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The Fiftieth Anniversary Celebration of the Emancipation Proclamation of President Abraham Lincoln JUDGE EDWARD OSGOOD BROWN WAS THE CHAIRMAN OF THE EVENING. MISS JANE ADDAMS, PROF. W. E. B. DU BOIS, PROF. GEORGE B. FOSTER AND RABBI EMIL G. HIRSCH WERE THE LEADING SPEAKERS. PROF. FOSTER BOLDLY PROCLAIMED THAT THE AMALGAMATION OF THE WHITE AND BLACK RACES WAS THE MOST LOGICAL SOLUTION OF THE RACE PROBLEM IN THE UNITED STATES. HE HALES FROM THE SUNNY SOUTH—HIS FATHER FOUGHT IN THE CONFEDERATE ARMY YET HE PROPHESIED A BETTER AND BRIGHTER DAY FOR THE AFRO-AMERICANS IN THIS COUNTRY. THE MUSIC FOR THE OCCASION WAS FURNISHED BY THE EMANCIPATION CHORUS ORGANIZED BY MRS. IDA B. WELLS-BARNETT UNDER THE DIRECTION OF JAMES A. MUNDY. MRS. MARIE BURTON-HYRAM, SOPRANO; MISS GERTRUDE M. JACKSON ORGANIST. Vol. XVIII. The Fiftieth Celebration Emancipation Abrah JUDGE EDWARD OSGOOD BROWN EVER MISS JANE ADDAMS, PROF. W. E. TER AND RABBI EMIL G. HIBS PROF. FOSTER BOLDLY PROCLAIM OF THE WHITE AND BLACK SOLUTION OF THE RACE PROF. HE HALES FROM THE SUNNY SOUTH CONFEDERATE ARMY YET IN BRIGHTER DAY FOR THE AFF. THE MUSIC FOR THE OCCASION PATION CHORUS ORGANIZED UNDER THE DIRECTION OF J. MRS. MARIE BURTON-HYRAM, SON OF O Wednesday evening Orchestra Hall, was filled from the first seat in the pit to the last seat away up in the sky parlor, the audience was about equally divided between the whites and the Colored folks, but no attempt was made on the part of anyone to separate them and it being an old fashioned Democratic celebration, no color line was visible in any direction and everybody felt that it was more than good to be there. Judge Edward Osgood Brown, whose heart is full of the milk of human kindness for his fellow men regardless of the color of their skin or their station in life, ably presided as the chairman, and after delivering the welcome address in which he stated the object of the twofold celebration, the following program was rendered to the great delight of the three or four thousand people who crowded into Orchestra Hall. Organ Recital, James A. Mundy; invocation, Rev. Edgar P. Hill, McCormick Theological Seminary; Reading of the Emancipation Proclamation, Dr. Charles E. Bentley; Music by the Emancipation Chorus, organized by Mrs. Ida B. Wells Barnett. Director, James A. Mundy; "Hail, Bright Abode" Wagner; Inflammatus, Handel; Ethiopia, Mundy; Address, Miss Jane Addams; Address, Dr. W. E. B. Du Bois of New York; Jubilee Songs, By the Chorus, a. "Steal Away to Jesus", b. "Reign, Massa Jesus, Reign", c. "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot"; Address, Prof. George B. Foster, University of Chicago; Address, Dr. Emil G. Hirsch; America, By the Chorus and the Audience; My Country 'tis of thee, My Country 'tis of thee, Land where my fathers died, Land of the pilgrim's pride, From every mountain side Let Freedom ring. Our father's God, to Thee, Author of Liberty, To Thee we sing. Long may our land be bright With freedom's holy light; Protect us by thy might, Great God, our King. The music or the singing was exceedingly fine and it was evident that Prof. Mundy had worked very hard in the way of training his hundred voiced Chorus, for after each number rendered they were heartily received. Mrs. Marie Burton-Hyram, recovered herself with new glory with her soprano singing and the whites and the others who had never heard her before were completely charmed with her rich yet soft, clear musical voice; Miss Gertrude M. Jackson was at her best as the organist for the memorable occasion. Miss Jane Addams who is one of the --- greatest women in many ways in the wide-world spoke very interestingly and brought out many telling points in favor of better treatment for the Negro, some of her expressions follow: "In its broadest sense, franchise is only an implement for justice," she asserted. "It is for that reason that a band of us women, known as suffragettes, are now striving to attain this instrument. It was public sentiment and opinion which, to a large extent, at least, was responsible for the issuance of the emancipation proclamation. Today this same public opinion exists in another cause, and through it we will win what we strive for. PREDICTS EQUAL SUFFRAGE. "You must use what you now have for your further upliftment and advancement. If a similar meeting to this one is held fifty years hence I hope that this nation by that time will see the fulfillment and realization of the prayers you now are making." Prof. W. E. B. Du Bois, Prof. George B. Foster, and Dr. Emil G. Hirsch, were the leading speakers of the evening but in our humble opinion Prof. Du Bois and Prof. Foster delivered the most logical and the most impressive orations on that glorious occasion. Prof. Foster boldly proclaimed that the amalgamation of the White and Black races was the most logical solution of the race problem in the United States. He hales from the sunny south—his father bravely fought in the confederate army in order to hold onto slavery in this country, yet he freely prophesied a better and brighter day for the Afro-Americans in this country. Some of his very bold utterences follow: "Men have declared that geographical separation was the one way to solve the question." "It was only last week that I heard this statement made by a professor at Harvard university. A speaker not so long ago in a talk at our own university made a similar assertion. "This is not a fact. In the first place, you might not want to go where we would decide to put you. In the next case, where on earth we would put you? Some have said South America. Again comes the fact that you might not want to go there, and if you didn't we couldn't compel you to take a single step. "Amalgamation only Solution." "After we have considered everything, the blending together of the two races, the white and the black, is the one and final solution of the so-called problem. "To some, at first thought, this may be distasteful. Distasteful or not, it is ultimate. Nature gradually but surely is doing the work now. Before we I can see some faces that are black, CHICAGO, FEBRUARY 15. 1913 D. R. King FREDERICK DOUGLASS. One of the greatest Afro-Americans, that ever exist- ized world—with his pen and matchless eloquen- he vividly depicted the horrors and the great slaves, by their Christian masters and by his the columns of his, the first Colored newspaper He made it possible more than any one else, for his Emancipation Proclamation, freeing the s- ruary 17, his 96th birthday anniversary, she white and black alike throughout the United One of the greatest Afro-Americans, that ever existed in any part of the civilized world—with his pen and matchless eloquence in America and in Europe; he vividly depicted the horrors and the great wrongs inflicted upon the slaves, by their Christian masters and by his constant agitation, through the columns of his, the first Colored newspaper to be established in America. He made it possible more than any one else, for Abraham Lincoln to issue his Emancipation Proclamation, freeing the slaves and on Monday, February 17, his 96th birthday anniversary, should be celebrated by both white and black alike throughout the United States. some that are white and others that I cannot tell what they are. "No matter what people may say about the absurdities of race amalgamation, nature is taking the affair out of our hands, you may scoff, you may say that you are too particular—but remember that nature is not so particular—that it already has performed much of its work. "I hope to see the time that you Negroes enter the halls of Congress, the time when you have an equal voice in every phase of government, when you share alike with the rest of citizens the advantages of society. And this time will come, for you are climbing rapidly. UNITED STATES LAWLESSNESS. America the Most Lawless Civilized Country in the World. The Christian Advocate (Nashville), in writing on "The Menace of Lawlessness," among other things, says: "Our record for lawlessness is without parcelel in any other civilized country on earth." This is no far cry of an alarmist, but the sober opinion of one of the thoughtful, conservative writers of the times. The alarming element in the whole situation is that so few men and women realize the sad plight into which America has fallen. The reason for this is not Prophecies Better Day. "We tried to give you the most undesirable employment at hand when we failed in keeping you slaves, and we did not succeed in segregating you. As a result you were put to washing dishes, to scrubbing floors and the like, but this will cease and the time surely will come when you are judged by your actual worth along with the rest of human beings. "We must consider each other as brothers. But first you must take the initiative and show the brotherly spirit yourselves. You must not return evil for evil; instead you must look to the higher and return good for evil. Then, not even politicians will be able to keep you down. "It has been said that the amalgamation of the races would produce an inferior people. I do not believe this is true, for there is nothing