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"The Public Be Served" An Independent Weekly Devoted To the Best Interests of All Will Divide Votes who take enough interest in politics added this year as they are among the con, above, of Chicago, who predicted split their vote in the November elec- and some will vote for Hoover, she N TO BE SOON I 'THE AMERICAN' Predicts Women Will Die Party sentiments among women who take en- to cast a vote will be as greatly divided this ye- men, according to Lucile J. Edmerson, above, o this week that colored women will split their vo- tions. Some will vote for Smith and some wi declared. LITERARY SECTION TO BE PUBLISHED IN 'THE TEACHERS TO BE WELCOMED HERE A literary of book love literature in regularly in an added fe now being pose by Cha- tive editor. The new Predicts Women Will Divide Votes A. Party sentiments among women who take enough interest in politics to cast a vote will be as greatly divided this year as they are among the men, according to Lucile J. Edmerson, above, of Chicago, who predicted this week that colored women will split their vote in the November elections. Some will vote for Smith and some will vote for Hoover, she declared. LITERARY SECTION TO BE SOON PUBLISHED IN 'THE AMERICAN' A literary section for the benefit of book lovers and readers of current literature is soon to be published regularly in The Gary American as an added feature, according to plans now being developed for this purpose by Chaucey Townsend, executive editor. The new section will consist of reviews of current literature, including fiction, biography, travel, and contemporary history. James Garnett, prominent Pacific Coast newspaper man, a book reviewer for the Los Angeles Times, will be literary editor of the literary section. He will be assisted by a staff of literary workers. Others who will contribute to the department are: Walter J. Hamilton, head of the Gary public library, Frederick McFarlane, assistant principal of Roosevelt annex school, Dr. W. E. B. DuBois, editor of the Crisis magazine, Miss Rae Spiegel, well-known anthropologist and formerly assistant literary editor of the Chicago Evening Post; Fay Jackson, literary editor of the California Eagle, and a number of other distinguished bookmen. More than fifteen New York, Boston and Philadelphia book publishers will cooperate with The American in making the literary section a success. The publication of the section in The American will mark the first time that a Nego newspaper man has made a step in this direction. The department is the outgrowth of a plan which has many times been successfully developed and executed by Mr. Townsend who established numerous contacts with writers and publishers while literary editor of The California Eagle, the Los Angeles Dispatch and later as book reviewer for Los Angeles Record and The Arizona Times. CITY'S BEST MUSIC APPEAR IN PRO An all-star musical, and lit Tuesday evening at the John Ste. Fifteenth and Massachusetts, with musicians taking a prominent pa statement issued to The America Participants in the concert among them is represented with musical and literary talent in Lake county. CITY'S BEST MUSICAL TALENT TO APPEAR IN PROGRAM AT TRINITY An all-star musical, and literary concert will be given next Tuesday evening at the John Stewart Memorial Settlement house, Fifteenth and Massachusetts, with some of the city's most talented musicians taking a prominent part in the program, according to a statement issued to The American late today. Participants in the concert have already been chosen, and among them is represented what is believed to be the best musical and literary talent in Lake county. Among those who will appear on the program are: David Duncan, H. H. Clay, Nelson Woodley, Walter V. Potter, V. M. Marshall, the Henry Johnson quartette, Bertha Allen, Elizabeth Kelly, Vera McGirt, Corrine Cross, Della McDoughal, Anna Cooke and Clement Gustafson, minister of music at First Methodist church, white, Sixth and Washington. The committee sponsoring the program is headed by Miss Cooke, George Kimbly and Dr. Marshall. Suspend Sentence of Club Treasurer (By Preston News Service) WASHINGTON—Agreeing to repay $333 which he is accused of embezzling from the C. M. C. club of which he was treasurer, Carl Dean, was given a suspended sentence of 180 days in Judge Mattingly in police court today. --- --- IRST YEAR. NO. 38. Plan Special Service For New Teachers At Trinity An official welcome will be extended both old and new school teachers in Gary at Trinity Methodist Episcopal church, Fifteenth and Massachusetts street, in a special service Sunday afternoon at sir o'clock, according