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What Our People Are Doing Each Week—Church, Personal, Social, Lodge, Literary and Musical—Marriages, Deaths, Etc. YOUNGSTOWN—Rev. C. E. Gillespie, pastor of Mahoning Ave. Zion A. M. E. church, is convalescing after several weeks' illness. The Oak Hill Ave. A. M. E., W. M. M. S. presented a very interesting program at its meeting, Sunday afternoon, H. G. Emerson being the principal speaker. ZANESVILLE.—Mrs. George Banks of Mt. Auburn, who was taken to the hospital, Jan. 17, for an operation, died, Jan. 20, and was buried in Greenwood cemetery, the next day. Mrs. Geneva Mays Singer, who was confined to the Good Samaritan hospital, is slowly convalescing. 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 the rate of 20 cents a line, six words vertisements will be sent on application. HILLSBORO.—Mrs. Jas. Sloane of Dayton visited her mother, Sunday.—Jas. T. Young and Tom Thomas are quite ill.—Mr. and Mrs. A. Cole and Constance Goodson visited in Dayton, Sunday evening.—Mrs. Irene Redman of Circleville visited an aunt, Mrs. Lizzie Day, last week. Mrs. M. Waters and son visited in Columbus, Sunday. The CORRESPONDENTS 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. They should also about returned copies, if proper credit for them is desired. Lists of names, wedding presents, programs. DOINGS OF THE RACE. John H. Thompkins won $1800 in a hiking race to Mexico City, Mex. Arthur A. Schomburg, age 56, N. Y. City, has been appointed librarian of Fisk University, Nashville. Others of our War mothers will be taken on a trip to Europe to visit the graves of their dead soldier relatives. Hon. Chas. E. Mitchell's official title is U. S. envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary to Liberia, Africa. Frederic L. Teamer, age 3, of Ft. Scott, Kansas, has been smoking cigarettes and stogies ever since he was 18 months old. "Aunt Melindy" Walker, age 102, of Fayetteville, Ark., who died, last week Friday, was the basis of the "Melindyisms" in the Saturday Evening Post. Montplaisir Christophe of Valensiennes, France, a descendant of one of the earliest presidents of Haiti, is a student of the University of Michigan medical school. Chas. S. Johnson, head of the social science department of Fisk University, Nashville, was recently elected to the executive committee of sociologists of the country. Josephine Baker of Philadelphia, who has been the biggest European stage success during the last three years, has become "Empress Josephine of the Paris hall," and is still "going strong." Now comes a Dallas, Tex. pastor (white) who characterizes that well-known New York business "Green Pastures," as "one of the most blasphemous and sacrilegious things ever placed before the public." Twelve drunken whites chased Steven Statton, a porter of N. Y. City, last week Friday evening, throwing beer bottles at him until he turned on them with a rifle and bayonet with which he killed the leader. That dispersed the mob. Little Esther Jones, age 11, the highest paid child performer in the world, who has been touring Europe over several years, will be at the Empire Theater in Paris, France, for two weeks, in February. She is a wonderful dancer and has appeared before the king and queen of Norway, Sweden, Spain and other European notables. She also sings popular songs of the countries in which she plays and in the language of that country. The Harmon Foundation (N. Y.) awards, $400 each, this year, announced on Monday, go to Hall Johnson (music), N. Y. City; Albion L. Holsey (business organizer), Tuskegee, Ala.; Langston Hughes (poet), Westfield, N. J.; Thos. M. Campbell (agriculturalist), Tuskegee; Chas. S. Johnson (social scientist), Nashville; Henry A. Hunt (educator), Ft. Valley, Ga., and 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 the rate of 20 cents a line, six words vertisements will be sent on application. HILLSBORO.—Mrs. Jas. Sloane of Dayton visited her mother, Sunday.—Jas. T. Young and Tom Thomas are quite ill.—Mrs. and Mrs. A. Cole and Constance Goodson visited in Dayton, Sunday evening.—Mrs. Irene Redman of Circleville visited an anunt, Mrs. Lizzie Day, last week.—Mrs. M. Waters and son visited in Columbus, Sunday. The University Hollow School evening at U. B. Church (white) and was highly complimented. Mr. S. Graves visited Mr. Joe Williams in Greenfield, recently.—Mr. and Mrs. C. Pennington of Wilmington visited Mr. and Mrs. J. Hudson, Sunday.—Mr. and Harley Hill of Wilberforce visited Mr. and Mrs. E. Jones, Sunday.—Mr. and Mrs. Wilbur Harper of Greenfield called on Mr. and Mrs. V. Young and Mr. and Mrs. E. Jones, Sunday Henry C. McDowell (mission worker). Meridian, Miss. Paul Robeson will return to Europe after completing 35 concert engagements in this country. He is an actor and baritone soloist de luxe. On his return to Europe, he is to again play "Othello," being already booked for the Regal Theater in Bolshoi, the Ballet Theater in Prague, and leading theaters. He appeared in the same Shakespearean role, for many months last year, at the Savoy Theater in London, Eng. OUR "JIM CROW LEADERS" In Politics and What They Do For the Race—Some Plain Truth. Instead of sitting within the Republican party, we sit in "jim-crow" councils and accept whatever the whites in council see fit to hand out to us. We accept leadership in artificial "jim-crow" committees and think we are contributing something to the policies of the party. We accept one insult after another and we are not immune to receive a handout at election time so we can go forth and sell the rest of the race into the humiliating state into which we have voluntarily surrendered ourselves. The trouble is, we have no leaders. We have no men with guts to stand upon their convictions for what they think is right. Frederick Douglass would never have submitted to segregation within the Republican party. He would have walked out of the session and raised his voice, to the hill-tops, in denunciation—even if he had to sacrifice some personal gain to do it. But he was a man who knew his manhood and his self-respect. Today we sacrifice anything if it means a patry dollar and a measley job to us. We are hungry—so hungry that we have lost all pride. Substitute "Have" for "Had." But we had pussyfooters instead of leaders. We had orators and empty-headed windwimmers. We ragged "Race leaders" who would kill them if out of touch. Kluxer if the money was paid in hand. We had job-seekers who felt that they were serving their people when they served themselves. We had committeemen whose committees were farces; we had pseudo national delegates to conventions who were afraid to enter the room where the sessions were being held. We had representatives who represented themselves only. Chicago Defender. An Ohioan at the Capital. Columbus, O. —Another full-time instructor, Atty. Leon A Ransom of this city, has been added to the Howard University law faculty, Washington, D. C. Ransom is graduate of O. S. U., valedictorian of the class of 1927. He is recommended by Dean Aran, having 199 A's, or merit hours, out of a possible 121. As a result he was elected to the order of the Coif, national honor-law society, and awarded the degree of doctor of jurisprudence. The new instructor was admitted to the Ohio Bar in 1927 and to federal practice in December, 1928. The ROUNDER WHAT'S DOING! Don't get angry at the street car company for the miserable and rotten service on the Central Ave. street-car line. Blame your councilmen! They tell the street-car company what to do, and that is to see that Lakewood and the Heights get double service—busses and street-cars. Miss L. Myers has just entered Harlem (N. Y. City) hospital training school for nurses, and Miss Linnie Bailey recently entered the Freedman's hospital school for nurses at Washington, D. C., with local City' nurses training school for nurses open to all and better than either of the other schools. Why? Segregation is one of the forerunners of lynch law. By separating yourself into a distinct group, away from other citizens, makes it an easy matter