to show that it is. At least, this is a question which better can be decided 200 years hence, and not at the present. "I close in extending my wishes that you realize your hopes, that you live to share alike in what society holds, that you come into your own." All in all; it was a great meeting and it will go a long ways in assisting to restore that friendly feeling or that feeling of brotherly love, which has always existed between the two races in this city, which had become owing to recent developments, somewhat strained in the past year. Mrs. Elizabeth L. Davis, Organizer of the National Association of Colored Women, left this week for the Southwest in the interest of that organization; to visit Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas and Arkansas. She will spend fully three weeks in Oklahoma, so great has been the demand in that section of the country for the N. A. C. W. work among Colored women. America the Most Lawless Civilized Country in the World. The Christian Advocate (Nashville), in writing on "The Menace of Lawlessness," among other things, says: "Our record for lawlessness is without parellet in any other civilized country on earth." This is no far cry of an alarmist, but the sober opinion of one of the thoughtful, conservative writers of the times. The alarming element in the whole situation is that so few men and women realize the sad plight into which America has fallen. The reason for this is not far off. The country has lulled its conscience to sleep over the thought that the Negro is the victim and it does not matter so much. And thus indifferent the foundations of our Government are threatened. Now and then, however, there comes a strong note of warning. Recently Dean Kelly Miller of Howard University wrote a brief letter to the Evening Post (New York), on "The Disease of Lawlessness." This expression of Prof. Miller covers the case so clearly that we reproduce it in this connection. Mr. Miller writes, "Governor Blease, of South Carolina, has been condemned in every mood and tense for his phrase, 'To hell with the Constitution.' Yet the intrepid Governor is but an unabashed mouthpiece of a far-reaching and widespread sentiment. The nation does well, in a spasm of virtue evoked by this fiery utterance, to aver and avow its devotion to ordained law and order; but the vehement out break of the Carolinian is an eruptive symptom of a systemic evil. America is conceded to be the most lawless country of civilized pretensions on the face of the globe. The spirit of lawlessness vents itself in various forms. Political graft, bribery, corporate rapacity, municipal corruption, murder, riot, lynching, and mob violence are but outward symptoms of the inner spirit. It is not sufficient to hold up hands in horrified innocence, and appease the conscience by a casual denunciation of Gov. Blease. The Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments to the Constitution are over-ridden with impunity. There is not a fourteen-year-old male citizen in the United States who does not know this to be the case. If one part of this revered instrument can be set aside at pleasure, why not all of it? If there is to be any saving reverence for the Constitution, it must be for the Prof. William E. Burghardt Du Bois Editor of The Crisis Struck Out in his Oration at Orchestra Hall WEDNESDAY EVENING AT THE CELEBRATION OF THE FIFTIETH AN- NIVERSARY OF THE EMANCIPATION OF THE SLAVES. AT SENATOR BENJAMIN R. TILLMAN AND GOVERNOR COLE BLEASE THE TWO SOUTH CAROLINA ADVOCATES OF ANARCHY AND BLOODY REVOLUTION. HIS PLAIN AND STRONG TALK ON THE DEMOCRACY OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN- THE TRUE MEANING OF IT WAS ENTHUSIASTICALLY RECEIVED BY THE VAST AUDIENCE. AT ORCHESTRA HALL IN HONOR OF HIS ONE HUNDRED AND FOURTH BIRTHDAY WAS A HISTORY MAKING EPOCH IN THIS CITY. Abraham Lincoln has always been looked upon as one who in a peculiar way represented the mass of the American people. Perhaps this fact more than any other, single thing has saved the traditional American faith in democracy. When we have been tempted, as we so often have been, to lose faith in the effectiveness of any appeal to the popular vote—when we have sneered at the shifty politicians whose cars are ever to the ground listening intently for any far off rumble of the popular whim or will, or when in angry disquiet we have arisen the morning after election to find things all gone wrong—then we remember on days like this, that gaunt and simple man, scrawny and uncoath, and yet so strangely and compellingly human, who kept his ear to the ground and believed in the ultimate sanity of the American people. Where is it then, that we almost insensibly and yet instinctively draw the line between the demagogue and Abraham Lincoln? Our nation is today full of men—shrewd, far-seeing men—who are straining every nerve, using every means of prediction and measurement, to anticipate the popular demands of tomorrow. We not only do not hail them as great—rather we despise them as something less than small, and although the future may reverse our severe judgment in some cases, as it did the judgment of many wise men in the case of Lincoln, yet on the whole we are painfully certain and unwillingly certain that our judgments in the main are only too correct. The real righteousness in the case of Abraham Lincoln lay in his intense belief in the wisdom, the sanity and the good will of the masses of men. This is not today a wide spread belief. Publicly it is, of course, wise to profess it, and most of us do, but privately one hears and talks of the foolishness of the average run of men, their peculiar lack of brains, and their remarkable desire to do wrong and to be wrong. Here then is a distinct difference of opinion between the average man of the world today and Abraham Lincoln. The average man of the world today agrees perfectly with the ancient and modern demagogues, that people are fools to be wheeled. Now and then, however, we catch anxious glimpses of agreement with Lincoln. Those who go down to the sea in ships—who go down to the wrathing, struggling mass of men, not casually, but continuously, eternally—in school and settlement, in social brotherhood, come back to us with face ablaze and soul on fire. Come back as one who has stood face to face with the Almighty and met humanity in its simplest, truest self with all its sordid crucifixion. It is the widening and deepening of such experience which is today becoming the antidote for our loss of faith in democracy. We are continually learning that it is not the east side of New York or the West Side of Chicago that is solely or even mainly responsible for the worst failures of our civilization. Indeed, we have come No.20 From E. Burg- inois Editor of The Struck Out oration at Astra Hall CELEBRATION OF THE FIFTIETH AN- CIPIATION OF THE SLAVES. MAN AND GOVERNOR COLE BLEASE ADVOCATES OF ANARCHY AND IN THE DEMOCRACY OF ABRAHAM GING OF IT WAS ENTHUSIASTICALLY SCIENCE. OF HIS ONE HUNDRED AND FOURTH MAKING EPOCH IN THIS CITY. to see with Abraham Lincoln that the real problem of democratic government is strangely like the problems of former monarchy. Given the good and wise monarch the great problem of past ages was to get his ear, to let him know, to make him realize. Access to the throne was blocked by art and artifice, and nations blamed and killed kings when the kings' only sin was ignorance. Now, the courtiers and courtesans of democracy are even more numerous than those of monarchy, and Abraham Lincoln knew it. He was ever pushing and striving to get to the real people, whose reign is truly by the grace of God. The great life work of Abraham Lincoln was to clear a path to this throne,—to allow the people to know just what slavery meant, and what it did not mean. His legacy to you and to me was to keep that path open. To make democracy effective in America, by giving it a basis in the untrammelled expression of every sane soul which has reached years of responsibility. He said—and it was perhaps, his greatest, most comprehensive word—no man is good enough to rule his neighbor without his neighbor's consent. He was determined that this nation should be a free nation in the sense that every man, as a man, should have the right to sit in judgment on the acts of his fellow men. Now this implied then, and it implies now tremendous faith in the masses of men. Some have even affected to believe that it means that the people can do no wrong. Abraham Lincoln never believed this and never said it. To him and to all sane thinkers Democracy is not an end, it is a means. If you allow each man to sit in judgment on the acts of his fellows, then his fellows have laid on them the tremendous duty and responsibility of justifying their acts and intentions before the intelligence of every voter. If the voter is ignorant and vicious his judgment will be dangerous. If he is intelligent and decent his judgment will be worthy, but this is also true if appeal is made to one king or a few oligarchs, and Abraham Lincoln believed, and the world is steadily moving toward his belief, that the wider you make this appeal to men, the deeper you