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What Our People Are Doing Each Week—Church, Personal, Social, Lodge, Literary and Musical Marriages, Deaths, Etc.
YOUNGSTOWN—Rev. Chas. Turney, of Rochester, Pa., preached at Third Baptist church, Sunday morning.—Oak Hill Ave. A. M. E. church is being pastored by the Rev. Wm. Dixon, from Brown's chapel, Pittsburg. He succeeded Rev. P. S. Hill who established the pastorate of Brown chapel, Sunday. He coached for this letter to the local representative and urge your friends to read "The Old Reliable" Gazette regularly, each week.
WILBERFORCE—The university will celebrate its 75th anniversary in 1931, a distinction hitherto attained by few schools. Upon the suggestion of President Gilbert H. Jones the conference, following the report of the president, approved a plan and suggestions, that each Ohio presiding elder see that each church in his district set up a special Diamond Jubilee committee and hold within such churches a Diamond Jubilee program some time between Jan. 24 and June 13.
CADIZ—Mr. and Mrs. Frank Christian and Mr. and Mrs. David Madison of Steubenville were here, Sunday. —Mesdames Emma Tyler and Lizzie West visited in Bellaire, and Daisy Payne of Oberlin spent the night at Mary Brown has returned from E. Liverpool. —Mr. Chas. Lucas of Willberforce visited his parents, Sunday. —The M. S. held its annual bazaar and supper, Friday evening. —St James' usher board is planning a box social and mock-trial. The S. S. is attending the Rev. W. T. Biggers is steadily increasing church attendance by his gospel sermons.
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HILLSBORO—Mrs. Rhoda Kittrell died, Dec. 5, after an illness of several weeks. Funeral, Monday afternoon, conducted by Rev. J. J. Burr. She was one of the oldest members of New Hope Baptist church, and loved a husband, daughter, many relatives. Mrs. Rhoda Kittrell Kilgore of Columbus was called here, last Tuesday, by the illness of an uncle, Robert Williams.—Mr. Elmer Henderson of Ripley is the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Edw. Dixon.—Mrs. Lille Powers fell, last week, and sprained an ankle.—Mr. A Jones of Matthias was married to Helen L. Johnson.—Mrs. Kittie Tumas, Mrs. Maria Morton, Robert Young, J. R. Cole and Mrs. Alline Burton are ill.—Mr. and Mrs. D. Minor of Wilmington visited Mr. and Mrs. A. Williams, Jr., Sunday evening. Mrs. A. Williams, an visited mother, Mrs. Rhoda Neilson visited C. H. last week, Mrs. Gertrude Christy of Dayton visited her mother and friends here, this week.
ZANESVILLE.—A family dinner was served at Park Hotel, Thursday, to Mr. and Mrs. L. Mayle, Mr. and Mrs. H. Mayle, Mr. and Mrs. Pearl Curtis, Mr. and Mrs. Lester Newman, Mrs. Virginia Mayle, Mrs. Inez Adams, and their children; Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Parsons and Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Stevens.—Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Tucker, newlyweds, have loomed Beaumont St.—Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Pears faction, the week-end of Mr. and Mrs. D. Miller, have returned to Haines—Mr. John and Miss Maggie Weeks' sister, Mrs. Sophia Harper, age 73, a former resident of Zanesville, died, recently, in Cannonsburg, Pa. Heart trouble. She was born and reared here, was a member of St. Paul A. M. E church and the widow of John Harper. She left Zanesville about 30 years ago. Interment at Cannonsburg. A daughter, Mrs. Lyda Colleen Harper, died in Nashville. Nibthes of Hamilton, survive her. A sister, Mrs. Belle Sly, died here two months ago.—The Cotton Bloe
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—Mrs. Lillos Harvey is improving. A branch N. A. A. C. P. was organized at Odd Fellows hall, last week Thursday evening. Officers: John Stevens, pres.; Horace Webb vice pres.; M. Seward and E. Clark, clark. The executive officer, Edw. Wilburn, Sarah Jackson, Wallace Needham, Mrs. Jennie Hale, Jas. Cox, Jas. Simpson, Gus Goatley, Chas. Coleman and Mrs. Bessie Colston. Visitors from Columbus were C. Dickinson, state press, and Miss V. F. Dickinson, state press, and M. M. Burrell. The next meeting at Community Center, Jan. 7.
COMMUNISM AND THE NEGRO
By Frank R. Crosswairth, N. Y. City. In a recent issue of "The New Masses" Michael Gold, its editor, in true Communist fashion stretched himself beyond his natural limits as a student of social forces when he made out a case for the Negro and the white. He was relayed in parts to the Negro press and many of our editors gave prominent space to it. Like all known Communist propagandists in the United States, Mr. Gold was most attractive when recounting the many and varied evils attendant upon Negro life in America and how he resisted the temptation to indulge in the delightful Communist pastime of "truth betrayal" especially when discussing
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the Socialists by Crosswidth. Gold climbed to the edge of edictacy because a few Southern textile workers attended a convention in Paterson, N. J., at which was spoken "the language of social revolution." The presence of these tall, raw-boned 100 percent Americans whom Brother Gold claims five years ago were Ku Kluxans, at a convention seating 100 percent of the doctor's eyes that he saw "Southern labor awakened" and vouchsafed the prophecy that "American capitalists would no longer be able to use Southern workers in the role of Cossacks as the Czar of Russia used to do." Gastonia, N. C., had suddenly become "a modern Bunker Hill" and Communism "has at last struck its roots in American history." "The Communist Party had succeeded where before socialists had failed" and "the Communist Party had The historical continuity of the picture was somewhat broken when the editor failed to place on Bunker Hill, dead or alive, the celebrated Crispus Attucks, although Negro Tolstys, Gorkys and Walt Whitmans were there
Following this fine piece of fictional writing by Gold, the Negro press is now being treated to other fantastic stories about the rapid growth of Communism among Negroes; and apparently our press is relishing this Communist cooked porridge. According to these latest thousands of Negroes have made the remarkable discovery that life is the best for all our racial and social lives. Is it? We shall see. Mine is not the desire to deny to
HONORS HER FATHER.
In memory of her father, Rev. Ira A. Collins, who built St. John's A. M. E. church, this city, the 100th anniversary of which was held, recently, Mrs. Cleota Collins-Lacy, soprano soloist and teacher, will give a recital on Friday, day at, 4 P. M. assisted by George Edwards, violinist; and the Clerve-
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lend Community chorus of which she is founder and director. All friends of the late Rev. Collins are especially invited while the general public will be cordially welcomed. No admission fee. The church should and doubtless be packed to the doors, for Ira A. Collins was one of the few really beloved and best pastors St. John has had, and the Guests know precisely all of them well, from "Father" (Rev.) Warren down to Dr. J. Albert Sterrett, the present energetic and able pastor.