for lawbreakers to throw the blame on you and then to punish you for crimes you did not commit in order to shield the guilty ones. Advocates of segregation are "the fathers of lynchings." C. M. Love of Houston, Tex., recently filed a petition for a temporary immigration against the Democratic executive, that city which barred members of race from the Democratic primaries. "The public may rest assured that no Negroes will vote in the Jan. 24 primary" were the words of the chairman of the Democratic executive committee of Houston. Yet, each fall men and women of color support that ticket! Some Cleveland Democrats would do us the same way here, if they could. "The leopard cannot change its spots." From investigations it has been found that an innocent "Negro" was burned on top of a school-house in Missouri. Bloodhounds which were released at the school took up the trail and twice wound up at the house where the unfortunate teacher was located. They did they go in the direction of the home of the "Negro." This was quietly hushed up. It has also been found that an overgrown white boy, who had tried to "make good" with the teacher, left the boarding house to which the bloodhounds went, shortly after the murder and as yet has not been located. Both west and south side councilmen (Walz and Trastic, respectively) have introduced resolutions in the city council asking 5-cent street-car fare from the Public Square to designated points on the Lorain Ave. and Fairfield街. Our councilmen ought to try to get the people on the Cedar, Central and Scovill Ave. lines, but will they? Councilman Geo. W. Furth has introduced an ordinance in the council which will require the city to enter into a contract for the operation of the Babies' and Children's Expo. Dr. Wonder if this isn't "stealing" some of Councilman George's "thunder"? Columbus, O.—The power and authority of the church is being slowly disintegrated by indifference among the men and non-co-operation on the part of young people, R. A. Doan of Columbus, chairman of the Ohio Laymen's convention, said last week Tuesday at a meeting in conjunction with the Ohio pastor's conference.—Cleveland Daily Paper. The power of the Church is declining because real Christianity is not being practiced. Deceit, hypocrisy, prejudice, discrimination, hatred and segregation seem to be the ruling for us in the Church of today. Certainly by does not indorse this stand. By does not indorse Christianity, the Church can be made a successful institution, without fear of failure. Saved Two Lives. Raleigh, N. C. "Here is a hero and gentleman in black, deserving all honor and a Carnegie Medal." Thus the Raleigh News and Observer, daily paper edited by Hon. Josephus Daniels, President Wilson's secretary of the navy, paid editorial tribute to the heroism of Rev. John H. Charlton, of Conway, S. C., who saved the lives of two men (white) about to be burned to death in an auto wreck. SINGLE COPY FIVE CENTS SLAVERY! FIRESTONE CO.'S STRANGLEHOLD ON THE LITTLE AFRICAN REPUBLIC AND ITS FINANCIAL AND ECONOMIC INTERESTS. Holds Power of Veto Over a New Refunding Loan— Asked to Waive Right—The American Receivership of Liberia, Etc. New York City.—The recent publication of the report of the International Commission of Inquiry into the existence of slavery and forced labor in the republic of Liberia, has disclosed to public view an unusual sense of solidarity on the part of our newspapers in the U. S. Editorial comments in most of them I have seen also reveal the encouraging fact that for once our unlawful labor would be pulled over their eyes" by any hypocritical appeal to "morality." Calmly and with poise they considered the facts and made scholarly comparisons between conditions in Liberia and this country. In my article of a week ago entitled Uncle Sam strikes a Moral Pose" I indicated that the case of slavery in Liberia, by the U. S. in particular, may yet turn out to be not wholly un-related to the financial and economic interests of Harvey S. Firestone in the "Negro" report. Hardly had my republic reached the press when R. L. Buell, of the Foreign Policy Association, denounced as onerous the terms of Liberia. In a special discussion in the New York Times on Liberia could not be reconstructed internally unless Harvey S. Firestone agreed to modify these terms extensively." The official policy association's official further reached the press that Mr. Firestone had power of veto over a new refunding power of $100,000 in acres to be called upon the rubber plantate to waive this right and also to keep down his rubber plantations from the projected 1,000,000 acres to their present scope of about 55,000 acres with 10,000 workers. As a necessary step toward relieving Liberia "of the onerous interest burdens of the called for an abandonment of the receivership of Liberia," and the therefore thereof of an international system of control; "Do we want to continue to shield Liberia from the outside world in return for certain exclusive privileges, but without doing anything fundamental to secure Liberia's regeneration?" he asks, "Do you want to be Buell's remarks would be superfluous? The facts thoroughly acquainted with the facts in the case and knows from whence he speaks, is attested to by the fact that two years ago he investigated conditions in Liberia and as a result, made practically the THE EDUCATED NEGRO Lacks the All-Important Knowledge of Race History—All But Worthless in the Uplift of Our People—The Explanation. Washington, D. C.—"In their own as well as in their mixed schools," says Dr. Carter W. Woodson with respect to Negro history week, "Negroes are taught to admire the Hebrew and to deceive the African." The thought of the inferiority of the Negro is drilled into him in almost every book he studies. If he happens to leave school after he masters the fundamentals, before he finishes high school or reaches college, he will naturally escape some of this bias and may recover in time to be of service to his people. "Practically all of the successful Negroes in this country," says Dr. Woodson, "are of this type or of that of Negroes who have had no formal education at all. The large majority of the Negroes who have put on the finishing touches of our work in the uplift of their worthless after leaving school they have the opportunity to give out to Negroes what traductors of the race would like to have it learn such persons may earn a living, but they never become a constructive force in the elevation of those far down. The explanation of this is a simple. The schools and colleges of this country have conducted as to produce this result. For example, an officer of Howard University, thinking that an additional course on the Negro should be given there, called upon a Negro doctor of philosophy of the faculty to offer such work. He promptly informed the officer that he knew nothing about the Negro. He did not know the school he was that way. He went to be educated. "Last year at the Hampton Insti- 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 NEWSIEST AND BEST published in the interest of Afro-Americans. THE COPY FIVE CENTS VERY! ITS STRANGLEHOLD AMERICAN REPUBLIC AND ITS ECONOMIC INTERESTS. Over a New Refunding Loan— Right—The American p of Liberia, Etc. same criticism he now makes. His charges then as now were denied as "wholly inaccurate" by both the Firestone interests and our state department. Nevertheless, it might not be amiss to point out that, in spite of what others might think, and the moral pose of Uncle Sam notwithstanding, this whole question of Liberia and slavery is at bottom an economic one. The U. S. appeals to the outraged conscience FRANK R. CROSSWAITB. of mankind reminds me of the story of a Jewish lad who was standing one morning outside of his father's butcher shop when an Irish lad of about equal age and size strolled up. Soon the two boys were fighting. Pro his vantage point in the shop, the little girl watched the contest. He noticed that his son stood practically still on the same spot while being pummed by the Irish boy. Disgusted and angered because of