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Wade, Licensed Real Estate Broker, S. E. Cor. E. 82d St. and Quincy Ave. GAr. 6447. 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. IN UNION IS STRONGER Bought From Several Well-Known New York Style Resources Wide Selection of Models. THE GAZETTE ESTABLISHED, AUGUST 25, 1883 And Issued Every Week on Time Since FRESH OHIO NEWS ALLIANCE. — Mrs. Leroy Smith and son, Edward, were called to Arkansas by a sister's illness. — Mrs. Mayoma McGowan of Chicago spent the week-end with her mother, Mrs. Florence Phillip. — George Procter, Marvin Brown, Burnett Johnson and Hubert Henderson of Ravenna were in the city, Saturday. — Miss Catherine M. Rice of Massillon visited Mrs. Major McClure, Sunday. — Mt. Zion's quartette sang at the Methodist church (white) in Columbus, Sunday. — The Wilberforce Cadets will appear in a musical recital at First M. E. church, Monday evening. AKRON. — Sherman Scratchings has returned from Washington, D.C., and Tommy Boone, who spent two years in Pittsburgh and Zanesville, has returned to the city.—Mrs. Bertha Smith is now staying with her father in Detroit.—Miss Florence Hartman and Witherow Johnson were recently married in Sharon, Pa.-Rev, D. D. Turpeau, photog of Countess M. E. church, presided her farewell sermon, Sunday, and left, Monday, for district conference in Indianapolis.—The Siliver Leaf club of Wesley Temple will sponsor a May festival, the 17th and 18th. 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. YOUNGSTOWN. — Spring revival at Tabernacle Baptist church, Rev. S. P. Phillips pastor, started Sunday evening with Rev. J. R. Saunders and his evangelistic staff of Jerusalem Baptist church in charge. Wilberforce's sextette gave a concert of spirituals and classical music at Youngstown college auditorium, Thursday evening. They had a good audience, and their program was well rendered. — Funeral services for Mrs. Violet Green of Campbell were held, last week Friday afternoon, at Shiloh Baptist church, Rev. H. M. Reed pastor. — Revival services at Bethlehem Baptist church at the Church of St. Stephen, ill for many months, died Sunday morning. Funeral services, Tuesday afternoon at Underwood's Funeral Home. Dr. Stewart was highly respected and a member of the leading family of our group in this city — Funeral services for John Peak were held, Monday afternoon, at Underwood's Funeral Home. ABTISTIC BENDITION Of Choral Music by Two of St. John's Choirs—Grist the Solist. The whole range of our choral music, from the early spirituals to the comparatively recent works of composers like Dett, Burleigh and Coleridge-Taylor, was brought into comprehensive focus at the festival given a Double Music Hall Tuesday night by St. John's A. M. E. Senior and Gospel Choirs, directed alternately by Directors Carroll Scott and Robert Crowler. The program also contained two original numbers by Mr. Crowler. Herbert Ellert, local music critic, said Wednesday morning, in the Cleveland Plain Dealer: "Take the baritone, Augustus Grist, Jr., who sang several solos. Notwithstanding the imperfections of his vocalism, such as a slight tendency to sharp at times, he sings with a simplicity that is disarming, and the really admirable tone of the mirror of the purity and sincerity of his conceptions. The accompanists were Bernice Crowler, James Lemon and Kathleen H. Forbes." Both Scott and Crowler are doing splendid work at St. John's. Frank R. Crosswaith, Socialist leader and organizer, will address two meetings, tomorrow, one in the office of the Labor Institute and the other in the evening at Northeast Y. W. C. A. HEAR! HEAR!! T The Cleveland Bar association paid Atty. Alex H. Martin a high compliment, recently, when it endorsed him (the only Republican) for appointment by Gov. Geo. White (Dem.) to the vacancy on the local Common Pleas bench made by the death of Judge Thos. H. Kennedy. Rev. Horace White, who has pastored Mt. Zion Cong. church very successfully ever since the departure of Rev. Russell S. Brown, has been called to the pastorate of the church. Rev. White is an able, active and very pleasant young man who developed an engagement. He has already made marked improvement in the general condition of the church. Hon. Perry B. Jackson is a member of the committee of nine to nominate fifteen candidates for county charter commissioners. Ex-Mayor Newton D. Baker (Dem.) is chairman. The city manager form of government was such a dismal failure in Cleveland that The Rounder fails to see why such a form of government should be foisted on the county, about all of the many sections of which are bitterly opposed to it. Wards 11, 17 and 18 (Councilmen Payne, Bundy and Hubbard's homewards) have double the number of employees at the garbage-plant and elsewhere in the city that Ward 12 (Councilman Finkle's home-ward) has, and many of them are working more days than the usual week. Last week several of the Ward 12 garbage-plant employees went to the superintendent of the plant and protested vigorously the favoritism being shown their coworkers from Wards 11, 17 and 18. Guest of President and Mrs. Roosevelt Washington, D. C. — President Stenio Vincent of Haiti, guest of President and Mrs. Rooseveit, three days this week, arriving Monday, was entertained by them at lunch, Tuesday, and remained at the White House throut the afternoon to make a plea for the removal of American control of the Haitian republic finances when the American marines are withdrawn in October. WAS ARTHUR THE FIRST? It is said that Chester A. Arthur, who practicing law in New York City, before being elected president, succeeded to the presidency at the death of President Garfield, was the first man to establish our civil rights in a court of law. In 1858 he prosecuted a law suit for a woman of the race who had been put off a horse-car because of her racial connection, and won the case, forcing the car company to admit our riders on equal terms with all others. OUR "WINDY CITY" NOMINEES. Chicago, Ill.