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IN UNION IS STRONGER FORTY-NINTH YEAR AMER Y-NINTH YEAR No. 32. MERICA FORTY-NINTH YEAR No. 32. AMERICA, THE RACIAL WHY MORE A. M. E. BISHOPS? Statistical Comparison of the African and the Methodist Episcopal by Charlottesville Item Number of Church Edifices Number of Church Members Average Members per Church Value of Church Edifices Number of Bishops active in U. S. Churches per Bishop Members per Bishop* Value Churches per Bishop *With the number of A. M. E. bishops in the United States, the drop to less than 35,000 (34,113) are per white bishop. Although there was an increase in churches, during the ten-year period, census, the yearly expenditures jumped LARS, or from $3,413,395 to $7,600 during the same period, there was a CHURCH OFFICIALS, of 2,541 members. TWO INTERESTS By JOSEPH FADEOUT O Tells how and why our people Their Constitutional Rights discussion of the Klan and Ante $1.00. From Five This is Mr. Manning's life since 1870 to 1895 BOTH BOOKS T. A. HEBBON 184 W. 185th St., D Cleveland's Greatest Food Market Open Daily Until 6 P. M. Saturdays 10 P. M. Woodland Market (At Woodland and) EASTER FOOD SPECIALS SUGAR, Fine Granulated, Clovis 10 pounds Coffee, Fancy Saturates Navy Beans, hand picked, 3 p Matches, large box, 12 for. Milk, tall cans, all brands, 4 c Salmon, Pink, tall cans, 2 cans Aunt Jemima Pancake Flour, SOAP—Small Ivory, Lux or L DUDNIK GROCERY VEAL ROAST, leg or loin, per pound AT ALL FRESH Comparison of the African Methodist Episcopal Church and the Methodist Episcopal Church (White), by Charles E. Hall. African Methodist Episcopal Church Edifices ... 6,708 Church Members ... 545,814 Members per Church ... 81 Church Edifices ... $32,092,549 Bishops Active in U. S. ... 13 Bishop ... 516 Bishop* ... 41,985 Times per Bishop ... $2,468,657 The number of A. M. E. bishops restored to 17 on the United States, the average membership per bishop is 35,000 (34,113) as compared with an average of there was an increase of ONLY seventy-five during the ten-year period covered by the last yearly expenditures jumped in excess of FOUR MILLION from $3,413,395 to $7,600,161. This is spite of a time period, there was an actual decrease, as RIFICIALS, of 2,541 members and 2,804 Sundays. TWO INTERESTING BOOKS By JOSEPH C. MANNING FADEOUT OF POPULISM Now and why our people of the South are dependent on the Constitutional Rights. Brought down to danger of the Klan and Anti-Saloon League Politics. From Five to Twenty-Five Mr. Manning's life story embracing the period 1870 to 1895. Price, $1.00. BOTH BOOKS FOR $1.50. T. A. HEBBONS, PUBLISHER, 184 W. 185th St., Dept. B, New York City. God's Greatest Food Market—1000 Varieties Under Daily 6 P. M. Sundays P. M. The Woodland - E. 55 Market (At Woodland and East 55th Street) FOR FOOD SPECIALS FOR SATURDAY, MONDAY Fine Granulated, Cloth Sacks, pounds Fancy Santos Bans, hand picked, 3 pounds Large box, 12 for All cans, all brands, 4 cans Pink, tall cans, 2 cans Mimma Pancake Flour, package Small Ivory, Lux or Lifebuoy, per bar DUDNIK GROCERY—Units 53 to 59 COAST, leg or loin, pound AT ALL FRESH MEAT UNITS Statistical Comparison of the African Methodist Episcopal Church (A. M. E.) and the Methodist Episcopal Church (White), by Charles E. Hall. Item African Methodist Episcopal Methodist Episcopal (White) Number of Church Edifices 6,708 26,130 Number of Church Members 545,814 4,080,777 Average Members per Church 81 156 Value of Church Edifices $32,092,549 $406,165,659 Number of Bishops Active in U. S. 13 21 Churches per Bishop 516 1,244 Members per Bishop* 41,985 194,323 Value Churches per Bishop $2,468,657 $19,341,222 *With the number of A. M. E. bishops restored to 17 or to 16 active bishops in the United States, the average membership per bishop would drop to less than 35,000 (34,113) as compared with an average of 194,323 per white bishop. Although there was an increase of ONLY seventy-five A. M. E. churches, during the ten-year period covered by the last U. S. religious census, the yearly expenditures jumped in excess of FOUR MILLION DOLLARS, or from $3,413,395 to $7,600,161. This is spite of the fact that, during the same period, there was an actual decrease, as REPORTED BY CHURCH OFFICIALS, of 2,541 members and 22,804 Sunday school scholars. Tells how and why our people of the South are deprived of Their Constitutional Rights. Brought down to date by discussion of the Klan and Anti-Saloon League Politics. Price, $1.00. From Five to Twenty-Five This is Mr. Manning's life story embracing the period from 1870 to 1895. Price, $1.00. BOTH BOOKS FOR $1.50. T. A. HEBBONS, PUBLISHER, 184 W. 185th St., Dept. B, New York City. 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She is a piece of Mrs. Corrine Burnett. — Miss Naomi Robertson has pneumonia. An Easter pageant, "The Resurrection," directed by H. H. Heller is soon to be given at the Clark St. "Y" office of the Central St. "Y" are: L. H. Cooley, pres; Leroy Emerson, rec. sec.; Wm. Murty, treas.; Dr. S. J. Jordan, central board rep. The new "Y" band is being directed by W. F. Smith—North St. A. M. E. church revival began, Mar. 13. Evangelist Shell of Florida in charge, assisted the pastor and a large gospel choir—Harry Robinson, age 69, died, recently—The board of "Y" management met, last week on Saturday night, at the Anna Johnson, age 69, died, recently that 4 and 5, would be known as the leap-year festival. Mrs. Pearl Evans and John W. Elliot, general chairmen. A number of chairmen of other standing committees were also appointed. — A basketball game between the Delphian and Hi "Y" groups was staged, last week Friday night, at Pastime hall. — The Wheat and Milk station, conducted by young women, or about 3,100 people daily. Farmers are very generous in their donations of surplus grain. — Dr. T. W. Burton, who visited in Richmond, Ky., has returned. — The debate at Wiley church, honoring the Epworth League, Sunday, was a great success, under the leadership of Rev. T. L. Ferguson. — Rev. G. H. Bundy, asked for something to eat by a man on the street, took him to the "Y" where Sec. W. S. Smith and Mr. S. Blanchard helped him take care of the farm, under the judgment on his condition. Don't fail to place your order for a copy, weekly, of "The Old Reliable" Gazette with our local representative, Mr. S. Blanchard, 519 S. Center St., and he will see that you get it regularly and on time. YOUNGSTOWN. — An interesting meeting was held at Belmont "Y," last week Thursday afternoon, which was addressed by Miss Cordella Wiem of N. Y. City, a national worker. Robert W. Bagnall of N. Y. City delivered an interesting address, last week Tuesday evening, under the auspices of the local N. A. A. C. P. branch, and a membership drive was launched which twenty men and women were named to lead—Funeral services for A. Hudson, who died at Elizabeth hospital, last week Monday, were held at Emerson's home and the University afternoon. Rev. G. W. Williams officiated. — A large crowd assembled at Third Baptist church, last week Tuesday evening, to hear Dr. A. Clayton Powell of N. Y. City tell his experiences in the Holy Land. The lecture was very interesting. He returned home that evening. 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 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 entertainments to be held in the near future, must be paid for in advance at the rate of 15 cents a line, six words to a line. Our rates for display advertisements will be sent on application. A. Wills-Dempsey Echo Chicago, Ill.—Jack Dempsey, former world heavyweight champion, was held responsible for approximately $100,000 in expenses incurred by the Chicago Coliseum club in 1926 when he repudiated a contract to fight Harry Wills, challenger, in a ruling handed down. Wednesday, by the Appellate Court. The opinion, delivered by Judge Francis Willis, judge of the Judgment in the Circuit Court and remanded the case for a new trial. JENKINS SUCCEEDS RICHARD C. BUNDY! As Business Manager of the State Department at Wilberforce—Prof. Newsome to Supervise the Educational Work. Wilberforce, O.—C. Jenkins, business manager of the C. department, was designated last week, Friday, to succeed the Rev. J. O. Haitcox, Cleveland, as temporary head of the state-supported Combined Normal and Industrial Department of Wilberforce University. The tustee board, in delegating the business manager to fill the vacancy created by the recessed its previous appointment of Dr. Haitcox in compliance with a ruling of State Attorney General Gilbert Bettman, holding that his appointment was illegal. In an opinion delivered to State Auditor Joseph Tracy, the attorney general held that a member of the board of trustees of the combined Normal and Industrial (state) department at Wilberforce is no eligible for appointment as superintendent until no appointment is made. Gilcox, a trustee of the state department, has no intention of resigning this position. Hence, the action rescinding his provisional appointment, taken at a board meeting last Friday. Explaining his ruling, Attorney General Bettman advised the board that the state treasury cannot legally pay the salary of a superintendent of the university's state department. The supervision of the superintendent has been approved by the state board of control. The board of trustees also appointed Prof. J. E. Newsome, a member of the faculty, to supervise the educational work of the state (C. N. & I.) department. Mr. Jenkins was also authorized to take charge of the residence occupied by Supt. Bundy and wife. The remains of former Supt. Richard H. Haitcox were located in Cleveland and there cremated. During his sickness for months he was closely guarded and no one outside of his immediate family had an opportunity to see and say a word of encouragement to him. "THE CORPSE SAT UP!" And It Was Sure "Leaving Time"—Only the Closest Relatives Returned to the Services in the Church. Goldboro, N. C.