The Broad Ax

THE BROAD AX Ex-Mayor Edward F. Dunne Officially Launches His Boom For Governor of Illinois IN A LETTER SENT BROADCAST THROUGHOUT THE STATE ANNOUNCING HIS CANDIDACY HE SEVERELY SCORES THE LEADERS OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY FOR THEIR MANY SHORECOMINGS AND GRAFTING PROCLIVITIES. HE CONTENDS THAT THEY HAVE BOUND THE PEOPLE HAND AND FOOT AND TURNED THEM OVER TO THE CORPORATIONS, WHOSE TOOLS ENACT ALL THE LEGISLATION FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE CORPORATIONS, AND NOT IN THE INTEREST OF THE PEOPLE. HON. SAMUEL ALSCHULER, OF AURORA, AND BENJAMIN F. CALDWELL, OF SPRINGFIELD, ARE THE OTHER DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATES SEEKING GOVERNORTORIAL HONORS. GOVERNOR CHARLES S. DENEEN AND PROF. CHARLES E. MERRIAM ARE ENGAGED IN A BITTER POLITICAL FIGHT. THEY ARE CALLING EACH OTHER MIGHTY BAD NAMES AND ACCUSING EACH OTHER OF RESORTING TO THE LOWEST KIND OF TRICKERY AND HYPOCRISY WHILE POSING AS "REFORMERS AND UPLIFTERS." GOVERNOR DENEEN CONTRIBUTED HIS MONEY TO THE MERRIAM CAMPAIGN FUND, THEN HE WAS CHOKED OFF AND WAS NOT PERMITTED TO APPEAR ON THE PLATFORM OR SPEAK AT ANY OF THE MERRIAM SETTINGS HELD IN CHICAGO. Vol. XVII Ex-Mayor Edward Officially Launched For Gover IN A LETTER SENT BROADCAST NOUNCING HIS CANDIDATE LEADERS OF THE REPUBLIC SHORTCOMINGS AND GRAIN HE CONTENDS THAT THEY HAVE FOOT AND TURNED THE WHOSE TOOLS ENACT A BENEFIT OF THE CORPORA OF THE PEOPLE. HON. SAMUEL ALSCHULER, OF A WELL, OF SPRINGFIELD, A DIDATES SEEKING GOVERNOR GOVERNOR CHARLES S. DENEEN ARE ENGAGED IN A BITTLE CALLING EACH OTHER MEN EACH OTHER OF RESORT TRICKERY AND HYPOCRITERS AND UPLIFTERS." GOVERNOR DENEEN CONTRIBUTED CAMPAIGN FUND, THEN NOT PERMITTED TO APPEAR AT ANY OF THE MERRIAN Former Mayor Edward F. Dunne, this week officially launched his boom for Governor of Illinois, and many of his old time supporters and followers are already lining up for him, and he feels reasonably sure of cutting a wide swath at the primaries, Tuesday, April 9, in his long letter which he has sent broadcast throughout the state and most especially to the newspaper publishers announcing his candidacy. He more than severely scores the past and present leaders of the Republican party for their many short coming and grafting proclivities. It is bodily contended by the ex-Mayor that "the Republican bosses have bound the people hand and foot and turned them over body and soul to the grasping corporations, whose tools have in the past enacted all the legislation for the special benefit of those corporations and not in the interest of the people. The following is from the letter sent out to the voters of this state by Mr. Dunne. "For fifteen years republican jackpot bosses have been in complete control of the government of the State of Illinois. During that period the expense of maintaining the government has increased from about 5 million dollars per annum under the last Dem. governor and true friend of the people, John P. Altgeld to the staggering total of nearly fifteen million dollars per annum under Deneen. During that period the state has been disgraced and its citizens humiliated by an unparalleled saturnalia of debauchery and corruption. The great corporations have evaded just taxation and the public resources have been wasted and dissipated. During that period our legislature and the State Board of Equalization have become a by-word and an object of scorn because both have taken orders from jackpot bosses, who have abused their self-assumed authority by throttling the demands of the people and forcing obedience to the commands of the corporations and trusts doing business in the state. During the same fifteen years a group of machine bosses, composed at times of political adventurers from the state at large, but recently of survivors of the fierce factional wars that have torn the republican organization of Cook County to shreds andatters has conducted openly and shamelessly, but always profitably, a system of political office brokerage, through which they have kept their camp followers in public places. The people of Illinois have paid the bills. The system began with the Tanner administration in 1897 and has continued through the several terms of Yates and Deneen. Hundreds of thousands of dollars of the people's revenues have thus found their way into the pockets of political parasites HEW TO THE LINE: LET THE CHIPS FALL WHERE THEY MAY whose labor consisted in drawing their breaths and their salaries. The debauching of the legislature was coincident with the restoration of the republican party to power fifteen years ago. The passage of the Allen bill, which sought to rob the people of Chicago of their right to control their own streets, the gas frontage and consolidation bills and other equally infamous measures, in a single session, seems to have broken through that moral fiber which, heretofore, constituted a check upon the greed and immoral tendencies of our public servants. You have only to scan the testimony of those who have appeared as witnesses before the senate committee that is investigating the election of Senator Lorimer to ascertain the extent of the corruption that is seemingly permeating every avenue of republican activities in Illinois. It is a continuous story of jackpots. During these fifteen years the state board of equalization, a majority of whom are obscure political henchmen of these same bosses, has been steadily reducing the taxation justly due from the railroads and other corporations, and thus throwing an additional and unjust burden upon the other taxpayers of the state. During these fifteen years of power these jackpot bosses have repeatedly turned a deaf ear to the demands of the people for a direct primary by having enacted a series of imperfect laws, knowing them to be imperfect, that were declared null and void by the supreme court, one after another, as often as they came before that court; and, not until 1910 did these jackpot bosses permit the passage of an act that was within the limitations fixed by the court. Even that law does not give the people the power they should have in selecting candidates. The people's demand for the initiative and referendum, twice asserted by popular vote and by overwhelming majorities, has been ingeniously evaded and finally denied. The advisory primary vote of the people, governing the selection of a United States senator was repudiated by a republican general assembly with the connivance of a republican governor and the will of the people of the state thus set at defiance by a scandalous cabal, of which Deneen and Lorimer were the leading spirits. And while that bold crime against the dignity and authority of the people was being framed, with its tragic sequel of confessions of bribery and criminal prosecutions and death, Deneen and Lorimer, according to the sworn testimony of Deneen, were meeting at the state capitol daily and there discussing the possibility of