his son's apparent non-desire to fight back the old man called to the boy to help him with the shop. With tear-stained eyes the little Israelite stared at his father and said: "Papa! I can't come now, I got my foot on a nickel." If Mr. Buell and Mr. Firestone and Uncle Sam continue to take and strike moral poses, even those of us who may yet discover the "nickel" under somebody's foot. Frank R. Crosswail. tute summer school, a white instructor gave a course on the Negro, using for his text a work of Jerome Dowd, who teaches that whites are superior to blacks. When he was one of the students who he used to teach, he replied that he wanted them to get Dowd's point of view. If schools for Negroes are places where they are convinced of their inferiority, can the race escape from its former rise to recognition and usefulness? "As another has well said, to handicap a student by teaching him that his black face is a curse and that his struggle to change his condition is hopeless is the worst sort of lynching. It kills one's aspirations and dooms him to vagaboundage and crime. All friends of the truth, all lovers of freedom should be against the present propaganda in the antllynching movement, because there would be lynching if it did not start in the schoolroom. Why not exploit, enslave, or exterminate a class that everybody is taught to regard as an inferior being? "The point of attack," says Dr. Woodson, "may be easily discovered. In the schools of business administration Negroes are trained exclusively in the psychology of Wall St. and are, therefore, made to despise the opportunities to run ice wagons, push banana carts and sell peanuts among their own people. Foreigners, who have not studied these things, but have studied Negroes, take up this business and grow rich." A State Matter—Not Federal. Philadelphia, Pa.—The Union of American Hebrew Congregations voted against proposed federal antilynching legislation at its annual meeting here. Thursday week. Many speakers pointed out that such legislation was a matter for the states and not the federal government --- 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 Address all communications to HARRY C. SMITH Editor and Proprietor THE GAZETTE 226 W. Superior Ave., Cleveland, O. (Bell Phone: Cherry 1259) Member Ohio Legislature: 1894 to 1896; 1896 to 1808; 1900 to 1902. IN UNION IS STRONG. 10,000,000 Afro-Americans. 350,000 in Ohio. 60,000 in Cleveland. SATURDAY, JANUARY 31, 1931. "A Lost Legacy" in the Chicago Defender, last week, was an almost perfect leader, in our judgment at least. The substitution of the name of N. Wright Cuney for that of Isaiah T. Montgomery would have made the editorial perfect. One cannot forget the fact that Montgomery was a member of that state constitutional convention of Louisiana, many years ago, that robbed our people of the state of rights that were vital, and never even raised his voice in protest, but acquiesced! --- Mrs. Harriet Linder, age 102, of Cowpen, S. C., has just finished paying for her three-room wooden cottage-home which she purchased in 1926. Here is a splendid precedent for our young married people, particularly, to follow. Mrs. Linder makes a comfortable living selling home-made soap which she manufactures and delivers. "Aunt Harriet," as she is familiarly addressed, is the mother of fourteen children, grandmother of 51, great grandmother of 29, and great, great grandmother of 9. --- When the bankers of the country convened in this city, last year, one of their number, from the northwest, a sane, sensible and clear thinking individual made a statement, at the banquet in Hotel Cleveland, to the effect that the high standard of living in this country would have to come down. Along came our distinguished chief executive of the nation, President Herbert Hoover, who very promptly differed from him and of course in so-doing played big for popular favor, and got it. But the gentleman from the Northwest was right and the future will prove it. ANOTHER GONE WRONG It seems that the case (several times postponed) of Bishop A. J. Carey of Chicago, member of that city's civil service commission, accused of illegal practices, didn't mean a thing to "Judge" Wm. H. Harrison, a member of the Illinois pardon and parole board, appointed in recent months, too, who was caught "flat-footed," last week, accepting a bribe to secure the release of a prisoner in the state penitentiary. Harrison is said to have confessed. Why is it that so many of our so-called leaders in business, politics, church matters, etc., are susceptible to the lure of graft? There have been so many such cases, in the last decade, they are making it very hard for the race to progress along some lines. Unless there is a "let-up" in this sort of it, it will not be long before it will be simply impossible for a member of the race to secure a prominent position in any locality in the North, at least, which carries with it any financial responsibility. It is high time, too, that our press should begin stressing this fact instead of trying to cover it up as some do. Now it is announced that "Liberian" slavery, located in Louisiana, has been called to the attention of the U. S. Department of Justice, at Washington, D. C., by the U. S. Attorney at Shreveport. J. M. McLemore (white), a well-known planter of Coushatta, Red River Parish (County), La., is charged with holding in peonage five "Negro" laborers and "share-cropppers" for payment of alleged indebtedness due him. Investigation by an assistant U. S. attorney at Shreveport discloses the fact that McLemore has forbidden the laborers to leave his place unless they pay or have secured amounts of their indebtedness to him ranging from $125 to $700. Of course, this information should be forwarded to U. S. Secretary of State Stimson who recently wrote the President of Liberia a strong protest against the limited slavery of that country. What is true in this case in Louisiana is equally true of at least several other southern states. Therefore, it behooves the U. S. to clean off its own "door sill" before inveighing against that of a neighbor, especially a small and weak one. SURE TO COME DOWN! A NEAR-LYNCH-MURDER. Reports that a mob was forming, Sunday, at Crestline, twelve miles south of Bucyrus, to storm the Bucyrus jail for the purpose of lynching two "Negro" thieves charged with having killed the sheriff of that (Crawford) county, caused the mayor of Crestline to order the homes of our people of that little city "searched for firearms because of rumors of impending trouble." The third thief was killed when he leaped thru a window of the Bucyrus court house in an attempt to escape. Wonder if Mayor Waldbauer wanted to make sure that the members of the mob wouldn't get hurt if it materialized? He had nothing to fear from our people unless they were assailed by a mob, especially since there was a heavy guard on duty in the Bucyrus jail and national guard units ready in Columbus, not far away, to entrain for Crestline and Bucyrus in case of need. Their assistance had been offered by Brig. Gen. Frank D. Henderson, adjunct of the state, to County Prosecutor J. D. Sears. The Bucyrus ministerial association, in passing a resolution, called on the citizens to refrain from mob violence. This showed that they had a clearer understanding by far of the situation than the mayor. There was absolutely no probability of Crestline or Bucyrus Afro-Americans becoming members of a mob would-be leaders of which undoubtedly originated "the rumors of impending trouble." As a matter of fact, the mayor's search for firearms among our people of Bucyrus did no good but only served to increase the animosity which undoubtedly prevailed. With the exception of the too excited official who killed a manacled prisoner, Crawford county officials, to date, have conducted themselves creditably in keeping down any mob demonstration and thus saving the reputation of Ohio from a deplorable disgraceful smear. Credit must also be given to the salutary deterent influence of our Ohio Mob Violence Act or Anti-Lynching law which has been so