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BROADAX President Woodrow Wilson After Much Unrest and Agitation on the Part of the Colored People Throughout the United States Has Finally Decided Through His Secretary of War, Newton W.Baker, to Permit Colored Troops to Train with the White Soldiers. One Infantry Regiment of Colored troops will be organized at each of the sixteen National Army Cantonments; which means; that one Colored Regiment will be sent with each of the sixteen White divisions when they land in the trenches in France. The Eighth Illinois Infantry, Col. Franklin A. Denison commanding, presented with a fine Stand of Colors. Eloquent talk on the part of Col. Denison in accepting them. Hon. Orrin N. Carter, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Illinois paid a glowing tribute to the Colored soldiers. This afternoon, the regiment will be in evidence at the White Sox Base Ball Park and its base ball team will be fitted out with full uniforms. Tuesday afternoon, September 11th, the Regiment will join in the Military Day Exercises at the National Base Ball Park on the north side. Vol. XXII. President on the States Newton the W One Infantry Regiment of Colo of the sixteen National Army Canton Regiment will be sent with each of land in the trenches in France. The Eighth Illinois Infantry, C presented with a fine Stand of Colo Denison in accepting them. Hon. Orrin N. Carter, Chief Justice a glowing tribute to the Colored sol This afternoon, the regiment w Base Ball Park and its base ball team Tuesday afternoon, September 11 tary Day Exercises at the National There is not the slightest desire on our part to sling one little stone at President Woodrow Wilson, in relation to the treatment which he has showered down upon the Colored people throughout this country. Since he has become the chief ruler of this mighty nation, for it must be remembered that many hundred thousand Colored people voted for him and marched under his victorious banner in 1912 and several hundred thousand Colored voters loyally supported him in 1916 and the only reward that the vast majority of his Colored followers have received from him has been his attempt to draw the (color line) real sharp at all times in every way whenever he has had any occasion to deal with the Colored people in any official manner, and broadly speaking at all times he has not hesitated in letting the world know that the Colored people must be contented to remain the hewers of wood and the drawers of water. It may not be out of place at this time to reproduce the Hon. Woodrow Wilson's famous letter to the late Bishop Alexander Walters which plainly indicates that President Wilson has utterly failed to deal with the Colored people in that broad, christian spirit which he so eloquently refers to in his letter which follows: WOODROW WILSON'S LETTER TO BISHOP WALTERS IN 1912. WOODROW WILSON, 38 State W. St., Trenton, N. J. October 16, 1912. My dear Bishop Walters: It is a matter of genuine disappointment to me that I shall not be able to be present at the meeting on Saturday night, but inasmuch as I am canceling every possible engagement, in view of the distressing assault upon, Mr. Roosevelt, I do not feel that I can properly add others. I am fulfilling only those to which I have been bound for many weeks. It would afford me pleasure to be present, because there are certain things I want to say. I hope that it seems superfluous to those who know me, but to those who do not know me perhaps it is not unnecessary for me to assure my Colored fellow-citizens of my earnest wish to see justice done them in every matter, and not mere grudging justice, but justice executed with liberality and cordial good feeling. Every guarantee of our law, every principle of our constitution, commands this, and our sympathies should also make it easy. The Colored people of the United States have made extraordinary progress towards self-support and usefulness, and ought to be encouraged in every possible and proper way. My sympathy with them is of long standing, and I want to assure them through you that should I become President of the United States, they may count upon me for absolute fair dealing and for everything by which I could assist in advancing the inter- est of their race in the United States Cordially and sincerely yours. WOODROW WILSON. Bishop Alexander Walters. Care Judge Robert S. Hudspeth, New York City. At that time the Hon. Woodrow Wilson was strongly fishing for Colored votes but, after he was elected President of the United States the first time with the aid of the Colored vote, seemingly he very successfully turned his back—on his Colored fellow-citizens. That old and great newspaper the New York Sun, in a leading editorial recently, reminds President Wilson of his solemn pledge to the Colored race through the letter which he wrote to the late Bishop Walters, Oct. 16, 1912, the Sun also reminds President Wilson that "Colonel Roosevelt has already spoken manfully and indignantly in behalf of the Colored citizen's equal right to work for a living wherever opportunity offers. An expression of the same just sentiments by President Wilson, similarly vigorous and perhaps from his official position even more practically effective, cannot, it would seem, be delayed much longer." Speaking of the various protests and appeals made by Colored citizens within the last few months, the Sun also remarked: "They are appealing to the President in respectful terms for a right, not for a favor. They are appealing with unanswerable logic." In these times of war when brother feels that it is his duty to turn against his father, his loving mother, his sisters and his brothers if they are not in favor of upholding the honor of this country on the land and on the sea until President Wilson stands by his Colored fellow-citizens who have always been true to the stars and stripes. On the eve of the present war it was decided by the farmers that he not permit the Colored soldiers or the Colored men who felt like fighting for their country to come in contact with the White soldiers or men who also desired to fight for their country, in any manner, shape or form whatever, and that policy was adhered to on the part of the war department until recently and because of the fact that the Colored people all over this country bitterly protested against being set off in a class by themselves, which strongly indicated that they are or were not worthy to associate with those of the opposite race while engaged in fighting for their country. So this week President Wilson through his secretary of war, the Hon. Newton W. Baker, at last decided to permit the Colored soldiers to train in the same ranks with the White soldiers which is very displeasing to the fine-headed statesmen from the south. The following information on that point has been flashed from the war department, Washington, D. C. this week. Wilson After Murder the Colored People may Decided Throug h, to Permit Colo rrs. Disposition of Colored members of the national army, which has had the attention of Secretary of War Baker nearly a month, was decided today. The Negroes will be trained with the White soldiers at the sixteen national army cantonments. One infantry'regiment of colored troops will be organized at each of the sixteen national army cantonments, where sufficient personnel is available. This means that one Colored regiment will go with each of the sixteen White divisions when they are sent overseas. This is as it should be and we are perfectly willing to give President Wilson full credit for being able to come in contact with the light of day in this respect. A few evenings ago the Eighth Infantry, Col. F. A. Denison, Commanding, was presented with a stand of Colors, the affair was held on the lake front and it was witnessed by more than five thousand. It was the official farewell of the Eighth Regiment. Hon. Orrin N. Carter, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Illinois, delivered the presentation*oration and in doing so