organized Labor and the Afro-American Worker." That evening, he discusses "Labor and Religion." The following Monday afternoon at 4 o'clock, a round table discussion will be led by BenJ. Smith. In the evening at Shilch Baptist church, the relation between our industrial status and social welfare will be briefly considered by Prof. Henry M. Busch, E. H. Thompson, and M. P. White and others of this city and M. P. Webster of Chicago. No admission charge and all welcome to all proceedings.
E. Mt. Zion Baptist church and its pastor, Dr. Ernest Hall, are busy helping to make the necessary preparations for the entertainment of the Natonal Baptist S. S. congress, to convene in Cleveland, June 5-10. A great program is being arranged for Tuesday, the opening night of the congress, under the direction of Mrs. Grace Willis Thompson. She will have ten of our choirs of the city and the best soloists obtainable. Prominent Baptists from out of the city will speak that night and every effort is being made to have an overnight tour. Mr. Zion Congo, where the sessions of the congress are to be held. Rev. Henry Allen Boyd, secretary, of Nashville, Tenn., was in the city, the first of the week, and with Dr. Hall called on the editor of The Gazette, Monday morning.
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Practically all of our local Baptist churches, under the direction of Rev. Ernest Hall, pastor of East Mt. Zion Baptist church and his ministerial, laymen and other associates in the management of the arrangements for the coming of the great Baptist Sunday-School Congress, June 5 to 10, are still working hard, preparing for it, and the anticipations of our people of Cleveland are running high because they realize that the Congress is really going to be something out of the ordinary in many respects, something never before witnessed in this city. Rev. Gary Allen Boyd of Nashville Tenn., secretary of the Congress and promoter of the great gathering, is full of enthusiasm, aggressive and exceptionally capable as a leader in church and Sunday School work. He knows how to get results, which accounts largely for his splendid success in the past, extending over many years. Mr. Boyd invites every Sunday-school, organized class, boy cadet, and religious worker to attend this great national Congress where no stone will be left unturned for the further expansion of Sunday-school work yet to be done. The delegates to the Congress from all sections of the country may rest assured of the generous hospitality of Anderson and very possible, and follow Seventh Council and the rest of the Congress' official staff, into this city, next month, with the utmost confidence of experiencing a wonderful time in the service of the Master. "On to Cleveland" is the slogan.
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CARE OF TIRES
NOT EASY TASK
If American motorists gave their
‘motor car tires as much care as they
give their own shoes they would save
hundreds of millions of dollars they
Row waste through carelessness, EX-
Perts suy almost every driver wears
ut the equivalent of a tire a year
because he does not observe stinple
Tules which not only prolong the life
of his casings but make for easier
Flding.
‘The main causes of premature tire
ruin are: driving with wheels out of
alignment, needless high speed, faulty
use of brakes and improper inflation.
Brakes Wear Tires.
Paradoxically, the more the auto-
mobile is Improved the harder it be-
comes on tires. Four-wheel brakes
‘will stop a car almost as short as a
‘stone wall, but they wear down tires
‘at an appalling rate if they are habit-
ually slapped on at high speed. Un-
‘evenly adjusted brakes scuff out tires
as a small boy scuffs out shoes.
Increased speed also is hard on
tires, yet the more cars in use the
faster traffle must be kept moving,
and the greater the wear on tires in
slowing down and stopping. Recent
tests have shown that a car driven at
85 miles an hour and stopped every
quarter mile wore the tread design on
a standard tire entirely away in a lit-
tle more than 100 miles. Stopped
‘only every mile, the tread lasted 3,000
miles.
Inflation Is Important.
‘The one important factor in tire
wear that is completely under the
control of the man at the wheel Is
{nflation. Experiments made with
Adentical tires on identical cars, one
set properly inflated and the other
‘only six pounds under-intlated, showed
that firm tires lasted one-quarter
longer.
Kicking a tre to test its pressure
fs about as sensible as taking stryeb:
nine tonic by drinking it out of the
bottle. There is only one way to test
tire pressure, and that is with a
gauge. Four minutes once a week,
‘spent on testing tire pressure may save
at least the price of one new casing @
year.
Find Misuse of Signals
Growing in Many Cities
‘The misuse of trafle signals is tn
creasing disregard for their meaning,
says a recent report of the American
Engineering council, which has just
concluded a traflie survey in 104 Amer-
ican cities.
‘Two fundamental errors have been
observed in a majority of the cities,
the coufell finds. ‘The most. impor
tant is the placing of the signals with
out first baving an adequate survey
of conditions to be bandied, or with-
out a thought of what may result at
other intersections. ‘The other fault
is the placing of signals at coruers not
justified under the circumstances.
