The Broad Ax

The Three Afro-American Commissioners Who Were Appointed To Assist To Celebrate the Fifty Years of Freedom AMONG THE COLORED PEOPLE IN THIS STATE IN 1915 ARE ONLY FIGURE HEADS IN THE ESTIMATION OF THE WHITE COMMISSIONERS. THEY THE WHITE COMMISSIONERS. HAVE SELECTED AN AUDITING COMMITTEE CONSISTING OF THREE OF THEIR NUMBER, AND IT WILL HAVE CHARGE OF ALL THE MONEY COLLECTED IN, COUNT IT AND PLACE IT IN A BANK AT SPRINGFIELD, ILLINOIS. AND INFORM MAJOR FORD, THE COLORED TREASURER OF THE COMMISSION JUST HOW MUCH MONEY IS ON HAND BUT HE WILL NOT BE ALLOWED TO COUNT OR HANDLE IT. COLORED SOLICITORS ARE TO BE SENT OUT TO BEG MONEY TO ENABLE THE COMMISSIONERS TO WINE AND DINE ON THE BEST IN THE LAND AND TO ASSIST ONE OR TWO LITTLE COLORED MEN CONNECTED WITH IT. TO GIVE PINK TEAS, ELABORATE BANQUETS AND RECEPTIONS AT THE EXPENSE OF THE TAX-PAYERS OF ILLINOIS. REV. ARCHIBALD JACKSON CAREY SHOULD MAKE AN EFFORT TO ENTER THE NAMES OF ALL THE MEMBERS OF HIS FAMILY ON THE PAYROLL OF THE COMMISSION AND HELP TO EAT UP MORE QUICKLY THE $25,000 APPROPRIATED FOR THE CELEBRATION. THE CELEBRATION AND EXHIBITION SHOULD NOT BE HELD IN SPRINGFIELD FOR THE LEADING WHITE CITIZENS OF THAT CITY IN 1908 MOBBED AND LYNCHED AND SHOT DOWN IN COLD BLOOD ITS BEST COLORED CITIZENS, DESTROYED THEIR PROPERTY AND DROVE THEM FROM THAT CITY. LIKE WILD BEASTS AND DANGEROUS CRIMINALS. Vol. XVIII. The Three can Commi Were Ap Assist To O Fifty Years AMONG THE COLORED PEOPLE FIGURE HEADS IN THE ESTIM ERS. THEY THE WHITE COM HAVE SELECTED AN AUDITING OF THEIR NUMBER, AND IT MONEY COLLECTED IN, COUN SPRINGFIELD, ILLINOIS. AND INFORM MAJOR FORD, THE MISSION JUST HOW MUCH MOU BE ALLOWED TO COUNT OR B COLORED SOLICITORS ARE TO BE ABLE THE COMMISSIONERS IN THE LAND AND TO ASSIST CONNECTED WITH IT. TO GIVE PINK TEAS, ELABORAT THE EXPENSE OF THE REV. ARCHIBALD JACKSON CARE ENTER THE NAMES OF ALL THE PAYROLL OF THE COMM QUICKLY THE $25,000 APPRO THE CELEBRATION AND EXHIB SPRINGFIELD FOR THE LEAD IN 1908 MOBBED AND LYNCHE ITS BEST COLORED CITIZENS, DROVE THEM FROM THAT CIT LIKE WILD BEASTS AND The five White commissioners and the three Afro-American commissioners selected by Governor Edward F. Dunne, to assist to celebrate the 50 years of freedom among the Colored people residing in this state in 1915, have already started in to fight like cats and dogs over money matters, the White commissioners look upon or regard the Colored commissioners as mere figure heads or real weaklings and at the meeting held by the commission in this city last Thursday, the White commissioners closed their eyes real tight and while several of the Colored commissioners were doing a little praying, the White commissioners proceeded to select an auditing committee consisting of three of their number, freezing out the Colored commissioners and the White auditing committee will have charge of all the money collected in, count it and place it in a bank at Springfield and from time to time inform Major Ford the Colored commissioner and the so-called Treasurer of the commission just how much money they have on hand but he will not be allowed to count or handle it. It is evident that the White commissioners have no confidence in the Colored commissioners when it comes right down to mixing their fingers in the money and the Colored commissioners feel that as long as the affair was gotten up for the Colored people that they are entitled to share some of the higher honors in assisting to conduct the celebration, hence the fighting and scrapping among themselves. At the last meeting of the commission in this city and come to think of it the commission meets somewhere once each week to look over copies of the few letters that are being sent out by the two or three secretaries who wanted to grab off three or four thousand dollars each year for the next two years for doing nothing, it decided to send out Colored solicitors to beg money, so that the commissioners can wine and dine themselves and live on the best in the land all the time and to assist one or two little Colored men to give pink teas, elaborate banquets and receptions at the expense of all the tax payers of Illinois. It was far from the minds of the members of the Legislature when they in good faith voted to appropriate $25,000, to assist the Colored people in this state to celebrate their freedom in 1915, that they and their friends were indirectly aiding several dishonest HEW TO THE LINE; LET THE CHIPS FALL WHERE THEY MAY HEW TO THE LINE; LET THE CHIPS FALL WHERE THEY MAY tricksters to work up a huge scheme to rob and plunder the hard working people out of their money. There is no reason on earth why the commissioners should at this time be attempting to collect money in from Tom, Dick and Harry unless they want to spend it for high living for they are not doing a thing and there is nothing for them to do except to sit around and look wise and draw their per diem everytime they travel a few miles on the railroads and if we are not mistaken some of them ride on free passes. The Rev. Honorable Archibald Jackson Carey, should make an honest effort to enter the names of all the members of his highly accomplished family on the payroll of the commission and help more quickly to eat up the $25,000 appropriated for the celebration for if he could do so it would be very pleasing indeed to his methodist God. Some of the commissioners are heartily in favor of holding the celebration at Springfield, Ill. This should not be, for many of its best and leading White citizens, in 1908, joined in helping, to mob and lynch innocent and law abiding Colored men, women and children and shot them down in cold blood, destroyed their property and drove some of the oldest and most highly respected Colored men and women from its borders, like wild beasts or dangerous criminals. BROTHER JULIUS TAYLOR ANG GRY. Governor Edward F. Dunne and the appointees on the board of commissioners for the Fiftieth Anniversary celebration of the freedom of the Negro, has given Brother Julius Taylor, editor of The Broad Ax, some concern, and Brother Taylor has not been slow in letting it be known. The editor comes out with some very plain talk, a part of which there appears some justification. He asks, "Why is it there is not a Negro woman on that board? In this Mr. Taylor is not so far off. It is a timely question. Why is it that Mrs. E. L. Davis, Mrs. Fannie Barrier Williams, Mrs. I. B. W. Barnett or Mrs. Wm. Emanuel, all public-spirited citizens and well known in public life, were overlooked on such an important occasion when the Negro is concerned? And they are not the only ones. There are many well-known labor and charity workers of excellent PETER H. HARRIS standing among the Colored women in the State of Illinois. Why is there not one on the board? But as to the political phase Editor Taylor complains of, it is not supposed to be a political affair. The members appointed, we believe, were selected because of their fitness and no Negro Democrat appointed because there was no Negro Democrat's name presented. While we do know there are excellent men in the Democratic party and just as capable of attending to the affairs of the exposition as any one on the commission, but as we stated, it is not and should not be a question of party, but it is essentially racial and there should be a Negro woman on that board of commissioners, because of it being a race celebration. There ought not be any reason for complaint against those already chosen, because they are among that class that are used to doing things in the most progressive way, but there is something wrong in not having a representative Negro woman on that commission.—The Illinois Idea, July 19, 1913. A NEGRO EXPOSITION. The business and professional Negro men of Chicago are considering the advisability of organizing a national Negro exposition and semi-centennial to be held in this city in 1915. The purpose of the exposition is to exploit the skill of the Negro craftsman and, presumably, to show greatly the Negro has progressed in civilization since his emancipation in America. It is an excellent idea and it is to be hoped that it will be carried out. The year 1915 will mark a half century since the American Negro has been free. In that time he has accomplished a great deal, but the full story of his accomplishment is not as well known outside of his own race as it should be. An exposition such as the one proposed will tell that story more fully and vividly than in any other way, and it is a story not only worth the telling but highly necessary to be told. At such an exposition the country will be enabled to see with its own eyes what the Negro has done and what he is capable of doing. The re- According to our way of thinking there is only one Afro-American who is connected with the commission that amounts to anything in the business world, and that is Major Robert R. Jackson. As for Major Ford, he has no record in this state aside from being in charge of the national dead or burying grounds, near Springfield, and we have been informed that he pays no taxes in this state; that he is simply a servant of the federal government and he is a dead one and has no moral right to pose as a representative of the Afro-Americans residing in this commonwealth. As for Rev. Honorable Archibald Jackson Carey, the Colored people have elevated him much higher than he has elevated himself, for they make it possible for him and his family to live on the fat of the land every day and Sunday, too, while many of those same Colored people deny themselves many of the comforts of life in order to do so, and if the Rev. Honorable Archibald Jackson Carey was driven out of the pulpit for preaching politics, with all of his so-called ability he could not turn his hand to anything and honorably earn one hundred per month.