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Ellison, Dent 201-3 Woodland Market Bldg., 5400 Woodland 'Phone, RAn, 1454. L. L. Ellison, Dent Woodland Market Bldg., 5400 Woodland 'Phone, RAn. 1454. 201-3 Woodland Market Bldg., 5400 Woodland Ave. 'Phone, RAn, 1454. DR. E. A. BAILEY Physician and Surgeon Special Attention Won 201-3 Woodland Mark 'Phone, Office, RAn. 2300 Special Attention to Chronic Diseases Women and Men Woodland Market Bldg., 5400 Woodland ue, Office, RAn. 2306. Res., CEdar Special Attention to Chronic Diseases of Women and Men 201-3 Woodland Market Bldg., 5400 Woodland Ave. 'Phone, Office, RAn. 2306. Res., CEdar 1178. THE GAZETTE ESTABLISHED, AUGUST 25, 1883 And Issued Every Week on Time Since CLEVELAND, OHIO, SATURDAY, AUGUST 17, 1929. RT. REV. CHARLES H. PHILLIPS RT. REV. CHARLES H. PHILLIPS OUR ONLY RESIDENT BISHOP STRONGLY OPPOSED TO THE MANAGER PLAN. Bishop Phillips’ “Fourteen Points” Make Clear Why All Cleveland Voters Should support the Charter Amendment on Next Tuesday—Read Them Carefully. The following communication, pertinent to the present campaign struggle to return the government of the City of Cleveland to the people, was brot to the editor of The Gazette, Tuesday evening, by Bishop Charles Henry Phillips of the Colored Methodist Episcopal Church, one of our several largest church-connections. The Bishop resides at 10828 Drexel Ave., this city, residence-property which he owns. He is a citizen and voter of Cleveland; Edition Gazette, Dean Sir. A few friends have asked my views on the issue of the day. I have no objection to letting any one know my views on the Manager Plan-Mayor System forms of government. They are as follows: (1) I am opposed to the Manager Plan because that Plan puts into the highest office in our city government a ruler without the surface of those over whom he is to preside. (2) The essence of our American Plan? Would the Mayor-ward system destroy civil service regulations and drive the three councilmen from the city government? If simple justice were meted out to Negroes would not a larger number be filling civil service positions today? It takes more than efficiency to land Negroes in civil service positions. (8) I am opposed to the Manager Plan because it appoints and does not elect the city’s ruler. This method discriminates against worthy white men and slams the door of hope into the face of the Negro for he could never be appointed Manager. (9) A Negro once ran for the governor-ship of the state of Tennessee and, more than once, the Hon. Harry C. Smith ran for a similar position in the state of Ohio. Neither expected to be elected but they found pleasure in exercising their rights as American citizens. Should Bishop Charles H. Phillips. democracy is that regardless to race, every man should have an equal and as large an opportunity as any other man to make the most of himself and aspire to any office in the gift of the people. To carry out this principle of democracy, the suffrage has been extended to men and women, and any man who is able to influence his followers, or voters, or representatives to elect Him can, in the Manager Plan, destroy this suffrage, can the highest office in the gift of the city and hands it over to whom it pleases. (3) I am opposed to the Manager Plan because it deprives the people of Cleveland of the privilege of choosing their ruler just as effectively as though they were excluded by the Constitution. A democratic form of government all democratic people are supposed to participate in its operations. When, therefore, the people cannot share in its operations by electing its outstanding ruler, there is likely to develop under the form of democracy a class oligarchy. For that reason I oppose the Manager Plan. (5) I am opposed to the Manager form of government because the crystallized will of the people is not registered in the choice of the Manager, in the rule of the people and this can be obtained once again by adopting the Mayor-ward System for our city government. (6) To whom is the Manager responsible for his official acts? Is he responsible to those who appointed him, or to the bar of public opinion? If to the bar of public opinion, is it not time to throw off the yoke of the managerial system, produce a civil awakening, arouse the conscience, or assemble the men and system some men can畏 and fatten at the public expense? I am opposed to this system because under it, it appears that men could more easily prostitute their trust and sell the powers that belong not to them but to the people, than under the Mayor-ward system. (7) I am opposed to the Manager Plan because, so far as the Negro is concerned, I can see no great boon this Plan has wrought for him. How many Negroes has the present Manager appointed to worthwhile city positions? Describe the Negro owe to the Republics more than to the Manager? Should the mere fact that the race has three members in the Council and several in civil service positions influence the race to vote for the Manager Plan? Would the Mayor-ward system destroy civil service regulations and drive the three councilmen from the city government? If simple justice were meted out to Negroes would not a larger number be filling civil service positions today? It takes more than efficiency to land Negroes in civil service positions. (8) I am opposed to the Manager Plan because it appoints and does not elect the city's ruler. This method discriminates against worthy candidates like Alain Dupre or hope into the face of the Negro for he could never be appointed Manager. (9) A Negro once ran for the governor-ship of the state of Tennessee, and more than once, the Hon. Harry C. Smith ran for a similar position in the state of Ohio. Neither expected to be elected but they found pleasure in exercising their rights as American citizens. Should the Negro vote to perpetuate an office for which he could never run? If the Mayor code because of its altruistic nature governs government, and because, more than the Mayor system, it could set up a class oligarchy. (10) Which system of government do the corporations, millionaires and money-interests prefer? If the interests thought it necessary to resort to bribery or surreptitious violations of law to promote their causes would they choose the Manager or Mayor form of government? I favor the Charter Amendment because I believe its adoption would be in the interest of the people, the common people, the masses. (11) I am opposed to the Manager Plan because its success at the polls would not be in the interest of the people, who have been fighting discriminations. Should the Negro vote for a system that discriminates against him, now and forever? He might never be elected Mayor. But does he think it wise to cast a vote that will deny him the running privilege? (12) The mere fact that the race has three men in the Council is not sufficiently appealing to induce Negroes to support the Manager Plan. Nor is it appealing to induce Negroes to vote for that Plan because if, the amendment is sustained, polls will so gervyarmand the city that Negroes support the City Council. That is a ghost, a presumption that needs not disturb the sleep of the Negro. Office is not the only desideratum that should urge the Negro to participate in, or perform the civic responsibilities that rest upon him. But he should conceive of the city as it has reference to the affairs of the city, state, or nation, and then exercise his franchise for those policies that he believes will promote the public good. That is altruism. That places principle above the spoils of office. I, personally, favor the Mayor-ward system because our forefathers erected for us democracy which is the best and most acceptable form of government. (13) Some people say Ex-Gov. Harry L. Davis hates the Negroes. Has anybody accused the present Manager of loving him? Others say that if the Mayor-ward system obtains Peter Witt or Davis will be elected mayor. The question is not whether the mayor loves; nor may he be elected to the mayoralty. But the larger and more important question to be solved by the reign of ballots is, of the two systems of government shall control the civic affairs of Cleveland; and, which offers the larger potentiality and better channel for freedom of thought and accountability to participate in the municipal government? With me, it is not which side is going to win. I am not seeking for the winning side. I prefer the mayor-ward plan and shall vote in accordance with that conviction. (14) It is a political assumption, to assume that the Chamber Amendment of that the city will so gerrymandered that not a single Negro can be elected to the city Council. Should this imaginary view command sufficient consideration to induce the majority of our people to vote against the Mayor-ward Plan, it would perpetuate a system of government that, in my opinion, would be more representative of a class-oligarchy than of the majority of the Manager Plan for that reason. As a choice is now to be made between the two systems, as these con- LIBERIA GOING FORWARD RAPIDLY Tuskegee's Vice- Principal Brings Good Reports from African Republic and Also from the Gold Coast—A Liberian London, Eng.