The Gazette

Saturday, March 8, 1930

Cleveland, Ohio

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TELEPHONE MAN OBSERVES 50th SERVICE YEAR TELEPHONE MAN OBSERVES 50th SERVICE YEAR Tom Field Relates Strange Stories of Early Telephone Tribulations IFTY years of public service lie behind Tom Field, of South Euclid, O., and all of it has been in the telephone business. Not many of them stay for a half-century in any business, but Tom has been on the job every day in Cleveland as a repairman. As the oldest employee in point of service with The Ohio Bell Telephone Company, he knows this telephone game—and here's what he says about it: "Ah, g'wan out an' walk off the grouch!" That's the way the boy operators used to talk to their subscribers 45 years ago. Five of us handled the 350 telephones in Louisville, Ky. We were not assigned to positions, but moved about when we pleased—which was quite often. We had to stand all day, as chairs were unheard of in the operating room and, since our board was of the cordless type, we made the connections with small brass plugs which we carried in baskets. The manager, who was also chief operator, used to storm into the operating room to find out who was guilty of impudence to subscribers. But the boys never told on each other." Messenger Boy Field secured his first position in January, 1880, at Louisville, Ky., as a messenger with the Western Union Telephone Company. The old pioneer days were filled with DAMM GOOD IDEAS Given the Danaceau Charter Commission By the Ex-Clx City Treasurer —Seventy-Seven Cities Have Discarded the City Manager Plan. Former City Treasurer Adam Damm (Danaceau) appraisal before the self-made Danaceau commission, last week Thursday night, declared for an elective mayor of definite responsibility, the redistricting of the city into wards of 40,000 with a councilman for each, appraisal of all land to be purchased by the city by "reliable outsiders", establishment of a port commission to recommend a suitable relation to the Council, and dropping of the Civil Service Commission "if it can't be improved upon". Mr. Damm-sug --- ```markdown ``` THE GAZETTE 3 hard work, discouragements, and the overcoming of new difficulties. "The present high standards of courtesy, teamwork and co-operation have been a process of evolution, developing as the pioneers worked together in a common cause," said Tom. "That spirit among the workers had much to do with keeping me in the business. My father wanted me to be a physician, but I chose the most interesting vocation that I know of—the telephone business." Service Record Tom Field worked in Louisville until 1885, when he joined the Ohio Valley Telephone Company. On September 1, 1888, he became manager for the Central Union Telephone Company at Fremont, O. On October 10, 1889, he went to Lima as manager for the same company, and on May 9, 1891, he was ser. to Sandusky in the same capacity. He joined the Cleveland Telephone Company on April 10, 1899, and has remained in Cleveland since that time. gested that the charter require that all councilmanic candidates be resident; they be at least a year before they become candidates and that they live in the wards they represent and that all employees and department directors be residents of the city for at least six months before they are appointed to office. Atty. Sol. Danaceau submitted figures on the relative sizes of the Councils of twelve large American cities and six large European cities all of which paid their councilmen more than Cleveland did and had manned their councils. He also said he had discovered that 77 American cities had adopted and abandoned the manager plan and that, with the exception of Clinchnatt, there was no other large city in the country that retained it. ESTABLISHED, AUGUST 25, 1883 And Issued Every Week on Time Since CLEVELAND, OHIO, SATURDAY, MARCH 8, 1930. 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. YOUNGSTOWN. — The Belmont "Y" annual membership dinner, Thursday evening, had Miss Rachel Taylor, exec. sec. of our Pittsburgh branch "Y", as principal speaker. Miss Ruby Cromer and Oakhill Ave. M. E. Glee club, furnished music. St. John's A. M. E. Christian Endeavor, society gave an interesting program, late Sunday afternoon. Also, Shiloh Baptist church where Mayor Joseph E. Julius of Campbell was a special guest. Mrs. S. S. Booker was the special speaker at Oakhill Ave. A. M. E. church, Sunday evening. Tuesday morning, and always write their names and that of their city or town on the outside of the wrapper about returned copies, if proper credit for them is desired. Lists of names, wedding presents, programs, obituary notices, inquiries for relatives and advertisements of all kinds, including items announcing entertainment to be held in the near future, must be paid for in advance, the rate of 20 cents a line, six words to a line. Our rates for display advertisements will be sent on application. HILLSBORO.—Mr. Chas, Metcalf and Miss Hattie Barber were married, Saturday evening, March 1, Rev. J. J. Burr officiating. Mrs. Ada Highwarden is quite ill.—Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Minor of Wilmington visited her mother, Mrs. Florence Burr, Sunday.—Born to Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Rickman a son Charles. Mrs. Rickman a son visited her mother and sister in Wilmington, Sunday. they gave an enjoyable dinner, Sunday, in honor of her birthday.—the Baptist M. S. met at its president, Mrs. Mary Holland's Friday afternoon.—Mrs. J. J. Burr ended the Sewing club, Thursday. THE BLOSSOM APPOINTMENT! And "The Blossom Triplets" Denounced in Mass Meeting—Strong Resolutions. In spite of the inclement weather, the mass meeting at Quinn A. M. E. church, E. 130th St. Sunday afternoon, was a success in point of attendance as well as enthusiasm. J. W. Minor presided and introduced the speakers: Dr. James K. Nickens, Mr. Emmett Meeade Hon. Harry C. Smith Rev. Em Todd, pastor of the church and toy S. Rector, resident of the Laymen's League. Music and prayer opened the meeting. The miserable course pursued by our three councilmen, George, Bundy and Payne, "The Blossom Triplets", in the Morgan-Blossom re-appointment matter was thorny discussed by the speakers and many strong points emphasized, the audience rallying to the statements with most hearty applause. At the conclusion of the speaking, the following protest resolutions were presented and unanimously adopted: WHEREAS, Dudley S. Blossom, as Director of Welfare, not only led in encouraging a "jim-crow" hospital and in the barring of our boys and girls from training in the City hospital, but was so aggravatingly insulting in his personal contact with his staff, that he delegations of our leading men who called upon him, last year and the year previous, in connection with this hospital controversy, very offensively said to Dr. Bailey: "No, I am not going to allow Negro boys and girls to train at City hospital," and WHEREAS, by letters, resolutions and personal conferences, City Manager Daniel E. Morgan was made fully acquainted with this deplorable condition which Blossom alone created, as far as our people are concerned, and yet in the face of this fact has seen fit to ignore it and our people and reappoint said Dudley and the director of the city of Cleveland, and WHEREAS, our three councilmen Messra, George, Bundy and Payne, have seen fit to ignore the mandate of our people of their districts (given them last fall during the campaign when they were seeking our votes) to do all in their power to oust said Dudley S. Blossom, city welfare director, therefore be it RESOLVED, that this mass meeting, assembled in Quinn A. M. E. church, E. 130th S., this date, March 2, 1930, censures the city manager and our three councilmen for the insulting re-appointment of Blossom. RESOLVED that a copy of these resolutions be furnished the local daily and weekly newspapers, the city manager and our three one-term councilmen, George, Payne and Bundy. A Curse Thru Administration Madison, N. J., Mar. 2, '30. Hon. Harry C. Smith. Editor Gazette, Cleveland, O. Honored and Dear Sir:—This is for information: Is there no way to enjoin, offset and unset the re- Tuesday morning, and always write their names and that of their city or town on the outside of the wrapper about returned coops, if proper credit for them is desired. Lists of names, wedding presents, programs, obituary notices, inquiries for relatives and advertisements of all kinds, including items announcing enterance to be held in the near future, must be paid for in advance the rate of 20 cents a line, six words to a line. Our rates for display advertisements will be sent on application. CADIZ.—Mrs. J. P. Lucas was called to Coschotton by an aunt's illness.—P. T. Brown of E. Liverpool visited his family here, last week.—Mrs. Virgil Blanchard will make her home in Pittsburgh.—A covered-dish supper was given in honor of Mrs. Jessie Lewis, Saturday evening.—Mrs. Lizzie West attended Monroe Powell's funeral at Emerson, Monday afternoon.—Mrs. Lydia Allen has been very ill.—Mr. and Mrs. Louis Johnson have taken charge of the Palace restaurant.—Revival services, this week, at Simpson M. E. church.