Communists their right to propagate the Negro masses even though it is a cardinal tenet of Communist creed to deny to all who differ from them the right to a differing opinion. Nor would I question Communist faith. Communist faith. On the contrary I would like to see the Negro study the Communist movement and conduct, for that would be the safest guarantee that he would reject Communist and all that goes with it, as if not more so, than white tariat whether or not the proletariat desires it.
Communists believe in "the theory of misery" which teaches that the deeper down you press men in the social and economic mile the sooner will they revolt. This theory stands today rejected alike by social scientists and students of any merit. The facts of life rather support the view that communists are the social discontent" and that "the who has least wants least." Communists believe that democracy is a bourgeois institution which along with capitalism must be destroyed root and branch. On the other hand, more rational people hold that the ideals of genuine democracy have not yet been realized but that many of the instruments for the complete realization of communism have been developed and passed down to us by preceding generations who won them in the struggle against divinely ordained kings and others.
Communists believe that "truth," "honor," "morality," are all bourgeois notions with which no proletariat should hobnob. Informed people, however, recognize that out of the welter of human experience certain codes governing conduct were evolved and that as we grow in mental stature and sense more and more complex, we acquire habits, customs and ideologies will go by the board because a workers have done.
Communism represents the most erratic, undemocratic and impractical of all the movements of social protest extant in the world today. Communism is not radicalism, it is erraticism. Communism is based not upon the social and economic facts of modern life, but largely on the fact that a comparatively few strongly willed social revolutionists, so-called, who succeeded in securing power at a time and in a land when any disciplined group possessing courage and organization could have seized power. Communism has brought into the arena of constructive social engineering much chaos and thereby greatly retarded our progress toward social and economic justice, and this is true in spite of the fact that the Russian experiment has made in a way that it has a negative index in the direction toward affecting fundamental changes in our social and economic life.
Communism lacks a realistic approach to the problems developing out of Capitalism. In so far as the Communists have evidenced any and all the problems of social and economic nature it has been only on those occasions when the
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THE CONGRESSMAN SPEAKS TO OVER 2,000 ON A SUNDAY IN A CAMDEN, NEW JERSEY, HALL.
Warned to Stay Away, He Went Anyhow—"Calls U. S. Senator Baird's Hand"—Pickens Plea—Great Meeting.
Camden, N. J.—Addressing an audience of 2,000 citizens in Convention Hall, recently, Congressman Oscar DePriest of Chicago said there is only a majority of two of Republican members in the next Congress and they need every vote.
"That means, in the next two years, my vote will be more important and weighty than that of your own Senator," said Mr. DePriest.
The meeting was held under the auspices of the local N. A. A. C. P. branch of which Irvin T. Nutts is president. Wm. Pickens, field secretary, also spoke, criticizing the Camden county prosecutor's office for failure to prosecute charges of police brutality, declaring that citizens should be allowed to boxlet box Mr. DePriest took issue with Senator Baird (Rep. N. J.):
"I have been told that Senator Baird declared here that I was putting the Negro back fifty years and that I should be barred from Camden. Great influence was brought to bear to keep me from coming here. I have a letter in my pocket which informed me that this was to be a Democratic meeting. If I offended your Senator by advising you to protect yourself by using the ballot box, I offer no apology whatever. The black community has only the social equality he used of asking for equality we have ever known is what the white race has itself established. We struggle for an equal opportunity before the law, in protecting our rights. That is all the Negro wants and he can build his own social standing as he sees fit." Pickens said he had been trying to prosecute several white policemen in Camden for abusing three respectable citizens.
pressure of circumstances forced them to discard theoretical Communism for the realism of modern Socialism. Communism is a frank denial of many of the most cherished ideals for which practical idealists very rarely have strung on the old dogma of the divine right of kings Communists would substitute the divine right of a dictator; only, so they say, their dictatorship would dictate in the interest of the prole newer environment has made them obsolete, while others will be kept because of their adaptability and manliness. Communists believe in the Gospel according to Marx and Lenin, while people less superstitious prefer to apply to the accumulated experiences of mankind and to the economic and social institutions born of these experiences, the light of newly discovered theories, apparently to attack the problems of the present and chart our course toward the future.
Baltimore, Md.—The funeral services of the late Dr. Pezavia O'Connell were held at Sharp St. M. E. church, Sunday week. There was no preaching, only short eulogies. Dean Haywood of Morgan College presided and paid a fine tribute to the deceased. Dr. Baldwin, Dr. Spencer, Rev. Hargis and Rev. Fineger also spoke briefly. The services lasted forty-five minutes and were very impressive.
Congressman Oscar DePriest has been singularly successful in his talks outside of the Congress. We hope he will be as fortunate in his talks in the next Congress where his vote is to be far more important because of the small Republican majority. There is need, too, great need as a matter of fact, of the right kind of talk in behalf of our people in that august body, not only for the benefit of its members but also for the benefit of all the people of the country. They cannot be reached as well in any other way and our people are in great need of just such helpful assistance. It is a great opportunity for the right kind of a federal representative and we believe Oscar DePriest, in the light of his two years' experience, will be able to "measure" to the expectations of his hosts of friends of both races or groups. It is really a wonderful opportunity for our only Congressman.
Yale Glee Club Concert.
Yale University Glee club which won second place in the Intercolle
O'Connell Funcray
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 estab- lish its rank as one of the NEWWI- EST AND BEST published in the interest of Afro-Americans.
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barred from getting the case before the jury box, but cannot be prevented from getting it into the ballot box. We can vote against such men as fast as they come up for re-election. We can retire those from public life who deny us our constitutional rights."
Doings of the Race
The will of Mrs. Jas. E. Andrews (white), N. Y. City, filed, Dec. 2, leaves $5,000 to Tuskegee, Ala., N. & I. Institute, and $2,000 to Laurinburg, N. C., Institute.
The Moton Haitian Educational Commission supports the Haitian side of their school controversy: White American teachers (in Haiti) salaries entirely too high, etc.
Sergeant Yeater (white) who had charge of the military police at Chambery, France, during the World War, says our troops were "the best disciplined soldiers in the army."
Municipal Court Judge Albert George of Chicago who failed of reelection, recently, after serving six years (one term), stepped down from the bench, last week Wednesday.
