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NEW SOUTHERN POLICY SYMPOSIUM! FORTY-SIXTH YEAR NEW FREE EX With Plate SIXTH YEAR. No 43. NEW SOU FREE EXTRACTION With Plate and Bridge Work FORTY-SIXTH YEAR. No 43. FREE EXTRACTION! X-Ray Gas Administered. Special Attention to Children Dr. L. L. Elm 201-3 Woodland Market 'Phone DR. E. Physician Special Attention Woman 201-3 Woodland Market 'Phone, Office, RAn. 2300 Lustig's Cut SPE FOR SAT 25c Packer's Tar S 10c Kirk's Hard W 10c Jap Rose Soap 35c Mum . . . . . 60c Mum . . . . . 65c O'Dorono . . . 50c Fracy Perfume Ideal for H FREE PALM O WITH EACH 3 CREAM, A Lustig's Cut 5427 WOOD Northwest Corner Dr. L. L. Ellison, Dentist 201-3 Woodland Market Bldg., 5400 Woodland Ave. 'Phone, RAn, 1454. 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With-Vare contests in the United States Senate; League and its working in connection with the K Meaching of the 16th Amendment. These and oth- rent interest discussed. $1.00-First Edition in Press-Order T. A. HEBBONS, Publisher Dept. B Formation of the Populist Party and history of the Populist-Republican Fusion Movement in Alabama and the South; giving also, the facts as to Disfranchisement. Diagnosis of the Southern Political Situation and an Analysis of existing Political Conditions Smith-Vare contests in the United States Senate; the Anti- Saloon League and its working in connection with the Klu Klux; the Lynching of the 16th Amendment. These and other topics of present interest discussed. Price $1.00—First Edition in Press—Order Now 184 West 185th Street STRA $1 Famous 4507 See Us First for STRAW HATS $1.85 Famous Cap Factory 4507 Central Avenue See Us First for All Goods in Our L. JOHN S. HALE Prices Reasonable. Satisfaction Guaranteed. JEWELER AND OPTOMETRIST Saves Carefully Examined and Glasses Properly Fitted Central Ave., Cleveland, O. See Us First for ALL Goods in Our Line JOHN S. HALE Prices Reasonable. Satisfaction Guaranteed. JEWELER AND OPTOMETRIST Eyes Carefully Examined and Glasses Properly Fitted. 3183 Central Ave., Cleveland, O. CHerry 1873 THE GAZETTE ESTABLISHED, AUGUST 25, 1883 And Issued Every Week on Time Since CLEVELAND, OHIO, SATURDAY, JUNE 1, 1929. Two More Attacked by Clinic Gas WALTER JACKSON clinic hope JACKSON, china tepai POLICEMAN JACOB GROSS, gas sticker, ◀ ' demolition of and his children, LOUISE and MARGARET led up to windows, at cluim. HERO COLLAPSES ON THE SIDE-WALK Warned Against Exertion, with Wife in Hospital, Couldn't Afford Pay Loss. As outstanding hero of the Cleveland Clinic disaster was warned, last Saturday week, that overexertion might result in permanently impaired health. But, despite the warning, he was encouraged just as unlucky, last week, in washing automobiles means of livelihood. He is Walter B. Jackson, age 24, weight 200 pounds, of 2229 E. 82d St., the six-foot-six inches man who propped a ladder on his shoulders first and later on his knees and permitted ten persons to escape the death-dealing poison gas that they built. Undaunted by this deed, Jackson brushed aside police and firemen and rushed into the gas-filled clinic and brought out ten others, mostly women, who had been overcome by the poison gas fumes. Thousands watched the hero in action and cheers rang out when he had been liberated and faced death to save 20 persons who had been trapped in the hospital. Collapses on Sidewalk. Jackson suffered no ill effects from his valiant activities for several days after the disaster. The last of the week, he noticed that he was easily tired. Last week Friday afternoon, fearing a complete breakdown, he started from his place of employment at Carnegie Ave. and E. 93d St., to Clinic hospital on E. 90th St. He collapsed on the sidewalk within a few feet of the entrance to the hospital, was carried in and examined, that strenuous exercise might cost his life, permitted him to go to his home and advised him to rest for several days. But last Saturday morning found him on the job. "I can't afford to lose my pay," he said. "I've got to work to support my family." Wife Is in Hospital. He explained that his wife, Elsie, had been taken to City hospital, suffering from a serious illness that promises to be protracted. After his wife had been taken away, Jackson was unable to care for his little daughter, Gloria, aged eight months, and sent her to the home of his parents in Pittsburgh. "I don't feel like working, but I've got to earn some money," Jackson said. Jackson was among the first to reach the scene of the disaster after it began, and attempted to reach victims on the second floor of the building it was discovered their ladder was too short. Patrolman Is Recovering. Patrolman is Recovering. Jackson hoisted the ladder to his shoulders first and then rested it on his knees and balanced it against the victims crawled down it to safety. He then made several trips into the gas-filled building, carrying ten other victims outside to firemen who were adminis- tering oxygen. Bystanders lauded his action, but he slipped away into the crowd without giving his name. Later he was discovered at his place of work, but would not discuss the health of his plaque. "Anybody would have done it," was his only comment. St. James' A. M. E. church was the first contributor of cash for the rehabilitation of the Cleveland Clinic. It collected $53 at Sunday morning's services to be turned over to the committee in charge of rebuilding the hospital. E. J. Jackson the automobile washer who was one of the Clinic disaster heroes, is a member of the choir. At a meeting of the church's Literary Forum, Sunday afternoon, he told briefly how he held the ladder down which ten persons escaped. The forum was held at the hospital. It also adopted a resolution urging that Jackson he awarded a medal by the Carnegie Hero Commission. Another victim of the gas fires, Patrolman Jacob Gross, was recovering, last week Saturday, from a belated attack. He collapsed while walking across the Main Ave. bridge, crushed to his home at 3469 Tuttle Ave. a police squarer. Physicians who examined him advised him, too, to rest for several days. AWARDED SPINGARN MEDAL. New York City—Rev. Mordecai W. Johnson, our first president Howard University, Washington, D.C., has been awarded the fifteenth Spingarn Medal (for 1928). Dr Johnson was born in 1890 in Henry County, Tenn.; was educated at Morehouse College and the University of Chicago, and was graduated from Rochester Theological seminary. He was a graduate student at Harvard University and obtained the degree of Doctor of Divinity from Howard University in 1923. Dr Johnson was unanimously elected president O. Howard University, June 20, 1926. "The Birth (Rape) of a Nation", Columbus, O.—"The Birth (rape) of a Nation", miserable and scurrilous motion picture "depicting" Civil War days and insultingly caricaturing Grant, Lincoln, Lovejoy and others of this country's leading historical characters, is again before the state board of film censorship for admittance to the state. Two governors, the late Frank B. Willis (Repub.), and A. V. Donahue (Dem.), and A. V. Donahue (Dem.), the ground it created racial prejudice. It was first shown in the state in 1915 and later for a brief period only under the administration of former Gov. James M. Cox (Dem.). National Press Association Meet. Milwaukee, Wisc.—Our National Press Association which met here recently, elected the following named officers: Benj. J. Davis, press, Atlanta; Joseph Bass, vice-pres., Los Angeles; J Anthony Josey, 2nd vice-pres., Milwaukee; Henry Allen Boyd; cor. sec-treas, Nashville; Mrs. A. Tittle, rec. sec, Nashville; Dr. W. J. Thompkins, auditor, Kansas City; J E. Mitchell, chair. ex. com. St. Louis EX-CONG. T. E. MILLER. Was a Leader in the Reconstruction Period—He Does Not Ask For Money. Atlanta, Ga.—The faculty and student body of Georgia State Industrial College were very highly honored by the presence of the Hon. Thomas E. Miller, for 18 years a student of the South Carolina legislature; served two terms to the U. S. Congress; founder and first president of our South Carolina State College, now a resident of Philadelphia. Mr. Miller said, among other things: "I am here because I wanted to come. I also am here because I have been invited, but I do not ask for money. I have not asked my people for pay for my services in 30 years because they made it possible for me to come to the place where I could serve them without pay." Dr. Miller is sure not of this day and time. He was a leader in the days of the reconstruction just after the close of the war of the rebellion. Barnes Lost Two. Oberlin, O.