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ZANESVILLE.—The local N. A. A. C. P. branch elected officers last week Monday evening: John L. Stevens, pres.; Horace Webb, vice-pres.; Miss Rebecca Kinney, assist.; Dr. S. Alexander, treas. The executive committee includes Harry R. Stott; Wallace Needham, Mrs. Bessie Colston, Mrs. Carrie Green, Jos. E. Gregory, Augustus Goatly, Mrs. Lella Anderson, Jas. A. Cox and Ernest R. Morehead.—The Union Baptist choir will give a concert, Tuesday evening. DOINGS OF THE RACE. Dr. Kelly Miller Jr., a resident of Harlem, N. Y. City, was married in Moscow, Russia, several months ago. Sam Martin of Talladega, Ala., a veteran of the War of the Rebellion has just received $10,197, back pension since 1892. YOUNGSTOWN —Oakhill Ave. A.M. M. E. church pastor society's pwally, Sunday evening, in connection with the regular service, was featured by the rendition of the follo- ture program: Dusty McMurray, Tate and Mrs. John Smith; reading, Miss Sara Rouse; vocal solo, Miss Helen Rayford; sermon by the pastor —Mme. Dozier presented a program at U. N. I. A. hall, Dec. 16. Welcome address, H. G. Emerson; vocal solo, Albert Erb; instrumental solo, Mr. N. N. L. Caldwell; vocal solo, Mr. N. N. L. Caldwell; w. H. Howard introduced the speaker of the evening, Judge Geo. H. Gessner. 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 on the outside of the book 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, for in advance at the rate of 20 cents for advertisements will be sent on application to a line. Our rates for display adition. TOLEDO. — Mrs. Jennie Artis, mother of Mrs. George Stewart, who died, last week, had just returned here from Detroit.—Mrs. Robert Bagnall visited in Sandusky, recently.—Mrs. Margaret Cottrell entertained the Bridgettes, last week Wednesday evening. Prizes were awarded.—A Phillip Randolph of N. Y. president of the National Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, recently addressed the open forum, under the awnings, the Jewish Educational League, on "The American Negro in Industry" and was well received. The Utopian club entertained in his honor at the conclusion of his talk.—Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Vena have returned from a visit in Europe.—Mrs. Lillian Upghebrove entertained the Forty club, recently. Prizes were awarded in Fead's hospital; Detroit; interment here in Woodland. He was superintendent of service of the Recess club and had held a similar position with the Detroit Athletic club. The widow and a stepson survive him. JEWISH APPRAISAL Of "The Old Reliable" By Delegates From Manly, Australia. Near Hawaii. Captains, Capt. New York City.-Delegates from 41 states, at the quarterly meeting of the Jewish Club of the National Executive Committee of Avukah Oct. 12, spent five hours reading Afro-American newspapers and magazines. The Cleveland (O.) Gazette was commented upon favorably by the students, and special mention was made of the fight which The Gazette has waged successfully for 47 years for Civil Rights for the people of color in Ohio. It was considered well made up and the editorials splendidly written, and courageously. GANS DRAWS WITH CH4 GANS DRAWS WITH CHAMPION Montreal, Canada. — Lou Broullard (white), the Worcester, Mass. boy who has worn the crown of the world's wetterweight championship just two months, found Baby Joe Gans, of Los Angeles, the same tough customer that he has been to all other leading battlers. Broullard and four Gans in a 10-round non-title bout for the title of the Christmas basket fund. Tuesday night, and could get no better than a draw. The champion held the offensive most of the way, but his constant pounding at Gans' mid-season brot no visible results and the latter's counter-punching brot him enough points to earn a draw decision. DOINGS OF THE RACE. Dr. Kelly Miller Jr., a resident of Harlem, N. Y. City, was married in Moscow, Russia, several months ago. Sam Martin of Talladega, Ala., a veteran of the War of the Rebellion, has just received $10,197, back pension since 1892. About half of the 1,500 "hunger marchers," who stormed the capitol at Washington, D. C., last week Monday noon, as the 72d Congress convened, were members of the race. Dr. Lawrence P. Jacks, noted English author, educator and philosopher, who is lecturing in this country, will deliver an address at Hampton Va. Institute, Sunday afternoon. Bishop R. A. Grant of the A. M. E Church is on out a $1,000 bond awaiting the next term of the circuit court of Geneva County, Ala., as the result of the charge of a daughter of one of his ministers that he is the father of her little boy. The financial activities of John T. Risher, president of the Natl. Benefit Life Ins. Co., Washington, D. C. are in the hands of the U. S. department of justice, and the attorney of the District of Columbia is watching the case with a view to prosecution, it is announced. According to a report issued by the National Urban League, N. Y. City, the unemployment situation throughout the country is still very poorly parted the country, particularly in the South whites are performing even domestic work, heretofore that exclusively for "Negroes." CAB'S "LUCKY STRIKE!" The Calloways on Radio — Mills "Hickman, Wins, Living-Clap, Hickman, Wins, Living-Clap, New York City.—Cab Calloway and orchestra will become a part of the Lucky Strike radio hour, Dec. 29, and be our first orchestra so featured in an important commercial broadcast. Cab is playing the Loew theaters in this vicinity, doubling from his regular engagement at the Club. Jan. 1st, he band leave on a tour of the Paramount theater circuit which will take him as far west as Kansas City. Irving Mills has completed production of an all-race stage unit, "Harlem Scandals," with a cast of forty persons, including "Buba Miley and His Jungle Band," and a chorus of dancing girls. It opened on May 1st. Not only is the band and is scheduled for a tour of the R-K-O vaudeville circuit, this season. Irving Mills manages several bands, including Duke Ellington, Cab Calloway and his Blue Rhythm Band. This last-named organization, which has just returned from a successful three-week tour thru the band, will be featured in Warner's Beacon theater here until it replaces Cab Calloway at the Cotton Club in Harlem. Duke Ellington was selected as our most popular orchestra leader in a poll recently conducted by a Pittsburgh race newspaper, and is to be presented with a silver loving cup on his next visit to that city. After completing his current Paramount theater tour, he and his popular orchestra will return here for the first time in a year. Mayor Johnston's Latest Troubles. Mayor Arthur Johnston of Miles Heights Village was found guilty, Tuesday, of contempt of court by Judge A. W. Overmeyer of Fremont, sitting here by assignment, for failure to appear in court in response to a contempt citation which grew out of a complaint to the fifer and bill of exceptions in a traffic case in the Miles Heights court in which an Akron real estate broker was found guilty of reckless driving. Johnston fined the broker $50 and costs. The latter secured a new trial, May 27, when the charge was dismissed, but the broker, immediately re-arrested on the same charge, was fined $125 and costs, and taken to the county jail where