The Broad Ax

THE BROAD AX Mayor Carter H. Harrison Will Start His Boom for Re-election Jan. 1,1915. "The Man of Destiny" Claims He Will Not Run For the Sixth Time Unless it is Agreeable to Mrs. Harrison THAT STATEMENT ON HIS PART IS SIMPLY A BLIND OR A STALL HE IS LAYING BACK AND PERMITTING MRS. HARRISON TO FORGE TO THE FRONT TO SEE IF SHE IS ABLE TO FEEL THE PULSE OF THE DEAR SWEET LADIES AND GET THEM IN LINE FOR HIM. MANY DELEGATIONS FROM THE VARIOUS WARDS CONSISTING OF THE PAYBOLL BRIGADE—MANY OF THEM DRAWING LARGE SALARIES, PRACTICALLY DOING NOTHING, LOOKING OUT FOR THEIR BREAD AND BUTTER IN THE FUTURE, HAVE SWARMED THE CITY HALL EVERY DAY THE PAST WEEK. UBGING THE FIVE TIMES MAYOR NOT TO DESERT THEM AT THIS TIME AND LEAVE THEM HANGING HIGH AND DRY; THAT CHICAGO HAS NO OTHER CITIZEN WITHIN ITS BROAD WALLS WHO IS CAPABLE OF MANAGING OR MISMANAGING ITS AFFAIRS LIKE UNTO ITS PRESENT CHIEP EXECUTIVE. THE LEGISLATURE OF ILLINOIS OR SOME HIGHER LEGISLATIVE POWER SHOULD ENACT A LAW DECREEING THAT "OUR CARTER" AND HIS DESCENDANTS TO THE LAST GENERATION OR FOR THE NEXT THOUSAND YEARS TO COME MUST AND SHALL BULE OVER AND GOVERN THIS CITY. Vol. XX. Mayor Carter Will Start Re-election "The Man Claims He For the Six less it is Mrs. Harris THAT STATEMENT ON HIS PART IS LAYING BACK AND PERM TO THE FRONT TO SEE IF SH THE DEAR SWEET LADIES A MANY DELEGATIONS FROM THE PAYROLL BRIGADE—M SALARIES, PRACTICALLY DO THEIR BREAD AND BUTTER THE CITY HALL EVERY DAY URGING THE FIVE TIMES MAYOR TIME AND LEAVE THEM HA CAGO HAS NO OTHER CITIZEN CAPABLE OF MANAGING OR UNTO ITS PRESENT CHIEP E THE LEGISLATURE OF ILLINOIS POWER SHOULD ENACT A LAW AND HIS DESCENDANTS TO THE NEXT THOUSAND YEARS TO C AND GOVERN THIS CITY. It is more than enough to cause the boss or the head devil to crack his sides and split his big mouth wide open from ear to ear with laughter when he casts his big eyes around and about him and beholds the Hon. Carter H. Harrison winking and blinking both of his tricky political eyes all day long, at the same time stating in the presence of his retainers, camp followers and shouters that Mrs. Harrison is the undisputed "boss" of this city that he must obtain her consent first before he would even think about making the race for re-election for the sixth time as mayor of Chicago; no one knows better than the "Man of Destiny" himself, that he is dead anxious to be re-nominated and re-elected not only for the sixth time but for the twenty-sixth time if he lives that long, that he is simply stalling in his attempt to deceive the people while he is engaged in throwing Harrison dust in their eyes, that Mrs. Harrison is being permitted to forge to the front as the "boss" of Chicago at this time, as a feeler or to see if she is able to pull the dear sweet ladies in line for her distinguished husband. At no time during our humble walk or dog trot through life have we ever claimed to know very much but at the same time we are willing to lay down twenty-five cents against a large bright red apple that on Jan. 1st, 1915, or shortly thereafter, regardless of the consent of Mrs. Harrison, that our mayor who is decidedly unwilling to give up his present job and take chances on catching onto another one like it will start his re-nomination and re-election boom. WHITE MAN KILLS COLORED WOMAN BECAUSE SHE RAN WITH COLORED MEN. A White lady writing for publication long since said, Southern White men did not want women to have the ballot as it would stop race miscognition and prevent the further "discoloration" of the White race in the South. The Courier-Journal in reply to her said "that there could be no discoloration of the White race as long as only the male units crossed the Colored line and that it would merely be discoloration of the Negroes." It further added that White men have never bothered after Colored women --- HEW TO THE LINE; LET THE CHIPS FALL WHERE THEY MAY Every day for the past week many delegations from the various wards in the city, the great majority of them consisting of the payroll brigades—many of them drawing large salaries and practically doing nothing all the time looking out for easy money or pickings or their bread and butter in the future, have been swarming the city hall. All the time urging the five times mayor not to desert them at this time and leave them hanging high and dry and permit them to fall by the wayside—that Chicago has no other worthy citizen within its broad walls who has as much sense as he has and who is as capable of managing or mismanaging its affairs like its present chief executive. As the heads of the visiting delegations are bowed in and out of his inner room. Like a wise cold-blooded selfish politician who loves nobody but himself unbosoms himself of an ice cold dry grin at the same time intimating that he would greatly delight to serve the people of this city as their mayor to the end of his days on this earth. For our part we feel that as "Our Carter" has never been able to earn eighteen thousand dollars a year and that he never will be able to earn that much working in another dead easy job like it, that the legislature of Illinois or some other higher legislative power should enact a law decreeing; that he and his descendants to the last generation or for the next thousand years to come must and shall be permitted to rule over and govern this ungoverned city. as much as persons, like the woman quoted, have often declared. Hard on the heels of the above discussions comes this shocking news from Franklin, Kentucky, that two White men are being tried there for the murder of Dona Gardner, a Colored woman. The men are Hobby Taylor and Porter Butts. It was testified by a Colored man that he and the woman had attended a dance and on the way home were stopped by the White men. Butts, after accusing the woman of promising not to run with Negro men, shot her three times, killing her instantly. This testimony was substantiated by Lona Whitesidee, another Colored woman who said she and Dona Gardner had an en- PHOTO BY MOFFETT STUDIO HON. CARTER H. HARRISON. The "Man of Destiny" who will start his boom for the sixth time for Mayor of Chicago, January 1, 1915. agagement to meet Butts and Taylor that night. As stated editorially by the News, it is very common in small towns to have White men drive Colored men away from their own women. This case proves that the White lady and the News are right and the Courier-Journal is wrong. This article is from the Louisville News. On the Ohio side of the river only a few weeks ago, a White man killed a Colored woman because she wanted to return to her Colored friends. The Progressive Manufacturing Company is the name of a hosiery mill soon to be established at Burlington, N. C. It is reported that prominent and influential Colored people are behind the movement and that much of the stock has been placed. Dr. Matilda A. Evans, of Columbia, S. C., who probably has the largest practice of any Colored physician in the State, has recently erected a hos- NOTES ON RACIAL PROGRESS Purnished by the National Negro Busi ness League A Thought for the Week.—In urging the Colored people of Dayton, Ohio, to organize and support Negro business enterprises, the Lexington (Ky.) Weekly News says: "We have the money and our population is sufficient, but we lack the principal thing—race pride. * * * In all more than $2,000,000 is spent by the race for the necessities of life, and barely three per cent of this amount is spent with members of the race. The word 'Negro' will be synonymous with 'poverty' so long as we spend 97 per cent of our earnings with other people." * * * Charles Banks, casher of the Bank of Mound Bayou, which, some time ago closed its doors, is giving stockholders and depositors the equivalent of their bank holdings in stock of the Mound Bayou Oil Mill, a successful enterprise of which he is the managing director. Invitations were recently extended to V. H. Tulane, cashier of the Montgomery Branch of the Alabama Penny Savings Bank, and J. O. Diffay, president of the Alabama Penny Savings Bank, at Birmingham, to attend the meeting of the Alabama State Bankers Association which convened in the State Capitol at Montgomery. Every courtesy was extended to these well known Colored bankers and they entered heartily into the deliberations of that progressive body. Local Negro Business Leagues have been or are being organized in the following cities. Springfield, Mo., Binghamton, N. Y., Champaign, Ill., Rockville, Ind., and St. Paul, Minn. Joseph Douglass, grandson of the late Frederick Douglass, and eminent American violinist, has been engaged by the Victor Talking Machine Company to produce for them a series of records. art his boom for the sixth time for Mayor January 1, 1915. The Progressive Manufacturing Company is the name of a hosiery mill soon to be established at Burlington, N. C. It is reported that prominent and influential Colored people are behind the movement and that much of the stock has been placed. Dr. Matilda A. Evans, of Columbia, S. C., who probably has the largest practice of any Colored physician in the State, has recently erected a hospital in that city. The opening of the hospital celebrated her seventeenth anniversary as a practicing physician. J. H. Anderson & Son, successful contractors and builders of Piqua, Ohio, have been awarded the contract for building Central Hall, the new $20,000 building of the Curry Institute at Urbana, Ohio. The Newport News Star is "boosting" the Local Negro Business League. An enthusiastic League meeting was recently held in that city and a large number of new members were enrolled. Getting down to active business for community uplift and racial unity is the slogan of the organization. WHITE GIRL MAKES FALSE Little Rock, Ark.—Claiming that religious training received at a Catholic convent had caused her to repent, Gertrude Hollinished, a 16-year old White girl sent for Judge Lankford and declared that her testimony which had sent nine persons of Color to the penitentiary over a year ago, was false. In August, 1913, this girl, then under 16 years, who was an orphan living with her stepmother, was driven from home and was taken in by a Colored woman. Later she brought serious charges against the woman who had befriended her and eight men. The nine persons against whom she testified were given from 19 to 35 years in the penitentiary. The woman was sent up for 35 years. Now after being imprisoned 15 months, the girl says she lied, that they are innocent of wrong doing and she wants them pardoned. It is evident from the self-confessions of Miss Hollinished that in times that have passed and gone that many innocent Colored men, women and children in the southern states have been imprisoned in such a manner without a just cause.—Editor. --- CHARGES THREE DAYS MORE OF DOUBLE VOTES This is the Last Offer MANY SUBSCRIPTIONS PILING IN As the end of this great struggle draws near to a close the contestants work that much harder and it is well that they do for you can not tell who, by harder work, than you have put forth may leap into the lead and win out. This is absolutely your last chance to receive extra votes so take advantage of this opportunity and secure all the business that you can as you now receive twice as much as you will in the closing week. The special, double vote offer closes sharp at 9 o'clock the night of the 14th of Dec. So do not weaken, if you do you are lost. Many of the contestants who before this time have turned in nothing at all have now jumped in the game with vim and are making a great showing. Name Mme. E. M. Scott, 3611 S. State St..... Miss Nellie Callaway, 3300 Rhodes Ave. Miss Hattie Winslow, 3535 South Wash. Rev. W. S. Braddan (chaplain 8th Reg. Miss Ethel Cole, 3600 Wabash Ave., Fl. Henry Humphrey, 3607 State street..... Col. H. H. Biggs, Pythian Hall, 39th and Miss Katie Fowler, 5363 Dearborn St..... Miss Cora Mason, 11 E. 34th St..... Miss Bertha Moseley, 4313 Forestville A Miss B. Forgton, 2962 Wabash Ave., fla. J. R. Winston, 4016 Cottage Grove Ave. Miss Amy Boger, Columbia St., Aurora. Miss Pauline D. Owens, Mounds, Ill. Mrs. L. Q. Dean, 3616 Calumet Ave. Mrs. Gertrude Towson, 529 Bowen Ave. Miss Marie Jefferson, 6119 Loomis St. Mable J. Lucas, 230 Macomb St., Detroit. Mr. N. J. Allison, Y. M. C. A., 3857 S. Ws. Alma G Rowens, 3228 Calumet Ave. Miss Margaret Hall, Beach & Columbia. Miss Emma Shaw, 3315 Rhodes Ave. Alphonse Saxton, 57 E. 36th St..... Lula Weathers, 3532 Wabash Ave. John H. Williams, 3552 S. State St..... Rev. J. W. Robinson, 4925 So. Wabash Ave. Mme. E. M. Scott, 3611 S. State St. 10,590 votes Miss Nellie Callaway, 3300 Rhodes Ave. 10,400 votes Miss Hattie Winslow, 3535 South Wabash Ave. 9,790 votes Rev. W. S. Braddan (chaplain 8th Reg.), 5008 Fifth Ave. 9,150 votes Miss Ethel Cole, 3600 Wabash Ave., Flat 44. 9,000 votes Henry Humphrey, 3607 State street. 9,000 votes Col. H. H. Biggs, Pythian Hall, 39th and State Sts. 6,340 votes Miss Katie Fowler, 5363 Dearborn St. 6,340 votes Miss Cora Mason, 11 E. 34th St. 6,180 votes Miss Bertha Moseley, 4331 Forestville Ave. 6,100 votes Miss B. Forston, 2962 Wabash Ave., flat 6. 