—Hon. A. H. Roberts, a member of the Illinois Senate for ten years, was defeated at the recent primaries. Representative W. E. King was nominated a candidate for the Illinois Senate. DePriest was nominated. Representative Chas. J. Jenkins and Ex- Representative Warren B. Douglass were nominated. Dr. Richard A. Williams was nominated for county commissioner and Atty. Wm. H. Hayes for associate justice of the municipal court. Reporter Hammond was nominated for the state senate on the Democ- tric ticket. APRIL 21,1934 THE N. A. A. C. P. Certainly Is an Organization at Sea — Linked Up With the Democrats — Internal Struggles — DuBois. Lately our press has been teeming with articles describing the internal struggles of the national office of the N. A. A. C. P. The stories make great drama. Dr. Wm. E. DuBois, editor of The Crisis, is obviously losing faith, as has never been in hypnosis with the aspirations of the truly far-sighted members of the race; he is entirely out of harmony, today. What we are witnessing, however, is no healthy cleansing but a desperate struggle for power. Mr. Roosevelt's New Deal requires the assistance of a few capable but pliant members of the race. To the alienation of the race to tell out" 13,000,000 Afro-Americans will go money, power, and prestige. Walter White's appointment on the Virgin Island commission fits into the picture. The complete reversal of attitude by George Schuyler, columnist, who changes from a critic of the N. A. A. C. P. into a stanch, unquestioning friend is also understandable. Schuyler will be more or less like the powers that be. Maybe later editor of The Crisis. It is also interesting to note that the N. A. A. C. P. has secured space for the publishing, each week, in a certain periodical, of news from the association's branches. But all news-items must first be sent to New York for careful editing. True to form, the leaders of the N. A. A. C. P., Walter White, William Pickens, and Roy Wilkins, do not give any of our people, even though a branch leader, the credit for being intelligent enough to write a few lines of English composition. But the editor, with deeper significance, a deliberate attempt to prevent any branch from performing any act not approved by "the big boys" in New York. It limits branch activities to card parties and other money-raising schemes. As a reward for preventing the masses of our people from asking too much from a reactionary government in a period of growing reaction, to White, Pickens, Wilkins and Schuyler will go honors. They will be permitted to dine with the elect, to visit schools used in educational investigating committees. They will enjoy pleasant trips to distant places. Only one task will be asked of them in exchange for all these favors. They must teach the masses to stare quietly and peacefully. Every six months or so, they will be permitted to save an innocent Willie Peterson from the electric chair. The bountiful donors of favors will allow the future Petersons to languish in prison for life, as the present Willie Peterson predeceased him by the present governor of Alabama. And the N. A. A. C. P. will be permitted to speak of such generosity as a victory. The best days of the N. A. A. C. P. are over. From now on the leadership will be 100 per cent reactionary, while the rank and file will be rigidly in line. All battles will be sham battles. DePRIEST AT WILBERFORCE. Howard Delegates Visit the University—Gov. White to Deliver the Annual Commencement Address Wilberforce, O.—The College of Education of the University has been approved for membership by the American Association of Teachers' Colleges at a recent meeting in Cleveland. This recognition from the highest accrediting agency for Teachers Colleges in America means that the College will receive recognition in the future will receive recognition from departments of education in practically every state in the country. It also means that credits earned in this college should be good for face value in any institution in the country. The Howard University Dental School delegation from Washington, D. C. is meeting American Association of Dental Schools, when en route to Chicago, last week, spent Saturday afternoon and night here. Acting Dean R. A. Dixon addressed the student body. Congressman Oscar De Priest of Chicago delivered a speech to the student assembly in Galloway hall here, last week Wednesday morning. Congressman C. Brown of Washington, D. C., and was the guest of President R. R. Wright. Gov. George E. White will deliver the 71st annual commencement address to the graduating class of the university, this year. Kid Chocolate Wins as Usual. San Francisco, Cal.