—The married Ladies' club observed "woman's day" at St. James' A. M. E. church, Sunday afternoon. An appreciative audience, the helpers served a chicken dinner, last evening. A number will go to Steubenville to hear Congressman Oscar DePrist speak at Wells High school auditorium. appointment of Director of Welfare Dudley S. Blossom by Cleveland's City Manager D. E. Morgan? Could you appeal for a referendum, or a recall of the appointment? As for the "waivers of their opposition" of George, Bundy and Payne, must the heirs pay theirearn to voice their disapproval of their unmany representatives' action? I don't know why, but when I read in The Chicago Defender of the honor given Rev. Horace C. Bailey, I wondered how long it would be before he would show the cloven foot of the Bundy, Payne and George, if they are true to their photos in The Gazette. I want to commend your steadfast refusal to confer with Blossom. That is where "the white man" gets the Negro—in private conference two to one—two white men—one Negro," and he is hobbled to fit the I note your criticism of Revs. Bailey and Brown anent mixing politics with religion. Bishop Carey, though applauded by thousands, also failed. Why? They make religion subordinate to politics. Their religion is water; and oil. you know, always applauded by thousands, ever the method, make religion the oil—proportion 5 to 1—and a religious politician can be used to the glory of God, to the community's benefit, and welfare of the race; and that means you. You are a Christian believer—? and a politician—? I want to thank you for your manly expression to City Manager Morgan. You are a man of integrity, but the result will not be half as much (to me or my people of this community) as will be the appointment of Dudley S. Blossom as welfare director". The memory of your words will act as a curse throut his administration, for the platform on which he was elected included the ousting of both Hopkins and Blossom. I love 11:21 yours. (Rev.) Geo. Wilson Brent (white) DAVIS MADE A COLONEL Only Afro-American Line Officer in the U. S. Army Wins Promotion at Last. Washington, D. C.—Our only line officer of the army, Lieut. Coni Benj O. Davis of Cleveland, O., was promoted to colonel of cavalry, last week Friday. The promotion was on the basis of seniority. Col. Davis, who rose from the ranks and is not a graduate of the U. S. Military Academy at West Point, began service in 1895 as a first leutenant of infantry in the Spanish-American war and received the leutenant-colonel-in the World War. He is detailed in the R. O. T. C. at Wilberforce O. University.) Our Seniors Refused. Boston, Mass.—Seaton W. Manning, age 17, a senior of the Boston Latin School, and his companion Gwendolyn Henderson, a senior at Boston University College of Business Administration, were rushed admission two weeks ago. Two weeks ago Wednesday, to attend the Purple and White prom, the annual ball of the senior class, of the Boston Latin School. EVERY OPPORTUNITY We Too Must Have—Fuskegee Head Urges Assimilation of Civilization, in an Address at Howard U. Washington, D.C.—Dr. Robert R. Moton, principal of Tuskegee Ala. Institute, said Monday if the Afro-American is to survive the test of modern civilization he must utilize every medium and instrument of Dr. Robert R. Moton. advancement. Speaking at exercises observing the charter date of How- ard University, the educator said: "We find ourselves situated in the midst of an advanced civilization which has required in the aggregate thousands of years for its development. In spite of our limited opportunities, we are measured by the same standards, we carry the same responsibilities and are expected to meet the competition of larger wealth, greater numbers, more favorable opportunities and unlimited resources. We must be only as secure for ourselves every medium and instrument of advancement possessed by those around us. By the logic of events, we must have every type of education to meet the demands of conditions with which we are confronted". HON. JOSEPH C. MANNING Turns His Historical Data Over to a Friend of Color in Chicago. New York City.—The Hon. Joseph C. Manning, who is critically ill, has sent by express to Arthur J. Gary, 4103 Vincinnes Ave., Chicago, Ill. all of the papers and documents, scrap books, pamphlets, letters and other material with reference to his career and public service that he has thought valuable enough to preserve J. since 1888. For many years, when Mr. Gary lived in New York, he was in close contact with Mr. Manning's activity and aided and encouraged it. Mr. Manning feels that some colored friend should have this material, this valuable data, and he knows no friend more loyal than Mr. Gary. He has asked Mr. Gary to confer with friends, whom Mr. Manning has named, as to the use of this data. THE REAL PERRY HOWARD Exposed by a Republican U. S. Sena tor (or- to) Lord, O. How Long?" Washington, D. C.—Congress was urged, Monday, to set its machinery speedily in motion to relieve unemployment which, a group of senators asserted in rapid-fire speeches on the floor, was widespread and working hardship on many individuals. Half a dozen more senators joined in the discussion. Johnson (Repub.) of California said the White House statements indicated there was "nothing but prosperity." Brookhart, (Repub.), Iowa, said a "concrete example" of how the "commist scare" was raised was furnished in the case of Perry Howard, former department of justice attorney and one time Republican from Mississippi. Howard the Iowa said, received a fee of $4,000 from the Pullman company to "tight the members of his own race" who had threatened to (strike) quit their jobs as Pullman porters for higher wages. "Propaganda put out by Howard," Brookhart said, "blamed communism for the strike." SINGLE COPY FIVE CENTS HAITIANS PROTEST AGAINST DICTATOR Score U. S. Commissioner and Warn Investigators Massacre Is In Sight. Port-au-Prince, Haiti, March 3.—Two prominent Haitian leaders, representing groups with a total membership of 500,000, in testifying before President Hoover's investigation commission today, urged the mediate recase of Brig. Gen. John H. Mediate of the Haitian government, and dictator of the island republic. They likewise asked for the dismissal of the council of state, and warned the commissioners that if the council should attempt to elect a president, April 14, without permitting popular elections, a "massacre" was unavoidable. Antoine Rigal, president of a group of seven liberal organizations, declared President Borno was holding office illegally. He denounced Borno as a mere "muppet" in the hands of high commissioner Russell and demanded the recall of the American high commissioner. said, during a speech at the annual banquet of the Pittsburgh Bullders' Exchange, that in Nicaragua the marines' candidates always won elections and that in Haiti the marine-controlled president (Borno) had dissolved the Congress to preserve the commissioner and dictator of the island republic. They likewise asked for the dismissal of the council of state, and warned the commissioners that if the council should attempt to elect a president, April 14, without permitting popular elections, a "massacre" was unavoidable. Antoine Rigal, president of a group of seven liberal organizations, declared President Borno was holding office illegally. He denounced Borno as a mere "muppet" in the hands of high commissioner Russell and demanded the recall of the American high commissioner. Crosser also said that he told the president he believed the reports of banditry on the island are exaggerated "found no evidences of banditry, altho myself and several companions traveled unarmed from one end of the island to the other. Nor Won't Obey Dictator Longer. "We refuse to obey this dictator, who is not of our people, any longer," he said. "All officials from the president down, even judges, are nominated and put in office by the executive power, which is the high commissioner. Rafael, chairman of the National League of Constitutional Action, representing 150,000 Haitians, supported the claims of his compatriot, and also warned the commissioners that if the Haitians could not elect their own president they would not hesitate to shed their blood in protest. Dantes Bellegarde, secretary general of the Chamber of Commerce, told commissioners Haiti had made no progress during the years of occupation. W. Cameron Forbes, chairman of the Goverrnn commission, said the charge was so grave that figures must be brought to prove it. Bellegarde replied he had figures and would give them. Washington, D.C. — Last fall, Dec. 18 to be exact, Congressman Robert Crosser of Cleveland told President Herbert Hoover that from a personal investigation he made in Haiti, two years before, he believed the sensational charges made by Maj. Gerald R. Harris, P.R.S., two weeks before, concerning conditions in Haiti and Nicaragua were absolutely correct. Butler And Proceeds to Show the Real Situation in South Africa—Natives Outraged. New York City—In the recent Crisis, Editor W. E. B. DuBois has an editorial, having reference to the Jan Smuts-Howard University conference of some weeks ago, in which he says: "Why was it not perfectly in order for some member of that (Howard University) conference to ask Jan Smuts, courteously but firmly, why he had deliberately lied at Town Hall, N. Y. City, and told a questioner that an Afro-American could buy land and live in South Africa?" Reciting what Smuts has done since 1924 when he first became a member of the cabinet in South Africa and rose to prime minister, Editor DuBois says: "1. All colored people have been disfranchised, except in Cape Colony and even there colored voters cannot vote for colored candidates. "2. Natives have been disarmed by excluding them from the militia. "3. Natives have been deprived of their land and prohibited from buying land except in restricted areas. The percent of the land is for a million and a half white and thirteen per cent for 5,000,000 natives. "4. Negroes are excluded from the civil service. "5. 'Jim-Crow' regulations for railroads and public buildings. There are separate post offices for colored people. "6. The government is to $10 a year on natives which are used for the benefit of whites who pay no poll tax. "7. Ninty-five per cent of the natives are illiterate. The government grant to native schools is the same amount expended for the upkeep of the Pretoria Zoo. "8. The pass system compels every native to be registered and carry a pass or he is subject to arrest." The Gilpin Players have been presenting "The Romantic Young Lady," a comedy by Martinez Sierra, at the Karamu theatre, all week, and will include a special performance this is the Players' fourth production and sixth season. 