—If I were still a young man (and had a few hundred dollars) with my way to make in the world, I should unhesitatingly go out to Africa" was the statement made by Dr. R. R. Taylor, vice-principal of Tuskegee, Ala. Institute. He had arrived in London from Liberia and the Gold Coast where as the result of a special invitation from the President of Liberia, he had gone to give the little republic the benefit of life the foundation of a Liberian "Tuskegee" for which a sum of $75,000 was recently left by the late Miss Olivia Pheips-Stokes, of the well-known American family whose members have given aid to so many of our efforts to progress. "The International development of Liberia is proceeding fast" said Dr. Taylor. "There are larger aproportion of schools than ever before. The educational schemes and the building of excellent roads, are now possible, President King said, now that border problems and the hostility of the people of the hinterland are questions of the past. The activities of the 'Firestone' interests, who have already developed about 55,000 of the million acres assigned to them, have stimulated a plant rubber soo, and there is also agricultural development in other directions. "There is great enthusiasm for the idea of a Liberian Tuskegee among all of the three sections of the community, the Americo-Liberians, the natives, and the Europeans. We are encouraged to recommend the preliminary choice of Kakata, situated on the fine motor road which is being driven through the country, at a point about 46 miles from Monrovia, the capital. It is thus easily accessible, and is in the centre of a thickly populated city, where the territories of three tribes, the Bassa, Pesech and Golas, meet. It is on rolling ground, is well watered and the soil is good and will excellently for agricultural development and experiment. I have little doubt that the scheme will be approved by the advisory board in New York to which I belong." Dr. Taylor also paid a visit to the Gold Coast, where he was entertained by Sir Ransford Slater, the British governor. He is very much impressed with the progress being made at the Prince of Wales' government college, at Achimota, "Principal Fraser and his staff have taken a lead in the development of the Africans and the Europeans", he said. "The period of suspicion has been outlived, and most of this is due to the influence of the late Dr. J. E. Aggrey, whose memory is revered throughout the community from the governor to the smallest children. I was very much impressed too by the favorable attitude on the part of the Africans to the British administration, as well as the attitude towards the Africans. I found there no word of bitterness or hostility. The Africans, too, all seem eager to learn, and the fact that they can own their own land gives them a self-respect which is most important." A architect by profession, Dr. R. A. Architect, County resident of Cleveland, O. U. S. A. has been asked to draw up the plans for the Liberia college buildings when he gets back to the United States, if his recommendations are accepted. Brown to Deflend His Title New York City — Panama A. Brown, "Afro," recognized in New York State as world's bantamweight champion, will defend his title, Sept. 17, against Teddy Baldoc, British bantamweight titleholder, in a fifteen-round match at the Colleseum. Baldoc, considered the outstanding European bantamweight, accepted terms, of $10,000 guarantee and a privilege of 17½ per cent of the gate receipts, by cable from England, Aug. 8, '29. Kid Chocolate K. O.'s Lorenzo. New York City — Kid Chocolate, sensational Afro-Cuban fighter, weight, knocked out Tommy Lorenzo in round 4 of a scheduled ten-round bout at Mitchel Field, Aug. 7, '29. Chocolate battered his opponent from the start and sent him to the canva with a left to the head after 2 minutes and 35 seconds of the sixth round had elapsed. people against the Manager Plan find expression in restlessness and repeated attempts to overthrow it. I think it time now to give to the people a fair election and let them decide decisively under which system of government this city shall function. Somehow, I am of the conviction that Negroes are going to vote not as paid agents advise and try to influence them to vote, but, according to their own notion and as所示, to the Bishop (Bishop) Charles H. Phillips, 10828 Delray Ave, Cleveland, O. SINGLE COPY FIVE CENTS MOST OF OUR PROGRESSIVE GOVERNMENT COMMITTEE MEETINGS FLAT FAILURES. Our Charter Amendment Meetings Big Successes, the One at Mt. Zion Leading in Point of Attendance Wonderful Enthusiasm-the The Progressive Government committee, for wards 11, 12, 17, 18, 19, Rev. C. C. Ailer, chairman, and Rev. Russell Brown, secretary, again did not have any appreciable success with their meetings, last week. The one on Monday night, at Lane Metropolitan C. M. E. church, drew seventy-five persons many of whom Ex-Gov. Harry L. Davis. were charter amendment advocates, and two policemen; its Tuesday night's meeting, at U. N. I. A. was a failure; Thursday night, at St. Paul's Zion A. M. E. church, only fifteen persons, eight of whom were speakers, were in attendance; Friday night, at E. M. Zion Baptist church, the experience was much the same. The ministers and laymen of this committee are not working harmoniously, it seems, some of the latter claiming that the two ministers, in charge of the ample funds are not "loosening up" with their laymen coworkers of color, to their satisfaction. The committee's few meetings, this week, were even less successful, that be possible, than last year, to prove that the wards mentioned will vote for the Charter Amendment on Tuesday next, practically as strongly as they did, last year and two years ago. In marked contrast to the foregoing, are our Charter Amendment meetings all of which, last week and thus far this week, were well attended and successes, the Mt. Zion Cong church meeting of last week Thursday evening with over one thousand members, the banner affair of the kind of the week, Ionicum Baptist church meeting at 8204 Quincy Ave. the same evening, was also a perfect success. Among the speakers at the Mt. Zion Cong church mass meeting were: Gov Harry L. Davis, Rev. Horace C. Bailley, Atty. Ezra Shapiro, Dr. Leroy N. Bundy. Councilman George, others, and the editor of The Gazette who also introduced Attys, Nathan Cook, Wm. Marsteller and Jos. Weaver to the large audience which gave them the Chautauqua salute, Mrs Lileen B. McKinney, the meeting and with her assistants, is entitled to great credit for the success of the largest Charter Amendment indoor meeting of the campaign to that date. To the surprise of all, Rev. Russell S. Brown, pastor of the church, closed the meeting with benediction. Sunday afternoon at Messiah Baptist church, E. 46th St. and Woodland Ave., and