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THE BROAD AX The Democratic National Convention Will Hold Forth June 25,1912 IN THE CITY OF BALTIMORE. THAT CITY PLANKED DOWN ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS AND CAPTURED THE CONVENTION AWAY FROM CHICAGO, ST. LOUIS, MO., AND THE OTHER CITIES WHO WERE COMPETING FOR IT. GOVERNOR JUDSON HARMON OF OHIO OPENED UP HIS PRESIDENTIAL BOOM IN THIS CITY. ME CONTENDS THAT "TARIFF REVISION, ECONOMY IN ADMINSTRATION AND REGULATION OF THE TRUSTS" ARE THE BIG ISSUES IN THE PRESENT PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN. STATE SENATOR SAMUEL A. ETTELSON, OSCAR HEBEL AND MILES J. DEVINE ARE IN HE THICKEST OF THE FIGHT TO SECURE THE NOMINATION FOR STATE'S ATTORNEY OF COOK COUNTY. Vol. XVII The Democratic Convention Forth IN THE CITY OF BALTIMORE HUNDRED THOUSAND DON VENTION AWAY FROM C OTHER CITIES WHO WERE GOVERNOR JUDSON HARMON O DENTIAL BOOM IN THIS C HE CONTENDS THAT "TARIFF R TION AND REGULATION ISSUES IN THE PRESENT STATE SENATOR SAMUEL A. ETT J. DEVINE ARE IN HE TH THE NOMINATION FOR COUNTY. The delegation of prominent Democratic and Republican citizens, politicians and business men of this city, struck Washington, D. C., the first of this week, with the honest intention of capturing the Democratic National convention, they had about forty thousand dollars which they were willing to put up in order to secure it for Chicago which is the best city in the United States in which to hold large conventions; but the effort and labor put forth by the distinguished gentlemen from the windy city of the west was in vain for without much noise the leading citizens of Baltimore planked down a check for one hundred thousand dollars and captured the convention away from Chicago, St. Louis, Mo., and the other cities who were competing for it, and it will be held in that city. Tuesday, June 25th, 1912. And if the national leaders of the Democratic party, are only able to possess just a least bit of horse sense and nominate for president of the United States, a broad-minded man one who will not harp on the "Race Question," one who is in favor of the equality of all American citizens, before the law, with such a candidate as the standard bearer, the old time Democratic party would have a splendid chance of winning out at the polls this coming November. CALLS LYNCH LAW NATIONAL PERIL. Oswald Garrison Villard, editor of the New York Evening Post and president of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, Thursday evening at Handel hall delivered a scathing denunciation of the outrages perpetrated by lynchers against Negroes of the United States. He said lynching has become so prevalent that it is a serious national evil that its victims were not Negroes alone, but Indians and white men and whoever else was so unfortunate as to stir the wrath of the mob. Mr. Villard was particularly bitter against a governor of South Carolina who, he said, encouraged lynching in his state and had asserted while a trial of lynchers was going on that it the jury convicted them he would immediately telegraph a pardon. "Putting it on the lowest plane of dollars and cents," said Mr. Villard, "no nation was ever so rich and prosperous that it could afford to degrade and to discriminate against a people whose members, starting in this country only fifty years ago with nothing but the clothes on their backs, have been able to acquire 500,000 homes, about 250,000 farms, with fifteen million acres of farm lands, worth at least $200,000,000. All in all, they have accumulated at least $600,-000,000 worth of property. "But today these remarkable people are subject throughout the length and breadth of the land to injustice and oppression of countless kinds. Take, for instance, the accursed crime of trechning—trebly accursed because it mocks, scorns, and defies the statutes of the state, the divine law, and outrages humanity. No longer called forth only by the most bestial and brutal of crimes, it now partakes itself of a bestiality which must, if un- HEW TO THE LINE; LET THE CHIPS FALL WHERE THEY MAY Governor Judson Harmon of Ohio, who by the aid of many thousand Afro-American votes, has twice been elected governor of his highly honored state, came on to this city, this week and opened up his presidential boom. He contends that "Tariff Revision, Economy in Administration and Regulation of the Trusts, are big issues in the forthcoming presidential campaign." Mr. Orva G. Williams who is a high class business man and clean cut politician will become campaign manager for Governor Harmon here in this city and throughout Illinois and with Harmon and harmony he can scent victory in the air. Local politics are beginning to warm up some here in town, and the hot contest is just starting in between State Senator Samuel A. Ettelson, who has with the aid of The Broad Ax. knocked out the political bosses twice in his successful fights for reelection to the state senate from the 3rd senatorial district and Oscar Hebel and Miles J. Devine for the nomination for State's Attorney of Cook County and many of the wise politicians claim, which may not be true namely, that after the primaries, April 9, that "the real contest for that office will be between Miles J. Devine and Samuel A. Ettelson. checked, undermine the foundations of our institutions and our civilization "The mob knows no distinction of race, color, or age; from its fury no no longer is sex a protection or tenderest youth. In its lust for blood mob passion can now find no tortures too terrible for its satiation. No hospital, no church is sanctuary. No section of our country is spared. In Wyoming, in Illinois, in Ohio, in Pennsylvania, as in every state in the south, the mob rules supreme. The lynchers are on top. Juries acquit where juries are impaneled."—The Chicago Tribune, Jan. 12. To sum it all up in a nut shell, Ed. Villard, very forcibly drove this one idea into the minds of his hearers and especially into the minds of the Afro-Americans who were present and that is that "they themselves must become united and present a solid front, while striving to regain their civil and political status, in all parts of this country. He deeply deplored the fact that there is so much indifference displayed on the part of the vast majority of Colored people in this respect. For more than sixteen years in our humble way we have endeavored to inculcate into the minds of the Afro-Americans some of the same ideas and doctrines which Editor Villard gave expression to, in relation to becoming united for self defence and contributing a small part of their earnings to assist to carry forward the great and heroic fight in behalf of right and justice. So far not much progress has been made in this direction on the part of the Afro-Americans and a thousand years from now they may be able to drink in these two everlasting fundamental truths, that "self preservation is the first law of nature and that whoever, would be free must himself strike the first blow"—Editor. CHICAGO, JANUARY 13, 1912. O Ex-State's Attorney of Cook County who may become a candidate for the same position at the primaries. April 9. 1912. WORTH $20,000,000 IN PENNSYL- VANIA. Statistics Prove The Race to be Extensive Buyers of Real Estate. Harrisburg, Pa., Jan. 6.—Property to a total value of perhaps $20,000,000 is owned by Negroes in the state of Pennsylvania, according to figures which have been compiled for the forthcoming annual report of the Bureau of Industrial Statistics of the Department of Internal Affairs. This estimated value is supported by a careful investigation made for the State by Dr. R. R. Wright, Jr., editor of the Christian Recorder of Philadelphia, official organ of the African Methodist Episcopal Church. Dr. Wright has ascertained that in 89 cities and towns, including Philadelphia, Negroes own property with a market value of $8,205,695; in 18 other cities and towns the (estimated) market value of property owned by Negroes is $1,214,500; in the entire state, so far as covered, the market value of the churches and other non-assessable properties is $3,160,260; total $12,580,455. "If," concludes Dr. Wright, "we consider the difficulty of obtaining data and scan carefully the list of places reported we must conclude that this estimate is possibly 25 percent under the real holdings of Negroes in the state. I would estimate that they own property from $15,000.00 to $20,000,000." THE EIGHTH REGIMENT ILLINOIS NATIONAL GUARDS WILL CONSTRUCT THEIR ARMORY AT CORNER OF 35TH AND RHODES AVENUE. Col. John R. Marshall, commanding the Eighth Regiment Illinois National Guards, and its other officials, have exchanged the lot which belonged to the regiment, at 39th and Wabash avenue, for a lot at 35th and Rhodes avenue, which is 231 feet long and 125 feet deep, and the regiment will construct its new Armory at that point. If all the plans do not miscarry, construction work will begin either the latter part of March or the first of May, and when the Armory is completed, it will be one of the finest, structures, of its kind to be occupied by Afro-American soldiers. PRAISE FOR THE SIXTEENTH AN NIVERSARY EDITION OF THE BROAD AX. The Herald extends the compliment of the season to The Broax Ax for its handsome holiday edition of last week. It was printed on fine book paper, and profusely illustrated with half tone cuts of business, society and professional persons. Speaking for the Negro Fellowship League, 'the Herald takes special pride in noting its prosperity, for The Broad Ax has always been most generous in giving space notices of the league's meetings etc. Our good wishes are sincere that The Broad Ax may enjoy many more holiday seasons and editions.