he paid a glowing tribute to the Colored soldiers. The Honorable Chief Justice spoke in part as follows: "Wherever you go, I want you to conduct yourselves as soldiers and freemen of this republic. If you obey your officers I know you will do the right thing. Some of them have been my warm personal friends for years. No braver soldiers or more courteous gentlemen could be found. "There are no greater heroes in the history of the republic than can be found among its Colored defenders. The recent martyrs of Carrizal prove it; the story of the deeds of the 24th infantry in Cuba during the yellow fever scourge shows it. Boys, remember your flag! And we send you forth, sublime in the faith that you will come back victors and men who are an honor to the flag for which they fight." "And there will be some black men who can remember that with silent tongue, and clenched teeth, and steady eye, and well poised bayonet, they have helped mankind on to this great consummation; while I fear there will be some white ones unable to forget that with malignant heart and deceitful speech, they have striven to hinder it." These words, were quoted from Lincoln's speech on peace in 1863, by Justice Orrin N. Carter. Cheer upon cheer greeted the various tributes passed by Justice Carter. It was noticed that large numbers of the white people in the audience joined as heartily in the applause as did the Colored listeners. It is well indeed for the ten million Colored people in this country that such Loyal and true friends like Justice Carter, is more than willing to come forth and speak out in their behalf. Col. Denison in replying to what had been so eloquently said by Justice Carter spoke in part as follows: which was by far the most remarkable and most patriotic address that has fallen from the lips of anyone in many a day. "I never knew before the recent uprising that there was any such thing as a Color line in patriotism," he said feelingly. "But I want to tell you, in spite of it all, that love of country is as deeply rooted under a black skin as under any other. "In this great world war where all nations and all races of mep are struggling for supremacy the black After Much Use People Thr Through H at Colored T The popular and nominated and man will play a man's part and play it well. He will not permit the ruffians or male contents for any race to interfere with his purpose to defend the flag of his country, whether at home or abroad, when good, he may become unmanageable at times, but never a traitor. Here in this dear old town, the melting pot of all, he has been raised to man's estate, he can look any man in the eye squarely and smile with supreme confidence that a man's a man for that. He is not the shuffling specimen of the Delta or Bayou districts. He is an American Citizen who when realizing his country's need responds promptly and cheeringly with faith in the ultimate destiny of his race, he cries aloud here am I Mr. President send me." "The 8th regiment goes from Chicago believing in its city, in its country and in God. It will give a good account of itself anywhere. When the final account of this war is made you will find the names of the boys of the 8th will be near the top of the record. I am proud of my men. I love them. I pledge my sacred honor that they will be in the forefront of bravery, honor and sacrifice." Cheers Show Faith in 8th. The crowd rose to its feet when Col. Denison ceased speaking and roar after roar of cheers told the spirit of the crowd and its belief that the 8th will do honor to Chicago anywhere. Again we simply desire to state that we are proud of Col. Denison and his Eighth Regiment. This afternoon the members of the regiment will be in evidence at the white sox baseball park, where its baseball team will be fitted out with full baseball uniforms and on Tuesday afternoon September 11, the regi- M. B. The popular and efficient Clerk of the Probate Court, who will be renominated and re-elected to his present position in 1918. HON. JOHN A. CERVENKA. ment will join in the Military Day exercises at the National Baseball Park on the North Side. KEEP NEGRO TROOPS OUT OF THE SOUTH. (Editorial from the Houston Daily Post.) The mutiny and riot of the Negro soldiers of the Twenty-fourth infantry, with the appalling consequences of wholesale murder utterly unprovoked, will no doubt reach the consciousness of the war department, which the appeals and advice of representative Southern men have hitherto been unable to impress. The Negro military units must not be quartered in Southern communities. Those that have been ordered to Southern points must be sent elsewhere, otherwise appalling consequences are inevitable. Those that are already here must be sent away, if a repetition of Thursday night's tragedy is to be averted. The Southern cities are not going to change their laws to suit the demands of Negro soldiers, nor are they going to submit to insolence, mutiny, riot and murder. The war department must understand that and understand it quickly. Secretary Baker must quickly understand that Houston or Columbia is not Cleveland, Ohio, where social equality is somewhat of a fixed element of racial relations, where Negro teachers teach white children, and all that sort of thing. And that kind of condition is not going to be set up in the South, either in peace or war. The Negro soldiers resent our separate coach laws, our customs which prohibit mixed schools, mixed service at places of public entertainment, but No. 51 this measure of separation is absolute and will be maintained. If they can not recognize these conditions peaceably, it is necessary for them to go not only for their own good, but for the good of the much larger number of civilian Negroes whose wellbeing depends upon cordial relations with the white people. Houston is not going to endure another such shock as that of Thursday night, is not going to have her orderly and peaceful life disturbed by armed murderers indiscriminately shooting up the town, is not going to have men, women and children ruthlessly murdered with United States army rifles in the hands of frenzied blacks, is not going to revolutionize her customs in order to conform to the views of any outside element whatever. THE NATIONAL MEDICAL ASSOCIATION. The 19th annual session met at Philadelphia, August 28, 29 and 30th. Dr. George Caviness of Washington, D. C. was elected President. Dr. W. D. Alixander of Orange, N. J. was elected Secretary. Dr. John R. Lewy of Florence, S. C. was elected Treasurer. Dr. Wm. H. Huff the well known pharmacist of 19 E. 43rd street, Chicago, Ill. was reelected pharmaceutical Secretary. Those who attended from Chicago Drs. Carl J. Roberts, Herbert A. Turner, F. J. Braxton, A. Wilberforce Williams, Gordon Jackson, J. M. Harris, H. R. Smith and Geo. E. Davidson. Miss Vivian G. Harsh, 536 E. 44th place has returned from Minneapolis where she went to attend Miss Ida Gray as maid-of-honor. per aN fe i. eo Bit a cs es : = i | , r 3 6 l 4 at f ? : Ve ih — Pe COL. FRANKLIN A. DENISON. Commanding the Eighth Illinois Infantry. NEWS FROM BALTIMORE, MD., | migration northwar RICHMOND, VA, AND POUGH- | were advised to ke KEEPSIE, N. Y. far as possible. By F. Johnson. | “Rev. Abraham Baltimore, Md., September, 7.— Bethel A. M. Church has raised $15, 000, which was used to pay off the second mortgage last Saturday. There now hangs a debt of $60,000 ‘over the congregation. Seven thou- sand was raised by the Colored people of Baltimore, a group of interested whites gave $8,150 and a smaller num- ber of whites contributed $4,265. The rally netted the biggest sum ever se- cured by a local Colored congrega- tion in one effort. Rev. Dr. W. Samp- son Brooks, the pastor, planned the campaign. He is now taking a well- earned vacation at Excelsior Springs, Mo. 5 City Councifman Harry’ S. Cum- mings is critically ill at his home, 1318 Druid Hill avenue. He is 51 years of age, and was educated at Lincoln University and in the law school of the University of Maryland. In 1904 he delivered one of the speeches seconding Roosevelt's nom- ination for the presidency and served as attorney general for the Odd Fel- low of the country from 1911 to 1915. John H. Murphy, publisher of the Afro-American, is spending a few days at Atlantic City. Monumental Lodge of Elks is al- ready beginning to make preparations for entertaining the 1918 session of the Grand Lodge of Elks. Warner T. McGuinn is making a contest against two Colored men for the position of State Central Commit- teeman from the Fourteenth Ward. Richmond, Va, September, 7.