very effective ever since its enactment in 1896. Those prominent Washington, D. C. "Negroes" who have already effected an organization for the purpose of boosting the candidacy for re-nomination 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 this same thing is true of the vital interests of their people, as far as they are concerned. Lord, have mercy! That distressing Marysville, Mo., lynching is a true indication of the real attitude of the white south toward lynch-murder. There is no gainning this, either. To Study Creole Music Washington, D. C. —The Rosenwald Fund has just awarded Miss Camille Nickerson of New Orleans a $1,000 fellowship for post-graduate work, next year, in music, of which institution she is a graduate. She will study Creole folk-music. Miss Nickerson is instructor of piano and theory, and head of the children's department of Howard University School of Music, and a vice-president of our National Association of Musicians. THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, O., SATURDAY, JANUARY 31, 1931 OHIO'S MOB VIOLENCE ACT OR ANTI-LYNCHING LAW LEADS THE COUNTRY IN EFFECTIVE LEGISLATION Against the Mob and Lynch-Murder—Three Years' Work of a Member of the Race—Also His Ohio Civil Rights Law. Our mob-violence or anti-lynch 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 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: Section 6278. "Mob" and "lynching" defined. 6279. "Serious injury" defined. 6280. Damages in case of assault. 6281. Damages in case of lynching. 6282. Damages recoverable by legal representative of victim of lynching. 6283. Person suffering death or injury by mob trying to lynch another. 6284. Limitations of action. 6285. Order to include recovery and costs in tax levy. 6286. Guardian's custody, etc., fees. 6287. County's right of action against member of mob 6288. County's right of action against another county. 6289. Non-relief from prosecution. YOU KNOW ME, AL HEY, LISTEN, JACK! I DON'T THINK YOU'RE IN SHAPE. YOU DON'T SEEM TO STAND UP WELL ANY MORE. YOUR WIND IS BAD, YOU OUGHT TO BE DOING LOTS OF ROADWORK. TAKE A HOP OVER TO THE OLD MILL AND BACK KEefe Does Some Road Work WHAT? YOU BACK HERE ALREADY- HOW LONG DID IT TAKE YOU TO REACH THE OLD MILL? OH, ABOUT TWENTY MINUTES YOU ONLY BEEN GONE THIRTY MINUTES WELL, HOW LONG DID IT TAKE YOU TO GET BACK THEN? GEE! I CAN'T REMEMBER! American News Features, Inc. I HOPPED A TRUCK BACK! Section 6278. A collection of people assembled for an unlawful purpose and intending to do damage or injury to any one, or pretending to exercise correctional power over other persons by violence and without authority of law, shall be deemed a person for the purpose of this chapter. An act of violence by a mob upon the body of a person to constitute a "lynching" within the making of this chapter. (93 v. 161 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, sum not to exceed five thousand dollars; 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, damnation and 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 amount equal to widow-celving in man amount equal to child. 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 recoverable of such person so lynched, nor be subject to any of his liabilities. (93 v. 162 6.) Section 6283. A person suffering death or injury from a mob attempting to lynch another person shall come within the provisions of this chapter. He or his legal representatives shall have a like right of action against such person, if killed by such a mob. (93 v. 162 6.) Section 6284. Action for the recoveries provided for in this chapter must be commenced, within two years from the date of such lynching, in any court having original jurisdiction of an action for damages for malicious assault. (93 v. 162 7.) Section 6285. An order to the commissioners of a county, against which such recovery is had, to include it with the costs of action, in the county, shall be a part of the judgment in every such case. (93 v. 162 8.) Section 6286. If the decedent so lynched has minor children surviving him, the fund shall be turned over to a regularly appointed guardian. Such guardian shall administer the probate judge, allowing not more than five hundred dollars for counsel fees in the action for such recovery. (93 v. 162 9. 1) 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 place. A person present, with hostile intent, at such lynching shall be deemed a member of the mob and be liable to such action. (93 v. 162 10.) Section 6288. If a mob carries a prisoner into another county, or comes from another county to commit violence on a prisoner brought to a town by a mob for safekeeping, the county in which the lynching is committed may recover the amount of the judgment and costs from the county from which the mob came, unless there was contributory negligence on the part of officials of such county in failing to protect such prisoner or dispurse such mob. (93 v. 162 10.) Section 6289. This chapter shall not relieve a person concerned in such lynching from prosecution for homicide or assault for engaging therein. (93 v. 163 12.) OUR OHIO CIVIL RIGHTS LAW Upon the request of many readers of The Gazette we print below the text of the Hon. Harry C. Smith's Ohio Civil Rights law which the editor had enforced while a member of the 71st General Assembly, in 1894; the General Code of Ohio: Sec. 1240. Whoever, being the proprietor or the 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 favor the full enjoyment of the accommodation advantages, facilities or privileges that are defined not less than fifty dollars more than five hundred dollars, or imprisoned not less than thirty days nor more than ninety days, or both. Sec. 1241. Whoever violates the next preceding section shall also pay not less than fifty dollars nor more than hundreds dollars to the person aggrieved thereby to be recovered in any court competent jurisdiction in the county where such offense was committed. This law has repeatedly been held constitutional and good law by the Ohio Supreme court. The trouble is our people will not use it as often as they should, but expect it to do for them what they should and must do for themselves, under it, in the courts. AN OPPORTUNITY! "The Old Reliable" Gazette desires an active agent and correspondent in every city and town in Ohio and neighboring states having a number of Afro-American residents. Only a little time on Fridays or holidays is required to make some money. We are especially desirous of hearing from persons in the following named cities: Springfield, Columbus, Toledo, Steubenville, Zanesville, Wilmington, Xenia, Washington H., Lancaster, Piqua, Lima, and early in Ohio, where we have none. Write to the editor of The Gazette, 226 West Superior Ave., Cleveland, O., and terms will be sent promptly. Our readers will oblige us greatly by sending us the addresses of persons in the cities named, and others in the state, to whom we can write relative to the matter. Editor. "The Low Down" on Brazil. Washington, D. C. "There is absolutely no race prejudice in Brazil," Roy Nash, U. S. research worker, told the Political Science club of Howard University, last week Friday morning. He also said that he found 85 per cent of the Brazilians illiterate, that 90 per cent were barefooted, and the bank of the population suffering from anemia as a result of the hookworm. The people are a mixture of Indian, Negro and Portuguese with all equally prominent in public life. According to one of our Chicago newspapers "The welfare directors of Cleveland threaten to cut the budget of the local Negro Welfare Association nearly 50%." "I OWE IT ALL TO HI-JA" How wonderful it is to be beautiful! 