—Editor. Mrs. Julius F. Taylor has almost completely recovered from the effects of a very severe attack of lumbago which confined her to the house for more than ten days. Mrs. David M. Manson, Mrs. Lottie Carter, Mrs. W. A. Seams, Mrs. Pearl Randolph and Mrs. Marie Washington were among those who called to cheer her up and to heartily wish her a speedy recovery from its effects. The business and professional Negro men of Chicago are considering the advisibility of organizing a national Negro exposition and semi-centennial to be held in this city in 1915. The purpose of the exposition is to exploit the skill of the Negro craftsman and, presumably, to show how greatly the Negro has progressed in civilization since his emancipation in America. It is an excellent idea and it is to be hoped that it will be carried out. The year 1915 will mark a half century since the American Negro has been free. In that time he has accomplished a great deal, but the full story of his accomplishment is not as well known outside of his own race as it should be. An exposition such as the one proposed will tell that story more fully and vividly than in any other way, and it is a story not only worth the telling but highly necessary to be told. At such an exposition the country will be enabled to see with its own eyes what the Negro has done and what he is capable of doing. The result of this should be that much of the senseless prejudice existing concerning him will receive a most effective blow.—The Inter Ocean, Chicago, July 22, 1913. COLORED BOYS TO GET SCHOOL Articles of Incorporation for Institution for Home Training Filed. Articles of incorporation for the Louise Training School for Colored Boys, to be located at 6130 South Ada street, were filed last week with the county recorder. The institution is aimed to "provide home and proper training for such boys as may be committed to its charge." The incorporators are Jailer Will T. Davies, J. Gray Lucas and William O. La Monte. The trustees include also John L. Whitman, J. G. Brumfield, C. M. Reed, the Rev. F. Emory Lyon, Julius F. Taylor, the Rev. Lee Jefferson, James McDonald, Mrs. Alice J. Caldwell, Mrs. E. J. Jenkinson, Mrs. Gertrude Howe Britton, Elizabeth McDonald and Mrs. Georgia Davies. TRIPLETS MAKE IT A DOZEN. Collingswood, N. J., July 21.—Large healthy, bright-eyed and plump triplets were born to Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Wilmer, and the mother and two boys and a girl are in as good shape as could be expected under the circumstances. There have been nine other children, all living and well, and the proud parents are comparatively young. Mr. and Mrs. Wilmer are seemingly doing their part to assist to increase the population of this grand old world. -Editor ManyWould Be Educated White and Colored Citizens Are Absolutely Ignorant IN RELATION TO THEIR SO-CALLED RIGHT TO MAKE ALL THE UN-NECESSARY NOISE THEY PLEASE AS LONG AS THEY PAY RENT FOR THE PREMISES THEY OCCUPY. THEY ARE UNFAMILIAR WITH SECTION 1454 OF THE CITY ORDINANCE OF CHICAGO PERTAINING TO IMPROPER NOISE AND WITH THE STATUTES OF ILLINOIS ELABORATING ON THE SAME SUBJECT. MANY COLORED BOYS IDLE THEIR TIME AWAY IN BOAMING THE STREETS AND MAKING LIFE MISERABLE FOR PEOPLE WHO ARE FORCED TO LIVE NEAR UNTO THEM. SOME OF THIS CLASS OF BOYS CARBY FIRE ARMS AND OTHER DEADLY WEAPONS AND THE POLICE SHOULD GET AFTER THEM WITH A SHARP STICK. AND SEE TO IT THAT THE PARENTS, RELATIVES OR GUARDIANS OF SUCH BOYS EITHER KEEP THEM AT HOME OUT OF MISCHIEF OR COMPEL THEM TO GO TO WORK AT SOMETHING TO ENABLE THEM TO EARN AN HONEST LIVING. SO THAT THEY MAY GROW UP AND BECOME USEFUL AND RESPECTED YOUNG MEN IN THE COMMUNITIES IN WHICH THEY RESIDE AND NOT CANDIDATES FOR THE PENAL INSTITUTIONS OF COOK COUNTY AND ILLINOIS. THE ANTI-NOISE COMMITTEE OF THE CITY COUNCIL CONTINUES TO DO SPLENDID WORK IN THAT DIRECTION. CAPTAIN P. J. LAVIN OF THE HYDE PARK DISTRICT AND LIEUTEN- ANT JOHN L. HOGAN, IN CHARGE OF THE 50TH STREET STATION, ARE DOING THEIR PART TO SUPPRESS SO MUCH UNNECESSARY NOISE IN THEIE SECTION OF THE CITY. It is strange indeed that so many people who claim to be highly educated, both White and Colored citizens alike, are at the same time absolutely ignorant of the laws in relation to their so-called right to make all the unnecessary noise they please as long as they pay rent for the premises they occupy or own. The preachers and the Sunday-school teachers and it would be time well spent if the school teachers would also join in and help to educate and instruct the people and the school children to cultivate the habit of not making so much unnecessary noise. The state and the city laws in this respect should be read to them by the preachers from their pulpits at least once a month, and the same thing should be done in the Sunday-schools and in the public schools. As stated before, they are unfamiliar with section 1454 of the city ordinance of Chicago pertaining to improper or unnecessary noise and with the statutes of Illinois touching upon the same subject. and many times they are fined two hundred dollars and sent to the bridewell for six months to one year for toting around concealed weapons in their hip pockets. It is not very pleasant to make this statement, nevertheless it is true, just the same namely, that there are many Colored boys residing in all parts of Chicago who idle their time away in roaming the streets and making life miserable for people who are forced to live near unto them; they are taught by their parents not to have the slightest consideration for the rights of other people, nor to respect those who are older than themselves and the result is that they endeavor to make themselves just as offensive as they can be at all times and they really feel that although their parents are compelled to work hard in order to provide them with something to eat, clothing for their backs and with a place to sleep, still they regard their parents as ignorant back numbers and they sass or bluff them out on the slightest occasion and they boys entertain the The city ordinance on this point reads as follows: "City Ordinance, Sec. 1454. All persons who shall make, aid, countenance or assist in making any improper noise, riot, disturbance, breach of the peace or diversion tending to a breach of the peace within the limits of the city; all persons who shall collect in bodies or crowds for unlawful purposes, or for any purpose, to the annoyance or disturbance of other persons * * * shall be deemed guilty of disorderly conduct and upon conviction thereof shall be severally subject to a fine of not less than one dollar nor more than two hundred dollars for each offense." The stautes of Illinois very plainly speaks out along the same lines in this respect; it is as follows: "Criminal Code, Chap. 38, Sec. 146. Whoever disturbs the peace and quiet of any neighborhood or family, by loud or unusual noises, or by tumultuous or offensive carriage, threatening, traducting, quarreling, challenging to fight or fighting * * * shall be fined not exceeding $100." The city ordinance and the statutes of Illinois also provide heavy fines and imprisonment for those who persist in carrying revolvers and other dangerous weapons of every description, for it is unlawful for them to do so unless they are officers of the law or have a special permit to do so. No.43 and many times they are fined two hundred dollars and sent to the bridewell for six months to one year for toting around concealed weapons in their hip pockets. It is not very pleasant to make this statement, nevertheless it is true, just the same namely, that there are many Colored boys residing in all parts of Chicago who idle their time away in roaming the streets and making life miserable for people who are forced to live near unto them; they are taught by their parents not to have the slightest consideration for the rights of other people, nor to respect those who are older than themselves and the result is that they endeavor to make themselves just as offensive as they can be at all times and they really feel that although their parents are compelled to work hard in order to provide them with something to eat, clothing for their backs and with a place to sleep, still they regard their parents as ignorant back numbers and they sass or bluff them out on the slightest occasion and they, the boys entertain the idea that they are far above the law. Some of this class of Colored boys load themselves down with fire arms and with other deadly weapons and the police should get after them with a sharp stick and see to it that the parents, relatives or guardians of such boys either keep them at home out of mischief or compel them to go to work at something to enable them to earn an honest living. So that in time they may grow up to honorable manhood and become useful and highly respected young men in the communities in which they reside and not candidates for the penal institutions of Cook County and Illinois. The anti-noise committee of the city council continues to do splendid work in that direction, the following 57 noises have been placed under the police ban by the five aldermen composing the anti-noise committee of that body, and the work of the committee has been divided off into five separate divisions with the following aldermen serving as chairmen: Ald. George Pretzel—Motor Vehicles. Muffler cutouts, engines running on stationary cars, gear shifting, horns and bells, garages, backfire explosions, motorcycles. Continued on Page 2. THE BROAD AX PUBLISHED WEEKLY. Will promulgate and at all times uphold the true principles of Democracy, but Catholics, Protestants, Priests, Infections, Single Taxes, Republicans, or anyone else who would not be able to communicate language is proper and responsibility is fixed. The Broad Ax in a newspaper whose platform is bound enough to allow 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 applications. Address all communications to THE BROAD AX 6027 ARMOUR AVENUE, CHICAGO, ILL. 