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We supply for free AMERICAN PRODUCTS CO., Dept. $188 Cincinnati, Ohio. is the best place to buy your GROCERIES and MEATS HONEST DEALER Good Merchandise 8703 Quincy Avenue GArfield HANNA FOUR PERFECT BEGINNING XMAS — a Greatest Colore ETHEL LEW "Rhapsod A Symphony of Blues With the Finest VALAIDA.—H CECIL M Dusty Fletch Blue McAllister Avis Andre PIKE DAVIS' CON BARGAIN PRICES ANNA THEATRE FOUR PERFORMANCES ONLY WINNING XMAS MAT., FRIDAY, DEC. —at 3 P. M.— Greatest Colored Show Ever Produced THEL WATER —in— LEW LESLIE'S Rhapsody in Black A Symphony of Blue Notes and Black Rhythm With the Finest Colored Stars in America VALAIDA.—BERRY BROTHERS CECIL MACK'S CHOIR Dusty Fletcher, Florence Hill, Blue McAllister, Geneva Washington Avis Andrews, Eloise Uggams E DAVIS' CONTINENTAL ORCHESTRA GAIN PRICES: Fri. & Sat. Mat., 50c to $ Fri. & Sat. Eve., 50c to HANNA THEATRE FOUR PERFORMANCES ONLY BEGINNING XMAS MAT., FRIDAY, DEC. 25 at 3 P. M. Greatest Colored Show Ever Produced A Symphony of Blue Notes and Black Rhythm With the Finest Colored Stars in America PIKE DAVIS' CONTINENTAL ORCHESTRA BARGAIN PRICES: Fri. & Sat. Mat., 50c to $1.50 Fri. & Sat. Eve., 50c to $2.50 A MUCH-NEEDED DEFINITION! KNOCKING—a slap something said that is o or a reflection upon a petition. The real meaning reflecting upon a person When the truth is difference everyone shows The crook, the co villain, depends for suc KNOCKING—a slang expression generally meaning said that is derogatory, an adverse cruel reflection upon a person's ability, character or virtue. The real meaning of knocking is something being upon a person that is untrue. When the truth is told, it is not knocking. Everyone should learn. The crook, the confidence man, the grafter, depends for success upon the silence or know him or those victimized. Under the idea that it is dishonorable to "knock" an individual who could expose the crook fail to do so. Hence, many people fall victims before the lie, the scoundrel leaves for another city to carry work. It is the duty of every honest person to raise such hypocrites. Negroes are the greatest. They are beaten out of money through loan entation or stock transactions, then under the idea of loyalty, they say nothing or only to the affair, instead of "crying from the house," the gentleman crook or business man crook with his thievery. "Every knock is a boost!" when what is told is false, but no knock is called the truth. Negro crooks and confidently using race pride as a means to play their upon silence. The man who knows such and will not warn the innocent is both a crookass. KNOCKING—a slang expression generally meaning something said that is derogatory, an adverse criticism, or a reflection upon a person's ability, character or reputation. The real meaning of knocking is something said reflecting upon a person that is untrue. When the truth is told, it is not knocking! That difference everyone should learn. The crook, the confidence man, the grafter, the villain, depends for success upon the silence of those who know him or those victimized. Under the mistaken idea that it is dishonorable to "knock" anybody, those who could expose the crook fail to do so. In consequence, many people fall victims before the law step in or the scoundrel leaves for another city to continue the dirty work. It is the duty of every honest person to advertise such hypocrites. Negroes are the greatest victims. They are beaten out of money through loans, misrepresentation or stock transactions, then under the mistaken idea of loyalty, they say nothing or only whisper about the affair, instead of "crying from the housetops." Hence, the gentleman crook or business man crook gets away with his thievery. "Every knock is a boost" is only true when what is told is false, but no knock is a boost that tells the truth. Negro crooks and confidence men generally using race pride as a means to play their game thrive upon silence. The man who knows such wrong doers and will not warn the innocent is both a coward and jackass. --- THE GAZETTE GArfield 3589-J THEATRE PERMANCES ONLY MAT., FRIDAY, DEC. 25 B P. M.— Show Ever Produced WATERS in— LESLIE'S Y in Black" Notes and Black Rhythm Colored Stars in America BERRY BROTHERS BACK'S CHOIR Ar, Florence Hill, Geneva Washington E, Eloise Uggams INNENTAL ORCHESTRA Fri. & Sat. Mat., 50c to $1.50 Fri. & Sat. Eve., 50c to $2.50 expression generally meaning mogatory, an adverse criticism, son's ability, character or repu- l knocking is something said that is untrue. old, it is not knocking! That will learn. evidence man, the grafter, the less upon the silence of those victimized. Under the mis- morable to "knock" anybody, the crook fail to do so. In conall victims before the law step for another city to continue duty of every honest person to Negroes are the greatest viole of money through loans, misactions, then under the mis- say nothing or only whisper "crying from the housetops." ok or business man crook gets every knock is a boost" is only false, but no knock is a boost so crooks and confidence men as a means to play their game man who knows such wrong the innocent is both a coward EDITOR W. P. DABNEY. Cincinnati Union. ESTABLISHED, AUGUST 25, 1883 And Issued Every Week on Time Since CLEVELAND, OHIO, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1931. FIGHTS LYNCH LAW. Though beaten by a mob and threatened by telegrams signed "Rope Justice," Bernard Ades, Baltimore attorney for the International Labor Defense, N. Y. City, is continuing his fight against lynch-murder charges in the eastern shore of Maryland. He has secured a postponement of the M. A. M. AIRY: Bernard Ales. trial of Orphan Jones, age 60, framed for murder, so that an adequate defense may be prepared. He is now fighting to have the trial of both Jones and George Davis, age 23, accused of attempted assault on a woman, removed from the mob-riden district where Matthew Williams, wounded in a fight with his employer, was dragged from a hospital cot, hanged, and burned in 40 gallons of gasoline! DOINGS OF THE RACE. Ben McKnight, of near Charleston, S. C., has turned white. Doctors say it is caused by "a lack of pigment in the skin." Bishop J. Albert Johnson of the A. M. E. Church, who died recently, left an estate valued at $42,660 of which $28,390 was in cash. Jas. R. Jackson of Akron, O., after 40 years service with the C. A. and C. Railway (now the P. R. R.), has been retired on a pension. Week-minded John Moore, of Winston-Salem, N. C., was sentenced to death, Dec. 16, for entering a house and stealing a pair of shoes. Bishop R. C. Ransom of the Louisiana A. M. E. district does not approve of the "rally method" of raising funds for the Church. He advocates a budget-system instead. Alexander Wallace, a former fireman on the Pennsylvania Railway's steam-tug, "Cape Charles," at Norfolk, Va., is suing for $50,000 damages for the loss of a leg and other injuries. Father Joseph Fayre, a Senegalese born in Africa 26 years ago, is a fully ordained priest, and officiating, first of the race to do so, in the magnificent Paris, France, cathedral of Notre Dame. Last week at Memphis, Tenn., a policeman (white) was discharged after being found guilty, by the police trial-board, of brutality in trying to secure a confession from two of our lads. Dr. John A. Kenney, of Newark, N. J., was recently appointed to the staff of Beth Israel hospital (Jewish) of that city. Dr. Kenney was medical-director of John A. Andrew hospital at Tuskegee, Ala., for 22 years. Harry T. Burleigh, baritone soloist and composer, N. Y. university, originally of Erie, Pa., will open the annual lecture-recital series at Howard University, Washington, D. C., Jan. 26. One of his compositions is "Deep River." Buford Mundy, a World War veteran with a wife and two small children, was recently released from the Kentucky penitentiary where he was sent, several years ago, for life on a "framed" charge of criminal assault on a woman (white). Countess Capecet de Bourgouin (white) is suing Josephine Baker in