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 compari-son 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 ACRE! PROTEST T DICTATOR ner and Warn Investigators said, during a speech at the annual banquet of the Pittsburgh Builders' Exchange, that in Nicaragua the marines' candidates always won elections and that in Haiti the marine-controlled president (Borno) had dissolved the Congress to prevent passage of a new constitution. "I told President Hoover that Beller's remarks concerning conditions in Haiti correspond exactly with what the years ago." Crosser said on leaving the White House, last December. "I know it as an actual fact that the native government is absolutely dominated by American officials." Crosser also said that he told the president he believed the reports of banditry on the island are exaggerated. "I found no evidences of banditry, altho myself and several companions traveled unarmed from one end of the island to the other. Nor did I hear any reports of any robberies", he said. Crosser said that he believed prominent New York bankers were really responsible for sending U. S. marines to the island. "The Cleveland congressman said he believed U. S. forces should be withdrawn from the island. "I think we need to withdraw from Haiti just as soon so possible", he concluded. Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, March 3—Gen. Rafael Estrella Urena, chief of the recent insurgent movement against the Vasquez government and recently appointed secretary of the interior by ex-President Vasquez, today became provisional president of the Dominican Republic. Before the National Assembled he took the oath this morning, the president of American minister, Charles B. Curtis, and other diplomatic and consular officials. In a brief speech afterward he promised to respect the Constitution and the laws of the country, and to adjust his government to the normal political situation he had outlined in his earlier campaigns. Haiti, "the little black republic," occupies about one-third of the island of Haiti and is separated from Santo Domingo, "the mulatto republic," by an almost impassable chain of high mountains. Santo Domingo occupies the rest of the island. MADLY IN LOVE With His Wife in Spite of Her "Brownskin girl in Carried Grime, or Crime." Penn's Grove, N. J. - Faithless to her husband and two children, a boy, age 6, and a girl, 4, pretty Anna Santo (white), age 23, awoke suddenly, Monday week, to find her shek, Walter Thomas, age 30, also faithless. Carrying a revolver wrapped in newspapers, Mrs. Santo went to Thomas' room on the second floor of a dwelling occupied by George Thompson, and shot him as he stood by the window. Thomas is at Salem post office, where he notified police by telephone, and gave herself up, saying: "I haven't slept for three nights. I had to do it. There wasn't any other way out." Mrs. Santo refused to talk further to police. However, she talked for several hours with her husband, who brought the children to visit her in the jail. Santo, said to be madly in love with his erring wife, declared he would "stick by her" and "help her out of this mess." George Thompson, Thomas' sister, told him that passages to have occurred between the two while Anna's husband was at work, and their two children in the care of neighbors. "They were friends," Thompson said. "She used to come here to see Walter nearly every day after her husband went to work. We got so used to her running in and out of our house we didn't pay any attention to it any more. She used to bring wine and they'd have parties up in his room. We could hear them." More Cadets for Annapolis! New York City. — Congressman Jos. A. Gavagan (white) of the 21st district has nominated Wm. Chisholm as a candidate for a cadetship and Daniel R. Piper as his alternate on his list of four principals and four alternates for entrance to the U. S. Naval Academy at Annapolis, Md. Congressman Oscar DePriest of Chicago has also nominated two candidates for cadetships at Annapolis. In April, there will be a third vacancy, which he will to all. Alonzo Parham is pursuing a special course in mathematics in order to be able to qualify on March 23 for re-entrance to the U. S. Military Academy at West Point, N. Y. --- PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY IN UNION IS STRONGING 10,000,000 Afro-Americans. 350,000 in Ohio. 60,000 in Cleveland. SATURDAY, MARCH 8, 1930. The Rev. George Wilson Brent's letter, elsewhere in this paper, is interesting, illuminating. It wouldn't be a bad idea for Congressman Robert Crosser of this city to appear before the Hoover Haltian Commission immediately upon its return to this country. He undoubtedly can tell them some very helpful things. We would suggest to Mr. Crosser that he do so in the interest of humanity and not await a formal invitation from anybody. -11111- With a sentence of two years and nine months in the Ohio Penitentiary at hard labor hanging over his head for thirteen months, we felt and still feel that former Councilman Thomas W. Fleming had been sufficiently punished because he had done far more for Walter L. Oehme, the crippled former city policeman who prosecuted him, than he had ever done to harm him, and, too, on Oehme's earnest solicitation. --- We certainly favor former City Treasurer Adam Damm's suggestion of an elective mayor and a councilman for each ward, the latter being residents of their balliwicks. The manager plan is not only a misfit, but also obsolete when it is remembered that seventy-seven American cities have abandoned it and that, with the exception of Cleveland and Cincinnati, there are no other large cities in the country burdened with it. --- Dr. R. R. Moton, principal of Tuskegee, Ala. N. & I. Institute, "said a mouthful", as the Germans would say, when he told an audience at Howard University, Monday, that we must secure for ourselves "every medium and instrument of advancement possessed by those around us", which includes every citizen right and privilege, of course, as well as "every type of education", if we, as a race, are to "measure up" and survive. HOOVER'S HAITIAN COMMISSION The appointment of President Herbert Hoover's Haitian commission has resulted in one good thing being done already. The dispatch to American newspapers, published elsewhere in this paper, could never have been sent out from any point in Haiti but for the presence in that country of the Hoover commission. For many months, yes, for several years, Gen. John H. Russell, American high commissioner in Haiti, and dictator of "the little island republic", has had everything sent out of Haiti thru the mails, particularly to the newspapers of the United States, carefully censored and dilleted whenever and wherever necessary from the American Occupation's viewpoint of all things having relation to its control of Haiti. Let us hope that this good work will continue, and that the commission will bring back to President Hoover the whole truth and nothing but the truth. Therein lies "poor bleeding Haiti's" only hope for a return to the freedom and independence they enjoyed before the advent of the baneful American Occupation. The outrageous mistreatment of the Haitians, from the American Occupation's misgovernment of "the little republic" on down to the murder of nearly four thousand native Haitians by American marines, was inaugurated during the Democratic Wilson administration by Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels, the South Carolina newspaper editor and publisher. His Blue-Eyed Baby. Shelbyville, Ky.-Up for his second trial on the charge of rape for which the penalty is death, Robert Logan was sentenced to ten years in prison last week. In the first trial the jury disagreed when it saw the white mother and the blue-eyed baby. Ten voted for acquittal and two for conviction. The girl was lettered at the same house and latter said nothing of the alleged outrage until after the child was born. Doings of the Race DOINGS OF THE RACE. The U. S. commissioner of education announces that we have 2,401,999 students in the schools of eighteen states. Miss. Bonnie Bogle recently served as forelady of a jury in a Portland, Ore. court. She was our only member of the jury. Marcus Garvey is serving a six months' sentence in prison at Kingston, Jamaica, British West Indies, for publishing seditious libel against the government in his newspaper, "The Blackman." Charles Sideboard, of Vicksburg, Miss., has recently recovered $7,500 in back-pay from the Y. & M. V. Ry. Co. on the ground that he was entitled to the pay of a brakeman and not that of a train porter. A scatting denunciation has just been given Prof. Kelly Miller of Howard U.. Washington, D. C., by Rev. C. E. Chapman for his ridiculous article in the Baltimore Afro-American, entitled: "An Apology for Hoover's White (Haitian) Commission." Chapman is pastor of the Colored Methodist church of Detroit. Herbert Newton, an organizer of our American Labor Congress, was arrested, recently, at Stanford, Conn., while walking to a meeting of the organization with a white woman and held incommunicado in jail for four days before being liberated because he refused to give a policeman his name, address and his business. Fearing their five-year sentence might be increased by conviction on additional charges, J. D. Reid, vice-president, and H. S. Stanback, cashier, of our defunct Commercial Bank at Wilson, N. C., withdrew their appeal for a new trial and entered the state prison at Raleigh, N. C., last week, to serve their terms. With their imprisonment, efforts to have Reid's wife removed as a public-school teacher were discontinued. Dr. R. M. Moton, principal of