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"UNCLE SAM STRIKES A MORAL POSE" IN UNION IS STRENGTH FORTY-EIGHTH YEAR "UN See Us First for JOHN Prices Reasonable JEWELER A Eyes Carefully Examined 8188 Central Ave., Cleveland MER THE GOLDEN S DINE Entertained by Miss Meals, 50 Cents. AT TRAVEL 2453 E. 55th St. Mme. B. H. Burley, Prop. Private Pa Make Reser Y-EIGHTH YEAR No. 23. "UNCLE See Us First for All Goods in Our Line. JOHN S. HALL Prices Reasonable. Satisfaction Guaranteed. JEWELER AND OPTOMETRIST Eyes Carefully Examined and Glasses Properly Fitted Central Ave., Cleveland, O. CHerr MEET ME AT THE GOLDEN SLIPPER TEA ROOM DINE AND DANCE Entertained by Miss Bobby Jones and Miss Jenkins als, 50 Cents. No Cover Ch AT TRAVELLERS' HOTEL 13 E. 55th St. 'Phone ENdicott S. B. H. Burley, Proprietor T. W. Whitey, M. Private Parties, Dances, Etc. Make Reservations in Advance. FORTY-EIGHTH YEAR No.23. See Us First for All Goods in Our Line JOHN S. HALL Prices Reasonable. Satisfaction Guaranteed. JEWELER, AND OPTOMETRIC Eyes Carefully Examined and Glasses Properly Fitted. 8183 Central Ave., Cleveland, O. CHerry 1878 Entertained by Miss Bobby Jones and Miss Jenkins Meals, 50 Cents. No Cover Charge. 2453 E. 55th St. 'Phone EN迪icott 8938 Mme. B. H. Burley, Proprietor T. W. Whitey, Manager Private Parties, Dances, Etc. Make Reservations in Advance. TWO INTERESTING BOOKS By JOSEPH C. MANNING FADEOUT OF POPULISM Tells how and why our people of the South are d Their Constitutional Rights. Brought down to discussion of the Klan and Anti-Saloon League Politi $1.00. From Five to Twenty-Five. This is Mr. Manning's life story embracing the per 1870 to 1895. Price, $1.00. FADEOUT OF POPULISM how and why our people of the South are depr their Constitutional Rights. Brought down to dat session of the Klan and Anti-Saloon League Politics. From Five to Twenty-Five is Mr. Manning's life story embracing the period 1870 to 1895: Price, $1.00. Tells how and why our people of the South are deprived of Their Constitutional Rights. Brought down to date by discussion of the Klan and Anti-Saloon League Politics. Price, $1.00. BOTH BOOKS FOR $1.50. T. A. HEBBONS, PUBLISHER, 184 W. 185th St., Dept. B, New York City. IN TOWN FRIENDS VISIT MRS. FERGUS are good friends seen each other calls the other b Mrs. Ferguson is ing 100 miles called this friend found it so easy now she "visits" She simply gives name of the town number, and is on call. The cost, only 60 cents. IN TOWN or OUR ENDS VISIT by teleph MRS. FERGUSON and Mrs. Knight are good friends. When they haven't seen each other for a few days, one calls the other by telephone. Mrs. Ferguson also has a friend residing 100 miles away. Recently she called this friend by telephone and found it so easy and inexpensive that now she "visits" frequently in this way. She simply gives "Long Distance" the name of the town and the telephone number, and is connected as on a local call. The cost, for three minutes, is only 60 cents. IN TOWN or OUT FRIENDS VISIT by telephone MRS. FERGUSON and Mrs. Knight are good friends. When they haven't seen each other for a few days, one calls the other by telephone. Mrs. Ferguson also has a friend residing 100 miles away. Recently she called this friend by telephone and found it so easy and inexpensive that now she "visits" frequently in this way. She simply gives "Long Distance" the name of the town and the telephone number, and is connected as on a local call. The cost, for three minutes, is only 60 cents. You too can call friends in other cities just as easily as you call those in town. The Cost Is Small Wherever You Call THE OHIO BELL TELEPHONE CO. --- BOLA PRESIDENT THE GAZETTE ESTABLISHED, AUGUST 25, 1883 And Issued Every Week on Time Since CLEVELAND, OHIO, SATURDAY, JANUARY 24, 1931. FRESH OHIO NEWS WRITTEN BY "THE OLD RELIABLE" GAZETTE'S CORRESPONDENTS. Marriages, Deaths, Etc. CADIZ—Mr. and Mrs. Willard Steward of Flushing attended services at St. James A. M. E. church. Sunday—Mrs. Olive Lucas was called to be shoctoon by an aunt, Mrs. Willard Lucas, Mrs. R. F. Balland and Mrs. May Doubt are ill—Candle-light services were held, Sunday evening, at the close of a two-week protracted effort. Thirty-one added to the church. Rev. Alonzo Ware of Martins Ferry did the pastor of Mr. Willard Lucas and Miss Alberta White of Martins Ferry visited here, recently. BELLEFONTAINE.—Grace A. M. E. church had three good, spiritual sermons, Sunday, by the evangelist, Mrs. Gertrude Holland of Wilberforce. Two young girls were converted and were baptized by immerse in water. This priest, the old Baptist. The attendance was large. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Starkes of Springfield were guests, Sunday of Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Harper.—Tell your friends and acquaintances who like to read your copy of The Gazette. Give your local representative, Garland Hicks. Give your local news for this letter to him when he calls with your copy of The Gazette. CORESPONDENTS must mail all letters for publication at their main postoffice sufficiently early on Sunday or Monday of each week to have them reach The Gazette office on Tuesday morning, and always write their names and that of their city or town on the outside of the wrapper about returned copies, if proper credit for them is desired. Lists of names, wedding presents, programs, obituary notices, inquiries for relatives and advertisements of all kinds, including items announcing entertainment to be held in the near future, must be paid for in advance at FRANK R. CROSSWAITH. Frank Crosswalth has one of the most consistent records of service to the working people of this country of any person, white or colored. Born in Frederichstad, St. Croix, Virgin Islands, he came to this country in his 'teens; started to work as an elevator operator and attended several schools. He is a graduate of the Rand School of Social Science, New York City, and is teaching there. He is probably best known thru his work as special organizer for the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters in its fight to get better pay and working conditions for Pullman porters and maids. He has also organized for the elevator operators' union, the elevator constructors, the mechanics, barbers, laundry-workers, and motion picture operators. He founded the Trade Union Committee for organizing Afro-American workers in 1925 and has worked with most of the unions, that have our people in their industries, since that time. For the past two years he has edited the Negro Labor News Service. Frank Crosswalth is known as the Socialist party's foremost orator and has run numerous offices in the Socialist ticket. In 1924, he was on the executive committee of the American Labor party, and its candidate for governor of New York. the rate of 20 cents a line, six words vertisements will be sent on application. HILLSBORO.—Mr. Ocal Young of Painesville was called here, last week, by his father's illness. The latter remains about the same.—Mrs. Frank Johnson was hostess to a serving club. Taurday afternoon—Vernon Young and Mr. Harold Hennison are ill. The revival, conducted by Rev. and Mrs. E. Farmer at W. M. Church, closed, Sunday night. He is pastor of the church and Mrs. Farmer his assistant.—Mrs. Jane Young entertained Mr. Ocal Young at dinner, last Tuesday.—Mrs. Harvey Ames and children have returned from a visit with her father in Indianapolis. A. Jones of Cincinnati visited Helen J. Johnson Young, Sydne. and D. Minor were dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. Albert Williams, Jr., Sunday evening. YOUNGSTOWN. — At Oak Hill Ave. A. M. E. church, Sunday, Bishop W. H. Heard, spoke at the morning services to an overflow congregation, the largest since the last annual conference meet here. The bishop seemed feeble at the beginning of his sermon but soon became much stronger, delivering one of his old-time, excellent ones. At 3 p. m. the Progressive league had a good program. The meeting was to raise funds for the local poor of our group. It brot out the largest audience of our best people of all walks of life since the speech here of the bishop. Simple. Simple. years ago when he was a candidate for the Republican nomination for governor of Ohio. Mrs. Mary B. Martin, our member of the school board of Cleveland, was the principal speaker. She stressed many vital points for the uplifting of humanity. 