The Gazette
Saturday, March 15, 1930
Cleveland, Ohio
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Sleet, covering the trees and bushes with a mantle of ice, transforms the landscape into a gleaming fairyland for the casual observer, but to the telephone man it is a crystal plague.
Early this year a sleet storm razed hundreds of poles and thousands of miles of wire in the northern and western sections of Ohio. Although not as devastating as the memorable storm of March, 1928, the damage ran high into the thousands of dollars.
Cleveland and Toledo were in the path of the storm, but the worst havoc was near Upper Sandusky, Bucyrus, Kenton and Lima. These cities are in a sleet belt. When sleet is present anywhere in Ohio, it seems to concentrate along the western edge of the state.
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Upper Sandusky Isolated Upper Sandusky was completely cut off from the rest of the world for 24 hours after the recent storm. Long distance and rural service failed completely as heavy ice deposits from a half-inch to an inch and a quarter thick sagged wires and snapped poles. About 1,500 new poles, 15,000 feet of cable and four tons of wire were shipped into the storm area for repairs by The Ohio Bell Telephone Company. Of the 508 rural telephone users around Upper Sandusky, 450 were without service and repairmen were rushed to the scene from Findlay and Fostoria. In many places in the storm area, cable was installed to eliminate open wire construction and the iron wire broken by the sleet was replaced by copper wire, thus improving transmission conditions.
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CADIZ—Mrs. Clata Jackson is visiting her mother in sefo. —Mr. Chas Blanchard is in Martins Ferry hospital with an injured hand. —Mrs. C. M. Henderson, evangelist, has just closed a ten-day meeting at Simpson M. E. chapel. —Mrs. Lulla M. Hyton, age 33, died suddenly, Friday morning. Funeral from Simpson chapel, Sunday afternoon, Rev. O. W. Calvest officiating, assisted by local ministers. —A number of out-of-town folk attended, among them being Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Wright, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Alexander, and Mrs. Joop Doubt of Zanesville, Mr. and Mrs. J and R. Hyton of Cannonsburg, Pa. Mrs. Geo. Olmstead of Uhrichsville and others from nearby towns. Mr Hyton has the sympathy of the community, being left with eight small children.
HILLSBORO—Rev. H. E. Newman is convalescent.—Mrs. Jessie Williams entertained the Sewing club, Thursday afternoon.—Rev. W. Chavis preached at Wesleyan church, Sunday night.—Mr. and Mrs. Albert Williams were dinner-guests, Sunday afternoon.—Mr. and Mrs. Wilmington.—Miss Grita Dixon has been ill.—Born to Mr. and Mrs. Wilard Dent. Mar. 7, a son.—Theo R.·Rollins has a job at the state house.—Mrs. Rhoda Newman, Mr.
SOME JUST BORN SMART, HE SAYS
Others Have Stupid Ancestry, Remain Stupid, Brush Lecturer Thinks—The Black, Red and White Races.
If you're pink with green spots you have just as much chance to be smart as if your skin were pure white or black or red. If you came from brilliant stock, you'll be brilliant, no matter if you're crossed from now until eternity. If you came from stupid stock, you will be stupid and your intelligence and driving power do not depend on a native strain or a mixed strain, but on individual makeup and an opportunity to show it. This is the belief of Dr. Melville J. Herskovits, professor of anthropology, Northwestern University, Chicago, who Sunday afternoon gave the second of a series of lectures at the Allen Memorial Library under auspices of the Adult Education Association and the Humboldt Foundation Hundreds turned out to hear Dr. Herskovits speak on "Does Race Make Civilization?"
In the beginning (according to Cherokeee Indian legends) the Supreme Being mixed up a mess of dough and fashioned three little figures, all alike, which he placed in a bake oven, Dr. Herskovits related. Impatience began to wear him down as he waited to see the result of his handiwork. Finally he could wait no longer, and he snatched one of the figures from the oven. A look of sorrow spread over his face. The figure amdfortunee half-haked it tossed it aside. Thus the white man got his being. He took out the second. It was beautiful. Delicately browned. It was the Indian. While he was admiring it, the third figure, quite forgotten, burned to a crisp, and thus the Negro came into being. In the beginning (according to African legends)' the Supreme Being gathered together all the black men and put them through a test. He turned on the lightning and the thunder of the natural phenomena, fearful of natural phenomena. Some them blanched with fright and became pale. This was the beginning of the white race. Incidently, Dr. Herskovits pointed out that the red man is not red—he's brown; and the white man is not white—he's pink.
Society, Dr. Herskovits pointed out, has domesticated man, and has
and Mrs. Edw. Jones and son, and Mrs. J. J. Burr visited in Greenfield, Sunday.—John Rollins, Jr. of Gist Settlement has returned from a visit in Cleveland.—A play at Wesleyan church, Mar. 17. A guilt will be given to Mrs. Rollins. Isaia Wallace was hostess to the A.M. E. Ladies' Aid, Friday night.—Mrs. Donald Highwarden is much improved.—Mrs. Vernon Young entertained the Get-Together club, Wednesday afternoon.—Mrs. Gertrude Christy is sitting in Greenfield.—Mrs. Chas. Easin of Bailhards' house.—Richard Willis and Miss Byrde Williams visited in Greenfield, Sunday.
SANDUSKY. —Mr. Julious Moses' funeral was largely attended. Mrs. Walt r Pryor of Cleveland is here visit g. —The A. M. E. Glee club appear t in Bloomingville and North Fairfield the past week, and will sing in Willard, Sunday, and at Perkins church, March 20. —The opening of the Second Baptist new church will have services throut the week conducted by prominent leaders. Revs. McWilliams of Toledo, isom of Cope will preach, and Hill of Youngstown will address the children's band. Mrs. Charles McMurray, supervisor. —Mrs. W. Stowall of Canton was here, Sunday. —Mrs. Rev. Hicks was given a pleasant birthday surprise which seventeen persons enjoyed. Games, music and a four-course dinner. —Mrs. James Alexander is ill. Mrs. S. Scott is much improved. Rev. C. H. Young was invited to attend. Hattie Green and Francis Rockenout are out again. —Mr. and Mrs. Fulton Graves are the proud parents of a baby daughter. —Mr. and Mrs. R. Grant and Mr. and Mrs. W. Thomas of Elyria, and Mr. and Mrs. C. Ellis of Buffalo, Mr. and Mrs. John Martin and Mr. Frank Washington, were here, Sunday, the last three at Mr. and Mrs. Moses Thompson's. —Mrs. Height has been moved home from Prospect Brown. Miss Alice Rice and Edward Brown of Detroit were married at her home March 4.
done for him what the breeder has done for animal life. He told of two Madagascar tribes, quite alike, except for one difference. One tribe is dark the other reddish. a reddish tribe has a dark tribe the child is done away with. Vice versa. Thus he showed civilization breeds man as nature breeds animals. There isn't so much difference between the civilization of Africa and Europe as we would like to think, he said. The Tsimane tribes are African tales. You'll find the yarns on the African Coast.
