The Broad Ax

Mayor Carter H. Harrison And His Political Friend The Hon. Barney J. Grogan, The West Side Police Boss ARE ON THE DEAD RUN; THEIR MAN FRIDAY, EFFORD WOODSON, HAS BEEN DETECTED OR REVEALED AS THE KEEPER OF A LAW DEFYING GAMBLING RESORT ON THE WEST SIDE. THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE AFTER A LONG HUNT AND THOROUGH INVESTIGATION LOCATED HIS ESTABLISHMENT AT 168 N. PEORIA STREET. MUNICIPAL JUDGE JOHN A. MAHONEY DISCHARGED WOODSON AND HIS HANGERS ON AT THE DESPLAINES STREET STATION AFTER HIS PLACE HAD BEEN RAIDED BY THE POLICE. Vol. XVIII. Mayor Carter And His Po The Hon. Grogan, " Side Pol ARE ON THE DEAD BUN; THEIR HAS BEEN DETECTED OR REV DEFYING GAMBLING RESORT THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE AFTER A VESTIGATION LOCATED HIS N STREET. MUNICIPAL JUDGE JOHN A. MAH HIS HANGERS ON AT THE DE HIS PLACE HAD BEEN RAID City Prosecutor James S. McInerney is now maintaining and for more than six months has maintained in his office in the city hall under the title of "stenographer and investigator" the keeper of one of the most pernicious gambling dives in Chicago. This man is a Negro, Efford Woodson, whose gambling place is at 168 North Peoria street, and who lives at 1247 West Lake street. Woodson is a protege of "Boss" Grogan, self-assumed dictator to west side police. Grogan is reputed to be a silent partner in the gambling house—the profits of which have been averaging $500 a week. Mayor Orders Woodson "Fired." "Investigator" Woodson has been ordered fired from his job in the city hall. He and Prosecutor McInerney will learn this interesting fact this morning. The mayor yesterday afternoon, learning Woodson's activities, issued instructions to Corporation Counsel Sexton to bounce the gambler forthwith. The Tribune since January 9 has been collecting daily evidence in detail regarding Woodson's gambling place, but the mayor's action in ridding the city pay roll of the man was taken independently of this inquiry and before the executive knew that it had been made. Fruitless Raid Made. Last Saturday night one of the numerous fruitless raids were made on Woodson's place by the Desplaines street police. Immunity has always been afforded and it was not lacking in this instance. An hour after the arrest of the keeper and a big crowd of "patrons" they were all out on bonds and were back at the place, gambling the same as ever. On Monday Municipal Judge John A. Mahoney released the entire crew—keepers and all—and announced: "I don't think there was any justification for this raid. The police appear to have acted officiously. The prisoners are discharged." W. J. Bavra, a representative of the city prosecutor's office, was present. He made no protest. Dismissal Stuns Police. The police were stunned. The result of the dismissal of the prisoners was to throw the whole Desplaines street district into a state of police demoralization. Yesterday afternoon Police Capt. Meagher of Desplaines street called on Mayor Harrison and complained bitterly about the action of Judge Mahoney. The captain told the mayor that Woodson, an employee of the city prosecutor's office, was the keeper of this gambling house; that he, Meagher, had been after him for months but couldn't get the evidence; that his men finally had secured all the evidence Saturday night and made the proper arrests. Then Judge Mahoney had turned them all loose on Monday. Moved by this statement of the situation, the mayor dictated the letter to Corporation Counsel Sexton ordering him to discharge Woodson. This will be done this morning. HEW TO THE LINE; LET THE CHIPS FALL WHERE THEY MAY Nights Spent in Gambling Den. The detailed reports of The Tribune's investigators, printed herewith, indicate that Woodson must have been a sleepless individual if he did any amount of work for McInerney as "stenographer and investigator" in the prosecutor's office. Night after night Woodson spent all the hours in his gambling house, departing for his West Lake street home at 2, 3, 4, or even 6 o'clock in the morning. The gambling house he conducts is of such an infamous character as to have aroused hundreds of protests from citizens residing in its vicinity. It has attracted to itself nightly some 300 or 400 of the human dregs of Chicago—a horde of depraved Negroes, a sprinkling of even more depraved White men. It has kept in a state of pauperization fully 500 of the city's male Negro population. It has been, in fact, a factory of loafers, sneak thieves and holdup men. The police who raided the place last Saturday night had raided it often before. Always the work had been use less. Whether this was due to court attitude, such as that shown by Mahoney last Monday, or to lack of "zeal" on the prosecutor's part they were not sure. Perhaps some of both. At any rate, on no occasion has there ever been a successful prosecution of any one arraigned as an inmate. Woodson has boasted publicly: "You are as safe in my place as you are in your own house," and up to date he has been able to "make good." The crowning event, so far as pertains to the humiliation of the police in connection with Woodson's joint, was the incident in the Desplaines street Municipal court last Monday morning. Humiliation of Police. On the previous Saturday night at 10 o'clock a squad of policemen from the Desplaines street station, under the leadership of Sergeant Cahill, descended suddenly on Woodson's place and arrested fifty-nine men. They were taken to the station, where George Stockton was booked as keeper and the other fifty-eight as inmates. Within a few minutes all of the prisoners obtained bail. An hour later the gambling house was again in operation. A large number of the men who had just been arrested and released, participating in the gambling. While the play was at its height Woodson addressed the crowd. "Don't worry about your cases," was the substance of what he had to say. "You will all have to appear in court Monday morning, but the cases will all be dismissed." Woodson proved to be an accurate prophet. On Monday morning the prisoners were all on hand. Segt. Cahill told the story of the raid. He said his party consisted of Patrolmen Mulvihill, Frank A. McDonald, Shanahan, McComb, Mooney, Joyce, Dugan and O'Brien. Gran Dice Seized from Croupier. CHICAGO, JANUARY 25, 1913 M. W. As the time approaches for holding the Aldermanic primaries, Tuesday, February 25, the signs of the times plainly indicate that Alderman Harding will be re-nominated and re-elected to the City Council from the 2nd Ward As the time approaches for holding the Aldermanic primaries, Tuesday, February 25, the signs of the times plainly indicate that Alderman Harding will be re-nominated and re-elected to the City Council from the 2nd Ward. McDonald, who is one of the younger policemen, had preceded the party. He got into the house at 168 North Peoria street without at first arousing the suspicion of the lookout. He had got half way up the stairs to the rooms where the gambling was going on when the lookout sounded the alarm buzzer. The policeman rushed into the room in time to snatch the crap dice from the hands of one of the couriers and seize a handful of money. The other policemen followed. About 100 of the crowd had got out of the back windows. The others were lined up and marched downstairs and placed under arrest. McDonald told his story in court. He offered in evidence the dice and the money he had confiscated. Other policemen corroborated him. Judge Mahoney is the same judge who some days ago dismissed the first Tearney case brought by The Tribune, having gone from Desplains street to the south side to hear it. Judge Mahoney released all the gamblers and the keeper with the words quoted in the foregoing. cess at the polls and who were at that time greatly interested in his future political welfare, and he intimated to them very plainly that unless they were willing to fall or bow down and worship at the feet of Mr. Woodson, whom he intended to honor with a nice position in order to please his political friend the Honorable Barney J. Grogan, that those composing the protesting delegation need not from thenceforth expect to receive any further favors of any kind from him as long as he was mayor of Chicago. Time has proven that at least some of those protesting Colored men possessed more horse sense than Mayor Harrison. The Tribune deserves to be highly praised in its effort to prevent gamblers, either White or Colored and other dishonest men from holding positions in the city hall—Editor. THE RISE AND GROWTH OF BANKING AMONG THE AFRO-AMERICANS OF CHICAGO. The rise and growth of banking has Investigators Watch Gambling. For about two weeks before this court incident, and on every day and night this week, The Tribune has been making an investigation of Woodson's place. It has had one or more men in the gambling house during each night of that time. These men have shot craps with the other men in the place apparently without arousing suspicion. The gambling resort was open as usual last night and a large crowd of victims was present. Woodson, the keeper, was there, but was ignorant of the order that lies in the city hall for his discharge.