'OUR GREATEST NEED' The Theme Discussed Thoroly at the Community - Forum's Fine Opening Meeting - Langston Hughes. Program Opens the Program. Rev. C. Lee Jefferson, pastor of St. Mary's Presbyterian church, cor. Thackery Ave. and E. 55th St., opened the Community-Forum at the church, Sunday evening, most auspiciously indeed. His explanatory address was a gem for its thoriness and brevity. The church-auditorium was filled with an intelligent audience that was most enthusiastic and generous, and many guests, including Chruses, a "Cleveland boy" who has already won an outstanding place among our leading poets, gave a very interesting talk on his experiences in Mexico, Paris, down the west coast of Africa, from Sierra Leone to the South African "Free State," and then read very acceptably indeed a number of his excellent poems all of which are remarkable and amenable feature, brevity. The young man says so very much in a few lines, or sentences, in his poetic efforts that that fact alone will continue to distinguish him and popularize them among the thoughtful and intelligent. He was followed by Dr. James K. Nickens whom Dr. Jefferson had selected to introduce the host of the evening, the Hon. Harry C. Smith, the Hon. James C. Smith, and The Gazette, last week. "Our Greatest Need"—honest, aggressive and unselfish leadership, locally and nationally. For nearly an hour, the editor kept the large audience thorily aroused and enthusiased as he cited case after case (in the various city and county departments of Cleveland) of our young women, particularly, who passed high in civil service examinations only to be barred in positions they earned, what is in West Virginia, unusable racial and job-profidence. The failure of our representatives in the city council and school-board to concentrate in an effort to eradicate this prejudice and get our young ladies what they earned was denounced in tones that brot the strongest applause from the audience, and commendation from the pastor at the close of the editor's address. His concise exposition of the careers of and enthusiastic references to our leaders of prestigious colleges, West Virginia, Pineback, Dems, Cuney and others, contrasting that leadership with our miserably selfish and injurious local, state and national leadership of today, was at once ill- WGAR IS O. K.! Vice-President and Manager John F. Patt One Fine Man—!O! For More of His Kind in This Country. Cleveland, Jan. 14, '31. Mr. John F. Patt, Mgr. WGAR, Hotel Statler, Cleveland. Dear Sir:—Your attention has doubtless been called to a program over your station, last week, which included an announcement by the pastor of the Community church, at 14000 Detroit Ave., city, in which he used the mongrel term, "darky," one the most miserably insulting one — "the noun telling a story about a "colored" man. I know it is unnecessary to say more to you because a man of your intelligence cannot fail to sense the condition, as far as thousands of the WGAR radio audience are concerned. Your station started off with the "wishful" the fifty or more thousand of people in this community, to say nothing of the many thousands elsewhere in the country. I know you will not permit this grievous offense to all of them to be repeated and I am simply writing you this letter for fear others (Mr. Herbert L. Taylor excepted) may have failed to call your attention to Rev. Frank H. Nelson's miserable insult. He surely did not want to leave his face for he was in this section of the country where such things are not tolerated, and not "down home" (in the South). Trusting you will receive this letter in the kindly spirit it is sent and with best wishes, I am. Very truly yours, Editor Gazette and Member of the Ohio Legislature 1894-5-6-7, and 1900 and 1901. The WGAR Broadcasting Co., Inc. Cleveland, Jan. 19, '31. Hon. Harry C. Smith, Editor Guzman, Cleveland. Dear Mr. Smith: I am led by the article appearing in The Gazette of last week and your letter of January 14, to offer my most sincere May to this letter, terms employed by one of our speakers wish to assure you that it has always been our policy to withhold any terms which are offensive to any religious creed or race. We surely realize it does not become a station to do otherwise than to spread goodwill among all classes of people to whom we appeal. We solicit the good wishes of the colored people of Cleveland and vicinity and you have our assurance that we deeply regret the occurrence, that we have apologies on behalf of the station, and at the same time, my assurance that there will never be a re-occurrence. Yours truly, The WGAR Broadcasting Co., Inc. John F. Patt, Vice-President. Cleveland, Jan. 20, '31. Mr. John F. Patt, Vice-President, WGAR Broadcasting Co., Inc. Statler Hall, Cleveland. My dear Mr. Patt—Your letter of January 9, 1934 just received and am very pleased indeed to have it its frankness, cordiality and clearly evidenced good-will toward all people is most encouraging indeed and stamps you as being one of the broadcast minded and fairest managers of broadcasting companies in this country. I am sure that when your letter appears in the current issue of my 报纸 The Gazette, that it will give the most encouragement to my people throughout the country, not only here in Cleveland and vicinity. Your apologies in behalf of the station, WGAR, and assurance that there will never be a recurrence of the incident complained of are quite enough. I assure you, and thank you for them on behalf of my people. With sincerest best wishes for you and the splendid new broadcasting station over which you preside as vice-president and manager. I am If I have lived this day aright Or done my best to keep the light That burns within my brain and heart A sacred thing, but not apart From common tasks that make my day, Then in the evening I can say, Let come whatever fate may be, This life is beautiful to me. But, if that leaping flame within Is hid behind a veil of sin, A fog of milice and untruth. And wanton deeds too free from ruth, Then countless prayers to any god Can make me nothing but a clod. Louise 4. Stinctor. luminating and soul-stirring. Dr. Jefferson's enthusiastic address, already referred to, closed the Forum's most successful opening meeting which is to be followed by others, Sunday evenings, he announced. the audience then pressed forward to meet Messrs. Smith, and Hughes who was accompanied by his good mother, Mrs. Homer Clark of this city. Her son is a resident of Westfield N. J. SINGLE COPY FIVE CENTS RATHER LATE LINING UP WITH JOHN BROWN, GARRISON, LOVEJOY, AND OTHERS. Secretary of State Stimson's Letter on Slavery Sent the Liberian Government—The U. S. of A. Guilty, Too. Students of morality and contemporary American history will find it no easy task to explain the righteous indignation which Secretary of State Stimson displayed in his recent letter to the Liberian government. In that letter, "Uncle Sam" poses as the outraged Christian crusader against slavery; against the very institution for opposing which, John Brown was hung. Elijah Lovejoy, unloved, unlamed, Steddaa, struck down on the floor of the U. S. senate and the abolitionists generally bounded, tormented and despised less than one hundred years ago. Frederick Douglass, Wendell Phillips, Wm. Lloyd Garrison and the other abolitionists then felt, even as "Uncle Sam" pretends now to feel, that slavery was a thing and outrageous, and sought to destroy it. But at every turn they found that slavery enjoyed the advantages of the church the protection of the constitution of the United States. What would these abolitionists say it, from their enshrined sepulchre they could read and comment upon the letter a secretary of state of the United States sends to a far off Negro republic on the question of slavery? More than likely they would discern in his conduct the same economic forces at work in the United States and England states defend slavery and at a later period oppose it. Here is a sample of the circle completed by the average New England business transaction in the days when slavery was respectable. Lumber and fish