Sunday, at our seventh Day Adventist church, E. 71st St. and borne George, Mrs Louise J. Pridgeon, Rev. B. J. Prince, Messrs. Marsteller, Smith, Bundy, McGreee, Mrs Mary J. Jefferson, and others spoke Tuesday evening, at E. M. Zion Baptist church, E. 103rd and Cedar Ave., and Thursday evening, at Thankful and Beulah Baptist churches, splendid meetings were held. The speakers named and Rev. Ballel urged our people to give enthusiastic support to the Charter Amendment on Tuesday next. All are confident that this will be done. Monday evening, at our Charter Amendment headquarters in Hotel Majestic, an in-theater of workers who were addressed by the editor of The Gazette, Rev. H. C. Bailley, Dr. Bundy, and others. The meetings, last week Friday evening, at U. N. I. A. hall in E. 40th St. and 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 WIN! ONE ADMITS THIS PROGRESSIVE GOVERNMENT TINGS FLAT FAILURES. At Meetings Big Successes, the ing in Point of Attendance Enthusiasm—the kers, Etc. at Friendship Baptist church, E. 37th St. and Scillovill Ave., Rev. A. Hawkins, pastor, were splendid successes, particularly the one at U. N. I. A. hall. There a capacity crowd, packed the hall to the doors. Stupendous Exhibition of "Nerve and Gall." Cleveland, O., Aug. 2, '29. Rev. D. O. Walker, 8401 Cedar Ave., City. Sir: This morning's Plain Dealer quotes you as saying, last night, in a speech at Shiloh Baptist church: 'The colored newspapers won't print anything for our side. They putted money and didn't get it. One business men downtown don't give money to just anybody who says he has influence. So that paper came out for the Three-D amendment. The other paper wanted $1,000—it hasn't got 1,000 circulation'. Since there are three "colored newspapers" in the city, I want to ask you if any of the foregoing has reference to my paper, The Gazette? If so, I wish to say to you that somebody has misinformed you, at least so far as The Gazette is concerned, also to have a repetition of any particular of the foregoing to The Gazette, will make the person so expressing himself a contemptible liar! I trust you understand. For a West Indian person who applied for citizenship papers in June of this year, it strikes me that your exhibition of "nerve and gall" in taking such active part in the politics of the city of Cleveland and Cuyahoga County, at this time and in the past year or two, is stupendous. My paper, The Gazette, has consistently supported the charter amendment in each of its campaigns, its editor also campaigning for it, as you well know. Harry C. Smith, Editor, The Gazette HUNTINGTON, W. VA., NEWS. Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Hill have purchased a new sport model Hup.—Chestier Peters was elected secretary of Guyandotte A. M. E. S. S. Chester is a fine boy and should be encouraged. Sam Davis is doing great church work. Rev. F. Johnson preached a wonderful sermon, Sunday. He was accompanied by his mother, wife and Mrs. Malone of 10th St.—Mr. Steve Shepherd and family have returned from a visit with their parents in Atlanta. Mrs. Shaw called her to the health of a cousin Elmo Lane, is greatly improved.—Mr. and Mrs. Fred Stafford are busy in Guyandotte A. M. E. church building fund effort. Miss Esther Peters is another great pillar of the church.—W. M. Jackson has a great ball team and The Gazette will carry engagement dates hereafter. He is rejoicing over the success of one of his pitchers who has won several games in succession.—You must read "The Old Reliable Gazette, each week, as a town over the Chester Peters is agent. Send him your news, 403 Richmond St.," Phone 8780, until further notice.—Henry Jackson is the C. & O. labor foreman. You should hear Rev. Mack Fisher, and you will go again.—Don't forget Calvary Baptist church. Hear Rev. Bryant.—Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Miggison has a wonderful farm. Their son, Edward, is in Washington, D. C. with his grandparents.—Rev. Gipson is doing a great work in Guyandotte Mr. and Mrs. Harris are two of its grandchildren.—Joe proud of them.—Rev. Jones of 16th St. Baptist church is a splendid preacher.—The Gazette will carry all the news, each week. Flowers Beats Miller. Philadelphia, Pa. — Bruce Flowers, our New Rochelle (N. Y.) lightweight, was awarded the decision over Ray Miller (white), Chicago, at a time of all-out battle here, Monday night. Flowers weighed 134½ and Miller 133½. Harriet Tubman Home. Buffalo, N. Y.—Our Empire State Federation of Women's Clubs, thru an agreement with the western N. Y. conference of Zion A. M. E. Church, which pact was ratified by the board of bishops of that connection, is now in charge of the Harriet Tubman Home at Auburn, N. Y., situated on twenty-six acres of valuable land. THAT MIGHT BE A REAL GHOST WE SAW IN THE OLE HAUNTED-HOUSE UP ON GOAT HILL AN' MEBBE ITS ONLY A FAKE OR DEAD ONE ON ACCOUNT THAT IT NEVER MOVES. I DON'T CARE WHICH IT IS IM GONNA GO UP THERE AN' CATCH IT! I'VE BEEN TEACHIN' HANK TO' FETCH' AN' I'M GONNA THROW THIS STICK IN THERE AN' GET IT ALL TANGLED UP WITH THAT GHOST AN' HANK LL DRAG IT OUT GO GET IT, HANK! HE'S GOT IT! THAT A BOY HANK BRING IT HERE GEE, IT'S ONLY A OLE SHIRT! 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 STRONGER SATURDAY, AUGUST 17, 1929. On Tuesday, help to vote out the color-line at the City Hospital and in the city's bathing pools. Help vote out Color-line City Manager Hopkins and the manager plan, Tuesday. Pass the word along! Next Tuesday's election is a battle between the rich and the poor. Stay with the people you belong to. Dr. Leroy N. Bundy's activity in leading our forces in wards 11, 12, 17, 18, 19 was exceptional and fine, and he is entitled to unqualified praise for the same. This week, "The Old Reliable" Gazette enters its forty-seventh year of continuous publication — every week on time since August 25, 1883. More on this subject, next week. --- Color-Line City Manager Hopkins has never denied termed the "Negroes" who came to Cleveland from the South since 1917 "a potential menace" and saying that they were "dumped in the city". Put a cross (x) in front of FOR THE AMENDMENT on your ballot when you go to vote, Tuesday. And do not fail to vote! Tell all your friends and acquaintances to do the same thing. Be with the winners! Attys. Wm. Marsteller and Nathan Cook, Joe Weaver's saviours, were conspicuously active, particularly among our people of the city, during the campaign and sure did some telling work for the Charter Amendment. More power to them! Ex-Gov. Harry L. Davis and his right-hand man, Mr. Richard Harburger, have led and directed, respectively, a clean and successful campaign for the Charter Amendment. All of Cleveland's thotful loyal and sensible citizens will thank them for it, after Tuesday next. Hopkins has never given our people a single appointment but he has drawn the color-line at the City Hospital and the Woodland Hills bathing pool where six of our boys were mobbed, in the fall of 1927, and others have been molested and mistreated at various times, last and this year. Those local "Negro" ministers, who turned their backs on their own people and are charged with having "sold out" to the manager plan advocates, ought to be made to leave Cleveland, after next Tuesday. Their most flagrant action and brazen efrontrery, in this campaign, is positively the worst political exhibition we have ever had in this city. Messrs. Ellis, Meade, Shaw, Mrs. Mary Jefferson, and others, who politely but firmly made their presence felt and count in several Progressive (?) Government Committed meetings, last and this week, are entitled to much praise. They surely helped win the victory we are sure to have on Tuesday, Aug. 20, 1929. A taxpayer's suit to prevent payment of $2,000 to Garrett A. Morgan, who led in the relief work in the crib-disaster of 1916, is threatened by Mayo Fesler of the Citizens' league in case the city council votes the money. Fesler ought to be ashamed of himself. Morgan has been mistreated enough already by