The Broad Ax

Our Reflections on Christmas or the Holiday Season THE MEEK AND LOWLY JESUS OF NAZARETH WAS NOT THE POUNDER OF A NEW RELIGIOUS SYSTEM NOE DOCTRINE. THE GOLDEN RULE WAS PROMULGATED BY CONFUCIUS THE GREAT CHINESE LAW GIVER OR PHILOSOPHER MORE THAN FIVE HUNDRED YEARS BEFORE THE CHRISTIAN ERA. WHEREVER THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION PREVAILS, RACE PREJUDICE, SLAVERY, IMMORALITY, MISEBY, POVERTY, DEGRADATION, DRUNKENNESS, VICE AND CRIME OF EVERY DESCRIPTION HAVE ALWAYS FLOURISHED LIKE A GREEN BAY TREE. THE SO-CALLED CHRISTIANS, WILL VIE WITH THE UNGODLY, THE FREETHINKERS, OR THE INFIDELS, IN CELEBRATING THE DEATH OF JESUS UPON THE CROSS IN GRAND BACCHANALIAN STYLE. LET US EMBRACE "THE RELIGION OF THE FUTURE—THE RELIGION OF LOVE, REASON AND HUMANITY!" Vol. XVIII. Our Reflect Christmas Hol THE MEEK AND LOWLY JESUS FOUNDER OF A NEW RELIGION THE GOLDEN RULE WAS PROMU- CHINESE LAW GIVER OR PHI- DRED YEARS BEFORE THE C WHEREVER THE CHRISTIAN RELIG- SLAVEBY, IMMORALITY, M DRUNKENNESS, VICE AND OE ALWAYS FLOURISHED LIKE A THE SO-CALLED CHRISTIANS, W FREETHINKERS, OR THE I DEATH OF JESUS UPON THE STYLE. LET US EMBRACE "THE RELIGIO- OF LOVE, REASON Once more all the people residing in all parts of the so-called civilized or the Christian world, are in the midst of the holiday season for this coming Wednesday, December 25th, is Christmas, and with more than joyful hearts and good feeling, many of them will celebrate Christmastide in honor of the birth of Jesus of Nazareth, who was born in the Land of Judea more than nineteen centuries ago. Those who desire to take the trouble to do so can learn from his great contemporaries, Philo and Josephus, that Joseph his father and Mary his mother, who was also the mother of three or four other children aside from Jesus, that "they were extremely poor,—that they were unable to give him any educational advantages, that all but eighteen months of his life was devoted to working, at his trade, that of a carpenter, consequently Jesus grew up to manhood totally unacquainted with any of the rudiments pertaining to an education, that he was simply human, that he sustained the same relations with his heavenly father, that are sustained to him by His other sons and daughters of humanity who are scattered over the face of the earth. That being human he was subject to all the diseases which have in the past and which will continue to effect each and every individual born into this living and breathing world, that he came into it in the natural course of events and left it in the same manner. It is true that when he began to preach the people were attracted to him by the wonderful amount of magnetism which he possessed and the bold stand he assumed against the priesthood, for be it remembered that Jesus was by far the greatest socialist or anarchist or infidel of his day and generation. It is also true that Jesus was unlike Moses, Buddha, Zeno, Mahomet, Confucius or Socrates, for all of those great moral teachers or philosophers were the founders of new religious systems or doctrines, but Jesus did not give expression to one single new thought or truth during the eighteen months of his ministry. Even the golden rule which his followers claim he was the author of was promulgated by Confucius, the great Chinese lawgiver or philosopher, more than five hundred years before the Christian era; it was the mission of the meek and lowly Jesus to re-clothe and re-voice those touching and enobling sentiments which had become dim in the hearts of the multitude at the time he walked and talked to those who had gathered around him. What Jesus principally desierd to do was to reform the Jewish priesthood, and for endeavoring to perform that act the Jewish people finally succeeded in persuading the Roman authorities to arrest Jesus, for violating the Roman laws and old established customs. He was tried, found guilty, according to the Roman and Jewish Laws blended into one, and forty days after his death upon the cross the Church of Christ was established in the holy city of Jerusalem, and the elders of that church were all unearnedained Jew. That new sect did not progress very rapidly, and at the end of two hundred years it had almost became extinct. Its adherents were at first very meek and humble, they were fearful and very careful to refrain from impressing their religious ideas upon the Gentiles and the Pagans, but as time went by Constantine the Great and sainted Emperor of Rome, who ruthlessly murdered his wife and sweet little children, became a convert to the teachings of the religion of the cross, and he adopted it as the religion of Rome; then its adherents became bold, dogmatic and extremely revengeful to those who failed or refused to marche under its banner. Tertullian, one of the Latin fathers of the church at that time and a devoted follower of the Pious Constantine, exclaimed, "I expect the greatest of all spectacles, the last the eternal judgment of the universe. How shall I admire, how laugh, how rejoice, how exult, when I behold so many proud monarchs and fancied gods, groaning in the lowest abyss of darkness; so many magistrates who persecuted the name of the Lord; liquifying in fiercer fires than they ever kindled against the followers of Jesus; so many sage philosophers blushing in red hot flames with their deluded followers; so many celebrated poets trembling before the tribunal, not of Mines, but of Christ." To a greater or less extent the adherents of Jesus, at the present time entertain the same bitter ideas and hatred against those who are not in harmony with their religious views, as the sentiments that were uttered or expressed by Tertullian in this respect against the same class of people in his day and time. It is therefore, a very remarkable fact that the five hundred million people who are scattered throughout the so-called Christian world, who profess to have the name of Jesus encircled in their hearts will wangle for their religion, fight for it, and gladly die for it and endure any and everything for it, notwithstanding these facts at all times they utterly and absolutely refuse or fail to live for it. Many of the theologians and the other followers of Jesus have for all most two thousand years continued to rail against the Jewish people or the Roman authorities for causing his death. They seem to lose sight of the fact that if he was sent to this earth from his heavenly father for the special purpose of judging the living and the dead, and to redeem mankind from sin and corruption, it made no material difference whether he embraced death upon the cross or died from some disease, for he was subject to all the laws of nature, and none of nature's laws were suspended when he entered nor when he left this world of pain and sorrow. Every rational being is more than willing to admit and agree with the theologians that Jesus suffered intense agony and severe pain while he was upon the cross, but that suffering or pain or anguish only lasted a few hours, and it was nothing in comparison to the honor, and the glory which has been and which will continue to be showered or heaped upon him by 1910 his five hundred million followers, for it must be freely admitted that Jesus is ten million times more alive today and a billion times more beloved since his death upon the cross. There is no disposition on our part on this occasion to enter into a long discussion on the merits or demersis or the superiority of the religion founded by the followers of Jesus, who loudly boast that it excels in purity, morality and benevolence all the ancient or older systems of religion, suffice it to say on this point that wherever, the religion of the cross has prevailed, race prejudice, slavery, immorality, misery, poverty, degradation, drunkenness, vice and crimes of every description have always flourished like a green bay tree, and more evil and injustice exists in the world today than existed prior to the advent of the Christian religion. merous homes and hovels throughout the Christian world where the bright sunlight never enters and hope has never been, where day follows day in never changing toil, and life leads only to the prison or the workhouse or the grave. Fully realizing the truthfulness of these reflections, let each and every one of us from henceforth, embrace the "religion of the future—the religion of love, reason and humanity." Then, without any selfish motives we will feel that we cannot perform any holier or higher duty for the gods nor for suffering humanity than to cheer the faint-hearted, raise the fallen, administer, to the sick and the afflicted—throw our protecting arms around the motherless and fatherless little children—scatter flowers and sunshine into every darkened home. In conclusion, it again affords us This coming Sunday and no doubt on Wednesday Christmas day, the various churches will be crowded to hear songs and high praises chanted unto Jesus, but the religious exercises will be entered into more from formality than anything else. Loudly and over-dressed women will be in evidence, and they will be so busy in inspecting each other's big outlandish shaped hats, diamond rings, and very tight fitting rich silk hobble skirts which will fit their lovely and well-shaped forms to perfection; that they will