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IN UNDR IS STRONGER --- FIFTIETH YEAR. No. 6. SEE US FIRST FOR ALL GOS JOHN S. HA PRICES REASONABLE SAY JEWELER AND OPTIONAL Eyes Carefully Examined and Gifted 7709 CEDAR AVE., Cleveland, Ohio. Grand Op Theatrical people, tourists and will be delighted to learn that the West's Tavern will take place, Sun. 3909 Cedar Ave. Twenty large, attract by the day or week. Dining room service West's reputation for 25 years as a has been hostess to the best people o are the very lowest. TWO INTERESTING By JOSEPH C. M. FADEOUT OF F Tells how and why our people of the Their Constitutional Rights. Broad discussion of the Klan and Anti-Saloon $1.00. From Five to Two This is Mr. Manning's life story en 1870 to 1895. Price FIRST FOR ALL GOODS IN OUR JOHN S. HALL SEASONABLE SATISFACTION GU JEWELER AND OPTOMETRIST Carefully Examined and Glasses Properly FI R AVE., Cleveland, Ohio. HEr Grand Opening Attrical people, tourists and the people of delighted to learn that the gala opening of thevern will take place, Sunday week, Oct. 21. Sar Ave. Twenty large, attractive bedrooms or week. Dining room service at all hours. Reputation for 25 years as a cook is unexcel- hostess to the best people of this country. B very lowest. TWO INTERESTING BOOKS By JOSEPH C. MANNING FADEOUT OF POPULISM and why our people of the South are de- Constitutional Rights. Brought down to of the Klan and Anti-Saloon League Politics From Five to Twenty-Five Mr. Manning's life story embracing the per- 1870 to 1895. Price, $1.00. 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, Ohio. HEnderson 6028 Grand Opening Theatrical people, tourists and the people of Cleveland will be delighted to learn that the gala opening of "Mother" West's Tavern will take place, Sunday week, Oct. 2, '32, at 3909 Cedar Ave. Twenty large, attractive bedrooms to be had by the day or week. Dining room service at all hours. "Mother" West's reputation for 25 years as a cook is unexcelled. She has been hostess to the best people of this country. Her prices are the very lowest. Tells how and why our people of the South are deprived of Their Constitutional Rights. Brought down to date by discussion of the Klan and Anti-Saloon League Politics. Price, $1.00. BOTH BOOKS FOR $1.50. T. A. HEBBONS, PUBLISHER, 184 W. 185th St., Dept. B. New York City. 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When the printed 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 of the rate of publication to a time. Our rates for display advertisements will be sent on application. YOUNGSTOWN.-Since the old charter was rejected, new petitions are being circulated and mandamus proceedings in the state supreme court are being considered to compel the city to place the question on the ballot. The fourth and last quarterly meeting was held on April 1, A. M. E. church, Rev. W. T. Truss, P. E., preached to a crowded house. The pastor made his financial reports for the year, which were good in spite of the sinless depression. He has made a number of improvements. The church membership think highly of the services for the late W. M. Walters were held at the church. Wednesday afternoon, the pastor officiating. SPRINGFIELD. —Rev. and Mrs. John Arnold have Miss Lillian Evans of Columbus as their guest. —Efrim Seals of Lexington will locate here. —Eddie Hill of Cleveland is here visiting relatives. —Sunday at Memorial hall, Dr. Wm. Owens, president of Ohio State university, condition. —The ceremony of ceremonies and 3,000 persons are expected to attend the annual rally. —Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Harris attended the dance at the S. Charleston pavilion, given by the Four-Ace club. Music by Byrd's Rythm Aces, formerly the "Buckeye Melodians." —Mrs. Annette Dupree, age 70, died at her daughter, Mrs. Samuel Carrington's. —Thos Thompson, age 56, broke in for a analysis. —Mrs. Arthur Winston, age 33, died a few days ago. Surviving are her husband, four daughters and three sons. Funeral services at St. John Baptist church. —Edw. Mason, age 25, died. Sept. 17, at City hospital of gun-shot wounds. —Donald Mitchell, age 4 months, son of Mr. and Mrs. John Mitchell, also died recently. —At Pastime dance hall by a 17-year-old youth, is convalescing. —Mrs. Turner williams and Mrs. Birdia Allen are convalescing after a serious operation at city hospital. MRS. ADA WRIGHT. Thousands Hear Her Speak in Europe on the Scottsboro Cases Which Come Up in the U. S. Supreme Court Soon. Mrs. Wright, mother of Roy and Andy Wright, Scottsboro, Ala., boy- A. victims, has addressed thousands of European workers in fifteen countries, on behalf of the nine Scottboro boy-victims whose cases come up for review in the U. S. Supreme Court, Oct. 19. Seven of the boys were sentenced to death for assault and sentenced to die in the electric chair. Mrs. Wright has spent the last five months touring Europe, under the auspices of the International Labor Defense, with J. Louis Engdahl, general secretary of the organization, and has stirred a huge international protest against the Alabama lynch-verdict in their cases. One of the victims was a young electric chair while the other, Roy, age 13, has been granted a new trial by the Alabama Supreme Court. THIS IS TRUTH! The Black Man Is the Grand Old Party's Most Costly Liability, Hoover's Leaders at Washington, D.C. Now Claim. Instead of encouraging Negro support, the Republican party, for the past twelve years, has discouraged Negro support. If you will permit me to talk out of my own personal experience, I say to you without fear of contradiction that the Republican party, under Harding, absolutely deserted us. The Republican party under Mr. Coolidge was a lifeless, voiceless man. The Republican party under Mr. Hoover has been the saddest failure known to political history. I was in the Harding campaign, associated with the party leaders who fixed the policy of the party and en- A. B. Editor Robert L. Vann, joyed the privilege of government and the emoluments of office. Likewise, I was in the campaigned for Mr. Coolidge and sat daily under the voice of the president, poli- tician and Republican party. I heard with my own ears their empty promises to Negroes in the event of victory. I was in the campaign for Mr. Hoover, and I know the sad story of Bill Lewis from Boston. I know the deception that was laid down to him, not only by party leaders, but by Mr. Hoover himself. All for the purpose of winning him back to the Republican fold. I know, out of my own experience, that the Republican party looks upon the black man today as the most expensive and costly liability enumerated among its many. They taught us the habits of beggars and mendicants, and now they are ashamed of us. I heard a party leader tell Negroes in Washington in 1928 that the Republican party could win without them, as it had won for Mr. Cool- idge, and now they were above what was expected that the Negro vote could have been eliminated entirely and still a handsome victory assured.