imposters. All of our Charter Amendment speakers and workers rendered splendid service in the campaign of the last three weeks and did it freely and willingly. Too much praise cannot be given each one of them. The "wheel horses" of the speaking part of the campaign are too well known to require personal reference, at this time. Rev. Horace C. Bailey's grand-daughter, who graduated in June from one of our local high schools, has again been refused admission to the Nurses' Training School of the City Hospital, in the last two weeks. Dr. Bailey's appeal for her was turned down flat. How can any of our people vote for Color-line City Manager Wm. R. Hopkins, and the manager plan, in the face of this, to say nothing of what has taken place in the past five and a half years he has been Cleveland's chief executive? --- Rev. D. Ormonde Walker's first application for citizenship papers was filed, Mar. 9, '29, here in Cleveland. Number of application, 73913. He was granted his second papers on June 21, '29. The foregoing information was secured from the Federal (U. S.) District Court, Monday, August 12, '29, and is official. A wonderful exhibition of nerve he is exhibiting in telling old citizens how to vote in the present campaign. FOR CHARTER AMENDMENT! That the few "Negro" minister and laymen supporters of the manager plan have been made desperate by our notorious lack of interest in and exceptional dislike of Color-line City Manager Hopkins and the manager plan is evidenced in these closing days of the campaign by their speakers' belated efforts to stem the ever-rising tide against the man and the plan and in favor of the Charter Amendment, upon the part of nearly all of our people of this community. Not daring to do so themselves, they finally found an individual in the person of Assistant Law Director Ben F. Levin who had the ternity, Sunday evening, at St Paul Zion A. M. E. church Lycme meeting to attempt to do what Hopkins himself has not done since Jan. 10, '25, the day he referred in the Cleveland Plain Dealer, to our people who had come to the city since 1917 as "a potential menace" and adding that they had been "dumped in the city". Even Levin did not quote Hopkins as saying that he (Hopkins) had not said it, but tried to convey that impression by saying that "the man who is spreading that story is too bright not to know it isn't true". Knowing that Levin had reference to him, because the editor of The Gazette has led during this campaign in "spreading that story", the editor called Mr. Levin on the phone, Monday afternoon, and impressed him with the fact that what he termed "that story" was the TRUTH and nothing but the truth. Also, sent Mr. Levin a marked copy of The Gazette containing Dr. E. J. Gregg's letter, which will be found elsewhere in this paper, and immediately mailed the Plain Dealer the following letter: Cleveland, Aug. 12. '29. Editor Plain Dealer, Dear Sir:—In the Plain Dealer of this morning is a statement accredited to Ben F. Levin, assistant law director, made while addressing a meeting, (last) Sunday evening, of St. Paul Zion A.M. E. church Lyceum. Response to the question: "What was it Mr. Hopkins said about the Colored people being a menace to the city," Mr. Levin said: "The man who is spreading that story is too bright not to know it isn't true." The writer is one of a number of speakers in the campaign now on who has been using what Mr. Levin terms "that story." As a matter of fact, it is not a story but the truth, its original publication having been made in the Cleveland Plain Dealer of Saturday, January 10, 1925. Your publication of this statement has never been questioned by Mr. Hopkins, the Plain Dealer or any other local daily paper from that date to the present. Harry C. Smith, Editor The Gazette Levin's attempt in his speech, Sunday evening, referred to above, to give City Manager Hopkins and the manager plan credit for the appointment of the Hon. Harry E. Davis to the civil service commission was as ridiculous as Councilman Russell S. Brown's reference, in the same meeting, to the City Council-City Hospital-Hopkins inquiry resolution which he introduced, some months ago, and which Color-line City Manager Hopkins has ignored ever since, apparently with the Rev. Brown's consent. Our people of Cleveland haven't a thing in the world to thank Hopkins or the plan for. On the contrary, we have many good and sufficient reasons to do everything in our power to help defeat both him and the manager plan, THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, O., SATURDAY, AUGUST 17, 1929 as noted elsewhere in this paper. Both self and race respect force all loyal members of the race to go to the polls on Tuesday next and cast their votes for the Charter Amendment in order to get rid of Colorline City Manager Hopkins and the manager plan and help the City of Cleveland to return to the federal plan of government which will enable them to elect a mayor and a councilman from each ward, thus returning to them the important right they lost when the miserable manager plan was adopted, five and a half years ago. Do not fall to vote Tuesday next and for the Charter Amendment. DO YOUR DUTY! Fresh Ohio News YOUNGSTOWN.—The union services, conducted by the Third Baptist, Centenary M. E. and Oak Hill A. M. E. churches for five weeks, are still drawing great crowds in spite of the hot weather and the people are deceived by the Revs. P. H. Hill, H. M. Marble and Jas. H. Maxwell continue them because of the great good done the community.—Buckeye lodge, Elks, picnic, Sept. 3, at Idora park. 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Liverpool.—Mrs. Marcella Brooks and Eunice Lee visited in Martins Ferry. Wednesday.—Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Lucas spent Sunday with their mother.—Rev. and Mrs. W. O. Calvest of Simpson M. E. chapel will leave Tuesday or Akron to attend discontinuation conference at Claire, bishop. They will also visit in Troy and Delaware. The Y. W. M. circle gave a very enjoyable entertainment, Friday evening.—Gordon Ramsey of Akron visited his grandmother, Thursday. —Virginia and Charlotte Redmond gave their mother a birthday surprise, Thursday.—Rev. E. L. Liggins, the junior and senior choirs assisted Rev. J. O. Jackson with the camp meeting at Mcntyre. Sunday. —Rev. D. K. Jackson with the camp meeting at St. JAMES A. M. E. church. —John Coursey and Chester West visited in Massillon, Sunday.—Born to Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Johnson, Aug. 3, a son; Alfred McKinley. HILLSBORO—Mrs. Bessie George of Dayton visited Miss Rosetta Nelson and Ugena and Elnora Hughes of Dayton visited Miss Alice Cole, Mr. and Mrs. John Hudson, Mr. and Mrs. Jas. West and son visited relatives in Sardinia, Sunday. Louis Hudson, Richard Williams and Minnie F. Toler returned with them after a visit here.—Mr. Julius Owen's mother died in Cincinnati, Sunday after a long illness.—Mr. and Mrs. Fevere, who were dinner-guests, Sunday, of Mr. and C. M. Gragson.—Mr. and Mrs. A. F. Donaldson and granddaughters, and Mr. and Mrs. Vinton Male of Columbus visited the formers' mother, Sunday.—Mrs. Mildred Waters was called to Dayton, last week, by her daughter's illness.—Mr. and Mrs. Albert Williams, Jr. and Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Minor dined with Mr. and Dorsey Minor, and Mr. and Edwards, and son motored to Chillicothe and Wakefield. Sunday.—Bayard and James Captain are home from Detroit, visiting their parents.—Mr. and Mrs. Jos. Pettigrew and daughter of Dayton visited Mr. John Williams, Sunday.—Mrs. Zack Lewis of Springfield visited her mother, last week.—Alfred Waters, Vernon Perkins, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Johnson visited the latters' niece in Dayton, Sunday.—Mr. and Mrs. A. Holland and sons have returned from a motor trip to Niagara Falls.