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THE BROAD AX The Fierce Fight Between Col. Theodore Roosevelt and President Taft CONTINUES TO GROW MORE BITTER AS THE TIME APPROACHES FOR HOLDING THE NATIONAL CONVENTION. BACH AND EVERY DAY IN THE WEEK THE FORMER BOUGH RIDING PRESIDENT CAPTURES NATIONAL DELEGATES WHOM THE POLITICIANS FIGURED WERE SOLID. FOR THE PRESENT OCCUPANT OF THE WHITE HOUSE. Vol. XVII The Fierce Fight Theodore R. Preside CONTINUES TO GROW MORE BITA FOR HOLDING THE NATION EACH AND EVERY DAY IN THE W PRESIDENT CAPTURES NAT POLITICIANS FIGURED WEB FOR THE PRESENT OCCUPANT OF It goes without saying that the fierce fight between Col. Theodore Boosevelt and President Taft, is getting hotter and hotter and continues to grow more bitter as the time approaches for hold- ing the National Convention. It is indeed very surprising to see how Col. Roosevelt and his managers and supporters, have put the hosts of President Taft to flight in the various states which had been looked upon as strongholds for the President; for example almost the solid delegation of Pennsylvania has wheeled into line for Col. Roosevelt, and each and every day in the week the former Rough Riding President, captures National delegates whom the politicians figured were or would be solid for the present occupant of the White House. At the present time the wisest politicians are willing to admit that Col. MEETING OF THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF COLORED PEOPLE All the ministers of Chicago have been individually appealed to to preach on Sunday, April 28, upon the subject of "The Lynching Evil in this Country." This request has gone to them from the local committee of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People which begins its fourth annual Conference in Chicago upon that day. Thousands of pamphlets dealing with the lynching evil, especially with its sporadic appearance in northern states like Illinois and Pennsylvania, have been sent to the clergy for their guidance. This literature seems to have made a deep impression upon many of them who have responded earnestly to the plea for co-operation. "The continuance of lynching," one minister wrote the committee," seems to me a challenge to Christianity. I should certainly feel that I was derelict in my duty if I did not emphasize for my people the deep lesson of shame which this holds for us all." Similar material has been sent to the daily newspapers, not only of Chicago but of many other cities, in order to strengthen public sentiment against further spread of this national shame. This part of the work for the forthcoming conference has been in the charge of Mr. T. W. Allinson of the Henry Booth house, Dr. C. E. Bentley and other members of the local committee which includes Miss Jane Addams, Mrs. Ida Wells-Barnett, Mrs. Celia Parker Wooley, Mr. Louis F. Post, Miss Sophonisba Breckenridge, Mr. Willioughby Walling, Judge E. O. Brown and others. One of the most striking features of the opening session of the Conference, held at the new Sinai Temple on Sunday evening, will be the appearance of the venerable Abdul Baha, head of the Bahai order which is now spreading with its tenets of brotherly love and inter-racial harmony, around the world. The Bahai cult comes originally from Persia and embraces people of all religions and races, Christians, Mohammedans, Jews and others. It is said that Abdul Baha made a profound impression in London last year when he appeared at the great Universal Congress of Races. Abdul Baha insists that he is not seeking converts to a special religion but is merely preaching to the followers of all faiths, creeds and colors that they can, and should, live in HEW TO THE LINE; LET THE CHIPS FALL WHERE THEY MAY Roosevelt, is running neck and neck with President Taft. Many prominent Afro-Americans in all parts of the country are tooting their horns for Col. Roosevelt, which seems to indicate that they would rather take chances with him in the White House than with President Taft. For some cause or other President Taft, seemed to take much delight in loading down the United States Supreme Court, with rebel Democrats from the southern states; this has in a large degree contributed to his unpopularity among the Colored Republicans. It is our honest opinion, however, that even with this bad blunder on the part of President Taft that he is and will continue to make a safer President for all of the people, than Col. Roosevelt. harmony and mutual respect. He is strenuously opposed to race discrimination and oppression. Dressed in his picture sque robes and turban, Abdul Baha will appear for a few minutes at the Sunday night meeting and address the audience briefly. The other speakers that night will be Mr. Oswald, Garrison Villard, editor of the New York Evening Post and the grandson of William Lloyd Garrison, the abolitionist: Dr. Emil G. Hirsch; and Professor William Pickens of Talladega, Fla., one of the most eloquent Colored speakers in the country. Miss Jane Addams will preside at the meeting. On Monday and Tuesday morning, afternoon and evening, the sessions will be held at Handel Hall, Randolph street near Wabash avenue. All sessions, it is announced, will be open to the public without charge. MAYOR PROCLAIMS CLEAAING UP WEEK. Householders, Merchants and Children Urged to Help Rid City of Litter for Six Days, Beginning April 29. Mayor Harrison has designated a cleaning up week, beginning April 29, for Chicago and curing that week he hopes to have various bodies that are interested in seeing a cleaner Chicago co-operate in making the city so. He has sent a proclamation to Acting Superintendent of Streets Frank W. Solon and also sent a copy of it to Mrs. Ella Flagg Young, superintendent of schools. His reason for sending the copy to Mrs. Young was based on a hope that the school children would cooperate as they did in years past under a prevailing custom. The proclamation issued by the mayor reads as follows: Text of Proclamation To the Citizens of Chicago "Whereas, It is the desire of the administration to promote the physical appearance and sanitary conditions of our city, and appreciating that, even with our best endeavors, it is almost an impossibility to do this without the co-operation and assistance of the general public. "Therefore, I, Carter H. Carrison, mayor of the city of Chicago, urge the people of this city to assist in obtaining better conditions of municipal cleanliness by burning all combustible materials, thereby preventing the light material being carried broadcast by the wind; by taking care in every possible way not to litter streets and alleys and by placing all accumulations in metal receptacles [Picture of a man in a suit and bow tie]. HON. THOMAS GALLAGHER. Member of Congress from the 8th Congressional District, who has made an honorable record in the lower halls of Congress and who completely routed hog all, Alderman John Powers, at the primaries, Tuesday, April 9th. set just inside the lot line, and further ask all citizens to set aside the week beginning April 20$^{d}$ to promote general outdoor cleaning. "CARTER H. HARRISON." too, it is work that takes people out of doors. It is work that it is good for both the body and mind. It is work that soothes the nerves strengthens the muscles and bring Duty of Merchants. "I am convinced," said Mayor Harrison, referring to the plea, "that many of our downtown merchants could do more to keep the streets in better condition if they would lend a hand and make a little effort. In some seasons and on certain days, when there are strong winds blowing, some corners become the dirtiest in the city simply because material is not gathered up. "In the old days it was a custom to have regular cleaning up periods, when all people co-operated and I hope they will do so again." A swat in time saves nine—and then some. Of course, we are speaking of flies. Mrs. Fly lays about 120 eggs at a time and these will develop into full fledged flies in about twelve days. Inside of another fifteen days the flies from the first batch of eggs will produce about 7,000 more. From this colony if they are industrious—and flies never loaf on the job when it comes to propagating their kind—there will be inside of thirty days about 432,000 flies, whose main business it will be to spread the germs of disease everywhere and to pester people generally. And if this last colony is let alone before the killing frosts of autumn come, they will have developed into more millions than any one would have time to count. So then the moral is plain: Swat the fly and get after the first ones you see. And don't forget the screens for the doors and windows. How about that back yard with its winter accumulation of rubbish of almost every kind? Have you tackled it yet? For goodness sake don't let your neighbor beat you to it. The planting season is here. Have you made up the flower beds yet? Why not get the children interested in a home flower garden? Flowers add so much to the beauty and attractiveness of the home surroundings that it is hard to understand why they are not planted in every yard. There are many of the old fashioned varieties that need but little attention and richly repay for the care and labor given. Then, SPRING HINTS too, it is work that takes people out of doors. It is work that is good for both the body and mind. It is work that soothes the nerves, strengthens the muscles and brings peace of mind. Try it and see. Mr. and Mrs. Julius N. Avendorph and Mrs. Erina Jones Introudues Their Neice, Miss Ethel C. Mitchell, (into Society at the Appomattox Club. W. R. Cowan, Master of Ceremonies. One of the most delightful affairs ever given in Chicago was the debutante party given by Mr. and Mrs. Julius N. Avendorph and Mrs. Erina Jones in honor of their niece, Miss Ethel C. Mitchell, at the Appomattox club house Tuesday evening, April 16, from eight to twelve The club house was brilliantly illuminated and decorated with cut flowers. The receiving party consisted of the following young ladies: Miss Ethel C. Mitchell, Miss Myra Jones of Cincinnati, O., Miss Bennie Stoval, Miss Ada Lou Mitchell, Miss Mabel Wright and Miss Pearl Mayo. Mrs. Jones and Mrs. W. R. Cowan served as matrons. Mr. W. R. Cowan, president of the Appomattox club, was master of ceremonies, assisted by the host, Mr. Julius N. Avendorph. Dancing was the feature of the evening from ten to twelve o'clock, as which time the sweet strains of a dreamy waltz was turned into "Home Sweet Home." The young folks enjoyed every minute of the evening and when they realized from the strains of "Home Sweet Home" the closing hour had rolled around with such rapidity there was a sigh of regret as an evening of social life had been enjoyed to the extent of intoxication whereby all wanted more, as it was an occasion that will long be remembered by all present. Frappe was served all evening. Miss Kitchener was at the piano.