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P., said among other things: "Let us work toward the time, no matter how long it is in coming, when it may be said that there is not an Afro-American who does not have the same rights—civil, political and social—as the white man, change in being, as the antical," she said. "Of course, we must be fanatical deep in our hearts in the steadfastness of the purpose we pursue. But we want to be sane, we want to be thoughtful, we want to be careful. It is to the great credit of the Afro-American that he has led in this work during the last ten years, while the white man has held hands during the first ten years of the White man led and the Afro-American helped. In 1915, white people at that time were 'sold' on the idea that the Afro-American was fit only for an industrial education. Booker T. Washington was the great 'Negro' hero because he told the white people what they wanted to hear. The era for economic opportunity for the Afro-American War with the great migration from the south to the north. We've made a dent." Prof. Wm. E. DuBois followed Miss Ovington and Charles W. White, president of the local branch, who presided, said the Cleveland branch was working for the rights of our nurses and internes in City Hospital and the Cleveland swimming pools. Business sessions were held daily the church, morning and afternoon, by about two hundred delegates. In the evening, Thursday, a mass meeting was held in Shiloh Baptist church which was addressed by Edwin R. Embree of Chicago, president of the Julius Rosenwald fund. He declared that if the Afro-American expects to continue his advancement in higher educational institutions, he must pay his share of the cost and not sit back and depend upon white men to bear the full burden. "The opportunity," he said, "is presented for the first time in history for the Afro-American to assume his place as an integral part of American life, and justify that place he must work hard. While continuing to face, for his rights he must accept the ties and obligations of American I. You must struggle without rest until the whole race is literate, clean, orderly and dependable." Something not true of any other group, race or class anywhere in the world, Mr. Embree should be told. Something impossible! "A recent government survey reports that the accumulated wealth of Afro-Americans amounts to $2,000,000, that 700,000 of them own their own homes, 232,000 own farms and 70,000 own or operate business enterprises; that there are 73 banks a capitalization of $1,000,000 doing an annual business of over $100,000,000; that there are 48,000 teachers, more than 1,000 of them giving instruction in institutions of higher learning. It is time for the 'Negro' to stop moaning about his plight. He must continue his fight for his rights, but he must also see that he fulfills what he has attained. As Nannie H. Burroughs, president of our National Training School for Women and Girls, Washington, D.C., who followed Mr. Embree, declared that race prejudice is a millstone about the neck of American democracy. "There is more race prejudice than practical and applied Christianity in America," she declared. This is not "Nannie H. Burroughs," a character of the American people. The goal is not the solution of a problem, but to make America a fit place to live. There are some whites in the south," she said, "who are as ignorant as the most ignorant 'Negroes', but they are satisfied simply because they are white. The nation is putting color above character. The 'jim-crow' car crucifies self-respect. It is maintained to humiliate. It is not the business of racism. It is not the spect. Whether we attain our goal in this generation or not, it is our business to serve notice that we are not satisfied and that we are going to wage eternal warfare until we attain our end. Lawlessness is in the blood of the American people. Lynching is the white man's monopoly. He has charge of all the peonage camps. These things have made him brutal. He has preached against home and preaches infamous race prejudice at his fireside and children are born into that atmosphere". Arthur B. Spingarn, New York lawyer, a vice-president of the N. A. A. C. P., presided, Charles S. Johnson, of Fisk University, discussed the economic side of race prejudice. Mrs. Memphis T. Garrison, Gary, W. Va., was awarded the Walker medal, as announced in last week's Gazette. Life membership medals were awarded to Mrs. Elizabeth and Miss Mary White Ovington, and J. E. Spingarn, all of New York, and the heirs of the late Mrs. Butler R. Wilson, Boston. The women's auxiliaries discussed their work in the afternoon. Mrs. Inez Richardson Wilson of New York City, former resident of this city, was awarded the Walker medal. Addresses were made by Mrs. Enola M. George, Cleveland; Mrs. Garrison and Mrs. Julia P. Burrell of Columbus. Friday evening's mass was held in Mt. Zion Cong, church. Mrs. Sallie W. Stewart of Evansville, Ind., president of our National Association of Women's clubs, and Prof. Wm. Pickens, field secretary of the N. A. A. C. P., were among the speakers. Mrs. Stewart spoke on the advancement of the race, while Pickens described the work of the association. "This race shall not be judged by the land it buys, nor the cities it helps to build, but by the refinement of its motherhood," Mrs. Stewart said. She appealed for the training of our youth in the history, achievements and the background of the race. The Afro-American woman of today must shoulder the burden of rooting out all undesirable traits of character implanted by the institution young so as to refine and develop their native talents to the maximum efficiency. The hearts of our mothers swell with the same hopes and desires and with the same aspirations as do the hearts of women of other races." Among other things, Pickens said: "State Legislatures all over the South are passing resolutions censoring Mrs. Hoover because she invited Mrs. DePriest to the only House legislature dared vote against such aolution after they had tried to keep it from coming to a vote. So much has been invested in 'jim-crowism' in the South that all the courts of the land, including the U. S. Supreme Court, tremble in fear of it. But even that is changing. The competition which the bus and the automobile are giving the railroads in the South has made the railroads more willing to let our people ride on the trains, even in the Pullman coaches." She trac W. Jayne, of the Wayne County (Mich.) circuit court, also spoke. His topic was "Suffrage in the South." Saturday's program was largely social. At 10 a. m. deglacates were guests of the Museum of Art, with Rossiter Howard, assistant director, addressing them. DuBois spoke on The Nesquik, art. In the aftermath the Cleveland women larye gave a tea for delegates at Metropolitan club and in the evening a reception and dance were held in the ball room of Public Hall. At services, Sunday morning, in ten local churches, four of them white, race problems were discussed by N. A. A. C. P. speakers. DuBois was at the Church of the Covenant; at the Episcopal AVE. Euclid Ave. Christian church; Robert W. Bagnall, director of branches, at First M. E. church; and Wm. Pickens, field secretary, at the Lakewood M. E. church. In the afternoon, six thousand persons (mostly members of the race) attended the de luxe mass meeting in Public Hall to hear Congressman Hamilton Fish of New York City and Dr. Mordeal W. Johnson, our first president of Howard University, Washington, D.C. "Professional political vultures of the South stirred up the tempest in a teapot for cowardly political pur- Calls Legislators of South 'Cowards' OSCAR D. E. PRIEST poses when Mrs. Herbert Hoover invited Mrs. Oscar Drepriest to a White House tea", Representative Fish told the 6,000 men and women in Public Hall, Sunday afteroon. Continuing, he said: "Mrs. Hoover invited Mrs. Drepriest in accordance with tradition and long custom, just as she did before the Drepriest to approve the Congress. There is no question of social equality involved, but only that of the usual courtesy and politeness between the first lady of the land and the wife of an American member of Congress. It was the duty of Mrs. Hoover in accordance with custom, to ask Mrs. Drepriest, the wife of a member of the House of representatives, to tea. It would have been an act of sheer rudeness and