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Severe criticism of the swift rise in expenditures for county and municipal governmental functions, coupled with questions for "bringing such costs down to a level commensurate with the public's ability to pay for them" were left for Cleveland and Cuyahoga county officialdom to ponder, Saturday, in an address by Atty, John D. Fackler at the City club. Wages Must Be Cut, Too. "Thirdly, to the extent that the cost of living has been reduced, wages as expressed in dollars must be reduced. All of us receive our compensation in the last analysis not in dollars, but in goods and commodities of satisfying our needs and desires. *May Expect Much. "What solution for our economic problems is there in reducing wages of labor union members?" he was asked. "I think we may expect a great deal from that source, Mr. Fackler said. Many union members are the rate that few can afford to pay the high rates asked for their labor now." 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RESTAURANT - HOME COOKING Individual Beds $2.50-$3.00 ENdicott 9094 Where To Purchase The Gazette H. SMITH'S 3007 Scovill Ave. FRANK L. HANDYS. 4401 Central Ave. J. S. HALL'S 3133 Central Ave. NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS Subscribers not receiving The us at once. We desire every Send or bring locals and all office, Suite 802, Johnson Block site the Hotel Cleveland. If there, please. We advise our readers to advertisements before making advertise in this paper should be The fact that they advertise is All reading matter for pub Gazette must be in the office week, at the latest. Display 4 p. m., WEDNESDAYS! HARRY 226 West Superior (Opposite, Ho Notary Public Classified Advertise Subscribers not receiving The Gazette regularly should notify us at once. We desire every copy delivered promptly. Send or bring locals and all business matters to The Gazette office, Suite 802, Johnson Block, 226 Superior Ave., West, opposite the Hotel Cleveland. If you wish to see the editor call there, please. We advise our readers to carefully examine The Gazette's advertisements before making purchases. Business men who advertise in this paper should have the patronage of our people. The fact that they advertise is assurance that they want it. All reading matter for publication in current issues of The Gazette must be in the office by noon, WEDNESDAY, of that week, at the latest. Display advertisements accepted until 4 p. m., WEDNESDAYS! HARRY C. SMITH 226 West Superior Avenue, Cleveland, O. (Opposite, Hotel Cleveland.) Notary Public Bell 'Phone: Cherry 1250 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, or 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 Clarence Davis, a probation officer, has been given an increase in salary. The remains of W. E. Wilson, E. 36th St., were shipped to Virginia, Monday. Miss Ellen, one of the Ferguson twins, was married, recently, to Paul Sissle. John F. Wilson is in training for a management at the Kroger Store in E. 55th St. near Central Ave. Louis Lucas is one of the clerks employed in Sachs - Dry Goods and Gent's Furnishing Store, located at 7103 Central Ave. Arthur Mays is president, Harold Brown (white) vice-president, and Mary Brown secretary of the Central high school mid-year senior class. Second Mt. Sinal Baptist choir gave a very pleasing recital, Sunday night, in their new church, I. C Chapman, director, and Rev. D. W. Hill, pastor of the church. the sermonic debate between Dr. W. H. Moses and Clarence Darrow at Shiloh Baptist church, Thursday night, was very interesting and well attended. Thomas Wilson, E. 40th St. and Cedar Ave., upholsterer and city employee at times, and for years a resident of Cleveland, dropped dead, last week. Funeral was held Sunday. Prof. Leonce Lubin of Paris, France, French and Spanish instructor, has located here and will open a school of language. Further announcement will appear in The Gazette. Miss Bessie Early accompanied Mr. and Mrs. Emmett Meade, of E. 130th St., recently, on a motor trip to Kent to visit their daughter. Miss Elizabeth, a student of Kent Normal school. For rent, five nice rooms (down) at 2417 E. 82d St., modern and in good condition. Call, CHerry 1259, or call at suite 302, No. 226 W. Superior Ave., opposite Hotel Cleveland entrance. Roscoe R. Sims, E. 89th St., who died recently, in Chicago, was buried in this city. He was sergeant in the A. E. F. for fifteen months during the World War. Five sisters survive him. Judge Walter McMahon, presiding in criminal court, has assigned Atty. Chester K. Gillespie (with an assistant) to defend Geo. Merryweather, 6409 Ruth Ave., charged with first degree murder. Dr. Robert White of N. Y. City, a brother of Atty. Chas. W. White of this city, stopped in Cleveland, recently, enroute home from Cinchinat where he buried his wife, former Miss Martha Green of that city. Doris Russell of Washington, D.C., former resident of this city, and Howard C. Nelson of Dayton, are to wed in the Nation's capital, April 23, and spend their honeymoon in Europe, after which they will locate in Chicago. Among those to remember the editor's birthday (Wednesday) with very pretty souvenir post-cards were Mr. and Mrs. Louisa Jones of Boston and Mrs. Wilson Brent of Madison, N. J., and Dr. Cresta A. Taylor of Crawford Rd. Ollie Dawson, a star athlete of W. R. U., is our only member of the Berichowitz organization, "A" championship of the "Muny" Association, recently. The members of the team are all graduates of Collinwood high school. 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 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 that they want it. location in current issues of The by noon, WEDNESDAY, of that advertisements accepted until C. SMITH Avenue, Cleveland, O. Bell Cleveland.) Bell 'Phone: Cherry 1260 Using Department FOR RENT. — A four-room suite (up) at 2347 E. 86th St. Nice rooms in good condition; 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. 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. The Central "Muny" team of Central Ave. bath house defeated Shiloh Baptist team, 9 to 5, and the Brown "Sweets" (white), 13 to 10, on the same evening, recently; the former at Mt. Zion Temple, and the latter at St. Clair bath house. "Councilman LeRoy Bundy, who is ill with pneumonia at City hospital, suffered a slight relapse today, according to his wife. Bundy was thought to be on the road to recovery when the relapse occurred."—Cleveland Press, Jan. 22, '31. Prof. R. Nathaniel Dett, leader of the Hampton (Va.) Institute choir which recently returned from a very successful European tour, and the organization, will appear at Public music hall, Mar. 12, under the auspices of Mt. Zion Cong. church musical organizations. Alex. O. Taylor, for several years secretary of the Anchor Life Insurance Co. which was absorbed by the Liberty Life Insurance Co., recently has been given temporary employment in the office of the board of elections. The Gazette hopes the appointment is made permanent. Flora J. Douglass, former local public school teacher and a native of this city, died in Chicago, last week. Funeral, Monday. Miss Douglass, well-known in the city, the daughter of Benj and Lucy Douglass, both well-known to our older residents. A sister, a resident of Chicago, survives the deceased. The only FREE employment agency in Cleveland is the State-City Employment Agency at the City Hall, maintained by the state of Ohio. The office does not 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 $21 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. The editor of The Gazette acknowledges receipt of an invitation, last week, to attend the Tippecanoe Club McKinley day banquet at the Chamber of Commerce, Terminal Tower, Thursday evening. Atty. John B. Brad and Mr. Andrew Squire, Judge Mary B. Grosman and the Hon. Ralph D. Cole of Findlay and Columbus were the speakers. Last Sunday afternoon at Friendly Inn, 3754 Woodland Ave., a forum on the "Negro Problem" was sponsored by the Women's Anxiliary of the Medical Atty, M. C. Harrison, Councilman Clayborne George, Editor Louis Tarcal, Gordon Simpson and others, speakers. Miss Eleanor ```markdown ``` IN WINTER MISS GUARDS HERSE WELL WITH FURS THAT HEAVY, EXPENS SWELL, THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, O., SATURDAY, JANUARY 31, 1931. Gazette DRUG STORE Central Ave. and BOLDEN'S Ave. ERS You should notify omply. to The Gazette Ave., West, oppo- t the editor call to The Gazette's