GOVERNOR PROTESTS
The Segregation of Our Gold Star Mothers To Visit France, This Summer.
Boston, Mass.—The reported contemplated "jim-crowning" of our Gold Star mothers who will soon make a pilgrimage to the battlefield of France to visit the graves of sons who made the supreme sacrifice in the World War, caused the following from Gov. Frank G. Allen of this state, to be sent to President Hoover:
"It has been brought to my attention through recent press notices that the War Department in providing transportation of Gold Star mothers to France during the coming summer, the mothers and widows of Negro soldiers who fell in France are to be segregated from the mothers and widows of our white mothers and the Gold Star mothers thus affected are citizens of Massachusetts.
"In view of the fact that our honored dead of both races made the supreme sacrifice and Gold Star mothers, whether white or colored, suffered the same loss. I believe the proposed actions of the War Department, in causing an arbitrary separation, in an ill-advised, unkind and contrary to the ideals of our American Government. "As Governor of Massachusetts, I sincerely hope that the President, as Commander in Chief of the Army, will rescind all orders which in any way establish a color-line in connection with the coming pilgrimage of Gold Star Mothers."
The Ideal Health Promoters' club will have a musicale and tea at the Waiter's Association's rooms. $8917扣款 address away from 4 to 6 p.m. All invited to hear some of our best local talent.
He's Named by Prosecutor as New Assistant
PETER J.
NORMAN S. MINOR
County Prosecutor Ray T. Miller, Democrat, on last week Thursday, named Atty. Norman Selby Minor, a Republican, as the second of two new assistant prosecutors to be appointed in his office, this week. This is so much better than the Republicans have done, to date, this year, there is absolutely no comparison. As a matter of fact, we have not as many prosecutors as from City Manager Daniel "Blossom" Morgan or any of his cabinet (directors). Minor, age 28, has lived in Cleveland 25 years and was graduated from Central High School in 1921. For three years, while there, he was a four-letter man, starring in football, track, basketball and tennis. Norman attended the University of Michigan for four and a half years, worked in the emic work and two and a half years of law. Then he transferred to John Marshall Law School, receiving a law degree in 1927. Since being admitted to the bar he has practiced in Cleveland, officeing for many months with Atty. Tom Fleming, whose "Walter Oehme" trouble has resulted so disastrously to the former councilman Minor is married and lives at 2314 E. 95th St. In announcing his appointment to the Miller Street that Walter L. Brown, for years the leading Afro-American Democrat in the city, in charge of the information desk in the prosecutor's office, had become a deputy sheriff.
THE "COLORED BROTHER"
LEFT OUT IN THE COLD
There Are No "Negro" Nurses at the City Hospital and There Are No Other Appointments—Ask "The Blossom Triplets," Why?—Are We in the Hands of the K, K, K?
City appointments to date, Mar. 7 1930: City Manager, his secretary, directors of law, public service parks, health and welfare, public safety, finance, public utilities, civil service commissioner, city clerk, see retary to director of public service commissioner of motor maintenance assist, law director, city treasurer ass.t. city clerk, see to director public outlaws. Our 3 councilmen are 23 1-13% of the 13 Republican councilmen; therefore 23 1-13% equals O.
ADDITIONAL KLAN KLUXINGS.
McDermott Takes Oath as Assistant.
Atty. Wm. J. McDermott yesterday took the oath of office as an assistant U. S. attorney. He was named to his new post, as a member of U. S. Atty. Wilfred J. Mahon's staff, to fill the vacancy created by the resignation of Assistant U. S. Atty. Thos. O. Nevison.—The Cleveland News, Mar. 2.
Deputy Marshals Reappointed.
Eighteen deputy marshals stationed here were reappointed by Wm. J. Willfred J. Mahon as the northern Ohio district, shortly after he was sworn into office yesterday by Federal Judge West and Fred Denzler, head clerk of the court.—The News, Mar. 2.
Excursion Committee Named.
A. J. Hiristus and James L. E. Jappe, who are drumming up Republi-
cation to O. W. Republi-
cation to Columbus, Thursday, for a statewide political gathering, yesterday
announced a committee to sell tickets. The committee includes Thomas
Cook, John Steel, W. M. Murphy,
Fred Bronstrup, Alex Bernstein, L.
Mouis Louis Vincour, James Colonel, Leonard Stern and Mrs. Mary Forrest.
The special train pulls out at 9:15 a. m. Thursday, from the new union depot. —The News, Mar. 2.
Amalgamation.
Washington, D. C. —Organic union of the A. M. E. and the Zion A. M. E. churches has been approved by three-fourths of the ministers of the seve-denominations. For years this has been in the making.
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10,000 HAITIAN YOUTH
10,000 HAITIAN YOUTH
READY TO JOIN THEIR ELDERS IN A REVOLT ON APRIL 14, 1930.
Leader of Youths' League Warns Hoover Commission
Catholic Priests Ask Independence-Native
Custom-House Employees Assaulted.
Port-Au-Prince, Haiti—The Hoo ver investigating commission re- physical violence on native employees at the custom house.
Port-Au-Prince, Haiti—The Hoover investigating commission received its first concrete plan, March 4, from the Haitian people for remedying their political ills, and rightfully blamed American intervention in the republic's affairs for them. George N. Leger, a native lawyer, of high reputation, recommended that a provisional government be established at the earliest possible moment to rule the country until the election of deputies and senators to the National Assembly. Later the assembly would choose a president. Mr. Leger's recommendations were backed by a warning from Jussem, leader of the League of Haitians, Youth that 10,000 young Haitians would join their olds' revolution on April 14 unless legislative elections were held. Mr. Sam also demanded that President Hoover issue a proclamation ordering the end of the Borno (President) regime.