Drepriest to approve the politics these southern politicians were looking for an issue in their efforts to regain the solid South for the Democrats. For cowardly political purposes these professional politics vultures glazed upon this issue. It is the bitterness and racial animosity of limited sections of the South that shock and alienate sympathy among the people. To prove that the people, Mrs. Hoover or Mrs. Drepriest, prove a booering in those sections the sense of play and the spirit of chivalry are as strong as in other parts of the country. "Jim-crow" laws, segregation and dischirement may be the order of the day in the far South, but not north of the Mason-Dixon line. We must see that they do not cross the line. I am thoroughly familiar with the rigor of the Drepriest's role to the South to humiliate and offend. Congressmen from the extreme South opposed a land grant for the erection of a monument to the development of the 'Negro'. They denounced 'Negro' soldiers as cowardly and advocated not using them in future wars as defenders of the nation. I served two years in France with the old "Fifteenth New York", a regiment composed entirely of Afro-American soldiers. that the Afro-American soldier, properly equipped and properly trained, is just as brave as any in the entire world". Dr. Johnson said: "This country is going through troubled times because of three things—internal disorder, international difficulties and failure of religion to grapple successfully with the modern mind. The trouble is that Americans ceased to believe in Jesus Christ because they couldn't understand how the black people had to understand the realm of God. Christianity is not based simply on love. That formed a part of religion long before the time of Christ. But Christ extended the radius of that love to include all humanity, regardless of color or race." In a report of the resolutions committee, which was read by James Weldon Johnson, presiding officer of the meeting, and secretary of the N. A. A. C. P., the "invitation and warning" of 1924 to the American Federation of Labor was repeated. For this reason, the American Federation of Labor, the railway brotherhoods and any other bodies agreed upon, of an inter-racial labor commission. It points out that the Afro-American "in retaliation must and will 'scab' and underbid." A crying need for our folk, and the key to the emancipation of white labor throughout the world, according to the resolutions, is "the abolition of forced labor, the restoration of the land and the Indian and African democracy in Africa and the colonies the West Indies, and the restoring of autonomy to Haiti." Congressman Oscar De Priest of the First Illinois District, Chicago, our first Representative, in almost 30 years, to sit in Congress. Monday night characterized as cowards members of the three southern legislia- SINGLE COPY FIVE CENTS tures that passed resolutions censuring Mrs. Hoover for inviting Mrs. De Priest to a White House tea. "They're just a lot of cowards," (amend!) the Illinois congressman, a tall, large, white-haired, impressive looking man, told the mass meeting John's A. M. E. church. The church had been an overflow meeting outside which was addressed by other speakers. "I was warned not to go to Chattanooga, last week." De Priest said. "I went right on down. No one bothered me. They're just a lot of cowards. I'll go anywhere in this country I choose, for I'm an American citizen. This is my country, and your country. I've been elected to Congress the same as any other congressman, and I'm going to have the rights of every citizen in the country, no less if they are in the congressional barrister shop or at a White House Tea. The furor raised in three states (Florida, Texas and Georgia) of the South over the White House tea incident was being used by southern Democratic politicians in an effort to win the solid south back into the Democratic party. That is the hypocrisy of it he declared. The states that went Republican now have not did vote Republican because they feared to vote for a Catholic who was also a wet. All racial prejudice is not confined to any one party, either. Or to any church. They are all tinged with it. The government is preparing to spend millions for the enforcement of the Eighteenth Amendment to the Constitution. A few millions ought to be spent to enforce the thirteenth, fourteenth and fifteenth, which guarantee the Afro-American his civil and political rights. I do not propose to enforce the Eighteenth Amendment until similar amendments are to enforce the other amendments now being violated all through the south. I have no complaint whatever to make about the way I have been treated as a member of Congress. I have asked no special favors and I intend to grant none. I do not intend to ask any special legislation for our people and I would oppose any such legislation introduced by anyone else. I would vote for the laws which are for the best interest all the people. I shall pay as much attention to the needs of my white constituents as to my black. Only in one respect will I insist upon our recommendations for appointments to West Point and Annapolis. As long as I am in Congress I will appoint only Afro-Americans to those two schools, or until some white constituents are from an Afro-American. I want to thank the Democrat of the south for one thing — they were so barbaric they drove my parents to the north. If it hadn't been for that I wouldn't be in Congress today. So they're really indirectly responsible for my being there. I've been "jim-crowed," segregated, persecuted; and I think I know how best we can put a stop to being imposed on. It is through the ballot, through organization, through fighting eternally for our rights. We'll continue until we band together to fight. A people that won't fight for their rights don't deserve any. Most politicians are cowards and have little sense of responsibility to their constituents, whether white or black. I have many white friends. Some of the best friends I have are white men. I couldn't get along without them. I try my best to get along with them. But all this talk about the right to get along with a joke. What I look at audience like this and see so many octoroons I wonder just how much enforced social equality we have had. I've always promised my God that, if He would forgive me for being born in the South, I'd never live there. And I never will." DePriest's parents were slaves in northern Alabama. When he was a boy he witnessed the lynching of three near his home, and after that his parents moved to Kansas where he grew to manhood. Later he went to Chicago where he has become one of the most influential and most successful men of the race. He is one of our wealthiest residents in Chicago. Since going to Congress he has had 10,000 copies of the United States constitution printed at his own expense and has been disbanded. He has been throughout the country free of charge. He has done this, he says, on the theory that every citizen ought to have a knowledge of his constitutional rights before he can make a strong defense of them. He was given a big ovation and cheered to the echo. His speech lasted more than an hour. At its close he was presented with a basket of flowers by Mrs. Minnie G. Turner. Miss Eleanor Rowland Wembridge, referee in Juvenile Court, was the other speaker. The N. A. A. C. P. twentieth annual conference came to an end, Tuesday evening, with the annual Spinning Medal Night, in Music Hall, when Dr. Charles P. Thwing, president emeritus of Wembridge, presented the medal to Dr. Mordecal W. Johnson, president of Howard University, Washington, D. C. The medal is given annually by Col. J. E. Spingarn of New York, to the Afro-American who, during the year, has 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. THE COPY FIVE CENTS PREME MAJOR HAMILTON FISH, JR. A Sterling Friend of the Racce Champion of the Bender of Our Soldiers Congressman Fish has been an outstanding champion of the Afro-American, dating from his leadership of our soldiers of the old New York 15th Regiment, now the 369th, on the battlefields of France. He consistently fought in Congress for a memorial to be erected to the memory of Afro-American soldiers in France. He issued a strong and unequivocal statement defending our soldiers and their record against the enemy. Robert Lee Bulldard. Major Fish voted for the Dyer