Tuskegee, Ala., N. and I. Institute, will head a "jim-crow" commission to Haiti for the purpose of studying the educational system of the little republic. President Hoover appointed Moton with power to select his associates on his commission. They are: Dr. Mordecal W. Johnson, pres. Howell, N.C.; Dr. Robert S. General Education Board; Proof. Benj. F. Hubert, pres. Georgia State I. college, and Dr. W. T. Williams, dean, Tuskegee Institute and field agent, Jeannes and Slater Fund. FINKLE'S LOVING CUP. Reception and Banquet - Speaking Music-Officers Old and New, Etc. HEALTHIER IN THE NORTH! A Fisk Professor at Welfare Meeting Says It Is Due to Hygiene. Unemployment causes more radicalism than all other things which could be named, Whiting Williams said, Monday night, at the annual meeting of our local Welfare Association at City Club. "The opportunity for a man to raise his level is greater in a factory than on a farm," Williams concludes. The colored man probably will have to have a larger degree of ability than the home-made man, simply to show he can be trusted. The colored man often will take more pride in a job of semi-skill than will a white man." E. Franklin Frazier, professor of sociology at Fisk University, speaking on our social and neighborhood problems in cities, pointed out that the health of our folk in northern cities was better than in southern cities, that it was "rather a matter of hygiene." Going into detail in a study of Afro-American life in Chicago, Mr. Frazier said that one could not be surprised by a problem—sections are problems, but not the entire population, he said. "Any effort artificially to restrict us to any particular section of a city will create friction between the two races," he said, after quoting figures to show that in our better zones in Chicago crime did not exist, whereas in other zones where it did occur it prevailed before our people lived there. Lynchings in 1929 There were eleven lynchings in 1829, the same number as in 1828. Three of the eleven were white, and a white woman, Mrs. Ella M. Wiggins, was killed in North Carolina in connection with the textile strike at Gastonia. Florida headed the list, with Texas second, and Mississippi, North Carolina, Kentucky and Tennessee following in order. THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, O., SATURDAY, MARCH 8, 1930. 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. YOU KNOW ME, AL THIS IS JIMMY JOHNSTON, THE MANAGER OF PHIL SCOTT, I WANT YOU TO MEET KID DUGAN AND JACK KEEFE I'M GLAD TO MEET YOU BOTH, IF YOU BEAT MY MAN, I'LL MAKE YOU AN OFFER HAVE YOU MADE ANY MONEY OUT OF THIS BLOOMIN' BRITISHER YET? SURE I MAKE MONEY EVERY DAY. I OFFER HIM A DOLLAR IF HE GOES TO BED WITH OUT HIS DINNER AND THEN CHARGE HIM A DOLLAR FOR BREAKFAST AND HE TAKES BOTH OFFER? SAMPSON, MY MANAGER, IS AHEAD OF YOU. I PAY ALL THE BILLS SO WILL SCOTT IF HE EVER GETS THE PRICE I'M GOIN' TO KNOCK HIM DEAD. WHAT WILL YOU DO WITH HIM THEN? I'LL SELL THE BODY AMERICAN News Features, Inc. Our mo-violence or anti-lynching bill was introduced in the Ohio legislature in 1894 and re-introduced in 1896. It took the Hon. Harry C. Smith, editor of The Gazette, just three years to secure its enactment into law. The Ohio Supreme Court has several times upheld the constitutionality of the law and it has been Section 6278. A collection of people assembled for an unlawful purpose and intending to do damage or injury to any one, or pretending to exercise correctional power over other persons by violence and without authority of law, shall be deemed a "serious injury" 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 shall include an injury momentally or temporarily disable 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 from the county in which such 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 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 permanent disability to a live in the labor lab, and a sum not exceed five thousand dollars (93 v. 12 5). Section 6282. The legal representative of a person dying from injuries received from lynching by a mob may recover of the county in which such injury occurred, a sum not to exceed five thousand dollars damages for such unlawful killing. Such sum shall be applied to the maintenance of the family and education of the minor children of such person so lynched, if any survive him, until such children are of legal age, and then be distributed to the survivors, share and share alike, the widow receiving an amount equal to a child's share. If there be no widow or minor children surviving such decedent, the widow shall be distributed to 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 such 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 the next succeeding tax levy for such county, shall be a part of the judgment in every such case. (93 v. 162 8.) Section 6286. If the decedent so lynched has minor children surviving him, the fund shall be turned over to a regularly appointed guardian. Such guardian shall administer such fund under the direction of the probate judge, allowing not more than five hundred dollars for counsel fees in the action for such recovery. (93 v. 162 9.) Section 6287. The county, in which a lynching occurs, may recover the amount of a judgment and costs against it in favor of the legal person. A lynching 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 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: OBJS. ed. I representative of victim of lynchings by mob trying to lynch another. I costs in tax levy. I must member of mob I must another county. MOBS. member of the mob and be liable to such action. (93 v. 162 10.) Section 6288. If a mob carries a prisoner into 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 and disperse such mob. (93 v. 163 11.) Section 6289. This chapter shall not relieve a person concerned in such lynching from prosecution for homicide or assault for engaging therein. (93 v. 163 12.) OUR OHIO CIVIL RIGHTS LAW Upon the request of many readers of The Gazette we print below the text of the Hon. Harry C. Smith's Ohio Civil Rights law which the editor had enforced while a member of the 71st General Assembly, in 1894: The General Code of Ohio: Sec. 12940. Whoever, being the proprietor or his employee, keeper or manager of an inn, restaurant, eating house, barber-shop, public conveyance by land or water, theater or other place of public accommodation and amusement, denies to a citizen, except for reasons applicable alike to all citizens and regardless of race or color, the full enjoyment of the accommodations, advantages, facilities or privileges thereof, shall be fined not less than fifty dollars nor more than five hundred dollars, or imprisoned five hundred thirty days nor more than sixty days. Sec. 12941. Whoever violates the next preceding section shall also pay not less than fifty dollars nor more than five hundred dollars to the person aggrieved thereby to be recovered in any court of competent jurisdiction in the county where such offense was committed. This law has repeatedly been held constitutional and good law by the Ohio Supreme court. The trouble is our Supreme court will not use it as often as they should, but it will 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 sending the addresses of persons in the cities named, and others in the state to whom we can write relative to the matter. PROTEST! PROTEST!! To submit in silence when we should protest makes cowards out of men. The human race has climbed on protest. Had no voice been raised against injustice, ignorance and lust, the inquisition yet would serve the law, and guillotines decide our least dispuits. The new who dare, must speak and be to right the wrongs of many. Ella Wheeler Wilcox. ME, AL TO YOU BOTH, EAT ALL YOU HAVE YOU MADE ANY MONEY OUT OF THIS BLOOMIN' BRITISHER YET SURVE EVER HIM GOES OUT AND HIM GREES A Now Comes RING LA The man whose brilliance of of anecdote, woven into story turned baseball slang into cla Lardner's genius was never b adventures of baseball's mo Jack Keefe, in The Funniest of a "You K THE OHIO BELL TELEPHONE CO. The man whose brilliance of wit and compelling charm of anecdote, woven into stories on every current topic, turned baseball slang into classic Americanese. 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Druggists guarantee Moone's Emerald Oil to end your foot troubles or money back. Cedar Branch Y. M. C. A. Cor. Cedar Ave. and E. 77th St. A HOME FOR YOUNG MEN! RESTAURANT - HOME COOKING Individual Beds $2.50-$3.00 ENdicott 9094 Where To Purchase The Gazette NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS Subscribers not receiving TI us at once. We desire every Send or bring locals and all office, Suite 302, Johnson Block site the Hotel Cleveland. If there, please. We advise our readers to advertisements before making advertise in this paper should be The fact that they advertise is All reading matter for pub Gazette must be in the office week. at the latest. Display 4 p. m., WEDNESDAYS! HARRY 226 West Superior (Opposite, Ho Notary Public Classified Advertise Subscribers not receiving The Gazette regularly should notify us at once. We desire every copy delivered promptly. Send or bring locals and all business matters to The Gazette office, Suite 302, Johnson Block, 226 Superior Ave., West, opposite the Hotel Cleveland. If you wish to see the editor call there, please. We advise our readers to carefully examine The Gazette's advertisements before making purchases. Business men who advertise in this paper should have the patronage of our people. The fact that they advertise is assurance that they want it. All reading matter for publication in current issues of The Gazette must be in the office by noon, WEDNESDAY, of that week, at the latest. Display advertisements accepted until 4 p. m., WEDNESDAYS! HARRY C. SMITH 226 West Superior Avenue, Cleveland, O. (Opposite, Hotel