the supreme court voiding the then existing primary election law, and whether or not, if such a decision were handed down, Busse, then mayor of Chicago, would employ the po- CHICAGO, JANUARY 20, 1912. [Name not provided] lice force to drive them (Deneen and Lorimer) from power in Chicago. Could there have been a more logical setting for what followed? Now the republican bosses are all at each other's throats—Deneen, Lorimer, Busse, Campbell and Pease and their followers and satellites in the state. They have grown rich and powerful, and no longer are in agreement about how to divide the spoils. They cannot again fall back upon the so-called protective but, in truth, the robber tariff, and the delusive "full dinner pail," and for once find themselves with no cohesive strength to further delude the public. Such being the situation of the republican party and its leaders in this state, the time has arrived, in my judgment, when the public will not longer be misled and imposed upon by the discredited and disunited firm of political office brokers and their parasitical followers. THE PIONEER PRESS ON THE SIXTEENTH ANNIVERSARY EDITION OF THE BROAD AX The Chicago Broad Ax, Julius B Taylor, Editor, issued its usual Holiday number, December 30, 1911, and it is up to the standard maintained by this publication in former years. It is full of good, newsy reading matter, contains some spicy editorial and abounds in handsome views of men, women and buildings of not in the Windy City. In short, the sixteenth anniversary edition of the Chicago Broad Ax is a marvel of the printer's art, and reflects the greatest credit upon its energetic, brilliant and manly editor—The Pioneer Press, Martinsburg, W. Va., Jan. L. 1912. Editor, Clifford, permit us to express our most heartfelt thanks to you for these brotherly expression. Editor. Hon. Samuel Alschuler of Aurora and Chicago, the eminent lawyer and smooth politician who is always there with the glad hand and who knows as many men in this state as any man in it that can be found in two days travel, and Benjamin F. Caldwell of Springfield are the other Democratic candidates seeking governortorial honors. Governor Charles S. Deneen and Prof. Charles E. Merriam, are at the present time engaged in a bitter political fight—they are calling each other some mighty bad names and accusing each other of resorting to the lowest kind of trickery and hypocrisy, while posing as true "Reformers and Uplifters" Governor Deneen, has let it be known that he contributed his money to the Merriam campaign fund, then he was choked off and was not permitted to appear on the platform or to speak at any of the Merriam meetings held in Chicago last winter and early spring. The Governor no doubt feels that the 'managers of Prof. Merriam's campaign, put one over on him to the Queen's taste and now he is willing to let the cat out of the bag. THE BROAD AX'S 16TH ANNIVERSARY. The Chicago Broad Ax, full of biting sarcasm, just as bold and outspoken as ever, celebrated its 16th anniversary December 30, 1911, and to announce the occasion it came forth handsomely illustrated and printed on the very finest kind of paper, brimming full of news and editorials that would do credit to the Metropolitan Press, May its pioneer editor, Julius R. Taylor, live long to continue the fight for right living The Advocate, Portland, Oregon Jan. 13, 1912. Thanks! Brother Cannady, thanks! THE PIONEER PRESS ON THE SIXTEENTH ANNIVERSAY EDITION OF THE BROAD AX. The Chicago Broad Ax, Julius F. Taylor, Editor, issued its usual Holiday number, December 30, 1911, and it is up to the standard maintained by this publication in former years. It is full of good, newsy reading matter, contains some spicy editorials, and abounds in handsome views of men, women and buildings of note in the Windy City. In short, the sixteenth anniversary edition of the Chicago Broad Ax is a marvel of the printer's art, and reflects the greatest credit upon its energetic, brilliant and manly editor.-The Pioneer Press, Martinsburg, W. Va., Jan. 13, 1912. Editor, Clifford, permit us to express our most heartfelt thanks to you for these brotherly expressions, Editor. A READER OF THE BROAD AX WANTS ITS ERITOR TO EXPLAIN. In the last issue of The Broad Ax that is the issue of January 13th contained the editorial comments of Mrs. Ida B. Wells-Barnett, editor of the Fellowship Herald, and R. S. Abbott, editor of The Chicago Defender, on the 16th anniversary edition of The Broad Ax, which appeared Saturday, December 30th, 1911, and our thanks to them for the same and on Monday, Jan. 15, the writer received a letter from someone signing himself or herself "your Readers" wanting us to explain the clipping attached to the letter, containing one of the editorial notes in question and our comment. The only explaining that we can do is to request the individual, who no doubt, only occasionally reads The Broad Ax, is to secure a copy of the issue referred to, either by sending 5 cents to the publisher, or obtaining it through some of the agents, whose names and addresses appear in another column of this paper and by so doing, the writer of the letter will then be in a better position to understand, why the editors of other newspapers are praising and giving utterances, in relation, to the 16th anniversary edition of The Broad Ax. JULIUS F. TAYLOR Mr. Julius F. Taylor, editor of the Chicago Broad Ax, is being highly praised for the very excellent edition of the Xmas number of his paper. For sixteen years his paper has come out regularly every week and on each Christmas a special number is issued with splendid illustrations and live newsy matter. Mr. Taylor is regarded as one of the most fearless and independent editors in this country. His New Tuberculosis Organization Every Day Over 2,000 Agencies In Fight—Open Air Shools Increase 214 Per Cent In Year—Summary for 1905 to'1912 Nearly 2,000 organizations of various kinds were engaged in the fight against tuberculosis on January 1, 1912, and new agencies have been formed during the past year at the rate of about one a day, according to a statement issued to-day by The National Association for the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis. These anti-tuberculosis agencies include 168 associations and committees; 451 sanatoria, hospitals and camps; 365 dispensaries and clinics; and 91 open air schools. If to these were added 200 state and local boards of health and a number of other institutions, such as hospitals for the insane and penal institutions making special provision for tuberculosis cases, the total number of agencies engaged in tuberculosis work would be swelled to nearly 2,000. During the year 1911 the greatest percentage of increase among the different forms of tuberculosis work was among the open air schools for anaemic and tuberculous children. On Jan. 1, 1911, there were only 29 open air schools in operation or provided for in the entire country. On Jan. 1, 1912, there were 91, an increase of 214 per cent. Sixty-two new schools have been established or provided for this past year. This entire number of open air schools have been established since January 1, 1907. On January 1, 1905, there were about 150 different agencies engaged last number showed thrift, industry, and newspaper ability.