Mrs. Wm. Wolfe, wife of the principal of Bowling Green Academy, Kentucky, a National Missions institution for our boys and girls, has been elected an elder in the Bowling Green church, according to announcement by the Presbyterian Board of National Missions. With Mrs. Wolfe becomes our first woman elder in the Presbyterian church, U. S. A.
Glategate Glee club contest held in Carnegie Hall, N. Y. City, last spring, will give a concert at music hall, Saturday, Dec. 20, under the direction of Marshal M. Bartholomew, 900 S. 10th St. The program will present a wide variety of its realistic spirit, its rough schanties, its hilarious old ballads and familiar carols, its scholarly renditions of Schumann and Frankselections, and its well-known Yale songs provide entertainment for both the casual listeners and the students of music. Tickets on sale at Lyon & Healy's, 1262 Huron Rd.
A Million Dollar Gas Well
Jackson, Miss.—Graves No. 1 well of the Pioneer Oil and Gas Company blew in, recently, about a mile east of Jackson, making an estimated flow of from 50,000,000 to 60,000,000 cubic feet of natural gas daily, and is one of the big wells of the country. It is valued at a million dollars. The Pioneer Co. is about to close a deal for the sale of its gas to one of the big pipe-line companies. This is the first time in American history that a well of this kind has been brought in by a company wholly owned by our people.
10,000,000 Afro-Americans.
350,000 in Ohio.
60,000 in Cleveland.
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1930.
This country gave $10,000,000,000 to foreign nations, fighting during the World War.
Wet congressmen have a beer bill and will push it, but, outnumbered nearly three to one by drys, they probably will not push it very far.
Congress considers forbidding all immigration into the United States for five years. The fear is that somebody might take the job of an American, or become a public charge. Too many Americans without jobs now.
Mr. DeWart, who owns the N. Y. Sun, thinks this country should not be pitch-forked into the league of nations (notions) through the back door of the world court, and wisely decides to let the people know about it. He will put his views into a page advertisement to be printed in 100 newspapers at his expense. Good! for Mr. DeWart.
IS IT RETRIBUTION?
The "black fog" which swept thru the Muese Valley in Belgium, last week, bringing death to nearly one hundred persons as well as a number of the lower order of animals, "carried with it a particularly devastating form of influenza," according to Sir Wm. Simpson, noted authority on plagues and epidemics. We have heard the belief expressed in all sincerity, in the last few days, and by intelligent people, too, that the most unfortunate "fog of death" was only retribution, punishment, being visited upon the Belgian people because of the horrible treatment visited upon native black Africans in the days of King Leopold. It will be recalled that the natives in the Belgian Congo, Africa, who failed to bring in a certain amount of rubber, suffered the loss of fingers, hands, toes, feet, arms, legs, etc., horrible treatment, as punishment for the same. It ought also to be recalled that King Albert, the present ruler and son of the heartless individual referred to, who succeeded his father, invigored against the fliendish cruelty being visited upon the natives while his father lived, and abolished it as soon as he gained the power necessary to do so. But, "the Lord works in a mysterious way." Maybe "the fog of death" is retribution. Who knows?
The National Equal Rights league and Anti-Lynching Congress delegation which called upon President Hoover, recently, not only asked him to recomend anti-lynching lesisigation to Congress but also asked him to "abolish the color-line in all federal departments and give Uncle Sam clean hands." Editor William Monroe Trotter was the spokesman of the delegation and should be given credit particularly for the second request, as there is still grave doubt in the minds of many statesmen-jurists as to whether or not Congress can pass a law against lynching which the U. S. Supreme court would hold constitutional.
Character, like a fine old tree, matures slowly and is a riper growth than success that is forced as hothouse products are forced. Character in a newspaper develops through years of service to the people. For forty-eight years The Gazette, under its present management, has been serving our people of this country. It has gathered a reader clientele whose tastes it reflects, and whose power and responsiveness to buy are direct measures of its present importance to every advertiser.
APPOINT THE SENATOR.
Ex-State Senator John P. Green, the father of the legislation that years ago made "Labor day," a holiday in Ohio, is the oldest practicing attorney at the local bar. For nine years, many years ago, he served this city and county as a Justice of the Peace, an elective position even at that time. While a member of the Ohio House of Representatives and the State Senate, the Senator continued the practice of the law as before and since his election to the Ohio State Assembly. He is unquestionably our leading, ablest and most successful practicing attorney in the state and has been for many years. Despite his age, which is absolutely no handicap, he is as active, today, and will be for some years to come, as any of the several Afro-American candidates for appointment to the local Municipal Court bench. For two score years, or more, Mr. Green has been one of the most effective campaigners, black or write, for the Republican party in this country, being used often in national cam-
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Gov. Myers Y. Cooper, paigns in different states, and is a national character because of this fact and his long and successful practice of the law. It was the late U. S. Senator Marcus A. Hanna, who in recognition of his long service to the party, locally and nationally, and his splendid standing as an attorney, secured Mr. Green's appointment by President McKinley to the very important position of Stamp Agent in the Post Office department at Washington, D. C., which he held for a number of years. Senator Green is really the only one of the several "colored" candidates, Gov. Myers Y. Cooper is considering for an appointment to the local Municipal Court bench, who has had the experience in the courts of this city, state and coun-
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Senator John P. Green.
try that would justify his appointment. Moreover, the Senator is familiar with several languages that would prove most helpful, since the foreign population of Cleveland is large and interpreters are much in use in that as well as the other local courts. His appointment, Governor, will please and satisfy far more of the people of both races or groups, in this city, than that of any other candidate. Crown his long service at the bar and in the party's harness, Governor, by appointing John P. Green a judge of the local Municipal Court. We, meaning my people of Cleveland, know better than the Cleveland Bar Association and those of the other group, or race, who are working with it, who will best represent us in the position. Then, too, did their wards in Cleveland or OURS, stand by you and Senator Roscoe C. McCulloch on the recent election day? You may need us again in the future. We ask you to appoint John P. Green!
Pitcher "Rube" Dead
Kankakee, ill—Andrew ("Rube") Foster, one of the greatest baseball pitchers in this country when in his prime, without reference to race or group, died here, Wednesday, after an illness of two years. For many years he was manager and manager of our Chicago Giants, and our best known baseball player.
THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, O., SATURDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1930.
OHIO'S MOB VIOLENCE ACT
OR ANTI-LYNCHING LAW LEADS THE COUNTRY IN EFFECTIVE LEGISLATION
Our mob-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 uphold the constitutionality of the law and it has been MOBS.
