The Broad Ax

THE BROAD AX An Humble Appeal to Hon. Woodrow Wilson, Commander-in-Chief of the Army and the Navy of This Great Nation, and to the Congress of the United States to Immediately Abrogate All 'Jim Crow' Car Laws Other Discriminatory Measures and the Disfranchising Legislation Which Have Been Enacted by Some of the Southern States for the Sole Object or Purpose of Degrading and Humiliating More Than Ten Million Colored American Citizens Causing Them to Feel, at All Times, That They Are Nothing More Than Aliens and Criminals in a Strange Land MR. PRESIDENT AND THE HONORABLE MEMBERS OF CONGRESS: FROM EVERY POINT OF VIEW, THE COLORED PEOPLE SHOULD BE PERMITTED TO ENJOY THEIR CIVIL OR POLITICAL OR THEIR NATURAL OR INHERENT RIGHTS IN THIS COUNTRY. FOR THEY HAVE FREELY AND CHEERFULLY POURED OUT THEIR LOYAL AND PATRIOTIC BLOOD ON EVERY BATTLEFIELD, FROM THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR, INCLUDING THE WAR OF 1812, THE MEXICAN WAR IN 1845; THE SLAVE HOLDERS WAR OF THE REBELLION FROM 1861 TO 1865; THE SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR AND THE LATE WAR WITH MEXICO. IT WAS THE BRAVERY AND THE MEMORABLE DASH OF THE COL- ORED SOLDIERS UP SAN JUAN HILL THAT SNATCHED VICTORY FROM DEFEAT AND PREVENTED COL. THEOODORE ROOSEVELT AND HIS ROUGH RIDERS FROM BEING TRAMPLED UNDER THE FEET OF THE SPANISH SOLDIERS. IN EVERY SENSE OF THE WORD THE COLORED PEOPLE HAVE HEROICALLY DEFENDED THE STARS AND THE STRIPES ON THE LAND AND ON THE SEA AND THEY HAVE NEVER PERMITTED OLD GLORY TO TRAIL IN THE DUST IN DISHONOR. HEREFORE, MR. PRESIENT AND THE HONORED MEMBERS OF CONGRESS, I MOST HUMBLY IMPLORE YOU TO USE YOUR GREAT INFLUENCE TO ABOLISH ALL OF THE VICIOUS LAWS WHICH HAVE BEEN ENACTED TO RETARD THE PROGRESS OF THE COLORED PROPEL SO THAT THEY CAN FREELY BECOME A HOMOGENEOUS PART OF THIS GRAND AND GLORIOUS REPUBLIC. Vol. XXII. An Humbly in-Chief and the Abroad Measured for the Million. Are Now MR. PRESIDENT AND THE HONOR FROM EVERY POINT OF VIEW PERMITTED TO ENJOY THE NATURAL OR INHERENT RIGHTS FOR THEY HAVE FREELY AND LOYAL AND PATRIOTIC BLOOD THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR, MEXICAN WAR IN 1845; THE BELLION FROM 1861 TO 1865; THE LATE WAR WITH MEXICAN IT WAS THE BRAVERY AND THE ORED SOLDIERS UP SAN JUAN FROM DEFEAT AND PREVENED AND HIS ROUGH RIDERS FROM FEET OF THE SPANISH SOLDIERS IN EVERY SENSE OF THE WORD I CALLY DEFENDED THE STAR AND ON THE SEA AND THE GLORY TO TRAIL IN THE DUSK THEREFORE, MR. PRESIDENT AND GRESS, I MOST HUMBLY IMPLIFLE FLUENCE TO ABOLISH ALL OR BEEN ENACTED TO RETARD PEOPLE SO THAT THEY CAN PART OF THIS GRAND AND GREAT An open letter or an humble appeal to the Hon. Woodrow Wilson, commander-in-chief of the army and the navy, and to the members of the United States congress. Mr. President and Honorable Gentlemen: The desinies of this great nation are being held in the hollow of your hands at the present time either for weal or for woe, and no one within the confines of the United States possesses any more profound respect for its early traditions and its established institutions which in the main are founded on human rights or that broad spirit of democracy; as further evidence of our true Americanism, the bones of many of our fore-parents still rest under the soil of the grand old commonwealth of Virginia, which has for many years been rightly known as the mother of presidents, and as many of the old traditions of the past pertaining to governmental affairs or policies are fast faking away and are becoming dim in the memories of men and as the white winged dove of a newer or broader democracy seems to be flapping its wings in a great effort to extend them to all parts of the civilized world so that this new twentieth century democracy will become universal in its scope and that men of all races will be able to come in contact with its magnetic touch and equally share in its blessings, marching under one flag for one world-wide country, ever singing as they march in one grand review that "We all are the sons and daughters of this newer or broader ```markdown ``` HEW TO THE LINE; LET THE CHIPS FALL WHERE THEY MAY democracy—that the hand that made us all is divine—that from henceforth there will be no north nor no south, no east nor no west, no high nor no low, no rich nor no poor, no white nor no black—that all mankind of whatever race or nationality stands ready and willing to be fused into one humanity forever." These newer or broader ideas appear to be uppermost in the minds of all the people at the present time, and from the very bottom of my heart which is weighted down with great pain and sorrow when I permit myself to meditate upon the many heinous crimes and the horrible, outrageous wrongs which are constantly being heaped upon the law-abiding Colored people in all parts of this country which is supposed to be "the land of the free and the home of the brave." I am forced as (it were) by some unseen power, Mr. President, to humbly appeal to you as the commander-in-chief of the army and the navy of this mighty nation and to the congress of the United States to immediately abrogate all "Jim Crow" car laws, all other discriminatory measures and the disfranchising legislation which have from time to time been enacted by some of the southern states for the sole purpose or object of wrongfully degrading and unlawfully humiliating more than ten million Colored American citizens, causing them at all times to very keenly feel that they are nothing more than aliens and criminals in a strange land. In all truthfulness it can be said, Mr. CHICAGO, APRIL 21, 1917 President and the honorable members of congress, from every point of view the Colored people who are a tenth part of the population of these United States should freely be permitted to enjoy their civil or political or their natural or inherent rights throughout each and every part of this broad land, which should at all times be the best and the fairest on the face of the green earth; for the Colored people have freely poured out their blood on every battlefield from Bunker Hill, Lexington to Carrilish; they were well to the front in all the bloody conflicts and marched by the side of General George Washington and greatly assisted him to win his lasting victories during the Revolutionary War; they assisted to uphold the hands of General Andrew Jackson in the war of 1812, it was their strong black arms that fought and won the memorable battle for him at New Orleans; they fought like unto black demons in the Mexican war of 1845. Mr. President and the honorable members of congress, it is almost needless to remind you that well on to two hundred thousand Colored soldiers fought in the slave-holder's war of the rebellion from 1861 to 1865; that almost forty thousand black men laid down their lives on four hundred and fifty battlefields for the preservation of the union; that they, the Colored soldiers, more than performed their part in the Spanish-American War and the late war with Mexico. Mr. President and the honorable members of congress, it was the bravery and the wonderful and the memorable dash of the Colored soldiers up San Juan Hill that snatched victory from defeat, at the same time preventing Col. Theodore Roosevelt and his rough riders from being trampled under the feet of the Spanish soldiers. With much pride it can be proclaimed from the highest mountain tops that in every sense of the word, Mr. President and the honorable members of congress, the Colored people have at all times more than heroically defended the stars and stripes on the land and on the sea and at no time nor place have they ever permitted Old Glory to trail in the dust in dishonor. Therefore, Mr. President and the honorable members of congress, as an humble member of the Colored race I most humbly implore all of you honorable gentlemen to use the great power and the far-reaching influence which you possess and at once abolish all the vicious laws which have been enacted in the various parts of the country for the sole purpose of retarding the progress of the Colored people, so that they, too, will be able to heartily join in this new world-wide democracy and in fact as well as in name become an integral or a homogeneous part of this grand and glorious republic. Mr. President and the honorable members of congress, I remain your most humble and obedient servant, Julius F. Taylor, Chicago, Illinois, April 30, 1917. 74 IPEU The popular and efficient judge of the Probate Court of Cook County, who will be re-elected to his present honored position in 1918. THE RE-OPENING OF THE ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE, IN THEOLD WOOD'S ACADEMY, 3800 VINCENNES AVENUE, REV. GEORGE HOWARD McDANIEL, POUNDER, PRESIDENT AND GENERAL FINANCIAL AGENT WILL BE ON HAND TO GREET ITS MANY FRIENDS. This coming Sunday afternoon, April 22nd at 3 o'clock, The Enterprise Institute, located at 3800 Vincennes avenue, will begin the celebration of its tenth anniversary, and an interesting program will be rendered each afternoon and evening for one week. The Enterprise Institute started in 1907 with five students, and up to date it has graduated five hundred and sixty students. Rev. George Howard McDaniel, who is well known in all parts of the Middle West, is the founder, president and general financial agent. Sunday afternoon, April 23, at 3 p.m. a massmeeting will be held in the large efficient judge of the Probate Court of C elected to his present honored position auditorium and three returned missionaries from Africa, who will also exhibit their curios. Mrs. C. D. Trice, Mrs. Hooper, and Mrs. Burgess will be among the local or home missionaries who will also address the meeting. Good singing will be furnished by some of the noted singers, including Miss Butler, the famous singer of Texas. The Enterprise Institute will be already to enroll students on Monday morning and in every way resume all of its former activities. The building consists of twenty-one large rooms, besides two large auditoriums. Students of both sexes will be taught forty different trades in wood work, iron, dressmaking, hairdressing, domestic science, manicuring and many other industries. The Enterprise Institute stands for the training of the head, heart and hand. A first class matron will be in charge and look after the young women students in every way. Many can live right in the building. Relig- No.31 ious services will be conducted on the main floor auditorium each Sunday. The Enterprise Institute under the wise guidance of its far-seeing founder, Rev. G. H. McDaniel, is filling a long-felt want in that direction in this section of the country. ATLANTA ALBINOES HAVE MORE DEFECTIVES THAN NEGRO. Report of Medical Director Great Surprise to the Citizens. Atlanta, Ga. (Special).—The board of education received with great surprise last week at its meeting in the Chamber of Commerce assembly hall the information from the report of Dr. W. N. Atkins, former medical director of schools, that 74.6 per cent of the albino children in the city public schools were physically defective, and that only 36.6 per cent of the Negro children were lacking physically. 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We make the best solid Brass STRAIGHT- ENING combs, with extra heavy back, fully painted. With each comb we give lancey FREE. Send money order or samples. MONEY BACK IF NOT SATISFACTORY. 89c. postpaid. POSTPAID 89c Hair nets, brushes, combs and toilet articles manufacturers' prices. Send two-cent stamp. Agents Wanted. Address as follows: HUMANIA HAIR COMPANY. 181-187 Park Row, New York City. Address Dept. 84 Fish Versus Mosquitoes Myriads of mosquitoes used to infest the rice plantations of Madagascar. Dr. Legendre, a savant well known in scientific circles in Paris, conceived the idea of freeing the region of malarial trouble by the introduction into the watercourses of cyprin, or red fish, which are very fond of both mosquitoes and their eggs. Within five months 500 fish multiplied to 10,000, and these destroyed nearly all the mosquitoes. The fish besides being a malaria destroyer became very important as an addition to native food—London Telegraph. Smiled the Wrong Way. "Well, my boy," he asked cheerfully at the breakfast table the morning after Cholly had taken the leap, "how did things go last evening? Did she smile on your proposal?" "No," said Cholly faintly, pushing away a breakfast roll. "She smiled at it"—Pittsburgh Chronicle-Telegram. Compensation. Life is compensatory to this extent: When a man reaches the point at which his wife is compelled to make the living for the family he has also reached the point at which the fact ceases to humilate him.—Topeka Capital. What Every Woman Knows. A woman always knows when a man is in love with her. A man often knows a woman is in love with him when she isn't—Exchange. Skinny—What made the tower of Pisa lean? Aver D. Pois—If I knew I'd try it—Yale Record. PRACTICAL HEALTH HINT For acute articular rheumatism the following treatment is recommended by a writer in the Medical Adviser, quoted by the Medical Record: An ointment made of four drams each of ichthyol, methyl salicylate and oil of turpentine, mixed with four ounces of lanolin, is applied to the affected joints and covered with cotton and oiled silk. The patient is put to bed in flannel nightclothes and between blankets for absolute rest. His diet must be liquid, preferably milk, together with fruit juices and plenty of water. Elimination through bowels, skin and kidneys must be attended to carefully. At the beginning of the treatment a dose of calomel and bicarbonate of soda is given and followed after four hours by rochelle salts or a sedilts powder. Rhubarb and soda may be given to advantage until the tongue is clean. Throughout convalescence the patient must abstain from all animal foods and alcohol. --- PAGE TWO He Was Est. Rheumatism. Phones Calumet 6164 Automatic 71-629 OPEN DAY AND NIGHT Automobles for hire Automatic 73-657 BULLIARD ACADEMY - CLEAN AND RELIABLE Bees and Fruit An agricultural society of Florence Italy, has recently carried out a thorough investigation of the alleged injury of fruit by bees and has completely exonerated the latter. Bees are unable to perforate the skin of the fruit, and it is only incidentally that they suck the juices of fruits injured by other natural causes. The damage sometimes attributed to these insects is due to poultry, wild birds, wind and hall, and even more frequently to hornets, wasps, vine moths and other insects. Instead of being harmful to orchards and vineyards, bees perform the useful service of effecting the cross pollination of flowers, and hence the setting of fruit as well as the destruction of damaged fruits (especially grapes) by sucking the juice and pulp and thus preventing fermentation and rot extending to sound individuals. The orchards and vineyards frequented by bees give the most constant crops.—Scientific American. Idolatry as It Is. After months spent in idolatrous lands I have been unable to see much real worship in heathen shrines. The educated worship with their tongues in their cheeks and the ignorant with their hearts in their mouths. But the amount of real worship that exists in heathen temples is very small. Sometimes a bereaved mother will enter the temple and draw from her kimono the tiny bib of a departed little one and tie it to the statue of Jizo, the god of motherhood. Sometimes an old man or woman almost blind will enter the temple and rub the eyes of a wooden god and then rub his own in the hope that eternal darkness may not close in on his affrighted soul. In some places Buddhist services are as dignified, as well attended and as helpful as our own. In Hakodate I attended a Buddhist preaching service that smacked less of idolatry and more of morals than some ceremonials in our cruciform chapels.—Christian Herald. The Arabic Language Though the Arabs number less than the population of London, their language is one of the most widely spoken and influential in the world, for it is the language of the Koran. Seventy millions of people in Asia and north Africa speak some form of Arabic as their vernacular, and quite as many more know something of the language from the Koran, which in the original is a text book in the day schools of the Mohammedans from Turkey to Afghanistan and New Gulnea. Nor is Arabic unworthy of this extensive use. Renan, after expressing his surprise that such a language should spring from the desert regions of Arabia and reach perfection in nomadic camps, declares that it surpasses all its sister Semitic languages in richness of vocabulary, delicacy of expression and the logic of its grammatical construction.—London Chronicle. Politics and Tobacco Something like half a century ago a man named Dan Bradley started the custom in a little cigar store in Brooklyn of keeping a box of smoking tobacco on the counter, with a sign above it saying, "Fill your pipe." Partly on the strength of his popularity, due in no small degree to the free fillings for a pipe, Bradley ran independently for the state senate and was elected as against the regular candidate. "Five thousand clay pipes did the trick for Dan" was a saying at the time. "A man would have to give away automobiles to get elected to the senate nowadays," observed one of the new school of politicians. "The days of the election cigar and tobacco are gone forever."—New York World. Damascus Sword Damascus swords, whose fame at one time made them almost one of the wonders of the world, were made of alternate layers of iron and steel, so finely tempered that the blade would bend to the hilt without breaking, with an edge so keen that no coat of mail could resist it and a surface so highly polished that when a Moslem wished to rearrange his turban he used his sword for a looking glass. Automatio 73-657 Chicago THE BROAD AX. CHICAGO, APRIL 21, 1917 The Transformation. After the hero of seventeen looks at the heroine of fifteen she is a different person. Before he looks at her she likes the fine brick houses in the neighborhood. In fact, she sees many elegant houses in town that she thinks would make ideal homes. Unlike her mother, she even likes the house in which the family lives. But after the hero looks at her you couldn't give her a big brick house. To her such places look cold, and she hardly would take one of them as a gift. But she just worships every little four and five room cottage she sees. They look so cute and neat and dear and sweet and cozy and snug. Oh, if she could just have a house like that and a hero like him—he is the only one there is of his kind—she would be just too happy for anything! And she would make fudge and have a regular home, only it would be far happier than other homes.—Claude Callan in Fort Worth Star-Telegram. Tragedy of Being Dull. In the Woman's Home Companion Arnold Bennett describes the tragedy of being dull: "The man lacking imagination is the utterly matter of fact man. He is necessarily the man who never has and cannot have any point of view except his own. He is the Wordsworthian man to whom a primrose by the river's brim was strictly a yellow primrose instead of being a miracle. He is imprisoned in what to him is the actual, and he is always the exact center of the prison, which is of thickest iron. His tragedy is that he does not suspect and is incapable of suspecting that he is in prison at all and that the prison walls and floor and roof entirely prevent him from really 'getting at' any other human being whatsoever. He is always in his own place. This is the deep meaning of dullness, and this is the dull man's doom." How a Bullet Falls In order to solve the problem a special stand was erected in Germany, and experiments were carried on along the shores of a lake the surface of which was frozen. The ice was covered with strong planks. It was shown that an infantry bullet shot upward in a vertical direction passes downward in the same position in which it passed upward. In other words, it came back to the earth with its bottom first. Why was it not upset at its culmination point? The answer is that the propelling force ceases to act at the culmination point, but the twist has as yet not stopped, and therefore it starts its fall with a twist. Even on impact the twist has not stopped, as was indicated by the warping of the wood fibers in the planking on the ice.-Popular Science Monthly. Where the Five Points Was The Five Points, once a most dangerous part of the New York slums, is now the site of Paradise park. It is at the crossing of Worth, Baxter and Park streets, near the junction of Park row and the New Bowery and Chatham square and practically adjoining Mulberry bend. In 1740 fourteen negroes were burned here during the negro insurrection. Here the Dead Rabbits had their headquarters and fought the Bowery Boys. The Seventh regiment was called out July 3, 1857, to quell a riot here. The Five Points mission was incorporated in 1850. Shrewd. The manager, writing out the announcement of his show, ended with these words: "The patronage of children under eighteen is not encouraged." "That," he remarked shrewdly, "will appeal to the children over eighteen!" —New York Post. Hard on the Records Freshman (in awed voice)—See that big fellow over there? He broke three records last week. Sweet Young Thing—Mercy, I wouldn't let him run the phonogram!