-Kid Chocolate, Afro-Cuban champion of the featherweight division, scored a ten-round decision over Frankie Wallace, game little Cleveland battler, of 4,000 fans, here Monday night. SINGLE COPY FIVE CENTS E RACE TROTTER PASSES ALL WEEKS, HE EITHER FELL OR FROM A ROOF 45 FEET HIGH. lendid Career at School and College s to Paris and to the White Funeral Largely Attended. EDITOR TROTTER PASSES ILL FOR SEVERAL WEEKS, HE EITHER FELL OR LEAPED FROM A ROOF 45 FEET HIGH. Born in Ohio—Splendid Career at School and College —His Trips to Paris and to the White House—Funeral Largely Attended. Boston, Mass. — William Monroe Trotter, age 62, died here, April 7, '34, as a result of a fall or leap from the roof of the three-story residence in which he lived. Trotter was born on Isaac's farm in Springfield Township, Ross County, Ohio, his parents moving to Boston when he was seven weeks old. His almost lifeless body was found on the sidewalk about 5:30 a. m. in front of his home. Exceedingly nervous, he had gone to the roof about midnight. His sister, Mrs. Maudie Steward, was with him until 11 p. m., April 6, '34. After she left, his landlady him left him to bed. About 5:55 a. m. April 7, 34 he was leaving his room by her room who followed to the roof but was too late to save him. He died in an ambulance en route to city hospital. A piece of coping was found near the body. This led his sister to believe that he had walked off the roof and then tried to save himself by clutching at the coping. William Monroe Trotter was the son of James Monroe Trotter, a Civil War veteran, who served as recorder of deeds of the District of Columbia under President Stephen Grover Cleveland from 1887 to 1889. In 1886, Wm. Monroe Trotter was valedictorian of his grammer school and graduated from his high-school class in 1890; graduated from Harvard college in 1895, after winning four under-graduate scholarships, amounting to $950; won freshmen deturs, won Phi Beta Kappa in junior 8, the highest section, making him our first member of Harvard Chapter of this scholarship society; graduated A. B., Magna cum laude with A. M., to be conferred in 1900; and in 1901, Mr. Trotter's trip to Paris gave in 1919 to gain a hearing on an anti-proscription clause pending in the League of Nations, his fight on the "Birth (Rape) of a Nation," and his courageous speech in Richmond, Va.; his assistance in the organization of the Liberty Congress in 1917 despite orders to the contrary from Boston army headquarters; his seven trips to the White House in the interest of our rights which resulted in controversy with Presidents Thomas Woodrow Wilson, Theodore Roosevelt and Wm. Howard Taft, and his frequent visits to the State House on matters of racial concern are the highlights of Requirement Wiped Out by the Ohi Civil Service—Good Work, Worker, Charge Dear Sir: Herewith find enclosed a copy of the official communication just received from the State Civil Service Commission. It is self-explanatory. Hon. Ralph W. Emmons, chairman of the commission, took the leadership in complying with the Attorney General's recent opinion. Because of this, he certainly is enclosed the good-will and thanks, especially of our people of the state, Mr. Emmons, on every hand, has shown an unusual amount of readiness to co-operate. Civil Service Commission's Reply. Columbus, O., April 12, '34. Hon. Chester K. Gillespie, Erie Bldg., Cleveland, O. Dear Sir:—All references to an applicant's race and the requirement that a photograph be attached as a part of his application, in the case of the application blank, which dates for all positions are required to furnish. A large supply of application blanks already on hand have been sent to the printer and are now being blocked out completely in this respect. However, it must be recognized that application blanks in a limited number already in circulation throughout the state, cannot be corrected. It is desired to respectfully invite attention to the fact that the question of race has appeared in the application blank used by this commission for a period of years, in fact, ever since the beginning of the administration of the civil service laws --- NO RACE. NO PHOTOGRAPH Cleveland, O., April 13, '34. Hon. Harry C. Smith, Editor Gazette, Citx. THE GAZETTE is the oldest class publication of the kind, and has the largest bona fide circulation among Ohio Afro-Americans, double that of any other newspaper published in this or any other state, and comparison with any will immediately establish the greatest WEST AND BEST published in the section of the country in the interest of Afro-Americans. his long and interesting career of nearly forty years' constant battling for the rights of our people throut the country. For two weeks prior to his death, he was at home under treatment for nervousness. He was one of two women of both races attended the Trotter funeral services at People's Baptist Editor Wm. Monroe Trotter. church, last week Tuesday afternoon. A group of our policemen, stationed in and about the church, had a difficult task in handling the large crowd, all of whom were anxious to get inside the edifice. More than an hour was given to those who desired to view the remains. Surrounding the casket were many beautiful floral tributes, and beside the bier stood four khaki-clad members of the race who represented a military unit in which the deceased held membership. Nearly one-half dozen ministers participated in the services. The eulogy was pronounced by the Rev. Thomas S. Harten of New York City, president of the National Equal Rights League, which Mr. Mr. Wilson was secretary for, for which Mr. Wilson was Holiday sang "Open the Gates of the Temple." At the conclusion of the services, a number of resolutions were read by Rev. E. T. Thompson of Cambridge. Interment in Fairview cemetery. Hyde Park. of Ohio and is not a new requirement inaugurated by the present commission. The State Civil Service Commission hopes that this matter has now been adjusted to the satisfaction of all concerned. By direction of the commission. Very truly yours, (Signed) Frank