—Despite the shock of a double defeat for Jim Barnes ("Aro"), its outstanding star, Oberlin worked through to win the Ohio conference track and field field with a bitter struggle with Wooster. Oberlin won only two first places. Barnes in the low hurdles and Jack Service in the one mile, but was able to place in 11 of the 15 events for a total of $48\frac{1}{2}$ points to carry it beyond Wooster's final rush. Wooster had 46 points. Although twice beat Barnes, the final event was instrumental in bringing Oberlin the winning points. Barnes took the 220-yard low hurdles in 24 seconds flat and Oberlin made it an unexpected one, two with Captain Hubbard trailing him. The nine points made here, in the third last event, the final victory. Come, Barnes, however, was the leading scorer. His two seconds and one first gave him 13 points, and, in addition, he ran with the relay team. They're Sure Good Spenders. New Orleans, La.—Sales, to our people in this city, of the three standard commodities, groceries, clothes and shoes, average 21 per cent of the total sale of commodities in New Orleans, the U. S. Department of Commerce at Washington has just announced. Only Baltimore, Birmingham and Norfolk exceeded this city in volume of sales to our people among southern cities, the report said. Will some one up there kindly notify Dr. James K. Nickens of Cleveland, Ohio, who lectures on "Where the Negro's Money Goes"? Hon. Perry B. Jackson has been appointed a member of the program committee of the Cleveland Bar Association by President Harrison B. McGraw. Mr. Jackson was ill at his home, the first of the week. SINGLE COPY FIVE CENTS HOOVER,"LILY-WHITE" AND DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE IN THE SOUTH THOROLY DISCUSSED AND "CUSSED"! The Republican Party Cannot Hold Our Vote in the North and Eliminate Our Southern Leadership in Party Affairs. Mr. Hoover Swings a Broom. Every Republican president new to the job dreams of a sweeping party reorganization in the south that shall shatter the historic hold of the opposition. Herbert Hoover, having earned much of the south in November, has a better basis for the hope than any predecessor. So he sets about promptly to put Republicanism on a sounder basis below the old war line. It would mean much to both parties and to both sections if the Hoover program could come to the desired fruition. As long as the south remained solidly Democratic and the north predominantly Republican, both parties were in a measure sectional; each section entertained some suspicion of the other. This newspaper had long argued that the political breaking up of the solid south would bring a blessing to all concerned can party he must first drive the Negroes from it. That will leave both parties to the Kluxers and the drys, and the Republican party will be even more anti-Negro than the Democratic. It will be an unmerciful surrender of loyal men into total subjection. The Negro has been faithful to the Republican party because it gave him the only protection he ever knew; now he is to be betrayed by his friends. The upbuilding of a strong two-party system in the south should not come until the south enfranchises the Negro or the constitutional penalty of reduction of representation in congress for failure to do so. Furthermore, the great he evidence that the Negro is to be given justice in the courts. The Republican party must not compromise with the nullificationists. It cannot repudiate its origins. — Editorial from Chicago Daily Tribune. Practical difficulties, however, lie across the path of the Hoover plan. His party cannot hope, for instance, to emphasize the race issue in the south without destroying in the north a racial solidarity that has meant hundreds of thousands of Republican voters. It cannot be "lily white" south without paying the price elsewhere. Scandals growing out of federal patronage in southern states have given serious concern to three Republican administrations, and the Brookhart committee has on file a mass of evidence bearing on the alleged trafficking in appointments. Republican leaders in several states have said they are not new Republican knew, or should have known, of these corrupt practices. Their repudiation by the president may or may not be good politics, but at least it looks like a just retribution. The purpose behind the Hoover move is that of political purification at a point where the process has long been needed. Ten of both parties have been involved. The trafficking encountered will challenge the skill of a president accustomed to achievement.—Editorial from Cleveland Daily Plain Dealer. The Republican Party South President Hoover has revived the problem of reconstruction in the south. Having captured Florida and the border states for the Republican party, he is challenging the Democratic monopoly in Georgia, Mississippi, and South Carolina. He has repudiated the Republican party or its affiliates, those states and the President directs that they be replaced by new leaders, presumably white. In Texas, Alabama, and Florida the existing Republican organizations will be subject to the discipline of advisory committees acceptable to the administration. The organization is undertaken, according to the official announcement, to create a working two-party system in the south and to eliminate abuses in federal patronage and other corruption. It is, of course, entirely proper for the President to attempt the correction of unwholesome conditions whereby Republican delegates from the south are traded in at least one location whereby government jobs are pledged. The welfare of the nation, Mr. Hoover said, depends upon strong two-party representation and organization, with the abolition of sectionalism. That is a good doctrine, but in order to accomplish it the Democratic party in the south must be reformed as well as the Republican. What Mr. Hoover proposes to do is to abolish the Republican organization as a protection for the Negroes and deliver it to a faction of the Democratic party. It will be enabled for its new occupants, freed from its Negro tenants, and furnished as a socially acceptable mansion for southern gentlemen. The Republican party will sacrifice its Negroes, Wades, Summers, and Stevenses are needed to prevent it. Under existing conditions in the south the Republican party organization has been the only asylum for the Negro. In violation of the constitution, he is disfranchised and the protection of the ballot box is denied to him. He gets slave justice in the southern courts and he may be murdered with impunity. Only, then, in the councils of the Republican organization has arrived against him are southern whites with their Ku Klux Klan, whites with a thirst for mint juleps for themselves and prohibition for the Negro. The enemies of the Negro compose the Democratic party in the south. If Mr. Hoover succeeds in attracting southern squires to the Republi- 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 NEWBIEST AND BEST published in the interest of Afro-Americans. E COPY FIVE CENTS SIUM! WHITE" AND DEMOCRATIC UTH THOROLY DISCUSSED "CUSSED"! Cannot Hold Our Vote in the te Our Southern Leader- can party he must first drive the Negroes from it. That will leave both parties to the Kluxers and the drys, and the Republican party will be even more anti-Negro than the Democratic. It will be an unmerrific surrender of loyal men into total subjection. The Negro has been faithful to the Republican party because it gave him the only protection he ever knew; now he is to be betrayed by his friends. During the killing of a strong two-party system in the south should not come until the south enfranchises the Negro or the constitutional penalty of reduction of representation in congress for failure to do so. Furthermore there must be evidence that the Negro is to be given justice in the courts. The Republican party must not compromise with the nullificationists. It cannot repudiate its origins. — Editorial from Chicago Daily Tribune. "Fumigating the Republican Party" The political storm clouds, which began to gather shortly after the late Warren G. Harding was elected to the Presidency in 1920, have at last broken, and in the consequent deluge the Negro finds himself literally a cast-away drifting in the treacherous sea of Republican "illy-whiteism". In the intervening