—From the Chicago Tribune, Friday, January 24, 1913. Shortly after Mayor Harrison was inducted into office in the spring of 1911, a delegation of Colored men, many of whom had spent three weeks of their time without receiving one cent from any source, and spent some of their own money, thereby making it possible for him to hold down his present easy job for the purpose of urging him not to appoint Mr. Woodson to the position he has been holding down in the city hall from that time to the present. At that time the delegation-informed Mayor Harrison that Mr. Woodson was not a decent representative of the Afro-American race but Mayor Harrison simply snapped his finger at the respectable and honorable Colored men many of them taxpayers, who had worked very hard for his sue- cess at the polls and who were at that time greatly interested in his future political welfare, and he intimated to them very plainly that unless they were willing to fall or bow down and worship at the feet of Mr. Woodson, whom he intended to honor with a nice position in order to please his political friend the Honorable Barney J. Grogan, that those composing the protesting delegation need not from thenceforth expect to receive any further favors of any kind from him as long as he was mayor of Chicago. Time has proven that at least some of those protesting Colored men possessed more horse sense than Mayor Harrison. The Tribune deserves to be highly praised in its effort to prevent gamblers, either White or Colored and other dishonest men from holding positions in the city hall—Editor. THE RISE AND GROWTH OF BANKING AMONG THE AFBO-AMERICANS OF CHICAGO. The rise and growth of banking has marked the progress and material development of every advanced civilized race and nation. Among the nations where the territorial boundaries are definitely marked, the national banks form an integral part of the economic and governmental systems. The creation and accumulation of wealth through the natural products of the mines, the soil or various manufactures must have a channel for exchange and accounting, this is furnished by the Banks. The national currency, the stocks and bonds, mortgages and other evidences of ownership, of its business organizations, form the medium of exchange. In fact they are the life blood of its commerce and business that flows through the veins and arteries of the established Banks in a system as necessary and essential as that of the blood circulation of the human body-nature's perfect system of sustaining life. The Jewish people scattered throughout the civilized world are a commercial race. Without a national domain, with no home or fatherland of their own, whose merchants and traders have pushed their commerce into every known market and country on the globe. The Jew is an international character. He is everywhere an alien—a floating commercial element—with his The Greatest and the Most Unprecedented Wave of Crime Continues to Sweep Over All Parts of Chicago MEN, WOMEN AND CHILDREN ARE HELD UP ON ITS PUBLIC STREETS AND BRAZENLY ROBBED AND SLUGGED BY THE HIGHWAYMEN AND BANDITS. THE CRIMINAL ELEMENT SEEM TO BE RUNNING THIS CITY AND EVERYTHING IN CONNECTION WITH IT IN A MOST HIGH HANDED MANNER. SEVERAL HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS WORTH OF ALL KINDS OF PROPERTY HAVE BEEN STOLEN AND NOT RECOVERED WITHIN THE LAST TWO OF THREE MONTHS. CITIZENS ARE CONSTANTLY BEING SHOT DOWN IN COLD BLOOD WITHOUT THE SLIGHTEST PROVOCATION OR BEATTEN UP TO THE SATISFACTION OF THE GANG OF ASSASSINS OR MURDERERS. FOR SOME CAUSE OR OTHER THE POLICE FORCE OF THIS CITY WHICH IS CONSIDERED TO BE THE BEST IN THE WORLD ARE UTTERLY UNABLE TO COPE OR COMBAT WITH THE REIGN OF LAWLESSNESS. The oldest citizen residing in this city who is able to tell all about the hard and very long winters which were in evidence hereabouts fifty to sixty years ago, when it was no trouble to walk or drive across Lake Michigan without the slightest danger of falling or breaking through the ice; when it was so cold that every time you opened your mouth and attempted to speak your words would be transformed into thick ice and that each word would freeze so hard that it would have to be cut away with a sharp knife in order to enable you to talk very fast, and so on brushing aside all of the many great and far reaching changes which they have witnessed during the transformation of this city from a very small village as trading post, into one of the greatest commercial centers in the wide world. None of the old time citizens, after witnessing all of those mighty changes are able to recall one single instance in its history in the past, where such a long and unprecedented wave of crime has swept over it, like unto the wave of crime which continues to sweep over all parts of Chicago at the present time. As an evidence of the truthfulness of this fact men, women and children, including policemen, are held up on the public streets in broad daylight, and brazenly robbed and slugged by the highwaymen and bandits. It is really becoming unsafe for respectable and lawabiding people to walk abroad either day or night. For it seems that own system of business organization, not antagonistic to the business interests of the country in which he finds himself, but an additional, useful, harmonious and supporting, but independent business element, with a perfect organization and complete business system of commerce and banking that are exclusively their own. Their commercial activities furnish employment for all the rank and file of their people—wherever they may reside. Their Banks furnish the capital and medium of exchange which supports their commercial system. They are loyal to their institutions and in return are fully protected, sheltered, supported and nourished even in the most hostile and prejudiced countries. The study of the methods, ways and principles upon which the Jew has acted and conquered the Commerce and Banking of the known world, is of particular and peculiar value to the Colored American, who is also a stranger in the land of his adoption, an alien race with so many obstacles in his path that he can only hope to succeed by the exercise of the wisest No.17 the criminal element are running this city and everything in connection with it in a most highhanded manner. This state of affairs will continue to exist just as long as gunmen, holdup men, professional gamblers and dead toughs in general are permitted to run at large, to do as they please and to become laws unto themselves. Within the past three or four months, several hundred thousand dollars worth of all kinds of property has been stolen by this class of eminent and highly respectable citizens and young boys and not much of it has been recovered and the end is not yet, for every day and night people are being held up on the streets and relieved of their valuables, stores are looted right and left, even in the very shadow of the city hall, and if the auto bandits are not checked in their mad career they may before they wind up, steal Mayor Carter H. Harrison, rush him away out of town and successfully keep him in hiding until they are paid a large reward for his safe return, and in the meantime clean out his office and the city hall. Citizens and even officers of the law are constantly being shot down in cold blood without the slightest provocation, or beaten up to the great satisfaction of the gang of assassins or murders who seemingly roam the streets at large. For some cause or other the police force of this city, which is considered to be the best in the world, are utterly unable to cope or combat with the reign of so much lawlessness. discretion, on the other hand is it not possible for him to learn from the experience of the Jew how to advance amid his present surroundings and best improve his Race conditions—A Hebrew. (To be continued) NEGLECTED POLITICAL OPPORTUNITY For more than forty years the Negro vote of the country, whenever polled and counted, has been generally conceded as the property of the Republican party. The recent federal election was a stunning blow to this concession. It is estimated that President-elect Wilson received 500,000 Colored votes, and what is more astonishing, such papers as the Alabamian, Montgomery, Ala., Star of Zion, Charlotte, N. C., The Palladium, St. Louis, Mo., The Broad Ax, Chicago, Ill., and others, heretofore supporters of Republican candidates were staunch workers in the cause of t. e. Democratic nominees—The Advocate, Cambridge, Mass., Jan. 18, 193 THE BROADAX PUBLISHED WEEKLY. Will promulgate and at all times uphold the true principles of Democracy, Catholic Protestants, Presbyterian, Single Taxers, Republicans, or anyone else can have their say, as long as their language is proper and responsibility is fixed. The Broad Ax is a newspaper whose platform is broad enough for all, ever claiming the editorial right to speak its own mind. Local communications will receive attention. Write only on one side of the paper. Subscriptions must be paid in advance. One Year. $2.00 Six Months. 