“the result of such error,” says the
report, “is that the publie will recog:
nize their error and have a consequent
Aisregard of all traffic signs and de
vices.”
Grease Cups Left
Grease cups have uot entirely dis.
appeared before the newer varieties of
lubrication systems, Or mn; cars,
the rear wheel bearings and fan bear
ing, at least, still are lubricated by the
rather primitive cup. ‘These are very
vital parts doing a great deai of bard
work, but because they require more
time for lubrication than those parts
whieh may quickly be reached with
the gun, they often are ignored. It ts
@ case of grease or wear.
MOTOR QUIZ
| (How Many Can You Answer?)
- Q.—When was the first trans
} continental auto trip made?
Aus —In 1903 from the Pacific
coast to Boston. Actual running
time was 47% days.
, Q—What is the “breaking in”
- period for a new car?
| Ans.—Usually the first 500
- miles.
| Q—What care should be ex-
- ercised with a new car?
| Ans—The maximum speed
| should be 20 to 25 miles per
hour. Up to 1,000 and 1,500
, miles a new automobile should
be driven at a reasonable rate
of speed. After the first 500
miles when the engine is warm,
accelerate up to 40 miles occa:
‘sionally, but as soon as the
speedometer registers 40 or 45
; miles, slow down to 80 or 35.
This will cause the oil to circu.
late freely among the working
parts. It 1s advisable to have
, the dealer check up the car after
- the frst 1,000 miles.
- Q—Why are air cleaners used
on so many cars?
| Ans.—It removes dust and dirt
; from the carburetor intake afr,
- thereby eliminating abnormal
; engine wear. Road dust, mixing
with ofl film on cylinder walls
. and other parts, would form a
; grinding compound and cause
, excessive wear.
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AUTOMOBILE HINTS
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The hest-kept automoblie Is the
best automobile,
There ought to be a timit to busses
on the highway.
An optimist is a man who attaches
one of the so-called gas savers to his
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A woman ts some one who wonders
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THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, 0., SATURDAY, MAY 25, 1929
MATCHING ACCESSORIES ADD Cc U
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liner to most exalted couturiere and
modiste, from bootmaker to handbas
specialist, jeweler, glovemaker and
searf designer, the whole world of
fashionists have gone matebmaking.
‘This idea of matching this, that and
the other of costuine accessories has
added a very zestful and exciting note
to the apparel prozram. Not only are
the stylists who set the mode chat
lenged to play up their most intrign
Ing creative talents, but the clientele
Which they serve are inspired to make
of shopping an art. For with fash
fon's demand for a “perfect match" no
longer ean a woman who would dress
successfully buy casually oF tupulsive-
Jy this and that which happens to
strike her fancy. Rather must she
cultivate toa nicety the study of color
values and related desizn, in order to
exercise that fine diserimination in her
Selections sueh as will so correlate ber
attire that each costume will stand
out unified and individualized
The matching vozue plays uo favor
ites. Accessories are expected to
erie cea Rane
traditional promise to “bring forth
May flowers” fancy lightly turns to
thoughts of that which is soon to fol
low—vacation days. And thoughts of
vacation are always largely attended
with meditations on “what to wear.”
Which leads up to the wherefore of
the picturing herewith of this very
dainty flowery Httle frock.
It ts a typical summer-day dress,
‘Just the thing to wear where skys are
bluest, and sunshine, green fields and
flower-strewn paths say “Come!” It
fs interesting to note that in designing
this dress the stylist brings into play
certain rules of arithmetic in thar
sleeves are subtracted. and bows are
added. In this instance a large soft
tled bow at the neck does duty in
Heu of many tittle bows. For you must
know that summer-frock trimmings
are largely a matter of bows. Scarce
ly a dress for daytime wear appears
without its quota of bows. When In
doubt, tle ft with a bow and this ap
plies to neckline, walstline, wristtina,
shoulder line, in fact, even the slight
eet-excuse is-quite suMicient to warrant
‘match whether the costume be the
simplest sort for sportswear or for
the street ensemble, or for resplendent
evening attire.
In the picture are shown several In
triguing “sets.” ‘The felt hat banded
with the identical silk print of the
large kerehief searf which Is knotted
nonchalantly about the shoulders pre
sents an appealing ldea—especgalls
when the gay print is in vivid tone.