years, since Harding, there were many well-meaning, sincere Negroes in the Republican party who could not discern the inevitable drift of their party southward to the pre-pandemic. With remarkable courage and admirable loyalty to the political faith of their fathers, these men and women staunchely stood by the "old ship" as she rose and fell in the stormy seas of expediency pitilessly lashed on either side by the resistless winds of economic determinism. For them it must have been a moment pregnant with fear and trembling as they read the news emanating from Washington, D. C., recently. On that day, President Hoover, the titular head of the Republican party, in New York, the newspaper, made his final bid to the political affections of the "Dixie" for reading out of his party the Negro upon whose bed of sorrows and slavery that same party was born and nurtured, over three score years ago. "The Republican party is the ship; all else the sea" once thundered the immortal Frederick Douglass. Today that ship, with Captain Hoover at the helm, grimly rides the stormy seas of economic and social change. At her mast-head, she actively pennants a pennant upon which is inscribed in a pennant and bright "FOR WHITE ONLY" on her water-soaked deck, quaker and "cracker" embrace. If Douglas, Lincoln and the other great souls of yesteryear who helped to fashion the Republican party into a weapon with which to cut "the Cordon knot of slavery" could but come back to life, they would face a spectacle too tragic here to describe with pen. Surely, history offers few ironies to the present-day attitude of the Republican party in the United States. Within recent years, if there was anyone outstanding point which distinguished the Republican from the Democratic party it was the more cleverly veiled and slightly less hostile attitude which the G. O. P. showed toward the political prerogatives of the Negro. Now, even that alleged difference has been leveled and both parties will henceforth vie with each other in the South America for truth, white America does not know the its popular conception of him is an American of African descent whose forebears 300 years ago were kidnapped into the western world as slaves, and who, thrue the changing centuries, has remained just a slave with a child's mind. If you ask the average American about the Negro today, you will hear a tale which takes you back to plantation days when America generally does know that the Negro has his own philosophy of life; that he is demanding a new kind of religion, one which places the emphasis upon life instead of upon death—forecasting thereby, his inevitable demand for a new economic and social order; that the type of Negro, immortalized by Harriet Beecher Stowe in "Uncle Tom's Cabin", is surely passing from the stage of action; and that a new Negro is gradually forging to the front upon the broad base of equality with other men! The present "Fumigation Program" of President Hoover and his party may yet make plain that fact—Frank R. Crosswait. --- MEET ME FACE TO FACE AT THE SUNDAY SCHOOL CONGRESS In Cleveland, Ohio, June 5--10 One Year ..... $2.00 Six Months ..... 1.00 Subscribers are requested to remit by postoffice money order or registered letter. Entered at the postoffice in Cleveland, Ohio, as second-class mail matter Address all communications to HARRY C. SMITH Editor and Proprietor THE GAZETTE 226 W. Superior Ave., Cleveland, O. (Bell 'Phone: CHerry 1259) Member Ohio Legislature: 1894 to 1896; 1896 to 1898; 1900 to 1902. IN-UNION IS STRENGTH 10,000,000 Afro-Americans. 350,000 in Ohio. 40,000 in Cleveland. SATURDAY, JUNE 1, 1929. There are vacancies in the Cleveland city plan commission at least one of which should be awarded our group and would be, if we only had the right kind of local leadership Our councilmen could help, if they would! The misnomer and term "Negro" forced on our people in this country by southern members of the Congress, can be "eradicated", as far as we are concerned, by the same august body, regardless of how "firmly fixed" it may seem to be. Prof Kelly Miller and others. And this will be done, too, in time. --- Soon after President Calvin Coolidge was elected, his leading "Negro" supporters gave out interviews just like Dr. R. R. Moton's, issued recently after a conference with President Herbert Hoover. Its political applause! that's all, brothers and sisters. We are not "from Missouri", where one has only to "show", but are "from Ohio" (in this matter) where one has to "show" and prove. See! When Casper Holstein of N. Y. City and Finley Wilson (present G. E. R.) rival candidates for grand exalted ruler of our Elks, get done "washing their dirty linen" in public, the great body of Elks in this country and elsewhere is going to know a great deal more about the inside workings of the order than they ever knew before. The controversy has reached the stage "next door to court proceedings" with the two candidates still in the stellar roles. There used to be an old saying that when some individuals fall out then honest persons get their just dues, or something like that. Remember it? MENCKEN PART RIGHT. "The Afro-American has made progress since emancipation and has earned everything he has got", according to H. L. Mencken (white), editor of American Mercury (N. Y. magazine). Continuing he says: "But the race does not seem to realize that the class consciousness developing within the group, together with the ignorant ministers, will hold it back from further progress". Not only "the ignorant ministers", Mr. Mencken, but also many intelligent but dishonest ones, as well as numerous "blowbag" so-called "business men" of color are holding the race "back from further progress". These latter are even worse than the ministers referred to. "THE METROPOLITAN". Recently, the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company headquarters in New York City admitted that it was the rule of the company NOT to employ Afro-Americans to look after even "the large amount of business the company has in force on colored lives". This, it is announced, amounts to nine hundred million dollars, and nets the company two million dollars a week; all from our people! And in some places, presumably southern cities, the company maintains "jim-crow" local offices where our people are required to go to pay their dues. It ought not to be necessary to tell any one what to do to the Metropolitan Life Ins. Co. Only let all know the foregoing. Tell it, TELL IT! to all Afro-Americans you meet, everywhere. FLIPPER, YOUNG, ALEXANDER. Lieut. Henry O. Flipper, our first graduate of West Point U. S. Military Academy, was an ideal officer until "framed" out of the army by the same kind of prejudice that forced Cadet Whittaker of South Carolina and other other boys of the race out of West Point. Lieut. John Alexander, like Col. Charles Young, was a "West Pointer", a resident of this state and an ideal officer until death took him away. Col. Benj. O. Davis of this city and several other Afro-American officers in the U. S. Army are credited with being exceptionally competent and satisfactory. Then there are our chaplains. They are officers and every one has "made good". Surely no sane person in this day and time questions the fact that Afro-Americans make good soldiers which means good officers, too. France and Brazil (and other countries) have black men who are high officers in their army and navy. Wasn't it Gen. Dodds, the great French mulatto officer, who was second in command of the world's allied forces in Chinese waters during the "boxer" uprising? That is our remembrance, anyhow. ing at the City Hospital and our girls attending the school for nurses there, Mr. Hopkins? Will it finally be necessary for us to carry that matter into the courts in order to secure our rights and privileges at tax-payers and citizens in that PU LIC institution? Councilman R. S. Brown should get an answer to each of these questions, and others, once, and not wait any longer. Come on Geo. A. Myers and other public spirited and racially loyal Afro-Americans of this community an let us put up one hundred dollar each for the employment of an attorney to take the matter into the courts and settle it RIGHT, without longer wait on Brown or Hopkins, one of our loyal and public spirited attorneys will not offer h "THE BIRTH OF A NATION". The editor of The Gazette led the fight that resulted in barring that scurrilous motion picture, "The Birth (rape) of