-Editor Robert L. Vann of the Pittsburgh Courier in a speech to St. James A. M. E, church forum. Cleveland, O., Sunday, Sept. 11, 1932. ABANDONS W. B. ZIFF CO The N. Y. Age Joins "The Gazette in inning Others. A Our Papers. The current issue of The Chicago Defender contains a full-page announcement of interest to all our other newspapers, which reads in part as follows: Important notice to all advertisers and advertising agencies—To afford our advertisers the full benefits of the lowest possible cost, with the maximum results at all times, we will handle all advertising direct . . . This means that the W. B. Ziff Company, a white organization, will in the future have no control over the advertising for The Defender For a long time, the Defender was used by this agency in its campaign to control the advertising for our newspapers. We are glad to note that Editor Abbott has finally realized that the Ziff Company is doing no more for his paper than his own colored staff could do, and the newspaper's advertising staff can do it at much less cost to the publisher. We hope that other newspapers now dominated by Ziff will soon see the light.—N. Y. Age. All roads lead to "Mother" West's Tavenc, 3909 Cedar Ave., Sunday! See advertisement on page 1 of this paper. BLOOD-MIXING WILL AID WORLD PEACE, BELIEF. Jacksonville, Fla.—Revealing the fact that no man is neither all black nor all white, that over 20,000 mustafees cross the color-line in this country yearly, and that in due time blood mixture existing today in Pan-America will act as a means by which the U. S. will eventually point the way to world peace, Dr. Everett S. Smith (white), pastor of First Christian Church of Miami, Fla., held an audience spellbound in this city, recently, when he delivered his homecoming address to a capacity crowd in Ninth St. Christian Church. Beginning with the symposium of the Bhamna Island Hospital pot of water, the minister told of the rise of the intermixed of pure British blood with that of the native blacks, long ago, when the islands became isolated from the Carolinas by warfare between the two. Interracial marriages soon produced the mulatto, the quadron, the octoroon, and finally the mustafae whose veins contain 1.16 per cent Negro blood. Dr. Smith stated that a mustafa in the U. S. is a legally recognized white person and that over 20,000 of them cross the color-line, every year, without any detection. Along with this it was said that Negro blood is not to type, but will lose its physical characteristics after the third generation. Another interesting fact related by Rev. Smith concerned the skin tests conducted by the Carnegie Institute made public recently. Examination of the pigment of the skin of white people showed five per cent black pigment, twelve per cent yellow, and the rest white; while in the blackest of the Negroes tested, eight per cent yellow, the rest black was found. The address ended by the declaration that the day of racial and territorial boundaries and prejudice will soon be dead. JUDGE JAMES B. RUHL Introducing a Life-Long and Real Friend of the Race—One of the Best Judges on the Common Pleas Bench. The above is an excellent portrait of a long-time friend not only of the editor of the New York Times, but also of all of our people in this community. We are introducing him to the readers of "The Old Reliable" Gazette, at this time, because he is a candidate for re-election to the common pleas bench of this county. Judge James B. Ruhl, of Cleveland, was born May 21, 1864, on a farm near Lisbon. He attended the district school, prepared for college at David Anderson High school (Lisbon) and, earning his way by teaching, was graduated from Ohio Northern University with the degree of B.S. in 1888, A.S. in 1891, and LL.M. in 1905, receiving PETER H. BURTON LL. D. from his alma mater in 1923, and from Mt. Union college in 1926. He was superintendent of public schools of McComb, O., 1888-89; instructor in mathematics, Ohio Northern university, 1899-91; and read law in the university at the same time. He was admitted to the bar of Ohio, June 4, 1891; U. S. district court, 1893; U. S. supreme court, 1894; engaged in the practice of law in Clewahoga公所 commonly since admission. Married, 2, 1894. His wife died, February 23, 1925. Atty. Ruhl was a member of the Board of Examiners for admission to the bar of Ohio, 1902-7. Tax commissioner, Cuyahoga County, 1915. President of John Marshall School of Law since 1918, and its professor in pleading and procedure. He was appointed judge of the court of common pleas, Jan. 4, 1923; elected Nov. 4, 1924, to succeed himself and re-elected for a six-year term, Nov. 2, 1926. He was crowned a 33rd degree ancient accepted Scottish rite at Boston, Sept. 17, 1918, and grand master F. & A. M. of Ohio, Oct. 16, 1924. Judge Ruhl was elected grand master of his alma mater. He married again in 1927. He served as private lieutenant, captain and regimental adjutant, Fifth Reg. O. N. G, and a member of Alpha Tau Omega fraternity, the Delta Theta Phi law-fraternity, the Knights of Pythias and the Presbyterian church. A wonderful record. Mr. Wm. Moore and two children were guests of Hotel Statler while in the city week before last SINGLE COPY FIVE CENTS A. COUNTEE CULLEN One of the "Intellectuals", Colored and White, Who Are Supporting Foster and Ford. Countee Cullen, outstanding poet and writer, author of "Copper Sun," "Ballad of the Brown Girl," "Color," etc., etc. has ledged his support in the national fall, this to the Communist party and its candidates for President and Vice-President, Wm. Z. Foster and James W. Ford, a member of the race. BANTUM-ACKERS TILT At the I-B-N Club Meeting and Other Speakers—The Big Mass Meeting, Etc. The Ingalls-Bolton-Norton club's meeting, last Friday night, was one of its largest. More than 100 members, several visitors, many county and city Republican candidates were present, the principal talks being made by Mrs. Sarah E. Hyre, the only woman-candidate for the state legislature; former Mayor Arthur Johnston of Miles Heights, Dr. Childress and Mrs. Mary L. Forrest. The meeting was considerably enlivened by a tilt between a Mr. Ackers and James E. Bantum, the latter roundly scoring the former for his admission to the esteemed of inherent prejudice." Sec. Bantum urged the club to look well into the qualifications of all who are candidates, especially for judicial positions. Notices, news items and comments in "The Old Reliable" Gazette were read to the club and announcement made of the mass meeting at the Western Reserve Republican club on Monday, Sept. 23, '23, when the Hon. Harry C. Smith, editor of The Gazette was one of the principal speakers. All know his exceptional ability as a campaign speaker. Eighteen persons joined the club after some instructions from its president, who stressed, particularly registration. The meeting then adjourned. DOINGS OF THE RACE. Prof. Carter G. Woodson has gone to Europe in search of historical information on the "Negro." Wilberforce University and W. Va. State college's annual football classic will be staged in Pittsburgh, Thanksgiving afternoon, this year. Dr. Emmett J. Scott, sec-treas, of Howard University, Washington, D. C., has been named as a member of the District of Columbia's first parole board of three. No salary. Chief Justice Carrington T. Marshall of the U. S. supreme court will be the principal speaker at the closing session of the N. A. A. C. P. Ohio state convention to meet in Cincinnati, Sept. 23, 24 and 25. Dr. Willis J. King, president of Sam Huston College, Austin, Texas, has just been elected president of Gammon Theological Seminary, Atlanta, Ga. He is its first Afro-American president, and was a member of Gammon's faculty from 1918 to 1929. **FISK'S 'NEGRO BOOKLET'** The Gazette acknowledges the receipt, the first of the week, of a fine little pamphlet, and a letter from Prof. Chas, S. Johnson, of publications written by members of Fisk's college, the institution of social science, Nashville, Tenn. Chas, S. Johnson, director. These books are based on a study of the developments of the 'Negro' and are as follows: "The 'Negro' in American Civilization, The 'Negro' Family in Chicago, The Southern Urban 'Negro' As a Consumer, The Free 'Negro' Family, Differential Mortality in Tennessee," and others. 