to an announcement given late today exclusively to The Gary American by Dr. Frank S. Delaney, pastor. Two of Gary's most prominent school teachers, both of them members of the executive staff of the Gary school system, will officially welcome returning teachers in the meeting, in the person of Prof. H. Theo Tatum, principal of West Pulaski street school, and Prof. Fredrick McFarland, assistant principal of Roosevelt annex school. Speaking on the subject of "The Value of the Community Church School," Professors Tatum and McFarland will officially welcome all new and old teachers. According to sponsors of this meeting, it is expected that all new teachers will be present at this service, while a large number of teachers who taught in local schools in years past will also assemble for this occasion. Refreshments will be served at the conclusion of the service. Rain or Shine Club To Hold Its Election The Rain or Shine club will hold its election of officers next Thursday night at the home of Mrs. Mary I. Campbell, 2441 Jefferson street. All members are urged to be present. RAMONA TO BE AT ROOSEVELT When "Ramona" is flashed on the Roosevelt theatre screen next Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, those who have followed the rise of this Mexican star, will admit too, that her portrayal of the little Indian maiden whose life is constantly clouded with bitter grief and who rises to the heights in emotional acting in the character of "Ramona." has given her best efforts in her career. "Ramona" is a simple story, simply told, and Edwin Carewe carried out the thoughts and mannerisms of Telen Hunt Jackson, its author. The GARY AMERICAN INDIANA'S GREATEST COLORED NEWSPAPER SEEK WOMAN KILLER HERE Delaney Hits Tactics Of Both Parties EXPOSITION TO BE SPONSORED AGAIN BY CLUB EXPOSITION TO BE SPONSORED AGAIN BY CLUB Fall Exposition of the Gary Noonday Club Being Planned PLAN BIGGER PROGRAM Affair Directed To Stimulate Interest In Business Renewing their activities for the year at a meeting Wednesday afternoon at the John Stewart, Memorial Settlement house, members of the Gary Noonday Business club, considered plans for holding their second annual fall exposition. Although plans for the exposition could not be fully worked out in Wednesday's meeting it is expected that the exposition will be held again this year in the American Crystal Gardens where it was conducted last year. More than a dozen Negro business houses in Gary, including groceries, dressmaking shops, newspapers, and insurance companies, took part in last year's event. Dr. R. S. Grubbs, prominent Gary physician, is president of the club while the Rev. Frank S. Delaney pastor of Trinity Methodist Episcopal church and superintendent of the John Stewart Memorial Settlement house, is secretary. Miss Gorham Gives Up Work Here for Philadelphia Job Leaving Gary to work in a larger field, Miss Juanita Gorham, secretary of the John Stewart Memorial Settlement house, Fifteenth and Massachusetts, has accepted a position as social worker in Philadelphia. Mrs. Hattie B. Simmons will succeed Miss Gorham as the new secretary at Stewart house, according to an announcement given exclusively to The American late today by Dr. Frank S. Delaney, superintendent. Miss Gorham's resignation here as a social worker in Gary was accepted with much regret by officials of Stewart house, who were sorry to lose her, as she had proven to be one of the most valuable members of the Stewart house personnel and had been successful in organizing many clubs among girls and young women of the community. Her active leadership in forming clubs and organizations aiming to develop womanhood in the girls which she had in her charge had received widespread comment and praise, and she was one of the three women in Gary to be mentioned for "The American's Hall of Fame," a department of The Gary American devoted to paying worthy tribute to people in the community who deserved credit for their community work and activities. Suspend Sentence of Club Treasurer (By Preston News Service) WASHINGTON—Agreeing to repay $333 which he is accused of embezzling from the C. M. C. club of which he was treasurer, Carl Dean, was given a suspended sentence of 180 days in Judge Mattingly in police court last day. GARY, INDIANA, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 7. 