—"N." 20TH ANNIVERSARY OF HANNI-BAL LODGE NO. 6 K.P. This evening Hannibal Lodge, No. 6 K. P., will celebrate its 20th anniversary at Odd Fellows Hall, 3335 State street and the following program will be rendered: Introduction of Toastmaster, Bro. Frank B. Waring; Dr. Allen A. Wesley, Toastmaster; "Address of Welcome," Bro. R. A. J Shaw; "Where Do We Stand?" Bro. S. A. T. Wat- Llewellyn C. Collins, Former Secretary of The Metropolitan Mercantile and Realty Company IMPRISONED IN SING SING, NEW YORK, FOR ONE YEAR FOR COMMITTING FRAUD IN SELLING SOME LOTS AT RAHWAY, M. J. Llewellyn C. Collins, the well known attorney and ex-secretary of the Defunct Metropolitan Mercantile and Realty Company, was sentenced to one year in Sing Sing prison by Judge Foster in General Sessions of the Criminal Court for grand larceny from G. A. Brambill, Harlem's prosperous merchant tailor. Mr. Collins took his sentence and the stern arraignment of the Judge with a quiver. In a calm voice he asked that he be given a few days in which to straighten up his affairs, and this was granted. He was convicted February 28. a title to them stating that they were both free and clear. He was to pay $600 for two lots, buying one ourriet for which he gave his cheek for $3 and received a deed. Up until June 1910, he had paid $190 on the other installments of from $10 to $30. All these documents were produced court. Mr. Brambill said that he had insisted on having the titles to the lot examined by the Title Guaranty Trust Co., but Mr. Collins had disused him eventually as it was entirely unnecessary and costly. In June, 1910, however, on hearing Judge Foster, in sentencing Collins, said: "It is really a sad thing that a man like you, moving in the best of your race and as a lawyer, should be convicteddd in such a case as this. It lowers the standard of the judiciary every time a man at the bar is convicted. The sentence in such a case ought to be five years. But the court has taken into consideration the fact that you have never before been convicted, your general good character up to the present time, and also the fact that you have served six or more weeks in prison and a still greater punishment from the fact of your disbarment." He paid a glowing compliment to Miss Grace Campbell, who had so thoroughly reported the case. "All races have their good women, and it is good that your race has such a probation officer," he said. In concluding, Judge Foster said: "You're an intelligent, learned man. You deserve no leniency, therefore, on the score of ignorance. You did your race a service in helping to launch such a project, but you got the get-rich-quick idea in your head and fell." Complaining Witness Merciful. Mr. Brambill, when asked by the court if, as the complaining witness, he had anything to say, said that he joined in the general request for as much leniency as the ease demanded. At the trial Mr. Brambill testified that he became a stockholder in the Metropolitan in 1907, and there formed the acquaintance of his fellow Hampton graduate, the secretary. Mr. Collins, he said, came to him early in March, 1909, and asked him if he would help the company out of its financial straits by lending it $500 or more. He refused, but agreed to buy some real estate from the company if they had any to sell. After a visit to Bahway and assurances from Mr. Collins he purchased two lots, getting kins; "Our Military Department," Col. Stuart D. Fowler; "The True Knight," Bro. Edw. D. Green; "What of the Future?" Bro. Albert B. George. RACE GLEANINGS. Negro Population in The United States. A recent bulletin of the United States census gives the following figures as the Colored population of the various states: Ohio; 111,443; Indiana, 60,280; Illinois, 109,041; Michigan, 17,115; Wisconsin, 2,900; Minnesota, 7,084; Iowa, 15,078; Missouri, 157,562; North Dakota, 617; South Dakota, 817; Nebraska, 7,679; Kansas, 54,504; Deleware, 31,181; Maryland, 232,249; District of Columbia, 94,446; Virginia, 671,000; West Virginia, 64,173; North Carolina, 697,843; Georgia, 1,176,836; Florida, 308,069; Kentucky, 361,656; Tennessee, 473,088; Alabama, 908,275; Mississippi, 1,009,487; Arkansas, 442,891; Louisiana, 713,874; Okla- Collins, Former The Metropolitan and Realty Company YORK, FOR ONE YEAR FOR COM- NG SOME LOTS AT RAHWAY, M. J. a title to them stating that they were both free and clear. He was to pay $600 for two lots, buying one outright, for which he gave his check for $300 and received a deed. Up until June, 1910, he had paid $190 on the other installments of from $10 to $30. All of these documents were produced in court. Mr. Brambill said that he had insisted on having the titles to the lots examined by the Title Guaranty & Trust Co., but Mr. Collins had disused him eventually as it was entirely unnecessary and costly. In June, 1910, however, on hearing from another lot purchaser of some trouble in the title to the tract he visited the Metropolitan headquarters and saw Mr. Collins. The latter stated to him that the trouble was trivial and upon a second visit he was reassured after the same fashion and that according to the company's contract that his lots could and would be released within ten days from a blanket mortgage, concerning which no previous mention had been made. Accordingly Mr. Brambill called at the expiration of ten days, and upon being directed by Mr. Collins to Mr. Adkins, who had purchased the lots, he stated his case and told the president that he must have his lots released or his money refunded. The latter replied that he could not get his money, nor was the company in the position to get the lots for him. When Mr. Brambill threatened him with taking the case to the District Attorney's office, he said: "It is your pleasure." In September, 1910, the mortgage on the entire tract was foreclosed and the title which had previously been in the hands of Mr. Adkins and which two days before the foreclosure had been transferred to the company, passed back into the hands of a Mr. Wolf, who had sold it to Mr. Adkins. The company had, of course, been selling lots up to this time which it did not even have the title for.—New York City Exchange. The Metropolitan Mercantile and Realty Company, was the greatest business enterprise conducted by Afro-Americans in the United States, and it is really too bad that through unbusiness like management it failed with more than a hundred thousand dollars of the poor people's money swallowed up in it and that some of its head officials, will be compelled to spend considerable time behind the prison doors, at Sing Sting, New York.—Editor. homa, 137,612; Texas, 600,020; Montana, 1,834; Idaho 646; Wyoming, 235; Colorado, 11,453; New Mexico, 1,628; Arizona, 2,067; Utah, 1,138; Oregon, 1,364; New Hampshire, 564; Vermont, 1,621; Massachusetts, 38-042; Rhode Island, 9,429; Connecticut, 14,114; New York, 134,181. Mrs. Martha B. Anderson, 6450 Champlain avenue, left the city this morning for Omaha, Neb., where she will appear Tuesday evening April 23 in a song-recital, and on Thursday evening, April 25, she will delight the music loving people of Des Moines, Iowa, with her sweet singing. She will return home Saturday morning, April 27, in order to perfect all arrangements for her concert, at Bethesda Baptist Church, Thursday evening, May 9. Mr. and Mrs. Noah D. Thompson, have removed from 1226 N. 11th street, Los Angeles, Cal., to 5420 Longbeach avenue in that city. Mr. Thompson sends his kindest regards to his old friends in Chicago. EES COTW MN PUBLISHED WEEKLY. ‘Win promsigate and sf sil times up- etd the tree principles of Democracy, ‘bat Catholics, Protestants, Priests, Infidels. asic Taxers, Republicans, or anyone cise eam have their sy, as long ae their inn- gvage te proper and responsibility 1s fxed. ‘Fhe Broad Ax te = newspaper whose pintiorm te broad enough for all, ever iaiming the editorial right to speak Its own seat communications will receive at- tention, Write omy on one side of the paper. Sebscriptions mast be paid in sdvance. ‘AGvertising ‘rates made known on appll- cation. iz ‘Address ail communications to THE BROAD AX, tet? ARMOUR AVENUE, CHICAGO, ILL. PHONE DREXEL 4500. JULIUS F. TAYLOR, Béitor and Publisher. ee Entered as Seoond-Class Matter Aug. 19, 1902, at the Post Office at Chicago, Iilinols, vender Act of March 2, 1619. $$ WALTERS A. M. E ZION CHURCH, CORNER 38TH AND DEARBORN STREETS. REV. .H. J. CALLIS, PASOR The most successful Easter pro- gram ever rendered at this church was that of Easter, two weeks ago, ‘The alter decorations, in charge of No. 2 stewardess, Mrs. Mary Green chairman, were greatly admired and said to be the best ever seen in this church. The morning services en largely attended, the celebration 0! sacrament greatly enjoyed; perhaps the most impressive was the cele- bration of the Holy Eucharist, in charge of Presiding Elder T. H. Tip- tom, The afternoon services were largely attended and the special program arranged, together with the sermon delivered by the pastor, were the enjoyable features of this ser- vice. In the evening the house was packed to the doors, and every num- ber was greatly enjoyed by the large audience. The program was as fol- lows: The Resurrection....T. W. Hughes By Choir. ees Mrs. Jas. H. Williams. Bass Solo ...............