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 compiled with any will immediately established NEWSIEST AND BEST published in this section of the country in the interest of Afro-Americans. LE COPY FIVE CENTS MORE FELICITATIONS. Washington, D. C., Sept. 19, '32. Hon. Harry C. Smith. Editor, Gazette, Cleveland, O. Dear Editor:—Permit me to con- gratulate you on the fiftieth anniv- erary of the truthful and reliable Gazette. Sincerely yours, (Mrs.) Julia Anderson Burdine, Late but sincere. Cleveland, Sept. 16, '32. Hon. Harry C. Smith. Editor Gazette, Cleveland, O. My Dear Old Friend, Harry:— "Running true to form", you will say—"Never on time." But such is not exactly the case. My delay has been due to a rush of things—not for profit. But the little birds rem- mind me of the fact that The Reliable Gazette has appeared Old the effects of Cleveland for fifty months without outside interference. May I extend to you my heartfelt congratulations. Fifty years is a long time, Harry. I did not know you were so old. But when I stop to think about it, I have known you for about forty years. And it has been forty years of pleasure to have known you. We have agreed and disagreed. We have agreed and opposed views and we have fought side by side. But whatever the circumstance of contact, I am sure there has always been that tie of respect and friendship, one for the other, that should attend all of us. As I look back and see the old land mags fading, one by one, and feel the lonesomeness that naturally creeps upon us in despair. We have been with joy whenever I chance to run into militant Harry Smith. Harry, you have ever been true to what you believed. No one has ever had to go to another to find out where Harry Smith has stood on any question. I do not say I have always agreed with you, or that you have always been on the right side of things, but I do be understood as saying that whatever opinion you have held on any matter, it was an honest one! Laboring under certain disadvantages which we will not here discuss, Harry, you have played the game straight; you have been a true friend and a good citizen. Long may you live and prosper, for the world has been better because you have lived in it. Sincerely and truly yours, W. G. Oswald. Cleveland, Sept. 14, '32. Hon. Harry C. Smith, Editor Grette C. Carlsveld Dear Harry;—I read with much interest the marked copy of the issue of August 20th, particularly the editorial—"Our Fifthieth Year." You have made a great contribution to the life of Cleveland and your success over all the years is beyond question well merited. I wish you and The Gazette many more years of influence and prosperity. With kindest regards, I am. An old admirer of George Dixon wants to know the date of his death, etc. Dixon died Jan. 6, 1908, at the Bellevue hospital, New York city. His body was shipped to Boston and interred in the Mt. Hope cemetery in New York. The gravestash on Dixon's grave funds collected from the residue of funds collected through the efforts of Joe Humphreys, world famous announcer, the late McGovern and the late Young Corbett, old rivals, from among sporting men in New York and from the world. For part of the fund $1,500, was utilized construct a drinking fountain in Dixon's honor in New York City. --- One Year $2.00 Six Months 1.00 Subscribers are requested to remit by postoffice money order or registered letter. Entered at the postoffice in Cleveland, Ohio, as second-class mail matter. 226 W. Superior Ave., Cleveland, O. (Bell 'Phone: CHerry 1259) Member Ohio Legislature: 1894 to 1896; 1896 to 1898; 1900 to 1902. IN UNION IS STRONG SATURDAY, SEPT. 24, 1932. The Apartment House Owners' Association which opposes Councilman Ernest J. Bohn's "hobby"—"elimination of slums and blighted areas in the city"—promptly denied that it ever suggested returning to the South local "Negroes" out of employment, etc., saying that many of them have asked to be sent back, which of course, is also out of the question. FIRST VANN, NOW MOORE. We take it that our long-time friend and confrete, Editor Fred R. Moore of the New York Age, is "all dressed up" and knows where he is going, politically speaking. That he has prepared to "hurdle" to the support of Roosevelt and Garner, Democratic candidates for President and Vice-President, respectively, is so manifest in the half-column, double-column and double-leaded first-page editorial in his paper of Sept. 17, 1932, that one is thoroly justified in reaching such a conclusion. The following is from the Age of that date: (An Editorial) Why did Mr. Hoover, shortly before adjournment of Congress, precipitately withdraw the name of B. Montgomery for Senatorial confirmation as U. S. Marshal for the Northern District of Mississippi? Was it because of the serious charge that the applicant had publicly stated there are no decent, chaste Negro women, or was the President motivated by other reasons? There are those close to President Hoover who empirically deny Montgomery was withdrawn on account of his alleged insult to Negro womanhood. They are quoted as declaring there were other impelling reasons. Rumors are afloat that Administration Senators called on the President and importunted him to reconsider his determination to name Montgomery U. S. Marshal but were unconvincing in their arguments. However, the following day it leaked out at sat Denomination Senators had agreed to oppose the nomination, piece of campaign strategy. Mr. Hoover's determination to stand by the Mississippi is said to have undergone a sudden change. Mrs. Mary C. Booze, Republican National Committeewoman for Mississippi, who led the fight against Montgomery, has attributed the last-minute actions of the President to the storm of protest against Montgomery's appointment from the Negro press, religious, fraternal and civic organizations throughout the country and race women in Georgia. But what if House attacks and other say is true, she is laboring under a misapprehension. Herbert Hoover is the only person either to affirm or deny with authority that Montgomery's name was withdrawn because of an insult to Negro womanhood. This he should do to settle what has become a major controversy among Negroes of the United States. If he fails to do so it is the duty of Perry W. Howard and Mrs. Mary C. Booze to resign as