1.00 Advertising rates made known on application. Address all communications to THE BROAD AX PHONE DREXEL 4500 JULIUS F. TAYLOR, Editor and Publisher Entered an Second-Class Matter Aug. 19 1908 at the Office of Chicago, Illinois under Act of March 3, 1859. THE NEGRO'S GREATEST ENEMY Local Publication, by Unreasonable Prejudice, Seeks Disruption Among Races. The attitude of the Daily News of this city in the Jack Johnson affair, is deplorable to all fair-minded persons, and especially to that class of Negroes who suffer from its effects. Such references to Johnson as "brute," etc., expose every Negro to the most unjust criticism, and places their best element under the preponderance of race prejudice. Why does the editor of the Daily News pursue such a selfish course, regardless of the consequence to others? Does he remember that Mr. Platt of N. Y., in the Hanah Hias case, and Pillsbury of the Ida Dorsey affair in this city were white men, clandestinely affiliated with Negro women, and they were never referred to, by press or public; as a particular disgrace to the Caucasian race, not branded as moral perverts, because they followed a custom of their forefathers, fixed and settled by long continuance? Does he know that the Negroes did not feel that these women represented such a high type of Negro womanhood; that Negroes never requested the enactment of legislation to protect their virtue! and have they ever approved of dishonorable relationship among themselves or with other races? The editor of the Daily News could learn a lesson from the Negro Press, if he would. They have only asked that Jack Johnson be given justice. It is generally known that the Cameron girl belongs to a class which could not command the respect of the ordinary Negro or the best white people, and no news paper should "for revenue only" at tempt to sacrifice the future of every individual of a defendless race, and the integrity of all Caucasian women, on the altar of self interest. During the recent Methodist Conference and the Educational Congress there were many of America's greatest Negroes in our midst, and the News would have its readers believe that they are the social equals of Jack Johnson, who has corrupted the morals of their inner circle, and robbed them of their best prototype of virginity, thereby placing a very low premium on the integrity of Caucasian women, and intentionally bringing disgrace on every person endowed by Nature with a black face, or a trace of Ethiopian ancestry. We are neither surprised or alarmed by The Daily News, but we are grateful that fair treatment has been given the Negroes by the more reputable Dailies, whose Editors are true to their mission, not seeking to arouse the passions and prejudices of one class against another.—The Twin City Star, Minneapolis, Jan. 18, 1913. THE MOTHER LOVE "Honor the dear old mother. Time has scattered the snowy flakes on her brow plowed deep furrows on her cheek, but is she not beautiful now! The lips are thin and shrunken, but these are the lips that have kissed many a hot tear from the childish cheeks and the sweetest lips in the world. The eye is dim, yet it glows with soft radiance of holy love which can never fade. Ah, yes; she is a dear old mother. The sands of life are nearly run out, but, feeble as she is, she will go farther and reach down lower for you than any one else upon earth. You cannot walk in a midnight haunt where she cannot see you; you cannot enter a prison whose hars will keep her out; you cannot mount a scaffold too high for her to reach that she may kiss and bless you in evidence of her deathless love. When the world shall despise and forsake you, when it leaves you by the wayside to die unnoticed, the dear old mother will gather you up in her feeble arms and carry you home and tell you of all your virtues, until you almost forget that your soul is disfigured by vices. Love her tenderly, cheer her declining years with tender devotion."—D. B. ```markdown ``` Now is the time to get vaccinated. Vaccination is a sure preventive of that dread disease, smallpox. Some people are afraid to have one little sore on their arms, when it means protection from a thousand or more worse ones all over their bodies. Vaccination is safe, harmless and effective. If you are vaccinated, you can't get smallpox. Better take a chance with one little protection sore on your arm than with a thousand dangerous ones all over your body. Here is a little story that teaches its own lesson. In 1884, an unvaccinated Negro from Chicago was the cause of 7,000 cases of smallpox and 3,164 deaths from this disease in the city of Montreal simply on account of the fact that the people of that city did not believe in vaccination or were careless or indifferent about protecting themselves by taking advantage of Jenner's invaluable discovery. Montreal had an unvaccinated population, therefore when a case of smallpox came into the city there were thousands of unprotected people and with the result that Montreal had an epidemic of smallpox that cost over 3,000 lives and many thousands of dollars. Here is one other example: For many years Germany has had a compulsory vaccination law and every man, woman and child is vaccinated and revaccinated. Now, as a result to-day there is not a single hospital in all the broad domains of the German Empire devoted to the care and treatment of smallpox; for the very good reason that as Germany has no smallpox within her borders she naturally has no need for smallpox hospitals. So, Germany with a compulsory vaccination law and no smallpox is a pretty good example for other countries, like our own, with no compulsory vaccination and with smallpox with us most all of the time, to follow. What do you think about it? NEGRO HUSBAND OF GIRL DE FIANT. "If Jack Johnson has a right to marry Lucile Cameron, why can't I marry a White girl?" This was the answer given last Saturday by George Thompson, the forty-two-year-old Negro from his cell in the county jail. He is held there in connection with his alleged abduction and marriage to Emma Hansen, a feeble-minded epileptic girl of fifteen years. The United States authorities have taken up the case, as well as the police if Chicago and Niles, Ind., where Thompson was married to the girl. Citizens of the little Indiana city openly voiced threats against Rev. Charles Ager, the seventy-year-old retired Baptist minister, who married Thompson and the little white girl. The minister was barricaded behind the doors of his home while a crowd outside openly talked of tar and feathers for him. Attempts of police to gain entrance to the house were unavailing. The clergyman, his wife and housekeeper, Isabelle Babcock, the two latter witnesses of the ceremony, were in the house, but all lights were extinguished and the doors and windows were barred to resist a siege. Fearing that violence might be attempted as the crowds grew larger in the streets, an extra guard of police was sent to the vicinity of Mr. Ager's home. Mr. Ager retired several years ago from active service in the Baptist ministry. He is wealthy and is known as a recluse. He has a hobby for fine horses. Recently he has been a "fill in" preacher for Negro churches in the vicinity. "If I want that girl, why can't I have her?" asked Thompson. "I married her and what are they going to do about it? I wanted her and I got her. Her mother is raving because I'm Colored. She thinks I ain't good enough but if Jack Johnson is good enough to marry white women, why can't I marry one?" The girl is at the detention home of the Juvenile Protective League. A RABBI WOULD WED A NEGRO Marriages Between Races Are Supported by a Boston Hebrew. Boston, Jan. 19.—Even in Boston, “where the color line” is noted for its indistinctness, was stirred today by the announcement of Dr. Charles Fleischer, formerly rabbi of Boston's largest congregation, that he would not hesitate to give a daughter in marriage to a Negro merely for racial reasons. “Mixed marriages are daily becoming more common,” said Doctor Fleischer, “and I will say that the people of the earth are tending to an improved type by the assimilation of different races. I can see no reason for prejudice against Negroes. I would marry a Negro woman if she appealed to me deeply. I see no reason why a daughter should not be given to a Negro in marriage if they loved each other.” Logical and Eloquent Address Delivered by Attorney Walter M Farmer BEFORE THE LITERARY SOCIETY OF BETHEL CHURCH. IT IS FULL OF THOUGHTFUL IDEAS AND SUGGESTIONS AND IT SHOULD BE CAREFULLY PURSUED BY ALL WHO ARE INTERESTED IN THE CIVIL AND POLITICAL PROGRESS OF THE AFRO-AMERICAN RACE. The following address was delivered by Attorney Walter M. Farmer last Sunday afternoon before the Literary Society at Bethel Church: We have reached the age of stern realities of stubborn facts. Men have ceased to spin beautiful theories through which and by which to shape ultimate action. Their actions today are directed by altogether different influences. Man's inordinate commercial greed and race prejudice have changed the perspective through which he views his relation to his fellows. There was a time when the American people subscribed to the doctrine that governments are instituted among men deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. But today they believe that Governments are instituted among men deriving their