Paris, France, for $4,000. She is a Serbian and claims Jo signed her as an understudy at the Casino de Paris in Paris, France, and discharged her after rehearsals. Dec. 18, the original copy of the 13th amendment of the U.S. Constitution, with Lincoln's signature, attached, was purchased at an auction for $8,000 by Gabriel Wells who also paid $1,550 for a letter from Lincoln to Gov. Magoffin of Kentucky. "TWENTY-PIECE ORCHESTRA" THE BROTHERS HERE THEY ARE, THE NEWEST SENSATION OF THE MR—The famous Mills Brothers and their guitar, who come to you each week over the Columbia network. Although they only use the guitar, their trick imitations make you think they are a 20-piece orchestra. Unknown six weeks ago, they leaped to radio fame over night. Let to right: Hubert, Donald, John and Harry. The boys are from Plqna, O. Fresh Ohio News COLUMBUS—Miss Clyone Gibbs visited in Charleston, W. Va., last week. Mr. and Mrs. John Cornwell of Cleveland have returned home. Mrs. Camille Richardson has been quite ill but is convalescing. Mrs. Lonnie Campbell royally entertained the bridge club, last week Thursday evening, and Mrs. Patricia Dickerson did the same thing for the organization the evening previous. CINCINNATI—Mr. Harold Thompson, representative of a large eastern medical company and a classmate of Dr. Chas. Carroll, spent several days with him here, last week. Mr. Walter Burnside, a former resident of this city who moved to Detroit, years ago, and is now making Chicago and Wheaton. Ill., his home, was in the city where his wife, his wife, vacation. Mr. Isaac Miller of Wyoming, uncle of Jimmie Miller, is losing his eyesight as the result of a nervous breakdown—Miss Helen Miles, a Wilberforce co-den, has as her guest Miss Martha Peters, a Xenia school-teacher. 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 on the cover and that of their town on the outside of the wrapper about returned copies, if proper credit for them is desired. Lists of names, wedding presents, programs, obituary notices, inquiries for relatives and advertisements of all kinds, including items announcing entertainment to be held in the near future, must be paid for in advance at the post office. Advertisements must be sent on application a line. Our rates for display adition. ZANESVILLE. — Rev. Frank L. Holbert assisted in the revival at Wesleyan Methodist church, Bartlett, last week. — The local branch of the N. A. A. C. P. program at community center, last week Tuesday evening, was very good. — John Hayes, age 65, died, last week, after a long illness. — Services at St. Paul A. M. E. church, the pastor, Rev Chas. H. Bell, officiating. The widow and a host of friends survive him. She has the sympathy of the community. — Rev. S. E. Schell, who conducted revival services here, last year, will return soon to organize a chorus of 100 voices. — Guiding Star lodge, Odd Fellows, held its quarterly and annual election of officers, Monday evening. YOUNGSTOWN. — Rev W. H. Trust, P. E., held the last quarterly meeting of this conference year at Oakhill Ave. A M. E. church, Sunday. A large audience, and 153 communed. — The Azalia Hackley Tremble Clerk club presented a very pleasing musical program, Friday evening, for charity, which was a success. — W. H. Pickens, travelling representative of the N. A. A. C. P., made a good talk at the W. Federal St. "Y," last Tuesday evening. — The Progressive Ministerial Association held union services, 11 a.m. m. christening, at Presbyterian Presbyterian Church. The master of Mahoning Ava. Zion A. M. E. church preached and the following ministers and their congregations were present: Rev. G. W Williams, Rev. S. H. McBee and Rev. S. P. Jenkins. DAYTON.—The banquet at Waymen A. M. E. church, in honor of Dr. and Mrs. A. E. Allen and daughter, Beatrice (the new pastor and family), was an exceptional success. There were nearly 300 guests. The decorations were beautiful. Dr. Lukas de Vries, the pastor, J. B. Bell, P. E.; and Rev. J. T. Smith were the speakers. Mr. Chas Price represented the Elks, E. B. Marchant, the civic organizations; and Atty, W. O. Stokes extended faternal greetings. The program was fine, including a number of musical selections. Rev. Allen, after introducing his wife and daughter, made a most pleasing response. Mrs D. W.annon headed the banquet arrangement. The very fully. The 14th pastoral anniversary of Rev. J. T. Smith of Zion Baptist church was another outstanding success; likewise the Pastors' Alliance social function which had quite a lengthy program. TOLEDO.—The ministers' wives organized, recently, with the following officers: Mrs. W. E. Graham pres.; Mrs. Robert W. Bagnall, sec.; Mrs. C. A. Ward, treas, and Mrs. B. F. McWilliams, chair. program committee.—Leo B. Marsh, boys work secretary of the Indiana branch "Y" sponsored a popularity contest for the benefit of Grace Presbychurch. "Miss Toledo" was crowned. Wednesday night, and given $12 or a trip to Chicago which included a ticket to see "The Green Pastures." The second prize was $5—Rev. Walter Stanley and A. A. Jackson, president of the LS Department of Commerce, Washington DC, were the speakers at the meeting of the Enterprise Charity club, recently. —The Student Aid club's benefit dance, Xmas night, netted a goodly sum to aid Valletta Justice, an honor student at Howard University, Washington, D. C.—Mr. Lincoln Stephens and Mr. Jas. McCoglin visited in Chicago, last week. The members of Mt. Zion Men's Civic club program committee are Robert Newman, F. M. Hollman Robert K. Hodges, F. E. Minter and Frank Weaver The club's next forum, Jan. 3, '12 at 4 p.m. Elmethomas, a student, is temporary organist of the church Recently Philathea S. S. class, Mrs. S. W Hale president, presented the truetees, $25; the House Keepers' club Miss Bessie Randolph, pres.; $40; the T. M. T. M. class, Mrs. Ruth Waller, pres.; $35. SINGLE COPY FIVE CENTS THE FOURTH GIVEN LIFE. Cummins Participated in the Murder of the "Policy Queen"—Saved From the Electric Chair by the Jury. Common Pleas Judge Nathan H. McClure, sitting here from Medina, last Saturday sentenced Leonard Cummins of imprisonment in the Ohio Postsecondary School part in the murder, May 11, of Mrs. Geraldine Johnson, "policy queen" and wife of John B. ("Hot Stuff") Johnson, one of the four leading figures in the local lottery racket. Cummins was found guilty of first-degree murder, with a recommendation of mercy, late Friday, by a jury after two hours of deliberation. The recompensation saved him from the electric chair. Imposing the life-sentence is mandatory. Cummins is the fourth man to receive a life-sentence for complicity in the killing. THE TRUTH! Reviling Ablest and Best Leaders Each year we celebrate in serious and splendid fashion the anniversaries of the birth of Washington and Lincoln. We forget what was said of Washington and of Lincoln while they lived. Washington was a crocodile, a hyena, a deceiver, a double-dealer. A contemporary cartoon suggested that the guillotine might as properly be put into service for a president of the United States as for a king of France. The American nation has been awakened by Washington's overkill of Franklin at the popular a loot at the dinners of his political opponents was a speedy death to General Washington. The clerk of the House of Representatives accused him of being a thief and of having overdrawn his salary. Thomas Paine denounced him as ungrateful and pusillanimous and as having brought upon America the loss of character from which in Paine's opinion our nation then suffered in the world. Similarly, Lin was covered with abuse in his lifetime. Nicholas Murray Butler HEIRS TO $50,000 Los Angeles, Cal—One of the most sensational cases in the history of California courts came to a close, last week Monday, when Mabel Mason, age 10, and Royland Mason, age 12, were adjudged the rightful heirs to the $50,000 estate of the late J. E Mason (white), a wealthy business man of this city, relatives had battled long and hard to keep his two little Afro-American children from being awarded the estate he willilled them. The deceased had lived with the children's mother as their father, publicly acknowledging them as his own. Mrs. Lillian Starkey, E. 90th St. an old resident, and Carter Smith, for several years an Akron business man, were charged in a day. He will enter business here. 