drive the foundations of civilization. The mass of men may and do go wrong, but they go wrong less seldom than any one man, or than any group of men selected by any possible method of choice. If we believe this, and as Americans and sharers in the priceless legacy left by this great and good man, we must believe it—then the practical question before us this day is: Are we walking in the path which Abraham Lincoln blazed? Are we determined that this nation shall not be an oligarchy, half slave and half free, but a democracy based on the franchises of all men—and all women, regardless of their wealth, or their race or the color of their grandfathers? I fear few Americans realize how far we have already strayed from the Dem- (Continued on page 2.) JULIUS F. TAYLOR, Editor and Publisher Entered as Second-Class Matter Aug. 19 1902, at the Post Office at Chicago, Illinois, under Act of March 3, 1879. THE DEMOCRACY OF LINCOLN. (Concluded from page 1.) ocracy of Abraham Lincoln, and how far the sins which they load on the back of popular government in America are in reality the sins of those who are determined to thwart any expression of the popular will. Some of us have seen the deep-seated disease of irresponsible oligarchy in the power of corporate wealth, and the ruthless manipulation of government by surewd and conscienceless men. But I want tonight to call attention to another wide spread flouting of democracy, which you are disposed to ignore because you think it merely a local and racial issue which can be settled without reference to the main problems of democratic government in America. If this were so, I would be silent and taking my place inside the segregated group work solely from within. But that this assumption is the wildest of wild dreams I want to prove to you by a few simple figures, in order that you may realize that what is often called simply a Negro problem is the same problem of American Democracy at which Abraham Lincoln worked, and which still fronts us, and will front us until we settle it right. We have just passed through a presidential election, and after long delay the official returns are in. I invite your attention to a few of these figures. In that election the State of Alabama and the State of Minnesota each having about the same population, each cast twelve electoral votes. But while it took 300,000 voters to cast these votes in Minnesota, it took only 100,000 to cast the same number in Alabama. Florida and Maine each had six electoral votes, but 50,000 Florida voters exercised exactly the same power as 130,000 voters in Maine. Again, Georgia and New Jersey each have fourteen electoral votes, but it took over 400,000 voters in New Jersey to equal 120,000 in Georgia. So, too, less than 80,000 voters in Louisiana cast the same number of electoral votes as 365,000 votes in Kansas, while 63,000 voters in Mississippi had as much power as 215,000 in Rhode Island and Oregon. But you are, of course, interested in your own state, and you will doubtless be pleased to know that whereas it requires in the state of Abraham Lincoln 1,150,000 voters to cast its electoral vote that it takes only 224,000 voters to wield exactly the same power in the state of Governor Blease and Mr. Tillman, the balliwick of Senator Hoke Smith, and the state of Florida together. Outside of any question of color, race or slavery this is a condition that no democracy can allow to go on and live. When eight states deliberately disfranchise so many of their White and Black citizens that an oligarchy of less than a million voters can wield the same power as nearly three million voters elsewhere in the country, the very foundations of democracy are in danger. When the Minnesota voter places one ballot in the box the Alabama voter places three. It takes seven New Jersey votes to balance two in Georgia, while in Louisiana two men can out vote nine in Kansas. Do you realize that you cannot appeal to the American people today? Do you realize that between you and the sovereign American democracy stands this entrenched oligarchy? Do you realize that one man in the former slave states has more political power than any three in Illinois, and is at the same time, through no fault of his own, and because of the slave system of his fathers, less competent by education and tradition to judge the greater human issues of the day! This rotten borough system is destroying the very vitals of American democracy. It is giving to the least prepared section of our country a power over social legislation which is simply overwhelming. And above all, it is making a true appeal to the American people in great questions of right and humanity difficult and often impossible. It is blocking popular education, encouraging the degradation of labor, and opening a field for corporate exploitation of human beings which with the opening of the Panama Canal will attract the capitalistic vultures of the world. Now is the time to stop it. Now is the time to use reason and law and appeal to the better part of men north and south to remove this menace to Abraham Lincoln's democracy. The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, in whose behalf I speak tonight, is the organization of American citizens without regard to race sex or section, which is trying to say to all Americans, "Now is the accepted time—here lies your bounden duty." THE UNITED STATES AND ITS LAWLESSNESS. document as a whole. If parts are to be ignored, in accordance with the demands of local or temporary situations, what becomes of its binding sanction? The excuse which Gov. Please pleads in extenuation of lawlessness is as old as crime. Men are ever prone to seek sacred sanction for human deviltry. That heinous crime should meet with condign punishment, is agreed to by all right-minded citizens. But experience shows conclusively that deviation from the law for one crime, however heinous, will lead to deviation for other offences, however trivial. Nor has it ever appeared that mob violence is a more effective deterrent to crime of any description than orderly enforcement of law. "Lawlessness is without question the greatest evil now gnawing at the vitals of the nation. The question is not political, or local, or radical, but is nation-wide. By calling this evil to the attention of the nation, Governor Blease may prove to be the negative cause of a positive cure. The offence must needs come, albeit the one through whom it cometh must suffer the odium of popular disesteem. But the national conscience, temporarily quickened by a frenzied outey, cannot allow itself to lapse into acquiescent composure while the fundamental law is defied; for if our Constitution can be so easily remanded 'to hell,' our whole social fabric must speedily go the same way."—Southwestern Christian Advocate. SOUTHERN WHITE GENTLEMEN AND MISJEGENATION. There appeared in the Indianapolis Star last Wednesday morning an editorial headed: "To Stop Misecenation," which we regard as the fairest and broadest treatment of the subject we have had occasion to notice in the columns of a white paper for some time. There was no inclination to shield any one or give the subject a veneering favorable to either race. In closing the editorial and commenting upon the fact that from the South, usually, comes the most vigorous protest against the inter-marriage of the white and black races the Star said: "It is a rather curious phenomenon, it may be remarked incidentally, that the most violent opponents of the marriage of whites and blacks are of the South, where legal unions of members of the two races never take place, but from which region comes an endless throng of the half-breeds who make so large a part of the Colored population everywhere. From which it may naturally and not improperly be inforced that the antipathy to miscegenation in itself is less deep and wide spread than the prejudice against mixed marriages." Thus are expressed the true facts in the matter and should voice the sentiments of all honest christian men and women. Without cavil or subterfuge the subject can not be regarded in any other light than the one the Star has seen fit to put it. The inconsistency of the wail of the Southern white man is apparent to the dumbest creatures on the earth. Who, if not they, are responsible for the teeming thousands of mulattoes that infest the land? They seem to be quite content to continue the infamy of their illicit relations with Negro women and bring forth into the world the issues of their unsanctioned lusts, yet are the first to set up a "squawk" against the relations of black men and white women, or vice versa, when the attempt is made by the individuals thus related to cloth their relations with the deceney of marriage. Why should not then all clean men and clean newspapers take the same view of the situation as that taken by the Star? Who are the white people of the South fooling by their constant and loudmouthed condemnation of the amalgamation of the two races? To whose doors may we trace the present horrible condition existing among the Negro race? Who is responsible for the destruction of their primitive race purity? Whose wealth maintains the magnificent castles of sin inhabited by Negro women and from which Negro men are barred in the Southland? These and many similar questions might be put to these self-appointed disciples of chastity living below the Mason and Dixon line. There is nothing in all the plains behind which the guilty, lustful whites men of the South may hide from the shame of his sins in infusing his blood, which he now claims to regard so highly, into the veins of a weak, defenseless people, the progeny of which he is the first to condemn for a manifestation of the traits and desires he, himself, is directly responsible for. What must be the feelings of the white women of the south when they are brought face to face daily with indisputable evidence of the perfidy of their fathers and are put to their wits ends to determine their own from "oura." These are some of the facts which are causing the respectable, Christian Whites of the North to take the ravings of the southern white man against the Negro, when the subject of miscegenation is discussed, with a grain of salt. It is writ in the Scriptures: "AS YOU SOW SHALL YOU REAP!"