be unable to inform anyone what the preachers were talking about. The gentlemen who many happen to drop into the churches will be engaged in figuring up how to make ten million dollars the coming year by increasing the prices on all the necessities of life, thereby squeezing the life-blood out of their unfortunate fellow-creatures, that the remarks of the long-winded ministers generally speaking will not leave a lasting impression on their minds, and like the women they will be unable to tell whether Jesus gave up his life one thousand or five thousand years ago for the everlasting good of humanity. The remainder of the holiday season the theatres, the ballrooms and the banquet halls will be crowded, and the Christians, or those who pretend to reverence the name of Jesus, will vie with the ungodly, the Jew, the heathen, the freethinker and the indel in indulging in social excesses, eating, drinking and in celebrating his death upon the cross in grand Bacchianalian style. They, the Christians, will cling to the olden idea, "eat, drink and be merry today, for tomorrow you may die." In the midst of all these social gayeties, wealth and elegance, the needy, the poor widows, the little orphans, and the outcasts will be almost ignored and forgotten, for there are nu- merous homes and hovels throughout the Christian world where the bright sunlight never enters and hope has never been, where day follows day in never changing toil, and life leads only to the prison or the workhouse or the grave. Fully realizing the truthfulness of these reflections, let each and every one of us from henceforth, embrace the "religion of the future," the religion of love, reason and humanity." Then, without any selfish motives we will feel that we cannot perform any holier or higher duty for the gods nor for suffering humanity than to cheer the faint-hearted, raise the fallen, administer, to the sick and the afflicted—throw our protecting arms around the motherless and fatherless little children—scatter flowers and sunshine into every darkened home. In conclusion, it again affords us much pleasure, from deep down, in the bottom of our warm and sympathetic heart, to heartily wish the numerous friends and readers of The Broad Ax a merry and joyous Christmas and a most happy and prosperous New Year! CAPTAIN JOHN L. FRY, EXTENDS THE HOLIDAY GREETINGS OF THE SEASON TO HIS MANY FRIENDS. Captain John L. Fry, proprietor and manager of the Keystone Hotel, 3022 S. State street; 'phone Douglas 1360, again extends the greetings of the holiday season to his hosts of warm friends. For many years; Captain Fry, has conducted, the Keystone Hotel, on a high plane or order. Its many rooms are elegantly furnished, either single or en-suite, for gentlemen only. No women are allowed on the premises, around or about it, except the housekeeper and everything in connection with it, is first class and up-to-date. The fine Buffet and Billiard parlor, are located on the first floor and are conducted in an orderly manner. ) Not so many years ago, Captain Fry was united in marriage to Miss Myrtle Hart, of the highly respected Hart family of Indianapolis, Ind. She is an accomplished musician and is extremely popular among a large circle of friends in her home city and in this city. Captain and Mrs. Fry occupy nice apartments in the Cranford apartment building, 3800 Wabash avenue, and their little six months old daughter, Miss Frances Fry, has delightfully gladdened their home since she made her advent into it. The Tragedy or the Aftermath of a great Prize Fight or the Episode of the Johnson--Cameron Affair MANY COLORED WAITERS, PORTERS IN WHITE BARBER SHOPS AND OTHER COLORED MEN EMPLOYED IN VARIOUS CAPACITIES HAVE BEEN SEPARATED FORM THEIR POSITIONS. SINCE THE GREAT RACE FEELING AND BITTERNESS HAS SWEPT OVER THE COUNTRY WITHIN THE PAST TWO OR THREE MONTHS. COLORED PROFESSIONAL MEN AND THOSE IN ALL WALKS OF LIFE HAVE BEEN MADE TO SUFFER IN THE WAY OF INSULTS AND WOUNDED FEELINGS AND SO ON AS A RESULT OF THE BITTER AGITATION. A HOT AND TIMELY ARTICLE ON "JIM CROW" LEGISLATION TO BE ENACTED IN THE STATE OF ILLINOIS AND THE SHORT COMINGS OR THE IMMORAL CONDUCT OF WHITE GENTLEMEN WHEN IT COMES TO DEALING WITH COLORED WOMEN. CONTRIBUTED BY THE MAN ON THE CORNER. On the 4th of July, 1910, James J. Jeffries, a White man, and Jack Johnson, a Black man, met in a Nevada hamlet and fought for the championship of the world. The black man won. The Negro rabble of the country with its ear to the ticker caught the fatal count of ten almost as soon as the referee tolled it off and broke for the streets to celebrate the victory. Their joy however, had in it no note of triumph, no feeling of malice for the vanquished nor his people. The tension of months was broken and overwrought nerves were seeking relief. But there were wise men among us who shook their heads and looked for the aftermath. They had seen Dixon, the peerless, Gans, the old master, Walcott, mightest of welters, leave the "squared circle" with the boys of victory and vanish into modesty obscurity. They had seen Peter Jackson, hammer Slavin into helplessness in a London ring and while holding his fallen foe in his arms, turn to the referee and beg him to stop the fight to save the beaten man from further punishment. They saw this same Peter Jackson wined and dined in every land and hailed as Prince of Gentlemen. But what of the new champion! Would he measure up to Gans, to Dixon, Walecott and Jackson? Would he bear his honors easy and modestly! These were the questions on every lip! His unfortunate people hoped, prayed that he would. Did he? Let us see. The day following the fight he started East. In the car sitting by his side was his wife from the same race as his conquered foe. This did not sit well on white stomachs, and neither did it sit well on ours. How we lenged to see some handsome Colored woman at his side to give him sage advice and counsel him to modesty and self restraint! His entry into his adopted city, Chicago, was the march of a conqueror. White and black vied with each other to do him honor. The adulation turned his head. White sycophants swarmed around him. White women of the underworld sought his favors. He opened a cafe, as he said, "for his white friends." At the tables he sat nightly with white companions, rarely ever with black ones. On a fateful night in September his white wife fired a bullet into her brain. The champion followed her remains to the grave and the world, black and white drew the mantle of charity over the scene and left the black othello to his grief. Hardly had the sods been heaped upon her tomb before Mr. Johnson gathered to his bosom another immortal of the white race. This was too much. The world would not stand for this flagrant violation of all the laws of de- No.12 peney. The prejudice of the white people was aroused to boiling heat and the power of the Federal Government was invoked through the Mann Act. Johnson was indicted on many counts. Now comes the tragedy. But it is not a tragedy for Johnson. He saw in it only the spite work of white man, and he crowned his many acts of assininity by marrying the misguided girl who had wrought his downfall. We said it was not a tragedy for Johnson. The blow falls lightly upon him because of his apparent inability to grasp its full meaning. To his people it comes as a calamity. Every Negro waiter, porter, and professional man must bear the brunt of this new burden. It is not enough that they have condemned him by speech and resolution. The white demagogue must have his inning. Hence the blatant mouthings of a Blease at the conference of Governors in Virginia, hence the fiery vaporings of the Georgia congressman, who sees in this romance of the underworld "mustering squadrons swiftly forming in the ranks of war." Illinois, too, is not without her demagogues, and we behold the spectacle of the state of Lincoln, Douglas and Grant about to be disgraced with Jim Crow legislation. In the lower house we have an Igoe, in the upper a Glackin, both trying to curry favor with the ignorant rabble by introducing Negro baiting bills. If these men, both Irishmen, do not remember the struggles of their own people to free themselves from the yoke of oppression, let them not forget what the Negro has suffered at the hands of the white people in this country. Let them not forget that Jack Johnson's case is a sporadic one, while the United States teams with thousands of yellow faces living monuments to the white man's sin against Negro women. Probably when these measures are introduced we shall learn something of that brand of social purity that builds bulwarks around white womanhood while it preys upon Colored women. THE SUPREME COURT AND ITS LATE DECISION ON MARRIAGES. The ruling of the Supreme Court is a Code of Ethics. Respectable people respect the law, and abide by its ruling, not always because the law is right, but because there must be some well established rule to which such people subject themselves. It is only a temporary pause in our relationship. My opinion is that sensible people should never condemn the law, therefore such a condition as will confront our relationship, simply will mean temporary obedience, and abeyance.