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 companion with any will immediately establish its rank as one of the NEWEST AND BEST published in the interest of Afro-Americans. E COPY FIVE CENTS ATION. TRA” HOOVER ADMINISTRATION! What It Has Not Doed for Our People—Schuyler's Comment. New York City.—I have just noticed a release from the Associated Negro Press (and doubtless paid for by the G. O. P.) lauding the Republicans for sparing Negroes from jobs. It is expected from now until after election day, but this piece happens to be so absurd that it cries for analysis and criticism. It is downright dishonest. President Herbert Hoover. An effort is made to have Negroes believe that the 54,000 Federal employees of African extraction drawing $69,000,000 annually hold their jobs by grace of the G. O. P. Included in the number are 28,400 postal employees; 5,914 "employees of the War Department, and 5,427 employees" of the Navy Department, etc. Now everybody knows that the postal employees and many others employed in government departments got their positions by passing civil service examinations, and not through the intervention of the G. O. P. His ridiculous to claim that the soldiers in the army and the sailors in the navy hold their jobs through the kindness and solicitude of the Republican Party. If the G. O. P. is to get the credit for all of this, it must also take the blame for its "jim crow" policy with Negro employees, for the failure to give black postal employees counter and window jobs, for appointing whites of lesser grade over Negroes who have gained a high mark in examinations, for closing the doors of promotion to Negroes in the army and the navy, and for breaking up the Negro regiments and making servants of the men. George S. Schuyler. Thus far this year there have been 15 lynchings, one each in Missouri, North Dakota, Tennessee, Louisiana, Arkansas, and Alabama, Florida and West Virginia, and three in Mississippi Georgia and Texas are still to be heard from, of course. --- IN UNION 16 STRENGTH 10,000,000 Afro-Americans. 325,000 in Ohio. 75,000 in Cleveland. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1931 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 ridiculing, both on the stage and in moving pictures, silent and "talkies," without protest of any kind from our people. GREAT! is this people of ours. FINKLE AND BERNSTEIN. A wonderful sight, such as is only seen in this city just before Christmas, each year, when Councilman Herman H. Finkle and Atty. Alex Bernstein, Republican leader of Ward 12, stage their annual Christmas party for the poor and needy of that ward and the third councilmanic district, was witnessed. Thursday morning and afternoon, in the school grounds at the corner of Woodland Ave. and E. 40th St. Five thousand halt-bushel baskets of good food were freely distributed, more than 90% of them going to members of the race. It was indeed a wonderfully touching sight to all, including the beneficiaries. Too much praise cannot be given Messrs. Finkle and Bernstein who, in addition to these Christmas baskets, have issued more than two thousand "Unemployment Relief Cards" which entitles the poor and needy to hot and cold food, once a day except Sunday, during December, January, February and March. They have listed more than 1,000 such families in ward 12 alone, each one with from one to seven children. Isn't this wonderful? CAN THIS BE TRUE? Prof. Carter G. Woodson of Washington, D. C., in a release to our newspapers of the country, under date, Dec. 23, 1931, charges that our people have been eliminated from the great George Washington Bicentennial celebration to take place in that city beginning Feb. 11, 1932, and continuing until Thanksgiving of that year. It is to be a great demonstration in which hundreds of representatives from foreign countries are to participate. France will send many veterans of the World War, and other countries abroad are expected to do likewise. Some months ago. The Gazette called attention to the fact that the only American soldiers to be brigaded with the armies of foreign countries during the World War were those sent to Italy and the Afro-American regiments that fought with the French soldiers. Noticing that no attention at all was apparently being paid to our people in the many and varied preparations for the George Washington Bicentennial celebration, we called attention to the fact, because our soldiers who fought in France under French generals were very popular not only with them, and the French soldiers, but with all of the people of France. When their comrades, particularly the French veterans of the World War, arrive in the nation's capitol, next year, naturally they will expect not only to be greeted by their Afro-American comrades, but to march side by side with them in the great parades of the celebration as they did in the World War. And this great pleasure should not be denied them even to cater to the damphool American racial prejudice. And what a position it would place this country in, in the minds and hearts of the great French people and all other foreign countries, and what an outrage those in charge of the bicentennial celebration, backed by the Hoover administration, would commit upon all of our loyal veterans of the World War and their people! Beginning with Crisp Attacks. the first to shed blood in the struggle for the independence of this country, the "Negro" soldiers made a glorious showing thrust the revolutionary war, fighting side by side with their white comrades in the battle of Rhode Island in 1778, and many other engagements of that war; then the heroic deeds of Peter Salem who struck down Major Pitcairn at Bunker Hill; the "Negro" soldiers' part in the Battle of Monmouth when seven hundred of them, fighting side by side with white soldiers, rallied to the aid of General George Washington; when a "Negro", Salem Poor, under the command of Col. Barton in 1777, captured Col. Prescott of the British army at great peril when no other soldier dared to risk his life in the effort; and then the "Negro" who learned the countersign of the British army and thereby led the troops of Mad Anthony Wayne undetected within firing distance of the British at Stony Point, thus enabling them to carry the place by storm; also the "Negro" soldiers who on May 14, 1781, under Col. Greene at Points Ridge, sacrificed their lives to the last man before the British could subdue and kill their commander on that unfortunate battle-ground. Knowing these things, and more, as they must, those in charge of the George Washington Bicentennial celebration must not fail to approach the matter of our representation in that great affair in a PROPER way. They must not allow their fool-prejudice to prevent them from doing the very proper thing, as seems to be their intention, according to Prof. Carter G. Woodson who claims they have recently associated with them a few "jim-crow Washington Negroes" who are undertaking to appease our people of the country by having a "special day" for their participation in the affair and by otherwise segregating those of our people who may attend the George Washington Bicentennial celebration at the nations' capitol, next year. This would amount to an outrage which could only place this entire country in a most ridiculous light in the minds and hearts of all representatives of foreign countries, particularly those from France. GREAT LITTLE ETHEL WATERS Established as a Great Artist in "Rhapsope in Black"—Her Characterizations Exceptionally Fine and Pleasing. Ethel Waters, star of Low Leslie's "Rhapsope In Black, the symphony of blue notes and black rhythm", which begins an engagement of only four performances at the Hanna Theatre, this week with a Christmas matinee, has done an "about