Republican National Committeeman and Republican Committeewoman as a substitute for his indifference or lack of respectful consideration for one-tenth of the nation's population. In the past The New York Age has ardently and consistently championed the cause of all Republican nominees for the Presidency; but unless Mr. Hoover speaks out and tells why he withdrew the Montgomery nominee will be impossible for The New York Age to support him in this campaign. Fred R. Moore, Editor. The last half of the last paragraph of our contemporary's editorial, quoted above, can not be misunderstood. Editor Fred R. Moore has made it too plain. All persons who have watched the President's attitude toward our people of the country ever since he became President, and particularly during the past year and a half, which includes of course the Republican National convention that renominated him a few months ago at Chicago, will have absolutely no difficulty in reaching the conclusion that the President will never do what Editor Moore insists upon, and that will put it up to the editor, whom we all know, is man enough to do just as he states—re fuse the President the support of his paper in the campaign now on. First, we lost Robert L. Vann, editor of the Pittsburgh Courier. As far as we have been able to learn, the Baltimore (Md.) Afro-American has been lost to Hoover and Curtis for some months. The New York Age, The Courier and The Afro-American are three of our four largest newspapers. Just what attitude the Chicago Defender, our other large paper, will take is yet to be determined, it seems, and there are others! All of which we regret exceedingly because it will mean the loss of many thousand Afro-American votes to Hoover and Curtis, state and local Republican tickets through the North. We regret this most keenly because, in event of the election of Roosevelt and Garner, it will prove a victory for southern Democracy which controls northern Democracy and will, thru a Democratic Congress, control the country absolutely. Southern Democracy has shown on at least two occasions — under President Cleveland and under President Wilson—that it is incapable of running this country successfully. The country suffered severely under both Democratic Presidents, our people thrust both the North and South being hit the hardest as they all well know. ROOSEVELT AND HAITI "The facts are, I wrote Haiti's constitution myself, and if I do say it, I think it is a pretty good constitution." The above statement was made Aug. 19, 1917, by the present candidate for president on the Democratic ticket, Gov. Franklin D. Roosevelt. He was proud of it, wasn't he? This is the constitution that robs the little black republic of its last vestige of civic and political freedom. Under it, marshal law with maritime rule was forced on Haiti, its courts were denied the right to function, the old Haitian constitution was nullified, Haitian lands were seized, contrary to Haitian law, and when the Haitian legislature refused to accept the infamous Roosevelt constitution, the Assembly was forcibly dissolved by Gen. Smedley D. Butler, commander of the marines, at the points of bayonets. It was this same man Butler who in a speech, several years ago, at Pittsburgh, on his return from Haiti, publicly announced that thousands of native Hawaiians (3500, if memory serves us correctly) had been shot down there by his U. S. marines. As a matter of fact, the enforcement of the Roosevelt Haitian constitution has occasioned the bloodiest chapter in all the history of Haiti. The people of that little black republic have since been virtual slaves under the brutal rule of U. S. marines. Among the 3500 natives, killed in the first five years under the Roosevelt-Haitian constitution, were a number of women and children. The foregoing is TRUTH and not merely campaign "fodder." HEAR! HEAR!! The ROUNDER ON WHAT'S DOING Our people should not be foolish enough to sign the petitions being circulated favoring county home rule. It would be a fatal blow at whatever ascendancy in local politics we have. What little representation we have in county government did we appear pronto in event of the adoption of county home rule. According to a local Democratic daily, Common Pleas Judges Walter McMann and Geo. B. Harris, Republicans, are slated for defeat by the local Republican organization because they helped to elect Judge P. L. A. Leighley (a Democrat) county prosecutor to succeed Mayor Ray T. Miller who resigned as prosecutor, last February. The ouster is the issue to support Acting Mayor Harold H. Burton who was city solicitor under City Manager Daniel E. Morgan. Also that Municipal Judge Arthur H. Day is to receive the solid support of the organization in a special effort to defeat Judge McMann. At the recent 17th Ward political mass meeting in St. Paul Zion A. M. E. church, a visitor at the meeting asked the chair of the distributing cards, a judicial candidate, of those Harris cards". He asked. And then was quickly told, "We don't want any Harris cards here." When Councilman Bundy, chairman of the meeting, introduced Judge Samuel H. Silbert favorably to the meeting, he asked the audience, "who is the only other candidate for the six-year term in whom we are interested?" "Day!" responded the club members and visitors. It seemed that a delegation led by Fred Brubaker on Judge McMann, last February at the interest of Burton, but in vain. All of which does not necessarily mean that Municipal Judge Arthur H. Day will be able to beat either McMann or Harris who have proven strong candidates in the past. THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, O. SATURDAY. SEPT. 24, 1932. THE MAY COMPANY Just when costs are beginning to rise—just when raw material prices are going up—just when commodity prices are advancing—just at such a psychological moment—along comes MAY DAY. Thousands of dollars' worth of goods advantageously purchased, will be presented to the public of Cleveland and Northeastern Ohio at prices that will probably never again be duplicated. Economy is the "Buy Word" on this MAY DAY; but Quality is the watchword—for without Quality there is no Economy. So you may come prepared to find those qualities to which you have been accustomed—and find them at the well-known MAY DAY prices. CHARGE PURCHASES BILLED NOV. 1st SAVE EAGLE STAMPS Garage 7,000 Employees for May Day Free Parking Patrons' Garage Lakeside-Ontario Carry Small Packages With You Help Us, So We May Help You Shop Extra Street Car Service May Day See All Advertise- ments in All Papers for Extra Items Store Open Fl Garage Opens Soon 1000 Employees For May Day Every day supreme Free Parking Atrons' Garage Lakeside-Ontario Northern (Old M Ample) from s Berry Small Packages With You To face chases s Help Us, So We May Help You Shop Be indie everything Extra Street Car Service May Day Extra s —by s way Co See All Advertise- ents in All Papers For Extra Items See box papers vertise Look f Store Open FRIDAY Garage Opens Saturday, 7 A. M. Sharp 7,000 Employees for May Day Every branch of our service augmented for this supreme One Day Selling Event. Free Parking Patrons' Garage Lakeside-Ontario EXTRA FREE PARKING SPACE Northeast corner Lakeside and East 9th St. (Old Marine Hospital Grounds). Ample space for all cars. Free Busses to and from store. Carry Small Packages With You To facilitate deliveries, kindly carry small purchases with you wherever convenient. Help Us, So We May Help You Shop Be indulgent, be patient, be happy; we shall do everything to serve you as quickly as possible. Extra Street Car Service May Day Extra street car service for Saturday—MAY DAY —by special arrangement with the Cleveland Railway Co. See All Advertise- ments in All Papers for Extra Items See both Friday evening and Saturday morning papers for other specials. Many bargains not advertised will be on sale Saturday. Don't miss them! Look for MAY DAY signs. Store Open FRIDAY from 9 A.M. to 6 P.M.