-Delphia Boger Anderson, Chicago, III. December 19, 1912. THE BROADAX PUBLISHED WEEKLY. Will promulgate and at all times uphold the laws of the State of California, Fraternity, Friends, Inlander, Single Taxer, Republians, or anyone else can have their cap, as long as their language is proper and responsibility is fixed. The platform is broad enough for all, ever claiming the editorial right to speak its own mind. Local communications will receive attention. Write only on one side of the paper. Subscriptions must be paid in advance. One Year ..... $1.00 Six Months ..... $1.00 All arriving rates made known on application. Address all communications to THE BROAD AX 5597 ARMOUR AVENUE, CHICAGO, ILL. PHONE DREXEL 6590. JULIUS P. TAYLOR, Editor and Publisher. Entered as Second-Class Matter Aug. 18, 1803, at the Post Office at Chicago, Illinois, under Act of March 8, 1878. THE DECISION OF THE SUPREME COURT OF ILLINOIS ON MARRIAGES. Has Struck Terror Into The Hearts Of Many Afro-Americans In This City. Some Of Them Will Have To Live Apart For One Or Two Years Or Run The Chances Of Being Arrested For Living In A State Of Adultery. The Supreme Court of this State, this week in its far reaching decision on the present marriage law which has been in force and effect since July 1, 1905, in relation to very warm men and women who are hot or bent on getting remarried to some one else before they have been divorced from each other for one or two years as the law plainly provides, have been dealt a knock out or a body blow, they will now have a chance to cool off for a while, for the ruling of the court of last resort on this all important question has not only struck terror into the hearts of many of the most prominent white ladies and gentlemen, in this city, as well as striking terror into the hearts of many of the leading Colored ladies and gentlemen also residing in this city who like the white ladies and gentlemen, seemingly could not hold themselves together for two hours after securing their divorce without rushing off and tying up with another man or woman as the case might be. So the long and the short of this new ruling of the Supreme Court on an old subject is simply this that unless all couples who have broke away from each other in the divorce courts and then caught onto a new husband or a new wife in the very next minute or hour, remarry within a short time they will be arrested for living in a state of adultery, providing they do not live apart for one or two years and the law and the courts will not permit them to slip or slide around and get together either night or day. The opinion of the Supreme Court in The opinion of the Supreme Court in this respect is as follows: 1. The marriage of a divorced person within one year of filing of divorce decree is void. 2. Children born of such marriages are illegitimate. Parties Face Fines. 3. Each party to such a marriage is amenable to the penal code of the state and faces fine or imprisonment or both. 4. That the marriage was contracted in another state in good faith is no defense, because the law is open and explicit and has been on the statute books since July 1, 1905. 5. If the status of the family is to be maintained the parties must be remarried. 6. Neither party to such marriage has any rights, dower or otherwise, to the estate of the other. 7. There is no law compelling parties to remarry, but if they do not, after a reasonable time, they are subject to arrest on statutory charges. 8. Decisions of the Probate Court, disposing of the property of one so divorced and remarried, are subject to revision. Any of the fair ladies, who have in the past persisted, in heaving dishes, butcher knives and other articles at the heads of their husbands; pouring hot boiling water over them and beating them up and running them out of the house, with a broom stick; will have no kick coming, if their husbands duck them for good; for under the new marriage law; that is, as it applies to those who have been divorced and remarried again before the expiration of one year, cannot force nor compel their husbands to return home and live with them. Dr. N. F. Mossell, founder of the Frederick Donglass Memorial Hospital and Training School, Philadelphia, Pa., this week, favored us with a memorial souvenir program, pertaining to celebrating Founders' Day, from 1895 to 1912. It is very neatly gotten up and it contains an interesting story of the expansion of the hospital from its inception to the present time A new printing plant has been opened in Toledo, Ohio, by Messrs. B. Harry Lasher, W. H. Harrison and Howard Kirk. The Philadelphia Tribune celebrated its twenty-eighth anniversary by purchasing an $8,000 building into which it is shortly to move. The Colored people of Brooklyn, N. Y., are to have an up-to-date restaurant. Edgar M. Miller and Isaiah Walker are the proprietors. Fred M. Johnson, one of San Juan hill heroes, has invented a belt feed rifle that will fire 300 shots in succession, at the rate of twenty shots a second. Allensworth, California, a Negro colony, is completing a new grammar school. "One of the best colony schools in the state," the neighboring papers say. In a recent ten days' campaign the Negroes of Baltimore, Maryland, pledged $31,000 towards a Young Men's Christian Association building. This is another one of the cities to cover the $25,000 offered by Mr. Julius Rosenwald, the Chicago philanthropist. The National Reflector, Wichita, Kansas, has an interesting article on George M. Fox's steam laundry. Mr. Fox runs five delivery wagons and one automobile. During the past year he has installed four thousand dollars worth of improved laundry equipment. The North Carolina Mutual and Provident Association, of Durham, North Carolina, has decided to invest its surplus earnings in securities that will yield the safest returns. Following this plan the company invested $20,000 in Georgia state bonds, on Saturday, November 23. The Negroes of Guthrie, Oklahoma, support a wide-awake library. It was established by Negro club women in 1908. In a city of fewer that 2,500 Negroes, this library has had 2,200 visits in one month; has loaned 750 books in the same length of time, and has added to its shelves 765 volumes. The report of the third quarter is as follows: Registered visits, 2,000; books loaned, 1,000; books added, 265; members to date, 800. Since the opening in 1908: Registered visits, 27,056; books loaned, 10,810; books added, more than 2,000. The library maintains a Young Men's Christian Association, a children's story hour club, and a lecture course on domestic science and home making for our women. There is no such institution in the State doing so much for race uplift. Mrs. J. C. Horton is the librarian. An investigation in Kansas City, Kansas, reveals some interesting facts about the Negroes of that city. It has been found that out of a Negro population of 23,566, eight hundred were property owners. The Negro property was assessed at $1,400,000. Fifty Negroes owned property valued at $10,000; one hundred Negroes between $5,000 and $10,000; two hundred between $1,000 and $5,000; and four hundred and fifty between $500 and $1,000. The figures go to show that the Negro of Kansas City is worth $28.01 more than the average Negro of the United States. A canvass among 8,000 employed Negroes in Kansas City between the ages of 14 and 60 give this result: Barbers, 240; dentists, 4; doctors, 23; janitors, 350; laborers, 5,000; lawyers, 6; police service, 8; postal service, 20; barber shop porters, 375; hotel porters, 140; saloon porters, 600; independent proprietors, 90; pool hall owners, 75; preachers, 25; Pullman service, 140; railway service, 250; teachers, 30; teamsters, 210; waiters, 510. Monster New Year's DANCE AND BALL By the EIGHTH REGIMENT ILLINOIS NATIONAL GUARDS At the Seventh Regiment Armory Thirty Fourth St. & Wentworth Ave. New Year's Night, the famous 8th Regiment and their host of friends will hold the fort at the 7th Regiment Armory where they will give a grand military dances and ball. This will be the big and crowding event of the New Year's festivitie. The full regimental band will give a concert from S to 10. Following this will come the Grand March, and thence until the woe sme' hours the dancers will revel to their fall in the masses of a varied program. Make no other engagements, for you must be numbered among those present. New Year's night, Jan. 1, 1918, 7th Regiment Armory. Admission 50 cents. WHAT'S THE DIFFERENCE? The other day an explosion in an industrial plant near Chicago killed three men and injured several others; now the grand jury has been asked to investigate the matter with a view of fixing the responsibility for so terrible a disaster. Last month in Chicago 365 persons were killed with pneumonia, and for the eleven months of this year, 4,445 people were killed by the same dirty air disease. Here we have it: Three persons killed and half a dozen injured by an explosion and the citizens of the town are demanding an investigation to find out who were responsible and if possible the cause, to the end that in the future such disasters might be prevented. But up to date there has been no public concern or excitement over the 4,445 deaths caused by a preventable disease here in Chicago. . . . Makes all the difference in the world, doesn't it, how people are killed? A chance spark coming in contact with