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The Thirteenth Annual Meeting of The Negro National Business League HELD AT INSTITUTIONAL CHURCH IMMENSE CROWDS OF MEN AND WOMEN FROM ALL PARTS OF THE COUNTRY ATTENDED ITS SESSIONS. BOOKER T. WASHINGTON, CHARLES BANKS OF MOUND BAYOU, MISSISSIPPI, DR. GEORGE C. HALL AND JULIUS P. TAYLOR OCCUPIED SEATS SIDE BY SIDE ON THE PLATFORM, WEDNESDAY EVENING. ON THAT SAME EVENING MISS ST. CLAIR WHITE THE RISING YOUNG STAR IN THE MUSICAL WORLD FAVORED THE VAST AUDIENCE WITH A VIOLIN SOLO. DR. GEORGE C. HALL, PRESIDENT OF THE CHICAGO NEGRO BUSINESS LEAGUE CALLED THE MEETING TO ORDER. REV. E. J. FISHER, PASTOR OF OLIVET BAPTIST CHURCH OFFERED UP THE OPENING PRAYER FOR BOTH SAINTS AND SINNERS ALIKE. REV. A. J. CAREY, PASTOR OF INSTITUTIONAL CHURCH, OFFERED PRAYER AT THE EVENING SESSION. ATTORNEY S. LAING WILLIAMS DELIVERED THE ADDRESS OF WELCOME ON BEHALF OF THE CHICAGO NEGRO BUSINESS LEAGUE. W. PRESTON TAYLOR OF NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE AND HARRY T. PRATT OF BALTIMORE, MD. RESPONDED TO THE ADDRESS. THE ANNUAL ADDRESS OF THE WIZARD OF TUSKEGEE, WAS WELL RECEIVED. IT CONTAINS MUCH SOUND ADVICE TO THE COLORED PEOPLE ALONG BUSINESS LINES. THURSDAY EVENING, JULIUS BOSENWALD, PRESIDENT OF SEARS, ROEBUCK AND COMPANY, WAS THE STAR SPEAKER AND WHEN HE ABOSE TO SPEAK HE WAS GREETED BY THE LARGE AUDIENCE WITH THE WAIVING OF HUNDREDS OF AMERICAN FLAGS. MANY SUBSTANTIAL COLORED BUSINESS MEN AND WOMEN SET FORTH THEIE VARIED EXPERIENCES IN CLIMBING UP THE LADDER TO SUCCESS. Vol. XVII. The Thirteenth Annual Meet The Negro Business HELD AT INSTITUTIONAL CHURCH OF WOMEN FROM ALL PARTS OF SESSIONS. BOOKER T. WASHINGTON, CHARLE MISSISSIPPI, DR. GEORGE C. B. CUPIED SEATS SIDE BY SIDE EVENING. ON THAT SAME EVENING MISS ST. STAR IN THE MUSICAL WORLD WITH A VIOLIN SOLO. DR. GEORGE C. HALL, PRESIDENT NESS LEAGUE CALLED THE M. REV. E. J. FISHER, PASTOR OF UP THE OPENING PRAYER IN ALIKE. REV. A. J. CAREY, PASTOR OF IN PRAYER AT THE H. ATTORNEY S. LAING WILLIAMS D. COME ON BEHALF OF THE OW. PRESTON TAYLOR OF NAS T. PRATT OF BALTIMORE, MD. THE ANNUAL ADDRESS OF THE W RECEIVED. IT CONTAINS MUCH PEOPLE ALONG BUSINESS LINE. THURSDAY EVENING, JULIUS BO ROEBUCK AND COMPANY, WAIT HE ABOSE TO SPEAK HE WA ENCE WITH THE WAIVING OF MANY SUBSTANTIAL COLORED BE FORTH THEIR VARIED EXPERI DER TO SUCCESS. Wednesday morning at 10 o'clock the Negro National Business League started in to hold its Thirteenth Annual meeting at Institutional Church, 3825 Dearborn street. At each and every session the church which will seat in round numbers two thousand people has been crowded to its fullest capacity and hundreds of people at each session was turned away, many of the most prominent men and women from all parts of the country attended the three days sessions. Booker T. Washington, Charles Banks of Mound Bayou, Mississippi, Dr. George C. Hall and Julius F. Taylor, occupied seats side by side on the platform Wednesday evening. Bishop C. T. Schaffer, Dr. M. C. B. Mason, Emmett J. Scott, S. Laing Williams, Dr. J. N. Croker, William R. Cowan, J. Madison Vance of New Orleans, Le., Philip Alston of Boston, Mass., William A. Wallace, Andrew J. Offord, J. Alexander Mackenzie, Port Antonio, Jamica, B. W. I. head engineer for the United Fruit Company at that point which has more than one hundred million dollars invested in that line of business. J. C. Napier, registor of the Treasury, Washington D. C., W. T. Andrews of Sumter, S. C. were among the others occupying seats on the platform. On that same evening Miss St. Clair White, the rising young star in the musical world who has already won and wears two diamond medals which have been awarded to her for her artistic playing on the violin, favored the vast audience with a violin solo to its great delight, so much so that she was recalled to render a second number. Dr. George C. Hall, President of the Chicago Negro Business League called the meeting to order. Rev. E. J. Fisher, Pastor of Olivet Baptist Church offered up the opening prayer for both the saints and the sinners alike; Rev. A. J. Carey, Pastor of Institutional Church offered prayer at the evening session. Attorney S. Laing Williams delivered the address of welcome on behalf of the Chicago Negro Business League and its citizens in general. Rev. W. Preston Taylor of Nashville, Tenn. and Harry T. Pratt of Baltimore, Md. responded to the address. Mrs. David Meason played on the HEW TO THE LINE: LET THE CHIPS FALL WHERE THEY MAY HEW TO THE LINE: LET THE CHIPS FALL WHERE THEY MAY large pipe organ while the audience heartily joined in, in singing America. S. W. Green, of Fayette, Ark., was among the first speakers at the opening session Wednesday morning. He is a farmer, and related how he first worked for $10.00 and then hired out for $60.00 a month, saving his money, which he invested in land, now owning 10,037 acres of land; entirely free from debt, and has on it 80 head of cattle; 40 mules and employees 70 hands to cultivate his farm. He is rated by his neighbors as being worth $50,000. He is an ex-slave, and far advanced in years. Several other delegates from the southern states, related their experiences, in accumulating some of this worlds goods, and set forth their wealth ranging from $25.00 on up to a $100,000. But it remained for Watt Terry, of Brockton, Mass., who is only 30 years old and who worked for some years in a shoe factory in that town, while his wife, Mrs. Terry, worked at the railway station for $90.00 per month. Both of them saved their money which they invested in improved real estate. His subject was "What I have accomplished as a real estate dealer", and it developed, that he now owns real estate in his own name, which is worth $500,000. It mostly consists of flat buildings, containing 225 separate and distinct apartments, which bring in a fair rental. Mr. Terry, easily ranked among the wealthiest delegates, attending the meeting, and few southern delegates could measure arms with him, in so short a space of time, from the standpoint of accumulating wealth. Lawrence H. Ferribe, of this city, gave a short and interesting talk, on real estate business, and William D. Neighbors, cashier of the American Bank, led off in the discussion of the money read. The first on the program, at the Wednesday evening session, after prayer by Rev. A. J. Carey, was the annual address, of the great wizard of Tuskegee, which was well received and which contains much sound advice to the Colored people along business lines. It is printed in full in another column of this paper. CHICAGO, AUGUST 24, 1912 THE MAYOR OF BROOKLYN CORNELIUS J. DOYLE, High class gentleman and the Republican candidate for Secretary of State of Illinois. first on the program at the Wednesday evening session. "Managing motor car machine shop" was his subject which he ably handled, and he brought out many interesting points touching upon his efforts to secure and hold, positions as a first class Colored machinist. W. A. Wallace, of this city intelligently discussed "Ten years as a baker." He related how he and his wife Mrs. Wallace, first started in to bake ten loaves of bread a day in a small kitchen stove. But now they are baking 50,000 to 75,000 loaves of bread each year which they sell to many grocery stores on the south side, and are paying ten per cent dividend on $2,500 capital stock; employing 6 to 8 persons. J. Alexander, Mackenzie, Port Antonio, Jamica, B. W. I. set forth in a most intelligent manner, his "Twenty years experience as general engineer for the United Fruit Company" one of the largest concerns of its kind in the world. Mrs. J. H. P. Coleman, of Washington, D. C., who is a regular licensed druggist, was the only woman on the evening program. She elaborated upon manufacturing hair preparations, and she urged the many ladies present to wear plenty of hair; even if they did not have it of their own, and at all times to strive, to make themselves beautiful and attractive in every conceivable way. J. Andrew Williams, Tampa, Fla., was next on the program, and the "Cigar manufacturing" was the theme of his subject and it was well worth listening to. The last speaker of the evening was, Philip Alston, of Boston, Mass., who has held for many years a responsible position, with the Cuticure Chemical Company of that city, and he is one of the active members of the local league of Boston; and he urged upon his hearers and those who have to work for others for a living; "to always make their services valuable and indispensable to those employing them, as the surest method of securing an increase in wages, as his wages had been increased $500 in one year, without asking for it." He, has a large