—The Fellowship Herald, Jan. 6, 1912. The sixteenth anniversary edition of The Broad Ax was a splendid one. Every one of the eight pages displayed the editorial and business ability of its editor and publisher, Mr. Julius F. Taylor.—The Chicago Defender, Jan. 6, 1912. Most heartily do we wish to express our warmest thanks to editoress Barnett and editor R. S. Abbott, for the above kind sentiments.—Editor Mrs. William H. Hayman, 3236 Wabash avenue, has been indisposed for more than a week, being unable to emerge from the house. Dr. H. Reginald Smith, 3401 State street, takes great pride in stating; that "from every point of view, the 16th anniversary edition, of The Broad Axl, could not be surpassed." Dr. D. H. Anderson, 3018 State St., who was an active supporter of Carter H. Harrison, at the primaries and the election last spring, was appointed last week by him as special inspector of all the hospitals throughout Chicago. Maj. Robert R. Jackson, will enter the race as a candidate for the legislature in the 3rd Senatorial district, and as the major is a big K. P. his chances seem very good for pulling through. Rev. Elijah J. Fisher the Golden Tongued Pastor Of Olivet Baptist Church PRESIDED OVER A SMALL MEETING OF THE MEMBERS OF THAT CHURCH AND INSISTED TO HAVE HIS SALARY INCREASED FROM 160 TO $180 PER MONTH WITHOUT SAYING ANYTHING ABOUT PICKINGS ON THE SIDE. ONLY 80 MEMBERS OUT OF 2,500 WERE PRESENT AT THE BUSINESS CHURCH MEETING AND RECORDED THEIR VOTES IN FAVOR OF PROVIDING HIM WITH MORE SPIRITUAL MONEY. MUCH DISSATISFACTION EXISTS AMONG THE MEMBERS OF OLD OLIVET ON ACCOUNT OF THIS NEW OBLIGATION PLACED UPON THEIR HEAVY LADENED SHOULDERS. Chicago, Ill., Jan. 10, 1912. Julius F. Taylor, Editor of The Broad Ax: Dear Sir:— Please find space in your valuable paper to publish this matter as follows, to wit: Dr. E. J. Fisher, Pastor of Olivet Baptist Church, 27th and Dearborn St., Chicago, Ill., has received a salary of $160.00 per month for about nine (9) years, but became dissatisfied with this amount, and wanted his salary increased to $200.00 per month, and said that he would have to accept a call which he had from another church, unless his present salary was increased to $200.00 a month. (60) to vote of which forty-five (45) voted to increase his salary to $180.00 a month, and fifteen (15) voted against the proposition. It is evident that the twenty refusing to vote were opposed to an increase in salary, but did not care to go on record; so by adding these to the fifteen who voted against the salary proposition, it will make thirty-five (35) opposed to it, and forty-five (45) in favor of it. The church has more than twenty-five hundred (2,500) members on its books, and the majority of them are active members. They were not consulted, neither were they notified that the question of raising the pastor's salary was to be considered at that The matter was brought before the Official Board about three months ago but they did not think that the church was able to increase his salary to $200.00 per month, but he insisted that it must be done on the First of the year 1912. The Congregation was not informed of Dr. Fisher's request for an increase in salary, until Thursday evening Jan. 4, 1912, at the Business Church Meeting. The Official Board brought the question of raising his salary, before the Business Meeting of the church members, with a recommendation that his salary be increased to $180.00 a month. It was a cold evening, five below zero, and as the church members did not know that there was any important matters to come up for action at that meeting, there was only eighty (80) members present. The question of raising the pastor's salary had been kept quiet for a purpose; it was intended that only his friends should know that his salary was to be raised. A motion was made to increase his salary from $160.00 to a $180.00 a month. Dr. E. J. Fisher sat in this meeting and acted as Chairman. During the discussion and pasage of the motion increasing his salary, he took a part in the discussion and ruled on points of order, and when any persons did not talk to suit him, he ruled that they were out of order. A motion was made that the question of raising the pastor's salary he deferred for future consideration, but he ruled that motion out of order, and used his influence in passing the motion which increased his salary to $180.00 a month. Now remember, there were only eighty (80) members present, and when the vote was taken twenty (20) of them did not vote, which left only sixty MOTTS PEKIN THEATRE Beginning Monday, January 15th a change of policy takes place. Shermans fashionable reportoire players (all white), will present for the first time in this city the spectacular melodrama entitled "The Battle of Manila." This excellent company has just returned to America from a two years tour in Australia. Mr. Frank Sherman is one of the best dramatic actors of the present day. Chas, D. Brash is also high up in his profession. Beatrice Dane, the leading lady has been connected with many of the large dramatic productions. Mr. Glen Caultier a Cuban, as the Juvenile and others of great ability make in all the strongest combination before the public, added to this is Col. Brayden and his 10 Esquimau Dogs direct from Siberia. Another feature will Fisher the Angued Pastor Set Baptist Church METTING OF THE MEMBERS OF THAT MONTH TO HAVE HIS SALARY INCREASED FOR MONTH WITHOUT SAYING ANY ON THE SIDE. OVER WERE PRESENT AT THE BUSINESS RECORDED THEIR VOTES IN FAVOR WITH MORE SPIRITUAL MONEY. IS AMONG THE MEMBERS OF OLD OF THIS NEW OBLIGATION PLACED ADDED SHOULDERS. (60) to vote of which forty-five (45) voted to increase his salary to $180,00 a month, and fifteen (15) voted against the proposition. It is evident that the twenty refusing to vote were opposed to an increase in salary, but did not care to go on record; so by adding these to the fifteen who voted against the salary proposition, it will make thirty-five (35) opposed to it, and forty-five (45) in favor of it. The church has more than twenty-five hundred (2,500) members on its books, and the majority of them are active members. They were not consulted, neither were they notified that the question of raising the pastor's salary was to be considered at that meeting, therefore they should not be called on, or expected to help pay the increased salary. As there were only eighty members present, and only forty-five of them voted to raise his salary, it should devolve upon the forty-five members to see that the increased salary is paid. Why, it is absurd to think of a minister ever remaining in a Church Business Meeting, discussing an increase in his own salary, much less acting as Chairman of the meeting, and ruling with an iron hand. We are not in Russia, but in Chicago, Illinois, U. S. A., and will not stand for these methods. During the discussion of the raise in salary, some of the members told him that the nature of the question under discussion disqualified him to act as Chairman of the meeting, and some of them made things quite unpleasant for him during its session, but he was willing to take all kinds of insults just to remain with the church, because it is the best thing he has ever had, and it will possibly be nine more years before he gets anything better. Dr. Fisher says he has been offered three thousand ($300.000) dollars per years by another church. If this is true, how foolish he is to even consider $200.00 per month, much less $180.00 which he is willing to take, and which the thirty-five members are unwilling to give, and possibly one thousand two hundred and ten (1,210) members to hear from, who were not aware of the importance of said meeting. All matters of this nature generally adjust themselves when given proper consideration. Let us hope that this will be no exception to the rule. Respectfully submitted, E. B. MOORE. take place Monday night only. Every lady accompanied by a park escort will be admitted free, notwithstanding this enormous bill, there will be no advance in prices. RECITAL BY HARRISON EMAN UEL Mr. Harrison Emanuel will be heard in a Violin Recital in Kimball Hall, Monday evening, January 29, at 8 o'clock. He will have the assistance of Mrs. Marie Burton-Hyram, soprano, and Mrs. Claire Cudney Mandy, accompanist. Mr. Emanuel will be presented by his teacher, Prof. E. P. Mandy. This will be the last opportunity to hear this gifted violinist, before his departure for New York, where he is to appear in the Prelenten recital to be given by Prof. Craig. THE BROAD AX PUBLISHED WEEKLY. Will promulgate and at all times uphold the true principles of Democracy, but Catholics, Protestants, Priests, Infidels, Single Taxen, Republicans, or anyone else can have their say, as long as their language is proper and responsibility is fixed. The Broad Ax is a newspaper whose platform is broad enough for all, ever claiming the editorial right to speak its own mind. Local communications will receive attention. Write only on one side of the paper. Subscriptions must be paid in advance. One Year . . . $2.00 Six Months . . . 