the fine, impalpable dust in a starch factory, kills three or four people and injures as many more. The whole community is shocked and everybody wants to know all about it. But when 123 persons are killed by one of the dirty air diseases in a single week in Chicago, these needless deaths, a needless sacrifice of human lives, excite no horror, and arouse little or no interest as to why they occurred or as to the means to be employed to prevent pneumonia from killing nearly 5,000 of Chicago's people next year, that being about the number of its victims for the year 1912. . . . Pneumonia is a house disease and occurs only in houses where the air is continually foul and bad. It is essentially a dirty-air disease. It is most prevalent during the fall, winter and early spring months, as the following figures show: In January of this year the pneumonia deaths in Chicago were 716; in February, 692; in March, 658; in April, 510; in May, 378; in June, 260; and this decrease continues until the month of September when the minimum for the year, 166 deaths, was reached. No better proof could be submitted showing that pneumonia is due to the bad air conditions in our work places, amusement halls and public conveyances than the figures above given. OKLAHOMA CAPTURES THE CONGRESS—EIGHTH ANNUAL SESSION OF SUNDAY-SCHOOL WORKERS WILL ASSEMBLE AT MUSKOGEE. Young People of 20,000 Sunday-schools of the National Baptist Convention Will Observe Golden Jubilee Commemorating the Fifty Years that have Elapsed Since the Emancipation Proclamation was Issued by the Immortal Abraham Lincoln. Nashville, Tenn., Dec. 17.—Muskogee, Okla., was unanimously awarded the meeting of the Sunday-school congress for 1913. This action, which was taken by the joint Boards in session here was in keeping with the endorsement of Oklahoma by the special committee that was cavassing the invitations which came from such cities at Chicago, St. Louis, Kansas City, Ft. Worth, Cincinnati, Memphis, Washington, Atlantic City and Binghamton. The Boards in charge of the congress, after reviewing the committee's recommendations, declared Muskogee the winner because of the inducements offered and the geographical location, together with the withdrawing of Texas, Kansas, Arkansas and Missouri from the race in favor of Muskogee. The date of the Congress stated the secretary, Henry A. Boyd, will be from the fourth to the ninth of June, inclusive. He said the Board had decided that the Congress this year, as for the past several years, would embrace the second Sunday in June, which is generally observed by the National Baptist Convention as Children's Day. The last session of this national gathering of Sunday-school workers was held at Tuskegee Institute, Alabama, and while they were in session several telegraphic invitations, supported by a special delegation from Oklahoma with invitations, were received inviting the Eighth Annual Session to come West and see the possibilities for future development of religious Sunday-school work. Sherman H. Dudley, and his ever popular "Smart Set" Company; have for the past week been engaged in playing, "Dr. Beans from Boston" at the Pekin Theater, each performance being fairly well attended. Sunday night they played to a capacity house MILLIONAIRE JOHN G. SHERMAN HAS SOLD HIS SUMMER HOME AT LAKE GENEVA, WISCONSIN, TO A NUMBER OF COLORED MEN WHO WILL TRANSFORM IT INTO A SUMMER RESORT. Attorney W. G. Anderson has just closed a very important deal for the purchase of one hundred feet frontage on Lake Geneva, Wis., improved by a two-story twelve room cottage, walnut finish throughout, with a two-story garage accommodating six automobiles and barn in the rear. The lot runs back four hundred feet to a public driveway and has been owned by J. G. Sherman, of Lake Geneva and Chicago, for the past forty-six years, who has no objection to selling it to respectable Colored people. The estate is considered one of the prettiest and most desirable of the one hundred cottages facing Lake Geneva—the most exclusive Summer resort in the Northwest. There are over fifty prominent millionaires who have summer homes on the lake, among whom is John J. Mitchell, H. C. Lytton, of the Hub, banker Harris, J. H. Moore, of the Rock Island, the beautiful $500,000 mansion of Otto Young, deceased, S. B. Chapin, of the Stock Yards, L. M. Slocum, H. G. Selfridge of Marshall Field & Co., and others. Several of our prominent Colored professional and business men are in the deal, and it is the purpose of the promoters to organize the "Lincoln Social and Athletic Club" and use the cottage and its spacious grounds for the entertainment of the members of the club, their families and friends each summer. Each property owner on the lake front has bathing and boating privileges. The land runs right to the water front. Full particulars will be given later. PLAN AND PURPOSE OF THE CONFERENCE. The Tuskegee Negro conference is, in effect, a mass meeting of the Negro people. It brings together representatives of the masses of the people, especially farmers and those who are working for them and with them, the teachers and leaders from all parts of the South. Its purpose is less to teach than to inspire. The first day is taken up for the most part with informal reports and personal experiences of representative individuals, the purpose of which is to afford a broad view of actual conditions and of what the people themselves either as individuals or through their churches and the schools, are doing to improve them. The second day is given over to what is called "The Workers' Conference," that is to say, a conference of teachers and others who are engaged in some definite form of work for the improvement of the masses of the Negro people. The conference, which began twenty-two years ago with a meeting of a few farmers, ministers and teachers from the surrounding country, has extended its influence and strengthened its hold upon the masses of the people from year to year since that time. The record of its work is in thousands of individual lives which it has inspired with fresh hope and new ambition in the struggle for better things. Reduced Rates As in former years, a reduced rate will most likely be granted by the railroads. Persons intending to be present should ask their ticket agents for the reduced rate granted on account of the annual Tuskegee Negro Conference to be held at Tuskegee Institute, Alabama, January 22-23, 1913. CHRISTMAS BALL BY THE FIRST REGIMENT UNIFORM BANK KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS. Wednesday evening, December 25, the First Regiment Uniform Rank Knights of Pythias; will give a grand Christmas ball at the Coliseum Annex, Fifteenth street and Wabash avenue. Both halls will be used for the ocasion and two orchestras will discourse music for the evening. COL. H. H. BIGGS, Chairman. (See ad' in another column of this paper). FIFTY YEARS OF FREEDOM Mr. Charles Edward Russell, the noted writer and sociologist, will address the Negro Fellowship League, 2830 State street, Sunday, December 22, at 4 o'clock. Mr. Russell is one of the foremost thinkers and speakers of the present day and he is absolutely sound on questions affecting the race, and all agree that he is one of the boldest speakers against race outrages in this country today. All are cordially invited to hear the eloquent man. Admission free. Good music. Ladies especially invited.—Ida B. Wells-Barnett. It is reported on good authority; that Alderman Albert B. Tearney, has induced State's Attorney Maclay Hoyne, to select Edward E. Wilson, as one of his associates. BED CROSS CHRISTMAS SEALS. It Makes a Difference Whose Girl It Is Some years ago, in a Wisconsin city, there lived a certain rich father of an only and beautiful daughter. During one of the Christmas Seal campaigns he was approached for a contribution by one of the workers. His refusal was needlessly curt, and cut sharply into the spirit of the pretty young campaigner. For, after all, the work meant nothing to her but an opportunity to show her interest. Within the year, the grim White Destroyer passed this man's way, and, reaching out, clutched his daughter, just flowering into young womanhood, and seized her to its bosom. The man fought back, as men will fight for the things dear to them, but the fight was an unequal one. Like the flower she typified, the daughter drooped and withered before the searing enemy, and with swift and merciless cruelty the scythe death swept her to the harvest of eternity. It was then hard upon a new seal campaign, and in the course of events another worker approached this certain rich man. Crushed and humbled by the burden of his sorrow, he reached for his check-book and filled out a check for a generous contribution—paying a debt to his conscience—a conscience that searce could forgive. Now, this man's check a year before wouldn't of itself, have wiped out the devastating disease—not if it had been written in the wealth of a Rockefeller. Nor, perhaps, would it have saved his daughter—though who can say as to that? Who can say what lives have been saved because a group of two-fisted fighters have gone forth and forced sanatoria onto a complacent people, and put visiting nurses at work cleaning up the pools of disease? Perhaps you are one of these, who, going your careless way, have been saved from black despair, because some one, who didn't even know you, was thoughtful of your welfare. And so this man's check would not have cleansed a disease-ridden world, but it would have helped. Just as the offering that you and I give will help.