—Cary B. Lewis, in the Freeman, Indianapolis, Ind., Jan. 13, 1912. Col. Lewis, we extend to you the right hand of fellowship and predict for you a bright future in the newspaper world.—Editor. COLORED MAN LEFT BIG ESTATE. The Late George W. Smith, of Broadlands, Leaves Lands and Money To Amount of $116,000. Urbana, Ill., Jan. 13.—George W. Smith, Colored, farmer of the vicinity of Broadlands, who died last week, leaves an estate valued at $116,000, of which $110,000 is real estate. His will just admitted to probate, first directs that the personal property be sold and the proceeds used in payments of eighty acres of land recently purchased, the remainder, if any to be divided among the heirs, the widow receiving one-third and the seven children the residue. The children are: Mary E. Smith, A. A. Gaines, Anna S. Neal and John M. Smith, of Omaha, Neb.; Salona E. Sexton, St. Louis, Mo.; Charles A. Smith, of Longview. Proceeds from the farm are to be used for paying the indebtedness on the south half of the southeast quarter of section 17, Raymond township, recently purchased. The widow shall retain the homestead and after the above described 80 acres shall have been paid off for she shall have one-third of the net proceeds arising from the land. It is directed that John Smith, son, shall live with his mother and care for her while she lives. At her death he shall be rewarded with an additional share to be determined by the executor. Four hundred thirty-seven acres of land near Broadlands with the newly purchased 80-acre tract is bequeathed to the children to be divided equally, the express provision being made that the realty shall not be sold until ten years after the widow's death. Another provision is that, in the division of the land, each child shall have that portion of the real estate which lies nearest his or her place of resi- sis Organization Day —Open Air Shools Increase Summary for 1905 to'1912 in anti-tuberculosis work, of which number 111 were sanatoria. The increase to over 2,000 agencies has emphasized, the National Association points out, the importance of the campaign for the prevention of consumption being carried on in all parts of the country. The following table summarizes the growth of the anti-tuberculosis movement in each line of activity for each year since 1905. Albert Gaines, Charles A. Smith, William W. Smith, and John M. Smith are appointed executors, it being directed that they also act as trustees of the estate. The will was executed November 30, 1910, in the presence of W. A. Coolley, Joseph E. Johnson and T. A. Dicks. The instrument was admitted within a few minutes after it had been filed and the executors were appointed in accordance with its terms. The executors gave a bond of $12,000, with themselves and Mary E. Smith, Fred L. Smith, Salona E. Sexton and Anna S. Neal as sureties. All of the children are graduates of the University of Illinois. 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 PYTHIANS SANATORIUM AND BATH HOUSE AT HOT SPRINGS, ARKANSAS, MAN-NAGED BY J. T. T. WARREN. J. T. T. Warren, one of the most prominent Knights of Pythias in Arkansas, is the manager of the Pythian Sanatorium, and Both House, at 415 Malvern Avenue, Hot Sjirings, Ark., and being an up-to-date and progressive business man, manager Warren runs it right up to the handle. It is the only bath house in that city, where Afro-Americans can be accommodated, and many of them residing in the various parts of this country patronize it during the winter months. THE BROAD AX PUBLISHED WEEKLY Will promulgate and at all times uphold the true principles of Democracy, but Cathelles, Protecratans, Priests, Infidels, Single Taxers, Republicans, or anyone else can have their say, an long as their language is proper and responsibility is fixed. The Broad Ax is a newspaper whose pinstream 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 ..... $2.60 Six Months ..... 1.60 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. HEALTH HINTS. The lack of proper and sufficient water supply in the home is a serious menace to the family health. During the past two weeks, the Department's mail has been largely made up of complaints that the water was frozen and therefore impossible to flush the toilets or to obtain it for other domestic uses. It it amazing that people will build houses in this climate and not see to it that the water pipes are so installed as to thoroughly protect them against frost. To do this would no doubt involve a little more initial cost, but it would pay big interest on the investment from both the money and health standpoints. --- Don't blame the plumber if he can't come at once to thaw out your frozen water pipes. There are so many other people, who through their carelessness, are in the same fix, that the plumber is a mighty busy man when we have an extended spell of zero weather. --- While you are protecting your water supply, don't forget to do the things that will protect your family from the dangers of dryt air. Don't hibernate just because the weather is cold. Get the fresh-air habit. --- Fresh air and plenty of it are as necessary for your health in the winter as in the summer. The average home in Chicago is kept too warm and too dry. This means that in uch homes the air is dirty and therefore dangerous. For the week ending December 13th, 171 people in Chicago were killed by pneumonia, which is one of the dirty air diseases. How about the air in your home or work place? EDWARD E. LEE FOR A LONG TIME CHIEF OF THE UNITED COLORED DEMOCRACY OF NEW YORK HAS BEEN APPOINTED DEPUTY SHERIFF. Edward E. Lee, who was for more than 12 years chief of the United Colored Democracy, of Greater New York; which was backed up by the leaders of the Tammany Hall, who stood close to Charles F. Murphy, who has always successfully fished after and caught about half of the Colored voters of that city for his party, has been appointed Deputy Sheriff for Manhattan. Mr. Lee is the first Colored man to be appointed to a position of that kind, within the history of New York, and every one hopes that he will make good. MOTTS PEKIN THEATRE WRESTLING Illa Vincent vs. Karla, the Indian, will come together on Sunday afternoon, Jan. 21. This contest is the outcome of the Vincent draw with Bux, the stable mate of Karla. Ever since the match at the Coliseum Karla has been claiming that he would have thrown Vincent, had he been given the opportunity, so manager Leon Motts has arranged with Karla's manager for a finished contest. Karla seems so sure of winning, that he desired that there should be no loser's end. Vincent was then informed, if he would agree to such terms, and