Anti-Lynching bill in Congress. His address, two years ago, at the Indianapolis N. A. A. C. P. Conference, was one of the outstanding features of the session. FLEMING'S PLEA IS TURNED DOWN! The appellate court of the Toledo district, that heard Ex-Councilman Tom Fleming's appeal for a new trial, week before last here in this city, Monday upheld Tom's conviction and refused him what he asked—a new trial. His attorney, Geo. W. Spooner (white), says he will carry the appeal to the state supreme court. The trial judge, Common Pleas Judge N. Craig McBride, trial, nearly seven months ago, was sitting on the local bench by assignment, had refused a new trial; so there is little prospect of the state supreme court granting what he and the appellate court have both refused. A stay of execution of sentence (two years and nine months to ten years at hard labor in the Ohio Penitentiary) has been asked of the courts, so Tom can remain out on the job and be charged with his appeal. The charge against him is the acceptance of a $200 bribe. The appellate court brushed aside the contention of Spooner, Fleming's attorney, that the trial was full of error and that the atmosphere of the court was charged with passion and prejudice that injured Fleming. Its decision was written by Judge Silas S. Richards of Clyde and concurred in by Judges Harry W. Lloyd and Roy W. Williams. The court did not hold the sentence of been unfair in admitting evidence challenged by Spooner, or in his charge to the jury. It found that the verdict was not manifestly against the weight of the evidence as contended by Spooner. The latter's claim that the sentence was too severe was set aside by the court, which pointed out that it had nothing to do with that part of the case, the court might have accepted the verdict, setting Fleming free, or have ordered a new trial. It doubted Fleming's story that he cashed a $200 check for Oehme, retaining $50 for attorney's fees, saying: "It seems somewhat remarkable that Oehme would come clear across the city to get a check cashed by Fleming, when he might have easily procured money on it at a branch bank in the western part of the city where it was issued." The Toledo court was assigned to have the case here after the hearing was completed before another out-of-town trio of judges, who asked to be relieved from Common Pleas Judge Roscoe M. Hornbeck of London, one of them, charged that a down-state politician had interceded with him in Fleming's behalf. Kid Chocolate vs. Johnny Datto. Consecutive knockouts, in his last three fights, have secured Johnny Datto's and Fleming's and leave local featherweight, an opportunity to meet the Afro-Cuban, Kid Chocolate, latest sensation in the east, and "king of the feathers", in the main bout of an open air show at Buffalo, July 15. Datto has recently knocked out Steve Nugent, Chuck Feldman and Phil Verdl. His bout with Chocolate is largely the result of his fine showing against the last-named. done most for the advancement of the race. Civil Service Commissioner Harry E. Davis presided over the meeting. Next year's annual conference will be held in Springfield, Mass. --- YAH, YOU'RE A SWELL GUY, INSISTIN' ON PITCHIN' THIS GAME AN' NOW LOOK AT US, GETTIN' BEAT TWENY SEVEN TO THREE WHO SAID WE'RE GETTIN' BEAT? - IT'S ONLY THE SECOND INNIN' AN WE GOTTA PLAY FOUR AN' A HALF INNIN'S OR IT AIN'T A GAME HERE HANK, GRAB THIS BALL AN' BEAT IT FOR HOME WHERE'D YA GET THAT STUFF? SAYIN' YOU WON WE AIN'T GOT A BALL TO PLAY THE GAME OUT AN' YOU DON'T WIN IF WE CAN'T PLAY FOUR'N' A HALF INNIN'S WINNER One Year ..... $2.00 Six Months ..... 1.00 Subscribers are requested to remit by postoffice money order or registered letter. Entered at the postoffice in Cleveland, Ohio, as second-class mail matter Address all communications to HARRY C. SMITH Editor and Proprietor THE GAZETTE 226 W. Superior Ave., Cleveland, O. (Bell 'Phone: CHerry 1259) Member Ohio Legislature: 1894 to 1896; 1896 to 1898; 1900 to 1902. IN-UNION IS STRONGEST 10,000,000 Afro-Americans. 350,000 in Ohio. 40,000 in Cleveland. SATURDAY, JULY 6, 1929. FISH AND DE PRIEST. The outstanding features of the 20th Annual Conference of the N. A. A. C. P., held in Cleveland for a week, closing Tuesday evening, were the speeches of those two militant Congressmen, Col. Hamilton Fish, Jr., of New York City and the Hon. Oscar DePriest of Chicago. They so far outclassed everything else said in and out of the conference, that had any connection with it, that there is no comparison possible. These two gentlemen made the meeting the splendid success it surely was. Incidently, the Hon. Harry E. Davis and his local coworkers are entitled to a great deal of credit for the success of their many arrangements for the care of the conference. MRS. HOOVER DID RIGHT. Mrs. Hoover did exactly right in receiving the wife of the colored Congressman, the Hon. Oscar DePriest, along with the wives of white Congressmen at the official White House reception. Anything else would have been a gratuitous insult not only to Mrs. DePriest and her race but to the whole district which had elected her husband. Anything else would probably have been in the long run bad politics. Mr. Hoover would have lost more among Negroes than he could possibly have gained among the southern fire-eaters who now denounce him. Yet it is fair to acknowledge that President and Mrs. Hoover showed courage in face of the temptation to try to straddle the issue in order to appease the South where the President wants to build up the Republican party. What a miserable business this virulent race prejudice is! In their bitterness about prohibition the editors of the New York World have gone crazy about statest rights. Thus, to a good editorial praising Mrs. Hoover for receiving Mrs. DePriest, they tack on an astonishing bit of philosophy to the effect that our race as well as our prohibition troubles rise out of the "efforts to impose national usages upon a people, the genius of whose institutions is federal". We remember that it was in this same spirit that the World denounced the Child Labor Amendment. Which is nonsense. We agree with the World that the wet and dry issue should have been left to the states under existing conditions but the right of children to protection in the nationwide economic life of our country and the right of Negroes, to be treated like human beings cannot be left to the accident of state boundaries. The North made grave mistakes in its southern reconstruction policy after the Civil War. It did not make a mistake in recognizing the rights of Negroes as citizens. What makes the World's comment the more foolish is that Mr. DePriest comes from Chicago. If there had never been any fourteenth or fifteenth amendment, bigots like Cole Blease would have raved if the wife of a northern Negro Congressman had been received at the White House. Norman Thomas (white). The 20th Annual Conference of the N. A. A. C. P. closed a very successful week's meeting. Tuesday, its great mass meeting, Sunday afternoon, being the real culmination of the organization's activities here, the Congressman Oscar DePriest was the speaker of the mass meeting at St. John's A. M. E. church, Monday evening, and the formal closing took place. Tuesday evening. Sunday's meeting in Cleveland's Public Auditorium, which seats 12,000 people, drew approximately 6,000 persons most all of whom were members of the race. The great hall would have been filled to the doors had Messrs. Johnson and DuBois, leaders of the organization, been able to drop their petty jealousies long enough to have FRESH OHIO NEWS WRITTEN BY "THE OLD RELIABLE" GAZETTE'S CORRESPONDENTS. What Our People Are Doing Each Week—Church, Personal, Social, Lodge, Literary and Musical— Marriages, Deaths, Etc. had Neval H. Thomas, of Washington, D. C., a Cleveland "boy" and a native of Ohio, as one of the speakers for that occasion. Prof. Thomas has been the N. A. A. C. P.'s outstanding successful worker during the past two years; the one prominent figure in the organization that has steadily been refused such recognition at its annual meetings for several years, and the man who last or this year should have been awarded the Spingarn medal because of exceptional work done for the race. Because of this good work, he has stood out before all of our people of the country as a beacon light. As usual (annually) Prof. Wm. E. DuBois, Secretaries James Weldon FRESH OH WRITTEN BY "THE OLD CORRESPO What Our People Are Do Personal, Social, Lodge, Marriages, LOIRAIN.