—The Ledger, Indianapolis, Ind., Feb. 8, 1913. Here are ten good commandments that are well worth committing to memory and carefully observing. They are especially commended to all believers in good citizenship and who are interested in doing the things that make our city a better, cleaner and more beautiful city to live in. These commandments were gotten up and issued by the Housing Committee of the Chicago Woman's Aid and the Department of Health is glad to be of aid in giving them the widest publicity. Here they are and they are well called: THE TEN COMMANDMENTS OF GOOD CITIZENSHIP. 1. THOU SHALT HONOR THY CITY AND KEEP IT LAWS. 2. REMEMBER THY CLEANING DAY AND KEEP IT WHOLLY. 3. THOU SHALT LOVE AND CHERISH THY CHILDREN AND PROVIDE FOR THEM DECENT HOMES AND PLAY GROUNDS. 4. THOU SHALT NOT KEEP THY WINDOWS CLOSED DAY OR NIGHT. 5. THOU SHALT IN ORDER THY ALLEY, THY BACK YARD, THY HALL AND STAIRWAY. 6. THOU SHALT NOT KILL THY CHILDREN'S BODIES WITH POISONOUS AIR, NOR THEIR SOULS WITH BAD COMPANIONS. 7. THOU SHALT NOT LET THE WICKED FLY LIVE. 8. THOU SHALT NOT STEAL THY CHILDREN'S RIGHT TO HAP-PINESS FROM THEM. 9. THOU SHALT BEAR WITNESS AGAINST THY NEIGHBOR'S RUBISH HEAP. 10. THOU SHALT COVET ALL THE AIR AND SUNLIGHT THOU CANST OBTAIN. All violations of the sanitary ordinances should be reported to the Department of Health, 7th floor, City Hall. There is a demand, rightfully raised, for clean, sanitary cells in which to confine our convicts. Why not then an equally insistent demand for sanitary surroundings for honest, law abiding citizens who toil in shop, stores and mill? Think this over. THE INSTITUTIONAL CHURCH. "That the Sunday Evening Club of the Dearborn Centre" is rapidly growing in popular favor was clearly demonstrated by the magnificent audience that gathered last Sabbath evening to listen to the eloquent address of Prof. Louis Gregory, L. L. B., of Washington, D. C. Every Sabbath evening this "Club" has been presenting earnest and forcible speakers of local and national reputation who have been delivering inspiring and instructive addresses from the rostrum of the Institutional Church. The address of Prof. Gregory, last Sabbath on "Emancipation" was one which all Chicago might have heard with profit. With the earnestness of an inspired seer and with the eloquence of the forceful orator, he spoke as one having a message and all who heard were moved. With the hand of a master he painted the picture of that coming day when all men everywhere shall be emancipated from the prejudices of race and the prejudices of religion as well as the paradoxical prejudices of patriotism and the ideals of the Christ shall be realized in human governments. Our Sunday morning services are equally interesting. Our minister, without having previously announced his scheme, is preaching a series of most helpful Sunday morning sermons on "Old Testament Symbols and New Testament Verities." Our music last Sabbath was rich and sweet. Mrs. Williams was soloist at the Morning Worship and Mrs. Opic Well, at the evening. Under the auspices of our several departments we are planning for inaugural exercises and an Inaugural banquet Tuesday, March 4th. Among the characters to be represented besides the President and his Cabinet are ex-Presidents Boosevelt and Taft, Register of the Treasury, J. C. Napier, Recorder of Dead, Henry Lincoln Johnson, U. S. Minister to Hayti, Hon. Mr. Furniss, Major Young, Asst. U. S. Attorney Lewis, et al. ```markdown ``` ONCE SOLD AS SLAVE; LEADER OF RACE; Richard Henry Boyd, D. D., L. L. D., a Negro of marked intelligence and rare culture, is among the many interesting men attending the Sunday school conference in Dayton. In 1859 Boyd was sold on the block in Louisiana for $700 as a "likely boy." Later he bought his freedom and today is head of the largest publishing house devoted to the interests of the Colored people in the world. Dr. Boyd is secretary of the Baptist (Colored) Publication Board, the mechanical interests of which are located in Nashville. Officially he represents two and a half million Colored people of the South. His son, Henry, who is also in Dayton assists in the publication direction. Dr. Boyd is a member of the Sunday School Council of Evangelical Churches. The World's Sunday School Association Executive Committee in session here represents 288,000 Sunday schools in 125 countries of the world and 30,000,000 members. HEADQUARTERS OF THE NATIONAL COLORED DEMOCRATIC LEAGUE, 1022 You Street, Washington, D. C. February 11, 1913. A Call for a Meeting of the National Colored Democratic League. A meeting of the National Colored Democratic League will be held March 5, 1913, at the Y. M. C. A. Building, 1816 12th street, N. W., Washington, D. C. The meeting will begin at 10 o'clock A. M. All Colored Democratic organizations are requested to send delegates. Each organization having ten or more members is entitled to one delegate, and one additional delegate for each fifty members above ten, provided no organization shall have more than five delegates. A number of prominent leaders of the Democratic party have been invited, and will make short addresses. Annual Dues. All organizations will be expected to send their annual dues, two ($2.00) on or before March 5, 1913. ALEXANDER WALTERS, President. CHAS. D. BARNES, Secretary. OMAPLAIN T. G. STEWARD. Will address the N. F. League at Quinn Chapel, 24th and Wabash, Sunday, Feb. 16th at 3 P. M. The Emanuel-pation Chorus will sing. The public are cordially invited to attend. I. B. W. Barnett, President. ON TO WASHINGTON, D. C. All persons desiring to get to Washington during the inaugural period may get information as to places to stop, rates, etc., by writing to the sub-committee on Public Comfort, 1816 12th street, N. W., Washington, D. C. Springfield, IL, Feb. 13.—A "Jim Crow' bill has been introduced in the Illinois Senate by Senator F. C. Campbell of Xenin. The measure is the first of its kind ever before the Legislature and was introduced on Lincoln's birthday anniversary. The measure directs that railroads must provide separate coaches and Pullman cars for White and Negro passengers on all regular trains and that the conductors must keep the passengers in their respective cars. Senator Campbell says the affairs of Jack Johnson led him to draw the bill. Senator Campbell, who is simply seeking a little free advertising has no more chance of getting his Jim Crow car bill through the Legislature of Illinois, than a clawless cat has in purgatory.-Editor. AURORA NOTES Mr. Charles Hall of Oregon, Ill. attended the celebration at the A. M. E. Church, Feb. 13. Messrs. Armstrong and Burke of Batavia attended the celebration, but the Blue Points, with Green Peppers in cases ended their menu. Curfue Bell called them in at ten thirty. Mdme Pearl Blake, spent several days in Chicago last week. Mrs. Celia Parker Woolly, of Douglass Center spoke to the Woman's club—the Y. M. C. A. on Inter-Marriage. Mrs. Woolly's lecture was enjoyed by every one and the true light was brought on condition of affairs. P. S.