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. Gunman'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
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 north 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:
Section 6278. A collection of people assembled for an unlawful purpose and intending to do damage or injury to any one, or pretending to exercise correctional power over other persons by violence and without authority of law, shall be deemed a "mob" for the purpose of this chapter. An act of violence by a mob upon the body of any person shall constrain the person receiving it from the meaning of this chapter. (93 v. 161 1. 2)
Section 6279. The term "serious injury," for the purpose of this chapter, shall include such inquiry as permanently or temporarily disables the person receiving it from earning a livelihood by manual labor. (93 v. 161 3.)
Section 6280. A person taken from officers of justice by a mob, and assaulted with whips, clubs, missiles or in any other manner, may recover, as hereafter provided, a sum not to exceed one thousand dollars as damages from the county in which the assault is made. (93 v. 161 4.)
Section 6281. A person assaulted and lynched by a mob may recover, from the county in which such assault 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 earn a livelihood by manual labor, a sum not to exceed five thousand dollars. (93 v. 12 5.)
Section 6282. The legal representative of a person dying from injuries received from lynching by a mob may recover of the county in which such injury occurred, a sum not to exceed five thousand dollars;Dam may recover such injury, a 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, and then be distributed to the deceased, elving an amount equal to a child's share. If there be no widow or minor children surviving such decedent, such sum shall be distributed among the next of kin according to the laws of the distribution of the personality of an intestate. Such sum so recovered may be distributed 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 is committed 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 recovery, 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 a public judge, allowing no 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 representatives of a person killed or seriously injured. If the person composing such mob. A person present, with hostile intent, at such lynching shall be deemed a member of the mob and be liable to
AW. GIVE A GUY A CHANCE!
I'M WORRIED ABOUT MY DADGHTER, JANE- IT'S 3 A.M. AND SHE ISN'T HOME FROM THE DANCE YET- I'LL CALL UP SAM SHORTCAKE-MES MY FRIEND AND WILL GIVE ME SOME GOOD ADVICE
I'M WORRIED SICK, SAM- IT'S THREE IN THE MORNING AND JANE ISN'T HOME FROM THE DANCE YET- WHAT SHALL I DO?
DON'T WORRY- THAT'S NOTHING - LOOK AT THE GIRL WHO BROKE THE LONG-DISTANCE DANCE RECORD OF THE WORLD-SHE WAS AWAY FROM HOME THREE WHOLE DAYS AND NIGHTS!
AW, GIVE A GUY A CHANCE!
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:
OBS.
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representative of victim of lynching by mob trying to lynch another.
costs in tax levy.
just member of mob
just another county.
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 willing to protect such prisoner or 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.)
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 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 the accommodation full enjoyment of the accommodation privileges, facilities or privileges to the citizen, if defined 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 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 people will not use it of their should, but expect it to do for them what they should and must do for themselves, under it, in the courts.
Assist. Co. Prosecutor Norman S Minor Gives the Result of an Investigation of the Affair.
Cleveland, Dec. 8, 1930.
Hon. Harry C. Smith,
Editor Gazette, City.
Dear Mr. Smith: We are submitting herewith a report on the shooting of Archie Hart which has occasioned some question to whether or not the officer was justified in shooting Hart, Aug. 31, 1930. Mr. Miller ordered a complete investigation which he detailed to me. I went thoroughly into the facts, questioning each eye-witness to the shooting, and all the persons whom I interviewed corroborate a statement of facts as follows:
Archie Hart was driving his Ford car below the Eagle Ave. ramp which runs into W. 3d St. and while so doing drove up over the curbstone, several times. This attracted Officer Lang's attention and he went to investigate. As he approached the car the occupants alighted and left the driver in the car alone. It was immediately apparent to the officer that the driver was drunk and when he told him to raise his hands, the driver ran out of pocket. The officer shot Hart in the leg. Hart refused to stop and said:
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"You shot me. Now you'll kill me or I'll kill you." As he lunged for the officer, the officer fired the fatal bullet.
This set of facts is concurred in by a majority of the witnesses whom I interviewed. It is our finding that, without question, Officer Lang was justified in the shooting.
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Social and Personal
The Piney Wood Cotton-Blossom
Co. sang at Union Baptist church,
Dee. 8.
Mrs, Edna Hill Taylor, of Cedai
Ave, is convalescing from a severe
attack of tonsilitis.
Mrs. Harvey T. Atkins, E. 82¢
St., was hostess to the Present Day
club, last Friday evening.
Miss Dorothy E. Hughes and Ray-
mond Bolden, néwly-weds, are lo-
cated at 2211 E. 82a St.
Wm. Grant of Englewood Ave.,
and Frank Simmons, B. 82d St,
were among the old citizens who
died, recently.
The remains of the late Wm. R.
Green, son of Ex-State Senator John
P. Green, were buried in Calvary
cemetery, Tuesday.
Mrs. Thelma Gray and daughter,
Annetta, of Granville spent the
week-end with her mother, Mrs,
Joseph Harris of Kelly St.
Sylvester Stokes, of Franklin
Ave., was married, recently, in Cov-
ington, Ky., to Miss Luclile Haw-
kins of Covington, Ky.
Miss Mae Kane and Mr. Johz
Copland were quietly married, re
cently. She is a co-ed at O. S. U.
and he a former student of the Y
M. C, A. school of technology.
‘The recipients are still praising
“Mrs. Joe Hedges of Central Ave.
and Miss Della Wilson, E. 3ist St.
who supplied twenty families with
well-filled Thanksgiving baskets.
St. John’s W. M. M. S. celebrate
its 40th anniversary with an excel
lent program, Sunday evening, Mrs
Ella White, chairman; Mrs. Mary T
Brown, pres., and Mrs. Estella Gray
son, sec.
Messrs. and Mesdames P. W. Lem
on, W. E. Melntire, Geo. G. Jone
and Arthur H. Morton, enjoyed thei
second Thanksgiving dinner at Mr
and Mrs, Harry E. Thompson's, 0}
Earle Ave.
Miss Jane Hunter, secretary of
the P. W. A., entertained, recently,
Mr. David Jenkins of Terre Haute,
Ind., Mr. and Mrs. Alex O. Taylor,
Miss Ethel Storey and her brother,
Mr. Wm. Harris.
Mrs, Lillie M. Gary will soon mo-
tor to Garfield Heights, a Cleveland
suburb, to visit her mother, Mrs.