in broken English he said, "I don't care," so this should prove the event of the year. Five good preliminaries. Capt. Robert F. Rateliff, one of the officers of the Eighth Regiment Illinois National Guards, after a long spell of sickness passed away a few days ago at Hopkinsville, Ky., his remains will be transported to this city, where they will be laid to rest the first of the coming week. National and Local Theatrica and Stage Notes Edited by the Stroller or by the Man on the Corner PEKIN THEATRE Monday night offered the Sherman Fashionable Players, in the thrilling military play, "The Battle of Manila." It was well mounted. The characters were well handled by a very capable company of merituous performers. Added attractions were, Col. Brydon's educated Esquimeux dogs and Madame Jacqueline, mind reader. The greatest three act military play, "The Battle of Manila," presented the following east of characters (in the order in which they appear): Gen. Romeo Nerverra, of the Spanish army, Chas. LaBrash; Anita, his niece, Bessie Delmore; Manuel De Lopez, a Spanish nobleman, Edwin James; Blanco Nerverra, the general's son, Ed. Clovis; Evangeline Nerverra, the general's daughter, Beatrice Dare; Patrick O'Hooliban, an Irish American, who has troubles of his own, Lem DeKalb; Timothy Nerve, a reporter, whose nature resembles his name, Harry Marlin; Lieut. Leslie Standford, United States Navy, the spy, H. B. Lewis; Telegraph operator, Billy Emerson; guards, soldiers, etc. MONOGRAM The Monogram opened with four acts. Goodloe & Goodloe were the holdovers, McCarver & Diggs were seen for the first time in a good sketch. Fannie Wise made her reappearance in a number of pleasing songs. A new team, Harris & Harris, completed the bill. GRAND The Grand opened Monday with five white acts to fair houses. STAGE NOTES The Walker Theatre, at Indianapolis, Ind., went into the receivers hands, leaving many bills unpaid. The Gaither Theatre, at Cincinnati, Ohio, was closed last week by the city fire department, on account of not having the proper exits. It is said that Mr. Gaither will now build a small family theatre with a seating capacity of 600. He has been offered the Lyeum Theatre, but considers it to large. --- Big vaudeville corporation to operate Beek's Palaces. Capital stock of $5,000,000. Beck-Meyerfeld-Tehr, et al. concerned. New leader's sudden trip west explained. Will Beck stop the "grafting" in vaudeville bookings New York and Chicago will operate the first of these Palace Theatres, other large cities to follow. --- A rumor that is well founded gives us the information that a theatre will be erected on 31st and Indiana, modern in all details, with a seating capacity of over 1,500. Champion Jack Johnson is said to be negotiating to secure a long lease. Mr. Allie Gillum has arrived at Honolulu, and sends the following: "Dear Stroller:—After a very rough trip, leaving Frisco at 1:30 p. m., Wednesday, Jan. 3, on the steamship China. We gave a show on the boat and cleaned up $86.00, which I considered beat State street. We found the house sold out for our opening week, which will be Monday, Jan. 15. This is a very pretty country and some hot. We go to housekeeping next week. We have rented a swell little bungaloo, with coffee growing in our front yard; coconuts, figs and date trees in the back. Everybody the same here, very few white Americans. Thank God, so far everything looks good—no race prejudice—so things ought to pull out all O. K. I wish I could send you some of the weather we have here. Tell little Frank at the Pekin, that he missed th chance of his life by not coming with us. Williams and our wives wishes to be remembered. Hen Wise also sends regards to all the Mott's boys. Please send us the old reliable Broad Ax, as it gives us all show dope that's up-to-date. Answer soon. Addres, Allie Gillum, Orpheum Theatre, e/o Wise & Milton Co., Honolulu, Hawaii." Gilmore & Russell gave a trial performance to a committee of the Western Burieque Wheel Tuesday night, at the Pekin, and gave such satisfaction that they were immediately engaged to strengthen one of the shows. The now famous "Era Quartette," which was at the Empire last week, are laying off in the city. Kelly's Minstrels opened Thursday night to a crowded house at Mt. Pleas, and Mish. This company played the Pekin last week. Marsh Craig is financially interested, besides doing his act. Perry Bradford, of the Chicken Trust, cut one of his company, got out on bond, which he then jumped. Now Poll is praying for his return. The attention of Mr. Irvin C. Miller, President of the Benevolent Order of Goats, has been called to the fact, that a party or parties are making the rounds of white theatres with a sub-scription list, collecting funds for the purpose of burying James Grundy, using The Goats' letterhead stationary, and claiming to be authorized by the Order. Mr. Miller says this is a fraudulent scheme of the basest sort and that no stone will be left unturned to find the guilty parties and have them prosecuted. Mr. Grundy has been buried some time, and no appeal has ever been made for aid in his behalf by the Goats, or any one else, as he was well taken care of by insurance and other means. The weather has been at zero in many Southern points, and the show business has in some cases entirely stopped, which has hurt most all the Colored shows. By letters received by performers now in Chicago, the Alpha Theatre, at Cleveland, is in need of a manager who should know the commercial value of any kind of vaudeville acts. The Crown Garden Theatre, at Indianapolis, Ind., is feeling the effects of the zero weather, as they can't keep th barn-like structure warm, causing non-attendance. It may close and open in the good old summer time. The Pumpkin Colored Trio may return home next week. The Reese Bros. were at the American Theatre last week at Cincinnati on the Sun Time. ACTS ON THE BIG TIME Greenpoint, N. Y.—Aida O. Walker. Washington Theatre, N. Y.—Kentucky Trio. Denver, Colo., Pantagas—Wilson & Cumby. Newark, N. J., Protors—Samboo Girls. Newark, N. J., Court—Black & Jones. Scranton, Pa.