—Will M. Ross, Stevens Point, Wis. HOW TO USE RED CROSS SEALS The Post-office Department has approved of the Red Cross Christmas seal design being used this year, and the seals may therefore, in accordance with Order No. 5020 of the Post-office Department "be affixed to the reverse side of domestic mail matter." Red Cross Seals must be placed only on the back of letters and not on the address side of any packages that are going through the mail. They may be placed anywhere on matter going by express. As many seals may be used on the back of a letter or package as may be desired. Care should be exercised in sending merchandise through the mails not to place seals over the string with which the package is tied, since this seals the package against inspection and subjects it to first-class postage rates. Red Cross Seals may be used on the reverse side of mail matter sent to Austria, Germany, Great Britain and most of the British Colonies except India and Australia. Guatemala, Uruguay and Portugal refuse to admit mail bearing non-postage stamps. Red Cross Seals may be used in the face of cheeks, on bills, on legal documents, and on any commercial paper. These Christmas Seals are not good for postage. They will not carry any mail matter, but any kind of mail matter will carry them. RED CROSS SEAL JINGLES Here's to the little Red Cross Seal, That messenger so cheery! It bears kind greetings near and far, It helps make life less dreary. With every penny seal you place On package, card or letter, You help to fight the great white plague And break its deadly fetter. Hippity hop to the Christmas shop, To buy some Red Cross Seals! With one on each letter Of course, you feel better; You've heeded your brothers' appeals. I'd gladly take a licking, And maybe I'd take two, If I could be the Red Cross Seal On the back of my letter to you. A LINE A DAY. You are neglectful of your health if you don't buy Red Cross Christmas Seals. The money from these goes to protect you from tuberculosis. Are you using Red Cross Seals on your Christmas packages? If you want to do some real cheering this Christmas, buy Red Cross Seals. A dollar's worth of Red Cross Seals may be the means of curing a consumptive. If you don't know where to get Red Cross Christmas Seals, ask some one. Every penny you invest in Red Cross Christmas Seals will bring to you, your friends and relatives 1,000 per cent, interest in health. Corner Thirty-eighth and Dearborn Streets, Rev. H. J. Callis, D.D., Pastor. The union revival which is to begin the first of January in the following churches, Institutional, St. Mary's, St. Mark's, St. Paul and Walters Zion, is being much talked of among the memberships of these churches. The pastors have held several conferences in preparation for these meetings. There will be other preliminary meetings before the program will be officially announced. It is earnestly hoped that the meetings when held will result in a great spiritual awakening on the South Side. The services at our church on last Sunday were well attended and the usual interest was manifest; there was one accession. We chronicle with regret the death of Sister Lizzie Tindall of 720 East Thirty-eighth street, whose funeral was held on Thursday, December 12, from the church, Rev. Callis officiating. Also that of Sister Lizzie Cole who died at the County hospital, her funeral took place last Sunday afternoon. She was a member of several fraternity orders, all of whom were present and held appropriate exercises. Both Sister Tindall and Sister Cole were honored and faithful members of our church. Their Christian life and influence will be missed in our church circles for many a day. The sermon on the advent will be delivered Christmas morning at 11 o'clock; the choir will render special music at this service and the public is cordially invited. Our services for Sunday will be of special interest. An effort will be made to increase our rally money so that we may pay the $1,000 on the mortgage debt before the first of January. We sincerely hope that every member and friend will be present and do the best that they possibly can in helping us to reach the desired amount. Our next Quarterly conference will convene January 2, Presiding Elder K. P. Christian, in charge. Watch meeting services will be observed as usual—"C" REMOVAL NOTICE, DR.P.J. SCOUT OCULAR SPECIALIST. Is now located at 3522 So. State St. up stairs, New Office, New Outfit, Everything New. Call and have your Eyes examined. Spectacles and Eye Glasses Made to Order $2.00 up. I make a specialty of Fitting Specks and Eye Glasses that will Correct and Care Vision and Relieve Headache, Etc. Dr. P. J. Scott, Ocular Specialist, 3522 State Street. Hours: 9 a. m. to 1:30 p. m. 3:00 to 8 p. m. CHIPS. Rev. A. J. Carey returned home Wednesday evening from a short visit to Keokuk, Iowa. Mrs. Wheeler, 5025 Armour avenue, left Wednesday evening to spend the holidays with friends at her old home in Mendota, Ill. Henry Goings, of Shreveport, La, is still a strong admirer of The Bread Ax, and he is inducing some of his many friends in that city to subscribe for it. Miss Dilpha Boger, nee Mrs. William G. Anderson, will for some time to come devote her time to her musical studies at the Chicago Musical College. She will reside with her parents at their old home in Aurora, Ill. J. N. Blackshear has returned to the city from a pleasant visit to Los Angeles, Cal., and while in that city he met our old friend, Noah D. Thompson, who is successfully running a grocery store there and making money. J. C. Hogan, 5018 Armour avenue, has been seriously sick, and he has been removed from his home to the hospital. Some of his friends fear that he will never be able to rally his former strength and pull through his severe attack of illness. Gilchrist Stewart, of New York City, son of T. McCant Stewart, who was one of the well known lawyers for a number of years in the eastern section of the country, was in this city the first of the week and stopped with mine host, Capt. John L. Fry, of the Keystone Hotel, 3023 South State street. CHRISTMAS BALL GIVEN BY THE 1st REGIMENT, UNIFORM RANK K. OF P.] At the COLISEUM ANNEX 15th Street and Warbash Avenue TWO HALLS TWO ORCHESTRAS Wednesday Evening December 25, 1912 MUSIC BY FIRST REGIMENT BAND ADMISSION 50c Col. H. H. BIGGS, Chairman. Capt. JOHN ISOM, Secy And Maj. GEORGE WILSON, Treasurer S. RICHARDSON Real Estate and Renting 160 NORTH FIFTH AVENUE N. W. Corner Fifth Avenue and Randolph Street., Opposite Briggs House—Suite 500 Telephone Automatic 33-201 Main 2101 CHICAGO DESIRABLE FLATS TO RENT 2720 Dearborn Street, 2nd flat, 6 rooms—$19 3741 La Salle Street, 2nd flat, center, 4 rooms & bath—$15 2426 Seminary Age., 1st flat, 4 rooms—$14 5521 Shields Ave., 1st flat, 5 rooms and bath—$18 7230 Wentworth Ave., 2nd flat, 7 rooms and bath—$22 5754 Wentworth Ave., 2nd flat front, 5 rooms and bath—$18 CHIPS William H. Weber, secretary of the Board of Assessors of Cook county, will be a prominent spoke in the reorganization wheel of the Republican party in the State of Illinois, and he will work hand in hand with Governor Charles S. Deneen and the other leaders of the party in an effort to get it on its feet again. Robert E. Burke, who has been secretary of the Cook County Democracy, for a number of years has put on his real fighting clothes, and from now on, he will fight the Hearst-Harrison combination to a dead finish. Mr. Burke has secured new headquarters for his club at 73 W. Randolph street; where they will hold meetings every Sunday afternoon and lay plans to move on the enemy. The Hon. John E. Traeger, who is proving himself to be one of the very best City Comptrollers Chicago has ever had. At the present time he is confronted with a shortage of more than $4,000,000 annually. This money should be forth coming to be used to assist to carry on the running expenses of the city government. Notwithstanding, this large shortage, Mr. Traeger, is successfully weathering his present financial difficulties pertaining to the city affairs. Frank L. Hamilton, the newly elected President of the Appomattox Club, who is the prince of good fellows; gave a spring chicken luncheon, to a few of his friends, last Saturday evening. His chosen guests were: Col. Louis B. Anderson, the ever smiling Assistant County Attorney; Mark Cowan, George H. Walker, David Manson, Julius F. Taylor and the host Mr. Hamilton. The affair was held in one of the small club parlors. Thomas Carey, 4427 Grand boulevard, who was for a long time a power in the political affairs of the town of Lake, and the old twenty-ninth ward, has been confined to his home for some time with serious illness. At the present he is improving, and his doctors are of the opinion that it may be possible for him to be restored to health without undergoing an operation. Miss Gladys Dobbins, niece of Mr. and Mrs. Warren Dobbins, 5753 Lafayette avenue, was at 5:30 o'clock on Wednesday evening united in marriage to Mr. Guy E. Allen, at St. Monicas Roman Catholic church, Thirty-sixth and Dearborn streets. Rev. Father John S. Morris officiating. The reception was held at 7:30 at the number mentioned above. They will be at home to their friends at the same number on and after January 1, 1913. On Wednesday evening, the Chicago Association of Commerce gave a reception and dinner at the Hotel La Salle in honor of Mayor Carter H. Harrison and the following high members of his cabinet: Hon. Lawrence E. McGann, commissioner of public works; William H. Sexten, corporation counsel; Hon. John E. Traeger, city controller; Dr. George B. Young, commissioner of health. The affair was held in the famous red room of that hostelry. Eugene W. Kimbark, president of the Chicago Association of Commerce, presided, and eloquently introduced the speakers and the other guests who attended the annual municipal dinner and reception. PLATS AND EIGHT ROOM HOUSE FOR RENT. For Rent, 4431-33 South State Street, four (4) room apartments. 