number of men working under him, in one of the most important branches of the chemical department. Thursday morning, J. H. Philips of Montgomery, Ala, and A. L. Lewis of Jacksonville, Fla., at considerable length discussed the "Developing industrial Life Insurance" and the two companies represented by them have made remarkable progress in the last seven years the time that they have been in business; the company located in Jacksonville, Fla., has so far written ten million dollars worth of industrial insurance, the company bought a building on the main street in that city a few years ago for ten thousand dollars after some improvements had been made on it and lately it was sold to Jacob Yetter of Chicago for forty thousand dollars, which enabled the officers and stockholders of the company to make thirty thousand dollars on the investment, both of these companies are in a most flourishing condition and they employ a large number of Colored clerks and agents throughout the southern states. The stock of the Jacksonville Co., was at first worth 10, per share, now it is worth two hundred and fifty per share and none of it is for sale at that price. W. H. Bell of Evansville, Ind., who is engaged in the heavy moving business in that city, very modestly related how he was forced to struggle early and late in order to get on his feet, how he first started in the express business with one small single wagon and a mule, but today after 12 years of hard labor on the part of himself and Mrs. Bell, he has 12 double teams and does all the heavy hauling for the leading merchants and the city of Evansville. He employs 25 men at $2.00 per day, he pays taxes on twenty thousand dollars worth of property which is clear except thirteen hundred dollars. J. L. Jones, President and manager of the Central Regalia Company, 8th Plum street, Cincinnati, Ohio, read a fine and solid paper on "Ten years in the Regalia Business" in it he brought out the fact that his company all the time employs well on to 20 Colored men and women; that all the robes, badges, collars, in fact all the furnishings and trappings worn by those belonging to various secret societies throughout the country are made by the hands of Colored men and women, that they are large importers of ribbons, laces, plumes, and other finery from France and other section of the old country. His company ships goods to all parts of the world. Mr. Jones urged his hearers to support all worthy Negro institutions and enterprises as much as possible, to read and advertise in Negro newspapers and to buy their goods from the Central Regalia Company. Anthony Overton of Chicago, head of the largest Colored manufacturing enterprise in the United States, in a business like manner let it be known that his company employs no less than 20 Governor Charles S. Deneen's Eloquent Oration Delivered AT THE DEDICATION OF THE MONUMENT TO THE SOLDIERS AND SAILORS OF ILLINOIS WHO LOST THEIR LIVES. AT THE MEMORABLE BATTLE AT VICKSBURG, MISSISSIPPI THE ADDRESS IS FULL OF LOYALTY AND PATRIOTISM AND IT IS WORTHY TO BE READ. BY ALL OF THOSE OF ANY RACE OR NATIONALITY WHO LOVE FREEDOM AND JUSTICE. The following eloquent oration was delivered by Gov. Charles S. Deneen, at the dedication of the monument to the soldiers and sailors of Illinois, at Vicksburg, Miss., in the fall of 1908 and it is full of patriotism and interesting reading: We are met here to-day to dedicate to the soldiers and sailors of Illinois these enduring memorials of their participation in the campaign which culminated in the siege and capture of Vicksburg. Upon these stones has been written the history of the part they took in the prolonged and stubborn contest of soldiery bravery and military skill and strategy. The outcome of this struggle marked the turning of the tide of battle in favor of the Northern arms; but these monuments are erected in no narrow spirit. They are the chroniclers neither of victory nor of defeat, but stand as an everlasting testimony to the heroism of the Illinois soldier. In all ages and regions of the world, mankind has accorded to deeds of valor the mead of praise. The feelings which prompt the observance of these ceremonies lie deep in the well springs of the human heart, and it is in deference to sentiments as old as the race, and to a custom hallowed by the usage of the centuries that we have gathered here to-day. To the exalted admiration of mankind for that high patriotism which offers itself as a sacrifice, upon the altar of the common welfare, have been raised upon the world's most splendid memorials. Upon the adornment of the arch of triumph, the column of victory, and the statues and mausoleums of the heroes who have offered up their lives in the service of their country, the sculptor has laviated the finest efforts of his genius. To the achievements of the soldier the poet has dedicated his most inspiring verses and the historian his most fascinating pages. All history records the admiration and esteem in which the nations of the world had held the virtues of the soldier—the virtues of obedience to command, of unwavering courage, of fortitude in suffering and of fidelity to country even unto death. To this sentiment, the Greeks, more than twenty-four hundred years ago, elevated upon the battlefield of Marathon, a funeral mound, beneath which were buried the soldiers of Athens who fell in the great battle which a handful of Greek patriots there waged against the hosts of the Persian invader. Around it, ten columns (one for each of the Athenian tribes) were erected, and six hundred years later on those columns the historian and antiquarian could still trace the honored names of those whose glory it was to have fallen in the struggle for Greek liberty and independence. The columns have long since perished, but the funeral mound still marks the spot where these noblest heroes of antiquity repose. Strangely close is the parallel between the dedication in which we are engaged to-day and that which was engaged in so long ago upon the old Greek battlefield. Here, as there, to each military organization has been erected its separate memorial, while for all stands this magnificent monument, in which, secure from the ravages of the seasons, the name of each soldier here is graven, to remain his epitaph for all time. Nor is the parallel conned to the method of the dedication, but extends to the results which flowed from the events commemorated. Just as the triumph of Greece at Marathon was Charles S. Eloquent in Delivered CONUMENT TO THE SOLDIERS AND WHO LOST THEIR LIVES. BE AT VICKSBURG, MISSISSIPPI SOLUTY AND PATRIOTISM AND IT IS TO BE READ. VICE OR NATIONALITY WHO LOVE AND JUSTICE. fraught with momentous benefits to mankind, securing for future ages the intellectual treasures of Athens, the growth of free institutions, the liberal enlightenment of the Western world and the ascendance of the great principles of European civilization; so the triumph of the federal arms upon this battlefield powerfully contributed to the final victory at Appommattox, which for all time established this nation as one and indivisible, and secured to our institutions a full realization of the truths which our Declaration of Independence declared to be self evident.—"That all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness." And not by America alone were to be harvested the fruits of this victory. Though but forty-three years have elapsed since the soldiers of the North and of the South engaged in this struggle, this nation, then riven from center to circumference by the shock of contending armies and hanging perilous upon the verge of disruption, has become in the Providence of God a glorious example to the world of the blessings of free institutions, and has carried beyond its own confines a message of peace and good-will to the uttermost parts of the earth. So that surely we may say the blessings which have come to us and to mankind from the suffering and death which were here endured are worthy of even so great a sacrilege. Towards the accomplishment of this result, our State freely gave of her best blood and it is altogether fitting that as representatives of Illinois, we here record for all time the part which Illinois had in this achievement. In the Northern army there were engaged in this siege 199 regiments of infantry, 19 cavalry and 46 batteries of artillery. Of these Illinois furnished 54 infantry, 15 battery and ten cavalry organizations, a total of 79. Of the total Union losses, killed, wounded or captured, which aggregated 9962, the losses of Illinois were 2403. These simple figures more eloquently proclaim that here the soldiers of Illinois gave to the Nation "the last full measure