—10 Dark Knights. CHIPS Master McKinley Emanuel will be one of the midwinter graduates from the grammar school. Mrs. H. C. Bomar 4956 Dearborn street, is a great admirer of The Broad Ax, for she says, it is always full of good live news. Rev. H. J. Callis, D. D., pastor of Walters A. M. E. Zion Church is attending the Bishop's Council at Fayetteville, N. C. Dr. C. D. Bell, 5037 State street, by sticking close to business, has built up a good practice, since locating on the border line of Hyde Park and the Town of Lake. Dr. W. W. Bradley, 29 West 51stst street, south west corner of Dearborn and 51st street. Phone Oakland 3683, has been kept busy these days in looking after his many patients during the frigid weather. W. M. Thomas, has completely recovered from his recent spell of sickness and he is again on hand to greet his many friends at his Roumania Buffet and Cafe, 3759 S. State street, N. E. corner of 38th street. Dr. W. H. Marshall, 3100 State st., who has fast forged to the front in his profession, in the past four or five years; lets it be known open and above board, that he is a financial supporter of The Broad Ax. Mrs. Louise Montgomery, 5436 Dearborn street, has been confined to her home with illnss since the first of January, she has been under the care of Dr. M. J. Brown, she is therefore improving and hopes to be able to be out again in several weeks. Miss Anna Schulman, public stenographer, room 708, Ferminich Building, 184 W. Washington street, Phone, Main 4153, for two months Miss Schulman has been assisting at- torney Walter M. Farmer, with his law business and being always ever so pleasant and obliging, she is succeeding in making her services valuable to him and at the same time she is building up a nice business for herself. Major F. A. Denison, Ex-Assistant Corporation Cousel of Chicago, now occupies a fine suite of Law offices on the seventh floor of the new Delaware Building, 36 W. Randolph st., better known as the old Real Estate Board Building. --- Albert H. Putney, Dean of the Illinois College of Law, has started his campaign for associate justice of the Municipal court, on the Democratic side of the fence, and his many friends are glad to have the opportunity to support him. Lawyer B. F. Moseley, is getting his petitions in shape and he will run for county commissioner, on the progressive wing, of the Republican party or ticket and his name will appear on the primary ballot, April 9th along with the other Republican candidates. Cary B. Lewis, who is the special correspondent from this city to the Freeman, Indianapolis, Ind., on or about February the first expects to start on an extensive tour through the Southern States, and before returning to the north he will visit all the Colored schools and colleges, and the leading towns and cities in that section of the country. Rev. Robert C. Bedford, of Beloit, Wis, who was for more than 35 years, secretary of the Board of Trustees of Tuskegee Institute, Tuskegee, Ala., recently passed away in Los Angeles, Cal., where he was spending the winter. He always looked on the bright side of the Negro problem, and being a steadfast friend to the Afro-American race, his death is a great loss, at this particular time. Mrs. Martha B. Anderson. 6450 Champlain ave., returned home Thursday morning from a month's singing tour in the east, while absent, she visited Washington, D. C., Baltimore, Md., Richmond, Va., her old home, New York City and other points in that section of the country; next fall she will again return east to fill other singing engagements; she enjoyed her business and pleasure trip very much and met many old friends of her girlhood days. Mrs. Harry A. Duncan, of 6041 Champlain avenue, read a very interesting and highly appreciated paper on the Faculty of Obeservation, before the Amanda Smith Guild No. 1, which met at the residence of Mrs Henry T. Wells, 6459 Evans avenue. Thursday, the 11th The meeting was one long to be remembered, because the Christmas spirit was in evidence, and Mrs. Wells is an ideal hostess. The Guild has been in existence six years, doing excellent charitable work for the Amanda Smith Orpha Home. --- The Bates-Emanuel wedding which will take place the latter part of February, promises to be one of social interest among the younger set. The prominence of the young lady Miss Jessie Bates who is considered one of the most beautiful girls of the young social set and who was one of the Debutantes two years ago, the prominence of the young man Mr. Floyd Emanuel second son of Prof. and Mrs. Wm. Emanuel and who is considered to have exceptional business qualifications, and is industrious, steady and holds the position of assistant manager of his father's large establishment. WALTERS A.M.E. ZION CHURCH Cor. 38th and Dearborn Sts Rev. H. J. Callis, D. D., Pastor. Services for Sunday will be conducted by the Presiding Elder, Rev. T. H. Tipton, D. D., subject for 11:00 a. m. "Christian Soldiership," Sunday school at 1:00 p. m., Christian Endeavor at 6:30. Rev. S. W. Weller of South Bend, Ind., will preach at 7:45 p. m., subject "Let the D'al turn Backward."—"S." 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 Fobi, supposed to be Noah, 2240 B. C. Sink Pearl A see both is said to restore brilliancy to sick pearls. Pickled Tea. The tea grown in Burmese is almost entirely made into liqueur (pickled tea) and eaten as a condiment. It therefore does not affect the world's supply of tea for drinking. A Suggestion. When the postman to my portal Caras with dunning notes galore I'm not prone to shout and chortle On the other hand, I'm sore. This the painfulest of shocks is. 'Twould relieve my mental lilies Should they place on all mail boxes This injunction: POST NO BILLS! Judge Obitar Diota. The School of Experience gives no engraved diplomas, but one has little trouble identifying her graduates. The Successful Man was out and on the job long before Opportunity came a-knocking. And this same Opportunity, by the way, is oftimes disguised as Hard Work. Optimism is a virtue—if it is not allowed to usurp the place of Industry. Tell me what you eat, and I'll tell you where you work. The time to take a brace is several days before the day before yesterday. -Judge. Musical Rivalry Oh, dar's melancholy music when de storm begins to blow: "And the wind north is De cabin is de fiddle, an' de north wind is de bow. de bow. So we keeps de fire a-blazin, an' we lets de chillin shout An' sings ours to drown dat melan- An' sings our best to drown dat melan- choly music out. - Washington Star. Her Peculiarity "You must find that impediment in your speech rather inconvenient at times, Mr. Barnes?" "Oh, no; everybody has his little peculiarities. Stammering is m-mime. What is y-yours?" "Well, really, Mr. Barnes, I am not aware that I have any." "D-do you stir y-your tea with your right hand?" "Why, yes!" "W-well, that is y-your p-peculiarity; most p-people u-use a t-teaspoon."—Life. Cause of the Mixup Police Justice--Jonas Snookey, you are charged with assault and battery on an inoffensive citizen. What have you to say for yourself? Prisoner--Your honor, I arsked 'im, as civil-like as a man can be, how did he pronounce "McNamara." He told me it was accented on the peanut. "Makin' fun of me, are ye?" I says, an' chugged him one--Chicago Tribune. After Pay Day After Pay Day. From store to store she hikes along. By fostering undismayed. She would have liked to miss the throng. But hubby's just been paid. When pay days are a month apart What wife can get an early start? —Detroit Free Press His Occupation Gone. His Occupation Gone. Cupid was found weeping his eyes out. "What in the world is the matter?" asked his discoverer. puzzled. "Is somebody's heart too tough?" "Tough nothing," he sobbed. "The girls are taking my job away from me and doing it better themselves."