—Mr. and Mrs. Anna Hill and James Taylor attended the Jones reunion at Washington C. H. and Mr. and Mrs. Edward and Mrs. Clavin Dixon, daughter, and Roy Speech visited in Columbus, Sunday. OHIO'S MOB VIOLENCE ACT OR ANTI-LYNCHING LAW LEADS THE COUNTRY IN EFFECTIVE LEGISLATION Against the Mob and Lynch-Murder-Three Years' Work of a Member of the Race-Also His Ohio Civil Rights Law. Section 6278. "Mob" and "lynching" defined. 6279. "Serious injury" defined. 6280. Damages in case of assault. 6281. Damages in case of lynching. 6282. damages recoverable by legal representative of victim of lynching. 6283. Person suffering death or injury by mob trying to lynch another. 6284. Limitations of action. 6285. Order to include recovery and costs in tax levy. 6286. Guardian's custody, etc., fees. 6287. County's right of action against member of mob 6288. County's right of action against another county. 6289. Non-relief from prosecution. Our mo-violence or anti-lynching bill was introduced in the Ohio legislature in 1894 and re-introduced in 1896. It took the Hon. Harry C. Smith, editor of The Gazette, just three years to secure its enactment into law. The Ohio Supreme Court has several times upheld the constitutionality of the law and it has been Section 6278. A collection of people assembled for an unlawful purpose and intending to do damage or injury to any one, or pretending to exercise correctional power over other persons by violence and without injury to any law, shall be called "mob" for the purpose of this chapter. An act of violence by a mob upon the body of any person shall constitute a "lynching" within the meaning of this chapter. (93 v. 161 2.) Section 6279. The term "serious injury," for the purpose of this chapter, may be used in law, manently or terminally disables the person receiving it from earning a livelihood by manual labor. (93 v. 161 3.) Section 6280. A person taken from officers of justice by a mob, and assaulted with whips, clubs, missiles or in any other manner, may be arrested and not to exceed one thousand dollars as damages from the county in which the assault is made. (93 v. 161 4.) Section 6281. A person assaulted and lynched by a mob may recover, from the county in which such assault occurred, five hundred dollars; or, if the injury received therefrom is serious, a sum not exceeding one thousand dollars; or, if such injury result in permanent disability, to earn a livelihood by manual labor, a sum not to exceed five thousand dollars. (93 v. 12. 5.) Section 6282. The legal representative of a person dying from injuries received from lynching by a mob, may recover from the county in which such injury occurred, a sum not to exceed five thousand dollars damages for such unlawful killing. Such sum shall be applied to the maintenance of the family and education of the minor children of such person so lynched, if any survive him, until such children are of legal age, and then be distributed to the survivors, share and share alike, the widow receiving an amount equal to a child's share to widow or minor children surviving 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 such person so lynched, nor be subject to any of his liabilities. (93 v. 162 6.) Section 6283. A person suffering death or injury from a mob attempting to lynch another person shall come within the provisions of this chapter. He or his legal representatives shall have a like right of action as one purposely injured or killed by a mob. (93 v. 162 6.) 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 it with the costs of action, in which the preceding tax levy for such county, shall be a part of the judgment in every such case. (93 v. 162 8.) Section 6286. If the decedent so lynched has minor children surviving him, the fund shall be turned over to a regularly appointed guardian, and such guardian such fund under the direction of the probate judge, allowing not more than five hundred dollars for counsel fees in the action for such recovery. (93 v. 162 9.) Section 6287. The county in which the decedent 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 try by mob trying to lynch another. costs in tax levy. must member of mob must another county. MOBS. 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. If a mob carries a prisoner from another county, comes from another county, commits 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. 163 10.) Section 6289. This chapter shall not relieve a person concerned in such lynching from prosecution for homicide or assault for engaging therein. (93 v. 163 12.) OUR OHIO CIVIL RIGHTS LAW Upon the request of many readers of The Gazette we print below the text of the Hon. Harry C. Smith's Ohio Civil Rights law which the editor had enacted while a member of the 71st General Assembly, in 1894: the general Code of Ohio: Sec. 12194. However, being the proprietor or a dealer, owner or manager of an inn, restaurant, eating house, bar-shop, public conveyance by land or water, theater or other place of public accommodation and amusement, denies to a citizen, except for reasons applicable alike to all citizens and regardless of race or color, the full enjoyment of the 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 less than fifty dollars nor more than fifty dollars to a person aggrieved thereby to be reefered in any court of competent jurisdiction in the county where such offense was committed. This law has repeatedly been held constitutional and good law by the Ohio Supreme court. The trouble is our people will not use it as often as they should, but expect it to do for them what they should and must do for themselves, under it, in the courts. HERE'S AN OPPORTUNITY! "The Old Reliable" Gazette desires an active agent and correspondent in every city and town in Ohio and neighboring states having a number of Afro-American residents. Only a little time on Fridays or Saturdays is required to make some money. We are especially desirous of hearing from persons in the following named cities: Springfield, Columbus, Toledo, Steubenville, Zanesville, Wilmington, Xenia, Washington C. H., Lancaster, Piqua, Lima, O., and other places, particularly in Ohio, where we have none. Write to the editor of The Gazette, 226 West Superior Ave., Cleveland, O., and terms will be promptly. Our readers will oblige us greatly by sharing the advice of persons in the cities named, and others in the state to whom we can write relative to the matter. HE'S GOT IT! 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Both Opposed to Our Internes and Girls Training in City Hospital With the Young Folk of All Other Classes or Races in the Community. In the summer of 1928, at Ashbury Park, N. J. an officious and prejudiced policeman who was patrolling the beach, public property if you please, told our people who were enjoying the salt-water there, to "go down where you belong", having reference to a section of the beach which he had designated as a segregated section. Our people of Ashbury docilely obeyed, feeling it was an order from the mayor of the city. This year, they decided that such unjust and illegal discrimination should end. So informed "this honor" and the Board of Commissioners that they were going to use the beach "as others use it", and were promptly informed that "no such order had been given any officer of the force and no such orders will be given". The discriminatory practice complained of ended right there. This year, however, it is rumored, certain of our people, "jim-crow Negroes", approached the City Commissioner and asked for a segregated section of the beach. Lord, have mercy! As a result there have been several instances, recently, where our people have been ordered away from certain parts of the beach. In a letter to the Board of Commissioners relative to this latest instance of discrimination, our people of Ashbury Park wrote: "We are citizens and not cattle, and we will not be quiescent under any practices or conditions that seek to deprive us of our inalienable rights. If it must be so, we shall peacefully submit to arrest in order to have the courts inform you what are our rights; but rest assured that we are going to use our beach as other