Made Good Impression.
Mr. Leger, speaking in English, made a distinct impression on W. Cameron Forbes and the other com- ments. His statement was considered fair and
Accusing the American authorities of having aroused race prejudice in Haiti for the first time in its history, he admitted that some material good had come out of the marines' occupation of the little island republic. Roads had been built, sanitary conditions were good and the national garde was well organized, the price paid for Mr. Leger insisted, the price paid for Mr. Leger was realized was beyond its value. Mr. Leger insisted the United States was dominating, instead of helping, Haiti, and termed the choice of Brig. Gen. John H. Russell as American high commissioner "most fortunate." Specifically, he accused Gen. Russell of having made a report stating that the Haitian people had "the mentality of a seven-year-old child." Seeing no possibility of electing a president by a plebisite, because the people were not used to this method, he recommended that the chosen first. Since many complaints had been made against the marines, Mr. Leger believed, since their presence is no longer necessary they ought to be withdrawn at once. With the experts and the American financial adviser, he said, the country was "fed up" and it wanted the adviser's position abolished. The receiver general's office could be maintained until Haitians could take over the work. He also asserted that the "service technique," directing the educational system, had been a failure. It had spent $6,000,000 in nothing of value. Damien University perfumed, "for even if 200 students graduated there would be nothing for them to do."
Justin Sam said that "there will be a revolution on election day unless our demands are granted. We are not armed but we prefer to die rather than to accept another dictator. Mr. Sam is a man of influence along with a long-time friend of the student strikes last fall. He was accompanied before the commission by 100 well-dressed and intelligent-looking boys and girls.
Catholic Priests Ask Independence
Port-Au-Prince, Haiti—The Catholic church in Haiti, representing more than half the people, on March 7 joined federated opposition groups in their movement for independent legislative elections and the end of American occupation. This unprecedented decision was announced to President Hoover's investigating commission by Archbishop Conan when the commissioners paid a visit to the head of the Haitian church. It was revealed that the man who patrolled law, priests are paid by the government and are in a sense its employees. The archbishop told commissioners that the bishops of all the Haitian dioceses after polling the priests in their jurisdiction had decided they could not help but participate in the effort of the people to obtain their freedom from dictatorship and to reestablish popular government. Pointing out that the Haitian clergy were almost entirely foreign-born, he said this fact created a problem that the church, which ought to abstain from participation in politics. But the church "nevertheless takes a profound interest in the well-being of the people."
Marc Seide, former secretary to the American customs collector, David P. Johnson, severely criticized the collector before the Hoover ocmission, charging white officials used
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.
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HAITIAN YOUTH
R ELDERS IN A REVOLT ON
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The Warns Hoover Commission
ask Independence—Native
Employees Assaulted.
physical violence on native employes
at the custom house.
Haitian Crisis Believed Over Port-Au-Prince, March 8—The Hoover Haitian investigation commission to night recommended to President Hoover that a one-man provisional government be appointed to take over the reins of government in Haiti on May 15, when the term of President Louis Borno expires. It was reported on the highest author-
President Hoover.
ity that President Borno would acquiesce in this plan and co-operate with his successor, who will be a neutral man picked by a group of the people's leaders. The provisional president would remain in office until it was possible to hold popular legislative elections. The assembly then would meet and elect a presidium member to form the commission's recommendation is believed to have solved the present political crisis in Haiti. Brief conferences were held, today, with Brig. Gen John H. Russell, American high commissioner and a final public hearing was held, this morning.
Hoover Approves Plan.
Hinche, Haiti, March 9.— President Hoover's investigating committee, stopping here for the first night on their trip through inland Haiti, tonight announced that the president had approved their plan for a provisional government in Haiti. The plan so has been personally approved by the president. Boron It includes the ultimate replacement of American military high commissioner, Brig. Gen. John H. Russell, by a civilian minister of the diplomatic service after negotiations for a new treaty to replace the present one have been completed. American Occupation to End Slavery President Hoover's approval of the plan was received here this afternoon, and it is believed that his assent has solved the Haitian problem.
"SOCIAL EQUALITY."
Long Branch, N. J.—Their help did double duty, it seems, at the cottage of Dr. and Mrs. Harold V. Connery, leading whites here, is the allegation and counter allegation of the two. Mrs. Connery, sued by her husband for divorce, alleges that her husband spent many interesting hours in the room of the colored maid, Mrs. Bertha Holmes. Dr. Connery pleaded for his freedom, charging his wife carried on a secret romance with their colored chauffeur, Joseph Mitchell. Her charges were verified by other members of Mrs. Connery's family, who declared that he brought charges that he wished in order to further his social ambitions. Joseph Mitchell doctor related an incident when his wife sat at the piano playing "I Can't Give You Anything but Love, Baby. That's the Only Thing I've Plenty of, Baby." When he attempted to answer the plea, he declared, he received a left hook to the stomach that doubled him up on the floor.
Bishop Carey Sued
Chicago, Ill.—Rev. Nannie B. Smith, evangelist, has brought suit in the circuit court for $20,000 damages, and named Bishop A. J. Carey, of the A. M. E. Church, C. A. Tanner and James A. Henson, members of the church board, as co-defendants. She claims the bishop has monopolized the evangelical work in all Chicago A. M. E. churches and has attempted to block and ruin her work. Mrs. Smith wants $10,000 for slander and $10,000 for humiliation.
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IN UNION IS STRENGTH.
10,000,000 Afro-Americans.
350,000 in Ohio.
60,000 in Cleveland.
SATURDAY, MARCH 15, 1930.
A group of wealthy white friends have pledged the sum of $5,445 yearly for three years to the N. A. A. C. P. Mr. Wm. Rosenwald, a son of Mr. Julius Rosenwald, philanthropist, led in this movement with a $1000 pledge. The $5,445 yearly for three years may and may not cover the salary of Prof. W. E. B. DuBois, one officer of the organization, but "it will help", we suppose.