face" which has transferred her into a new and real actress. For those who know Miss Waters, have known her for her blue songs. "Hot rhythms" were her first role. "Hands Hard Man Ain't Handy, Any More" became one of the classics of the theatre and she won a special niche for Ethel Waters. herself by virtue of the fiery and invariably daring lyrics she sang. This carried her to exceptional heights of stage success. An observant Lew Leslie, however, changed all of this. He saw in Ethel Waters what the average producer failed to understand that sparkled with rare artistry. "I'm going to produce a different kind of a show than I've ever had." Leslie told her, last winter, "and you're going to be my star. You will sing character songs and give character portraits. No more 'hot numbers' for you." Ethel Waters was stunned. "But you can't do that, Mr. Leslie," she protested, "I've always succeeded wonderfully with scorching lyrics." Leslie, however, was adamant and much as Miss Waters dreaded losing her old identity by venturing into a new field, she accepted the assignment and in *Phasody in Black* emerged a new artist, so that she astonished not only "first nighters" but also veteran play-reviewers. She won overnight acclaim by her great characterizations, particularly that one as hostess in a Harlem舞厅, all delightfully pointed portraits. And now there are those who are enthusiastically calling her "the bronze Ruth Draper." Paul Lawrence Dunbar's beautiful poem, "Christmas in the Heart", was used on the cover page of the Dec. 13 issue of the "Sunday Bulletin" of the First M. E. church, Euclid Ave. and E. 30th St. of, which Rev. Chas. L. Debow is pastor. Optimistic Club, No. 1, Mrs. Della Offer, pres. held one of its most pleasing and satisfactory meetings, Tuesday evening, at Mrs. Carrie Warfield's, 9015 Blaine Ave. This organization is one of the most successful in its charitable work in this city. THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, G., SATURDAY, DECEMBER 26, 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. 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. LISTEN TO THAT BLAIRTER TALK HE PUTS IT ON HE SOUNDS JUST LIKE AN ENGLISHMAN IN A VAUDEVILLE SHOW WHAT DID YOU EXPECT HIM TO SOUND LIKE? HE IS ENGLISH BLI ME IF IT HAUNT DUGAH AND KEEFE OLD CHAP WHAT KIND OF A CIGAR IS THAT YOU'RE SMOKING? A PORONA-PORONA DON'T CHA-KNOW OLD FELLOW WE HEARD YOU THE FIRST TIME WHERE DID YOU SPEND THE SUMMER? AH BADEN-BADEN. OLD CHAP TRY THAT PUNCH-PUNCH ON YOUR PICCOLLO-DICCOLLO DO YOU THINK WE'RE ALL DRAF Our mo-violence or anti-lynching bill was introduced in the Ohio legislature in 1894 and re-introduced in 1896. It took the Hon. Harry C. Smith, editor of The Gazette, just three years to secure its enactment into law. The Ohio Supreme Court has several times upheld the constitutionality of the law and it has been 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 injury to any law, shall be deemed "mob" for the purpose of this chapter. An act of violence by a mob upon the body of any person shall constitute a "lynching" within the meaning of this chapter. (93 v. 161 2.) Section 6279. The term "serious injury," for the purpose of this chap. includes such inquiry as permanently in contact with a 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 Section 6281. A person assaulted and lynched by a mob may recover, from the county in which such assault is made a sum not to exceed $10,000. A person may receive 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 damage, 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 make the widow see an amount that shall be minor. If there be no widow or minor children surviving such decedent, such sum shall be distributed among the next of kin according to the laws of the distribution of the personality of an intestate. Such sum so recovered shall not be a part of the estate of such person so lynched, nor be subject to any of his liabilities. (83 v. 162 6.) Section 6283. A person suffering death or injury from a mob attempting to lynch another person shall come within the provisions of this chapter. He or his legal representatives shall have a like right of action as one purposely injured or killed by mob (93 v. 162 6.) Section 6283. Action for the recoveries provided for in this chapter must be commenced, within two years from the date of such lynching, in any court having original jurisdiction of an action for damages for malicious assault. (93 v. 162 7.) Section 6285. An order to the commissioners of a county, against which such recovery is had, to include it with the costs of action, in the next succeeding tax levy for such county, shall be a part of the judgment in every such case. (93 v. 162 8.) Section 628b. If the decedent so lynched has minor children surviving him, the fund shall be turned over to a regularly appointed guardian. Such guardian shall administer such fund under the direction of the probate judge, allowing not more than five hundred dollars for counselors in the action for such recovery (93. 8. 19. 9). Section 6287. The county in which a lynching occurred may recover the amount of a judgment and costs against it in favor of the legal representatives of a person killed or seriously injured by a mob from any of the persons composing such mob. A person present, with hostile intent, at such lynching shall be deemed a member of the mob and be liable to such action. (93. 9. 162 10.) Section 6288. If a mob carries a 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: B.S. ed. representative of victim of lynching try by mob trying to lynch another. costs in tax levy. just member of mob just another county. prisoner into another county, or comes from another county to commit violence on a prisoner brought from such county for safekeeping, the county in which the lynching is of the judge's concern the amount of 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. 169) § Section 6289. This chapter shall not relieve a person concerned in such lynching from prosecution for homicide or assault for engaging therein. (93 v. 163 12.) OUR OHIO CIVIL RIGHTS LAW Upon the request of many readers of The Gazette we print below the text of the Hon. Harry C. Smith's Ohio Civil Rights law which the editor had enacted while a member of the 71st General Assembly, in 1894. Sec. 12940. Whoever, being the proprietor or his employee, keeper or manager of an inn, restaurant, eating House, barber-shop, public conveyance by land or water, theater or other place of public accommodation and amusement, denies to a citizen, except for reasons applicable alike to all citizens and regardless of race or color, the full enjoyment of the accommodations, advantages, facilities, or services, be 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. 12941. Whoever violates the next preceding section shall also pay not less than fifty dollars nor more than five hundreds dollars to the person aggrieved thereby to be recov- in any court of competent jurisdiction in any place 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. IS IT ANY USE TO CONTEND FOR RIGHTS? Colored Americans are the only race, responsible members of which are in favor of submitting to discrimination on the claim that their race "always will be discriminated against." The Jews are still contending, after over 1900 years of universal elimination and are winning social rights today. The Irish at home have contended for 700 years and are winning because they will die rather than submit. The race that says it's of no use to resist, downs itself and the world then will say, "Negroes are not worthy of equal rights; they are by nature without self-respect and have 'guts.'" The world respects only those who resent and resist prescriptions for race. 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All reading matter for publication in current issues of The Gazette must be in the office by noon, WEDNESDAY, of that week, at the latest. Display advertisements accepted until 4 p. m., WEDNESDAYS! HARRY C. SMITH 226 West Superior Avenue, Cleveland, O. (Opposite, Hotel Cleveland.) Notary Public Bell 'Phone: CHerry 1259 Classified Advertising Department FOR RENT.