powers from the will of the powerful. There was a time when they believed that all men are created equal, but that was when their views of their relation to their fellows was decidedly simple and just and the Negro had not entered into the equation. The Negro had not at that time become a freeman, aspired to manhood's estate nor had he demonstrated his ability to assimilate Caucasian civilization and to keep abreast with American progress. Strange as it may seem this remarkable feat alone was sufficient to arouse the bitter antagonism of the leading statesmen of America such as Tillman, et al. I owe no apology for calling these men the leading statesmen of the country. For no one will deny that these men have more influence in forcing their views of the Negro on the American people and on the world for that matter, than all the other statesmen North, West and East combined. The pendulum seems to have swung back, and it looks as if liberty was about to suffer defeat. But liberty knows no defeat. Victory is the only motto inscribed on her banners. The defeat of the British at the battle of Beuvines in 1214 gave to the English people the great charter. Though the Continental forces suffered defeat at Bunker Hill still American independence dates from that battle. [Image of a man in a suit with a white shirt and black tie]. ATTORNEY WALTER M. FARMER. Able lawyer, writer of considerable no fine impression in delivering his a the Afro-Americans," before the afternoon. Able lawyer, writer of considerable note and an upright citizen, who made a fine impression in delivering his address on the "Liberty and progress of the Afro-Americans," before the Bethel Literary Society, last Sunday afternoon. Able lawyer, writer of considerable note and an upright citizen, who made a fine impression in delivering his address on the "Liberty and progress of the Afro-Americans," before the Bethel Literary Society, last Sunday afternoon. The Union forces were ignominiously defeated at Bull's Run and retreated in disgrace and dishonor, universal liberty for the American continent dates from the battle of Bull's Run. It is the inexorable law of fate that man shall not attain and enjoy any great and lasting blessing without encountering many hardships and suffering many difficulties. Virgil was struck with awe when he beheld in retrospect the trying ordeals and severe tests through which Aeneas was forced to pass before he reached Italy and im- plores, "Declare to me O'Muse the cause by which the Diety be offended, by what the Queen of Heaven being provoked, to drive a man of distinguished piety to struggle with so many calamities, to encounter so many hardships?" And yet Aeneas reached Italy and founded Rome that sat on her seven hills and from her throne of beauty ruled the world. Aye, the redemption of man from sin the salvation of the world was dearly purchased. The ascent of Calvary's brow is stained with blood and tears. The course of civilization and progress is not strewn with flowers and scented with the fragrance of the violet and the rose. No it is marked with fallen Empires, broken oaths, prostrate farms and seas of blood. Such is the record of man's struggle upward from the Garden of Eden. There is no royal road to success. Any race or people that expects to attain any enduring and permanent success without encountering these tests, expects what never was and never will be. I strongly suspect that my race has indulged the delusion that some how we are going to be able to contribute our part to the world's achievements without encountering the same or similar difficulties and besetments that have confronted other races in their march of progress. That if we became the victims of some dire calamities, all we had to do was to call on the Lord or the other fellow and we would be delivered out of our troubles. We should be convinced by this time that we have been merely indulging the "illusions of hope." For we have called on the Lord and have been answered out of the whirlwind, "Stand on thy feet and girt up thy loins like a man." We have called on the other fellow and he has answered us by binding the fetters more tightly about our limbs. Be not deceived any longer my friends. Let us find some wholesome suggestion, some guiding influence in these thoughtful words of Casius to Brutus: "Men at some times are masters of their fates. The fault, dear Brutus is not in our stars but in ourselves, that we are undlings." Liberty and progress are inseperal [Image of a man with a mustache and glasses, wearing a suit and tie, set against a plain background. The man's expression is neutral, and he appears to be looking directly at the camera.] te and an upright citizen, who made a address on the "Liberty and progress of Bethel Literary Society, last Sunday able. It is impossible for man to make progress without the blessings of liberty. As liberty is the natural right of every man, so progress is the natural concomitant of man's struggles. It is no wonder then that man in every age and in every clime has been willing to sacrifice so much for liberty, for without liberty, ambition is dead, aspiration is limited, remorse takes the seat of reason and man becomes a miserable slave. It was for liberty that Arnold Winkleried clasped to his breast a hundred Austrian spears. It --- was for Switzerland's liberty. It was the same spirit that moved Patrick Henry as he stood up in the Virginia convention and exclaimed: "Give me liberty or give me death." It was for liberty that the Continental forces suffered at Valley Forge and triumphed at Yorktown. It was for liberty that Toussaint L'Ouverture armed the blacks of Santo Domingo, and by intrepid daring sent the British, the French and the Spanish from the Queen of the Antilles in defeat and disgrace. But these blacks of Santo Domingo knew as well as any one should know that "Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty." They knew as well as any one should know that if they sat down and folded their arms in supine indifference, that the liberty they had purchased so dearly would be taken away from them, and so that France might be warned against the danger of any further attempt to enslave them, they issued a proclamation and among other things said: "Should we be obliged to shed rivers of blood, should we, to preserve our freedom, be compelled to set fire to seven-eighths of the globe, we shall be pronounced innocent before the tribunal of Providence, who has not created men to see them groan under a yoke so oppressive and so ignominious." This was in 1803. Haiti has never worn the yoke of any nation nor has the liberty of her people been assailed. Fifty years ago 4,000,000 slaves were declared free by proclamation issued by Abraham Lincoln. This is one of the world's greatest documents. At the time of its issuance it was considered so by Illinois, so did New England. On the day that the proclamation was to be signed a great meeting was held at Tremont Temple in Boston, Mass. Wendel Phillips was there, Theodore Parker was there. Frederick Douglass was there, the Rev. Grimes was there, and with them thousands of men and women eager and anxious to welcome the dawn of universal liberty. All day long the crowd waited patiently for news from Washington. At last toward the close of day word was flashed from Washington that the immortal Abraham Lincoln had signed the Proclamation. Strong men and gentle women wept. A shout of joy went up from the assembled throng and suddenly Rev. Grimes' voice could be heard above the tumult singing in clear reverberating tones: "Sound the loud timbril o'er Egypts dark sea, Jehovah has triumphed, his people are free." The country was blessed at that time with so many great men and noble women. Men and women who loved the right and were willing to do justice. Nor were they afraid to let the world know where they stood on the question of human liberty. How different the situation today? The Christian Church today is silent as to lynching and burning and human injustice. What Wendel Phillips said years ago about American Christianity is strikingly applicable today. He said, "If you put a hound in the presence of a deer it will spring at its throat, if it is a true blood hound. Put a Christian in the presence of sin and he will spring at its throat, if he is a true Christian. And so into an acid we throw white matter, if it is not chalk, it will not produce agitation. So if in a world of sinners you were to put American Christianity it would be as calm as oil." The proclamation conferred on the emancipated people their natural liberty. The right to their time and to go whither they wished. It can easily be seen that a dog may exercise natural liberty and yet every cur may be at liberty to bite him and any vicious man may kick him. And so civil liberty is absolutely indespible to a full and complete enjoyment of our natural liberty. To this end the Fourteenth amendment to the Federal Constitution was adopted. Thus the Negro became a citizen and was guaranteed protection in the exercise of his natural liberty. But it was soon discovered that under a representative Democracy such as we have that a citizen was but poorly secured in the enjoyment