‘The newest thing in scarfs is the
narrow long kind, such as the one
skeiched with the matching pocket
book in this illustration, A combina
tion such as this gives tone to any
street costume,
Shoes-to-mateh is the latest hobby ot
the mode—which means that fashlona
ble shoes are this sesson made of any
thing trom straw or desiguful cotton
prints to the most exquisite silks and
hovelty fabries, ‘The pocketbook and
shoes circled In the upper right corner
of the picture are handsome embrold
ered crepe de chine.
JULLA BOTTOMLEY.
4G) 1324) Wromtarth Newepaner Uaieuj,
| the use of numerous bows or a bow
Measuring up to the importance of
the presence of hows 1s the absence
of sleeves, With fashion, sleeveless
ness bas become # hobby. If one in
sists on some sort of a covering for
the arms then turn to a deep capetet
or beriha collar, or streaming-from
the-shoulders paneisanything. which
will serve as a substitute for sleeves
Most of the summer dresses are made
“ust that way,
Another inspiration to the woman
who makes her own clothes is. the
lovely materials which are, mang of
them, amazingly Inexpensive, consider
ing thelr beauty. Gay print oiles
reyes, dimities and handkerchief linen
make ap a goodly. part of modish
washable fabrics which, being sheer
lend themselves admirably to the soft
“dressmaker styling” now so much in
vogue. Hand embroidery on thin. ma
terlals finds favor with the mode this
Season, which 10 the woman skilled in
neediceruft means “opportunity kuoek
ing at the door
JULIA BOTTOMLEY.
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CAUGHT “FLATFOOTED”!
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COUNCILMEN BROWN AND GEORGE SAY
COUNCILMAN GREGG DID SAY IT.
Gregg Opposed to Our Girls Entering City Hospita
School for Nurses in Common With the Girls
of All Other Classes or Races in This
Community.
When Councilman Russel S. that this would be true with ref
Brown brot up his resolution, in the |erence to colored internes. He wa
caucus of Republican members of|also opposed to the resolution be
the City Council, to open the local | cause he felt that more could be ac
City Hospital to' our girls, desiring |complished by working quietly that
to become trained nurses, and to our | by giving publicity to it.
internes, Councilman Gregg object-| "Hoping this may give you the in
ed to it’ saying that it was not time | formation desired, I remain,
to expect our girls to train for nurs- Sincerely yours,
es with white girls at that public Clayborne’ George.
institution. What do you think of =e
that? Our boys and girls have been | Gregg's reasons for opposing th
studying and ‘training — together | admission of our girls in the nursing
in the public institutions of this|school at the City Hospital are sim
city for more than fifty years.|ply ridiculous and a rank insult t
Brown is also alleged to have |all of our people of this community
said that Gregg asked that what |—Editor.
was said in that meeting would ——S=
not be repeated on the outside and| GO BACK “HOME” GREGG!
that he (Brown) refused to accede —-
to Gregs’s request. The following| Councilman B. J. Gregg is oppose
letters are pertinent and self-explan-| to our people exercising thelr citizen
atory. eS rights in a public institution sup-
Cleveland nar. etn og, | Ported by the taxpayers of the com
Hon. Harry C. Smith,
Kditor Gazette, Cleveland, 0.
Dear Sir:—I am somewhat sur-
prised to read your editorial “Not
Time” of April 6th publication, an
absolutely false statement accredited
to me and by Rev. Russell 8. Brown,
It will be hard for me to believe that
Rey. Brown reported such a false-
hood, for I have high regard for him
4s a Christian gentleman,
I believe that no man hag labored
harder for negro advancement. in
Cleveland than I, and yet I wish to
add that, I have’ more confidence in
moral suasion and diplomacy as
methods of achievement than radi-
calism.
Very truly yours,
B. J. Gregg, M.D.
Counciiman Gregg says he didn't
say it, while Councilmen Brown and
George say he did, The difference
is ouly a question of veracity be-
tween the gentlemen named, with
two against one. Therefore, the pre-
ponderance of evidence is against
Gregs.
If Gresx has ever “labored hard
for ‘Negro’ advancement in Cleve-
land” we have failed to learn of it
tho we have watched his career here
ever since he landed, trom “down
home".— Editor,
WikGiin Sed Ccans wane we.
Hon, Harry C. Smith,
Editor Gazette, Cleveland, 0.
Dear Sir:—I appreciate your call
ing me over the telephone and ap-
prizing me of that part of Dr.
Gregg’s letter to you which refers ta
me. I did not give you the informa:
tion whieh was the basis of your edi.
torial but I presume you got it from
some oue who had talked with me
about the matter,
First, let me give you the “heart”
of the resolution referred to:
“That a special committee of three
members of this Council, to be ap-
pointed by the mayor, is hereby au-
thorized and directed’ to investigate
the operation of the City Hospital
and any contracts of the city with
any institutions or agencies with a
view of ascertaining whether full
and equal opportunities are accord-
ed all citizens for training in medical
and nursing professions”.