6,090 votes J. R. Winston, 4016 Cottage Grove Ave. 6,040 votes Miss Amy Boger, Columbia St., Aurora, Ill. 6,020 votes Miss Pauline D. Owens, Mounds, Ill. 6,010 votes Mrs. L. Q. Dean, 3616 Calumet Ave. 5,060 votes Mrs. Gertrude Towson, 529 Bowen Ave. 5,040 votes Miss Marie Jefferson, 6119 Loomis St. 5,020 votes Mable J. Lucas, 230 Macomb St., Detroit, Mich. 5,100 votes Mr. N. J. Allison, Y. M. C. A., 3857 S. Wabash Ave. 5,000 votes Alma G Rowens, 3228 Calumet Ave. 5,000 votes Miss Margaret Hall, Beach & Columbia Sts., Aurora, Ill. 5,000 votes Miss Emma Shaw, 3315 Rhodes Ave. 5,000 votes Alphonse Saxton, 57 E. 36th St. 5,000 votes Lula Weathers, 5532 Wabash Ave. 5,000 votes John H. Williams, 3552 S. State St. 5,000 votes Rev. J. W. Robinson, 4925 So. Wabash Ave., Pastor of St. Mark church 5,000 votes --- DR. ANNA BEATRICE SCHULTZ KNIGHTEN INDICTED BY THE COOK COUNTY GRAND JUBY. SHE IS CHARGED WITH PER- FORMING AN ILLEGAL OPERATION ON FLOSSIE EMMERSON WHICH WAS THE CAUSE OF HER DEATH. The first of this week Dr. Anna Beatrice Schultz Knighten, 2719 S. State street, was indicted by the Cook county grand jury. She is charged with performing an illegal operation on Flossie Emmerson which was the cause of her death. At the time of the trial of Dr. Schultz last spring a full account of that affair appeared in these columns. It is said that so far three officers, from the State's Attorney's office, have been unable to lay their hands on Dr. Schultz. Further revelations concerning her connection with the will of the late Blase Mag will appear in these columns next week. They seem to be just realizing now what a wonderful proposition this is and they have decided to get in and win. There are also some entirely new contestants who have entered and do not be surprised if you see them in the lead as they are working hard, and are sorry that they did not start sooner. NOW OR NEVER This double offer this week means this much that the one turning in the greatest number of subscriptions stand the best show of being declared winner of the $1,500.00 Automobile, so do it now; do not miss a single friend. Have you paid your own subscription if not do so because the $2.00 you spend is the same as four dollars hereafter. Think what it means to you. Names of Contestants St..... James Ave..... Lin Wabash Ave..... (Reg.), 5008 Fifth Ave. Vee., Flat 44..... St..... South and State Sts..... Mon St..... Proville Ave..... e., flat 6..... S Ave..... Aurora, Ill..... Ill..... Ave..... Ave..... S St..... Detroit, Mich..... S. Wabash Ave..... Vee..... Cumbia Sts., Aurora, Ill. Ave..... St..... Ave..... South Ave., Pastor of St. M... Monday John A. Cervenka, Clerk of the Probate Court; Hon. Henry Horner, Judge of that court; Hon. Robert M. Sweitzer, Clerk of the County Court; Peter Reinberg, President of the Board of County Commissioners; Hon. Thomas F. Seully, the new Judge of the County Court; Hon. John E. Traeger, Sheriff and the other county officials assumed charge of their respective offices, which were on that occasion decorated with many rare and beautiful flowers. ALDERMAN GEORGE F. HARDING DID NOT ATTEND THE DE PRIEST MEETING AS REPORTED. It was stated in these columns the past week that Alderman George F. Harding attended the Oscar DePriest meeting at 3439 South State street several weeks ago. He was not present at the meeting but Alderman Hugh Norris was in sight and went on record in favor of Hon. Oscar DePriest for Alderman from the second ward. --- No.12 PRESIDENT WILSON'S MESSAGE PAGE TWO The Chief Executive Deplores the Lack of Ships, Declares That the Government Must Open the Gates of Trade and Urges Passage of the Pending Shipping Bill — Rural Credits and Safety at Sea. Self Government For Filipinos Again Recommended. FOLLOWING is President Wilson's annual message, delivered at the beginning of the short term of the Sixty-third congress: Gentlemen of the Congress—The session upon which you are now entering will be the closing session of the Sixty-third congress, a congress, I venture to say, which will long be remembered for the great body of thoughtful and constructive work which it has done in loyal response to the thought and needs of the country. I should like in this address to review the notable record and try to make adequate assessment of it, but no doubt we stand too near the work that has been done and are ourselves too much part of it to play the part of historians toward it. Moreover, our thoughts are now more of the future than of the past. While we have worked at our tasks of peace the circumstances of the whole age have been altered by war? What we have done for our own land and our own people we did with the best that was in us, whether of character or of intelligence, with sober enthusiasm and a confidence in the principles upon which we were acting which sustained us at every step of the difficult undertaking. But it is done. It has passed from our hands. It is now an established part of the legislation of the country. Its usefulness, its effects will disclose themselves in experience. What chiefly strikes us now, as we look about us during these closing days of a year which will be forever memorable in the history of the world, is that we face new tasks, have been facing them these six months, must face them in the months to come—face them without partisan feeling, like men who have forgotten everything but a common duty and the fact that we are repre- "WE NEED SHIPS; WE HAVE NOT GOT THEM." The United States, this great people for whom we speak and act, should be ready as never before to serve itself and to serve mankind; ready with its resources, its energies, its forces of production and its means of distribution. We are not ready to mobilize our resources at once. We are not prepared to use them immediately and at their best, without delay and without waste. To speak plainly, we have grossly erred in the way in which we have stunted and hindered the development of our merchant marine, and now, when we need ships, we have not got them. sentatives of a great people whose thought is not of us, but of what America owes to herself and to all mankind in such circumstances as these upon which we look amazed and anxious War has interrupted the means of trade not only, but also the processes of production. In Europe it is destroying men and resources wholesale and upon a scale unprecedented and appalling. There is reason to fear that the time is near, if it be not already at hand, when several of the countries of Europe will find it difficult to do for their people what they have hitherto been always easily able to do—many essential and fundamental things. At any rate, they will need our help and our manifold services as they have never needed them before, and we should be ready, more fit and ready than we have ever been. AMERICA* FACES NEW MARKETS FOR TRADE Merchant Marine Must Be Built Up to Meet Opportunity. It is of equal consequence that the nations whom Europe has usually supplied with innumerable articles of manufacture and commerce of which they are in constant need and without which their economic development halts and stands still can now get only a small part of what they formerly imported and eagerly look to us to supply their all but empty markets. This is particularly true of our own neighbor, the states, great and small, of Central and South America. Their lines of trade have hitherto run chiefly atwart the seas, not to our ports, but to the ports of Great Britain and of the older continent of Europe. I do not stop to inquire why or to make any comment on probable causes. What interests us just now is not the explanation, but the fact and our duty and opportunity in the presence of it. Here are mar [Image of a formal meeting or conference with a speaker addressing an audience. The setting appears to be a large hall with high ceilings and arched windows. The speaker is standing at a podium, addressing the group. The audience is seated in rows, facing the speaker. The room is filled with books and papers, suggesting a scholarly or professional environment. The image is likely from the early 20th century, given the style of the furniture and the attire of the participants.] Photo copyright, 1914, by American Press Association. kets which we must supply, and we must. find the means of action. The United States, this great people for whom we speak and act, should be ready as never before to serve itself and to serve mankind, ready with its resources, its energies, its forces of production and its means of distribution. It is a very practical matter, a matter of ways and means. We have the resources, but are we fully ready to use them? And, if we can make ready what we have, we have the means at hand to distribute it? We are not fully ready; neither have we the means of distribution. We are willing, but we are not fully able. We have the wish to serve and to serve greatly, generously. But we are not prepared as we should be. We are not ready to mobilize our resources at once. We are not prepared to use them immediately and at their best, without delay and without waste. To speak plainly, we have grossly erred in the way in which we have stunted and hindered the development of our merchant marine. And now, when we need ships, we have not got them. We have year after year debated, without end or conclusion, the best policy to pursue with regard to the use of the ores and forests and water powers of our national domain in the rich states of the west, when we should have acted, and they are still locked up. The key is still turned upon them, the door shut fast at which thousands of vigorous men, full of initiative, knock clamorously for admittance. The water power of our navigable streams outside the national domain also, even in the eastern states, where we have worked and planned for generations, is still not used as it might be, because we will and we won't; because the laws we have made do not intelligently balance encouragement against restraint. We withhold by regulation. I have come to ask you to remedy and correct these mistakes and omissions, even at this short session of a congress which would certainly seem to have done all the work that could reasonably be expected of it. The time and the circumstances are extraordinary, and so must our efforts be also. Fortunately two great measures, finely conceived, the one to unlock, with proper safeguards, the resources of the national domain, the other to encourage the use of the navigable waters outside that domain for the generation of power, have already passed the house of representatives and are ready for immediate consideration and action by the senate. With the deepest earnestness I urge their prompt passage. In them both we turn our backs GATES OF TRADE MUST BE OPENED. The government must open these gates of trade, and open them wide, open them before it is altogether profitable to open them or altogether reasonable to ask private capital to open them at a venture. It is not a question of the government monopolizing the field. It should take action to make it certain that transportation at reasonable rates will be promptly provided, even where the carriage is not at first profitable, and then, when the carriage has become sufficiently profitable to attract and engage private capital and engage it in abundance, the government ought to withdraw. upon hesitation and makehift and formulate a genuine policy of use and conservation in the best sense of those words. We owe the one measure not only to the people of that great western country for whose free and systematic development, as it seems to me, our legislation has done no little, but also to the people of the nation THE BROAD AX. CHICAGO. DECEMBER 12, 1914 No Standing Army, but a Trained Citizenry For War. "We Have Not Been Negligent of National Defense." A Powerful Navy Needed, "But Who Shall Tell Us What Sort of Navy to Build?" To Learn and Profit by the Lesson of Every Experience. as a whole, and we as clearly owe the other in fulfillment of our repeated promises that the water power of the country should in fact as well as in name be put at the disposal of great industries which can make economical and profitable use of it, the rights of the public being adequately guarded the while and monopoly in the use prevented. To have begun such measures and not completed them would indeed mar the record of this great congress very seriously. I hope and confidently believe that they will be completed. SELF GOVERNMENT FOR FILIPINOS IS URGED. President Says Senate Should Pass Measure Now Before Senate. And there is another great piece of legislation which awaits and should receive the sanction of the senate. I mean the bill which gives a larger measure of self government to the people of the Philippines. How better in this time of anxious questioning and perplexed policy could we show our confidence in the principles of liberty as the source as well as the expression of life; how better could we demonstrate our own self possession and steadfastness in the courses of justice and disinterestedness than by thus going calmly forward to fulfill our promises to a dependent people, who will now look more anxiously than ever to see whether we have indeed the liberality, the unselfishness, the courage, the faith we have boasted and professed? I cannot believe that the senate will let this great measure of constructive justice await the action of another congress. its passage would nobil crown the record of these two years of memorable labor. But I think that you will agree with me that this does not complete the toll of our duty. How are we to carry our goods to the empty markets of which I