—Stanley Wallace was in Akron, recently.—Mrs. Maud Dickerson left, Saturday, for a two months' stay in Canton.—The literary program at 12th St. Baptist church, Friday night, by a club from Simons, from Bloomingdale.—Simons' father, from Cleveland, among the visitors at St. Mathews A. M. E. church, Sunday evening.—Stanley Wallace and his grandmother dined with Mrs. Minnie Brooks, Stop 48, Sunday.—Mr. and Mrs. Roamy Martin entertained his father and brother, recently.—Seventh St. church gave the play, Friday night, at Lintner. Lintner was well attended.—St. Mathews church is preparing for the S. S. convention. HILLSBORO.—Mr. and Mrs. Albert Williams Jr., and Mr. and Mrs. Dorsey Minor were in Georgetown and Ripley, Sunday.—Baptist S. S. institute yesterday and today. All welcome.—Mr. and Mrs. Garland Carr have returned to Detroit.—Miss Cassie Essex and Mrs. and Mrs. Charles Bolden visited in Columbus, Sunday.—Mr. and Mrs. D. Highwarden entertained Mr. and Mrs. Jas. C. and Mrs. at dinner. Sunday. C. and Mrs. Walter Johnson atton arrived, Saturday, to visit her mother.—Mrs. H. Ames has been ill.—Mrs. F. Morgan is no better.—Mr. and Mrs. Wesley Bingham of Columbus visited her parents, Sunday.—Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Johnson, Rev. and Mrs. W. G. Norris of Cincinnati visited Miss Florence Burns, Sunday. He preached for Rev. Bray in the morning.—Miss Lillian Nelson returned to Bainbridge, Saturday. She visited her aunt, Mrs. S. Lee, with her daughters, spent Saturday and Sunday in Bainbridge. Myers quartet in acquaintance Hughes of Middletown, rendered splendid programs, two evenings, under the auspices of the Baptist Ladies' Aid. HOOVER-DE PRIEST INCIDENT ANALYZED By Rt. Rev. Wm. M. Brown, former Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church—Arraigns the Christian Churches. To the Editor. Dear Sir: Perhaps you would be able and willing to find room for conversation from, another bishop upon the De Priest incident. Having been bishop of Arkansas for years and having shared the utterly un-Christian views of the distressed aristocrats who are now attacking Mrs. Hoover, I do not feel like denouncing them; nevertheless, their outbursts should be analyzed for what they really are—not a mere missing of the point in respect to the meaning of the White House lunch-room instruction of the dire ignorance and cruelty of America's white terror. It is all very well to point out that no issue of social equality between the races was involved in Mrs. Hoover's action; but, if such an issue were involved, the protest would not be more defensible. If we were to grant that the first lady of the land may officially, as a political act, entertain at a group luncheon the appearance regardless of their race, but that she may not unofficially, as a social act, invite an individual Negro woman to a luncheon, the situation as far as America is concerned would be quite as bad as it is today. If the Christian churches had been in the slightest degree interested in the teachings of Jesus as they are set down in the new Testament,ummers out there may make such race distinctions, and encourage one race stupidly trying to keep another race in subjection—not because of any harm which the subject race had done to it, but simply TUBBY YAH, YOU SWELL GUY ON PITCHIN AN' NOW LO GETTIN' BEA SEVEN TO THE GAZETTE CLEVELAND, O., SATURDAY, JULY 6, 1929 Johnson, Walter White, Wm. Pickens and Robert Bagnall "hogged the limelight" from the beginning to the end of the Cleveland conference. One speech from Prof. Thomas, telling how he conducted the successful fight for the race in the governmental departments at Washington, D.C., in recent years, would have been of far more benefit to all concerned than all of their speeches combined. Mary White Ovington, Edwin R. Embree, Nannie H. Burroughs, Sallie W. Stewart, Ira W. Jayne, Congressman Hamilton Fish, President Mordacal W. Johnson and Congressman Oscar DePriest furnished the relief from too much Johnson, DuBois, White, Pickens and Bagnall. NIO NEWS "RELIABLE" GAZETTE'S ONDENTS. ing Each Week—Church, Literary and Musical— Deaths, Etc. to maintain an economic advantage and satisfy its own sense of race superiority. The church instead accepted this savagery as being in every way compatible with Christian culture, if not indeed an important aspect of it. Now, I do not blame a savage for being a sage. I wish merely to point out that they are savages as to the drawing of race distinctions. I was a savage myself while I was bishop of Arkansas. I believed anyone who did not have the same pigment in his blood that we white folks had should be regarded as inferior to us. I was a savage in the work, and denied the cultural and social opportunities to which we, by virtue of those sacred white pigments, were logically entitled. It took Karl Marx, an atheist, to bring me into a knowledge of Christ. The church pandered to my prejudices, even to such a baseless prejudice as the belief that there was something inherently superior in the color of my skin. Marx showed me that the great struggle for human rights dramas, the story of Jesus, symbolizes made it necessary for me to abandon my race prejudices. Until these savage prejudices are allayed, there is little hope for human advancement. Although I do not share President Hoover's political views, I think that everyone who wants to see America redeemed from the oppression of Mrs. Hoover for doing as they did. There was nothing noble about their action. It was simply sane and sanity is America's greatest need. Perhaps, as many of their defenders have suggested, the Hoovers have no interest in the principles of human equality. I hope this is not true, but anything it is evident that they are obsessed with politicians are with a desire to pander to all the traditions of savagery. They might, if they had wished, given Mrs. DePriest a gratuitous insult by inviting all the other wives of Illinois congressmen and excepting her. But there was no sane reason why they should. William M. Brown (white). Gallon, O. HOW'S YOUR OLD CAR? Will It Get You "Fifteen and Costs and Ten Days in the Workhouse?" Oscar Nickerson, 2281 Scoville Ave., was driving his car down Scoville Ave., last week, wondering whether she'd chug thru another decade, when 'bam!—she went to pieces just like the "Wonderful One-Hoss Shay". The steering rod buckled, the brakes came loose, the steering wheel dropped off and she crashed into a shiny, car parked at E. 22d St. and Scoville. "We don't want people driving on our streets in machines they're trying to make outlast the 'One-Hoss Shay'", Judge Lee E. Skeel told Nickerson, last week Thursday, in municipal court when he was arraigned for careless driving. Nickerson insisted that it was not carelessness, but the ancient vintage of his vehicle caused the cash "That's just it". commented the judge, "and for driving a car that you'll pay a fine of $15 and costs, spend ten days in the workhouse, and your license will be revoked for a year". Rev. and Mrs. Russell S. Brown, Major and Mrs. Wm. T. Anderson, Rev. D. O. Walker, Mrs. C. F. Hunnicutt, and Mr. and Mrs. Geo. G. Jones attended the Wilberforce commencement, recently. Mr. Brown is one of the several new trustees of the state department of Wilberforce University, appointed by our colorline governor, Mvers Y. Cooner. YOU'RE A INSISTIN' THIS GAME OK AT US. AT TWENY' THREE WHO BEAT SECOND GOTTA HALF AIM OHIO'S MOB VIOLENCE ACT Against the Mob and Lynch-Murder-Three Years' Work of a Member of the Race-Also His Ohio Civil Rights Law. 6278. "Mob" and "lynching" defined. 6279. "Serious injury" defined. 6280. Damages in case of assault. 6281. Damages in case of lynching. 6282. Damages recoverable by legal representative of victim of lynching. 6283. Person suffering death or injury by mob trying to lynch another. 6284. Limitations of action. 6285. Order to include recovery and costs in tax levy. 6286. Guardian's custody, etc., fees. 6287. County's right of action against member of mob. 6288. County's right of action against another county. 