were sold in the West Indies in exchange for molasses; the cotton made into England; the rum exchanged with African tribes for slaves; the slaves sold to cotton-growers for cotton; the cotton made into clothes in the New England factories,—and a part of the product exchanged for more molasses, to make more rum; to get more slaves; to get more cotton; to get more molasses, etc. The balance of the products were used to invest in and to monopolize western land, to enlarge her own manufacturing interests, to support schools, colleges, and churches. The future might yet disclose that the Firestone Co. in Indiana was in "discovering" slavery in Liberia. A century ago Liberia was established as a sanctuary for Negroes escaping from bondage in the United States. It was the fond hope of the friends of freedom that the freed black men transported to Liberia would contribute much toward the civilizing of Africa; today we find that the descendants of those transported freemen have been treating the native Africans in much the same manner as their ancestors were treated in the days of American slavery. The American Negro side in Morocco, have held themselves superior to the natives even as the average so-called intellectual Negro assumes an anstere and haughty attitude toward the Negro masses here and in the West Indies. The situation is a serious one, and calls for "tall thinking" on the part of the thinking element among Negroes as well as among white workingmen. In the past many well meaning individuals have advanced the claim that the "Negro Problem" is one of color—a psychological problem —which can be solved through amalgamation or lightening up the race. A similarity both races on the other hand have steadfastly claimed that the "Negro Problem" is largely an economic one. The revolting disclosures about conditions in Liberia amply substantiate the claims of the latter group. In the clash of economic interest, race, color and religion play but a very minor role. The textile barons of the South exploit members of their own race with as little compunction as they do members of our race. The slave-holding elements in Liberia, if given the opportunity, would as readily enslave white workers as they now enslave men and women of their own race. In this respect it is interesting to do when the role of investigating slavery in Africa was being debated by the League of Nations' committee, a French-African Negro eloquently defended slavery while a white Socialist, member of the British Labor Party, vehemently denounced it. Albeit, however, the moral lecture which Mr. Stimson delivered to Liberia would have had a greater effect than the one in slavery. It is common free from slavery. THE GAZETTE is the oldest class publication of the kind, and has the largest bona fide circulation among Ohio Afro-Americans, double that of any other newspaper published in this or any other state, and comparison with any will immediately establish its rank as one of the NEWSTEST AND BEST published in the interest of Afro-Americans. BE COPY FIVE CENTS POSE" CHRISTIAN SOLDIER"! G UP WITH JOHN BROWN, EJOY, AND OTHERS. son's Letter on Slavery Sent ment—The U. S. of A. ity, Too. knowledge that slavery in a modified form (peonage) exists in many southern states, and the victims are both black and white workingmen—mostly black. Through "grandfather" clauses, the state's laws limit civil slavery also claims a majority of the citizens in South Carolina, Louisiana, Georgia, Virginia, Alabama, Oklahoma, Mississippi and other hot-beds of slavery in the United States, to say nothing of the wage-slave system which so effectivelyifies the "Constitutional freedom" of the working class North and South. HEAR! HEAR!! The ROUNDER WHAT'S DOING! The boys in E. 55th St. have been having oodles of fun at the expense of Eugene Cheeks, for a trifle over two weeks now—ever since Rev. J. W. Yewell and other officers of Tried Stone Baptist church that threaten to sue him or his paper, for a false petition, anent the church. The boys ask Cheeks, it is said, if he has as yet been sued for "ilable." Your Councilman, "The Blossom Triplets," will vote to create fat jobs and to increase salaries of city officials, but never have we heard of any of them demanding that Charles Smith, veteran secretary of the police department, one of the most efficient, best officials at city hall, be raised to the salary he deserves. Why? When standing and waiting for a Central Ave. car, car, which soldom passes, and you see a number of West Side cars pass, just remember your councilmen alone are to blame. If you had one of those West Side councilmen to represent you, we would have good service. The kind of service you have on the Central Ave. line is the same kind of service your councilmen are giving you daily, Mr. Voter! The Republicans of this city should wake up and learn a few political lessons from the Democrats who seem to be "riding" just now on the waves of success. As long as they, the "Dems," were trying to secure a foot-hold, they "fed up" on the news, and they were about nonpartisanism and criticism of the newspapers, etc., and the local G. O. P. seems to have "fallen" for this stuff. But how different the tune, when they get in power! For instance, recently John Sulzmann sat back in the sheriff's office chair and his official family was 100% Democratic as each one had recommended by his prefect committed toalty, and that he (Sulzmann) had looked over each one of them very carefully to see that no mistake had been made. The Rounder, and others, want to know why the Republicans don't wake up and make a few real political moves? Election isn't so far off, and yet there is still time to start building up a successful party, for this fall. They should be by now, and they clean out all who have not been 100% loyal to the Republican organization. There are a plenty of them down there, political Judas who were (and some still are) always ready to stab the present leaders of the party in the back. One sure thing, they have done it, in the too remote past. "Splitters" will be the jobs who are always waiting to strike? Reward the loyal workers with their jobs and throw the political parasites out! --- Frank R. Crosswaith, New York City. PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY One Year ..... $2.00 Six Months ..... 1.00 Subscribers are requested to remit by postoffice money order or registered letter. Entered at the postoffice in Cleveland, Ohio, as second-class mail matter 226 W. Superior Ave., Cleveland, O. (Bell 'Phone: CHerry 1259) Member Ohio Legislature: 1894 to 1896; 1896 to 1898; 1900 to 1902. IN UNION IS STRENGTH SATURDAY, JANUARY 24, 1931. "The Providential Armistice, a Volunteer's Story," an interesting military sketch of Capt. Napoleon B. Marshall, of Washington, D. C., was issued, recently, by the Liberty League of that city. The editor of The Gazette gratefully acknowledges receipt of a copy. Wonders never cease: The pastor of Mt. Olive Baptist church, Dr. Hayes, N. Y. City, refused a $400 raise in salary, Jan. 12, 1931, because of "the stringency of the times and the heavy indebtedness of the church." Would that there were more of his kind. --- The Congress has at last passed a bill increasing the salary of the U. S. minister to Liberia from $5000 to $10,000, something that should have been done, years ago. The Hon. Charles E. Mitchell of Charleston, W. Virginia, this country's new minister to the little African republic, will be benefitted by the increase, as he is now en route to Liberia. "Judge" Wm. H. Harrison of Chicago, member of the Illinois Board of Paroles and Pardons, has pled guilty to a charge of conspiracy as the result of accepting a bribe of $450 to free a convict, it is said. Thirteen hundred dollars was to have been paid for the prisoner's release, it seems. Grafting is a beaneal "disease" that too many of our So the arrest and conviction of a so-called leaders are unable to resist, few guilty ones will have a salutary effect. Herbert L. Taylor of E. 90th St., this city, whose WGAR letter in our last issue, all of our readers noticed, is entitled to full credit for the receipt of the splendid letter from John F. Patt, vice-president of WGAR Broadcasting Co., Inc., published elsewhere in this