W. Forsythe, Secretary. THAT HOUSING MATTER Do Not Be Taken Advantage of by Real Estate Companies and Others Representing Them. once again, The Gazette warns our people who own property between E. 22 St. and E. 30th St. (both sides) and Cedar and Central Aves., not to sacrifice their property however much they are hounded and harassed by real estate companies or their representatives, be they councilmen or others. If you are not offered a fair value for your property, hang on to it until that particular thing is decided in either the federal courts. Do not allow threats, talk of any kind to force you into action, your property at a figure lower than its worth. Do not pay any attention to the "scare" articles which are again appearing in local daily papers. Authority for appraisal of an area in the vicinity of Outhwaite School, where Maire & Walsh, architects, have designed a housing project, and of an area near Whisky Island where Joseph A. Weinberg is the architect, was received from Washington, last week Thursday, by E. L. Westendorf, chairman of a special board of valuation committee. As planners these reacts will total $5,500,000 worth of housing and will take approximately 380 parcels of land. The Cedar-Central area housing is estimated to cost $3,600,000. Walter R. McCornack is the architect. Cer. Cedar Ave. and E. 77th St. A HOME FOR YOUNG MEN! RESTAURANT - HOME COOKING Individual Beds $2.50-$3.00 ENdicott 9094 JOHN P. GREEN Attorney-at-Law Notary Public OFFICE NOW At 614 East 107th St. Cleveland, O. 'Phone, GLen. 3458 Take St. Clair Car to E. 106th St. O. K. Printing Co. W. J. Foster - John M. Smith Commercial and Job PRINTING PROMPT SERVICE 3113 Central Ave. Cor. E. 31st St. PRospect 7813 LISTERINE THROAT TABLETS Antiseptic Prevent & Relieve Hoarseness Sore Throat Coughs Made by Lambest Pharmacal Co., Saint Louis, U.S.A. PROTECT them from Tuberculosis Keep them away from sick people .. 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Business men who advertise in this paper should have the patronage of our people. The fact that they advertise in The Gazette is assurance that they want it. All reading matter for publication is current issue of The Gazette must be in the office by noon, WEDNESDAY, of that week, at the latest. Display advertisements accepted until 4 p. m., WEDNESDAYS! HARRY C. SMITH, 226 West Superior Avenue, Cleveland, Ohio. (Opposite, Hotel Cleveland entrance) Notary Public. Bell 'Phone: CHerry 1250. Classified Advertising Department WANTED—Movie talent needed. If you have talent for the movies, send particulars only. Studio Casting and Registry Bureau, 3576 Wilshire Blvd., Hollywood, Calif. FOR SALE—Bedroom set, a Way- Sagless spring and a medium size "charter oak" refrigerator cheap Address Box B, The Gazette office, 226 W. Superior Ave., City. CLEVELAND Social and Personal The Misses Evelyn Jackson and Eugenia Murrell are attending a conference in Detroit. Mrs. Daisy Hall Parker of Columbus was granted a divorce from Atty Augustus G. Parker of this city, last week Tuesday. Dr. Chas, H. Garvin was elected a member of the board of trustees of Howard University, Washington, D. C., at its annual meeting, April 10, '34. Dwight Williams has succeeded Ralph Tyler as a deputy U. S. marshal. Dwight was assistant superintendent at the garbage plant under the recent Miller Democratic city administration. The Gazette is indebted to Mrs. Clarence Williams, 1,5801 Arcade Ave; for an excerpt from the Boston Evening Transcript of April 10, '34, which contained an excellent account of Wm. Monroe Trotter's funeral services, etc. Rev. A. L. Boone, pastor of Shiloh Baptist church, spent last week in the South and preached at his old home, Ft. Worth, Tex., Sunday. A revival was started, Monday night, at the church, under the direction of Rev. Jos. H. Smith, evangelist. Common Pleas Judge Day, George H. Bender, president of the League of Republican Clubs, and Councilman Roy Bundy were guests, Sunday, at a spring musicale sponsored by the Club Le-Bun at Mrs. Dona Gristrap's, E. 844th St. The pension law, approved in a state-wide vote last November, provides that a maximum of $25 a month shall be paid to citizens more than 65 years old who have lived in Ohio at least fifteen years and have a private income of less than $300 a year. The county commissioners have forced County Treasurer J. J. Boyle to name April 24, next week Tuesday, as the last day for the payment of taxes. Mr. Boyle requests us to announce that there can positively be no extension beyond that day and date for the payment of taxes. We want to call our readers' attention particularly to the "Little America" department on aviation and exploration in The Gazette, each week, the expedition of Admiral Byrd now at the South Pole. The articles are not long but intensely interesting. Don't miss them. Patrolman Thomas Higgins is soon to receive a medal for saving the lives of two of our little girls whom he pushed out of the way of a skidding truck in Wooldridge school in Kinsman Road. Feb. 1, '34. He did this at the risk of his own life. The truck struck him but he got away with slight injuries. All our readers will please "The Old Reliable" Gazette greatly if they patronize the May Co. in preference to other large stores in the city because that company gives employment to a goodly number of our girls and men. Be sure to read their advertisement elsewhere in this paper. All ladies, who are up-to-date in the matter of dress, will tell you that The Gazette's illustrated fashion articles published on page 4 each week, are the best. Equally the