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As we have taken the occasion to say on several occasions in the past we repeat now: The Manager Plan of city government as far as Cleveland is concerned should be "junked." It may be a good thing for villages and small towns, but has been a perfect failure as far as Cleveland and other large cities of the country are concerned, since all of them (seventy-seven in number), except Cleveland and Cincinnati, have abandoned the Manager Plan.
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The Illustrated Feature Section which some of our weekly publications are using, is gotten out by the W. B. Ziff Co., "Publishers' Representative", of Chicago. It is supposedly "a co-operative enterprise" but is simply a scheme with which the Jewish firm benefits MOST and uses the circulation of our publications so misguided as to use The Illustrated Feature Section. "Cut it out, brethren!" It seems strange that any of our papers can be so easily duped and taken advantage of
CONTEMPTIBLE
The nine hundred Afro-American Gold Star mothers are to be sent to France, this year, by the U. S. War Department, in a ship to themselves, from the others in deference to prejudiced southern white Gold Star mothers also scheduled to go to France, it is announced. Governor Frank G. Allen of Massachusetts has sent a strong letter of protest to President Hoover against this rank, gratuitous insult to our Gold Star mothers and the sixty million Afro-Americans they represent. We are not expecting the President to countermand the War Department's order because of his well-known lack of interest in our people, shown on more than one occasion in the last year.
It seems that our government, as well as individuals, is determined to impress foreign governments and peoples with its fool-race-prejudice, and to carry it abroad as rapidly as possible. A fine (7) way to treat the mothers of boys who made the supreme sacrifice for this country and world democracy, and too, thousands of miles away from home, in France, during the World War! It seems there is nothing too despicable for prejudiced Americans, particularly southern Americans, to do in order to try to humiliate our people and to lower their status as a class, group or race in the estimation of others at home and abroad.
It is now for President Hoover to say whether or not the prejudiced-fool or fools in the U. S. War Department, responsible for this separate ship for Afro-American Gold Star mothers enroute to France, as guests of the American people, are to "get away" with the shameless segregation order or not. If the President does not promptly countermand the order, as we anticipate, it will not be the first time he has shown his lack of interest in and concern for our people whose votes he sought and was glad to get in the last national political campaign and which he will need again and greatly, too, in the next one.
TOO MANY OF HIS KIND.
Prof. Kelly Miller of Howard University, in trying to defend President Hoover's failure to appoint an Afro-American a member of his Haitian commission, shows exactly the kind of man he is from a race-viewpoint. We have entirely too many of his kind "for the good and welfare" and progress of our people. We have al-
ways felt that they are more harmful than the open and avowed enemies (white) of the race because they strike from within., while the others do so from without, and are therefore so much more dangerous and harmful.
Since the "color question" is one of the vital points of the whole Haitian tgouble, because the American Occupation introduced a color-line for the first time in Haiti, the presence of an Afro-American as a member of the Haitian commission was really necessary and most important as the future will prove.
When the last white president of Howard University, Washington, D.C., was so very insulting in his treatment of Afro-American members of the faculty of that institution a number of the self and race-respecting ones resigned their positions and got out of the institution. Not Kelly Miller, however. He accepted, in order to hang on to his job, thus showing the kind of man he was and apparently still is.
President Borno of Haiti, referred to by leading Haitians as the "puppet" of the American Occupation, is another of the kind. And how the Haitians have suffered in recent years from them, and Afro-Americans have suffered in almost every community in this country, and are still sorely hampered, held back, and their vital interests injured by the same kind of "apologists", and worse ("jim-crow Negroes"). Lord, have mercy!
Doings of the Race
Our National Press Association meets in Detroit, Apr. 24, 25 and 26.
An institute course for our librarians is be held in Atlanta, June 14, July 25, and August 14, the Lorehouse-Speiman summer school. The Rosenwald Fund is making the institute possible.
Joseph A. Carey, Jr. of Baltimore, who enlisted and salied for France at the age of 13, served two years as a member of the honorable discharge at the age of 16, claims to be the youngest World War veteran.
Congressman Oscar DePriest of Chicago has named two of our young men John W. Wm. Thomas as prizewinners, and three alternates for each to take the examinations for cadetships at the U. S. Naval Academy at Annapolis, Md.
Mrs. Nellie Francis of Nashville, former resident of St. Paul, widow of Atty. Wm. T. Francis, late minister-resident and consul general to Liberit, will be paid $4,500 by Congress, one year's salary of her deceased husband who died while in the service.
Louis Shores, Fisk, university librarian, Nashville, has accepted an invitation to deliver a series of lecturers on library science at McGill university, Ontario, Canada, during July and August. He was chosen by Columbia university from hundreds of librarians.
Lawnside, N. J., an all "Afro" town is seven miles from Camden and has a population of 2,000 who own property valued at $500,000. The town maintains a mayor, council, police department of six members, two volunteer fire companies, a magistrate, postmistress (Mrs. E. A. Roberts), a $60,000 public school and a park.
SCORES WITHOUT TRICKS
New York City — Marc Connelly's "all-Negro play," "The Green Pastures," at the Mansfield theater, is unique in several ways. It is the first hit this theater has ever had, although the house is something like five years old and a very pretty one. Then the play is constructed along lines that aren't anything like those of the usual Broadway success. There is no love story; there is no intrigue in fact, bag of bad luck. The play is not been opened at all by the dramatist. The play is merely a "Negro" picture of what may be the idea of some "Negroes" as regards heaven and Bible folk. The sincerity, the naturalness of the acting makes it the novelty it is. And yet I wonder how much of a novelty it will be to the colored people, of whom there are 400,000 in Greater New York. Few of New York's "Negroes" are of the "mammmy" and "pappy" type. They are of a new generation, right up to date and fond of jazz. The old adaptation of "Negro" here in this big bus, hustling town. Religion to him isn't a very weighty matter; he has neither time nor inclination to give deep contemplation to the old belief his ancestors fostered down south. The critics here, or most of them, have been raving about "The Green Pastures" to the point of dellrium, and there are many people who will delight in it, merely as a well-acted study of the southern "Negro." While Mr. Connelly is getting all the credit, practically, or not, he has forgotten that the best acting in it is done by Richard B. Harrison as the lord in a Prince Albert coat; Westly Hill, as Gabriel, and Tutt Whitney, as Noah.