of his civil liberty without the added guaranty of political liberty, and so the Fifteenth amendment to the Federal Constitution was adopted. Thus the newly made citizen was given the right to vote and in this way protect himself in the exercise of his civil rights. It was at this early day when the Negro had neither wealth nor education considered absolutely necessary that he be given the right to vote. Oliver P. Morton of Indians, speaking before the United States Senate, on this subject in 1868, said: "The nation waited long, experience had to come to the rescue of reason before the thing was done; in the last resort and as the last thing to be done, Congress determined to dig through all the rubbish, dig through the soil and shifting sands and go down to the eternal rock, and there upon the basis of the everlasting principle of equal and exact justice to all men, we planted the column of reconstruction." Congress at first experimented by withholding political liberty from the newly made citizen and left him to the tender mercies of his former masters. But when protests and complaints came in to Congress thick and fast, it was determined to send General Carl Schurtz South to investigate and report to Congress on conditions. General Schurtz reported that slavery practically existed and that the only solution of the difficulty was enfranchisement for the Negro. It was not until yielding to the demands of justice and necessity that the former slave was given the right to vote. Starting out about 45 years ago with full citizenship rights and none of the results of progressive enterprise, the Negro has surpassed in achievement and development the most sanguinary expectations of his most ardent admirers. The marvelous achievement of the Negro in material wealth and the facility with which he has adapted himself to the requirements of Anglo-Saxon civilization is enough to entitle him to justice and fair treatment and the favorable consideration of the American people. As a citizen he has been frugal, industrious and patriotic. As a voter he has exercised his franchise in the way he thought best subserved the interest of his people and in harmony with the majority of the voters of the country. As a soldier he has exhibited a courage and fortitude never surpassed and has never hesitated to offer up his life on the altar of his country's honor. In the face of a record unparalleled in the history of race progress, in spite of the cheerful heart and spirit of good will, the Negro has maintained through all his struggles against hostile conditions and unfair exactions. There has been and is today a persistent, vicious and insidious attempt on the part of the Southern White man to humiliate him and deprive him of his civil and political rights. This attack starting in the Southland had steadily spread until every section is affected by the horrible propaganda of race prejudice. This unholy work of arousing race antipathy has been prosecuted with wanton effrontery that today there is more bitter feeling directed toward the race than ever before since our emancipation. There is not the least valid excuse for their action. The same motive actuates the leaders in this movement today that influenced them in 1865 and 1868. Arouse wide prepractice against a race, deprive them of their civil and political rights and you not only expose them to the lawless element or every community, but you take from them all stimulus for racial or individed advancement. This without doubt is the end at which our enemies aim. And yet the great mass of our race sit silently by and do not even protest against such brazen injustice. There was a time when the Negro was loud in his protest against lynching and every attempt to take from him his vested rights was persistently resisted. It is barely possible that he has listened to the song of "patience and submission" until it has lulled him to sleep. When the children of Isreal were treated the most cruel by those who would enslave them, the Lord commanded Moses to agitate, then he agitated, and the Lord came to their rescue. It is I fear that our religious training has tended to make us too humble and submissive. In these days of oppression and injustice we need militant religion. I admire the fighting courage of Christian in "Pilgrim's Progress." He actually dared to fight old Appolyon himself, and when Appolyon knocked him down and was dancing with glee, Christian cried out: "Rejoice not over me, O, my enemies, for if I fall I shall rise again." Our churches seem to have stopped singing that battle hymn. "Must I be carried to the skies on flowery beds of ease, which others fought to win the prize and sail through bloody seas! Sure I must fight if I would reign, increase my courage Lord." It is not nearly so easy to rob a fellow who is awake and alert and ready to fight and make a noise, as it is to rob the fellow who is asleep or is afraid to give alarm. Wealth alone will not check the assaults on our rights or restore the liberty we have permitted to be taken away. For what advantage is wealth without civil and political liberty? He is a stupid man indeed who does not realize with Shylock as he stands before the bar of Christian justice and craves the law, when they deny him his rights he says: "Nay take my life and all you do take my house when you do take the prop that doth sustain my house." We must do something to arouse the slumbering millions of our race to the necessity of vigilance and action. Ten million people united for common defense and affirmative action could be almost invincible. A little band of 700 Spartons held at bay Xeres army of a million souls at Thermopyla Pass. The greatest benefactors of the race will be the person or persons who can mould these diversed inharmonious millions into a homogeneous courageous and active people. The times and conditions call for vigilance and action. Let us awake, from our lethargy and throw off the incubus of "silence and submission". Let us be not afraid to adopt a new policy. For I am one who believe that here in the midst of an alien civilization, here in this country, whose soil is enriched by our toil, and hallowed by the blood and tears of our ancestors, the American Negro will yet be able to reach the full stature of manhood and citizenship, and under God and eternal vigilance on our part, maintain it in peace and with honor. COL JOHN B. MARSHALL, AND HIS TRIP THROUGH THE SOUTH. Tuskegee, Alabama, Jan. 20, 1913.—Colonel John R. Marshall of the Eighth Illinois Regiment, has been spending the past week at Tuskegee Institute. Col. Marshall has been accompanied to Tuskegee by three representatives of the National Moving Picture Company of Chicago. Col. Marshall, representing the Anderson-Watkins Film Co., a recently incorporated company, organized for the purpose of having moving picture films made of Negro institutions throughout the country. Col. Marshall has been warmly welcomed by officers, teachers and students of the Institute and has received many social courtesies at their hands, the most important of these was an informal STAG PARTY, Saturday evening, January 18th at which were present, Dr. Booker T. Washington, Principal; Mr. Warren Logan, Treasurer; Mr. Emmett J. Scott, Secretary; Mr. Robert R. Taylor, Director of Mechanical Industries; Mr. J. R. E. Lee, Director of the Academic Department; Mr. Ezra C. Roberts, assistant director of the Academic Department; Mr. Charles Winter Wood, Librarian; Mr. Thomas J. Ferguson, Secretary of the Institute Business Committee, and Major Julius B. Ramsey, Commandant of the Institute Battalion, and his staff including Capt. William H. Waleott and Capt. Benj. E. Ammons, assistants to the Commandant and Capt. N. Clark Smith, Band Master. During the course of the evening, Col. Marshall explained somewhat in detail, something of the history of the Eighth Regiment, its organization, its Cuban campaign during the war with Spain in 1898 and his own experience as Colonel designate at the United States Army Manoeuvres held at San Antonio last year. In the Institute Chapel, Sunday evening, after introducing Col. Marshall and telling something of his life and history, starting with his first education at Hampton Institute, Virginia. Col. Marshall spoke most encouragingly to the students of the Institute and was warmly and cordially welcomed by them. PREPARING FOR INAUGURATION Washington, Jan. 19.