—Mrs. Woolly's lecture will appear in the next issue of The Broad Ax. A. D. Hayes Continues to Sell a Large Number of Copies of The Broad Ax Each Week. A. D. Hayes, 3640 S. State street is one of the most husteling and enterprising news agent on the entire length of that street. He handles all of the leading newspapers and magazines, published in the interest of the Afro-American race in the various parts of the country. Each week Mr. Hayes sells many copies of The Broad Ax, and he states that it is one of his best and leading sellers. CHIPS George W. Holt, 3004 S. State street, returned home Saturday morning, from a short business trip to St. Louis, Mo. Joseph Hart, 67 E. 36th street is again recovering his health, after a long siege of sickness. Mrs. Robert Hurd, 5255 Dearborn street, has gone on a two weeks visit, with friends at Springfield, Ill. Miss Essie Arnold, 3630 Calumet avenue, is still confined to her home through illness. She expects to be able to be out again the coming week. Mine Host, David McGowan, of the Keystone Hotel, 3022 State street, continues, to make many important improvements around the hotel, which is doing a flourishing business. Mrs. Anna Hayman, 67 E. 36th street who has been on a visit to New Orleans, La., will return home next week, accompanied by her sister, Mrs. Grace Hart-Brown of that city. Mrs. Elizabeth McDonald, 6130 Ada street, returned home the latter part of last week from Clinton, Iowa, where she had been the guest for three or four weeks of Rev. and Mrs. George W. Slater. Miss Lucy Lindsay, has gave up her nine room home at 4110 Calumet avenue and for some time in the future, she will reside at the home of Mr. and Mrs. David McGowan, 4809 Langley avenue. Mr. Noah D. Thompson, 5420 Long Beach avenue, Los Angeles, Cal., is still engaged in the grocery business in that city, and a line from him states that: Mrs. Thompson, has regained her health and that they are getting along nicely. This evening, the members of the Appomattox Club, will give a Stag, and each member thereof will have the right to invite one friend. J. T. Morton, David McGowan, A. A. Wells, Prof. William Emanuel and Charles S. Washington; entertaining committee, will have charge of the affair. On next Thursday evening, February 20th, beginning at nine o'clock, a Martha Washington Party will be held in the parlors of the Appomattox Club, 3441 Wabash avenue. Members desiring to invite guests, are requested to call at the club house and secure their cards. HOLSEY ON ADVERTISING Some Essential Elements In Successfully Conducting Ad. Agencies. "Many are called, but few are wanted." Many ambitious, well meaning colored men have felt the call to enter the advertising agency business, says Albon Lewis Holsey, but few have been able to "stick," and if I were asked to give the reasons for this contention they would be stated in part as follows: Colored advertisers do not conduct national publicity campaigns in the real broad sense of the word. Therefore they do not have occasion to show their "race loyalty" by placing their business through the colored agent. To be sure, there are many colored enterprises whose annual business goes into the thousands and who should conduct such campaigns, but as a rule they are local advertisers, because their business has been built up in some locality through years of patient toll and energy of perhaps one person who depends entirely on local trade. Again, advertising agents lack capital. To establish an agency requires sufficient backing to carry the business at least two years under present conditions. Postage, stenographic help, etc., make rapid inroads on a small bank account, but these helps are essential to the establishment of such a business. The publisher must have confidence in the new concern, and the advertiser who is responsible will not trust his advertising business to any concern unless reasonably sure that it will make a judicious investment of his money. To obtain this confidence necessitates a great deal of advertising. Furthermore, the white advertiser knows and appreciates the value of the service offered him through the advertising agent, and his demands for better qualified workers in this field and the natural growth of his business have opened the way for thousands of white agencies to handle their enormous business. Thus none of the business from white concerns is left to the colored agent with his limited experience and resources. NEW DIRECTORS ARE ELECTED National Association Fills Vacancies on Board at Annual Meeting. At the annual meeting of the National Association For the Advancement of Colored People, held in the banking room of the Evening Post building, in New York, Tuesday, Jan. 21, Charles H. Studin, Mrs. Max Morgenthau, Jr., and Wilson M. Powell, Jr. were elected to the board of directors for the term expiring in 1916. The Rev. Hutchins C. Bishop was elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Mrs. F. R. Keyser, whose term would have expired in 1914. Dr. V. Morton-Jones was elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Mrs. M. D. Maclean, whose term would have expired in 1914. The following were also elected for terms expiring in 1916: George W. Crawford, New Haven; Thomas Ewing, Jr., New York; Paul Kennaday, New York; Joseph P. Loud, Boston; Dr. William A. Sinclair, Philadelphia; Miss Lillian D. Wald, New York, and Rev. G. R. Waller, Baltimore. SHOULD PRACTICE THE GOLDEN RULE AT HOME. Example of Puritans Exemplified in Afro-Americans Who Go Abroad. The following letter, the writer of which signs the initials E. H., recently appeared in the Philadelphia Press: Sir-I read in the columns of a Philadelphia evening paper of the 5th a note of warning from an unknown source, pointing out the danger in England's tolerance of the colored man in the British tales. Assuming the author of the letter to be an American citizen and that his sentiments are already too widely indorsed, I feel justified in submitting the fact that if this nation's moral ideals were higher and its common sense kept pace with its material development none of its people would have cause to go elsewhere in search of life, liberty and happiness. History repeats itself. Human nature is always and everywhere the same. Therefore why discourage them in seeking relief from oppression when they are but following the examples set by the pilgrims, Puritans and Huguenots, who sought relief in this country from religious and political persecution? The class of colored people who go abroad are of a higher order of intelligence than the hordes of emigrants who flock here, and yet no note of warning is sounded against their coming. I think that all the world, America excepted, realizes the fact that the colored people have, on the whole, a creditable idea of moral responsibility and are, of all races, the least to be feared. President Boyd Makes Clear Report. The address of Dr. R. H. Boyd, president of the One Cent Savings bank in Nashville, Tenn., at the annual meeting of the stockholders recently held was a well defined and exhaustive statement of the progress and internal workings of the institution. The bank was organized Jan. 16, 1904. It started business with a capital of $1,600 paid in by sixteen persons. The reports at the meeting showed a clearance of $832,000 for the past year, which is an increase of $45,000 over the previous year. | andrew D. . bes, NB eriminobgy. Se 23-9 oa | Glovaant ‘ 1G fician, the other tor bis own’ wedding. ee A. G. Haight a to visit every ‘the td States. He " | sir John Sires scoaks, an Alvey Augustus bot secretary of state, who recently jebrated his seventieth birthday, fies been in the government service ince 187, = [= tron el 1 at Rio Janeiro, who prosecuted = rubber detect eect feen sppotated consul. general ‘toa pumber of other states in Brazil. | Charles D. Sigsbee, son of Rear Ad- miral Bigsbee (retired), commander of the ill fated battleship Meing, works eight hours 2 day in the power plant the Carita BE Fad De gineering. He is twenty-two, thorough- iy self made, ‘and bis knowledge of chemistry, mecessary in hia work, has pean, lareely someiced oot OE cae, | College and School. | stinnescta’s public Setool bin for j1912 was $15,981,085. | More than four-fifths of the elemen- ttary schoolteachers in Prussia are men. | A chair tn social hygiene bas been Lrattished! kat the" Wateeoetty at ane pi coer An editorial council to have super dents and faculty ie under PonaticieGcs tse Uaneeriec os wr he wwencend bw gal gaia Si paiverstty ie probably ules fn thet i ‘Dot intended to prepare women for practice of nw, but to give them mie Ses hors as oe Pert Personal | Forty thousand dollars to play base- jball! Geewihillixins, what a Chance! plow Sock Anyeiran. Roalé Amundsen is curious to know ‘whether there are not two north poles. paper subtest Beck to Monarch”—hesdiine. Probebiy ove of the seisera—Colembia William has lost his voice, and John D. loot ie bats lang agn, bot you Deve of & Rockefeller losing any mon- ey—St Louis Republic. | While the country is thinking up nice things to do for Colonel Goethala the wyraeenineakege the country by giving out the cor- rect pronunciation of his name—Den- ver Times. The Royal Box. ’ King Victor Emmanuel of Italy is the only monarch in the world who has the right to vote. | As youth Ferdinand of Bulgaria was not very robust. His face was pale, and his nerves would twitch of Poets own accord. ‘When be entered ‘Austrian army ft was as 0 lieu- kenant in the Eleventh hossars, but he was never at ease in the saddle and ‘exchanged into the infantry. | Princes Gustavus of Denmark, re- fare as = crene-osnbenter. so, tho nione Ateessparsanes: ne Ss ichild of the late king of Denmark and a brother of the reigning king. King George of Greece ts hie sacle and the been bora in 1887. | Sporting Notes. | Keene Pitspatrick, the varsity train- ks. and Wittiam J. Clarke, the baseball coach, have both signed contracts Tometa at Prineetou. | Frank Chance, the new. manager of the American league team in New 'York, wants the name Yankees drop- Pat. He wil cat te otis ithe Ses | In twenty-three. Oro lat uty tar pal ete Be bes ‘been beaten several times in tourna- oents, but bas been alinost invincible ‘tm matches. | —— pa aera cam Slat aE BE ng less and making tt less expensive fe aoe eee ton Journal. Le ne ee een ae Preparing Suction il tear RSOaa ae t the Congressional Record: he will [and that. most of it.tias. been exit. ber tore—Washingtoo Star. : Timely Tips. — ir a | Now ts the time to.come out. for ane Foarth of July Jacksonville |Times-Union. 