—There was a mad scramble and all of the doors of our local Baptist church were used a plenty, last week Thursday afternoon, by more than a hundred persons who had gathered to "pay their last respects" to Mrs. Mary Johnson when the corpse suddenly assumed a sitting position in the casket. The woman had died from rheumatism and the malady had died before being in such manner that the hips were set at an angle of about forty-five degrees. The undertaker had straightened the body and strapped it in the right position. During the funeral services one of the straps broke and the body sat up. After the undertaker had restrained it the mourners were recalled and the funeral services continued. Only the closest relatives returned, however, to remain until the finish. ATTY. W. H. STANTON DEAD County Courts Adjourn As a Tribute of Respect — Aggravating Assault Charged Against a White Officer Pittsburgh, Pa.—Wm. H. Stanton, age 58, our fourth attorney to be admitted to the Allegheny bar, died last week Friday morning. He was well known throut this section of the country having been in active practice ever since 1894. Mr. Stanton was a native of this city, a graduate of the old center of the Elks and many other fraternal organizations and societies, as well as Holy Cross Episcopal church. A tribute of respect was paid him in many of the county courts. He is survived by the widow, a son, Atty. W. W. Stanton; two daughters, three brothers and two sisters. Policeman Stanley Fajerski (white) was convicted on a charge of assault and battery, last week Friday, for murdering Thornton, after arresting him for carrying a revolver, near his home. BORI AND GIGLI TO STAR IN "MANON" With Them Will Be Tibett, Rothier And Other Grand Opera Stars— Bori, Pons, Moore and Tibett in "Tales of Hoffman" at Saturday Matinee—Marvelous Casts in All Operas. Those two great lovers, of grand opera, Lucrezia Bori and Beniamino Gigli, will be heard in a most popular opera, "Manon," on Friday night at 11:30 a.m. the ninth spring festival of grand opera in Cleveland's public hall. With them will be Lawrence Tibett, the great young American baritone and screen star, and the famed French basso, Leon Rothier, supported by a large cast of the stars of the Metropolitan Opera Company of New York City. For nine years Bori and Gigli have sung the great lovers' operas in Cleveland seasons and their nights A. LUCREZIA BORI have been outstanding in each season. It is expected that "Manon," which was a popular choice for the repertoire, will prove another sell-out. The season opens on Thursday night, April 21, with Lily Pons in her sensational new opera "Lakme," which has been revived by the Metropolitan expressly for her. The opera is staged on a laxish scale of East Indian splendor and the ballet numbers rival anything in a Broadway musical show. The "Al-Ohio" will be performed at Al-Al, a unique presentation in which four great sopranos of the Metropolitan will be heard in the two operas of the day. At the Saturday matinee, Lucrezia Bori, Lily Pons and Grace Moore will sing the there roles of "Tales of Hoffmann," with Lawrence Tibbett, Frederick Jagel, Pavel Ludikar, and a marvelous cast. That evening, Rosa Ponselle and her sister, Anna Ponselle, will be together for the first time in the Ponchiiella opera, "La Gioconda, with great-voiced Giovanni Martinelli as "Enzo." It will be conducted by Tullio Serafin. Season seats, at reduced prices, as well as seats for single performances at the usual low rates of Cleveland grand opera, are available NOW at 1226 Huron Road, Cleveland, and at agents in nearly 50 cities in Ohio. A NEW PHILOSOPHY. Preached by Secretary Bagall—Nee groes ives. He says, Still Negroes with "a philosophy of weakness, which has as its basis an inferiority complex," remain slaves, Robert W. Bagnall of New York City, and marches of the N. A. A. C. P. told St. James' forum, Sunday afternoon. "What the Negro is now developing," Bagnall said, "is a philosophy of power, and in this lies his hope of economic, cultural and social power. This is a time when we must think of our attitude towards life; when minority groups are being exploited. It is a time when we must prepare for the changes which must come after the depression, for the changes taking place in the world today are changes which are inevitable. The Negro is a slave not only because of external conditions, but because of conditions which are internal in his mental processes and in his philosophy. The Negro is an economic slave, and in many parts of the territory, a political slave, because the he does not and cannot vote. A vowelless people is a defenseless people. It is necessary that the Negro integrate himself as part of the American life, not apart from it, else he will never rise from this condition of economic and mental slavery." SINGLE COPY FIVE CENTS MR. AND MRS. JEAN TOOMER. Carmel, Cal.—A new American race without creed or color barriers was envisioned, last Thursday, for the benefit of Carmel's art colony by Jean Toomer, poet, of Chicago, and his bride, the former Margery Latimer (white), novelist. As exponents of a higher and better race in Carmel—the honeymooners were welcomed here. Just as Toomer foresees for all America at some distant date, there is no racial ostracism here. Poet-Mayor Herbert Heron led the procession to the little cottage where the newlyweds have made their home. "There is no reason why Mr. and Mrs. Heron should not be accepted into a colony of artists and writers," the mayor said. "Both are renowned in their fields of work." He Is Psychologist. He is psychologist. Others who gathered to hear Tomaser describe the famous Portage (Wis.) psychology experiment which began his work with the winsome novelist were Orrick Aldrich, poet; Charles Robert Aldrich, psychologist, and Mrs. Lincoln Steffens, who writes as Ella Winter. Both came here after their marriage four months ago to finish books based on the experiment—he a more or less technical study, she a novel. Toomer, who wears a small mustache, parts his black hair in the middle and affects white shirts open at the collar, was enthusiastic about the experiment and the theories he evolved from it. Four men and four women, all white including a married couple live for a time at Portage, Wisc. in a three-room cottage. The women slept in one room, the men in the other. Nights they discussed their own psychological behavior. Toomer no more believes in nudism than do other Carmelites, who recently gave a cool reception to several promoters of unclad cults. The American melting pot will eventually produce a race without social HEAR! HEAR!! The ROUNDER WHAT'S DOING! Last fall, Atty. Norman L. McGhee was so busy flirting with the Democrats that The Rounder and others would like to know whether he is now standing as a Democratic or Republican candidate for State Representative. How about it "Norm"? _____ Here is a little ad verse The Rounder would recommend to the earnest consideration of our local business men and business enterprises: "Early to bed and early to rise. But you'll go bust if you don't advertise." There are entirely too few of our business men and business enterprises that seem to know and recognize the value of newspaper advertising. That is why so many of them die of "dry rust." There is not a publication in the city of Cleveland, or out of it, that reaches, regularly each week, one-third as many of our people in Cleveland and Ohio as "The Old Reliable" Gazette ADVERTISE in it! In the ward 18 Democratic "squabble" and fight on Assist. Co. Prosecutor Selby Minor, an assistant Democratic ward leader, it seems that he won and lost in part. He made his enemies "eat their disillusionment" and lost, yet lost half of his assistant ward leadership to Dr. Jas. A. Owen --- THE GAZETTE is the oldest class publication of the kind, and has the largest bona fide circulation among Odo-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. LE COPY FIVE CENTS G POT! CHBACK'S GRANDSON. religious or racial barriers, Toomer cited what he termed the current religious barriers. Visions Super-Bace. "Americans probably do not realize it, but there are no racial barriers any more," he said, "because there are so many Americans with strains of Negro, Indian and Oriental blood. As I see America, it is like a great stomach into which are thrown the elements which make up our humanity. This source is coming a distinct race of people. They will achieve tremendous works of art, literature and music. They will not be white, black or yellow—just Americans." Mrs. Toomer, a graduate of Columbia University and a friend of Zona Gale, believes her marriage "doesn't make any difference to the world." She is also a Wooster (Ohio) alumnus. "You do not protest against a person's religion," she said. "Why should you judge people by their color? I and hundreds of others have taken my husband for what I am, my man. He has the same right to select their life-mate (husband or wife, as the case may be) as they have to select their religion or church." Toomer's grandfather was Pinkey Benton Stewart Pinchback, of Louisiana, first Afro-American to be elected to the