Cleveland.) Notary Public Bell 'Phone: Cherry 1259 (Call, in the Afternoon.) Classified Advertising Department FOR SALE—House, suitable for two families, furnace, basement; large lot; three garages; bargain for quick sale. 2423 E. 57th St., near E. 55th and Quincy. A bargain! FOR SALE—2207 E. 55TH ST., opposite Central High School, my fine 14-room house; lot 49x192 to 174x174. Shown between 9:10 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Other hours by appointment, only. Fine residence, clinic, doctor and dentists office. J Wageman, owner. Call, PEnnsylvania 0235-W. CLEVELAND Social and Personal CLEVELAND Social and Personal Mr. John Rudd of Piqua was in the city, recently. Mrs. Selmo C. Glenn's mother died, recently, at Bradford, Ont., Ca. Dr. and Mrs. E. J. Gunn have purchased a cozy home in Pasadena Ave. A sister of Mrs. M. Burrell, matron at the Old Folks' home, died in Elyria, recently. Our Federation of Women's clubs' biennial national convention may meet in this city, next year. "No! Negroes will not be allowed to train in City Hospital"—Dudley S. Blossom, *Hopkins'* director of welfare. Mr. Floyd Taylor, who died, recently from pneumonia, was presented a baby son by his wife, Mrs. Alice Bybee Taylor, just before his death. Miss Anita Bolden, returned missionary, delivered a very interesting illustrated lecture on West Africa, Sunday evening, at St. John's A. M. E. church. The funeral services of Mrs. Blanche Gilmore Wills was held at the residence in Grantwood Ave., Monday afternoon, and was largely attended. Mrs. Minnie Poole, E. 90th St., who has been very ill for several weeks, is convalescing. She was attended by Miss Lois Hopewell of Elyria. Mr. and Mrs. "Frenchie" Mask, the latter former Miss Harriet Smith, married here during the holidays, are located in Colorado Springs, Colo. Our local candidates for office, next year, better be openly spoken and on the right side of the "Blossom" matter, if they expect to get anywhere with their candidates. Councilman Clayborne George, the only second-dermer among the three Cleveland Afro-American councilmen and their leader, has sure guided "The Blossom Triplets" into a political mess. The sewing circles of St. Mark's Presbych, church gave a very successful dinner, recently, under the guidance of Mrs. C. Lee Jefferson, wife of the pastor, chairman; and Mrs. E. Collier, pres. C. M. Johnson, E. 103d St., well-known waiter, died, last week Thursday morning. Mrs. Johnson fell, the day before, breaking her hand and fracturing several ribs. His funeral was held, Monday afternoon. George Howard Fields, pianist and native Cleveland, now located in Minneapolis, broadcasts from WRHM. He is the son of Mr. George and Mrs. Annie Fields (deceased), whom our old residents of Cleveland will readily recall. The Gazette has heard rumors of applicants for city jobs and positions being charged a fee or more by certain city officials, and invites any and all persons who have knowledge and proof of this to call and see the editor on Friday or Saturday afternoons. Mrs. Belle Smoot, E. 40th St., who came to Cleveland, many years ago, from Kentucky and in later years established the local Christian Alliance church, died and was buried, last week. She was a tireless worker in her religious sphere from the very beginning. Douglas J. Perkins' pool room at 8411 Quincy Ave., is about the neatest and nicest thing of the kind in that vicinity, and Mr. Perkins knows how to treat people. That is why --- H. SMITH'S 3007 Scovill Ave. FRANK L. HANDY'S. 4401 Central Ave. *Open, Sundays. THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, O., SATURDAY, MARCH 8. 1930 BOZO BUTTS—THEY DRIVE HIM NUTS By RUBE GOLDBERG GEE, I FEEL IMMENSE- NOT A PAIN OR AN ACHE AND I HAVENT A WORRY IN THE WORLD. I OUGHT TO LIVE TO BE A HUNDRED! HELLO, BOZO, YOU LOOK TERRIBLY THIN—THOSE BAGS UNDER YOUR EYES ARE A BAD SIGN- YOUR LIVER MUST BE IN BAD SHAPE BOZO, YOU'RE TAKING ON TOO MUCH WEIGHT- BETTER LOOK OUT FOR YOUR HEART- YOU'LL DROP DEAD SOME DAY YOU LOOK PALE- YOU HAVE NO CIRCULATION THE POOR GUY IS COOCOO AGAIN YOU LOOK FREVER ISH TAKE HE—I'M A PILL NOW, LISTEN. WHAT YOU NEED IS— EVERY- BODY STARTS WITH THAT SAME BOLONIEY *ROSENBERG'S DRUG STORE N. W. Cor. Central Ave. and E. 55th St. MRS. VIOLA BOLDEN'S 8609 Quincy Ave. J. S. HALL'S 3133 Central Ave. FOR RENT. — Four nice rooms (up) modern—bath, gas, electric lights, etc. Very near street-car lines. Reasonable rent to two elderly and quiet people who want a nice, pleasant home. Call, Cherry 1259, in the afternoon. FOR SALE. — A few lots left, in BLASS PARK, at $15 each; $5 gets your contract. Write for information to GEORGE BLASS, BALDWIN, MICHIGAN. his patronage is made up of many members of the various classes or groups in that vicinity. The rumor going the rounds in this city that there are "two colored nurses" at City hospital are not true. The zacatec is informed. Our people have it yet received any appointments there, or any of the three alleged to have been promised "The Blossom Triplets." Sidney B. Thompson, Howard Slaughter and Dr. Gene Goggins were elected members of the board of directors of the Caterers' Association, the first of the week; term, three years. This was President Thompson's fourth election to the board. Sidney Thompson, Jr., was home from Wilberforce, Sunday, to visit his folk. Mr. H. Puckett, professor of philosophy at Western Reserve University, will speak, Sunday afternoon, for the Laymen's League, on "The Negro Church". Prof. Puckett has travelled extensively thrust the southland studying conditions of the "Negro". He is also writing a book on "The Religious Issue of the Negro in the South". The Cleveland Medical Association at its meeting, Thursday evening, installed the following officers for the insuing year: Dr. L. O. Baumgardner, pres.; Dr. U. S. Tarter, vice-pres.; Dr. F. H. Hendricks, sec.; Dr. R. T. Wise, treas.; and Drs. C. H. Garvin and J. A. Owen, members of the board of directors. The meeting was addressed by "The Blossom Triplets". Mr. and Mrs. Emmett Meade, E. 130th St., entertained the editor of The Gazette and her cousin, Mr. Sloane of Pittsburg, at dinner, Sunday afternoon. Mrs. Meade returned. Saturday, from that city where she was called to attend the funeral of Sloane's wife. Her daughter, Miss Emmett Meade, was at Kent Normal school, was at home, Sunday, for the week-end. As we have had occasion to say in the past, Mrs. Meade is an artist in the conduct of her home. A mammoth mass meeting is being prepared at Second Calvary Baptist church for Mar. 9. Good speakers; some important city officials, one of our judges, Mrs. Mary B. Kearney, C. W. D. Kearney, pastor, has designated the second Sunday in each month as "thrift Sunday and it is proving a great benefit to the community. All who were ill in recent weeks are greatly improved, with the exception of Mrs. Emma Dunn, W. 120th St., who is still very weak and feeble. Former Councilman Thomas W. Fleming, former Republican leader in the eleventh ward, must serve two years and nine months in the Ohio penitentiary for accepting a bribe. In the bus, Wednesday. The decision ended the 13-month battle by Tom to escape the sentence, imposed as a result of his conviction on the charge of receiving a $200 bribe from Walter L. Oshme, crippled former city policeman. Fleming, who has been free on a $3,000 bond since his conviction, Feb. 4, 1929, declared he had nothing to say, when informed of the decision. No Ohio Congressman has ever, or would dare to bar Afro-American youth from taking the examination they offer prospective candidates for appointment to the U. S. Military Academy at West Point, N. Y., and the U. S. Naval Academy at Annapolis, Md. So persons writing Congressman Chester C. Bolton or any other U. S. naval officer represents from this state relative to the officer are merely wasting time for the purpose of handing out a little political hokum. A list of Associated Charities stations to which all donations may be made and where persons in need of food and clothing will be cared for follows: General service center at 2525 Euclid Ave., branches at 2945 Woodhill Rd., 2945 Carnegie Ave., 10605 Superior Ave. 5620 Broadway, E. 40th St. and Perkins Ave. 1746 Proper Ave. 909 Perkins Ave., 15201 St. Clair Ave., 2111 Prospect Ave., 2630 W. 14th St., 1970 W. 32d St. and 2587 E. 55th St., or the Wayfares' ledge, 2164 Chester Ave. Opportunities and the general status of the Afro-American were discussed, Monday night, by Whiting Williams, author, and E. Franklin Frazier, Fiske University professor, when they addressed members of our local Welfare association at its annual meeting in the City club. Officers elected at the meeting were: Rev. W. B. Suthern, pres.; Major W. Anderson, vice-pres.; J. W. Wing, Anderson, vice-Miss Virginia, R. W. treas, Trustees: W. P. Hilton, Rev. C. H. LeBlond, Dr. J. E. Tuckerman, Judge Carl V. Weygandt, Rev. Suthern, Major Anderson, A. H. Martin, Mr. Wills, Rev. C. H. Crabble, Dr. O. A. Taylor, Miss Wing and Bessie Hall. Harry C. Smith, age 42, son of Mr. and Mrs. Abner Smith (deceased), brother of Mrs. Irene Sharber, and nephew of Mrs. Agnes Green and Mr. Lewis Bolden, dropped dead at home, last Saturday afternoon. He had been suffering from tuberculosis for several years and had made his way to the hospital. Mrs. Emory Sharber, E. 101st St. The deceased, who was named for the editor of The Gazette, was a fine young man with many friends and acquaintances, all of whom will sincerely mourn his early demise. The funeral which was held, Tuesday morning, from Our Lady of the Blessed Sacrament church, in E. St. Sacramento, early in the McKenzie, priest in charge, officiating. The floral tributes were numerous and beautiful, and the near relatives of the deceased have the heartfelt sympathy of many friends. At the meeting of the East End Republican club, last week Tuesday evening, a member of the organization, a Mr. Blair, introduced a motion that the club go on record as protesting the appointment of Dilip Wittifar, Dudley Bliss, which Mr. Emmett Meade seconded. The motion was postponed in deference to the fact that Councilman Clayborne George, also a member of the organization, was not present. The principal speech against the motion was made by Atty. Alex. Martin, whose talk cost him much active support for his projected candidacy, this fall, for Common Pleas judge Merville Wittifar, who introduced a motion to endorse the take the position that Mr. Martin Martin candidacy, felt and feels that any member of the race who would did in his talk would not make a proper candidate for the loyal, self and race-respecting members of the organization to support him. "Nergesson" straddles the Blossom controversy need not expect favorable consideration for anything at the hands of the great majority of our people in this community. GIRLS EAT WITH HANDS In What a White Judge Terms "The Hell-hole of Shanghai"— Terrible Conditions! Baltimore, Md.