—SATURDAY from 8 A.M. to 6 P.M. BLINDED HER! And Still the Dean of the Local Bar Saved Him From Being Sent to the Ohio Penitentiary. On the 13th and 14th of this month, Ex-State Senator John P. Green, age 87, tried his first jury case, since his serious injury, last year, and was successful in saving his client, John Williams, from the Ohio penitentiary. Williams, according to the occulist, who testified for the state, had destroyed the sight of the left eye of Margaret Harris who was already blind in her right eye. Attorney Green, in the course of his argument to the jury, said that all his sympathies weve with the girl and that the considered any man who would strike a woman a brute, but since he was appointed by the court to uphold the law, he was obliged to defend Williams. Senator Green was highly compli- mented by Common Pleas Judge Geo, P. Baer for the manner in which he hands the case. Subscribe NOW! YOU KNOW ME IF LATE JACK KEEFE HAS BEEN SPENDING MORE TIME AWAY FROM HIS HOME THAN HE DOES --- Do All of Your Buying On Our 21st MAY DAY at the SPENI Storage Opens Saturday, 7 A. M. Sh. 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Prepared for national Society, WASHINGTON, C. - WNW SERVICE UWENZORI, one of the world's queerest mountain masses, has been scaled by mountain expansion entirely in the Belgian territory, according to its part of the Belgian Congo in which a part of the mountain lies. The feat, not hitherto accomplished, required a climb of more than 16,000 feet of slope, trailless jungle and rocky slopes. Ruwenzorii is unusual in its very situation. It lies almost immediately under the equator, surrounded by rank, steaming tropical forests and sun-drenched plains covered with tall elephant grass; yet it pushes its peaks up to alpine snows. Nowhere else are there comparable heights under the equator, rising from the heart of a continent. The Andes of Ecuador, relatively close to the coast, and the mountains of the island of New Guinea are the closest competitors. Weather conditions do their part in contributing to the strangeness of this African mountain mass, and in throwing an almost literal veil of mystery around it. The peaks are hidden to observers from the plains and forests by clouds and fog except at rare intervals. As a result, the definite existence of the mountains was unknown to Europeans until 1864 when Sir Samuel Baker, while exploring Lake Albert, saw "a blue mountain to the south." His observation went unverified until 1887 when Stanley saw the peaks and made known the fact, for the first time, that they were snow-eposed. It was not until more than a decade later that the snow line was first reached; and the crests were not attained until 1906 when the duke of the Abruzzi led his expedition to the top. The name, Mountains of the Moon, is believed to have arisen from a mistaken translation from Arabic; but it has fitted well into the atmosphere of mystery that surrounded Ruwenzori for centuries; and it has a figurative justification because of the weird appearance of the mountain slopes. The relatively few white men who have made the arduous climb have all noted the impression that they had blundered into some alien world. The combination of excessive moisture, altitude and equatorial sun has produced a unique vegetation that in many ways is utterly fantastic. Vegetation Is Extraordinary. After emerging from the dense tropical forests of the lower slopes, a climber feels like a Lilliputian visiting the meadows of Brobdingnag. He walks among parsley plants nine feet high, "bird-seed" three times his height, and heather plants, relatives of the low Scottish shrub, that have expanded into great trees 70 and 80 feet tall. To add to the weirdness, colored mosses—brown, yellow, green, white and red—are all about under and overhead. They grow in huge cushions that encircle the limbs of the heath trees like giant mushrooms impaled on a skewer. The unearthly appearance is heightened usually by fog, through which the strange growths loom dimly; and there is a continual dip of water from limbs and moss clumps. The way often leads through swamps and muck up to one's knees. Above the heath forests, on less swampy ground, giant lobedias cover large areas, sending their spikes up to twenty feet or more. All about are a variety of weeds, grown almost to the magnitude of trees. Further up are thickets of bamboo through which progress is extremely difficult. The highest slopes, just below the snow line, are covered with a thick growth of everlasting flowers. Except on its lowest slopes Ruwenzor is uninhabited, and above the tropical forests there is not much animal life. The soggy heath forests are almost devoid of animals, birds and insects. On other parts of the slopes, where sparse animal life is found, it forms a queer assortment: a few small mountain antepoles; leopards that prey on them; byraxes, which are harrelle conies; fruit-eating bats with a "wing-spread" of two feet; and a few birds and insects. The name, Ruwenzori, was selected by Stanley as the most common among a large number of native designations. It has been interpreted as meaning "King of the Clouds" and "Rain-maker." Really a Mountain Range. Ruwenzori is not a single mountain, but a "pocket-size" range. With its foothills it is approximately 60 miles long and 30 miles wide. The naming system that has been followed is rather complex. Topping the moun tain mass are six explored groups of snowy peaks, and a few other heights not yet climbed. Each group is given a name as a mountain, and each peak is then separately named. From north to south the snowy mountain groups which have been climbed are Emin, Gessi, Speke, Stanley, Baker and Luigi di Savia, each named for an explorer of Ruwenzori itself or of neighboring portions of Africa. Mount Luigi di Savia bears the name of the duke of the Abruzzi. Mount Stanley is the highest of the six snow-capped groups. All four of its peaks—Margherita, Alexandra, Elena and Savia—are more than 16,000 feet high, and exceed by several hundred feet the peaks of the neighboring groups. Margherita peaks forms the crest of Ruwenzori, with an altitude of 16,816 feet above sea level. Numerous small glaciers extend down from the snowy peaks to about 14,000-foot level, and from them trickle many streams. From which ever side the drainage comes, it finds its way into the surrounding lakes and rivers and flows, through Lake Albert, into the Nile. Ruwenzori thus fulfills the