- Penn State Froth. Blindfolded. If blindfolded, it is said, no person is able to stand five minutes without moving. PRACTICAL HEALTH HINT. Restrain a Cough. A patient German statistician has calculated that a patient who coughs once every quarter of an hour for ten hours expends energy equivalent to 250 units of heat, which may be translated as equivalent to the nourishment contained in three eggs or two glasses of milk. In normal respiration the air is expelled from the chest at the rate of four feet per second, whereas in violent coughing it may attain a velocity of 300 feet. This waste of energy is especially important because it occurs for the most part in persons whose assimilative functions are already working under difficulties; consequently the ingestion of the corresponding quantity of nourishment by no means compensates for the exertion. It follows that persistent cough is per se a cause of emaciation, though there are many other factors which tend in the same direction; hence the desirability of restraining cough within safe limits, especially when it is due to irritative reflexes, such as are excited by laryngitis and pharyngitis.—Medical Critic and Guide. ```markdown ``` Dreams May Be Overtime Work. Dreams are a good test of the need of sleep and many times answer the question of workover or idleness, according to Dr. Percy G. Stiles, who lectured at the Harvard medical school on "Sleep." "It is possible to judge by one's dreams whether one needs sleep," he said. "If the dreams are of a rambling variety, the kind that seem to pop from nowhere or anywhere, it is a pretty good sign that you are not overtired. On the other hand, if the dreams are a continuation of the day's worries the chances are that you are overtired. Dreams remote from the day's work are a vacation, but dreams connected with the day's work are overtired. "To go to sleep get the body and mind comfortable. The body is easier to make comfortable than the mind. A rubdown, a bath and a little bit to eat help bring that about. To compose the mind read some familiar book or poetry. That soothes the mind, for no exertion is necessary to read it"—Boston Journal. The Actor's Indifference It is probable that the height of indifference is reached in the veteran actor. I saw one at the Press club recently who confirms this suspicion thoroughly. He is in a good show, but has a small part, appearing only in the first act. "How is the show?" I asked him. "Can't say." "How does it end?" "Don't know." "For goodness' sake," I asked, "haven't you ever seen the play? You are in it yourself?" "No," he answered, with a look of being bored. "Several times I have thought of going around front to see what it was all about; but, my dear old chap, I have never seemed to get around to it."—Washington Star. Keeps Milk From Boiling Over Keeps Milk From Bolling Over. Among the various devices which are intended to prevent milk from bolling over we noticed one which solves the problem in a very simple way, says the Scientific American. It consists of a straight tube of say two or three inches in diameter at the top and expanding somewhat toward the bottom, where it is provided with a firing and cup shaped end of rather large diameter, the whole being somewhat of trumpet shape. Out of the lower part are cut, say four suitable openings, and we set the device upright in the vessel with the small end just out of the liquid. Should the milk tend to boll violently this action commences at the bottom, and the liquid is forced up the tube, then falls upon the surface again, so that the bolling action will continue in this way and the milk has no tendency to leave the vessel. Submarine Torpedoes Launching a torpedo from a submarine is simple. The torpedo fits closely in a tube or cylinder, with an opening at the rear made airtight when closed. At the desired moment there is a discharge of cordite and the torpedo is on its way. When the torpedo is projected from a ship or boat into the water a lever is thrown back, admitting air into the engines, causing the propellers to revolve and drive the torpedo ahead. The torpedo travels under water at a high rate of speed. It carries a large charge of explosive, which is ignited on the torpedo striking any hard substance, such as the hull of a ship. The distance the tube is submerged depends on the target, but the nearer the surface the more effective. Shun "Tips" if You Play Stocks "Whatever you do, don't go it alone," is the advice that Harold Howland gives to women investors in the Woman's Home Companion. "Shun the financial gossip of the uninformed, the cocksure counsel of the irresponsible, the glittering generalities or the more insidious particularities of the conceived ignoramus. Beware of rumors, 'tips' and 'inside information.' Base your transactions upon the firm ground of accurate information, sound judgment and disinterested advice. Don't try to 'get rich quick.' His Modesty "Yes," replied Mr. Cumrox, "although I should never speak of myself as such." "Why not?" "Because I'm not absolutely sure I know how to pronounce the word."—New York American. A Matter of Protection Actor—I say, old man, I wish you'd advance me $5 and take it out of my first week's salary. Manager—But my dear fellow, suppose it happened that I couldn't pay your first week's salary. Where would I be?—Boston Transcript. Probably. "Was that the time they said tried men's soles?" -Baltimore American. Sharp Jack—Do you know that Kitty is an awfully sharp girl? Percy—Yes; she cut me on the street the other day.—Cornell Widow. Mara Photographs The best photographs of the canals of Mars were taken through red and orange screens. Perseverance always wins in the long run—usually in a walk. What "Barrage Fire" Is. What "Barrage Fire" is. An interesting feature of artillery fire is the "curtain" or "barrage" fire. This means simply keeping up such a terrific fire on a certain area that an enemy cannot or will not cross it. When an infantry attack is launched a barrage on the ground beyond the enemy's front line prevents his re-enforcements coming up while the attacking infantry are having it out with the defenders of the trench. If the attack carries beyond the first line the artillery of the defense promptly interposes a barrage to prevent its reaching the second line. If the attack on the first line fails the defending artillery puts a barrage behind the attacker's line to prevent re-enforcements coming up to it and to enable the victorious defenders to counterattack and destroy the enemy in his own trenches. It is merely a wholesale development of a long established method of supporting the infantry.—Major E. D. Scott in National Service Magazine. Mystery of a Fish. In the economy of nature nothing is more remarkable than the metamorphosis of the flounder, which when young swims in an upright position, as do all other fish, but when maturity develops it becomes topeheavy, falls over on its side and its existence is passed as a flat fish. That nature moves in a mysterious way is here freely illustrated, for when the flounder falls flat the two eyes, which originally were on either side of the head, are transposed to the upper side of the fish, where they always face the light. The process by which this strange change is accomplished has never been discovered by scientists and is a marvelous instance of nature's operations, for while the fish usually rests upon bottom it can readily swim about in any depth of water.—New York Sun. A Short Business Talk. In a certain store the merchandise manager sent for the ready to wear and millinery buyers and said to them: "You men are getting a bad accumulation of stock that is hard to move. Hereafter you will make a daily and weekly inventory and send the report to this office." Both buyers declared this to be impossible, but the merchandise man told them to go and do it. Especially he wanted them to show the age of the goods in stock, the sizes and the colors. After attempting to take some of these daily inventories the buyers decided that an easier way would be to get busy and sell the goods faster. This same plan has been used in many departments with fine results. There is nothing like the spot light to engender selling activity in a store.—Philadelphia Record. All In the Dialect: A New Zealand man vouchs for the truth of the following story: Dick Seddon was of Lancashire origin, and when he died the Lancastrian society in New Zealand sent a wreath with the following inscription: "I have gone whoam." The journalist who reported the funeral evidently did not come from Lancashire and consequently was somewhat puzzled by the wording and, after thinking hard, concluded that some one had blundered. His report read: "The Lancastrian society sent a beautiful wreath bearing the inscription: "I have gone. Who am I?" Destroying an Idol "Charley, dear," said young Mrs. Torkins, "you can say anything you like nowadays about George Washington, can't you?" "Yes. The lid seems to be off." "Well, I never liked to mention it before, but I have my doubts about his being incapable of an effort to deceive. His pictures look to me as if the old gentleman wore a wig."—Washington Star. Luxury and Labor Alexander the Great, reflecting on his friends degenerating into sloth and luxury, told them that it was a most slavish thing to luxuriate and a most royal thing to labor—Barrow. Happiness. Happiness rarely is absent. It is that we know not of its presence. The greatest felicity avails us nothing if we know not that we are happy. PRACTICAL HEALTH HINT. Diet and Health In an article on "Taming the Liver" World's Work says that the daily meal of the average business man consisting of meat and potatoes and white bread is ideal for inducing constipation. Most of us should not eat more than once a day. Eat the shells of your baked potatoes and eat whole wheat bread or graham for the help that what we call "roughage" has in stimulating bowel action. And see to it that you take liberal portions of at least two kinds of vegetables at both luncheon and dinner, such vegetables as peas, beans, lettuce, parsnips, carrots, turnips, celery, oyster plant, cabbage, Brussels sprouts, tomatoes, salisfy, Spanish onions, asparagus and spinach. If you dislike these you will be able to substitute fruits that you do like. Eat the right things, get sufficient exercise and rest and you will have no need for habit forming laxatives which eventually may do you much harm. ```markdown ``` Vacations, according to the New York Medical Journal, are nature's safety valves for the relief of the high pressure resulting from efficiency. Efficiency demands that throughout working hours all the faculties be taxed to the utmost without waste of material or of energy, but if properly directed it alms at making an efficient man before an efficient product. Therefore production may not exact that the man speed up beyond his endurance. The recent application of efficiency methods makes the vacation more than ever necessary. "The vacation," says the Medical Journal, "should be the nearest approach to the simple life. It is for this reason that the country, with all its many inconveniences, is so often chosen for the place of vacation. The vacation period allows for the absorption and elimination of the fatigue products from the system accumulated in the pressure period of the work. The longer the vacation, therefore, the better the subsequent work." Plant For a Hanging Basket Indoor gardeners will be interested in watching this plant grow. It follows the plan of the strawberry in sending out runners and starting new growths at the end of the stem. The strawberry, however, has the earth to establish its new growths. This indoor plant sends out the runners groping for earth where there is none. It's called the saxifrage. It is a favorite plant for hanging baskets. A small tuft of leaves develops at the end of each vine. From this tuff other runners are sent out and these in turn develop more tufts. By this method the saxifrage keeps on expanding until the basket is covered with a network of vines and a blanket of leaves. The leaves, shaped like those of the geranium, are a reddish olive color veined in white. It requires ordinary soil and a moderate amount of water and shade.—Philadelphia North American. Real Democracy Before Denmark consented to sell the Danish West Indies to the United States a plebiscite was held, and the electorate voted upon the question. The people of the United States, however, were never consulted as to whether they desired to make the purchase. The people of England vote directly on national questions whenever parliament is dissolved, and the government "goes to the country" on nearly every matter of really vital import. Many Americans fondly imagine that the United States is the only real democracy in the world. As a matter of fact, in Switzerland, Australia and New Zealand government is more directly responsible to the people than in the United States; Canada's government is at least equally representative as ours, while England, although nominally a constitutional monarchy, probably is more democratic than the United States.-St. Paul Dispatch. Art and Nature Art is the revelation of man, and not merely that, but likewise the revelation of nature speaking through man. Art pre-exists in nature, and nature is reproduced in art. As vapors from the ocean floating landward and dissolved in rain are carried back in rivers to the ocean, so thoughts and the semblances of things that fall upon the soul of man in showers flow out again in living streams of art and lose themselves in the great ocean, which is nature. Art and nature are not, then discordant, but ever harmoniously working in each other--Longfellow's "Hyperion." What She Wanted A woman was knocked down by a horse, but happily escaped with a few scratches. A man rescued her and said, "Can I get you anything?" She (much out of breath and gasping with excitement)—Oh—oh—can you kindly get me— He—Some brandy? She-No-not drink—some safety pins. I feel I'm failing all to pieces-Pittsburgh Chronicle. Heard at the Club "That's Fred Darling just come in You know his wife made him." "Well, I knew women did fancy work, but I never knew they did anything as fancy as that."—Exchange On the Lookout Friend—You are not going to run again? Congressman—No; It's too strenuous. I was sent down to Washington to look out for my constituents, and from the tone of their letters I've got to look out for them when I get home—Pnck. Second Sight. "Do you believe in second sight? No, but my wife does. When I go shopping with her she always says to the assistant, 'I'll come in and look at these again.'"—London Telegraph. Did Her Best Teacher—Do you know the population of New York? Mamile Backrow-Not all of them, ma'am; but, then, we've only lived here two years—Puck. The Champlon Lie. Probably the unmitigated falsehood most frequently told year in and year out takes this form: We welcome honest criticism.—Ohio State Journal. To fret and fume is undignified, suicidally foolish and theoretically unpardonable.—Robert Louis Stevenson. Millionaires Offer to Buy Camp and Train Novices. Scores of Harvard, Princeton, Columbia and Other University Men File Applications With Aero Club of America Main Recruiting Station. Guard Will Assist Destroyers. New York.—A syndicate of New York millionaires, headed by H. P. Davison of J. P. Morgan & Co. and Lewis S. Thompson, has notified the United States navy department that it is ready to acquire the site and bear the entire expense of a camp to be established somewhere on Long Island for training in groups of 100 each college men as aviators to aid the navy in coast defense and for any other branch of the service desired. Rear Admiral Peary, head of the national nerial coast patrol commission, is acting advisor, and several conferences with navy department fields have been had. Mr. Davison and his wife gave the ephastic support which brought PETER H. BURKE Photo by American Press Association. H. P. DAVISON. about the organization of the Yale aerial unit last summer, and their two sons, F. Trubee Davison and H. P. Davison, Jr., are now expert filers, training with the Yale unit at West Palm Beach, Fla., which camp is funded by Mr. Davison, Sr. The men there are under full military discipline. Henry Woodhouse of the Aero Club of America recently gave them an airplane gun and 2,000 rounds of ammunition, in the use of which the young aviators will receive instruction from naval officers. The personnel of the Florida camp has been increased since the arrival of the Yale unit. Besides the Davison boys and Robert A. Lovett, son of Judge Robert Lovett, president of the Union Pacific railroad, the members are all of wealthy and socially prominent families. Scores of Harvard, Princeton, Columbia and other university men are filing applications with the Aero Club of America, the main recruiting station. The duties of the aerial coast guard will be to locate and assist destroyers, trawlers and submarine chasers, to locate and assist trawlers in destroying submerged mines, searching the coast or submarine bases, convoy troop and archchant ships on coastwise trips, to patrol the coasts, holding up and inspecting doubtful ships and conveying them to examining stations, attacking battle ships and submarines with torpedoes, bombs and guns; protecting ships at sea and in port from attacks of submarines and battleships, communicating to incoming ships information regarding the location of mines, submarines and the courses to follow to avoid mistakes, confusion and accident; serving as the "eyes" of mine planters, minimizing the time required for mine planting, and defending and protecting naval bases from naval and aerial attacks. PURPLE CARNATIONS NOW. terry Professor Produces One and Values Cuttings at $100 Each. Trenton, N. J.-Governor Edge received from the State Agricultural college the first purple carnation ever originated. It was produced by Professor M. A. Blake by artificial hybridization, and a cutting is valued at $100. It was brought to the executive offices by Dr. J. G. Lipman, director of the experiment station. Purple is the color of the Northwestern University of Illinois, and that institution asked for a cutting, but the experiment station has decided first to accumulate enough stock to be distributed free to the florists of New Jersey. FINDS BULLET IN PILLOW ON HIS RETURN HOME Newark, N. J. — When John Burkhardt and his wife returned to their home the other night they found a bullet hole through the center of the pillow on which Burkhardt sleeps. Some one had evidently fired through the window in the darkness, and Burkhardt is thanking his lucky stars that he was not at home. SUGGESTS WAR HONORS FOR ARMY OF FARMERS SUGGESTS WAR HONORS FOR ARMY OF FARMERS Recruit All Unfit For War Work For Service In the Fields. New York.-Joseph Hartigan, commissioner of weights and measures, has laid before the council of national defense a plan to remedy the shortage of agricultural labor by the mobilization and training by the government of an agricultural army. The scheme provides for enlisting ablebodied men unfit for the army and navy on account of minor defects, such as weak vision, deafness, tooth trouble, and so on, and also of conscientious obJECTORS. "In view of the present food situation and the need for more food in future," said the commissioner, "the farmer must have help in increasing his crops. American agriculture has suffered from the drift of farm labor to munition factories, and when the nation begins to raise an army there will be further subtraction from farm labor through enlistments, while the consumption of food certainly will not decrease. "Under the circumstances it seems we ought to honor the man behind the plow as well as the man behind the gun. Each is serving the nation. Such an army might easily number several hundred thousand. It would be regularly organized and officered, and its men would wear uniforms, marking them distinctly as engaged in the service of the United States. After brief training they could be distributed in regiments or companies where needed, according to crop seasons. These men would be paid by the government, just as soldiers are paid, and they might well receive the advantages after honorable discharge that are given in some places by law to ex-soldiers. Farmers who receive this aid from the government could pay the wage rate current in their neighborhoods." ALL PRIVATE WIRELESS PLANTS DISMANTLED ALL PRIVATE WIRELESS PLANTS DISMANTLED Report of Sea Raider Off Coast Moves Government to Speedy Action. New York.—Immediately on the declaration of war against Germany the police began executing the order that all private wireless stations throughout the city be dismantled. The federal authorities have instructed them that every apparatus of this character must come down, even those having permits from the department of commerce. Apparatus not removed by the owner will be dismantled by a police wrecking crew. It is estimated there are 1,500 wireless receiving stations in Greater New York, most of which have been encouraged by the government because student wireless operators must have plants in which to practice. One thing that moved the government to take prompt steps against the wireless was the report of a sea raider off the coast. Particular attention is being paid to automobiles driving along the south shore of Long Island, because there is reason to believe that many times during the war radio connection has been established between German spies in this city and sea rovers. Apparatus powerful enough to throw waves 1,000 miles can be carried in the tonneau of a motorcar. Secret service agents have picked up messages supposedly sent in this way. DISCUSS SHRAPNEL HELMETS Great Quantities Can Be Turned Out In Single Month if Needed. Washington.