—Five nice good-sized rooms (up) at 2417 E. 82d St. Front and back entrance, electric lights, gas, etc. Rent, $25 per month. Call CHerry 1259 in the afternoon. 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, up to 7 p. m., or call at suite 302, No. 226 W. Superior Ave., opposite Hotel Cleveland entrance. CLEVELAND Social and Personal Wm. A. Moore and Mamie Reeds are to be married, Jan. 2. Mr. and Mrs. John Cornwell visited in Columbus, last week. Mrs. Mamie Wimba is a clerk in the new Massing chain grocery store, E. 101st St. and Cedar Ave. Mrs. Pearl Hughes of Detroit is the guest of Mrs. Estelle Tyler, E. 70th St. The new officers of the Smart Set Social club are: Vivian Weaver pres.; Adelle Reed, vice-pres.; Bernice Lee, sec-treas. Mrs. Florence Bundy, in charge of girl activities at Central bath-house, attended the boule in Cincinnati, this week. Wm. Spencer, who returned to the city recently from Detroit where he spent two years, and Lucille Strother were married, recently, and are "at home" at 2315 E. 95th St. He has entered business at 8418 Quincy Ave. Mrs. Margerie, wife of Wm. Gaines, E. 31st St. was awarded a beautiful electric clock, recently, in a receipt contest held by the R. C. McAteer Co. of Pittsburgh, Pa. Billy won't have any excuse for being late to work now. The editor of The Gazette acknowledges receipt of an invitation to attend the emancipation celebration to be held, today (Saturday) under the auspices of "The Cleveland Guide" at Woodland Center, E. 46th St. and Woodland Ave. Congressman Oscar DePriest is announced as the principal speaker. Henry W. King, for 14 years superintendent of Lane Memorial C. M. E. S. S., has resigned. Edw. J. Blackmore succeeds him. W. A. Wilkes is president of the choir and Mrs. Helen J. Scott, president of the Rosebud group. Rev. G. W. Stoner, P. E., visited the church, recently. Rev. W. H. Evans, pastor. Very pretty additional Christmas and New Year cards, received just before we went to pres., this week, were from the Duplex Printing Pad Co. of Battle Creek, Mich.; Mr. and Mrs. Emory B. Sharber and Atty, and Mrs. John E. Ballard of this city, Dr. and Mrs. J. E. Hunter, of Lexington, Ky., and Atty. Chester Gillespie. A public installation and open-house reception will be held by King Tut lodge and Mary B. Talbert Temple, Elks, at 5610 Scovill Ave., next Saturday evening, it was announced this week by Mr. Alston Yancy, chairman of the committee in charge. An interesting program of speeches and musical entertainment has been prepared. A large crowd attended Boydston Post's show at the P. W. A., last week Thursday evening, to raise funds for its orphans and needy children dinner-party. Christmas day. The Club Madrid, Bessie Brown, Billie Banks and Leon Gardner feast the entertainment. In addition they held the Lahiri Hall Tyler, the magician; Harry G. Williams in a mind-reading and novelty act, and Levy in a dance number, Samuel V. Perry arranged the entertainment and everybody enjoyed it. The $25 purchase-certificate was won by F. F. Spitiz, 313 City Hall, Bridge and whist were played before the show. The winners have not as been announced. The post met, Monday evening, at Central Ave., and completed arrangements for the children's dinner-party at Mt. Zion Cong. church, Christmas. The editor of The Gazette gratefully acknowledges the receipt of Xmas and New Years greetings (many of them very pretty indeed) from the following good friends: Dana D. English, Sidney B. Thompson, Mrs. Ora L. Younger, Daniel H. O'Neill, Mr. and Mrs. Paul Apple of Ramona Blvd.; Secretary of the Police and Fire Department and Mrs. Chas. S. Smith, Miss Ida M. Cash, Mrs. Kate A. Baker of Pasadena, H. SMITH'S 3007 Scovill Ave. THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, Q. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1931. A MOVING MAN HUSKY WAS MONTAGUE FORCE, HE COULD LIFT ANYTHING FROM A BED TO A HORSE. WHILE THIS WEAKLING FOLLOWED THE SAME LINE OF ART, FROM HIS LOOKS HE APPEARED TO BE FALLING APART: BUT FORCE HAD ABOUT AS MUCH SPUNK AS A TOAD, FOR HERE HE IS LIFTING HIS HEAVIEST LOAD, WHILE THE LITTLE GALOUT WHO COULD FALL THROUGH A CRACK HAD TO CARRY A COUPLE OF TONS ON HIS BACK! YOU'RE ALL RIGHT, KID- YOU'LL GET HIM IN THE NEXT ROUND! THAT'S A LOTTA BOLONET ROSENBERG'S DRUG STORE N. W. Cor. Central Ave., and E. 55th St. J. S. HALL'S 7709 Cedar Ave. COLOR-LINE IN OHIO INSURANCE Hon. Jere A. Brown's Insurance Law, Passed Many Years Ago. Being Ignored by State Officials—A Protest. Cleveland, O., Dec. 10, '31 Hon. Chas. T. Warner, Superintendent of Insurance, Capitol, Columbus, O. Dear Sir: Having reference particularly to your letter of Dec. 8, 1931, to Col. A. T. Abbott, 2127 E 96th St. Cleveland, O., which he has turned over to me, permit me to ask you if foreign insurance companies (those of other) are permitted to do business in the state without a license, and if there is not a penalty provided for such companies as do business in the state without a license? My impression is that, about forty years ago, the Hon. Jere A. Brown of this city, then a member of the Ohio Legislature, secured the enactment of an insurance law with the provisions referred to and others relative to insurance companies that discriminated against citizens of Ohio on the score of race, color or religion. Have you any knowledge of the above law? OHIO DEPARTMENT OF COM MERCE, Division of Insurance. Columbus, Dec. 15, 1931. Hon. Harvey H. Browne. Editor, George Cleveland, O. Dear Sir;---Replying to your favor of the 10th, please be advised that the U. S. Supreme Court has held that the mails are open to anyone covering unauthorized insurance however, it is our thought that since the mails are so open, that we would not be able to enforce our Chas. T. Warner, Superintendent of Insurance By Walter A. Robinson Cleveland, O., Dec. 18, '31 Gov. Geo. White, Gov. Geo. White, Capitol, Columbus, O. Dear Governor:—There is a law against foreign insurance companies (those outside of Ohio) doing business in this state that do not register with our state division of insurance. This same law, if I remember correctly, refuses said companies the right to do business in this state that illegally discriminate on the score of color, race, religion, etc. Recently, I called the attention of the Division of Insurance of the State Department of Commerce to this law which was passed, many years ago, by the Hon. Jere A. B. Brown (deceased), a member of the Ohio Legislature from this (Cuyahoga) county. In reply to my letter, I received this statement from a member of the State Division of Insurance: "Replying to your favor of the 10th (December, 1931), please be advised that the U. S. Supreme Court has held that the mails are open to any one. It is true we have a statute covering unauthorized insurance; however, it is our thot that since the mails are so open, that we cannot be able to enforce this statute." The foregoing, it seems to me, is a queer and untenable position to take by the Ohio Division of Insurance with all of this state's law-enforcement power and all of its courts. As a matter of fact that "the United States Supreme Court has held that the mails are open to any one" ought not to be considered for a moment, because that fact is the great state of Ohio from carrying into effect, to the full extent of its great power, all the provisions of the statute being ignored by the Division of Insurance of the Ohio Department of Commerce. The State Assembly of Ohio, in the passage of that law, imposed a duty, Governor, which it is not performing, or even trying to perform, something absolutely inexcusable. Therefore, this letter to you, the chief executive of the great state of Ohio. In taking because that division of Insurance places itself above the law-making and judicial branches of the government of the state. Sincerely, Harry C. Smith, Editor Gazette. A Showing the same power that carried them to the championship last season, the Slaughter Bros. cagers edged the powerful Favorite Knits, 32 to 29, in a torried Muny A game at Russell gym last Thursday night. Smith, crack center of the Slaughters, held the high-scoring Teeny scoreless from the field with a master exhibition of guarding. John Follett led the scoring with ten points, seven of which came in the last period. 