U. S. senate. The Republican senate refused him his seat throat the term but finally paid him his salary of $4,000 full term for to his Mr. Pinchback been elected lieutenant-governor of the state, and for a short time served as governor, during the absence in the east of Gov. W. P. Kelogg. He died in Washington, D. C., his place of residence after leaving New Orleans. Toomer is listed in "The Anthology" by a writer. His novel, "Cain," published in 1923, attracted wide attention. Mrs. Toomer has published three novels. They were given the "Afro" supervision of 6 and 8 precincts, respectively, by Democratic ward leader, W. E. Jenny (white), it is now claimed. A howl of protest went up from both male and female Democrats present at the ward club meeting, that, night, demanding the jobs and positions promised during the recent campaign and saying their long tenure was no longer the receipt of the same. About this time, Ward Leader Jenny "ducked" out of the meeting. Their patience is fast ebbing, it is said. Well, it may, because many expected something better than a few janitorships, and jobs at the garbage plant. They want the good positions held by Afro-Republicans, and more, and shivered when they saw L. L. Yancey "fired" and his deputy city treasuryship position given to a white, female Democrat. They are wearing a white street-cleaning and other clothes and jobs held by Afros are going to Irish Democracy and others (white), and so few jobs and no good positions coming to them. "Twas ever thus in the case of the Democrats and so-called "Negro" Democrats. DOINGS OF THE RACE. The U. S. senate, last week Monday, restored the $925,000 item in the Howard University, Washington, D. C., appropriation. An attempt to give Percy Thompson, age 28, the brutal third degree caused him to shoot and kill three New Orleans' policemen (white), recently. The decision of the Alabama supreme court, in the case of the nine Scottsboro boy-victims, is expected by May 1. An appeal for a new trial was made by the I. L. D. The Federal Council of Churches in Christ is suppressing a report on the Salisbury, Md., lynchings prepared by Dr. Broadus Mitchell of Johns Hopkins University for fear of displeasing Salisbury "business men and lynchers." It is said that Dr. Emmett J. Scott, secretary-treasurer of Howard University, covets the presidency of that institution and wishes to succeed Dr. Mordecai W. Johnson at an early date. --- One Year . . . $2.00 Six Months . . . 1.00 Subscribers are requested to remit by postoffice money order or registered letter. Entered at the postoffice in Cleveland, Ohio, as second-class mail matter Address all communications to HARRY C. SMITH Editor and Proprietor THE GAZETTE 226 W. Superior Ave., Cleveland, O. (Bell 'Phone: CHerry 1259) Member Ohio Legislature: 1894 to 1896; 1896 to 1898; 1900 to 1902. IN UNION IS STRENGTH 10,000,000 Afro-Americans. 825,000 in Ohio. 75,000 in Cleveland. SATURDAY, MARCH 26, 1932. The Gazette is indebted to The Cleveland Daily Press for the exe cellent portraits of Mr. and Mrs Jean Toomer, used on our first page, today. Subsidizing a Chicago race newspaper ($500 a month) is one of the main causes of the Victory Life Insurance Company's court troubles. This same thing helped to ruin a local insurance company, several years ago, and has played havoc with another one of our local business enterprises. Bad business, this subsidizing newspapers. American writers in the Hawaiian the race prejudice and antagonism the race prejudice and antagonism in Hawaii. All white, yellow, brown and black and the various mixtures of blood dance and mingle socially. They say that the only racial feeling ever to enter the islands has been that from prejudiced officers (and their wives) in the service of the U. S. who come from the southern states and regard all dark people as "Negroes." The only dislike in the islands, we are told, is to the Filipinos who do the work in the fields. A "PAIN" AND A "HEAD-ACHE." The Salisbury, Md., grand jury, last week, freed the mobocrats held for their connection with the brutal lynching of Matthew Williams, and did not even call as a witness Daniel J. Elliott, Jr., who admitted shooting Williams after the latter had quarreled with his father, owner of the Salisbury Crate and Basket factory, over a wage cut. This is how it is always done in the Democratic controlled states of the South and helps to explain why our people in this section of the country are so loth to affiliate with the Democratic party even in local matters here in the North. Democratic leadership is a constant "pain" and "head-ache" to us. IT IS NOT "PLAIN ROBBERY!" The editorial attack of the Cleveland Guide on The Ohio Bell Telephone Co. which appeared in its issue of last week was wholly unjustified because "the kind of service" it complains of is no fault of the company but is the misfortune of the person dialing, and does not take into consideration the work, even if automatic, the company has to do in such service as our local contemporary complains of. If a person dials a number and the other party on the line who answers is not the right party, it is not the fault of the company but the misfortune of the person dialing, and the company has a right to charge for the service herein rendered. Moreover, the company cannot be blamed for a wrong response. That is the 'phone-patron's misfortune and loss, as we have said, and The Ohio Bell Telephone Co. should not be deprived of what is fairly and honestly due for performing the service the dialing called for. It makes connection with the number disled and that is all the patron has a right to expect from the company. If the wrong party answers the call when connection is made with the number dialed, that is very properly the loss of the person dialing and should not make impossible the 'phone company's return for the service rendered. Running true to form, The Cleveland Daily News of last week Thursday carried an account of the "Mother" Mooney mass meeting at Engineers' auditorium, the night previous, which wholly ignored the fact that Mrs. Viola Montgomery and her little six-year old daughter had any part whatever in the meeting. It was advertised as a "Mooney Montgomery" mass meeting but The News never mentioned the latter as a participant before or after the meeting. Mrs. Montgomery, as our readers will recall, is the mother of one of the Scottsboro, Ala. boy-victims. This same paper is guilty of using the mongrel and aggravatingly insulting terms "darkey," etc. oftener than any of the other local daily papers, and it is supposedly a Republican paper, too! No wonder The Cleveland Press and The Plain Dealer circulate so much more largely in our sections of the city than The News. And if it continues its most reprehensible course, it will not be long before no self and race-respecting Afro-American in the city of Cleveland can take the paper. We can get insults and other mistreatments without paying for them. The editor of The News doesn't seem to realize that we are 75,000 strong in the population of Cleveland and that these days, particularly, The News in common with about all other business enterprises in the community, especially the newspapers, sorely needs all the patronage of all kinds it can get. "COLORED DEMOCRATS." Under the above headline and over the signature of Walter L. Brown of this city there appeared a letter in a local daily. The Press, last week, of which the following is the first paragraph. It was in reply to one published in the same paper and written by the editor of The Gazette. Mr. Brown says: "Upon reading the letter which appears in your issue of March 16 signed Harry C. Smith, makes me wonder what great change has come upon him at this time. The veteran editor has always stood out uncompromisingly for the fair treatment of his work, the acting of his letter leads us to feel that he is attempting to enhance the Hoover administration." Absolutely no "change has come upon" the writer. He is still standing "uncompromisingly for the fair treatment of his race" and in so doing attempted only to tell the truth. Continuing Mr. Brown says: "I wonder if he has forgotten the Parker episode. He has evidently overlooked the fact that the Hoover administration has completely ignored our colored brethren by dismissing all our national committee and refusing to appoint any Negro to a representative position. Tillman, Vardaman or Hefflin could not have done worse." We have not forgotten the "Parker episode" which has no 'bearing on the matter under discussion, nor have we overlooked a "fact" that does not exist. The Hoover administration has NOT "completely ignored our colored brethren by dismissing all our national committees and refusing to appoint any 'Negro' to a representative position." This is so notoriously untrue that I am surprised that even Mr. Brown should make such a mistake. Atty. Perry Howard of Mississippi is still a member of the Republican national committee after years' service as a member of that august body. And "Negroes" appointed by President Hoover ARE holding "representative positions" in the federal service at New York, Washington, D. C., and other points, in this country, as well as abroad in the diplomatic service. President Herbert Hoover, nor any other Republican since the birth of the party, has ever been so abusive and harmful to the race as "Pitchfork" Ben Tillman and Vardaman were and "Tom-Tom" Hefflin still is! Indeed, Hoover has never been abusive or harmful to any class or group of Americans. It is positive sacrilege to