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, 1870. ANTI-NOISE COMMITTEE OF THE CITY COUNCIL TO CONTINUE TO DO GOOD WORK. Concluded from Page 1. Ald. E. P. Cullerton—Bailways and Pavements. Locomotive whistles, locomotive bells, locomotive exhausts, escape valves, freight switching, crossing bells, steel viaducts, elevated roads, street car gongs, flat wheels, wornout rails, defective crossings, terminal adjustments, cobblestones. Ald. Jacob A. Preund—Marine Traffic and Industrial Plants. Whistling for bridges, Navigation signals, Marine engines, dredges and sandsuckers, machine shops, foundries, cooper shops, ice plants, power plants, loading stations, structural iron wagons, construction work, gasoline engines, ventilation wheels. Produce peddlers, junk and rag dealers, milk men, ice men, delivery boys, newsboys balloon men, scissors grinders, popeorn men, gasoline wagons. Ald. Willis O. Nance-Miscellaneous. Domestic animals, mechanical pianos, church bells, roller skates, carpet beating, stone blasting, summer gardens, band practice, graphophones, fireworks, gates and doors, intoxicated persons, rah rah boys. Alderman Willis O. Nance, chairman of the health committee of the city council and head of the anti-noise committee states, that in certain parts of the city the police, are not hurting themselves in the way of attempting to suppress so much unnecessary noise. But we are firmly of the opinion, that, Captain P. J. Lavin of the Hyde Park district and his able assistant Lieutenant John L. Hogan in charge of the 50th Street station and the other police officials in the Hyde Park district, are doing their part to abolish or suppress so much unnecessary noise. HEALTH NOTES A noted medical authority has said that only one man in a million dies a natural death. We should live until one hundred and forty years of age. A man who dies at seventy or eighty years is the victim of an accident and he is deprived of the forty or fifty years that Nature still owes him. --- In 1837 Sidney Smith wrote: "I am convinced that digestion is the great secret of life; and that character, talents and virtues are powerfully affected by beef, mutton, pie crusts and rich soups." In 1884, Dr. Andrew Blyth said: "When by successive researches the science of diet has become better understood, without doubt a school of physicians will arise, discarding all drugs and treating all maladies by cutting off certain foods and by surfeiting with others." "There are diets," says the same authority, "for every age, for every climate, for every species of work, physical or mental; there are diets by which diseases may be prevented or cured; there are diets fitted for some constitutions, injurious to others; diets which make the skin glossy, the frame vigorous and the spirit joyous; others which mar the face with wrinkles, speckle the body with eruptions and make the form lean, hollow and prematurely old." In an article on digestive disorders, Dr. D. H. Kress, editor of Life and Health, says: "Very few persons reach adult life without the consciousness of possessing a stomach." "Americans," he says, "possess the reputation of being a race of dyspeptics. It is safe to say that not less than seventy-five per cent. of them are afflicted with some form of digestive disorders. Back of nearly every form of these ailments is the food, and back of these is the cook. What the inmates of the home are physically and morally may usually be determined by what the cook is. Give us thoroughly trained and intelligent cooks and the cure of nine-tenths of all the dyspeptics may be assured without medicinal treatment." Are you still fighting the fly? Do you permit cheese nasty, dangerous pests to invade your home? Remember the war is on for all the summer and autumn months; also do not forget that flies carry the germs of disease as a dog does fleas. The only safe thing for you to do is to exclude them from your home. And as there are few communities in Chicago so clean that flies can find no breeding places in them, so there are flies everywhere. --- Flies carry typhoid, dysentary, tuberculosis, diphtheria, epidemic sore eyes, cholera, etc. They are dangerous for the reason that it is known they spread disease. The most effective way to fight flies is to remove their breeding places. Flies breed in filth. Remove the filth and the flies will soon disappear. When the weather is hot, don't worry. Keep your temper; it will help you to keep cool. Use plenty of water both inside and out. Don't eat too much. Keep regular hours. Stay out of doors as much as possible. Don't look at a thermometer. Take the shady side of the street and don't hurry. WOMEN HAVE UNDRESS ORGY. London Times' Criticism Causes Storm of Comment. Almost Nothing Now Worn. Difficult for Writer to Predict to What End Fashions Will Go. London, July 21.—A storm of comment has been aroused by an article displayed prominently in the Times under the caption "Dress or Undress." The writer declares: "We are at the height of a revolution in feminine clothes which has not been seen since the French revolution gave sanction to the excesses of women in the directoire and empire gowns. "Five years ago women still wore skirts and bodices which covered them, stockings thick enough not to show the color of their skin, and sufficient stays and petticoats to conceal the details of their persons. The wasp waists and humps on the skirt or shoulders disappeared. Wear Almost Nothing. "It was the return of nature to true art, but to-day it is patent, at least to the observant person, that women wear almost nothing under their gowns even in the daytime. Petticoats have been replaced by tights [or have they been replaced?] and the stockings are of such diaphanous silk as to embarrass the beholder. "So much for the foundation. Over this is a film sheath of half transparent material cut almost as low for day wear as for evening, with such slashings that the lifting of the skirt will fully display the leg half way to the knee, showing every movement of the limb and almost of the muscles. "Certainly there is an orgy of undressing going on and it shows no signs of abating. What will be the end? It is difficult to see." Comes at Time of Crisis. The writer concludes with this high ly conservative note: "It is curious to note that this Bacchanalian rage has fallen on women at a time when there is much in the melting pot, at a time of world restlessness, of war abroad and a constitutional crisis at home and social misery everywhere. "It is difficult to see the connection of fashion with such things or to say which is the cause and what the effect or to determine how much the woman's almost bare feet and quite bare arms and neck are due to Premier Asquith's indifference to stable government, or to anarchy in the political and artistic world. "But it says a great deal for the length of the road which we have traveled that the old fashioned people have not lifted up their voices in rebuke to a generation which would have made their fathers gasp and stare and resort to prayer to avert a thunderbolt." FOREST NOTES. A shingle mill in Maine uses 2,000 cords of paper birch each year in the manufacture of toothpicks. The new Chinese Republic has established a department of agriculture and forestry. For a long time China had been pointed out as the most backward nation in forest work. A toy company at Sheboygan, Wis., started out to use only the waste wood from other mills. It has worked out a system of using all small waste pieces so that practically nothing but the sawdust is lost. Austria not only sells timber but timber products from its forest lands, and disposes of about 1,500,000 railway ties a year. There is no provision in the United States by which the national forests can dispose of manufactured lumber, though the pol The Negro National Exposition and Semi-Cenennial Emancipation Celebration Association TO BE DULY ORGANIZED AND A CHARTER WILL SOON BE SECURED FOR IT UNDER THE LAWS OF ILLINOIS. HON. A. J. PETIT CHIEF JUSTICE OF THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY ADDRESSED THE GATHERING AT THE APPOMATTOX CLUB, TUESDAY EVENING AND IMPARTED MUCH SOUND ADVICE TO THOSE PRESENT. MRS. DANIEL H. WILLIAMS, MRS. WILLIAM EMANUEL, MRS. EVA JENIFER AND MANY OTHER PROMINENT AFRO-AMERICAN LADIES ARE BECOMING ACTIVELY INTERESTED IN THE NATIONAL MOVEMENT. The Negro National Exposition Committee met last Tuesday night at the Appomattox Club with Mr. B. F. Moseley in the chair. In the absence of the regular secretary, Mr. L. B. Anderson, Miss Bertiola Fortson acted in his stead management. He, however, pledged his support to the movement. Representative Lloyd was impressive and showed that he had given the subject more than a passing interest. As it was he who worked to secure the passage of the bill and appropriation Among those present were Hon. F. E. Lloyd, representative from the Third district in the Illinois legislature, and Judge Adelor Petit, chief justice of the circuit court. Meeting of the committee was interesting and short talks by Representative F. E. Lloyd, Mrs. Ida Wells Barnett, Mr. Charles B. Travis, Mrs. Fannie Emanuel, Mrs. Martha B. Anderson, Frank L. Hamilton, Rev. W. S. Braddan and others were full of wholesome logic which pointed a way for the success of the movement. Judge Petit was of the opinion that the Negroes, themselves, were capable of giving a National Negro Exposition, and should give one. That the Whites were not dealing fairly with the Negroes, if they sought to give the exposition themselves and label it the Negro's exposition. That the credit of the exposition should go to the Negroes, but he, the Negro, could only hope to get that credit only where he was in complete control of the iey of selling standing timber is well established. The Canadian government has supplied twenty-five million tree seedlings to farmers, principally in the Alberta and Regina plains region. The United States does not supply young