1.00 Advertising rates made known on application. Address all communications to THE BROAD AX, 5027 ARMOUR AVENUE, CHICAGO, ILL. PHONE DREXEL 4500. JULIUS F. TAYLOR, Editor and Publisher. Entered as Second-Class Matter Aug. 19 1902, at the Post Office at Chicago, Illinois under Act of March 3, 1879. WALTERS A.M.E. ZION CHURCH. Cor. 38th and Dearborn Sts. Rev. H. J. Callis, D. D. Pastor. The revival services closed on last Monday night, the extreme cold kept many away from the services on Sunday and Monday. All who have attended these services have been loud in their praise of the work done by the Evangelist Mrs. E. L. Howard. During the meetings 60 persons have been brought into the church, 25 of whom were unconverted and backsliders all but six united with this church, 25 of whom were unconverted. The spiritual life of the membership has been wonderfully quickened. The entire church seems now to be in a splendid working condition, for all of which we are grateful to God and the co-operation of the Christian workers who have generally helped in these meetings. Sunday services: Early morning prayer meeting at 6:00 a.m. at 11:00 a.m. the sacrament of Baptism by sprinkling will be administered, candidates are requested to be prompt in attendance at 12 o'clock. The sacrament of baptism will be administered by emersion, candidate please be prompt. Sunday school at 1:00 p. m., W. J. Burdine, Superintendent. At 2:30 p. m. all of the men of the church whether members or friends are requested to meet the pastor in the vestry of the church. Please don't fail to come. At 3:00 p. m. Mrs. E. L. Howard will preach a special sermon to the young people of Chicago, all are invited to this service. Christian Endeavor at 6:30 p. m., C. L. Jackson, Pres. Rev. H. J. Callis will preach at 8:00 p. m. The Woman's Home and Foreign Missionary Society was delightfully entertained by Miss Nellie Inman last Wednesday night. They will meet next Wednesday with Mrs. Mattie Bell, 3617 Dearborn st. Presiding Elder T. H. Tipton closed up the work of the adjourned Quarterly conference on last Thursday night, the reports showed the church in a splendid condition and the presiding Elder was much gratified with the work done during the Quarter—"S." ST. MONICA COUET CATHOLIC ORDER OF FORESTERS. Will Install Its New Officers Tuesday Evening, January 16. St. Monica's Court, 279 Catholic Order of Foresters, are making elaborate preparations to entertain their guests and friends at their public installation of the following officers at Masonic Hall, 3956 State street, at 8 o'clock Tuesday evening, January 16. Official Roster: Robert Lincoln Hall—Chief Ranger. Richard J. Cope—Vice Chief Ranger. Arthur A. Wells—Past Chief Ranger. W. Arthur Falls—Recording Secretary. Jesse Bings—Financial Secretary. Ellie A. Smith—Treasurer. Wm. H. Haywood—Senior Conductor. Edward Penn—Junior Conductor. Walter Robinson—Inside Sentinel. Harry P. Everett—Outside Sentinel. George Oliver—Speaker. Trustee: Ulysses J. Blair, Felix E. Dodge, George Holland. Bro. J. E. Hurtubise—Deputy Chief Banger. Welcome Address.....Finley Bell, Installation, Music Dancing Refreshments. Charles Jefferson, John W. Scott, George Oliver, Geo. A. Turnbull, Robt. C. Crump, Benj. Hancock, Wm. S. Johnson, Jos. H. Jones, J. A. Feaman, Frank L. Boone, Albert F. Carroll. Jesse Binga, Chairman. National and Local Theatrical and Stage Notes Edited by the Stroller or by the Man on the Corner The Kentucky Minstrels presented a first class entertainment opening with an elevated first part. Songs and jokes were all new. The Olio presented Marsh Craig in wonderful feats of contortion, also the Clarks in their comedy song and dances. Manager Leon Motts, then offered the surprise of the evening, when Baby Jim, made his bow to the large audience, no one was prepared to see such a prodigy and when he walked across the stage the applause was dealing for next week the Shermans Fashionable Repertoire Players will present the great spectacular Melodrama. Entitled the Battle of Manila. MONOGRAM Opened with Goodloe & Goodloe in a sketch Chicken Jones in songs and sayings. Mayo & Lewis, dancers. Pewe Toliver Co., doing a little of everything. GRAND First three days, Swains Cockatoos Musical Valce, Carter, Wilils & Cox, Carela Day. This lady has more than a clever act. THE WALKER THEATRE CLOSED. Indianapolis, Ind., for many weeks the public of this city have looked forward to be the finest and best Theatre under Negro management the house had been extensively advertised to open on Jan. 1st backed by unlimited capital and brainy management it opened on time, which was the only obligation that was filled to the public or to the Profession as its demise took place after four days of operation. The performers who were on the bill were sadly disappointed not alone of being out of work, but at not receiving their salaries that their contracts called for in some instances some of the performers received a part of their salaries, others did not receive anything on the bill, were such well known acts, as the Happy Comedy Four, Pewee Towler Company, Williams & Stevens, Mrs. Lucretta Knok, Leona Marshall, Kid Love. The week to follow had also been booked with a strong bill, including Gilmore, Kinky & Gilmore, McCarver and Diggs, Wallace & Cooper, Geo. Harris, May & May, Fannie Wise. The house was booked through the Frank O. Doyle Agency. No blame can be attached to Mr. Doyle as he is in no way responsible. The blame is directly upon Mr. Earl Walker, who was the manager, but he allowed the white owners to make him the fall guy, and his signature was on all the contracts had he been a good business man he would have insisted upon the owners, signing all contracts, then he have been protecting himself and the performers, could of attached the theatre properties and would have been in a position to collect their full salaries, but with only his signature on the contracts they are worthless and it has put him in bad with agents as well as performers. This is in no way a reflection on Mr. Walker's honesty, but a warning to all Negro managers, who are figure head managers for white owners. Let him do the signing as it is him who gets the money, as reports from the performers state that enough money was taken in on the opening night to pay off all the bills, reports are coming in that there was a dusky Maiden in the Chase, also that the house was constructed wrong and that it will be rebuilt and reopened under different management. At any rate it will have to go on record as another failure. Mr. A. N. Johnson, of Nashville, Tenn., was in the city for several days securing scenery and other paraphernalia for the full equipment of his Majestic Theatre, which will open next month. Mr. Johnson is a through progressive business man, as was shown when he placed an order for a full set of newly painted scenery with the Gutthman Scene Co. to the amount of a $1,000.00, he is paying quite a tribute to the College Institutions of his city, as he is having the three Colleges namely Fisk, Meharry and Walden painted on the Asbestos Curtain. He intends to give the Colored people of Nashville a first class Theatre and as he says if the Colored want such an enterprise, they will show it by their support. The house will be conducted under first class management playing polite vaudeville and the most interesting and instructive of Photo Plays. Two shows a night. No Sunday shows. The prices will probably be 5, 10 and 15 cents. Boxes 25 cents, with a change of prices for the Road Shows. The capacity of the house will be 1500, so we will wait and see what Nashville will do with such an enterprise. Forty five shows closed last week. This has been an awful bad season. The Vaudeville performers of the entire country are suffering and thousands and thousands are idle. This hard winter makes matters worse. Over two thousand are being cared for through charities in New York, the other large cities are doing the same. Here in Chicago the Colored Acts are in need of work or assistance. Mr. Kline is playing his full bill of Colored acts. The Pekin is working about 30 people every week. The Grand which has the largest patronage of all, hardly uses Colored acts, only one last week and the last 4 days of this week they play Bradfords Chicken Trust. It looks like the Grand should put a few Colored acts on every week, for it is a certainty that although the owners are white, they could not exist were it not for the Colored patrons and it behooves the Colored to see that their race should get some recognition for the support they are giving the Grand. Get Busy. STAGE NOTES During this spell the Air Dome is in operation at St. Louis, Mo. The Lyric Theatre at Louisville is being repaired and will soon open. Last week at Zanesville, Ohio, the Pumpkin Colored Trio created a sensation. The entire press of that city pronounced them the biggest hit that ever was in their city. After the matinee they were invited to dinner by one of the leading white families. At the nights performance Miss Crosby was presented with the largest and most beautiful boquet of cut flowers that was ever passed over the footlights to any actress that ever appeared in Zanesville. This act is at Marion, Ind. and Piqua, Ohio. Open Monday the 15th at the American Theatre, Cincinnati, O., one week. The Frogs Carnival which takes place in New York on January 29th, will eclipse any thing that has ever been offered by the Colored Thespians. Mr. Sam Corker, Jr., has went after it in an A la Barnum and Bailey fashion. Tons of beautiful and artistic literature has been expressed and mailed all over the country. One