compare Tillman, Vardaman and Hefflin with any Republican (alive or dead) since the war of the rebellion, commonly referred to as the Civil War. Again Mr. Brown: "Locally, he says, there are not 500 Negro Democratic voters in the city of Cleveland. In fact, Mayor Miller received 4600 votes in the 11th, 12th, 17th and 18th wards which are 80 per cent colored. If Mr. Smith's statement was true, Mr. Morgan would have been elected mayor by more than 3000 majority, from the fact that the 4100 votes lost by the Republicans means 2200 votes for the Democrats." Mr. Brown is in error. "Eighty per cent of wards 17 and 18" are NOT "colored" and everybody, including Walter L. Brown, knows this. We doubt that eighty per cent of the 12th ward is "colored" and know that is not true of the ward in which we have lived so long, the 11th. It is more nonsense to claim that the 4,600 votes given Mayor Miller in the 11th, 12th, 17th and 18th wards were eighty per cent "colored" because of the large white vote in all four wards. Easily more than 4,000 Irish, Jewish, Italian and other white votes were cast for Mayor Miller in the wards named. Had they voted for Daniel E. Morgan, he would have been elected. Our voters of the wards named did their full duty by Mr. Morgan. As a matter of fact, Mayor Ray T. Miller received less than 500 votes from all of our voters in all the wards of the city. Continuing Mr. Brown says: "In the 11th ward, the Editor has lived for the past 50 years, Miller received 1,379 votes. The party ratio in past years has been 20 to 1 favoring Republicans. In Precinct C where the editor votes, the Democrats gained 91 votes. I wonder if he was thinking of Blossom when he voted." Of the 1,379 votes received by Mayor Miller in the 11th ward, nearly 1,300 of them were given THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, O. SATURDAY, MARCH 26, 1932 IT'S ART MISTER JONES LOVED TO LOOK AT THE SHOW GIRLS GALORE, AND APPROVED OF THE VERY BRIEF COSTUMES THEY WORE, TERRIBLE! WHILE HIS WIFE, MRS JONES, WAS BOTH SHOCKED AND DISMAYED AT THE THINGS THAT THE BEAUTIFUL GIRLIES DISPLAYED! BUT THE PRIM MRS. JONES WORE A SUIT AT THE BEACH LIKE THE ONE ON A BRAZEN THEATRICAL PEACH, American News Feature, Inc. WHILE WHEN JONES SAW HIS WIFE AS A CHORUS GIRL CLAD, HE WAS SORE AS A PUP AND WENT STARK, RAVING MAD! 1 ADMIRE THOSE ONE-PIECE SUITS BOLONEY IT WANT THE SUIT YOU ADMIRE IT'S THE GIRL him by the white voters therein—Jewish, Irish, Italian and others. The gain of 91 votes in precinct C of ward 11, referred to by Mr. Brown, came most largely from the Italian vote in that precinct and there is at least one other precinct in the west end of the ward much more largely populated by this same class or group of American citizens nearly all of whom voted for the mayor for one reason in particular. We are free to admit that it would be almost impossible for the editor to forget "The Blossom Triplets" and Blossom and his long years' mistreatment of our people at the City hospital even when we went to vote, and yet we could not vote for Ray T. Miller, because we could see what would happen to all of our many city job-holders, and those holding better positions, in event of a Democratic victory. We could not make ourselves a party to the dismissal of hundreds of them, something now being done, and at a time when it is impossible to even purchase a job. Last week Monday, alone, over a hundred of them were dropped from the city payroll and many of them were replaced with white workers in the face of the protest and clamor of the so-called "Negro" Democrats for jobs and positions. In concluding Mr. Brown says: "The 11th Ward Democratic Club and Women's Jeffersonian Club together carry a membership of 840 organization Negro Democrats, Wake up, Mr. Smith, and watch us grow." It is no new political trick, and one with which the veteran "Negro" Democrat, Walter L. Brown, is thorny familiar—to have clubs "on paper" with alleged memberships of 840 or 1,840 or almost any other old number. As a matter of fact, Walter L. Brown is about the only "Negro" in the community who can be styled a "Democrat" with any degree of consistency, having been connected with that party locally, at least, ever since the days of Mayor Tom L. Johnson. In conclusion, we assure him that we are wide-awe and watching the few so-called Democratic organizations of "Negroes" squabble and disintegrate. As we said in the beginning, we still insist that the local Democratic organization will not give the local "Negro" Democrats (so-called) the jobs promised them during the campaign, because if they did, there would be none left for the Irish Democrats who represent the most potent factor in the local Democratic organization. NOW IT'S THE VICTORY LIFE. First, it was the Standard Life Insurance Co. of Atlanta, Ga. Then recently, the Nat'l Benefit Life Ins. Co. of Washington, D. C. Now, it is the Victory Life Ins. Co. of Chicago "on the rocks" and reported to be in the Chicago courts "squabbling" over internal troubles that bid fair to wreck it. It seems that its secretary and manager of agencies were ousted as officers of the company by what they termed "an illegally called meeting of an illegally elected board of directors." They charged President Anthony Overton with making a sort of family matter of the insurance company's funds in a later statement to the public they issued and have secured from the courts an injunction restraining President Overton and other directors of the company from interfering with them in the discharge of their duties as secretary of the company and manager of agencies. Three sons-in-law of Mr. Overton are members of the board of directors of the Victory Life Ins. Co. In enumerating what they termed a number of questionable acts, at the behest of President Overton, the two ousted officers referred to an unauthorized increase of salary from $4,000 to $8,800 he ordered and which was paid him until in June, 1931; a collateral unit to $10,000 to Overton that had been placed in the assets of the company prior to Dec. 31, 1930; a $500 per month subsidy to the Chicago Bee, a newspaper owned by the Chicago Bee, from 1928 to 1931; the purchase of Douglass National Bank stock for which he (Overton) received a check for $60,000, dated June 11, 1928, and signed by himself and V. D. Johnson, then secretary of the Victory Life Ins. Co.; personal loans to himself and a son-in-law to the amount of $21,000 and $36,000, respectively; the payment of a salary of $200 per month to another son-in-law, an employee of the University of Chicago who was 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. Limits 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. Our mor-violence or anti-lynching bill was introduced in the Ohio legislature in 1894 and re-introduced in 1896. It took the Hon. Harry C. Smith, editor of The Garette, 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 authority of law, shall be deemed a "mob" for the purpose of this chapter. An act of violence by a mob upon the body of any person shall constitute a "lynching" within the meaning of this chapter (93 v. 161 2.) Section 6279. The term "serious injury" is the purpose of this chapter, shall in lieu of punishment manently or temporarily disable the person receiving it from earning a livelihood by manual labor. (93 v. 161 3.) Section 6280. A person taken from officers of justice by a mob and assaulted with whips, clubs, missiles or in any other manner, may recover, as hereafter provided, a sum not to exceed one thousand dollars as damages from the county in which such assault occurred. Section 6281. A person assaulted and lynched by a mob may recover, from the county in which such assault is made a sum not to exceed five hundred dollars; or, if the injury received therem 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. 3). 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 damnated, the sum shall be applied to the maintenance of the family and education of the minor children of such person so lynched, if any survive him, until such children are of legal age, and then be distributed to the survivors, share and share alike, the widow rejoices, and share. If there be no widow or minor children surviving such decedent, such sum shall be distributed among the next of kin according to the laws of the distribution of the personality of an intestate. Such sum so recov- Section 6283. A person suffering death or injury from a mob attempting to lynch another person shall come within the provisions of this chapter. He or his legal representatives shall have a like right of action against such person killed by such a mob. (93 v. 162 6.) Section 6284. Action for the recoveries provided for in this chapter must be commenced, within two years from the date of such lynching, in any court having original given the title of medical director of the company; the purchase of the company's home office building nearing completion, which it was forced to take over when the Douglass National Bank faced its crisis, early this year; paying the bank $40,000 it had loaned to the Masons to purchase ground and erect a building. The latter—Overton and his sons-in-law—demanded that the Victory Life pay for the bank an assessment of $24,000 levied against its stock. This was that business enterprises cited the Human Perry, president of the Standard Life Ins. Co. of Atlanta, Ga.; R. H. and S. W. Rutherford, heads of the Nat'l. B. Benefit Life Ins. Co., Washington, D. C.; and now Anthony Overton, president of the Victory Life Ins. Co. of Chicago, all four seem to have employed the same methods in leading the business-enterprises which they presided, and still there are those big things" before we have been able to do well little things along business lines. Lord, have mercy! See Us First for All Goods in Our Line JOHN S. HALL Prices Reasonable. Satisfaction Guaranteed. JEWELER AND OPTOMETRIST Eyes Carefully Examined and Glasses Properly Fitted. 