— With appeals for increased interest in the welfare of Haiti and Liberia and a strong presentation to the country of the grievances of the race, the twenty-first anmual session of the Lott Carey Baptist Foreign Mission Convention came to an end at Ebe- nezer Baptist Church on Friday even- ing of last week. Many of the visit- ing ministers filled local pulpits Sun- day. Rev. W. H. Stokes was the en- tertaining pastor. The next session will be held in Rocky Mount, N. C. The features of the concluding ses sion included a ringing appeal by Dr. Ernest iLyon, of Baltimore, for inter- est in the welfare of Liberia, which is suffering from a lack of the neces- saries of life; a plea by Dr. A. M. Moore, of Raleigh, N. C., for aid in the work in the educational and miss- jonary work that the convention is now doing in Haiti and a report on State of the Country, submitted by Rev. C. C. Somerville. Race Riots condemned. The report not only strongly dep- recated such outbreaks as have re- cently occurred at Chester, East St. Louis, Houston and other places, but asserted that the unfair treatment of the Negro by the white South was largely responsible “for the great PAGE TWO migration northward. Colored people rere advised to keep out of riots, as far as possible. | Rey. Abraham Tyler, gave an illum- inating recital of his thirty-seven ‘years of experience as a missionary in Liberia. ‘The annual address of the president, Dr. Calvin S. Brown, of Winton, N. C,, told of the great need for greater missionary effort in the present world crisis, and reviewed present condi- tions as they affect the race. Dr, Alexander's Report. The annual report of Rev. Dr. Wil- liam M. Alexander, of Baltimore, cor- responding secretary of the conven- tion, showed that $11,000 had been raised during the past year. The women’s auxiliary met Thursday, with Mrs. L. A. Hope presiding. The re- port of the corresponding secretary, Mrs. Anna L. McGuinn of Baltimore, detailed the activities of the women during the year. All of the old officers were re- elected. i Poughkeepsie, N. Y., September, 7. —The fifteenth biennial session of the Supreme Lodge of Knights of Pythias, Eastern and Western Hemi- spheres, was held here last week. The Supreme Court of Calanthe also met. Reports received from various de- partments indicated growth, both nu- merically and financially. The princi- pal change in the clection of supreme officers was the election of William E. Grandison, of Cambridge, Mass., as supreme keeper of records and seal emeritus, and the naming of George E. Gordon to take his place. The list of officers is as follows: W. Ashbie Hawkins, Baltimore, ‘su- preme chancellor; William H. Willis, New York City, supreme vice chan- cellor; George E. Gordou, Chelsea, Mass., supreme keeper of records and seal; J. C. Anderson, Crewe, Va., su- preme master of exchequer; William A. Heathman, Providence, R. I., treas- urer of beneficiary board; W. E. Grandison, member of beneficiary board; Rev. W. Spencer Carpenter, Brooklyn, N. Y. major general of the uniform rank; T. K. Storts, Fishkill, N. Y, supreme master-at-arms; Rich- ard E. Clarke, New York City, su- preme organizer; T. G. Schuyler, Bos- ton; James R. Farrar, Bridgeport, Conn, and W. I. Butler, Jr., supreme trustees. The Supreme Court of Calanthe clected the following officers: Mrs. A. Johnson, Philadelphia, past supreme worthy councilors; Mrs. Jennie Ross, Baltimore, supreme councilor; Mrs. Jessie Draper, New York City, su- pfeme associate councilor; Mrs. Mary E. Wright, Philadelphia, supreme re- gister of deeds; Mrs. Josephine Riley, supreme’ receiver of deposits; Mrs. Presovia Robinson, Asbury Park, N. J. supreme escort; Mrs. E. R. — Cambridge, Mass. supreme representative. THE BROAD AX, CHICAGO, SEPTEMBER -8, 1917. a le COST OF CONTAGION: ~ Irs Monte, Mrs. Alice Caldwell, Scarlet fever, diphtheria and measies cost the people of Chicago $7,562,442 for the year 1916. Some toll to pay. And yet much of it if not all, might have been prevented. It can confi- dently be asserted that thisstremend- ous bill, which the people of Chicago were forced to pay, was due largely to their carelessness and indifference. Scarlet fever cost $2,170,459; diphth- eria cost $4,535,395 and measles cost $856,588; total, as stated, for the three diseases, $7,562,442. For the purpose of emphasizing, possibly, the burden to the commun- ity laid upon it by these three dis- cases, an estimate has been made by wards of the cost; including both the sickness and death expense. When it is remembered that scarlet fever, diphtheria and measles are classed among the preventable diseases, it will be made clear the extent to which the people themselves are responsible for this needless ‘drain on their pocketbooks. Of course, it should be understood that these are estimated cost; but it can be safely assumed that they are approximately correct. In preparing ‘them the average financial status of ‘the people in the five groups of wards, as made in previous studies, has been taken into consideration. It is also to be noted that a study of the figures discloses the fact that this burden of expense falls most heavily upon people who can least afford to bear it, Any thoughtful citizen, who will note the totals of the cost of these diseases for the year 1916, should cer- tainly ask himself the question, “What can I do to-help reduce this loss and this terrific expense to the people?” And then he may answer that ques- tion by resolving to give to the De- partment of Health and by urging others to give to the Department of Health, their best co-operation in the efforts it is making for the control of communicable diseases. And here are some of the things that people can do, which will be just the kind of co-operation that will count for something. ‘When your child has a temperature, complains of headache or sore throat, call the doctor. If diphtheria is suspected, have anti- toxin used at once. Co-operate with your family physi- cian in the prompt reporting to the Department of any contagious disease in your family. Be as careful to protect your neigh- bors’ childrei from your own,as you would insist that they be careful in protecting your children from theirs. This means that the sick or ailing child, no matter how slight the illness, should be kept at home and away from other children. _ Measles, whooping cough, scarlet fever and diphtheria are all spread every day because parents neglect this import- ant duty. Smallpox of the virulent type has broken out in Duluth, Minn, Out of the first 27 cases there were seven deaths, a rate of over 25 per cent. Of course, it is understood that only un- vaccinated persons were attached and killed by this disease. Laughter and good humor at the family table promote good health and digestion. Don’t go to your meal table with a grouch. If rent payers would persistently refuse to live in dark and poorly ven- tilated rooms at any price, landlords and builders would soon cease offer- ing that kind of room to anybody. Sunlight and fresh air are essential factors in promoting bodily health and vigor, you cannot afford to live in a poorly ventilated room at any price. Seek light and air all the time for your health’s sake. MEETING OF THE DIRECTORS OF THE LOUISE TRAINING | SCHOOL FOR COLORED BOYS. Last Sunday afternoon, the direc- tors co Louise Training School for CBlored boys, held their first meeting after the summer season, at the new home, Parish Lawn, which is twenty-three miles south of Chi- cago, and it is one of