of the most beautiful designs is the Mammouth Advertising Program space was rapidly taken by the biggest theatrical and commercial firms. This program will be mailed internationally. John Lubrie Hill is again on the road with "My Friend from Dixie." Rosamond Johnsons Sambo Girls with Edgar Conner, Daisy Brown and others opened Monday at Hammersteins recorded the biggest hit on the bill. The Era Quartette are at the Empire as added attraction. This is the sensation of the Western Burlesque Shows. Chas. Morris well known in this city was around shaking hands with his friends. Met Sam Patterson and they kidded each other over the neckbone dinners of days gone by. Sam is now at the head of the famous Watermelon Trust. The abrupt closing of the Walker Theatre was a great dissappointment to performers, especially to Mr. G. Harris. Aida Overton Walker and Co., will be at the Majestic next month. Cook and Stevens are on the big time, other acts. The Spillers, Avery and Hart, The Kemps. Managers of Eastern Colored houses keep, asking for Western acts but forget to send contracts and transportations. Baby Jim opened at Motts Pekin Theatre as an added attraction to Kelly Minstrels. Never before in the history of this Theatre has any act caused so much talk and interest. Eph Thompsons trained elephants and consulel the Man Monkey has been seen at this house, but Baby Jim is the peer of them all. He is certainly the jumbo of all mankind. As the week advanced and people began talking of this Wonderful Man. Night after night the crowds became larger and beginning on Wednesday the en- tire houses for the entire week was sold out. So great were the crowds to see Jim get out of the big Moving Van that he rides to and back from the Theatre, that the police were forced to clear the streets so the Van could be taken to an entrance to the back of the Theatre on the alley. He was taken to the Baggage door as the Stage door was not large enough. Mr. Motts is trying to hold him another week, if he does Baby Jim has promised to get over Sally and do the Eagle Rock. The stage floor will be braced for the occasion. Wise and Milton Gillum and Wiliams, with their wives and Rosalie Tyler, Bertha Grant, Mabel Deherd sailed for Honolulu. Mr. Jerry Mills is back from Frisco where he was playing Vaudeville, he will handle a big company soon. Mr. Leon Jordan of Kansas City, Mo., will build a real Colored Theatre to open in the spring at Kansas City. Sherman's Fashionable Repertoire Players in the spectacular Melo-Drama entitled "The Battle of Manila," added attraction. Col. Brayden and his 10 Ecquiman Dogs open at the Pekin Monday evening. JACKSON GORDON FOR COUNTY COMMISSIONER A large delegation of Colored and white citizens called on Mr. Jackson Gordon last Saturday evening and also on Sunday and tried to persuade him to become a candidate for the office of County Commissioner on the Republican ticket this fall. They offered their united support in behalf of his candidacy. Mr. Gordon told them that he was a party man and could not say whether or not he would be a candidate; that he would require the party endorsement. The delegation of citizens is going to wait upon the leaders of the Republican Party and urge that Mr. Gordon be endorsed as the party candidate for County Commissioner, repensenting the Colored people of Chicago. The delegation was composed of representatives from the West, North and South sides. Several of the leaders of the Republican Party have spoken very favorably of Mr. Gordon, and his chances seem bright. The other Afro-American candidates for County Commissioner are, Dr. Edward S. Miller, Lawyer B. F. Moseley, Rev. Jordan Chavis, Oscar De Priest, and J. N. Simms, and may the best man of the whole bunch win the nomination at the primaries. Mrs. Elizabeth Lindsay Davis, 3226 Prairie avenue, has not yet recovered from her long and serious illness, but to the pleasure of her host of friends, she is slowly recovering from its effect. Town Topics. The last dime museum has just been closed in New York. One by one the cherished antiques of the horse car metropolis pass away.-Cleveland Plain Dealer. Waste paper scattered about a city is one of the worst features of street untidiness, and it is conspicuous in practically all parts of Philadelphia.-Philadelphia Press. Those expecting to be compelled to visit Chicago will be interested to know that the custom is general for the pick-pockets of that city to throw riffed purses into the letter boxes. Such articles can be regained at the city post-office.-Boston Advertiser. Train and Track China now has 7,200 miles of railways, the greater part of which has been built and financed by foreign capital. The Japanese have sent railway men to Berlin to study the German system and the various safeguards used on German railway lines. In Australia there are 7,000 miles of railway of three feet six inch gauge, 4,000 miles of five feet three inch gauge and 3,000 miles of four feet eight and one-half inch gauge. The four feet eight and one-half inch gauge is the standard in New South Wales, and present indications point to this gauge becoming universal in Australia. The Cookbook. When cooking potatoes in their jackets pierce them with the prongs of a silver fork. Butter and sugar may be creamed more rapidly if the butter is first put through a ricer. When next cooking lima beans, only parbull them; then brown them in butter or bacon fat. For the roast of cold lamb course try serving an egg salad, sprinkled with minced mint leaves. Cold boiled cabbage baked in a dish in alternate layers of white sauce sprinkled with grated cheese and baked makes a substantial dish. New Business Directory Contains Much Desirable Information. SOME FEATURES OF THE WORK Ambitious Young College Student Devotes Vacation Period to Securing Data Concerning the Achievements of His Race In Thrifty Georgia Town, Publication Covers Wide Scope. Savannah.—Whittler H. Wright, son of Major R. R. Wright, president of the Georgia State college, who is a student in one of the leading northern universities, spent his vacation in Savannah, Ga., last year, and as a result only recently there came from the press a very creditable booklet compiled by Mr. Wright giving interesting data concerning the business, social, religious and philanthropic activities of the colored people in Savannah, under the title of the Savannah Colored Directory. The book contains eighty-eight pages and gives a description of the city, some of its history, government officials, statistics of schools and churches, sketches of prominent colored citizens engaged in business, a list of property owners, together with pictures of prominent persons and buildings. There are four colored public schools, having forty-three teachers and 2,420 pupils enrolled. Less than half of the colored children of school age are in school. There are thirty-eight Baptist churches, six African Methodist Episcopal, four Methodist Episcopal, three Roman Catholic, three Episcopal and one each of Congregational, C. M. E. and Presbyterian churches. The first church established in Savannah was the First Baptist church in 1788. The Second Baptist church was established in 1802. Savannah has two colored city physicians, who treated last year 10,034 patients. P. A. WHITTIER H. WEIGHT. death rate among colored people is higher than that among whites. Three hundred and thirty-two colored business men are listed. They are engaged in forty-six different kinds of business. The largest number of persons are in the herberting business seventy-five in number. There are four lawyers, eleven physicians, two dentists, two banks, five industrial insurance companies, one theater, one hotel, one livery stable, two real estate dealers, two newspapers, one drug store, one laundry and 713 owners of real estate. In the preface Mr. Wright in well chosen words states the purpose of the book as follows: "The purpose of this handbook is to present in systematic but concise form the most important facts concerning the colored population of Savannah. Because of the continuous growth of the city and a colored population it is not now possible for even a small minority of the members of the race in question—to say nothing of the citizens as a whole—to know of what is being done by the colored people of Savannah. "The progress of our race in business, in home training, in our churches and social life is such that it is difficult for even one who gives his whole time to the subject to keep his information up to date, for not a week passes but a new business is opened, a new home bought and some new evidence of progress shows itself." It is Mr. Wright's intention to make a record of the facts concerning the social and business development of the colored population of Savannah biennially, although the compiler has endeavored to cover the field thoroughly. Changes occur so rapidly, however, that absolute accuracy is impossible. The hundreds of people approached practically as one commended the idea of a Savannah colored directory, and because of the interest so liberally shown by them no pain or expense in making the book appropriate as a souvenir and handy for reference was spared Paintings by Two Eminent Artists. Among the costly paintings by colored men in the Louvre, in Paris, is one by Henry O. Tanner of the United States and another by a Mr. White of Cuba. Of the two great painters Mr. Tanner is the most widely known, but White's picture was hung in the Louvre long before Tanner won recognition. Edison's Latest. How'd you like to walk into the rocker of one of Tom Edison's concrete chairs in the dark?