have spoken if we have not the ships? How are we to build up a great trade if we have not the certain and constant means of transportation upon which all profitable and useful commerce depends? And how are we to get the ships if we wait for the trade to develop without them? To correct the many mistakes by which we have discouraged and all but destroyed the merchant marine of the country, to retrace the steps by which we have, it seems almost deliberately, withdrawn our flag from the seas, except where, here and there, a ship of war is bidden carry it or some wandering yacht displays it, would take a long time and involve many detailed items of legislation, and the trade which we ought immediately to handle would disappear or find other channels while we debated the items. The case is not unlike that which confronted us when our own continent was to be opened up to settlement and industry, and we needed long lines of railway, extended means of transportation prepared beforehand, if development was not to lag intolerably and wait interminably. We lavishly subsidised the building of transcontinental railroads. We look back upon that with regret now, because the subsidies led to many scandals of which we are ashamed, but we know that the railroads had to be built, and if we had it to do over again we should of course build them, but in another way. Therefore I propose another way of providing the means of transportation, which must precede, not tardily follow, the development of our trade with our neighbor states of America. It may seem a reversal of the natural order of things, but it is true, that the routes of trade must be actually opened—by many ships and regular sailings and moderate charges—before streams of merchandise will flow freely and profitably through them. SAYS SHIPPING BILL IS VERY IMPORTANT. It Should Be Passed to Profit by Opened Gates of Trade. Hence the pending shipping bill, discussed at the last session, but as yet passed by neither house. In my judgment such legislation is imperatively needed and cannot wisely be postponed. The government must open these gates of trade, and open them wide, open them before it is altogether profitable to open them or altogether reasonable to ask private capital to open them at a venture. It is not a question of the government monopolising the field. It should take action to make If certain that transportation at reasonable rates will be promptly provided, even where the carriage is not at first profitable, and then, when the carriage has become sufficiently profitable to attract and engage private capital and engage it in abundance, the government ought to withdraw. I very earnestly hope that the congress will be of this opinion and that both houses will adopt this exceedingly important bill. The great subject of rural credits still remains to be dealt with, and it is a matter of deep regret that the difficulties of the subject have seemed to render it impossible to complete a bill for passage at this session. But it cannot be perfected yet, and therefore there are no other constructive measures the necessity for which I will at this time call your attention to, but I would be negligent of a very manifest duty were I not to call the attention of the senate to the fact that the proposed convention for safety at sea awaits its confirmation and that the limit fixed in the convention itself for its acceptance is the last day of the present month. The conference in which this convention originated was called by the United States. The representatives of the United States played a very influential part indeed in framing the provisions of the proposed convention, and those provisions are in themselves for the most part admirable. It would hardly be consistent with the part we have played in the whole matter to let it drop and go by the board as if forgotten and neglected. It was ratified in May last by the German government and in August by the parliament of Great Britain. It marks a most hopeful and decided advance in international civilization. We should show our earnest good faith in a great matter by adding our own acceptance of it. COASTS OF ALASKA SHOULD BE SURVEYED Present Dangers to Navigation Ought to Be Removed by Charts. There is another matter of which I must make special mention, if I am to discharge my conscience, lest it should escape your attention. It may seem a very small thing. It affects only a single item of appropriation. But many human lives and many great enterprises hang upon it. It is the matter of making adequate provision for the survey and charting of our coasts. It is immediately pressing and exigent in connection with the immense coast line of Alaska, a coast line greater than that of the United States themselves, though it is also very important indeed with regard to the older coasts of the continent. We cannot use our great Alaskan domain, ships will not ply thither, if those coasts and their many hidden dangers are not thoroughly surveyed and charted. The work is incomplete at almost every point. Ships and lives have been lost in threading what were supposed to be well known main channels. We have not provided adequate vessels or adequate machinery for the survey and charting. We have used old vessels that were not big enough or strong enough and which were so nearly unseaworthy that our inspectors would not have allowed private owners to send them to sea. This is a matter which, as I have said, seems small, but is in reality very great. Its importance has only to be looked into to be appreciated. GOVERNMENT ECONOMY IS VERY IMPERATIVE. Urge Systematic Reorganization to Gain Greater Efficiency. Before I close may I say a few words upon two topics much discussed out of doors upon which it is highly important that our judgments should be clear definite and steadfast? One of these is economy in government expenditures. The duty of economy is not debatable. It is manifest and imperative. In the appropriations we pass we are spending the money of the great people whose servants we are—not our own. We are trustees and responsible stewards in the spending. The only thing debatable and upon which we should be careful to make our thought and purpose clear is the kind of economy demanded of us. I assert with the greatest confidence that the people of the United States are not jealous of the amount their government costs if they are sure that they get what they need and desire for the outlay, that the money, is being spent for objects of which they approve and that it is being applied with good business sense and management. Governments grow piecemeal both in their tasks and in the means by which those tasks are to be performed, and very few governments are organized, I venture to say, as wise and experienced business men would organise them if they had a clean sheet of paper to write upon. Certainly the government of the United States is not. I think that it is generally agreed that there should be a systematic reorganization and reassembling of its parts so as to secure greater efficiency and effect considerable savings in expense. But the amount of money saved in that way would. I believe, though no doubt considerable in itself, running, it may be, into the millions, be relatively small—small, I mean, in proportion to the total necessary outlays of the government. It would be thoroughly worth effecting, as every saving would, great or small. Our duty is not altered by the scale of the saving. But my point is that the people of the United States do not wish to curtail the activities of this government. They wish, rather, to so- large them, and with every enlargement, with the mere growth, indeed, of the country itself, there must come, of course, the inevitable increase of expense. The sort of economy we ought to practice may be effected, and ought to be effected, by a careful study and assessment of the tasks to be performed, and the money spent ought to be made to yield the best possible returns in efficiency and achievement. And, like good stewards, we should so account for every dollar of our appropriations as to make it perfectly evident what it was spent for and in what way it was spent. It is not expenditure but extravagance that we should fear being criticised for, not paying for the legitimate enterprises and undertakings of a great government whose people command what it should do, but adding what will benefit only a few or pouring money out for what need not have been undertaken at all or might have been postponed or better and more economically conceived and carried out. The nation is not niggardly; it is very generous. We will chide us only if we forget for whom we pay money out and whose money it is we pay. These are large and general standards, but they are not very difficult of application to particular cases. PRESIDENT OPPOSED TO BIG STANDING ARMY. Speaks Plainly and Directly on Question of National Defenses. The other topic I shall take leave to mention goes deeper into the principles of our national life and policy. It is the subject of national defense. It cannot be discussed without first answering some very searching questions. It is said in some quarters that we are not prepared for war. What is meant by being prepared? Is it meant that we are not ready upon brief notice to put a nation in the field, a nation of men trained to arms? Of course we are not ready to do that, and we shall never be in time of peace so long as we retain our present political principles and institutions. And what is it that it is suggested we should be prepared to do—to defend ourselves against attack? We have always found means to do that and shall find them whenever it is necessary without calling our people away from their necessary tasks to render compulsory military service in times of peace. Allow me to speak with great plainness and directness upon this great matter and to avow my convictions with deep earnestness. I have tried to know what America is, what her people think, what they are, what they most cherish and hold dear. I hope that some of their finer passions are in my own heart—some of the great concepts and desires which gave birth to this government and which have made the voice of this people a voice of peace and hope and liberty among the peoples of the world, and that, speaking my own thoughts, I shall, at least in part, speak theirs also, however fairly and inadequately, upon this vital matter. We are at peace with all the world. No one who speaks counsel based on fact or drawn from a just and candid interpretation of realities can say that there is reason to fear that from any quarter our independence or the integrity of our territory is threatened. Dread of the power of any other nation we are incapable of. We are not jealous of rivalry in the fields of commerce or of any other peaceful achievement. We mean to live our own lives as we will, but we mean also to let live. We are, indeed, a true friend to all the nations of the world, because we threaten none, covet the possessions of done, desire the overthrow of none. Our friendship can be accepted and is accepted without reservation, because it is offered in a spirit and for a purpose which no one need ever question or suspect. Therein lies our greatness. We are the champions of peace and of concord. And we should be very jealous of this distinction which we have sought to earn. Just now we should be particularly jealous of it, because it is our dearest present hope that this character and reputation may presently, in God's providence, bring us an opportunity such as has seldom been vouchsafed any nation, the opportunity to counsel and obtain peace in the world and reconciliation and a bealing settlement of many a matter that has cooled and interrupted the friendship of nations. This is the time above all others when we should wish and resolve to keep our strength by self possession, our influence by preserving our ancient principles of action. From the first we have had a clear and settled policy with regard to military establishments. We never have had, and while we retain our present principles and ideals we never shall have, a large standing army. If asked, Are you ready to defend yourself? we reply. Most assuredly; to the utmost. And yet we shall not turn America into a military camp. We will not ask our young men to spend the best years of their lives making soldiers of themselves. There is another sort of energy in us. It will know how to declare itself and make itself effective should occasion arise. And especially when half the world is on fire we shall be careful to make our moral insurance against the spread of the conflagration very definite and certain and adequate indeed. Let us remind ourselves, therefore, of the only thing we can do or will do. We must depend in every time of national parli. in the future as in the past, not upon a standing army nor yet upon a reserve army, but upon a citizenry trained and accustomed to some It will be right enough, right American policy, based upon our accounted principles and practices, to provide a system by which every citizen will will volunteer for the training may be made familiar with the use of modern arms, the rudiments of drill and neuer and the maintenance and stabilization of camps. We should encourage such training and make it a means of discipline, which our young men will learn to value. It is right that we should