6289. Non-relief from prosecution. Our mor-violence or anti-lynching bill was introduced in the Ohio legislature in 1894 and re-introduced in 1896. It took the Hon. Harry C. Smith, editor of The Gazette, just three years to secure its enactment into law. The Ohio Supreme Court has several times upheld the constitutionality of the law and it has been Section 6278. A collection of people assembled for an unlawful purpose and intending to do damage or injury to any one, or pretending to exercise correctional power over other persons by violence and without authority of law, shall be deemed a "mob" for the purpose of this chapter. An act of violence by a mob upon the body of any person shall constitute a "lynching" within the meaning of this chapter. (93 v. 161 2.) The purpose of "lynching" for the purpose of this chapter, shall include such inquiry as permanently or temporarily disables the person receiving it from earning a livelihood by manual labor. (93 v. 161 3.) Section 6280. A person taken from officers of justice by a mob, and assaulted with whips, clubs, missiles or in any other manner, may recover, as hereafter provided, a sum not to exceed one thousand dollars as damages from the county in which such assault was made, from the county in which such assault is made a sum not to exceed five hundred dollars; or, if the injury received therefrom is serious, a sum not exceeding one thousand dollars; or, if such injury result in persecution to earn a hood by manual labor, a sum not to exceed five thousand dollars. (93 v. 12 5.) Section 6282. The legal representative of a person dying from injuries received from lynching by a mob, may recover of the county in which such injury occurred, a sum not to exceed five thousand dollars damage, may recover of the county sum shall be applied to the maintenance of the family and education of the minor children of such person so lynched, if any survive him, until such children are of legal age, and then be distributed to the survivors, share and share alike, the widow rejoices, and the child shares. If there be no widow or minor children surviving such decedent, such sum shall be distributed among the next of kin according to the laws of the distribution of the personality of an intestate. Such sum so recovered shall not be a part of the estate of the person so lynched nor be subject to any of his liabilities. (83 v. 162 6.) Section 6283. A person suffering death or injury from a mob attempting to lynch another person shall come within the provisions of this chapter. He or his legal representatives shall have a like right of action as one purposely injured or killed by mob mob 6283 6. 6. Section 6284. Action for the recoveries provided for in this chapter must be commenced, within two years from the date of such lynching, in any court having original jurisdiction of an action for damages for malicious assault. (93 v. 162 7.) Section 6285. An order to the commissioners of a county, against which such recovery is had, to include with the costs of action, in the text of the county, county shall be a part of the judgment in every such case. (93 v. 162 8.) Section 6286. If the decedent so lynched has minor children surviving him, the fund shall be turned over to a regularly appointed guardian such person, or such fund under the direction of the probate judge, allowing not more than five hundred dollars for counsel fees in the action for such recovery. (93 v. 162 9.) Section 6287. The co-ounty, in witnessing the closing costs, may recover the amount of a judgment and costs against it in favor of the legal very effective. Illinois, Pennsylvania and New Jersey have followed Ohio's lead and enacted mob violence or anti-lynching laws which are copies of our Ohio law. Several other northern states and at least one border state (Kentucky) have also enacted anti-lynching laws. In recent years, like Pennsylvania and New Jersey. The Ohio law follows: **UBS.** ed. representative of victim of lynching cry by mob trying to lynch another. and costs in tax levy. inst member of mob. just another county. representatives of a person killed or seriously injured by a mob from any of the persons composing such mob. A person present, with hostile intent, at such lynching shall be deemed a member of the mob and be liable to such action. (93 v. 162 10.) Section 6288.1 mob carries a prisoner in another county, or comes from another county to commit violence on a prisoner brought from such county for safekeeping, the county in which the lynching is committed may recover the amount of the judgment and costs from the county from which the mob came, unless there was contributory negligence on the part of officials of such county in failing to protect such prisoner or dispurse such mob. (93 v. 162 19.) Section 6289. This chapter shall not relieve a person concerned in such lynching from prosecution for homicide or assault for engaging therein. (93 v. 163 12.) OUR OHIO CIVIL RIGHTS LAW Upon the request of many readers of The Gazette we print below the text of the Hon. Harry C. Smith's Ohio Civil Rights law which the editor had enacted while a member of the 71st General Assembly, in 1894; Sec. 12940. Whoever, being the proprietor or his employee, keeper or manager of an inn, restaurant, eating house, barber-shop, public conveyance by land or water, theater or other place of public accommodation and amusement, denies to a citizen, except for reasons applicable alike to all citizens and regardless of race accommodations, advantages, facilities or privileges thereof, shall be fined not less than fifty dollars nor more than five hundred dollars, or imprisoned not less than thirty days nor more than ninety days, or both. Sec. 12941. Whoever violates the next preceding section shall also pay not less than fifty dollars nor more than fifty dollars, and son aggrieved thereby to be recovered in any court of competent jurisdiction in the county where such offense was committed. This law has repeatedly been held constitutional and good law by the Ohio Supreme court. The trouble is our people will not use it as often as they should, but expect it to do for them what they should and must do for themselves, under it, in the courts. HERE'S AN OPPORTUNITY! "The Old Reliable" Gazette desires an active agent and correspondent in every city and town in Ohio and neighboring states having a number of Afro-American residents. Only a little time on Fridays or Saturdays is required to make some money. We are especially desirous of hearing from persons in the following named cities: Springfield, Columbus, Toledo, Steubenville, Zanesville, Wilmington, Xenla, Washington C. H., Lancaster, Plqua, Lima, O., and other places, particularly in Ohio, where we have none. Write to the editor of The Gazette, 226 West Superior Ave., Cleveland, O., and terms will be sent promptly. Our readers will oblige us greatly by sending the addresses of persons named, and others in the state to whom we can write relative to the matter. HERE HANK. 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Classified Advertising Department FOR SALE—Two good bedroom sets of three pieces each. A BARGAIN—in good condition. Also Way-Sagless springs and first-grade mattresses, practically new; used less than two weeks. Call, CHerry 1259, in the afternoon. CLEVELAND Social and Personal Col. and Mrs. Benj. O. Davis have relocated at Wilberforce. Miss Dorothy Cowdrey is visiting relatives in Philadelphia. Miss Marjorie Johnson of Oberlin is a W. R. U. summer student. G. H. Ambrose, general manager of the Crusaders Mutual Insurance Co., has resigned. The A. M. E. Zion Church Connectional Council will meet in Hartford, Conn., July 10-15. Dr. James Owens spent several days with relatives in Mississippi, where his father died, recently. Four persons, one white, were lynched in the first six months of this year—two in Florida, one each in Mississippi and Tennessee. Miss Dorothy, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Geo. A. Myers, has been very ill for a week. She is one of our local public school teachers. Expert watch-repairing. Sears Bros., 2526 East 55th St.—Adv. Miss Julia Gants, delegate, and Miss Opal Owens, president of the Junior Federation, attended the annual convention of the State Federation of Women's clubs. The N. A. A. C. P. on Tuesday voted a survey of Ohio public institutions and colleges to ascertain the extent of any prejudice-practice against our people in their conduct. Expert engraving, stone-setting and jewelry repairing. Sears Bros., 2526 East 55th St.