- Selected Mr. Elmer Meyers. Reading ......-...-. A Call to You Mrs. James Jackson. Violin Solo .............. Selected Master Huston. ‘The Triumph of Life.......... seceseeeee Charles S. McDowell Miss Daisy Ware. Oration—Man the Instrument of His Creator. Dr. Harris. Anthem—Awake for the Golden Glorious Break. By Choir. The recitation by Mrs. Jackson, the paper by Mrs. Williams and the oration by Dr. Harris, as well as the solo by Miss Ware deserve special mention. Our Easter offering passed the $500.00 mark. Sunday services will be as usual; the pastor will preach morning and evening. A splendid musical and literary Program have een arranged for Monday night, the 22nd. Bishop B. L. Blackwell, S. T. D., will be pres- ent and deliver an address. The musical program is in charge of out organist, Mrs. Jackson. The young ladies of the church will serve re- freshments. The public is cordially invited. The stewards will make a special effort at the services on Sunday to increase the treasury. They are asking each member to bring SOc. ‘Mrs. H. J. Calis, the pastor's wife, is still confined to her bed. She does not improve fast. WAYMAN CHAPEL NOTES. Sunday morning, April 21, at 11 a. m. the Rev. Levy Christy, pastor of the A. M. E. Church at Mound City, TIL, will preach. Rev. Christy is spending a few weeks here in the city, the high water having shut up his church in Mound City. Dr. H. E. Stewart is delivering en- other series of special sermons at the church. The subject for Sunday night will be “The Flying Roll,” ot the prophecy of the automobile in the twentieth century. Found in the book of Nahum. Sunday night, April 28, the pastor will give an illustrated sermon on thé startling subject, “The Wreck ai Sea.” A dramatic presentation of : great subject. Also illsutrated song: appropriate to the occasion. ~ Wayman chapel has renewed it mortgage again and the debt ha been reduced in the last two year and six montbs eleventh hundred dol lars. Improvements made and pai for-emounting to Gver a thousan dollars. Mr. Batler, the secretary sill read the report next Sanday “Apel 21. : = + A cantata will be given at Way “tan im the near future. The pasto will leave for Kansas City after the first Sunday in May. : ‘The evening choir will repeat by special request some of the Easter selections next Sunday night. Josephine Lewis, little daughter of Mrs. Katherine Lewis, and another child, adopted by Mrs. M. A. John- som, were baptized atv the church last Sunday morning. HE AMATEUR MINISTREL CLUB. To the Public: The Amateur Ministre! club wishes to thank the public and the press for the hearty support and grand suc- cess given them Easter Monday night. The Old’ Folks Nursery and ‘the Day Nursery will receive benefits thereby. It is the intention of the Minstrel club, with the support of the public, to’ give a show each year for charity and publish a report after each. The final meeting was ad- journed until next Wednesday in re- spect and sympathy for three of their members, Messers. William G. Carroll, D. Goodloe (Doc.) Simtk, and. David McGowan—in whose families deaths have ocenrred <ince our last show. Issac Dunlap, President. H. Harry Hoarsley, Secretary.” Charles W. Washington, ‘Treasurer. THE “REPUBLICAN COUNTY CENTRAL COMMITTEE. The following are the recently elected members of the Cook county Republican central committee: First—Francis Brady. Second—Martin B. Madden. Third—R .R. Levy. Fourth—Charles Strook. Firth—Edward Lizinger. Sixth Roy O. West. Seventh—Issac N. Powell. Eighth—John J. Hanberg. Ninth—Edward J. Ertzman. Tenth—Joseph E. Bidwell. Eleventh—Charles Barrett. Twelith—A. W. Miller. Thirteenth—D. W. Clark. “ Fourteenth—D. A. Campbell.“ Fifteenth—George A. Mugler. Sixteenth—F. J. Devine. Seventeenth—Lewis D. Sitts. Eighteenth—H. K. Galpin. Nineteenth—Charles Marner. Twentieth—William Cooke. Twenty-first—Fred A. Busse. Twenty-second—B. F. Clettenberg. Twenty-third—John J. Healy. Twenty-fourth—Ed, J. Brundage. age. Twenty-fifth—Issac J. Bryan. Twenty-sixth—John C. Cannon. Twenty-seventh—W. H. McEwen. ‘Twenth-eighth—Joseph Haas. Twenty-ninth—Matthew Miller. Thirtieth—Thomas J. Healy. Thirty-first—Charles S. Deneen. Thirty-second—Charles W. Vail. Thirty-third—George Hitzman. Thirty-fourths-Wm. Livingston. Thirty-fifth—C. J. Peters. County—George Mann, William H. Weber, Peter M. Hoffman, Wil- liam Busse, Allan S. Rayl, F. H. An- derson. ~ ST. MARY'S A. M. E. CHURCH, $251 Dearborn St, Rev. James Hig- gins, Pastor. Bishop C. T. Shaffer, D. D., will open St. Mary’s A. M. E. Church in their new location at 251 Dearborn street, Sunday, April 21. Dr. J. S. Woods, of Aurora, will preach at 3 o'clock and Rev. S. L. Birt, of St. John’s; Dr. Fenwick, Rev. L. E. Christy, of Mound Cityy Ill, and other visiting ministers. Judge A. C. Mayo, of Gary, Ind, will preach at 8 o'clock, also Rev. John Garrison will be present. You are cordially invited to attend these meetings. The choir will render some excel- Jent music. ars Town Topics. For the collection and disposal of garbage the city of Cleveland pays 80 cents a ton. For the same service the city of Chicago pays $4 a ton—Chice- go Tribune. Cincinnati seems to fear the advent Im tts courts of the suffragette. One of its judges permits lawyers and forors to smoke “as a stimulant to ‘thought.”"—Cieveland Leader. d A timid’ observer of New York re ‘marks that “it is three times as dan- gerous- to cross Broadway as the ocean.” In the matter of gun play ‘that town is livelier than an old time Pegs em a a : “I should think,” sald the woman of the house, “you would have too much gelf respect to make your living by begging.” “Lady,” protested Raffon _Wrats, drawing bimself up, “self respeck is wot ails me! I wouldn't do this fur no other. man’ on earth.”—Chicago Trib- mae. OHIPs = Mr. Wm. D. Neighbors and Mr. James T. Brewington are at Spring- field attending the State Republican Convention. ; Messrs. Alfred Anderson and Cary B. Lewis, were honored with season passes by Mr. Comiskey of the Amer- ican League Baseball Club. Mrs. Ernest Ambrose Bunn, 6220 Morgan street; who is a leader in the best Afro-American society in Engle- wood, is an admirer of this paper. Miss Bessie Garner, a young Col- ored girl of the Hilburn (N. Y.) High School, made a four years’ course in three years, and whenshe graduated was chosen valedictorian and won a $100 scholarship at Simmons College. J. S. Dorsey, who has been connect- ed with several drug stores round town and J. T. Smith, of Atlanta, Ga, have-opened a drug store at 2701 Dearborn street; opposite of Olivet Baptist church, and so far they are doing a nice business. Mrs. L. Blanche Taylor, has bought out the notion and cigar store and news stand, conducted for some years by Mrs. J. H. Lewis, at 15 West 36th street near State; and as in the Past. The Broad Ax will he found on sale at her place of business. Mrs. Jas. H. Johnson, 3650 Prairie avenue; proved herself to be a splen- did saleslady, for she seemed to take the lead in selling frappe, at the Lad- tes’ Auxiliary Ball, Tuesday evening at Masonic Hall; given in connection with the 8th Regiment [Illinois Na- tional Guards. Mrs. Richard Moore, wife of Rich- ard Moore, the high mason, and who was an officer of Bethel church, at the time that Rev. Abraham Lincoln Murray, held forth there, passed away the first of this week at the home of her daughter, Mrs. A. M. Smith 3265 Vernon ave., funeral sery- ices were held over the remains of Mrs. Moore, at Bethel Church. on Thursday. The Chicago newspaper men often fight over conflicting issues, but are broad enough to recognize that they have certain interests in common that call for a meeting ‘on a common Rround. Hence their local Press As- sociation and News Bureau. They have set an example which Colored editors in other communities might follow to advantage. — Richard W. Thompson, in the Freeman, Indianap. olis, Ind. Mrs. Grace Hart-Alexander, who secured a divorce from her late hus- band, Claude Alexander, last fall, through her Attorney Louis B. An- derson, and who went on a visit to New Orleans, La., in February, this year; was recently united in marriage at Crown Point, Ind, to Mr. J. A. Brown, of the Crescent City. Mr. and Mrs. Brown are at home with Mr and Mrs. S. W. Green at 226 S. Rob ertson street, New Orleans, La. J. H. Wiley, head of an extensive cotton: manufacturing company of Dallas, Tex., who is on his way home from New York city, where he sold more than $50,000 worth of twenty year gold bonds of his company, bearing 6 per cent interest, and who is one of the most enterprising Afro- American business men in the soutn, lectured last Sunday afternoon at the Negro Fellowship League, 2830 State street, on “The South and its rapid development. om The ball given, by the Ladies’ Aux- iliary Illinois National Guards, Tues- Gay evening at Masonic Hall, 3956 State street, under the direction of Mrs. John R. Marshall, assisted by Mrs. Louis B. Anderson, Mrs. Jas. S. Nelson, Mrs. Robert R. Jackson, Mrs. Lottie Jefferson, Miss Essie Arnold, ‘Mrs. Clinton L. Hill, and other ladies; was not as largely attended: as it should have been; nevertheless, it was a nice social affair and many of the ladies present looked very charm- iow in their new Easter