the finest. places in Cook county for a home of its kind, It consists of thirty acres of ground under a high state of cultivation and a large house, steam heated, electric lighted, highly polished hardwood floors and strictly modern in every way. There are several smaller houses near it, that can be used for the same purpose, one of them being occupied by Mrs. Elizabeth McDonald, super- intendent dnd her husband James Me- Donald, assistant superintendent. Aside from these houses, there are several other large buildings that can be utilized in connection with the boys. The following directors answered to their names when the roll was called, Will T. Davies, president; Mrs. Georgia Davies, Dr. E. Emory Lyon, C. M. Reed, Leo Phillips, William O. La Monte, Mrs. Alice Caldwell, and Juluis F. Taylor. The report showed that forty-four ‘boys are in the home at the present time; that they can be maintained at the new home at about four dollars per month cheaper, than they could be at the old home here jn Chicago. At the close of the meeting, Mrs. McDonald served a very fine country home-like dinner, in honor of the di- rectors dnd everything which they de- voured outside of the fried chicken was raised ‘or produced on the farm. Mrs. Reed accompanied her hus- band and Mrs. S. Ellsworth sister of Mrs. Davies, of Rochester, N. Y., who was also one of the guests and great- ly enjoyed the meeting and outing. Mrs. Phillips the most admirable wife of Mr. Phillips treasurer of the home, who is also the superintend- ent of the Glenwood school for boys, was present and was highly interested in the meeting and relished the well served repast. Quite a few members of the south side department of the Y. M. C. A. under the direction of Lloyd L. Stone, and Richard E. Moore, camped on the farm, Saturday and Sunday and at 4 p. m. Sunday afternoon, an open air meeting was held on the beautiful shady lawn and William O. La Monte and Julius F. Taylor addressed the gathering on behalf of the home. SENIRAL RAILRUAD ARE STILL ACTIVE. By Juan Wyatte Bell. Mr. George Duncan who is a new comer in the usher’s service holds up well. This is his first hard work, although he has been in the service of the company 25 years. Mr. A. T. Henry, 6438 Eberhart avenue is suffering with a slight at- tack of lumbago. The writer is just recovering from a “full attack” and thinks that the word should be spell- ed with all capitals. Our heavy weight co-usher, Mr. Rugsell has about recovered from blood poisioning which threatened the loss of his left foot. We are glad to see him out again. Mr. Del Matthews has left the city for a few days. Mr. George Overton, 2356 Dearborn street, has been indisposed for the past three weeks. He is much im- proved and expects to resume his duties ip a week or so. Messrs. Allen Thomas and Joseph Taylor left the city last Wednesday evening for an extensive trip east, we learn. These gents have kept on the go quite a deal of late. | When our Chief Usher Sandy W.| Trice, reached home last Tuesday evening, looking over his mail he not- iced one of his letters the post mark, St. Paul. He read that Mrs. Trice was not feeling so well. He put aside everything and wrote Special Delivery to Mrs. Trice. “Come home at once” you'll never miss the missus till she’s away chief. - One of the boys had in mind to put on his U. S. uniform last week and walk out for a while. The thought struck him that Uncle Sam’s boys are not served in certain refreshment places, so he came out in civilian at- tire. = | Mr. Charles Bailey left for Boston last Saturday. He has a host of friends in the Bean City and expects a fine time. Mr. Saul Shields, Labor Agent, I. C. R. R. and his assistant, Mr. Jas. Ferg- uson left the city last Tuesday. In again out again. with these gents. Mr. A. O. Clements has just pur- chased from Mr. David Giles, a beau- tiful Collie-Mastiff dog. Ring the bell boys when you call on Mr. Clem- ents, Messrs. Clark and Waters are out of the city, we expect them to re- turn Sunday. The American Gaints will be in the city we understand. If this is true, Mr. Wm. Ferguson who is now away will surely be home by Sunday morn- ing. Captains Wm. Clifton and Geo. Trice are on the job early and late. The captains are well liked by their respective crews. Years of experi- ence strengthen their capabilities and they keep everything in line much to the assistance of the chief. Our friend Mr. Arthur A. Wells, who has been indisposed for some time paid us a visit recently we are glad to report that he looks fine and will soon resume his duties. Don’t fail to hear Rev. G. H. Mc- Daniel, Sunday afternoon, September Sth, at 3:30 o'clock, His subject, “What the Country owes to the Ne- as Ce ae a a4 Re eae Va me + ee mee yoo we 2 corse a. hee . Sy ac ‘ oe ae bee ; = — oo we e ‘SS roa : s . HON. OSCAR HEBEL. dh Eminent lawyer, who would make a splendid candidate for one of the new judges of the Circuit Court of Cook County. ee gro and What the Negro owes the} RACE CONGRESS SUNDAY. Country” is one which affects each <a member of the Race. Bethel Literary | Reception Committee of 100 Formed. Society 30th and Dearborn street, feel| Great National Convention to proud in securing the services of this| Be Held Race Riots the Issue. abl speaker. ee Rev. W. D. Cook, D. D. Pastor. | New York, N. Y.—A Reception Sandy W. Trice, President. Committee of One Hundred has been Mrs. A. C. Owens, Secretary. organized here to welcome the dele- canis .| gates to the National Race Congress Mrs. C. P. Johnson and son are|Called by the National Equal Rights vacationing with relatives in Benton |Mague to convene in Mother Zion Harbor, Mich. We know you are| Church, 136th st, Tuesday and Wed- lonesome “Doc.” nesday, September 18 and 19. On this Committee are local editors, THE 24TH REGIMENT WILL BE |¢lereymen, lawyers, doctors, business SENT TO THE PHILIPPINE | Pcople and citizens leaders. Conspic- ISLANDS. uous among its members are leaders Re ee San Antonio, Tex., (Special.)—The Twenty-fourth Negro infantry, mem- bers of which engaged in the race riots in Houston, Tex. will be sent to the Philippines, it has been stated unofficially at the headquarters of the southern department here. The regiment will start for the ori- ent after the 160 members of the bat- talion of the Twenty-fourth who de- fied their officers and quit Camp Logan to march on Houston, causing a battle in which eighteen died and thirty were wounded, have been tried by court martial. The military trial will be held soon at Fort Bliss. The Negroes held in stockade at El Paso, are reported to be sullen. They are guarded closely. . The attitude of other soldiers’ of the battalion disarmed at Camp Logan and now held in a stockade at Colum- bus has given army officers great con- cern. Many have been put in irons. Several plots have been hatched by the Negroes under guard and some have made threats in letters sent out to friends over the country. The war department, it was stated, has decided to impose the maximum penalty up- on those found guilty of participating in the Houston riots. AD tn Bae Diecherced. Six members of the Twenty-fourth infantry who clashed with the civil police and the troops sent to subdue them at Waco on the night of July 29 were found guilty of violation of the ninety-third article of war before the general court martial held recent- ly at Camp Macarthur, Waco. Five of the men were sentenced to five years at hard labor in the United States penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kas. The sixth man received ten years. All were sentenced also to be dis- honorably discharged and to forfeit all pay and allowances due, or to be- come due while in confinement under the sentence. ~The findings of the court martial, which have been given out have been forwarded to the war department at Washington. OLD NEGRO MAMMIES HANDLE FREIGHT NOW. Cleveland, O., (Special.)