ancient tradition; it is the "Mountain of the Moon" on whose white crests Egypt's life-giving river is born. The portion of Ruwenzori lying north of Mounts Emin and Gessi has never been climbed. In addition to making a survey of the western slopes of the entire range, the Belgian expedition plans to climb the peaks of this northern region and to obtain definite information in regard to their heights. Odd Facts About the Equator. While Ruwenzori's snow has been a popular "hard to believe" subject, there are other facts about the world's hot line that are, perhaps, equally as strange. For example: The equator crosses no deserts. The equator does not touch continental Asia. Less than one-fourth of the equator traverses land. The equator cuts Africa nearly in half, traversing the middle section of Kenya, severing the northern third from the Belgian Congo and bisecting the tongue of French equatorial Africa which, with Angola, nearly squeezes the Belgian Congo off the Atlantic coast. In the 2,200 miles across equatorial Africa there are no deserts but torrid jungles, some parts of which are so canopied by trees interlaced by vines that only pencil-like rays of sunshine penetrate. In this region the traveler meets with naked, black, kinky-haired tribesmen, and such unfriendly beasts as wild elephants, lions and hippopotamuses. Just below Ruwenzori's western slope is the bailiwick of the Bambute pygmies, shy, diminutive folk of the jungles, and beyond is the domain of Bantu tribes, some of whom relish human flesh. The Masal, among the world's fiercest natives, inhabit the regions to the east of the mountain. Between the western coast of Africa and the coast of South America, the equator crosses no land. In the mouth of the Amazon it traverses Mexicana island and then plunges into 2,000 miles of jungle land, almost as Impenetrable in places as the jungles of Africa. South America's Jungle. Equatorial South America is the land of Indians of yellowish and reddish hues with straight hair which is cut as though soup bowls had been applied to the natives' heads as guides for barbers' scissors. The largest animal is the tapir, and ant eaters are abundant. At the eastern base of the Andes, the equatorial traveler meets the Jivaros, natives who are proud of their art in shrinking human heads to the size of an orange, with the hair and skin intact. From their hot jungle homes, the Jivaros can see the snow-capped Andes of Ecuador and western Brazil. Quito, capital of Ecuador, nestles in the Andean hills, about fifteen miles south of the equator. The equator begins its trans-Pacific "flight" by crossing the Galapagos islands and then makes a long jump to the East Indies where it traverses Celebes, Dutch Borneo and Sumatra missing Singapore, the nearest point of continental Asia by only 90 miles. These regions are inhabited by brown skinned natives, some of whom show traces of Mongolian, Hindu and Malayan blood. From Sumatra westward, the equator touches no land until it strikes Kenya, East Africa. Up-to-Minute Col Up-to-Minute College Girl Modes By CHERIE NICHOLAS RE-SCHOOLDAY shopping tours are now "on." Thrilling events they are, especially the excursions which take one into the college girl's. W.C.L. FEDER PH PRE-SCHOOLDAY shopping tours are now "on." Thrilling events they are, especially the excursions which take one into the college girl's land f'ashion. The styles shown in her realm are positively exciting, seeing that they depart so radically from modes that have gone before. There's the new silhouette, for instance. Its narrower, taller, straighter-skirted, broader-shouldered with most of the trimming features concentrating above the waistline. And sleeves! They are a study within themselves. In fact, sleeves are providing most of the novelty which distinguishes this season's frocks and coats, suits and blouses. Necklines, too, are attracting a lot of attention in that they are mounting higher and higher, adopting a built-up-around-the-threat movement which calls for entirely new designing tactics. As to skirt lengths there is no really radical change. For daytime none to 10 and sometimes to 11 inches from the ground are being generally accepted, with instep length sponsored for dressy afternoon and evening wear reaching to the floor for very most formal occasion. As to color, a goodly share of the honors is going to the browns which are that varied in tones they include every gradation from darkest, deepest dye to a range of those lovely russet and radiant shades which are so highly flattering to most every complexion. Handsome bronzy greens also appear on the color register. The college girl who elects to include the trio of styles pictured in her early fall wardrobe may be assured of having made three correct choices. The coat of dull red diagonal wool is as practical as it is smart. Note how THE HAT Fall millinery collections are largely a matter of juntity little chapeaux made of velvet having sprightly turnback cuff brims which offer a pleasing variation from the cap-fitting berets which have been holding the center of the stage for so long. Sketched at the top is a smart little gob hat of black velvet. It has the turned-back cuff, with black cire ribbon drawn across the front ending in a small bow high on the left side. The other sketch shows an ultra hat of raspberry velvet. It is worn well down over the forehead. White grograin ribbon trims it with a tiny bow over the right eye. Many of the collections this fall will include the waist-length wrap that is half jacket, half cape, to be worn over a cloth frock or coat. Your Copy or an Acqu Waist-Length Wrap lege Girl Modes The year we fro the edi age the pa an tio his ha kn pe Ga are va the cin eve su ma "Bou lav Ly Ge all in tec bu tin w act cro on ra of li op be ne m dre fer all gre ter the to ma in the the sleeves are capped to achieve the proper broad-shouldered silhouette. With the ensemble idea in mind the designer lines this coat with the identical brown wool fabric which fashions the frock. An item of outstanding interest in connection with the young-looking campus frock to the right, made of coco brown rabbit's hair wool with white angora for the blouse or gulpie, is its high neckline and the fact that the sleeves are full and in contrast. It is taken for granted that every college girl will include a velvet afternoon gown in her wardrobe. The model pictured is of that voguish mat velvet, brown in this instance, the dull finish of which carries an air of refinement. Brown mink fur forms the ornamental bow at the neckline. An unusual buckle of brown composition and ribbinstones fastens the belt. As a climax to this recital of college-daughter fashions we call your attention to the stunning footwear which adds so decided a note of chic. The fact that in each instance the handsome shoes worn are of patent leather carries its own message of what's what in smart footwear for fall. Patent leather and suede oxfordis in blended browns co-ordinate with the coat. With her guipme frock Miss Collegegirl is wearing brown patent leather shoes with fancy openwork design. A sandal-like lace enhances the brown patent leather shoes which tune so beautifully to the charming velvet