provide our not only, but that we should make as attractive as possible, and so include our young men to undergo it at such times as they can command a little freedom and can seek the physical development they need, for more healthy sake, if for nothing more. Every means by which such things can be stimulated is legitimate, and such a method smacks of true American ideas. It is right, too, that the national guard of the states should be developed and strengthened by every which is not inconsistent with our obligations to our own people or with the established policy of our government, and this also not because the time or occasion specially calls for such measures but because it should be our constant policy to make these provisions for our national peace and safety. More than this carries with it a reversal of the whole history and character of our polity. More than that proposed at this time, permit me to say, would mean merely that we had lost our self possession, that we had been thrown off our balance by a wail with which we have nothing to do whose causes cannot touch us, whose very existence affords us opportunities of friendship and disinterested service which should make us ashamed of any thought of hostility or fearful resentment. TRAINED CITIZENRY FOR DEFENSE. We must depend in every time of national peril * * * upon a citizenry trained and accustomed to arms. * * * We should encourage such training and make it a means of discipline which our young men will learn to value. * * * It is right, too, that the national guard of the states should be developed and strengthened by every means which is not inconsistent with our obligations to our own people or with the established policy of our government. tion for trouble. This is assuredly the opportunity for which a people and a government like ours were raised up, the opportunity not only to speak, but actually to embody and exemplify the counsels of peace and amity and the lasting concord which is based on tice and fair and generous dealing. POWERFUL NAVY IS AMERICAN POLICY United States Will Continue to Rush Strong on the Seas. A powerful navy we have always regarded as our proper and normal means of defense, and it has always been of defense that we have thought never of aggression or of conquest. But who shall tell us now what sort of navy to build? We shall take leave to be strong upon the seas in the future as in the past, and there will be no thought of offense or of provocation in that. Our ships are our natural bulwarks. When will the experts tell us just what kind we should construct and when will they be right for ten years together, if the relative efficiency of craft of different kinds and uses continues to change as we have seen it change under our very eyes in these last few months? But I turn away from the subject. It is not new. There is no new need to discuss it. We shall not alter our attitude toward it because some among us are nervous and excited. We shall easily and sensibly agree upon a policy of defense. The question has not changed its aspects because the times are not normal. Our policy will not be for an occasion. It will be conceived as a permanent and settled thing which we will pursue at all seasons without haste and after a fashion perceptively consistent with the peace of the world, the abiding friendship of states and the unhampered freedom of all with whom we deal. Let there be no misconception. The country has been misinformed. We have not been negligent of national defense. We are not unmindful of the great responsibility upon us. We shall learn and profit by the lesson of every experience and every new circumstance, and what is needed will be adequately done. I close, as I began, by reminding you of the great tasks and duties of peace which challenge our best powers and invite us to build what will last the tasks to which we can address our selves now and at all time with two hearted zest and with all the finest gifts of constructive wisdom we possess. To develop our life and our resources, to supply our own people and the people of the world as their need arises from the abundant plenty of our fields and our marts of trade, to enrich the commerce of our own trade and of the world with the products of our mines, our farms and our factories, with the creations of our thought and the fruits of our character-this is what will hold our attention and our enthusiasm steadily now and in the years to come as we strive to show in our life as a nation what liberty and the inspirations of an enamelled spirit may do for men and for societies, for individuals, for states and for mankind. THE BROAD AX, CHICAGO, DECEMBER 12. 1914 NEW HOMES. PRISONER Photo by American Press Association BELGIAN REFUGEES SEEKING NEW HOMES. PRISONERS IN A GERMAN HOSPITAL. 918 American Press Association. THE CENTRAL HOSPITAL Wounded French and Belgian soldiers well treated by their captors in light and airy quarters. RICADE. GERMAN Photo by American Press Association. The kaiser's 42 centim BELGIANS BEHIND BARRICADE. GERMAN TRANSPORT IN ANTWERP. 1740 A serican Press Association. M The kaiser's 42 centimeter guns are being transported in sections on huge auto trucks. FRENCH WOUNDED SOLDIERS IN HOSPITAL. American Press Association. GERMAN FLAGS CAPTURED BY FRENCH FRENCH WOUNDED SOLDIERS IN HOSPITAL. © 1814, by American Press Association. These colors, taken in the battle of the Marne, are on exhibition in the Chapelle des Invalides in Paris. Chapelle des Invalides in Paris. © 1814, by American Press Association. H SHELL FOR A "BUSY BERTHA." A Photo by American Press Association. This is one of many bridges blown up by the Belgians to hinder the pro-cess of the Germans. This projectile for a forty-two centimeter gun was sent as a present to the kaiser. Photo by American Press Association. Soldiers distributing food to the hungry in a town in Belgium. 1814, by American Press Association. 1111 by American Press Association TURRET FORT AT ANTWERP. A GERMANS FEEDING BELGIANS. THE FEDERAL CONFERENCE PAGE THREE BRIDGE OVER THE MAAS. FIGHTING FROM BEHIND BRUSH. PAGE FOUR THE BROAD AX PUBLISHED WEEKLY. Will promulgate and at all times uphold the true principles of Democracy, but Catholics, Protestants, Priests, Infidels, Single Taxes, Republicans, or anyone else can have their say, as long as their language is proper and responsibility is fixed. The Broad Ax is a newspaper whose platform is broad enough for all, over claiming the editorial right to speak its own mind. Local communications will receive attention. Write only on one side of the paper. Subscriptions must be paid in advance. One Year. $2.00 Six Months. 1.00 Advertising rates made known on application. Address all communications to 5087 FEDERAL STREET, CHICAGO, ILL PHONE DREXEL 4590. 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 8, 1879. HEALTH NOTES. It is the daily experience of medical health officers to find people who rebel against or chafe under the infliction of quarantine. In many cases, in most, perhaps, this opposition is due to ignorance as to the necessity for protecting those who are well from those who are sick with a contagious disease. Then, too, in many such cases, there is a lack of due regard for the rights of others, an overlooking of the principle that we owe it to our neighbors to give to them the same protection that we have a right to expect or demand from them under the same circumstances. Here is an instance showing how contagion is spread: A mother whose child had scarlet fever and whose home was under quarantine, violated the law by going to a department store where she purchased a coat on approval and took it home with her. A day or two later the garment was returned and was bought by a woman in a nearby town. Within five days her only child, a daughter aged 5, came down with scarlet fever and ten days later died. This case was the starting point of an epidemic in that town which was not checked until there had been 80 cases and four deaths. The above is only a sample of hundreds of similar cases that might be cited, as showing how contact of the well with the contagious sick means the spread of disease, suffering and death in a community. Tuberculosis is the component of all diseases and by many people is still regarded as incurable. This idea is all wrong. Dr. Edward Cummings in the Journal of the Outdoor Life says: "Tuberculosis is a curable disease. We cannot lay too much stress on this fact, we cannot publish it too often, because there are many people who still think that consumption is always fatal. This is because the general public gets all of its strong impressions of the disease only from far advanced and fatal cases. People do not hear much or think much about the cases that get well." The great, big, important thing is the right kind of treatment at the earliest possible stage of the disease. One of the striking features of the public health exhibit now being held at the City Club, is the graphically presented fact that Chicago appropriates only $4,000 a year, plus $3,020 for salaries, to save the babies that die each year in this city, while New York spends annually $250,000 for this purpose. With the beginning of the baby welfare campaign of this year the city had 4 welfare stations which were operated during the months of June, July and August. Three of these were operated during the months of September, October and November. With the beginning of December, owing to lack of funds, the Department was compelled to turn over all of these stations to private agencies. It is now asking that for next year an appropriation sufficient be made to cover 6 stations for six months out of the year. * * * Standing armies to fight dirt and disease would be a blessing to the nations. MEN'S CIVIC CLUB An interesting session was held by the Men's Civic Club on Tuesday evening last. Composed of some of the representative citizens of Chicago, the club is making splendid progress along civic lines. To accomplish definite results for the establishment of a playground at the Raymond School, is one of its chief objects at present. Meebings are held weekly at the club rooms, 3005 State St. WHY NEWSPAPERS FAIL. The newspaper subsists principally on its advertisement columns. To warrant advertisements, however, it must have a circulation. The larger the circulation of the paper the better its advertising capacity, and hence, and in proportion, its value to the advertiser. Many newspapers fail. There are many stumbling blocks in the way and many reasons for failure, but the greatest reason lies with the advertiser, the subscriber, and the agent. This is especially true of Colored people, among the large masses of whom the sense of obligation is conspicuous by its absence. Subscribers will take the paper and omit to remit. Agents will collect money for the paper and stick like a leech to it. Colored advertisers will want something for nothing. Even the organizations whose success the paper assures will want the Colored newspapers to carry advertisements for their affairs and take a gamble on the success. If they succeed they want the paper to go one more and wait for payment until they have had a meeting—which sometimes means a hold-up for months. If they fail they want the newspaper to fail with them. The Amsterdam News has not failed yet and will not hold out to its debtors and other friends any alluring promise of such an event. Profiting by the experiences and failures of other Colored newspapers, it will be our unswerving policy in the future to collect in advance from agents, subscribers, organizations and others using our advertising columns.—The Amsterdam News, New York City. Brother Anderson, you are out straight from the shoulder and we are beginning right now to work up to your idea of running a newspaper for thousands of people, many of them claiming to be good Christians, feel that they have no higher calling on earth nor in the next world than to beat an editor out of his money in the way of subscriptions and so on.—Editor. RED CROSS SEAL FUNDS NOT FOR WAR BELIEF. DIRECTOR BICKNELL URGES SUPPORT OF ANTI-TUBERCULOSIS WAR DURING HOLIDAY SEASON. Washington, D. C., Dec. 9, 1914.