articles and entertaining are the historical articles published on the same page and next to our fashion articles. Be sure to read them carefully, to. Well-known spirituals were heard in the production, "The Life of Christ," a Biblical pageant which was staged at the P. W. A., Wednesday and Thursday evenings. The pageant pictures were unusually interesting. There were about 100 players and jubilee singers in the cast. The pageant was directed by H. B. Johnson, director of music for one of the two national Baptist conventions. An excellent program was given by the junior members of Club No. 3 of Mt. Pleasant M. E. church, April 9. Among others on the musical program was John Adams High school vocal ensemble. A one-act pageant, "The Hope of the World," was beautifully rendered (under the --- The Gazette regularly should noti- copy delivered promptly. business matters to The Gazette 226 Superior Ave., West oppo- e. If you wish to see the editor carefully examine The Gazette's purchases. Business men who have the patronage of our people. The Gazette is assurance that application in current issues of The day noon, WEDNESDAY, of that artisements accepted until 4 p. m., C. SMITH, venue, Cleveland, Ohio. Cleveland entrance) Bell 'Phone: CHerry 1250. Rising Department FOR RENT.—A cozy five-room brick cottage, and also a suite of five nice rooms (down). Call CHer ry 1259. WANTED—Young man, honest, energetic and intelligent who has had experience as a collector and collector. Must be neat in appearance and affable. Address The Gazette, Box A, No. 226 W. Superior Ave., directorship of Mrs. Mayme Johnston, E. 126th St.) to a large and appreciative audience. AN UNAPPECIATIVE RACE. In the untimely demise of Wm. Monroe Trotter of Boston, we are reminded of what an unappreciative race we are. There was a man that gave his whole life, physical and mental, to the man he earned and inherited, in an unselfish effort to fight the battles of the race — but in the end — when aged and feeble, his publication, The Guardian, was lost to him because of non-support by the race. Sick, disheartened and disillusioned, whether by accident or otherwise, he meets an untimely end, and while he was still alive, he certainly was penniless. For what was his life fought—Clifford C. Mitchell, Chicago columnist. TRIBUTE OF EDGAR P BENJAMIN Trotter, the incorruptible, has passed on. I knew him throughout his entire public life, and, before as, his lawyer and his friend. Though few men saw eye to eye with him, none who knew him ever impugned his motives. If to be great is to give up family, fortune, friends and even actual necessities to labor unceasingly for a race, then Trotter was indeed a great man. Gradually we shall realize what a serious loss we have suffered. Trotter, the incorruptible, has passed on—Boston Guardian. A CHURCH CENSUS If some enterprising student in one of our local institutions of higher learning wants to delve into a novel field of inquiry, let him interview one or two hundred white students who have overcome challenges and ask each of them what he has ever done professionally to promote racial understanding in Greater Cleveland. We venture to assert that if the gentlemen interviewed are absolutely honest with the interviewer, nine out of ten will confess that they were wrong in advancing this necessary and concrete piece of social work. White churches today are composed almost entirely of conventional men and women who lead routine lives and think routine thoughts. It is the conventional practice for men and women of this type to be decidedly prejudiced toward minority groups; and it is not accidental, consequently, that the majority of white people seriously interested in combating racial prejudice are found outside of the church—they are the most violent and humane groups which they must hear from the prejudiced members of the cloth and distinguished laymen who talk about equality in the next world but lack the nerve to have a qualified student of the race problem address members of their own congregation. A religious interracial meeting held in Cleveland last year suffered entirely from this otherworldiness. Such little matters as how members of the race are going to eat, where they could work and play amid decent surroundings, and how full citizenship rights could be acquired were neglected elsewhere among the cheerful prospects in the next world. Consequently nothing of the slightest importance was accomplished. How to satisfy hunger happens to be a much more interesting and important subject, these days, for sensible members of every race. YOU KNOW ME. AL Fore! By RING LARDNER NOW, SUST SMACK THE BALL STRAIGHT AND YOU'LL GO RIGHT OVER THIS POND I'M GETTING ON SPLENDIDLY. SUST WATCH ME! I AM I'M GOIN TO KEEP MY EYE ON THE BALL GOSH, WATCH OUT MISS SOY—DON'T YOU KNOW THAT THESE GOLF BALLS COST A DOLLAR A PIECE YOU KNOW ME NO SMALL BALL AND Y RIGHT THIS 249 THE GAZETTE. CLEVELAND. O. SATURDAY. APRIL 21. 