Godfrey Ends Gross in Fifth
Philadelphia, Pa. — George Godfrey, champion heavyweight, of Leiperville, Pa., won from Jack Gross, Salem, N. J., by a technical knockout in the fifth round of the 10-round windup at the arena. Monday night. Godfrey scaled 250 pounds. 39 pounds more than Gross.
To War on Communists.
New York City.—War was declared on Communism by New York business and industrial interests, Monday night. Under the leadership of the New York City Chamber of Commerce, a campaign was launched for the deportation of alien agitators, no matter in what branch of society they are found. Maj. Howard Lee, president of the Chamber, announced the new offensive against Communism and declared his organization will work in co-operation with the police.
THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, O., SATURDAY, MARCH 15, 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.
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.
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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 ruled intuitionality of the law and it has been
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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 person of the purported character. An act of violence by a mob on 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 be terminally or temporarily disables the person receiving it from earning a livelihood by manual labor. (93 v. 161 3.)
Section 6280. A person taken from officers of justice by a mob, and assaulted with whips, clubs, missiles or in any other manner, may recover, as hereafter provided, a sum not to exceed one thousand dollars from the county in which the assault is made (93 v. 161 4.1).
Section 6281. A person assaulted and lynched by a mob may recover, from the county in which assault is made a sum not to exceed five hundred dollars; or, if the injury received therefrom is serious, a sum not exceeding one thousand dollars; or, if such injury result in persecution or hood by manual labor, a sum not to exceed five thousand dollars (93 v. 12 5.)
Section 6282. The legal representative of a person dying from injuries received from lynching by a mob may recover of the county in which such injury occurred, a sum not to exceed five thousand dollars 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, such sum shall be distributed among 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 against such person, if 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 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 killer or the victim, or kill 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
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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:
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representative of victim of lynching try by mob trying to lynch another.
costs in tax levy.
inst member of mob
inst another county.
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 or dispurse 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 enacted while a member of the 71st General Assembly, in 1894:
The General Code of Ohio:
Sec. 12940. Whoever, being the pro-
spective manager of an amusement or 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 facilities or privileges thereof, shall be fined not less than fifty dollars nor more than five hundred dollars, or imprisoned not less than thirty days nor more than ninety days, or both.
Sec. 12941. Whoever violates the next preceding section shall also pay not less than fifty dollars nor more than fifty dollars, and son aggrieved thereby to be recovered in any court of competent jurisdiction in the county where such offense was committed.
This law has repeatedly been held constitutional and good law by the Ohio Supreme court. The trouble is our people will not use it as often as they should, but expect it to do for them what they should and must do for themselves, under it, in the courts.
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Social and Personal
St. James A. M. E. chureh’s recent
men’s rally netted $365.
Mrs. Linwood H. Hogan has gone
to California to visit a brother.
Mrs, Iola Wimbs Ellis, E. 87th St.,
Who has been quite ill, s convalese-
ng.
Mrs, Elizabeth Gordon of the Old
Folks’ Home is anticipating a trip to
Lakeside.
Mrs, Julia Starkey Stanley, 2250
E, 84th St., one of our old residents,
ig quite ill,
Mrs. Mabel Lewis Imes went to
Akron, recently, to attend the funer-
al of a relative.
‘The Rev. George Wilson Brent's
letter, elsewhere in this paper, is in-
teresting, iluminating.
Miss Nettie Deal, an old resident
and member of St.’ John’s A. M. E.
church, died, recently.
J. J. Arnold, E. 82nd St., who sus-
tained a stroke of paralysis, several
weeks ago, is improving rapidly.
St. John’s A. M. E. S. 8., said to
be “the largest in the world,” will
celebrate its one hundredth anniver-
sary in May.
Capt. W. H. Porter announces that
the Hi-Y basket ball team will ac-
company the Junior Federation team
to Canton, soon.
Rev. Ernest Hall, pastor of E. Mt.
Zion Baptist church, returned re-
cently from an extensive trip thru
the south and east.
“No! Negroes will not be allow-
ed to train in City Hospital.”"—Dud-
ley S. Blossom, now City Manager
Daniel E. Morgan's director of wel-
fare.
Mrs. C. C. Thomas, E. 83d St., who
returned, recently, from Pittsburgh
where she was cailed by the iliness
of her mother, was called there again,
Monday, for the same reason.
The attraction at the Ohio Thea-
ter, next week, will be the Gilpin
Players in “Roseanne”. Something
creditable alike to both the Players
and the management of the theater.
At Central High School, Nathaniel
Hubbard has been elected president
of the senior class. There are 72
“Afro” and 64 white students in the
June class. Our 71 votes were cast
tor Hubbard.
Our people in the vicinity of E.
84th and E. S6th Sts. and Quincy
‘Ave, ought to patronize Douglass
Perkins’ Pool room, 8411 Quincy
Aye., and Mrs. Viola’ Bolden's store,
at $609 Quincy Ave.
Mrs. Inez Richardson Wilson of
New York City and daughter of Mrs.
John P. Green of this city has been
east as “Eve” in Mare Connelly's
production “The Green Pastures” at
the Manhattan Theater in “Little
Old Noo Yawk,” last week,
Mayor Arthur Johnston of Miles
Heights village was the speaker at
the recent meeting of the Texas club
held at Dr. and Mrs. J. D. Merida’s
cozy home in Parmalee Ave. Other
guests of the club were Miss Hayes,
Mesdames Pierson, Gregory and
Smith.
According to I. L. Kenen, a re-
porter of The Cleveland Daily News,
Mrs. Lethia Fleming will probably
take over the leadership of the
eleventh ward, succeeding her hus-
band, in the event the state supreme
court continues to uphold Tom's con-
vietion. Some of Councilman Payne's
friends say “no” to this Kenen sug-
gestion.
Councilman Clayborne George, the
only second-termer among the three
Cleveland Afro-American council-
come und their lenher. has eure reid-
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ly and quiet people who want a nice,
pleasant home. Call, CHerry 1259,
inthe abernnan:
ed “The Blossom Triplets” into a
political mess,
The Gazette has heard rumors of
applicants for city jobs and posi-
tions 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 after-
noons.