ness men who are of our people. Alexander, president of the local branch, presided. The editor of The Gazette ack- nOWEDges receipt of an invitation, tation to attend the National Ur- ban League's annual meeting to be held in N. Y. City, Feb. 11. Report of 1930 accomplishments, plans for 1931, audited treasurer's statement for 1930 will be presented, and va- cancies on the executive board filled. Guest speaker Allen T. Burns, dir- ector association of Community Chests and Councils. Twenty-four leading soccer out- fits, selected from the International, Major and Lake Shore leagues will stage an indoor tournament at public hall, Sunday afternoon and evening, as the third event in the Public Athletic league's series for 10.0. amusement sportmen. Eight games will be played during the afternoon session, lasting thirty minutes. In the evening the contest will be forty minutes. An elaborate and one of the most beautiful affairs of the season was the buffet-dinner given by Mary J. Wright, E. 100th St., in honor of Mr. and Mrs. J. Thos. Stokes, celebrating their 25th anniversary. The tables were artistically arranged; four guests each. The decorations were beautiful, salt and full bloom pink with fodder and ferns being used. A delicious five-course meal was served. Demitasse and bridge. Walton Banks sent the following letter to the editor of The Plain Dealer, the first of the week: "In Saturday morning's paper, Jan. 24, 31, there appeared an article headed, 'The Underground Railroad,' in the miserable and offensive term, 'n' for 'naughty' or 'wondering if it is the policy of The Plain Dealer to so openly and grossly insult thousands of its readers?' I for one feel keenly the insult, and am writing to protest against it in the strongest possible manner. You Germans, Italians by using the offensive terms, respectively—'sheeny,' 'mick,' 'dutch,' 'dago,'." 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' & Children's Dispensary, 2500 E. 35th St. This means that the city council finance committee which George instituted on his and Payne's behalf 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 he is against the Riggs 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. The Hon. Perry B. Jackson was introduced, Sunday evening, at the Community Forum in St. Mark's Presbych, church, cor. of Thackery Ave. and E. 55th St., by Atty. John E. Ballard, and gave a very thouffel address on "Some Problems We Should Prepare Soon." Soon after Springfield, Mo. will be the forum's next speaker, Sunday evening. His subject, "The Modern Woman in the Home." Early in March, possibly the second Sunday, Ex-State Senator John P. Green will address the forum with the immortal Charles Sumner as his subject. Atty. Green is a fine speaker and will give the forum an exceptionally carefully prepared treat. The attendance is bake and the audience is low. Lee Felder, pastor of St. Mark's, is showing splendid judgment in his selection of speakers for the forum. Helps Secure Passage of Protest- Resolution Against Proposed Discriminatory Legislation. Oakland, Cal.—Delliah L. Beley of the local daily Tribune, former resident of Ohio, on motion of one of the leading members of the Oakland Church Women's Council, was invited to address a recent meeting. She is our only member of the organization which represents forty-eight churches of this city. A bill has been introduced in the State Assembly of California providing for setting aside, for colored boys and girls, certain hours and days in public playgrounds and swimming pools of the various municipalities of the state. The passage of a protest-resolution by the council against this color-line bill was secured largely thru the efforts of Miss Beley. REFUSED TO RESIGN! Columbus, O.—Gov. George White's Democratic administration started in by "firing" Major Gilbert AN OHIOAN IN THE WEST WHILE THE ICE MAN,WHEN SUMMER AND AUTUMN HAVE CLOSED, WALKS AROUND WITH HIS ARMS AND HIS NECK ALL EXPOSED: Do You Worry About Your Hair? Amy Billions Ch are credited every ye of that inimitable sty ings whose character fused with those of an RUBE Watch For from the Adjutant General's department. Wm. Eldridge, messenger in the same office, was asked to resign but, being under civil service, referred to be as. The Democrats will get rid of him in another way. Roy White of this city was appointed messenger to the Governor. Bart J. Guyder of the Governor's office was temporarily placed by Gov. Myers Y. Cooper as messenger in the department of public works. It is expected that when the state Republican headquarters opens in a few weeks Mr. Guyder will be located there. Negro Democrats are armed out of law. 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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 FIRE EXTINGUISHER WILL DISPERSE MOBS MILITARY VEHICLE The fire extinguisher is the newest weapon which the Berlin police are considering as a means of quelling riots in the German capital. Instead of the usual chemicals it will be filled with a mixture of narcotics of an indelible color. The narcotics are meant to make the rioters helpless and cover them with spots to reveal their identity. The stain can be removed with the aid of a solution, the secret of which will be known only to the police. WINTER MONTHS WEAR BATTERIES Much Trouble Is Caused by Lack of Knowledge of Owner. Severe stress, even under the most favorable conditions, is imposed upon the battery and general electrical system of a car during the winter months, according to a bulletin issued by the mechanical first-aid department of the Chicago Motor club, which contained suggestions as to how to maintain those parts so that they will operate with the highest possible degree of efficiency. The records of the motor club indicate that a goodly share of winter trouble is caused primarily by lack of knowledge on the part of the car owner, and secondarily by the battery. Paradoxically, a battery must be kept fully charged during the cold weather, when the drain upon it, as a result of difficult starting, is greatest. If it is not fully, or nearly fully charged, it is likely to freeze. The manner in which to keep it in such condition is to set the generator so it will charge at a rate between twelve and fourteen amperes when the lights are off and the car is running at twenty-five or thirty miles per hour, and to use the starter and lights as sparingly as possible. The distributor assembly and spark plugs play a greater part in starting a motor than many car owners suspect. After a summer of considerable touring, it is probable that the breaker points are somewhat pitied. If so, they should be "dressed," or polished, preferably on an oilstone. The spark plugs should be checked, not only for deposits of carbon or thick, gummy oil, but for the width of the spark gap as well. If the plugs are caked with carbon or oil, it is advisable to purchase a new set. The width of the spark gap varies with different ignition systems, but generally the gap should be approximately the thickness of a dime. The insulation of cables and wiring should be scanned, and if it is not in first-class condition the connection should be replaced by a new length. Breaks in the insulation are likely to cause short circuits and possibly set the car on fire, to say nothing of getting wet and perhaps shorting the ignition system. English Company Makes Device for Car Lights A device for automatically switching on the lights on an automobile that has been left in the street unattended has been developed by a London company. The instrument is about the size of a speedometer and can be fitted to the dash or in any other convenient position. It comprises a dial on which time intervals of 15 minutes are graduated over a range of six hours. The dial may be turned by means of a knob, so that the length of time from the moment the instrument is set to the lighting-up time appears opposite a pointer, and lights are switched on automatically. No current is required for the operation of the instrument, nor is any winding required aside from that necessary to set it. The