paper. Ever since his advent in this city, many years ago, Mr. Taylor has been one of the most quietly aggressive, loyal and intelligent race-workers in this community. May his kind ever increase, for the Lord knows we need them in this race of ours. Despite the fact that Councilman L. O. Payne sustained an operation and lay sick in the hospital, Councilman Clayborne George "carried on" successfully for himself and colleague in the effort to have the city council continue the operation of the Babies' & Childron's Dispensary, 2500 E. 35th St. This means that the city council finance committee, of which George is a member, on his and Payne's insistence, succeeded in revising the city's budget and securing outside assistance necessary to get the $27,500 needed for the dispensary's operation in 1931. Fine! One of our local high school boys writes The Gazette complaining bitterly "of the gross humiliation that our people are forced to submit to at some of the stands at the food show in Public Auditorium." Some of it he characterizes as "contemptible and appalling." City Manager Daniel E. Morgan should notify Col. Twelvetree, manager of Public Auditorium, to stop the discrimination instanter, not only because it is wrong and insulting, but also because it is contrary to the Civil Rights Law of the state of Ohio. The Colonel should notify the operators of the various stands in Public Auditorium that they must either treat ALL citizens courteously and properly, or get out of the taxpayers' Public Auditorium. Several months ago our girls entered the nurses' training school at City Hospital for the first time in its long history. Several weeks ago, also for the first time, our internes were admitted to the same public institution to train in common with representatives of other classes, groups or races in this community. The battle to secure their entrance, led by The Gazette, with the aggressive assistance of the late George A. Myers, and others, was waged over a period of several years. Mr. Myers did not live to witness the full fruition of the long, drawn-out battle. How happy he would have been could he have done so, one can only imagine. We miss him, particularly at this time. A CORRECT ESTIMATE. New York City.—Having reference to the N. A. A. C. P., Editor Fred R. Moore of the New York Age had the following bit of truth in a recent issue of his paper that ought to be read generally throut the country by all persons of both races or groups interested: It is hardly the supreme court of race appeal that some of its officers appear to think. The attempt of one or two of its acting officials to assume a dominating position of race leadership, with an effort to browbeat all other forces into a secondary or submissive attitude, has done little to diminish the importance of the National Association should possess. A broader and more liberal policy on the part of the executives, with ampler and readier recognition of such forces as the race churches and the press working for the same objectives, would redouble the influence of the organization among its own people. The attitude of self-glorification and selfish aims too often outweighs outgivings of the organization is not calculated to win respect of recruits to its membership. The bestowal of reward or recognition for meritorious service to a restricted inner circle of two or three executives, and the refusal to recognize the work of others beyond that barrier, is not the way to gain outside support. The growth of local organizations in fields adjacent to New York has been hampered by such shortsighted tactics. The diversified intention to the task of solution demand a broader and more liberal policy in dealing with the race at large. "The National Association is a much needed and vigilant organization. Its field is broad and its objects definite. All that it needs is a little broader spirit of humanity in its dealing with other organizations and individuals, and less of the dictatorial and domineering tone of the master mind who cannot distinguish co-operation from rivalry." The foregoing brings vividly to mind the most miserable treatment the national officials of the N. A. A. C. P. accorded its best and most successful working member, Prof. Neval H. Thomas (deceased), several years ago, in refusing not only to make him a speaker at its annual meeting but also denying him the Spingarn medal which hi soutstanding work, in the governmental departments at Washington, D. C., for our people clearly entitled him to. There is entirely too much cheap, petty jealousy possessed by certain national officials of the organization. DOINGS OF THE RACE. Feb. 14 is Frederick Douglas birthday. Celebrate it, Feb. 13, 14 or 15, says the Nat'l Equal Rights league, headquarters, Boston, Mass. Richard B. Harrison, star of "Green Pastures," the play that has been running for many months in a New York theater, was given the Spingarn medal for 1930. Georgia's loss in "Negro" population from 1920 to 1930 was 135,240, reducing that element from 41.7 per cent to 36.8 per cent of the total population. Our population of Alabama, which is given as 944,834 for 1930, shows an increase of 4.9 per cent. The expulsion of undesirable aliens from this country at the rate of about 1400 per month indicates that Congressman Oscar DePriest's urge of last February, before the House immigration committee, will soon be felt by the present labor depression. The late Hon. Albert E. Pillisbury, noted lawyer, of Newton, Mass., has willed $25,000 to Howard University, and other colleges or schools, as the trustees, Garnet C. Wilkinson of Washington, D. C., and Butler R. Wilson of Boston, may select. Hon. Lucien Hibbert of Haith, chief of cabinet under the recent Roy administration, has been appointed to head the department of romance languages at Howard University, Washington, D. C., and has entered upon his duties. Prof. Hibbert is a licencie of the University of Paris and has taught at Port-au-Prince, Haith. Edwin Gould, N. T. City, philanthropist, has given the Peabody home, the city to be used as a residence for the children of indigent Protestant Afro-Americans of that city. The home will be operated by the city department of public welfare as a part of the Gould Foundation for children which was given a residence in the Bronx, N. Y. City, by Mr. Gould, some time ago. MY PEOPLE My people are happy people. No matter what goes wrong; They wear chains and trust in fate. And sing emotion's song. My people are working people— They labor all their lives To take care of rich parasites And clothe their lazy wives. My people are fearless people— They fight and bleed and die. And do not want a single thing But mansions in the sky. My people are noisy people— They give to every quack. And cherish every ancient lie With moss upon its back. My people are handsome people— You'll find them everywhere, Putting cobwebs in their brains And pressing down their hair. THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, O.. SATURDAY, JANUARY 24, 1931 OHIO'S MOB VIOLENCE ACT Against the Mob and Lynch-Murder-Three Years Work of a Member of the Race-Also His Ohio Civil Rights Law. 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 lynchings. 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. Guardians custody, etc., fees. 6287. County's right of action against member of mob 6288. County's right of action against another county. 