—Washington Post. When Mr. Edison's concrete furniture comes into general use, what pleasure is there going to be in going home and smashing things?—Denver Republican. After Mr. Edison has made his cement furniture popular, perhaps he will turn his attention to the manfacture of asbestos gowns, mica waistcoats and gun metal pajamas.—Cleveland Plain Dealer. Facts From France. No house in Paris bears the No. 13. French army authorities are disturbed over the great decrease in the number of horses in Paris. The water supply of Paris is insufficient and it may be necessary to go to Lake Geneva for a desirable source. The project will cost $00,000,000. After ten years' controversy it has been decided in France that the industry of gathering old corks and making use of them a second time is not detrimental to public health. Moon Worshipers The ancient Goths, Germans and Finns were all moon worshipers, and in ancient Britain the moon occupied a high position in the celestial hierarchy of the Druids, who were always represented as bearing crescents in their hands. Built Through Duty on Coal The bulk of the money for building St. Paul's cathedral, London, was obtained from a duty then enforced on all coals brought to the port of London Dutch Milkmaids Old time Dutch costumes are still worn in the fishing districts of Holland. The milkmaid, with her two milk cans, polished like silver and swung from a specially built shoulder yoke, is a feature of the street scene of any village. Moon Gods The ancient Egyptians had two moon gods—Khons or Khonsu and Tel or Thoth. The latter wore the moon on his head, either as a full moon or as a crescent. Seaweed as Food Considerable quantities of seaweed are gathered along the California coast by Chinese and Japanese. It is cured, baled like hay, and shipped to Japan for manufacture into various food products. In Japan seaweed is utilized for food to a much larger extent than in any other country. The Odometer The odometer, an instrument for measuring distance traversed in a carriage, is no modern invention. The first description of it is to be found in a fragment of a Greek treatise and was known to engineers of the Alex andrian school. Doctors In China. Physicians may practice without being subjected to an examination, but the criminal law and public opinion hold the doctor strictly to account for his doings. China's Antiquity. The Chinese assert that their empire existed many thousands of years before the flood, but it is thought by most authorities to have begun about 2,500 years before the Christian era. By others it is said to have been founded by Fohi, supposed to be Noah, 2240 B. C. Sick Pearls A sea bath is said to restore brilliancy to slick pearls. Pickled Tea. The tea grown in Burma is almost entirely made into letpet (pickled tea) and eaten as a condiment. It therefore does not affect the world's supply of tea for drinking. Busy Sifters. When there is sifting to be done We're busy as can be. For gossip sifting there's my wife: For ashes there is me. — Yonkers Statesman. Slobbs - It is, the way you play it- Philadelphia Recond. Nella Yes: we have buried the hat pin. Judge. The Real Question. Though every man may have his price. The world but little care or grieves. It takes more trouble to find out The cost of presents he receives. - New York Sun. Motts Pekin Theatre STATE & 27TH STREETS Phone, Calumet 126 THE GREAT PLAY THE BATLE OF MANILA Commencing Monday Eve., Jan. 15 ONE WEEK ONLY Prices, 10, 15 and 25 Cents WHAT THE NEGRO PROBLEM IS NOT Subject Considered From an Impersonal Point of View. FACTS ABOUT ILLITERAGY Professor R. R. Wright In Sociological Treatment of the Great Question Says It Is Not a Negro Problem if the Maladjustment Is Not Common to the Whole Group. Philadelphia. - Professor R. R. Wright, Jr., has recently issued in book form extracts from his two lectures on the sociological attitude in the study of Negro problems, which he prepared for and delivered to the social study class at the university of Pennsylvania. The first part tells of the attitude which social students ought to have in the study of race problems and the difficulties involved. The second part consists of an analysis of the Negro problem. The lectures attracted considerable attention, being regarded as among the most philosophic and logical ever delivered on the subject at any of the leading colleges. Under the caption the "Study of Race Problems" Professor Wright says: In the study of the facts in human activity the very condition of scientific value must be the accuracy and impartiality of the observation of students. For accurate observation the student must be tolerant and open minded. He must be widely acquainted with the history and condition of peoples in different parts of the world in order to be entirely rid of national, sectional, racial, religious and political bias. "In spite of his race, religion and early education, he ought to be able to look at the facts of society entirely from an impersonal point of view. This is especially necessary in the study of nationalities and races different from our own. We are very liable to underrate these peoples—to consider their mental and physical differences and mental and physical inferiorities; to call their religion heathenish; to look upon their racial tendencies as downward if they are not as ours. This will give us a provincial philosophy, but nothing of real scientific value. "In what consists the particular and peculiar Negro race problem of which we hear so much? A social problem may be said to exist with reference to any particular group when there is in any way maladjustment of that group with respect to its environment. Then the Negro problem must be a social problem of maladjustment between the Negro group and its American environment. A social problem is a Negro problem in so far as the social maladjustment is, first, common to the great mass of the Negro group and, second, peculiar to it. It is not a Negro problem if the maladjustment is not common to the entire Negro group—that is, only Negroes suffer it. This we must get clearly in our minds if we are to understand the problem of the Negro. What the Negro Problem Is Not: What the Negro Problem is Not. "Much confusion already exists as to just what this maladjustment is, and to avoid further confusion careful analysis is necessary. The average person with whom I have come in contact identifies in some way the Negro problem with the problem of ignorance and vice, or with poverty and immorality, or with industrial inefficiency, unemployment or some other pathological social condition. One says if it were not for the ignorance of the Negro there would be no problem. But let us examine this and we will see that the Negro problem is not a problem of illiteracy or ignorance. In the first place, illiteracy is not common to the Negro race, for the majority of them can read and write. "In the second place, illiteracy is not peculiar to them as a race, for there are more white illiterates in this country than Negro illiterates. In 1900 the census gave 3,200,000 as the number of white illiterates and 2,853,194 as the number of Negro illiterates in the United States. There are, according to the same census, fourteen times as many white illiterates in the state of Pennsylvania as Negro illiterates. "By the same authority in proportion to population there is less illiteracy among the younger generation of Negroes living in the north than in the same class of whites living in the south. The throngs which come to our great cities have a great deal more ignorance among the foreign white element than among the Negroes. It is plain, therefore, that ignorance and illiteracy are not the Negro problem, although many Negroes as well as whites are involved in the general problem of ignorance, which has no color whatever." The New York Vigilance Committee. Disregard for the laws of the state which guarantee to all citizens equal rights and equal protection has given rise to a new organization in New York known as the New York vigilance committee, which is a branch of the National Association For the Advancement of Colored People. The committee will not take up cases involving claims for wages, damages for accidents or any other cases except those which involve an infringement of legal rights because of race or color. FOREIGN MISSION WORKERS. Return to Their Respective Fields With Hearty Bonedictions. Much credit is due the Rev. Dr. L. G. Jordan, corresponding secretary of the national Baptist foreign mission board, for the able manner in which be conducted the recent farewell meetings in honor of the Rev. S. A. Richardson, returning missionary to his field in Albanystown, South America, and the Rev. George E. Stewart, who goes to the West Indies. Meetings were held in most of the principal cities from Louisville, Ky., where the missionary headquarters are, en route to New York. In Philadelphia the meeting was held at the Shiloh Baptist church under the auspices of the Baptist ministers' conference. Speaking on the subject the "Case Stated," Rev. Dr. C. H. Parrish of Louisville delivered a forceful and instructive address on the condition of the foreign mission work of the demonisation. Other speakers were corresponding secretary, L. G. Jordan, and the Rev. Dr. John H. Frank, whose subject was, "And