of devotion" than could any eulogy pronounced by the orator or recorded by the historian. Whether in the weary march through swamp and forest, in the perilous assault, or in the patient labor of the siege, the soldiers of Illinois were conspicuous for endurance, for daring and for steadfastness. The Silent Commander, himself an Illinoisan, bore testimony to the gallantry of their services, and Illinois will always hold in proud and grateful remembrance the fact that the forty-fifth Illinois Infantry, of the division of the brave and lamented John A. Logan, the Black Eagle of Illinois, had the honor of being the first to enter the fallen city and to raise its colors upon Vickaburg Court House. But I am not here to deal with the fascinating details of this memorable siege. Others are here, who will toll more vividly and at greater length the story of the famous victory. So I must close. To you, gentlemen of the Illinois Vicksburg Military Park Commission, I desire to tender the thanks of our State, and I may add as your due the thanks of the Nation, for the work you have performed in preserving for all time upon the field of Vicksburg itself this indestructible record of the military movements con- (Continued on Page 2.) THE BROAD AX Will promulgate and at all times update the law principles of Democracy, but Outlawette, Protestantia, Priests, Indies, Single Taxes, Republicans or anyone else can have their tax as being on their income. The Brood Ax is a demonstration whose platter is broad enough for all, even claiming the editorial right to speak its own mind. Local communications will receive attention. Write only to be addressed to the platter. Subscriptions must be paid in advance. One Year ..... Six Months ..... Six Months ..... Certainizing rates made known all胶ation. Address all communications to JULIUS F. TAYLOR, Editor and Publisher Entered as Second-Class Matter Aug. 19, 2015. Included in the Illinois under Act of March 3, 1878. ADDRESS BY BOOKER T. WASHINGTON BEFORE THE NATIONAL NEGRO BUSINESS LEAGUE. CHICAGO. WEDNESDAY EVERING, AUGUST 21, 1912. "There is a tide in the affairs of men, which taken at the flood leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the rest of their lives is bound in shallows and miseries." These words from Shakespeare have an especial application to our race at the present time. The men and women of our race of this generation hold in their hands the future of the generations that are to follow. This is in an especial sense true of the Negro business men and women. If we do not do our duty now in laying a proper foundation for the economic and commercial growth, our children and our children's children will suffer because of our inactivity or shortness of vision. I want to say while I am on this subject, that I have been surprised and delighted at the progress which has been made by Colored business men in Chicago. As I drove down State Street the other day for a mile and a half I am sure that two thirds of the places of business I saw were conducted by Colored men. If they were not owned by Colored people they were at least patronized by them. I was equally surprised and delighted when I drove down Wabash Avenue and through some of the adjoining streets to discover what handsome houses many of our people were living in. As I have had a chance to visit these houses I have been pleased to find how handsomely, even artistically, they were furnished and carefully and neatly they were maintained. It would be a revelation, almost a miracle, to our people of forty years ago to see the kind of homes in which their children and grand children were beginning to live. In fact, it would astonish a good many of our people in other parts of the country even today to see the progress of the Colored people in Chicago. I do not think there is a large city in this country, where there is a community of Colored people living together in such numbers as you do here which has made no rapid progress in so short a time, or where the opportunities are so good. All this imposes a heavy responsibility upon you who live here and enjoy these opportunities. In a section of the city where the Colored people are in the majority, it is the Colored people who are responsible for conditions in that portion of the city. If there is drunkenness, if there is gambling, if there is crime the Colored people will be held responsible because this is a recognized Colored community. You will not escape this responsibility by saying that the person who maintains the saloon is a white man, or the man who runs the gambling place is a white man. You might say this in some place down South, but you cannot say it in Chicago. Now I do not know anything about your local political conditions and I do not mean to say anything about them. What I do wish to emphasize particularly to members of my race who have come here from the South, where they have had little or no share in the government by which they are controlled, that here in Chicago a new and grave responsibility rests upon them in that respect. And this responsibility extends not merely to your own people here in Chicago, but it extends to the race everywhere. It rests upon the Negroes of Chicago, with the magnificent opportunities before you, to demonstrate to the rest of the world to what extent a Negro community like this, amid all the temptations of a great city, can make itself a united, progressive, law-abiding community, one that will be looked up to and respected, one which the world can point to as a model. In order to accomplish this we must unite ourselves with all the forces in this city that are striving for better things. We must unite all the best elements among ourselves. The local Business League can exercise a wide influence in this direction. It can do this by putting its influence behind the men or the business who is really trying to do a good thing. Our great Creator has ordained that races and nations shall prosper in proportion as they find, develop and use the national resources of the earth in promoting wealth, intelligence, happiness and justice. If I can, I want to sound a note of warning to the ten millions of Negroes throughout our country. We are now ten millions strong. This means a population nearly twice as large as the population of the Dominion of Canada. It is a population three million greater than that of Belgium. It is greater than that of Holland and Switzerland combined, or the combined population of Norway, Sweden and Denmark. We have the advantage of many of the races of the old world in that we are citizens of a comparatively new country whose natural resources are just beginning, as it were, to be discovered and developed. Our country is new and our race is new so far as freedom is concerned. Now is the time—not in some far-off future, but now is the time—for us as a race to prove to the world that in a state of freedom we have the ability and the inclination to do our part in owning, developing, manufacturing and trading in the natural resources of our country. If we let these golden opportunities slip from us in this generation, I fear they will never come to us in a like degree agaij. At the present time there are over 270,000,000 acres unused and unoccupied land in the South and West. In fact, one-half of the land in the South and two-thirds of the land in West is still unused. Now is the time for us to become the owners and users of our share before it is too late. From ownership of the soil comes independence, self support, happiness and real manhood rights. Land that can be gotten at ten dollars an acre now, a few years hence cannot be gotten for two and three times as much. If the white man from America and Europe can establish and operate a saw mill and gain wealth and independence from the use of our millions of acres of forest land, why not more Negroes do the same thing? If the white man can secure wealth and happiness by owning and operating a coal mine, brick-yard, or lime kiln, why not more Negroes do the same thing? If other races can attain prosperity by securing riches on a large scale from our seas, lakes and rivers in the form of fish and other sea foods, thousands of Negroes can do the same thing. Activity in all these directions finds no race or color line. This year our country produces 3,125,000,000 bushels of corn, 695,400,000 bushels of wheat, 1,136,700,000 bushels of oats, 338,800,000 bushels of potatoes, and 16,000,000 hales of cotton. In this tremendous production here again there is no color line. We want to see to it that as a race we not only produce our share, but that we hold on to our share of the wealth that grows out of the manufacturing of, trading