—A picture resembling the notorious "hell-hole of Shanghai" was painted by Judge J. S. Waxter of the juvenile court, in describing conditions at our girls' state reformative school at Melvale, in a talk to the Interdenominational Ministerial Alliance of ministers of both races at the Central Y. M. C. A., last week Monday. Speaking on "Delinquent Youth and the Church," the judge declared that conditions at that school were the worst of any such place in the entire country. There are about 100 girls there, according to Judge Waxter, and 65 per cent of them are ill or have poor disease. Most of these cases, he says were contracted in the institution, statements by the girls showed. Everyone is attracted to the woman whose hair is smooth and sparkling with glossy luster—arranged in a becoming style....Your hair can be beautiful if you visit your Poro Agent regularly and follow the Poro treatment faithfully. She can show you how to have a luxuriant growth of hair that will be the envy of all your friends. Sold by Poro Agents Everywhere or Order Direct from PORO FOR HAIR AND SKIN Billions of Chuckles are credited every year to the inventor of that inimitable style of comic drawings whose characters are never confused with those of any artist other than HOLLYWOOD THIS IS RICH. The Keeper of a Saloon Objects to Being Honored by Being Called a "Negro." San Francisco, Cal.-The second suit in the history of this country, to be brought in the courts of a northern state, to determine whether the word "Negro" is a defamatory appellation, when applied to a white man, is now being fought her- The keeper of a saloon, in what was at the time the most disreputable portion of this city, the Barbary Coast," and indeed of the Pacific Coast, is using the San Francisco Daily News for alleged damages for BOZO, YOU'RE TAKING ON TOO inadvertantly referring to the exsalon-keeper as "a Portuguese Negro." In N. Carolina, Washington, D. C., and Ohio, the only places where similar cases have been tried, the courts have decided that it is not libelous to so refer to a white man. Archibald D. Grimke Dead. Washington, D. C., Archibald H. Grimke, as 80 diplomat, public servant, leader and winner of the 1919 Spingarn medal died, last week. Mr. Grimke was graduated from Lincoln University and from Harvard School of Law. From 1883 to 1885, he edited "The Boston Hub," a weekly race publication, and contributed to other papers. He was A The readers of this newspaper are to join millions of other Americans in the enjoyment of his delicious humor which will appear in strip form REGULARLY IN THIS NEWSPAPER U. S. Consult at Santo Domingo from 1894 to 1898; president of our American Academy from 1903 to 1919; a member of the Authors' Club in London and president of the Frederick Douglass Memorial and Historical Association. His writings include a life of William Lloyd Garrison, one of Charles Summer and numerous pamphlets on abolition, African colonization and American race relations. Subscribe NOW! By RUBE GOLDBERG re ae a “THE BLOSSOM TRIPLETS!” ~—*|_—«““ THE BLOSSOM TWINS!” _‘|PAJAMA ENSEMBLES AS POPULAR THEY “WAIVED” THEIR OPPOSITION! ; = The Truth! What would cause other peo- ple to gnash their teeth and gird their loins is question of debate for us. Kick us, beat us, pile depredations upon us, revile us, abuse us, lie about us, malign us and eyen impugn our valor and we are not unan- imously insulted. It seems im- possible to establish unanimity of insult in the black race.— Chicago (Ill.) Whip. It is with the keenest regret tha’ ‘The Gazette announces the most reprehensible course our three coun- cilmen, George, Payne and Bundy, have pursued in the “Blossom” con- troversy which was apparently closed with City Manager Daniel E. Mor- gan's appointment, on Monday eve- ning, Feb. 17, '30, of Dudley S. Blos- som as city welfare director for a third or fourth term of two years each. ‘Thruout the campaign, last fall, our people smarting under his insulting and gross mistreatment de- manded the ousting of Director Blos- som who for more than five years had barred our boys and girls ‘trom training in the City Hospital and added to this flagrant and unwar- Tanted denial of our rights and priv- ileges under the law in a public in- stitution, maintained by the tax payers of ihe community, by coarse- ly blurting out to leading men ot the race who called upyn him rela. tive to the matter: “No! Lam not going to allow Ne- gro boys and girls to train in the Gity Hospital while I am director”. The mandate to oust Director Blossom was given George, Payne and Bundy, particularly, in unmis takable language by our people ir their councilmanie districts, las fall. These three councilmen, night after night and day after day, as they pleaded with the voters in that section of the city for support o! their. candidacies reiterated theh promise to do all in their power t Accede to the demand-mandate 0! our people whom Dudley Blossor had s0 grossly mistreated and_ in- sulted. They knew that the demand for the ousting of City Manager Hop- kins was equalled and surpassed by the demands of their own people fo1 the ousting of Welfare Director Dud. ley Blossom. There can be no ques. tion as to this. Night after night and day after day in one politica meeting after another, they prom: ised the people, if elected, they would carry ont this mandate to the letter. How have they done this? Soon atter the election of City Man: ager Daniel E. Morgon, rumors were being circulated to the effect that ‘our three councilmen, in their ques for political jobs for some of thelr supporters, were weakening in theit opposition to the appointment of Blossom at the behest of the tty manager who desired, with Blos som's appointment, to somewhat ap- pease the opposition of the local Pro: gressive Government bloc with Which Blossom was identified and to whose campaign funds he contribut ed liberally. Fearing this very thing and endeavoring to make the situa- tion clear to the city manager, as far as the masses of our people in this community are concerned, we sent him the following special de- livery letter: Cleveland, 0., Jan. 29, °30. City Manager Daniel E. Morgan, City Hall, City. My Dear Mr. Morgan:—It may be that you have quite forgotten me, but will recall the writer when re- minded of the assistance rendered you when a candidate for the coun- efl in our ward, many years ago. 1am writing you at this time for the_purpose of entering a vigorous protest against the reappointment of Dudley Blossom as director of wel- fare in your cabinet. Last year and the year previous, he so frequently and so iy insulted members of ‘my race whd called upon him in con- nection wit the City Hospital con- troversy, wilich was happily settled, Monday, Jay. 27, ‘30, that his reap- pointment yould be positively the most agara insult you could give all of fny people of this com- munity, and! for reasons stated and others. Bi Also Iw: y to you that Councilmen Bundy, Bron- strup and elected in the ‘Third Distri e platform of ousting ap city, man- ager and as wel- tare : ne ae lt, cS ' + os Mowe em fs ‘, tion as far as my people of this com- munity and Dudley Blossom are con- cerned, and with sincerest best wishes for your official suecess, I am Yours respectfully, Harry C. Smith, Editor The Gazette. P. §.—Couneilman Clayborne C. George of the Fourth District was re-elected on the platform of oust ing Hopkins and Blossom. H.C. 8. On the morning of Jan. 30, '30, the following day, the city manager, thru his private secretary, requested a conference with us at the city hall which was held between 11 and 12 A, M., that Thursday morning. At this conference it early developed, much to my surprise, that the ru- mors were well founded. Mr. Mor- gan's fulsome praise of the three “Negro” councilmen, and other things he said in confidence, forced me to give credence to the rumors much as I disliked and didn’t want to do so. After hearing my protest to the appointment of Blossom, which I made just as strong as pos- silo and the real conditions war- ranted, I concluded) by saying to him: “You can spit in my face now, Mr. Morgan, and you will not insult me and my people of this community ‘one half as much as you will by ap- pointing Dudley 8. Blossom, wel- fare director". He stood a moment as if staggered and then for the third time during our conference asked me to confer with Blossom, adding that he would like very much it I would do so. For the third time, I refused to do so, saying that I did not know Mr. Blos- som, had never met him, would not know him if I were to meet him face to face, and never wanted to know the man because for years, b3 his refusal to permit our boys and girls to train in the City hospital and using insulting language in con: nection with this refusal, he had held my people up as pariahs, and open to the