a Nation", from the state when Frank B. Willis was governor, and again during the World War when this state's chief executive was a Democrat. Now the miserable thing is again seeking to distribute its venom throughout Ohio as it did for a brief period early in World War time. Watch and see if Ohio's colorline governor, Myers Y. Cooper of Cincinnati, does not permit the state board of film censors to accede to the request, of the backers of "The Birth (rape) of a Nation", to again enter the state. The Ku Klux Klan always backs the venomous film. It is unquestionably the most harmful picture ever exhibited in this country. As a promoter o. dissensions between the races, it has no equal and never has had. HOW ABOUT CITY HOSPITAL? Announcement was made, early this week, by City Manager W. R. Hopkins, Major John Berry, sup't. Municipal Air Port, and Bert Ison, sup't. Universal Air Lines, Inc., that all persons, regardless of race or color, are entitled to and will be given equal privileges in the use of all facilities at the Municipal Air Port of Cleveland. This pronouncement is a result of an action filed, in court, last week, by Mrs. Dorothy Lyles thru her attorney, the Hon. Perry B. Jackson, against the Northern and Universal Air Lines, Inc., which use the Municipal Air Port, charging them with refusing to permit her to ride in one of the aeroplanes operated by them, notwithstanding the fact that she had purchased a ticket for the same. The action is still pending. How about our internes function- ing at the City Hospital and our girls attending the school for nurses there, Mr. Hopkins? Will it finally be necessary for us to carry that matter into the courts in order to secure our rights and privileges as tax-payers and citizens in that PUBLIC institution? Councillman R. S. Brown should get an answer to each of these questions, and others, at once, and not wait any longer. Come on Geo. A. Myers and other public spirited and racially loyal Afro-Americans of this community and let us put up one hundred dollars each for the employment of an attorney to take the matter into the courts and settle it RIGHT, without longer wait on Brown or Hopkins, if some one of our loyal and public spirited attorneys will not offer his services. Let us stop begging for rights and privileges in **public** institutions we are entitled to, as tax-payers and citizens, we can get promptly by going into court and fighting for them just as Mrs. Dorothy Lyles has done within a week. She should not stop her suit until those Air Lines are made to pay her the damages, for the insult, she is clearly entitled to under our Ohio Civil Rights law. NEVAL H. THOMAS, SPEAKER! Congressman Hamilton Fish, Jr. of N. Y. City, and President Mordecal W. Johnson of Howard University, Washington, D. C., are announced as speakers for the N. A. A. C. P. mass meeting to be held in Public Hall, this city, June 30, '29, during that organization's twentieth annual conference. Many of our people of this city and state, interested in the N. A. A. C. P., have for weeks been awaiting an announcement, from its headquarters in N. Y. City, that Prof. Neval H. Thomas, president of the Washington, D. C., branch and the organization's most militant and most successful worker, last year, in the interest of the race, is to be one of its speakers at this annual conference. Indeed, he should have been given the Spingarn medal, last year, for his outstanding, successful work against segregation in the governmental departments at the nation's capital. For many years when a youth Prof. Thomas' home was here in Cleveland, and Ohio is his native state. Naturally, he is very popular here and throut the state. Indeed, he still has relatives resident here. There is no person, as yet announced as a speaker, whose selection would please as greatly so very many of our local residents and those of Ohio who will send a number of delegates to the annual meet of the organization to be held here Every citizen of Cleveland is invited to the Sunday afternoon musical and mass meeting to be held in this City Auditorium, Sixth Street and Lake Drive, Sunday afternoon, June 9th. Come and bring somebody. LIVE AND PUBLIC AUDITORIUM in Cleveland, the last of this month. More; it will do more to help fill that great Public Hall, June 30, than any thing else, and to fill it is a much bigger job than some N. A. A. C. P. officials here and in N. Y. City seem to realize. There is nothing, absolutely nothing, the organization, local and national, can do that will so stimulate the lukewarm interest, in Cleveland and elsewhere in Ohio, in the coming conference as the announcement soon of the selection of Prof. Neval H. Thomas as a speaker for the N. A. A. C. P. mass meeting in this city on June 30, '29. FRESH OHIO N. LORAIN.—The political meeting, scheduled for Carack's hall, May 28, will be held in 21st St. church. Music by a girls' chorus from Oberlin College.—Miss Hila Young's funeral was held from Wichen's parlor, Sunday, under the auspices of Eastern Star chapter and Daughter Elks. The remains were shipped to Wren for interment. The Elks' district grand lodge will convene here, Sunday. The outstanding attractions will be the parade in the afternoon and the memorial sermon Mrs. Gerald I. visiting her mum and Mrs. J. J. tavia, Sunday.—is better.—Bap New Hope Bapti ALLIANCE.—some attended to of the third E. Pittsburg, last T. Mrs. Cora Roach Grace Robinson visited it, last w Jones-Hudkin Bout Likely. Akron, O.-Talk of matching "Gorilla" Jones with Ace Hudkins brot immediate action. The match is wanted in Chicago for June 7, according to Suey Welch, Jones' manager, and New York interests are about for Suey to give the month. It is likely that the bout will go the "Gotham" as Jones is fighting Al Mello, of Lowell, Mass., in Boston, June 3, and the Chicago date would be too early. Welch also is dickering for three bouts on the west coast for this summer. According to the local correspondent of a Chicago paper, "Dame Rumor" has Alonzo Wright engaged to Miss Henrietta Cheeks, one of our local public-school teachers, and about to wed Miss Florence Bunny, director of girls' activities at Central Ave. bath-house. According to said correspondent, Alonzo "is goin' some". FRESH OHIO NEWS LORAIN.—The political meeting, scheduled for Carack's hall, May 28, will be held in 21st St. church. Music by a girls' chorus from Oberlin College. — Miss Hila Young's funeral was held from Wichens' parlor, Sunday, under the auspices of Eastern Star chapter and Daughter Elks. The remains were shipped to Wren for interment. — The Elks' district grand lodge will convene here, Sunday. The outstanding attractions will be the parade in the afternoon and the memorial sermon in the evening. — In Heworthorne high auditorium. — A health lecture and cooking demonstration in St. Mathews A. M. E. church by a state health commissioner, Wednesday evening. — Ladies Aid. No. 2, gave a style-show, May 29, in 12th St. Baptist church. Mrs. Daisy St. Clair, pres. HILLSBORO.—Mrs. Estella Young and Orval, Carr of Detroit are here visiting.—Mrs. Madge Metcalf has returned from Washington, D. C. She spent the winter there.—The play, "Ethiopia at the Bar of Justice," given by her husband, Seeseon, for this church, Washington C. H., Friday night, was well attended. A number from here were present. Mr. and Mrs. Vivian Hudson of Dayton and Mrs. Ona Lewis of Springfield visited their mother, Sunday.—Emerson Harewood, Christina Hancock, Roxie Williams, Faustina Hancock, and others were the eighth grade graduates at Lincoln school, last Tuesday night. —Mrs. Gerald Day of Cleveland is visiting her mother-in-law. —Rev. and Mrs. J. J. Burr visited in Batavia, Sunday. —Mrs. M. Donaldson is better. —Baptising, Sunday, at New Hope Baptist church ALLIANCE.—Rev. E. H. Newsome attended the first Chautauqua of the third Episcopal district in Pittsburg, last Thursday and Friday. Mrs. Grace Roach and niece, Mrs. Grace Robinson, of Pittsburg also visited it, last week—Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Garner announce the marriage, and Robert Johnson and Robert Johnson of Cleveland. Miss Virginia attended the Alliance high school and Duncan's Business College, Philadelphia. Mr. Johnson is in business in Cleveland—Mr. Caleb Brown of Akron was here, and Catherine Canaday and Earline Williams of Canton visited Miss Lucille Hutchingson, Sunday. Mrs. McCoy visited by Walker, vocalist, of Canton gave a concert at First Baptist church, Sunday evening.