3 = “0 or co ae is tbe form of te 4 of danger. nnd Lex ae The law of ea sn, et the Job This” FS. byt there will oie eS by = rill come. ip June, <gnoneee eae —— palior has shen tet land Plain # at Oe oe a Der 368 ‘On the walk, fee ka ones = ‘And then walk back! ae bulls . ‘ a "ures ne hast, SES sare In the evening. ‘Bad to state, (© you winter! —— Summer time! All For @ Dollar Fee, “You ere soon to be married to the ‘Mign 70% love,” said the tartune tale. he a biond?” inquired Miss Calen- late. “Yeu” “Is his name Henry?” “Yes.” “Does bis father own an automoe- bile?” “Yes” “Will Henry give me a ring with a turquoise and two diamonds?” “Yes.” “Are we going to Burope on our wed- ding trip?” “Yes.” ‘Miss Calculate turned to a friend. “Isn't it wonderful?” she sald—Bx- change. ps oe Now. Castor lived six months and died, And Pollux came to Iife and cried. ‘Then Pollux lived stx months and croaked; ‘With grief Castor choked. Lite atx month labor conned to vex And Castor handed in his checks, ‘While Pollux evened up the score Pep ies pve oe sbuffled off his Steet ears Came back agato on. ‘Thom twine kept op tte secaew Ching ‘And set them in the starry vault A loat they rove to steer fame Soiree sacee ‘They help, 2a An Ambiguous Title. “That's a swell umbrella you carry.” ‘iso's #7" “Did you come by it honestly?” "I baven't quite figured out It atart- ed to rain the other day, and I stepped into a doorway to wait till it stopped. Then I saw a young fellow coming along with a nice large umbrella, and I thonght if be was going as far ag my house I would beg the shelter of his umbershoot So I stepped out and esked, ‘Where are you going with that umbrella, young fellow? and be drop- ped the umbrella and ran.”—Houston Post: ere . ‘Thery’s some folks that I just can’t stand (ua Trouble and Ott Hard Lock they butt Soioe at ‘They worry you and pester you and act ‘almighty strong, But I notice Mr. Money never makes his ‘alls too long. ‘The folks that you Gon't wast to see fust stick eromnd and chat ‘They Dover even take the hint when you ‘eay, “Hare's your bat.” 04 Castor Off and Smallpox always stay ‘2 month oF #0, But you never have to tall olf Mr. Money ‘when to 50. Cincinnati Roguirer. His Choice of Charity. Frank Morrison, secretary of the American Federation of Labor, was ao ris all very well,” he said, “Dut some of the latter day, scientific scenes? concn os Sane shest of the skinflint milliooaire whose only charity was foreign mis- sions. ‘You see,’ the man explained, I choose foreign missions because I want to make my money. go.4p far 48 pos sible’ "—Washington Post. ‘To Statesmen. (No man who thinks he has a job “Almoat within bis reach ‘WI work long for A seostor ‘Who mails im but s speech. No man who thinks e consulship Just fitted to his needs ahaa terete, 2 ame How It Happened, a ts os ee wee sed ance OOS nn “Produce your fact.” “Did mot the first apple destroy the happiness of the fret pair?” ee, | wam't very es . See =. gute ball of Be be opt | Sere 4 a < ‘Boston Herald. AS Fagot” Be 2 nobre felaw, tery inch a soldier, Pidae Grueme—Ea: wh toe bout thet!-Ti-Bita. toads S“Doetor, isn't your bill rather fifghT” “You most rewember, wir, that you igh fever.” PS Ts mt mr ent ‘was very jow.” aa “Ab, yes, of course But, you see. my charges are based not upon the state of the patieut, but upon the char ‘acter of the diseuse"—Boston Tras- roe Siared cot tow much ting at eet: ‘Then he said: “Hully chee, Sa pee Chicago Post. “Let me sell you this encyclopedia.” “Nope; no use to me. My son is com- ing home from college pretty soon, an’ he'll know everything that’s in it"— Cleveland Plain Dealer. ——___—__ ‘Although suggestions they may boldly We still rejoice, for none will daze to. Pee ts fe eee eas | <—Desver Rawheee, “I tell you, Binks,” said the million- aire, with great gusto, “talk about your fun! There's none to equal that of earning 2 million. doliar by dollar.” “By ginger.” said little Binks, “what & lot of fun there is ahead of me”— Harper's Weekly. Greamer of dreams woke As ey oyoy inet he uae oe. ‘de could not pay cGalumet ows. Jim—What's the matter, old man? Tim—I've got two bolls on the back of my neck Jim—Well. brace up. Remember poor old Job. ‘Tim—Yes, but Job didn’t earn his ty ing the eame as J do. Jim—What's your line? ‘Tim— Decorating cellings—New York Press. scarat Nie * Yod'oronghe i home to Hetty, bat ‘xia cee Student In Ptiysics—Conld you get a shock by holding on to the receiver of @ telephone? . Professor—It depends upon who is ‘talking. —Judge. “Her eyes fashed fre.” ‘This from a book, And next, “She frose ‘Him with @ look” “ —Detrolt Free Press. : “Whe Cropped her eyes,” ‘The author wrote. ‘Yet they were not (Of glass, we note “Denver Republican, stares on = os . —New Haven Register. “Bbe Gropped her voice, ‘She was so stirred"— ‘Then we read on— “And broke her word.” ‘Houston Post. ‘Teacher— Why. Jimmy. Jimmy! Have you forget sour peucils again? What ‘Would you think of x soldier going to ar iboot eu! ESE ie be was an oftene— “Record 2 ‘are not worth a Jigger. figures do oot often Ue, | Bome ars often Ggure —Cincinnat! Enquirer. “Sow the waltz is going ont with urant orchestras.” T'm porry. 1 hate changes. 1 bad get yee to chewing my food in watts Louisville Courier-Journal. Lady, caicimine your beak. Demo your Jampe and cont ‘am Gown, ESTE Sen Gof dotied yp in that revealing Gesigned for summer's seasoo— You arok votes rom men untesling, “Ghat you must appeal to reason Chicago News “Can you. give me an example of the umproductive speoding of wealth?” ‘“Bure—a guy taking bis own siter to a show.”—Exchange | Taowsh stn | = “Seton Asem | “Wouldn't it be Gne to live in clover?” “rah, you'd al ‘Mary had & little “Gough.” ‘But did not have enough | ‘To buy a fexther bos, and sos | ‘Her beau -beanght ber a mough | Jaden | . “L_bope you won't encourage young’ Swift tn his attentions 1 fear he ls too easy going” “Ob, father, be isn't easy going at! all. I yawned a doven times last night Defore be took the bint."—Exchange. Perens we have loved end been : ‘Tuan to beve caveed your frends to say ‘They never fully understood : ES s Pecceame «ext to oa aS a tac “That actress tomes ber roses at the audience in a spitefubway® 2. =>. “Yes; there's some animus there pis ant dome sons eA ob cee Serre maaan aoa | Wy eee ree # Lqstet Marte to:marep ma) = Current Comment, — ab claims perfumery ts nol a Rede aeaftr e ee oes York American. = ; ‘The people of the Netherlands lead the world in coffee @rinking Who tow will dare to say that coffee makes Eyre Derronst—Chicage ‘Recoré-fler ‘The losses to ocean shipping Inst year, the worst “since marine insur ance began nearly two and a half cen- turies ago,” throw an ironical light on “man's dominion of the sea.” —New York World. It the postoffice department deals skilifully with the stamp collectors it may be able to recoup the loss due to the printing error in the Panama stamps. A few of those condemned stamps would bring a high price—New York Tribune. Short Stories. ‘The average Protestant church mem- bership in the United States is 104, ‘and the average church seating ca- Pacity ts 817. According to geological survey esti- Mates, only about one-balf of 1 per ‘cent of the avalable coal in the United States has been mined. ‘The banknote washing machine which has been in operation at Wash- ington for a short time has @ capacity ‘of 80,000 to 35.000 pieces in an an eight bour day. As a Gisease appendicitis tecame known about thirty years ago. Since that time it is estimated that fully 200,000 people in this couptry have un- dergone surgical operations as a cure. Town Topics. ‘The Chicago board of health bes started a campaign for clean air in the theaters. If it wants to Go some thing worth while, why not tackle the Stockyards?—Cieveland Leader. ‘The $3,000 that Cleveland hes made out of its municipal dance ball, which 4s property conducted, in the frst year of its operation, is the least part of the advantage gained —Boston Globe. A western sightseer was found wan- dering about the streets of New York ‘with $10,000 in his clothes. The won- der is not that be lost his bearings, but ‘that his cash was not discovered be- fore.