he was released on bond. His attorney then filed a petition in error to common pleas that he was forbidden on the petition in error that the broker wanted the transfer and bill of exceptions. THE PRINCES BUSY Rendering Great Service to the Needy—Memorial Service—Financial Assistance Asked—Union Revival. Rev. and Mrs. Boston J. Prince of Messiah Baptist church deserve a great deal of credit for the splendid work they have done, still doing in wards 11, 12, 17 and 18. For eight months, they fought for jobs for our people in the chain and independent stores, and the New- M. Rev. Boston J. Prince. berry 5 & 10e store in Woodland Ave, being successful in placing over 350 members of the race, Mrs. Prince announces. Now they are surveying the third and fourth councilmatic districts, she writes, where they have found thousands of our children in dire need; also that orchard is no longer much for our families, much to the reports of the Rev. and Mrs. Prince's nine workers. Three weeks ago, Messiah church had given food, clothing and shoes to more than a thousand, and invites all needy persons to the church, Wednesdays at 7:30 p. m., when the necessary food is given out. They are secured as the result of solicitation. All welcome. Sunday (tomorrow) at 11:15 a.m., memorial services at Messiah for its oldest deacon, John R. Meade, and all members who have passed out during its organization. Dr. Prince will preach and the choir render appropriate music. At 3 p.m., the church will celebrate its sixth anniversary, Rev. C. C. Aller preaching the sermon. Dec. 27, there will be a rally, and since the sermon has resumed, it is appealing generally for financial aid which ought to be rendered promptly. Address Mrs. B. J. Prince, 2193 E. 87th St. Jan. 3, a union revival of all our local Baptist churches will have its first sermon preached at Messiah, at 3:30 p.m. INSULTED OUR GIRLS After "Crashing" Into Dance Hall— Killed of Course—One an dance hall Lewisburg, W. Va.—Under cover of a darkness, a mob of about 50 heavily armed and masked white brutes swept into Lewisburg in automobiles, early last week Thursday, and lynched Tom Jackson, age 48, and George Banks, age 26, who were taken from jail. A few hours afterward, three brothers, R. E. Larkin and his brothers (Jill) were committed to the same jail. They live at Quinwood, the home of Jos. H. Mylus, constable; and Jack Brown, for whose slaying the lynch-murdered men were recently indicted by a special grand jury. Lewisburg citizens contend that Myles and Brown brot about their own death, by forcing their attention on girls who a dance they "crashed" by Jackson and Banks to cease being disorderly or leave the dance hall, but refused to do so. An argument ensued in which the constable and his friend lost their lives. MOREHOUSE-OXFORD DEBATE. The Former Exciled in the Presentation of Facts and the Latter in Diction, Sarcasm and Wit. Atlanta, Ga.—Morehouse College debated Oxford University (Eng.) on the negative of the question. Resolved: That the Press is democracy's Greatest Danger." The Englehner opponent in their flowering diction, sarcasm and found the audience constantly breaking forth with mirth and hilarity. On the other hand, Morehouse was the better in presentation of facts and reasoning. The latter was represented by Milton King Curry, '32, and Alfred C. Tyler, '32. Oxford representatives were John A. Boyd-Carpenter and John Foot. In an interview after the debate, the visitors complimented Morehouse very well. He stated that this debate had been the most difficult on the schedule so far. They touring this country debating all outstanding colleges, and have five different subjects for debate. SINGLE COPY FIVE CENTS PROF. KELLY MILLER OF HOWARD UNIVERSITY PRAISES IT AND WRITES OF ITS AFTERMATH. Many Prominent Members of the Race in Attendance —The Party of Stevens and Sumner Dead— First Serious Attempt to Organize— A Committee at Work. Washington, D. C.—The Non-partisan Conference has gone into history. The after-tone is still ringing in our ears. The enthusiastic response to the call issued by Congressman Oscar DePriest was but indicative of the wide-spread spirit of political uneasiness and unrest prevalent throughout the race. The Negro has no political home in which he feels that he is a welcome and satisfied member. The press, pulpit, platform and other organs of public opinion echo this dissatisfaction of neither of the two great political leaders, an ugly destro' for him, except to his political potentiality for its own ends. But the Negro now feels that he must turn this potentiality to his own account regardless of party fate or fortune. His political estate has been miserably managed up to now, but it is to be hoped that it will be more efficiently done from now on. Congressman DePriest had the happy sagacity to strike the iron while it was red hot. The evenly balanced fortune of the two major parties gives the Negro vote strategic significance. The Conference was called without prejudice either for or against either party. It eschewed Republican and Democratic partisanship alike, but laid bare the strength of its uphon Negro partisanship. It put race before party. Race is deeper than politics. The white race acts on this principle, which makes the Negro think and act likewise. The Negro's cause is very similar to that of the Anti-Saloon League. Some of its members are unswervable Republicans, some are hard and fast Democrats, while still others are Independents; but all stand first and foremost for prohibition which they strive to promote through either or both of the contending parties. The other of the contending parties, the Negro, favors prohibition any more than it does the cause of the Negro. In both instances the alignment is local, without reference to party creed or party principle. In the North both parties are wet, and let us say, pro-Democrat. In the South they are both dry and equally unfriendly to the Negro's political demands. The Negro can hardly be all Republican or all Democrat any more than can prohibitionists, unless they believe the profession of faith in principles they profess. The Negro can hardly be any more than can align himself with bourbon Democrats without stultifying his race devotion. There is not a single intelligent Negro in the country, except those few whose personal interests or ambitions are involved in partisan politics, who will not readily espouse these principles. Certainly the younger educated men and women will do so gladly. Exception must always be made for those of the antediluvian type of mind which has new things not forget old ones. The antediluvian type of the party of Thaddeus Stevens and Charles Summer is still alive and functioning. As I said somewhere else, they are riding a dead horse and sticking spurs into his side. But the younger generation will look up the stream, and not down, for dynamic hydraulic power. The Negro has vaguely felt this political dissatisfaction for several decades but he has allowed himself to be beguiled by the false blanchishment of party promise. This has repeated itself so often that it can no longer deceive even the simplest. He has been the first serious attempt, on part of the Negro, to consolidate this dissatisfaction, to organize it and give it effective expression. Hitherto, the expression