—Mrs. Maya McGowan of Chicago is visiting her mother, Mrs. Florence Phillips.—Mesdames Cora and Lillian Roach visited Mrs. Ethel Watkins in Massillon, last week.—Mr. and Mrs. Robert Donohue took the weekend in Youngstown with his brother. They will spend Decoration Day in Yellowstone, and Mrs. Brown of Salem visited Rev. Newsome, last week—Ray Boyd of Wilberforce is convalescing at his mother, Mrs. Florence Phillips'. Dr. LeROYN. BUNDY, Dentist, Cedar Branch Y. M. C. A. Cor. Cedar Ave. and E. 77th St. A HOME FOR YOUNG MEN! RESTAURANT - HOME COOKING Individual Beds $2.50-$3.00 RAndolph 8288. MRS. L. S. BRADLEY 2374 E. 84th St., Cleveland, O., Has Houses For Sale or to Rent JOHN P. 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Apply to Horace McGee, 2922 Scovill Ave. CLEVELAND Social and Personal Expert watch-repairing. Scars Bros., 2526 East 55th St.—Adv. Joe Hedges motored to the Kentucky derby, taking a party of friends. Mrs. Elisha Freeman and baby granddaughter, Shirley, E. 90th St. returned, last week Wednesday, from a visit with relatives in Chicago. Miss Lilian Smith, Ph. G., until recently for several years connected with the Douglass Pharmacy, has joined her mother in New York City. Clocks of all makes repaired. Scars Bros., 2526 East 55th St.—Adv. Revs. Henry P. Jones and D. O. Walker, accompanied by Major W. T. Anderson attended the educational chautauqua in Pittsburgh, last week. Hon. Harry E. Davis visited N. A. A. C. P. headquarters in N. Y. City, and at the interest in the teth annual to be held in this city, the last of the month. Mrs. Grace Leverette, formerly of this city, Detroit and Los Angeles, is visiting her mother, Mrs. Geo W. Edwards, E. 101st St., and sister, Mrs. Ruth Hayes, of E. 66th St. The Treble Clef club, of which Mrs. Olga Gann is directress, will give a musical at Antioch Baptist church, Sunday, at 4 p. m. The club is composed of some of our, leading local musicians. Fred C. Lewis was called to Cincinnati, recently, to attend the funeral of his father, Fountain C. Lewis, one of our pioneer citizens of that city and a long-time friend of the editor of The Gazette. Judge John J. Sullivan, of the court of appeals, was the speaker at St. James forum, Sunday. He is an exceptionally fine and interesting speaker. Judge Sullivan and the editor of The Gazette were colleagues in the Ohio Assembly, thirty-five years ago. McKinley Shy, age 27, formerly of 2354 E. 69th St., was brought from Lansing, Mich., to Cleveland, last Saturday night, to answer to a charge of murder in connection with the death of Robert Ross, age 25, who was killed last December in a card game argument. The Lacy School of Music gave its second pupils' vocal recital at St. TUBBY SAY, YOU WANTA BE MORE CAREF NOBODY SEES YOU COMIN' INTO THE SECRUT CAVE THAT WAS A LITTLE KID WATCHIN' YOU *ROSENBERG'S DRUG STORE Central Ave. and, 555th St. The Gazette regularly should notify copy delivered promptly. business matters to The Gazette , 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. ication 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.) FOR SALE—Two good bedroom sets of three pieces each. A BARGAIN—in good condition. Also Way-Sagless springs and first-grade mattresses, practically now; used less than two weeks. Call, CHerry 1259, in the afternoon. FOR SALE. — Player-piano, mahogany upright with bench. Will sell for $85, if bought at once, Call, CHerry 2830 or EVergreen 2633R. John's church, Monday evening. Participants: Marvel Hudson, Roberta Johnson, Lillian Reeves, Lucille Mitchell, Sarah Brewer, James Williams, Samuel Fitzsimmons and Cornelia Jones, who was featured in costume. Newton D. Baker, secretary of war under Woodrow Wilson, demonstrated in his official capacity what he thought of dark membere of America's fighting force during the war by humiliating them at every turn. Any dark American who served in the United States military forces when Woodrow Wilson and Newton Baker were in power knows what we must expect from that individual. —Chicago Defender. Professor Lindsay Rogers startled local Democrats, last Saturday night, when he bade good riddance to the solid Democratic south, and declared that the defection of southern Democracy was a boon to the party because the latter could now go out and lure western progressives into the fold. Rogers, the man who wrote the Smith text-book in the national campaign, and a professor of law at Columbia University, the state speaker as a veritable Democratic constellation turned out at Hotel Statler to congratulate the Women's Democratic club on its eighth anniversary. Led by Commander Lawrence O. Payne, Lemuel T. Boydston Post, American Legion, attended memorial services at Antioch Baptist church, Sunday, Rev. W. H. McKinney, pastor, who is also a Legion member, preached the sermon and chose his subject, "The Price of Peace". He spoke of the many lives lost in the quest of peace, the many milestones that the world will never have peace until the races of the earth learned to love and trust one another. Commander Payne led the Legion service in memory of departed comrades. Those of the post who died in the past year were: Major John C. Fulton, Wm. Hennessey, Albert M. Stokes, McDuffy Wicker and Thomas Mitte, The service was closed, taps, billed by Comrade Samuel V. Perry. Boydston Post decorated graves at Highland Park cemetery, Decoration day morning, after which it assembled at Legion headquarters, 2121 Euclid Ave., to take part in the annual Decoration day parade, having a large delegation. The entire parade body then assembled at Publix, where the main speaker being Gilbert Bettman, attorney general of Ohio, and former past state commander of the Legion. AUL US ERE D THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, O., SATURDAY, JUNE 1, 1929. HEY! I WANT IN THERE! I BET THAT'S HIM NOW How Else Could He Hear Himself Talk. NATIONAL BENEFIT MANAGERS CONVENE IN CLEVELAND Business Cleveland was astir, last week, with the activities of the conference of managers of the districts of The National Benefit Life Insurance Company, known as division "B". This conference brought to our city nineteen representative race men from six different states. Home-Office officials, including Mr. R. H. Rutherford, president - treasurer; Christopher, chief of the claims department; and George E. Cohron, agency director, mixed department (who supervised the meeting), were also in attendance. The conference opened on Monday morning at its headquarters, Cleveland district office, 4608 Central avenue, with Mr. Alexander Lyons, presiding. A hearty welcome was extended the visitors by Dr. H. F. Harris, one of Cleveland's most well-known Russell S. Brown, counselman and one of the city's leading ministers. Response was made by Mr. Rutherford, who said in part: "In responding to the generously gracious and eloquent words of welcome, I can but haltingly express my appreciation, not only of what has been so well said, but also of the spirit which has prompted the saying. It is clearly evident to me that the greatness of Cleveland is equal to any hospitality. "As a hard-working insurance man, I am more accustomed to brick-bats than bouquets—which makes their infrequent bestowal all the more welcome! "I have often thought however, that there is a distinct kinship—or should be—between the high calling of the ministry and the less exalted worker in the insurance field. The assertion may sound arrogant but it is made in all humility—and the point is not labored. "Reclamation, regeneration and the preachment of sane ways of life and living—these are objectives of both lives—are to undertake toward life. We build for the future while dwelling in the present." "And deep though the gulf between material concerns and immortality may be, it is a fundamental truth that many a man has increased his hopes for glorious immortality by adhering to the principles of insurance—which feeds the hungry, clothes the naked and comforts the afflicted; three very important facts: it is by viewing this aspect of our work that I bring myself to the acceptance, on behalf of the company and its representatives gathered here, of the ringing welcome which has just been vouchsafed us. For whatever our personal worthiness may be, we are engaged in a work which is, as Calvin Coolidge has said, more than merely a business conducted for purely material ends though it deals in dollars and cents. I do not think there is a man of