gowns. Col. Jackson Gordon, one of the officials of the Roosevelt Colored Re- Publican League of Illinois, is very tuch elated over the fact; that Col. Roosevelt, has personally forwarded a letter to William H. Weber, one nish “Seton Oa chest praising and ti members of the soot ion Republican League in this state, ‘the great assistance they rendered in helping him to sweep it from end to end, and to roll up a majority of 115000 at the primaries in favor of his renomination for President of OHIO VOTERS IN RECEPTIVE MOOD Pleased With Appointment of Leroy H. Godman. WELL QUALIFIED ATTORNEY, rm cn 1 dence In T. & Hogan, The colored people of Ohio, always im the front rank of progressive achievement, will set a new example this year for other commonwealths by 12 specific act of forsighted political ‘sagacity. The situation came about ‘in this way: For a uumber of years the active colored Republicans bave made an effort to impress on the ‘minds of the state officials the impor- tance of giving some intelligent col- ored men of the state a position above the ordinary messenger or porter's fob, ‘which bus been their portion for “loy- alty to the cause and for services ren- dered.” ‘The uspal stereotyped promises were made by candidates, and the giad hand and fetchiug smile were given until they were elected. Then the victorious patriots would suddenly and sullenly forget what bad transpired prior to the first Tuesday in November. But they would again become affected with the same awakening and willingness about election time. and the faithful Ohio colored voters would march to the polls and “put the cross under the eagle.” Nearly two years ago there was elected to the office of attorney general in Ohio Timothy 8. Hogan, a Demo- erat, by nationality Irish and religion Catholic. Surely there is a combina- tion from which the average colored citizen would expect little. Bot here Hogan fooled them. Having been a man who built his way from the bot- tom round and with a keen apprecia- tion of Scott's “A man's a wan for a’ - nee See ieee eS ate es ae oe eS 3 : . a). x ~ ae be > ee <* aS Bees ¢ eh tg) ge = Sas sk be ep eg ee Lime Saeed mem. LanoY @ ecDuAE. that.” Mr. Hogan set about to sur round himseif with capable assistants. He Is the legal adviser of a great state of over 4,000,000, and be must have efficiency above all else. He was elected on a partisan plat- form, but he is the attorney general of all the people. So Mr. Hogan thought to himself after he had settled into the routine of hts official duties that inas- much as the colored people form a considerable portion of the Ohio popu- lation they should have representation in his office. He said if Oblo could foroish him the right man he would appoint the man as ove of his as- sistants. ‘Well, after the Ohioans bad rubbed their eyes and saw that ther were not dreaming and that Mr. Hogan was not Joking Attornes Ley A. Godman was selected und was forthwith ap- polated by Mr. Hogan as special coun- sel at a salary of $1.800 per year as a starter, the first time a colored man ever held such an office in the state of Ohio. Mr. Godman Is a graduate of Ohio State nniversity and Howard university law choo! and served for two year with Judge Sfer. federal Judge. He is making good. 80 on the theory that “a bird in the and fs worth two in the bush.” the colored people of Ohio are going to vote to retain Attornes General T. 8 Hogan. Mr. Mogan took the “Initle- tive” The colored people will respond on the “referendnm.” and the “recall” ‘will get its chance In the other candl- Gates getting their just dres for the shortcomines of their predecessors. Plans For Sunday Scheol Convention. The New Engiand Baptist Sunday schoo! conveution will bold its next an- nual meeting in the Sunday schoot of the. Movumental Baptist church tn West Philadelphia. Pa.. for two days. Deginning on Tuesday. June 11. Each school ar Young People's anion ts en- titles to two delegaten. The geoeral officers of the convention are busily engaged with Important matters per- tainjng to the program and other fea- tures for the entertainment and {o- struction of delegaten. One of the ex- tra features will be a visit tothe Downingtown Agricultural and Indes trial schoo! at Dewolngtown, Pa. PROVISIONS OF THE PAGE BILL Senate Msasure Which Aims to Equalize Schoo! Funds, WOULD BENEFIT BOTH RACES. inserted Before the Document Is Finally Voted Upen—Importance of Retaining Main Features Shown. Washington. —A measure of far reaching cousequences to the future of material aid to public education Is em- bodied in senate pill No. 3. now wait- tmz acilon on the calender of the Viet States senate. The bill was Introduced by Senator Carroll 3. Page of Vermont and Is entitled “A bil! to co-operate with the states in encour- aging instruction in agriculture, the trades and industries and home eco- homies in xecundary schools. in main- taining Instruction in these vocational subjects In state normal schools, in maintaining extension departments in state colleges of agricuiture and me- chanic arts and to appropriate money ‘and regulate its expenditure.” As orig- ‘inally drawn by Senator Page. the bill contains the following provision: Section 3. ‘That in states where separate ‘schools and departments of schools and colleges are maintained for the colored race ‘the allotment of money for the encour- agement of Instruction in the aforesald “Yocations shall be tn proportion to the | population of the two races respectively, and whether the districts for agricultural secondary echools for the two races are coterminous or not coterminous thelr to- tal number shall be determined by the humber of districts permissible under this act. ‘The bill as reported from the com- mittee on agriculture and forestry does not contain this provision, The provision which directs that an equi- table portion of the moneys appropriat- ed shall go to the colored schools was stricken out at the suggestion of Senators Hoke Smith of Georgia, El- ‘Ison Smnith of South Carolina and John L. Bankhead of Alabama. It is of the greatest importance that this provi- sion be reinserted in the bill before it passes the senate. ‘The state schools of the bigher grade for Negroes in the states represented by the senators objecting to section 3 of the Page bill get practieally no sup- port from these states, but are being supported out of the Morrill fund from the United States, and even this is not equitably distributed. In proof of this statement the following figures, taken from the annual report of the experi- Ment stations for tfe sear 1909, are cited in relation to state schools for Negroes and whites in Alatuma, Geor- sia and South Carotina. the three states Whose seniors object te the distribu- thon of pute rnds “in proportion to the popuition of the two races” ‘The state school for whites in Aluhama bas Permanent fuels aint equytment wale Wed at $75SATU: the sehoot for Negroes at $132.502 The xtate seboni for whites in Geor- gia bux vaines of the sine kind amounting to $1.2N1MG, ihe sehoo! for Negroes $58.4) The stase shoot for whites in South Carolina bas funds and equipment valued at $1,185.51. the school for Negroes. $24.50 The Negroes of Georgia are 46 per cent of the population. Georsia received from the treasury of the United States in aid of colleges of agriculture and me- chanic arts $35,000 in 1%. *The Ne- groes’ share of the money. if distrib- uted “in proportion to the population of the two races.” would lave been $16,100. What be receives in lieu of the land script fund of 182 ts $800. In Geor- gia. therefore. in 190Y the Negro should have received of fucd< of national source $24.100. He actually received but $19,000. Georgia maintains eleven congressigna! industrial bigh schools for white people ut public expense, but not one for colored people. The United States goverument spent $11,000 for agricultural experiment stations in Georgia in 1909. Practically none of it ‘was expended in the interest of colored people. There are in Georgia seventy- two federa! agents stimulating agricul- tural interests among the white farm- ers and only two among Negro farm ors. 5 ‘These facts and figures tell thelr own story. From them it can readily be ‘pen that section 3 is a very important provision of Senator Page's bill for the ‘Negro and ought to be reinserted when the bill comes up for consideration on the floor of the senate. It will not be inserted unless public sentiment shall make itself felt to this cffect. The col- ‘ored people of the country and espe- Gally those in the south should become ‘active among themselves and among the white friends of the race in and ‘out of congress to.insure the reinser- tion of section 2 in the Page bill. =~ Baltimore Conference Delegates. Among the delegates from the Baltt- More conference to the general con- ference of the A. M. E. church, which ‘Will be beid tp Kansas City, Mo. In May. are the Rev. Dr. John Hurst. ‘who is the present financial secretary for the deoomination; Rev. A. L. Gaines, Rev. C. H. Murray, Dr. D. G. Hill, Rev. P. J. Jordan, Rey, O. B Steptean, Messrs. J. Prank Biagbure and Thomas J. Hilliard. Dr. Hurst wie eee bishop and editor of the Christian Sete eee STEADY ADVANCE IN EDUCATION High School Record ot My Catherine 0. Lealtad, BEST STUDENT IN HER cuss Dea fe car uae concen St. Paul, Minn. So far this year the record of young Afro-Americans in our high schools and colleges has been as equally satis factory as in Other years. Students in schools of university grade on the| whole have made high averages. No. tably among such institutions are at, Janta, Howard, Shaw, Lincoln and] Fisk universities. In the high schools| of Boston, Brooklyn, Baltimore, Wasb- ington, Dallas, Tex., and a few other large cities high efficiency in ciaag work has been attained. In making up the June graduating class