—Buffalo Express. No Assistance. Gritty Pikes—It's a heartless world, pard. Think what a woman done when I asked her to give me something to keep body and soul together! Muddy Lanes—Can't imagine. Gritty Pikes—She gimme a safety pln!—Chicago News. Tribulation. Tribulation in de meat trust. Tribulation all eroun'. I reckon Satan's in it. Kaze it she' gits over groun'. -Atlanta Constitution. The New Education. "Fifth grade this year. Tommy?" "Yes, slr." Tribulation "You're in decimals or fractions now, no doubt?" "No, sir. I'm in crochet work and clay modeling now." - Pittsburgh Post. Proper Place. His Friend—There's a tipless hotel down street a little way. Let's go down. Jaggs—Justh the place. These other ones here are tipping something awful—Judge. Appreciated. A little winter Now and then Is relished by The coal yard men. -St. Louis Times. One Danger. "If those California women run for office do you think they would be guilty of purchasing votes?" "Not unless they got green trading stamps with them."-Houston Post. Woman's Logic "My dear, these are excellent cigars, but they are awfully strong!" "Tes. I got the strongest I could find. They won't break so easily in your pocket."—Judge. Ours. The minutes that we lose, of course, are quite beyond our powers. But as to longer measures we consider them as hours. —Dallas News Set Right. "I regret, madam, that we do not stock 'Blue Danube' soap." "Can you get it for me?" "We can obtain it for you, madam." —Punch. A Savare Remedy. "Did the doctor relieve your son's pain?" "Yeah, but he had to give him an epidemic injunction."—Baltimore American. Old Fogyism. Backward, turn backward. O Time, in your flight and give us a maiden dressed proper and right. We are so weary of switches and rats. Billie Burke clusters and peach basket hats; wads of jute hair in a horrible pile stacked on their heads to the height of a mile. Something is wrong with the maidens, we fear. Give us the girls as they used to appear. Give us the girls we once knew of yore, whose curis didn't come from a hairdressing store; maidens who dressed with a sensible view and just as Dame Nature intended them to. Give us a girl with a figure her own and fashioned divinely by nature alone. Feminine style's getting fiercer each year. Ob give us the girls as they used to appear!-Stirling Journal. The Family Tree A brand new family tree adorns the home of Croesus Pickles With tales of titled ancestors His fawning friends he tickles To all the world that tree proclaims Descent from lord and lady. Bewitxit the branches and the ground Of course it's rather shady. —Josephine Coan in Smart Set Time Wasted. "I will detain you only a moment, Mr. Hepperly. Are you carrying all the life insurance you want?" "Yes, and more than I can afford, but I'm glad you dropped in. I have just taken the agency for a subscription book entitled 'The Voters' Manual.' It contains the platforms of all the existing political parties, brief blographies of all the prominent political leaders, statistics relating to the internal revenue, congressional debates on the tariff question, together with what's your hurry?" -Chicago Tribune His Limit. "I love you!" he cried, throwing all restraint to the winds. "Do you really and truly love me?" she answered, still unyielding. "I swear I do!" "How much?" "How do I know how much? With all my heart and soul and strength and mind and"— "Walt. Couldn't you love me any more?" "Dearest, if I loved you any more I don't think I could stand it." "Why not?" "I might want to marry you."—Cleveland Plain Dealer. Overcoming Nature There was a maid in our town Who did not paint, 'twas said. Because her soft and dimpled cheeks Were made by nature red. But soon this malden quite petite Grew wan, her roses fled, And all because she followed out The beauty hints she read. She Was a Hustler "Bubbles has bought two new machines—one for himself and one for his wife." "That's very generous." "Well, you see, her machine keeps his going." "How that?" "Why, he bought her a sewing machine."—St. Louis Republic. Aristocratic "Son, is your father at home?" "No. Pa is on trial for combining in restraint of trade." "Well, is your mother in the house?" "Nope. Ma is having a hearing today for kleptomania." "H'm. Evidently you belong to one of the best families."—Chicago Record-Herald. And Heavily Fined The popular song is a popular thing. Which by popular vogue is attested. But if you were to talk them instead of to sing The chances are you'd be arrested. —Chicago Post. Used a Match. Mrs. Bacon—The man was here to day, dear, looking for that gas leak. Mr. Bacon—And did he find it? "Yes, but they haven't found the man yet!" -Yonkers Statesman. East and West Lapis—What is it makes the west wild? Lazuli—It is the impression in the east that the west is wild.—St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Miraculous Lambkin. "Mary had a little lamb." Yet from that carcass small Have ninety million parodists Carved meat enough for all. —Lipphott's Magazine. The Bed Awakening Mrs. Knagger—I remember the time when you were just crazy to marry me Mr. Knagger—So do I, but I didn't realize it at the time.—London Opinion Logical. She—Oh, my husband is in prison for marrying five wives. He—My dear, how he must be enjoying his liberty!—Variety Life. 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. Motts Pekin Theatre STATE & 27TH STREETS Phone, Calmmet 128 SUNDAY AFTERNOON Wrestling Only Finish Content ILLA VINCENT vs. KARLA Winner to Take Entire Purse Five Other Preliminaries SEATS NOW ON SALE WHAT THE NEGRO PROBLEM IS NOT Subject Considered From an Impersonal Point of View. 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 blas. 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 heathen; 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. "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 3,200,669 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 litteracy 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 litteracy 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 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 Benedictions. 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 he 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 denomination. 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 snug 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 Greensbore (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 be 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 age 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. Ruthie Orrrell is one of the prime factors in the movement. "Poor Jane is in despair." "What's the matter with Jane?" "Why, she has just begun to realize that she's too fat for an actress and not fat enough for a prima donna."—Cleveland Plain Dealer. "Did you get any of that bargain ribbon? " "Yes," answered the college girl proudly. "I bucked the line for ten yards."