—The sub-committee on Public Comfort to supervise the arrangements for the participation of the Colored citizens of the country in the inaugural ceremonies of President-elect Wilson, has been organized with A. H. Underdown, a prominent business man, as chairman; L. C. Moore first vice chairman; R. W. Thompson, second vice chairman; John H. Cook, treasurer; George H. Murray, secretary; and W. L. Offord, clerk. Headquarters have been established in the Y. M. C. A., where an "open door" is maintained for all who have any suggestions to make to the committee or who wish to take advantage of any information the committee may be in a position to offer. Visitors to the city are tendered an especial invitation to call. Steps are being taken to have Convention Hall put into first class shape for the inaugural ball, and the sub-committee that will look after the various details of the great parade are being marshalled into action. For grand marshall of the Colored division, Messrs. W. T. Furguson, W. H. Harris, A. E. Cosey and others are said to be under consideration. Homes for visitors are listed, and there is no doubt that there will be ample accommodations for all. Staff officers for the various States are to be appointed within the next few days, so everybody will know just what is expected of them. The press committee will keep the country in touch with the inaugural management and its labors. LINCOLN STATE BANK CHOSES OFFICERS. Directors and the following officers were elected at the annual meeting of the Lincoln State Savings Bank, South State and Thirty-first streets, this week: President, George F. Leibrandt; vice president, Charles A. White; cashier, Edward Larson; directors, Frederick A. Brown, Daniel Gawne, Thomas W. Cole, Roy B. Tabor, W. I. Schermerhorn, A. J. Banta, Joseph Schwartz, Charles A. White, George F. Leibrandt. NICE GIRL CAN FIND A GOOD HOME. A client wants a nicely reared ten or twelve-year-old girl—light complexioned. Good, permanent home for right girl, Hyde Park neighborhood. Address, giving particulars, W. G. Anderson, Room 5, 35 N. Clark St., Automatic phone 44185. THE LECTURE OF CAREY B. LEWIS ON THE "LITERARY LIGHTS OF THE AFRO-AMERICAN RACE" WAS HIGHLY INSTRUCTIVE AND INTERESTING. Last Sunday Afternoon Cary B. Lewis Delivered a Very Instructive and Highly Interesting Lecture Before the Bethel Literary Society, on the "Literary Lights of the Afro-American Race." No doubt it was a great surprise and revelation to the majority of those who sat under the sound of his voice, to become familiar with the accomplishments of the many men and women belonging to the race, in the world of literature. It would be well indeed for Mr. Lewis to travel from place to place and repeat his lecture, in season and out of season, for it might be the means of spurring at least a few of the so-called educated Afro-Americans up to the point where they would be willing to expend some of their money in order to secure some of the many valuable and classically written books which have so far eminated from the pens of the "literary lights of the race." W. H. A. Moore, Dr. Charles E. Bentley, Thomas Wallace Swann, Honi George W. Ellis. A. N. Fields, Attorney W. W. Johnson, Dr. M. A. Majors, Hon. George H. Jackson and Julius F. Taylor, at considerable length discussed the merits and demerits of his lecture. At the end of the regular set program, Mr. Lewis was presented with an elegant gold fountain pen for the great amount of interest which he has manifested in the success of the Bethel Literary Society for the past three years. SOCIAL NEWS OR ITEMS FROM AURORA, ILLINOIS. Mrs. Josephine Buckner is convalescence after several weeks of illness. Mrs. Sadie Boyd and daughter Eunice spent last week at Batavia, at the bedside of Mrs. Boyd's sister Mrs. Buckner. Mr. William La Mar followed suit and stole a march on his friends last evening by uniting in marriage with Miss Eunac Smith. Mr. La Mar is prominent in several clubs in this city and is a K. of P. His marriage is a surprise to the younger set of society folks. SIDE LIGHTS. An Aurora man with fourteen children of his own married a widow with twelve more. To him that hath shall be given. The open season for turkey hash is closed. A burglar, fleeing with plunder was captured by a small boy with a toy pistol. It's the little things that count after all. Rev. Alton Blake is attending the Federation Meet at Wheaton (Thursday). Miss Eula Wilson entertained at Whist at the home of her uncle Mrs. Statford Wilson. Mrs. Lizzie Holland, mother of Mrs. Corrine Forcew of 3715 LaSalle street is visiting Aurora friends. Parcel Post stork delivered two baby boys to Aurora couples this week. Mr. and Mrs. John Patterson received a fourteen pound boy and Mr and Mrs. Willis Washington a ten pound chap. The mothers are doing nicely. Miss Adeline Moore has returned to classes after a week's illness, F. L. of Chicago is all smiles now that A. M. is improved. The Senior High are close to studies to secure their parents consent to attend the February Annual Dance at Champaign, Ill. Mr. Edward Jackson of Batavia spent Wednesday in Aurora with friends. Mr. and Mrs. John Morton and daughter Martha, spent Monday in Chicago visiting friends. Announcements are out of the wedding of Miss Francis Beverly to Samuel Thompson of Chicago. The young couple were quietly married last Thursday in their own home on Evans avenue. The time of the marriage has been kept a well guarded secret and only immediate relatives knew the time set, until the announcement followed. Mr. and Mrs. Thompson are both popular young people and will now receive congratulations of their friends. James Crusolins chewed gum after retiring which lodged in his throat, causing a blood vessel to burst. He died a few hours after being removed to the Taylerville Hospital. CHICAGO PAPERS DIFFER. Quite a lively tilt is on between The Chicago Defender and The Broad Ax as to the merits and demerits of "Lil' Arthur Johnson." The former paper loses no opportunity to boost the champion, while the latter publication goes after the prize fighter with hammer and tongs. The recent episode of Johnson and his wife being hissed at the Eight Regiment Bell, furnished the material for the principal or "big" story of The Broad Ax, in "airing" the circum stance, while the Defender devoted more than a column in an interview of the champion who "tuck" up for himself in a scatching rebuke of the Colored people who snubbed him.-The Ledger, Indianapolis, Ind., Jan. 18, 1913. What was said in these columns in reference to the hissing of Mr. and Mrs. Johnson, when they attempted to dance at the time they withdrew from the ball, was the truth and nothing but the absolute truth, Brother Howard.-Editor. CHIPS Dr. W. H. Marshall, 3100 State street, is on a visit to his parents in South Carolina. Anna Cook, Pankey, late prima donna of the Red Moon Company, will be at the Monogram next week. Mr. and Mrs. James T. Brewington, and the other Brewingstons, have removed from 2350 Dearborn street, to 3323 Forest Avenue. Mrs. Marie Washington, 5025 Armour Ave.; returned home Monday evening from a short pleasure trip to Indianapolis, Ind. Wm. H. Smith who assisted Robert T. Motts to open the old Pekin Theater, may be selected as its manager when the time comes to throw its doors open. Attorney M. W. Johnson will address the Literary Society at Bethel Church at 4:30 Sunday afternoon, January 26th on the "Moral Condition of the Afro-American in Chicago." Miles J. Devine, ex-City Attorney and Grand Marshal of the famous Cook County Marching Club; is still being favorably mentioned by the powers that be, for the nomination for judge of the Superior Court. Alderman P. J. Carr, will not have much opposition at the Aldermanic primaries Tuesday, February 25th, and he will be re-nominated and re-elected to the City Council from the Fifth ward with both hands down. Sheriff Michael Zimmer, to the great delight of his numerous friends, has recovered from his recent severe spell of sickness, and he is again in evidence around the County Building and the City Hall. The Chicago branch of the National Association for the advancement of Colored people, will meet on Tuesday, January 28th, at 4 o'Clock, in the City Club, 315 Plymouth Court, near Jackson Boulevard. Business of importance will be transacted. James A. Scott, ex-Assistant State's Attorney, who made a splendid record the two years and a half that he served as such, has become associated with the law firm of Erbstein and Van Bever; Suite 430 to 437 First National Bank Building and Mr. Scott, is easily making good in his new legal connection. Last Saturday evening some of the many warm friends and admirers of Dr. Daniel H. Williams, one of the foremost and most advanced surgeons, gave a banquet and dance in his honor, at the elegant home of Mr. and Mrs. S. J. Carter, 3256 Rhodes avenue. In every respect, it was a most enjoyable affair. Michael K. Sheridan, member of the Board of Assessors of Cook county, is proving himself to be an ideal public official. He treats each and every person who has any business to transact with him, with a proper amount of consideration, and the voters made no mistake on their part in electing him to office. Mrs. Alie Norris of Portland, Maine, was called to this city on account of the illness of her sister, Mrs. Lavada Jackson, who was held up, and severely injured on Dec. 21st. She still remains quite sick at 21 E. Thirty-third street. They are nieces of Mr. Geo S. Price, one of the trustees of Quinn Chapel. Major Franklin A. Denison, returned home Sunday morning from Washington, D. C., where he appeared before the Clapp Investigating Committee as the attorney for Charles Winkfield, who assisted to get away with many important and valuable letters, belonging to John D. Archbold, head of the Standard Oil Company. Winkfield has proven himself to be one of the few Colored men to abuse the confidence imposed in them by the head officials of that company. Isaac Burger, who conducts the Family Theater at 1925 Archer avenue, and who is engaged in various other lines of business, has leased the old Pekin Theater at Twenty-seventh and State streets, for a term of ten years and he is engaged in making extensive improvements on it in every way and when completed it will be operated by the Pekin Hippodrome Company. Colored people will be employed in every part of the house. Town Topics. Chicago's ready population reckoners now make it a city of 2,294,120 inhabitants. It is easily holding first place among the nation's cities of the second class.