6289. Non-relief from prosecution. Our mor-violence or anti-lynching bill was introduced in the Ohio legislature in 1894 and re-introduced in 1896. It took the Hon. Harry C. Smith, editor of The Gazette, just three years to secure its enactment into law. The Ohio Supreme Court has several times upheld the constitutionality of the law and it has been MOBS. Section 6278. A collection of people assembled for an unlawful purpose and intending to do damage or injury to any one, or pretending to exercise correctional power over other persons by violence and without authority of law, shall be deemed a "mob" for the purpose of this chapter. An act of violence by a mob upon the body of any person shall constitute "injury" within the meaning of this chapter (93 v. 161 3.) Section 6279. The term "serious injury," for the purpose of this chapter, shall include such inquiry as per manently 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 damages for such unlawful killing. Such sum shall be applied to the maintenance of the family and education of the minor children of such person so lynched, if any survive him, until such children are of legal age, and then be distributed to the survivors, share and share alike, the widow receiving an amount equal to a child's share. If there be no widow or minor children surviving such decedent, the widow shall be distributed more than the next of kin according to the laws of the distribution of the personality of an intestate. Such sum so recovered shall not be a part of the estate of such person so lynched, nor be subject to any of his liabilities. (93 v. 162 6.) Section 6283. A person suffering death or injury from a mob attempting to lynch another person shall come within the provisions of this chapter. He or his legal representatives shall have a like right of action as one purposely injured or killed by such a mob. (93 v. 162 6.) Section 6284. Action for the recoveries provided for in this chapter must be commenced, within two years from the date of such lynching, in any court having original jurisdiction of an action for damages for malicious assault. (93 v. 162 7.) Section 6285. An order to the commissioners of a county, against which such recovery is had, to include it with the costs of action, in the next succeeding tax levy for such county, shall be a part of the judgment in every such case. (93 v. 162 8.) Section 6286. If the decedent soynched has minor children surviving him, the fund shall be turned over to a regularly appointed guardian. Such guardian shall administer the probate judge, allowing not more than five hundred dollars for counsel fees in the action for such recovery. (93 v. 162 9.) Section 6287. The county, in which a lynching occurs, may recover the amount of a judgment and costs against it in favor of the legal representatives of a person killed or seriously injured by a mob from any of the persons composing such mob. At such lynching, a mobile insurer at such lynching, shall be deemed a member of the mob and be liable to THE MISSUS TOLD ME NOT TO FORGET TO DROP IN SOME STORE AND GET HEIR A PAIR O STOCKIN'S. 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 orn 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. need. a representative of victim of lynchingury by mob trying to lynch another. d costs in tax levy. s. nst member of mob nst 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, failing 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.) 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: Code of Ohio: Sec. 12340. Whoever, being the proprietor or his employer, owner or manager of an inn, restaurant, building house, barbershop, 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 for full enjoyment of the accommodation, packages, facilities or privileges they grant, not defined 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. 12341. Whoever violates the next preceding section shall also pay not less than fifty dollars nor more than fifty dollars to the person aggrieved to be recovered in any court of acquittal 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. OPPOSED TO LOCATION Of the Latest Branch Public Library —Senses a Color-Line— Davis' Explanation. Hon. Harry E. Davis, Civil Service Commissioner, Cleveland, O. Dear Mr. Davis: I wish to call attention to your statement which appeared in the Lafayette 7, 31, issue of The Gazette that there would be a branch library located in the Cedar-E. 105th St. district At E. 105th St. and Euclid Ave. there is a branch two hundred yards from the above-named location. In my opinion you should have informed the public previous to a final decision on the establishing of this branch by the library board. 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Business men who advertise in this paper should have the patronage of our people. The fact that they advertise is assurance that they want it. All reading matter for publication in current issues of The Gazette must be in the office by noon, WEDNESDAY, of that week, at the latest. Display advertisements accepted until 4 p. m., WEDNESDAYS! HARRY C. SMITH 226 West Superior Avenue, Cleveland, O. (Opposite, Hotel Cleveland.) Notary Public Bell 'Phone: Cherry 1259 Classified Advertising Department FOR RENT.—Six rooms and garage on South Blvd. A bargain for good people. Call FLorida 2261-J, between 6 and 8 P. M. FOR RENT.—Five rooms (down), at 2417 E. 82d St., modern and in good condition. Call, Cherry 1259, call at Suite 302, No. 226 W. Superior Ave., opposite Hotel Cleveland. WANTED.—A needy woman wants washings to be done at home, and also housework if she can bring her baby with her. Will also work in exchange for clothes for herself and four children. Mrs. Clark, 2181 W. 61st St., Cleveland, O. CLEVELAND Social and Personal CLEVELAND Social and Personal Atty. G. Lacy, E. 10th St., located in Canton, last week. Mrs. E. Frank Montgomery's mother was reported dead, last week. Roy White of Columbus has been appointed messenger to Gov. Geo. White. Dwight R. Williams was called to Indianapolis, last week, by the critical illness of his father. Mrs. Jean Rowland entertained the Antemeridian Bridge club at the Waiters association clubrooms, at breakfast, last week Friday. Mrs. Ethel Goodson, proprietor of a dry cleaning establishment in Cedar Ave., was married recently to C. M. Burton, tailor and insurance man. Ralph M. Rowland, headwaiter of the Union Club and national president of our Waiters and Hotel Employees association, was called to Virginia, recently, by the death of a relative. For rent, five nice rooms (down) at 2417 E. 82d St., modern and in good condition. Call, CCherry 1259, or call at suite 302, No. 226 W. Superior Ave., opposite Hotel Cleveland entrance. Royal A. Milton, former resident of Cleveland, who is now located at 18 Armstrong Ave., Phoebus, Va., wishes to be kindly remembered to his friends in Cleveland, Youngstown and Struthers, O. The Phi Beta assembly will give its first party, Feb. 22. The officers are Catherine Simmons, pres; Catherine Harris, vice-pres.; Letha Johnson, sec.; Mrs. Clara Simmons, sponsor; Weltha Lipscombe, reporter. The Gertrude Fisher club, former Junior Federation, entertained. Saturday at Miss Thelma Fisher's and will do dinner Jan. 29, at Miss Julia Gants, the new president. Dorothy Fisher and Lisa Mitchell are vice-presidents. A midwinter frolic was given, last evening, by the Perry B. Jackson Republican club in the rooms of the 30th Ward Republican club, 13915 Kinsman Rd. Music was furnished by the Moonlight Serenders. Mrs. Robt Turner, E. 1424 St. press. Linnie Bailey of St. John's S. s. has entered the school for nursing at Freedman's hospital, Washington, D. C. Wonder why; when the nurse's training school at City hospital, the better one of the two, is now open to all. Miss Bailey was formerly teacher in our Little Rock, Ark. schools. The anniversary dinner (referred to in recent issues of The Gazette), under the auspices of the nights of St. John, Commandery No. 321, will be served, Sunday, Dec. 12, to the Lady of the Blessed Sacrament church hall, 2352 E. 79th St. Rev. Thos. E. McKenney is pastor of the church. The Gazette is indebted to the local office of the Pennsylvania Railway System, 756 Union Trust Bldg., for a large and beautiful 1931 office calendar, entitled "The Giant Conquerors of Space and Time"; also to the National Benefit Life Ins. Co., headquarters, Washington, D. C., for another large and beautiful one. Mrs. W. E. Gross, E. 43D St., is convalescent from a recent illness. Miss Vera Billups recently finished a course in floristry and was our only representative in the class, winning several prizes. She is lozier than most of the Cedar Ave. The Gazette is indebted to her and The Frank J. Hawkins Transfer & Storage Co. 8914 Cedar Ave., for very 1931 office-calendars. Mr. and Mrs. Edw. Lomax, E. 73D St., have announced the engagement of their daughter, Grace Alcott, A. G. Alcott, M. A. Alcott, Mr. and Mrs. Louia S. Jones, of Drexel Ave. Miss Lomax is a graduate of Ursuline college, class of '29. Mr. Jones is head of the violin depart- --- hase