Hattie Alexander, during the holi-
day season.—Read “The Old Re-
Mable” Gazette and keep up-to-date.
Among the caliers at The Gazette
office, Wednesday, were the Hon.
Tien Lai Huang, unofficial goodwill
ambassador to the U. S. from China,
on a lecture tour, and C. E. Moor-
house, one of Ohio’s leading journal-
ists.
E. Mt. Zion Baptist church closed
a rally, recently, with $1,000, in
hand, The pastor, Rev. Ernest Hall,
is making strenuous efforts to wipe
out the church’s indebtedness by the
first of the year in celebration of
of the fifth anniversary of his pas-
torate.
The Aggra Junior league save a
station-bridge party at the home of
each member, Thursday, Dec. 4
Mrs. Alvin Pope won first prize for
‘women’s score and Mr. Otto John-
son, first prize for men’s score. The
party was given for charity and
proved very enjoyable indeed.
Mr. and Mrs. F. W. Boyden royal-
ly entertained with a three-course
turkey dinner, Sunday, in honor o|
his birthday; Mr. and Mrs, Wm
Thompson and son, Mrs. Richard
Mayles, Mr. and Mrs. 8. T. Brown,
Mr and Mrs, Jas. Harris and fam-
fly. Useful presents were received.
Local Past Exalted and Daughter
rulers, Elks, will entertain theit
@istrict council, Jan. 11, at Cuyaho-
go lodge Rest. Dr. A. J. Whitehead
‘Mrs. Lena G. Brown, Mrs. Mary H
LaSantee, Mrs. Louise Brooks, Steve
‘A. Ball and Mrs. Mary T. Browr
head the various committee for this
social function.
Omega chapter of the A. K. A. 80
rority elected the following officer
at Mrs. Elmer Cheeks’: Mrs. Isabe
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jleus; Carrie Fairfax, grammateus;
Mrs. Ella. Cheeks, tamiochus; Mrs.
Walter E. Carey, historian; Mrs
Inez Fairfax, sergeant-at-arms.
‘The Cedar “Y" Basketball team,
composed of former high-school stars,
defeated the Berichon Fords; score,
22-16, at the Central Ave. bath house,
Wednesday night.
| ‘The editor of The Gazette ac-
knowledges the receipt of an invita.
tion from President and Mrs. Rob-
ert Shaw Wilkinson of our State Col-
lege, Orangeburg, 8. C., to attend
the marriage of their daughter, Helen
Raven, to Frederick Marshall Shet-
field, Dee. 25, '30, at the Wilkinson
fesidence In Orangeburg. Dr. Wil-
kingon has @ host of old friends here
and in Oberlin,
JohnH. Lowry of Massillon
‘president of the Anchor Life Ins.
Co., was host to several hundred
children at the company’s, annual
‘Thanksgiving party. for “Anchor
‘Life’ children at the company’s
headquarters. ‘They enjoyed plenty
to eat and each one was presented
with a cap and a noise-maker. Dis:
trict Manager M. Milton Lewis
sponsor, delivered an address.
Rev. Sylvester Williams, director
of the Christian Community center
2712 Scoville Ave., was a feature of
the monthly meeting of a Men's clut
(white) in Berea, recently. He wa:
Invited by Prof. Hertzler of the de
partment of sociology of Baldwin.
Wallace college. Rey. H. C. Bailey
and the Christian Comunity center
Quartet accompanied him. Over 20¢
children partook of the annual
Thanksgiving dinner diven by the
center.
‘The Art Ramblers” of Wood
land Center will present the firs
production of their second season,
Monday and Tuesday evenings at
8:15 P. M. ‘There will be two one.
act plays, “The Girl” by Edward
Peple, and “The Man Who Died at
Twelve O'clock” by Paul Green.
The casts in these plays include Dr.
H. Hunter, Esse Hague, Marguerite
Pennybacker, Dr. W. P. Saunders
Isaae Coleman and Clarence Atkins
A group of spirituals will be sung
by ‘a quartette. The plays are be-
ing directed by Mrs. R. P. Keezeck-
er of the Church of the Covenant
‘There ts a four-room suite (up)
at 2347 B. 86th St, (near Quincy
‘Ave,) for rent at $81 a month. This
is very cheap for such nice rooms, in
‘good condition, with front and back
entrances, a large poreh and all mod-
ern conveniences; also an aerial for
radio, Small family with no chil-
Gren. Rooms can be seen between
6:30 and 7:30 p. m.
The Civil Service commission will
hold examinations in December for
head-janitor and janitress (city),
Dee. 9; auto mechanic helper (city
and county), Dec. 10; sewer fore-
man (county), Dec. 11; building
plan examiner (city), Dec. 12; vis-
King agent (counts), Dee. 13; head-
doorman (city), Dee, 16; ” biack-
smith (city and’ county), Dec. 17;
printer (city); Dec. 18; chiet build
{ng inspector (city), Dec. 19; comp-
tometer operator (county), Dec. 20,
and. commissioner of health (pro-
motional), Dee. 20.
Undertaker Leland "D. French's
new mortuary in the former Hanna
mansion, in E. 46th St., this city, is
the most complete and finest ‘we
have ever seen, owned and conduct-
‘ed by one of the race. It is not only
THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, 0., SATURDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1930,
YOU KNOW ME, AL
Friend Al.
|The Mra. and Rube Simpkine and 1 havg all
‘been invited toa party tonight where they ain't
“never heard of prohibition although it's ne cinch
the stuf they give you to drink ia Hiquor, but it eer.
tainly carrie a kick. Why they even make their
lemonade out of wild lemona which have the same
result as laughing gas. Well, you know me Aland
‘the way I feel about Hquor when I'm in training
bot there's no use being in training whem you're
‘working with this fellow Dempsey since you're go
ing to be killed anyway to | figure to tilt over a few,
myself. I wiah you could be along because when
| drink thie wild lemonade I ike to have somebody
te tall to whe Hhmow understands what Fm tall
ing about which ain't the Mrs. She won't even
Tieton to me, and Rube Simpkins wants to talk all
the time hirsell.
‘Yours at abwars,
Jock Keele,
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When Atty wm. Green ran as
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Fe tats Seman ae
Walter White, acting secretary
of the N. A. A.C. P., campaigned in
this state, during the recent con-
test, urging our people to support U,
8. Senator Robert J. Bulkley. That
organization's executives have at
times allied themselves with ‘Jim-
crow Y's” and schools in many
cases. It has not rendered a finan-
cial statement concerning their ex-
penses during the campaign. Many
of its local members in this city
want to know from what source did
it get the political money it spent in
the campaign supporting Mr, Bukley.