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. 10, bridge-operator, city; Jan. 13, bridge-operator, steam, 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, county; Jan. 22, sidewalk-ologist, city; Jan. 23, sidewalk-inspector, city; Jan. 26, smoke-inspector, city. If you wish to see something you will never forget, go to Woodland Ave., cor. E. 40th St., this week Thursday morning, about 11:30 o'clock and witness that great distribution of food supplies to be made by Councilman Herman H. Finkle and Atty. Alex Bernstein, Republican leader of Ward 12. They have needed 100 of the necessary needy, each card enticing the holder to a half-bushel basket of good food. It sure will be one wonderful sight. This is their usual Christmas acknowledgement of the loyal support our people have given them on numerous occasions in years gone by and this year. It surpasses anything of the kind in this community-produced invaluable addition to the great charitable work being done at this time by the city and numerous other organizations, agencies, etc. 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 has served more than 300 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 and Ohio's civil law. 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RING LARDNER e, Al" in leading newspapers States. with leading metro- lines, this newspaper its readers the comic With Lardner dred Millions. By RUBE GOLDBERG OUT FALL A CRACK 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 -Abandoned Mine of the Kimberley Group. (Prepared by National Geographic Society, Washington, D.C.) $^2$NWU Service. DISCOVERY of new diamond deposits in Tanganyika has made the colony the focal point of enthusiastic prospectors in search of the glittering gems. The African diamond industry is only slightly more than a half century old. Today the continent produces nearly nine-tenths of the world's supply. It was in 1870 that the windy, dust-swept region of Griquland, South Africa, suddenly changed from No Man's Land to Everyman's Land, when diamonds were discovered there. Later, it was annexed to Colony within such meticulously drawn boundaries that inside one farmer's house the family dined in that colony and went to bed in the Orange Free State. "Playing jackstones with diamonds!" Somehow that electrifying caption was overlooked by news reporters in 1865, when, at Hopetown, on the Orange river, the presence of diamonds in South Africa was signaled by a child, who was discovered playing with a casually picked-up gem weighing $21\frac{1}{4}$ carats. At once the South African diamond fever was on. Ships lost their crews, overseas shopkeepers their clerks, police forces their "bobbies," the underworld its crooks; and perhaps the church lost a curate, and certainly Natal lost a budding cotton planter—he had once felt drawn to the ministry—in the case of an invalidish young fellow named Cecil John Rhodes. All raked up the price to get them to Grigueland's "desert of drought and diamonds." Future Kimberley was soon a scene of canvas tents, of wagons converted into huts, of prospectors sieving the diamondiferous earth, and of "kople-wallopers"—those who bought other men's finds on speculation—hurrying to and fro among the sorting tables. Also, there appeared the resourceful "I. D. B." (illicit diamond buyer), co-operating with what might be described as the diamond-stealing industry, smuggled out stones in contravention to the law. Stowing gems in cigarettes, pipes and hollow shoe heels by no means exhausted his ingenuity. The hungry dog trick—that is, feeding a starved animal on meat containing diamonds and subsequently retrieving them by cutting him open—was much in vogue. Controlling the Output. Under desert conditions, food was often more precious than diamonds, and baths, if you could afford that luxury, were taken in imported soda water. Despite prophecies of a brief year's life for Kimberley, the first two decades showed a production of six tons of diamonds from the Griqua country. Indeed, by 1880 the possibility of South African stones swamping the market was so apparent that Rhodes and his group formed the price-and output-controlling De Beers company. Modern Kimberley abuts on a three-mile-wide circle which contains, within barbed wire barriers, mines, housing "compounds," process sheds, company stores, hospitals, public baths, and kitchens—in fact, everything necessary to the industry and its 5,000 Bantu miners. These Bantu "boys" are voluntary recruits, who mine for six months annually, returning to their kraals with the wherewithal for meeting taxes, for buying wives with lobola (cattle dowry), or for less serious investments, such as concertinas and mouth organs. In "above ground" hours they are seen cooking their food, or purchasing at cost price at the stores, or depositing their wages with the company's savings department. Often these deposits represent such considerable annual aggregates as $230,000 paid in by 12,000 miners Each week in the Kimberley mines some 70,000 tons of "blue ground" (hard, diamondiferous earth) are blasted out, crushed, fed into running water, rotated in steel drums, jigged along in troughs, and washed across tablelike surfaces, coated with petroleum jelly. The rotary process, by centrifugal force, separates the ground-up mass into different-sized units. The jigging process washes away barren elements from the water-borne "concentrate," of gravel-like appearance; and, finally, the diminished residue flows across the petroleum surfaces, to which only the diamonds adhere. Not at All Exciting. Yet "diminished residue" is putting it but mildly, since these 70,000 tons of blue ground will produce only about 10% pounds of diamonds—say, a ratio of 14,000,000 to 1. We might address the cleanser, who, broad blade in hand, now and then scrapes off the diamondiferous petroleum and throws it into a vat of boiling water. "Scraping off millions of dollars' worth of diamonds in this way, isn't it rather exciting?" "Why, no," he will probably answer unemotionally—and everyone knows what familiar breeds—it's about like handling mortar with a trowel." Inside the sorting room, to which visitors are admitted after an eye has scrutinized them from behind a slid-back panel, men were poking diamonds through graduated holes in small screens to ascertain the stones' diameters. On one table alone lay 18,500 carats-weight of gems, worth approximately a million dollars. Feeling as dizzy as Ali Baba in the treasure cave, one asks tremulously of a sorter: "Putting millions of dollars' worth of diamonds through screen holes isn't it a bit thrilling?" "Oh, no," he answers, suppressing a yawn—again that familiarity complex—as he popped a one-inch diamond through the screen, "it's about like shelling peas." Kimberley town itself is as simple and homelike a place as you'd find in the suburban area of some American city. It has produced nearly $1,330,000,000 worth of diamonds in half a century. It's difficult to see how the city could adequately have expressed its wealth production save by paving its main street with gems; but in truth it has been its fate to have created fortunes that too often flitted from South Africa to the attractions in London and Paris. Yet there was an exception. At least one Kimberley digger, Cecil Rhodes, could amass a fortune, yet scorn to use it in the common way. Great wealth constitutes a trust, to be administered in the wider interests of humanity—such was his view. And that he did, according to his lights, within South Africa and for the British empire. You may strike his trail along the twisting street—It follows the route of bygone diggers' footpaths from claim to claim—that leads you to the long-abandoned "New Rush" mine. Here