people use it." In the letter they also called attention to an attack made upon three of our men by a life guard, on July 14, because they went to a part of the beach where the guard that they should not have gone. The letter ends with this statement: "We feel that we have been patient and have endured much. We shall not annoy you with further communications unless you so desire. But please be advised that we are citizens, and our rights as citizens, and never stop fighting until the court of last resort has passed upon the issue." And the letter will settle the matter and settle it right, too! How like City Manager Will R. Hopkins and his assistant, Dr. Dudley P. Blossom, director of welfare, in the case of our internes and nurses who desire to train in the Cleveland CITY Hospital is the Board of Commissioners of Asbury Park, N. J.! It was Director Blossom, a southerner, who brazenly told a delegation of our people that they only, of all the citizens in this community, would not be permitted to use the CITY Hospital as desired, and that that statement "settled it". Along comes Councilman E. J. Gregg, a member of the race, with his "jim-crow" hospital suggestion and later with his East Side branch of the CITY Hospital substitute-suggestion which would prove to be but a "jim-crow" affair to which all Afro-Americans, from all parts of the city, would eventually be forced to go for ALL purposes, as patients, internes and student-nurses. At Asbury Park, "jim-crow Negroes" asked for a segregated section of the beach. Here "jim-crow Negroes" ask for a "jim-crow" hospital on the Eastside of the city. Lord, have mercy on them! The Asbury branch of the N. A. A. C. P. has written the Board of Commissioners of that city as stated above. Cleveland's local branch, as usual, rests supinely "upon its oars" after having written a few letters to Hopkins and Blossom. It has never occurred to it, it seems, to write them a letter like the Asbury branch's latest communication and prepare to take our CITY Hospital matter into the local courts, as will be done at Asbury Park, N. J. This, too, in spite of the fact that our people of Cleveland have contributed thousands of dollars, for years, to the support of the N. A. A. C. P. for just such court action, and have never received it! Meantime, the Charter Amendment contest is on again and election day is August 20, 1929. On that day will be afforded an opportunity to get rid of the manager plan and its "potential menace" and color-line city manager and his prejudiced southern director, Dr. Dudley P. Blossom. This will afford the relief desired, and open the Cleveland CITY Hospital for the training of our internes and nurses; stop the discrimination in the Woodland Hills and all other bathing pools of the city; place Afro-American employees in the City Hall and other branches of the city government, in nearly all of which we are not so represented; and rebuke the brazen afront and insult of those twelve "Negro"-pastors, "Round Robin" signers, pseudo "apostles". "ROUSE MIT" HOPKINS! For about ten days, the Cleveland Press and Plain Dealer, two of the three local daily papers and supporters of the manager plan and Color-line City Manager Will R. Hopkins, kept nagging Maurice Maschke, head of the local Republican organization, trying to force him to come out for the plan and the man, with the result that he issued a statement, the first of the week, which practically arrays his following in the Republican party of the city, which means the Republican organization of course, on the side of the Charter Amendment. And that settles it—the contest! The Charter Amendment carried both times before with the organization against it and as about everyone now knows was counted out, both times. If it could win, last year and the year previous, with the organization against it, what chance of losing has it, this year, with the organization with it? It is true that the rich of the city, favorable to the manager plan, have an enormous campaign fund that they are spending (or promising) "like drunken sailors", and that it is bound to have some influence on the result. For example, just witness the most reprerehensible, most fragrant and outrageous conduct of some of our local ministers and leading white men already in this campaign. But will the lavish use of this money off-set the acquisition of the support of the Republican organization? "Not by a million years!" Even if it did, and there is not the remotest possibility of its doing so, there would still be the natural majority to overcome that the Charter Amendment had, last year and the year before, when it won and was counted out. There is no danger, this time, of there being any "counting out". So all we have to do is to get out the vote on August 20, '29, to oust Hopkins and the manager plan and restore the government of the city of Cleveland to the people who lost it when the miserable plan was adopted. Let us all "get busy" and stay so until the victory is achieved. "Rouse mit!" Hopkins and the manager plan! THOSE "ROUND ROBIN" SIGNERS Following are the names of the twelve "Negro" ministers of Cleveland, who, the local daily papers announced, recently, had signed that "round robin" against the Charter Amendment: Revs. Russell S. Brown, D. O. Walker, L. H. Brown, Ernest Hall, C. R. Jones, J. E. Wilson, C. D. Patterson, R. W. Watson, C. H. Crable, J. P. Foote, C. L. Jefferson and S. Grannum. We have seen nothing, in the last two weeks, from any of them denying that they have so flagrantly insulted the intelligence, loyalty and common-sense of our people of this community. So, we are justified in believing that those named did sign it. What a travesty upon Christianity and race loyalty! Here are twelve "Negro" pastors who urge our people to support the manager plan to maintain and improve the five and one-half year administration. City Manager Wm. R. Hopkins, in the face of the fact that both plan and manager are positive detriments to our people's progress in this community. Under the plan, Manager Hopkins increased the bonded indebtedness of this city over thirty million dollars during his first four years in office, and at last fall's election secured twenty-two million more of bonds, making a total, to date, of fifty-two millions! This is an added benefit for poor people, home-owners and tenants who also pay taxes, to bear. What is far more important to our people of Cleveland than the foregoing is that the city manager defiantly denies our people only, of all the residents of this city, rights and privileges in that public institution, the City Hospital; has permitted mobs to all but kill a number of our people who sought to use the Woodland Hills bath house and bathing pool; termed the people who lived in City Hill during the infuse of ten years ago, a MENACE to the community; steadfastly refuses recognition we are entitled to in city hall appointments, and in a number of other ways THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, O., SATURDAY, AUGUST 17, 1929. grossly discriminates against us! If the manager plan is retained, Hopkins will be continued in office. No one questions this fact. And yet, in the face of the foregoing and much more, if you please, twelve "Negro" ministers, at the behest of wealthy people of the community, are alleged to have signed a "round robin" urging our people to support the inimical manager-plan and Color-Line City Manager Hopkins. LORD, HAVE MERCY! Harry C. Smith. "POTENTIAL MENACES" SAYS MANAGER HOPKINS Dr. Gregg's Letter Taking Hopkins to Task For His Miserable Statement. Jan. 14, 1925. Mr. W. R. Hopkins, City Manager, Cleveland, Ohio. Dear Sir:—Permit me to call attention to an article, which appeared on Page seven of The Cleveland Plain Dealer's issue of Saturday, January tenth, under the caption: "Phillis Wheatley Called a Defense", containing the following in part, and accredited to you: "I don't know of any problem confronting the city, that contains more potential menace than the fact that 