1928 She Likes Germans Miss Hilda Rogers, acting in Dusseldorf, Germany, says the kind treatment accorded the race there is of the finest. MOSKIN'S STORE TO HOLD SHOW Fall Fashions Will Be Shown at Local Store All Next Week Tomorrow and all next week, Moskins Credit Clothing company, 720 Broadway, is holding its annual fall fashion show, during which time they will display the very newest fall styles in men's women's and children's clothing. The store has been greatly enlarged and an entire new line of fall stock has been received for this purpose. According to the manager, the most complete line of fall clothing for members of the entire family will be shown beginning tomorrow and all next week. A cordial invitation is extended to all readers of The Gary American to visit Moskins's during this event, and look over the new fall fashions. This store does business on the easy payment plan. Any trustworthy person can buy a new suit, coat or dress for as low as $2, down and take twenty weeks to pay the balance. An advertisement to this effect appears on page two of this issue. Delaney To Preach On 'Worship' Sunday Where and How Shall We Worship God? will be the subject of a special sermon to be preached at Trinity Methodist Episcopal church Sunday at 11 o'clock, according to an announcement made today. Dr. Frank S. DeLENey, pastor, will deliver the sermon. The Sunshine Social club will meet Monday night, at the home of Miss Eugle Wells, 1901 Delaware street. THE GARY AMERICAN Is Proud To Announce The Appointment Of EDSON, HOUGHTALING & JOHN 612 N. Michigan Blvd. Chicago, Ill. As Its National Advertising Representative ```markdown ``` Writer Brands Effort NowBeing MadeBy Major Parties ATTACKS PROPAGANDA Says Neither Party Is Sincere In Their Importunities By DR. FRANK S. DELANEY (Copyright; 1928; By Gary American, Inc.) At no time in the history of American politics has the underling principle of the two dominant parties been so similar as they are in the present campaign and in no political campaign in this country has there been such an effort put forth as being put forth at this present time to deceive all groups of American people by dragging in questions on both sides which are absolutely absurd and which have no political significance. There seems to be on the part of both parties an attempt to promise to every group in America whatever that group may desire, regardless of the fact that another group may desire just the opposite thing. There seems to be a generosity in the promises of both the democrat and republican parties, the like of which has never been heard of before and the fulfillment of which is utterly impossible. There is being made cowardly and unjust inferences both to the wets and drys, the Protestants and the Catholics; to the farmer and industrial group that they may have the desires of their hearts. This may not be, being done in just so many words but whoever reads the propaganda which is coming forth from the American Press representing both parties and attends the ordinary political meetings, will have no difficulty in finding to be true the things which I have heretofore mentioned. . . . They May Be Honest—But . . . Both Mr. Hoover and Mr. Smith may be perfectly honest in their convictions and it is to be sincerely hoped that they expect to and will maintain the fundamental American principles and seek for the most part the best good of the American people as has been done by other presidents. This for the most part we must take for granted. In making our general selection, we must remember that it will be necessary to take into consideration the lives of the candidates, the principles of the parties which they represent, the attitudes, the opinions and purposes of the groups who back them, always keeping in mind that in ninety-nine cases out of one hundred the spoils are shared among the conquerors and that regardless of the man, sufficient pressure properly applied forces recognition. In view of the fact that the colored voter of this country has generally shown fine judgment in his selections and it is to be hoped that this condition will continue, there is a great deal of propaganda at present which is intended to becloud the main issues under this campaign. I have planned a series of short articles in which it shall be my purpose to call attention to a few of the fundamental questions and to expose the folly of the unimportant matters which have been drawn in by certain groups of both parties for the purpose of deceiving and hoodwinking honest people. AMERICAN To Announce ment Of TALING & JONES higan Blvd. go. Ill. ```markdown ``` Players Fail To Impress In Staging "Romeo And Juliet" NEGRO LAWYERS ADVANCE HIGH PLACES IN J By JUDGE MILTON W. C. East Chicago's New Justice (Copyright: 1928, By The Gary J. The colored lawyer of today presents trast to the practitioner who first steppe group to claim a place as an advocate country. The early Negro lawyers, as a rule, b training. Indeed there was little demar among