1934 WEAVER'S APOTHECARY SHOP, 8604 Quincy Ave. J. S. HALL'S, 7709 Cedar Ave. New Phone Books List Patrol Facts New telephone directories to be issued in the future by The Ohio Bell Telephone Company will contain complete information on how to communicate with the nearest office of the State Highway Patrol in an emergency. Two pages will be devoted to the patrol, with a map showing division of Ohio into six patrol districts and a list of district headquarters and outpost telephone numbers. The Bell System now has in service more than 300,000 public telephones. Of this number, The Ohio Bell Telephone Company operates about 6,250 and also has in service nearly 12,500 semi-public telephones, which furnish service to both business subscribers and the public. Operation of The Ohio Bell Telephone Company requires 217 exchanges, 14,673 miles of pole line and 3,257,313 miles of wire. $6,000,000 Spent to Improve Phone Plant The Ohio Bell Telephone Company spent $600,958 for additions to and betterment of its plant facilities during 1933, according to company officials. The largest expenditure was $3,657,659 for telephone equipment on subscribers' premises, including new instruments and inside and lead-in wiring. Improvements on local and long distance lines cost $1,227,689, and $787,976 was spent for exchange equipment. The total expenditure for land and buildings was $156,980. AN INSPECTION TOUR. Washington, D. 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Satisfaction guaranteed on money returned. BARGAIN strengthen with new page postcard only 89c Don't Throw A way Your Copy of The GAZETTE After Reading It But Give it to a Friend or an Acquaintance who might Subscribe After Seeing It DUTCH TULIPS A "Garden Spot" In Tulip Land. Prepared by National Geographic Society, with assistance from Walt Disney. BUTCH bulb growers have enlisted the aid of the Netherlands government in their industry. Tulip growing once became a mania in some portions of the Netherlands. More has been written about that chapter in Dutch history, in fact, than its interesting warrants; but it is interesting because the mania began at a time when the Dutch government was engaged in naval expeditions to acquire territory, and taxes were so high as to be almost unendurable. That the sober Dutch would lose their heads over a flower at such a time is a phenomenon that speaks highly of the fascination of the tulip. Staulburg abandoned ordinary business to engage in the tulip trade, and a period of gambling began that could not result in anything but financial ruin for the participants. The mania started in France in 1635 and quickly shifted to the Netherlands. Once the gambling was under way, the plants about which it swirled became mere symbols. All trade was for tulips in the onion. Buyers would contract for "futures," risking enormous sums on the expected products of beds newly planted. A bulb of the "Admiral Liekens" sold for more than 4,000 forlins—the equivalent probably on current exchange of nearly 300 guineas. The "Semper Augustus," which had not increased rapidly since its introduction in 1623, was exceedingly scarce, and a single plant brought 5,500 forlins, worth at the time about 370 pounds sterling. Queer bargains were made, an example that seems particularly ridiculous being the exchange of one bulb for a load of grain, four fat oxen, twelve sheep, five pigs, two barrels of butter, 1,000 pounds of cheese, four barrels of wine, two hogsheads of wine, a bed-stead with its furnishings, a suit of clothes, and a silver drinking cup! At the beginning of the mania the buyers were real tulip fanciers who coveted the flowers, but these soon were shouldered out of the bidding by professional market operators who bought in lots and held for a rise. One successful broker made 60,000 florins profit in four months. Stole His Friend's Rare Tulip. That Dumas' picture of Isaac Boxell's machinations against his rival tulip grower is at least not impossible is proved by historic incident. A certain burgomaster of Holland used his influence to obtain for a friend a political post of some importance. Upon the friend's offering to make return for the favor, the burgomaster refused reward and asked merely to be invited to see the appointee's tulip garden. The invitation was forthcoming at once, and the visit was made. A few months later the appointee returned the burgomaster's visit. He went into his benefactor's garden and saw there a rare tulip which had been taken surreptitiously from his own. So furious was he at this discovery that he resigned his appointment, sold his estate, and left the country. With nothing of real value to support the trade, the mania rose to absurd intensity. Traders gathered at inns and marked bids on wooden plates. A bulb would be mentioned, and a prospective purchaser would jot down on his plate a tentative offer. The holder of the bulb would write down a much-inflated price. While the dickering was in progress, a small percentage of the amount in question would be set aside as "wine money," and the dealer would put this up in cash. When a price was reached that both buyer and seller would check on their plates, the sale was proclaimed; but no money beyond the wine fund changed hands in the inn. Profits and losses were wholly "on paper." On April 27, 1636, a proclamation of the states of Holland put an end to the wild speculation by rendering invalid all contracts in connection with tulips. Confusion resulted. Bulbs which had been bought for more than 5,000 florins were sold for 50. In the wholesale liquidation many traders were ruined. The bottom was out of the market, and holdings were disposed of at 1 per cent to 5 per cent of their cost. Despite all this furor the tulip fanciers, who had retired early from the market lists and were tending their flower beds, lost none of their enthusiasm. The fields around Haarlem and Leiden continued to glow just as they glow to this day. If a man produced a new and beautiful variety of tulip, he was sure of a ready market for it. Popular fads afford rich material for satirists in both literature and art. The tulip mania called forth not only serious horticultural essays by such men as Pierre Vallet, John