of dissatisfaction has been explosive and effervescent. But now it is to be made the basis of concerted action. At best a conferral experience and exchange of news and to devise means of harring them these views and harring them some effective scheme of procedure. Too often our conferences end in vaporous enthusiasm and declaration of impotent purpose. Even this may not be altogether without advantage. But the permanent result will depend upon the ability of the Negro to draw up these resolutions and translate them into form of practical action. The authorized Committee of the Non-Par- THE GAZETTE in 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 NEWBEST AND BEST published in the interest of Afro-Americans. BE COPY FIVE CENTS ENCE! "SANHEDRIN". OF HOWARD UNIVERSITY AND WRITES OF ITS ERMATH. ers of the Race in Attendance evens and Sumner Dead— tempt to Organize— mittee at Work. tisan Conference is now hard at work formulating some scheme of permanent organization which will be used in the future of the conference. The new agency must, not OSCAR DE PRIEST parallel or duplicate the sphere and function of other organizations committed to cognate tasks. Of course, the die hard partisan politicians have prophesied failure. They have already done their best, one hears hereabouts, to discredit the movement in the eyes of the Republican bosses from whom they derive their power and their provender. But despite it all, the movement promises better things than they have hitherto been able to secure by carrying all of our goods to a single market. The price demanded is not mere paltry patronage, but rights and privileges under the Constitution and the law, supplemented by patronage as a guarantee of good faith. Kevin Miller BRYANT FOUND GUILTY! Wm. Bryant, age 36, was found guilty, Saturday, of murder in the first degree in the slaying, May 11, of the "policy queen," Geraldine. wife of John B. ("Hot Stuff") Johnson, one of the "Big Four" lottery racket bosses of the city. Bryant told the jury that he was not at the murder scene and had witnesses to recommend mercy and Counsel Judge Geo. B. Harris sentenced him to the Ohio penitentiary for life. Bryant thanked the jury for sparing his life and said "they did the best they could with the facts at hand." He maintained his innocence to the very last. Mrs. Johnson was shot coming out of her home at 5017 Outhwaite Ave. after a policy drawing. The robbers that she had carried a package she carried. Three others be implicated in the murder will be brot to trial immediately. Among them is one Jas. Agazzie who testified against Bryant. Councilman George was attorney for Bryant. For Congressman-at-Large Hon. Harry C. Smith, publisher of The Cleveland Gazette, who served three terms in the Ohio legislature, expects to announce his candidacy for a Republican nomination as congressman-at-large. He feels that since more than 300,000 members of his race live in Ohio that they should have some representation in congress. He has published The Gazette for nearly 50 years. As a legislator, he fathered Ohio's mob violence act or anti-lynching law and Ohio's civil rights law. He expects to make known his intentions after Jan. 1. —Columbus (O.) Daily Dispatch. Geo. R. Garner Jr., internationally famous tenor, will sing at the Civic Opera House, Chicago, Feb. 14. ```markdown ``` A What should women do to keep their bowels moving freely? A doctor should know the answer. That is why pure Syrup Pepsin is so good for women. It that stirs their delicate organism. It is the prescription of an old family doctor who has treated thousands of women patients. It is fine for children, too. They love its taste. Let them have it every time their tongues are coated and their skin is sallow. Dr. Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin is made from fresh laxative herbs, pure pepsin and other harmless ingredients. 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FOR RENT. — Five nice rooms (down) at 2417 E. 82d St., modern and in good condition, $28 a month. Call, CHerry 1259 in the afternoon. Call, CHerry 1259 in the afternoon. Suite 3 2, No. 226 W. Superior Ave., opposite Hotel Cleveland entrance. CLEVELAND Social and Personal The 18th Ward club held its last meeting of the year, Monday evening, in the Young Men's Republican club rooms. H. C. Gilbert, an old resident and a printer in Central Ave. near E. 46th St. for years, died and was buried, last week Thursday. "Race Relations Material" for Feb. 14, 1932, can be secured (free) from the Federal Council of Churches, 105 E. 22d St. N. Y. City. Spotswood Green, a former star football-player at Wilberforce University, was recently appointed senior assistant pharmacist at the General Hospital, Cincinnati, O. David Giles, reputed "policy king" of Chicago, was mysteriously murdered in his home, last week Friday night. A brother, Dr. Howard Giles, lives in Columbus, O. Alpha Omega chapter of Alpha Cappa Alpha sorority held its recent meeting at Miss Pearl Mellchell's, and donated $10 to the milk fund for undernourished children. At Dr. and Mrs. I. B. Scott's recent Thanksgiving dinner were his mother from Nashville, his sister and husband, Mrs. and Dr. Wm. P. Saunders, and their daughter, Doris, of this city. In a "corn-husking" contest held at Mt. Pleasant M. E. church, last week Thursday, Edna Ferguson, E. 140th St., won the prize for being able to remove the husk from an ear of corn in the shortest time. Next to the star (Al Jolson) at the play, "Wonder Bar," at the Hanna theater, this week, are Maceo Thomas (son of Dr. Joe Thomas of this city) and his wife (Carol Chilton). They are really wonderful "eccentric" dancers. The Hon. Perry B. Jackson addressed the Y-Indus club (white) at the east end branch "Y," Monday evening, on "Efforts to Harmonize Racial Relations" and the future of the race. Many questions were asked, evidencing an unusual interest. Mrs. Cansler, temporary clerk in the street department for thirty days was dropped from the city pay-roll. Nov. 30. This is the appointment that should be given to Miss Louise Cheeks who passed a civil service examination, some months ago, for the place. Miss Alice Standard, E. 126th St., while en route home from Columbus to spend Thanksgiving with her parents, was injured by an auto. She was attending school in Columbus where she is convalescing. Her sister, Elsie, was married, recently, to Mr. B. Ambler. The local Inter-racial Council dinner-meeting was held in the Men's City Club, 712 Vincent Ave. at 6:30 p. m., Thursday evening. Prof. Chas. S. Johnson, head of the department of sociology at Fisk University with the speaker, Prof. Henry C. Busch of Cleveland College, chairman, presented the report of the committee on organization and program. a plea of guilty to a general homicide charge was entered, Tuesday, by Mancey Riley, age 33, of 5819 Central Ave., in the murder, May 11, of Geraldine Johnson, policy queen and wife of John B. ("Hotstuff") Johnson. Riley was indicted on first degree murder charges. Leonard Cummings, indicted for the same crime, pleaded not guilty, Tuesday, and went to trial. David H. Pierce, formerly connected with the editorial staff of a local daily paper, will be the speaker, Saturday, at 8 p.m. at the Cleveland Public forum in Painter's hall, 2030 Euclid Ave. His subject will be, "The Negro Faces a Crisis." Mr. Pierce is a very interesting speaker and is one of the few active local friends of the race. Go and hear him. Admission free. The Agra Junior League will have a Xmas party for needy children. Monday, there will be a musical-tea at the Caterers' club to ```markdown ``` H. SMITH'S 3000. Scovill Ave THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, O. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1931. HERE'S THE RADIO SET, MISTER BUTT'S- THE LITTLE BOOK TELLS YOU HOW TO SET IT UP- IT'S NERY SIMPLE- LITTLE CHILDREN TWELVE YEARS OLD UNDER- STAND ALL ABOUT IT I'll TAKE A CHANCE "CONNECT THE FINE 1/2 VOLT DRY CELLS IN PARALLEL, POSITIVE TO POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE TO NEGATIVE—" "FIND THE GREEN LEAD FROM KYZ CABLE WHICH IS TAGOED +20 B AND CONNECT WITH POSITIVE TERMINAL OF FIRST "B" BATTERY- NOW RUN WIRE MCQ OVER TO POINT WOW AND—" HE'S READY FOR THE COOCOO KITCHEN TRY TO GET ME- I'M DISTANCE! SILLY SHOP NOW LET ME TELLS YOU WHAT KIND OF A RADIO SET TO GET THAT SPEECH IS A BOLOWEY! ROSENBERG'S DRUG STORE N. W. Cor. Central Ave., and E. 55th st. J. S. HALL'S 7700 Cedar Ave. WANTED. — Work — part or full time for a young girl; high school graduate and stenographer. Jeanette Russell, 7501 Central Ave. WANTED. — A needy mother of four children wants work, washing, cleaning or house work, if she can bring her baby with her. Will also work in exchange for clothes for herself and four children. Address Mrs. Margaret Clark, 2181 W. 61 St. help finance the party. Miss Ruth W. Johnson is chairman of the committee of arrangements. Billie Bickle and Bessie Brown, radio entertainer; Leota Palmer, pianist of Oberlin; Mrs. Hazel Lon, St. John's quartet. Sally I. Austin and others will assist. Eugene, son of Andrew Tolbert (deceased) who many years ago was headwaiter of the Kennard house, died, last week in Detroit, and was buried, Sunday, in Woodland, the former Roger's undermaker parishors. A sister, Miss Emma, for a public-school teacher; and a brother, John, survive the deceased who had been ill for many months before his death. A musical program was rendered, last (Friday) evening at Lafayette school, E. 125th St. and Abbell Ave. the proceeds of which are to be used to provide Xmas baskets for needy families. Among the program participants were Augustus G. Gusti Laughlin, baritones; Eleaor N. Alexander, Dougress Merritt, readers; Herman Hammond's Blue Caste orchestra and "Silent Comrades." In his address to the Men's Civic club at Mt. Zion Cong. church, Sunday afternoon, Acting Mayor Harold H. Burton said that in his tour of the city in a police car, soon after he became acting mayor, when he elected all kinds of places throughout the country, "of being Third," he "found every peaceful and enjoying themselves in harmless amusements, and that the only trouble he heard of, that night, was a radio call from outside of the city from one of the suburbs. The Red Caps Association's monthly meeting, last week Wednesday night, was featured by a interesting round-table discussion and climaxed with its election of officers: Pres. Jas. Wilson; vice-pres. C. Clark; sec. K. Wood; reeder; assist. J. D. Lewis; treas. H. Dunley; fm. sec. R. Tley; assist. H. Green. Mr. Wilson, one of the founders of the organization, in has devoted much time to it, and it will mark that his continued reign will also be of steady growth. Next meeting, at Mr. Wilson's home, 10706 Amor St. Investigation of the camouflage charges, that thousands of registered voters were unabuse to cast their ballots at the last election because of errors made at the board of elections, was expected to come to a conclusion, Monday. The legislation committee of city council, which has been investigating, was to hear more witnesses, that day, summoned by Councilman Leroy Bundy, who brot the camouflage charges. The call to the elections and Mayo Pesley director of the Citizens' league, have all along defended the permanent registration system, "calling Bundy's hand." Acting Mayor Bundy, speaking before the Men's Civic club of Mt. Zion Cong. church, last Sunday, denounced the nickname "Roaring Third" for that district, but said the residents would have to "live it down." The Rounder would like to add, Mr. Bundy, how we addressed of that section of the city can "live down" the very objectionable name, saddled upon it as a result of conditions made and maintained by the local city government, and, too, over the steady protest, for years, of residents of that section? How can we "live it down," Mr. Mayor? Schedule of Civil Service Examinations: Jan. 5, deputy-clerk, city; Jan. 6, filter-attendant, city; Jan. 7, line-foreman, signal system, city; Jan. 8, food-inspector, city; Jan. 9, school-building custodian, board; Jan. 12, filter-foreman, city; Jan. 13, bridge-officer, city; Jan. 14, bricklayer, city and board; Jan. 15, location-engineer, county; Jan. 16, secretarial-stenographer, city and board; Jan. 19, park-foreman, city; Jan. 20, elevator-operator, county; Jan. 21, assist. civil engineer, city; Jan. 22, senior bacteriologist, city; Jan. 23, sidewalk-inspector, city; Jan. 26, smoke-inspector, city. Senator and Mrs. John P. Green, E. 107th St., were guests (by invitation) of Judge A. R. Webber and family of Elyria, Tuesday. Mr. Green sat on the bench with the judge while he tried a case after the judge introduced him to those in the courtroom who the Senator was, how long he has been practicing law, how long he was a member of the Ohio legislature, etc. Reporters were busy taking notes. Judge Webber also gave the newspaper-writers his opinion of Mr. Green and his long and very successful practice at the local library, a documentary and pleasing indeed. The Elyria daily papers gave the Senator a great write-up, too. No doubt many will remember the hard fight Councilmen Russell S. Brown and Clayborne George put up several years ago, to prevent Councilman E. J. Gregg from forcing a "jim-crow" hospital on this community with the help of Color-Line City Manager W. R. Hopkins. It looks as if Councilman Roy Bundy has joined hands with his recently acquired bosom-friend, Dr. E. J. Gregg, to put a "jim-crow" hospital in operation with his resolution, referred to elsewhere in this paper. If such is the case, we remain or Councilmen George and Payne of this latest "jim-crow" movement, Since George, our veteran councilman, is doing some good work in recent weeks, our people of this community will now look to him to lead in this movement against more unnecessary segregation in this community. George M., brother of Howard Slaughter, laundered. 