The proposed legislation of Coun-
eilman Roy Bundy to extend Central
Ave. from its present eastern ex-
tremity near E. 86th St, to Fair-
mount Rd., so that Central will be
a thru highway, will stir up our pro-
perty-holders in that section of the
city just as it did when Former
Counctiman Fielder Saunders under-
took the same job a year or so ago.
In plain words, the two “Blossom
Triplets”, Bundy and Councilman
Payne, are sure flirting with a “hor-
net’s nest”, whether they know it or
not. There is terrific opposition to
this extension because it will prove
harmful to some property and in-
crease materially the taxes of others.
Carroll Scott, and those who opposed
the Fielder Saunders effort, will be
able to tell you more about it. If
the extension is made the purpose is,
as soon as the Lorain-Central high
level bridge is completed, to make an
automobile thorofare of Central Ave.
by taking off the streetcars. And
then our people’s most thickly popu-
lated seetion of the city will be with-
out a carline on the street or ave-
nue that euts the very heart and
center of our section of the city.
Councilman Clayborne George, the
other “Blossom Triplet”, is sure wise
in “ducking this hornet’s nest”. He
will bear watching, however.
The Central Ave, street-car line
runs thru the heart of our most
thickly populated sections in the city
of Cleveland. Councilmen Payne,
Bundy and George, “The Blossom
Triplets,” if they are ever to have
any hope of being re-elected, had
better wake up, pretty soon, and see
that our people in that section of
the city get at east half way decent
service on that street-car line. As
bad as it has been for many months,
in recent months it has been made
infinitely worse by taking off one run
after another, the latest coming last
week when two more runs were dis-
continued. And Bundy, a member
of the Council's transportation com-
mittee, too. “The Blossom Triplets"
have never made any effort to do
away with the many color-lines in
the various departments of the city,
and Mrs. Mary Martin seems wholly
oblivious to the many in the school
board’s department of the city. All
four of these representatives of color
“The Blossom Triplets” and Mrs.
‘Martin, had better wake up, soon,
get busy and DO something for our
people. We want better service on
the Central Ave. line and we want
some of those color-lines eliminated
‘rom the city and school-board de-
partments, ‘The least they can do is
to try to do something instead of re-
maining passive and apparently obli-
vious to the facts indicated in the
foregoing. Better wake up, “broth-
ers and sister,” for the “ax” is up
for all of you, for next fall.
| credit to Mr. French, but also a
tredt to our poopie of tis commune
ity and the city of Cleveland.
{i auch eonevece evlaencs' ot pros
perits, gained by long sears ot ha
ha thteligenty. dincied eftort in
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‘The Woodland-B, 55th market ts
conveniently located, because of the
thru tvcet-at lines ‘an the By 56th
St etoulows ina: Gat it is sey
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coneted ina tirat-lags and horoty
up-to-date manner under the direc-
Hoa” of Supe eurice. Everything
you, éxn ‘ponsbly find Ja market
anywhere in this city is there, and
spvecod if ae tie than ay
sine in the. city Moreover, sour
patronage is desired and appreciated.
Good treatment i always accorded
torall of is patrons. The prises are,
as a rule, lower than you will find
cnywhere’else in laveland. “Patrot
iso the Woodland ‘5th Markee
Charles W. Chesnutt, attorney,
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porter in Cleveland for many years,
has rendered our people splendid
service In “smoking out” the offic
fals of the local trade schools, as
page 1 of this paper. For this, he
is entitled to the thanks of all
groups of citizens in this commun-
ity. Good work, Mr. Chesnutt.
Would that we had more of your
kind.
The Hon. Perry B. Jackson at-
tended the House of Representatives
caucus in Columbus, the first of the
week, when J. R. Baylor of this city
was selected a second time as its
candidate for engrossing clerk. He
served during the last session of the
House,
‘The only FREK employment agen-
ey in Cleveland is the State-City Em-
ployment Agency at the City Hall,
maintained by the state of Ohio. No
charge is made when you file your
address and request for employment.
Many of our people do not know this.
‘Tell all you can,
‘THE BALANCE OF POWER.
Ralph Burkholder, ‘The Cleveland
Press “politics editor,” had the fol-
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while, but seem to feel that the ac-
quisition of a few paltry jobs is all-
sufficient. But it is not! Our people
want and expect something of vast-
ly more importance to them, and if
“The Blossom Triplets" and Mrs.
Martin don’t wake up to this fact
very soon, all of them will surely
be “out of luck” next year in the
fall time. The outlook for these
four “worthies,”” at this time, is any-
thing but good, to say the least.
Editor Cleveland News:—With no
desire to detract materially from the
impression of the Walter White let-
ter in a recent issue of The News,
permit me to say in the interest of
truth that the only three wards of
Cleveland’s 33 carried by Senator
Roscoe C. MeCulloch were the so-
called colored ‘wards, 11, 12 and
17. In the fourth so-called colored
ward, 18, which is at best but 55
per cent colored, Senator McCulloch
ran only 1,181 votes behind the vote
given Robert J. Buckley, the total
ward vote being 5,869. The senator
carried nearly all of the so-called
colored wards in the state of Ohio.
The fact is, his defeat and those
of other Republicans throughout the
state were brought about by the eco-
nomie depression. There were other
contributing causes, of course, but
they were, minor, and the fact is
that Acting Secretary White, as far
as the colored vote of Ohio is con-
cerned, greatly overestimates the in-
fluence and independent work dur-
ing the campaign of the National
Association for the Advancement of
Colored People, he and a part of
that organization sought to exercise.
Harry C. Smith.
“Ye Shall Know the Truth.” New
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IS PLAIN OUTLAW
‘The appellation, “Road Hoz.” is open
to but one-criticism as T see it. “Rod
hog” ts too soft a term to designate
the reckless driver. He not only
should be classified, but also be treat-
ed, as an outlaw, writes Frederick S.
Banedict in the New York Herald
‘Tribune.
‘The reckless automobile driver
shows no respect for the rights of
others. At an excessive speed he
“hogs” the center of the road, cuts
in and out of traffic, fails to observe
stop-street_ and caution signs and will.
fally ignores every law enacted for
hs own safety and that of others.
Take Away Licenses.
‘There is only one way open to cope
with such offenders, and that isto
eliminate them from the roads, so far
as possible, by taking thelr drivers’
licenses away.