—None of the proceeds from the sale of Red Cross Christmas Seals which are being sold widely throughout the United States for the benefit of the anti-tuberculosis movement will be used for war relief purposes, according to a statement issued today, by Ernest P. Bicknell, National Director of the American Red Cross. Mr. Bicknell says: "The American Red Cross is deeply appreciative of the sympathetic interest which has inspired the suggestion from various parts of the United States, that a certain percentage of the Red Cross Seal Sales Fund, which has been used for the last six years exclusively for the prevention of tuberculosis in the United States, be expended this year to aid the European war sufferers. While the Red Cross is trying very hard to raise a large war relief fund and is anxious to secure contributions that will increase this fund, we do not feel justified in adopting any policy which will tend to cripple the tuberculosis work in this country, which is dependent for its support to so large an extent on the sale of Red Cross Christmas Seals. The announcement that a percentage of the Red Cross Seal money would go to our war relief fund might possibly increase the sale, but, in our opinion, the final results would show a distinct loss in that part of the proceeds going for tuberculosis work. "At the present time there are over one thousand anti-tuberculosis societies distributed over nearly every state in the Union, and even in Vera Cruz, the Canal Zone and far off Hawaii, which are dependent almost entirely upon the receipts from the Red Cross Seal sale for their work during the year 1915. The people of the United States must support this local war against tuberculosis, which annually kills 200,000 people, and at the present time is leaving a trail of a million wounded." SEAL ON EACH SOLE. "Am I using Red Cross Christmas Seals?" reiterated a good-natured old cobbler as he looked up from the shoe he was repairing to the person who stood blocking the doorway of the little shop, and who had asked the question originally. "I don't know of them. What are they for?" he asked. When told that the little stickers were being sold all over the United States to raise money to prevent tuberculosis, the cobbler became very much interested. "Now, I call that a good cause," he drawled. "I can't afford many, because I don't get very much work away out here in this end of town, but you can leave me ten of them." "No, I don't write any letters, and I don't send any Christmas packages. There's just me and the old woman left. I can't use my seals that way, but I'll tell you how I can use them. I will stick a seal on the sole of every shoe I tap!" THE BROAD AX CHICAGO DECEMBER 12, 1914 M. H. HON. MILES J. DEVINE Ex-City Attorney of Chicago, silver Carter H. Harrison end of the County hatted army invaded the city hall la "Our Carter" to make the race for M THE FACTS OF RECONSTRUCTION Ex-City Attorney of Chicago, silver-tongued orator, grand marshal of the Carter H. Harrison end of the County Democracy who at the head of his silk hatted army invaded the city hall last week for the sole purpose of urging "Our Carter" to make the race for Mayor of Chicago for the sixth time. By Major John R. Lynch. The following brief extracts are taken from a few of the many letters received by Major Lynch in commendation of his great book, "The Facts of Reconstruction." . "In this book the facts of reconstruction are presented with marks of careful foundation and intimate acquaintance, as well as a keen and conscientious appreciation of personal character and political actions of the chief performers in the most masterly act of this government establishing universal freedom, and its most disgraceful attempted repudiation of the pledge involved in its guarantee. You have spoken with charity and courage concerning those facts, but have maintained throughout the dignity of fairness and the hope of a new and better reconstruction—a re-reconstruction. I must thank you for writing this book which I found to be of sufficient magnetism to compel me to read every word of it in three evenings." "Your book is a store of stolid truths undeniable-" "The Facts of Reconstruction" is our strongest Vindication in politics both in the past and the present." Dr. M. A. Majors, Chicago. "I have carefully read your book and to my mind the chapter on what constitutes "Negro Domination" is worth the price of the book." Dr. W. A. Buekner, Chicago. This book ought to be in every American home. Suitable for a Christmas, New Year, Birthday or Wedding present. Price $1.50 . . . . By mail, $1.65 Address MAJOR JOHN R. LYNCH, 4321 Forestville Ave., Chicago, Illinois. Phone Oakland 5802. GREAT SUFFRAGE DEBATE AT BETHEL LITERARY CLUB. VERY STRONG ARGUMENT ON BOTH SIDES. The women of the city as well as the men were out in large number at the great suffrage meeting on last Sunday afternoon at the Bethel Literary Club. Papers were read by Mrs. A. T. Owens and Mr. J. T. H. Woods, after which a general discussion was indulged in by the members and friends present. The coming Sunday, Hon. Geo. W. Ellis will address the Club, subject: "Africa and its people." Mr. Ellis is a noted orator and a deep thinker. Come out and hear this writer of International fame. Great progress is being made in the final arrangements for the coming Essay Contest, to be held at Bethel church, Sunday afternoon, Dec. 20th, at 2:30 o'clock in the Auditorium of the church. Requests are coming in from various literary and social clubs for reservations. It is expected that the attendance will eclipse any former contest. The programme will begin at 2:30 o'clock. Those desiring seats are urged to be present on time as no one will be allowed to enter the church during the rendition of an essay. NEWLY ELECTED OFFICERS OF THE APPOMATTOX CLUB. Last Saturday evening the annual election of officers of the Appomattox Club, 3441 South Wabash Ave., was held in its parlors and the following officers were elected for the coming year. President, S. A. T. Watkins, 76 votes; 1st Vice-President, A. A. Wells, 75 votes; 2nd Vice-President, Delbert Lee, 76 votes; Fin'l Secretary, D. A. McGowan, 76 votes; Treasurer, H. S. Anderson, 76 votes; Cor. Secretary, Benj. Mitchem, 76 votes; Directors- Two year term—W. P. Bell, 65 votes; D. Manson, 61 votes; Thos. McGooden, 66 votes. Three year term—Prof. Wm. Emanuel, 36 votes; F. L. Hamilton, 69 votes; E. M. Sutton, 48 votes. As stated in the last issue of this paper Mr. S. A. T. Watkins, who is one of the foremost Afro-Americans in this city, for he is honorably serving as assistant corporation counsel of Chicago, was elected president of the Appomattox Club, without the slightest opposition and we have every reason to believe that he will make good the newly elected officers will be inducted into office Saturday evening, Jan. 2, 1915. ST. MARK CHURCH NOTES. Our third quarterly conference was held Sunday, Dec. 6th, with gratifying results. The Rev. E. G. Bryant, Dist. Supt., was present and preached two great sermons during the day. Selecting his text for the morning service, from the gospel recorded by St. Matt. 28:19: 20 Verses.—Go Ye therefore and teach all nations, Baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the holy ghost. Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever, I command you, and lo I am with you all way, even unto the end of the world. "The Great Commission was Patheticly told." The Rev. Harry M. Carroll preached a touching communion sermon at 3:30 p. m. at the close of the evening services the pastor, Rev. John W. Robinson, opened the doors of the church and so persuasive was his tender appeal one person accepted the invitation and was converted. A splendid program has been arranged by the S. S. for the Xmas bazaar, which begins Monday, Dec. 14, at eight o'clock, continuing four consecutive nights. Admission 10 cents. Dr. Theo. R. Mozee will address the lyeum at 4:30 p. m. Sunday, Dec. 13th. You are cordially invited to attend. BUFFALO BILL LEADS RED CROSS SEAL SALE "Buffalo Bill" and the business men of Cody, Wyoming, where he lives, have agreed this year, as they did last, that every piece of mail which goes out of the town during the month of December should bear a Red Cross Christmas Seal. Last year, led by Buffalo Bill, they purchased 22,500 seals—a record which will probably go unbeaten in this country for the greatest use of seals per capita. Cody has a population of about 1,200, and the seals purchased mean that they used nearly twenty per capita. Is your town going to sell five or ten for each inhabitant? If not, why not? By A. J. Nimrod. THE LINCOLN STATE BANK OF CHICAGO IS STILL ON THE BOOM At the close of business of the Lincoln State Bank of Chicago, 3105-07 South State street, which is under state government supervision, the first of December, 1914, the following statement as to its condition makes interesting reading and it amply proves that it is still on the boom. Resources Loans and discounts, $361,937.83; Bonds and stocks, $100,611.50; Real Estate and Bank building, $40,000.00; Furniture and fixtures, $5,259.02; Interest accrued on loans, $6,797.50; Cash on hand and due from banks, $65,437.24; Total, $580,043.09. Liabilities. Capital stock, $200,000.00; Surplus and undivided profits, $23,490.17; Unearned discount, $379.88; Reserved for interest and taxes, $2,677.83; Deposits, $353,495.21; Total, $580,043.09. United States Government Depository for Postal Savings Funds. Depository for City of Chicago. The above report plainly indicates that the Lincoln State Bank of Chicago is in a healthy condition. Mr. George F. Leibrandt, president of the bank, and Mr. Edward Larson, cashier, are both well pleased with the present and future outlook of the banking business. PRESIDENT WILSON ON RED GROSS SEALS. As an expression of his interest in the Red Cross Seal and Anti-Tuberculosis Campaign, President Wilson recently wrote to The National Association for the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis: "May I not take this occasion to express to you my deep interest in the work of the National Anti-Tuberculosis Association and my hope that its work is growing in efficiency and extent from year to year? May I not particularly express my interest in the Red Cross Christmas Seal whose sale has been the means of raising funds for the work? It seems to me that this i sa particularly interesting and sensible way of enabling the people of the country to give this great work their support." LEAVES BIG ESTATE TO COLORED NURSE New Orleans. — Judge Charles E. Gathreaux, a rich and influential White citizen of this city, filed his will last Monday, leaving his entire estate to his Negro nurse. Upon being questioned as to why he did such a thing he stated that he did so because his family had done nothing for him. His estate was valued at $375,000. SANTA HAS TUBERCULOSIS On Christmas Eve little Dorothy, possessed of the whooping cough, was doing some fancy whooping for company that had come. "Dorothy, dear," the mother said, "you must stop coughing or Santa Claus won't come. If he hears you coughing he'll be afraid to come in." "I should worry," Dorothy replied, showing full familiarity with modern expression. "He's got tuberculosis himself." "Tuberculosis! Who told you Santa Claus had tuberculosis?" "Oh, everybody knows that. Don't you buy tuberculosis stamps for him every Christmas?" NEGRO FELLOWSHIP LEAGUE "The Aldermanic Situation in the Second Ward," will be the subject up for discussion at the Negro Fellowship League, Sunday, December 13th. Leading address by Hon. E. H. Wright. Discussion by R. W. Lacey, Rev. H. J. Callis, F. L. Barnett, Dr. J. H. Plummer, W. A. Wallace and others. As this is one of the most vital topics before the Colored people today, you are urged to be present promptly at 3:45 P. M., at the Reading Room, 3005 State St., to do your share to make sure that a Negro will be nominated for alderman at the Primaries next February. In spite of the inclement weather many members and friends were present at the annual meeting of the League last Sunday, and pledged themselves to renew their energy to work for the interest of the only work of its kind on State Street for Negro men and boys. WOMAN SHOOTS HER RIVAL "YOU TOOK MY HUSBAND AND NOW TAKE THAT," SHE SAYS AS SHE FIRES. Mrs. Alice Stone, who owns a grocery store at West Sixty-first and South Ada streets, rang the front door bell of the residence of Mrs. May Wood on the second floor at 3642 South State St. Wednesday. Both are Colored. "You took my husband from me, Now take that," said Mrs. Stone, firing a revolver. The bullet struck Mrs. Wood near the heart. She was unconscious when she was taken to the Provident hospital. SHERMAN H. DUDLEY AND HIS FAMOUS MULE WILL HOLD FORTH AT THE GRAND CHRIST. MAS WEEK. Sherman H. Dudley and his famous mule will appear before the foot lights at the New Grand Theater, 31st and State streets, Christmas week. It is needless to say that he will play to capacity houses the entire week. Messrs. Horn and Johnston, the new managers of the Grand, are giving its many patrons first class vaudeville attractions every night. ALPHA SUFFRAGE CLUB The Alpha Suffrage Club met on Wednesday evening, 3005 State St. It decided to discuss at the next meeting "Should we have a Municipal Dance Hall?" As this question is in the limelight now, now is the time to decide whether or not such a venture would be advisable among our people. All are cordially invited to come and take part in the discussion. THE MONROE CLOTHES SHOP The compliments of the holiday season by its President, Elmer E. Marden third floor, Suite 302 North American Building, Northwest corner State and Monroe streets. Mens $25.00 suits always $15.00. Take elevator, save $10.00. Open Saturday night until 10 o'clock - LOOK - Keep your eyes up and watch for the big opening of the sweltest Mandarin Restaurant in the city 3501 S. State St., 2nd & 3rd floors Mexican Frank, Prop. Auto. 71-931 "Phone" Doug. 1913 THE ASIA First class Chinese Chop Suey Served from 12 A. M. to P. M. 3453 State Street. We Deliver Orders. VISIT THE CAFE DE LUIS and hear some of Chicago's best entertainers. BOTTOMS & PREEE 3503 STATE STREET "These pies took very flat this morning," said the proprietor of the lunch counter. "Yes, sir," replied the boy attendant. "I was swattin' files on 'em this morning, sir." - Yonkers Statesman. At gold mines William Green could modify At get rich schemes he joked. He put his coin in watered stock, And that's how he got soaked. —Cincinnati Enquirer She—Oh, there goes Peggy Browni Isn't she lovely? I wish I was half a good looking! He—Oh, but you are!