-Officials of the war department declared that, while the army was not yet provided with the shrapnel helmets found so indispensable in European military operations of the last two years, the department had already approved patterns for their manufacture and that great quantities could be turned out within a single month in the event they were needed. The war department has also accepted patterns for poison gas helmets and trench guns, adequate supplies of which also may be obtained on short notice, it is said. The army has no plans at present for the provision of liquid fire, which the Germans introduced and which the allies have since found so useful in trench operations, but it is stated that this, too, could be secured in this country in case its use became imperative. The pattern of shrapnel helmet accepted by the war department is described as unusually heavy, weighing between three and four pounds. It will not be worn except in active field operations. CAT FLOATS ON KEG. She Went Through a Gale at Sea and Was Rescued. Redondo Beach, Cal—Carl Hansen and George Fitch returned from a fishing trip the other day bringing with them a large black cat which they found riding an empty keg five miles out at sea. The cat was famished and had undoubtedly weathered a fierce storm when the wind blew at a rate of fifty miles an hour, but had tenaciously clung to the keg. On a brass plate attached to a leather collar around the animal's neck was the word "Utanica," presumably the name of the boat upon which the cat was a mascot. THE BROAD AX. CHICAGO, APRIL 21, 1917 MAKING OFFICERS More Than 20,000 Are Required For United States Army. HOW TO OBTAIN COMMISSION Candidates Will Be Grouped by Cities, and Examining Officers Will Be Sent to Conduct Examinations at Central Points—First and Most Important Requisite Is Military Training. Washington.—The new army will require more than 20,000 officers of the line, including those of the regular army and the reserve. In the next few months, therefore, opportunities will be open for thousands of capable young men to enter the military service. The method of obtaining a commission is not what it has heretofore been in times of emergency. The applicant may send his application to the secretary of war or he may, if he has acquaintance with his congressman or senator, send it through either of these. His application once on file in the war department, he will be duly notified as to every step necessary for him to take to qualify for a commission. Naturally at this time, when the increment necessary must be crowded into a short period of time, many requirements will be less rigorously enforced than in ordinary times. Candidates will be grouped by cities, and examining officers will be sent to conduct examinations at central points. Examining officers will conduct examinations in a selective manner, maintaining a ratio of one major to five captains, five first lieutenants and five or more second lieutenants. The first and most important requisite is military training, but military training alone will not admit a man to the officers' reserve corps. He will be examined as to character and sobriety, personality, address and force, reputation and standing in his community, power to command respect of officers and men, and adequate education. Military efficiency, however, will determine the grade to which he will be appointed. In case of men who have had little or no military training candidates will be recommended for appointment as second lieutenants subject to the thirty-second year age limit, provided they are college graduates, or seniors in college, or clearly well educated men, or have demonstrated ability in business, athletics or other activity and possess in a marked degree the ability to handle men. The war department expects that it will be possible under this standard to obtain from forty to fifty good reserve officers of the line from each congressional district. Instructions to examining officers are to hold the general examination as to character and capability up to a high standard. Orders have gone out from the war department to speed up examinations and recommendations because it is recognized that it will require time to make an army of even 500,000 men effective for service under the conditions of fighting employed in the present war. POWER BOAT TUITION. Squadron Association Places Units at Government's Disposal. New York.-The United States Power Squadron association took action to place its resources, comprising twenty squadron units in the principal Atlantic and great lakes ports of the country, at the disposal of the government. Owing to the fact that of the thousands of motorboats owned in the United States comparatively few are of sufficient size and power to be used in operations against submarines, the association decided to place the hundreds of vessels represented in its fleets at the command of the navy department to be used as training vessels for personnel while the larger craft are being built. The proposition to utilize the motorboat fleets for training purposes was transmitted to Assistant Secretary of the Navy Roosevelt by Theodore I. Coe, head of the Power Squadron association. The men who have been put in charge in the various districts are C. N. Burnall for Boston, H. M. Williams for New York, Dr. E. P. Sweet for Providence, J. K. Murphy for New Haven, L. P. Clephane for Washington, H. H. Hungerford for Chicago and Maurice G. Belknap for Philadelphia. CITIZEN SECRET SERVICE. Organization For Seven States Announced at San Francisco. San Francisco.-The intelligence office of the western department, United States army, announced the organization of a secret interstate citizens' intelligence organization to be known as the Nathan Hale volunteers. Any man or woman who is a citizen of the United States may hold membership. The states of California, Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Nevada, Utah and Montana will be covered by the organization. The object will be to aid the government in connection with anti-spy, pro-German and anti-American activities. Brigadier General E. G. Hunt of the California national guard is chief of the advisory board of the organization, which is divided into ten divisions in the western department. The identity of the members will be kept secret, and the men and women selected to act under orders will be furnished with identification credentials. REPAIR RECRUIT'S TEETH. Twenty Thousand Members of Dentists Prepared Thousand League Offer Services Preparedness League Offer Services. Washington.-Bad teeth need deter no one from offering his services to the United States either as soldier or sailor. The Preparedness League of American Dentists, with a membership of 20,000 throughout the United States, has organized and is ready to repair defective teeth for any prospective recruit without charge, so that not a man need be lost to the country on this account. The New York unit of the league has offered its services to General Leonard Wood, who has accepted the offer. The faculty of the New York College of Dentistry and the New York College of Dental and Oral Surgery, the clinics of Bellevue and allied hospitals, Orthopedic hospital and the health department dental clinics have been placed at the disposal of the league. The equipment comprises nearly 300 chairs, and a body of representative men have volunteered to keep this equipment in operation. It is expected that dental supply concerns will aid the patriotic work with free contributions of materials. Virtually every dental college in the country will cooperate in the movement. CRIPPLED HERO ON RECORD Arm Gone, He Has Woman Sign Declaration Backing Training Plan. New York—More than fifty years ago William Neary gave the best years of his life to his country. Recently he paused on Broadway to listen to a young woman who was urging the crowd about her to sign a declaration in support of universal military service. William Neary pushed through the crowd. "I'd like to sign that paper, young woman," he said, "but, you see, I can't." He pointed to the sleeve that dangled where his right arm used to bulge and drew a postal card from his pocket. "There's my name," he said. "It's a call to the meeting of my Grand Army post. You see they call me 'comrade.'" "Young woman," he said, "there should be more like you. The country needs them." HAWK BREAKS WINDOW GLASS Famishing Bird Attempts to Feast on Parrot. Green Bay, Wis.-Polly, a parrot, the companion of Mrs. William Anderson, was preening herself in the sunshine at the window of the front room when a hawk, swooping down, crashed through the window glass. Before the bleeding bird of prey could reach the parrot with its talons Polly soared out through the same hole and perched in an apple tree. Polly set up a frightened chatter that brought her mistress, who couldn't imagine how she got out of the room. Mrs. Anderson hurried out and to the window, where she saw the havoc and the great hawk flopping about the floor, sprinkling blood all over her erstwhile immaculate parlor. When Mrs. Anderson and a neighbor had pinned it down and chopped off its head they found it three feet five inches from tip to tip. The bird was thin and seemed nearly starved, probably, they thought, because of the deep snow. WARNS OF FOOD SHORTAGE. Armour Favors Government Control of Production and Price. Chicago—"If immediate and radical steps are not taken to increase and conserve the food supply in the United States," said J. Ogden Armour, "this country will find itself next fall and winter in as bad a state so far as food is concerned as any of the warring nations of Europe. "Our first duty, as I see it, is to make certain that both our own people and our allies have an abundant food supply. I favor government supervision and control of food production and food prices. "Let the government, for instance, fix the wholesale price of all meat products. Let the government guarantee to the farmer a minimum price of $1.50 a bushel for all the wheat he can raise." HIS LAST JUDGE A TRAIN. Man Acquitted of Railway Murder Is Killed on Same Road. High Bridge, N. J.-Over a year ago John Wesley Beam was acquitted of a charge of murdering William Beam (not a relative of John's) by pushing him under a railroad train on New Year's eve, 1915. The case was tried before Justice Parker of the supreme court and Judge Salmon of the Morris county court. Recently John was killed by a train on the same railroad. He had fallen asleep on the High Bridge branch of the Central Railroad of New Jersey. His body was taken to his parents' home at Bunnyville. WILL NOT MINGLE RACES. War Department to Train Whites and Blacks Separately. Washington.-It was learned authoritatively at the war department that negro and white troops will not be camped and trained together and that the department does not contemplate any action which would smack of offending the south. The problem has been solved in the past, and a solution will be found during the present war, it was said. FARMS ON LINKS Golfers Will Raise Food Products For Country. F. U. ADAMS ORIGINATES PLAN Idea of Well Known Author Has Been Enthusiastically Received — Adopt Motto "We Are Not Too Proud to Hoe"—Expect to Realize Several Million Dollars. New York.—The golf players of the United States will turn farmers and raise on their links huge crops of potatoes and other food products for the use of the United States and its allies. Such is the movement set on foot by the Dunwoodie Country club at a special meeting held in its Yonkers clubhouse. The plan originated with Frederick Upham Adams, author and golfer. The plan of operation is simple and is declared to be practical. Dunwoodie. [Name] FREDERICK UPHAM ADAMS. in common with all golf courses, has several acres of tilable soil not used for golfing purposes. The club has set this aside for cultivation. More than a hundred of the members have already volunteered to do the work of cultivation, and it is predicted that this volunteer farming corps will soon number fully 250 golfers who will try to prove themselves as efficient with a hoe as with a niblick. These volunteers sign the following pledge: "The Dunwoodie Country club has the honor of taking the initiative in a national campaign on the part of golf clubs to aid in winning the war now declared. We propose to set aside for cultivation all of our land not absolutely needed for golf purposes. We propose that our members shall cultivate this land; that the club shall purchase its product at a fair market value and that members shall do the same, and that the total cash proceeds shall be devoted to the purchase of ambulance trucks and other necessaries required in the successful prosecution of war. "The undersigned members of the Dunwoodie Country club now volunteer their services in the Dunwoodie volunteer garden corps and pledge themselves to work in these gardens for an average of two hours a week for the twenty weeks which constitute the season. We also agree to pay $1 as initiation fee and further pledge ourselves to obey the rules which will be adopted to govern the execution of this patriotic duty." Two hours a week for twenty weeks makes forty hours' work for each member, which means that a volunteer corps of 250 members would perform 10,000 hours of farming labor. This now has a market value of not less than 30 cents an hour, an item of $3,000, and the Dunwoodie farming experts predict that the muscle of their golfers will create a product which will sell for not less than $4,000, of which the club will be chief patron. Mr. Adams, President Austin L. Babcock of the Dunwoodie Country club and other originators of this movement point to the fact that there are fully a thousand golf clubs in the United States and predict that several millions of dollars will accrue for war purposes from this campaign. "The Dunwoodie plan" has the hearty support of Howard F. Whitney, secretary of the United States Golf association. The Dunwoodie Country club will at once prepare a pamphlet containing the details of "the Dunwoodie plan" and will mall it to all of the golf clubs in the United States. The motto adopted is "We are not too proud to toe," and the popular anthem for golfers this year will be "Way down yonder in the cornfield." GYPSIES RIDE IN AUTOS. Caravan de Luxe Attracts Much Attention at Briarcliff Manor. Briarcliff Manor, N. Y.—A band of about twenty gypsies, traveling de luxe from Boston to San Francisco, camped here. Three new high powered automobiles are used to carry the gypsies, and three smaller cars carry their goods. The men are plentifully supplied with money. The caravan attracted much attention as they passed through the village and pitched their camp in a small slump of woods at the foot of the hills. PAGE THREE WILSON AT SIXTY YEARS LOOKS TO BE ONLY FORTY WILSON AT SIXTY YEARS LOOKS TO BE ONLY FORTY President In Fine Trim to Handle Tremendous War Problems. Washington.—Facing the worries and tremendous responsibilities of a war the end of which cannot be foreseen, President Wilson at the age of sixty years is in perfect physical trim. He looks and acts about forty. Many things contribute to the president's fine physical condition. He is a stanch believer in outdoor exercises—plenty of air. He takes both regularly and in time of stress defies the weather to keep him from the golf links or a long walk with Mrs. Wilson. "Relieve the mind by exposing it to the sunshine," appears to be the president's creed. Whenever there has been a crisis it is the president's custom to attend a theater, and he plays golf usually after his decision has been made. Dr. Cary T. Grayson, the president's private physician, has played a prominent part in keeping him strong and well. Whenever a danger signal is flashed along the president's system Grayson "catches" it. On those occasions the president is sent to bed to rest. The president and Grayson may always be seen together when an international snarl is being dealt with. They may either play golf together or ride about the Washington drives swapping stories. By holding to simple rules of living the president finds himself—a war president—physically and mentally fit to cope with the big problems ahead. ARMY AND NAVY TAKE FINGER PRINTS OF MEN Hope by This Means to Identify Recruits In Case of Death or Illness. Washington. Because of the war situation and the general unrest the police are anxious to keep a watch on criminals and take into custody such as are at large. Crooks have often been able to slip through the hands of small town police forces which lacked a finger print system. The army and navy are now taking finger prints of all men who enlist so that in case of death or illness the victim may be identified. The police department at one time aided the government in this work, but today the army and navy have their own print system. "Any one," Inspector Faurot of New York said, "after a little instruction and practice can take a person's finger impressions successfully. To learn how to classify them, however, is a different matter. It requires a knowledge of finger prints. Our department has reached such efficiency that in four minutes we can take a prisoner's impressions, make a research for his former impressions and place his typewritten record before you." Inspector Faurot told of a prisoner who was brought to headquarters. When his assistants looked up the prisoner's record they discovered his prints had been sent from Belgium, where he was wanted in an $80,000 embezzlement. Finger impressions of a man arrested in Sydney, Australia, for the shooting of a policeman there were sent here. His impressions revealed that he was wanted for murder in Boston. Many employers of labor today have finger prints taken of their employees for identification. Laborers who work in ditch gangs gander from one place to another so that their identities frequently become lost. PANAMA TO DEFEND CANAL. German Residents Will Be Interred if Involved In Plots. Panama.—The president of the republic of Panama, Dr. Ramon Valdez, signed a proclamation committing Panama unreservedly to the assistance of the United States in defense of the canal. The president also canceled the exequaturs of all the German consuls in Panama. The proclamation declares: "Our indisputable duty in this tremendous hour of history is of a common ally, whose interests and existence as well are linked indissolubly with the United States. "I therefore declare that the Panaman nation will lend emphatic co-operation to the United States against enemies who execute or attempt to execute hostile acts against the territory of the canal or in any manner affect or tend to affect the common interests." It is announced that Germans resident in Panama will be interned if they give any evidence of being involved in plots. --- AN AUTOGRAPHED EGG GETS HOME TO ROOST Pittsburgh.—His name and the date, "July 15, 1916," written on an egg, shocked Lawrence Kendall of Mansfield, O., when he emptied a case of "strictly fresh" at a hotel here. He remembered marking the hen fruit while a packer last summer, but the shock occurred when the eggs, which left him at 21 cents, came back at 55 cents a dozen. PAGE FOUR COMMITTEE OF AWARD, NATIONAL NEGRO HEALTH WEEK, SELECTED. Tuskegee Institute, Ala., April 19 (Special).