‘The rumor going the rounds in
this city that there are “two colored
nurses" at City hospital is not true,
‘The Gazette is informed. Our people
have not as yet received any appoint-
ments there, or any of the three al-
leged to have been promised “The
Blossom Triplets.””
Tt wouldn't be a bad idea for
Congressman Robert Crosser of this
city to appear before the Hoover
Haitian Commission immediately up-
on 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.
The County Commissioners, on
Wednesday, appointed Miss Mildred
Ridley, former stenographer in The
Gazette office,, a typist in their of-
fices in the new county court house,
on the request of Councilman Leroy
N. Bundy. Miss Ridley passed a
civil service examination for the
place, some months ago, standing
sixth on the city list and first on the
county list.
Jim Barnes, Oberlin’s sensational
sprinter, may face George Simpson,
Ohio State's record holder, in one of
‘the feature events on the’ Cleveland
‘Athletic club's track meet at Public
Hall, a week from today. Barnes
will’ be present to race with his
school’s mile relay team and Dan
Kinsey, the former hurdling ace who
now coaches Oberlin, has Indicated
he may enter his ace in the 50-yard
spring feature.
With a sentence of two years and
nine months in the Ohio’ Peniten-
tlary at hard labor hanging over his
head for thirteen months, we felt
and still feel that former Council-
man 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.
Wo certainly favor former City
Treasurer Adam Damm’s suggestion
of an elective mayor and a councll-
man for each ward, the latter being
residents of their bailiwicks. The
manager plan is not only a misfit,
but also obsolete when it is remem:
dered that seventy-seven American
cities have abandoned it and that,
with the exception of Cleveland and
Cincinnati, there are no other large
efties in the country burdened with it.
Mrs, Susie Tolbert gave her mother,
Mrs. Jos. Hedges, Central Ave. and
E. 31st St., a very enjoyable birth-
day party, recently. The house was
prettily decorated, the color-scheme
being in blue and gold. Among
those in attendance were Councilman
Payne, Mrs. Lethia Fleming, EB. W.
Sellers, M. M. Lewis, L. R. Pinkney
and F. 1. Grace. Among the gifts
Mrs, Hedges received was a beautiful
bouquet of American beauties pre-
sented by Mr. Massengale. A deli-
cious midnight lunch was served.
A list of Associated Charities sta-
tions 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., 8123 Carnegie
Ave., 10605 Superior Ave. 5620
Broadway, B. 40th St. and Perkins
Ave., 11705 Detroit Ave., $201 Miles
Ave. 15201 St. Clair " Ave. 2111
Prospect Ave., 2630 W. 14th St., 1970
W. 32d St. and 2587 E. 55th St., or
the Wayfarers’ lodge, 2164 Chester
Ave.
Former Councilman Tom Flem-
ing’s attorneys are still trying to
save him from serving the sentence
of two years and nine months. The
mandate ordering him to the pen
itentiary was delayed for a week,
Monday, by the clerk of the state su:
preme court, pending filing of a mo-
tion by his attorney for a rehearing
of his appeal. ‘The court, last week,
upheld the sentence and the mandate
would have followed,. this week, if
Fleming's attorneys had not indicat-
ed their intention of asking the re-
hearing.
Three young bandits (white) were
sentenced to life imprisonment, last
week, for participation in the hold-
up of the Empire Savings & Loan Co.
branch at $933 Cedar Ave., last De=
cember, in which they obtained not
a cent of loot and one of their num-
ber was seriously wounded by pistol
fire by Peyton W. Lemon, sup't. The
three are Hugo Guensche, age 25, of
Detroit; David Davies, 28, of 'Al-
bany, N. ¥., and Harry Coulter, 26,
of Fordson, Mich. Two months ago
they pleaded guilty and were sen-
tenced to from 10 to 20 years, Later
it was found that the county prosocu-
tor's office had failed to notify the
bench that the men had been indict-
ed under the new bank law which
specifies a life term, so it was found
necessary to bring them back from
the penitentiary for Yesentencing.
Chocolate Hurt in Victory.
Tampa, Fla.—Kid Chocolate, Cu-
ba’s great little featherweight sensa-
tion and champion, decisively out-
pointed Renny Hall of St. Louis in a
ten-round bout at Plant Field hore,
Wednesday night. Chocolate gave
Hall a thorough boxing lesson from
start to finish. Chocolate weighed
124% pounds, Hall 124, ‘The fight
was little more than a workout for
‘the Cuban, who won every round in
an easy fashion, He used his right
hand sparingly, due to an injury sus-
tained in training. Afterward Pin-
cho Guiterrez, Chocolate’s manager,
said the Kid also hurt his left hand,
his most elfective weapon. As a re-
sult, Guiterrez said, — Chocolate's
scheduled bout, in Toronto, March
10, was called off.
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Knoxville, Tenn.—Mrs. Pearl King
Anderson hes ausouueod her candle
Gacy tor the office af Chreule Court
fies Sap uulideonomss seston
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deceased husband’ ‘who was elected
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Eighth Inf. Reg., I. N. G., began
serving a four mouths’ sentence in
the Lake County jail, Saturday,
Marchcl. Fle sacaireas Cus en case
Hom Federe! Judge George Whikert
son and a fine of $2,000 after he de-
clined to vient not our detalear
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to $1,400,
Ten Pages Devoted
To Telephone Lore
In Reference Book
Ten pages of the latest edition of
the Encyclopaedia Britannica are
devoted to facts concerning the
telephone and its development.
‘The article, prepared by Walter
S. Gifford, president of the Amer-
ican Telephone and Telegraph
Company, outlines the history,
srowth and development of the bus-
iness and the operation and im-
provement of equipment since
Alexander Graham Bell first dem-
onstrated the transmission of the
voice by wire in 1876.
in illustrating the rapid commer-
cial advances of the telephone in-
dustry, Mr. Gifford pointed out
that in 1877 there were 2,600 tele-
phones in the United States or one
tclephone for every 20,000 persons.
In 1928 there were 19,341,000 tele-
phones in use in this country, an
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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 even impugn
our valor and we are not unan-
Amously insulted. It seems im-
possible to establish unanimity
of insult in the black race.—
Chicago (Ill.) Whip.