—London Opie ion. I cannot sing the old songs. But that don't hurt my chances For social prestige, since I'm great At all the modern dances. —Judge "He discovered that his proposed bride was no beauty." "But I'm sure he behaved handsome by about it."—Baltimore American. That Puffer is a tiresome chap There's not the slighest doubt. He's blowing now of how much he Blew in at his blowout. —Lippincott's "Do you believe he's sincere?" "I do. He says such a lot of dis agreeable but truthful things."—Detroit Free Press. We seldom mean our boosts these days. When we applaud we sneer. But when it gets down to self praise We're always quite sincere. —Cincinnati Enquirer. Footelighthe — You say the leading man was all broken up? Miss Sue Brette—Yes; he appeared inst night in three pieces. — Yonkers Statesman. An Eskimo will never pause To rail at snow or sleet. He needn't clean the street, because There isn't any street. -Washington Star. "Why does Maud always prefer Chokly to all the boys to take her into the surf?" "She says she feels safer with him his head floats so nicely."—Baltimore American. Walter—What shall it be, sir, table dote or a la carte? Diner—I'll have em both, and put plenty of gravy on 'em—Philadelphia Ledger. If I'd enlist I'd choose a place In squadrons of the sky. For in the fray 'tis no disgrace For aeroplanes to fly. —Portland Oregonian. Mrs. Hiram Offen—Your recommendations are rather poor, I must say. Maid—Well, mum, yez weren't recommended very highly to me, ayther. —Boston Transcript. Maud Muller on a summer's day Made up a batch of fudge. She fed it to her guests, they say, And nearly killed a judge. PRINCELY PRIZES IN PRODIGAL PROFUSION Office of Gift Depart. with DePriest & DePriest, 3439 State Street Phone Douglas 7877 JULIUS F. TAYLOR, Editor of The Broad Ax, G. H. SWASEY and S. G. HARLAN, Contest Managers SPECIFICATIONS SPECIFICATIONS MOTOR--35 horse power. WHEELBASE--116 inches. 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To enter and win the $1,500.00 Marathon Tournament, you will be allowed to the office of our Contest Department, $439 South State Street, Chicago (Phone Douglas 7877), and then proceed as directed. Send in your name on a nomination blank clipped from The Broad Ax. That counts 5,000 votes and starts on the way to success. In each issue of The Broad Ax you will find a "Voting Coupon" good for Ten Votes. Ask all your friends to save them for you. It will surprise you the thousands of little "Ten Vote Slips" they will send in for you. Besides these "Vote Coupons" every paid Subscription for one year ($2.00) counts as one vote. Every subscriber votes is to ask all your friends to give you $2.00 for a years subscription to The Broad Ax, and then you get 1,000 votes on every one you can collect. You can collect from your friends, as there is no limit to the number of subscriptions and votes that you can get. Advertisements count just the same as subscriptions. So if you know any merchant or butcher, or business man who ought to advertise in a direct collect for his advertisement and get the votes. You can get subscriptions and advertisements anywhere. Write to your friends in other states and make them subscribe to help you win. The proposition is absolutely on the square all the time. The fair and equal opportunity it costs nothing to enter. The time is very short, not more than seven weeks. In that short time, with very little effort on your part, you win prizes worth many hundred dollars. CARTE DE VINYL 厚 For Popular Persons Any Man, Woman Or Child Can Compete "THE BROAD AX" GIFTS TO POPULAR PERSONS ALL PRIZES DELIVERED DECEMBER 21st, 1914. Other Prizes SECOND PRIZE Stephen M. Meyers PLAYER PIANO Value $650. CONTEST OPENS November 1st, 1914 . with De THE BROAD AX, CHICAGO, DECEMBER 12. 1914 P. H. H. H. NOMINATION COUPON "THE BROAD AX" CONTEST Other Prizes SECOND PRIZE Bought from Stephen M. 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Votes will be counted weekly, and held six days no longer, to answer all of the Errors in scoring must be reported within six days or they will not be considered. To secure the special vote ballots, all money must be sent direct to THE BROAD AX Contest Department. Votes will be issued only at the office of the Contest Department, accordance with Published Scales of Votes. THE BROAD AX will not be responsible for typographical errors, further than to make necessary corrections. In accepting nominations all candidates must accept and agree to abide by the above conditions. 10 勇 Read The Rules Enter Your Name Today PAGE SLX HYDE PARK NEWS By L. W. Washington The establishment of the Tongue Church at 5217 Lake Park Ave., has created quite a sensation among the various religious institutions out here. The pastors are warning their members to beware! Beware! Beware! Beware! Dr. Bryant performed a successful operation last Saturday upon the son of Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Hunter, 56th and Kimbark Ave. Little Hunter has braved the ordeal like a little man. The parents have our best wishes for his complete recovery. Mrs. Tuxon, sister of Mrs. Pinkston, is visiting the city and shall spend the Christmas with her many friends. The grand musical entertainment given last Thursday evening at the Hyde Park A. M. E. church under the auspices of the United associations of the St. Paul Baptist church, the Hyde Park A. M. E. church, the Hyde Park Womans' Charity Club, Hyde Park Benevolent Club, Del Prado Hotel Employes, the Hyde Park and the St. Paul Sunday schools was a phenominal success and the most worthy entertainment given in this part of the city for years. Let this act of unity performed by the Colored people, for the sake of charity, live forever in reality for the good of humanity, a unity of organizations for good will save the nation, and drive home the thought, a common cause and a united brotherhood for the good of man. In fact The Broad Ax congratulates the Colored people of Hyde Park for getting together on these lines. CHIPS CHIPS Capt. Louis B. Anderson feels dead sure that he will be the next Alderman of the second ward. L. W. Washington will, it is said, become the active Aldermanic manager for his friend Charles A. Griffin, in his race for the City Council. Mrs. William Emanuel, 6352 Rhodes Ave., will soon become a regular M. D. In the near future she will graduate from one of the south side medical schools. Hon. Michael Zimmer, late Sheriff of Cook County, has succeeded the Hon. John E. Traeger as City Controllor of Chicago and he will make good in his new office. Later on Mr. Zimmer will become postmaster of Chicago. Mrs. Mary Harsh, 2963 Federal St. who is prominently connected with several secret societies, has been a regular subscriber to The Broad Ax for over ten years. She is as true as steel, honest as the year is long and her word is her bond. Dr. H. A. Turner and Dr. S. C. Dickinson gave a smoker and luncheon last evening at 3741 S. Wabash avenue, in honor of the doctors who are interested in the election of a Colored man for Alderman from the second ward. The affair was well attended. Charles A. Griffin who made the race for Alderman in the second ward last Spring against Alderman Hugh Norris, was on Monday evening at Walters A. M. E. Zion church, 38th and Dearborn streets nominated to make the second race for Alderman from that ward, by the Colored Political Equality League. The first part of this week a meeting was held at the home of Miss Grace Hart the other Harts and Mrs. William H. Hayman, 3238 Vernon Ave., in the interest of the candidacy of Hon. Oscar DePriest for Alderman from the second ward. The meeting was addressed by former Judge Underwood and he declared that "He had never beheld so many beautiful looking Colored women in all his life." He asserted that "as Oscar DePriest is a first class business man the great majority of the White Republicans residing in the second ward will not hesitate in casting their votes in favor of his nomination at the February Primaries." NICE FIVE ROOM FLAT TO RENT- For Rent—Nice five room flat, newly decorated, fine plate rail in the dining room, elegant china cabinet, modern in other respects. Free rent to December is. Call at 5027 Federal street and inspect it. BRIGHT BRIEFS The idle brain is advance agent for a busy tongue. Satan knows what war is and feels right at home in it. You cannot make a dollar go far by making it go quickly. DAMES AND DAUGHTERS. Miss Signe Bergman, president of the Swedish Society of Woman Suffrage, is also chief cashier of the State Bank of Sweden. Mrs. Mazzuchelli of Cormarthen, England, left a request, in her will of $5 a year for which to pay for the cleaning of the marble of her grave with soap and water. Mme. Curle, the famous woman scientist, has installed at her own expense a radiographic apparatus for the wounded at the Pantin hospital, near Paris. By means of this apparatus bullets and shell splinters and fractures can instantly be located—a powerful aid to the saving of life. Dr. Mary M. Crawford, who has been chosen as one of the six American surgeons selected through a fund started by the Duchess of Talleyrand for hospital and field service in France, is a resident of Brooklyn. Dr. Crawford was born in Nyack, N. Y., in 1884. She was graduated from Cornell university in 1904 and from the medical school three years later. Flippant Flings. "Mines Scare Away Lobsters," says a London headline. One disaster after another in this awful war!—New York World. Anyway, nobody is offering a free trip to Europe for being the most popular something or other.—Philadelphia Ledger. If, as one scientist says, the woman of the future will be bald, how in the world are we going to tell the blondes from the brunettes?—Philadelphia Inquirer. Somebody suggests a censor for the Congressional Record. That's right. Take an ax to the ballot box and put a torch to the constitution.—Cleveland Plain Dealer. BRIGHT BRIEFS. Honesty is the best policy for the man who would avoid worry. When nations fall out the troops have to do a lot of falling in. Going to war is easy. It is coming home from war that is difficult. The "made in America" movement may even extend to world peace. The great monetary problem of the age is how a Mexican war is financed. It's all right to pray for peace in Europe, but don't wear, a frown at home. Engineers are hoist by their own petards and war vessels by their own mines. What is the use of talking about the horrors of war when an army retreats in automobiles? "Million for relief!" is almost a better cry than the familiar one of "millions for defense!" A lady writer claims crime is rare among actors, but perhaps she has never seen some of them act. Pockets for skirts are predicted. In which case hubby may be able to recoup himself if he can find the pocket. Judging by recent financing, we are willing to lend Europe money on the condition that it doesn't try to take it away. An insurance company in London is taking wagers on the length of the world war. There are men who would bet on a funeral if they had a chance. For the first time in 214 years a spy has been shot in the tower of London. Incidentally, that is about as far back as the war has thrown European civilization. Short Stories. More than 800 Americans live in Barcelona, Spain. Helgoland was at one time the Gretna Green of north Europe. A gravity railroad will take visitors around the Panama exposition. The crater of an ancient volcano, in which there are numerous hot springs, is utilized as a sanitarium in Japan. To help the cotton situation in the south the members of the Indiana Equal Suffrage association have voted to wear only cotton stockings so long as the war in Europe lasts. Pert Personals. King Albert of Belgium seems to be living up to the ancient standard of royalty.—Pittsburgh Dispatch. Dr. Wiley is seventy years old, which may explain why he's so fussy about what he eats.—Detroit Free Press. Carranza may have his fallings, but he takes the best photograph of all the Mexican leaders.—New York World. "We now propose to render war impossible," says Mr. Carnegle. But why the delay, Andrew?—Cleveland Leader. Town Topics. Portland, Ore., and Portland, Me. are alike in having prohibition.—Boston Herald New Yorkers are reported to be drinking less. The times there must be hard—Detroit Free Press. Philadelphia is considering the advisability of selling bread by weight. Then let Philadelphia look out for the cobblestone biscuit and the granite block loaf.