7709 Cedar Ave. Cleveland, G. PEEnderson 6028 very effective. Illinois, Pennsylvania and New Jersey have followed Ohio's lead and enacted mob violence or anti-lynching laws which are copies of our Ohio law. Several other north states and at least one border state (Kentucks) have also enacted anti-lynching laws, in recent years, like Pennsylvania and New Jersey. The Ohio law follows: OBS. ed. and representative of victim of lynching by mob trying to lynch another. d costs in tax levy. nst member of mob. nst another county. MOBS jurisdiction of an action for damages for malicious assault. (93 v. 162 7.) Section 6285. An order to the commissioners of a county, against which such recovery is had, to include it with the costs of action, in the next succeeding tax levy for such county, shall be a part of the judgment in every such case. (93 v. 162 8.) Section 6286. If the decedent soynched has minor children surviving him, the fund shall be turned over to a regularly appointed guardian. Such guardian shall administer the fund under the direction of the probate judge not more than five hundred dollars for counsel fees in the action for such recovery. (93 v. 162 9.) Section 6287. The country, in which a lynching occurs, may recover the amount of a judgment and costs against it in favor of the legal representatives of a person killed or seriously injured by a mob from any of the persons composing such mob. A person present, with hostile intent, at such lynching shall be deemed a member of the mob and be liable to (40) 93 v. 62 10.) Section 6288 If a mob carries a prisoner into another county, or comes from another county to commit violence on a prisoner brought from such county for safekeeping, the county in which the lynching is committed may recover the amount of the judgment and costs from the county from which the mob came, unless there was contributory negligence on the part of officials of such county in failing to protect such prisoner or dispurse such mob (93 v. 16) 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 enclosed while a member of the 71st General Assembly, in 1894: The General Code of Ohio: Sec. 12940. Whoever, being the proprietor or his employee, keeper or manager of an inn, restaurant, eating House, barber-shop, public conveyance by land or water, theater or other place of public accommodation and amusement, denies to a citizen, except for reasons applicable alike to all citizens and regardless of race or nationality, public accommodations, advantages, facilities or privileges thereof, shall be fined not less than fifty dollars nor more than five hundred dollars, or imprisoned not less than thirty days nor more than ninety days, or both Sec. 12941. Whoever violates the next preceding section shall also pay not less than fifty dollars nor more than five hundred dollars to the person aggrieved thereby to be recovered in any court of competent jurisdiction in the country where such offense was committed. This law has repeatedly been held constitutional and good law by the Ohio Supreme court. The trouble in 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 court. See Us First for All JOHN S Prices Reasonable. S JEWELER AND Eyes Carefully Examined at 7709 Cedar Ave., Cleveland, O. Men—you'll hardly believe this is possible But here's the proof . . . Sale 6,000 $1.50, $2, $2.50, $3.50 TIES 95c WHILE THEY LAST! . . . We could hardly believe brated maker of fine m cash though he is—of $1.50, $2, $2.50, $3 an own price. Every Tie silk lined. Distinctive satin dots, basket weave early—Remember, even shops for men will pick first. WHILE THEY L The May Company THE M Eagle Stamps A We could hardly believe our eyes—when this celebrated maker of fine neckwear—hard-pressed for cash though he is—offered us these magnificent $1.50, $2, $2.50, $3 and $3.50 Spring Ties at our own price. 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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. CLEVELAND Social and Personal The local Morehouse-Spellman club will celebrate Spellman founder's day, April 11. Fifteen of our so-called Democrats in the 18th ward were given jobs at the garbage plant, last week. Chas. Dillard, age 35. E. 49th St., married, brother of Roger N. Dillard, died suddenly, Saturday. Funeral services, Wednesday afternoon, Rev. Jas. P. Foote officiating. The restaurant at 8609 Quincy Ave. was closed, week before last. Mrs. Christina Little. E. 43d St., was called to Atlantic City, recently, by a niece's death. Zeta chapter's, Omega fraternity, new officers are; Albert Adams, basilius; Elmer Whiting, keeper of records; Dr. E. J. Gunn, keeper of finance; Chas. Carr, chaplain; Dr. J. A. Catalan, keeper of peace. A Miss Bradford has been appointed to an assistant clerkship in the board of elections. Alex O. Taylor has held a similar position in the office of the board for some months. J. E. Hubbard, district manager of the Victory Life Ins. Co. and president of St. James forum, attended the annual stockholders meeting of the company in Chicago recently. Mr. Hubbard is a "livewire." Eddie Jennings, Crimp Dalton, Robert Hughes, Wm. Brown and Mrs. Mary Chambers, have been appointed by the Democrats to replace Ralph Burks, Frank Schuster, Charles Williams, Lee Coleman and Mrs. Bessie DeMud, as caretakers at the Central Ave. bathhouse. Current rumor has it that Myron McAdoo, former resident of this city, has been sentenced to ten years in the federal penitentiary in New York for selling dope. His mother was never connected to the Lovingville bible singers but on marriage joined the McAdoo Jubilee singers who were abroad. Our readers will please The Gazette greatly if they will patronize The May Co. in preference to any other store of the kind in the city when it comes to the kind in that store. If any large business house in the city is entitled to our trade it sure is The May Co. Tell your friends and acquaintances. The young people's group of St. John's A. M. E. church, 4 E0th St. and Central Ave., will present Geo. W. Brown, president of the local branch of the Association for the Study of Afro-American Life and History, as its speaker, April 3 at 5 P. M. Subject, "Youth and the Church." Music will be furnished by the Maxwell quartet. Silver offering. Mrs Naomi G. Powell, chair of program. The fourteenth annual meeting of our local Welfare league will be held March 31 from 3:30 to 5 P. M. at the Men's City club, 712 "incent Ave. Rev. wilworth, pastor, willful church, will address the meeting on "Spiritual Reconstruction." Officers and trustees will be elected and reports of the year's work made. Members and friends are urged to attend. The revival at Second Emanuel Baptist church, Rev. C. R. Jones, pastor, was one of the most successful in the history of the church. Rev. C. A. McLaurine of Lansing, Mich., was the evangelist in charge. Ex-Mayor Arthur Johnston of Miles Heights and Atty. Norman L. McGhee are also our candidates for state representative. The Gazette overlooked them, last week. The birthday reception recently tendered Rev. Ernest Hall, pastor of E. M. Zion Baptist church, was attended by about 200 members of the church and friends. An excellent program was rendered and there was a number of speeches, several of which were made by local pastors. Dr. Hall's response was very satisfactory. Homer L. Turner was master of ceremonies. --- H. SMITH'S 3007 Scovill Ave. THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, O. ROSENBERG'S DRUG STORE Central Ave., and B. 99th St. FOR RENT. — Five nice rooms (down) at 2417 E. 82d St., modern and in good condition, $28 a month. Cherry 1259 in the afternoon, up to 7 p. m., or call at suite 302, No. 226 W. Superior Ave., opposite Hotel Cleveland entrance. WANTED. — Work — part or full time for a young girl; high school graduate and stenographer. Jeanneette Russell, 7501 Central Ave. D. S. Medors of the Central Chevrolet Co., 7002 Euclid Ave., attained a grade of 94 in its competitive truck examination and has been appointed manager of the company's extension work among our people in the third and fourth councilmanic districts. Mr. Medors, last month, under an examination, attaining the second highest honor given its salesmen. He is clean cut, a "live-wire." Aaron Jackson and wife, members of the U. N. I. A., influenced by the organization's "Back to Africa" slogan, left this country, some months ago, for Abyssinia, Africa. Jackson spends his and his wife's life-savings get there and has been married for months in Addis Abba, the capital of the country, and are unable to get back to this country. The Jacksons at one time lived at 2822 Woodland Ave., upstairs. their names and that of their city on the outside of the wrapper about returned copies, if proper credit it for them is desired. Lists of names, wedding presents, programs obituary notices, inquiries for relatives and advertisements of all kinds including items announcing enter dates for a wedding, for a future, must be paid for in advance at the rate of 15 cents a line, six words to a line. Our rates for display ad vertisements will be sent on application. The following are the new officers of the Benedict