in, and transporting these commodities. Activity in these directions will bring to us influence and usefulness that no political party can give us or take from us. Before it is too late, I want my race to lay hold upon the primary sources of wealth and civilization. Our country produces and uses annually about one billion dollars worth of live steak in the way of cattle, pigs, sheep, and $500,000,000 worth of dairy products, and $150,000,000 worth of fowls and eggs. Here again there is no color or race line. I do not want members of our race to be content with merely skimming around over the outer edges in the form of securing odd and uncertain jobs, but I want them to get in at the bottom of these fundamental industries and stand among the leading producers. There is no law in this country to prevent Negress from owning and operating oil foundations, cotton mills, oil mills, shoe factories. Our race uses a large number of coffins every year. There is no reason why more of these coffins should not be manufactured by us. There is no reason why more of the bedsteads, bureaus and chairs used in our homes should not be manufactured by us. In the South especially just now, millions of dollars are being earned every year by white people operating large peach orchards. In the far West other millions are being earned by growing apples on a large scale. The white man is as willing to buy peaches and apples grown by black hands as by white hands. If the Halians and Greeks can come into this country strangers to our language and civilization and within a few years gain wealth and independence by trading in fruits, the Negro can do the same thing. Throughout our country we consume millions of dollars worth of buggies and wagons. Why not more of our young men who are graduating at colleges and universities, enter this field. The whole West and South are dotted with flourishing towns and cities that have been founded in places where twenty-five or fifty years ago there was the primeval forest or naked prairie. These new communities in T ANCESTRAL HOME OF MCKINLEY'S COUNTY ANTRIM, IRELAND RECALLS TRAGIC STORY. in which Hanna was enrolled, Hann The game of politics makes strange bedfellows. This was literally true in the case of the martyred president of the United States, William McKinley, and the late United States Senator, Mark Hanna, both Ohioans, and both sprung from the same stock in the north of Ireland. It is not generally known that one of the ancestors of Mark Hanna, who is credited with having made William McKinley president of the United States, and before that governor of Ohio, shot and killed an ancestor Maj. McKinley. This story has been supplied by Samuel Richardson, a native Irishman, who has long been a resident of Chicago and whose knowledge of Irish history is extensive. The Hanna family is from Hugenot stock—chivalrous and honest to the marrow. When first from France they were named "D'Hannah." Some of the members of the McKinley family in Ireland and Scotland spelled the name "McKindley." This narrative, as told by Mr. Richardson, may be of interest at the present time, when republicans are making history for themselves. In 1798 Ireland was greatly perturbed, politically. Ulster was in an uproar and, of course, intensely loyal to the British crown. Living in the province, were ancestors of William McKinley and Mark Hanna and their political views were not alike. Hanna's grandfather was a captain in the militia—the yeomanry. Frank McKinley, grand uncle of the man who afterwards became president of the United States, was one of the leaders of the United Irish organization, a political party opposed to that many cases have been started by Germans; in other cases by Hollanders, or Danes, or by Swedes, or Norwegians, Poles or Hungarians who came to this country in comparative poverty. In not a few cases the little settlement had for its beginning or foundation a little saw mill, grist mill, blacksmith shop, cotton factory, coal mine, cooperative creamery, or country store. With one of these simple industries for its beginning, the little community grows and expands year by year. Soon the railroad comes, then the depot, then the post office comes, then follow the telegraph and telephone. Stores are established, then more stores. School houses are bdilt, churches are erected. A bank is opened. The industries are established. Business is diversified. There is a call for more and better residences, for the architect and skilled mechanic. There is a demand for organization, for a governing body, a mayor, board of aldermen, school committee, school principals and school teachers. Soon the doctor and lawyer are needed. There is a demand for a commercial club for a literary society, a womans club, a musical society, and all this comes and grows in a natural, logical way. If the settlement is started by the Poles, a Polander becomes the depot agent, a Polander becomes the telegraph operator. The first mayor is a Polander. The president of the school board is a Pole. The president of the first bank is a Pole. There is no segregation of the Poles in this city. There is no discrimination against the Poles here. There is freedom and a chance for unfettered and unlimited growth. What foreign races coming to this country are doing in building towns and cities, there is a chance for Negroes to do in any number of places in the South and in the West, as the founders and builders of Mound Bayou is Mississippi, and Boley in Oklahoma have proven. But to do things we cannot start at the top, but must begin at the bottom. I call upon the man and women from our colleges and universities to lead the way in these fundamental directions. It was natural and right that in the beginning of our freedom the work of the teacher and minister should re- in which Hanna was enrolled, Hanna, by the way, having been a great royalist. Factions became much at loggerheads and there were many physical clashes. In fact entire local regiments of volunteers took the field. As in the days of Cromwell, the beligerants actually rode, rough shod, into the very homes of their antagonists. History records the fact that Oliver Cromwell, in person, rode his horse into the house itself of "The" O'Reilly, a prominent figure in Irish history whose descendants live in Canada and one of whom is Dr. O'Reilly, son of the late Miles O'Reilly, Hamilton, Ont. In one of many scrimmages Captain Hanna rode his horse to the home of Frank McKinley, and, dismounting, called McKinley to come forth. The latter then was arrested by Hanna and his aides and charged with a treasonable offense against the British crown. The prisoner was taken to the town of Colerane, court marshaled and found guilty. As a result Frank McKinley was shot at the command of Hanna. As Mr. Richardson said, in narrating the story, it is well to draw the veil until the time, many years subsequent, when the McKinleys and the Hannas found themselves in the United States and making the political fortunes of each other. The McKinleys and the Hannas had their ancestral homes near the Town of Dungannon, in the county of Tyrone. In Ireland at that time were four regiments of the French Hugeots fighting under Gen. Schomberg. They did their part in the battle of the Boyne and when not engaged in political strife, devoted their energies to the linen industry, contributing greatly to the upbuilding of the present city of Belfast, which, at that time, were little better than a morass. —From The Canadian, American, Chicago, August 17, 1912. ceive the greatest attention. There is still an emphatic need for more teachers and ministers, but we have now reached as a race a new area, almost a crisis, in our growth. Along by the side of the teacher and minister is needed leaders in economic and agricultural and commercial growth. By the side of the teacher and minister we must have in increasing numbers the independent farmer, the real estate owner, the mechanic, the manufacturer, the merchant, the banker, and other kinds of business men and women. These will strengthen the teacher and minister, and they in turn will help the business man. This is an area of specialization and organization. Our race should take heed of this and act. We shall be a potent force in all directions in proportion as we organize and work together North and South. In racial unity, racial peace and coadhesiveness and organization will be our strength and life. We should put behind us the day of childish things. Besides our advantage in numbers, we have the advantage of living by the side of and in the midst of the most progressive and highest type of white man that the world has seen. Let us, then, use our strength in