gown. © 1952, Western Newspaper Union. LUMBER-JACK COATS DECREED FOR FALL Fall suits will not have the strictly tailored finish of the suits of last season. The short little bellhop jackets and snug double-breasted models of last year will be replaced by lumber-jack coats and loosely fitted jackets with less formal fastenings and wider sleeves. The hip-length and three-quarter coats will be favored both for street and sports wear. One of the new lumber-jack models is fashioned of a feather tweed, and consists of a straight dress and jacket. The dress top and lining of the coat are of embroidered cashmere. The collar of the unusual coat buttons high about the throat. Broadcloth is used for a number of dress suits and velvet is a favorite for restaurant dining and informal evening occasions. Fur-Lined Cloth Coats Seen in Early Showings Fur-lined and fur-tinned cloth coats are featured in advance showings of winter wraps. They are warm without being bulky, and many women prefer them to the all-fur coat, particularly for town wear. Fur will be used chiefly for trimming on winter evening wraps, rather than for the entire wrap. Yokes, gilts, cape collars and shoulder effects are usually of fur pelts, while the wrap itself is fashioned of rich, heavy velvet. One outstanding model of creamy white velvet has ruft, deep-set sleeves of dark brown sable. Lovely Outfits Spoiled Using Wrong Accessory Even when one has selected the ideal suit, dress or coat, there is still the highly important and significant item of such accessories as the hat, gloves, shoes, pocketbook. Many a lovely outfit has been completely spoiled by giving it the wrong type of accessory, just as by the same token, many a frock has acquired a new lease on life by being treated to grand and barmonious complementary touches. y of The GA aintance who SATURDAY, SEPT. 24. 1932 OUR FIFTIETH YEAR. --- As stated in our issue of Aug. 13, '32, with the issue of Aug. 20, '32, the Gazette entered upon its fifteenth year of continuous publication, every week on time. This paper made its first appearance, Aug. 25, 1883, with the writer at the helm as part-owner, editor and manager. Many years ago, he purchased the interests of the other three members of the company and ever since the burden of and responsibility for the publication of The Gazette have rested upon his shoulders. How successful we are, knowledge of the country over, and of personal pride on our part, for The Gazette's accomplishments were and are vitally important, many and varied. They recommend it, too, in the strongest possible manner, especially to the loyal of the race wherever they may be. As a direct result of the efforts of The Gazette many years ago, the notorious "Black Laws" of Ohio were wiped out, and an effective Civil Rights law, and Mob Violence act or Anti-punching law enacted, the Ohio General Assembly never failing and always determined. What it has done in hundreds of other instances to help, defend and encourage our people along all lines of endeavor that lead to greater and better progress is a matter of general knowledge through the country. We refer particularly to its efforts against discrimination, national, state and municipal, and in favor of all that was helpful to the race. Personal and business interests in the way of treatment that is less than all citizens, without reference to class (race) or color, are entitled to. When it comes to our citizen-zone, here in the North, we have been and always will be, unalterably opposed to any "doctrine of surrender," or conciliatory policy, so insidiously preached, in this day time, the firm-press "Negroes" and the fool-press "whites." The Gazette believes in demanding for our people, in this section of the country at least, and in continuing to fight for, ALL that is due all American citizens, under the law. THIS IS OUR SLOGAN! Its firm adherence to principle, thrush all these years, together with its known accomplishments, is its best recommendations for continued and greater support, and we respectfully ask it. To our faithful following of the forty-nine years—thousands of readers of the Gazette from ocean to ocean and from the Great Lakes to the Gulf—we have only expressions of sincerest appreciation. There is, however, one thing we would ask of all our readers, at this time, and that is that they urge their friends and acquaintances to become subscribers of "The Old Reliable" Gazette and in this way assist it to materially increase its circulation and power for good. For all you have done in the past, we thank you, and again assure you of our sincerest appreciation. Harry C. Smith, Editor and Owner. FELICITATIONS Jackson, Mich., Aug. 16, '32 Hon. Harry C. Smith. Editor, Gazette, Cleveland, O. My dear Mr. Smith:—Just a line to congratulate you on the eightieth anniversary of editing and publishing The Cleveland Gazette. I am, also, commenting upon your feat, in my strictly personal column, in the Chicago Bee, in its issue of Aug. 21, '32. With best wishes always, I am Very sincerely yours, Clifford C. Mitchell. Madison, N. J., Aug. 15, '32. Hon. Harry C. Smith, Editor C. Cleveland, O. Dear Kind Sir:- "This is acknowledgment of your 50th birthday present (in advance) from "The OLD Relied"—a copy of current "Liberty" for which I thank you. Had much to say, but will not impose upon your time and good humor. Hope this will find you, as it leaves me—healthy, hopeful and happy in the Lord. I wish The Gazette peace, prosperity and success for many years to come, without change in ownership or present manager. Excuse brevity and accept enclosed report, instead of extended remarks, and oblige Cleveland, O., Aug. 18, '22 Hon. Harry C. Smith, Editor, Gazette, Cleveland, O. Dear Friend: — I am hereby congratulating you with my whole heart on your most wonderful consummation of the herculean task of editing and publishing a reputable newspaper, during half a century! Sewenty-five of the 87 years of my life have been spent in this, my present home, and during all these years I have never known any man or woman of any race or class to accompany me in undertaking, and this too, during some of the most eventful and trying times of commercial and financial affairs that this great country has ever known. Wonderful newspapers have been born, reached remarkable circulation, and, with their talented editors, passed away, but both you and "The Old Reliable" Gazette have remained, and, miracle dictu, are still on the firing line. It is God's doing. He has preserv ed and protected you both to struggle and "cry aloud" for the rights of our poor hopefully struggling class. Yours, John P. Green. Cincinnati, O., Aug. 15, '32. Hon. Harry C. Smith, Editor, Gazette, Cleveland, O. My Dear friend Harry:—Enclosed please find money order for $2.00 to renew my subscription to "The Old Reliable" Gazette. There is no chance for me to forget when my anniversary is due as that is my anniversary and I always pay for the Union and The Gazette at same time and on my anniversary. That makes it this plan in the last few years and I think it is a good one. I want to congratulate you on the 56th anniversary of "The Old Reeliable," hoping you will live many more years to publish it. As I