club: John S. Thomas, pres.; Harry Stewart, first vice-pres.; S. Perchman, second; Chas. Basey, rec. sec.; Harold Taylor, fin. sec.; L. Howard, treas. Benjamin A. A.C. Branch has elected the following named officers for the ensuing year: Johnson Owens, pres.; Bernice Williams, vice-pres.; Dorothy Haynes, rec. sec.; Joe Johnson, fin. sec.; and Geo Craig, treas. On a number of occasions in the past, The Rounder has stressed the fact that the best meals, the best food, good wholesome food properly cooked, and at the lowest prices can be found only at Mr. Ludolf Mueller's restaurant-stand in the Woodland-E. 55th Market just inside the Woodland Ae. entrance, a little to the right. Thirty-five will tell you a meal that you cannot duplicate for sixty-five cents anywhere else in the city and one that you will never forget. Try it, as scores of our people have done and are still doing, and see if The Rounder is not right. "Billie" Richardson, alleged "big shot in the policy racket," was convicted of perjury, Tuesday, by a jury in common pleas court that deliberated only a half hour. Richardson faces a sentence of from one to ten years in the penitentiary. The jury decided that he committed perjury, last December, when he told the county grand jury that he could not name Chas, Coleto as the gunman who shot at Jim, Jan. 26, last year, in the Courdial Avenue and E. 400th St. Judge Lee E. Skeel deferred sentencing Richardson, until this week Saturday, when a motion for a new trial will be argued. There were six men and six women on the jury, Tuesday. For two weeks the Ovidian club has had an exhibit of pictures and arts and crafts work at the Woodland Branch library. The club, twelve girls, students of the School of Education, W. R. U., was organ- FOR HEAVEN'S SAKE SACK, YOU MAY GREY YOU WEARING THAT HERE FOR? DO YOU KNOW, MA GODD? IF I M A BALL PLAYER, I'M GOING TO LOOK LIKE ONE OR LADY GODIVA IF YOU LOOK LIKE A BALL PLAYER, YOU CAN NOT TIL ME FROM JACK CARRYMORE ALL I WISH IS YOU WERE CHAMPION OF THE WORLD THAT'S MY WATCH. HOW DID HE GET THAT? THE SAME AS HE GOT MY CLOTHES AND YOUR TRUNK AND MY DOUGH — SHOOTING CRAPS THROW WATER ON HIM, DON'T LET HIM DIE UNTIL I GET A CHANCE TO GET IT BACK 8 © American News Features, Inc. J. S. HALL'S 7709 Cedar Ave. ized in January. The exhibit is in charge of an art committee, Adele Banks chairman. Materials for the exhibit were obtained from owners, teachers at Central High, Fairmount Junior high and Playhouse settlement. The exhibit created a great deal of interest among Woodland Branch book borrowers and First Place places. Critics. First places were won by Chas Sallee, Paul Buckner, Lynn Coleman and Fairmount Junior high. The Douglas club at 4418 Central Ave. (up), under Wm. Richardson, press., and Joseph Hedges, vice-pres., and manager, has installed a clean and neat dining room, under the supervision of Mrs. Mary Johnson, where good meals are served for not more than 25c. Facilities for playing pool and cards are enjoyed by club members without any extra fee in addition to the initiation fee of 50c and monthly dues of 25c. It conducts pool and card tournaments, and third prizes to winners. Pres. Richardson also operates the Apex club and a fine group of basketball players, our only team in the Municipal league, class B. It has not lost a game this season. We are represented in the league by two teams. Schedule of examinations for April 5, special inspector, engineering construction, city; April 6, dirt street general foreman, city, promotional; April 7, chief power plant engineer, city; April 8, supervising probation officer, city, promotional; deputy chief probation officer, city, promotional; April 9, special inspector, breakwater, city; April 12, garage sup't. city; April 13, garage sup't. city; April 14, probation officer (Municipal Court and Common Pleas Court); April 15, plumber, city; April 16, street permit inspector, city and county; April 17, battalion chief, fire department, city, promotional; April 20, watermeter repairman, city; April 21, senior public health nurse, city, promotional; April 22, ironworker, city FORMER JUDGE KEOUGH WRONG Judge Wm. C. Keough, president of the Citizens' League, in addressing the Cornell Club at Hotel Statler, this city, last week Thursday, made the statement "that over twenty per cent of the votes in the colored wards were for Mayor Ray T. Miller." The judge is in error, if he means to create the impression that the colored votes in the wards mentioned were cast for Mayor Miller. Daniel E. Morgan received a total of 22,489 votes in wards 11, 12, 17 and 18, which he refers to as "the colored wards." Mayor Miller received a total vote in these wards of only 4,744, nearly 4,000 of which were cast by the Jewish, Italian, Irish and other voters that are not colored. As a matter of fact, there were not 500 colored votes cast for Mayor in wards 11, 12, 17 and because of that, there were that many colored Democrats (so-called) in the city of Cleveland. The southern leadership of national Democracy is what has always made it impossible for any considerable number of colored voters to ally themselves with the Democratic party and, local Democrats this year, this will continue overcome as long as southern leadership of their party is in control of the states that disfranchise, "jim-crow" and lynch "Negroes." WALTER B. WRIGHT, SR., Secretary to Several Presidents of the Nickel Plate Ry. Co.—Our Only Such Official. Walter Wright of Chicago was in the city, recently, to help celebrate his father, Walter B. Wright's birthday. The latter was for many years [Name] Walter B. Wright, Sr. secretary to several presidents of the Nickel Plate Ry. Co. 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. 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Variation in this addition, 2 additional cakes and our ABOLUTELY FREE our beautiful New Art Calendar. "HUMAN NATURE'S FOULEST BLOT." My ear is pained. My soul is sick with every day's report Of wrong and outrage, with which the earth is filled. There is no flesh in man's obdurate heart. It does not feel for man; the natural bond Of brotherhood is severed as the flax That falls asunder at the touch of fire. He finds his fellow guilty of a skin Not colored like his own; and having power To enforce the wrong, for such a worthy cause Dooms and devotes him as his lawful prey. Thus man devotes his brother, and destroys: 'Tis human nature's broadest foolest blot. —Cowper. 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 Tractors Across Asia Chinese Horseshoers Take No Chances. Chinese Horseshoers Take No Chances. (Prepared by National Geographic Society.) of the expedition Washington, D. C.)—WNU Service. After ten months of arduous traveling, thirty members of the Citroen-Haardt Trans-Asiatic expedition have arrived at Peiping, in seven tractor cars. Twelve of the thirty members of the expedition who arrived at the Chinese city left Beyrouth, Syria, on April 4, 1831. To them the gates of Peiping marked the end of an 8,000-mile journey across Asia. With fromwering heat of the deserts of Asia Minor and the plains of north India where the thermometer registers up to 120 degrees above zero, the expedition slowly worked its way over the Himalayan range, across the tori trails of Sinkiang (Chinese Turkestan) and into Mongolia, where the mercury hovered below zero. The light tractor cars of the expedition swept across Iraq, Persia, Afghanistan and India with little difficulty. At Srinagar, the members girded themselves for the herculean task of negotiating the passes, to Gilgit mere trails which never before had felt the vibration of a motor. When Gilgit, in the heart of the Himalayan peaks, was reached, the sturdy cars had skirted some of the world's highest peaks, passed through gorges where the road literally hangs to steep cliffs and crossed films bridges which spanned raging streams. Landslides forced route changes and once the dismantling of the cars which were carried by coolies to the clear road a mile beyond. One pass negotiated by the expedition was nearly three miles above sea level. Beyond Gilgit, the impassable road forced abandonment of the cars. Ponies and yaks carried the leaders of the expedition into Sinkiang where they were met by the second unit of the expedition, composed of heavy tractor cars which had left Peliping when the leaders bade farewell to Beyrouth. Gilgit trail, once the lair of bandits was peaceful, and political leaders often feted the expedition leaders. Not until the expedition reached China was it disturbed by marauding tribes men, who stole their supplies. From day to day the leaders could receive no definite assurance of their safety. Through Nankow Pass Wild mountain ranges hemmed in the old caravan road on the last hundred miles of the trip, and rocky defiles made difficult going for the band-driven cars. In Kalgan, a qualit medieval city known as the Gateway to Mongolia, preparations were made for passing through Nankow pass, a remarkable Thermopylae fifteen miles in length. This great defile drops from the first terrace of mountains to the plains of north China. It was first opened up, according to legend, by deities known as the Five Tiger Ghosts, patrons of artillery, who blew a passage through the rocks with their ennion. The inner branch of the Great Wall of China crosses the caravan road squarely in the pass but the members of the expedition found that the great wooden gate, which used to be closed at sunset only to reopen at daybreak, has disappeared. The caravan route could