concentrated, organized directions, and in proportion as we do it the white man will respect us. The local League should be the Chamber of Commerce dor the Negro. Every community should have its local League, and wherever possible and practicable there should be a State League all working in harmony with the National Negro Business League. Let us act in all these matters before it is too late, before others come from foreign lands and rob us of our birthright. To be more specific. There are places in the South for 5,000 additional dry good stores and there are Colored people enough to support them. In the South the Negro merchant is not dependent upon the trade of his own race alone, but throughout the South while there is prejudice in other directions, in business the Negro has little prejudice to contend with along this line. Not only the Colored man trades at the Colored man's dry goods store, but the best white people are not afraid to patronize a first-class Negro store, and the same thing is true of other business enterprises owned and controlled by colored people. There are openings in the South for at least 8,000 additional grocery stores, for 3,500 drug stores. There are openings in the South for 2,000 shoe stores, 1,500 millinery stores, and there are communities in the South where 2,000 Negro banks can be operated and supported. Further than this, there are places in the South where at least 25 self-governing, self-supporting, self-directing towns or cities may be established, where the Colored people can have their own mayor, their own board of alderman, their own self-government from every point of view. In the last analysis, local self-government is the most precious kind of government. All that I am here advocating and emphasizing does not mean the limitation or circumscribing of our race mentally, morally, civilly or in other directions, but it does mean real growth and real independence in all these directions. Growth in these economic directions will help the teacher, the minister, will help the school, the college; the university, the Sunday school, and church, will help the lawyer, the doctor, the dentist, and add to our political independence. Meeting of the Negro National Business League. Concluded from Page 1. persons all the time, aside from having four hundred agents selling their goods in all parts of this country, that his company is rated by Dun and Bradstreet, at from 40 to 50 thousand dollars, that they manufacture and put up in fancy boxes the "High Brown Face Powder for Colored Women" that his company has many white merchants for its customers that for the year ending June 30th, 1912, his company sold goods including its famous brand of baking powder and toilet articles amounting to one hundred thousand dollars. H. L. Sanders, Indianapolis, Ind., who is successfully engaged in manufacturing white goods, such as waiters jackets and so on read a good paper on his early start in business in 1889, in a room 9 x 10 feet selling his goods from a market basket, his wife looking after the little store while he was hustling up business on the outside, now he occupies a building 38 feet wide and five stories high and employs 17 Colored girls and 8 Colored men. At the close of the session on Thursday morning session, Mrs. Myrtal Toot Foster teacher of English in the high school of Muskogee, Okla. City, stepped to the platform and in behalf of the Colored Commercial Association of that city and presented Booker T. Washington with a fine picture of himself nicely framed which is $5\frac{1}{2}\times 6$ feet, it was painted by M. Green, a Colored man and an artist residing in that city. Mr. Washington expressed his heartfelt thanks to Mrs. Foster for it and he will ship it to his home at Muskogee, Ala. Thursday, evening, Julius Rosenwald, President of Sears, Roebuck and Company, addressed the meeting and as he rose to speak he was greeted by the large audience with waiving flags. He imparted much sound business advice to those who sat under the sound of his voice. Henry J. Sharp, 3437 Wabash Avenue; returned home Monday morning from St. Paul, Minn., where he was called to attend the funeral of his brother. stituting the siege. Those monuments will perpetuate, as no other form of memorial could, the deeds of those who were participants. The flight of time will but serve to magnify the value of your labors. From these monuments those who come after us will learn the priceless offering which Illinois here laid upon the altar of National unity. The blood of her son was Illinois' gift to the nation. And as in the dark days of the war Illinois gave her soldiers to the nation in peril, so we are here to say to give to the nation they preserved this monument to their patriotism and devotion. Their fame, we know, will thus be forever preserved as a precious national possession. And yet as Illinoisans we feel that in a more familiar and intimate sense it still belongs to us. They were our neighbors and our friends. Their homes dotted our prairies. We have looked into their faces and have shaken them by the hand. We rejoiced in their triumphs as reflecting glory upon our commonwealth and we mourned their losses as a personal bereavement. And to us who are the heirs of the dear-bought, but glorious legacy of honor which they have bestowed upon our State and Nation, this occasion is fraught with solemn thoughts of gratitude to the dead and living heroes who bequeathed to us this heritage of freedom and of union, and of the obligation which is ours to hand it down, unsullied and unimpaired, and made more glorious with the passing years, to our posterity. OPENING OF THE PEKIN TREATER UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT This evening at 7:30 o'clock, the old Pekin Theater, 27th and State streets, after being closed for 6 or 7 months, will again throw its doors open to the public. Mr. Frank Haight, who has had a varied and a long experience in the theatrical business will be the active manager of The Pekin, which has been put in apple pie order, from end to end and from basement to garret. A new automatic stage sprinkler, has been enstalled, which insures the patrons of The Pekin ample protection from fire. Promptly, at 7:30 this evening the curtain will go up, and the first show will be on in full blast, and as there will be two performances nightly, the second show will commence at 9:30. The best in vaudeville and feature moving pictures, will be flashed up before the foot lights. All seats in the house 10 cents, Box and loge seats 20 cents. Seats reserved one week in advance without extra charge. Phone Auto. 73251. See ad in another column of this paper. Manager Haight, wishes to state, that "he will cheerfully play, all Colored vaudeville acts, that have not become common, in playing up and down State street." HEALTH NOTES. Better an increase in the tax rate than the maintenance of a high death rate. Instead of sacrificing human lives to save time and money why not sacrifices time and money to save human lives? There are scores of live and growing towns in the United States that have no public health service. And in all these places, there must be necessarily a high death rate from the preventable diseases. 1 There are 148 cities in this country that spend less than two per cent of their total incomes for health purposes. These same cities are spending from three to ten times as much per capita of their population to prevent fire loss of property as they do to prevent loss of human lives. Is there, after all is said and done, any higher right than the right to live. By this we mean the right to be protected from the preventable diseases caused by fifth and which kill 25,000 Americans every twelve months. Talk about war and disasters such as the loss of the Titantic! They dwindle into insignificance when contrasted with the awful, overwhelming fact that in the United States alone 650,000 persons are killed annually by the preventable diseases. To keep well one should "keep fit" as the saying goes among ball players and athletes generally. This means that to keep physically fit we must live clean and cultivate good habits. In other words, we must keep regular hours, get sufficient sleep, in well ventilated bedrooms, eat wholesome food at regular intervals and get all the good fresh air we can all the time. Miss Mae Stokes Muncie, J. A. Braby and Miss Gaskins of Kokome, Ind., are the guest of Mr. and Mrs. J. Gray Lucas, 508 East 36th Street. OUR ABTICLE ON THE ENCAMP. MEW? OF THE” RIGHTH™EEar- MENT AT SPRINGFIELD High LY PRAISED. = scigh tai Frank 8, Dickson, the ‘ wy ret inns ea ees + 2 j The following letter speaks for it- self. * 2S Springfild, August 29, 1912,| Dear Mr, Taylor: .) ' I desire to assure you of my sppre- ciation of your tourtény ini cy ot Ths "BMA repeao instant, containing very excellent and painstaking actount of the Bighth Regiment m Camp. 2 It appealed to me as being unusually well written, and cebtahily shdwla’ be very gratifying to the members of this most excellent Regiment. Vary Wily yours, FB. Dickson, Mr. Julius F. Taylor, bet 5027_Armour Ave., Roda i DE. W. SAMPSON BROOKS BRING ING THINGS TO PAB. ~ Causing St. Louis Negroes to Bestir Themselves and Awaken Profi “Their Dr. W. Sampson Brooks, pastor tf St. Paul Chapel, since coming to” city has done wonders towards arogs- ing St. Louis Negre citizens from theiz years of peaceful slnmber. His recent setisvoner of ceing 26000 So oo in a single“rally set/a’ water niark ae Ay ther ‘Btatéd ‘ana cat: This raisel'ts be'sting by'thou- sands. The wane te a successful climax the ‘‘Tarmcb) Garded” Which has been in Operation’ all week ‘at Handlan’s Park amd which’ hes been visited and viewed by fully 50 per Ur Gr at ioe hid dee haan population, all of whom agree that it is the most stupendous “outdoo?’ enter- tainfient ever ~staged “hr~this section of the ‘countfy, stamps “Dr. Brooks -as the bhe “thkn' who" has“ shown himself capable of doing things that cause peo- ple i° this ola “town to, rob their eyes and stare and eved pthch“fiém- selves to see if they ‘Were yeally awake or ‘‘jast dreaming.’ His achieve- ments since coming to’St. Louii ‘stand out boldly in honor of his sbitity and sottie ‘of ‘bur “So ealléd Rice “Ledilérs?’ “(ot paper “only) ~have made-such--2. rapid’ exit from their slumber that they forgot to put on both shoes, they are viewing the work of Dr. Brooks with the knuckle of a finger in one eye and dusty cobwebs in the other and whis- Dering MEe_& teggneened, qed," Whe next??? It is the prayer of The Cen- tral Afro-American that Dt.’ Brooks re- main permanently in Gt. Louis, We need him'bere and seed him badly, not only for his ability to do things, but because he advocates the elimination of the*‘ Curfew’? which has been ring- ing on Bt Negroes every mi aoe Re Raa Central Afro-American, St. Louis; Mo.) Avigust-3%, 1912. HAPPINESS HERE, NOT HERE mee tte le applause aie true end and dim of life. It is the task of intelligence to ascertain the onp- of, bappi- ness, and when souk dec aie will live in secordance with them. By happiness is meant not simply the joy of eating, and drinking—the gratifics- Soe et he aE ae geod wall be ing, Ta The Wighedt Ae Mpbiest “forms: ‘The joy” that spriigs-from vbtigation discharged, from duty done, from gen- cron ate Pho being ve tothe apt from’ a perception of the in nature, art and conduct. The hap- Piness that-is; berm of and gives. birth to pootsd bod cheid thet Obed the gtatification-of the highest wants... Happiness is the result of all that is really right and sane. But there are many people who re- gard the desire to be happy as s very low and Gegra@ing ‘Adibition.”’ ‘Theve People call themselves spiritual. They pretend to‘tare ‘tothing “for thé 'pleae- ures of ‘‘sense.’? They hold this world, this life, im They do tot want bap’ ured at in another. Hora bereioes there it purifies 1 ante G. Ingersoll. ~ COLORED MEN VOTED AT THE DEMOORATIO a3 Doiiomn wae > tt Colored men voted in the ee Democratic primary last Thursday, Negro becceeecaes eee On Stand. The Richmond Virginian op yorod The Tamovation; bet the gauges cleetion, Delay “sworn so~to~ tio; “lived ep to thé letter and the-spirit of the law, i Graeme the Negroes ont of the front o z the National Progressive “Party, Liberal “mindied” white Democrats:~wf ‘the Southland admit them throtgh; the front door of. the Democratic Party, aaa iS ene aca Richmond, Va, August 17,0912, ‘CHIPS. pega res cal ‘ie’ in’ thé city attend. mg ‘the “Business Leayie.:+: £1! ie Tica tant Mrs, E. ©. Gibson, of Peoria, Mi, bee "MA Blizabeth Taig tess et a tay) te 3 eas “Hod. J. Madison Vance is in the city steading Civ NegHs Daalios Tague bod guest ‘of Mk. and Mra Mourye Sheath we — Lawyer Alexander Sullivan, now has oné Of thé" finest suite of law offices in Clifeago, rooms 116 Otis Building. The rooms are nice, light and siry, and it should be a pleasure to any one to transact Yegat‘or any other kind of ‘business, in such comfortable quarters. ‘Miss Beatrice Manning will receive from 3 to 7 p. m. in Honor pf zo ieee OF », Mist’ ‘Cora ‘Jonés of Topeka, ee oe bus, Ohio, at her residence 3524 Calu- fnet-Ave.* © ‘Mrs. Ed, Nixon, 2827 Wabash Ay Rospkashesiaiceeeae soap eee from the South and other sections lof the! ‘vbuatrys tovspind a week or jso with her, while taking in the mapy Sights .of this city recently. She gave ‘a-very enjoyable tea party, in honor of ‘Miss Charity Boyd, one of the belles of old Kentucky. ead ‘Mr. and Mrs, Booker T. Washington, of Tuskegee, ‘Ala, have been spending the past week in this eity aud’ stepped at the elegant home of Mr. and Mrs. SamuelJ. Carter, 3256 Wabash Aye- oe ooaran A many of the’interésting sights of this city. It was our extreme pleasure on Wed- hesday, ‘to be-represented to Mrs. Booker T. Washington, and Mrs. Hpn- ter by Mrs. George C. Hall. Sust 'as the ladies were leaving Institutional church aftér attending the first ‘session of"the Négfo National Brisitiess Lea- gob, ‘ix“Mrs. Hall's #ié ‘néw electric io Ernst Hummel, formerly city treas urer of Chicago; who is very populas with the German American citizens [throughout Cook County returned homie the first of this week from a twe months vacétion trip, to Germany and other parts of Europe. Mr. Hammel is much improved in health and in ‘com pany with his old friend Hon. “Jobs Poses be wes Bost bear Miotiy in shaking buhdé With many of bis assoviates and friends in the City Hall and County Building. ® ese Have you been on State street dur ing the Fair and Carnivalt If no! why not? The splendid order that is shown by our ‘people “will go long ix ‘Not too much praise cannot be giver the men who are back of the project they at least have demonstrated busi ness tact and have added to thé busi ness men nlong the line a bright chance BOE raat eae tans So fed thing de/Beauty and is carried out to a nicety. tl Attorney J. Gray Lucas, was dow: on the program of the Negro Nationa: ‘Business League to deliver the weléome apes pa beat st anaene eet League of *Obicago ‘au dte-titizeus the delegates of the Negro Nationa League and the distinguished visitors But being detained in s case in cour much Bae ae at Ses mech to the reget of the ttendd ‘Mr. Zacas, who expected to hear him Aofivér a Brilinat hnd 2 sparkling ora tion, befliting to the suspicious oceas Ec SF eee ‘ "sto ress norma fk ‘The Clifton Forge (Va.) Normal ‘Industrial institute recently s mhest successffel school year. In onde to give employment to students is Soe dbfeto pay all 6 thelr expenses tm cash the trostess have decidbd, ts a steam A Ce ant a Poon ors DW Hill, president of the school, is spend. fiigThis waeation in the north raising ‘money for the laundry project. | Du Bois’ Name Used Without Authority ‘Dr.-W.-E..Burgbéree Du Bois, editor of the Crisis Magazine in New York Geclares that in ‘was he s Se thd prone of How ard university. ‘says that the use cae Tete ‘would ve accepted eee is aabeonauin erent of ns eam Ing been offered him. = ———— TO RENT. SET Trmoer Ave, ist fiat, 5 ‘$15.90; = ore | : eer wae Sfg4. Wentworth Ave, Sri fat, 5 rooms, “Selle” Bt, 5 rooms, mh 2a sa me ae 6 os ‘& Richardson. © 460 SHR Ave, Boom 506. Greategt]Triumph forjthegRace in the Annals of Local History BRAND /AUGUST CARNIVAL | ee ———— and ———— aaTE s nEE | 16; STREET : Ogee | sia STREET jez #28***|'Negro Exposition |" *2"* |3572 STREET| ques [3572 STREET F ee ~ Two Big Weeks of Mirth,.Merriment and Review of Enterprise ~~ AUGUST. I7th.to 31st.1912 | Construction of arches, pillars, etc., to be a work of art. Designs -°fot the stréet decorations will be a-tevélation_ of incomparable | beh Over-head lighting, multicolored effects, a veritable blaze of wlory® 822298 eer Taa, arer't pees A. Special Feature for,;Ea¢gh Day’s Program — Every military organization, all secret orders, associations, clubs, = ~-jnstitutions- to- be featured in this stupendous: display of , thrift. Daily, Parades—-Music: Everywhere — Amusements * Watch weekly papers for later announcementsor call “Douglas 1565”: ~ P Pat — ~unene ie ana oe seat ; * 5 "WOMAN'IN CHICAGC : B : a behee OF THE ncn pert Carnival ies ‘ 00 Sit - § To-The_ ne Elected. Queen po 2 Re ae I Vote For M———___-__— Cut out this Coupon and Mail it to the CARNIVAL DEPARTMENT, “Fhe-Br “Ax, # a = eh Re meee eet 5027 Armour Avenue,j - {= Chicago Illinois . | set ear (RAS Se oe ee - : [Sos 30th Place JESSE BINGA,- Manager, | Si sanset pe