trees to the public, except in a limited area in Nebraska, under the terms of the Kinkaid Act. FENTON JOHNSON'S NEW BOOK BY A. W "A Little Dreaming" by Fenton Johnson, the well known Chicago Dramatist, of Color, has been published by the Peterson Company, Chicago. It contains some of the finest contemporary poetry: "Gifts of Love to me" has a universal appeal, and "My Mother" is the noblest expression of race loyalty in literature. There are many lyrics, expressing the best lessons of the present generation of Negroes. The book is distinctive on account of the melody. Mr. Johnson is another Tennyson, when it comes to word construction and romantic depths. The "vision of Lazarus," a 15 page idyll, is full of Oriental imagry and music. As a dialect poet, Mr. Johnson brings melody and romance to a broken speech. In the "Buelahlan" is the happiest expression of Negro Memory, since Dunbar. The book is vellum DeLuxe bound in crimson cloth and eggshell paper. The type is large and plain, an attractive paper wrapper adds to the appearance of the volume. (A "Little Dreaming," by Fenton Johnson. The Peterson Company, Chicago. Special rates 75 cents. THE WEST MICHIGAN RESORTS. Just a Mere Inn, the new resort opened in the City of Benton Harbor, Mich., for Colored people by Mr. and Mrs. Mitcheme, old residents of that city, was well patronized on Sunday last by Chicago visitors. The accommodations of the well appointed, commodious house and grounds was taxed and among the visitors were Mr. and Mrs. Thomas McGooden, Mr. Charles McGooden, Miss Swerzie McGooden, Mrs. Walter Lapsey of Portland, Oregon, and her son, Lorenzo Lapsey, the marathon runner from the University of Michigan, Miss B. Curl of Ohio, Mrs. Violette N. Anderson, Dr. Carl Roberts, Mr. Chas. Bell, Mr. F. Dortch, Mr. H. Roberts of Ohio, Mr. David Halley, Mr. and Mrs. R. Simpson and others. The meals served at Just a Mere Inn belie the name, for they are worthy of the most palatial hotel in the country. A hay ride was taken by all the visitors to the West Michigan Resort in the afternoon and an enjoyable visit enjoyed by all. management. He, however, pledged his support to the movement. Representative Lloyd was impressive and showed that he had given the subject more than a passing interest. As it was he who worked to secure the passage of the bill and appropriation for the state exposition, as well as being the recipient of the rude conduct of the executive by being ignored in the appointment of commissioners. This, however, did not seem to affect Representative Lloyd and his interest in furthering the project. On a motion of Mr. Charles B. Travis, the chair was authorized to appoint a sub-committee to perfect and secure the incorporation of the organization and to prepare an address to the country. The following persons were appointed on the sub-committee: Chas. B. Travis, Hon. F. E. Lloyd, Ida Wells Barnett, Will G. Anderson, Julius F. Taylor, Madam Daniel H. Williams, W. M. Farmer, Frank L. Hamilton and Bertiola Fortson. This committee will meet Tuesday night next at the rooms of the Fellowship Club, 2830 State street. Those having any suggestions to make are invited to present them to the committee at that time. SPECIAL PROGRAM at the Englewood Lyeum, Sunday July 27, at 3:30 P. M. at the Hope Presbyterian Church, 61st and Loomis Bldd. Lawvers Day. A lawyer's dealings should be just and fair, Honesty shines with great advantage there.—Cowher. Program. Don't fail to hear the most popular orchestra in the city. CHIPS Mr. and Mrs. Daniel M. Jackson are now at home to their friends at 3242 Calumet avenue. Mrs. Corrine Eggleston, 3552 Rhodes avenue, has been on the sick list the past week, but she is now improving. Ex-Alderman Michael McInerney has become one of the bailiffs of the Municipal Court, and he is working hard for his money. Mr. and Mrs. Hall and little daughter of St. Louis, Mo., are visiting in the city, guests of Dr. and Mrs. Pomphrey, of East 33rd street. Miss Anna Schulman, stenographer for Attorney Walter M. Farmer, 184 W. Washington street, is spending her two weeks vacation at Bangor, Mich. Mrs. Chas. Washington, 3358 Vernon avenue, will leave the city the latter part of this month to visit with friends in Detroit, Mich., and other cities throughout the state. The Inter-racial Cirele and Phyllis Wheatley Club will give the picnic and carnival of nations the 2nd of August at Reissig's Grove, in LaGrange, from 9 a. m. to 11 p. m. Garfield Wilson's band. Crumwell Lambert of Detroit, Mich., an old friend of Jesse Binga, the sue- cessful banker and real estate dealer, State street and 36th place, has been visiting him and Father J. B. Massiah this week. Thomas McCain, one of the high rollers of the Pompei Cafe and Buffet, 20 and 22 E. 31st street, is well pleased with the amount of business in sight during the vacation season. Attorney Walter M. Farmer, 184 W. Washington street, was appointed a delegate to the National Negro Educational Congress, which was held in Kansas City, Mo., July 15 to 19, by Governor Edward F. Dunne. Miss Nettie Watterson, who has spent the past year in Milwaukee, Wis., Minneapolis, Minn., and Mound City, Ill., arrived in the city Saturday and for some time to come she will make her home with Mrs. Marie Washington, 5025 Armour avenue. The Wide-Awake Club of the Berean Baptist Church, 4838 Dearborn street, will give its annual outing at beautiful Dellwood Park, near Joliet, Ill., Monday, July 28. Trains will leave over the Chicago and Electric Road at 10:30 A.M. Take Archer avenue car to the end of its terminal. /Fare for the round trip, adults 55 cents, children under ten years of age 30 cents. The White female who has just brought suit against Gov. Sulzer of New York for breach of promise, five years after the alleged violation of the contract, should either seek the friendly protection of a sanitarium for the insane or go in search of a fool-killer. She has secured a notoriety that creates disgust for her and sympathy for the object of the attack, who is now happily married.—The Planet, Richmond, Va., July 19, 1913. Cupid In Fandom. Fair patron of the nation's game— If I'm a fan you must be "Fanny"— I've often seen you in the stand, And so I take my pen in hand— I do not know your proper name— To let you know you've got my nanny. You know, I've seen you sorely tried When, as the visitors seemed winning, You stood amid a storm of jeers And rooted while a-shedding tears Until our boys the score had tied And won out in the 'leventh inning! And so, Fanette, my female fan, I know you'd help me be a winner Or anyhow you would not scold If I the truth about it told. Just as I would to any man, When baseball made me late for dinner. —Los Angeles Express. A Lost Opportunity. "It's a great pity," said the convicted burglar to his counsel, "that you couldn't have made that closing speech of yours at the opening of the case." "I don't see how that would have improved matters," said the advocate. "It would, though," explained his client; "then the jury would have been asleep when the evidence came in, and I'd have stood some chance."—Fun. FOR RENT. RENT FREE TILL SEPT. 1ST. Modern apartments, steam heat, hot water the year around. 3 rooms, $22.00; 4 rooms, $27.50; 6 rooms, $32.00; 8 rooms, $40.00 to $42.50. AMERICAN APARTMENTS, 2728 Wabash Ave. FLATS TO BENT. S. Richardson, Real Estate, Loans and Insurance, 160 N. 5th Ave., Room 506, near Randolph St., phone Main 2133, Automatic S3-201, has the following fats to rent: 2410 La Salle St., 5 rooms $12. 2710 Dearborn St., 7 rooms, $19. 3002 Armour Ave., 5 rooms, $14. 5521 Shields Ave., 5 rooms, $18. 3818 Armour Ave., 7 rooms, $18. FOR RENT. Desk Room for business purposes in branch law office of W. G. Anderson & L. A. Newby, 35th and State St., N. W. corner. Phones Douglas 8078 and Auto. 72-384. Hours 10 to 12 a. m., 3 to 5 and 7 to 9 P. M. Dr. MacENRY J. BROWN Physician and Surgeon Oculist. Practice limited to Diseases of Eye and Ear. Office and Residence, 3502 S. State St. Chicago. FOR RENT. DAMES AND DAUGHTERS Miss Margaret Wilson, eldest daughter of President Wilson, is enthusiastic over the work of the University of Wisconsin's bureau of social center development. Mrs. Thomas Riley Marshall, wife of Vice President Marshall, made forty-five calls in ninety minutes recently, scoring the social speed record for Washington. Mrs. Strong, wife of the new governor of Alaska, is quite a cultivated woman, having studied music in Europe five years after her graduation from the schools of Seattle. Sarah Bernhardt has already decided upon the new play in which she will appear in Paris in October or November. It is by Tristan Bernard and will give the actress a fantastic role. Its name has not yet been announced. Mme. Melba has built for herself a delightful retreat at Lilydale, one of the most picturesque localities near her native Melbourne. She has hinted more than once that she would soon make it her permanent abode. She is keenly interested in the conservatorium of the University of Melbourne and has lectured to its students. Electric Sparks. A new telegraph cable is being laid from England to Hongkong, said to be the largest ever made. Twelve billion horsepower—that is the combined electrical power output of the 7,500 central stations in the United States. Rudolph Drambourg, a consulting electrical engineer of Brooklyn, says he has about solved the storage battery problem. He has invented a single cell six volt storage battery of from 100 ampere hours up that, he claims, is three times more powerful and two-thirds less in weight than any battery in existence. Aerial Flights. The international commission of scientific aeronautics will hold its next triennial meeting in 1915 in London. The roof of the new German hangar is made in two sections, which are swung apart, permitting a dirigible balloon to rise directly from its anchorage. Aeroplane manufacture in Germany is far from a flourishing condition financially. At present there are thirty-five aeroplane construction works, not counting amateur construction, but in nine out of ten cases the orders come from the government and go to only two or three leading firms. Town Topics. "A city in overalls," says a New Zealander visiting in Pittsburgh. Yep. The other kind have gone on to New York—Washington Post. A New York paper speaks of Brooklyn as a "baby carriage suburb" of Manhattan. Then the quilt of Brooklyn is a myth?