not be traveled by ordinary vehicles. Between Nankow pass and Peiping the expedition rolled near China's sacred way, leading to the thirteen tombs of the Ming dynasty, a great roadway lined with gigantic monoliths of men and animals. Another difficult stretch experienced by the party en route to Peiping was that between Liangchowfu and Ningsafu, in China's "Wild West." Because of extremely narrow and hazardous roads, traversed mostly by camels, donkeys and coolies, more than six days were required to make 300 miles. Motor progress was also interrupted by a long ferry trip along the Yellow river. Arrangements had been made for the deposit at Ninglsufu of new tractor bands, which serve instead of wheels on the expedition's cars. On arrival, however, it was found that the bands had been taken by brigands while on their way to the city from Peiping. Two camel caravans carrying supplies for the expedition were plundered by rebels in this part of China. The expedition itself was not attacked, and the members were hospitably received by some Chinese officials and by foreign missionaries. Scientists accompanying the expedition have a unique and comprehensive record of life, customs, occupations, and costumes of tribes and regions which have been little visited since Marco Polo's time. Original plans for the continuation of the expedition called for a turn southward from Peliping through China, and a swing through southern Asia to Syria, but the disturbed state of affairs in China necessitated the shipment of the tractor cars by boat to French Indo-China. The return trip will be made via French Indo-China, Slam, India, and Persia to the starting point, Beverouth. What One Sees in Peiping. Peiping is a city within a city. As one passes within the walls he expects to find banned signs of shopkeepers; instead he beholds broad avenues three miles long, making squares as regular as those of a checkerboard. Then the visitor begin to suspect that Peiping is the one spacious Chinese city because it is not a Chinese city at all, but a Tatar city, built by adventurous barbarians of the north. The Chinese portion of the city, dating back to 1543, is the commercial center. The Tatar city is about three hundred years old, and it is the Tatar city which includes the famous "Forbidden City," of which the Dragon Throne of the Son of Heaven, Emperor of the Middle Kingdom, is the center. The famous throne is of rare wood, exquisitely carved. Behind it is a screen of golden lacquer so dainty in design that it seems a bit of filmy lace. Around this throne room are the palaces, shut in by purple walls. The streets of Peliping reflect the city's infinite variety. Every thoroughfare is alive with beasts and vehicles and humans. Imagine a city where camels go up and down the streets upon legitimate business, not in a circus parade! The visitor strolls along Hatamen street after breakfast, and there they are, on their knees, blinking in the morning sun—fine shaggy, brown beasts, an occasional white one—rather dirty white—among them, chewing their cuds in leisure. The pavement before the shops whither they have carried merchandise has been their caravansary for the night. There are dozens upon dozens of them lining the sidewalk, up the street and down. By and by the drivers come forth, throw their empty sacks between the humps of the animals, rouse them, and lead them off down the street, slowly and softly stepping, in single file, out beneath the great stone arches of the Hata Gate, then westward beside the frowning buttresses of the city wall. Carts Drawn by Queer Animals. Almost as fascinating as the camels are the carts of Peliping, or rather the little beasts which pull them—ponies, donkeys, mules, and nondescript, elusive creatures that are neither horse, mule, nor ass, but subtle, indistinguishable mixtures. On first sight one is sure they are horses, on the second he is sure they are mules, on the third he is equally sure they are zebras with the stripes worn off. One historian of China speaks of the ancient Tatars as possessing horses, asses, mules, and "other peculiar breeds of the equine family." These ancient other breeds still trot about the Tatar city. The city's shopping district stamps an overlasting impression upon the traveler. It lies beyond the Legation quarter outside the huge Chien Men gate. This is the Forty-second street and Broadway of Pelping and rich stores are grouped beyond it in a district known as Chien Men Wel or outside Chien Men. Each street is given over to dealing in its own special article. Lantern street, Silk street, Silver street, and Furniture street tell by their names what is the main object of trade. There are, however, fur stores, hazarares for the sale of jade and precious stones, tobacco shops, restaurants and banks scattered throughout the vast area. In addition theaters and places of amusement have been added for the entertainment of both merchants and public. The whole forms a seething district of narrow, crowded streets, strange smells, and barbaric splendor. Let the recent arrival at a Legation quarter hotel step into a rickshaw and utter the magic words "Chien Men Wel." The delighted rickshaw coolie grins with glee and breaks into an instant gallop. He knows that according to immemorial custom he can extract from shopkeepers 10 per cent of the sales price of all articles purchased by his passenger. It is part of the "squeeze" system by which China has been run governmentally and commercially for centuries. Of course, actual transfer of cash is never seen by the passenger. He just knows it goes on, as he knows the earth moves. THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, O., SATURDAY, MARCH 26, 1932 Spring Coat Fashions Go Military THE FASHION WEEKLY FASHION'S followers are sure going "on parade" this season, all dressed up in red, white and blue with brass buttons and epaulets 'n everything that's military. It's quite exciting, this patriotic gesture of the mode. Even the very fabrics which go to make our apparel have been designed to commemorate the George Washington bicentennial celebration, in that the motifs of the newest silk prints center about the famous cherry tree incident, while stars and stripes, and tricornered hats and kindred items enter the scheme of things. But that is another story which has to do with spring weaves. What we started to talk about is the latest, smartest coats which have such a military bearing—the quite overawed one, being so broad shouldered and all a glitter with nickel or brass buttons and the like. Perhaps the most outstanding reaction to this martial spirit which is pervading the style realm Is the importance of blues in the color range, very keen blues some of them, for the spring coat. Most military in matter of color and all other details as well, is the coat shown to the right in the picture. It's color combination is bright navy lined with military red, the huge shining nickel buttons contributing their share of pomp and glory. You should see the coat pictured to the left in its original color, for it is bright red—red corduroy, if you please, for corduroy has come back and there is no mistake about it. This model is for a young girl. In a more conservative color, say the new beige, it would be wearable for any age. Designers are using corduroy for most everything, for the swagger little bellhop jackets for pajama costumes, for sports dresses and suits with lots of white corduroy in prospect for summer wear. As to the coat mentioned, the diagonal lines of brass buttons dramatize its broad shoulders, while its trig, narrow waistline emphasizes the military mode that is scheduled to lead in the Easter style program, Note. DOUBLE DUTY FROCK FINDS WIDE FAVOR The time seems to be over, for the present at any rate, when we had a different costume for each occasion. Now, our frocks have to do double duty and be just as good looking at tea as at a smart restaurant or night club. For this reason we now dress in layers, slipping on over a decollete gown a bloused effect, jacket or bolero to make it perfectly presentable when the bright lights are not yet gilding the blue of night. This is an extremely practical and workable fashion and no matter how much the great houses may charge for such a model, the purchaser feels virtually happy that she is effecting an important economy by buying a two-in-one frock. Ensembles of Shoes and Bag Add Chic to Suit It seems to be that although the shoes and the handbag are of necessity so far apart from each other, they are really soul-mates. But at last this fact is receiving proper recognition, for nearly every smart shop here now shows ensembles of shoe and bag and rare it is nowadays to find a shop without several examples of this smart combination. For smart it is, guaranteed to dress the simplest spring coat or suit and give it new charm and chic. More and more, we are co-relating our accessories and doing away with slipshod methods of selecting things that are totally unrelated and have no reason for being worn together. Lacquered Hair New For Evening Coiffures Lacquered hair is a new note in coiffures for feminine heads. The hair is treated with a lacquer which does not change its color, but which makes each hair almost twice its normal size. It is then arranged in ringlets and swirls and allowed to dry. The lacquer, which is used only in the evening, may be easily washed off next morning. JOEL FEDER too, its style collarless neckline which is a style feature worthy of comment, since many coats are sans collarls so as