—Adv. Among the 100 or more city playground leaders appointed, recently are: Edith Lee, Naomi and Dorothy Smith, Edward Cheatham, Martin Kelly, Helen Clinchorn, Reba Taylor and Nell Hackney. Wills' Tigers clashed with the Detroit Tigers in a twin bill at Hooper Field, Thursday. Many old time stars are with the Tigers. They include Zomphier, third sacker; Dixon and Barnes, catchers, and Dean Curry and Miller, hurlers. Mrs. Lilliam E. Russell-Johnson of the Detroit Independent returned home by boat, Tuesday night. Mrs. Lilliam was one who delegated to the N. A. P.'s 20th annual Conference, paid the Gazette sanctum a very pleasant call, Tuesday afternoon. Mrs. Willa Patterson Smith who visited her sisters, Mrs. Agnes Martin, Mrs. Ella White and Mrs. Katie Dodge, returned to Canton, Wednes- HEY, TUBBY, COME ON OUR WERE GOING TO THE CREEE AN BUILD A FIRE H. SMITH'S 3007 Scovill Ave. FRANK L. HANDY'S 4401 Central Ave. J. S. HALL'S 3133 Central Ave. *Open, Sundays. THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, O., SATURDAY, JULY 6, 1929 *BILL VASSILEFF, 2928 Central Ave. H. A. BELLE'S 6013 Quincy Ave. *ROSENBERG'S DRUG STORE N. W. Cor. Central Ave. and E. 55th St. WANTED.—A stenographer who has a good English education, can read her own "notes" readily and operate a typewriter rapidly. Call, Cherry 1259, in the afternoon. day. Mrs. Smith is representing Knight & Bostwick, Newark, N. Y., florists and shrubbery. She called on The Gazette, Tuesday. Clocks of all makes repaired. Sears Bros., 2526 East 55th St.—Adv. Has Councilman George buried his resolution favoring better service on the Cedar, Central and Scovill Ave. street-car lines? Ask him! Yes, "down with the discrimination at the City hospital", and also down with the three "Negro" councilmen who continue to refuse to act in the matter as they should have done months ago! Who was on that committee of "Negroes" that called on Director Dudley Blossom, last year or the year before, relative to the City Hospital color-lines and were insulted by him? Somebody inform The Gazette, please. Why does City Manager Hopkinson refuse to hire any of our bands to play in the city parks during the summer season? This season he has given the work to Maurice Spitalny, Louis Rich and Walter Logan. There are experts to get the state supreme court to review his state. This will permit Tom to continue at liberty until that date on the $5,000 bond he has on file. Civil service examinations for the positions of senior stenographer and senior typist were announced, Wednesday, by Secretary C. F. Mackin of the U. S. civil service board, Federal building. Applications must be filled with Mackin not later than July 15. Salaries range from $1,440 yearly to $1,620. An investigation, in an effort to learn the identity of the down-state politician of color who sought to interest appellate Judge Roscoe C. Bomberg the appeal of an arbitrary conviction of former Councilman Tom Fleming, was not launched by County Prosecutor Ray T. Miller, as indicated, last week Wednesday. A ruling on the appeal is expected, this week, following the hearing, last week, before a court composed of Judges Roy H. Williams of Sandusky, Harry W. Lloyd of Toledo and Silas H. Richards of Clyde. The bathhouses and pools of the city are to be opened to the public, today, providing the water is warm enough. Our people MUST use these bathhouses. We must under the circumstances, that they do so. We have three members of the City Council—Rev. R. S. Brown, Dr. E. J. Gregg and Atty. Clayborne George, who with Safety Director Edwin D. Barry will make it their business to see that proper treatment is accorded all of our people who use the pools. Why has what has been of your resolution, asking City Hospital information from the city manager? The following named graduates attended the reception tendered them, recently, at St. Paul's Zion A. M. E. church; the Graduates attending were: From Western Reserve University; Wm. A. Freeman; Cleveland College; Constance Fisher and Agnes Howell; Oblerlin College; Harold Montague; Central High; Thelma Forte; honor student; John Caitlin Moss; John Morgan, Genia Murrell, Robert Smith, Wm Wood, Wilford Fitch, Esther Patrick, Andrew Johnson; East Tech High; Lee Cowan, Madie Crew, Elizabeth Dorsey, Ben. Harrison, Vanella James, Eleanor May, Hortense McPherson, Ruth St. Clair, Wallace Stokes, James Robinson, James Shores, champion typist of the school, Joseph Freeman; John Adams High; Charles Morgan and Elizabeth Meade; East High; Loretta Banks; Glentville; Orrin Sutherd; The program included an address by G. Jones, the local public schools; another by Rev. H. P. Jones, pastor of St. John's church; several solos, a song and light refreshments. Hon. Perry B. Jackson presided. IMMORTAL JOHN BROWN! His Descendants in Annual Reunion —Bagnall the Speaker. Hudson, O.—More than 100 descendants of John Brown of anti-slavery fame gathered here, Sunday, for their seventieth annual reunion. They were guests of the Hudson Cong. church for morning services and later attended a noon dinner. Other churches suspended services to participate in those services at the Congregational church. Former Episcopal Church rector, Robert W. Bagnall, director of branches of the N.C. church from Cleveland to be the speaker of the day. The reunion gathered at the C. C. Hine farm on SOM Center Rd., in the afternoon, for a social program. This is the ninth year the reunion has been held here. USE THE POOLS! Cleveland, May 29, '29. Mr. George A. Meyers, Holldenden Hotel, City. Dear George:—I have your most welcome letter of yesterday and you may rest assured that just as soon as you leave the hotel you more than glad to see that there is no discrimination and that your people receive their full constitutional rights. There was some talk, while I was away last summer, to the effect that there was a little trouble, but I will be here, this summer, and we will see you. I see that the necessary protection is given people who desire to use the pools of the city. I have not had the pleasure of seeing you later. When you are down near city hall be sure to drop in and see us. With my kind regards, I am, Sincerely, bye. Edwin D. Barry, Director of Public Safety. WORSE THAN AN OUTRAGE. Alfred Ward, Leroy Williams and E. J. Raspberry, president and principal officials who figured in the wreck of our Fraternal and Solvent Bank of Memphis in December, 1927, were paroled by Gov. Henry Horton of Tennessee, last week Wednesday. Ward, who was president of the bank and who signed a confession that he had been a member of the bank's funds, was serving a ten year sentence. Williams, cashier, and Raspberry, teller, were each serving five year sentences. Wayman Wilkerson, a vice-president, committed suicide following the bank crash. Court action is still pending against T. H. Hayes of Memphis, Dr. J. W. Atkins, former cashier, and John L. Yancey, assistant cashier. The bank, which was one of our largest business institutions, closed its doors with impairments of assets reaching more than a million dollars, due, it is said, to boozzeziness. The bank only did thousands of depositors lose their life-savings but another bank and several other business institutions were engulfed in the crash. Several hundred children who had participated in a savings project in the public schools also lost their money. State bank examiners say Guaranteed and Efficient Work TWENTY YEARS' EXPERIENCE 'Phone: Randolph 5870 Sundays by Appointment THE MAY COMPANY This Store Will Be Open All Day Saturdays DURING July and August We have decided on this change in our July and August Saturday Store Schedule in response to the demands of thousands employed in the building trades, factories and office buildings who can only shop on Saturday afternoons and heretofore have been deprived of the shopping advantages offered by large downtown stores. This has similarly affected many others who come to Cleveland from surrounding territory to shop on Saturday. Large Retail Stores are public service institutions and, therefore, obligated to serve their community at all times on all business days. So As Not to Impose Any Hardship on Our Own Organization By This Change in Store Schedule Our Employees Will Be Given an Additional Week's Vacation Which Is Considerably More Time Off Than They Received Under Our Former Saturday Schedule of Closing that it is very doubtful that depositors will get more than fifteen percent when the affairs of the defunct bank are finally wound up. As a matter of fact they will be lucky to get that much. The following figures were charged up against the various officers of the bank as they were charged up against $470.400.29; Leroy Williams, $2,475; H. Hayes, $21,200.23; J. L. Yancey and J. W. Atkins, $21,403.35. The following editorial reception was given the paroled officials on their return to Memphis, last week, by a local race publication; The Gang's All Out—cept one. Boys, let's send in a petition for him. His crime is as naught compared with the crimes of the bankers have been shown clemency. He attempted robbery behind the curtain of darkness—the brazen bank trio robbed in the open day. "The Gang is out. Their friends have been at work. They are free. "They will be hounded at every step, pointed out at every convenience, marked by every man or babe who sees them. They will be shackled with guilt and chained with remorse to the end of their days". It would be interesting to know unauthorized the governor of Tennessee paroled the governor of Williams and Raspberry, all members of the race! Lord, have mercy! Warns of Criminal Record! Chicago, Ill.