4519-23 Evans Avenue, six room apartments. 3308 Rhodes Avenue, House eight rooms in perfect condition. Inquire, Chicago Real Estate Loan and Trust Company, 117 North Dearborn Street Room 504, Phone Randolph 5771 CHANCE FOR PIANO PLAYER AND DANCER. WANTED—For the Scotts Comedy Co. Over-land show one that can sing and dance and play piano. Good amusement will do, lady or man. Address at once, Mr. Jas. Scott, Mt. Sterling, Wis. State your lowest salary. Pay sure. SIRES AND SONS. J. W. Trail, six feet five inches high, is St. Louis' tallest policeman. President Elect Wilson is an advocate of the good roads movement. Baby John Jacob Astor, New York, has $10,000 a year for his support. General Putnik, commander in chief of the Servian forces, is idolized by the whole army. Sir Cecil Arthur Spring-Rice, who will succeed James Bryce as ambassador of Great Britain to this country, is not a stranger, having at one time served as secretary of the embassy at Washington. He was born in 1859. Professor John A. Lomax, member of the faculty of the University of Texas, whose fad, that of collecting American folk songs, has developed into a business, has been elected president of the American Folk Lore society and has also been given a Sheldon fellowship at Harvard in recognition of his services in this field. Sir Charles Eilot, the new principal of Hongkong university, is forty-seven years old and speaks twenty-three languages fluently. For many years he was in the diplomatic service, and in every country to which he was sent he mastered the language, beginning with Russia in 1887. In 1890 he brought out a Finnish grammar. For some time he was secretary to the Washington embassy in 1898. PLAN OF CIVIL RIGHTS LEAGUE Object of Association Recently Started in Washington. Growth of Prejudice on Account of Color as Experienced by Afro-Americans at the Nation's Capital necessitates Renewed Effort to Combat Its Baneful Effects Elsewhere. By R. W. THOMPSON. Washington.—Flying the banner of "Equal Rights to All," a number of colored men of country wide prominence in business and in the professions have formed in this city an organization known as the "National Civil Rights Protective association," which bids fair to exert a farreaching influence and to inaugurate a revolution in conditions that affect the well being of the race. The founders of the association in their declaration of principles call attention to the deplorable fact that the colored people of the United States are rapidly being deprived of their civil and political rights, that one by one the privileges guaranteed by the constitution and the laws are being taken away. Outrage has followed outrage, practically unreubuked, until now the race has been reduced to a state akin to slavery—barred from hotels, theaters and other places of public accommodation and recreation, jimcrowed on railroad trains and street cars in many sections of the land and often denied a fair hearing in the courts. It is the intention of the association to combine into one great national organization. All members of the race, wherever found, are invited to join the organization to contend before the courts and if every other legitimate way for equal and exact justice for all mankind, "regardless of race, color or previous condition of servitude." It is the purpose of the association, first of all, to test the constitutionality of the timcrow car law. This infa- A. E. L. MELENDEZ KING, ESQ. mous statute is believed to be unconstitutional in many of its aspects if not all. It is held to be eminently unjust, unfair and un-American to force a man because of his color to pay a first class fare on a common carrier and receive third class accommodations. Colored people are jimcrowed even at the Union-station restaurant, and more than one restaurant in government buildings refuse to serve colored people. All this, it is pointed out, exists in the District of Columbia, on federal soil, notwithstanding the civil rights bill, for which the immortal Sumner so earnestly contended and for which he virtually laid down his life. Disfranchisement in nearly all of the southern states, lynching, denial of adequate appropriations for the education of colored children, segregation in undesirable sections in cities, nonenforcement of laws looking to the betrement of the race in industrial and agricultural pursuits, ill treatment in prisons and on chain gangs and the failure of the courts to grant impartial trials to colored persons accused of crime are some of the evils which the National Civil Rights Protective association aims to correct. L. Melendes King, the president, is a product of the University of Michigan and of Howard university. He has been actively engaged in the practice of law in Washington since 1809, having his office during the entire time at 600 F. street northwest, where the headquarters of the association are now established. He was special attorney for a number of years of the Order of Elks. He is also grand supreme governor of the Knights of Malachites, an organization having similar objects to those of the National Civil Rights association. Mr. King has figured in some of the most important legal battles ever fought at the bar of the District. Wilson Wood, the vice president, is a clerk in the United States pension office, having been appointed to that position from Mississippi about twenty-five years ago. He is a man of fine intellectual attainments and is thoroughly interested in the welfare of his race. DAMES AND DAUGHTERS. Hetty Green says it is a credit to dis rich. Miss Helen Cheever has been clerk in the postoffice at Sioux City, Ia., for thirty-four years. Mrs. John C. Bessler of Decatur, Ill., wants the government to make laws forbidding the manufacture of filmm, worthless or deleterious garments. Miss Susan D. Huntington is the principal of the International Institute For Girls in Madrid, where Alice Gordon Gullick Memorial hall has just been opened. Miss Huntington is a Wellesley graduate. Mrs. Albert Sigel of Philadelphia has turned over to the Tabor Home For Children in that city $500 obtained from the sale of fancy goods and household articles, every one of which she has made herself in her spare time during the past year. Mrs. Caroline M. Severance, first president of the New England Women's club, the pioneer woman's club of this country, cast her first vote for a president of the United States at the recent election. She was a coadjustor of Mrs. Julia Ward Howe in the early days of the suffrage movement. She is now ninety-three years old and has lived for a number of years at Los Angeles, Cal. Flippant Flings. West Virginia has declared the open grate to be dangerous because of the danger of falling into the fire. But why not reform father?—Philadelphia Ledger. Professor Scott of the Northwestern university advises women to use psychology in buying hats. Most women use their husbands' pocketbooks.—Milwaukee Sentinel. Some one has suggested that the government take in hand the matter of regulating women's dresses. What is the use when women are trying to regulate the government?—Memphis Commercial Appeal. Frills of Fashions. A new winter hat is called the Mephistopheles—probably because of the sort of remarks incited by the bill—Philadelphia Ledger. In winter the female of the muskrat species puts on a coat of fur. The female of the human species buys some low shoes and some openwork hose—Louisville Courier-Journal. It is stated that broad beaded shoes will again be the fashion for ladies. No one will regret the departure of the high heels, which make a lovely woman look like a hen on a hot skillet—New Orleans Picayune. Aerial Flights. Soon there will be more aviators underground than in the air.—Washington Post. Ljuba Galantschikow, the British woman who has made a record for high flying, has a name that would almost reach from the altitude attained to the earth.—Boston Record. Germany is to build an aerial war fleet of twenty Zeppelin airships. In view of the disasters to dirigibles of this type opinions may differ as to whether the fleet will constitute a defense or a menace.—New York World. Foreign Affairs. As a change of climate is almost always beneficial, it may be that moving to Asia Minor would improve the health of the "sick man of Europe."