The Gazette ROSENBERG'S DRUG STORE N. W. Cor. Central Ave. and E. 55th St. MRS. VIOLA BOLDEN'S 8609 Quincy Ave. The Gazette regularly should notify copy delivered promptly. business matters to The Gazette 226 Superior Ave., West, oppo-you wish to see the editor call carefully examine The Gazette's purchases. Business men who have the patronage of our people, assurance in current issues of The by noon. WEDNESDAY, of that advertisements accepted until C. SMITH Avenue, Cleveland, O. Del Cleveland.) Bell 'Phone: Cherry 1259 FOR RENT. — A four-room suite (up) at 2347 E. 86th St. front and back entrances, and porch. All modern conveniences. Aerial for radio, also. Small family. No children. $31 a month. Call, Cherry 1259. FOR SALE—By the owner who lives in the house; A fine six-room home in E. 89th St., lot 27x110, modern, everything in first-class condition! To see it is to want to own it! Call THE GAZETTE, Cherry 1259, in the afternoon, or address Box M. 226 W. Superior Ave., Cleveland, O. ment of Howard University, Washington, D. C. Best wishes from "The Old Reliable" Gazette, for both young people. The only FREE employment agency in Cleveland is the State-City Employment 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. There is a four-room suite (up) at 2347 E. 86th St. (near Quincy Ave.) for rent at $31 a month. This is very cheap for such nice rooms, in good condition, with front and back entrances, a large porch and all modern conveniences; also an aerial for adio. Small family with no children. Rooms can be seen between 6:30 and 7:30 p. m. Miss Betty Stokes, a popular member of the younger set and daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. Thos. Stokes, of E. 100th St., was recently awarded a scholarship by the Alpha Rho Omega chapter of the Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority. Miss Stokes is a former student of Howard University, Washington, D. C., and a member of the Alpha Nu chapter of A. K. A. She is attending college at Ypsilanti, Mich. Samuel Bowden, some months ago located at 6672 Quincy Ave., who had his fingers frozen, about Thanksgiving time while working for the city, has some money coming to him which he can get by calling the office of The Gazette. If you know Bowden call his attention to the foregoing. Tell his friends to notify him, too. Write The Gazette if you know his whereabouts or that of any of his friends or acquaintances. Councilman Lawrence O. Payne was strenken, last week Friday, with an abdominal ailment and taken to Mt. Sinai hospital where he was operated on by Dr. M. E. Blaah. Saturday, he was reported as resting comfortably, and, unless unforeseen complications arise, will fully recover. Councilman Bundy is at City hospital recovering from a critical illness. The rumor, last week that he too was to sustain an operation, was not true. Slaughter Bros. edged the Berichon Fords, 38 to 37, in one of the most exciting Muny A games of the season at the St. Clair Bath House, last week Friday night. Successive long shots, by Sledge and Smith scored while the timer was fingering his gun. Give the Slaughter the team's seldom separated by more than three points. Elbee led the Slaughters with twelve points while Anderson, Berichon forward, was runner-up with nine tallies. The Gazette is in receipt of a strong set of resolutions, adopted, Jan. 19, '31, by our local Ministers Alliance; Rev. Jas. P. Foote, pres., and Rev. R. W. Watson secy., denouncing the deceased colleague, oblity murder, the publicity given it, and such horrible acts in general. The resolutions close with an appeal to all to concentrate in an effort to stop the crime of lynching. Others to sign the resolutions, in addition to the above, are Revs. M. F. Washington, vice-pres.; (clivic) be congratulations in this case, organization men voters), man Clayboro COL. M. Was a Dist Sailor—Hel Commander Honor and Paris, Fran NOW THE TROUBLE STARTS ```markdown ``` HEY, ARE WE MOVING? AH, I FOUND IT! MY FAVORITE GOLF BALL! DEARIE, I'M ONLY GOING TO PLAY GOLF ONCE A WEEK THIS SEASON YOU HAND ME THAT SAME BOLONEY EVERY YEAR THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, O. committee) Russell S. Brown, Ernest Hall, A. L. Boone, D. O. Walker, H. W. Evans and Mr. Wm. Connors. That distressing Marysville, Mo., lynching is a *true* indication of the real attitude of the white south toward lynch-murder. There is no gainstaking this, either. Those prominent Washington, D. C. "Negroes" who have already effected an organization for the purpose of boosting the candidacy for re-naming of President Herbert Hoover, are the same "Negroes" who did the same thing for President Calvin Coolidge. The mistreatment their people have received from both Coolidge and Hoover does not mean a thing to them. Sometimes we feel that same thing is rue of the vital interest of their people, as far as they are concerned. Lord, have mercy! Schedule of local civil service examinations: Jan. 23, storekeeper, county; Jan. 24, shipping clerk, board of education; Jan. 27, specification writer; Jan. 28, junior cashier, city; Jan. 29, pilot, division of fire; Jan. 30, sanitary sergeant, promotional (city); Jan. 31, assistant custodian; Feb. 3, asst. coal inspector; Feb. 4, bookkeeping machine operator; Feb. 5, microscopist, city; Feb. 6, bath-house supervisor, city; Feb. 7, building inspector, division of housing; Feb. 16, office manager, architect's office; Feb. 11, supt. of ballastics, div. of police. The Modern Mosaic Templars of America, home office Little Rock, Ark., have been granted a license to do business in Ohio. Scipio A. Jones, of Little Rock, is grand master and Atty. Perry B. Jackson of this city legal advisor for this state. He has been successful in retaining possession of the Mosaic Temple home in E. 40th St., as against factions led by R. E. Pope, former state grand master who has withheld from the organization claims are being paid promptly and the Ohio branch is also prospering. Members of the committee in charge of the local Temple building are: Mrs. Pearl Hughley, Lucinda K. Baker, Evelyn Wilson, Sylvestra Sherill, Thos. McWilson and Rev. C. Johns. Joseph Smith, veteran barber, has retired after 35 years in the business. His latest location at Central and E. 24th St., occupied for 16 years, was closed, several weeks ago. Mr. Smith's health failed him, a year ago. Recently, his condition became so critical that he was moved to City hospital where he is reported as "resting easy." Wm. Craig, with Mr. Smith for 33 years, is at Williams barbers shop, E. 29th St. and Central Church, Named schoolteacher; Dorothy, violin teacher and settlement worker; Gladys, matron at Central Ave. bathhouse; Winifred, secretary to Dr. Harris; Christine, with an aunt in Atlantic City, N. J., and one son, Joseph Jr., in Canton. Mr. and Mrs. Loula S. Jones, of Drexel Ave., entertained at breakfast, last Tuesday, in honor of Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Crosby of Sarnia, Ont. Can, guests of Mr. and Mrs. G. Jones, E. 85th St. The table was beautifully decorated with tall candles and pretty flowers. Mrs. E. Banks, caterer, prepared and served the meal. Persons at the table were Mrs. University Wade, Mr. and Mrs. Robt, Riff, Mr. and Mrs. Geo. G. Jones, the crossbys, the host and hostess. In a letter to his mother, recently, Prof. Loula V. Jones of Washington, D. C., writes: "Howard University Glee Club and I played at the home of Mrs. John Hervey Young (white, wealthy) for the St. Monica League, the University of Pittsburgh. Phelps Stokes (millionaire) of the Washington, D. C. Episcopal cathedral was present and I received a hearty applause after my number. Mrs. Young is a Cleveland woman." KROGER COMPANY "STEPS OUT" The Kroger Grocery & Baking Company in making Ernest Summerville manager of their store at 8702 Cedar Ave. has taken a most praiseworthy advance step that is bound to promote their business among our people, especially in that section of the city. Mr. Summerville, who has had twenty-five years' experience in the grocery and bakery business at Greensboro, Alabama, and who has in recent weeks been trained in a Kroger business, has earned well equipped and is bound to have the success his employers have a right to expect, providing our people in that section of the city will do their duty along the line of patronage. We must learn to spend our money where there are employees of color, if we ever hope to not only gain friends but to retain those we have, whether it be individual or a company. Mr. Summerville's daughter, Anna, is a clerk in the store. Mrs. Lillie Mason, a former employer, now offers new opportunities for our workers in that vicinity, is to be congratulated for her good work in this case. She is a Republican organization ward leader (for women voters), appointed by Councilman Clayborne George. COL. MORTENOL DEAD. Was a Distinguished Soldier and Sailor—Helped to Defend Paris—Commander of the Legion of Honor and Commander at Brest. Paris, France.