Parkinson, and Lauremburg, but Juvenalian jibes by Petrus Hondius, who, in his "Dapes Inemptoe," 1621, had called people fools who devoted their entire gardens to flowers which bloomed for only a few weeks each year. Hondius was the leader of a group of writers who ridiculed tulips and tulip growers. The "Mania Pamphlets." Probably the Dutch government, alarmed at the extent of the bulb gambling, inspired some of the humorists to poke fun at the craze. A series of "Mania Pamphlets" was published in 1637, a few months after the disastrous liquidation. In these publications appeared drawings or cartoons showing the tulip "maniacs" in ridiculous antics. One skit pictured a group of traders sitting around a table under a gigantic foolcap, while toiling gardeners labored outside with baskets, rakes, and barrows, and a curious crowd looked on. The cartoon was titled "Flora's Foolcap." Another picture, "Flora's Carriage of Fools," represented a crowd of tulip fanciers in a wagon equipped with sails. All were admiring their tulips, and a queue of well-dressed folk followed the carriage with hands upstretched, begging for flowers. The original pamphlets were distributed in 1637, and in 1734, when a hyacinth mania threatened, they were reissued as a warning to speculators. Even after the mania subsided, gardeners pursued their hobby with such devotion as to provoke satirists to lampoon them. In 1688 Jean de la Bruyere wrote in his "Characters": "The lover of flowers has a garden in the suburbs, where he spends all his time from sunrise till sunset. You see him standing there, and you would think he had taken root in the midst of his tulips before his 'Solitaire'; he opens his eyes wide, rubs his hands, stoops down and looks closer at it; it never before seemed to him so handsome. "He is in an ecstasy of joy, and leaves it to go to the 'Orient,' then to the 'Veuve,' from thence to the 'Cloth of Gold,' on to the 'Agatha,' and at last returns to the 'Soltiaite,' where he remains, is tired out, sits down, and forgets his dinner; he looks at the tulip and admires its shade, shape, color, sheen, and edges, its beautiful form and callix; but God and nature are not in his thoughts, for they do not go beyond the bulb of his tulip, which he would not sell for a thousand crowns, though he will give it to you for nothing when tulips are no longer in fashion, and carnations are all the rage. "This rational being, who has a soul and professes some religion, comes home tired and half starved, but very pleased with his day's work; he has seen some tulips." Fancy Names for Tulips. English gardeners were not less enthusiastic than their fellows on the continent, and in the Tatler for August 31, 1710, Joseph Addison chaffed them in an amusing letter. Probably no other flower has been given in its several varieties such an imposing to "highfultin" names as have been bestowed upon tulips. In his letter Addison tells of taking refuge from a storm at a wayside inn. He overheard a group of men talking about Admiral This, General That, and Lord So-and-so. His interest intrigued, he asked his host to admit him to the distinguished company. Of course, the great personages he had heard mentioned proved to be varieties of tulips. His host took him later into the inn garden to see a bed of tulips. Addition admired several, but was laughed to scorn for his choice and told that his favorites were only fool's coats. The owner of the bed boasted that the small strip of ground, 20 yards long by two in breadth, was worth more to him than the best two hundred acres of land in England. Though the tulip has been the butt of considerable ridicule, it still appeals irresistibly to gardeners everywhere. The second Sunday in April is usually Tulip Sunday at Haarlem, and on that day the tulip is king. For miles bright blooms smile under golden sunlight. To the air passenger the country must look like a gaudy patchwork quilt; for there is no mingling of colors in a bed, a separate plot being devoted to each hue. The growing of bulbs is on a commercial scale, and no attempt is made at artistic arrangement. Indeed, the flowers are mowed off ruthlessly and used as fertilizer on the beds. THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, O. SATURDAY, APRIL 21. 1934 Chic Prints Stress Simple Styling Chic Prints Stress Simple Styling A HAVE you noticed how remarkably simple is the styling of the new print frocks? One almost gaps at their simplicity—straight narrow skirt, top part frequently in shirtwalt fashion or made ostensibly plain with sleeves which are either three-quarter or full length, often quite full at the armhole or that which is newest of all, fairly close-fitting from shoulder to wrist. Well now, this glaring simplicity is not mere happenance. Rather is it a deliberate ono on the part of designers to create along lines that are different. With all their seeming simplicity there is something about these new print gowns which bespoke the very opulence of high fashion. Of course the prints themselves are as new, as new-looking as can be both in motif and coloring. So much so that a last year's print sadly looks it by the side of a today's patterning and weave. For example, there's the new necktie prints such as the one which fashions the very good-looking dress to the left in the picture. To be clad in a frock of necktie print slik during the daytime hours is to declare yourself style-conscious to the last degree. This model is designed for immediate wear under one's winter coat. It plays up the idea of simplicity with consummate art. Note the dropped