our people for a well trained lawy emerged from slavery. Generally they had no property or property rights to be conserved. Pledger's NEGRO LAWYERS ADVANCING TO HIGH PLACES IN JUDICIAL LIFE The colored lawyer of today presents a striking and vivid contrast to the practitioner who first stepped from the ranks of our group to claim a place as an advocate before the courts of our country. The early Negro lawyers, as a rule, had but little professional training. Indeed there was little demand and less opportunity among our people for a well trained lawyer. Our people had newly emerged from slavery. Generally, --- That Shakespeare's plays have never been successfully acted by Negroes was confirmed in the opinion of many who witnessed the much advertised production of Romeo and Juliet sponsored by the Beaux Arts Dramatic club, under the direction of Ethelhyne Probst at the Roosevelt theater Friday night The production of the play did not come up to the expectations of the audience, many of whom left before the play was over. This was due to two reasons, first, many were not familiar with Shakespeare, and second, the characters were unable to produce any interest through lack of ability to execute their parts. The acting on a whole was stilted and self-conscious and the articulation so poor that meaning was as clear as spoken Latin. The actors and actresses were further handicapped in not being able to hold the interest of the audience by the inadequate scenery. Even those who were familiar with the drama were puzzled over many of the scenes. For a play that requires strenuous acting, laboring under great emotions, the characters did succeed in creating an impression that they were earnestly trying to accomplish something beyond them. They at least succeeded in honest effort. Some did do better than others, but it would naturally be expected that They had but a faint conception of the sacred civil rights which had been conferred upon them and which were theirs to defend and protect. And even if there had been such demand and opportunity offered by our people, still there was a vicious condition which made it almost impracticable for a Negro lawyer of real ability and training to battle successfully for the rights of his people in the very states where such rights were dented, and in the very forum where such rights were disputed. The great mass of our people lifted in the south. For many years in the south a hostile and dominant sentiment forbade the full recognition of the Negro at the bar of justice. Therefore we have in the history of American jurisprudence a very anomalous situation as respects the rights of the Negro under the three great Civil War Amendments to the Federal Constitution. The Thirteenth. Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments were adopted primarily and solely for the benefit of the Negro. Yet the great legal battles of the early seventies involving the constitutional rights of the Negro were fought by lawyers of the Caucasian race. In the states where those controversies arose, there were at that time no Negro lawyers of legal training and acumen equal to the task of conducting to a successful issue the litigation out of which arose the celebrated decisions of the United States Supreme Court defining and declaring the rights of Negroes as citizens of the United States under the Fourteenth Amendment. Compelled to live by their wits, the careers of the great majority of early colored lawyers did not give the promise of that splendid array of able talent is now the pride and the glory of the Negro race. Yet in the early days, genius of an unusual type often flashed out of the skies, brilliant as meteors, clear and steady as the fixed stars in the heavens. The men who survive of the first generation still speak with admiration and affection of such notable lawyers as T. McCants Stewart, D. Augustus Straker and George STAR EDITION 3 CENTRES PER COPY Gary Public Library 5th Jeff PRICED HERE Parties CAME TO AID OF HUSBAND it's house, cell, Jail, the Capbakony duty, was on, imag to a wo it seemed audience Woman Shoots, Kills Man When He Sets Upon Spouse NEW INSURANCE PLAN OFFERED Insurance Policy for $1 Offered Readers of Gary American GOOD FOR $2.00 Moskin's, 720 Broadway Romeo and Juliet would act as if they were in love with each other, in stead of behaving like school-day sweethearts. Either Romeo and Juliet had never loved, or were too self-conscious to pretend that they were in love, for the kiss that Romeo gave Juliet was a regular hen's peck. For a play that called for seven changes of scenery, not one change was made, an outdoor scene in the woods stood for Verona, a public