in the Mechanic Arts bigh schoo! in St. Paul it was found that ‘Miss Catherine Deaver Lealid, daugh- ter of the Rev. Aifrei ! Leak tad, rector of St. Philip Episcopal ebureb, bad made the best fecord of any student in the clos Se has stood at the bead of ler cass olmost constantly for three years. til, ae cording te the custom founed for many years. Mise Leraliad ul te the ‘valedictorian of her clase nest June Ip speaking of the rule of the sehoot ia this rexpect. Processor Weithreeht, Principal of the Mecb:inic Arts nigh school. is reported ux suvins the st dent showing the best record shall have that houor, and the second best shall be the salutatorian. It is simply & question of brains. not color There fs an average of about fifty white to one colored student in the school. Mar cellus L. Countryman, whose father is counsel for the Great Northern rai- road, stands second and will therefore be the ciass salutatorian. Miss Catherine Deaver Lenitad be longs to a family of educators. She is the great-granddaughter of Jobg Stew- 4 e| a Dif) 7 Fe ges . l art Stanley. who was a schoolmaster of note many sears ago in Newbera N.C. Many. of the free colored peo ple in slavery days—B. K. Sampson and members of the well known Harris, Laryes and Alston families—received thelr first education at the Newbers school. The mother of Charles W- Chestnut was also a pupil of the same school. John Stewart Stanley's souns- er brother with his family migrated t New York and Ohio in the early 8 Another brother of Mr. Stanley als? came north about ten years prior (0 the younger Stanley. Their children and grandchildren have tauglit schoo! north and south for many years. Miss Lealtad’s mother was for many years a sucéessful teacher in the pub Ue schools of Cleveland. 0. The late Miss Kate Stanley. 2 cousin of Miss Catherine Leaitad. was one of the first @olored teachers in public schools New York. Mrs. Harriet Merrill Bro and Miss J. H. Burress of the st! family stock are among the pu school teachers of New York at t Present time. Dr. V. Morton-Jones M. D., a cousin of the Leaitads. 's # successful practicing physician Brooklyn and also ‘a worker ip good movements for racial advance ment. ‘The Political Fight In Arkansas In fourteen counties of the stalé ” Arkansas the colored citizens of voting age outnumber the white. In some ot the counties the proportion Is 5" id to be fourcolored to‘one white. For the Durpose of defeating the “grandfather elause” of the proposed amendment No, 11 to the state constitution, which fs to be voted upon at the fall elec tions, they are organizing leagues every county. ’ FOUR ROOM STRICTLY MOD- ERN COTTAGE TO RENT. For rent four room strictly moder cottage to rent at 6252 Sangamon St. will rent to a family of adults for $12 ‘Nice lawn and everything fine cal! Can You Afford Sickness or Accidents? Very few people can. Your pay usually stops, and the bills keep right on coming in. Thousands of accidents happen each day, and sickness may come almost any minute. A SURE WAY TO AVOID THIS is by taking out a policy in the Bankers Union. Then you can keep right on paying your bills, and make us be your paymaster. ACCIDENT, HEALTH AND LIFE INSURANCE $20 to $50 Benefits for $1.00. Balance to protect contracts over $1,000,000. Bankers Union Call, write, or telephone Randolph $461 for further information. "As good as the best, better than all the rest." HOME OFFICE: 1000-1061 FIRST NATIONAL BANK BUILDING, CHICAGO, IL. WANTED—Reliable Agent. Can make good salary. Write or apply to P. D. McKENNA, District Manager, 1128 Harris Trust Blvd., Chicago, IL. SIRES AND SONS. William Marconi, of wireless fame, is now a member for life of the Italian senate. The king wanted to give him a patent of nobility, but Marconi defined it. Frederick Adrian Delano, president of several western railroads, was born in China. He was a machinist's apprentice and learned the railroad business by practical experience. Professor Rudolf Eucken of the University of Jena, who goes to Harvard next fall as an exchange professor, is one of Germany's foremost scholars. He will be a member of Harvard faculty as a teacher of philosophy. Colonel Roosevelt is now reputed to be a wealthy man. He has never had extravagant tastes. He is said to be today worth over $1,000,000, which represents his savings from the offices he has held and the royalties on his books. Hudson Maxim, inventor of explosives, declares that in a short time there will be only three countries in the world. These will be the United States of Asia (including Europe), the United States of Africa and the United States of America. Kermit Roosevelt, son of the ex-president, and Robert A. Taft, son of the president, both students at Harvard, are good friends in spite of the controversy that has arisen between their fathers. They are most cordial whenever they meet socially at any of the clubs to which they belong. Pen, Chisel and Brush. B. J. Blommers, who has been commissioned by the government of Holland to paint the portrait of Andrew Carnegie for the Peace temple at the Hague, is in this country to begin his work. August Rodin, president of the Society of Sculptors and Painters of Paris, is of peasant stock and has been compelled to fight the academic art schools every inch of the way to his present place as the most famous contemporary sculptor. Mrs. Wilson Woodrow, writer of fiction, recently was asked whether she was a college graduate. She replied that she was not and that she had never gone to school even. She was the youngest of eight children and was allowed to grow up pretty much as she liked. Spring Tonic. Did any one touch off a spring poem, or just what is the matter?—Duluth News-Tribune. This is the time people begin to plan for the vacations they never take. Charleston News and Courier. At about this time of the year the vacant lot begins to be a good thing to clean up.—Chicago Record-Herald. German Gleanings. Four and one-half per cent of German university students are women. Cabs drawn by horses are no longer permitted to use the main thoroughfares in Berlin. The navy of the German empire is under the supreme command of the German emperor. There are now 6,500 women employed on German railways. The largest representation of women in industrial pursuits in Germany is in the clothing and allied trades, which employ 1,562,000. AGENTS WANTED Agents to sell lots in beautiful Mount Glenwood Cemetery, men and women employed who want to make good extra money by selling lots evenings and on our Sunday excursions. Big commissions paid. Ask for T. M. George, General Manager. Mount Glenwood Cemetery Association. 3125 S. State St. SPECIAL NDTICE To the readers of The Broad Ax:— Here is your chance to get some cheap property, all in best of loca- tions. Cheap lots for cottages from $500 up and other houses and lots for homes or for business places. For particulars, address with stamp. GRANT GARDNER, 1440 Franklin Ave. Grand Haven, Mich. NEWLY DECORATED 5 ROOM FLAT TO RENT. Free Rent to May 1st A nice newly decorated, modern 5 room flat to rent, 5027 Armour avenue. Free rent to May 1st. Phone Drexel 4590. Can You Afford Sickle Very few people can. Your pay usually w in. Thousands of accidents happen each d minute. is by taking out a policy in the Bankers Un your bills, and make us be your paymaster ACCIDENT, HEALTH AN $20 to $50 Benefi Balance to protect contr Bankers Call, write, or telephone Randolph $461 "As good as the best, bet HOME OFFICE: 1000-1041 FIRST NATION WANTED—Bellable Agents. Can make McKENNA, District Manager, 1288 Harris DAMES AND DAUGHTERS. Mrs. E. M. Waddell is the newly elected poundmaster of Los Angeles, the first woman in the country to occupy such a position. Miss Laura G. Grant of New York has been appointed a member of the fire prevention inspectors' bureau of that city, of which there are seventy-five, she being the only woman. The appointment of Mile. Edmee Chandon as assistant astronomer at the Parls observatory marks the official recognition by France of feminine achievement in a branch of science for which women have shown a peculiar aptitude. The Rev. Antoinette Blackwell, D. D., the first woman to be ordained a minister, now in her eighty-eighth year, is the only survivor of the speakers at the first national woman's rights convention, at which Mrs. Julia Ward Howe was the presiding officer. Ellen Spencer Mussey, who for a quarter of a century has held the position of attorney for the Swedish and Norwegian legations in Washington, has been an active and successful lawyer for thirty-five years. In 1896 she established the Woman's Law Class, which has since developed into the Washington College of Law, with its founder as dean. Current Comment. Sir Thomas Lipton wants the America's cup again. - Atlanta Constitution. up again. Arizona Constitution. The new Dreadnought Florida can make 25.6 miles an hour and is meant to run toward an enemy, at that.-Detroit News. The per capita money volume is now smaller than a month ago and a year ago, which ought to destroy the last excuse for any further rise in the cost of living.-New York World. Uncle Sam has some cause to grow dissatisfied with his neighborhood. The next door neighbor to the north refuses to borrow and lend household articles across the back fence, and the next door neighbor to the south is always having a noisy family row.-Nashville Banner. Automobile Runs. Clearly, something should be done to lessen the number of accidents and fatalities due to the operation of automobiles.—Worcester Gazette Of course people who drive automobiles faster than they ought to do not want to kill anybody. But they expect pedestrians to do too much of the watching and all the getting out of the way.