—Predicting that unless some way was evolved to stem the present current, that "Negroes" within ten years would form the criminal justice prisons, Rodney H. 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Book on "EyeCare" or "Eye Beauty" go Free on Request Don't Throw Away Your Copy of The GAZETTE After Reading It But Give it to a Friend or an Acquaintance who might Subscribe after Reading It A side view of the huge car, which cost $30,000 to build, showing the compartments used for day travel made up for sleeping during night travel. RADIO RECEIVING SETS INSTALLED Equipment. Motoring over smooth stretches of highway to the tune of your favorite jazz band is a dream which will be realized within the next 12 months. St. Mayer, vice president of the American Motorists' association and president of the Automobile club of Illinois, predicted in Washington the other day. "A few months ago a prediction that automobiles of the future will be equipped with radio receiving sets would have been considered extraagent." Mr. Mayer declared. "At the present time, however, such is not the case, for already one company has announced that it is ready to go into the production of receiving sets specially constructed for automobile installation. Many Uses of Radio. "The uses of radio seem to be without limit. By signals, transmitted over radio waves, airplanes are dispatched, ships communicate with other ships and with the shore, passengers on moving railroad trains speak directly with their homes or offices, and policemen patrolling large cities in moving cars are given notice from their headquarters of the commission of crimes. These are actual accomplishments. "Engineers have found a way to shield the receiving set from the interference of ignition systems in automobile and airplane engines and have also discovered a method of overcoming noises generated by the moving car or plane through the use of a filter. Not even the beauty of the car will suffer through the radio installation, for engineers have found that it is possible to place the antenna in the roof of the car with the loud-speaker concealed in the framework of the body." Distract Driver's Attention. "There is one serious objection, however, to the installation of radio receiving sets in automobiles," Vice President Mayer points out. "The driver might become engrossed in some entrancing melody or soothing lullaby and neglect his duties at the wheel. It can hardly be expected that the installation of radio sets in automobiles will proceed unchallenged by law for this reason." THE MOTOR QUIZ (How Many Can You Answer?) Q.-What should be done if the ammeter does not register "charge" when the engine is running at normal speed? Ans.-Consult the repair man immediately. Q.-Why should a car be cleaned underneath? Ans.-To remove dirt which causes wear and prevents proper lubrication. Q.-How has the oil filter helped the motorist to economize on oil consumption and car maintenance cost? Ans.-The oil filter has made it possible to use the oil longer, and as it removes foreign matter from the lubricant, engine wear is minimized. Q.-When a spark plug insulator becomes covered with dry black soot, what should be done to remedy it? Ans.-Clean or replace the plug. If sooting is habitual, change to a hotter plug; also have carburator inspected, and be sure the choke hasn't become stuck. Rubber Acreage Now in Philadelphia Philippines Unlimited According to Manuel L. Quezon, former president of the Philippine senate, there are now about 100,000 acres of land under development in the islands, and about half of it is producing rubber. He declares that there is almost unlimited acreage which can be devoted to rubber growing, as soil and climatic conditions are ideal for that industry. He thinks it will be only a matter of time before the Philippines will assume a controlling influence on the development of the rubber industry, and that the islands can be used for its manufacture as well when the demand from the Orient becomes great enough to warrant it. for Outdoor Sports American enthusiasm for golf and other outdoor sports has been one of the major factors in placing two or more automobiles in thousands of American homes. Few golfers care to ask a member of their household to accompany them to the course and return for them after the game is over. Two cars to the family eliminate this situation and add materially to the transportation convenience of any family. Pet Skunk Excellent as "Watchdog" for Motor A new and unique use for that aromatic but valuable fur bearer, the skunk, has recently come to the attention of the biological survey of the United States Department of Agriculture. The superintendent of road construction of the Cocconino National forest in Arizona had been having trouble, because of pilferers, to keep anything of value in his car when he left it parked. The situation had become so irritating that he was at a loss as to what measures to take to stop these petty thefts. A little skunk, which the superintendent had found when a kitten and tamed until it had become an interesting pet, proved to be the solution of the problem as an effective deterrent against mauders. When he left his car for any length of time the superintendent would also leave the skunk chained to the wheel. Strange to say, nothing further came up missing, and the little animal proved as valuable as any watchdog. Speeders Encouraged YOUR MUST GO ON MOTORWAY ONLY FOR MOTORWAYS Anything less than thirty-five miles per hour across Miami's viaduct is considered offensive by Miami coppers, who prefer charges against motorists who refuse to step on it. Photograph shows one of Miami's police in front of the new signs on the county causeway. European Crossings Are Given Right Protection Only 8 per cent of the grade crossings used by motorists in the United States are protected, as compared with 80 per cent in France. Great Britain makes an even better showing in the percentage of protected grades. The 26,000 protected grades in France have real gates as well as day and night watchmen. The same is true of Great Britain. On the other hand, of the 27,000 grades in the United States 7,902 have crossing gates, 5,710 audible and visible signals, and 1,602 just visible signals. A fortune awaits the inventor of Neversqueak brakes. * * * * The hit-and-run driver is about on a plane with the well poisoner. * * * * Figures compiled for 28 leading cities of the country show that 93 per cent of the cars stolen during 1928 were recovered. * * * * The motorist who finds the relocated controls of his new car somewhat awkward need not be concerned. Familiarity comes quickly. THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, O., SATURDAY, JULY 6, 1929 UNDERWOOD JULIENNE LACE GOWNS AND THOSE OF GAY PRINT ARE FRIENDLY RIVALS BROOKWOOD & UNDERWOOD THE new fad of sun-worshiping which is sweeping over all fashionland, stylists have heard "opportunity knocking at the door" and they have gladly "stopped, looked and listened" to the call. In consequence the summer style program has resolved itself into just one sunback gown after another. To be fashionable one really must acquire a deep coat of tan. If the sun does not do its work well, then betake thyme to the nearest drug store, and