Now Finally Brethren." The people responded liberally to the appeal for funds with which to defray the missionaries' passage. The sum of $360 was raised within a few minutes. New York was the next objective point. The meeting was held at the Mount Olivet Baptist church, of which the Rev. W. P. Hayes is pastor. While the audience was not so large as the one in Philadelphia, nevertheless a sung sum was raised. The Abyssinian Baptist church, Dr. A. Clayton Powell pastor, gave $100 to the fund. Drs. Parish, Frank and Jordan, who came all the way from Louisville with the missionaries, were much gratified over the results of the trip and expressed sincere thanks to each of the churches for its liberality. CAPABLE NEWSPAPER MEN WHO ARE MAKING GOOD George F. King Retained by Greensboro (N. C.) Daily News. Among the younger men who are making their mark as reporters, correspondents and special contributors to daily and weekly papers is George F. King, a native of Norfolk, Va. Mr. King is well known in most every section of the country. He is ambitious, persistent and capable and never loses an opportunity to make good in whatever territory to which he may be assigned for duty. As correspondent for a number of weekly papers Mr. King has reported many notable gatherings, such as conferences, conventions and annual meetings of secret and mutual benefit organizations. In the prompt performance of his duty in this respect he has won the reputation of being accurate, quick and concise in his statements, always getting his matter to the editor on time and in good shape. In the early part of 1911 Mr. King accompanied Judge Pritchard and Dr. James E. Shepard on their northern tour in the interest of the National Religious Training school, of which Dr. Shepard is the founder and president. As an evidence of Mr. King's ability and usefulness it is interesting to note that the management of the Greensboro (N. C.) Daily News has retained his services for another year as one of the special contributors to that influential journal. Being connected with the Associated Press, Mr. King contributes to a number of evening papers in various sections of the south. He maintains headquarters in Wilmington, N. C., as well as in Greensboro, as a matter of convenience. Other correspondents who are Mr. King's seniors in the business are Charles Stewart, Horace D. Slatter, R. W. Thompson and Franklin F. Johnson. The first two mentioned are Associated Press correspondents. Mr. Stewart (J. O. Midnight) is the dean of the able coterie. Each of them has made good. THE TUSKEGEE CONFERENCE. Increasing Interest In Annual-Meeting of Farmers and Teachers. Unusual interest is being manifested in the coming farmers' conference, which is to be held at the Tuskegee (Ala.) institute for two days, beginning on Wednesday, Jan. 17. As an evidence of how the work of the conference is regarded by agriculturists of large holdings reference need only be made to President L. K. Salisbury of the Mississippi Delta Planting company of Nashville. Tenn., who has consented to deliver one of the principal addresses during the conference. Mr. Salisbury employs over 1,000 of our people in the operation of the Delta company, and therefore he knows the value of having trained workers in his employ. The conference for farmers will be followed on Thursday by the workers' conference. The conference, which was established twenty-one years ago with a meeting of a few farmers, ministers and teachers from the surrounding country, has extended its influence and strengthened its hold upon the masses of the people from year to year since that time. The record of its work is in thousands of individual lives which it has inspired with fresh hope and a new ambition in the struggle for better things. The South Carolina Race Conference. The annual South Carolina race conference will be held in Columbia, S.C. for three days, beginning on Monday, Jan. 22. Rev. Richard Carroll is one of the prime factors in the movement. SOCIETY OF SONS OF VIRGINIA Thrifty Organization Has New Corps of Capable Officials. GRAHAM H. CARTER'S REPORT Annual Family Reunion and Reception of Strong Mutual Benefit Society Attended by Great Throng of Members and Invited Guests—Who the Newly Elected Officers Are. By N. BARNETT DODSON Brooklyn.-The most notable event among mutual benefit organizations in this city the first week in the new year was the annual installation of the newly elected officers of the Society of the Sons of Virginia on Thursday evening, Jan. 4. The occasion brought together not only the members, but their families and friends and a large number of visitors, who were the special guests of the society. Mr. Peter H. Fisher, the retiring president, presided over the business session, which was brief, including P. CHARLES H. TURNER only the annual report of the treasurer, Mr. Graham H. Carter, which showed that after paying all expenses the society has $3,250 to its credit in bank. Other holdings of the organization give it a total valuation of $3,500. The membership numbers over 100, and among them are some of the most influential men of the community. The newly elected officers were installed by the Rev. Dr. C. P. Cole, pastor of the Bridge Street A. M. E. church. They are the following: President, Edward H. Wilson; vice president, Charles H. Turner; treasurer, Graham H. Carter; financial secretary, Peter H. Fisher, Sr.; recording secretary, H. G. Minute Byrd; corresponding secretary, Arthur Durrell, Jr.; sergeant at arms, James S. Watkins, chaplain, Alexander Brown. The new members of the board of directors are Hugh S. Newton, C. H. Turner and H. G. Byrd. President Wilson is one of Brooklyn's best known and most highly respected citizens. He has been actively engaged in religious work and movements for civic betterment for over a quarter of a century and therefore brings to the organization ripe experience, influence and spendiid executive ability. He holds a responsible position with the board of education, with which he has been connected for many years. Mr. Charles H. Turner, the vice president, comes from the ranks of the younger men and, like Mr. Wilson, has made an enviable record as an employee in a large financial institution. He is a native of Frederick county, Va., and has been a resident in the north for twenty-five years. Mr. Turner first attracted the attention of wealthy and influential persons while in the employ of the well known W. P. Whitlock family of Elizabeth, N. J., and also while employed by Mr. J. D. Fetchold of Brooklyn. It was through such influential persons that he secured his present responsible position with the Kings County Trust company of this city, which he has held creditably for the past eight years. Besides his work in the Brooklyn office of the concern, Mr. Turner attends to the Wall street end of the company's interests, making all loans and other financial transactions which require intelligence and adaptability. The occasion was a real reunion and reception ushering in the new year. Employment Bureau of Y. M. C. A. The employment bureau of the Carlton Avenue Y. M. C. A. in Brooklyn has been in operation one year. It was started by Arthur L. Comither, one of the younger members of the association, for the purpose of assisting unemployed members and nonmembers in getting suitable employment. Mr. Comither, who has risen, to the position of assistant secretary and head of the department, has made the following report: Number of applicants for positions. 298; applications from employers for help. 297; number of positions secured for applicants, men and boys. 151. DAMES AND DAUGHTERS Miss Hedin, sister of Sven Hedin, the explorer of Tibet, is serving as a member of the city council of Stockholm. Eleanor Colley has been admitted to fellowship in the Royal College of Surgeons of England. She is the first woman to gain that distinction. Miss Julia D. Kitts, seven-year-old daughter of Lieutenant William P. Kitts, Twenty-first United States infantry, has traveled over 46,000 miles already and may lay claim to the world's juvenile traveling record. Miss Clara Smith, instructor of mathematics at Wellesley college, has been elected a fellow of an American association of savants, in consideration of her discovery that Abel's theorems can be used to do Bissell's problems in a quicker and simpler manner than hitherto known. Mrs. Mary Gaunt, an Englishwoman who recently returned from a journey in the wilds of Africa, has been instrumental in founding a travelers' club in London for women. Only intrepid voyagers are eligible, and it is hoped the club will grow into an association to help women who wish to explore faraway lands. Sporting Notes. The twelfth annual tournament of the American bowling congress will begin in Chicago on March 2 and will last three weeks. Roger Bresnahan, manager of the St. Louis Cardinals, has signed William Armour, former president of the Toledo American Association club, as one of his scouts. Warren Sargent, a sophomore at Michigan, is believed to be the coming champion of the world in the high jump. He clears the bar at six feet one inch in practice. Michael Donlin will not be with the Giants next season. At least so says President John Montgomery Ward of the Boston Nationals. Ward says that Donlin will remain with the Boston team. Pert Personals. Elbert Hubbard says that he "feeds his soul with white hyacinths." How Elbert's soul must dread mealtimes!