This was discussed in a meeting
among a number of friends. It was
at that meeting that Dr. E. J. Gregg
opposed the resolution on the ground
that it was untimely; that there ex-
isted an organization of white nurses
which would not allow their mem-
bers to work with colored nurses,
and if we tried to force colored girls
into the City Hospital it might dis-
rupt the morale of the entire hos-
pital.
I maintained then, as I do now,
that an official investigation and re-
port on the matter will giye us a
basis on which to work. Itvis both
timely and right to open the City
Hospital to our boys and girls. ‘This
is as near as it is humanly possible
to quote the facts.
‘The doctor (Greg) and I were
not the only members of our race
present. Atty. Clayborn George,
councilman, was also present, Please
call him and ask him to relate what
he understood Dr. Gresg to say. Mr.
George favored the resolution, as did
most persons present.
Very truly yours,
Russell S, Brown.
George Also Says Gregg Said It.
Cleveland, April 9, ‘29.
Hon. Harry C. Smith,
Editor Gazette, Cleveland, 0,
Dear Mr, Smith:—In ‘answer to
your inquiry over the telephone, to-
day, with reference to statements
made by Dr, E. J. Gregg, I wish to
advise that I was present at a meet-
ing where a proposed resolution of
Rey, Russell Brown was being dis-
cussed, This resolution in substance
asked for an investigation on the
part of the City Council of the City
Hospital with reference to equal op-
portunities being furnished to all
people for the training of nurses and
internes. According to my best rec-
ollection, Dr. Gregg said that the
American Association of Nurses of
New York and Philadelphia objected
to the training of white and colored
nurses in the same hospital, and be-
cause of the attitude of the American
Nurses’ Association he thought the
resolution was untimely. He further
said that if colored nurses were
placed into the City Hospital it
would destroy the morale of and af-
fect seriously the services rendered
there, and for that reason he was op-
posed to the placing of colored nurs-
es in the City Hospital. Dr. Gregs
further said that he did not believe
that this would be true with ref-
erence to colored internes. He was
also opposed to the resolution be-
cause he felt that more could be ac-
complished by working quietly than
by giving publicity to it.
Hoping this may give you the in-
formation desired, I remain,
Sincerely yours,
Clayborne George.
Gregg’s reasons for opposing the
admission of our girls in the nursing
school at the City Hospital are sim-
ply ridiculous and a rank insult to
all of our people of this community.
—Liitor.
GO BACK “HOME” GREGG!
Councilman B. J. Gregg is opposed
to our people exercising their citizen
rights in a public institution sup-
ported by the taxpayers of the com-
munity, among whom we number
thousands, because organized preju-
iced white nurses “would not work
with our nurses", he says, and be-
cause “foreing our girls into the City
Hospital nurse-sehool might disrupt
the morale of the entire hospital,”
he continues.
Now, really can sou believe that a
sane member of the race, a doctor
and a elty councilman, too, could
possibly deliver himself, in this day
and time and in this city, of such rot,
and, too, in the presence and hearing
of white colleagues, members of the
Cleveland City Council? 0, Lord
God of Hosts, have merey!
“We should worry" whether prej-
udiced white nurses worked with
ours or not, and whether “the morale
of the entire City Hospital” was “dis-
rupted” or not! As far as the for-
mer are concerned, “we don't give a
jdarn”, aud as for the latter, if any
‘persons are to worry about that “‘mo-
rale” let the public's servants in
‘charge of City Hospital, who are paid
‘by the taxpayers thousands of whom
jare our people, do it. And we are
“not so sure there would be any, when
‘those nurses or others at the hos-
pital, who are prejudiced, were told
‘they could stay or go, as they saw ft.
Why is Grege so anxious'to please
prejudiced persons, even to the ex
tent of denying his own people their
ttn rights in that public institu-
‘tion? Is the man bereft or what in
the world is the matter with him?
One thing sure, he is in the wrong
city and state with such “down
home” stuff in pis mind and should
“up stakes” and hurry on back to
“dear old Tennessee” or wherever In
‘the South he came trom. He is more
‘than fifty years behind the times, for
‘this section of the moral vineyard.
Go back South, Gregg! And for
God's sake and that of your own
people of this city, at least, stay
there until you can “take that red
bandanna off your head, Here, you
jare in the way and trying to “block
che einwavel:
GREGG'S LATEST
HOSPITAL IDEA!