It is with the keenest regret that
‘The Gazette announces the most
yeprehensible course our three coun-
¢llmen, 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 from
training in the City Hospital and
added to this flagrant and unwar-
ranted denial of our rights and priv-
ileges under the law in a public in-
stitution, maintained by the tax-
payers of the community, by coarse-
ly blurting out to leading men of
the race Who called upon him rela-
tive to the matter:
“No! Tam not going to allow Ne-
gro boys and giris to train in the
City 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 in
thelr counellmanie districts, last
fal]. These three councilmen, night
after night and day after day, as
they pleaded with the voters in that
section of tho city for support of
their candidacies reiterated their
promise to do all in their power to
accede to the demand-mandate of
‘our people whom Dudley Blossom
had 0 grossly mistreated and ine
sulted. They knew that the demand
for the ousting of City Manager Hop-
king Was equalled and surpassed by
the demands of their own peoplé for
the ousting of Welfare Director Dud-
Jey Blossom. ‘There can be no ques-
tion as to this, Night after night
and day after day in one political
meeting after another, they prom-
ised the people, if elected, they
would carry out this mandate to the
letter. How have they done this?
Soon after the election of City Man-
ager Daniel E. Morgon, rumors were
being circulated to the effect that
our three councilmen, in their quest
for political jobs for’ some of their
supporters, were weakening in their
opposition to the appointment of
Blossom at the behest of the elty
manager who desired, with Blos-
‘som’s appointment, to somewhat ap-
ease 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., aan. 29, ‘30.
City Manager Daniel E. Morgan,
City Hal, 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-
ell in our ward, many years ago.
I am 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 50 grossly insulted members of
my race who called upon him in con-
nection with the City Hospital con-
troversy, which was happily settled,
Monday, Jan. 27, °80, that his reap-
ointment would be positively the
most aggravating insult you could
give all of my people of this com-
munity, and for reasons stated and
others.
Also I wish to say to you that
Councilmen Payne, Bundy, Bron-
strup and Finkle were elected in the
‘Third District upon the platform of
ousting both Hopkins as city man-
ager and Dudley Blossom as wel-
fare director.
With no desire to dictate, but only
to state the real truth of the situa-
tion as far as my people of this com-
munity and Dudley Blossom are con-
cerned, and with sincerest best
wishes for your official success, I am
‘Yours respectfully,
Harry C. Smith,
Editor The Gazette,
P. $.—Couneiiman Clayborne C.
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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-
sible 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 if 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
iS IT ANY USE TO CON-
TEND FOR RIGHTS?
Colored Americans are the
only race, responsible mem-
bers of which are in favor of
submitting to discrimination
on the claim that their race
“always will be discriminated
against.” The Jews are still
contending, after over 1900
years of universal discrimina-
tion, and are winning even
social rights today. The Irish
at home have contended for
700 years and are winning
because they will die rather
than submit, The race that
Says it’s cf no use to resist,
downs itself and the world
then will say, “Negroes are
not worthy of equal rights;
they are by nature without
self-respect and have no
‘guts’.” ‘The world respects
only those who resent and re-
sist proscriptions for race.
Let us be worthy of the
abolitionists, worthy of our
own fathers who have died
in every war to vindicate the
title of their race to equal
Uberty, and forever resist de-
nial of rights in our native
land, however long race dis-
crimination may continue. To
submit is to deserve ‘con-
tempt—Boston (Mass.) Guar-
dian.
know the man because for years, by
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 of
persons of other groups in this com-
munity. While the conference was
in progress, his secretary said to Mr.
‘Morgan: i
“Mr. Blossom is outside",
Afterthought convinced me that
the city manager was so sure that I
would be weak enough to confer
with Blossom that he had him in
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 ft does not weaken the
contempt for Dudley S. 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-
tlon to Blossom upon the part of
the masses of our peoplo 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-
itest itself at that time. The fol-
lowing day, Jan. 31, °30, at a con-
ference in ‘The Gazette office, par-
tlelpated 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
THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, 0., SATURDAY, MARCH 15, 1930
wise
that day, Payne and Bundy also in-
dicating ‘that they were to holt a
conference with Blossom, that after-
noon. The conference with the city
manager, according to Councilman
George, wwas 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 C. 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 for-
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 (Batley) down flat, on more
than one occasion. We well remem-
ber that after one of Dr. Bailey's dis-
tressing visits to Blossom, he came
to The Gazette office and’ talked ot
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
lave 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
churches, Sunday, Feb. 16, that a
protest mass meeting was to be held
at Triedstone Baptist chureh, 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-
Yorable from his viewpoint because
the Blossom appointment followed
soon after, that same evening. After
the “cheek up" meeting, Councilmen
George and Rev. Horace C, Bailey
came to The Gazette office. ‘The for-
mer, as usual, being very reticent
Whehever 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
jand 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 his
istrict 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 council
for the very same reason. Our think-
ing, sensible, self-respecting voters
of the third and fourth councilmanic
districts will hardly continue, as
members of the city council, men of
our or any other class who will hold
50 lightly a mandate from thelr con-
stituents to oust a public official
whose City hospital Ku Klux Klan
activities made him a “stench in
their nostrils”. City Manager Dan-
tel E. Morgan claims that our three
councilmen, George, Payne and
Bundy, “waived” their opposition to
the appointment of Dudley Blossom.
The “waiving” decision undoubtedly
was concluded at the “check-up”
meeting, late Monday afternoon.
What a’ “waiving” it will be, next
year in the fall time, when’ these
three “‘worthies”” seek re-election, if
all of them last that long! It sure
will be an event worth going miles
to see, and our city manager will
not be forgotten, either, when the
opportunity affords. Another thing
Dudley Blossom said to a delegation
of our people who called upon him,
last year, and protested against the
growing segregation in city depart-
ments, particularly the City hospital,
fs 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 explain in a few words why
we failed to secure the ousting of
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 elty 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 ©, Smith,
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It seems strange, possibly, to some,
but it is nevertheless true that no
one has ever been able to mix re-
gion and. poiities—oll and water!
So itis not strange that Rey. Hor-
ace C. Bailey has failed, this me.