—Col. Camille Mor- SATURDAY, JANUARY 24, 1931 NO W BE AT "My mirror tells me that my looked better. PORO Prepara NO WOMAN CAN BE ATTRACTIVE.... without "My mirror tells me that my hair and complexion never looked better. 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"PORO" PEROXIDE VANISHING CREAM EXPIRING 12/2018 PORO PEROXIDE VANISHING CREAM EXPIRING 12/2018 Coming Soon! ing a fourth term, headed the Republican list. Congressman Oscar DePriest filed at the last minute, opposing his old political friend, the mayor, in the Republican primary election next month. DePriest says he will not be a candidate and that his name had been entered by friends who thus sought to make him run for mayor. By RUBE GOLDBERG Don't Throw Away Your Copy of The GAZETTE After Reading It But Give it to a Friend or an Acquaintance who might Subscribe after Reading It JAMES RIVER BRIDGE HAS NO SPEED LIMIT DON'T BLOCK TRAFFIC You must drive 40 mph or faster Over This Bridge NO SPEED LIMIT MOTORWAY, BARRING - JUST SIDE BARRING Here's one place where you've got to "step on it." The Newport News James River bridge, world's longest highway structure, leaping four and one-half miles across the James river to Norfolk, Va., has speeded up all its traffic. It is no place for slow traveling motorists. A new system to prevent congestion is being tested. It is now unlawful to travel less than forty miles an hour over this ribbon-like stretch, and high-speed cars can travel at eighty miles per hour, for there is a "no speed limit." Here we see Officer E. Hogue telling a puzzled motorist to step on it. . WORST MOTORING SIN ON STREETS Driving in Middle of Road Is Meanest Act of the Driver. Most of the sins committed today are by motorists. So the New York Automobile club asked 21,000 car owners, "What do you consider the worst motoring sin that drivers are guilty of?" The sinners responded nobly although somewhat divided. Each one neglected his own short-comings. But the sinner consigned to the deepest pit is the road hog who drives down the middle of the street. He is charged with causing more trouble and damage than any other. He wears out more good nature and fills the hospitals and cemeteries with more inhabitants. Would Hang Him. He is the culprit that most of them want to hang. He is the one most of them would murder in cold blood by slow torture. He is the one the back-seat driver hears more lectures about. He is the party who causes most lapses in religion. However, his side kick in meanness is the fellow who dodges in at the head of the line. Twenty-five per cent of the answers would boil him in oil without benefit of clergy. Another felon that received a large vote is the fellow who makes a practice of stopping, starting and turning without hand signals. The demon who rages into an intersection to beat a signal did not receive merely a complimentary vote. The moron who rushes ahead of the red before the green turns should hear what other drivers think of him. Some ears are sensitive and resentful toward those who eternally horn in, or just horn in general. They have horns, according to their critics, but they are not on their cars alone. Favor Education. In this election a remedy was suggested. A majority seemed to favor the education of drivers. It would appear that there is more highway illiteracy than any other kind. Culture in courtesy is recommended as the best means of prevention. This is placed high above summons-serving. While this may have its good points, some drivers appear to be beyond it. They need the vigorous application of a club. Eliminate Possibility of Engine Oil Freezing Cold weather brings changed automobile driving conditions. Even subzero temperatures, however, are being combated today by leading automotive engineers. One of the latest improvements, which banishes the bogey of extreme cold, has just been announced by automobile engineers. By means of a newly-designed oil pump they have eliminated the possibility of engine oil "freezing" and necessitating placing the car in a warm garage until it is thawed out. Engine oil does not actually freeze, the engineers explain. What does occur is the freezing of water vapor contained inside the engine, and this prevents the oil from flowing. The possibility of this occurring in the engine equipped with this new invention has now been obviated. The new oil pump has been given very thorough tests. Oil Filter Tests Show Much Abrasive Material Three interesting oil filter tests by C. W. McKinley, research engineer, showed that the oil filter removed as much as one teaspoonful of abrasive material in every 1,500 miles of driving; that wear with unfiltered oil was five times more than with filtered oil, and that in 10,000 miles driving, the oil filter removed more than two pounds of dirt, sludge and abrasive matter from the oil, thus making servicing of the filter necessary at this mileage. Spark Plug and Contact Points Must Be Correct In the modern automobile engine of today, the importance of having the spark plugs in first-class condition cannot be over-emphasized. Efficient engine operation is dependent upon good ignation. The spark plugs are equipped with two electrodes, or poles, set in such a manner that the electric current must jump across a small gap from one to the other. In making this jump, a spark occurs. It is this spark which ignites the mixture of gasoline and air in the combustion chamber of the cylinder. A difference in the size of the gap between the two electrodes will affect the type of spark produced. It is, therefore, important that this gap should be inspected at least twice a year and kept adjusted according to the car instruction book. In addition to the spark plugs, the entire ignition system should also be checked, particular attention being paid to the distributor timing and to the condition and spacing of the breaker contact points. Proper attention to these simple but important adjustments will protect the motorist from ignition trouble—the source of most motoring ills. Clothes Rack Attached When quite a bit of luggage is carried along, as is usually the case on a camping trip, the illustrated rack will be found highly convenient for keeping the clothes, as it utilizes space not otherwise needed. It consists of two sidepieces with thin slats screwed SIDE PIECES CROSS PIECES This Rack Holds Your Clothes Out of the Way and Prevents Getting Them Wrinkled. across them to fit inside of the car. Screwhooks are used to hold the rack to the car' top as shown. The clothes are neatly laid on the rack and it is then fastened in place. Besides the saving of considerable space, effected by the rack, it has the advantage of keeping the clothes from being wrinkled.