—Purple Cow. The teacher sighed. "I would that I In discipline might e'er approach The fond obedience rendered by My pupils to the football coach!" —Washington Star. Blobbs—Guzzler is an infernal skeptic. He says he believes only half he sees. Slobbs—Oh, well. Guzzler generally sees double anyhow.—Philadelphia Record. "Let's drop in this restaurant." "Oh, I don't believe I care to eat anything!" "Well, come in and get a new hat for your old one, anyway."—St. Paul Pioneer-Press. In days of old, when knights were bold, They dressed in mail complete. When breezes cold blew 'er the wold They must have had cold feet. Milwaukee Sentinel. Carsone—Who was it said "deeds speak louder than words?" Gebhardt—Must have been a real estate agent. Satire. We are not susceptible to seasickness and we are decidedly apathetic about pleasantries on that theme, but we do wish that newspapers would cease to speak of societies "holding dinners." It suggests too much.—New York Mail. A five foot shelf of books he got. Somehow his courage finches, For, though he much admires the lot, He hasn't read three inches. —Washington Star. "I understand they are going to revise the football rules right away." "Yes. They all agree there should be an entirely new assortment of accidents."—Cleveland Plain Dealer. Settlement Worker — Here. here! What are you swearing at that little boy for? New York Kid—Aw, I'm teaching him English! He jist come over—Puck. The north wind doth blow, and we shall have snow, And what will the iceman do then, poor thing? Lest his lot be too hard, he will start a coal yard And gouge the consumer again, poor thing! —Lippincott's Magazine. Mrs. A.—Your husband always dresses so quietly. Mrs. B.—He does not. You ought to hear him when he loses a collar button. —Milwaukee News. "Kicking is bad policy. Behold the mule. Kicking never gets him anywhere." "That is exactly why the mule kicks." "Eh?" "He doesn't want to get anywhere."—Birmingham Age-Herald. "Tis sweet to love, but, oh, how sour To love a girl with scanty dower! —Judge. King Arthur had just invented the round table. "Fine." we cried, "but can you invent one where nobody gets the chicken neck?"—New York Sun. Crawford—How's your mining venture getting on? Skinnem—First rate. I never imagined we had such a good mine until I read the prospectus we issue.—Lippincott's Magazine. The college songs are full of glee. The singers' voices rare and clear—They sing so high we cannot see And then so low we cannot hear! —Buffalo Express. "Europe holds a lot of our stocks and bonds." "Invests her cash with us, eh?" "Not much cash. Gets most of 'em by marriage."—Washington Herald. Beggie—Why do you envy Gladys so? Peggy—She is happily married and has two of the dearest little toy dogs you ever saw.—Puck. "A fireman is no spark for me"— The words were pretty Mame's— "I couldn't keep the lad, you see, Away from other flames." —Boston Transcript. Wigwag—Did you see anything extraordinary on your trip abroad? Gussler—No: I wasn't seeing things. I limited myself strictly to ten drinks a day.—Philadelphia Record. "Everything must some day come to an end." "I guess you've never had a woman start a talk with you over the phone." —Pittsburgh Press. "This world is but a deeting show For man's illusion given." We have to coax the weaker sex, Because it won't be driven: —Houston Post "How is it I never bear you speak of your old college days?" "Well, the college I went to didn't have a very good football team."—Lenisville Courier-Journal. Teacher (class in geography)—Bobby, what are the principal feeders of the Mississippi river? Bobby — Catfish. ma'am. — Chicago Tribune. When Handel had insomnia In place of counting sheep He wrote a tullaby and so Composed himself to sleep. 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 philanthropist—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 beaten by the insertion of an electric light bulb in a pocket has been patented by an Oregon man. For disinfecting books a Missouri has invented a revolving stand to hold them open while they are being whirled against a jet of some gas that is a Phone: Office Hours: Wentworth 215 8:30 A.M. to 8:30 P.M. 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 oplates 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. 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 duid mass is obtained. The First Paper It was in Egypt that the first paper was made. 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THE QUESTION OF RACE TRADITION Rhodes Scholarship Student In Philosophic Address Says the Desire to Preserve the Past Connects Us to a Racial Consciousness—Race Stands Between Two Heritages. Yonkers, N. Y.—The year end meeting of the Negro Research society held recently at the residence of the president, Mr. John Edward Bruce, in this city, was made notable by the presence of Alain Le Roy Locke, who is a graduate of Oxford university. He bears the distinction of being the only member of the race to win one of the Rhodes scholarships. Mr. Locke was the principal speaker on this occasion, and a reception was given in his honor by the society in view of the fact that he is to return to Berlin in January to complete his studies. Mr. Locke's subject was "The Negro and a Race Tradition." He spoke in part as follows: A historical society stands primarily as the expression of a practical duty toward a corporate past, and a Negro historical 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 towards his past and problems and problems are the duties and problems of any people in their acquisition of historical mindedness in the establishment of a tradition. Although the American Negro faces what all thoughtful observers must admit to be a historical dilemma, he can avoid it if he wishes. He has only to forget or repudiate his past or as much of it as he deems wise and consistent to forget and repudiate. As an American, indeed, he can claim the high but dangerous privilege of tak- JOHN H. HARRIS ALAIN LE BOY LOOKE. ing large liberties with his past both in the direction of adoption and that of refinement. In addition he can exercise the rights of a mental republican. He can begin anywhere and claim anything. The question is therefore whether or not the Negro wishes to have a separate history, apart from the general history of this country, or what justification there is other than the purely sentimental reasons he sometimes gives himself and the wholly unjustifiable reasons usually given him for having a separate tradition in contrast or addition to the tradition he has received from his ancestors enjoying theoretically at least all of the benefits of free education and democratic institutions. For very different reasons and very diverse hopes then the speaker found himself forced to believe in a race history and a race culture. The desire to preserve our past commits us to a racial consciousness and requires of us the development of a sense for corporate interests and destinies. Indeed the tendencies and facts which threaten the solidarity and