—The announcement of the contest for the best clean-up work during the National Negro Health Week which is to be observed April 22-28, has elicited most favorable comments from White and Colored people in all sections of the south. Letters from various committees organized to conduct clean-up campaigns indicate that the interest in this movement for better health is unsurpassed by that of any other similar movement conducted among our people. President J. C. Napier of the National Negro Business League, spent several days recently at Tuskegee Institute in conference with Dr. Robert R. Moton, principal, and Emmett J. Scott, secretary, and it has been agreed that the communities planning to report their clean-up activities for consideration in connection with the silver cups offered by the National Clean-up and Paint-up Bureau, must make their reports and mail them not later than Saturday, May 12th. This will allow two full weeks after the close of the health week for the reports to be compiled and forwarded to Tuskegee Institute. It is worth while to bear in mind three important conditions regarding the contest. First, the reports should not exceed 700 words. Second, the reports should all be typewritten. Third, the reports should be mailed to the secretary, National Negro Business League, Tuskegee Institute, Alabama. The committee of award as selected are announced as follows: Suggested Committee to Award Cups in Connection with Negro Health Week. Dr. Robert E. Jones, editor Southwestern Christian Advocate, New Orleans, Louisiana. Dr. A. M. Curtis, physician and surgeon, former surgeon-in-chief Freedmen's Hospital, Washington, D. C. Hon. J. C. Napier, president National Negro Business League, Nashville, Tennessee. Dr. Robert B. Moton, principal Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute, Tuskegee, Alabama. Mr. Herman E. Perry, president Standard Life Insurance Company, Atlanta, Georgia. Mr. C. C. Spaulding, North Carolina Mutual and Provident Association, Durham, North Carolina. Mr. M. N. Work, editor Negro Year Book, Tuskegee Institute, Alabama. Dr. D. W. Byrd, president National Medical Association, Norfolk, Virginia. Mrs. Mary B. Talbert, president National Federation of Colored Women's Clubs, Buffalo, New York. Miss Nannie H. Burroughs, principal National Training School for Women and Girls, Washington, D. C. Mr. Eugene Kinckle Jones, executive secretary National League on Urban Conditions Among Negroes, New York City. Dr. A. Wilberforce Williams, physician and surgeon, health editor Chicago Defender, Chicago, Illinois. According to present plan, the above committee will meet, canvass the various reports, and make presentation of awards at the forthcoming meeting of the National Negro Business Leagues, to be held in Chattanooga, Tennessee, August 15, 16 and 17, 1917. PLAY BALL. Season 1917 Opens at Schorling's Park —Alderman Louis B. Anderson Pitches First Ball—Banquet to Players Saturday Night. The American Giants, Chicago's and the country's greatest aggregation of baseball artists, will unfurl their 1916 championship banner to the breeze Sunday, April 22, 1917, at Schorling's Park, 39th street and Wentworth avenue, where they commence their 1917 season with Jake Stalls, a cracker-jack local White team, as opponents. "Rube" Foster, the race's best product in baseball, has strengthened his line-up and will present some new faces. The day promises to be a gala one, and standing room only is likely to be the order. The Hon. Louis B. Anderson, alderman-elect of the second ward, will grace the pitcher's box and throw the first ball across the plate, opening the game. It is not known who will catch the alderman's first throw. The Hon. Beauregard F. Moseley would be a good man if it were not for his height. The owner of the park has made several improvements looking towards the comfort of the patrons. Saturday, at the Elite No. 2, Mr. Henry Jones and Beauregard F. Moseley will give to the players an impromptu banquet. All fans are expected to attend. The program will consist of short talks by Alderman Louis B. Anderson, Editor R. S. Abbott of the Defender, Mr. S. B. Turner of the Illinois Idea, Julius F. Taylor of The Broad Ax, Mr. J. F. Schorling and other noted fans. The public is cordially invited. Miss E. G. Osby of Springfield, Ill., has for the past two weeks been visiting her sister and friends in this city. HANNIBAL LODGE NO. 6, KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS CELEBRATED THE TWENTY-FIFTH ANNIVERSARY OR SILVER JUBILEE. Grand Chancellor, Dr. Allen A. Wesley, Presented with an Elegant K. of P. Charm. Tuesday evening, Hannibal Lodge, No. 6, K. of P. celebrated its twenty-fifth anniversary or silver jubilee at Masonic Hall, 3956 S. State street, complimentary to its charter members and the following honored guests of the evening: Charter members — Christopher L. Makle, George R. Garner, Frank B. Cranshaw, Henry C. Coombs, Charles E. Jackson, James Walker. Hannibal Lodge members—Officers at the Grand Lodge—Grand Chancellor, Dr. Allen A. Wesley; G. K. of R. & S., Frank B. Waring; Grand Attorney, Robert A. J. Shaw; Member Beneficiary Board, Albert B. George. At the conclusion of the following program: Music, Stewart's Orchestra; Introduction of Master of Ceremonies, C. C., Albert Clay; Remarks—Master of Ceremonies, Bro. Bindley C. Cyrus; Solo, Charles Settles; History of Hannibal Lodge, Bro. Albert B. George; Music, Orchestra; The Progress of our Order in Illinois, G. C. C. Dr. Allen A. Wesley; Sentiment—Our Order as a Good Thing, Bro. John R. Auter, See'y Beneficiary Board. Large portraits of Frank B. Waring and Albert B. George were presented to the lodge and each one of the charter members received valuable tokens for the high esteem which they are held in by its more than four hundred members, for Hannibal Lodge is one of the largest in the United States. Dr. Allen A. Wesley, Grand Chancellor for the Knights of Pythias for Illinois, who is also a member of Hannibal Lodge, was presented on that same delightful occasion with an elegant K. of P. charm and each lady present, and they numbered more than two hundred, consisting of the wives, daughters and sweethearts and other relatives of the members of the lodge, all received souvenirs of dainty pieces of jewelry and other trinkets, which caused their faces to be wreathed in smiles and feel real happy. While the sumptuous banquet was being served in the balcony of the hall, and there was plenty to eat for every person present, the orchestra discoursed dancing music and many enjoyed that part of the evening entertainment until it became their turn to be served at the banquet tables. The head officials of Hannibal Lodge spared no money or expense in entertaining its members and friends in royal style on its twenty-fifth anniversary or silver jubilee. The officers of Hannibal Lodge are as follows: Chancellor Commander, Albert Clay; Vice-Chan. Commander, Clarence H. Matthews; Master of Work, Charles Turner; Prelate, John W. Roberts; K. of R. and S., Frank B. Waring; M. of F., Albert B. George; M. of Ex., Christopher L. Makle; M. at A., William McCutcheon; I. G., William Williams, O. G., Walter Robinson; Trustees, Brooks Harris, Louis O. Baler, William C. Ricketts; Anniversary Committee, Frank B. Waring, George R. Garner, George G. Smith, Christopher L. Makle, Earl F. Williams. THE COLORED PEOPLE ARE BE COMING GREATLY INTERESTED IN THE COMMUNITY GARDENS IN ALL PARTS OF THE CITY. Frederick Douglass Community Garden has been organized to plant and cultivate in vegetables and cereals the plat of ground at 33rd street and Wabash avenue upon a co-operative basis. The food shortage of the world makes this one of the most beneficial efforts that have been put forward by any one among our people during the year. Famine, with all the misery and discomfort man can possibly stand as an accompaniment, will pay our country a visit this year if we are not prepared to stay its onward march by a greater production of eatables; hence the cry has gone up all over the country to prepare by gardening and producing on every spot available something to eat. Golf links are being torn up and sowed in turnips, cabbages, lettuce and radishes. Tennis grounds are being planted in potatoes. Flower gardens in corn and hunting preserves in wheat. Too much praise cannot be given Mr. B. F. Moseley who has interested our people in the establishment of the Frederick Douglass Community Garden at 33rd street and Wabash avenue. The ground has already been plowed and is now ready for planting. All those who are interested in becoming a member of the garden committee should address Miss Lena LeGrand Perry, 3748 Wabash avenue, and full information will be given.—"C." Frank L. Hamilton has been removed from St. Luke's Hospital to Provident Hospital, where he will be glad to see his friends. He is still extremely ill. THE BROAD AX, CHICAGO, APRIL 21, 1917 THE WOMAN WHO WAS THE MOST FAMOUS WOMAN IN THE WORLD THE LATE MISS BETTIOLA HELOISE FORTSON. THE PASSING AWAY OF MISS BETTIOLA HELOISE FORTSON FUNERAL SERVICES WERE HELD OVER HER REMAINS TUESDAY MORNING FROM OLIVET BAPTIST CHURCH—INTERMENT AT MT. FOREST CEMETERY. Last Friday evening at 4:15 o'clock Miss Bettiola Heloise Fortson very quietly closed her eyes in death at her home 3413 Prairie avenue after a long spell of illness. Miss Fortson was in her 27th year and died long before her time. Funeral services were held over her remains Tuesday morning at Olivet Baptist church, Rev. George Duncan, as assistant pastor of Olivet, officiating Charles S. Jackson, funeral director, in charge. Interment at Mt. Forest cemetery. The floral tributes from her many friends and the various literary clubs or societies of which she was a prominent member, were indeed elaborate and very beautiful. Her remains were encased in a beautiful pink plush casket. Resolutions were read from the Stand and Literary Society of Olivet Baptist church, the University Society of which she was one of the founders and served as one of its presidents; the Pastors' Aid of Olivet Baptist church, of which she was a member; the City Federation of Colored Women's Clubs, of which she was the organizer for more than two years; the Alpha Suffrage Club, all lamenting her untimely death. The last named club was also ably represented in person by Mrs. Ida B. Wells-Barnett, who delivered short and timely remarks in connection with the death of Miss Fortson and her untiring efforts to enlighten the Colored people along literary lines. It can well be stated right here that notwithstanding the fact that there are many wealthy and highly educated Col- W. T. GAINES ROUGHLY AND BRU- TALLY TREATED BY A BIG, BURLY WHITE POLICEMAN. On Tuesday last a police officer called at the home of W. T. Gaines, the well known contractor and citizen, with a summons to appear in court the following morning, charged with keeping a vicious dog. Mr. Gaines has had this dog for some years, keeping him locked in his back yard to guard his barn where he keeps all of his tools, etc. Many attempts have been made to rob this barn by breaking in from the rear. The last attempt of this kind was made about two weeks ago. It is believed the party breaking in was bitten by the dog, and in order that the dog might be done away with, proceeded to have the dog catchers call for the dog on Tuesday afternoon. The daughter of Mr. Gaines refused to let the dog-catchers have the dog, whereupon complaint was made at the police station (Stock Yards Station). That night a rough, uncount policeman using profane language showed W. T. Gaines the summons to appear in court, and roughly demanded that he go over to the station with him that night. Mr. Gaines asked that he be permitted to change his house shoes and put on his overcoat. The policeman roughly snatched him by the arm and demanded that he go at once, refusing to permit him to lock up his house. H. B. Gaines, one of the sons of W. T. Gaines, happened to be calling on his father at the time and remonstrated with the officer about his rough treatment of his father, stating that he was no criminal, and was a peaceful citizen, willing to accompany the officer without resistance. Paying no attention to the younger Gaines, this officer pulled W. T. Gaines down the stairs into the street, down to the corner, where he proceeded to ring ored people residing in this city, Miss Fortson has the honor of being one of the first Colored persons in this section of the country to write and publish a book. Miss Mamie Bady sang a solo, "He is my friend;" Miss Pauline Lee solo, "He is the one;" Madam Peyton solo, "His eyes are on the sparrow;" Miss Mattie Fisher read one of the poems of Miss Fortson, "How Beautiful is the House of God." She leaves her mother, Mrs. William M. Stegall; two brothers, James and R. V. Fortson; her cousin, Madam Rosilee Tyler, other relatives and hosts of friends to mourn their loss. On Saturday, April 7th, an article appeared in these columns in relation to her illness and our visit at her home and on that same Saturday evening, April 7th, we again called on her and presented her with a copy of the paper containing the article and in a voice scarcely above a whisper she requested us to draw a chair close up by the side of her bed and read what we had said for her, and after finishing it for her, although she was suffering great pain at the time and had been for many months, she bestowed a very pleasant smile on us, at the same time extending her hand, she thanked us for the kindly words which we had written in her behalf. The last words spoken to us by Miss Fortson were that "she had always regarded us as one of her best and truest friends; that she never would permit any one to say anything against us in her presence without defending or standing up for us; that when she was struggling so hard to raise the money in order to get her little book published that there were only two men in Chicago who willingly extended a helping hand to her and they were Rev. John W. Robinson, pastor of St. Mark church, and Julius F. Taylor." May she find favor in the sight of God throughout eternity. up a patrol wagon. H. B. Gaines told his father that it was a shame for the policeman to treat him in such a manner, and without warning the policeman dealt a terrific blow to H. B. Gaines, knocking him bleeding to the sidewalk. He then placed the younger man under arrest also, and took them in a patrol to the Stock Yards Station, where after long delay they were permitted to sign each other's bonds. The case will be heard May 3rd, in room 1103 City Hall. SEEMINGLY MADAM ANITI PATI TI BROWN IS FAST BECOMING VERY UNPOPULAR THROUGH OUT THE SOUTHLAND. Madam Brown's engagement here Monday was a brilliant success, artistically, but it was not what it was contemplated financially. The gross receipts aggregated $128.60, and the expenses $97.15, waiving an advertising claim of $15, payable to The Texas Freeman, which was passed up and not collected. That left a net balance of $31.45 to be pro-rated fifty-fifty. Her gross receipts at Galveston amounted to $15 only. Manager De Walt's charges of $70 a day, paid in advance by Editor Love, both on March 2 and April 9, is a rental charge that nobody else will pay, and unless it is changed and reduced radically the fate of Lincoln Theater is doomed. Why Manager De Walt compelled Editor Love to pay $70 a day in advance, while churches, schools and other parties get it for $10 a day, or night, as the case may be, his pay coming out of the receipts collected at the ticket window, is something he has yet to explain. Madam Aniti Patti Brown and her pianist, Miss Blanche C. Reed, passed through the city Wednesday en route to Prairie View from Galveston. They were accompanied to Houston by Rev. A. Barbour, at whose church they appeared Tuesday night in the Island City. From Prairie View they went to Hempstead, and from Hempstead to Brenham, and from Brenham to Austin—The Freeman, Houston, Texas, April 14, 1917. The above seems to indicate that the people throughout the southland are coldly turning their backs on Madam Brown; that they are fast becoming very tired of her style of singing—Editor. ERNEST H. WILLIAMSON, THE POPULAR FUNERAL DIRECTOR, THANKS AND SOUNDS THE PRAISES OF THE BROAD AX. The following letter speaks for its self: Chicago, Ill., April 16, 1917. Julius F. Tavlor. Editor of The Broad Ax, City. My Dear Sir:—I notice the complimentary item in your valuable paper, April 14, 1917, in reference to myself, and desire to thank you for the same. I certainly appreciate anything published in The Broad Ax, because it circulates among the people and is read with much interest by all. Permit me to say that at any time some of your out of town friends call on you, and you would like to show them the city, and would like to use an automobile, do not hesitate to call on me for a car, and I will gladly furnish the same without expense to you. Wishing you unmeasured success in the publishing of your paper, and that success may crown your efforts in all of your business efforts, I am yours very respectfully, THE NEGRO FELLOWSHIP LEAGUE. "Real Estate Segregation" will be the subject of discussion by the Negro Fellowship League, 3005 State street, Sunday, April 22, 4 p. m. L. M. Smith and Louis T. Orr will discuss the matter from the viewpoint of the real estate board. Mr. G. W. Faulkner, A. L. Williams and Eugene Manns will discuss the matter from the standpoint of the Colored real estate dealers. You are invited. Last Sunday the same subject was discussed by Messrs. George H. Jackson, G. W. Faulkner, J. D. Green, H. T. Wells and M. H. Watkins. It was a most interesting meeting and one of the real estate men stated afterwards that he felt that the real estate agents would become organized as the result of our meeting. Ida B. W. Barnett, President. CLUB NOTES Exchange Club Several energetic matrons have organized what is to be known as the "Exchange Club." The unique object of this club is to help each other by exchanging and imparting to each other useful training, such as sewing, gardening, crocheting, etc. Mrs. Mamie E. Clark has been elected president. The next meeting will be held at the home of Mrs. Clark, 5827 Wentworth avenue, Thursday afternoon, April 26th. University Society. The University Society is conducting very interesting programs every second and fourth Sunday, including lectures from Dr. and Mrs. Edwin B. Beckwith. Visitors are always welcome to the club rooms, 5300 Wabash avenue. H. B. Gaines, president. CARD OF THANKS The undersigned desire to express their heartfelt thanks to all those who in any way administered to the comfort of the late Miss Bettiola Heloise Fortson during her long illness and who comforted and aided the family after her death. They also wish to extend their thanks for the many rare and beautiful floral tributes and to those who assisted to conduct the funeral services at Olivet Baptist Church. Mr. and Mrs. William M. Stegall, James and R. V. Fortson and Mrs. Rosalee Tyler, Chicago, April 19, 1917. WOULD PREVENT SEGREGATION. Harrisburg, Pa., April 19.—Representative Glass, of Philadelphia, has introduced a bill in the state legislature preventing places of public resort or amusement from discriminating against persons on account of race or religion. A penalty of from $100 to $500 is provided for violations to go to the aggrieved persons and a similar one to the counties where the violations occur. The bill, if enacted, will strengthen the civil rights law of 1887. MATRON WANTED A first class matron can secure a good position by calling on Mrs. Elizabeth McDonald, superintendent of the Louise Training School for Colored Boys at 6130 S. Ada street. Phone, Normal 3081. ORGANIZE TO FIGHT RICHMOND SEGREGATION Richmond, Va. (Special).—The Negroes of Richmond have organized to fight segregation, and the Civie Improvement League has registered a strong protest against Richmond's segregation ordinance. ATTORNEY BARCLAY TO ADDRESS THE BETHEL LITERARY SOCIETY. Attorney Martin L. H. Barelay will address the Bethel Literary Society Sunday, the 22nd, at 4 p. m. Subject "Reciprocity in Service." Sandy W. Trice, president. CHIPS Miss Pearl Warner, 5225 S. Dearborn street, has been confined to her home the past two weeks with a severe cold, which she contracted by wearing light spring clothing. Mr. James Campbell of Sonora, Mexico, gave an interesting talk on Thursday evening at 3226 Prairie avenue, on the "Economic and Industrial Opportunity Which that Country Offers at the Present Time." Many thoughtful people are of the opinion that the anti-Negro South would welcome any belief in reports of Negro disloyalty would be an excuse for White men there treating the race with such acts of repression and violence as it did years ago, and is doing, in some sections, now. "President Wilson said German people were not consulted before entering the war. Were we?" is the way a Philadelphia organization put it in writing to Senator La Follette in commendation of his stand in opposing the resolution making war upon Germany. The Senator produced 15,000 letters and telegrams endorsing his position, and yet the daily press of the country put it that "he represented no one but himself." Henry James' Adverbs Stevenson spotted the unconsciousable repetition of certain adjectives in "Roderick Hudson," but probably the most marked characteristic of Henry James' style is his passion for adverbs and adverbal clauses. He is the most adverbial of English writers. You will find more adverbs to the page than even in Meredith. And he had a quite habit of putting the adverb before the verb, when most writers would put it after. One of his ladies for eat amples are taken at random) "thank fully felt," another "quite beautiful and tenderly smiled." And "after all crops up all over the place. But one would not have these things altered, they were part of the man. One does object to them, however, in his instators, who have learned the trick, but missed the spirit behind it.-London Chronicle. Chewing the Crude Rubber. About the first process rubber goes through on the way to become a tire or tube is mastication. After the crude Para is washed it is broken up into lumps and tossed into the crackers. These are machines with heavy rollers, which take the rubber in between them and chew it. Entering the masticating room of a factory, the first impression is that there is a brush fire burning or else there is a den of snakes at hand. The rubber snaps and crackles like burning branches and then hisses shudderingly. The stuff is kept at until it comes up in regular sheets, very thin and looking like a sort of cake dusted with crumbs. The after thorough drying in vacuum chambers it is ready to be put in with the chemicals and other things that make up the compound - New York Sun. A Hint For Young Romeo. If the hero has no bad habits he should acquire some or at least least her to believe that he has one or two Courtship isn't complete unless the heroine can beg him to quit something that is destroying his sweet health or worse still, something that makes him almost a bold, bad man. She used to beg and beg us to quit gambling, and a few years after the wedding she was cruel enough to tell us that she knew all the time that we were not a gamble. She was just humoring us-Claude Callan in Fort Worth Star Telegraph. An Irresistible Gall. Hulda, the Swedish maid, had served her mistress faithfully for a year when one day she announced her intention of leaving. "Why, Hulda, what is the matter? Is the work too hard? Or don't you like your wages? "De vork he be all right, an' de vages he be, too, but the bean-be moost have me."—San Francisco Chronicle. Warning. "He says I am the only girl he has ever loved." "I'd beaware of him." "Why?" "I think it dangerous to tie up for life with a man who takes the first thing that comes along."