—Baltimore American. English Etchings. ‘Many London women now boldly wmoke in public. An evening school for boy scouts bas Teeently been established in the city of Leeds, England. ‘The death rate of Londoners be tween the ages of forty-five and sixty- Srp bao been. taprenstng greatly of ‘The upper deck of his majesty's steamahip Iron Duke, the new British battleship of the Dreadnought type which will be ready for commission by January, 1914, is to be specially armored against airship attack. Tales of Cities. | Chicago announces that it proposes ‘to have “the finest hotel” in the Unites States. It is to cost $8,000,000. In Baden, Germany, there is much growling because the increasing price Gf foods has raised the cost of living So meetty © Getter © day toe a tamity of In the last few years Moscow has been tnereasing in population more rapidly than at any time in a century, and if the present rate be continued it will bave more than 2,000,000 residents tm 1918, The Parcel Post. ‘The government may de willing to ship bricks by parce! post, but doubt- leas it will draw the line at gold bricks. “Chicago Record-Heraid. Somme of the college students have Degui sefiding their laundry bome by Dareel post. It's cheaper to pay post- age then the Chinaman.—Boston Globe. ‘Bomié’ people have such s funny idea of humor that they will pay parcel Postage On a paving block and think the joke is on Uncle Sam—Washing- ton Post. IOS cane ee Eee To Rent —2424-26 Seminary Ave. 3 and 4 room fists 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 2488. FOUR FLAT BRIOK BUILDING FOR SALE AT A BARGAIN. Tor building, tpt SEL a seme oot asar 36th Street. Rent $60 per month. A pee ce en aS YOR RENT. — "or Bent, 4431-83 South Beats Street, om a wae BEATS & “hava. oe a ions 77 Cp ae eee ge OL a eee AR eee = sy ————— | $ ms Peete? eee i ep 5 -/ — Ge Ss > XT te! oe WRT | = ¥iCtOor-V iC Ola iV | eee ris 4 pm ee a ie 2 ~] YOu never thought\™ ee gee /of getting a genuineN ete == =/ Victor-Victrola_ for \: ee ! Sy $is—yet here it is, ee og And it is of the same] high - quality and perfection a whith characterizes all the ge: 7 prodiicts of the Victor Company. | > Come in ‘and héar it—any time. : Other styles $25 to $200,* Victors $10 to $100, y 3159 &. State Street : : Chicago . | Miles J. Devine Attorney at Law sae ‘Phenen Offes, Main 4153 Res. Dresal, 7990 Auta. 33-756 WALTER M. FARMER ATTORNEY AT LAW ‘Suite 706, 184 Washington St. etary Public «© CHICAGO, ILL. Ofies Phone: Central 6624 Ran Phone, Dow, 4397. Ma, $908 Hast 36th Street J. GRAY LUCAS Attorney at Law Butte 405, 145 Clack (Cor. Randalph 84 Franklin A. Denison Attorney at Law 30 W. RANDOLPH STREET A. D. GASH { ATTORNEYEZAT LAW 1 18 North La Salle St. Chicago TSutee 615 te 616 Telephone Main 3077 eee a iss Riess Acasaaus 4 t08 Res, Phone Automatic 78-137 W. G. ANDERSON ATTORNEY-AT-LAW a Suite 5, Methodist Charch Bleck eee dence M42 Pras Ares Ce es a 7 as 30 Bath Rovms First Class Accommodation for ‘Single or Marsied People HOTEL PULLMAN COLORED HOTEL IN AMERICA HOTEL IN AMERICA ‘Steam Heat and Bath Everything New and-Up-to-date tocar Renn 3639-41-43 So. State St. CHICAGO J. A. JONES, Proprietor BROAD 4X GAN BE ON SALE AY Tum FOLLOWING MEWS STANDS: From on and after this date The Broad Ax, can be found on sale at the [following news stands: A. P. Tervalon, cigar store and news stand, 5004 State street. George I. Martin, maker of fine cig- ‘nd news stand, 18 W. Sist St, near State. B, M. Harvey's barber shop and news stand, 3924 State street.~ ‘Mra, Nellie Phelps, cigars, notions fand news stand, 15 W. Slst St, near W. 8. Cole, cigars, tobscco and news stand, 34 W. ist St, near Dearborn. T. B. Hall, Isundry office and news stand, 11 W. 29th St, near State. B. Davis, cigars, tobaceo and news stand, 3532 State St. W. M, Maxwell, notions, cigars, to- ‘bacco, confections and nows stand, 5244 State St. Edward Felix, notions, cigars and news stand, 52 W. 30th St. P. Bishop, cigars, tobacco and news stand, 8 W. 27th St, near State. _ Sylvester MeGloffin, news stand and laundry office, 4122 State St. William Gaughan, laundry office, cigars, tobaceo’ 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 &. State St. J. H. Roberts, barber shop and news stand, 3308% 8. State St. Abram Aplin, cigars, tobacco, gents furnishings and news stand, 4730 S. State St. A. H. Harris, cigars, tobseco and news stand, 2825 S. State St. White & Bell, toilet articles, cigars, tobsece and news stand, 2942 S. State St. Fred M. Waterfield, cigars, tobacco and news stand. 1343 W. Glst street, pear Ada. THE AMERICAN LIFE INSURANCE =~) COMPANY OF ILLINOIS. Old Line Legal Reserve Co. ap some ahomey fve cents to ten thoumad a Saeobio te Write and Callect Your Busteess Zea The American Life Insurance Co., of Ilinels, ‘Tal. Randeigh 5. 72 West Adame Street Telephones, CALUMET, 4401-4428 Artesian Pharmacy 4. 3. DORSEY, Draggist 2701 Dearborn] St. CHICAGO es Berea’ tas tamed: ws On eee ee eee carefully compounded. Phone your ORDERS ae (Geome by Bay oe Wook ‘Room 85-88—6e0 T™ Douglas Hotel —— Fer Men Qnty —— ‘Bathe, Steam Heat, Klestrie Light SAE A Rete Brees, (cmCAGO TELEPHONES Onkiand 1609 Res. Oskiand 1760: Auto. 79156 HENRY C. BOMAR & FINE{FURNITURE AND PIANO ‘MOVERS, ‘PACKERS AND SHIPPERS ‘3 Teipe'Daily to All:Depots DEARTH IN PLAYHOUSES. Amusement Companies Show Lack of Efficiency in Management Oklahoma City, Okla.—That the theatrical profession among the colored performers of the southwest is sadly in need of proper leadership and the individual players almost discouraged has been recognized by every one conversant with the show business in this territory recently. In this city a theater where colored players perform was closed all during the past holidays because it could not get actors. At the same time there were in this city, Dallas and Fort Worth, Tex., and in Kansas City and other show centers an abundance of actors who had played in these different towns, but whose plays would be new in other towns. In this section a team or a troupe stays at a house from two to three months, not because it is popular or house packers, but most of the time because it has nowhere else to go. Such conditions as these, however, are to be remedied, if present plans HARRISON M. GILLIEAN. for a circuit covering this territory are carried through. That a circuit movement is on foot was made known here when a representative of the Chisolm news service visited here a few weeks ago and made a careful investigation of the local conditions. Previously the other larger towns in this state and Texas had been visited and first hand information obtained. The proposed circuit is to include this city, Muskogee and McAlester, all in Oklahoma; Dallas, Fort Worth, Waco, Austin, San Antonio, Houston, Galveston, Palestine, Smithville, Marshall, Greenville and Denison, in Texas, with Texarkana and Shreveport, Ark., as the other towns. The foundation of the plan really rests on the co-operation of the Negro press, and the plans call for liberal use of advertising space in the papers, supplemented by a theatrical press service. H. M. Gillilean, brother of Dr. B. B. Gillilean, is to have charge of the press bureau. If the plan goes through and the interests behind it are hustlers, in all probability several new houses will be established in the territory served. No Truth In Rumor They May Be Disbanded, Says War Secretary. Professor Burt G. Wilder of Cornell university, Ithaca, N. Y., sent the following letter to the presiding officer at the emancipation proclamation celebration held in Washington recently: "Dear Sir—Referring to the recent reports that one of the topics to be discussed at the conference of the general officers of the army was the proposal to disband colored regiments, I submitted to the secretary of war some facts adverse to such proposal and offered to appear personally, if necessary, for the same purpose. "The secretary of war informs me that 'there is no truth whatever in the rumor; that the four Negro regiments have been established by law and could not,' he believes, 'be eliminated except by the action of congress.'" "A previous engagement prevents my attendance at the meeting. The matter above referred to might naturally be mentioned, and it is well that there should be no misapprehension." DR. S. N. VASS' LECTURE TOUR. Superintendent D. A. Scott Announces Itinerary of Nota Dibilinist Upon the completion of a course of lectures at Benedict college, Columbia, S. C., the last week in January, the Rev. Dr. S. N. Vass, the well known Bible instructor, will make a tour of Texas under the auspices of the executive board of the state Sunday school convention, accompanied by Dr. D. A. Scott, general superintendent of Sunday school missions. The schedule of places and dates for Dr. Vass' lectures is as follows: Mount Olive Baptist church, Gainesville, Rev. B. J. Brown, pastor, Feb. 3-9; Mount Gilead Baptist church, Fort Worth, Dr. L. K. Williams, pastor, Feb. 10-16; St. Paul's Baptist church, Paris, Dr. C. N. Hampton, pastor, Feb. 17-23; Bethlehem Baptist church, Tyler, Dr. A. A. Gordon, pastor, Feb. 25-March 2; Bethlehem Baptist church, Terrell, Dr. A. L. Boone, pastor, March 8-9; Baptist church, El Paso, Dr. H. B. Wilson, pastor, March 16-23. Rare Paintings to Go on Exhibition Much interest is being manifested in art circles in New York over the prospect of viewing some of the rare paintings of Henry O. Tanner, the renowned artist, which Mr. Tanner will put on exhibition in New York in February. CAREER OF HEAD WORKER AT SHAW CAREER OF HEAD WORKER AT SHAW LEADER AMONG YOUNG MEN Graduate of Agricultural and Mechanical College Shows Fine Example of Courage and Persistence Despite Close Competition In Chosen Profession—Enjoya Wide Acquaintance. By GEORGE F. KING. Raleigh, N. C.