—Cleveland Plain Dealer THE BROAD AX, CHICAGO, DECEMBER 12, 1914 SIRES AND SONS. Joseph Hume Cook, prime minister of Australia, is a Methodist lay preacher. Count Zeppelin, inventor of the German dirigible, is "the greatest German of the twentieth century," according to the kaiser. Dr. H. Oliviera Lima, who will teach Latin American history and diplomacy at Harvard university, is a native of Brazil and noted as a diplomat and educator. David Watson Taylor, who will succeed Rear Admiral Richard M. Watt as chief constructor of the navy, graduated from the United States Naval academy in 1885 at the head of his class and excelled the highest record ever made there up to that time. Max Joseph Baehr, who has been made United States consul at Berna, Switzerland, has for twelve years represented this country at Havana, Cuba. He is a native of Bavaria, but came to America in 1878. In 1898 he began his diplomatic career as American consul at Kehl, Germany. General Baron Carl von Plettenberg, commander of the German Guards corps, the flower of the kaiser's troops, is also a general adjutant to the kaiser and very high in his favor, their friendship dating back to the days when they served together in the First regiment of foot guards. The Writers. Mrs. Corra Harris has gone to Europe to write a series of magazine articles on the woman's side of the war. Hugh Walpole, the author, is a son of the bishop of Edinburgh and a cousin of the Earl of Orford. He lives half the year in a tiny fishing village in Cornwall, where he does most of his work. Sir Rennell Rodd, whose name appears in the white papers as that of British ambassador at Rome, spent in 1908 some months in America. He greatly distinguished himself at Oxford, where he carried off several honors, including the Newdigate poem prize. He is well known as the author of at least half a dozen volumes of verse, of monographs on Sir Walter Raleigh and Emperor Frederick. Fashion Frills. Economy is the order of the day. The ladies have even taken to wearing shorter dresses.—Philadelphia Press. If the short skirts become much shorter there will be a falling off in the demand for dress goods and burlesque theater tickets.—Chicago News. In order to increase the sale of cotton why not suggest that the style makers make it fashionable for women to wear more clothes?—Sloux City Tribune. From some of the, hats we've seen it's quite clear that busted sixteen inch shells have suggested ideas to the quick witted designers.—Milwaukee Journal. Train and Track Nearly one-half of Spain's railroads enter Madrid. The average express locomotive consumes twelve gallons of water for each mile traveled. Nearly half of the main line of the Canadian Pacific between Fort William and Vancouver is now double tracked. More than 350 miles of double tracking has been completed this year. The new Union station in Kansas City, Mo., which cost $6,000,000, is the third largest in the United States. All the improvements around it made in connection with its erection cost more than $40,000,000. SHORT AND SHARP The mining industry still leads in Europe. Europe has not time to sow grain, as she is too busy reaping a whirlwind. When Turkey appoints a censor here's-hoping he'll be a pasha of many tales. All now admit that it was well the war was not named while it was young. Very farces and burlesques are now being played in the well known theater of war. Even Canada may now begin to see that the Monroe doctrine is not a bad port in a storm. In Paris they have changed eau de Cologne to eau de Louvain. Will the Germans now rechristen plaster of paris? It might have been worse. Suppose the foot and mouth disease had started in Europe, where meat is already scarce enough. Heating swords into plowshares has been delayed, yet when we think war drums may be converted into bagpipes the outlook isn't so bad. A London leather man says that "the war will be won or lost on the standpoint of leather," and "standpoint" would here appear to be the exact word. The new United States type of submarine can stay under water longer than any other kind. That has been one of the prime faults of some submarines. Come and Look Over Our Lines of DOLLS—Dressed—DOLLS Handkerchiefs Jewelry Garters Hair-Ornam lumes in white and all Large French Drooping $15.00 Dress H ch! 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WELLS CAR AND CONTRACTOR of all kinds neatly done order. Satisfaction Guaranteed E ST. -:- -:- CHICAGO Ax Contest OTES when neatly trimmed and filled AX Contest Department, 3439 South date. No ballot will be altered in any received by THE BROAD AX. on Coupon d Ax Contest candidate counts 5,000 votes. Names will not be divulged. Address all com- test Department, 3439 South State St. A good scare sometimes helps a man more than good advice. The censor permits demands for more men and money to pass. It is always easier to find fault with other people than to lose our own. Most of us would be satisfied with the silver lining without the cloud. The only result of all those battles in Europe seems to be still more battles. Whoever was responsible for the foot and mouth disease certainly went to extremes. Success is always due more to the ability to stand the bumps than any thing else. If bustles really come into fashion again there'll be a chance to utilise the overplus of flat tires. Also the price of peace has gone up. Please others and you may please yourself. They can't get a new dance out of the war anyhow. Though you have money, you cannot buy what is not to sell. Everything must be at sea when the nations can't even float a loan. When bad news travels it always throws on the high speed lever. Lots of royal kinsmen in Europe now do not speak to one another. PEN, CHISEL AND BRU Mrs. Ruby Ross Goodnow, the the and Rayne Adams, the architect collaborating on a book which was practically with problems of the building. Robert Eugene Pougeon, to the Grand Prix de Rome for p was recently awarded, is a artist who has already attained place among painters of the world. A little French girl, Mile H Vitoy, who is only fifteen year recently had admitted to the exh of the Society of French Art plaster cast of a little girl putti doll to sleep. George Annand MacKevrie The European situation is a reminder that cousins frequently quarrel. Some men are like mules—they have no kicks coming; they are all going. Many a politician has found it easier to make a record than to explain it. Belgium is bitterly opposed to being the international cemetery of Europe. Europe will find the bread box is more vital than the ammunition chest. The colleges' courses in European history will all have to be changed this fall. Some people's curiosity is as crooked as the interrogation point that goes with it. The great decisive victory will be won when General Starvation takes command. However, war has its compensations. Several poets have been sent to the front. Anyway, Holland should have no trouble in placing her enemies on the water wagon. America is at present enjoying a supremacy based on plowshares rather than on swords. It takes a good deal of care at the spigot to save a waste of $50,000,000 a day at the bung. A great many actors are said to be stranded abroad. Just as many are that way over here. No doubt it is worrying the czar a great deal these days to know whether his Poles are negative. They were so successful in localizing the war in Europe that pretty much every locality gets some of it. When this war is over there probably will be no complaint for some time that Europe is overpopulated. To say that the unexpected always happens is merely to confess our ignorance of what ought to be expected. As war is expensive Canada is probably sending those million bags of flour so that England may have the dough. Those still searching about for a name for the present war shouldn't overlook the hunch General Sherman gave. When it comes to going to extremes you have to hand it to the doctor who says wearing of tight shoes causes baldness. This is the first time on record that Latin America was as anxious to do business with us as we are to do business with it. We thought music was the only universal language. But how about the roar of the cannon and the wall of the widow and orphan? The way merchant ships are already passing through the Panama canal further confirms the conviction that it is filling a long felt want. Men are discovering in the red light of war that many things which they considered permanent and immutable are nothing of the sort. A manufacturer is making gloves with coin pockets in the palms. A one armed man is going to have a fine time getting at his change. There are to be some more new football rules this year, but even the changes may not make the reason for football clear to some people. A state of neutrality requires only that every man shall attend to his own affairs and respect the rights of his neighbors to do the same thing. The government has issued new charts showing the approaches to the Cape Cod canal, and foreign governments can buy them if they will. Mr. Carnegie spent enough money on peace palaces to be pardoned for expressing some indignation in regard to the way The Hague has treated him. Those Dreadnoughts and super-Dreadnoughts and other terrible ships of war appear to be having fairly good luck in keeping out of each other's way. Whether the British-American peace centenary plans proceed or not, it is becoming evident that Ghent was an unfortunate choice for the central celebration. PEN, CHISEL AND BRUSH. Mrs. Ruby Ross Goodnow, the writer, and Rayne Adams, the architect, are collaborating on a book which will deal practically with problems of home building. Robert Eugene Pougheon, to whom the Grand Prix de Rome for painting was recently awarded, is a French artist who has already attained a high place among painters of the world. A little French girl, Mile. Huguette Vitoy, who is only fifteen years old, recently had admitted to the exhibition of the Society of French Artists a plaster cast of a little girl putting her doll to sleep. George Annard MacKenzie, who recently obtained his M. A. degree at Cambridge university, is deaf and dumb. Five years ago he won unusual academic success by taking the degree of bachelor of arts. He has already wooed art with success and has become both a portrait and a landscape painter. Current Comment. An apple crop of 210,000,000 bushels ought to provide a very agreeable per capita circulation of ple.—New York World. Just at this time there is no disposition to look down on the American diplomat merely because his legation building is not supremely ornate and elegant—Washington Star. The announcement that the Panama exposition will open on time is based on the sound theory that now is the time for Americans to do business, not to quit it—Chicago Herald. Would Be Prophet Voliva says the end of the world is at hand, but you would be wise not to sell your last winter's overcoat on the strength of the claim—Memphis Commercial Appeal. The All East War. The dove of peace has turned turtle!—Washington Post. To a landlubber the European navies are acting as if they are seasick.—Dallas News. Uncle Sam's ship of state may yet prove the Noah's ark of nations.—Chicago News. Europe is nearer to a universal language than in many years. But the mouths of cannon speak it, and it is of no use to the Esperantists.—New York World. Well, you who would like to have lived in great days, like those of Caesar, Washington, Napoleon—you are living in them. Are you conscious of it? Are you greatly affected?—New York Tribune. Fashion Frills. Silk stockings may grow scarcer, but there's nothing to prevent a grown man from wearing white socks and a wrist watch.—Cleveland Plain Dealer. If we can't get our fashions from Paris any more perhaps we shall be able to invent some fashions of our own which we will not feel so much disposed to ridicule.—Philadelphia Press. A house dress with a single fastening is advertised, but there is no relief for the husbands who are accustomed to earning contempt in their capacity of lady's maid when a party gown is in order.—Louisville Courier-Journal. Short Stories. Prophets are predicting a cold winter. The coast of the state of Maine was at one time lined with volcanoes. The Arabs were the first to use orange blossoms as bridal wreaths. Wilkesland coast, in the antarctic regions, is said to be the windiest in the world. Vacuum carafes, permanently installed in the rooms of new hotels, will disband the "ice water brigade." English Etchings. The leading daily newspapers in London number twenty-five. There are coal fields in Great Britain that have been worked for at least 700 years, yielding every kind of coal except anthracite. A London physician practicing in the poorer districts of that city says that 25 per cent of the children coming under his observation wear charms and amulets under their clothing. Science Siftings. The pulse of a horse is a little more than half as rapid as that of a man. According to a German scientist, hailstones are formed by the electricity of the thunderstorms which they accompany. Distinct traces of light have been detected in the ocean at depths of more than 3,000 feet by an English oceanographical expedition. Ways of Women. Very few girls look queenly in a wrapper.—Kansas City Jurnal. What a pretty girl likes to be told is that she is clever too.—Detroit Free Press. From a woman's point of view, to be compelled to suffer in silence takes all the pleasure from it. — Philadelphia Record. There may be a depression throughout the land, but the visible supply of silk stockings does not indicate it.—Baltimore American. STATE BANK OF CHICAGO OVER STATE SUPERVISION SOUTH STATE STREET CHICAGO, ILL. Douglas 200 LINCOLN STATE BANK OF CHICAGO J. GRAY LUCAS ATTORNEY-AT-LAW 25 N. Dearborn St. Union Bank Building Suite 311 CHICAGO CARL L. COTTON Boys! Do you want this dandy BICYCLE? 