us present who has not felt something of the glow of the crusader at times. Who has not looked at the record of his year's work without the thought solely of what it has brought him in cash rewards. "There is no question, in this, that the laborer is not worthy of his hire, or that insurance men are by some miracle raised above the expectations of material gain. Like any other class of men, we look for recompense. We have families to support, to house, to clothe, to educate. "But it is part of the alchemy of insurance that its successful exponents are of that class from which the enthusiasts of this world have been drawn. Their material success is a by-product, not the sole end, of their laborers in the vineyard. "A large part of the success of the National Benefit is grounded on this fact—that from its founder on down, it has believed thoroughly in the worth of its efforts in a world which, whatever its faults, responds sharply to the sincerity which springs from its laborers. We go into the highways and the byways; we put emissaries of saving thrift throughout every corner of twenty-eight states. Every day that passes finds us on the job—increasing the ways and means of individual and racial progress in our group. "When you stop to think of it, it is much bigger than any of us that we can mention it without false modesty. "In the year just passed, the National Benefit again added substantially to the resources which have grown through its moonscape. No sensation, no things were done. More attention was given to consolidating the posi- Guaranteed and Efficient Work TWENTY YEARS' EXPERIENCE 'Phone: Randolph 5870 Sundays by Appointment tion and reinforcing than to obtaining new business — nevertheless, very satisfactory figures of new and old business stand on the record to mark the year a success. "Credit for this is largely due to the field officers, of whom the divisional managers here present are part. They are the commanders of labor and health to help energy, energy and capacity that we look. They are the brigadiers of the army of racial thrift". The conference extended through Wednesday, May 22nd, and each session proved interesting and illuminating. Every phase of insurance was discussed through Roundtable Get-togethers, addresses and open question meetings. Each representative returned to his respective district expressing himself as having been greatly benefited by his attendance and new ideas for increased efficiency so as to better live up to the company's slogan, "NOT FOR PRESTIGE, BUT FOR SERVICE". All or our local residents ought to send one dollar, as asked, to The Mannassae, Virginia, Industrial school of which Prof. George M. Sampson, a native Clevelander, is principal. The school is endeavoring to raise $5,000 in dollar contributions. Address your letter to him in care of the school, and do it at once. His parents were for many years, years ago, pillars of Mt. Zion Cong, church where he, his brother, Fred, and sister, Mrs. Hattie Sampson Dale, worshipped. Dr. and Mrs. Dale are still members and possibly George and Fred. --- PROTEST! PROTEST!! To submit in silence when we should protest makes cowards out of men. The human race has climbed on protest. Had no voice been raised against injustice, ignorance and lust, the inquisition yet would serve the law, and guillotines decide our least disputes. The new law must speak and speak against to right the wrongs of many. Ella Wheeler Wilcox. We must learn to govern ourselves and work together for our own advancement. If we do not learn to govern ourselves and work together for our own advancement, we may be very sure that we will be governed by others in their own interest as well as worked by others for their own advancement and not ours. George W. Blount. THE MAN WHO DARES "I honor the man who in the conscientious discharge of his duty dares to stand alone; the world, with ignorant, intolerant judgment, may condemn, the countenances of relatives may be averted, and the hearts of the world may be saved; the sense of duty done shall be sweeter than the applause of the world, the countenances of relatives or the hearts of friends."—Charles Sumner. 25¢ —is the right price to pay for a good tooth paste— LISTERINE TOOTH PASTE Large Tube 25¢ LET HIM IN AND TELL HIM HE'S GOTTA CUT OUT THAT NOISE THERE'S NO SENSE IN HIS YELLIIN AS LOUD AS THAT OUR LESSON "I am convinced myself that there is no more evil thing in this present world than race prejudice; none at all" "I write deliberately—it is the worst single thing in life to hear it justifies and holds together his business, cruelty and abomination than any other sort of error in the world." Something Wrong! There is something radically wrong with a group of people who refuse to help relieve their own burdens. The day of throwing bouquets is gone forever. The Afro-American must face the facts as they exist. We won't gain anything by fooling ourselves into thinking that everything is all right. Everything, affecting the lives of so many, will all wrong. The sooner we face these facts, the quicker we will begin to work for our own salvation, the sooner we will attain our rightful place as American citizens. — Philadelphia Tribune. Subscribe Now MURINE FOR YOUR EYES Murine Co., Dpt. H. S., 9E. Ohio St., Chica STALL TICKETS ARE CERTIFIED LONDON CANADA PORT STANLEY LAKE OUT IN BAY CRESTHAM NEW Visit Nine the East via C & B WHETHER traveling by train on beautiful Lake Brine, floating hotels with large con- room service and courteous a- great ship "SEEANDBEE". New C & B Triangle Tour Leave Cleveland, either route returning on op- portable tour. 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Laham, twenty-four, of 37 Dent street, Boston, with the highway crossing construction model, which allows two-way continuous traffic at bed crossings. Note openings to permit autos to turn corners. Laham has studied the Hub traffic problem for the past three years. SIGNBOARDS ARE VERY UNSIGHTLY Industries Depending on Highways for Business Worst Offenders. (Prepared by the United States Department of Agriculture.) In a canvass of advertising signs on the highways, the bureau of public roads of the United States Department of Agriculture found that the automobile industry and those industries which serve it are the worst offenders. Their signs carry advertisements for cars, tires, oils and other accessories. Hotels and restaurants, the bureau says, probably rank second in the amount of advertising done along the highways. Thomas H. MacDonald, chief of the bureau, in a recent statement declared: "There is little of fairness to the public in the fact that the industries which depend upon the highways for their whole business should be the worst offenders in erecting and maintaining thousands of glaring, disfiguring signs along our streets and roadways." He also pointed out that many of the producers of the best products do not advertise in this way. Distract Driver's Attention. "These signs," says Mr. MacDonald, "are concentrated on the main traveled highways and are habitually placed at turns in the road where the motorists should be giving most careful attention to driving. In many instances they cut off the view of approaching cars at curves and at road intersections. Some even cut off the sight of approaching trains at unprotected grade crossings. Those which carry the word 'stop' and other words ordinarily employed on the legitimate warning signs weaken the force of the properly placed cautionary signals." The bureau found that signs tend to multiply on poor or inferior real estate or other property along the road; that frequently abandoned sheds or barns near the roadside are covered with unsightly advertising; and that lowlands along small streams over which highways run are popular positions for large billboards. The unsightiness of the tin signs hung on wire fences or attached to tree trunks was very noticeable to the investigators. Many such signs have been completely washed out by the weather, yet remain to disfigure the landscape. Danger Signals Obscured. The effectiveness of the standard numeral signs and direction and danger signals on the principal transcontinental highways, which have contributed immeasurably to the convenience, and safety of travel, is hindered in many instances, says the bureau, by advertising signs which are so placed as to obscure them or withdraw attention from them. In many cases such advertisements are a positive hindrance and menace to the traveling public, especially when they contain misleading information about distances and the condition of the road ahead, which is beiled in less obtrusive fashion by the public signs. In his last annual report Mr. MacDonald stated: "In practically all cases these roadside advertisements merely repeat in the same form appeals that are made quite properly and insistently through other agencies. They are unneeded by the public and are of doubtful value to the advertisers. It is hoped that means may be found by suitable legislation to effect their complete elimination upon all roads constructed in part with money appropriated by the national government." MOTOR QUIZ (How Many Can You Answer?) Q.