—Old Ne- gro mammies, many of whom worked on the cotton levees in Dixie, are loading and unloading freight in the New York Central freight yards here at $2.60 a day. They wear red ban- dana handkerchiefs about their kinky hair and each comes to work in a clean white apron. They say the work isn’t hard and the pay—“Mmmm boy!” Negroes Are Sullen. RACE CONGRESS SUNDAY. Reception Committee of 100 Formed. Great National Convention to Be Held Race Riots the Issue. New York, N. Y¥.—A Reception Committee of One Hundred has been organized here to welcome the dele- gates to the National Race Congress called by the National Equal Rights League to convene in Mother Zion Church, 136th st. Tuesday and Wed- nesday, September 18 and 19. On this Committee are local editors, clergymen, lawyers, doctors, business people and citizens leaders. Conspic- uous among its members are leaders of the Silent Protest Parade who went to the White House with a petition against lynchings. ‘The paramount issue of the Con- gress and of the 10th annual meet- ing of the League which comes on the third day,: Thursday, Sept. 2, will be the fresh and increased as- saults upon the rights of the race by the Federal Government and upon the persons of the race by white Amer- icans since the call to support the Europeans—for world war for world democracy. September 16, National Congress Sunday. President Gunmer of the League not only appeals to every community to form an Equal Rights Committee to provide for a delegate by a public rally or othe-wise, but calls upon every pastor to make Sun- day, September 16th, “Race Congress Sunday” and pray and preach on a national getting-together for justice, also urging a delegate be sent by cach chael: NEGRO FELLOWSHIP LEAGUE Negro Fellowship League, will have a symposium Sunday September 10, at the Reading Room 3005 S. State St. 4 p m. Subject for discussion, “What can be done to increase the Negro’s efficiency in his industrial op- portunity.” Miss F. B. Randolph will have charge of the meeting. All who are interested in this vital meeting are invited to be present. Last Sunday Mr. H. W. Bolden had a splendid meeting and his subject was generally discussed, it was, “The Relation of the American/ Negro to the present World Crisis.” COLORED TROOPS STAY. ‘Washington, (Special)—The battal- ion of Colored troops from Ohio now stationed at Montgomery, Ala. will not be transferred. Secretary of War Baker held that more trouble might result by moving these troops before they had offended and finally Dent agreed with him. THE PEERLESS CLUB. Last meeting of the Peerless clu was held at the home of Mr. Harry Primus, 3922 Prairie ave. The mem bers of the club regret sincerely the bereavement of one of their charter members, Mr? Benj. Cornelius, in the loss of his mother. Dr. Edward S. Miller, 3101 S. State street, is still visiting in Danville, and Lexington Ky. .He attended the fair * thelast named: place and was greatlt pleased with the exhibits of live stock and so on which greatly indicates #0 Stantial progress on the part of the Colored people of Kentucky. As it *** a Colored fair, from start to finish of from the beginning to the end. a 101 HON. ALBERT NOWAK. One of the honest and best County member of that Board and he w one of its members in 1918. One of the honest and best County Commissioner who has ever been a member of that Board and he will be re-elected for the third time as one of its members in 1918. One of the honest and best County Commissioner who has ever been a member of that Board and he will be re-elected for the third time as one of its members in 1918. TROOPS PATROL LEXINGTON TO END RACE RIOTS. (Lexington, Ky., (Special.)—The streets of Lexington are being patrolled by armed mounted and foot soldiers of the Kentucky national guard, following a series of outbreaks in the principal streets here between Negros and soldiers. The town is quiet but suppressed excitement and ill feeling is apparent, and threats of further trouble are heard. The authorities believe they have the situation in hand. The street fighting was the culmination of a series of disorders between soldiers camped at the edge of the city and Negros who have been flocking to Lexington during the week from the A. and M. Colored fair, near by. One Negro was taken to the hospital in a serious condition, while at least nine other blacks received lesser injuries. The soldiers escaped with minor bruises. NEWS ITEMS FROM CLARKS DALE. MISSISIPPI Special to The Broadax, Clarksdale, Miss.—Mrs. Mary Thomas, the wife of farmer Jobel Thomas, passed away here, the latter part of last week and her remains were laid to rest in the Cemetery at Beverly, Miss. Mrs. Thomas was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Carr and she was highly respected, by all classes of citizens in Clarksdale and here about. CLUB NOTES UNIVERSITY'S SOCIETY By Irene McCoy Gaines. About fifteen visiting teachers attended the last meeting of the University Society. Artists contributing to the program were: Miss Miller at piano, MDmе, Rosalie Tyler, soprano, and Prof. Minott, who discoursed on "Mental Science." Next-regular meeting, Sunday September 9th, 4 p. m. Club rooms, 5300 Wabash avenue. Visitors invited. All persons interested in the study of Theosophy are cordially invited to attend the meetings of the Theosophical club, held at the home of Attorney and Mrs. H. B. Bainsh, 5827 Wentworth avenue, every first and third Sunday 6:30 p. m., and every second and fourth Friday evening 7:30. Mrs. Mitchem of 5349 Indiana avenue has returned from St. Paul, Minn. Miss Bertha Moseley has returned from Idlewild, having spent the summer there. Miss Ethel Spence spent Labor day in Milwaukee, the guest of Mrs. A. C. Thayer. Mr. W. G. Newson spent Monday in Milwaukee, with Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Thayer. Mrs. Russell of Cincinnati, Ohio, is the guest of Miss Lucill V. Price of Eranston, Ill. Mr. Frank Ford an employee of Provident hospital, is visiting his uncle in Blue Island, Ill. Misses Helen Adams and Leila Booker have returned from Wauke-sha after a very pleasant visit. Mr. Charles E. Morrison, special messenger to mayor William Hale Thompson, will visit the State fair at Spring- CHIPS Commissioner who has ever been a will be re-elected for the third time as field, Illinois next week and while in that city, he will call on Governor Frank O. Lowden, on important business. Miss Mae Hawse, teacher in the State Normal, Nashville, Tenn. left Monday after spending the summer here. Mrs. Heard of Detroit, Mich. spent a few days here, and was the guest of Mrs. Z. George of Prairie avenue. Miss Olga Porter of 5349 Indiana avenue has returned from Benton Harbor, Mich. where she spent a pleasant vacation. Mr. A. G. Barnett of Fort Wayne, Indiana arrived in the city Sunday morning to spend a few days with his family. Miss Vivian Harsh is spending her vacation in Indianapolis. Miss Harsh was bridesmaid at the 'Cheeks-Gray wedding. Miss Elizabeth Jones formerly of Chicago, now residing in Topeka, Kansas, is the guest of Miss Rena Branham, 3217 Calumet avenue. The Forty Boys of which Mr. Will Kelly is President, gave an invitational dance at Odgen Park, Saturday September 1st, for visitors. Miss Lilian Cashin who is the guest of Miss Edwgna Yerby at 4761 Langley avenue will leave for her home in Decatur, Ala. next Tuesday. Mrs. Carrie Hull Mason, Washington, D. C. will be the guest of her aunt Mrs. E. L. Davis, 3226 Prairie avenue, and other relatives next week. Mr. Willie Peake, cashier at Tuskegee, Ala, left Sunday for Norfolk, Va. where he will spend a few weeks with his aunt before returning to Tuskegee. Mrs. Sandy W. Trice, 6438 Eberhart avenue, will return home the latter part of this week from a three weeks visit with friends at St. Paul, Minn. Mrs. Frances Parker, and Miss Imogene Worthy of Cleveland, Ohio, are the house guests of Mr. and Mrs. James A. Scott, 3710 Prairie avenue. Mr. and Mrs. George Garner have returned to the city after a very pleasant season, and are staying at Mrs. Alfred Hampton's, 4609 Langley avenue. Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Cheeks from Indianapolis, spent a few days here on their honeymoon, the guests of Mrs. Mary Waring, 526 Bowen avenue. Mrs. Violette N. Anderson is in New York and various eastern points this week attending the Doctors convention. Mrs. Anderson is reporter for the convention. Mrs. Elizabeth Morgan of Springfield, was the guest of honor at a private picnic given by old Phyllis Wheatley friends at the Municipal Pier last Wednesday. Alfreda Barnett entertained a few intimate friends at dinner on her 13th birthday, Monday September 3rd, at the home of her parents Mr. and Mrs. F. L. Barnett, 3234 Rhodes avenue. Mrs. Elizabeth Lindsay Davis is one of the delegates to the convention of the Woman's Committee, Illinois Division of the Council of National Defense held at State Capital, Springfield, Thursday and Friday of this week. Attorney W. E. Mollison, late of Vicksburg, Miss. addressed the Bethel Literary, last Sunday afternoon which was largely attended and those who had the extreme pleasure in listening to his talk, which was highly interesting namely, "What difference does it make" extended to him a rising vote of thanks. WIFE $20, TYPIST $1,000 Man's Will Asks That Employee W His Diamond Ring. New York.-By the terms of an filed in the surrogate's court and de April 21, 1914, George De Wolf De who was an agent for the New Y Central railroad and lived at 327 E combe avenue, his wife, Gertrude Deans, is to receive "the sum of Henry (Teenan) Jones is home again after attending the Elks convention, at Cleveland, Ohio. The meeting next year will be held at Baltimore, Md. and then, Mrs. Jones expects to accompany her husband to that city. She did not attend the sessions at Cleveland, for the reason, that she felt that that city was too small to enjoy visiting. Our old highly esteemed friend, Geo. T. Kersey, one of the headlights of the Emanuel Jackson Undertaking Co., 2959 S. State street, has been up against the real thing the past week. He paid some barber to remove his handsome mustache which was rather displeasing to his good wife, Mrs. Kersey, and then to caps the climax her little pet dog, followed the head of the house out into the street one morning this week and lost its life by being run over by a milk wagon and now Mr. Kersey, is perfectly willing to permit his mustache to grow back at the rate of ten inches per week. DEATH OF MAGGIE DAVIS WIFE OF JESSE SHIPP SR. WHO WAS WELL KNOWN IN THEATRICAL CIRCLES. Maggie Davis, who was for a long time the leading star in the Williams and Walker show and who was formerly the wife of Charley Davis, the acrobat, and was the late wife of Jesse Shipp, Sr.passed away in New York City, last week. She was also the life long friend of Aida Overton Walker, who occupied a warm spot in the hearts of the American people. Miss Davis, possessed a charming personality and great talent. She was born in Virginia and was only 38 years old at the time of her death. All of the leading characters in the Williams and Walker show, expect Bert Williams, have passed on into the great beyond. Dr. H. Franklin Bray of Denver Colorado, Locates in Chicago. On Wednesday this week, Dr. H. Franklin Bray, of Denver, Colorado, arrived in this city, and he will begin at once, the work of developing and organizing the Chicago Rescue Mission and National Evangelistic Bureau to which institutions he has been elected President and headquarters for a short time will be opened and maintained at 5250 S. State street. SILVER BASIS IS LIKELY AFTER THE WAR IS OVER Present Price of Pale Metal Makes It Almost as Valuable as Gold. Chicago. — Silver at current quotations almost puts Mexico, India, Peru and China, which have steadfastly adhered to the pale metal, on a gold basis. Add a few cents more to the 51 cents advance since September, 1915, and silver will be on a parity with gold throughout the world. It will be what the Greeks named it countless centuries ago, the "noble metal," when a coin was exchanged for an ox. With the prolongation of the war and the increasing emission of paper currency by the European belligerents, silver has correspondingly risen in value. The rise is significant in several respects. What it suggests chiefly is the general remonetization of silver after peace will have been concluded. This of course will ease and level the purchasing power of nations. To America the prospect is not alarming. With silver the United States is supplied—mined and unmined. In consequence the far west should flourish as of yore. Palatial hotels should multiply again in Colorado. Silver cupolas should again glisten in the Nevada sunlight. Copper coins should disappear from California. Denver should witness the reverse of what she saw when the silver purchase act was annulled, should people from everywhere flock to her. The shade of Senator Teller should smile. And Mexico must flourish in spite of herself—despite uncertainty of government. For Mexico once in a working mood can do for European mints what she did during decades for China and India. Peru, too, may re-experience a prosperity that will permit her once more to pave a highway with silver. In the circumstances the position of this country is unique. We have quite a third of the world's available gold in our vaults and stand next to Mexico as a potential silver producer. Either way, then, we are safe. Solemen's Orchestra It is asserted by some music historians that the greatest orchestra the world has ever known was supported by Solomon in his temple. According to Josephus, there were 20,000 harps and palestines of solid copper and 20,000 trumpets of silver. WIFE $20, TYPIST $1,000. Man's Will Asks That Employee Wear His Diamond Ring. New York.—By the terms of a will filed in the surrogate's court and dated April 21, 1914, George De Wolf Deans, who was an agent for the New York Central railroad and lived at 327 Edgecombe avenue, his wife, Gertrude F. Deans, is to receive "the sum of $20 and no more." It is stipulated that the bequest be paid sixty days after his death. The second clause in the will reads: "I give and bequeath to my faithful friend and stenographer, Margaret Dorothee Klingel, $1,000, to be paid within sixty days after my death, and my large diamond ring, which I sometimes wear, begging her to have same made in a ring and wear in remembrance of me." The entire residue of the estate is left to his "devoted, loved friend and nurse," Mary Susan Hill, who is likewise named as executrix of the instrument without bond. The testator directs that his remains be cremated and that the ashes be placed in a silver jar the value of which is not to exceed $100. CALLS WOMEN BEST LIARS. Lies Do Not Show on Faces; Men Give Themselves Away. Omaha.—"Women are better liars than men, but God bless them just the same," said Police Magistrate J. M. Fitzgerald of the Omaha police court. "Women come into this court and lie right along under oath. Their lies do not show on their faces either, but I can tell they are lying because their stories contradict those of reliable witnesses. "When men lie they hesitate, turn red, swallow, etc. One can tell they're lying just by watching their faces. "But you can't tell it on a woman. They lie outrageously and stick to their stories in the face of everything. They know just the right time to deviate from the truth too. Their lies always count in the outcome of their trials—if they are believed. Men haven't the same knack at the art that women police court characters have." LINCOLN'S HOME PATRIOTIC. Birthplace of the Immortal "Rail Splitter" Makes Draft Record. Frankfort, Ky.-Larue county, Ky., the birthplace of Abraham Lincoln, has made the record of furnishing every man drafted for the national army without a single claim for exemption and without a single rejection for disability. This fact was established through a communication received by Representative Ben Johnson (Dem.) of Kentucky, in whose district Larue county is located. Mr. Johnson says that the county was called upon to furnish 182 men under the draft. The men were all registered, all appeared before the exemption boards for examination, none claimed exemption from any cause, although some of them were entitled to make such claims because of dependent families. "I believe that this wonderful showing will be unparalleled in the history of the draft," said Mr. Johnson. BOY PREDICTS WAR'S END. Dies Three Days After: Telling Prophecy to Parents. Marshfield, Wis.