—Rochester Post-Express. It is explained that the kaiser's order for bidding German diplomats to marry wives of other nationalities is intended to prevent a leakage of diplomatic secrets. Have the conditions so changed in Germany since De Blowitz said: "In Paris the fish talk. In Berlin the parrots are dumb?"—New York World. Town Topics. New York is crusading against church bells. The unfamiliar ring no doubt frightens the natives—Omaha Bea. The grade crossing auto combination is proving almost as dangerous to life as the unloaded gun—Cincinnati Enquirer. $15 Victor-Victrola IV You never thought of getting a genuine Victor-Victrola for $15—yet here it is. And it is of the same, high quality and perfection which characterizes all the products of the Victor Company. Come in and hear it—any time. Other styles $25 to $200. Victors $10 to $100. Telephone Douglas 4558 Telephone Automatic 71-703 FRANK L. GALE PIANO CO. 3159 S. State Street : Chicago Phone: Office, Mala 4153 Rea. Drumm, 7990 Auto. 33-736 ATTORNEY AT LAW Suite 708, 184 Washington St. Notary Public CHICAGO, ILL. Office Phone: Central 6624. Rn. Phone: Down 4397. No. 508 East 36th Street J. GRAY LUCAS Attorney at Law Suite 405, 145 Clark St. Cor. Randolph St. Tol. Central 3162 Franklin A. Denison Attorney at Law 36 W. RANDOLPH STREET Suite 708 Delaware Building CINCAGO A. D. GASH ATTORNEY AT LAW 1118 North La Salle St. Chicago Suite 615 to 616 Telephone Main 3077 Office Phone Automatic 44-185 Res. Phone Automatic 79-137 Suite 5, Methodist Church Block S. E. Cor. Clark & Washington Sts., CHICAGO Evening Office 3449 State St., 7 to 9. Fresh Dunn and I. B. McCahon, Trustees Tel Oakland 1550-1554-1953 Established 1877 John J. Dunn Coal Wholesale Retail WYT-FIRST STREET and ARMOUR AVE. Railparks: Stlst St. and L. S. & M. S. Slct St. and Armour Ave. CHICAGO Tel. Alline 1839 In Office at Night J. H. KNIGHT, M. D., C.M. (Canada) PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON 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: George I. Martin, maker of fine cigars and news stand, 18 W. 31st St., near Stata. 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, 24 W. 31st St., near Dearborn. T. B. Hall, laundry office and news stand, 11 W. 29th St., near State. R. 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. Sylvester McGloffon, news stand and laundry office, 4122 State St. William Gaughan, laundry office, cigars, tobacco and news stand, 2636 State St. Mrs. L. B. Taylor, notions, cigars and news stand, 15 W. 36th Street, near State. A. D. Hayes, Cigars, Tobacco, Notions, Stationery and News stand, 3640 South Street. J. Hamilton, news stand, out of town papers, and shoe shining parlor, 3220 South State street. J. H. Roberts, barber shop and news stand, 3308½ Street street. THE AMERICAN LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY OF ILLINOIS. Old Line Legal Reserve Co. Under State Government Supervision. $100,000 deposited with the State. Policies of all taxes and fees are issued to the invested dollars. Our industrial Contracts give to the colored policy holder more than any other company for the same weekly premium. Colored Agents to Write and Collect Your Business Information of rates and values at your age will be furnished free, upon giving your age, name and address to The American Life Insurance Co., of Illinois, Tel. Randolph S. 72 West Adams Street Telephones, CALUMET 4401--4428 AUTOMATIC 75-655 Artesian Pharmacy J. S. DORSEY, Druggist 2701 [Dearborn] St. CHICAGO Use Dorney's fine Pomade for the hair. It will make it soft and glossy. Prescriptions carefully compounded. Phone your ORDERS Phone Douglas SS20 Rooms by Day or Week Room 35-38-60s The Douglas Hotel For Men Only Batha, Steam Heat, Electric Light 2000 & State Street, CHICAGO TELEPHONES Oakland 1609 Res. Oakland (760) Auto. 79156 HENRY C. BOMAR'& SON FINE FURNITURE AND PIANO MOVERS, PACKERS AND SHIPPERS 3.Trips:Daily to All:Depots LOYALTY OF HOWARD MEN. Efforts Made to Erect a Gymnasium at Howard University. Washington--The central gymnasium committee of the General Alumni Association of Howard university reports that since the "ground breaking" on the proposed site for the new gymnasium building, at commencement June 5 last, activities have been redoubled along all lines. Many of those who attended the commencement returned to their fields of labor with increased enthusiasm for the extension work of their beloved university. They have been instrumental in securing pledges, and, in many instances, contributions, to help swell the $10,000 gymnasium fund now being raised among the alumni. Plans are on foot locally for a sweeping campaign, with the intention of reaching and enlisting every available source of aid. To this end one of the prominent ministers of this city has tendered an open session of his church service for the purpose of interesting his congregation and those who worship with them in the movement for the gymnasium and acquaint them with the beneficial effects it is likely to have. At this service President S. M. Newman, the new head of Howard university, is to be invited, with the university choir and a representative from the gymnasium committee, who will present the cause. The collection from this service is to be donated to the gymnasium in the name of the church. Several other churches are planning a similar service, and it is believed that the effort will be made general in order to give every element in Washington's religious life an opportunity to extend a helping hand to this very worthy project. To date the pledges amount to about $7,200, with $1,500 in the hands of the treasurer of the university. The student pledges (numbering 800, indicating the loyalty of the students to the movement), which matured Oct. 1, have been coming in rapidly during the last two months. Professor Kelly Miller, chairman of the committee; Mr. Robert A. Pelham, secretary-treasurer, and Mr. Shelby J. Davidson, financial agent of the gymnasium committee, are sanguine of success. They hope to be able to announce in the early, part of January a sufficient number of pledges made and paid in as will justify them in claiming the $15,000 promised by the trustees of the university, making $25,000 (the full amount) available for the long coveted gymnasium building. With continued interest and increased stimulus it is believed that plans and drawings of the building may be completed before the next commencement, and it is hoped the building will be ready for the cornerstone laying at that time. CANNADY'S TIMELY ADVICE. Editor's Idea In Line With Platform of Press Association. Editor E. D. Cannady of the Portland (Ore.) Advocate very wisely calls the attention of Afro-Americans to the importance of reading the advertising columns of papers published by members of the race. By reading the advertising columns one could save both time and money by going directly to the store which carries the material wanted. Mr. Cannady also avers that discrimination against colored patrons exists in some stores in Portland. Advertisements appearing in papers published by Afro-Americans bear notaint of race prejudice; therefore a hint to the wise along this line is sufficient. Any people can become strong and influential by exercising good common sense, concentration of thought, effort and friendly co-operation. The National Negro Press association at its last annual meeting in Chicago expressed the desire for closer union between business enterprises and newspapers, pointing to the fact that the life of business depends largely upon the information which the public receives through the advertising columns of newspapers. The association favors a uniform charge for advertisements based on actual circulation, the kind of matter being taken into consideration. It condemns fake advertisements and calls upon its constituency to print the news without fear or favor, giving a true reflex of existing conditions without concealing evil or overlooking the constructive features of race progress. Pickens Lauds Afro-American Women. In his address to the graduating class of nurses of the Provident hospital training school in Chicago recently Professor William Pickens said: "Those who know the colored race know that the virtuous colored woman's name is legion and that her ranks are increasing. It seems almost absurd to feel the necessity of saying so, but the boldness of those who slander her elicits the defense. She has honored her sex by proving the virtue of womanhood as few groups of women in the history of the world have ever had the privilege of proving it. She has run the gambit of a double fire and delivered the destinies of a race." To Celebrate Anniversary of Freedom. The committee which was recently organised through the efforts of the Rev. R. M. Bolden, pastor of Mother Zion A. M. E. church in New York, to arrange and plan for a celebration of the fifth anniversary of the issuance of Lincoln's emancipation proclamation, to be held in New York in 1818, is making satisfactory progress. The committee, which consisted of five at its inception, has been enlisted to 100 persons from different sections of the state. DR. WILLIAM D. CRUM DIES. United States Minister to Liberia Succumbe to African Fever. By N. BARNETT DODSON. William: D. Crum, M. D., United States minister to Liberia, whose death occurred at his home in Charleston, S. C., on Saturday, Dec. 