—Baltimore News. The driver of a motorcar seems to take it for granted that the lordly superiority given by an automobile endows him with full authority to go where he pleases and how he pleases, whether the pedestrian pleases or not.—Philadelphia Times. Woman's Ways. Most women are economical as long as you can keep them out of dry goods stores.—Chicago News. A woman will tote around two street car tickets and a powder rag in a hand-bag that cost $37.49.—Ohio State Journal. New York woman says that mothers should teach their daughters to flirt. Give them a MA degree, as it were—Columbia State. New York burglaries robbed a safe with a can opener, but we'll bet that a suffragette could have done it with a heirin.—Washington Post. Strap Hangers. Pity the new stepless car cannot be also strapless.-New York American. The stepless street car has arrived, but the strapless car is still deep in the bosom of the future.-New York World. A Chicago physician says street car straps are covered with every germ known to science. Boll your hands after strap hanging.-Baltimore Star. Pert Personals. A poet has called Wilbur and Orville Wright sons of an eagle bird. That's soaring some--Dayton News. Perhaps Commander Scott is lingering long enough at the south pole to establish a summer resort there.--Denver Republican. The name of the leader of the Chinese suffragettes is Yik Yug Ying. It sounds as if one of her cylinders were missing fire.--St. Paul Dispatch. Liberian Affairs Satisfactory. His excellency Daniel Howard, Liberia's new president, is getting a firm grip on the affairs of the government and has thus far demonstrated his ability as a thoughtful leader. President Howard attributes much of the present satisfactory condition of the republic to the interest which the United States has taken in Liberia's welfare. MAN OF WIDE INFLUENCE. Work of the Rev. Dr. W. R. Palmer as Minister and Educator, Newark, N. J.-One of the most influential as well as scholarly pastors in the M. E. connection is the Rev. Dr. W. R. Palmer, pastor of the St. John M. E. church in this city. During his pastorate he has made a notable record, and the church has had a steady growth. It is one of the strongest churches in the M. E. connection in the east. Dr. Palmer has been pastor of the St. John church for the past two years. He is a former pastor of this church, and after his removal to another charge there was a unanimous request for his return. The St. John M. E. church welds wide influence in the spiritual life of the city. It is located in a central section of the city, in close proximity to the various car lines. The church is well organized and has a membership of about 300. The church is conducted along the institutional plan, and its broad policy has done much for the development of the moral and spiritual life of the community. During Dr. Palmer's pastorate in the city, off and on for the past twenty years, he has been an active worker in many good movements for uplift among our people. He is a man of scholarly attainments and a preacher of considerable force and eloquence. He was born in Charleston, S. C., and educated in the public schools of his native city. He then entered Avery Normal institute in Charleston and later went to Howard university, from which institution he graduated. He took his theological training at Drew seminary, in Madison, N. J., and graduated in 1889. He began his pastorate at the Centenary M. E. church, in Charleston, where he remained four years. He then went to Emanuel church in Sumter, S. C., where he remained two years, making a great record. Besides Dr. Palmer's wide ministerial career, he has figured notably in educational work. For three years he was professor of Greek literature at Claflin university, in Orangeburg, S. C. He also held the chair of pedagogy at the state college in South Carolina, was president of Mission City college in Birmingham, Ala., and for two years was adjunct professor of Greek and history at Howard university. As an educator Dr. Palmer stood in the forefront and was well known in educational circles. This long experience in educational work gives him an unusual preparation for his ministerial duties. PROGRESSIVE LAW SCHOOL AT HOWARD UNIVERSITY. This Department May Be Moved From Its Present Site. Such careless misstatements as to the School of Law of Howard university, in Washington, have been circulated as the result of an article recently printed in a Washington paper from a young attorney who might easily have had access to the facts that the following statements giving the true situation have been sent forth from the offices of the university. First.-No definite steps whatever have been taken looking to the removal of the School of Law from its present site. A committee of the board of trustees has merely been appointed to inquire into the feasibility of the removal of the school to the campus and to report its findings to the board. The appointment of the committee is based on the fact that the school has now grown to such proportions that its present facilities are utterly inadequate to the future enlarged growth that is confidently expected. Any plan for removal would contemplate the sale of the present valuable site and the erection of the most eligible site available on the campus of a modern, up to date building, with large assembly room and lecture space, greatly enlarged library space to meet the needs of the growing library and other needed facilities. The new $300,000 law school at Columbia, as well as the new building at Harvard, is located on the campus of the institution. This would bring students into the atmosphere of university life, giving them the facilities of the Carnegie library, access to college classes, etc. This is the modern tendency. However, all parties interested will have a hearing before any recommendation even is made to the board. This is not likely to be made before 1913, as no offer has been received for the present building. Second.—The present administration has greatly enlarged the facilities of the school. At much cost an additional large lecture room occupying the second floor has been fitted up, thus relieving the library room from law classes. About $2,000 or more in cash has been expended in law books during the last five or six years. An assistant librarian has been appointed in order to render the library available for students throughout the entire day and evening. Third.-The standards of entrance have been raised to include a four years' high school course or its equivalent, thus elevating the character of the school and giving new dignity and strength to the graduates from this department of the university. Even under the advanced standards the attendance now surpasses all previous records, and the quality of the student body has been elevated. Competent judges of the recent public moot court held in the university chapel state that the conduct of the case, in legal skill and knowledge of the law displayed, surpassed the record of previous years. AFRICA HIS FUTURE FIELD. Rev. T. A. Smythe Choose West Coast For Mission Work. Pontiac, Mich.-The Rev. T. A. Smythe, D. D., the subject of this brief sketch, was born in Jamaica, British West Indies, in 1868. He came to the United States about twenty years ago and completed his education at Boston university. He later took a special course at McGill university in Canada. Dr. Smythe has a splendid working knowledge of French and Spanish and is also well versed in the English classics. As a pastor he has held several important charges with marked success. Besides his pastoral work, Dr. Smythe gives much time to educational affairs. He is a member of the executive board of Wilberforce university. As inspector of missions in the West Indies he did effective work, for which he received the highest approval of the bishop of the territory in which he labored. During his pastoral career in the A. M. E. church he has come into close contact with the masses of the race to REV. DR. T. A. SMYTHE. such an extent that he has become deeply impressed with the idea of devoting the remainder of his life to work in Africa and has therefore decided to go to the west coast of the "dark continent" soon after the adjournment of the session of the general conference of the Methodist Episcopal church, in Kansas City, Mo., in May. As he was born in a climate nearly similar to that of West Africa, Dr. Smythe feels that he could more readily adjust himself to the work of missions in Africa than if he were a native born American. He is well qualified to fill any position which the church may see fit to intrust to his care on the foreign field. PLANS EXCURSION TO CUBA. Promoter Nelson Wants Rice to Leave Disfranchising Southern States. The United States labor and commerce reports show that Cuba buys annually $10,000,000 worth of hogs, potatoes, eggs, watermelons, cabbage and onions, all of which can be raised on her own rich soil. The Negro farmers who are disfranchised in the southern states who want to see what they are working for should go to Cuba and look over the field, "where every avenue for agricultural pursuit is open to them." On the 15th of June, July, August, September and October R. W. R. Nelson will inaugurate his prospective excursions from New York to Cuba, five days, including hotel accommodations and sight seeing, at a very small cost for the round trip. There never was a better opportunity offered the Negro for business who means business than this. White Americans are flocking to Cuba weekly to make business speculations. The Havana Post recently reported the arrival of 1,000 American tourists in Havana in one day. Are colored men in the United States asleep? There are fortunes in Cuba. Why not go after them? R. M. R. Nelson resides at Lista Habana, Cuba. ESSENTIALS OF LEADERSHIP. Importance of Higher Education Explained by Professor Haynes. In an able address on "The