—In a letter received by Miss Anna Urbanan from her sister in Reform, Ala., she tells of a queer case of a child, aged seven, which has a bearing on the present war. Up to date the child never spoke a word until one day when the mother broke a dish the child exclaimed, "You broke one dish!" Then he was again mute. The father then broke a dish to see if the child would speak again, and this time he said, "Two dishes are broke." A doctor decided to break a dish also. The child exclaimed, "Three dishes are broken and I am going to die in three days, and the war will end in three months." The boy died on the third day, and, according to the letter, the citizens of Reform are eagerly awaiting for the three months to elapse. River Takes Tribute of a Life a Year Tucson, Ariz. Superstition of long time residents of Steamboat Springs, Colo., said to be founded on a legend of the Ute Indians, that the Yampa river claims a victim every year, is indorsed, so "old timers" say, by two drownings in that stream in the recent freshet. The Indians believed the spirit who ruled the swift and treacherous stream demanded a human life annually and because of this are said never to have made an effort to save the first member of their race who was caught by it each year. Snake In Hen's Nest Smith Center, Kan.—When Will Reddinger reached into a sitting hen's nest recently he received an especially hard rap on his hand that caused it to bleed profusely. Reddinger blamed the hen and frately reached in after her, then broke the standing high jump record when he came in contact with a big bull snake. Upon being killed it was found to measure five feet in length. The sitting hen and her eggs are missing. Snake Eats Another Longer Than itself. Rocky Point, Ark.—While W. M. Phillips was showing friends over his crop they discovered a chicken snake. They killed it and found the snake had a tail at each end. The snake, which was about four feet long, had undertaken to swallow a snake of the coach whip variety, which was about five and a half feet long. It had swallowed its full length of the snake. WA213 IN WAL HON. FRANK H. GRAHAM. One of the most popular and straight-forward judges of the Municipal Court, who would make a dandy candidate for one of the judges of the Superior Court. One of the most popular and straight-forward judges of the Municipal Court, who would make a dandy candidate for one of the judges of the Superior Court. TO SEND FOOD TO AMERICAN PRISONERS Germany's Inadequate Rations Make Work Imperative. Washington. — The American Red Cross has perfected plans to care for Americans who may be captured and held in German prison camps. A prisoners' relief committee has been organized at Berne, Switzerland, under the supervision of Ellis L. Dresel of the American legation. Mr. Dresel served from the outbreak of the war, in 1914, up to our breaking off diplomatic relations as an attaché of the American embassy at Berlin, where his duties included relief work for men of the entire nationalities in German prison camps. Today about a hundred American prisoners are held in Germany. Most of these are civilians taken off American merchantmen that have been sunk by Teuton submarines. More recent arrivals in the prison camps had served as gun crews, since the arming of our merchant ships. Speedy provisions for their relief and for those who may be taken prisoner is necessitated by the German policy of giving their prisoners of war food to totally inadequate to keep men in good health. The extremely high death rate among Russian, Servian and Roumanian prisoners in Germany and Austria (50 per cent in the case of the Roumanians) has been largely due to the inability of Russia and the Balkan states to organize the rationing of prisoners of their nationalities from their home countries. COLLEGE GIRLS PARK GUIDES Accompany Camping Parties and Talk About Nature. Estes Park, Cold.-Women "nature guards" is the latest innovation in the administration of America's national parks. The guards are cultured college girls, whose duty it is to accompany camping parties through the great natural playgrounds and give interesting talks on the trees and flowers as well as the birds and animals of the region. Any camper may obtain the services of these girl teachers of nature lore for a nominal charge. The first park to have such guards is the Rocky Mountain National park, of which Estes Park village is the principal gateway. Four young women already have passed the rigid federal examinations and have been appointed by Supervisor L. C. Way of the park. They have been swamped with applications for their services. Boy of Fourteen Fights Bull Chardon, O.-Spain, land of toreadors, should hear of Albert Hosmer, fourteen, of Parkman. As a bullfighter Hosmer has just made a record without weapons. A bull owned by the boy's father charged Albert as he sought to feed the animal an apple. He grasped the bell ring of the maddened animal and leaped squarely on the bull's back. Roaring and snorting the bull ran wildly around the lot. Then the animal stopped suddenly and Albert was hurled to the ground. Albert ran his fingers into the bull's nostrils and gripped tight. The bull fell to its knees. The boy let go, dashed to the fence and was on the other side before the bull charged. Always In the Lead. The Morning Star announced the death of William B. Jones when he was not dead, writes Simeon Strunsky in the New York Evening Post. The next day it printed the following notice: "Yesterday we were the first newspaper to publish the news of the death of William B. Jones. Today we are the first to deny the report. The Morning Star is always in the lead." O WA213 IN WA forward judges of the Municipal Court, for one of the judges of the Superior Fire and Water. Why does water put out fire? This is at first a puzzling question, because back in your mind is the thought that, since hydrogen and oxygen are neces- sary to make a fire burn, it seems strange that water, which is composed of oxygen and hydrogen, will also put it out A burning fire throws off heat, but if too much of the heat is taken from the fire suddenly the temperature of the fire is sent down so far below the point at which the oxygen of the air will combine with it that the fire cannot burn, says the Book of Wonders. We speak commonly as though water thrown on a fire drowns it. That is practically what happens. Scientifically what happens is that the water thrown upon the fire absorbs so much of the heat to itself that the temperature of the fire is reduced below the point where oxygen will combine with the carbon in the burning material and the fire goes out. Thomas E. Wilson, the Chicago packer, says in the American Magazine: er, says in the American Magazine: "The higher up he is the more dependent an executive becomes on those under him. The real success of an executive, it seems to me, rests on his ability to promote wisely, and at the same time to keep the force working in harmony and contentment. A little jealousy here and there in an organization can ruin its efficiency. I have known men who had enough general grasp of things to have made great department managers, only they could not get along harmoniously with those about them. If a man can't get along pleasantly with his associates he cannot successfully handle a force of men. I never like to promote a man to a responsible place if he has failed to work in hearty co-operation with the men alongside of him. When you hear men say of their boss, 'He is a good fellow to work for,' you may know he is a successful executive." Brandon the Executioner. June 20, 1649, was the day on which Richard Brandon, official executioner for the city of London, died, says