have often said, the race will never realize your worth until you have passed to the great beyond. But I believe in giving flowers while one is alive and can appreciate them. And I consider you one of our greatest race men. I close with kindest regards, from Your old friend, Charlie Hunt Cleveland, O. Aug. 25, '32. Hon. Harry C. Smith, Editor, Gazette, Cleveland, O. Dear Mr. Smith:—Permit me to communicate these feelings of appreciation for the very splendid services rendered us by The Gazette in its fifty years of usefulness, fighting always for our rights and privileges. We are very grateful to you as the editor. Well has it been said: "The good that men do, lives long after them." May we hope that The Gazette may go down in our age as an immortal, in memory ever of you. Sincerely and respectfully, R. S. Rector. Wilberforce, O., Aug. 27, '32. Hon. Harry C. Smith, Editor Gazette, Cleveland, O My dear Mr. Smith:—I wish to congratulate you on the 50th anniversary of your paper. You have done a great work in these years and my hope is that you may be spared many years to continue your good work. I am publishing in The Christian Recorder your letter on, "Our 50th Year." May God bless you and keep you in health. With every good wish, I am Very Sincerely Yours, R. R. Wright, Jr., President, Wilberforce University. Cleveland, O., Aug. 27, '32. Hon. Harry C. Smith. Editor, Gazette, Cleveland, O. Dear Editor:—Congratulations on the fiftieth anniversary of The Gazette. It is no small achievement to conduct any business continuously over a period of fifty years; but when that business terminates, the documentation survived without missing an issue through the vicesitudes of the fluctuating economic conditions of the past half century, then congratulations certainly are in order. Here is wishing the "Old Reliable" another fifty years of service to the human race. Sincerely yours, Gordon H. Simpson, Exec. Sec. N. A. A. C. P. local branch Cleveland, O., Aug. 27, '32. Hon. Harry C. Smith, Editor, Harry C. Smith Dear Friend Harry:—It is to me a source of the deepest and profoundest regret that I was vacationing at Idlewild, Mich., and did not know until today that on Aug. 25 The Gazette entered upon its fifteenth year of continuous publication. I was a reporter for your paper 40 years ago and at the same time secretary of the Onward Foraker club (of which you were president). Although I am somewhat late on account of being absent from the city for three weeks, I feel that I would be amiss in my duty if I did not extend to me the congratulations for having published "The Reliable Gazette all those years, not a single week. This I know is true for I have been a subscriber for 40 years and never missed a paper. Again I extend hearty congratulations, and I pray that you will live for many years to come and that "The Old Reliable" Gazette will be published every week on time, as usual, until time shall be no more. (Former Secretary to several Directors of Public Safety of this city and not a relative of the editor.—Editor.) Elmira, N. Y., Sept. 2, '32. Hon. Harry C. Smith. Editor, Gazette, Cleveland, O. Dear Friend Smith:—It is with a feeling of satisfaction that I read of the celebration of your "golden anniversary." For I believe that in that fifty years is a true milestone or at least one man true unto himself. And I want to wish you and the public, whom you have so faithfully served, many, many more years of health, happiness and service. Sincerely, Jim Shield, (Shield & Spritz). Columbus, O., Sept. 2, '32. Hon. Harry C. Smith. My dear Mr. Smith:—I have just received a copy of your Aug. 27, '32, edition and read, with much interest, your article commemorating the fiftieth year of your publication. Your paper is a credit to yourself and to the state. Some time I hope to get better acquainted with you. Very truly yours, Geo. C. Braden (Chairman Ohio Tax Commission and Republican candidate for Secretary of State.) Baltimore, Md., Sept. 6, '32. Hon. Harry C. Smith, Editor Gazette, Cleveland, O. My dear Mr. Smith:—Enclosed you will find money order for $2 for another year's subscription for your great weekly paper. It is wonderful for its size. I am glad to join in with all good thinking people and congratulate you for The Gazette. It stands for justice for our people and have a valuable piece of property in Cleveland on Cedar Avenue, in the 9900 block. I see in The Gazette where our people are opening up new business places in that location and that it is rapidly growing. I hope they will not let the other race come in and take all of the best places away from them. We are another successful year with The Gazette. In honor of "The Old Reliable" Gazette's "Golden Jubilee," Mrs Kate A. Mann Baker, former resident and school-teacher of Indianapolis, Ind., but for years residing in Pasadena, Calif., sent the editor of The Gazette, last week, a beautiful souvenir-greeting in white and gold-tint which contains the following lines: Fifty years of happy memory! Fifty shining, golden years! Congratulations! And may the Happiness of this great event Linger long with you! To the foregoing, Mrs. Baker added: "Congratulations, Long live The Gazette. Aug. 25, '32. An 'Indianapolis' friend." Cleveland, O., Sept. 9, '32. Hon. Harry C. Smith. Editor, Gazette, Cleveland, O. Dear Mr. Smith:—It is very interesting to read the many letters of congratulations received by you and published in last week's Gazette. How well it portrays the deep interest you have taken in the welfare of your people and others. May your good work continue. Thanks for your kindly interest in our work. We are Yours very truly, American Bureau of Analysis, Inc. Wm. E. Sykes, Manager. Hon. Harry C. Smith is receiving national congratulations on the entrance of his famous paper, "The Cleveland Gazette," upon its fiftieth year of continuous publication. It has been a strenuous effort of our tights, even in relentless foe of "jim-crowism." — Cincinnati (O. J.) Union: W. P. Dabney, Editor. Last week The Cleveland Gazette completed its 50th year of publication, without having missed a single issue, and with the same editor, Hon. Harry C. Smith. What priceless service this paper and this editor have rendered to the race! Ohioans are especially indebted to Harry C. Smith, the longtime service he has given to his people. As a legislator, he introduced the Ohio Civil Rights bill and the Ohio Mob Volection Act, which became laws of the state and are models for other states. He has ever fought segregation and "jim-crowism," and race proscription of every kind. Negroes of Ohio have a better chance because Harry Smith and The Gazette have been fighting for them for fifty years. We congratulate Editor S. Dayton with his splendid publication. Dayton (O.) Forum, John H. Rivers, Editors. MYSTIC LUCKY RING 6 BE LUCKY Have money, friends, sweetness, energy and emotional strength in your life. emotional strength in your life. you health, wealth and happiness. you health, wealth and happiness. with white gold old, gold adornment. with white gold old, gold adornment. Harmony with white gold old, gold adornment. Harmony with white gold old, gold adornment. K. A. HILL, 2628 Washington Blvd. Dept. CHICAGO, IL