2165 E. 89th St., was shot in the right hip by two "rookie" policemen, early Tuesday morning. He was taken to Huron Rd. hospital, where surgeons said the wound was not serious. The patrolmen said they came upon Slaughter, who was engaged in an argument with Cedan Ave. and E. 89th St. They said they were in the street, they were and that they showed badges. "Come to the house and I'll see whether you're officers or not." Slaughter is quoted as saying. The men say they went to the house but refused to go upstairs when he asked them to. Presently, they said he, appeared at the head of the stairs and fired a revolver at them. Then he returned the fire. Slaughter told that the policemen followed him to ward his house and that when he fired to escape them, they opened fire. He admitted he had a gun, police said. Something Wrong! There is something radically wrong with a group of people who refuse to help relieve their own burdens. The day of throwing bouquets is gone forever. The Afro-American must face the facts as they exist. We won't gain anything by fooling ourselves into thinking that everything is all right. Everything affecting the lives of Afro-Americans is all wrong. The sooner we face these facts, the quicker we will begin to work for our own salvation, the sooner we will attain our rightful place as American citizens — Philadelphia Tribune "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 sees injustice and oppression, dares it, 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, nearly half a century, puts his race foremost in his life struggle, I take off my hat to him, as being a true friend of our class. Long life to you and The Gazette. Yours for the right. John P. Green. (Former Member Ohio State Senate.) The man whose brilliance of wit and compelling charm of anecdote, woven into stories on every current topic, turned baseball slang into classic Americanese. Lardner's genius was never better expressed than in the adventures of baseball's most celebrated "bonehead," Jack Keefe, in "You Know Me, Al" HEAR! HEAR!! The ROUNDER WHAT'S DOING! After many years of persistent effort, the Irish and the Jews have practically succeeded in eliminating the stage Irish and Jewish characters which ridiculed their people. The so-called "Negro" stage character, worse than ever before, alone remains and seems to just revel in the violence of the stage and in moving pictures, silent and "talkies," without protest of any kind from our people. GREAT! is this people of ours. Mrs. Iola Wimbs Ellis and Mrs. Elemenoire Austin, both of e. $7th St., thru their attorney, Chester K. Gillespie, have entered suit against the Greyhound (bus) Management Co. local headquarters, 1783 E. 11th St., for $20,000 and cost of action, as the result of wonton mistreatment while en route to and from Los Angeles, Co., last April and in June, re-achieved a purchased round trip tickets which cost $88 apiece. The mistreatment consisted largely of discrimination on account of color, or race, in restaurants, comfort-stations, and by agents or employees of the company. Rufus Jones, local policy king, and Myrtle Taylor, 7810 Cedar Ave., secretary to Frank Hoge (white), another policy chief, went before the grand jury, Monday, the latter bearing a sheaf of records and account books. "I've got nothing to hide," Jones smilingly told reporters. Miss Taylor was sent back for more records after it was found she had not brot the complete list. The grand jury later Tuesday, after weeks of investigation of alleged police protection of underworld rackets. Assist. Co. Prosecutor Celebrezzo admitted, the first of the week, that he expected no indictments. The result is that the probe in which policemen, racketeers and public officials were called with such a "flourish of trumpets" by Co. Prosecutor Ray T. Miller culminated, for the time at least, in a mere report by the jury. SHOP AND MAIL EARLY! There Will Be No Delivery on Christmas Day. Except Special Delivery. The Post Office will be closed on Christmas Day, Friday, Dec. 25th. Mail early enough to insure delivery on or before Monday, Dec. 21st. Parcels may be marked "Do not open until Christmas." Wrap carefully! Address plainly! Mail early! Help abolish the "Dead Letter Office." Place a return address on every piece of mail. Now Come RING The man whose brilli of anecdota, woven in turned baseball alang Lardner's genius was adventures of baseba Jack Keefe, in The Funniest "You JACK KEEFE "FIND THE GREEN LEAD FROM XYZ CABLE WHICH IS TAGGED +20 B AND CONNECT WITH POSITIVE TERMINAL OF FIRST "B" BATTERY- NOW RUN WIRE MCQ OVER TO POINT WOW AND—" Army of Rats Feasts On Talking Currents Tells how and way 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. From Five to Twenty-Five This is Mr. Manning's life story embracing the period from 1870 to 1895. Price, $1.00. This famous feature has appeared in leading newspapers in all the large cities of the United States. Sharing the genius of Ring Lardner with leading metropolitan dailies and national magazines, this newspaper will hereafter present regularly to its readers the comic strip "YOU KNOW ME, AL". If You Miss Laughing With Lardner You'll Be One In A Hundred Millions. The fickle appetites of the rats in Fremont, O., are making Pied Pipers out of linenem for The Ohio Bell Telephone Company. A group of the more enterprising members of the Fremont rat family, tiring of the customary rodent diet of cheese, stale bread and other household "delicacies" salvaged from pantry raids, set out to find new items for their daily bill of fare. Then search was exhaustive. Throughout the town they went, sampling this and biting that without arriving at a successful solution of their gustatory problems. But these pioneers in the field of edibles were not easily daunted. At each failure they continued their efforts with new determination until one day while exploring far below the earth's surface, they came across a telephone cable. Devour Juicy Currents Without hesitation, the leader of the raiders sank his teeth into the cable. The results were most satisfying. This juicy piece de resistance, chucked full of currents and sugared with sweet conversation, was just the thing to pep up distress appetites. Enthusiastic about his discovery, the king roc- rent spread the word to all of his friends and within a short time an army of rats were busily gnaw- ing at the cable. O. K. Printing Co. W. J. Foster - John M. Smith Commercial and Job PRINTING PROMPT SERVICE 3100 Central Ave., Cor. E. 31st St. PRospect 7313 TWO INTERE Pr. JOSEPH But, as so often is the case, greediness caused their downfall. Before their feast had been completed, the cable snapped, cutting off service for 50 Fremont telephone subscribers and carrying word of the raid to telephone line-men. THE MICE Equipped with pliers, splicing tools and 50 feet of new cable, the telephone men charged the stronghold of the pillagers and after a night of labor, repaired the damages brought about by the rodents' festivities. JOHN P. GREEN Attorney-at-Law Notary Public OFFICE NOW At 614 East 107th St. Cleveland, O. 'Phone, GLen. 3453 Take St. Clair Car to E. 106th St. ESTING BOOKS C. MANNING F. POPULISM of the South are deprived of Brought down to date by Saloon League Politics. Price. to Twenty-Five entry embracing the period from Price. $1.00. S FOR $1.50. S, PUBLISHER, pt. B. New York City. RING LARDNER Me, Al" in leading newspapers States. ner with leading metro- zines, this newspaper to its readers the comic With Lardner hundred Millions. By RUBE GOLDBERG TRY TO GET ME - I'M DISTANCE! NOW LET ME TELL YOU WHAT I SAY THAT SPEECH IS BOLLEY! 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 V (Prepared by National Geographic Society, Washington, D. G.)