is the vast, extinct crater, almost a mile around and a quarter of a mile deep, that once spewed diamonds into Europe's capitals; and here, too, if you've eyes to see them, swarm old-time miners' ghosts, with avid eyes and avaricious hands, sifting the earth and clawing at fortune. Tomorrow, for them, the fleshpots of Paris and London! Many Used in Industry Not all diamonds are destined to shine forth from jewelry that adorn men and women. More than half the world's production of the stones, in quantity, is used in industry. Some form bearings for watches, chronometers, electric meters, and other accurate instruments and laboratory apparatus. Some, in which tapered holes are drilled, are used for drawing fine wire of platinum, silver, gold, and rare metals. Other industrial uses for diamonds are as drills for glass, porcelain, and similar hard substances; turning-tools for lathe work; engraving points; and as cutting edges for rock drilling and sawing. For industrial purposes only the less nearly perfect and less valuable stones are used. The United States is the world's greatest diamond consuming country. Normally it absorbs nearly the equivalent of the entire South African output. If all the diamonds produced in the world in 1929 could have been combined into a single cube it would have been five and a half feet across each face—a crystal block as tall as the average man and weighing more than a ton and a half. If the rough stones have been brought together and dumped into bushel baskets they would have filled two dozens of them, heaped up. In recent years a wealth of the gems has been literally scooped up from the earth in the regions of aluvial diamond deposits. Until this change in mining methods came about, the greater part of the diamonds had been mined for decades by laborious digging to great depths in the "pipes" of extinct volcanoes. Then came the slow work of separating the stones from earth and rock. THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, O., SATURDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1931. Bright Colors for Little Ladies Bright Colors for Little Ladies JEEL FEDER PHOTO MOTHERS and others who cater to the needs and whims of the younger generation declare a growing interest in fashions on the part of the little toks of the present day. Since the little ladies of our land with true feminine instinct are making it so clearly understood that they have their own definite ideas about what to wear, it brings it up to those who have to do with creating juvenile modes to live up to the expectations of these now-so-sophisticated youngsters. A tour of the juvenile specialty shops and departments is most gratifying in this respect, for the fall and winter collections there displayed are without a doubt as attractive as practical and as versatile as creative genius can devise. vides unusual strength and pliability Pure dye fabrics woven of it so the crepe which fashions this curve combine durability with bead Note the soft-tied bow of self f and the novel yoke effect which details quite of the same type as which give distinction to grow models this season. The coat with matching hat is made of hand-wovenberg and wool in red and w the same woven in the open sp mesh which is so fashionable at ent. Crepe to match the dress on the coat. Hand-tagoted white collars and glistening white ocean pearls trim the other pretty little "Monday blue" flat crepe of benefit fabrics this quaint model. The reaction to this demand of the very young for modish dress is especially keen in the fabric sections, for after all the chic and the wearability of a child's dress or coat depends first of all upon the material of which it is made. To discriminating mothers who demand and know values, fabrics of synthetic yarns are proving of special interest. Where wear and tear is a major factor and frequent laundering an essential, weaves of fibre structure are winning increasing recognition from those seeking media which will give super service, at the same time lacking nothing in the way of smart and winsome appearance. The pleasing school ensemble which costumes the modern little lady posing to the left in the picture features a frock of bright red crepe of bemberg (a fiber of multi filament structure, which is made of cotton linters by a stretch-spinning process which pro Newest necklines are formed of twists of velvet in different colors which are in striking contrast and which are worked as sketched at the top in the illustration. For this Patou ensemble twisted black and pink velvet about the neck matches a toque trimmed with a tiny pink bow. In fact, velvet as a trimming is used in most unusual ways. A favorite theme is the bright velvet bow on the black or somber velvet or silk crepe frock such as pale jade green on black, rust color on brown or white on black and so on. Velvet neckpieces with matching hats such as the handsome model shown below are the rage in Paris. This one is of gray velvet treated to simulate bretschwanzt. Subscribe Now vides unusual strength and pliability). Pure dye fabrics woven of it such as the crepe which fashions this cunning frock combine durability with beauty. Note the soft-tied bow of self fabric and the novel yoke effect which are details quite of the same type as those which give distinction to grown-up models this season. The coat with its matching hat is made of hand-woven bemberg and wool in red and white, the same woven in the open spongy mesh which is so fashionable at press ent. Crepe to match the dress lines the coat. Hand-tagoted white collars and cuffs and glistening white ocean pearl buttons trim the other pretty little frock "Monday blue" that crepe of bemberg fashions this unstint model. Canton-weave crepes of a new bernberg and rayon mixture particularly if they be in brilliant colors, are finding favor not only with professional designers of children's frocks, but mothers who are fabric-wise and who sow for their little ones are especially enthusiastic over the merits of weaves of this type, since they launder perfectly. The matter of color is very important in childhood's fashion realm, the choice running from either very dark rich tones such as the popular wine tones, deep greens and bright blues or if light effects are employed then the tints are unusual and distinctive. For older girls beyond the tiny-to age an interesting trend is that of lengthening the party frock to ankle depth thus reviving a quaint and pique turesque silhouette which prevailed in days of yore. (© 1931, Western Newspaper Union.) MUCH DIVERSITY IN NEWEST FUR COATS This is much diversity in fur couts this year, and more types suited to the young girl than we have seen in many a season. In the first place, she must have one of the new fur jackets. Fortunately, this is not an extravagance, for in many of the shops it is possible to purchase cloth frocks—plus fur jacket—at a price surprisingly low. Barunduk, lapin or seal are the furs most frequently used. For a sports coat three quarters is the smartest length, and there are lots of new tricks as to scarf collars, drop yokes, sleeves, etc. If no belt is worn, the coat is usually shaped slightly at the waistline, although some coats are cut with a real raglan flare. Kidskin and lapin—the latter in the new Paton brown—are very good, as is logwood brown Alaskan sealskin, which costs more but wears forever. Ermine on Black Now Favored by the Mode Black is the favorite tea-time coat color, although a new putty beige and deep reds, greens and purple, so dark they are almost black, are offered to color the mode. Ermine, once reserved for the robes of queens, is one of the smartest furs. Black broadcloth coats with swirling ermine collars and melon cuffs are the fashionable Parisian's favorite teatime wraps. Fabric and Fur Combine in Up-to-Date Costumes The dressy coats, hats and shoes which women will wear with their teatime frocks this fall are more elegant than they have been in the last decade. In keeping with the "grand dame" mode, which smart Parisians have adopted for the cocktail