—R. W. Calder, Chicago, in Popular Mechanics Magazine. AUTOMOBILE HINTS The parking problem seems to be largely a matter of subtraction. * * * A total of 427,459 employees in the American automotive industry were paid a total of $775,478,810 in 1929. * * * The man who steps in front of an automobile is now a law-breaker in Paris. Elsewhere, he's the deceased. * * * "He has his motor cut off," explained a young mechanic on the ferry dock the other evening, while watching a gull. * * * If an intake valve is sticking it will cause back-firing. A sticking exhaust valve, on the other hand, causes the engine to miss. * * * The hit-and-run driver who fails to stop when involved in an accident is an outlaw everywhere in the United States. What's the use? If you drive recklessly you will dent the front of your car; if you drive carefully somebody will dent the back of it. Nature maintains order by a system of fine checks and balances. In trying to avoid crushing a turtle, a Syracuse motorist crashed into another car, killed the turtle, and then turned turtle. THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, O., SATURDAY, JANUARY 24, 1931 OF METAL FABRIC WITH "HARNESS" DECOLLETAGE FOR ULTRA FORMALITY WIDE WORLD PHOTO TWIN PRINTS IN DIFFERENT TONES OF ONE COLOR USED TOGETHER ```markdown ``` IN CREATING evening modes, designers are doing everything to center attention on the elegance of the fabrics of which they are made. With this object in view superfluous frills and furbelows are conspicuous by their absence. Most of the gowns of distinction are classics in simplicity. In order to impart individuality to formal dress, fashionists have turned to novel and striking decolletage as a solution to the problem. The newest gesture in the way of low-cut necklines is the "harness" decolletage. See it carried out effectively for the gown pictured. This dress which emphasizes the opulence of fabrics which go to make up modes of ultra formality, is styled very simply of exquisitely sheer metal cloth. Its intricately strapped decolletage is that decorative, to add further trimming would detract from the symmetry of "lines" which distinguish this gown. Not only is sheer and shimmering lame weaves adding their glamorous beauty to the evening picture but the glint of their gold and silver splendor is reflected in many a gorgeous blouse as it tops a skirt of handsome velvet TWIN PRINTS IN DIE OF ONE COLO INCOMING prints which are registering for immediate wear and for the future are very interesting. They tell their own story, as to whether they are intended for informal daytime frocks and ensembles or for formal afternoon and evening wear. You know the moment you see the new dark-toned neat-patterned types that they expect to be worn throughout the informal daytime hours about town or in the realm of sports just as you are perfectly sure that the gorgeous big florals are destined for a career in the midst of dressy afternoon affairs and evening afternoon affairs and evening formalis. Designers are enthusiastic over the new "twin prints" which are produced in two different tones of one color so they can be used together. In the picture the body of the frock is made from the darker color of a twin diamond print while the trimming is in the brighter shade of the same print. These smart-looking twin prints are especially adaptable to the very popular contrast-yoke fashions. The lighter portion makes the deep yoke and in most instances the sleeves, while the darker silk which carries the identical patterning is employed for the rest of the bodice and the skirt. The accompanying jacket, for there is almost sure to be a complementary jacket, will more than likely be styled of the same dark silk as the skirt portion, so that when worn on the street the ensemble presents a quiet tailored appearance. Pallds are the smart thing in prints y Your Copy or an Acqu or peaks from beneath a richly furred velvet jacket or coat on a wintry afternoon. Since the decolletage has become so important a factor in evening fashions more variety is being exploited than has been the rule for several seasons. The deep V-shape which extends almost to the waistline at the back competes with the youthful and naive off-the-shoulder treatments which add a quaint ruffle or bertha of lace or beaded work. Frocks of satin, taffeta or crepe are often tied from shoulder to shoulder at the back with scarflike arrangements, the streamers of which soften the decolletage lines. Velvet gowns noted at the theater, opera, balls and night clubs often introduce a border of white ermine. Glittering straps are also favorite themes. Very flattering are the diversely-cut necklines, some round and dropping off the shoulder, others pointed or square, which are outlined with borders formed of tiny flowers either the color of the gown or in charming contrast. CHERIE NICHOLAS. (© 1931, Western Newspaper Union.) FFERENT TONES R USED TOGETHER for spring, both in crepe silks and chiffons. At this moment it is the costume blouse of plaid silk which is initiating the vogue for plaids. It brings most any cloth suit right up to the minute in fashion, if beneath its fur-trimmed jacket there is revealed a blouse of vivacious plaid. It is easy to distinguish the silk prints which have just arrived on the scene, because of their colorings, which have a distinction all their own, the tendency to be run to rather neutral tones, such as for instance, a delicately outlined plaid effect done in black and gray on white. When the new plaids, stripes or checks are not in use then fancy turns to medium-sized spaced types—on preferably black, navy or brown backgrounds. Emphasis is being placed on blue in every key with navy and white combinations made a leader. CHERIE NICHOLAS. (© 1931, Western Newpaper Union.) py of The maintenance w Soft Texture Weaves ```markdown ``` DOTS and fine, intricate weaves in washable materials are far forward in importance for spring. Illustrated are four new fabrics for afternoon and sport clothes. They are made of a fine mixture of rayon and durene cotton, and the combination of these textiles gives a beautifully soft texture with something of the "feel" of very fine wool although there is not a speck of wool used. These materials may be washed as easily as a linen handkerchief, do not wrinkle, and are exceptionally cool. In the dotted material the dots are black in some cases, red in others, green and so on down the hill. In spring, the three plain durene and rayon fabrics shown depend upon interest in weaves for their decorative effect. "WORTH ITS WEIGHT IN GOLD"! Cleveland, O., Aug. 28th, 1925. Hon. Harry C. Smith, Editor, Gazette, Dear Friend:—I have read the latest copy of The Gazette through and after reading it, I can truthfully say: it is worth its weight in gold! I admire true manhood—a man who seeing injustice and apologize within the limits of the law, to expose it and, if possible smite it. You and I have frequently, during the forty-two years since the birth of The Gazette, been, as the Scotch would say, like two McNells, but when I find a man, such as you, who consistently, and persistently, through nearly half a century, puts his race foremost in his life struggle, I take off my hat to him, as being a the friend of our long life to you and The Gazette. Yours for the right, John P. Green. (Former Member, Ohio State Senate.) "HUMAN NATURE'S FOULEST BLOT." My ear is pained, My soul is sick with every day's report Of wrong and outrage, with which the earth is filled. There is no flesh in man's obdurate heart. It does not feel for man; the natural bond Of brotherhood is severed as the flax That falls asunder at the touch of fire. He finds his fellow guilty of a skin Not colored like his own; and having power; To enforce the wrong, for such a worthy cause Dooms and devotes him as his lawful prey. Thus man devotes his brother, and deatroys; Tis human nature's broadest foulest blot. —Cowper. IS IT ANY USE TO CON- TEND, FOR RIGHTS? Colored Americans are the only race, responsible members 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 years of minorities discrimination 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 of no use to resist, downs itself and the world then will say. "Negroes are not worthy of equal rights; they are by nature self-respect and have no 'guts.'" The world respects only those who resent and resist 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 liberty, and forever resist denial of rights in our native land, however long race discrimination may continue. To submit is to deserve contempt.—Boston (Mass.) Guardian. GAZETTE who might Su The Search for Trimness A 1 By EMMA LOU FETTA IN the day of our grandmothers when bustles, and hoops and huge puffed sleeves were the vogue it didn't matter much whether under garments were trim, and flat and form fitting. The fashions of today, despite a return in many instances to quaintness, nevertheless insist upon trimness of line. This is equally true whether one is tweed golf suit or a party dress. 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