‘There are sufficient laws and state,
¢ounty and city police to bring this
about in short order if the police offi
dials would direct the men under them
to give less attention to violations of
the parking and speeding laws and
concentrate entirely on the apprehen-
sion of reckless drivers.
‘The reckless driver, who shows no
Tespect for the rights of other anto-
mobilists and pedestrians, is ever evi-
dent on the streets and highways. At
certain street intersections, road
crossings, curves and hills he can al-
ways be expected to exercise his hog-
sishness of the right of way. At such
Boints he can easily be apprehended.
For fhe police officials to continue
to lay the greatest stress on the ap-
prehension of speeders shows a singu-
Jar lack of ability to keep pace with
the thmes. ‘The elimination of sharp
turns, the banking of curves and wider
‘and smoother highways make it pos-
sible for cars with better chassis and
Body design and four-wheel brakes, ir
the hands of competent drivers, to
travel in greater safety at speeds of
from forty-five to sixty miles an hour
than it was to travel thirty miles in
the old-type cars on narrow, highly
‘erowned roads.
Three Killed at Montclair.
In Montclair, N. J., recently, after
fan accident in which three people
were killed, the Montclair Times made
& check-up on stop-street law viola-
tions and found that one-third of the
Grivers failed to observe this law.
Within the following week the police
made 600 arrests for infractions of
‘this one law.
‘he police of other towns and cities
eould as speedily bring about as great
results in the elimination of reckless
@riving {f 60 desired. ‘The New York
state constabulary presents a striking
example of efficiency in detecting reck-
less drivers that the state of New
Jersey would do well to follow.
Antifreeze Compounds
Protect Chilled Cars
While airplanes are using air-cooled
motors, the many millions of motorists
‘who use water-cooled motors are now
turning at this season of the year to
various antifreeze compounds in or-
Ger to forestall thelr water systems
freezing.
‘The following nine points, compiled
by a motorist with a research trend of
mind, will, if watched out for, serve
the average motorist well in taking
steps to protect bis car against winter
ebill:
1. Whatever compound you use
should give complete protection.
2 It should not boll away.
‘3. It must do no damage to the cool-
ing system.
4. It should not heat up the motor.
5, Jt should not affect the paint or
varnish of your car.
6. It should be noninflammable.
7. It should be odorless.
& It should not become viscous at
Jow temperatures nor decompose at
high temperatures.
9. Watch out for a tendency of com-
pounds to deteriorate. The right com-
pounds should never deteriorate.
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Simple Means to Test
Automobile Generator
It fs easy enough to test the wind-
ogee sieser oc tc sats or that
lire frat oo\ gen Creolla: “A. fast
Te iy oiesesied tua peace
will determine whether or not the gen-
erator {8 all right. Take a long nail
or a piece of heavy wire and insert it
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Testing a Car's Generator.
{in the Inthe center of shaft In gener-
ator. ‘Then with a hand drill set over
the nail or wire, turn the generator,
to which the flashlight bulb has been
wired. If the light shings steadily the
generator is working satisfactorily,
but if the ght flickers it is a sign
that there is trouble either in the com-
mutator or in the wires—Popular
Science Monthly.
AUTOMOBILE HINTS
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‘There are 42,000 busses used by
schools in the United States.
Only a fraction over 4 per cent of
our national income is expended for
autos.
Closed cars comprised $9.4 per cent
of the American automobile output
in 1929,
see
Another thing a careful driver ts
able to do is pick out one of the kind
that isn’t.
California requires that autos used
fn the enforcement of state traffic
laws shall be painted white.
It ts predicted that rubber will be
used in building. It would be nice
for the back-end of a beginner's ga-
rage.
Alcoholic motor fuels are quite gen-
erally used today in Cuba, Brazil,
Panama, Sweden, Hungary, Italy, and
Czechoslovakia.
New York is discussing the question
of whether a motorist has a right to
talk back to a traffic cop. He may
haye the right, but if he does it he's
darned indiscreet,
Bubbling around the cylinder head
gasket is an indication of a leak at
this point. It can often be cured by
simply tightening the nuts holding
the cylinder head in place,
‘The magazine, American Speech, lists
a few of the many names suggested
in the "90s for the new horseless car-
riage: “Electromobile, autocarriage,
autocab, autocam, autolau, propellor,
eabine, victorine, landauline, ipsom:
eter, selfmotor, autogo, molectros,
autopher.”
TH GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, Q. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 13, 193(
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ete necklines such as distinguish this
‘season's most formal modes remind us
that again after so long an intermis-
sion we arp living in an era of ple-
turesque and romantic fashion.
No need to seek romance in the
reading of books, when we are living
tt, seeing it, breathing it In the very
atmosphere of the world of fashion
today. Do your dreams of the pic-
turesque in dress carry You to scenes
4n the Middle ages or the first or sec-
‘ond empire or to the Victorian age?
Are you recalling the naive charm of
the fall-off-the-shoulder decolletage as
told in pictures of sweet Jennie Lind?
Behold in the present season's fash-
fons your dreams made realities. His-
tory 1s repeating itself in the pic-
turesque decollete necklines which are
adding such a glamorous beauty to the
evening scene.
‘The little decollete sketches as they
appear in the panel to the right in
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ress and blouse program, from sports
other of the chic new woolens or per-
haps of modish crepe in a dark color,
deep warm tone, and if it is simply
lor an Acqi
4 They picture modes of the imme-
late moment as they are glimpsed
at opera, at the dance and other of
festive and formal funetlon such as
make up the winter social program.
Many of the most stunning evening
gowns are made up absolutely with-
out decoration, the costume relying
entirely on elegance of fabrie and
beauty of neckline to give it enchint-
ment. It is the way of fashionists to
choose velvet as being most effective
for the dress which makes trimming
conspicuous by fts absence, which ac
counts for the fact that the distin-
guished looking gown in the picture is
of exquisitely sheer black transparent
velvet. ‘The outstanding feature of
this elegant model is its decolletaze
which answers the call of the present
evening mode for the very low cut.
‘The younger set are coming out in
the prettiest gowns imagination ean
picture which make the adorable fall-
off-the-shoulder necklines, such as is
shown at the top of the panel of
sketches, thelr feature,
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EXPLAINS FULLY OUR BOYS’ STATUS IN CLEVE-
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He Insists There Is No Color-Discrimination and That
All Boys Eligible Can Enter—Gives Much
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In the Clevelander, organ of the
Chamber of Commerce, Charles W.
Chesnutt charges that’ Negro stu-
dents do not have a fair chance to
learn a trade in the trade schools
conducted by the Board of Educa-
tion.