-What is the most economical driving speed? Ans.-About thirty miles an hour. Q.-Are one-piece spark plugs easy to clean and what is the best way to clean them? Ans.-Yes. Fill lower part of the plug with alcohol, metal polish or equal parts of ammonia and water and allow to stand for a few seconds. Rub the carbon from insulator with a stiff wire or small wooden peg covered with one thickness of cloth. Wipe plug dry and clean the sparking points with emery cloth. Q.-Is it necessary to prime the fuel pump after the supply of gasoline has been exhausted? Ans.-No. The fuel pump is self-priming. Simply stepping on the starter primes the pump. Q.-What can be done to make it easy to remove rim lugs in changing tires? Ans.—A few drops of oil applied to the rim bolts when changing tires will cause them to come off much easier the next time it is necessary to change a tire. The illustration shows a novel fitting for any double garage doors. It is designed so that when you open or shut the door at the left in the illustration, the other door will open or shut automatically. The material Side and Top Views of the Ingenious Device for Making Double Doors Open at the Same Time. Side and Top Views of the Ingenious Device for Making Double Doors Open at the Same Time. you need consists of a board of sufficient length, three bolts, a strong iron hinge, and wood screws. As you open the door at the left, a connecting bar, pulled along with it, opens the door at the right by pulling on the end of the offset block. In closing, the thrust of the connecting bar closes the door at the right.—Popular Science Monthly. AUTOMOBILE NOTES The tempo of this age is "open her up and step on it." Sometimes it doesn't even avail anything to cross crossings cautiously. Special motor car taxes pay one-third of the cost of roads in the United States. The parking problem awaits the inventor who can make the spare tire telescope into the radiator. The coming census will give the automobile salesman an insight to the few remaining possibilities that exist in his line. The idea of the bill making automobile licenses payable July 1 is in part that Santa Claus and the tax collector ought to be kept as far apart as possible. throw Awa to a Friend THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, O., SATURDAY, JUNE 1, 1929 D DECORATIVE STYLING DETAILS FEATURE PIN-TUCK INSETS TREESSES win! Their freedom is declared. No longer are they to remain hidden from view, for fashion declares in favor of hair showing beneath the hat. Just how far this innovation will carry, who can tell? At present it is the younger generation which is getting the greater thrill out of the new order of things. In wearing chic little felt cloches back on the head they have blazed the trial for older folks to follow. However, in Paris the off-the-face movement is extending to various types, both brimmed and blimless. Even turbans having a wrapped effect are so designed as to reveal the forehead, somewhat after the manner of the model shown in the illustrated group at the top to the right. It is interesting to note how many of the newer silhouettes are adapting themselves to this recent turn of affairs. For instance, at the same time that lines are narrowing and receding from the front they are widening and dropping down at the sides and the back. Even broad-brimmed hats emphasize brims narrowest at the front, such as the contour in the model with a bow on its crown centered in this picture to the right. The first sketch shows one of the newer bonnet shapes. The long sides DECORATIVE STYL FEATUR IN FASHIONING summer costumes, designers are making generous and clever use of pin-tucking. The tiny tucks are worked in most designful ways in frocks, blouses, jackets and the separate coat, showing great skill in the way they are handled. The dainty lovely solid-tint volles which have so captivated feminine fancy驭 admirably to the popular pin-tuck treatments. Study closely the charming frock in this picture and you will discover insets of pin-tucks about the waistline and also at each side of the blouse. Jenny makes this very charming peach color ensemble of shear rayon geogette, the coat being of a rayon and wool fabric in a darker peach tone. The employment of two tones of the same color is a characteristic feature of this season's modes. Marine blue with navy, pale yellow with orange, capucine blended with an harmonious brown, any number of these selected color combinations are observed throughout most recent fashions. It may be a dark coat with a light dress. contrast a very narrow front. Many of this season's modish exotic straws, such as bakon, hallibunt and other linenlike types, accent contours on this order. Somewhat suggesting the Dutch bonnet brim which is so smart this season, the hat below features points at the sides. Note that this straw hat is trimmed in bandings composed of tri-colored ribbons. The last model shows an unmistakable off-the-face movement in that it has a rolling brim which contrives, however, to acquire the favored Dutch bonnet points at the sides. If the first and the last hat pictured here could be turned around, very interesting details would be revealed in that each brim is plaited across the nap of the neck. JULIA BOTTOMLEY. (© 1929, Western Newspaper Union.) ING DETAILS E PIN-TUCK INSETS or the contrast is just as modish in reverse. Fashion goes even further in this matter of color relation, insisting that the hat itself tune in harmoniously. Which accounts for the chapeau accompanying this costume also being in a peach shade. The crown of this becoming model is made of rayon georgette. The brim accents the very chic side points which somewhat suggest the Dutch bonnet effect. It will be noticed that the skirt portion of this attractive one-piece dress is formed of plaits which are sewed part of the way down. This is a very important styling item, for fitted plaits occur in many of the cloth ensemble skirts as well as in frocks. JULIA BOTTOMLEY. (© 1925, Western Newpaper Union.) py of The maintenance wh CAUGHT "FLATFOOTED"! COUNCILMEN BROWN AND GEORGE SAY COUNCILMAN GREGG DID SAY IT. Gregg Opposed to Our Girls Entering City Hospital School for Nurses in Common With the Girls of All Other Classes or Races in This Community. When Councilman Russel S. Brown bript up his resolution, in the caucus of Republican members of the City Council, to open the local City Hospital to our girls, desiring to become trained nurses, and to our internes, Councilman Gregg objected to it saying that it was not time to expect our girls to train for nurses with white girls at that public institution. What do you think of that? Our boys and girls have been studying and training together in the public institutions of this city for more than fifty years. Brown is also alleged to have said that Gregg asked that what was said in that meeting would not be repeated on the outside and that he (Brown) refused to accede to Gregg's request. The following letters are pertinent and self-explanatory. Cleveland, Apr. 6th, '29. Hon. Harry C. Smith. Editor of the Dear Sir;—I am somewhat surprised to read your editorial "Not Time" of April 6th publication, an absolutely false statement accredited to me and by Rev. Russell S. Brown. It will be hard for me to believe that he is a falsehood, for I have high regard for him as a Christian gentleman. I believe that no man has labored harder for negro advancement in Cleveland than I, and yet I wish to add that. I have more confidence in moral sauson and diplomacy as modes of achievement than radicalism. Councilman Gregg says he didn't say it, while Councilmen Brown and George say he did. The difference is only a question of veracity between the gentlemen named, with two against one. Therefore, the