hour, coats are designed of rich fabrics decked in luxurious furs. "SOCIAL EQUALITY." "The Revolutionary Age" is the official organ of the Communist party of this country and is published at 63 Madison, New York City. In a recent issue of that paper there appeared the following letter: Weehawken, N. J., Nov. 23, 1931. Editor, Revolutionary, Age. Editor, Revolutionary Age. Dear Sir:—Referring to a campaign slogan used by Communists—that is, social equality between "Negro" and white workers—do you people mean and white workers should intermarriage? Very sincerely. H. Hillwood. To which the editor of "The Revolutionary Age" replied: "Yes, we mean that all obstacles, in law and in custom, to the free intermarriage between Negro and white people must be destroyed. In every conceivable respect, including rights of marriage, the colored and white people must be on exactly the same level. Any other viewpoint on the question of intermarriage turns the demand for social equality into a hollow mocker, into a hypercritical gesture. We take this stand on grounds of science, history and the fundamental principles of. The Revolutionary working class moreover compels us to reject all imperialistic fantasies as to the supremacy of the 'white race' and to recognize the equality of all of the great families of mankind. Any rejection or limitation of the right of tree intermarriage is impossible for any honest and consistent advocate of democracy." And that is "the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth." It is held such by every race or group in the world, except in this country, which does not alter in the slightest the correctness and truthfulness of the statement, so well expressed by the editor of "The Revolutionary Age." And the sooner this country awakens to and recognizes the fact, the better it is going to be for all concerned, because intermarriage has been gradually increasing for many years and will continue to do so in spite of all talk and laws to the contrary. Indeed, they only have the effect of increasing the "mixing" which, of course, includes intermarriage. We wish it were in our power to literally sear this statement of "The Revolutionary Age" into the minds and hearts of the so-called "Negro" leaders of the land, particularly those resident in the northern section. "LIVE IT DOWN"; Acting Mayor Harold H. Burton, the speaker at the Men's Civic club's meeting in Mt. Zion Cong, church Sunday afternoon, was asked what he theot of the name "Roaring Third" for that neighborhood. Replying, he said he theot "it is fortunate not only for the district but for the whole city. But as the city all will be affected, people would have to grin and bear it and hope to live it down." An impossibility, with conditions remaining as they are, Mr. Mayor! Many years ago, the city government of Cleveland practically restricted, as far as possible, all illegal and immoral doings to the "Central Ave district" and ever since has perished from the steady protests of residents of that section of the city of which the writer has been and still is one. The foregoing is a notorious fact in this community. Therefore, we would like to ask Acting Mayor Burton how the residents of the so-called "Roaring Third" can ever "hope to live it down" or "to grin" while they are bearing "J" Just roar the crowd andummon condition of that section of the city still is was brot vividly to the attention of the entire community, in the last few weeks, by the incipient grand jury investigation added by the office of the county prosecutor. The good people of the third councilmatic district, and there are thousands of such residents still there the miserable conditions complained of made and tolerated by the city government of Cleveland, D. 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 Saturdays is required to make some money. We are especially desirable of hearing from persons in the following named cities: Springfield, Columbus Toledo, Steubenville, Zanesville, Wilmington, Xenia, Washington C. O., H. Lancaster, Piqua, Lima C. O., and other places, particularly 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 per- What would cause other people to gnash their teeth and gird their loins is question of debate for us. Kick us, beat us, pile deprendations upon us, revil us, abuse us, lie about us, 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.) Whitp. DePRIEST'S "SANHEDRIN". PROF. KELLY MILLER OF HOWARD UNIVERSITY PRAISES IT AND WRITES OF ITS AFTERMATH. 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. Neither of the two great political households have any great desire for him, except to utilize his political potentiality for its own ends. But the Negro now feels that he must turn this potentiality to his own account rigardless of party fate and that he is not being 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 partnership alike but laid the chief stress of emphasis upon 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 unwervable Republicans, some are hard and fast Democrats, while still others are Independent; but all stand first and foremost for prohibition which they strive to promote through either or both the contending parties. The goes further the party fails to prohibit 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 let us say, pro-Negro. 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 the principles they profess. The Negro in the South can no more alike than in the Willett-Bourdon 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 can neither learn new things nor forget old ones. These imagine that the party of Thaddeus Stevens and James Cromwell and I am alive and functioning. As I said above, 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. The Non-Partisan Conference is the first meeting 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 conference furnished opportunity to swap experience and exchange views and to increase the views and harnessing them for 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 conferences to follow up these resolutions and translate them into some form of practical action. The authorized Committee of the Non-Partisan Conference is now hard at work formulating some scheme of permanent organization, which will offer one of the defining functions of the conference. The new agency must not 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 we have hitherto been able to secure by carrying all of our goods to a single market. The price demanded is not mere paltry patronage, privileges and the law, supplemented by patronage as a guarantee of good faith. We must learn to govern ourselves and work together for our own advancement. If we do not learn to govern our ourselves and work together for our own advancement, we may be very sure that we will be governed by others in their own interest as well as worked by others for their own advancement and not ours.—George W. Blount. 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-American ricans 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, seeing injustice and oppression, dares, within the limits of his dares, in the hope of if possible smite. You and I have frequently, during the forty-two years since the birth of The Gazette, been, as the Scotch would say, like two McNeils, but when I find a man, such as you, who consistently, and persistently, through nearly half a century, puts his race foremost in his life struggle. I take off my hat to him, as being a true friend of our class. Long life to you and The Gazette. Yours for the right, John P. Green. (Former Member, Ohio State Senate.) RACE PREJUDICE! "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 worst single thing in life now. It justifies and holds together more baseness, cruelty and abomination than any other sort of error in the world." —H. G. Wells. Attention! Readers: Our advertisers want your trade. Those who do not ask for it in the column 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. Reading It Reading It Kelly Miller OUR LESSON ```markdown ``` ```markdown ```