—Detroit Free Press. [Picture of a man in a suit with a tie]. DR. M. J. BROWN continues to adhere to the policy of waving all called upon to look after the wants and comfort attitudes to adhere to the policy of waving all pleasure aside whenever he is called upon to look after the wants and comforts of his many patients. UG REAL ESTATE BARGAINS Bigger bargain in the City. Fine interior, new baths, good light, consistent to $35 St., Indiana surface and heated cars—only $500 Cash down. Dine or write H. E. Evans, 517 E. St. Phone Oakland 2726. STE AND SIX ROOM FLATS FOR SALE. For Sale—Big bargain, 5 and 6 room flat flats; all modern, 5931 and 5935 Fayette Ave, rented to Whites at $100 and $25.00 a flat. Small cash payment, balance $50.00 per month, increasing interest. Price $5000.00, worth nefh. 21 N. La Salle St. Tele- league Franklin 3966. NB RENT in new Colored district, nth of 59th street. Beautiful modern mature decorated, light 5 and 6 room flat fabs, stove heat, large yard, con- tinent to 'L') and 3 surface lines. Reference required. Flats shown by appointment. Rents, $24.00 and $27.00. NEHF and NEHF, 21 N. La Salle Street. Telephone Franklin 3966. HERE STORY BRICK RESIDENCE ON LANGLEY AVENUE, NORTH OF 88TH STREET FOR SALE FOR $350.00 ON EASY PAYMENTS. No-resident, offers for sale a three per brick residence, clear of all investments, located on Langley avenue, in of 88th street; for $3250.00 on payments. Rental $30 per month. Please desire a bargain, address T. L. Lane of this paper or phone Wentworth SALE FOR COLORED PEOPLE Beautiful 2 flat buildings, brick and stone, hot water and furnace heat, 5, and 7 room flats. Located on the north side, in one of the best districts, two blocks to the Wilson Ave. and Evanson to “L₂” and the Broadway cars. One block to beautiful Sheridan and 2 blocks to the new Clarendon Beach. Convenient to the theaters, arts and churches. This neighborhood offers great opportunity for employment, many positions being open in porters, laundry work, etc. range from $4,600.00 to $6,000.00. cash payments, balance like rent. For further information address—Gin F. Taylor, 6418 Champlain Ave. Wentworth 2597. APPLICATION FOR PARDON application for the pardon of Louise Penison, who was convicted before the criminal Court of Cook county of the state of murder, September term, 1913, and sentenced to the Illinois State Pen- nentiary for fourteen years, will ap- pare before the Board of Pardons at the July term and ask for pardon. R. R. JACKSON, MRS. W. LAWSON, Petitioners. m. John E. Owens, whose law ties are on the fourteenth floor of the narrow Building, continues to be much called of for mayor of Chicago in 1919, and many of the big politicians claim he is the most logical candidate to and the democratic hosts on to victory in the flat election. Sacrifice—Two Flat! —Only $3,850— TO RENT. Smoke Screens In Naval Warfare. The smoke screen or smoke attack that is so effective in naval warfare originated in the United States navy, being first used in our destroyer fleet when it was under the command of Captain Eherle. The writer well remembers being present at such an attack off Block island several years ago, when five groups of destroyers, twenty in all, crossed the head of a column of battleships until they were in the windward position, and then, with the leading destroyers smoking heavily, swept down the line of the enemy at a distance of about 1,300 yards. The pall of dense smoke rolled down to leeward, enveloping the enemy and screening the destroyers from observation, but above, the dense and low lying bank of smoke could be seen the successive pairs of fighting tops of the battleships, and had the maneuver been an actual battle some of the capital ships would have been heavily torpedoed.—Scientific American. The New York zoological park, both in point of area covered and the number of living creatures maintained there, is the largest menagerie in the world, and even the old established institutions of the kind in Europe, where there is no free admission, can boast of no better buildings or more splendid grounds. At the New York zoological park there are more than 5,000 specimens, representing about 1,300 species, and all of these have to be fed and well fed. In fact, some of the specimens, far removed from their native habitat, must be supplied with certain dainties which they would obtain but occasionally in their native wilds, but which help them to thrive here. Nowhere are animals, birds and reptiles more carefully looked after, and the very few deaths at this park long since established it in a class by itself.—New York Telegram. The following method, which is taught in nearly all English elementary schools in India, is the quickest way of proving multiplication, and it will be found that it is absolutely correct in every case. Example—Multiply 84,689 by 5,214=441,568,446. Add all the digits of the multiplicand till one digit is obtained, thus: $8+4+4+8+9=35=3+5=8$. Do likewise with the multiplier, thus: $5+2+1+4=12=1+2=3$. Multiply the two results and add the digits till one digit is obtained: $8\times 3=24=2+4=6$. Lastly, add the digits of the product till one digit is obtained, thus: $4+4+1+5+6+8+4+4+4=42+4=2,6$, and if the result agrees with the result obtained by adding the digits of the preceding sums the product is correct. We get 6 in both cases. Hence the product is correct—Machinery. Save any embroideries of dolls, cushions, etc., after the material itself, on which the embroidery is done, is so worn out that the piece is of no further use. The initials from handkerchiefs and old lingerie can be put on new lingerie again. They are almost always as good as new. With the rest of the embroideries charming little gifts can be made. The pretty butterflies in colors on a wornout cushion were set in the flaps of a child's white apron. The trailing popies of a cushion were appliqued on a natural color linen garden apron. Other uses occur from time to time. Examine your battery every other week; fill it with water if necessary. Examine the oil level in your crank case before each trip. Keep out of the car tracks and ruts. Do not tinker with parts you know nothing about. Turn up the grease cups and fill the oil holes without waiting for squeaks. Test the inflation of your tires twice a week and keep them pumped up. Read the instruction book you received with your car. Wash your car immediately after every trip. Largest Zoo In the World. Proving Multiplication. Using Bite of Embroidery. Motorcar Suggestions THE BROAD AX, CHICAGO, APRIL 21, 1917. The Southern Crackerjack United States Senators and Congressmen Who Have Always Been in Favor of Treating the Colored People as Wild Animals, Are Bitterly Opposed to Universal Military Training for Them Washington (Special).—A fight over the Negro race issue, such as has not been seen in congress since the days of the Civil War, came when the proposal of President Wilson for compulsory military service reached congress. It became known that southern representatives and senators have been working quietly with President Wilson and Secretary of War Baker for weeks past to have Negroes exempted from the general call to arms. Insist on Including Negroes. On the other hand the universal service plans so far presented have proved uniformly for training Negroes the same as the Whites. Representative Kahn, of California, ranking republican on the military committee of the house, declared that he will fight for inclusion of Negroes, and senators from the southern states, where the Negro is sharply drawn, have anticipated the issue and are prepared to fight it. "The universal military service bill which I have prepared, includes Negroes," said Representative Kahn. "I have provided that they be trained in separate units, but they would be called to arms exactly the same as would the White citizens. "There is no reason why they should not be called to service. Nobody questions but they make good soldiers. Negro regiments of the regular army have never faced an enemy without giving a good account of themselves. They served with particular bravery at San Juan Hill and Carral." South Fears Negro Menace. Representative Richard S. Whaley, of South Carolina, expressed the southern view: "We of the south cannot stand for inclusion of Negroes in a universal Wanted a Studious Air- A certain widely known character of the Rialto appeared on Broadway the other day bearing a huge pair of tortoise shell glasses athwart his nose. "Didn't know you wore glasses," a friend told him in surprise. "I never have," he answered, "but I think they give me a studious air." "But don't they impair your sight?" persisted the other. "Oh, no," was the response. "I can see as well as ever when I look over the rims."—Exchange Doesn't Know How. Albert, aged three and a half, had failed to respond to verbal reprimand, and at last his mother said: "If you don't behave you will have to be spanked. You would not like that. would you?" "I wouldn't like daddy to spank me." was the quick response. "Why not?" "He doesn't know how. He hurts." -Life. Restraint of Trade The Dentist—I'll have to charge you $2.50 for pulling that tooth. The Patient—I thought you charged 50 cents. The Dentist—Yes; but you yelled so loud you scared four other patients out of the place. New York Times. Tenacity. "Grain has been found clutched in the hands of an Egyptian mummy." "It beats all," commented the Chicago man, "how some of those speculators will hold on."-Washington Star. A Pedestrian Once More "I see Brown riding on the street cars. I thought he owned an auto." "He does, but he made the mistake of teaching his wife to drive it."-Detroit Free Press. Real Optimism. Our idea of an optimist is a farmer who thinks he could live happily in town on $40 a month.—Galveston News. Sincerity is the basis of all true friendship. Without sincerity it is like a ship without ballast. service plan. It would bring down on the many districts of our states, where Negroes far exceed the White in number, a danger greater than any foreign foe," said Mr. Whaley. "The universal service plans, so far prepared, propose following one year of actual training the men would return to their homes, carrying their guns and equipment with them, to remain members of the reserve, subject to a call to arms. That would accomplish the very thing which the south has always fought against, the placing of arms in the hands of a large number of Negroes and the training of them to work together in organized units. They would be a constant menace to the people of the south. "We have been working on this phase of the universal service question for some time and we hope that the members from the north can be made to see the seriousness of the issue, as we view it." Negroes Want to Enlist. Southern members always have opposed the training of any considerable number of Negro soldiers. It is due to their opposition that recruiting of Negroes for the regular army is strictly limited and that even in the great campaign for enlistments of the last two years not an addition has been made to the Negro quotas. The Negroes are willing to enlist. The only units of the army which are constantly filled to the maximum limits of enlistments are the Negro regular and national guard regiments. The southerners even opposed the last military bill, providing for training camps throughout the country, because of their fear Negroes would come to these camps and claim their equal rights as American citizens to training. Gray Haire Can't Make You Old. People do not grow old so fast as they used to. Time was when the fathers and the mothers seldom left home. They would not think of taking part in any sort of frivolous conversation. Grandfather and father, too, went around the house with a "dark as the tomb" sort of face, and if the young folk got too hilarious "Tut, tut," you would hear them say. Now granddad enjoys a good play, a football game, and a baseball game makes him as young as the next one. Bravo! That is the right idea. Don't give up to the gray hairs. Silver threads should not absorb all the golden hues from your life. Keep abreast of the times. Read up so you can converse with your children on modern topics. Interest yourself in their work and their play. Help them play and you will keep your heart young.—Los Angeles Herald. He Was Equal to It. A student who could not sound the letter "r" was given the following sentence to read: "Robert gave Richard a rap in the ribs for roasting the rabbit so rare." He studied it in silence a minute, then glibly rendered it as follows: "Bobby gave Dicky a thump in the side for cooking the bunny so little."—Albany Knickerbocker-Press. Stories of a Buddhist Image Interesting stories are told of a Buddhist image in a temple in the suburbs of Kloto. According to a record contained inside the image it was carved by a famous Buddhist priest, and it is believed that worshipers of the image will surely receive divine favor. At one time when a fire broke out in the temple, unknown to the caretaker, the image awoke him by calling "Fire!" and thus saved the temple from destruction. Another story says that the image was once stolen by a thief, who, however, fell dead when he was running away. Still another report says that no dust ever accumulates on the head of the image. Talks on Talks on HEALTH, CLEANLINESS, PROPER LIVING, SANITATION, ETC. Dr. W. A. Driver 3300 So. State Street Phone Douglas 3617 CLEAN LIVING. By clean living is meant the proper use of soap and water at frequent intervals on the floors, woodwork, cooking utensils and other articles as well as on the body. A clean environment is essential to clean living. Work is necessary to the production of clean environment. The very excellent and exceedingly necessary contribution of the industrious housewife to the health of the people is the very first factor in the battle for clean living. As a creator of high ideals the clean, quiet, orderly home of pure type has no equal. Personal cleanliness means more than the judicious use of the bath. Clean living indeed requires a love of soap and water and use to prove that affection but clean associations must be insisted upon. Clean personal habits are a magnet that give a charm called magnetism. Good habits and clean living The Shearstring Republic The Shoestring Republic. Chile is as long as from New York to San Francisco and as narrow as Lake Erie. Truly a "shoestring republic." She is squeezed tightly between the mountain range and the coast. Her cities look up to the hills and down to the sea, with, as Arthur Ruhl puts it, "the Andes hanging like a beautiful drop curtain at the eastern end of every street." Chile contains twenty-four provinces, and the largest province is big enough to hold all Pennsylvania, Vermont, Rhode Island and Massachusetts. The Chileans are the Yankees of South America, aggressive, keen, making fortunes from nitrate, erecting a chain of wireless stations from the near tropical north tip of the Chilean shoestring to the Antarctic south tip and preparing for Panama trade by expending $12,000,000 on port and dock improvements. Chile is elbowing her way in among the most forward pushing nations of the twentieth century.—World Outlook. Is Lacquer Ware Doomed? The ancient Japanese art of lacquering is in danger of extinction, for the supply of lacquer is threatening to give out. Lacquer is made from the juice of the lacquer tree or varnish tree. It forms a very hard surface and stands heat to such an extent that the Japanese use lacquered vessels for hot drinks. They consume about 1,000 tons of lacquer every year for all sorts of articles, both for export and home use—work boxes, tables, fire screens, trays, bread baskets, carriages and musical instruments. Three-fourths of the lacquer comes from China, but so much has been used of late years that the demand exceeds the supply. The lacquer tree is something like an ash and takes a good time to grow to maturity. The method by which the sap is handled is wasteful, it costs a great deal to get the varnish to a market and the native exporters have the monopoly of it. These causes together account for the shortage of the supply.—London Standard. Only about one man in each 208 exceeds six feet in height. Denied the Statement. "Sister is a very good child when she is asleep," said Tom facetiously, having heard some one else say the same thing. "I ain't dood when I'm asleep," declared sister. "I has bad dreams and wake mamma up." — Philadelphia Ledger. A Lot of Nothing. An Englishman, leaving a fortune of over $200,000, provided for his wife in the following terms: "I bequeath to my once dear wife nothing. She left me for nothing and wants for nothing, and I have nothing more to say respecting her." - Argonaut. Do It Skillfully "You are lying so clumsily," said the observant judge to a litigant who was making a dubious statement of his case, "that I would advise you to get a lawyer."—San Francisco Star. Fine Comparison "Remember," said Mowls, "that riches have wings." "Well," replied Glmson, "the fact that a boiled chicken has wings doesn't prevent me from enjoying it!" Real Hunger A baby shouting for his morning meal makes as good an example of what a food riot really is as anything we know of.—Milwaukee Sentinel. Nobody is thoroughly accomplished unless he has the ability to mind his own business.—New York Sun. PAGE FIV ```markdown ``` are boon companions; bad habits and failure are sure to follow unclean and evil associations. Clean living and sober thought give security and attract the best associates. Good associations lead to joy, ease and satisfaction. The best companions suggest improvement, and by that induce constant growth toward the desirable, the good, the pure, the clean. There is no clean living that is striving for cleaner living. To be merely clean outside is only half clean. Clean mental habits are as much to be desired as clean externals. Therein lies the great meta-physical realm, that paradise of endless probability if not possibility. Let us now make earnest efforts to be physically cleaner than custom demands. Let us keep our teeth clean and stainless and our breaths as pure as when we came from the kiss of God. Bell With the Wail of a Child A queerly shaped gong which occupies a position of honor in the center of the city of Seoul, Korea, is said to be one of the largest in the world and is called "the bell with the wall of a child in its voice." When first cast the bell sounded with a harsh and cracked note, and the superstitious emperor, fearing an ill omen, consulted with his magicians. These gentlemen held a long confab and finally stated that the bell would never sound right until a live child was given to it. The mass was then melted again, and a live baby was thrown into the molten metal. The wall of agony uttered by the little tot as the bronze engulfed it seemed to be repeated every time the bell was toled, and today the Koreans still claim that the wall of a child can be heard in the voice of the metal. Uncalled For Courtesy. The Vicomte Toussaint was formerly a colonel in the French army and mayor of Toulouse. He was a brave man and a dashing officer. During one of the hottest engagements of a terrible year of war, noticing that his troops were bending forward under a galling fire to escape the bullets of the enemy while he alone maintained an erect position, he exclaimed, "Since when, I should like to know, has so much politeness been shown to the enemy?" The sarcasm took instantaneous effect, for the soldiers rushed forward and carried everything before them. Selenium Is Sensitive By substituting a selenium cell for the human eye at the telescope M. Fournie d'Albe believes it would be possible to detect stars five magnitudes fainter than any now observable, thus enormously increasing the powers of the greatest instruments. Theoretically a selenium cell of sixteen square inches would register the light of a twenty-eighth magnitude star, but this would require longer exposure—several days—than would be practicable. Philip's Reminder Philip, father of Alexander, had a servant whose sole business it was to remind him that he was human. It is said accordingly that he never went from the house and, having returned, never gave audience to any one without first this servant saying to him three times in a loud voice, "Philip, thou art but a man!" Right In Line "Have your millions enabled your children to marry well?" "Rather. My daughter married a cabaret dancer and my son is engaged to a prominent chorus girl. We're headed for the best society now."—Pittsburgh Post. No Enthusiasm. "Your friend did not appear to be enthusiastic when I spoke of a coming wireless age." "No wonder. He is a wire walker in a circus."-Baltimore American. A Cumberstone Cure. "Eat a gumdrop every time you want a drink," advises an exchange, but who the dickens wants to go tagging around with a water bucketful of gumdrops on his arm?—Macon Telegraph. Putting His Foot In It She—Don't be downhearted, Richard, even if father does say you'll be young enough to marry five years from now. He—Oh, I don't care for myself, but how about you?—Exchange. God does not comfort us to make us comfortable, but to make us comfort- ers. J. Jowett. PAUG OLA THE BROAD AX Published Weekly In this city since July 15th, 1899, without missing one single issue, Republicans, Democrats, Catholies, Protestants, single Taxers, Priests, infidels 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, even claiming the editorial right to speak its own mind. Local communications will receive attention. Write only on one side of the paper. Subscriptions must be paid in advance. One Year.....$2.00 Six Months.....1.00 Advertising rates made known on application. Address all communications to THE BROAD AX 6418 Champlain Ave., Chicago, Ill. PHONE WENTWORTH 2597. JULIUS P. TAYLOR, Editor and Publisher. Entered as Second-Class Matter Aug 19, 1902, at the Post Office at Chicago, Illinois, under Act of March 3, 1879. with the British Armies in France, via London.