—Louisville Courier-Journal. The mayor of Chicago is puzzled to decide what sort of new uniforms to select for his policemen. From all that we have heard of the Chicago force it might be well to equip some of them with the kind now being worn by a number of New York's ex-fnest. Philadelphia Inquirer. Pert Personals. Though Mrs. Catt was re-elected president of the international suffrage body, no one was rude enough to say that she came back.—Chicago News. When Miss Sylvia Pankhurst is in prison the officers can't get her to open her mouth, and when she is out of prison the officers can't get her to close it.—Kansas City Star. Sarah Bernhardt says that she has retained her youthful appearance because she always did just as she pleased. Her chief pleasure seems to have been to come to the United States on farewell tours.—New Orleans Placayne. Tributes to Mother. A mother is a mother still—the holiest thing alive.—Coleridge. All that I am or hope to be I owe to my angel mother.—A. Lincoln. Make much of it while you have that most precious of all good gifts—a loving mother.—Macaulay. A man never sees all that his mother has been to him till it's too late to let her know that he sees it.—W. D. Howells. Women and Pockets. Pistol pockets in skirts are the newest. Next we suppose there will be half pint pockets. - Pittsburgh Dispatch. The promise of a return to pockets for women is sensible, especially when accompanied by the paradoxical specification that they are called "pistol pockets," because the women will not carry pistols in them—Exchange. Science Siftings. Apparatus by which gas lamps can be lighted and extinguished by wireless waves is a German invention. For testing the structure of metals a German scientist has invented a microphotographic apparatus which magnifies 2,500 times. According to experts, the force of the rotation of the earth on the gyroscopic compass which has been adopted by the United States navy is 291 times as great as the force of magnetism on the magnetic needle. NORTH CAROLINA ODD FELLOWS State Organization Meets In Greensboro, Aug. 12. WHO WILL BE GRAND MASTER Choice For Chief Office Indicated by the Executive Committee at Its Recent Meeting—Qualifications of Colonel James H. Young For Leadership In Great Fraternity Not Doubted. By GEORGE FRANCIS KING Greensboro, N. C.-This city is preparing for the forthcoming annual meeting of the North Carolina Odd Fellows, which will bring here some of the leading men of the race in the state. This fraternity has been making very progressive strides in this state, and from present indications at the forthcoming annual meeting it will keep up its record of sane legislation to meet the peculiar needs of the Afro-American people in this state. The late J. B. Catus, grand master for North Carolina, has been succeeded by a character that is eminently fitted for the head of the organization. Mr. Catus was one of the leading factors of the race in North Carolina and M. B. COLONEL JAMES H. YOUNG. was highly esteemed by both races. until his death he was postmaster of Winton, N. C., and as a public officer he had made an enviable reputation and reflected credit upon the Negro's ability to hold such important positions. His recent death is lamented by citizens in every section of the state. Mr. Catus was an ardent advocate of equal opportunities for the race, and especially was he active in giving the people of his state the best opportunities that they could command for their educational development. He was a trustee of Winton Normal institute and made many sacrifices in order that this institution could survive the strenuous times peculiar to all such movements during their incipient periods. At a recent meeting of the executive committee of the Odd Fellows of North Carolina a selection for the head of the fraternity was made which met the approbation of the subordinate lodges throughout the state, and this board is being commended by leading Odd Fellows in many sections of the country for its election of Colonel James H. Young of Raleigh to fill the unexpired term of Mr. Catus. A man more competent to fill this office cannot be found in this state. "The colonel," says a man of large affairs, "is considered by those in high authority as the best and most thoroughly equipped financier, bookkeeper and up to date manager of all our public officers." For the past twenty-five years he has admirably held an important position in the internal revenue department at Raleigh, and if political events should bring about a change affecting the colonel it will not be an easy task to readily find a man to "hold down" the job like the present incumbent. In every movement for the uplift of the race in North Carolina for a number of years the colonel has been a guiding spirit. He possesses a kind of intellectualism and penetration of affairs which give him the power to control such forces that will work for the ultimate ascendancy of his people, plebeians and participants alike. Undoubtedly there will be a birth of new things for this fraternity under the guidance of the colonel. He is extricably bound up with the kind of requisites and limited enthusiasm that will stimulate the thousands of Odd Fellows in North Carolina. The element of decay is not present in this especial organization, and from every indication the colonel will unanimously be elected the district grand master of the Grand United Order of Odd Fellows of North Carolina at the annual meeting, which begins here on Tuesday, Aug. 12. Women's Clubs Doing Great Work. At the annual meeting of the Texas State Federation of Women's Clubs, recently held in San Antonio, representatives from forty-five clubs made encouraging reports on work among girls, emergency homes, rescue houses and general unplift work in the rural districts. How Professor Edwards' Energy Enlivenes Things at Noted School. Things at Noted School. Raleigh, N. C.-The vacation of the students of Shaw university has not completely made the campus of the institution lonely. The man who is constantly at his desk creating new life in various departments of industries is Professor G. A. Edwards, who can be found in his office any month in the year. As far south as Mississippi this energetic head of the industrial departments of Shaw and one of the leading Afro-American architects in the country has buildings, the product of his brain, in course of construction for people of both races. Standing out pre-eminently as the result of his ability is the new hospital at Shaw, with which will soon be associated another beautiful brick structure, known as Theological hall. It will have three stories and a basement and will have all modern improvements and will accommodate fifty-two students. The theologs will have all of their recitation rooms in this building, and the Young Men's Christian association will have well appointed quarters in the basement. Professor Edwards will superintend the construction of this building, and if the same was given to a contractor it would not cost less than $18,000. This will be one of the most attractive buildings on the campus and will reflect much credit upon Professor Edwards' skill. He has recently completed plans, which were accepted, for a brick building for the local Odd Fellows to cost $22,000, and the Christian church, now in the course of erection, at a cost of $27,000. Professor Edwards is the head industrial worker of Shaw. He is certainly helping our people in this section to procure comfortable homes, which means so much to the community life of the race. WORK OF THE NATIONAL NEGRO PRESS ASSOCIATION High Tribute Paid to its Efforts by W. Anthony Aery. Mr. W. Anthony Aery, press agent at the Hampton (Va.) institute, pays a high tribute to the efforts, work and achievements of the National Negro Press association in an article which recently appeared in the Southern Workman. The article in full is as follows: Wider publicity for the facts of Negro progress and problems of race adjustment is being everywhere secured through heartier and more systematic co-operation among Negro editors and correspondents. Today men have a better chance than they have ever had before to secure accurate and timely facts concerning the struggles and successes of colored people, especially in the south. An important factor in the widening and deepening of public interest in the Negro as a progressive and vital element in American civilization is the National Negro Press association, organized in 1909 and given new life in 1912 at the Chicago meeting of the National Negro Business league. The officers and members of the Negro Press association are working harmoniously "for the highest development of Negro journalism." Their policy is that of printing "the news without fear or favor, giving a true reflex of existing conditions without concealing evil." Their policy also includes the publication of a Negro newspaper and publishers' directory and the establishment of higher standards in advertising, business methods and news service for the public. The work on the directory is being able done by Henry Allen Boyd of Nashville, Tenn., the national corresponding secretary. The problems of working out a plate service and of developing a reciprocal news service are being worked out by a subcommittee of the executive for action at the annual meeting of the association to be held in Philadelphia in August. The white papers are coming to realize