—New York World. Building an auto speedway in New York seems a useless expense, seeing that the autos have made speedways of practically all the streets in the town.—Rochester Democrat and Chronicle. In proportion to its size Springfield, Mass., has probably progressed further toward a complete mortorization of the apparatus of its fire department than any other city in New England, and others may profit by its experience.—Boston Transcript. Current Comment. It is Italy, Portia's native land, that has definitely decided that women cannot practice law.-Boston Journal. The revenue cutters have fairly earned a truer name. While not the greyhounds of the sea, they are at least the St. Bernards.-Boston Herald. Revelations in Washington indicate that if Wall street cannot keep warm in cold weather it is not for lack of lambs' wool.-Chicago Record-Herald. The suggestion that automobiles be provided with cowcatchers does not go far enough. A block signal system and safety gates are also needed.-Pittsburgh Chronicle-Telegraph. Pert Personals. Ex-King Manuel is said to be seeking a cure for "nerves." One way would be to forget that he was ever a king.—New York World. The difference between John Pierpont Morgan and Andrew Carnegie is that J. P. has no intention of dying poor.—Detroit Free Press. The German kaiser is one of our leading emperors and is rapidly becoming one of our leading grandfathers.—Pittsburgh Gazette-Times. Castro has had all kinds of hard luck, but his misfortunes do not seem to have impaired what is technically called his "nerve."—Chicago Tribune. A Few Oddities. Advertisement: "Wanted, a white girl to cook." Doctor's sign in Denver: "Specialist—all diseases." Seen in Vancouver: "Afternoon tea served at all hours." Card at pay desk in a cafe: "Your face is good, but it won't go in the cash register." Ad. in an English journal: "Comfortable bedroom, use of sitting room and breakfast." Something new in lodgings getting the use of the breakfast—Boston Transcript. Science Siftings. Saturn has a velocity of six miles a second. A German scientist says that the pneal gland at the base of the brain governs the passions. Ten stars with luminosities more than 100 times that of the sun are named by the Astronomical laboratory at Groningen. Beta Centauri is 520 times as luminous; Regulus, 423; Achernar, 350; Capella, 300, and Arcturus, 230. The Inaugural. It is evident that the Washington hotels intend to violate no precedent during the inauguration season. They will take all your money, as heretofore—Indianapolis News. If they are going to dance the bunny hug and such things in the rotunda of the capitol at the inaugural ball it may be well to put blinders on the statues.—Philadelphia Press. "The case had to be postponed again." "Weren't the lawyers ready?" "Yes, but the dressmakers demanded more time."—Hartford Post. The oyster in the steepan stirred Attended strictly to his bits And never said a single word— And yet see what his finish is! —Washington Star. To Rent.—2424-26 Seminary Ave. 3 and 4 room flats with bath. Excellent location. Convenient to Fullerton Ave. L. Express Station. 20 minutes to loop, Rent, $14 to $16. See Dr. T. H. Wilson, 532 Grant Pl. Phone Lincoln 2483. POURE FLAT BRICK BUILDING FOR SALE AT A BARGAIN. For sale, four flat brick building, at a bargain, located on Armour avenue, near 36th Street. Rent $60 per month. Price, $4,650. For further information, call on or address Julius F. Taylor, 5027 Armour avenue, Phone Dresel 4590. 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 $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 381-330 Banyan Beach Coastal Plains, Central 19th Ave. 40-813 Plaza, Control 19th Ave. 40-813 Phone: Office, Main 4153 Rn. Drumel, 7990 Auto. 33-736 WALTER M. FARMER ATTORNEY AT LAW Suite 708, 184 Washington St. Notary Public CHICAGO, ILL. Office Phone Central 6624 Ren. 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 Daleware Building CHICAGO A. D. GASH ATTORNEY AT LAW 118 North La Salle St. Chicago Suite 615 to 616 Telephone Main 3077 Notary Public Office Phone Automatic 44-185 Res. Phone Automatic 79-137 Suite 5, Methodist Church Block S. E. Cor, Clark & Washington Sts., CHICAGO Residence: 3642 Prairie Ave. Tel. Aldine 1820 In Office at Night C. H. KNIGHT, M. D., C.M. (Canada) PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Office Hours 9 to 11 A. M., 2 to 5 P. M. 3158 State Street, Chicago OFFICE HOURS Phone Oakland 4662 From 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Automatic 73-058 From 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. Sunday by Appointment DR. THEO.R. MOZEE DENTIST 1709 S. State St. CHICAGO VICTOR THE BROAD AX CAN BE FOUND ON SALE AT THE FOLLOWING NEWS STANDS: From on and after this date The Broad Ax, can be found on sale at the following news stands: A. F. Turvalon, cigar store and news stand, 5004 State street. George L. Martin, maker of fine cigars and news stand, 18 W. 31st St., near State. R. M. Harvey's barber shop and news stand, 3924 State street. Mrs. Nellie Phelpa, cigars, notions and news stand, 15 W. 36th St., near Dearborn. W. S. Cole, cigars, tobacco and news stand, 34 W. 31st St., near Dearborn. T. B. Hall, laundry office and news stand, 11 W. 29th St., near State. R. Davis, cigars, tobacco and news stand, 3532 State St. W. M. Marwell, notions, cigars, tobacco, confections and news stand, 5344 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 McGloffen, news stand and laundry office, 4123 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 State 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 State street. THE AMERICAN LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY OF ILLINOIS. COMPANY OF ILLINOIS. Old Line Legal Reserve Co. Under State Government Supervision. $100,000 deposited with the State. Policies of all kinds, ranging from five cents to ten thousand dollars, are offered to 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 5. 72 West Adams Street Telephones, CALUMET 4401--4428 AUTOMATIC 75-655 Artesian Pharmacy 2701 Dearborn' St. CHICAGO Use Dorsey's fine Pomade for the hair. It will make it soft and glossy. Prescriptions carefully compounded. Phone your ORDERS Phane Douglas $538 Rooms by Dwu or Week Room 22-03-06 The Douglas Hotel For Men Only Batha, Steam Heat, Electric Light 2006 & State Street, CHICAGO TELEPHONES Oakland 1609 Res. Oakland 1760' Auto. 79156 FINE FURNITURE AND PIANO MOVERS, PACKERS AND SHIPPERS 3 Trips Daily to AlliDepots 4706 IndianaAve. CHICAGO $15 Pa WASHINGTON SPEAKS TRUTH. NT ae a ee ‘Will Still Survive. At the joint meeting to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the signing of the proclamation of emancipation, held in the Unitarian Church of the ‘Messiah in York the latter part of the first week in January, Dr. Booker T. ‘Washington and Mrs. Henry Villard, @aughter of William Lloyd Garrison, were the chief speakers. ‘The exercises were held under the auspices of the above named church, the Free synagogue, pastored by Dr. Stephen S. Wise, and the Universalist Church of the Divine Paternity, of which the Rev. Frank O. Hall is the pastor. The proclamation of emanci- pation was read by Dr. Wise, who also said: “Education has not demoralized the Negro. He has shown a veritable pas- sion for it, as witnessed by the extraor- inary decrease in Negro illiteracy within half a century. The states have not fairly and adequately provid- ed educational opportunities for the Negro. : “We may deny justice to the Negro, ‘we may withhold from him elementary political rights, we may scourge and stripe him, we may bang and burn him, but in the end the white race ‘will suffer most. No race can violate the moral law with impunity. No race can for years and generations pursue courses that are unjust without muti lating its own moral nature and sink- ing to a lowered level of life.” In the course of his eloquent address Dr. Washington said: “In the south we have experienced mobs, Iynchings, burnings. In spite of these outrages we are going to demon- strate that we can live side by side with the white man in the south. But our work will not be done while the chief executive of one state advocates in the press Iawiessness and disorder against a race within its borders. One race can't hold another race in the ditch without in a meas}re remaining in the ditch itself.” ‘Mrs, -Villard, recalling incidents in her father’s work for emancipation as she noted them in her childhood, said that when .be was accused of using strong language he replied: “I must be as bard as truth and as uncompromising as Justice.” “When some of his friends called and ‘warned him that