place, also for a room in Lord Capulet's house, a hall in Capulet's house, Juliet's orchard, a priest's cell, Juliet's chamber, and Tomb of the Capulets. The famous love balcony scene, immortal in its beauty, was distorted beyond recognition. Imagine Romeo confessing love to a woman on top of a mountain. It seemed utterly ridiculous to the audience who did not know that Romeo was supposed to be pouring out his love to a woman in a balcony. The dancing would have relieved the audience some, but as simple as those few steps were, they showed lack of grace and proper preparation. The poor preparations which were made for the play certainly did not warrant the publicity that the play received. It would have been far better if a burlesque had been successfully executed. Perhaps the characters after five to ten years of light practice will be able to do something with Shakespeare. It seems a dreadful thing to make so many people despise Shakespeare. ADVANCING TO IN JUDICIAL LIFE ON W. GUY, L.L.B. New Justice of Peace the Gary American, Inc.) presents a striking and vivid const stepped from the ranks of our advocate before the courts of our a rule, had but little professional demand and less opportunity used lawyer. Our people had newly Pledger. Pledger. The second generation more than redeemed the feeble promises of the first. In the front rank and leading all them all was Edward Morris of Chicago. Almost equal in fame and ability was Stewart of St. Paul. Behind them followed a great troop of whom we have space for but few—Barnett, of Chicago, Booth and Napier of Memphis, Mollison and Perry Howard of Mississippi, James H. Guy and Jamison of Topeka, Lucas of St. Louis, Matthews of Boston, Carter of New York. The present and third generation presents the Negro lawyer as a grand fulfillment of the promise of an age just past. This is the age of the fully trained, well equipped colored lawyer, the graduate of our best law schools, with his well furnished office, his private secretary, and a varied and profitable civil and criminal practice. This is also the age of the Negro jurist—the age in which the Negro race is realizing, as one of its lofty aspirations, the sight of its men as learned judges on the bench, hearing and deciding issues of law and of fact, presiding over the courts with calm dignity and judicial courtesy, and dealing out even handed justice to men of all races and colors. When Jamison was first elected as justice of the peace in Topeka, Kansas, his achievement was hailed as marking an epoch equal only to that of Torrell chosen as a judge in Washington. Our first efforts to place men on the bench of a court of record in the great Middle West esulted in defeat even for so commanding a figure as Edward H. Morris. But perseverance and merit were bound to win. We gained a great step in advance when Hueston was chosen in Gary and Guy in East Chicago. But most remarkable was the nomination and election of Judge George to be a judge of a court of record—a municipal judge in the City of Chicago. The cycle of time revolves again and over all the country men of our group are gaining prestige and rendering honorable service as able judges, commanding the respect and confidence of both the lawyers and the laity. POLICE SEEK WOMAN WHO KILLED MAN Mrs. Jesse Davis Is Sought To Answer Murder Charge Still at large, Mrs. Jesse Davis 2367 Fillmore, who shot and killed William Ward, in order to save her husband in a fight between Ward and Davis before the hall of the United Improvement association. 2128 Washington, Monday night sought. Ward and Davis, it is said a fighting on the sidewalk in from the hall when Mrs. Davis emer- from the building, firing one shot into the back of Ward who is believed, was getting the be- his opponent. In explanation of the cause the fight between the two men, I said that Davis and Ward fought Tward Ward was ordered out of U. N. I. A. hall for disorder by D. the sergeant at arms. Asks $15,000 Damage For Woman's Death (BY Preston News Service) MEMPHIS—John Graham, administrator of the estate of Mrs. Lucy Jones, aged woman, on Tuesday filed suit for $15,000 in circuit court against W. E. Kelly, alleging that the defendant was responsible for the death of Mrs. Jones. The administrator claims that Kelly, driving at a reckless rate of speed, ran over the aged woman as she was attempting to cross Central avenue at Cox street. His automobile struck her, it is alleged, and hurled her over onto the sidewalk. Kelly took her to the General Hospital where she died soon afterwards from the injuries. The accident is said to have occurred last July 20. 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