Significance of the Higher Education" recently delivered before the Young Men's Christian association in Brooklyn Professor George E. Haynes, instructor in sociology at Fisk university, said: "The educated leader must be adequately equipped physically, mentally and spiritually for leadership. Health is the first essential. Bodily ills unfit one for any kind of service or enjoyment. Physical strength is necessary for educated leadership. The term education must also include physical development. "Mental training is the keynote to effective leadership. The longer and more thorough the development of the mind the better for real and true leadership. College training is absolutely necessary for the highest type of leadership. The problems to be faced require the most highly trained minds. "No leadership can be effective for good unless it is of the spirit. Interest in the welfare of others, forgetfulness of self, etc., are the true touchpoints of leadership. However, this altruistic feeling must be coupled with thorough mental and physical bearing." Growth of the Crisis Magazine. The Easter number of the Crisis, the race's new magazine, is a "thing of beauty and a joy forever." It is humilful to the cover with good things and deserves the subscription of every Negro, says the Indianapolis (Ind.) Recorder. Along with its general improvement it also enjoys an unprecedented growth in its subscription list and promises several other new features. DAMES AND DAUGHTERS. Miss Ellen Emerson, the granddaughter of Ralph Waldo Emerson, is a nurse in the Massachusetts General hospital at Boston. Miss Louise F. Brown of Wellesley college has the distinction of being the first woman to win the prize offered biennially by the American Historical association for the best essay on European history. Little Askey Tercoye Martin, the four-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Johnson Martin of Brooklyn, is showing phenomenal precocity for one of her age. Without any regular instruction she has acquired a fluent command of four languages. Mrs. Carruthers is the first woman to be elected treasurer of the London Institute of Journalism. Mrs. Carruthers and Miss Patterson were recently chosen to represent the London district on the council of the institute, and Mrs. Carruthers' election as treasurer followed. Frau von Gontard, who becomes a peeress through the distribution of honors in commemoration of the kalser's birthday anniversary, is an American girl, the daughter of Adolphus Busch of St. Louis. Her husband, Dr. von Gontard, has been given corresponding honors. Frau von Gontard is one of the leaders of Berlin society. Tales of Cities. Chicago's court of domestic relations has an official bridesmaid. Between the hours of 9 and 10 in the morning more than 5,000 people enter the city of London every minute. Teheran, the principal Persian city, has a population of 290,000 Tabriz 200,000 and Isfahan 80,000. Fewer than 1,500 Europeans reside within the empire. The new social register of New York city contains 11,519 families. According to the social register, the social center of the city has moved within six years from Fifty-eighth street to Sixty-second and Sixty-third, and it will continue to move northward. 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. 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. N. T. Chilton, ladies' and gents' shoe shining parlors and news stand 5106 State Stret. Harry Shelby, news stand 3308½ State Street. Mrs. L. B. Taylor, notions, cigars and news stands, 15 W. 36th Street, near State. Benjamin Z. Eakin news and advertising agency 428 Indiana Avenue, Indianapolis, Ind. For Rent High Class Modern Apartments. 3-4-6-7 and 8 rooms. Rent $20.00 $50.00 per month. The New American, 28th and Wabash Avenue. 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 Nigb C. H. Knight, M. D., C. M. Office Hours: 9 to 11 A. M., 2 to 5 P. M. 3158 State Street, Chicago Office Hours—From 9 A. M. to 5 P. M.; from 7 P. M. to 9 P. M. Sunday by appointment. DR. THEO. R. MOZEE DENTIST 4715 SOUTH STATE STREET CHICAGO Phone, Oakland 4662; Automatic 78058 Frank Dunn and J. B. McCahay, Trustee Tel., Oakland 1566-1561-1562 Established 1877 John J. Dunn Coal Wholesale Retail FIFTY-FIRST STREET and ARMOUR AVR. Rallyards: 51st St. and L. S. & M. S. 51st St. and Armour Ave. CHICAGO Residence, 1362 Macallister Place Telephone, Monroe 2714 Miles J. Devine Attorney at Law Suite 518-220 Reaper Block Clark and Washington Streets CHICAGO Phones Central 1239; Auto. 41-918 Tel. Central S142 Franklin A Denison Attorney at Law 36 W. RANDOLPH STREET Suite 708 Delaware Building CHICAGO Office Phone: Central 6624. Res. Phone, Doug. 4397. 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 4680 O'Donnell, Dillon & Toolen ATTORNEYS AT LAW Suite 1218-1219 Ashland Block RANDOLPH & CLARK STREETS William L. Martin Room 916—32 N. Clark St. Telephones: Main 4352; Auto. 32-361 CHICAGO Phones: Office, Main 4153 Res. Drexel, 7990 Auto. 33-736 WALTER M. FARMER ATTORNEY AT LAW Suite 708, 184 Washington St. Notary Public CHICAGO, ILL. A. D. GASH ATTORNEY AT LAW 84-86 La Salle Street, Chicago Suite 615 to 616 Telephone Main 3077 Telephones Oakland 1609 Res. Oakland 1760 Auto. 79156 Henry C. Bomar & Son FINE FURNITURE AND PIANO MOVERS, PACKERS AND SHIPPERS 3 Trips Daily to All Deposits 4706 Indiana Ave. Chciago IT PAYS TO ADVERTISE IN THE BROAD AX. “Featured by Many Facte—Pillsbury or Fourteenth Amendment, Next to the strikingly beautiful heat ets colored girl on the cover of the ‘March Crisis, the most striking feature of this number is the article by the ‘Hon. Albert E. Pillsbury, former at torney general of Massachisetts. Mr. Pillsbury contends that under the fourteenth amendment there is a clear feleral remedy for lynching. “and be outlines « bill to meet cgleulated ‘The intest statistics on Negro-Amer- gam popalation are given, and the men ‘of the month include J. Rosamond John, the gifted composer; the late Bishep Gaines and the young colored high schoo! student who was @ recent prise winner. ‘The strong editorials at- tack the “divine right” of white men to ruin colored girls without penalty ‘and expisin what “optimism” among ‘colored people may come to mean in ‘the way of pessimism. Mr. Oswald Garrison Villard contributes a strong letter to a southerner on lynching. ‘The National essociation announces the pleasantest and most encouraging piece of news which the Crisis ever hed te recount. For some time it has ‘been apparent that if the association was to do farreaching constructive work, if it hoped to attack the larger phases of segregation, lawlessness or Gisfranchisement, it must have a fond ‘at fts disposal. Such a fund should be called a fund for legal redress, and its money should be appropriated under the direction of the board of directors and the association's attorney. Mr. ‘Julius Rosenwald of Chicago started this fund on Feb. 1 by a gift of $2,000. Shortly afterward Mr. Samuel Fels of Philadelphia augmented it by 2 gift of $500. This splendid beginning will make it possible for the associa during the present year to carry on a much greater mass of important work than before, always provided that it increases steadily in members. Forty-one persons joined the associn- tion in January, 1912, paying $161 in memberships. L. M. Hershsw reminds us in his “Historic Dates” of General Grant's fine message on the fifteenth amend- ment in March, 1870, in which he de- nominates that amendment “a meas- ure of grander importance than any other one act of the kind from the foundation of our free government to the present day.” Miss Jessie Fauset of the Washing- ton high school and a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Cornell, takes charge of the “What to Read” department. An- nouncement is made that the Easter number will surpass all previous spe- cial numbers. Mr. W. E. D. Du Bois and his associated editors seem to be meeting with unusually encouraging success. MODERN IMPROVEMENTS AT HOWARD UNIVERSITY. New Lighting Plant and Library Fe- cilities Appreciated by Students, ‘The completion of the new electric lighting power plant and the extension of the beating plant, through an ex. penditure of over $100,000, now give to Howard university, in Washington ‘an adequate supply of heat and light that should meet its needs for many years to come. For the first time the grounds are lighted. ‘Phe buildings are also supplied with the quality and amount of light that under the former meager “appropria tion they were not able to afford. Pow- ex is also vupplied for the running of the machinery in the department of manual arts, and an ample supply of electricity is available for the work ip electrical engineering. ‘The Carnegie library, with its en- larged facilities and increased equip- ment, has brought a new atmosphere of culture to the institution. No body of students ever showed a more en- thusiastie appreciation of such opportu- nities as ate now offered in that finest department of college instruction— mamely, the use of books. ‘The doors are open from-8 a. m. to 830 p. m. in the general lbrary and to 10 p. m tm the medical room. The average attendance is from forty to py ae bom ‘There have been books borrowed for use dur. ing this scholastic year. ‘There have een 823 accessions of bound volumes. In the cataloguing department 2,837 books bave been placed in the card Mets. The Ubrary now requires the ‘work of the librarian, two permanent assistants and six student assistanta. ‘De. Washinaten’s Northern Tour. eee ee as to eee teres mre tape De Baer ‘Washington will make a tour through the northern part of New York, west- exn Penteyivania ani points in Ohio fn the interest of the Tuskegee insti- tute, The object of these tours in te more fully acquaint the public with the work of the school and what the Smutitution is Going for the race in SeaTac tee eens ‘mGuatrial wor among the masses. te ee es Smt Sonics of Senter Sceaats the ‘New England Baptist Sunday ‘school convention will be beld with the toe aige sSavcter ar sTesesy, Tema Hpi cit os nome ‘Young People’s unions are invited to ie the Senday echo, with metal et elegant ‘Sbe—And would you really put your ‘eeif out for my sake? ‘He—Indeed 1 would. Bhe—Then do ft, please. I'm awfully sleepy —Williams Purple Cow. “1 simply can’t stand the toot of am sutomobileboru!” : “Blow's that?” “A fellow eloped with my wife in an automobile, and every time I bear a ‘horn toot I think be's bringing ber back.”