ridicule of thousands o! persons of other groups in this com: munity. While the conference wa: in progress, his secretary sald to Mr Morgan: “Mr. Blossom is outside”. Afterthought convinced me that the city manager was so sure that 1 would be weak enough to confer with Blossom that he had him tr the outer office to be called in the moment I consented to a conference with him. This was undoubtedly one of the ways in which the per- sonal opposition to Blossom, on the Part of our three councilmen and Rev. Horace C. Bailey, was weak- ened. That it does not weaken the contempt for Dudley 8. Blossom, up- on the part of the masses of our peo: ple in this community, needs no as: surance from anyone; nor does the fact that Blossom literally wallowed on his stomach, in his pleas to the handful of “Negroes” he and City Manager . Morgan conferred with, weaken in the slightest the opposi. tion to Blossom upon the part_of the masses of our people here. The unfortunate thing about the ‘whole controversy is that a miserable con- dition, from a political viewpoint, has been created by the Blossom ap- pointment, with the result that it is going to be mighty difficult, this fall, to get thousands of our intelli gent people to rally to the support ‘of the Republican ticket. This will jeopardize party success and for this City Manager Daniel E. Morgan must and will be held responsible. Strong resentment as a result of the Blossom appointment is sure to man- Mest itself at that time. The fol- lowing day, Jan. 31, ‘30, at a con- ference in ‘The Gazette office, par- ticipated in by our three councilmen and the editor, the Blossom appoint ment matter was gone into thoroly, Messrs. George, Payne and Bundy, especially the latter, frankly admit: ted the “‘mandate” ‘from our peo- ple of their districts to oust, Blossom, and George announced a conference of the three with the city manager on the Blossom matter at 4:30 P. M. that day, Payne and Bundy also in- Aicating ‘that they were to hold a conference with Blossom, that after- noon. The conference with the city manager, according to Councilman George, was substantially a plea up- on the part of Mr. Morgan for ac- quiescence in the appointment of Blossom. Following this, the city manager and Bossom began confer- ences with several other members of ‘the race, the most notable being Rev. Horace ©. Bailey. who, he says. only agreed to discontinue opposition to the appointment of Blossom. That ‘was too much. It was to Dr. Bailey that Director Blossom was most in- sulting on occasions when the fo1 THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, 0., SATURDAY, MARCH 8, 1930. ‘mer went to the latter asking the ad- mission of his granddaughter to the City hospital nurses’ training school. Both Hopkins and Blossom turned him (Bailey) down flat, on more than one oceasion, We well remem- ber that after one of Dr. Bailey’s dis- tressing visits to Blossom, he came to The Gazette office and’ talked of his miserable experience---insults and coarse mistreatment. The recital was enough to bring tears to one’s eyes, From Jan. 29, "30 until this week inclusive, scores of letters from in- dividuals and resolutions from var- fous local organizations of color have been sent by our people and others to City Manager Morgan, pro- testing as vigorously as possible the appointment of Blossom. The an- nouncement in a number of our churehes, Sunday, Feb. 16, that a protest mass meeting was to be held at Triedstone Baptist church, Sun- day, Feb. 23, at 3 p. m., undoubt- edly precipitated the appointment of Blossom which was hurriedly made, Monday evening, Feb. 17, 30, as stated. During’ the morning of that day, the city manager thru a city official who held a conference with George, Payne and Bundy, late Monday afternoon, “checked up’ on our three members of the city coun- cil. The result was undoubtedly fa- vorable from his viewpoint because the Blossom appointment followed soon after, that same evening. After the “check up’ meeting, Councilmen George and Rey. Horace C. Bailey came to The Gazette office, ‘The for- mer, as usual, being very reticent whenever the ‘Blossom appointment was mentioned, which of course, convinces me now that he as well as his two colleagues are guilty, as a subsequent event has proven. | Tues- day, just before noon, Councilman Bundy came to The Gazette office and after a few minutes’ conversa- tion left with the statement ringing in his ears, that he was a one-term councilman; that the people of hi: district would see to this, next year beyond a shadow of a doubt. It was suggested to Mr. George, the evening before, that in all probability he was serving his last term in, the counei for the very same reason. Our think ing, sensible, self-respecting voter: of the third and fourth couneilmani districts will hardly continue, a members of the city council, men o} our or any other class who will hol so lightly a mandate from their con stituents to oust a public officia whose City hospital Ku Klux Klar activities made him a “stench {1 their nostrils”. City Manager Dan- fel E. Morgan claims that our three councilmen, George, Payne anc Bundy, “waived” their opposition tc the appointment of Dudley Blossom ‘The “waiving” decision undoubted! was concluded at the ‘check-up’ meeting, late Monday afternoon What a “waiving” it will be, nex year in the fall time, when ’ these three “worthies” seek re-election, i all of them last that long! It sur will be an event worth going mile: to see, and our city manager wil not be forgotten, either, when the opportunity affords. Another thing Dudley Blossom said to a delegatior of our people who called upon him last year, and protested against the growing segregation in city depart ments, particularly the City hospital is very true. It is this: “When you people can impress the people of this community that you are worthy of more consideration, you will get it, and not until then” ‘This explains in a few words why we failed to secure the ousting o} that individual (Blossom)—our peo: ple’s representatives in the city council did not, as ordered by them, impress City ‘Manager Daniel E. Morgan with their unalterable oppo sition to the appointment of Dudley Blossom. Instead, they ‘waived’ their opposition, not ours, and Man: ager Morgan knows this. | His prom: ises to them of three small jobs, one in the office of the city Civil Service commission, another in that of the city treasury, and the third in the city clerk’s office, does not in the slightest atone for the miserable in. sult he has given us in re-appoint ing Dudley Blossom as welfare di: rector, in the face of all of our pro: tests. Our self and race-respect means far more to us than jobs, large or small, few or many, Mr Morgan! Harry C. Smith, Attention! Readers! Our advertisers want your trade. Those who do not ask for it in the columns of “The Old Reliable” Gazette certain- ly care little, if at all, for it. Therefore, we urge our read- ders and all of our friends to patronize those who ask in this paper for your patronage. ‘Editor. “THE BLOSSOM TWINS!” oe . nee Ss | : a y * J- Rev. Horace C. Bailey. DUDLEY S.BLOSSO At SORTRS GEER REM) DON Ntys 10 ROM bat it is nevertheless true that no one has ever been able to mix re- Iizion and. politics—oll and. water! So itis not strange that Rey. Hor- ace C. Bailey has failed, this. time. Tt was Rev, Russell 8. Brown who made a like failure, last fall. Diree- tor Dudley S. Blossom treated Bal- ley contemptuously, last year, when the latter called on him in an effort to secure the entrance of his grand- daughter to. the. nurses’ training School at City Hospital, Blossom winding up the conference with that ost insulting statement that is all hut seared in the very marrow of the hones of our people of this commun- ity: “No, Tam not going to allow Neuro girls and boys fo train at City Hospital while Fam director." And yet, in recent weeks Dud. Blossom coaxed Bailey to Nis office and. so “Softsoaped” him that the latter swithdrew his opposition” to the former's re-appointment as_welfaré director of the eity of Cleveland, so he told the editor of The Gazette, Monday, Feb, 17, in ‘The Gazette office. Can you beat it? It is now “The Blossom ‘Pwins!*— Bailey and Blossom. LORD. HAVE MERCY! Wonder if Director Blos som was re-appointed by City Man- ager Daniel E, Morgan for the pur- pose of keeping our boys and girl from training at City Hospital? Don't it look very much Uke it? “THE BLOSSOM TRIPLETS” And City Manager Daniel BE, Morgan to Bo Issues in the Cam= . nuke Sack Veer. To ena eee ete ea Editor The Gazette, City. Dear Sir:-—After reading care- fully The Gazette of Feb. 22, °30, I desire to say that I am in’ hearty sympathy with you and therefore am laying my copy aside for ref- erence, next year, during the cam- paign when I hope to be actively engazed with you and others re- minding the people of the third and fourth districts of Councilmen Le- Roy N. Bundy, Lawrence O. Payne and Clayborne George's shameless refusal to obey the mandate of our people of those districts and the en- tire city, given them, last fall, dur- ing the campaign—to do all in thelr power to help oust City Welfare Di- rector Dudley S. Blossom, as well as City Manager Wm. R. Hopkins. ‘There are hundreds, yes, thousands of our people in this section of the city who will not overlook or forgive their flagrant disregard of _ their clear duty in this matter. I expect to be actively engaged against the candidacies of these men, next year, in case they have the temerity to stand for re-election to the City of Cleveland, I want you to know that I also shall not forget City Manager Daniel E. Morgan's disapproval of the Fin- kle ordinance, passed by the Cits Council, to award Garret A. Morgan the pittance of $2000 for the heroic service he gave this city at its offi cials’ request at the time of the tun: nel disaster, in 1916. This most reprehensible act