—WNU Service WITH interest in miniature golf wanning, enterprise, mem- ber of the "play industry" in a western city substituted fishing poles for golf clubs, fish for golf balls, and transformed the dimin- tual golf courses into fishing ponds, thus ushering in the "pee wee fishing grounds." Play knows neither geographical boundary, nor historical limit. There was a law among the Persians by which all children were to be taught three things: horsemanship, shooting with the bow, and telling the truth. Carthaginians and Phoenicians owed something of their maritime glory to a love of swimming, the sport by which they first mastered their fear of the sea. One wonders whether the more rapid strides made in England to the political emancipation of women may not be traceable to the archer of British women for outdoor exercise and sports. Climate often determines the why a people play. It is obvious that coasting is popular in a zone where snow falls, and reasonable that those peoples most generally proficient in swimming should be found in the equatorial islands, where limpid waters invite surcease from the scoring sun: but less well known, perhaps, that card and board games developed in southern Asia, where west for play is just as keen, but temperature dampens the ardor for exertion. To the Netherlands is traced the origin of stilt and skate which even yet have their work-a-day use in flooded and frozen areas, but to the rest of the world they are playthings. Norway once had a regiment of skaters and Holland's soldiers were taught to drill and play on ice. Just as the individual adopts games which meets his bodily needs, so national pastimes are modified to foster and fortify the peoples who play them. In the age of personal combat, there were men like Milo of Crotonia, a ventable Samson, reputed to have been able to break a cord wound about his head by swelling the muscles; or Polydamas of Thessalia, said to have slain an infuriated lion, and to have been able to hold a charist in its place while horses tugged at it. Those were the times when boxing and wrestling, most ancient of sports, were in their heydey, though they were not always gentlemen's diversions, reckoned by modern standards. Missle-Throwing Games. When missile-throwing became the technique of warfare the Italian city youth reduced stone-throwing to a fine art, and in winter made use of snowballs on fete days. In Pergola as many as 2,000 would engage in this game. Defensive armor was worn but many fatalities resulted. Old English laws encouraged archery, and Charlemagne sought to popularize the sport. Play and love of competition have often been the mother of invention. The great automobile races have revolutionized the automobile industry. Benjamin Franklin, employing a boy's familiar plaything, snatched from the clouds a secret that outdoes the pranks of a magic carpet. On the other hand invention made popular certain ways to play. For example the invention of the rubber bladder was a boon to the game of football and the gutta-percha ball added immensely to the popularity of golf. Theodore Roosevelt's influence is generally accounted in social, political, economic and literary fields; yet time may show that one of the most profound lessons he impressed upon American people was a deeper regard for healthful, vigorous, strenuous outdoor sport. The story of how the weakling Roosevelt went to the open places of the West and played at bronchostounding and cattle-herding and later relaxed in African jungle from seven years in the hardest job in the world, is an oft-told tale. Such an uprooting of one's life, thanks to our national parks, is not necessary today. More and more it is the habit of young men and old to seek the health-giving recreations to be had in Uncle Sam's matchless play places. Walking is one of the most healthful and invigorating "games" and is free to everyone. Yet it is much neglected by Americans. Perhaps the auto mobile is to blame in some degree but the fact that walking is deliberate and lacking in that element dear to the American heart, competition, also must be taken into account. To the seasoned pedestrian, "you rid ing" cannot compare with "Joy walk ing." The Instinct Is Universal. Sports of a nation afford an almost invariable barometer of its progress in civilization. Baseball is one of the most complicated and highly organized pastimes known to any people. It is a veritable instrument of the most delicate precision in the world of sport. A South Sea islander no more could play it than he could operate a lineout machine or defy handle the paper money in a bank teller's cage. Yet the instincts baseball satisfies—the zest of racing to a goal ahead of the ball, the deep satisfaction of diverting a swiftly moving object to serve his own ends, the mere impact of the speeding sphere against the instrument he controls, bagging the spheroid as it flies afield, the suspense of nine men as they await the batter's fate—each and all find their counter part in play as old as animals that walk on two feet and have enough gray matter atop their spinal columns to control nature's laws for their human purposes. The footrace was the most popular of the 24 Olympian events. Romans batted balls with the forearm swathed with bandages, and the Gilbert is landers wrap coconut shells with cord so they will rebound to a blow from the open palm; Homer's princess of Phaneacia is represented in the Odyssey as jumping to catch a ball tossed by her mallets of honor; and the Chinese had a game in which a suspended ball was kept hurting to and fro by blows from the players. Wrestling is much older than Greece, as indicated by bouts pictured on tombs along the Nile. In Greece boxing fell into disfavor among the Spartans for an unusual reason. The Greeks had developed sportsmanslike rules for the game, eliminating kicking, biting and ear pulling, and the bout closed when one boxer admitted his defeat. Lycurgus held it improper for any Spartan to acknowledge defeat, even in a game. Boxing and wrestling have been popular sports in Japan for ages. Running, throwing, hitting and kicking are the fundamental muscular operations of America's characteristic sports—baseball, football, tennis and golf. The peoples of antiquity manifest all these instincts in cruder form. Luzon billimen, the Polynesians and the Eskimo and Sumatra islanders had games played by kicking a ball. Greeks played it, and the Roman game, harpsturm, derived its name from the Greek "I seize" which is evidence that carrying a ball was practised then. In old England football was even rougher than most sports of those hardy times. James I thought it was "meeter for laming than making able the user thereof." Edward II frowned upon it for its interference with archery and also because of the commotion it aroused. In those times it was played in the city streets. A writer of the Sixteenth century called it a "devilish pastime" and charged it with inciting "envy and sometimes brawling murther and homiele." Tennis Goes Far Back. One must also go back to the Greeks and Romans for the origin of tennis. In the Twelfth century a game with ball and plaited gut bat was played on horseback. Then came "La boue" in which the horse was abandoned. Louis X died after excessive playing of the game. Henry VIII was a devotee of the game. Until the Sixteenth century the hand was used for batting the ball, but soon the racket came into general use. If tennis has a royal lineage, golf, which was later regarded as a rich man's game had most plebeian beginnings. Contrary to