that the public is interested in Negro progress. They are printing as news items the advance of the American Negro in landowning, home building, community and school improvement. The Negro papers are devoting more space to live news concerning their own people and less to sensational material in, which the ways, and not the best ways, of white people are exploited. In short, there is a gratifying growth in the common interest of giving all the people all the news of mutual progress and good will. The officers of the National Negro Press association are: R. W. Thompson, Washington, president; Joseph S. Jones, Cincinnati, O., and Gurley Brewer, Indianapolis, Ind., vice presidents; Henry Allen Boyd, Nashville, Tenn., and Charles Sumner Smith, Minneapolis, Min., secretaries; John L. Thompson, Des Moines, In., treasurer; N. Barnett Dodson, New York city, chairman of the executive committee. Elks to Felicitate at Atlantic City. Active preparations are being made by the committee of arrangements for entertaining the Elks fraternity, which holds its fourteenth annual convention in Atlantic City. N. J., from Tuesday, Aug. 26 to 30 inclusive. James A. Lightfoot, editor of the Atlantic Advocate, has charge of the bureau of information and has already announced Young's pler as 'the place for holding the annual ball and reception of the order on Thursday, Aug. 28. GREAT LEADER AND ORGANIZER Pastoral Record of Rev. W. Sampson Brooks. BELIEVES IN CO-OPERATION Brief Account of How the Cause of African Methodism Has Been Advanced Through the Untiring Labors of a Minister Who Is Worthy of Promotion. St. Louis.-The Rev. William Sampson Brooks, D. D., pastor of St. Paul A. M. E. church in this city, has broken the record for money raising for religious work. He has made for himself a place in the history of the African Methodist Episcopal church that will ever remain as a monument to his energy and which will mean his promotion to higher official life. Dr. Brooks was born in Calvert county, Md., in May, 1865. He has achieved success by hard and persistent labors, and his home state is proud of his admirable record. Schools for the education of colored people were few and far apart when young Brooks arrived at school age. It was after he had reached his majority that W. Sampson Brooks decided to take on more education, hence went to Baltimore and entered Morgan college, remaining there just seven years, during which time he completed the academic course and spent some time in the college department. This was the beginning of his active work in the church and for his people. He felt that the Lord desired to use him, and he put himself where he could be used. He started in the work of the gospel ministry, joining the Iowa annual conference at Des Moines in 1893 JOHN H. HARRIS DB. W. SAMPSON BROOKS. and was assigned to Minneapolis, Minn., where he was given an opportunity to show his ability. During his stay in Minneapolis he erected a fine church. It was while in Minneapolis that Dr. Brooks decided to broaden his sphere of usefulness, hence arranged for an extensive tour through the old world. He sailed from New York on Feb. 27, 1895. He first visited London, and while there took a special course in the Art museum. He then visited Liverpool, Rome, going through Italy, France and along the course of the Mediterranean sea, through Spain and Portugal, spending some time in the holy land and then into Africa. He speaks the Swedish and Norwegian languages as fluently as he does his mother tongue. He has pastored churches in Des Moines, Chicago and Nashville. In Nashville his real worth as a pastor was recognized by the people during his short stay there, where he accomplished a great work, adding many to the church and raising large amounts of money for the church. When the congregation of the St. Paul A. M. E. church here was struggling under a heavy debt, Bishop Parks was petitioned to send to the church a man of experience in church finance, an organizer and leader. Dr. Brooks was then pastoring in Nashville, but the bishop heeding the call of the St. Paul church assigned Dr. Brooks as its pastor. On taking charge he met the officers of the church, talked over conditions, then met the people, outlined the work and put every member in the church to work, and each new member was informed that he would have to work, for drones were not wanted. The indebtedness amounted to $14,000 and he declared that it should be wiped out. May 19. $7,541.85 was the amount put on the table, and it is declared that within a few weeks $2,000 will be placed on the table and there will be a shouting in St. Paul A. M. E. church, St. Louis, for it will be out of debt. In 1916 will be held the centennial general conference, and many of the ministers have already declared that it will be then that Dr. Brooks will be elevated. The man who can bring souls into the church, raise $5,000 one Sunday, and then on another Sunday put down over $7,000 is a born leader and is the man who should be put where he can lead more largely, and the A. M. E. church is going to put Dr. Brooks in such a position. EXHIBITS COVER MANY SUBJECTS Rich Variety In Scheme of New York Exposition. EPOCHS IN RACE PROGRESS. Historical Significance of Tentative Program Offered by the Commission For Fiftieth Anniversary Celebration of Proclamation Freeing Colored Race In America. New York.—As New York city is the most cosmopolitan center in the world, it is particularly valuable for the future of the Negro race that this city should be chosen as the place of the emancipation exposition, made possible by the legislature of the state of New York. The influence for good which this exposition will have upon the people of New York cannot fail to be of farreaching consequences. To any one who has observed closely the salient features of the race problem it must have become apparent that the paramount need of all concerned is to have a better, fuller knowledge of the past of the Negro race and, possessing this, to accord it its due privileges and opportunities for the present and thus to render possible its attainment of a future still more worthy of recognition and consideration than anything it has yet achieved The tentative program of the commission covers an exhibit in thirteen divisions, comprising (1) Africa, showing a historical map of the continent, with particular reference to the parts occupied by Negroes and the arts and crafts of the race at home; (2) charts and diagrams indicating distribution of Negro blood throughout the world and the growth of the race in America; (3) health and physique; (4) occupations, including moving picture demonstrations; (5) science and inventions; (6) education; (7) religion; (8) clvics, (9) the work of women. (10) painting and sculpture, (11) literature, (12) architecture (this exhibit will be placed in a small central temple designed by a colored architect and will include pieces of sculpture by Negroes, a library of Negro newspapers and books by Negro authors or relating to the Negro, paintings and decorations by the Negro, etc.); (13) music. Part of the exposition will be devoted to a pageant of Negro history illustrating (1) the discovery of the use of iron, the Negro's method of smelting the metal and of manufacturing implements therefrom; (2) the origin of Egyptian culture. (3) Negro Mohammedan civilization. (4) the Banu migration, (5) the fall of the empire of Soughay and the rise of the slave trade. (6) the landing of the Negro in America. (7) the first attempts at freedom. (8) Haiti. (9) the cotton kingdom and underground railroad. (10) the abolitionists. (11) emancipation. (12) the struggle and vision of the future. With such a program as this of an exposition of Negro advancement to be held in New York city fifty years after the disgraceful draft riots of which the American metropolis was the scene, the state of New York may congratulate itself for having once more endeavored to retrieve its honor by giving an opportunity to its colored citizens to show why the effort to enlist volunteers to fight for the liberation of the black man was justified. Every member of the commission which made this plan of the exposition is colored. The commission deserves the moral and material support of all colored people, for the success of its program is bound to result in greater consideration and respect for the race. POLITICAL AMBITION OF FORMER MINISTER LYON. Served Government at Monrovia Two Terms—May Run For Congress. Baltimore—Dr. Ernest Lyon, former United States minister to Liberia, may enter the fight for the Republican nomination for congress in the Third Maryland district. He has been asked by friends all over the district, which lies wholly within Baltimore, to contest for the nomination. The district contains over 4,000 colored voters and the bulk of the foreign vote. As Dr. Lyon is well and favorably known, his nomination, if he enters the fight, could be secured in a hard campaign. The district has no representative in congress at present. Congressman George Konig having died not long ago. Dr. Lyon is no novice in the field of politics. He has been in touch with some of the most influential Republicans in the country, and his counsel has been sought in a number of campaigns. His activities have brought him in contact with such men as the late Mark Hanna, the late Speaker Reed, Colonel Roosevelt and others. During the presidential campaign of 1900 he was one of three members of the advisory committee and as such worked indefatigably for the success of McKinley and Roosevelt. In 1903 President Roosevelt appointed him American minister to Liberia, where he remained for eight years. Besides having in preparation a volume on Liberia, he is now pastoring the John Wesley M. E church in this city. He resides at 141 West Hill street. ARDENT MASONIC WORKER. How J. Henry Sherwood is Winning His Spurs on Merit. St. Paul, Minn.