Tt was Rey. Russell 8. Brown who
made a like failure, last fall,” Direc
tor Dudley S. Blossom treated Bat
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
most Insulting statement that is. all
but seared in the very marrow of the
hones of our people of this commus-
Iv “No, Tam not going to. allow
Neuro gitls and boys to train at City
Hospital while Tam director.” And
yet, In recent weeks Dud. Blossom
coaxed Bailey to his office and. so
“sort-soaped”” him that the. latter
“withdrew his" opposition” to. the
former's re-appolutment. as welfare
director of the elty of Cleveland, s0
he told the editor of The Gazette,
Monday, Feb. 17, in ‘The Gazette
office. Can you beat 4?
Te is now “The Blossom ‘Twins"—
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 Keepitig our boys and girs
from ‘training at City Flospital?
Don't it look very much like it?
“THE BLOSSOM TRIPLETS”
And City: Manager Daniel BE, Morgan
to Bo Issues inthe Came
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Hon, Harry C, Smith,
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
simpathy with yon and therefore
am laying my copy aside for ref-
erence, next year, during the cam-
paign when I hope to be actively
engaged with you and others re-
minding the people of the third and
fourth districts of Councilmen Le-
Roy X. Bundy, Lawrence 0. 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 tampaign—to do all in their
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-
kde ordinance, passed by the City
Council, to award Garret A. Morgan
the pittance of $2000 for the heroic
service he gaye 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,
(Wite of the Pastor of Messiah
Baptist Church, B. 46th and
Woodland Ave: City,).
“The Humble But Blood-Seeking
The following excerpt, from the
Cincinnati (0.) Union, of Feb. 20,
1930. Wendell Phillips Dabney, ed!-
tor, is #0 pertinent and self-explana-
tory that comment is unnecessary un-
less 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 whereot
he speaks” when he writes as fol-
lows:
When the Honorable Harry C.
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 wses 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-seeking
bed-bug, for whom the only safe
rule is—extermination. He, backed
by thousands of citizens, is fighting
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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 01
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, I am
not going to allow Negro boys and
girls to train in the City Hospital.”
Dabney.
“THE BLOSSOM TRIPLETS".
Te does not seem possible that
three persons, candidates for office
in quest of votes, could possibly go
thra 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 theit
people, of all the population of a
great city like Cleveland, rights and
privileges (in a publie 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 S.
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. AN three councilmen, in
a conference with the editor of The
Gazette about ten days previous to
Feb, 17, ‘30, freely admitted they
had a “mandate” from our people of
their distriets 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 of this paper.
And even ff it were true, which was
hot the case, even that would not
excuse them for breaking their
pledge to our people of their dis-
triets and all the rest of the city,
because when they “waived” thetr
opposition to Blossom, they were
not keeping but breaking their
pledge and ignoring the people and
the pledge they so often and so lond-
ly proclaimed, day and night, in pub-
Ne meetings during last fall's cam-
paign. It ts an unpardonable act for
which Bundy, Payne and George will
be made to atone, if they dare to
face the electorate of their 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-
lic 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 clty 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
central Claiins bureaw:
How One Woman Lost
20 Pounds of Fat
THE BLOSSOM
APPOINTMENT!
And “The Blossom Triplets” De-
nounced in Mass Meeting—
Strong Resolutions.
In spite of the inclement weather,
the mass meeting at Quinn A. M. E.
church, E. 130th St., Sunday, March
2:30, was a success in point of at-
tendance as well as enthusiasm. J.
W. Minor presided and introduced
the speakers: Dr. James K. Nickens,
Mr. Emmett Meade, Hon, Harry C.
Smith, Rev. Wm. Todd, pastor of
the church, and Roy 9. Rector, prest-
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dent 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 thoroly discussed by the
speakers and many strong points
emphasized, the audience rallying to
the statements with most hearty ap-
Plause. At the conclusion of the
Speaking, the following protest reso-
lutions were presented and unant-
mously adopted:
WHEREAS, Dudley S. Blossom, as
Director of Welfare, not only ‘led
in encouraging a “jim-crow”’ hospi-
tal and in the barring of our boys
and girls from training in the City
hospital, but wag so aggravatingly
insulting in his personal contact with
Rey. Horace C. Bailey and several
delegations of our leading men who
called upon him, last year and the
year previous, in connection with
this hospital controversy, very offen-
sively saying 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 Man-
ager Daniel E. Morgan’ was made
fully acquainted with this deplor-
able condition which Blossom alone
created, as far as our people are con.
cerned, and yet in the face of this
fact has seen fit to ignore it and
our people and reappoint sald Dud-
ley S. Blossom, welfare director of
the city of Cleveland, and
WHEREAS, our three councilmen,
Messrs, 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 di-
rector, therefore be it
RESOLVED, that this mass meet-
ing, assembled in Quinn A. M. E.
church, E, 130th St., this date, March
2, 1930, ‘censures the city manager
and our three councilmen for the in-
sulting 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 Bun-
dy.
A Curse ‘Thruout Administration.
Madison, N, J., Mar. 2, °30.
Hon. Harry C.’ Smith,
Editor Gazette, Cleveland, 0.
Honored and Dear Sir:—This is
for information: Is there no way
to enjoin, offset and upset the re-
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 tor
the “waivers of their opposition” of
George, Bundy and Payne, must the
people wait a whole year to volce
their disapproval of their unmanly
representatives’ action?
I don't know why, but when I
read in The Chicago Defender of
the honor given Rev, Horace C. Bail-
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I want to commend your stead-
fast 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
white man’s program!!!
T note your criticism of Revs. Bai-
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with religion. Bishop Carey, though
applauded by thousands, also failed.
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nate to politics. Their religion is
wator; and oil, you know, always
comes to top! But reverse the
method, make religion the oil—pro-
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tician 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
<1 and a politician—?
I want to thank you for your
manly expression to City Manager
Morgan: “You can spit in my face
now, but the insult will not be halt
as much (to me or my people of
this community) as will be the ap-
pointment of Dudley S. Blossom
as welfare director". The memory
of your words will act as a curse
thruout his administration, for tae
platform on which he was elected
included the ousting of both Hop-
kins and Blossom!!! Prov. 11:21
Faithfully yours,
(Rev.) Geo. Wilson Brent (white)
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The nurse-training course is free.
Students get ten dollars per month,
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High School students should study
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‘City Hospital’ Internes.
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graduate in June, 1930, are eligible
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