-Detroit Free Press. King George is said to have greatly enjoyed a tiger hunt in India. Some of the English ladies who do not like Queen Mary were mean enough to hint that it was a welcome relief from ordinary domestic life.-Rochester Times. Congressmen who visit the isthmus look with astonishment and almost with awe on Colonel Goethals. It is difficult to understand a man who is not trying to make a million for himself out of the situation.-Minneapolis Journal. State Lines. There are more members of Protestant churches in Pennsylvania than in any other state in the Union. Georgia produces twenty-three different kinds of minerals in commercial quantities to the aggregate value of about $6,000,000 a year. Massachusetts lays claim to some 6,000 acres of cranberry bog. New Jersey has 8,000 and Wisconsin 6,000. In point of area these states are followed in turn by Rhode Island, Connecticut and New York. The Schoolroom. America's first town school was established at Hartford, Conn., in 1642. Woman schoolteachers in the higher schools of Russia have been put on the same wage schedule as man teachers, with the same rights in respect to pensions. In the schools of Holland it is part of the course of instruction to teach French, German and English. When a pupil reaches the period of graduation he must take an examination in these languages. Cost of Living. It is about time for some one to found an Ancient and Honorable Order of Those Who Used to Eat Eggs.—New York Tribune. Which reminds us that the goose that laid the golden eggs was, compared to the present day hen, a mere piker.—Detroit Times. The Washington Post wants it made more difficult to get married, but the butcher and grocer are attending to that right along.—Denver Republican. The Twenty Lists. Good morning! Have you fixed up your list of twenty greatest people for this month?—Detroit News. And every good husband no doubt is sure that he is married to one of the twenty world's greatest women.—Detroit Free Press. Now somebody should submit a list of the world's twenty greatest bens, since we are going in for the honoring of philanthropists.—Chicago News. Recent Inventions. To measure and record the vibrations of a machine or building photographically is the purpose of an apparatus invented in England. A hot water bottle so shaped that it can be heated by the insertion of an electric light bulb in a pocket has been patented by an Oregon man. For disinfecting books a Missouriian has invented a revolving stand to hold them open while they are being whiried against a jet of some gas that is a germicide. Phone, Office Hours: Wentworth 215 8:30 A.M. to 8:30 P.M. Beauregard F. Moseley LAW OFFICE 6221 S. HALSTED STREET National Theatre Bldg., Suite 15, 16, 17 CHICAGO Tel. Aldine 1820 In Office at Night C.H. Knight, M.D., C.M. (Canada) Physician and Surgeon Office Hours: 9 to 11 A. M., 2 to 5 P. M. 3158 State Street, Chicago Dr. Johnson Dr. Samuel Johnson, who feared death as much as any man of whom there is any record, when told that his end was near refused the opiates to which he had been accustomed. The Dead In Siam The Siamese bury the bodies of those who have died of cholera and smallpox or those killed by lightning. Those who die from any other cause are cremated, the bodies being usually kept for a year before the ceremony of burning, which does not add to the healthfulness of the community. Swiss Forests. In Switzerland many of the best forests are owned by the cities. Irrigation In Spain Irrigation in Spain Spain has twenty-nine important rivers not now used for irrigation. The Tago passes within nineteen miles of an unproductive area of nearly 5,000-000 acres. The surface now irrigated comprises 3,700,000 acres, containing 340 miles of canals. Broken Ivory Broken ivory can be mended with a cement made by dissolving alum in hot water until a thick fluid mass is obtained. The First Paper. It was in Egypt that the first paper was made. From Egypt the art passed on to China, Japan and thence to Europe through Central Asia by the Arabs. The Gazette. Newspapers take the title "gazette" from a small Venetian coin of that name, the price of the first news sheet published. Moons In the Solar System. There are at least twenty moons in the solar system. Saturn alone has eight, the biggest of them, Titan, being nearly twice the size of the moon, and Jupiter possesses four, ranging in dimensions upward from Europa. just about as large as the orb of terrestrial night, to Ganymede, greatest of all known moons, with a diameter of 3,480 miles, whereas the moon belonging to this world is only 2,160 miles through. Oak Forests of Slavonia. Authorities appear agreed that, with the exception of the forests of the Mississippi valley and those of the Aslatic Caucasus, the oak forests of Slavonia are without equal. THE BROAD AX CAN BE FOUND ON SALE AT THE FOLLOWING NEWS STANDS: From on and after this date The Broad Ax, can be found on sale at the following news stands: A. F. Tervalon, cigar store and news stand, 5004 State street. George I. Martin, maker of fine cigars and news stand, 18 W. 31st St., near State. R. M. Harvey's barber shop and news stand, 3924 State street. Mrs. Nellie Phelps, cigars, notions and news stand, 15 W. 36th St., near Dearborn. W. S. Cole, cigars, tobacco and news stand, 34 W. 31st St., near Dearborn. T. B. Hall, laundry office and news stand, 11 W. 29th St., near State. B. Davis, cigars, tobacco and news stand, 3532 State St. W. M. Maxwell, notions, cigars, tobacco, confections and news stand, 5244 State St. Edward Felix, notions, cigars and news stand, 52 W. 30th St. F. Bishop, cigars, tobacco and news stand, 8 W. 27th St., near State. Turner Williams' barber shop and news stand, 3252 State St. Sylvester McGlofflin, news stand and laundry office, 4122 State St. William Gaughan, laundry office, cigars, tobacco and news stand, 2636 State St. Mrs. Adelia M. White, cigars, tobacco, candies and news stand 2820 1-2 State St. T. S. Harris, cigars, tobacco, notions and news stand 3029 Armour Ave., near 31st St. Frank Dunn and J. B. M McCahay, Trustees Tel., Oakland 1856-1651-1552 John J. Dunn Coal Wholesale Retail FIFTY-FIRST STREET and ARMOUR AVE. Rallyards: 51st St. and L. S. & M. S. 51st St. and Armour Ave. CHICAGO Tel. Oakland 2505 MERCHANT'S HAND LAUNDRY 4819 STATE STREET BOUGH DRY, 35c PER DOZEN M. L. Clinkscale, Mgr. CHICAGO Residence, 1262 Macallister Place Telephone, Monroe 2714 Miles J. Devine Attorney at Law Suite 318-320 Reaper Block Clark and Washington Streets CHICAGO Phones Central 1239; Auto. 41-918 Tel. Central 3142 Franklin A. Denison Attorney at Law 36 W. RANDOLPH STREET Office Phone: Central 6624. Res. Phone, Doug. 6397. 3337 Wabash Ava. Third Aprt. J. GRAY LUCAS ATTORNEY AT LAW Suite 302, 145 Clark St. Cor. Randolph St. PATRICK H. O'DONNELL WILLIAM DILLON CLARENCE A. TOOLEN Tel. Central 4009 O'Donnell, Dillon & Toolen ATTORNEYS AT LAW Suite 1218-1219 Ashland Block RANDOLPH & CLARK STREETS Phone Main 4158 NOTARY PUBLIC Phone residence, Gray 5679 Walter M. Farmer ATTORNEY AT LAW Suite 706, 171 Washington St. Res. 4856 Langley Av. CHICAGO A. D. GASH ATTORNEY AT LAW 84-86 La Salle Street, Chicago Suite 615 to 616 Telephone Main 3077 Telephone Main 2917 J. A. TRIBUE Attorney-at-Law 171 WASHINGTON ST. Room 706 Chicago Fire Proof Storage FURNITURE MOVING IN PADDED VANS. Packing, and Shipping with Care 232 East 51st Street 4956 Dearborn Street Phone Oakland 1760. 3 Trips Daily to the Depots CHICAGO IT PAYS TO ADVERTISE IN THE BROAD AX. THE QUESTION OF _ RACE TRADITION Society For Historical Resear Hears Subject Discussed. LEARNED OPINION BY LOCKE, a uf DES SERS REE RISER EIS sophic Address Says the Desire to * Preserve the Past Connects Us to = Racial Consciousnese—Race Stands Between Two Heritages. Yonkers, N. ¥.—The year end meet- ing of the Negro Research society beld recently at the residence of the presi- dent, Mr. Jobn Edward Bruce, in this city, was made notable by the presence of Alain Le Roy Locke. who is a grad- uate of Oxford university. He bears the distinction of being the only mem- ber of the race to win one of the Rhodes scholarships. Mr. Locke was the principal speaker on this ocvasion, ‘and a reception was given in bit hon- ‘er by the society in view of the fact that he is to return to Berlin in Jau- ary to complete his studies. Mr. Locke's subject was “The Negro and @ Race Tradition.” He spoke io part as follows: ‘A historical society stands primarily as the expression of a practical duty toward ‘@ corporate past, and a Negro historic! society stands therefore for an avowed duty toward a racial past. The Negro has ‘special duties and specific problems with regard to his past: but. however specific ‘and special these duties and problems ‘are, the duties and problems of any peo- le In their acquisition of historical mind- edness in the establishment of a tradition. Although the American Negro faces what ‘ail thoughtful observers must admit to be ‘& historical dilemma, be can avoid it if hhe wishes. He has only to forget or re- pudiate his past or as much of t as he Gems wise and consistent to forget and repudiate. ‘As an American, indeed. he car claim the high but dangerous privilese of tak. a ing large liberties with bis past both in the direction of adoption and that of re- pudiation. As an American he can exer- else the rights of a mental republican. ‘He can begin anywhere and claim any- ‘thing. The question is therefore whether ‘or not the Negro wishes to have a sepa- rate history, apart from the general his- tory