—J. Henry Sherwood, well known in Masonic circles in this and many other sections of the country, is a native of Macon, Ga., where he received the rudiments of his early education. Upon leaving the far south young Sherwood located in St. Louis for about a year and then took up his residence in this city in 1805 and for eleven years has been a clerk in the postoffice. His activities in religious circles have centered in the Protestant Episcopal church. For some time he was lay reader in charge at the St. Philips mission. He was initiated in Triangle lodge No. 53, F. and A. M., West Superior, Wis., jurisdiction of Illinois, 1895. Admitted into Perfect Ashlar lodge No. 4, St. Paul, a year latter. Passed the Oriental chair June 24, 1902; served as worshipful master three years and as secretary about ten years. He was elected grand secretary in 1906 and grand master in 1909, serving three FEZZAW terms. He entered the Scottish Rite June 6, 1907, and is now secretary of North Star consistory. Mr. Sherwood succeeded in reorganizing Feezan temple in this city in 1908 and was appointed potentate by the deputy and was elected to that position the following year, after which he served two terms as recorder and was elected imperial chief rabban 1910 at Detroit, deputy imperial potentate 1911 at Atlantic City and re-elected at Washington 1912, with the promise ringing in his ears that he would be honored with the imperial potentate-ship at Indianapolis this year. He is a member of Bethel chapter, R. A. M., and Pilgrim commandery, Knights Templars, jurisdiction of Missouri. Noble Sherwood has been in many movements in this city during the past ten years that pointed toward the betterment of his people. He is intensely proud of the past as well as the present achievements of his race and has great faith in its future. Young, energetic and ambitious, Mr. Sherwood is always working for the interests of Freemasonry, shrinedom and the Negro. He is an active worker for the Society For the Advancement of Colored People. MOVING PICTURE STORY. Achievements of a Hampton Student Portrayed In Didactic Manner. Hampton, Va.—"John Henry's Four Years at Hampton" is the title of a most interesting moving picture story of Hampton institute which has been prepared by Leigh Richmond Minor of the Hampton staff. The first exhibition of the vivid moving pictures was given recently at Hampton institute. John Henry, who lives out in the country, is influenced by a Hampton graduate to come to the well known agricultural and industrial school for Negroes. On reaching Hampton he is shown the modern buildings and is then taken to his dormitory room. There he is given a lesson in bedmaking by his room mate. John Henry, after his work in doing various chores which tasked his stick-to-it-tiveness, enters the cabinetmaking department and in three years becomes a proficient tradesman. John Henry also learns enough of several other trades so as to be truly useful to his people back in the country districts. He is put through a short course in manual training, shoe-making, barness repairing, bricklaying and upholstery. He is also taught how to plow and care for the common farm animals—pigs, chickens, horses and cows. The Hampton institute moving pictures give an excellent presentation of the Sunday morning room inspection, battalion drill, anniversary procession, life in the student dining room and every day life at Hampton. John Henry is shown as a pupil teacher at the Whittier school leading the procession of youngsters as they assemble to salute the flag. In the final scene, dealing with commencement day, Dr. Frissell presents the transformed and useful youth with a Hampton diploma. John Henry greets his parents, who have made a sacrifice so that he could get an education. The country teacher, one of Hampton's graduates, who influenced John Henry to break his home ties and go to Hampton, witnesses the happy scene. NEW LIGHT ON HAYNES AGENCY Young Ad. Man Under Fire of Publishers. EXPLAINS HIS METHODS. Personal Investigation of Promising Advertising Concern Made by the Chairman of the Executive Committee National Negro Press Association, Who Says the Agency Is Reliable. By N. BARNETT DODSON. New York.—Having received letters from a number of publishers in reference to the responsibility of the Haynes Advertising agency in this city, I considered it my duty to make a personal investigation in order to furnish the members of the National Negro Press association with impartial and accurate information. To my mind an advertising agency is subject only to the control of the periodicals which it represents. I had the pleasure of calling upon the Haynes Advertising agency a few days ago and was most cordially received by Mr. Haynes, who is the proprietor of the business. After a few brief preliminary remarks I stated my mission, and without the least hesitation Mr. Haynes in the most intelligent way outlined his method of operation. Mr. Haynes says: "This agency is the outcome of nearly two years struggle against many obstacles. One is that of general racial prejudice, which is a universal handicap. Another most vital feature is that in a number of cases we have not been able to get accurate and efficient service from many of the colored publishers. The methods of general advertising have been greatly changed in recent years. The most important additional feature is the 'key system,' which has been adopted by all of the big advertisers. By this method each medium carrying an advertisement is recorded by the advertiser and is known by different numbers. For instance, one publication is known by department 6, another is known by department 24, and so on. "This system enables the advertiser to systematically check up replies from each medium carrying his advertisement, thus showing the actual results of each individual periodical in which his advertisement appears. This one feature alone has created extra expense in stamps, stationery and time, corresponding with publishers, instructing them to insert 'key numbers' correctly. We have written as many as six letters to some of these publishers on this one point before we could make them understand it. "Advertisers will not pay for any newspaper advertisements until sufficient proof of insertions is established. This important feature has been entirely ignored by many. "A great many who have been carrying advertisements from this office have failed to send in voucher copies bearing the advertisement. This also has greatly disturbed our routine." I was then shown sufficient proof that legal action had been started against an advertiser in order to make collection for publications that had complied with instructions by inserting their proper key numbers and sending in voucher copies of their publications. In this particular case Mr. Haynes claimed that he had notified the publishers to whom he was indebted that he would be personally responsible for all bills if collections were not made within a limited time. Mr. Haynes further said: "The supremacy of this agency has been made possible by my most comprehensive combination rate plan, and careful study and experiment have proved that my system is the most effective and productive service to offer the big advertisers. There is no individual Negro publication having enough circulation to interest the big advertiser; consequently the combination of from ten to a hundred publications offering a combined circulation of many thousands is absolutely the only proposition that will attract the attention of the big advertiser to this class of publication. "From an ethical standpoint it is not improper, unsafe or unwise in grouping together any number of publications in order to accomplish a thing that could not be done otherwise. I might add that through my most favorable connections with the United Publishers' association and many of the large white advertising agencies of the country I am quite confident that within a short time this establishment will be a creditable asset to the colored publishers of this country. My advice to the colored publishers throughout the country is to give more attention to circulation. That is the essential chord on which the big advertisers play." Mr. Haynes is a member of the National Negro Press association, and his long practical experience in business should give him first hand knowledge as to business principles, and I believe that his agency is absolutely reliable and offers the most tangible and practical proposition ever_before brought to the attention of the big advertisers. At present about one-third of the colored periodicals of American are represente' by membership in the National Negro Press association. THE BROAD AX CAN BE FOUND ON SALE AT THE FOLLOWING NEWS STANDS: From on and after this date The Broad Ax, can be found on sale at the following news stands: A. F. Tervalon, cigar store and news stand, 5004 State street. George I. Martin, maker of fine cigars and news stand, 18 W. 31st St., near State. B. M. Harvey's barber shop and news stand, 3924 State street. Mrs. Nellie Phelps, cigars, notions and news stand, 15 W. 51st St., near Dearborn. W. S. Cole, cigars, tobacco and news stand, 34 W. 31st St., near Dearborn. B. Davis, cigars, tobacco and news stand, 3532 State St. W. M. Maxwell, notions, cigars, tobacco, confections and news stand, 5244 State St. Edward Felix, notions, cigars and news stand, 52 W. 30th St. F. Bishop, cigars, tobacco and news stand, 8 W. 27th St. near State. Sylvester McGloffin, news stand and laundry office, 4122 State St. William Gaughan, laundry office, cigars, tobacco and news stand, 2636 State St. Mrs. L. B. Taylor, notions, cigars and news stand, 15 W. 36th Street, near State. A. D. Hayes, cigars, tobacco, notions, stationery and news stand, 3640 S. State St. J. H. Roberts, barber shop and news stand, 3308½ S. State St. T. B. Hall, Laundry office, cigars, tobacco and news stand. 