immediate emancipa- tion meant chaos,” continued Mra, Vil- lard, “my father answered: ‘My dear sirs, that is no concern of mine. I know that slavery is wrong and that freedom is right, and what you fear will result Decause of slavery.” “at that time my father never dream- ‘ed of an emancipation proclamation by 2 Lincoin. The president exempted from the emancipation the slaves in the border states. His course, after all, ‘was not a straight one. He had learn- @4 his lesson only partly and was chiefly concerned with the safety of the Union.” RICHMOND PICTURED AS THRIFTY BUSINESS CENTER eecthere City Sets Good Example. Co-operation Benefits Both Races ‘Richmond has been justly noted and now enjoys an enviable reputation for the progress of its colored people, says the Richmond (Va.) Planet. Leading ‘white men of responsibility and weelth never tire of pointing with pride at the thyift and business ability shown by our people here. ‘They encourage them in their vart- ous enterprises and look with favor ‘upon their efforts to support each other im business just as they co-operate with each other in their churches. This is ue to the fact that in cooperating with each other they make better citt- sens and lift the standard of the race toa higher level. It makes, too, for a satisfied electo- rate, and this tends materially to ad- ‘vance the financial, industrial and com- mercial interests of this community. ‘The money remains at bome, and ali parties to the contract are benefited. ‘While the work of colored concerns and their trade and patronage are con- fined almost exclusively to colored peo- ple, still white people frequently en- ‘courage these racial enterprises by giv- ing them work to do. If other communities would follow the éxample of most of the farseeing colored business men of Richmond sim- flar results would follow the adoption of this race patronizing policy, which policy is cordially-approved by every Progressive southerner in this broad lend of cam, 3 Bruce on Heroism of Colored Soldiers President John Edward Bruce of the Negro Society For Historical Re- search, Yonkers, N. ¥., very aptly calle attention to the fact that in the Mas sachusetts Historical society several years ago there was exhibited a silk flag bearing the device of a pine tree and s “buck.” with the initials “J, EL” and “G. W.” over &- scroll, on which appear the words “The Bucks of America.” This relic had been care fully preserved as the flag presented by Governor Hancock to @ company of Negro soldiers bearing that name which served with distinction in the Revolutionary war. ‘Specialist in Rural Education Work Professor Harold W. Fought, an em- ployee of the United States burese of ‘education, is making encouraging head- ‘way tn bis work for rural echools and ‘teachers of such schools in'the middle ‘west. . He is the author.of several in- reas Sees eel nee . it fe regarded as a spe poms eomses regent os 5 ope NEW REGIME FOR | THE VIRGINIANS Popular Mutual Benefit Society Installs New Officers. FEATURES OF THE PROGRAM Peat casa Compoced of eee Se apes aes) Brookiyn.—The newly elected and installed officers of the Society of the Sons of Virginia for 1913 entered upon ithe duty of their respective offices at the regular meeting of the society on ‘Thursday evening, Jan. 16. The instal- lation exercises held previous to the business meeting were open to the public. Former President N. Barnett Dod- son presided, and after the reading of the annual reports of the financial sec- retary, Peter H. Fisher, and treasurer, Graham H. Carter, the Rev. Dr. C. P. Cole, pastor of the Bridge Street A. M. E. church, delivered an eloquent address, in which aes @Bicer to do bis full duty and thereby aid in the upbuilding of the organization. Re- ferring to the reports of the secretary and treasurer, Dr. Coie said the re sults showed careful business manage- ment. The ollie: were Instai ed by the Rev. Hollahd iowell, D. D.. pastor of the Bethany Baptist church, who spoke of the influe:.e of the society in the com: munity and complimented the members on the greut success of the organiza- tion and of its standing as an incorpo- Fated institution. Group of Experienced Business Men. ‘The immediate general officers of the society are men who have had several years of experience in farious lines of business as employees and some in conducting their own businesses. Presi- dent Charies H. Turner bolds a respon- sible position In one of the leading financial concerns in the city and is regarded as a man of more than ordl- nary ability. He is also an officer of eat ae a a —_.- tenes AS fe Face ae ay. f coe Eee STE eae ‘Fank in the Bridge Street AM. B church and takes an active part in all good movements. Vice President Arthur Q. Martin is a successful undertaker and has the @is- tinction of being the first man of the ‘race to receive an embalmer's license im Greater New York. ,He is well known in secret society circles and holds membership in many of the high- er secret orders. Like Mr. Turner, he fs interested in church work and lends a helping hand to many charitable in- stitutions. ‘The financial secretary, Peter H. Figher, Sr., is possibly the most widely known of the general officers. He has Deen clerk of the Concord Baptist church for twenty-eight years and for nearly a quarter of a century an as- sistant in one of the leading drag houses in the-city. } Career of Messrs, Carter and Kemp. | Grabam H. Carter, treasurer of the organization, has held that position for twelve years and has given an accu- Fate account of his stewardship from (year to year to the society's satistac- tion and pleasure. He formeriy work- ‘ed in 2 tobacco factory, but forsook it for more congenial employment. He is a trusted employee of the firm of Enoch a ee ‘ork, where be has been employed in various capacities for the past twenty- six years or more. Charles J. D. Kemp, the recording pecretary, is the youngest of the so- clety's officials, as well as one of the ‘most capable. He is a product of the [Brooklyn public schools and holds a ®esponsible position as an employee the Brooklyn Union Gas company. ie ashen maou ae Imember of the Masonic fraternity. The ‘other officers are Alfred R. Nash, corze- apisn, sod anes 8 Watkin, bo and James 8. Watkins, ser- ee | A very helpful address representing ee at oe ‘was delivered in © most thoughtful ee omens mentor Bon aes, y. Dr. William Maurice Moss, pas- tor of the Concord Baptist church, de- ‘the closing address. R. Lincoln well & Sons. caterer, served am P ne oy sch Pease e, Geet JESSE BINGA Beers |. E, Cor State and 36th Plc, Chicage aes Telephone Douglas 1565 GENERAL BANEING 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-resi- dents, including payment of taxes and locking after assessments. Money to loan on Chicago Real Estate, = Especially Invites the patronage of Chicago business men. The- Cranford Apartment “Building, 3600 Wabash Ave eve. az: fe fae : eae a re + es py The finest building ever opened to Colored tenants in Chicago Steam heat, electric light, tile baths, marble entrance. ° J. W. Casey, Agent, *Phone Randolph 803 74 W. WASHINGTON EET. — AND THE ... Are against all TRUSTS and COMBINATIONS organized to increase the cost of funerals and burials. (Colored Men and Women of Chicago do net let any Undertakers “ Jim Crow” you into = “Jim Crow™ Cemetery. You are opposed to “ Jim Crow ” Cars, “ Jim Crow” ‘Schools and everything lee that is Jim Crow, so de mot desecrate all that is sacred by ‘using such « Cemetery, Mount Gleaweed has no “Jim Crow” Section. it has One Section and One Entrance fer all Undertakers Profits im Mount Glenwood ge to the People. OUR PRICE TO ALL Single Grave in Single Section, (opened) $ 5.00 Outside Box (made of No.1 lumber) 4.00 Total Expense of Single Burial, Only $9.00 Order Graves and Boxes direct from our Association and save $6.00. Low Prices in Cemetery Lots of $2.00 Cash and $2.00 per month. TELL YOUR FRIENDS. Best Punerel Train Service, leaving Dearborn Station, (Polk Street) at 2:15 P.M; 47th and Wallace Sts. at 2:25 P.M: 6led and Wallace Sts at 2:30 P.M. Week Days and Sunday. CALL OR WRITE MOUNT GLENWOOD CEMETERY ASSOCIATION Phones: Douglas 5574- Automatic 71-866 3125 So. STATE STREET. OPEN EVENINGS. BBO + ewer ee Timely Topics. A Gecrease of 70 per cent In Fourth of July casualties in New York city in two years is a convincing vindication of the “safe and sane” celebration policy.—New York Tribune. ‘The postal savings banks have not yet Grawn the predicted $400,000,000 from hiding—only about $16,200,000. But even so they are proving their ‘worth—New York World. ‘Tt is not too early to have tn this country # suitable memorial of Fried- ich Froebel. The proposal to erect im Washington a shaft in memory of ‘the world’s great educator should win country wide support—Boston Tran- script. “It seems she did something rather eGd—wedded ber first love or some uch ally thing.” It was far more remarkable— Joved her frst wedded."—Smart Set. ‘There was a fellow more ne aaa Saas Sas TReAy) a ae SSO e a LMANS Seg san co orien oe eal Ready to wear attire for man, woman and child at lowest prices, quality and workmanship considered. 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