widespread belief, it seems not to have originated in Scotland, but in northern Europe. Apparently it was first played on ice, being one of the winter sports adapted to the physical geography of the Low countries. By the Fifteenth century golf had attained such vogue in Scotland that it threatened the cherished archery, and it was classed with "futeball" and other "unprofitable sports" by James IV. America's love of play is a distinctive part of her Anglo-Saxon heritage. Where two or more English-speaking people get together, be it in Bagdad or Buenos Aires, their common tongue makes the point of contact, but it generally is their love of active play that forms the tie that blinds the comradeship. THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, O. COLORS IMPORTANT TO ELDERLY LADIES Lavender and Gray Are Not Always Becoming. Lavender and gray are not always the most suitable colors for old ladies with gray hair. Occasionally these colors are vastly becoming to old ladies. But usually they are the very most unbecoming colors that could be chosen. For the pale skin so usual in older women needs something more definite, brighter or darker than these dainty, pastel colors to bring out its best qualities. Really a soft, deep maroon is a beautiful color about an old face. The red is so soft that it is not harsh; and its richness and warmth are reflected in the colorless face above it. The type of woman who probably gave gray and lavender their popularity as colors for the elderly must have hair that is either pure white or a clear gray. There must be none of the yellow or greenish or brown shades so usual in graying or whitening hair. The complexion must be fair and smooth and fine, with an absence of sandy, sallow or ruddy hue. And since gray is a "large" color, the woman who wears it well must be slight and slender. NOVELTY WOOLENS By CHEBIE NICHOLAS There's nothing smarter for daytime wear than a frock or ensemble of one of the fancy-woven woolens which makes stunning color effect its outstanding note. The coat dress pictured is of brown and white novelty woolen. The diagonal fastening and scarfed neckline, are outstanding styling details. The brown kid pumps, cut high in front with a deep tongue effect in brown and white kid, are influenced by the same victorian trend as is the brown felt sailor with its fur band placed high on the crown. Winter Sports Clothes Are Sober but Chic Spectator sports clothes this winter are sober but chic. Like other articles of dress in every woman's wardrobe this season, they date back to the days of grandmother with their subdued shades of russeted red terra cotin, claret and cedar green. Certainly sober, but just as certainly chie is a rusty-red wool frock with a diagonal line running through it. There is a circular skirt and waist that closes with an envelope flap in front buttoned with three brown leather buttons. Over it can be worn a smart short fur jacket or a knitted one intended for it. These sports dresses in one piece vie with sports sweaters or waist-coat blouses and sports skirts. FLASHES FROM PARIS Pale beige is regarded as an important color. Upstanding quill trimming is the latest message for the winter chapean. Sparkling accents give brilliancy to the evening mode. Ultra decolletage and strapped effects distinguish the formal gown. The dinner hat becomes an intriguing theme with the milliner. Importance of lace in exquisite color and mesh is stressed in mid-season collections. Hosiery Grows Darker to Fit Costume Trend Dark hosiery will prevail this winter. With at least half of the coats of deep brown, the hosiery color problem is simplified. For wear with the black costume and black shoe, a dark neutral stocking will be in the fashion picture. Sheer black, dark gummal or offblack also will find a place in the hosiery scheme with the black costume. Your Copy l or an Acq SATURDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1931 COLORS TO RELIEVE BLACK SOMBERNESS Browns and Dark Greens Popular for Winter. The bright and exciting color schemes of last summer, toned down to deeper, richer harmonies, will continue into winter fashions. For the first fall in many years dark brown costumes promise to be more numerous than the proverbial black. Dark greens—including a new, deep green, of an olive cast—are prominent in the picture, and so, too, are a number of lovely burgundy tones—prune color, muscatel, rich purple-reds. All of which would lead us to believe that our every-day winter fashion fare, coats, street dresses, suits, that used to be so persistently black, is going to be surprisingly varied this year. Various colors are going to the relief of solid black. Maggy Rouff, in one of her more striking ensembles, combines a black velvet skirt with a geranium-red velvet jacket, trimmed with black seal, a white satin tunic with a geranium-red scarf at the neck. Goupy uses bright colors for the necks and sleeves of, several plain black woolen daytime dresses. Yvonne Carette and Miller Soeurs both add dashes of emerald green to black. USE METAL CLIPS by CHEERIE NICHOLAS For sports Schiaparelli has designed this smart frock of bemberg in dark green patterned in motifs done in orange and Spanish tile. The costume is made brilliant with metal clip fastenings and a hand-crocheted scarf in orange. The front disguises a divided skirt. Scarfs an Accessory That Merits Attention Scarfs are an accessory that merit attention this fall. The latest among them are made of flat fur—such as burundi, leopard, lapin, caracul—and designed to complement tailored wool street or sports dresses. A popular variety is the straight fur scarf, slightly narrower in the middle, that is worn crushed around the neck, the two ends either crossed over or hanging straight, and pulled through the belt in a glet effect. For sports tweeds and country topcoats, separate scarfs of wool, in brilliant colorings, worn tied in an ascot fashion or merely crossed inside one coat, provide dashes of bright contrast for monotone wool outfits. Short ascots of novelly knitted materials, sometimes matched to sports turbans or berets, are included in the school or college girl's wardrobe. Tailored scarfs of silk and of silk and wool in plain colors are being shown for the knitted jacket suits in vogue this fall. The jacket suit of novelty woolen, richly colorful and lavishly fur-trimmed holds the center of the stage. Sleeves are highly ornate and are so fashioned as to stress a broad shoulder line. Boleros of colored wool lace are worn over black dinner gowns. Women are carrying stitched felt pocketbooks in colors to match their costumes. Every smart winter wardrobe includes a short fur jacket, the same to pose over a bright-toned woolen skirt. Popular Velvet Velvet blouses are new. Also velvet waistcoats. Both will be worn with wool suits as well as with those of velvet. y of The G uaintance wh Ancient Landmark Spared By Telephone Engineers New Bell Service Sends Typed Messages By Wire ```markdown ``` Teletypewriter switchboard used in the Bell System's new teletypewriter serving Route Cable Line Around Twin Tree March of Progress Detours To Preserve Curiosity Near London, O. Sentiment that grew up around a twin-elm tree on the farm of Valentine Wilson, four miles north of London, O., spared this Madison county curiosity