—One of the most thrilling flying episodes of the war was recorded when the British observer in a two seated machine which had been damaged by German shell fire climbed out on one of the wings and steadied the airplane while the pilot brought it safely to earth. Two young aviators were leading an offensive patrol when an anti air craft high explosive shell burst just behind the right lower wing of the airplane. The machine was completely riddled. Three of the stay booms were cut, one blade of the propeller was blown away and all the controls except the elevator were put out of action. The machine was further smashed by the broken propeller blade and became uncontrollable. Realizing the situation, the observer did not hesitate, but climbed out three-quarters of the way on the right wing tip in order to balance the machine. The air craft continued to fall in spirals, however, until it was about 2,000 feet above the earth. Here the observer succeeded in balancing it, and the machine glided down evenly. When about 200 feet from the earth a slight movement by the man on the wing caused the machine to spin again, but the pilot was able to control it when just ten feet above the ground, and the air craft landed with neither man in-fured. PLANS FOR TRAINING EASTERN CITIZENS Plattsburg to Have Four Camps. Others at Portland and at Plum Island. New York—Major General Wood, commander of the department of the east, announces that training camps for civilians in the department will be held this summer at Plattsburg, Plum Island and Portland. The Plattsburg camp will be for the senior division and the other two for the junior division. The senior camp contemplated at Fort Oglethorpe, Ga., is still under consideration. There will be four camps at Plattsburg—June 2 to July 1, July 7 to Aug. 5, Aug. 11 to Sept. 9 and Sept. 15 to Oct. 14. Men between eighteen and forty-five are eligible. Applicants from forty-five to fifty-five must obtain special permits to attend and do so at their own expense. The junior division for boys from fifteen to eighteen will hold two camps at Fort Terry. They will be from June 30 to July 29 and from Aug. 2 to Aug. 30. Two camps will also be held at Portland for the same periods. Plans are being made for a camp for negroes on Plattsburg lines. If 200 possessing the necessary qualifications apply for membership it is intended to begin instruction in June under the direction of regular army officers, assisted probably by noncommissioned officers from the crack negro regiments in the service. WOMEN CROSS HUDSON ON ICE Pive From Highland Falls Make Perilous Trip In Safety. Albany, N. Y.-On a dare five young women, including Miss May Strebbing of Highland Falls, safely walked across the ice on the Hudson river recently, they jubilantly reported, from Highland Falls to Manitou, Putnam county. Although the ice could be heard cracking and rumbling in places, they hurried across safely. Few men have crossed the river south of Newburgh this winter on the ice, and no such ventures have been made by women. With Miss Strebbing on the risky trip were Miss Nora Connors, Miss Annie O'Malley, Miss May Fuller and Mrs. Mary Cook of Highland Falls. Madrid Is Not So Ancient Madrid is not a city of great antiquity. Many efforts, it is true, have been made to trace its history back into classical times and even beyond, but the first authentic mention of the town occurs in the Arab chronicles, and this does not carry one back farther than the first half of the tenth century. The place was, of course, occupied by the Moors when they were the dominant power of Spain, but was finally taken from them by Alfonso VI. in 1083. Henry IV. used it as a hunting seat, but it did not attain any importance until the reign of Charles V., who made it a place of residence and was wont to visit it occasionally. It was in the reign of Philip II. that at last it attained to the dignity of a capital city. He created it his capital and unica corte, or only court, in 1560, and it has remained the capital of Spain ever since in spite of occasional efforts on the part of sundry kings to transfer the government to Valladolid and Seville.—National Geographic Society Bulletin. Her "Hope Box." Miss Helen, the daughter of the family in which jet black Maria Jackson occasionally worked by the day, had been given a beautiful cup and saucer of rare china. She showed it to Maria and said: "I mean to put it away in my hope box. You know what that is, Aunt Maria? It's the box a girl puts things into in the hope that she will some day need them as a bride." "Lawzy, chile, I knows all about dem hope boxes. I got one of my own, chile." "Why, I thought you were already married." "I is, chile, an' my hope box is one I is puttin' money into fas' as I kin until I has enough to pay fo' a divorcement from Pete Jackson. More'n one kind of hope box is mixed up with matrimony, Miss Helen."—New York Times. Easy Jail Methods The greatest lenency is shown to criminals in New Zealand. Thus in one jail at the end of the South island a prisoner may keep a race horse and is permitted to transact business concerning it. In the same jail well behaved prisoners are allowed an afternoon out occasionally. Prison authorities in New Zealand are believers in the moral effects of open air. In one of their institutions the newly arrived misdemeanant is allowed the choice of living in jail or outside it, tents being erected at the back. This system of sending people to jail by letting them live outside has, however, its disadvantages. In one case the "prisoners," resenting harsh treatment in the way of a "lockout," lifted up the "jail" and deposited it far away in the bush. Klited Troops. The Greek kilted troops, the Evzones, bear a variant of a name which was given to troops in the days of ancient Greece. Euzonol, meaning well girdled and so girt up for exercise as kilted men are, were light troops or even the heavily armed hoplital, but without their weighty shields. At first, however, the term, as in Homer, was used only regarding women, the "zone" being the lower girdle worn by them about the waist, but by an easy and natural transition this came to mean a man's belt. Then, as the belt supported the short skirts, kilted men were called well beited. Use of Gas. It is now a hundred years since gas was first used for illumination in this country, and this is supposed to be "the age of electricity," yet the amount of gas consumed is still increasing. There has indeed been a falling off in the amount used for lighting, but a great gain in the amount used for fuel. This is not only the age of electricity, but also the age of the gas burning cook house. Signs of Reform. "Is Binks as close tisted as he used to be?" "Oh, no. Coming down to business in the morning he frequently buys a newspaper instead of trying to read that of the man in the next seat."—Richmond Times Dispatch. So He Forged. Judge—How came a man of your ability to stand here convicted of forgery? Prisoner—It is all owing to my taking good advice, your honor. When I left school my teacher told me with my talents to go on and forge ahead.—Baltimore American. Mitigating Circumstances "How did her friend break it to her gently that she had suddenly become a widow?" "Told the dear creature she looked so stunning in mourning that it was lucky she had a chance to wear it."—Exchange. Right Up to the Minute Methods. "Is this an up to date city?" "Very. Whenever we have an important place to fill we always go out of town to get the man for the job."—Detroit Free Press. How to Smile All Day "Keep a smile on your face till 10 o'clock and it will stay there all day," says Douglas Fairbanks in the Woman's Home Companion. In College Towns. "What is the rent of your room, Henry? I suppose they ask a lot for it." "Yes, all the time."—Harvard Lampoon. Justice without wisdom is impossible.—Froude. THE BROAD AX. CHICAGO, APRIL 21, 1917. SEEK MANY GIRLS Thirty-five Hundred Disappear Yearly In New York. ONE-HALF SEEM TO VANISH. Recent Search For Ruth Cruger Recalls Case of Dorothy Arnold and Others Police Assign Among Reasons Family Troubles, Failure at Business, Disappointed Love. New York.—B-z-z-z-z. It's the telephone on the lieutenant's desk at police headquarters. "Hello, _____" "_____ is missing." The lieutenant jots down a few words, the description is flashed to every detective headquarters, and the search for "another missing person" is on. Ruth Cruler, pretty high school girl, was sought by the police. Leaving her home, happy and contented, she was swallowed up in the swirl of the great city and no clews to her whereabouts had been unearthed. Because her family is of prominence and because of her father's insistence the case was widely discussed and given much publicity, but the case of Ruth Cruler was only one of hundreds. Every year there are 3,500 missing persons in New York, according to police estimates. Most of the missing persons are girls—pretty, happy girls, youthful and of good home training. They are swallowed in the highways and byways of the mammoth city. Most of them never return, and the public hears of the disappearance of but very few. Dorothy Arnold went shopping on Fifth avenue one afternoon in 1910. No one saw her leave a certain shop she entered, and the four corners of the globe have been searched for her. They still seek her. Ruth Wheeler needed a job, and she answered an advertisement. Her battered little body was found days later, and a ne'er do well, Wolter, was later put to death for her murder. The hacked up body of Anna Aumuler was found in the river. Hundreds of anxious mothers and fathers viewed her body, believing it might be their daughter. Her slayer was also executed. These are but a few of the hundreds of missing. Why missing? Police answer-white slavery, lack of courage to face disgrace, failure at business, family troubles, broken faith, disappointed love, wanderlust and the lure of adventure. Do they come back? Police say of the 3,500 or more who disappear each year perhaps a little more than half return or are found. The other half? They seem to vanish. The telephone bell of the lieutenant's desk at police headquarters buzzes—another addition to the hundreds of missing. PITCAIRN ISLAND MAIL First Dispatch From United States by Steamship Australplain. Washington.—For the first time since its colonization in 1789 by mutineers of the British warship Bounty and Tahitian women Pitcairn island, a dot in the Pacific about midway between Panama and New Zealand, is to receive mail from the United States. The historic event is announced in the usual dry, formal mail notice as follows: "Postmaster Morgan advises that the steamship Australplain will sail from New York on or about March 15, 1917, via the Panama canal for Pitcairn island, being due to arrive there within twenty-five days of the date of sailing. He issues this notice in order that the patrons of the postal service may take advantage of this unusual opportunity for the expedition's dispatch of mail for the place named." It is not likely that the mail to Pitcairn island will be a heavy one, since only one Pitcairn islander, Miss Emily McCoy, has ever visited the United States to make friends here. Miss McCoy left the island about fifteen years ago to study nursing. Probably she will be the only person in the United States to whom the mail service to Pitcairn island will be of interest. There are about 170 men, women and children on the island. INDIANS FORCED TO WED. Young Chippewas Rush to Judge to Avoid Arrest. Deer River, Minn.—This village was visited by a large delegation of young Chippewas Indians from the Bowstring country, who came to be married by Justice Cahill, in accordance with the ruling he made that he would give them a week in which to get married subsequent to many arrests by the sheriff of Itasca county on complaint of the Indian agent at Bena. It is not the intention of the department, it is said, to interfere with the marital rights of the older natives who married years ago under tribal laws, but it is the younger members and in most cases the well educated ones, some of whom have college educations, the department officers are watching. Twins Run In the Family Evansville, Ind.—The sixteenth birthday of Elsie and Ethel Brady, who are the second of three pairs of twins in one family, was celebrated at their home at 1 Randall street. The mother of the girls is a twin sister of Mrs. Isora Young of Rockport. The younger sisters of Mrs. Brady are the third twina. $500,000 HOSPITAL IN TOKYO. Japanese Contribute $75,000 to New Mission Structure. Tokyo.—Announcement is made that the fund of $500,000 for the construction in Tokyo of the new St. Luke's International hospital has been completed at a luncheon given by the Japanese advisory council. The Japanese contributed $75,000, including $25,000 from Emperor Yoshihito. The remainder has been either contributed or pledged in the United States. The proposed hospital will replace the present St. Luke's hospital, which was founded by the American Episcopal mission many years ago and which has achieved a reputation throughout the far east. Dr. R. B. Teusler, its present director, will have charge of the enlarged institution, work upon which will be started as soon as a proper site is decided upon. The hospital will be international in scope. It is hoped later to add a training department for doctors and for nurses, and to that end an effort will be made to secure further assistance in the United States. The proposed hospital will probably be the most complete modern medical institution in the far east. HOLD AN ODD FUNERAL Salvation Army Takes Charge of Obsequies For Victim of Diphtheria. Chicago.—A band of Salvation Army workers stood in the alley in the rear of a dilapidated house in the slums and sang "Lead, Kindly Light," "Nearer, My God, to Thee" and then knelt in the mud while the adjutant offered a prayer. Face pressed against the dingy window, stood a blind man and a tearful woman. As the prayer ended the basement door opened and a little white casket was quickly carried out, placed in a hearse and hurried away, unescorted, to a cemetery. Such was the unusual funeral accorded Josephine Tomaszewsky, six, diphtheria victim. Her parents' home was quarantined because her two little sisters and one brother were ill from the same disease. The mother insisted upon a funeral ceremony for Josephine, and the Salvation Army hit upon holding it in the alley as the way of overcoming orders of the board of health against entering the house. RULING FAVORS TEACHERS. Justice Levy Sets Basis of Pay "Docking" For Absence. New York—Schoolteachers absent from work in the past have been "docked" one-twenty-fifth of a month's pay for each day lost. Justice Aaron J. Levy of the municipal court ruled that the proper basis is to deduct 1-365 of a year's pay for each day's absence. His decision was returned in the case of Mary A. Broughton, teacher in public school 198, who lost eleven days' work because of illness in October, 1915. The decision also holds the signing of a receipt for pay "in full" is no bar to action for recovery. The battle is an old one which the teachers and principals have been waging against the board of education. Years ago they were "docked" only one-thirtieth of a month's pay for each day lost. William G. Willcox, president of the board, pointed out that under the Levy ruling the teacher could be absent 190 days, a full school year, and still demand almost half a year's pay. PHONES FUNERAL SERMON. Preached at Long Distance Because Storm Held Up Railways. Fond du Lac, Wis. — A funeral by long distance telephone was conducted the other day when the body of the Rev. Frank Millar of Oakfield was sent to its last resting place through the drifts about the village where Mr. Millar had been a pastor. The storms tied up all railroads leading to Oakfield from here, a branch line of a few miles in length, and with the main line in trouble no effort was made to resume traffic. The country roads were also drifted so deep that the village and countryside adjoining had been isolated for half a month. The Rev. Robert S. Ingraham of this city was to conduct the services over the body of his Methodist colleague, Ingraham being the district superintendent. Trying to reach Oakfield by road, he was stalled and worked his way back to the nearest farmhouse, where he arranged to read the service by wire. A listener at the Millar home took his words and repeated them to the mourners. RICHEST VILLAGE TO BE CITY. Glen Cove, N. Y., Votes to Incorporate in the Third Class. New York.—First steps toward the incorporation of the richest little city in the United States were taken when residents of Glen Cove, N. Y., in a test voted to incorporate the village as a third class city. The vote was more than two to one in favor of incorporation, which will include a population of 10,000. Glen Cove is considered the largest millionaire colony in Long Island. Among its residents are J. P. Morgan, J. T. Pratt, H. L. Pratt, G. D. Pratt, Captain J. R. De Lamar, Percy Chubb, H. W. Maxwell, Edward L. Young, Justice Townsend Scudder, F. W. Woolworth and Harvey S. Ladew. $50,000 For Two Daughters. Greensburg, Ind.-Issaac Sefton, one of Decatur county's wealthiest residents, presented each of his two daughters with valuable farm land as gifts. The gifts comprise 461 acres of land that is said to be valued at $50,000. Doing It the Right Way. For every right way to do a thing there are ninety-nine wrong ways. Take the apparently single matter of loading sugar in cars or putting it in storage houses. The difference between any one of the ninety-nine wrong ways and the one right way is a sufficient reason for the world's biggest sugar company to issue a book about it. An amateur wouldn't dream there could be so much science in rolling 150 barrels of sugar in a box car. But this little book, filled with diagrams, is a school of instruction for all employees. There they learn to do it the right way and to avoid the ninety-nine wrong ones. The fellow who learns to load sugar the right way soon finds out that the thing contains higher mathematics, chemistry and finance. The American people eat just about their own weight in sugar in a year, and even the tiniest saving on each pound achieved by this scientific handling is quite enough to pay all salaries and leave a snug margin to boot.—Girard in Philadelphia Ledger. Paper From Wood Pulp. The idea of making paper from wood originated in Germany in the early forties with Gottfried Keller, tradition having it that he in turn received his inspiration from a wasp's nest. Keller collaborated with a manufacturer of machinery, Heinrich Voelter, in whose name the patents were executed. It was not until 1866 that the possibilities of this invention in this country were recognized, when Albrecht and Rudolf Pagenstecher induced their cousin, Alberto Pagenstecher, to build a mill in this country and financed the purchase of machinery and the building of a mill. The choice of location fell to Curtisville, now Interlaken, Mass., where the outlet of Stockbridge bowl seemed to supply an adequate amount of power. The mill was built and on March 5, 1867, the first ground wood pulp was produced.—New York Globe. A Nation With No Language. The Swiss alone, of all the peoples of the world, may in a sense be said to possess no language, a fact that is the more surprising when we consider that there is no people showing a more intense patriotism. The official languages of the little republic are French and German. The public documents are published in these tongues, both of which are spoken by many Swiss. Roughly speaking, however, about 75 per cent of the population speak German, while the remainder divide four other languages among them, mainly French and Italian. These tongues vary, as a rule, according to the proximity of the people to the country whose language they speak. In the Swiss parliament members deliver their speeches either in French or German, for nearly all the members understand both tongues. When "Old Women" Abounded. In the eighteenth century women soon grew old, says an English writer. At the age of twenty-nine Marie Antoinette, the wife of Louis XVI, gravely discussed the question with her modiste, Rose Bertin. She would soon be thirty. Her idea was to change her manner of dress, which inclined too much to that of extreme youth. In consequence she should wear no more flowers or feathers. The glorious Georgiana, the duchess of Devonshire, complained to the French ambassador that she was already seven and twenty years old. "Consider," said the glorious one, "what an age that is!" to which the ungallant ambassador replied that "in France at seven and twenty a woman was considered elderly." Homemade Cold Cream Here is the recipe for a homemade cold cream, the kind always used by the famous Lillian Russell: Pure lanolin, four ounces; sweet almond oil, four ounces; spermaceti, one-half ounce; white wax, one-half ounce; orange flower water, two ounces; tincture of benzoin, forty drops. Melt spermaceti and white wax in an enamel vessel, add almond oil, then lanolin. Beat constantly and add orange flower water little at a time; lastly, the benzoin, drop at a time. Beat hard till all is consistency of a light cream. Making the Best of It. "What would you do if a situation arose which compelled you to fire a gun?" "I'd be nervous," confessed Mr. Bilgings, "and yet I'd be exceedingly thankful I was the man with the gun and not an innocent bystander."