_ Addressing the Baptist Ministers’
meeting, April 15, Councilman E. J.
Gregg is said to have announced that
he was not now advoca‘ing a “jim-
crow” hospital for this city, but one
‘on the East-side of the city, the ma-
Jority of its official personnel (those
in charge of it) to be “Negroes”.
Such an institution would do. the
same harm that a “jim-crow” hospi-
tal would, because ALL “Negro” pa-
tients that went to the other hospi-
als in the city, as they do now, would
be sent to Gresg’s “makeshift” insti-
tution, and that would rob our peo-
ple of the right to enter the other
hospitals as they do now. ‘Then, too,
there {s no need of such a halt or
two-thirds “‘jim-crow"” institution,
since “Negro” patients in this com-
muuity are being better cared for now
than they could possibly ever hope to
be in a “hospital” such as Gregg ad-
yocates for the selfish purpose of get-
ting a few Jobs for “Jim-crow Ne
groes”, physicians and others, who
do not seem to be able to make a
good living otherwise. Is this the
thing that City Manager Wm. R. Hop-
kins and Councilman Gregg have
been “rubbing noses or heads" over
for the past year or so? We want
to know! Cleveland will never start
or maintain such an unnecessary
thing. Let the “Jim-crow Negroes”,
physicians and others, do it if they
can, There will be no objection to
their having such a private institu-
tion. Why don’t they go on back
“down home” and revel in “Jim:
crow” hospitals and about everything
else. They are making nuisances of
themselves here, trying to not only
impede our peoples’ progress in this
community but positively trying to
make them retrograde. Shame?
BROWN AND GEORGE
ARE NOT LIARS!
Our local contemporary, quotes
Councilman E. J. Gregg as saying,
last week, in reference to what
Councilmen Russell S. Brown and
Clayborne George say he said at that
caucus of Republican members of the
Cleveland City Council, several weeks
ago, referred to on page 4 of
this paper:
“Did you make such a statement?
Gregg was asked”, said our local
contemporary, last week.
“No, that’s a damned le”, replied
Gregg, according to said contempor-
ary.
Rey. Dr. R. S. Brown, pastor of
Mt, Zion Congregational church, and
Atty. Clayborne George, councilman-
ie colleagues of Gregg, say he did
say it, that they distinctly heard
him, and have sent letters to that
effect to The Gazette which we pub-
Ushed, last week, and give again,
this week, for the express purpose of
combating just such a statement as
Gregg is credited with by our local
contemporary.
Now then what sort of man is this
Dr. E. J. Gregg, councilman, that he
uses such language in referring to
the truthful statements of his col-
leagues of color, one of whom is a
Christian minister? And we under-
stand that Gregg is a member of
Zion Hill Baptist church. What
must its members and his constitu-
ents and the public think of him? To
another question, Gregg is quoted
as saying: “H—ll, no!” Well, well,
WELL! Isn’t that and his other re-
ply (above) awful? What say you,
Rev. Dr. C. C. Aller, pastor of Zion
Hill Baptist church? Will the mem-
bers of your congregation “church”
Gregg? Brown and George sure have
their colleague of color ina hole and
a big one, too. But that is not a
“marker” to what his constituents
will do to him, if he has the temer-
ity to be a candidate for re-election,
‘Yhis fall. Goodbye! Gress,
Harry C. Smith.
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Editor.
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The Truth:
What would cause other peo-
ple to gnash their teeth, and
gird <heir loins is question of
debate for us. Kick us, beat
us, pile depredations upon us,
tevile us, abuse us, lie about
us, malign us and even impugn
our valor aud we are not unan-
imously insulted. It seems im-
possible to establish unanimity
of insult in the black race—
Chicago (Ill.) Whip.
“WORTH ITS WEIGHT IN
GOLD"!
Cleveland, O., Aug. 28th, 1925.
Hon. Harry C. Smith,
Editor, Gazette,
Dear Friend!—I have read
the latest copy of The Gazette
through and after reading it,
I can truthfully say: It is
worth its weight in gold!
I admire tue manhood—a
man who, seeing injustice and
oppression, dares, within the
limits of the law, to expose it
and, if possible smite it. You
and I have frequently, during
the forty-two years since the
birth of The Gazette, becn, as
the Scotch would say, like two
MeNeils, but when I find a man,
such as you, who consistently,
and persistently, through near:
ly half a century, puts his race
foremost in hia’ life struggle,
I take off my hat to him, as
being a true friend of ‘our
class. Long life to you and
The Gazette,
Yours for the right
John P. Green.
(Former Member, Ohio State
Senate.)
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