perpetuity of a distinct Negro tradition in this country may prove the ultimate stumbling blocks in the way of our progress. The Negro is the most powerful Negro is the painful position of standing between two heritages...one lost, the other not 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 present to escape the disadvantages of this situation. Our intellectual and spiritual problems have a different point of origin from social or political or economic issues we face, and they are as likely have a different solution. History and culture can be the attributes of nations and races. One cannot raise the question of history without raising the question of race or nationality. Any one who surveys at all closely the estate of culture or the field of history will find that it has its fences and proprietary rights, quite as material in their way as the fences and property deeds of any civilized community. They will see that no people has acquired a passport to culture, citizenship and the exchange civilities of civilization until it has cultivated its own land. its own tradition and evolved its own culture. A people that proceeds upon any other assumption is threatened under the present fences of the land of the United States. Race is not only the key to history, as Disraeli said; it is the most legitimate and indisputable claim to education and culture. We as Negroes need to distinguish sharply between the claim of education and the claim of a mental birthright. It may even be that we shall have to choose between them on certain occasions. Certainly we must always bear the distinction in mind. The very accidents of our birth and history make for us a claim upon a civilization and a heritage of ideas which include the mental juggery and self-mystification as well as not cures in the same literal sense that it is the hereditary culture and history of Aryan peoples. This is the crux of the problem from the side of education and culture. Boomer or later if he persists in ignoring this distinction the Afro-American of culture finds be is an anomaly; finds that he is sharing and participating in a culture that is his only by right of acquisition and not by right of inheritance. To be mindful of the distinction does not necessarily make the civilization and culture we propose to claim and share any knowledge, but it does make it ours in a different way. This is the contention that with the proper approach and reservations the frank admission that we participate in an alien culture justifies us in a certain historic and actual pride of acquisition in having made our own what was in the beginning not ours. Further, such an admission should enable us to way of contrast to our nationally our own position to own derivations and all other positions and to help us to build up in addition a tradition worthy of our united invalvies. Instead, therefore, of belittling us the great contrast of Aryan culture should make it more meaningful to be a Negro. The Negro's attitude toward his past has hitherto been a sentimental and mistaken one. There are grave dangers and difficulties in achieving a new attitude, but a new one must be achieved all at once. There is 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 a patriot the American is satisfied to go back as far as the Mayflower, a scholar he is proud of taking a little Argyra. We have then the phenomenon Anglo-Saxon tradition, Anglo-Saxon civilization, Aryan culture! It should be—indeed must be—the same with us. The American Negro must in time change his attitude toward the past. The stamp of the abolitionist experience and appeal is still upon us. It deserves to be an indelible memory. But the sentimental ties which bind us to the past must not be allowed to control our historical attitudes. A generation that has not lived through such a time can never be expected to care for race history in exact, the same way. Already the younger generation is lapsing from that sentimental attitude, and it is well, since the attitude which freed us physically will never free us mentally, it binds us to what he has done. It keeps us from the future, to continue the scholarly attitude toward history. It claims us to remain in the vicious circle of early American isolation, the hopelessly quixotic whim of a people that wishes to begin history all over again. We cannot afford to let our regard for our immature past blind us to the remote racial past, a past which stands in the way of recovery, but even more perhaps in need of a worthier historical attitude to accept it. American thought and scholarship are in process of broadening out in the name of culture, and for the sake of tradition a period of reconstructive scholarship is beginning, a period that will retrieve the necessary damage of the democratic secession. This is being done that the American nation not have to pay the high price of expatriation for his culture. Our situation is parallel. Our involuntary transportation is analogous to the colonial Americans' voluntary revolution. We must, like him, go back to claim as tradition and culture all we have broken with as government and authority. There is for us no alternative to turning back toward an African and racial past. But such a course need no more interfere with the development of a liberal 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 civilization, cannot stand for the amalgamation of cultures. America, at all events, is not sure of her own mental nationality, 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 behind the acknowledgment of the birth claims mines the republican claims to free institutions, the fear that a sense for race history and tradition shuts one out from an impersonal and more inclusive participation in general history and culture, can only be indulged by those who misunderstand the trend of American institutions. Indeed, freed from national responsibilities and governmental ambitions, racial pretensions are free in this country to defy and oppose or misconstruction. Certainly American society to other races. Not only have certain Irish ambitions and hopes impossible of realization elsewhere been realized in this country, but their realization, while contributory largely and patriotically to the sum total of American achievement, has reacted upon the whole status and welfare of that race in its native home. The Jewish communism in this country further has contributed to its racial life the world and stood today as the champion of some of the most important developments. America affords the unique possibility of a race life and propaganda existing 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 problem. Its solution will prove or disprove whether or not culture by adoption is possible and whethout disrupting the nation or contradicting itself. If we accept the burden of being an experiment in this land of experiment it is because we have additional reasons. 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