40,000 southern Negroes have been dumped into Cleveland within the last few years. We were fortunate in our Colored population, here, before the war. It had a real aristocracy, and no question about it. There was Charles Chesnut, nationally prominent in letters, and many others, who were distinguished in scholarship and leadership. This aristocracy constitutes today what I might call our first defense". After careful analysis of these statements, I am sure you will easily understand that these 40,000 persons, many of whom are loyal citizens of Cleveland, are anxious to understand in our various bands by the new constitution of property, purchased by them, and the many new business developments, started by them are considered. Surely such evidences of progressive citizenship do not come from people who can be classed as "potential menaces". Unfortunately for both of us, you may become prejudiced thus daily contact with that manacecreating type of Negro—all of whom are not recently from the South. But, I invite you, however, to seek occasional contact with those of us who have a full sense of our civic duty, and permit yourself to learn something of our home and social life. I feel sure that after such connoisseur of our life, readily change our opinion of us. Personally, I am a supporter of the Phillis Wheatley Association, and am thoroughly in accord with its ultimate aim. I also believe firmly that the support of the white people of Cleveland should be freely sought in this kind of endeavor. But in seeking such support from white citizens, it hardly seems fair to oppose it, but to put the sentiment "menace", in order to create sentiment for crimes. But I think that a high public official, even in this should be tolerant and patient to some extent; for this ignorance is the white man's sin. We worked patiently for nearly three hundred years—the entire earnings going to your people, that they might become cultured, and be born rich; and still there is equal need among your people for social workers to help adjust your criminal and social problems. Your people had been enslaved—we should be kindly disposed, and in this present generation, be willing to give you a chance. In conclusion, I am sure that you will agree with me that moral and civil law demand, that every normal individual be considered innocent until proven guilty, and surely you cannot, as City Manager, intentionally wish to impress upon the rest of Cleveland that you would condemn, in the blanket way your statement avers, the 40,000 newcomers to Cleveland. How could 40,000 of us whom you claim have been dumped into Cleveland, in the face of such public feel safe in seeking justice at the hands of a public official who considers us to be potential menaces? * * * * Very truly yours for a more definite racial knowledge, E. J. Gregg, M.D. 2316 East 55th St. BROWN INCONSISTENT! Rev. Russell S. Brown, councilman in a letter to The Gazette, under date April 9, "29, wrote: "It is both timely and right to open the CITY Hospital to our boys and girls." It is a notorious fact that the CITY Hospital is closed to our boys and girls who wish to train as internes and nurses, and that Color-line City Manager Will R. Hopkins, the executive head of Cleveland, is responsible for this. And yet Councilman Brown is supporting the manager plan and Hopkins in the present campaign. He would foist both upon our people of the city and upon our government continue the injust discrimination complained of for an indefinite period in the future. Therefore, Brown is harmfully inconsistent. He says "it is both timely and right to open the CITY Hospital to our boys and girls" and then proceeds to try to do the very thing that, if successful, would continue the unfair discrimination against our people for years to come. Brown is palpably inconsistent and harmful to those of the race in this community. Vote for the Charter Amendment on August 20, 29, and help to rid the city government of the injustice and regain your citizen-rights and privileges in the CITY Hospital, the city's bathing pools and all other public places now closed to our people. PROGRAM OF SMART FEATHER TRIMS IS PROMISE OF FALL MILLINERY THE HAT FORMAL LACE GOWNS ADOPT SLIM SILHOUETTE WITH A SLIGHT TRAIN UNDERWARD KALMERWOOD A LITTLE feather new and then makes even the simplest hat take on an air of autumn chic. Just a mere glance at the early fall modes convinces as to the style-giving qualities of a bright bit of a feather. According to advance millinery which they are sending over, Paris designers are displaying a genuine enthusiasm for feather trims. Sometimes there is just the required dash of color, plus that ever-coveted quality which we call "style." Many of the summer's exotic straw hats have been foretelling the coming vogue for feather trims, in that they often flaunted cunning colorful motifs of pasted hakele or pasted bird appliques, or perhaps long ostrich flues FORMAL LACE GOWNS SILHOUETTE WITH ONE of his fascinating books David Starr Jordan quotes an unnamed author as saying "the wise young man will wear out three dress suits a year." Well now, with this statement as a basis or reckoning, the question is if a man requires three formal suits per year, how many dine, dance and formal evening gowns should milady fair maintain during an equal period of time. Be the answer as it may, this much is certain, in the collection a gown all of lace must be given a position of prominence. To be up-to-the-minute in modishness it should accent a slim mold silhouette and sponsor considerable length. If it has a train, so much more does it express chie. The model in this picture answers admirably to these requirements. Not only is this a gown of sophisticated styling but the gold and yellow rayon lace of which it is made is the denier cri. The separate scarf of matching lace and the train-like panel at one side are also two of fashion's newest notes. This frock is a charming example of what designers are doing with lovely laces. Metal laces are particularly good, the newest types being exquisitely flimy and fine. Of regal beauty is a princess dress fashioned of thin-mesh black chantilly, many of which are entered on the style program for the coming social season. With sleeves or without, stylists are creat- copy of The O maintenance who worked into flat quilts and various novelties. Now the new autumn felts are taking up the cue and from the outlook a program of unique feather-trims is assured for the near future. As heralds of the coming feather vogue, the hats grouped in the picture give a promising outlook. The model at the top has its fashionable off-the-face brim faced with pasted feathers, their cocoa-brown tones blended to the felt of the hat. Below, to the left, a band of soft feathers is cleverly positioned in connection with a wide strapping of the felt. The feather motif is carefully matched in color, thus developing the entire hat in monotone, this being a hobby with the mode this season. If not in one-color effect, then a dash of vivid hue is the aim of the designer, which theory is carried out in the large bakou hat to the right. The natural colored straw is enhanced with a tricolored ribbon band and two cunning bird motifs, the pasted feathers being in multicolors. A striking illustration of the novelty note sounded in the new feather trims concludes this group. The wee blush-gray feathers are fitted about the head like a toque. The straw hat is navy. The feathers also form a side trim. JULIA BOTTOMLEY. © 1929, Western Newspaper Union. NS ADOPT SLIM TH A SLIGHT TRAIN ing them, the former being wonderfully effective for smart dinner wear. fully effective for smart dinner wear. As a winsome exponent of the now-enthusiastically accepted princess "lines" the gown illustrated qualifies with honors. An interesting thing about the much exploited fitted effects is that they are developed not only in satin, velvet, faille, moire, taffetta and other firm weaves, but they are notably interpreted in sheer