instrument does not interfere with control of the lights by the regular switches. Some Changes Wrought by Automobile Industry Fewer than 25,000 automobiles 25 years ago and more than 26,000,000 motor vehicles today. Then only 155,000 miles of improved road existed in all of the United States, of which but 144 miles had a high type of surface; and today more than 600,000 miles of improved highway and another 500,000 miles of usable dirt road. Less than $100,000,000 a year was being spent in the nation a quarter of a century ago in highway improvement, whereas today the country is spending more than $1,500,000,000 annually. Skidding Danger May Be Avoided During Winter Skidding is a deadly toe of safety, especially during the winter season, and motorists often ask the question, "What causes the car to skid?" according to Frank Hatfield, president of the Hoosier Motor club. Mr. Hatfield pointed out that there are two factors in skidding, either of which is liable to result in serious damage to the car and injury to its occupants. He continued: "The car usually starts to skid when it is on a slippery downgrade and there is too much pressure on the rear brakes; when a turn is made too wide on a slippery street at a high speed, and when the brakes are jammed on suddenly on an ice or wet street. "Some engineers go as far as to suggest that in winter driving, where the car has four-wheel brakes, that the brakes should have a 40 per cent pressure on the front wheels and 40 per cent on the rear. This, it is stated, will protect against the locking of rear wheels and prevent a skid. "Under ordinary conditions, however, the safe way is to apply the brakes slowly and not jam them on suddenly. Another helpful factor is to make turns on a comparatively short radius and at a reasonable speed. Thus, if it is necessary to apply the brakes, there is a greater margin of safety." Motorist Can Talk Back to Any Traffic Copper Irate, motorists can dispute what appears to be an unfair decision of the traffic cop and can even tell him what they think of him with impunity by means of this newly-developed microphone attached to the steering Using the "Mike." wheel of certain British motor cars. The fair motorist can not only address the policeman from several feet away but can issue directions for safety to erring pedestrians. Traffic tangles should be exciting for "mike" drivers. AUTOMOBILE NOTES ```markdown ``` Automobile drivers in Louisville, Ky., are required to give street cars the right of way. So live that you can shift gears without the whole world knowing what you're doing. A double automobile license fee might be even more unpopular than a backseat driver. A woman auto racer in Europe has just petitioned for divorce from a husband who has been driven only two years. One of the midget motor cars is operated by an ex-machine gun sergeant, who refers to it as his portable dugout. "A new motor brake will stop a car going 70 miles an hour within 20 feet." It has a tendency, though, to get glass in your hair. According to an amended statute, any elephant or interstate bus in Ceylon must carry front and rear lights hereafter at night. THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, O., SATURDAY, JANUARY 31, 1931. STOLEN 9L183 Frank Sfara of Pittsburgh, with the novel apparatus by use of which theft of his car is reduced to a minimum. With Sfara driving only his "stop" light flashes on when he applies the brakes. When he parks the car he throws a certain switch over. Anyone attempting to steal the car knows nothing about this switch and as soon as he starts the engine the light in the rear flashes "stolen" to all who observe. MOTOR HORN IS OFTEN MISUSED With Squeaks and Rattles Is One of the Greatest Noise-Makers. A motor vehicle has as part of its equipment a heavy horn, and an engine which can be turned into an unnecessary noisemaker by a thoughtless person. With the squeaks, rattles and rumbles, especially those of large commercial motor vehicles, it can be considered the greatest noisemakers in the world. Used as Safety Device. The improper use of the horn probably constitutes the most objectionable noise. The horn ought, of course, to be carried as a safety device on every motor vehicle. It ought to be used on occasion, but there ought to be occasion for its use. It isn't necessary to anticipate and toot the horn vigorously when there is no one to warn. The opposite view has prevailed in some states, and there was at one time a law, in a neighboring state, that the horn had to be blown before crossing each intersection. Better practices are becoming common. For Warning Only. The horn is for warning, where warning is necessary, and for no other purpose. Another reason why it is misused is that it answers so many varied purposes. It is possible to stop in front of a friend's house and toootil he comes out. It really would not take very much longer, or be much more of an effort, to go in and get him. This would mean consideration for other people. There is always the possibility that some one may be asleep in the neighborhood. If operators stopped to consider this possibility, it does not seem likely they would halt in front of the houses of friends and perform solos on the horn. Yet the practice is common. It should be stopped. Not only should it be against the law, but a reasonable penalty should be imposed. Faulty Spark Plugs Are Cause of Poor Action Much of the poor performance of a car or truck or tractor may be traced to faulty plugs. Dirty or old worn-out plugs cause poor starting, excessive battery drain, irregular and noisy operation, excessive fuel consumption, and loss of power. Tests show that a motor in which spark plugs had been used for more than 10,000 miles developed 31.2 horsepower, when run at an engine speed equivalent to 20 miles an hour. The same motor run at the same speed equipped with a new set of plugs gave a horse power reading of 38.0, an increase of 6.8 horse power, or about 22 per cent. Washers for Hinge Pins Stop Kattling of Doors Door rattles are sometimes caused by a vertical motion of the doors on the hinge pins. This is caused by hinges which are worn or which originally did not mesh tightly when the door is closed. If there is clearance here the hinge part which is fixed to the door will strike against the part of the hinge that is fixed to the body every time the car goes over a rough road. Washers surrounding the hinge pin, between the adjacent parts of the hinge, if carefully fitted by filing the hinge, will remove the trouble. Gasoline Is High American motorists pay as little as or even less than, 17 or 18 cents a gallon for gasoline, while in Canada and Mexico the cost per gallon is from 23 to 35 cents. In Great Britain, France, Italy, Germany, and other European nations motorists pay as much as 40 cents a gallon. In Bolivia they pay 40 cents, and the world averages the United States is about 35 cents. Mental Lapses Cause of The majority of automobile accidents are caused by mental lapses on the part of the driver, in the opinion of Automobile Commissioner Baughman, of Maryland, who outlined as follows what he termed the most serious: When the driver engages in back-seat conversation and momentarily turns around. Crowding of the driver's seat. Crowding of the driver's seat. When the driver is sleepy and fatigued. Prolonged study of the dashboard devices. Hogging of the road. Many lapses, some intentional, come under this classification. Strict attention to simple rules of conduct will save many lives and prevent multitudes of accidents, Mr. Bangham says. If every motor car operator would avoid these lapses and hold to the golden rule of the road—drive as you would have others drive drive and you would drive —highways would be safer and there would be more pleasure and comfort in operating a motor car. Manner of Forcing Rim Into a Locked Position The illustration shows how to use a piece of board, a wood wedge, and a hammer to force a rim into the locked position. Both the board and the wedge should be made of hardwood. The board should be not less than an inch and a quarter thick and wide A Piece of Board and a Wedge Are Handy to Force a Rim Into Locked Position. enough so that its lower edge will be supported by the ground. This is similar to the common way, using a jack supported by a board to give the necessary force.