of this country, or what justification ‘there is other than the purely sentimental Feasons hie sometimes gives himself and he wholly unjustifiable reasons usually ‘given him for having # separate tradition 4m contrast or addition to the tradition he ean acquire and claim as an American. enjoying theoretically at least all of the Denefits of free education and democratic institutions. For very different reasons and very di- ‘verse hopes then the speaker found him- elf forced to believe in a race history ‘and a race culture. The desire to preserve ‘our past commits us to a racial conscious- mess and requires of us the development of a sense for corporate interests and des- tinles. Indeed the tendencies and facts ‘which threaten the solidarity and perpe- tulty of a distinct Negro tradition in this country may prove the ultimate stumbling Blocks in the way of our progress. The Ristorical dilemma of the American Ne- ro is the painful position of standing be- Tween two heritages. one lost. the other mot fully acquired: the one something for which we have as yet no definite use and the other something which may not have permanent satisfaction for us This situation is both the price and the reward of the Negro’s unique history. Later he may be as anxious to take the advantages of the alternatives as he is at resent to escape the disadvantages of ‘this situation. Our intellectual and spir- Mtual problems have a different point of ‘origin from social or political or econom- fe Issues we face. and they are as llkely to have a different solution. History and culture, at all events, are known only as the attributes of natious and races One cannot raise the question of history with- Out raising the question of race ur na- tonaitty Any one who surveys at all closely the estate of culture or the field of history Will find that it has its fences and propri- tary rights, quite as material in thelr Way as the fences und property deeds of any civilized community. They will see that no people bas acquired a passport to culture. citizenship and the exchange civil- ities of civitizetion until It has cultivated ite own land. 5 own tradition and evolved Ma own culture. A people that proceeds upon any other assumption is threatened under the present facts at least with the fate of mentui pariahs. Race is not only the key to history, as Disreeli said: it ls ‘the most legitimate and indisputable clatm to education and culture. ‘We as Negroes need to distinguish sharply between the claim of educatior ‘and the clatm of a mental birthright I may even be that we shall have to choose Between them on certain occasions. Cer- tainty we must always bear the distinction tm ming. The very accidents of our birth ‘and history make for uss claim upon a civilization and a heritage wf ideas which ‘zo amount of mental jugglers and self ‘sought mystitieation can conceal from us 8 DOT OUFE in the mame Hiterm! nenne that Mf fe the hereditary culture and latory of Aryan peoples. This ix the crux of the grettem from the side of education and a ae ine ey ean of culture finds —— anomaly: finds that he ts sharing and participating in a culture that is his only by right of acquisition and not by right of inher ttance. ‘To be mindful of the distinction does not necessarily make the civilization and cul- ture we propose to claim and share any ‘the lees ours, but it does make it ours in ‘a different way. This is the contention ‘that with the proper approach and reser- ‘vations the frank admission that we par- ticipate in an alien culture justifies us in A certain historic and actual pride of ac- quisition in having made our own what ‘was in the beginning not ours. Further, uch an admission should enable us by ‘way of contrast to realize rationally our ‘own position, our own derivations and al- Jegiances, and to help us to build up tp ‘addition a tradition worthy of our united loyalties. Instead, therefore, of belittling us the great contrast of Aryan culture should fake it more meaningful to be a Negro. The Negro’s attitude toward his past has hitherto been @ sentimental and mistaken ‘one. There are grave dangers and dif- culties in achieving @ new attitude, but s new one must be achieved. We might in time succeed in getting the first slave ahip into a historical perspective, which would make it a spiritual Mayflower of freedom from the handicaps of a tropical climate, but better than this would be an attitude which would insist upon the full ‘and remotest tradition of the race. AS & patriot the American is satisfied to go Back as far as the Mayflower, but as & scholar he is forced to go back a little farther. We have then the phenomenon of Anglo-Saxon tradition, Anglo-Saxon civilization, Aryan culture!’ It should be— Indeed it must be—the same with us. The ‘American Negro must in time change bis Attitude toward the past. The stamp of ‘the abolitionist experience and appeal is stilt upon us It deserves to be an indell- ble memory. But the sentimental tes Which bind us to the abolitionist period of our histor: must not be allowed to con- trol our historical attitudes. A genera- tion that has not lived through such @ Hime can never be expected to care for ‘race history in exactly te same way. Al- Feady the younger genersion ix lapsing from that sevtimental atti, and it i Well, since the atitude wo.ch freed us physically. will uever free ux entally. It Binds us fs: te what is, ator all, only Donipenss i he cece Wh (It kee ae from the Tonite, the: sccanlyrts, at= titude + Mt cicine as to Fe. main in ' circle uf sty Amer- fean isolation toe topic stk Quixotic whim of povple that wishes to becan Ristory all over wzain We aunot aiord to let our regard for our Lumediate past Blind us to the remote racial past, a past Which stands in need of patient cud pains- taking scholarship to recover. but even more perhaps in need of « worthler Bis- torical att..nde to accept 1 ‘American (wins amd scholarshtp are kn process of Lrnwuciing out in the name of culture, and for the sake of tradition @ Period of revoustructive scholarship ts be- Sinning. « period that will retrieve the Necessary damage of the democratic se- cession. This is being done that the ‘American of culture need not have to pay the high price of expatriation for his cul- ture. Our situation is parallel Our in- voluntary transportation is analogous to the colonial Americans’ voluntary revolu- tion. We must, like him, go back to claim as tradition and culture all we have broken with as governnient and authority. ‘There 1s for us no alternative to turning back toward an African and racial past But such a course need no more interfere With our entering into the full heritage of a lberai education than race loyalty to Anglo-Saxon civilization interferes with American patriotism. America, standing, as it does, for the common ownership of the utilities of elv- iiization, cannot stand for the amalgama- tion of cultures. America, at all events, 4s not sure of her own mental nationallty, ‘and behind the traditional uniformities of American life and thought it is significant to find certain latent racial traits and traditions in process of development and assertion. ‘The fear that the acknowleds- ment of the birth claim to ideas under- mines the republican clatms to free insti- tutions, the fear that a sense for race his- tory and tradition shuts one out from an impersonal and more inclusive participa- tlon in general history and culture, can only be indulged by those who misunder- stand the trend of American institutions Indeed, frecd trom national responsibili- ties and governmental ambitions, racial Dretensians ure free in this country to de- Yelop without opposition or misconstruc- tion. Certainly America has offered this to other races. Not only have certain Irish ambitions and hopes impossible of Fealization elsewhere been realized in this gountry, but thelr realization, while con- tributory largely and patriotically to the um total of American achievement, has Teacted upon the whole status and welfare Of that race in its native home. ‘The Jew- ish communis in this country further has contributed to its racial life the world over and stands today as the champton of some of its most significant reform move- ments. America affords the unique possi- Dility of a race life and propaganda exist- ing without contradicting national and Patriotic loyalties and responsibilities. ‘The historical dilemma of the American Negro is a great culture problem. It is also a great American probiem.. its solu- tlon will prove or disprove whether or not culture by adoption is possible and wheth- era race can exist within a nation with- ‘out disrupting the nation or contradicting Itself If we accept the burden of being ‘an experiment in this land of experiment it ts because we have additional reasons. These additional reasons are the desire to solve our own problems, to convert tn Yidious distinctions iato’ others rational and respected Good Work of Women’s Clubs In Texas. Was Sune kek ce ee ce Good Work of Wornen’s Clubs In Texas. The Mothers’ club of San Antonio, Tex.. conducts a kiudergarten in con- nection with Its regular work. The Charity club in Houston ix interested in the Working Girls’ bome. and the Nurses’ club in the same town sustains ® woursery for the care of children “whose mothers bave to work out by the day. These organizations have come about largely through the infiu- ence of the State Federation of Wo- men's Clubs. 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