from the woodman's axe. When engineers for the American Telephone and Telegraph Company were surveying the new right of way for the Pittsburgh-St. Louis telephone cable which will be moved to allow widening of the National highway, their transits "sighted in" the venerable ake-elm tree, for many years a landmark in the vicinity of Lafayette, O. According to blue prints of the new cable route, the oak-elm was doomed to destruction. But telephone men learned of the sentiment surrounding it and flashed word to company officials at Cleveland. Saving the tree meant additional engineering, according to Bell System officials. But they devised a way to direct the line around the tree, merely clipping off a few beringhang boughs that were badly in need of pruning. New Bell Serv Typed Mes A stenographer can sit at a teletypewriter and type a message which will be reproduced instantly on another teletypewriter, whether it is in Ohio or a Pacific coast city, by means of a new communication service recently inaugurated on the nation-wide basis over the wires of The Ohio Bell Telephone Company and those of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company and associated companies of the Bell System. teletypewriter switchboard new teletypew The new service provides for the establishment and operation of central switching exchanges for teletypewriters, similar in function to telephone exchanges. Teletypewriters are machines which typewrite electrically over wires to other teletypewriters. Opens Ohio Offices Any subscriber to this service can obtain connection with the teletypewriter of any other teletypewriter subscriber within the same city or in a distant city merely by transmitting the number of the desired party to a teletypewriter operator. This permits the letters, and tabular matter, to "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 ```markdown ``` Thus the old tree will proudly bear its boughs for many years to come, while the world's voices fit by on a slightly altered route. vice Sends messages By Wire points throughout the country. Establishment of switching offices in all large cities gives the new service the flexibility that characterizes the regular telephone service of the Bell companies. The principal Ohio outlets leading to regional teletypewriter centers scattered from coast to coast and from border to border are located at Cleveland and Cincinnati. The Ohio operating centers where subscribers' teletypewriter lines terminate are in Cleveland. Co used in the Bell System's writer service. bumbus, Akron, Youngstown, Toledo, and Dayton, with provisions made to add switching offices in other cities as needed to accommodate the growth of the service. Monthly Directory In the past, teletypewriter service of the Bell System was furnished only in connection with private wires which were not connected to central switching points. A universal teletypewriter directory, listing all subscribers by cities and towns, already is being compiled. During the first few months of operation a new edition will be issued each month so that the directory will be up-to-date. "I am convinced myself that there is no more evil thing in this present world than race prejudice; none at all! "I write deliberately—it is the most single thing in life now. It justifies and holds together more baseness, cruelty and abomination than any other sort of error in the world." Attention! Readers! Our advertisers want your trade. Those who do not ask for it in the columns of "The Old Reliable" Gazette certainly care little, if at all, for it. Therefore, we urge our readers and all of our friends to patronize those who ask in this paper for your patronage. Editor. After Receive subscribe after TELEPHONE SEARCH SAVES OHIO CHILD Prevents Mother From Giving Baby Wrong Medicine A drama, thrilling as any movie scenario, was enacted between Cleveland and Wooster recently, with the telephone operators and a physician playing the principal roles. A Cleveland physician discovered he had given Mrs. Lillian Franks the wrong medicine for her six-months-old baby. The physician knew that she lived on R.F.D. route No. 1, near Wooster, but didn't know her husband's name. With the prescribed time approaching when the mother was to give her baby medicine which would endanger the infant's health, the physician was confronted with the problem of reaching his patient quickly. He called an operator at The Ohio Bell Telephone Company in Cleveland and gave her the meager information regarding Mrs. Franks' location. Phone Aid: Search The operator called the chief operator at Wooster, explained the emergency, and asked her assistance. The search for Mrs. Franks was started immediately. Every family with the name of Franks was telephoned in Wooster and in surrounding rural territory. Help of the mail carrier on Route No. I was enlisted. Every possibility of finding Mrs. Franks was checked by a telephone employee in a car, supplementing the work of the operators. Hours passed without success. Finally, shortly before the baby would have been given the harmonic medicine, a telephone employee located the Franks' home about two miles from Wooster and reached there in time to keep the mother from giving her baby the medicine. Operator Calls Aid; Checks Fire Damage Operator Calls Aid; Checks Fire Damage Resourcefulness of a telephone operator prevented a common accident from resulting in serious damage when a blazing coal oil stove endangered the life of Amanda Dixon of Thornhill. Miss Crawford Holmes Miss Dixon turned a burner too high in lighting the stove and within a few minutes the entire stove was a mass of flames. Her frantic efforts to extinguish the blaze were unsuccessful. Alone in the house, she called upon her only means of assistance—the telephone. Laura Helser, chief operator at the Thornhill telephone exchange of The Ohio Bell Telephone Company, advised Miss Dixon to leave the house at once. The operator then summoned neighbors, who carried the blazing stove into the open. A telephone call that aroused Lloyd Morrow of Milan, O., in the middle of the night probably saved his life. While engaged in the telephone conversation, he noticed a blaze in his home and called the fire department before the flames caused serious damage. Only 15 minutes were required to complete a transatlantic telephone call between McConnelsville, C., and Oyne, Scotland, recently. The call was between James Christie, of McConnelsville, and his sister, Barbara Christie, whose home is in Oyne. AN OPPORTUNITY! "The Old Reliable" Gazette describes 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 Good Days is required to make some money. We are especially desirous of hearing from persons in the following named cities: Springfield, Columbus Toledo, Steubenville, Zanesville, Wilmington, Xenia, Washington C. H., Lancaster, Plaqua, Lima, O., and other places, particularly in other states. 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 truth: What would cause other people to gnash their teeth and gird their loins is question of debate for us. Kick us, beat us, pile depredations upon us, rewrite our laws, tell us about malign us and even impugn our valor and we are not unanimously insulted. It seems impossible to establish unanimity of insult in the black race — Chicago (Ill.) White.