7, was well known throughout the country as a man of fine qualities. On Tuesday, June 7, 1910. President William H. Taft nominated Dr. Crum to be minister resident and consul general at Monrovia, Liberia. The nomination of Dr. Crum met the approval of the senate, and he was confirmed for the position with little opposition from southerners. His work in Liberia was eminently satisfactory, and it was with reluctance that he was compelled to return to the United States, owing to ill health, having contracted the African fever, from which he never recovered. Dr. Crum achieved fame when President Roosevelt appointed him collector of customs at Charleston on Jan. 5, 1903. Senator Tillman led a fierce fight against his confirmation on the sole ground that he was a Negro. No charges were preferred against him, and he was admitted to be a man of integrity and high standing. Action was prevented until Jan. 6, 1905, or one day more than two years. During that period he served under a series of recess appointments. President Roosevelt on Dec. 8, 1908, named Dr. Crum for another term. Early in January of the following year President Elect Taft made speeches in the south in which he gave assurances that Negroes would not be given federal offices in antagonism to popular protests. When the special session of the senate following the inauguration of Mr. Taft expired March 14, 1908, Dr. Crum had not been confirmed. It was then squarely up to President Taft to stand by his speeches and name somebody else. He did so and designated Edward W. Durant, Jr., a white man, as collector, announcing that Dr. Crum had resigned. MOUND BAYOU OIL MILL BIG RACE ACHIEVEMENT. Constructive Work of the Mississippi State Business League. The opening of the oil mill and manufacturing plant at Mound Bayou, Miss., recently, will go down in history as the most stupendous industrial achievement of the colored race during its fifty years of freedom. The concern will give employment to scores of young men and women of the race who are prepared by education and special industrial training to assist the management in the many details connected with the successful operation of this magnificent business concern. The enterprise in its entirety will represent an investment of $100,000 and is the fruit of a decision reached by the Mississippi Negroes acting through their State Negro Business league to build here in the heart of the south a constructive industrial enterprise. Thomas W. Cook, a successful Negro architect, contractor and builder, has been in entire charge of fitting the plant for operation. Mr. Cook has been wholly responsible for every detail involved in the design and construction of the plant. The plant is admittedly one of the best constructed in the state. A Corliss engine, 250 horsepower, will drive the machinery—a live shaft of 200 feet, which in turn operates the transmission; to the seven Linter stands, two double shakers, a five roller crusher stand, one cake former, an automatic cooker (four compartments), two accumulators, two pressers, five settling tanks—the whole cost of this machinery being approximately $55,000. The buildings consist of one brick structure 250 by 60, two story and a half seed shed 350 by 90. The Mound Bayon community easily markets each season $50,000 worth of raw or bulk cotton seed. The mill has a capacity for crushing forty tons of seed in twenty-four hours, but the construction and power are so arranged that the capacity can be doubled by the addition of two oil presses. There were present in addition to Dr. and Mrs. Washington such representative persons as Mr. H. A. Boyd, Tennessee; J. B. Bell, Texas; Scott Bond, Arkansas; Emmett J. Scott, Tuskegee institute; W. D. Neighbors, Chicago; T. J. Searcy, Memphis; W. E. Robinson, Louisiana; Dr. T. O. Fuller, Memphis; Dr. A. W. Dumas, Natcher, P. W. Howard, Jackson. Nearly all of the fraternal organizations were represented by their grand officers. Congregational Church Convention. The address of the Rev. A. L. De Moond, pastor of the Plymouth Congregational church, Charleston, S. C., at the recent convention of the Congregational churches held in Savannah, Ga., was a model of historical knowledge concerning the work of the colored churches of that denomination. The Rev. Mr. De Moond has given the subject careful study, and the information gained from his address will go far toward encouraging greater effort upon the part of pastors and churches to measure up to the great opportunity afforded for the advancement of the race in education and religious culture. Howard's New President installed. Dr. S. M. Newman was formally installed as president of Howard university, in Washington, on Friday, Dec. 23. The ceremony attending the distinguished educator's induction into office was attended by noted persons in church, state and nation. S. E. Cor. State and 36th Place, Chicago GENERAL BANKING owed on Savings Accounts at Vaults, $3.00 per Year ESTATE DEPARTMENT State on commission, manages estates for non-resi- ties and looking after assessments. Money to loan the patronage of Chicago business men. Ford Apartment 3600 Wabash Ave. er opened to Colored tenants in Chicago. tile baths, marble entrance. 3 per cent allowed on Savings Accounts Safety Deposit Vaults, $3.00 per Year 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. THE NEW YORK MUSEUM Though steel and gas and iron must Divide the world in parts, Not love controls the strongest trust— The syndicate of hearts. —Judge. They used to "spark." did he and she. Each night are they were wed. And now they "plaze" out frequently, "To by the neighbors said. —Boston Evening Transcript. THE MUSEUM OF THE ARTS 3 per cent allowed Safety Deposit Vau REAL ESTATE As agent buy and sell Real Estate on co- dents, including payment of taxes and l on Chicago Real Estate. Especially Invites the patro The Cranfor Building. The finest building ever open Steam heat, electric light, tile ba 'Phone Randolph 803 Drummer (in wine)—Have you tasted that sample of wine I left with you, madame? Madame—No, I haven't, but I don't think it can be any great shakes, for it's been here three days and the servants have barely touched it—Pele Mele. Little dabs of powder, Little specks of paint, Make my lady's treckles Look as if they sn't. —Lippincott's Magazine. Mrs. Datus—Is your daughter marrying well? Mrs. Argo—M'dear, she'll never need to worry where the gasoline is coming from—Globe. How sad is life When we go wrong! For then we're hissed By all the throng. And, hearing them, You would infer That they, forsooth, Could never be —Birmingham Age-Herald. The Swan—I shall sing before I die. Remember that. The Nightingale—Well, the folks will die after you sing—New York Sun. A woman's pleas may rasp on men Telephone Douglas 1565 J. W. Casey, Agent, 74 W. WASHINGTON STREET. He ought to have a little crown To prove that he is truly great. The while his wife was out of town He didn't break a single plate. —Houston Post. Gabe—Do you follow the races? Steve—I guess so. I can't get ahead of them.—New York American. The hunter had but little luck, For he was out to shoot a buck. He shot a farmer's cow instead, Worth fifty bucks, the farmer said. —Washington Herald. First Neighbor—Have you heard tell of them newfangled trial marriages? Second Neighbor—I don't see nothin' newfangled about 'em. Mine's been a trial to me for the last twenty years—Judge. It may be that I'm in a rut And miss a lot, by gosh! I've oft seen the pig iron, but I never saw one wash. —Cincinnati Enquirer. "How did the doctor persuade you to give up smoking?" "Made his bill so big I couldn't afford to buy any more tobacco."—Milwaukee Sentinel. Our Johnny was an angel Who never told a lie Or would have taken his nose Or swiped the new made pie Until he was corrupted— You see, he's but eleven. Missed, by that most dreadful heat Next door, who's all of seven! "Kubby, I want some furs this winter." "All right, dearie. I'll get you a nice set of ear muffs."—Kansas City Journal. "When I go on a trip I never know what I ought to take with me." "Oh. I do. It's quite simple. I take all my dresses and leave behind my husband."-La Vie Parisienne. The Artist—I think Pye got a good joke this time, what? The Editor—You're right. It is a good joke. I always laugh at this one before I reject it. Done it for years—Sketch. A STORE FOR EVERYBODY HILLMAN'S STATE & WASHINGTON STS. Everything to eat, to wear and for the home. Ready to wear attire for man, woman and child at lowest prices, quality and workmanship considered. Make it a point to visit this store every day and take advantage of the special bargain offerings that we give in all departments. Real Estate Loans Fire and Plate Glass Insurance 4709 S. HALSTED ST CHICAGO Telephone Oakland 1787 The BELLE Buffet FRANK H. L. 5059 Arrow Cor. 51st S Phone Douglas 4482 The La Verdo 3100-2 STATE ST First Class Chinese and Am High Class Phone Hotel Br Geo. W. BUFFET, POOL BILLE MEADE Buffet and Cafe FRANK H. LEWIS, Proprietor 9 Armour R. 51st Street, Chicago 482 Automatic Verdo Cafe and 2 STATE STREET, CHICAGO Chinese and American Restaurant High Class Entertainers HARRY J. KELL Phone Aldine 3653 el Brunsw Geo. W. Holt, Prop. Buffet, POOL AND BILLIAR Buffet and Cafe FRANK H. 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