ne eee nee C. 0 KNIGHT, 1... a -PRYSIGHAN AAD SURGEDN | (Office Hours: 9 to ll A.M. 2t05 P.M, S138 Site'Srbet. Chiao Seale ale eee i DA. THED.: A. MOZEE: DENT (6718 SOUTH STATE STREET CHICAGO ary ree ep mnpedo- aga s Sr Shag John J: Dunn Coal Wholesale Retail (PIFTY-FIRST STREET anc. ARMOUR ava. SSeS oom “ai Miles, J, Devine Attorney at Law ‘Suite 318-320 Reaper Block outterescean Franklin A. Denison Attorney at Law 36 W. RANDOLPH STREET 7 ee HOME FLATS. AND-COTTAGES FOR RENT tm at parte of wre ory $15 = ML FRANKLIN SCALES” es | SUM State Street ae Prone Kemaaod 4348 Phones: Office, Main 4153 Rex: Dress, 7990 na -" aproniiey AT LAW ~ Suite 708, 184 Washington St. Netary Publis CHICAGO, ILL. ; Seneca, Ne 508 Eu Sh Stee J. GRAY. LUCAS “What we need is cheap ice.” ( “Yes; we already. have plenty of cheap ‘skates.” — St. Louis Post-Dis- ee “I am willing,” said the candidate After he had hit the table « terrible ‘blow with his Sst, “to trust the peo- ple” * » “Gee,” yelled a little man in the au- Gence, “I wish you'd open a grocery! Chicago Record:Herald. Ob, friends, remember when bard luck Dutts in ee re ee ee ee nee tet bow, te, cain 8 May sete y - “ -washingtin Star. “DAMES AND DAUGHTERS. ‘The government of Panaia bas jus sppolated Miss Agnes Ewing Brown an American woman, director of the normal schools for girls at Panama, ‘Miss Mary M. Bartelme of Chicag has been appointed assistant judge o! the juvenile.court in Cook county, JIL She is a practicing lawyer and a few years ago was made public guardian of Cook county Mrs. Theodoré Roosevelt, Jr., whose aughter, Grace Roosevelt, is ten ‘months old, has already fled an appit cation with a New York private school for her daughter to enter there in 1920. ‘Theodore | Roosevelt, Jr. moved. his family from the Paeific co-st,« short time ago. ‘Mra. William Tod Helmuth of New ‘York ‘bas the distinction of belongiag ‘te more organizations than any other woman in the Federation of Women's Clubs, She has badges from women's organizations all over the world. Bhe ts seventy-five years of age, but is 2s active and bright as a woman twenty years younger. Mary» Melvin, blind from infancy, has been graduated from Goucher col- eon and wan. Awarded the ‘eh Ba Kappa kes. the symbol of work. She is an accomplished athlete, a singer of considerable ability and plays her own accompaniment on the plano. She intends to do graduate ‘work at Johns Hopkins. Current Comment. As between the aeroplane and the irigible,. the difference seems to, be merely a choice as to methods of dy: ing suddenly—Pittsburgh Chronicle ‘Telegraph. ‘ How the Mississippi river must Jangh out of its various mouths at the schemes that are suggested for straightening and “regulating” it! ‘Chicago Tribune. It is ashame to think what Amert an athletes may be expected to do with the Olympic games when, this country gets a chance to entertain the champions of the world —Cleveland Leader. It is entirely owing to the changé of time. in the Pacific ocean and not to Journalisiie prescience that the death of the Japanese emperor was known to New York the day before it hap pened.—New York World. THE BROAD AX CAN BE FOUND OM SALE AT THE FOLLOWING WEWS STANNEs~ ~~ ee ‘From on and after this date The Broad Az, can be found on sale at the [following news stands: A.J. Tervalon, cigar store and news stand, 5004 Sate street. George L Martin, maker of fine cigars ‘and news stand, 18 W. Sist St, near wB. Mo Harvey’s barber shop and ‘news stand, 3024 State street. ‘Mrs, Nellie Phelps, cigars, notions jand news stand, 15 W. 36th Bt, near Dearborn. .W, & ole, cigars, tobacco and news 4 W. Sist Bt, near Dearbern. T. B. Hall, laundry office and news jstand, 11 W. 29th St, near State. B. Davis, cigars, tobacco and news stand, 3552 State St ..W, M. Maxwell, notions, cigars, to- ‘bacco, confections and news stand, 5244 State Bt. Edward Felix, notions, cigars and stand, 52 W. 30th St. Fy Bishop, cigars, tobaceo and news 8 W. 27th Bt, near State. ‘Turner Williams’ barber stop and stand, 3252 State St. Sylvester McGloffin, news stand and Taundry office, 4122 State St. William Ganghan, laundry office, jeigars, tobacco and news stand, 2636 State Bt. +N; T. Chilton, Indies’ and gents’ ‘shoe shining parlors and news stand 5106 State Street. ‘Harry Shelby, news stand 3308 1-2 State Street. Mrs. L. B Taylor, notions, cigars and news stand, 15 W. 30th Street, near State. - “Benjamin Z. Eakin news and adver. ‘ising agency, 428 Indiana Avenne, in- dianapolis, Ind. THE AMERICAN LIFE INSURANCE aa COMPANY OF ILLINOIS. ine heel At Sate Covenant beers pum couse tea Pee SE es eae Colored Agents te Write and Collect Your Business F and values wil eee ree ‘The American Life Insurance Co., of Hlinels, ‘Tel. Randolph 5. (72 West Adams Street 7 oe McCall’s Magazine as For Women te, Mo Del 97, ne Telbie ‘Paskion Guide moathdy ia one million one Hundred thousand homes. Besides showing all the latest designs of McCall Pateras. each orae ‘and helpful information for women. Save Money and Keep im Style by subscribing Sy McCall Patterns Lead sil others tx style, 4, See eaters seeds Sect g pemaoce Bo Sa McCALL’S MAGAZINE 236-246 W. 37th St,.New York Cy Sane aeeegeteaines The Artists. ‘Timothy Cole, whose wood engraving reproductions of the great. paintings of the world have become famous, has re- cetved the Gegree of master.of arts Hugo Meismer, an artist .who gives SS has @ismissed one of. their number ‘who arrived Inte at the stadia awing to ‘an automobile accident because be had brought with him nd’sketch of the acci- dent. 2 ‘Angustus Eddy of Chicago, father of Spencer Eddy, the dipiomatist, has at the age of sixty taken up painting ine serious manner and is siready gaining recognition for bis work ip, France. ‘He is busy with. landscapes apd por traits: and.is the youngest map of bis age in Paris. awk 2h Political Quips. Politics ‘seétis to bé one of Ameri- alee OES ic tae teers ome Sern ares ear—Bonton Feayeler. Se. 5 ee tee Segh noi alne ar sec aby yell Penfet Repebmic Town Topics. We thouzht Tete was virtuous, rege ere ai Mee Tm Some historian saya Wf coat $1,000 to oer oa eS 2 Hes tasks tm ti ei 6 (oe ht Species, footy ied ST.LOUIS GREETS BISHOP PARKS SPIRIT OF UNITY PREVAILS. Notable Gathering at St. Paul Chapel, Where Reception Was Held-Joint Encampment of Knights of Pythias and Taborians—Forward Movement In Business and Politics. BY CHARLES S. HUNTER. St. Louis.—The colored people of St. Louis, filled with the infectious progressive spirit of this western metropolis, are making history. Long prominent in the educational world because of the splendid equipment of its schools, conspicuous in religious circles by the magnificence of its churches, its colored population is now experiencing a business and political awakening that augurs big things for the future of the race in this section. The latter part of July hundreds of representative citizens, business and professional men from all the churches and scores of visiting clergymen from the Fifth episcopal district of the A. M. E. church gathered at St. Paul chapel to welcome Bishop H. B. Parks to the district. It was a notable gathering—notable not alone in the fact that all the colored evangelical churches in the city vied with each other in extending cordial greetings to the distinguished churchman, but because of the dominant note of racial unity sounded by all the speakers in an effort to foster every possible agency for racial betterment and uplift. Secret Society and Political Notes. Another big event was the sessions of the grand lodge Knights of Pythias and Knights of Tabor. These gatherings have brought together hundreds of representativep men and women from all parts of the state. The unique features of the occasion were the joint encampment of their uniform departments at Kulage park, joint participation in the monster parade and a union competitive drill and military ball. In politics the black voter is evidencing his growing sense of racial consciousness by bringing out candidates for nomination for state senator and congressman of the Twelfth congressional district, the second richest district in the United States, the Wall street district in New York being first in wealth. The voters are very optimistic and feel sure that the enthusiastic support which will be given the candidates will have a twofold moral effect, inasmuch as it will create wholesome respect for the Negro politically, as well as make him more fully conscious of his own power when exercised as a unit. Real Estate and Banking Interests. The most notable event in business circles is the organization of a bank, capitalized at $200,000, in which some of the foremost men of the race locally are interested. Realty