is but little less offensive than his appointment of Welfare Director Dudley S. Blossom in the face of the letters and resolu. tion protests of the loyal, self and race-respecting members of the race in this community. In conclusion, I wish to assure you that there are thousands of our peo- ple in this community that thoroly appreciate the honesty, fearlessness and loyalty of “The Old Reliable” Gazette, Mrs, Boston J. Prince, — (Wife of the Pastor of Messiah Baptist Church, E. 46th and Woodland Ave., City.). “The Humble But Blood-Secking The following excerpt, trom the Cincinnati (0.) Union, of Feb. 20, 1930. Wendell Phillips Dabney, edi- tor, is 90 pertinent and self-explana- tory that comment is ummecessary un- Jess it is to say that personal and racial experience with similar prob- lems in the former “Queen City of the West” have placed Editor Dab- ney in a position to “know whereof he speaks” when he writes as fol lows! When the Honorable Harry Smith, editor of The Cleveland Ga- zette, throws bouquets at anyone, that ‘individual comes very near de- serving them. We appreciate his kindly sentiments, for no one exceeds Harry in loyalty of race, strength of convictions, courage of expression. As a matter of fact, that gentleman has me far outclassed in vigor of statement, regardless of consequenc- es. Where I use a hammer for knocking purposes, Harry uses an axe. Sympathy has little space in his system. He does not believe that “while the lamp holds out to, burn the vilest sinner may return.” He places enemies of the race in a class with ‘the humble but blood-secking bed-bug, for whom the only safe rule is—extermination. He, backed by thousands of citizens, is fighting (— * Kea 7 v) be DUDLEY §,BLOSSOM against the retention of a charterite who favors segregation. Jim-crowism has always had a hard time in Cleve- land. ‘The gentleman now in question, Mr. Dudley Blossom, director of Public Welfare, was as strong for a Negro hospital as he was opposed to Negro internes and nurses in the City Hospital! Many of the colored doctors from the South, led by Dr. Gregz, were working hard for a sub- sidized, segregated institution. In the recent election, the colored peo- ple arose, united with the Republi- can party and elected three colored councilmen! That sounded the death knell of the Negro hospital! Prior to that time, the Honorable Mr. Blos- som, filled with high blood pressure from “Delirium of Grandeur,” said to a colored delegation, “No, 1 am not going to allow Negro boys and girls to train in the City Hospital.” Dabney. “THE BLOSSOM TRIPLETS". It does not seem possible that three persons, candidates for office in quest of votes, could possibly go thru several weeks of campaigning, day and night pledging the voters that, if elected, they would do all in their power to oust a man from of- fice who had denied them and their people, of all the population of a great city like Cleveland, rights and privileges (in a public institution) in & most insulting manner, and then fail to do so, with victory in their hands—only dependent upon their keeping their pledge to the people who elected them. And yet that is exactly what Councilmen Clayborne George, Leroy Bundy and ‘Lawrence Payne did in the case of City Welfare Director Dudley 8. Blossom, when on Monday, Feb. 17. "30, they “waived their opposition”, —not ours—and City Manager Dan- fel E. Morgan, knowing the condi- tion of affairs thoroly, so flagrantly insulted all of our loyal, self and race respecting people in this city by appointing Blossom, city welfare director. All three councilmen, in a conference with the editor of The Gazette about ten days previous to Feb. 17, "80, freely admitted they had a “mandate” from our people of their districts to oust Blossom from office for his most miserable treat- ment of them, The statement that “Manager Morgan would have ap- pointed him, anyhow” is not true. That fact he made clear in a con- ference with the editor ef this paper. And even if it were true, which was not the case, even that would not excuse them for breaking their pledge to our people of their dis- tricts and all the rest of the city, because when they “waived” their opposition to Blossom, they were not keeping but breaking their pledge and ignoring the people and the pledge they so often and so loud- ly proclaimed, day and night, in pub- lic meetings during last fall's cam- paign. It is an unpardonable act for which Bundy, Payne and George will be made to atone, if they dare to face the electorate of thelr districts again, next year, seeking re-election. Our people of this community had a somewhat similar experience in the case of Councilman E. J. Gregg upon whom they visited a stinging defeat at the polls, last fall, because of his sad exhibition of disloyalty when he voted for a white Democrat in pret- erence to one of his own people. Our people, especially the intelligent ones, will not condone such flagrant disloyalty, to the race, in their pub- Ne servants, especially those of color. They have to work too hard to elect them to office to quietly submit to such shameless mistreatment, and Councilmen Payne, Bundy and Geor- ge will be made to recognize this fact, next year in the fall, should they stand again as candidates. Nor will our city manager be forgotten when the opportunity affords. __ World war veterans, at present suffering from disability or disease resulting from military service, must fle application for disability com- pensation before April 6. Claims are filed with the U. S. veterans’ bu- reau, 327 Hanna Bldg. Forms on which to make application and in. formation on disability compensation in connection with old as well as new claims can be obtained at the emtoa’: ¢iatucn BURA PAJAMA ENSEMBLES AS POPULAR FOR CHILDREN AS FOR GROWN-UPS is Ys A A al’ f ie , SsScs SSes vat a oe ea 2 MeO = Sao BOLEROS AND NEAR-BOLEROS ARE STRESSED THROUGHOUT THE MODE wy Ty ; " Seine ao ae ar a oe intriguing detail pajama costumes designed for youngsters keep pace with those styled for their elders. Most amusing and most winsome do little tots look in these fantasti gar- ments, and the vosue is gaining In popularity right along. A varlety of interesting fabrics en- ter into the making of pajamas for little tots, outstanding among which are shantung, pongee, cotton crepe and pique, both in print and in plain, but always highly colorful, ‘The new soft silky pique which ts featured in every fabric display of note this season, makes up charming- ly Into children’s pajama outfits. For the three-piece lounging ensemble pic- tured the designer chose bright red pique, bordering it with white. Yoke. top trousers with suspenders are worn with a tuck-In of the same fab- rie in white. Seeing that the little girl in the picture {s carrying her coat, Wie eee ee covered by that most important exponent of style—the bolero. Be it of any type whatsoever, or it may even pretend to be a bolero, the fact re- mains that the bolero, this seuson, is ‘an unerring expression of chic. ‘There Is really no getting away from the bolero. In some form or other It is everywhere present in the mode. The filmy lace robe, the eve- ning gown of crisp silk, the simple washable daytime frock, the informal afternoon dress of dark crepe, each has its bolero. Often the bolero is detachable, which makes it “useful as well as or- namental” when worn with a sleeve- less gown. Then again it enters Into the very making of the frock, which 43 true In regard to the interesting ‘afternoon dress in which Helen ‘Wright, singer and a leading lady of the films, poses for the accompanying pleture. This bolero rather suggests a deep yoke effect The sleeves de- ‘clare ® new fashfon which calls for ‘fullness below the elbow. | Boleros are that versatile one can- ‘mot hope to deseribe them all. They ‘range from the simple Spanish type ‘which suggest an abbreviated Jacket, ‘to Interesting versions which tle at perhaps to proudly call attention to the cunning suspenders, there is no way of Judging its length. As @ mat- ter of fact this nezligee coat reaches almost to the ankles. It behooves every mother who Is Interested in tozging her little folks in the latest to turn her attention to the pajama theme. There are so many types of pajamas and they are as practical for playtime hours as for lounging and sleeping. , Dainty pajamas for wee tots have Sleeveless short jackets which fasten to one side with tiny frogs. A pocket also is very essential to the success of a child's pajama-blouse, Pajamas for the young miss of six- teen or thereabout accent gay stripes. Clever ones are made of striped cot- ton broadcloth, in such striking ef- fects as orange on white, also red and white. JULIA BOTTOMLEY, 1 lek Waals Soenaenae Cals the front in a soft bow, or are fas- fened with a Jeweled buckle or but- tons, In the softer materials such feminized touches are possible as sprightly ruffles and plaitings out- lining the hemlines. Advance models feature gay silk print frocks made with a bolero to match the skirt, a sleeveless blouse of pastel shantung or crepe or lace- trimmed net completing the costume. Even the filmlest printed chiffon oF lace dresses are made with cunning separate bolero Jackets. ‘The charm of these bolero-inspired frocks is that they serve for both afternoon and eve- ning wear, for the bolero, being a separate item, supplies the sleeves ac- cording to the call of the social hour. For many models, the bolero ts merely simulated, by means of ruffies, narrow plaitings or bands of the ma- terial stitched along one edge to the bodice foundation. ‘Bven the realm of the blouse has been invaded by the bolero. In fact, the bolero-blouse fs 2 very swagger spring item. These really very new blouse types Indicate the bolero by means of plaited frills or narrow eir- cular ruffles so stitched as to convey the feeling of a short Jacket. A JULIA BOTTOMLEY. (2008; Western Hownpaner Union.