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There are not many waves of success on a sea, of trouble. No man is so illiterate that he cannot teach others something. A truthful statement never needs to be backed up by a lot of lies. The "buy a bale of cotton" campaign has extended to Europe, but the demand is for gum cotton. PAGE SEVEN SURPLUS, $20,000.00 Commercial Banking Savings and Checking Accounts Foreign Exchange Safety Deposit Vaults Mortgages and Bonds 3 Per Cent Interest on Savings Deposits Your Patronage Solicited Depository and Correspondent Continental & Commercial National Bank of Chicago, Illinois. RESIDENCE 1262 MACAISTLE FLACE TELEPHONE, MONROE 2714 MILES J. DEVINE ATTORNEY AT LAW SUITE 318-329 REAPER BLOCK CLARK AND WASHINGTON STS. PHONES CENTRAL 229 AUTOMATIC 41-916 CHICAGO Franklin A. Denison ATTORNEY AT LAW 36 W. Randolph Street, CHICAGO Suite 708 Delaware Bldg. Tel. Central 3142 Office Phones: Res. 5133 So. Washah Ave. Oakland 6662, Auto. 73-058 Phone Dresel 18815 Dr. Theo. R. Mozee DENTIST 4709 S. 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Mrs. Katherine Nichols of Cincinnati has invented and patented a telephone device consisting of a double receiving tube which compels the user to speak directly into the transmitter. Mrs. Fischer, widow of Professor Fischer, has the honor of being the only woman art director of a museum in the world, having succeeded her husband as director of the East Asiatic art in Coloree, Germany. Mrs. W. K. Vanderbilt befriended a Senegalese infantryman in the course of her Red Cross work in Paris, and when the soldier was leaving the hospital he invited Mrs. Vanderbilt to return with him to Senegal, where she would be made a chieftainess of an African tribe. --- Phones {Douglas 4482 Auto 73-874 Auto 74-478 3030 State Street 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- ties and locking after assessments. Money to loan the patronage of Chicago business men. J. BRADLEY real Estate Loans Plate Glass Insurance RDO BUFFET DOMESTIC CIGARS AND CIGARETTES CHICAGO Automatic 72-379 A. F. CODOZOE ELITE and BUFFET table d'Hote in the City p. m., to 1 a. m. F. W. BLOCKI, Trans. LOCKI & SON PERFUMERS GO TO eyssler, Druggist STATE STREET IN THE CORNER Chemicals, and Medicinal Preparations tions Carefully Compounded BERRY A FULL LINE OF al & Blocki's Flower tle Perfumes The Royal Box. Princess Margaret, cousin of King Christian of Denmark, has entered the University of Copenhagen. Dowager Queen Alexandra of England has been compelled to pawn her gold and silver dishes so as to raise money to meet her obligations. King Ferdinand of Boumania, succeeding the late King Charles, was in 1889 declared prince of Boumania and heir apparent to the throne. Physically he has never been very robust, and the threat of tuberculosis has hung over him for years. He is said to have little taste for soldiering, his mind leaning rather toward science and his education has been along this line. He is described as shy, reserved and unbending. In time of peace prepare for a war tax. Will Switzerland come to blows with Bolivia? Happiness is mostly a matter of the imagination. One of the war needs is a self pronouncing geography. The geographer is having his troubles mapped out for him. An exchange of compliments is equal to trading green goods. When some men think, they make a noise like a boiler shop. HARRY J. KELLY Prop. Automatic 72-379 Chicago, Ill THE BROAD AX CAN BE POUND 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: E. H. Faulkner, news agency; 3109 S. State street. Mme. Rosa Lee Tyler, ice cream cafe; 3313 S. State St. 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. W. S. Cole, cigars, tobacco and news stand, 34 W. 31st St., near Dearborn. PITH AND POINT Pacifying Mexico is a perpetuation job. Everything in Belgium has up but its courage. Possibly the warring nations heated to mind the rigors of campaign. Another of the mysteries of Why does a man want to be part of Mexico? Opportunity rarely knocks door when there's a gloomy window. W. M. Maxwell, notions, cigars, to bacco, 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, 3 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. E. M. Oliver, 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. George McFaro, shoe shining parlor and news stand. 3800 $ \frac{1}{2} $ State street. T. B. Hall, Laundry office, cigars, tobacco and news stand. 3618 South State street. Bell & Alford, cigars, tobacco and news stand. 3128 $ \frac{1}{2} $ South State street. Fred M. Waterfield, cigars, tobacco, notions and news stand. 5202 South State street. Coleman & Glanton, cigars, tobacco and news stand. 3342 S. State street. J. S. Williams, ladies and gents shoe dressing parlor, laundry office and news stand. 12 E. 34th street. Miss E. M. McClaim, hair dressing parlor and news stand. 30 W. 39th street. A. Turpin, cigars, confections and news stand, 3511 S. State street. PITH AND POINT. In enumerating his virtues many a man counts his money first. The man with an easy look often has a time lock on his pocketbook. The only time some people ever count the cost is after they get the bill. If you have a bad temper starve it by giving it nothing on which it can feed. When the world owes a man a living it takes most of his time making collections. The unfortunate thing about good resolutions is that they are so often made too late. A fool can ask a lot of puzzling questions, but it never does him any good to have them answered. England will soon be aroused to the seriousness of the war. Already the taxes are being doubled. Before embracing an opportunity it is a good plan to find out who has been embracing it before. Whether a spy is called a patriot or a traitor often depends on which national language is used in writing his biography. That man who was going to cross the Atlantic by aeroplane will wait until there is a safe place in Europe to land on. In an appeal to arms it is always important to know who fired the first shot. And of equal importance is it to know who is going to fire the last one. The Writers. Miss Margaret Anderson, the writer, is literary critic of the Louisville Post and a poet and lecturer on art subjects Herbert Putnam, on whom Brown university has conferred the degree of doctor of literature, has been librarian of congress since 1889. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and has published numerous articles in reviews and professional journals. Train and Track Dec. 13, 1913, there were 25,343 miles of trunk line railroad in France. Moving pictures are used in a school of electric railway employees in Los Angeles to show how all sorts of accidents occur and how many of them can be prevented. Pittsburgh still has a horse car on the Sarah street line on the south side. The preservation of the railway company's right to the tracks is the cause for keeping the car in operation. Many days it passes back and forth on its trips without a passenger. Pacifying Mexico is a perpetual motion job. Everything in Belgium has been shot up but its courage. Possibly the warring nations are too heated to mind the rigors of a winter campaign. Another of the mysteries of life is. Why does a man want to be president of Mexico? Opportunity rarely knocks at the door when there's a gloomy face at the window. And think of the volumes of explanation of defeat that will be written after the war is over! Wood alcohol has too innocent a look. It ought to fly a skull and crossbones in its name. Old ocean's bed seems also to be paved with a fine assortment of armor plated good intentions. Holland behind its dikes and Switzerland on top of its glaciers may manage to keep out of the war. Now that they have carried the war into Egypt, the correspondents may be referred to the sphinx for news. The notion that artillery fire produces rain, as the basis of rain making experiments, is receiving a severe jolt. Thom. v. Edison remarks that "Our present civilization is only a thin veneer." Yes; and in a large share of Europe the veneer is entirely scratched off. In placing orders for hardware with this country, European countries continue to overlook our special facilities for producing plowshares made from swords. Current Comment. In order to have no further perplexities over the question. "What is whisky?" a number of states have decided that there will be no whisky.—Washington Star. The United States has in actual gold metal almost as much as any other two nations together. That illustrates the wisdom of not going to war.—Philadelphia Ledger. Is it a sign of the times that the Princeton students vote 960 to 190 against compulsory week day chapel, or is it a proof that boy nature never changes?—New York Sun. Some day there will be a fool proof, crook proof voting machine that will make voting an agreeable pastime and give the result as soon as the last ballot is cast—Chicago News. Echoes of the War. European maxim, "There's gore enough for all!"—Washington Post. He is a wise ambassador who keeps his trunks packed these days.—Chicago News. Turkey is making the mistake of thinking it can beat the other fellow's game.—Detroit Free Press. The people who had an idea that the European war, begun after breakfast, was going to end before dinner have long since revised their opinion.—Philadelphia Press. When the war began it was in Europe, but was not European. Today it threatens to develop into the nearest thing to a world war of which history has any record.—San Francisco Chronicle. Facts From France. Firing at its highest speed a French battery would take thirteen minutes to cover every square yard within range. The stores of Paris that are still doing business, even the big department stores, are reported now to be closed for an hour at noon because there are not enough clerks left for one to relieve another at lunch time. French candle makers have been detected saving wax by leaving three small holes around the wick lengthwise of the candles. Thin portions of wax at top and bottom cover the cheat. Melted wax fills the holes as the candle burns. industrial Items. About one-third of Great Britain's telegraphers are women. Over 2,000 women belong to New York printing trade unions. There are about one and three-quarter millions of children between the ages of ten and fifteen engaged in earning their living in the United States. Before the war nearly all the copra produced in the Philippines went to France. That market being closed now local vegetable oil factories are being built to dispose of the cocao nuts. Tree Branches There are 500 recognized species of trees in the United States. The oak begins to rot at the heart at the age of about 300 years. A count of the annual rings of a California redwood tree indicated that it began its career in 550 A. D. The yellow poplar or tulip tree, the largest broadleaf tree in America, has been known to reach nearly 200 feet in height and ten feet in diameter. 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A single Gas Arc actually and burns one cent's work A Huge Volt for Little We RENT these Gas Arc lighted and most economically factories and warehouses in The Peoples Gas Peoples Gas Building for a store-full of gas arc light costs far less full of any other light—and gas arc light is by and most diffusive. single Gas Arc actually yields a volume of 400 burns one cent's worth of gas an hour. A Huge Volume of Light for Little Money the RENT these Gas Arcs—95,000 of them, to and most economically managed stores, shop es and warehouses in the city. The Peoples Gas Light & Coke Co. Gas Building Telephone Ran For a store-full of gas arc light costs far less than a store-full of any other light—and gas arc light is by far the softest and most diffusive. A single Gas Arc actually yields a volume of 400 candles and burns one cent's worth of gas an hour—that's A Huge Volume of Light for Little Money We RENT these Gas Arcs—95,000 of them, to the best lighted and most economically managed stores, shops, lofts, factories and warehouses in the city. The Peoples Gas Light & Coke Co. Peoples Gas Building Telephone Randolph 4567 FRANK DUNN ESTABLISHED TEL. OAKLAN J. B. McCAHEY 1877 1560, 1581, 1586 JOHN J. DUNN WHOLESALE COAL RETAIL FIFTY-FIRST STREET and ARMOUR AVENUE RAILYARDS 51et St. and L. S. & M. S. 51et St. and ARMOUR AVE. One railroad company plans noiseless cars for the sleepless. Have they actually perfected a device to insure noiseless sleeping? As the shortage is chiefly of textile dystuffs, there is no reason for fearing as yet that complexions will be appreciably affected by the war. Influential Americans have become acquainted with ocean travel in a way that may eventually lead to some improvement of steerage conditions. If the capture of guns by all the armies continues at the recent rate none of them will have any artillery left by the time the war is half over. --- --- FRANK DUNN J. B. MoCAHEY TRUSTEES! FRANK DUNN J. W. Casey, Agent, 74 W. WASINGTON STREET ond Look At— ight Across the Way. arc light costs far less than a and gas arc light is by far the yields a volume of 400 candles arth of gas an hour—that's volume of Light le Money ccs—95,000 of them, to the best by managed stores, shops, lofts, the city. Light & Coke Co. Telephone Randolph 4567 The shoe that pinches looks just as well as the one that does not irritate your corns. How some of those war poems get by the censor is something that ought to be explained. About the blackest touch on the night side of warfare is what calls itself "reprisal." Add to the list of the horrors of war: A Canadian firm is advertising a military wrist watch. Consistent neutrality must be as hard an ideal as the frictionless pulley and the invisible lens. ```markdown ``` TEL. OAKLAND 1560,1581,1582 CHICAGO