ask for some one or other of the newest face powders made to match the now-so-modish ruddy tans and other sunray colorings. However, via the drug store is not the only road which leads to coats of tan, for fashionists have stepped in and offered to help the good cause along by designing frocks which invite the sun rays to effect a perfect health cure at the same time that they produce the desired complexion for milady. So it is that the vogue for suntan and sunray bathing suits and daytime costumes is sweeping the length and breadth of fashiondom. The suntan or, as called by some, the sunburn frock is especially vogushon LACE GOWNS AND PRINT AR IF hesitating between choosing all-over dress or printed chiffon for your next dressy afternoon frock, here's the solution of the problem—buy both. Have each of these frocks made with detachable sleeves and you solve both the afternoon and formal evening problem of dress. In this connection it might be well to say that in the Worth midseason collection most every dressy gown, either of lace or chiffon, was accompanied by a matching jacket or an ingeniously contrived hip-length wrap of the same material. Which again multiplies the wearability and adaptability to occasion of these ever-beguiling lace, also chiffon, summer modes. Nearly all lace dresses are entirely lace, in small all-over patternings, trimming being conspicuous by its absence. Which fact taxes the inventive genius of the dressmaker who is called upon to differentiate one gown from another through adroitly interworking a multiplicity of drapes and panels, flounces and streaming scarfs or graceful capelets as best suits the individuality of the wearer. Of course color is an outstanding note and does more than anything else to individualize the lace dress and to invest it with radiant beauty. y Your Co or an Acqu the tennis court. The dress worn by the seated figure in the picture is a very smart model. It is made of white rayon pique—a new material which is perfectly charming for sports wear. In fact pique is a very important fabric item this season. Another feature of this outfit is the cunning use of "dressmaker" bows. In every phase of fashion bows are playing a stellar role. By the way, if you look about in the stores you will find that many of the pique sunburn tennis frocks are sold with long straight pique coats to match. Thus the sleeveless, backless frock becomes tuned to informal daytime wear because of its accompanying wrap. The dress to the right features a sleeveless knitted blouse enlivened with multi-colored modernistic stripes. White with a dash of color is the watchword of the mode, both in knitted effects and where materials are combined. There is a strong revival of knitted suits. Many of these include a sleeveless sweater and a cardigan jacket. JULIA BOTTOMLEY. (© 1922, Western Newspaper Union) THOSE OF GAY E FRIENDLY RIVALS UNIFEWOOD & HIRESWOOD The interest which centers around suntan shades extends to lace. One of the encouraging things about choosing any of the suntan or sunburn shades is that the color being so fashionable, one finds it an easy matter to match up the frock with accessories, including hats, hosiery, shoes, gloves, handbags, fancy scarfs and, in fact, every item of dress. The gown to the left in the picture is of beige lace and each item of the costume has been carefully matched down to the slightest detail. Many style points are accented in the flowered chiffon illustrated here. The fact that the print stresses vivid flowers on a dark background is significant. Very smart prints register color effects such as capucine and beige shades printed on rich browns, orange and fame-colored flowers on black or navy and that which is at the moment a favorite with smart Parisiennes-black and white combinations. Two outstanding notes of special stress, when it comes to considering important style trends, are the skirt length below the knees and the princess silhouette which distinguishes this extremely modish print frock. JULIA BOTTOMLEY. (© 1929, Western Newspaper Union) CAUGHT "FLATFOOTED"! COUNCILMEN BROWN AND GEORGE SAY COUNCILMAN GREGG DID SAY IT. 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. 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, Browne, I had such a falsehood. I have高傲 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 one 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 appointed by the mayor, is hereby authorized and directed to investigate 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 accorded 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 members to work with colored nurses, 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 our boys 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 freewheeling 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. Hon. Harry C. Smith, Editor Gargette, 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 either for nurses or for the training of 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 in the City Hospital they would destroy the morale of and affect seriously 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 sane 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 persons, 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 IDEA 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 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 . community but positively trying to make them retrograde. Shame! 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 Mt. Zion 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, councilman, 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, no!" Well, well, WELL! Isn't that and his other reply (above) awful? What say you, Rev. Dr. C. C. Ailer, pastor of Zion Hill Baptist church? Will the members of your congregation "church" Gregg? Brown and George sure 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. SULZMAN, BLOSSOM, HOPKINS. The girls' farm maintained by the city in Brecksville was officially christened Blossom Hill by the City Council, Monday, June 3, in honor of Dudley S. Blossom, director of welfare in the cabinet of the city manager. Councilman John M. Sulzman, author of the resolution, declared that "if ever a name is worthy of immortalization, it is the name of Blossom". Hot air! "Immortalization", John, for steadfastly refusing to permit taxpaying citizens of this city to send their boys who wish to interne and girls who wish to become trained nurses to that PUBLIC institution known as the City Hospital? Sulzman should introduce another and similar resolution to encompass the "immortalization" of another such "worthy", no less a person than that other color-line individual, City Manager Hopkins, and then resign from the City Council. Any person who has so little regard for the near 50,000 Afro-Americans in this city as Blossom, Hopkins and Sulzman have no business holding public office in a community or city like Cleveland. When the charter- amendment election day, Aug. 20, arrives we will have a splendid opportunity to settle with Hopkins and Blossom but we will have to wait a few months to get even with the loquacious councilman, John M. Sulzman. The only member of the City Council to vote against the insulting Sulzman resolution was Mr. Potter, and we have three members of that more or less august body—Brown, Gregg and George. Where were they that not one of them had the guts to arise to his feet and tell the Council the truth from our standpoint? How did they vote? What in the world do they think they are in the City Council for, anyhow? Fine (?) representatives of a people? Whither are we drifting? Sulzman understood our people's attitude toward the color-line twins, Blossom and Hopkins, because it was only last week, in an E. 55th St. street-car that the writer explained it to him. Draw your own conclusions. LATER: Gregg, George and Brown voted FOR the resolution! Lord, have mercy! One of the many local patrons of "The Old Reliable" Gazette writes this paper to ask last year's promoters of a local "jim-crow" hospital, which they wished to name Mercy Hospital, to "make a public accounting of their receipts and expenditures" because "most of the money they received came from the public". "Dwight R. Williams" he says, "was secretary and president. Such an accounting should be made, at least to the subscribers and contributors. What was done with the money, gentlemen? Subscribe NOW!