fabrics and laces. The better styled flowery chiffons and those of monotone tint appearing on the late summer program, for the most part emphasize the fact of slim semi-fitted upper portions to which low flares of ingenius styling are cleverly attached. The grace of these alluring types is subtly added thereunto, with flowing capelets on variously designed scarf necklines, or else one of the very new sequin-embroidered cape-collars im port a note of infinite charm. Ensembles all of lace are an increasingly important theme with those who set the fashions. Those for evening and formal wear adopt silhouettes which lay stress on flowing sleeves and fantastic necklines. The newest thing is to make the frock in one tint and the coat of another such as flesh color with a deeper pink or that which expresses the Paris mode—a black chantilly lace coat over a white lace gown. JULIA BOTTOMLEY. (© 1929, Western Newspaper Union.) GAZETTE who might Su PREVENT STEALING OF PARKED AUTOMOBILES STOLEN N 185 761 The new device which blazes out the word, "Stolen," directly when a thief attempts to switch on the ignition of a parked motor car, in an attempt to steal it. The secret of the new device lies in a little box attached to the ignition system which it is necessary to unlock before the ignition is switched on. The invention is pronounced absolutely infallible. The new device which blazes out the word, "Stolen," directly when a thief attempts to switch on the ignition of a parked motor car, in an attempt to steal it. The secret of the new device lies in a little box attached to the ignition system which it is necessary to unlock before the ignition is switched on. The invention is pronounced absolutely infallible. LAXITY BLAMED FOR RACE DEATHS LAXITY BLAMED FOR RACE DEATHS Accident to Ray Keech Was Due to Hole in Wooden Bowl at Altoona. Criticism of the laxity under which automobile speed contests are conducted throughout the country was voiced in Washington by the American Motorists' association, in co-operation with the Automobile Club of Illinois. The charge was made by Si Mayer, president of the Automobile Club of Illinois and vice president of the A. M. A., that the failure on the part of authorities supervising the races to permit only experienced drivers to participate on well-conditioned tracks has resulted in avoidable loss of life to both drivers and spectators. The recent death of Ray Keech at Altoona is the latest example of this laxness, writes Walter A. Bermingham in the Chicago Evening Post. Following his death it was officially announced that the accident was due to a hole in the wooden bowl, which it was stated would have required less than a carload of lumber to repair. State authorities should put a stop to these avoidable race-track killings, Vice President Mayer told the executive board of the association, which approved his charge of laxness by the adoption of a resolution depleting the sacrifice of life and placing the blame primarily on the organization having supervision of the races. "Any auto organization, whose major function is public safety and which undertakes to sponsor automobile races," said Mayer, "cannot escape reponsibility for the tragic consequences of inexpert driving, as regards personnel, or the physical condition of tracks over which the races are run. "Automobile racing is sufficiently hazardous without imperfect track conditions, and we believe public opinion will no longer tolerate contests under such conditions, no matter under whose uspies and sanction the races are run. "Automobile racing, under the present system, is conducted primarily for profit and serves no useful purpose. "In the early years of the automobile, races were of value in the development of automotive science and mechanism. At the present time, however, each automobile manufacturer makes his own tests on his own proving ground. Furthermore, the development of an automobile that will travel 200 miles an hour is of no practical value to automotive science for such speed would always be a menace on the public highway." AUTOMOBILE HINTS Wash the wheels last when cleaning the car. A thin coating of grease is best to seal a cylinder head gasket. And in particular, familiarity with the sense of going fast breeds contempt of chances. Western judge rules that pedestrians have the right of way, so now they can go ahead and run over the automobiles. Auto trucks compete with camels on the new highways of Persia. Rates by camel are lower, but trucks are so much faster that shippers prefer them at higher rates. If you are half way past the left-hand road into which you intended turning, better pull over to the right, and slow down and back up instead of suddenly swinging around. A bill before the legislature of South Carolina would provide that the penalty for automobile thieves be not a fine but sentences ranging from five years in prison for the first offense to life for the fourth offense. 1. New Arrangement Makes Automobile Starting Easy Easy starting for the automobile motor depends on the proper mixture of gasoline and air and on a strong, hot spark, assuming, of course, that the mechanical condition of the motor is good. By pulling out the choke knob you can be sure that there will be plenty of gasoline in the mixture, and by using the arrangement shown in the illustration you can get a stronger and hotter spark than normal, even though the storage battery is not fully charged. A fixed resistance coil is connected in the circuit in series with the spark coil to limit the amount of current that will flow in the coil and prevent it from burning out if you accidentally leave the ignition switch turned on CHOKE CHOKE ROD STOP LIGHT SWITCH SPRING DISTRIBUTOR COIL TIMER IGNITION SWITCH BATTERY Every starting is insured by connecting a stop light switch with the choke button so that a resistance coil on the spark coil is short-circuited when the choke is out, giving a strong, hot spark. when the motor is not running. The idea is to connect a stop light switch as shown so that when the plunger of the switch is pulled out the resistance coil will be short-circuited. The plunger of the stop light switch is connected by means of a piece of wire and a spring to the choke rode, so that when you pull out the choke the resistance coil will be short-circuited and an abnormally large amount of current will flow through the spark coil, producing a fine spark even with the starting motor drawing a large amount of current from the battery. Pushing in the choke rod again after the motor starts restores the circuit to normal running condition.—Popular Science Monthly. MOTOR QUIZ How Many Can You Answer? Q.-How tight should the fan belt be kept, and why? Ans.-Just tight enough to prevent slipping. Putting the belt under too great tension shortens its life and may cause it to break. Q.-What was the total amount of gasoline tax collected in the United States during 1928, and how many gallons of gasoline were consumed? Ans.-More than $305,233,000. 10,-178,344,700 gallons of gasoline. Q.-How often should breaker points and spark plug gaps be checked? Does it take long for such an inspection? Ans.-Every one thousand miles. This is very simple and requires but a few minutes. Breaker points should be filed square and clean and gapped according to recommendations in instruction manual. Plug gaps should also be adjusted according to recommendations. Fatalities Per Car Is Pointing out that the number of motor fatalities per 100,000 registration in the United States has declined materially in the past ten years, Harry R. Cobleigh of the National Automobile Chamber of Commerce advanced the view that the modern motor car was built with maximum safety, speaking before the traffic safety instruction course of the Newark safety council, recently. While competence of the driver is always an essential, the speaker noted four-wheel brakes, more responsive motors and balloon tires as among the features of modern automobile construction which make for safety.