investments are active. New business ventures are being launched weekly. The Osborne Printing company has installed a cylinder press, upon which will be printed the Western Star of Zion, a publication created by the recent general conference of the A. M. E. Zion church. Feeling that the church should have a part in the selection of proper amusements for the people, St. Paul chapel, under the splendid leadership of Dr. W. Sampson Brooks, has projected a monster terrace garden which will afford enjoyment and pleasure for all who desire such diversion. Influence of the Press Recognized. The spirit of harmony and thrift is in the air; a new Negro is forging to the front, and, recognizing the grinding, crushing competition of American industrial life, he is realizing that thoroughness and solidarity of purpose alone can warrant any measure of success in the struggles of life. In the furtherance of this new racial propaganda the Argus, the Advance, the Central Afro-American and the Western Star of Zion, our local publications, are rendering reeman service. This is evidence that the power of the press is still vital in molding public sentiment and in creating an atmosphere in which reforms must of necessity thrive and develop good fruitage. Competent Man on Staff of Y. M. C. A. The Young Men's Christian association in Indianapolis, Ind., is fortunate in securing the services of Mr. Joseph C. Hayes on its official staff. Mr. Hayes is a native of Terre Haute, in which city he received his earlier education. He was also a student at Waltland university in Nashville, Tenn., for three years. Mr. Hayes is fond of athletics and music. His special line will be in the membership department. Musical Productions of E. C. Melvin. One of the busiest composers in Pittsburgh is Edward C. Melvin, whose special line is piano and violin composition. "Musting," one of his best piano pieces, is attracting wide attention. Mr. Melvin is young, ambitious and self-reliant. If he continues he will some day rank with those whose musical productions have WOMEN DEPLORE LYNCHING. Northeastern Federation Believes Government Can Stop Mob Violence. The committee on resolutions at the recent meeting of the Northeastern Federation of Women's Clubs held in Jersey City, N. J., made the following report, which was adopted: We, the resolutions committee of the Northeastern Federation of Women's Clubs, assembled in Jersey City, N. J., in the Lafayette Presbyterian church, beg to submit for your consideration and adoption the following resolutions: Resolved, That we unanimously express our gratitude to the Entertaining club, the Afro-American Women's Industrial league, also to the Art club, which so ably assisted them, and to the mayor of the city for his cordial words of welcome; also to the pastor and members of the Lafayette Presbyterian church. Resolved, That we extend our hearty thanks to the little pages and to all those who faithfully served on the program and that we congratulate the race for the splendid number of graduates who have come from our schools and colleges this year. We commend the parents of these graduates for their hard work, perseverance, bravery and it possible for these graduates to reach the desired goal. Resolved, That we deplore the steady increase of lynchings and the continued apathy of the United States government in not enforcing the constitution even when women and children are being lynched. As it is known the United States government does anything it deems best for the protection of American citizens, we feel act 6 and others similar of the constitution make it possible for the government to prevent lynchings and to maintain the trend to the National Association For the Advancement of Colored People thanks for its great work in protecting and advancing the rights of our people. As we carefully look with microscopic eyes over the platforms of the two great political parties in our country we see no solution of our great American problem. We beg every woman here and at home connected with this body to pray, labor and work, above all, urging them to stand united in the solving of our own problem. Miss Roberta J. Dunbar, chairman; Mrs. Agnes Adams, Mrs. Ernestine Ross, Miss Elizabeth A. Mickens, Mrs. M. Cravath Simpson, secretary. ECHOES FROM THE HAMPTON INSTITUTE CONFERENCE Prominent Educators Bring Hopeful Message From Rural Districts. Hampton, Va.—The sixteenth annual Hampton Institute conference recently held in this town was attended by educators and workers along other special lines of racial uplift from many sections. The information received from the various speakers will go far toward bringing about better conditions in rural life if properly used. Addresses were made by industrial supervisors in rural schools of Virginia. Jackson Davis, supervisor of rural elementary schools in Virginia, outlined the work of the supervising teachers. Thomas Jesse Jones of the United States bureau of education told the story of Negro progress revealed by the census of 1910. The figures show that the colored farmers of the south cultivate 100,000-000 acres. The buildings on these farms are worth almost a billion dollars. Negro farms have increased 20 per cent and the population 10 per cent. White farms have increased 18 per cent. white population 24 per cent. The Negro death rate has been reduced during the last decade from 29 to 24 per thousand. Negroes in the United States increased at the rate of 113 per cent. This rate is equal to that of European countries securing increases by birth over deaths. Negro illiteracy has decreased from 44 per cent to 30. In Virginia the reduction has been from 44.6 to 30 per cent. In 1910 67 per cent of all colored farmers in Virginia owned their farms. Colored owners in Georgia increased 38 per cent; farms owned by colored men increased from 82,000 to 122,000. J. M. Gandy, Petersburg, Va., spoke on needs of Negro rural life in Virginia. Robert R. Moton, commandant of Hampton institute, spoke on the "Negro Organization Society," founded for the improvement of the Negro conditions through state wide co-operation. E. L. Snyder of the Tuskegee institute discussed the problem of feeding students economically. M. W. Reddick, Americus, Ga., discussed methods of raising money for schools. Round tables dealing with problems of health and farm life were conducted by Dr. J. J. France, Portsmouth, Va., and Charles K. Graham of Hampton institute. HIRAM H. STARR DIES AT 85. Wealthy Western Pioneer Leaves Estate to Booker T. Washington. It is reported that Hiram H. Starr, a wealthy western pioneer, died recently, leaving all of his estate to Dr. Booker T. Washington, to be used for educational purposes in connection with the Tuskegee (Aln.) institute. Mr. Starr resided in Falls City, Ore., and was a member of the Free Methodist Episcopal church. He was never married and was eighty-five years of age. A nephew in Maricopa, Cal., is said to be the only surviving relative. Henry Lincoln Johnson's New Client. Henry Lincoln Johnson, recorder of deeds at Washington, has been elected attorney general of the National Negro Independent Political league. He will have charge of the league's work in moving against race proscriptive measures, as well as the drafting of legislation for the amelioration of prejudiced conditions. Mr. Johnson is an alumnus of Atlanta university and the law school of the University of Michigan. S. E. Cor. State and 36th Place, Chicago Telephone Douglas 1565 GENERAL BANKING owed on Savings Accounts at Vaults, $3.00 per Year ESTATE DEPARTMENT State on commission, manages estates for non-resi- tates and looking after assessments. Money to loan the patronage of Chicago business men. Fenford Apartment 3600 Wabash Ave. ver opened to Colored tenants in Chicago. tile baths, marble entrance. J. W. Casey, Agent, 74 W. WASHINGTON STREET. 3 per cent allowed on Savings Accounts Safety Deposit Vaults, $3.00 per Year REAL ESTATE DEPARTMENT As agent buy and sell Real Estate on commission, manages estates for non-residents, including payment of taxes and looking after assessments. Money to loan on Chicago Real Estate. Especially Invites the patronage of Chicago business men. The Cranford Apartment Building. 3600 Wabash Ave. THE NEW YORK MUSEUM The finest building ever opened to Colored tenants in Chicago. Steam heat, electric light, tile baths, marble entrance. LE PIANO CO. STATE STREET Talking Machines and Supplies. ing Instruments. Cash or Easy Open Evenings till 10.30. phone Doug, 4558. Pianos, Organs, Talking Machines and Supplies. Brass and String Instruments. Cash or Easy Payments. Open Evenings till 10.30. Phone Doug. 4558. 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