If he is correct, the Board of Edu-
cation clearly has a duty to rear-
range those courses so that the Ne-
gro students will hare an equal op-
portunity in them.
‘The Board, of course, is not re-
sponsible for any difficulties that the
Negro may experience in working at
a skilled trade after he leaves
school, but it is the Board's duty to
see that the Negro student has an
equal opportunity to acquire any kind
of training that is offered under its
auspices.—The Cleveland Daily
Press, Editorial.
Editor Press: Your editorial en-
titled “Opportunity in Our Trade
Schools” should have included the
entire statement of Mr. Charles W.
Chesnutt. Mr. Chesnutt’s article,
printed in the Clevelander, is. most
intelligently written, He is not,
however, correctly informed relative
to certain phases of the vocational
education problem in the city of
Cleveland. “ May I quote that por-
‘tion of Mr. Chesnutt's article which
refers to vocational education?
“Due to the disappearance of the
old-time system of apprenticeship,
it is hard for a colored youth to
learn a trade, and the trade schools
conducted by’ the Board of Educa-
tion are so tied up by rules and reg-
ulations, largely: dictated by the
labor unions, that it is difficult for
a Negro boy to acquire a trade in
them. He can not study unless he
secures in advance the promise of a
job where he can do practical work
on part-time during his. studies, or
Where he will be permanently ‘em-
ployed at the end of his course. The
Gificulty in placing them has caus-
ed the officials to discourage the at-
tendance of Negro students. A col-
ored youth can take elementary
training in the Bast Technical High
School, but practical training in
many trades can only be acquired in
factories which discourage or limit
the number of apprentices and es-
pecially Negro apprentices."*
T would not construe this as a
charge that Negro students do not
have a fair chance to learn a trade
in the trade schools in so far as the
Board of Education is concerned.
The trade schogls conducted by, the
Board of Education are not “tied
up by rules and regulations largely
dictated by the labor unions.” There
are more part-time students en-
rolled who are employed by, “open
shop” employers than by “‘closed
shop" groups.
‘There are two forms of trade edu-
cation offered in Cleveland. One is
technically known as all-day trade
training, wherein the pupil's entire
course of study is offered within the
school building, the content consist-
ing of three intensive honrs of prac-
tical shop instruction in one trade
and three additional hours of re-
lated subject matter per day. Such
courses are offered at East Techni-
eal, West Technical and Collinwood
High schools. The equipment and
content are equal to that of any
standard all-day trade school con-
ducted in any part of the United
States. Colored hoys are admitted
upon the same basis as any other
race or group. There are approxi-
mately 108 colored boys now en-
rolled in East Technical High School
in trade preparatory courses. Mr.
Chesnutt refers to these courses as
“elementary training courses.” This
is hardly fair since every effort has
been made to bring these courses up
to the standards of all-day trade
training courses offered elsewhere.
‘The second form of vocational
education conducted in Cleveland is
known as “part-time trade exten-
sion” training which is offered at
the Cleveland Trade School. The
entire objective of this school is co-
operation with the various crafts
and industries of Cleveland thru ap-
prenticeship committees for the
training of apprentices already em-
ployed in industry.
Mr. Chesnutt states that the “la-
bor unions in general have accepted
Negro members.” With but few ex-
ceptions every building trade in
boy employed as an apprentice to
the trade school for four hours per
week of intensive instruction for
their entire four years of appren-
ticeship. These boys are accepted
by the school and trained as rapidly
as contractors employ them, and all
receive equal treatment. ‘The few
building trades not sending appren-
tices to the school have failed to do
so due to a lack of co-operation up-
on their own part and not thru any
failure of the Board of Education
relative to a desire to participate.
One building trade employing a
large number of Negro craftsmen,
namely the plastering trade, does
not send its apprentices to the
school in spite of the fact that the
employers’ group of this particular
craft was ready to co-operate.
Tn all of the mechanical trades,
including auto mechanics, machine
shop practice, foundry practice, and
pattern-making, apprenticeship _ is
conducted in co-operation with va-
rious manufacturers’ associations,
such as the Cleveland Automobile
Manufacturers’ and Dealers’ Asso-
ciation, the National Metal Trades
Association, and other goups. For
the mechanical trades the trade
school does operate one year of all-
day trade training preceding _ap-
prenticeship. The following year
every boy is presented to the em-
ploying group for indentureship.
‘The Cleveland Trade School is
not large enough to enroll a number
in excess of the opportunities for
Placement. Any boy may apply for
admission. All are given the same
tests of mechanical aptitude, since
It would be a waste of public tax
money and a great waste of the
boy’s time to train him intensively
for a trade for which he had no
aptitude, and where he could have
no hope of being employed on a
part-time basis the second year of
his school enrollment. No diserimi-
nation has been made by the trade
sehool against colored applicants.
Not many apply. Some do not pos-
sess much mechanical aptitude as
indicated by the tests and fail to
pass them in the same manner that
many white boys fail.
‘The statement that “officials dis-
courage the education of Negro stu-
dents” is partially true, to this ex-
tent only. Any boy attending the
public schools is entitled to intelli-
gent vocational guidance. Mr. Ches-
nutt states himself that “practical
training in many trades can only be
acquired in factories which discour-
age or limit the number of appren-
tices and especially Negro appren-
tices.” Any boy, white or colored,
applying for admission for a course
terminating in placement in. one
a ne oe a ae elena Baan ie
en accurate and honest information
about his chances of getting a job,
Until Cleveland industries and em-
ployers in all lines of work are will
ing to employ colored workers, edu-
ational officials, when questioned,
will tell the truth relative to the
situation, and no boy will be refused
admission, but he enters with the
full knowledge of what his chances
tion in so far as school officials are
able to inform him, Colored boys
who have completed trade school
wurses and technical trade courses
nave found difficulty in securing
placement as indicated by Mr. Ches-
att. In fact the schools have ex-
ried every effort to secure jobs for
them with the full co-operation of
the Negro welfare association:
A part-time school is not in a
position to foree an employer to hire
Cleveland has agreed to send every
an employe that he does not desire
to employ. The Cleveland Trade
School will train as many employes,
white or colored, as employers are
willing to send on a part-time basis
for advanced training. The techni-
cal high schools will train colored
boys on the same basis that they
train white boys. The schools have
exercised no discrimination.
Howard L. Briggs,
Directing Supervisor of
Vocational and Prac-
tical Arts Education. |
Unnatural and mucous dis-
charges can be avoided by de-
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diseases.
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