—Washington Star. Reversed. "Did you read about the man who spent twenty years in fall?" "What about him?" "I see he has had his case reopened and his sentence reversed." "I suppose that gives him back those twenty years, eh?"—Louisville Courier-Journal. Restful. Laura—Alice Flitter is such a restful friend. Charles—Restful? She talks all the time. Laura—That's it. I never have to think about what to say when I'm with her. Fuller's Earth: Fuller's earth is now used in bleaching, clarifying or filtering vats and rarely for filling cloth, the purpose for which it was employed originally. A man must be well off who is irritated by trifles, for in misfortune trifles are not felt.—Schopenhauer. C. H. Livingstone Says Half Million Are Available For Various Duties. Washington.—In the Boy Scouts of America the country has a well trained "peace army" of 202,000, backed by reserves of 350,000 "veterans," the former well qualified to take the place of police in guard duty, to give "first aid" and to do the work of older men in many things, and the latter particularly well qualified to serve their country in any capacity required of a citizen, according to Colin H. Livingstone, president of the national council of the Boy Scouts of America. "The Boy Scouts of America is not a military organization," said Mr. Livingstone. "Primarily its aims are character building and citizen making. Our boys get an outdoor training, and with them it is a case of playing soldier in the field and camp, getting a handy training for the duties of citizenship, building up health and mind." "I told the boy scouts of Buffalo recently that they were part of a militia of service. In the event of war they will perform all the services that can normally be expected of them. For instance, they will be able to relieve the police of guard duty over waterworks, reservoirs, public buildings, bridges, and so on. They will look after families whose heads have gone to war and help relieve any suffering." Medical Journal Tells of Qualities Needed In an Efficient Military Surgeon. "If War Comes" is the heading under which the New York Medical Journal says editorially: "Modern warfare demands the complete mobilization of every resource of the countries involved. Defeat is the price paid for unpreparedness, and the conquered pays the bills for both sides. Therefore it pays to be prepared. Every war in which the United States has taken part has accentuated the necessity for and the deplorable lack of preliminary preparation. "Surgeon General Lovell in his report for the year 1817 says of the war of 1812: 'There could be little doubt that where one man had died from improper medical treatment man had been destroyed from want of a knowledge of the many duties peculiar to an army surgeon.' The same comment could have been made at the close of the civil war and of the war with Spain. "In no direction is preparedness more important than in the medical departments of the army and the navy. The public and a large part of the medical profession erroneously assume that be cause a man is a qualified medical practitioner or surgeon he will therefore make an efficient medical officer. This is not true. The military surgeon is much more than an efficient surgeon on a competent practitioner. He must understand sanitary tactics; he must be familiar with the organization of the medical department and know how to handle men and material. Without this knowledge he cannot perform the full measure of his duties. "Therefore every patriotic physician should at once enroll in the medical department of the reserve officers corps, where he can learn the tails of military medicine by devoting a few hours a week to home study without interfering with his practice. Then when the need comes he can serve his country acceptably and with credit to himself and his profession. Applications for enrollment in the corps should be addressed to the surgeon general of the army, Washington." GIRL WOULD BE SOLDIER Writes a Letter Asking to Enlist in the United States Army. Muncie, Ind.-The following letter has been received by Sergeant Joseph R. Finney of the local recruiting station: Union City, Ind. Captain Finney, Army Recruiting Office Muncie, Ind.: Dear Sir-I sent in my application to the army recruiting office seven months ago. and I was told to write you about it. wish to join the States army. I may see you may see it to use me. I shall be willing to give you my service. My present position is creating a grocery store. Now, if it is a way to use me let me know. If it is on the firing line I am willing even to be there. Hoping to hear from you soon. am, sincerely yours, MISS MINNIE HARMON R. R. 2, Union City, Ind. Sergeant Finney, after an investigation, said the young woman who asked the letter is a pretty girl who clerks in a country grocery near Union City and that she is in earnest about desiring to be a soldier or to enter the army in any capacity. Sergeant Finney has written to her that he has not the authority to enlist women for any pose, but that she might find army work with the Red Cross association. White Negro Called a "Hood Hot Springs, Ark—Claiming he is a "hoodoo" and practices sclerosis, an old negro was given five days to leave the town of Earle, Ark. by three negroes who recently beat him and pursued him through the streets with brooms. Their belief is said to be based on the fact that the old man's skin has turned white, except for a streak about the eyes, giving him an uncanny look. A Woman Becomes a Chief Yeoman In Our Navy. Only Twenty Years Old, This Young Lady Passed Both Her Physical and Mental Examinations and Went Directly to Work as Recruiting Agent. Miss Loretta Walsh, cousin of Dr. James J. Walsh, former dean of the faculty of medicine of Fordham university, has entered upon her duties as chief woman in the United States army, the first woman ever enrolled for service in the country's naval arm. Miss Walsh, who is twenty years old, married her physical and mental ex- MISS LORETTA WALSH. minations and was immediately assigned to duty under Lieutenant Commander F. R. Payne of the United States Naval home, by whom she was worn in. The oath was administered at the home and was witnessed by a large number of women attached to the Navy league. The young woman enlisted under the recent order of Secretary Daniels directing recruiting agents to accept the applications of women for enlistment in certain classes. The ruling reads: "A limited number of women may be enrolled for clerical work to take care of increased correspondence in the various naval districts during a war. All reservists when in active service either have quarters and subsistence furnished by the government or a money allowance is paid them for this purpose. The pay of a nurse is $50 a month. The pay of a woman currolled for clerical work is $33." Teeman Walsh has been furnished with a uniform and will take up her duties as a recruiting officer at the station as her home. She will pay particular attention to other women who wish to join the service, but also will use her influence to persuade men to take KITCHEN HINTS. For Mrs. Newlywed In Her Struggles to Succeed. Everybody does not know that food in general should not be allowed to be in tin, copper or iron. It must be placed while hot in agate, china or wolframed earthenware. Green vegetables should be dropped into boiling water, to which a pinch of carbonate of soda has been added, and in salt when the article is half used. If you have covered a pan in which meat is to be roasted never open it to take the meat. Keep it covered from torn to finish. The idea is that the meats are filled with steam, which penetrates the fibers of the meat. If desir- able to brown the outside leave the cover for the first half hour in a quick even. the shank bones of mutton, of so lit- tle general value, if well soaked, add to the finess of gravies and soup stock. When boiling haricot oil or dried meat do not put in the salt until they are nearly cooked; otherwise they are split and come out of their skins. They should be brought to the boiling point, the water poured over and fresh water poured over them. Indian Ornaments was to be supposed that when America grew enthusiastic about the musical novelties that were introduced from China and Japan some clever men would look up our Indian work and bring it out as a rival. There are now Indian beads from India used as trimming for hats and gowns, and the Indian embroidery, as well as the beaded work, tassels with queer Indian ornaments working together, and sweaters made of blank silk are among the things desired and accepted. bead georgette crape stamp the term to be beaded on to a piece of very white writing paper, then baste on to the cloth with little, fine notes. The pattern can be very plain- liness, and being on the stiff pa- it is very easy to handle. FASHION CUES. Points About the Very Latest Spring Togs Are Here. Despite all the rumors to the opposite effect, there is a strong directoire influence in some of the spring suits and frocks. Especially is this true of the Paris collection. In the suits this effect is obtained in the placing of the belt and in the size of the revers. As for the materials used, there is a quantity of satin and charmeuse besides figured and striped foulard and striped mousseline. Embroidered chiffon is used to drape over satin or charmeuse. There are seen both the barrel and the draped skirts, while the skirt for the suit is narrower and occasionally plaited. Jackets for the two pieces suits are short, for they reach to the waist, not even the conservative finger tip length that had been predicted for the early spring. These short jackets frequently show panels of accordion plaits and a combination of materials, but in a different order from that which we have been accustomed to—for instance, the skirts will be checked material and the jackets of plain. At the southern resorts, for cycling, which is eminently southern sport, the suits are most attractive, the skirts short and the bloomers of the fitted riding type, and these of a striped, checked or blocked material, and the jacket of the predominating tone of the figured material. The material used for these sports clothes is home-spun, and this, by the way of a change, is quite acceptable and very attractive. The skirts as often as not are divided, and the knickers are, of course, of the same material. On all sides we hear of the slip-over effect of suits and blouses and even wraps. Organdie and linen make a southern wear frock on this order. Top coats come in all the bright new colors and are most attractive in design. Some have quite a directoire effect, while others show belts at the natural waist line. Velvet ribbon enters into the trimming of these as well as the dresser suit. FULLY PREPARED. For Play Is This Comfortable Two Piece. Blue linen trousers strongly, obviously buttoned into a waist cut with a stylish twelfth century neck makes a THE FIRST YEAR OF THE YOUNG READY FOR ANYTHING. very satisfactory uniform for small rogues to romp in. Short sleeves are best to punch things in. A Tidy Linen Closet. A linen closet that is tidy and neat is a delight not often met with. The linens may be placed in neat piles when the laundry comes home, but when searching for a particular sheet or pillowcase or towel the pile is apt to become disordered. If you will use bands and tie each pile you will find that the shelves will present a much better appearance. A band of linen about ten inches long and about three or four inches wide is scalloped in blue and the words "Sheets," "Pillowcases," or whatever the article may be, are worked in cross stitch. Tape strings are attached to each end. Bindings Ready. When making children's clothes have bias binding and facing ready to put on. Save pieces of lining lawn, colored linens and gay plaid gingham, and cut them into one inch bias strips and sew together and fold into neat rolls and put in the machine drawer, where they will be handy when needed. The linens and ginghams are excellent for pipings on contrasting materials for children's school dresses. For Sweeping Day. A common handled basket that sells for 8 or 10 cents will save more steps on sweeping day than one would think. Line with table oilcloth, make pockets all around to put in such things as tacks, string, soap; then in the basket proper put dblt brushes and cloth, bottle of furniture polish—all the other things one needs for cleaning. Try it and see how many trips to the kitchen it saves. THE BROAD AX, CHICAGO, APRIL 21, 1917. ONE SPRING BRIDE A Beautiful Design For the Youthful Betrothed. THE WEDDING DRESS THIS QUEEN. White satin made short skirted with a corsetel effect for bodice and white net sleeves is also further beautified by a bem and shoulder straps of small pearls. The graceful white net veil is confined with conventional flowers and their foliage. SUN BATHS. Health Tips About This Popular Way of Getting Strength. Prolonged exposure of the human body to bright sunlight in those not accustomed to its rays is dangerous. The damage is more than the sunburn which results, for physicians have shown that headache and symptoms of meningitis have developed after youths under their observation had been lying several hours in the sunlight with unprotected head and no clothing but bathing trunks. The symptoms shown by these patients demonstrated that the sun's rays had evidently penetrated the skull, thus indicating that a sunstroke is the consequence of direct exposure to the sun. Sun baths are most popular with anemic and nervous city indoor workers, but too much sun is most apt to harm the nerve system of nervous people. Instead of being benefited by long exposure to the sun the nervous are rendered more nervous, and when the summer is over they are tanned, but otherwise in poorer condition than in spring. No one welcomes more than the physician the "back to nature" tendency of recent years, but they are now being careful to warn against excesses and abuses in the "enjoyment of nature." For Middle Aged Women. Women who are middle aged and rather stout will find a cold bath every day with plenty of friction afterward an admirable fat reducer. If you can't take a cold bath have a cold sponge down after your warm bath and dry yourself vigorously with a rough towel. There is something very stimulating in the friction induced by thorough drying after a bath. Plenty of fresh air is essential to health, and it is essential, too, to avoid much lolling about in easy chairs. This last induces that fatal habit of stooping, as a result of which there is formed, as we get on in years, an unsightly roll of fat between the shoulders, which hangs over the top of the corsets. Very often faulty corsets are responsible for the formation of this figure blemish, corsets which are laced so as to press the fat upward between the shoulders. To cure it in the first instance you will require to go through a course of scientific massage. Massage is also splendid for fat which forms beneath the waist line and for double chin. Shoe Rack. "I have found a shoe rack a very useful and convenient addition to my bedroom closet, as it saves space, keeps the shoes from getting scratched and keeps them in order," said a housekeeper the other day. "It is a six inch board as long as the width of closet placed on a forty-five degree angle at a desirable height. Fasten it to the sides of closet by means of cleats nalled or screwed. Nail a one inch strip full length of board on the top about one inch from upper edge to hook the heels over." For the Guest Room. An electric hand lamp in your guest room will prove the greatest convenience to your guest, saving him from stumbling about hunting for the light switch or matches should he wish to get up during the night. FOR YOUNG FOLKS Sleepy Time Story About a Beautiful Spring Blossom. LEGEND FROM OLD GREECE Quaint Tale of a Handsome, Golden Haired Lad Who Fell In Love With His Own Reflection—The Nymph In the Pool—Birth of a Flower. When Uncle Ben came to see Little Ned and Polly Ann he had a bunch of yellow cup shaped flowers. He said: I will tell you the STORY OF NARCISSUS. The daffodils and the jonquils all belong to the narcissus family and are among the first flowers to bloom in our gardens in the springtime. These, of course, I bought of a man who sells flowers. They were raised in a hothouse. Daffodils do not grow wild in this country, though in some parts of southern Europe they do. The name narcissus was given to the flowers by the Greeks. They had a story about them which you may like to hear. Long ago, the Greeks' story ran, there was a handsome lad named Narcissus. So beautiful was he that every one who saw admired him. Most of his time was spent in wandering about the woods and fields alone. One day he went to the woods to hunt. Tired and thirsty near the middle of the day, he looked about for a place to get a drink. Deep in the forest he found a beautiful clear, deep pool. It was shaded by tall green trees, and the violets that grew by the water were the most lovely and fragrant of their kind. Narcissus knelt to drink from the pool, and lo, just beneath his own face looked up another, a face which he thought the most attractive he had ever seen. There were no mirrors in those days save the polished silver ones that belonged to kings or the rich. The simple country youth did not know that it was his own face that he saw looking up at him out of the water. Narcissus leaned down and the face in the water seemed to come closer, but though he dipped his in the pool he could not touch the other. The foolish boy was happy, for he thought that what he saw in the water was the nymph or the fairy guardian of the pool. But, though he begged the image to come out of the water and talk to him, of course it could make no reply. Day after day Narcissus came to the pool to gaze at himself in the water. He forgot to eat, to drink, to sleep and at last he faded away and died. But he did not really die, for from his body sprang a wonderful flower whose golden head hung over the pool as his head so often had done. The flower was called narcissus, and, though I would not have you believe this story true, yet it may help you to remember the name. The Mayflower. Trailing arbutus, or the mayflower, is to the northeastern part of North America the true harbinger of spring. In the pine woods of the north it makes its fight against the cold weather and wins. Through the long, bitter winter its leaves stay green, and its dainty little flower blossoms out in the coolest days of spring. Of all the flowers of the wildwood trailing arbutus is one of the wildest. It grows in profusion, carpeting the cool glades, its faint perfume sweetening the forest. But when taken to a garden it sickens and dies. Baseball Season Has Begun. All over the country the warm spring sun has wrought a transformation. Along with flowers and green leaves the game of baseball has appeared. Balls, bats, masks and mitts have tak- Photo by American Press Association. WATCHING THE GAME. en the places of marbles and tops. The American boy is the most enthusiastic of all baseball fans, and everywhere he is to be seen engaged in this favorite diversion. The group here pictured was snapped by the camera man on the side lines. They are watching a runner who had just made a hit. What Boy Scouting Does Moral courage is no less necessary in times of national peril than physical courage, and it is more largely a product of training. The boy scout leaders seek to develop both, but they put most emphasis on the moral element, believing that the other is likely to follow as a natural result.