—One of the leading architects in the race and a fitting example of the kind of men produced by the Agricultural and Mechanical College For the Colored Race at Greensboro, N. C., of which Dr. James B. Dudley, the well known educator, is president, is Professor G. E. Edwards, head of the industrial department of Shaw university. He is also a most successful business man. Professor Edwards is one of the leaders of that class of young men that are making the best of their opportunities and by their ability are gaining the recognition and support of the better element of the southern white people in their work. Despite the competition of experienced architects in this section and other parts of the country, Professor Edwards' design for the beautiful $40,000 hospital, known as Leonard hospital, Shaw university, was accepted, and this hospital, which was recently completed, was built under his direction. It is the pride of the graduates of the medical and pharmaceutical departments of Shaw university. Because of the peculiar character of the architecture of the hospital it is one of the most complicated buildings he has had to design. Its heating apparatus, ventilation, silent signal system for calling the nurses and the fine sanitary arrangements throughout the A. H. PROFESSOR G. E. EDWARDS. building and every detail of a modern hospital conducive to the speedy recovery of the patients place this hospital among the best in the country. Morehouse hall, one of the best buildings for its purposes in the eastern section of this state, at Waters institute, Winton, N. C., is among the many beautiful structures designed by the quiet but progressive Professor Edwards. All kinds of fine buildings for both races have been designed and constructed by him, and he recently designed a building, in course of construction at Lumberton, N. C., which will add much to the civic pride of the town. But the pride of Raleigh among mercantile activities of the race is the Capeheart-Edwards building, which is a "native ideal" for the race. It is one of the best modern two story brick buildings to be found in the state. It is known as the "Negro business corner," and in it will be found the Raleigh Drug company, a sanitary barber shop, with all the appurtenances necessary for a modern shop; a well stocked grocery store, one of the neatest cafes in the city, and on the third floor there is a well kept hall, where the elite society people hold their entertainments. Professor Edwards designed a roof garden for this building, which is the only one of its kind for Afro-Americans in the state. It is well lighted and affords the better element of the race in the city and those visiting here a place for recreation during the warm weather. Being part owner of this building, he has given the race a stimulus. He is part owner in a $25,000 building which he designed and built. In fact, he is a substantial factor in every movement for the material ascendancy of the Negro in this section and other parts of the state. Another evidence of the appreciation of the strong character and sterling worth of the graduates of the A. and M. college at Greensboro is the recent appointment by the city council in Raleigh of Professor Edwards as a member of the board of trustees of the new Afro-American cemetery and the appointment by the governor as one of the representatives from the state at the national Negro educational convention that met at St. Paul, Minn., last summer. BROOKLYN MUSEUM GENERAL BANKING 3 per cent allowed Safety Deposit Vault REAL ESTATE As agent buy and sell Real Estate on c dents, including payment of taxes and l on Chicago Real Estate. Especially Invites the patr The- Cranfor Building. The finest building ever open Steam heat, electric light, tile ba cent allowed on Savings Acc Deposit Vaults, $3.00 per REAL ESTATE DEPARTMENT and sell Real Estate on commission, manages estat payment of taxes and locking after assessments Estate. Specially Invites the patronage of Chicago business. Cranford Apartment Building. 3600 Wabash Ave. building ever opened to Colored tenant electric light, 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 locking after assessments. Money to loan on Chicago Real Estate. Especially Invites the patronage of Chicago business men. ```markdown ``` 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 STREET. DAMES AND DAUGHTERS. Mrs. Betay Holmes, age sixty-four, has just taken up a homestead near Fort Lupton, Colo. Mrs. Thelia M. de Beer of Pretoria, South Africa, who is seventy-eight, has just become a widow for the tenth time. One of the regularly enrolled students at the University of Wisconsin is Mrs. Amy Winship, aged eighty-three. She is known as "the oldest junior in the world." Mrs. Edgar James of Florence, Ala., was the designer of the seals of the United Daughters of the Confederacy, but died the general convention in 1910 indorsing and commending them. Mrs. Ella Flagg Young, superintendent of Chicago's public schools, solves the question of teaching social hygiene in the schools by recommending that classes for parents be formed and that the teaching of this subject be done in the family. Miss Ruth Greathouse is the government oyster inspector and is connected with the bacteriological division of the bureau of chemistry, under which comes the inspection of oysters and shellfish. When she goes out on her visits of inspection she carries a laboratory with her. Easier to Catch. "As the years go by women are growing more and more tired of being pursued by the men." "As the years go by they make their skirts tighter and tighter."—Houston Post. Net She. A youth who was named Somerset A fair malen's love sighed to get. "For thee, dear, I yearn!" He cried. "Won't you turn Your name into mine, my sweet pet?" To this youth who was Somerset named The mald said, and she couldn't be blamed, "You may yearn and may yearn, But I'll no Somerset turn, And to ask me you should be ashamed!" —New York Sun. A Severe Art Critic. The Post Impressionist—I painted this picture to keep the wolf from the door. Lady Visitor—Well, why don't you hang it on the knob where the wolf can see?—London Opinion. Too True. "You certainly have a trim little waist." I said as she put on her hat. But she turned me inside and quickly replied, "You're right--there's no getting round that." - Princeton Tiger. JESSE BINGA BANKER S. E. Cor. State and 36th Place, Chicago Telephone Douglas 1565 owed on Savings Accounts at Vaults, $3.00 per Year ESTATE DEPARTMENT state on commission, manages estates for non-resi- ces and locking after assessments. Money to loan the patronage of Chicago business men. Anford Apartment 27, 3600 Wabash Ave. er opened to Colored tenants in Chicago. tile baths, marble entrance. J. W. Casey. Agent, 74 W. WASHINGTON STREET. DAMES AND DAUGHTERS. Miss Mary Woods of the Brooklyn navy yard cuts the patterns for all the flags made there. She has been making flags for the government for more than thirty years. Miss Cornelia Bentley Sage, appointed director pro tem, of the famous Albright art gallery in Buffalo on the death of the director of the museum, has been remarkably successful, and her position is now permanent. Senora de Cueva, wife of the first secretary of the Mexican embassy at Washington, sings old Spanish and Mexican ballads with much feeling. She not only has a voice of unusual range, but is a composer of note. Miss Julia C. Lathrop of Chicago, an associate of Jane Addams in the work at Hull House, a member of the Illinois board of charity and a graduate and trustee of Vassar college, has been appointed by President Taft as chief of the new children's bureau in the department of commerce and labor. Mrs. Edgar F. Luckenbach, one of the seventeen graduates at the recent exercises of the Woman's Law college of New York university, is the wife of a millionaire steamship man. She has gained quite a reputation as a yachtswoman and has won several trophies by her prowess at the wheel of a racing yacht. If you'd get to the top You must work with a will. You have no time to stop If you'd get to the top. If life's prizes you'd cop You must battle uphill. If you'd get to the top You must work with a will. —Detroit Free Press. First Motorist—How far did you drive last night? Let not hard luck in any case Your countenance distort. For when a man has a long face We know that he is a grandfather. Washington Founts The snail lays its eggs in the ground in the springtime, and during the winter he buries himself, cements the opening of his hiding place and falls into a long sleep, which in particular circumstances has been known to be prolonged for years. The Sleep of Plants, Stahl, a German botanist who gave his attention to the attitude of the leaves of plants during the day as compared with their attitude in the night, noted that many plants take such a position for the night that their leaves can transpire easily and at the same time be sheltered from the dew. "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. BELLE MEADE C Buffet and Cafe FRANK H. 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