shoulderline, the scarf of self-print, the slim gored skirt and that which is of greatest significance, the new three-quarter sleeve. One of the joys of gay springtime is the stepping out in new and fashionable footwear, which is why we are HOOD COLLAR By CHERIE NICHOLAS Here's the latest—the hood collair which drops the fur to the back. As the season advances you will be seeing all sorts of hood-shaped collars and caplets. Many of them are made detachable, as for instance perfectly stunning hood-capes of furordered velvet designed to be worn with your new spring suit or cloth street frock. Charming will they also prove later on to wear with summary print frocks and afternoon crepes. Note that the body of the coat pictured is more fitted as to waist and more rippled as to skirt than in the winter models. especially calling attention to the smart black kid opera pumps which milady of the neckline-print frock is wearing. These pumps have a beautifully designed simple arrow motif at the side—just that touch which carries them out of the rank and file. The hat which tops this chic outfit is black felt smartly banded with white. The point about the print centered in the picture is that it has a navy background. The flowers are in tones of mulberry and white. Seeing that fashion has gone into "the navy" so wholeheartedly this spring, navy accessories are inevitable and so with this captivating spring frock accents of this color very modishly appear in hat, girdle and a chic pair of navy blue kid strap pumps with circular motifs piped in contrasting white. The thing you are bound to remember about the print dress on the seated figure is that it is smocked at neckline and sleeves. As a trimming treatment for prints here is real news. It is our prophesy that you will be thinking so excitedly over this idea you will resolve at once that it is exactly what you will do with the print frock you are going to make up in the near future—smock it! You'll love the color scheme of this print in the picture, too. It's tango red and beige. Sounds intriguing, does it not? Briefly we would call your attention to the new sheer wool prints and the mossy crepe prints and the handsome bordered prints all of which are headliners on the spring fabric program. $ \textcircled{c} $ by Western Newspaper Union. TWO-COLOR DRESSES AGAIN FIND FAVOR The two-color frock—once a high favorite but lately almost banished from the scene—is staging a fashion comeback. Though far from holding the spotlight, it is beginning to be seen again in women's spring wardrobes. Sometimes it appears in a frock which has a dropped shoulder yoke of one color and the body of the dress in another. Again it is seen in a model whose sleeves contrast with that of the frock, or a trim little dress that has a deep yoke of a contrasting hue. And there are other variations of the vogue for two colors. Lanvin puts cherry-red satin sleeves in a black afternoon frock and adds elbow bracelets of the same bright red satin. She designs a black wool frock with frilled epaulets, sleeves and small collar of apple-green satin and puts a deep U-shaped white wool yoke on a black wool frock to give a contrasting touch. Tweed Good, Serviceable Fabric for Spring Wear Another tweed season lies ahead. Once one has acquired the hardy habit of tweed it is impossible to give it up. If one wants durability, and a general all around good fabric friend, it is tweed, and now that weavers have become imaginative in color schemes, one's interest in tweeds is at fever heat. Don't forget that tweeds are not alone used by tailors, but by dressmakers. Not only coats and suits are made of it, but separate skirts, and very trim looking as well. The tweed hat and scarf combinations are popular, although a preference is felt hats with tweed. Inflammable Gown One of the most novel dresses for spring combines silk and straw. It is highly inflammable, therefore impractical, but it is a sensation. SPOTLIGHTING THE STARS . bee-bee-bee-bo-bo-bo-bo . Jackie Cooper played host Big Bill Tilden and bigger Kate Smith . “Pancho” Beery . Gable entertained the team . Gracie Allen yearns to croon 5-YEAR-OLD WITH 8,000 WORD VOCABULARY—Five-year-old Jeanne Vizetelly Cochrane (above), is the granddaughter of Dr. Frank Vizetelly, lexicographer extraordinary, Jeanne also can sing in French and German. BROADWAY'S famous Chester Hale girls who train like athletes for their strenuous dances refresh themselves with kaffee hag in their dressing room back stage between performances. As a matter of fact coffee free from caffeine is a great favorite in theatrical circles. TWIN STARS IN COAST TENNIS—Elizabeth and Patricia Dean are twins in skill as well as looks and age, and are fast forging to the front in California. They play to gether in doubles but are heated opponents in singles competition. BABE RUTH inspects the balls and gloves he's giving away to kids—900 balls and 100 gloves each week in his present radio program series—for the makers of Quaker Puffed Rice and Wheat. ESCALATORS GO MODERNISTIC!—Stream lines, gay lacquers, and polished metals have been used by the Otis Elevator Company to modernize the moving stairway. Flood lights illuminate the landings, the canopy carries advertising messages, and the enclosure houses display cases. BRINGS INSULL BACK—Burton Berry, vice-consul at Istanbul, will return as the custodian of the financier. GHOSTS ON THE OCEAN WAVE?—No, only the sailors on board a British battleship during an anti-gas drill. GHOSTS ON THE OCEAN WAVE?—No, only the sailors on board a British battleship during an anti-gas drill