preponderance of evidence is against Gregg. If Gregg has ever "labored hard for 'Negro' advancement in Cleveland" we have failed to learn of it, tho we have watched his career here ever since he landed, from "down home"—Editor. Brown Says Gregg Said It. Cleveland, O. April 9, '29. Hon. Harry C. Smith. Editor Gazette, Cleveland, O. Dear Sir: I appreciate your calling me over the telephone and apprizing me of that part of Dr. Gregg's letter to you which refers to me. I did not give you the information which was the basis of your editorial but I presume you got it from someone 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 appointed by the mayor, is hereby authorized and directed to investigate the operation of the City Hospital and any contracts of the city with any institutions or agencies with a desire to offer whether fraternity and equal opportunities are secured 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 existed an organization of white nurses which would not allow their memorial service to be held and if we tried to force colored girls into the City Hospital it might disrupt the morale of the entire hospital. I maintained then, as I do now, that an official investigation and report on the matter will give us a basis on which to work. It is both timely and right to open the City Hospital to women and girls. This is as near as it is humanly possible to quote the facts. The doctor (Gregg) 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. Gregg to say. Mr. George favored the resolution, as did most persons present. George Also Says Gregg Said It. Cleveland, April 9, '29. Hon, Harry C. Smith. Edica Gortette, Cleveland, O. Dear Mr. Smith:—In answer to your inquiry over the telephone, today, with reference to statements made by Dr. E. J. Gregg, I wish to advise that I was present at a meeting where a proposed resolution of Rev. Russell Brown was being discussed. This resolution in substance asked for an investigation on the part of the City Council of the City Hospital with reference to equal opportunities being furnished to all nurses and interns. According to my best recollection, 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 because 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, I would desecrate the services rendered and desecrate the services rendered there, and for that reason he was opposed to the placing of colored nurses in the City Hospital. Dr. Gregg further said that he did not believe that this would be true with reference to colored internes. He was also opposed to the resolution because he felt that more could be accomplished by working quietly than by giving publicity to it. Hoping this may give you the information desired, I remain, Gregg's reasons for opposing the admission of our girls in the nursing school at the City Hospital are simply ridiculous and a rank insult to all of our people of this community. —Editor. GO BACK "HOME" GREGG! Councilman E. J. Gregg is opposed to our people exercising their citizen rights in a public institution supported by the taxpayers of the community, among whom we number thousands, because organized prejudiced white nurses "would not work with our nurses", he says, and because "forcing our girls into the City Hospital nurse-school might disrupt the morale of the entire hospital," he continues. Now, really can you believe that a sure member of the race, a doctor and a city 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? O, Lord God of Hosts, have mercy! "We should worry" whether prejudiced white nurses worked with ours or not, and whether "the morale of the entire City Hospital" was "disrupted" or not! As far as the former are concerned, "we don't give a darn", and as for the latter, if any persons are to worry about that "morale" let the public's servants in charge of City Hospital, who are paid by the taxpayers thousands of whom are our people, do it. And we are not so sure there would be any, when those nurses or others at the hospital, who are prejudiced, were told they could stay or go, as they saw fit. Why is Gregg so anxious to please prejudiced people, even to the extent of denying his own people their citizen rights in that public institution? 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 his mind and should "up stakes" and hurry on back to "dear old Tennessee" or wherever in the South he came from. 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 are in the way and trying to "block the runways". GREGG'S LATEST HOSPITAL IDEAS Addressing the Baptist Ministers' meeting, April 15, Councilman E. J. Gregg is said to have announced that he was not now advocating a "jim-crow" hospital for this city, but one on the East-side of the city, the majority of its official personnel (those in charge of it) to be "Negroes". Such an institution would do the same harm that a "jim-crow" hospital would, because ALL "Negro" patients that went to the other hospitals in the city, as they do now, would be sent to Gregg's "makeshift" institution, and that would rob our people of the right to enter the other hospitals as they do now. Then, too, there is no need of such a half or two-thirds "jim-crow" institution, since "Negro" patients in this community are being better cared for now than they could possibly ever hope to be in a "hospital" such as Gregg advocates for the selfish purpose of getting a few jobs for "jim-crow Negroes", 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. Hopkins 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 institution. 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 Clayborne George 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 lie", replied Gregg, according to said contemporary. Rev. Dr. R. S. Brown, pastor of Mk. Congregational church, and Atty. Clayborne George, councilmanic 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 published, 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, councillman, that he uses such language in referring to the truthful statements of his colleagues of color, one of whom is a Christian minister? And we understand that Gregg is a member of Zion Hill Baptist church. What must its members and his constituents and the public think of him? To another question, Gregg is quoted as saying: "H—ll, not!" Well, well, WELL! Isn't that and his other reply (above) awful? What say you, Rev. Dr. C. C. Aller, pastor of Zion Hill Baptist church? Will the members of your congregation "church" Gregg? Brown and George have their colleague of color in a hole and a big one, too. But that is not a "marker" to what his constituents will do to him, if he has the temerity to be a candidate for re-election, this fall. Goodbye! Gregg. Harry C. Smith. Character, like a fine old tree, matures slowly and is a riper growth than success that is forced as hothouse products are forced. Character in a newspaper develops through years of service to the people. For forty-five years The Gazette has been serving our people of this country. It has gathered a reader clientele whose tastes it reflects, and whose power and responsiveness to buy are direct measures of its press importance to every advertiser. EDITOR. The Truth! What would cause other people to gnash their teeth and gird their loins is question of debate for us. Kick us, beat us, pile depredations upon us, revile us, abuse us, lie about us, malign us and even impugn our valor and we are not unanimously insulted. It seems impossible to establish unanimity of insult in the black race. Chicago (Ill.) . Whin. 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 true manhood—a man who, seeing injustice and oppression, dares, within the limits of the law, expose it and, if possible, smite you. I have frequently, during the forty-two years since the birth of The Gazette, been, as the Scotch would say, like two McNells, but when I find a man, such as you, who consistently, and persistently, through nearly half a century, puts his race foremost in his 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.) Little Rock, Ark. June 16, '25. Hon. Harry C. Smith, Editor, Gazette, Cleveland, O. Dear Friend:—Long live the Gazette! a welcome friend to the Ricks-Demby family for forty-three years. We boast of being among the oldest continuous subscribers of the Gazette—not the largest but the best in essentials and the most dependable of race journals. Wishing you continued good health and success, we are as ever. Very truly yours. (Bishop) Edward T. and Nettie M. Demby.