—Portland Oregonian. THE CHAFING DISH Why Not Polish It Up For Spring Breakfasts Now? AS CHEAP AS GAS BILLS. There Are Any Number of Menus That Small Families Enjoy Cooked Right on the Table—Besides, It's More Fun Than a Range. Why in many homes is the chafing dish relegated to the sideboard as an almost useless ornament, dragged forth only for "company?" If the chafing dish proves itself a useful and practical means of preparing a meal for guests, why is it not equally good to cook family meals, especially the lighter supper, tea and luncheon? Many a time when the hostess herself has to prepare meals she would save herself labor by using the chafing dish instead of cooking in the kitchen and trotting back and forth with the various foods. Perhaps, too, father would not complain so much that he "doesn't get a chance to talk to mother," because she has to spend so much time preparing a meal, if mother used the chafing dish and talked while she cooked. the chafing dish is a habit which more women should acquire. Once accustomed to the idea of cooking on the table it becomes just as natural and easy as cooking in a special place like the kitchen. The points in favor of the chafing dish are that it obviates the necessity of the hostess rising, that the food can be served piping hot and that with its blazer and pan it is one of the most sanitary food vessels to use and clean. Many articles used in family suppers, such as creamed chipped beef, oyster stew, broiled or panned chops, kidneys and many more of the dishes having a creamed sauce, can be prepared fully as well in the chafing dish as over any other kind of fuel. Why not use the chafing dish blazer instead of the ugly frying pan to cook the hamburg steak balls for tonight's supper? If the salad and dessert are already prepared the balls can be made ready, cooked in the dish at the table and served directly to each plate without even soiling the platter. A breakfast of creamed codfish can be managed most effectively in the blazer, as can bacon, sausages and other morning dainties. Oysters can be sautéed, fried with bacon or made into a stew before our very eyes. The chafing dish burner does not smoke and make an odor, as does the kitchen range, and if used with a percolator or toaster there is no reason why an entire meal cannot be made and served vis-a-vis. The "expense," some say. But we now have denatured alcohol at a low price, which is practically the same as gas at $1 a thousand. A small ten cent can of alcohol burns a long time—enough certainly for three breakfasts. The chafing dish itself is easier to wash than pots and pans, and it permits a most graceful accomplishment to be added to the hostess' repertoire—that of table cookery. Polish up the chafing dish, install it on the side table instead of behind closed doors and use it every day in the week. Why allow an expensive piece of equipment to be used once a month? If you have current have connections and plug which will permit your chafing dish to be operated electrically. It will be more fun and cosier than getting breakfast all by yourself in the kitchen. CAT TAILS FOR STYLE A Sport Hat That Has All the Hallmarks. Mushrooms still lead for sport headgear. Yellow and black figured silk is the fabric of this one, and two smart THE FILM MAKER THE LATEST. black silk cat tails accentuate the tall crown. Please note how the figure in the material is not unlike a cat tail itself. Creamed Asparagus Cook fresh, tender asparagus in salted water, barely covering with water. When done make a plain white sauce and pour over it. Sauce made of fresh cream, a little flour, salt and pepper. Arrange on a piece of nicely toasted bread and serve at once. For a variety omit white sauce, add butter, pepper and salt to asparagus, arrange on fresh hot toast and serve immediately. PAGE SEVEN A Beautiful Outfit For After Easter Social Events. THE FASHION OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY THE REAL THING. Smoke gray satin is fashioned into this simple costume of narrowish skirt and jumper top over long sleeves. A Paisley pattern is embroidered in silver threads, a very rich effect indeed. The stringy belt confines loosely the blouse, which is of graded length. THE JOB HUNTER. How to Face Work Without Any False Pride. A very good piece of advice, which, however curious it may sound, should be impressed on all women who are trying to find employment is, "Do not be a lady." There is a vast distinction between being a lady and being a gentlewoman. The word "lady" is most misused and in its present day application it stands greatly in the way of those who are seeking work and who, time after time, cling to this description of themselves, despite the failure to gain employment that its use entails. Remember that good, hard, honest work is never lowering. If you are a gentlewoman by birth and nature you will be as much a lady when you are scrubbing the floor as when you are receiving guests in the drawing room. Numbers of women refuse good positions because they consider themselves too ladylike to undertake the work involved. The aim of hundreds of girls today is to be described as "young lady." To achieve this they prefer to work for long hours in a shop or typewriting office at rates of pay which only with a hard struggle provide food, lodging and clothes, rather than take a better paid and far more comfortable situation as a domestic, and all because they think that domestic work is beneath them. The modern young woman in many cases will wait for weeks on the chance of finding a position as lady companion or lady housekeeper, and yet when it comes to hard facts she is serving her employer just as much in one situation as in the other. Whoever works for another is a servant, and from the highest to the lowest we all serve in some way or another. If women would only take this matter to heart and cease struggling after a false social position they would find life much easier, and many of the serious problems of the labor market would be easily solved. Keeping Wicker Clean. Many a housekeeper has discovered the difficulty of dusting wicker chairs. No amount of careful rubbing or flickering of the feather duster can reach far into these crevices; there the dust collects and there it ordinarily stays. But not long ago a woman—and a very busy one at that—hit upon a new plan for cleaning her wicker chairs. One by one she carried them into the bathtub and turned the spray upon them. The penetrating stream of water pierced them through and through, and after the process was complete each chair fairly shone with freshness and cleanliness. "If housewives could know the amount of dirt and dust that I succeeded in washing out of my three chairs," said the woman in question, "they would not hesitate long to follow my example and pop them into the bathtub." To Keep the Blankets Clean: No matter how careful one is to cover cold creamed hands with gloves before retiring, the top of the blanket is quick to become soiled. But there is a way to check its progress along this line. Bind the blanket with a piece of heavy cheesecloth or with muslin a yard in width. This will allow eighteen inches on each side of the blanket. If the material is held on with slip stitches it can be easily removed when it is necessary to send it to the laundry. Shrimp and Radish Salad Drain a can of shrimps, plunge into cold water, drain again and add one bunch of radishes, cut in thin slices. Molsten with cooked salad dressing and serve on lettuce leaves. TEENAN JO TEENAN JONES' PLACE 3445 SOUTH STATE STREET Telephone Douglas 459.1 The finest and most UP-TO BUFFET and CAFE on the Side. First-Class Entertainer HENRY "TEENAN" JONES, Prop Residence 1262 Macalister Place Telephone Monroe 2714 MILES J. DEVINE ATTORNEY AT LAW Suite 313-329 Reaper Block Clark & Washington Sts. Phone Central 239 Auto. 41-916 Office Phones: Res. 1 Oakland 4682, Auto. 73-658 Dr. Theo. R. DENTIST 4709 S. STATE CHICAGO finest and most UP-TO-DATE ET and CAFE on the South First-Class Entertainers. Y "TEENAN" JONES, Proprietor. The finest and most UP-TO-DATE BUFFET and CAFE on the South Side. First-Class Entertainers. HENRY "TEENAN" JONES. Proprietor. PHONES: OFFICE, MAIN 4188 AUTOMATIC 33-736 RESIDENCE, DREXEL 7090 Walter M. Farmer ATTORNEY AT LAW SUITE 708, 184 WASHINGTON ST. NOTARYPUBLIC CHICAGO Franklin A. Denison ATTORNEY AT LAW 36 West Randolph St., Chicago Suite 708 Delaware Building Tel. Central 3142 FRANK DUNN} Trustees Established 1877 I. B. McCAHEY TEL. OAKLAND 1850, 1851, 1852 JOHN J. DUNN WOOLSALE COAL RETAIL Fifty-First and Armour Avenue RAILYARDS 51st St. and L. S. & M. S. 51st St. and Armour Ave. © NICAGO we Move— ever Worry the Gas? we shut off the gas in it on at your new home the last at the old place; it is ready or to cook the evening meal, unloaded. off and turned on not (if the key can be had from a pen scratch from you— a contract, or any formality, age. at your command by for years, without charge and promptly and surely; but we improve it. So, this year, we improve it by giving us timely ans. Notice Insures Gas Service season we have more refined men shutting off and bringing families. Last year they gas for nearly 200,000 homes they set a record of more than thirty days notice, or also. When you know the day gas you always do several days. Call Wabash 6000, ask for it, and tell us what you want. Light & Coke Company Telephone Wabash 6000, We do not ask thirty days notice even ten; a few days will do. When you know the movers are coming (as you always do serve in advance) just 'phone us. Call Wabash 6000; the Application Department, and tell us what you will do the rest. The Peoples Gas Light & Coke Company Michigan Ave. and Adams St. Telephone Wabash The People's Gas Light & Coke Company Michigan Ave. and Adams St. Telephone Wahun 8000 In the moving season we have more than 250 trained and experienced men shutting off and turning on the gas for moving families. Last year they shut off and turned on the gas for nearly 200,000 homes in April and May alone; they set a record of more than 10,000 in one day. We do not ask thirty days notice, or even ten; a few days will do. When you know the day the movers are coming (as you always do several days in advance) just phone us. Call Wabash 6000, ask for the Application Department, and tell us what you want. We will do the rest. When You Move Do You Ever Worn About the Gas? When you move we shut off the at the old place and turn it on at your new same day. It cooks breakfast at the old place; it for lighting the new home, or to cook the evening before the moving van is unloaded. The gas is shut off and turn whether you are there or not (if the key can be agent or janitor) all without a pen scratch from without a written order, a contract, or any for except a telephone message. This service is at your command telephone and has been for years, without cha- without question. It acts promptly and surely, are trying all the time to improve it. So, this y are asking you to help us improve it by giving notice of your moving plans. Timely Notice Insure Prompt Gas Service In the moving season we have than 250 trained and experienced men shutting turning on the gas for moving families. Last y shut off and turned on the gas for nearly 200,000 in April and May alone; they set a record of Timely Notice Insures Prompt Gas Service When you move we shut off the gas at the old place and turn it on at your new home the same day. It cooks breakfast at the old place; it is ready for lightning the new home, or to cook the evening meal, before the moving van is unloaded. The gas is shut off and turned on whether you are there or not (if the key can be had from agent or janitor) all will have a pen scratch from you without a written order, a contract, or any formality, except a telephone message. This service is at your command by telephone and has been for years, without charge and without question. It acts promptly and surely; but we are trying all the time to improve it. So, this year, we are asking all the time to improve it. So, this year, we are asking all the time to help us improve it by giving us timely notice of your moving plans. When You Move Do You Ever Worry About the Gas? KINKY HAIR Atlanta, Ga. Boulton Med. Co. Guilfaines My picture shows you what your face looks like. DELENTO QUININE POWDER has done for my hair. Before I used it, my hair was short and coarse, and now it is 34 inches long, and so soft and silky that they look like it up a way I want to. CELLA GREEK. Don't let some fake Kink Remover fool you. You really can't straighten your hair until it's nice and long. That's what EXELENTO QUININE POMADE does, removes Dandruff, feeds the Roots of the hair, and makes it grow long, soft and silky. After using a few times you can tell the difference, and after a little while it will be so pretty and long that you can fix it up to suit you. If Exelento don't do as we children, we will kill you. 25c by mail on receipt of stamps or coin. AGENTS WANTED EVERYWHERE. Write for Purposes. EXELENTO MEDICINE CO., Atlanta, Ga. --- --- PAGE EIGHT Office Phones: Res. 5133 So. Wabash Ave. Oakland 4682, Auto. 73-058 Phone Dresel 18815 Dr. Theo. R. Mozee DENTIST 4709 S. STATE STREET CHICAGO Heart 9 A. M. to 5 P. M., 7 P. M. to 9 P. M. Sundays by Appointment Phone Main 2017 Phone Main 2017 Automatic 32-395 A. L. WILLIAMS ATTORNEY AND COUNSELOR AT LAW Suite 706 Firmenich Bldg. 184 W. Washington St. Residence 5548 Jefferson Av. Phone Midway 5515 Chicago 118 North La Salle St., Chicago Suite 615 to 616 PHONE MAIN 2214 10,000 in one day. THE BROAD AX, CHICAGO, APRIL 21, 1917. Swimming With a Cold. In an address before the leading earnose and throat specialists of the country Dr. Hill Hastings of Los Angeles recently called attention to the danger of a person's swimming, and particularly diving, when he has a cold in the head. Comparatively few persons realize that it is dangerous, and many even believe that when they have recovered from a cold and are still annoyed by excessive thick secretions in the nose they can find relief by diving or plunging the head under water. The purulent matter washed out is not only a danger to others, says Dr. Hastings, but the diver himself runs a risk of forcing some of the pus into his middle ear. Most specialists have observed that cases of mastoid abscess are common every summer during the swimming season. At the large ear, nose and throat hospitals it is recognized that the swimming season invariably brings on "a crop of mastoids." The advice to keep out of the water until a "head cold" is entirely cleared up cannot be too strongly emphasized. Imagination. The gift of imagination appears to be the peculiar privilege of man. The architecture of the beaver is clever and ingenious, but the work of one beaver differs only from that of his fellow in the shape and nature of the wood at their respective command. The cells of a honeycomb, beautiful and mathematically correct as they are, differ in no particular from those in every other bee's construction. Every village boy knows that one thrush's nest is repeated character for character in that of another. With you it is different; each one of you can put something of himself into his work, and unless he does so he becomes a mere copyist, an echo and not a sound, a purveyor of "white robed innocence" and "flower bespangled meads."—Samuel Johnson. How War Comes The precedents of history show that the great majority of the world's conflicts have been begun before formal declarations of war were made. According to authorities on international law, a condition of war arises in three ways: First.—Declaration of war. Second.—A proclamation or manifesto declaring that a state of war exists. Third.—Through the commission of hostile acts of force. One authority on international law, describing ways in which hostilities may begin without formal declaration, says, "Acts of force by way of reprisals or during a pacific blockade or during an intervention might be forcibly resisted, * * * hostilities breaking out in this way."—New York World. Vast Russia. "It is difficult without a map to give the reader any idea of how far away northeast Siberia is," says an English magazine. "The European imagination travels slowly beyond the Ural mountains into that great frozen plain which embraces nearly the whole of northern Asia and ends at the Pacific ocean. Russia in Europe is vast, but the area of her Asiatic dominions exceeds that of the whole of Europe by more than a million square miles, though this enormous tract of country contains fewer inhabitants than half the population of London." Giant Spider Crab. The giant Japanese spider crab is the ugliest looking shellfish in the world. Its body measures about one foot across, and the claws have a "spread" now and then of over twelve feet. These spider crabs inhabit the Japan sea and often live 2,000 feet below the surface of the waves. Bobby's Reason. "Why did you spell 'bank' with a capital, Bobby?" "Cause pa says a bank ought always to have a good big capital"—Boston Transcript. Yes. Indeed. Blobbs—The average wife tells her husband everything she hears. Slobbs—And a lot she doesn't.—Philadelphia Record. PRACTICAL HEALTH HINT. Gatarrhal Jaundice GATERNAL SAUNICE. The most common form of jaundice is that known as catarrhal jaundice because it is caused by an inflammation of the mucous membrane of the bile ducts. That affection is usually the result of some indiscretion of diet or of exposure to inclement weather. Sometimes the symptoms are very slight. The patient merely feels a little out of sorts or bilious; he loses his appetite, his tongue is furred, there is perhaps a little nausea, and his bowels are sluggish. He hardly regards himself as sick and is quite surprised to be told that he has grown yellow. The yellow color affects the whites of the eyes as well as the skin, and sometimes it is almost entirely confined to the eyes. The treatment of this form of jaundice is simple. A light diet, a blue pill or a dose of salts and rest in bed for a day or two will usually suffice. If the symptoms persist consult a physician, for they may be the first indication of some grave liver trouble. Indeed, it is safer to consult a physician at once and let him take charge of the case from the very start. When Lebas Dared Death. In 1871 the granite obelisk that stood sentinel before the palace of Rameses III, at Luxor, for more than thirty centuries was taken to Paris. Its erection in the Place de la Concorde was marked by a fine example of civic courage. It had been brought from Egypt by the engineer Lebas in a river boat especially constructed at Toulon to navigate the Nile and the Seine. This boat was towed through the sea by a warship. When the cables used in raising the obelisk in its position in Paris were strained almost to breaking Lebas placed himself at once under the enormous stone as it began to move. If a single cable had broken all would have been over with the engineer. Explaining his hardliness, Lebas said it was to show the crowd of onlookers that he was sure of his calculations. A single error and he would have been crushed, and he preferred a tragic end to dishonor. "This," said Le Cri de Paris, "was before our day of interviews, and Lebas occupied only a few lines in the Constitutionel, no more, no less than the periodical adventures of the sea serpent." The Graham Bread Myth. Most people suppose they are getting more nutrition in graham or whole wheat bread than they get in white bread. Another mistake, says the Kansas City Star. This isn't a matter of guesswork, for there are elaborate tables worked out after the most thorough experimentation in laboratories and published, for instance, in Dr. E. A. Locke's book on "Food Values." Roughly, food is valued in accordance with its fuel contents, which is figured in calories. A pound of brown bread contains about 1,050 calories, a pound of rye bread 1,180, a pound of gluten bread 1,160, a pound of graham bread 1,210, a pound of whole wheat bread 1,140 and a pound of ordinary white bread 1,215. The white bread has more nourishment to the pound than any other kind. The notion that milling deprives it of its nutrition is fiction. Fine Art In Candle Making. The making of candles is not ordinarily considered a fine art, but the Italians have made it such. The distinctively Italian votive taper is made by hand. The materials are pure beeswax, which is kneaded and tempered and mixed with a secret ingredient to retard combustion and which has special Egyptian cotton for wicks. The cotton, too, is treated with chemicals to keep it from feeding too fast. Small candles are molded. Large ones are made by rolling up sheets of wax. That gives the candle great strength and enables it to stand erect when a molded candle would bend under the heat. After the candle is fashioned it goes to the decorators, men who are skilled in the use of the brush, and when it leaves their hands it is a work of art. Dishes and Divorce. If, as one clever writer avers, most divorces start over the breakfast cups how very important is the selection of one's china. For, despite the time honored legend that would have us believe the way to a man's heart is through his stomach, it is quite certain that beauty of the eyes goes as far toward promoting happiness as does digestion. Often they are one and the same thing. So in providing pretty tableware one never knows what dire calamities may be averted. "Living up" to a fine bit of china, a good picture or piece of rare old silver has its advantages, not the least of which is the lasting pleasure of owning something really beautiful.—Mother's Magazine. The Chestnut Blight. The chestnut blight has already done damage estimated as close to $50,000-000. The disease attacks both American and European species, but does little damage to those from Japan and China. Plant breeders by crossing Japanese chestnut and native chinquapin have produced resistant trees. Some of the Chinese chestnuts are said to grow 100 feet high in their home forests.—Tree Talk. Mighty Arcturus Arcturus is one of the most brilliant stars that we can see in the heavens. Its diameter is 62,000,000 miles. The light that comes to us from it is over 200 years old when it enters our eyes. The sun is distant 93,000,000 miles. Just compare the eight or nine minutes it takes for the sun's light to reach us with 200 years. His Opportunity. This gave the golden haired girl her opportunity. "Well, if you want one," said she sweetly, "you'd better speak up now." —Louisville Courter-Journal. Easier. The Landlady—At our table, Mr. Bjinks, it is customary to return thanks at each meal. The New Boarder—That's fine. I like it lots better than paying cash—New York Journal. Looked That Way. She—Do you really think I married you for your money? He—Well, the way my money has been going it looks suspicious—Boston Transcript. Miaunderstood. Marcella—Did I understand you to say Gerty Giddigad won't take you seriously? Waverly—Not exactly. I said seriously, she won't take me at all. Youngstown Telegram. I will listen to any one's convictions, but pray keep your doubts to yourself. I have plenty of my own—Goethe. IN a Metropolitan City of this size, death knocks every thirty minutes at some door. Too often that death not only brings sorrow, but misfortune as well. Let the price you pay for a funeral be a business proposition and you will benefit by it in service, quality and cost to you in dollars and cents. The result of my campaign has built for me one of the largest and most magnificent establishments in the world. A visit will convince you. Consult me, I can save you Worry, Time and Money. 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