—Minnesota Minnebaba. “How do you know be's a stranger?” “I saw bim set bis watch by the town elock."—Cornell Widow. ‘Life ts but = space that's spanned ‘With weary tommyrot. ‘We can the funny hobble and ‘Take up the turkey trot. —Cincinnati Enquirer. “My daughter is so pretty that I can't interest her in the serious things of life.” “She may lose ber good looks some day.” “So I telj.ber. And then she'll be sorry that sbe dido't learn to play bridge.”—Wasbington Herald. ‘There's more truth than poetry in some poetry.—Judge. % “Wombat is 2 predestinarian.” “What on earth is « predestinarian?” “A mun who believes be's bound to get run over some day by a automo Die” -Puck, Littisn R wilt wed again. © ornse clerks are groaning. 2 OSITG! peeks aumber ten, fio oe harbor bar is moaning. “Denver Republican, Bissw.l ts he who, having nothing to . times from giving us wordy + ven. eof the fact—George Blot. Sie Woman fx man’s equal in many ways. and in many ways sbe is bis su- perior He—Yes. but what would a woman think of a man who insisted upon ‘wearing clotMes that buttoned up the beck?—Cincinnati Enquirer. Wife—1 sec that Mrs. Ketchum has got a divorce: ‘Hub—Confound it! That means an- ‘other wedding present.—Boston Trar- script. Oh, who would care to be a sphinx? Its story soon is told. It sits and looks as if it thinks ‘And stays out in the cold. Washington Star. - “Does your fiance know your age, Lotta?” “Well—partly.”—Fliegende Blatter. Miss Campus Giri—Can we have some space in your paper? Society Editor—What do you want space for? ‘Miss Campus—To publish the doings of our secret soctety.—Chicago News. A divorced man marries a divorced ‘woman, the daughter of divorced par- ents. "Tis love that makes the world g0 round.—Providence Journal. ‘The Chinese soon will catch the pace. Now that they're entered in the race ‘They'll pick’up occidental ways In garb and food and book and phrase. But sacred mandarins and mate— How will they look in derby hats? Cleveland Plain Dealer. Matron—I have been happily mar- Hed for twenty-five years. Manager—Would you consider an of- fer to go in vaudeville?—Ciub Fellow. a . “Working on a newspaper. are you, Squallop? 1 thought you made your living by writing fiction.” , “Confidentially, Ruggles, 1 do. I'm the Daily Bread's obituary editor.”"— Chicago Tribune. “Politeness pays. Raymember this,” ‘Baid courteous Mike O'Grady, “an be a gintleman—uniess* It happens ye're a lady.” '—Catholic Standard and Times. Young Lady—Guard, will I have time to say goodby to my friends? Guard—Afraid not, miss. This train leaves in two hours and a half—Se- ered Heart Review. “This beautiful two dollar cut glass salt shaker is reduced to $1.61.” “Ob, dear! I wish it were selling at full price. Then I should get enough trading stamps with it to fl my boot.” —Buffalo Express. ‘They say that life ts shortened by ‘Then benven belp Gee eaters ‘Who must “regret” so much! ieee RO First Divorcee—I was fool enough to marry for mopey. Second Divorese— And 1 was fool ‘enough to marry for lore —Life. —— If all women were beautiful and ‘Bone of them éver grew old.» married ‘man’s wife would never insist on tak- tag him ont to seal the evening aa7- where~Chieago » ‘There lived a san io our town, And be was wondrous mad is oote taste nat eonepet. Many 2 a are from another. Me makes a when be drinks ‘Scotch.new York 2, Seni “AMonay ts on trial in this country.” Sass e sad Se cleared L008" Donon NP 2 Bae ae Saat Sat ee —Cinrinnat! Enquirer, JESSE — & BANKER ee $, E, Gor, State and 36th Place, Chicago : - ‘ Telephone Douglas 1565 GENERAL BANEKING 3 per cent allowed on Savings Accounts Safety Deposit Vaults, $3.00 per Year | Mia ASA Wate cag naoaen megs Severe Shenae een The Cranford Apartment Building,- 3800 Wabash Ave, =o ae asic oe . BB <_ ie | Pr | Er ; > The finest building ever opened to Colored tenants in Chicago. steam heat, electric light, tile baths, marble entrance. : J. W. Casey, A "Phone Randolph 603 Sei come Prank L. uae Sem’I |. Lee THE GALE PIANO CO. + a 3159. STATE STREET ' Pianos, Organs, Talking Machines and Supplies. | Brass and string Instruments. Cash or Easy { | Payu.ents % Open Evenings till 10.30. Phone Doug. 4558. § TUNING REPAIRING, ‘Aocks “bes pei for tasit twenty | 1 used to pence eens pai pore us frsmuionen tarts | "pie Be ae oe ‘an acre. And through the drifts 4 joyous wad ere ea ut now the drifts tanke me afraid cDiaetana eit as Rena aah ‘The street cars will be stalled. to, was Grst used by Richard 1. fu 1198. | Old winter was a season dear, eat 2 But that was years ago. A Mile In Burma. “ioe the aon Sesto i ‘The Burmese equivalent for cur | Tee e tte oi favored es “mile” meai = — and ts used to indicate the distance a | “\s, crowing tinue sceene™ 7" man cap ordinarily go without sitting ~Cleveland Plain Dedter down to rest. a ee te Rate coast Aviation. When tbe Cabots returned from their voyage of discovery in 1497 they in- formed the English of the abundance of fish in the seas around Labrador and Newfoundiund. In 1517, just twen- ty years after the Cabots’ announce- Ment, mariners made their Srst voyage from England in quest of sea food in the deep-North American waters. ¢ Nature! Gas in China, Natur 20 uax beew used in China for many centuries. It imsves from Gssurex: in the eurth wear-the coat @inex and ix fed throngh hambuo tubes fo the point where it i consumed. Marriage in Norway. in Norway ws cierxymini may per- form 2 marriage unlew Lue couple can pruvetiat ties have both beep race Rated or have od xumstipox. Paredtai comment fs werreury in Kwon. Lack OF sutticiwnt tucaux to support a wife ts & bar in Austria. oe “A Venerable Tres. On the Canmdeiina ake shore wear ‘Tichenor Xprings xtand« o venerable free which. experts deciare. is not jess thap.su0 years wid: . SS i eee “People sowadays.” said the olf sent wit te renin ee ‘Phey let the youngsters have ‘thelr own way too much.” “That's right.” replied the old brood ‘mything if they hadn't been sat ‘Bpon.”"—Cathelic Standard and Times, \ STORE FOREVERYBODY™: | te Byliv - EVERYTHING TO WEAR TO EAT “FOR ‘THE HOME : THE VERY LOWEST PRICES. Telephone Yards 693 24 | JOHN J. BRADLEY Real Estate Loans Fire and Plate Glass Insurance The BELLE MEADE CLUB Buffet and Cafe SOS59 Armour Ave. teat Cor. S1st Street, Chicago Phone Douglas 4482 Automatic Phone 74-113 The La Verdo Cafe and Buffet 3100-2 STATE STREET, CHICAGO First Class Chinese and American Restaurant in Connection High Class Entertainers HARRY J. KELLY, Proprietor. pee See Phone Aldine 3653, EXtotel Brunswick ‘Goo. W. Holt, Prep. BUFFET, POOL AND BILLIARDS. ) y ) 3004 State Street Chicage Elite Buffet and Cafe 5050 State Street "Phone Dougias 3266 Unas. Harris, Manager A Lest Charm. ‘I used to love the wintry gale, But that was years ago. ‘It makes me fear the gas will fall; I know it's burning low. And through the drifts I'd joyous wade Past fences snowy walled, ‘But now the drifts make me afraid ‘The street cars will be stalled. O14 winter was a season dear, But that was years ago. The nipping frosts brought merry cheer About the crackling glow. ‘We, watch the tube with furrowed brow, Unmoved by frosty sueens. ‘We'd rather take our winters now In moving picture scenes. —Cleveland Plain Dealer. Will Your Gas Range Bake Potatoes, Cook a roast and a pan of biscuits all at once with one fire? The “Composite Ranges” we sell today will actually cook such a dinner with oné fire. To cook it in an out-of-date range you would have to light four fires, thus burning much more gas than you would using a “Composite” model, In our labora- tories we test range inventions as fast as they appear, to ascertain which are most economical to operate. We search constantly for new features and particu- larly for new burners that consume the least possible amount of gas. The more economical we can make gas ranges the more they will be" used. Our ite” Gas Ranges Include Fifty Types Mate Fore by Ves Uitte Tatas Mecnbactersce Every one built to our specifications and specially equipped with all the modern features. “Composite” Fanges are sold by certain hardware dealers with whom we have made special arrangements in every district—also at all of our branch stores and at our salesrooms in the Peoples Gas Building down-town. In the latter, which is the largest and finest salesroom of ite idnd in the workd, we display all fifty styles side by side, The time to buy a gas range is before Aviation. Military alrmansbip was voted over £100,000 by the British government last year. Of the fifteen aeroplanes owned by the English war office nine are of Brit- isb and six of French manufacture. Controlling apparatus of a new aero- plane is so arranged that it can be op- erated by either of two persons seated side by side. Claude Grabame-Waite, the English aviator, says it is bis intention to give up fying and devote his time to the ‘manufacture of aeroplanes. McCall’s Magazine and McCall Patterns == For Women mapmanar tebe, Mocee piss oe ores pore ane fase ‘of sparkling short eae and helpful 1.formation for women. te Styhe | eee grseee ‘Patterns Lead ell oe aes McCALL'S MAGAZINE | 226-246 W. 27th St, New York City eagle Ser, Pate Same 8 Peete Cates on.