to make way for these "nifty" separate fur neckpieces which fashion has planned for us. A new treatment inspired by the general trend manifests itself in the use of considerable military braid, applied in rows, or perhaps for epaulet shoulder effects as well as many other attractive expressions. So, if you like braid trimmings, the hour has come to indulge your fancy. Suits as well as coats show this ornamentation. It is very evident that the military spirit has pervaded every realm of fashion, from knitted wear to furs. The former adopts, for instance, the tri-color schemes which are so exceedingly popular, with double-breasted treatments employing flashing metal buttons. Then there's the new scarfs flaunting their reds, whites and blues via all sorts of whimsical stripes, stars and other design. The little short spring jackets developed of gray kidskin accented with nickel buttons are a possession to be coveted, seeing that they blend with current fashions of military aspect. And have you seen the detachable military capes which are of fur or of cloth and which boast of buttons in rows according to the latest dictate of fashion. Dresses are military minded also in that many of them are fashioned of blue sheer woolen with trimmings of red and white print silk. (©, 1932, Western Newspaper Union.) CHIC LACY MESH By CHERIE NICHOLAS THE FASHION WEEKLY No, this very pretty and very chic afternoon dress is not lace. It's a young and extremely popular first cousin to lace. The technical name is durene cotton lacy mesh. This knitwear of softly lustrous durene is of diagonal construction. The designer of the frock has furthered the diagonal feeling through clever handling of the stripes. A dull suede belt contrasts the subtle luster of the material. The scarf is tied to give a cowl neckline which to slender faces is amazingly becoming. The New Cottons In material, cotton has been raised from humble rank to high favor. Printed cottonts are shown for dresses, blouses and coat linings. Cotton day dresses are found in open weaves. Pique, wool and some boucle are seen in daytime costumes. OUR LEADERS STOOD THEIR GROUND AND FOUGHT "JIMCROW" PROPOSITIONS OF ALL KINDS. of Their People. Section 6289 This chapter shall it relieve a person concerned in lynching from prosecution for engaging prehn (93 v. 183, 183). [Name] Principal R. K. Moton. medal, given by Major J. E. Spingarn, N. A. A. C. P. president, will be presented to Major Moton at the 23rd annual conference of that organization in Washington, D. C., in J. H. PROFESSOR J. R. SPINGARN. May. In making the award the committee stated that it had been made to "Robert Russia Moton for his thoughtful leadership of conservative opinion and action on the Afro-American, as shown in the U. S. Veterans hospital controversy at Tuskegee; by his stand on education in "There is a distinction between social and civil rights. We all claim the privilege of selecting our society and associations, but, in civil rights, one man has not the prerogative to define rights for another. These (race) distinctions react in all their wickedness—to say nothing of their concocted and systematized odiousness and absurdity—upon those who are illiberal and mean enough to violate them. In our day, however, I find some highly educated Negroes approving such "jim-crowism." The trouble with the Negroes of today, as I have said before, is that they have not the moral courage to fight. They are now seeking the line of least resistance, each one trying to feather his own nest. The so-called Negro is the cower of the whole group. His "education" has emasculated him. Going out of Kentucky in a "jim-crow" car, into Ohio, I witnessed this demonstration. In facetious fashion, showing how lightly he took the humiliation of his race, the porter yelled: "We now cross the Mason and Dixon Pull down the "jim-crow" sign. Ladies, put on your powder and paint. And begin to look what you ain't. Just at that moment a stout, husky, dark-brown Negro hod-carrier of fifty or fifty-five leaped from his seat and, showing fire in his eye and giving expression to stirring emotions in his bosom, cried out. Yes, we are crossing the Mason-Dixon line never cross it! I will never raise my children in the land of jim-crow! For such a spirit, we cannot look to the so-called educated Negro. Such training as our traduces have provided for Negroes makes them feel that they do not amount to anything and that their case from within is hopeless. The Negro, then, is taught to fall back on the superstition that God will miraculously cause something to happen. In one respect he right, if not right, it is going to happen very soon, but what will happen will not be what the Negro is praying for. The Negro must learn to answer his own prayers. Haiti; by his support of equal opportunity for the Afro-American in the public school system; and by his expression of the best ideals of the Afro-American in his book, "What the Afro-American Thinks." HELP MONROE TROTTER! By Sending My Subscription to His Paper, "The Guardian"—A Fearless and Aggressive Leader Well Known Thruout the Country. Boston, Mass., Mar. 27, '32. Hon. Harry C. Smith. Editor, Gazette, Cleveland, O. Dear Harry:—As I approach 60 years, fighting segregation, you seem Editor Wm. Monroe Trotter. all the more a marvel to me. going so strong at your years and fighting segregation and the hardest of all, self-segregation. I am going over the cards of my Ohio subscribers. Yours is, of course, marked "free." However, you have sent me The Gazette "free" and have also donated to keep "The Guardian" going. I was dedicated to work for race equality from five years on by excelling and at 20 was in Harvard Phi Betta Kappa, the first colored. Now at 60 all I ask of my race is a congratulation trial subscription to "The Guardian," and supplementary, a dollar membership in the National Equal Rights League, my two efforts for the race. Only then summons you can ask the race to turn a hand to Monroe Trotter at 60, it will encourage me more than money. Long live the equal rights champion, Harry C. Smith. Yours for the cause of equality. Wm. Monroe Trotter. 56 Pemberton St. Boston Mass. (Prof.) Carter G. Woodson. PONSELLE SISTERS IN "LA GIOCONDA"! Their First Appearance Together in Grand Opera to Be Here in Cleveland—the "Mets" Season, This Year, to Be Really Great. For the first time in grand opera, the two Ponsonii sisters will be together in the ninth annual spring festival of the Metropolitan Opera Company of New York in Cleveland, public auditorium in Cleveland, April 21 to 23. Years ago, when they were last together, it was in a sister act in vandelle and in those days the family looked to Carmela A The great dramatic soprano of the Metropolitan Opera will be heard in "La Giocenda" on Saturday evening, April 23, in Cleveland's ninth opera festival in the Public Auditorium. This will be part of "All-Ohio Day," when Lily Pons, Lucretia Bori and Grace Moore will sing "Tales of Hoffman" as the matinee... Ponselle as the one who would bring fame and fortune to the name. In time, both girls made good with the Metropolitan, but it was Rosa Ponselle's dramatic soprano that won world-renown and over-shadowed the rich contralto of her sister, Carmela. Both have been with the Metropolitan for some years now, yet never before have they been cast together in grand opera and all Ohio will hear this world premiere on "All-Ohio Day," with Rosa Ponselle as "La Gloconda" and Cara Ponselle as "Laura" in the Ponselle opera on Sunday night, April 23. The cast should be Gioanni Martinielli, the great-voiced Italian tenor; Henrietta Wakefield, Mario Basola, Ezio Pinza and the ballet headed by Rita De Leporte. Unusual interest attaches to the Saturday matinee, when "Tales or Hoffmann" will be sung with three great sopranos in the leading roles, Lucrezia Bori as "Antonio"; Lily Pons as "Olympia" and Grace Moore as "Gliuletta". Lawrence Tibbett, Frederick Jagel, Pavel Ludikar, Leon Rothier, Gladys Swarthout, Henriet Kelfeld, and a woman in the cast. The gala opening night's performance, April 21, will be Lily Pons' sensational new East Indian success, the revival of the French opera "Lakme," with a gala cast including Georges Thill, Gladys Swarthout, Aida Donnellin. The ballet is headed by Miss De Leporte, Alexis Mendez Kosloff and Joseph Levinoff. Friday evening's production will be the favorite opera, "Manon," with Lucrezia Bori in the title role and with Béla Jiméline Gigl as the tenor. Lawrence Tibbett, Rothier the "Des Grieux" and a dozen other stars complete the brilliant cast. Season ticket orders, at special reduced rates, are being accepted now at Lyon and Healy's, 1226 Huron and 1226 Willis, will be started the last of the month. 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 discontent, that all universes are winning even social rights today. The Irish at home have contended for 700 years and are winning because they will die rather than submit. The race that says it's of no use to resist, downs itself and the world then will say. "Negroes are not worthy of equal rights; they are by nature without self-respect and have no control over the world. Only those who resent and resist proscriptions for race. Let us be worthy of the abolitionists, worthy of our own fathers who have died in every war to vindicate the title of their race to equal liberty, and forever resist denial of rights in our native land, however long race discrimination may continue. To submit is to deserve contempt.—Boston (Mass.) Guardian. Patronize Our Advertisers