—Popular Science Monthly. ```text **************************************** AUTOMOBILE HINTS ``` There was a reduction of $3\frac{1}{2}$ per cent in automobile grade crossings in 1929. The midget car may be science's best effort to date, in the field of harnessing the atom. Motorists in India are urging headlights and tail-lights for elephants, which are the kind of pedestrians they can't bump off. Building- 41 miles of perfectly straight highway in Illinois makes it just a bit awkward for the nut who only passes you on a curve. The Denver city council has adopted an ordinance prohibiting parking on streets of the business section on which electric car lines operate. The automobile trade is said to be turning the corner to prosperity. That is one turn it is all right to make in "high," and on two wheels if necessary. If night comes on before the day's driving is done, wipe off the windshield—inside and out. Dusty glass increases the glare of approaching headlights. Motormen and conductors of the Seattle municipal railway lines have been instructed to report license numbers of automobiles obstructing passage of the electric cars. A good serviceable trouble lamp for your garage can be made from an old headlight reflector. Cut a hole in the center of the reflector large enough to accommodate an ordinary socket. STRAW BANDING FOR THE NEW HATS ALSO SMART STRAW-TRIMMED SATIN IT IS really not going to be difficult to choose a "first hat" in season, for early millinery bowings are extremely encouraging as to hats tuned to type, and it is said that milliners are FUR-BORDERED SLEEVES FOR GOWNS OF SHEER PRINT "WITH A JACKET" BENDERWOOD & UNDERWOOD Straw bandings are considered a highlight in the field of materials for the new season's headwear. Worked for the entire hat or in combination, milliners see in the wide bands of straw infinite possibilities. An alliance which is favored for the midseason or early spring hat is that of satin and straw. In fact, the satin hat is smartly in vogue for immediate wear, whether it be trimmed with straw or with felt, as many of the latest models are. The first hat shows a very clever use of straw together. Rows of straw banding are seemed together with inset rows of satin folds. The movement which brings the point of interest down to the nape of the neck is observed and the feeling that the chiname is worn back on the head FUR-BORDERED SLEE OF SHEER PRINT THE fur-trimmed idea is gaining. That a touch of fur is wondrously effective on gay sheer print is one of the proud discoveries made in the realm of fashion during the winter months and which because of its exceeding great charm holds promise of a widespread vogue for the future. Be the dine or dance gown of sheer print or of heavier crepe it is almost certain to be styled with a matching jacket and in almost every instance the sleeves of the complementary jacket whether long or short or in boiler fashion are quite certain to be bordered with fur. Frequently the hemline of the jacket is also fur-outlined. Chiffon in a woodland pattern done in vivid colors on a black background is the chosen medium for the charming frock in the illustration. Wide fur borders the sleeves of its accompanying bolero. This winsome gown can be transformed into an evening formal simply by removing its short jacket—which is the way of most of the newer ensembles, the demand for a matching jacket having increased to such an extent that practically every frock has its accompanying jacket. GAZETTE who might Su is accented by the satin bandeau. At the top to the right is a satin model which goes fifty-fifty with felt in its construction, the felt worked in appliqued motifs. A gracefully draped brim distinguishes the satin shape centered to the right, its edge being neatly bound with straw just by way of announcing that spring is here, at least in the realm of millinery. Touches of straw banding enhance the other satin hat, the straw suggesting a tiny one-side brim. Entirely fashioned of straw banding is the history of the final hat, the straw banding employed in exactly the same manner as designers work the popular belting ribbon, only the hat of straw is much newer. CHERIE NICHOLAS. EVES FOR GOWNS "WITH A JACKET" UNDERWOOD & UNDERWOOD An exception to the gown with a jacket is the short-sleeved dress. This type also subscribes to the fur-turm iden in that the sleeves, which in some instances are not much more than caps and from then on vary to elbow length, are also bordered with fur. For the evening mode the new prints are very gorgeous and for the most part patterned in large floralis. This is in direct contrast to daytime prints which are conservative both as to their colorings which run largely to grays, beige and browns together with black and white. Navy as a background and especially with white promises to be in the lead. Plaids, stripes and checks are the smart new note in prints both sheer and of firm weave. Sometimes the plaid is indicated merely by thin hairlines, then again the plaided design is worked in definite vivid colors and a third class is charmingly interpreted in "invisible" broken effects. These plaid chiffons and crepes are welcomed with enthusiasm as they offer something so entirely different from what we have been having in prints. CHERIE NICHELAS. After Read subscribe after 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 Hotel. Dear Sir: "Your attention has doubless 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 we used the mongrel term, "darky," and the most miserably insulting one, telling a story about a "dotted" 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 song "Fly off my more thousand "colored" 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 raised to call attention to Hey, Frank H. Nelson's miserable insult. He surely must know better, but doubtless forgot 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 well, Harry C. Smith, 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 Gazette, Cleveland. Dear Mr. Smith:—I am led by the article appearing in the Gazette of last month and our letter of January 14, to offer my most sincere apologies for the offensive terms employed by one of our speakers. I wish to assure you that it has always been our policy to withhold any terms in which we are sensitive to a threat we can 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 vise versa. We assure that we deeply regret the occurrence. May I offer, at this time, my sincere apologies on behalf of the station, and at the same time, my assurance that there will never be a re-occurrence. I am very truly, The WGAR Broadcasting Co., Inc. J. P. Fatt, Vice-President. Cleveland, Jan. 20, '31. Mr. John F. Patt, Vice-President, WGAR Broadcasting Co., Inc. Statler店 Cleveland. My dear Mr. Patt. Your letter of January 20, 1931 just received and I 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, the current issue of my paper, 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, in your behalf of my people everywhere. With sincerest best wishes for you and the splendid new broadcasting station over which you preside as vice-president and manager, I am 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. My people are leading people— Their leaders get the gold; They lead and keep the rest behind With empty bags to hold. Ross D. Brown. "NOT THE LARGEST. BUT THE BEST!" Little Rock, Ark. June 16, '25. Hon. Harry C. Smith, Editor, Gazette, Cleveland, O. Dear Friend:—Long live the Gazette! a welcome friend to the Ricks-Demby family for forty-three years. We boast of being among the oldest continuous subscribers of the The Gazette—not the largest but the best in essentials and the most dependable of race points. Wishing you continued good health and success, we are as ever. Very truly yours. (Bishop) Edward T. and Nettie M. Demby.