3618 South State street. Bell and Alford, cigars, tobacco and news stand. 3128½ South State street. T. S. Harris, cigars, tobacco and news stand. 2845 South State street. Fred M. Waterfield, cigars, tobacco and news stand. 1343 W. 61st street, near Ada. THE AMERICAN LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY OF ILLINOIS. Old Line Legal Reserve Co. Under State Government Supervision. $100,000 deposited with the State. Policies of all blinds ranging from five cents to ten thousand dollars. Our industrial Contracts give to the colored policy holder more than any other company for the same weekly premium. Colored Agents to Write and Collect Your Business. Info 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. Randall 5. Home Office—Harris Trust Building. 15 W. Monroe St. CHICAGO. TELEPHONES Oakland 1609 Res. Oakland 1760 Auto. 79156 FINE FURNITURE AND PIANO MOVERS, PACKERS AND SHIPPERS OFFICE HOURS Phone Oakland 4662 From 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Automatic 72-858 From 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. Sunday by Appointment DR. THEO. R. MOZEE [DENTIST] 4709 S. State St CHICAGO Notary Public Office Phone Automatic 44-185 Res. Phone Automatic 79-137 Suite S, Methodist Church Block S. E. Cor. Clark & Washington Stu., CHICAGO Residence: 3642 Prairie Ave. The Income Tax. This levying an income tax May tret the nabobs some, But most of us, quite unconcerned, That we tret it some. For incomes of four thousand per Around here are quite rare, And if they soak the nabobs, why, The rest of us don't care. But if it were an outgo tax that congress had in mind That public spending would be Of quite a different nature, So many live beyond their means, By practice made expert, That levying an outgo tax— By jingo, that would hurt! —Somerville Journal. His Yearn. "Well, Claude," inquired the county clerk, addressing a young negro who had percolated into the office and stood nervously jiggering his hat in both hands, "what can I do for you?" "Wy—w'y, sah, I wants—dat is, if yo'o愿意 please, sah—wants to gift a—a license to practice mat-imony, sah."—judge Sometimes when a man and woman wed "They are an ill matched pair," it said. A fallacy, say I. How can they ever ill matched be When all authorities agree That wedlock is a tie? —New York Sun. Trade Formula. Woman (to druggist)—Are you sure this rat poison is good? "Certainly, it's cheap, palatable and very nourishing."—Fillegende Blatter. 12 Suite 300-320 Ranger Blvd Gloria and Washington Streets CHICAGO Photos Central 1200, Auto. 42-018 Phoner Office, Main 4153 Rea. Drumm, 7990 Auto. 33-736 WALTER M. FARMER ATTORNEY AT LAW Suite 760, 184 Washington St. Notary Public CHICAGO, ILL. Phone Franklin Rea 508 E. 36th St. 2727 Tel. Douglas 4397 J. GRAY LUCAS Attorney-at-Law 118 N. La Salle Street Oxford Building Suite 403 CHICAGO Franklin A. Denison ATTORNEY AT LAW 36 W. Randolph Street, CHICAGO Suite 708 Delaware Bldg. Tel. Central 3142 A. D. GASH ATTORNEY AT LAW 118 North|La Salle St. Chicago Suite 615 to 616 Telephone Main 3077 Never Fails, Brown—I've got an excellent plan for getting rid of duns. Green—Ah! That so? Brown—I have—never fails. Green—Then, old fellow, you must let me into the secret, for I'm worried to death by 'em. Brown—Well, I've tried it several times of late, and I find the man never comes back. Green—Aye, aye! What do you do? Brown—I pay him—Brooklyn Times. Chicago Lullaby. Street car clanging e'er attend thee; Automobile toots befriend thee; Nolisy steampipe slumber lend thee. Sleep, my pretty one, sleep! Squailing felines ald thy slumber; Rivers thy sense encumber; Whistles soothe thee, any number. Sleep, my pretty one, sleep! Huckster's crying lend thee shrillness; Wagons rattling break the stillness; Engines guard thee from an illness. Sleep, my pretty one, sleep! Should there come a silent minute Waken not with walling in it. Very soon will they begin it. Sleep, my pretty one, sleep! —Chicago Inter Ocean. Short. Patience—Were you at the strawberry shortcake festival? Patrice—Oh, yes. "How was it?" "Very enjoyable." "I heard every one who found a strawberry had to sing a song?" "That's right." "Well, it must have been awfully tiresome." "It wasn't. We had only two songs!" —Yonkers Statesman. Bridal Tourists The bride looked on the mountains, The river's golden strand. Italian garden fountains Were tinkling near at hand. She spake with cooing kindness, "How fair these vistas are!" The bridegroom in his blindness Bowed down beneath the car. From thence did he deliver Some words about a chain, Such words as made her shiver With an anointed pain. Then to be healed She hummed these lines and smiled, "Where every prospect pleases And only man is riled." —Frederick Moxon in Judge He Knew. A teacher in a big elementary school had given lessons to an infants' class on the Ten Commandments. In order to test their memories she asked: Thos. McCain "Keep Off the Grass," was the reply.—New York Globe. A Mint Julep. No wonder cost of living's high And people have to stint. Then make the dogmee money; Then they cost the dogmee. And they keep it there for years and years The Limit "My husband," said Mra. Meekly, "has passed the limit." "What has he done?" "He was ill last night and made me get a mustard plaster for him, and after I put it on he turned reproachfully and said to me, 'Your mustard plasters do not hurt like those that my mother used to make.'" Pathinder THE MIDDLE EAST MUSEUM S. E. Cor. State and 36th Place, Chicago Telephone Douglas 1565 GENERAL BANKING 3 per cent allowed on Savings Accounts Safety Deposit Vaults, $3.00 per Year REAL ESTATE DEPARTMENT As agent buy and sell Real Estate on commission, manages estates for non-residents, including payment of taxes and 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. The finest building ever opened to Colored tenants in Chicago. Steam heat, 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 looking after assessments. Money to loan on Chicago Real Estate. Especially Invites the patronage of Chicago business men. THE NEW YORK MUSEUM 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. Vegetables Are Best Cooked With Moderate Heat Only very strong juiced vegetables should be cooked rapidly—all the sweet juiced sorts, such as peas and young beans, should "simmer" over a slow fire. Vegetables Are Best Cooked With Moderate Heat Only very strong juiced vegetables should be cooked rapidly—all the sweet juiced sorts, such as peas and young beans, should "simmer" over a slow fire. "Composite" Range No. 289 with burner in bottom of oven for cooking vegetables. The modern way is to cook your vegetables in the oven—this scheme preserves the flavor and sends the odor up the flue pipe. Some of our new types of "Composite" Gas Ranges have burners in the bottom of the lower oven—especially for cooking vegetables. Every "Composite" is of course equipped with a "simmering" burner on top. You will find a "Composite" Range much more economical than a hot plate or single oven stove. "Composite" Ranges are built for us in fifty shapes. They are sold on monthly payment plans—delivered and connected free. We are selling over 150 "Composites" every day. Telephone Randolph 4567 and ask for handsome illustrated catalog. Branch Stores in Every District The Peoples Gas Light & Coke Co. Peoples Gas Building Thos. McCain Joe Shoecraft, Mgr. Chicago Mort Shoecraft The Pompei The Peoples Gas Light & Coke Co. Peoples Gas Building Joe Shoecraft, Mgr. The Pompei Buffet and Cafe 20-22 East 31st Street :: CHICAGO Phones. Douglas 833 Auto. 71-313 20-22 East 31st Street :: CHICAGO "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. JOHN J. BRADLEY Real Estate Loans Fire and Plate Glass Insurance 4709 S. HALSTED ST CHICAGO Douglas 4482 phone 73-974 phone 74-478 HARRY LA VERDO BUFFET BUFFET AND DOMESTIC CIGARS AND CIGARS Street LA VI IMPORTED AND DO 3100 State Street Hotel BUFFET, LA VERDO BUFFET IMPORTED AND DOMESTIC CIGARS AND CIGARETTES 3100 State Street Hotel Brunswick Geo. W. Holt, Prop. BUFFET, POOL AND BILLIARDS e Street Douglas 3256 A. F. CO JONES THE ELITE CAFE and BUFFET Hotel Brunswick Geo. W. Holt, Prop. BUFFET, POOL AND BILLIARDS. Phone: Douglas 3256 HENRY JONES THE CAFE THE ELITE CAFE and BUFFET Finest Table d'Hote in the City 4 p. m., to 1 a. m. State Street C HAM LEWIS, Prop. HENRY C. SNEEK Phone Douglas 3309 Automatic 75-173 GENERAL SPRING CLUB F F E T A N D C A L 3517 S. State Street, CHICAGO CLASS INTERTAINERS EVERY EVEN ANN ESTABLISHED 1877 TEL. 1877 3030 State Street WILLIAM LEWIS, F Phone Doug MINERAL BUFFET 3517 S. S HIGH CLASS INT WILLIAM LEWIS, Prop. HENRY C. SNEED, M'g'r Phone Douglas 3309 Automatic 75-173 MINERAL SPRING CLUB BUFFET AND CAFE 3517 S. State Street, CHICAGO HIGH CLASS INTERTAINERS EVERY EVENING JOHN J. DUNN WHOLESALE COAL RETAIL FIFTY-FIRST STREET and ARMOUR AVENUE RAILYARDS 51st St. and L. S. & M. S. 51st St. and ARMOUR AVE. FRANKIDUNN JOHN BLOCKI, Pres. F. W. BLOCK JOHN BLOCKI & S FIFTY-FIRST STREET and ARMOUR AVENUE RAILYARDS 51st St. and L. S. & M. S. 51st St. and ARMOUR AVE. UNN BLOCKI, Pres. F. W. BLOCKI HN BLOCKI & S PERFUMERS FIFTY-FIRST STREET and ARMOUR AVENUE RAILYARDS 51st St. and L. S. & M. S. 51st St. and ARMOUR AVE. JOHN BLOCKI, Pres. F. W. BLOCKI, Treas. JOHN BLOCKI & SON PERFUMERS GO TO C. E. Kreyssler, Druggist 5057 S. STATE STREET NOT ON THE CORNER For high grade Drugs, Chemicals, and Medicinal Preparations All Prescriptions Carefully Compounded ALSO CARRY A FULL LINE OF Blocki's Ideal & Blocki's Flower In Bottle Perfumes Phones { Douglas 4482 Auto 73-974 Auto 74-478 3004 State Street FRANK DUNN J. B. MoCAHEY TRUSTEES BUFFET AND CIGARETTES nswick BILLIARDS. Chicago A. F. CODOZOE LITE FFET MARY C. SNEED, M'g'r dynamic 75-173 ING CLUB D CAFE CHICAGO DEVERY EVENING OUR AVENUE S. & M. S. AVE. CHICAGO F. W. BLOCKI, Treas. & SON Telephone Yards 693 Phone Aldine 3653 HARRY J. KELLY Prop. Automatic 72-379 Chicago, Ill. TEL. OAKLAND 1850,1851,1852