the Dundee Advertiser. Tradition has it that he decapitated Charles I. and was paid $150 for his pains, all in half crowns, within half an hour after the deed. He is also reported to have been presented with an orange stuck full of cloves and a handkerchief out of the king's pocket as soon as he was carried from the scaffold. Brandon was at once offered 20 shillings for the orange, but he refused this sum and afterward accepted 10 shillings in a market thoroughfare. In the burial register of Whitechapel there may be seen the following entry under 1649: "June 21—Richard Brandon, a man out of Rosemary Lane. This Richard Brandon is supposed to have cut off the head of Charles I." Nearly one-fourth of the earth's land surface is comprised within the continent of Africa, and it is as far around the coast of Africa as it is around the world. Every eighth person of the world's population lives in the dark continent. The blacks double their number every forty years and the whites every eighty years. There are 848 languages and dialects spoken among the blacks of Africa, but only a few of them written. One area in Africa unoccupied by missionaries is three times the size of New England, a second would make four states like New York, and another is eighteen times the size of Ohio. Throughout Africa there is one missionary for every 133,000 souls—Christian Herald. Would Be Tenant—I like the house very much, but I hear that it is haunted. Landlord (rubbing his hands and smiling)—My dear madam, I attend to that personally. The ghosts only appear to tenants who do not pay their rent and refuse to move out—London Telegraph. PAGE THREE municipal Court, of the Superior Fire and Water. Men Who Succeed. Extent of Africa. The Haunted House PAGE FOUR BIG WASTE IN WAR Money Spent Would Have Made Earth a Paradise. 24,000,000 DEAD AND MAIMED Berlin Paper In Making Comparisons Says Funeral Cortege of 7,000,000 Men Killed Would Reach From Paris to Vladivostok, One Hearse Following Another. Berlin.—The Berliner Tageblatt sums up the results of the war to date as follows: "War loans, $87,000,000,000; loss in dead and wounded, 24,000,000 men; killed, 7,000,000 men; crippled for life, 5,000,000 men; loss through decrease of birth rate in all belligerent countries, 9,000,000 men. "The gold production of the world during the last 500 years amounted to $15,000,000,000, or less than one-fifth of the cost of the awful world war," the paper continues. "In five dollar gold pieces the $87,000,000,000 raised in war loans would form a belt that could be wound around the earth nine times. "The funeral cortege of the 7,000,000 men killed would reach from Paris to Vladivostok if one hearse followed the other." "When the war began the combined public debt of all European states was a little over $25,000,000,000, and now it is over $12,000,000,000. The British merchant fleet in 1914 represented a value of about $50,000,000. That is less than the annual interest England now has to pay for her war debt. Before the war Germany exported goods to the amount of $113,000,000 per year to the British colonies. By cutting off this export England can eventually reimburse herself for her losses, but this will take more than 200 years. "Germany, with the amount spent by her for the war, could have bought all the cotton fields, the copper mines and the whole petroleum industry of the United States and still would have had several billion dollars left over. "Russia, with her war expenses, might have covered her immense territories with a net of railways as close as that of Belgium and France, whose losses in men are larger than the entire male population of Alsace-Lorraine, could have bought all the Portuguese and Dutch colonies with the money she sacrificed for the war. "With the enormous wealth destroyed by the war Europe might have been made a paradise on earth instead of a howling wilderness. There is no doubt that the awful struggle would have been avoided if the nations had any idea of its enormity when it started." GROUNDHOG IS BACK HOME. Returns to Family That Befriended It Twenty Years Before. Madisonville, Ky.—Hezzie Sisk of Dalton is the owner of a groundhog that is now old enough to retire to private life. About twenty years ago Mr. Sisk's son Sam found a young groundhog pig, took it home, and that fall it hibernated. It came out next spring and soon was missing. Sight had been lost of the animal, but about two months ago the same hog turned up again and went to the same quarters where it was reared and is still with the family. Mr. Sisk says there is no doubt that it is the very same groundhog that strayed off from home a number of years ago. It is gentle and seems to have made up its mind to die among its former friends. LOST 121 LBS. IN FEW WEEKS Weighing 316, Physician Walked Eighteen Miles a Day. Seneca, N. Y.-Dr. I. H. Magill welched 316 pounds when he went on his vacation a few weeks ago. When he returned he welched 195 pounds. "The doctors told me I never would be able to get down to 200 pounds," he said, "but I fooled them. It took persistent exercise. While I was in Texas I started walking a mile a day. That was all I could stand at first. But by the time I had finished my visit in San Diego I was walking eighteen miles a day without becoming in the least exhausted." AMERICA'S WAR EXPENSES NOW A MILLION HOURLY Washington—War expenditures of the United States, including allied loans, mounted during August to more than $24,000,000 every twenty-four hours. The figures, minus $100,000,000 just loaned to Russia, are contained in a treasury statement. Two-thirds of the daily total, $16,375,000, is represented by advances to the allies. For its own needs the United States has been spending daily $8,088,652, making the gross total $24,460,652. Since war was declared, 140 days ago, the treasury has paid out a total of $2,387,490,086, of which $1,680,500,002 has been advanced to the entente governments. Lord Northcliffe of the British mission presented to Secretary McAdoo figures showing that the credit of the British government would have to be increased from $500,000,000 monthly to about $600,000,000. LONDON OPENS ARMS TO AMERICAN BOYS LONDON OPENS ARMS TO AMERICAN BOYS Warmly Welcomes Our Soldiers and Sailors, Who Teach "Craps" to British Chums. London.—London is constantly filled with American soldiers and sailors. All the downtown streets, especially in the Piccadilly district, are often thronged with them. Everywhere the Americans mix with the Australians, Canadians and Scotchmen in kilts, and all agree that London is fine. In some places the Britons were initiated into the game of "craps" and, as usual, the beginners won. Craps seems to have captivated London. The Americans, who had not been at liberty since their departure from the United States, were lionized. At some corners women stood handing flowers to the strangers, who pinned them on their hats. The especially warm personal welcome extended the men is notable. Furloughed Belgians, Frenchmen or other soldiers of the allies travel through the city in groups, by themselves. Every American group is piloted by at least one and sometimes half a dozen Britons. Those in London having just been paid, had pockets full of money, which they are anxious to spend. They dine at the best hotels, some of them occupying tables adjoining those at which British officers are seated. WHAT RECRUITS ARE TO EXPECT IN CAMP Bath First Thing, Then Two Weeks Under Doctor's Eye. Then Some Real Work. Washington-An official statement showing what the national army recruits may expect when they arrive in their training camps was given out here. The first thing the recruits will do is to take a thorough bath. From that time on, officials stated, scrupulous cleanliness will be expected of all recruits when possible. Arrangements have been made temporarily to assign all recruits to a section of the camp where they will be in touch with men called from their own neighborhoods. This arrangement will be broken up later when the men are fitted to the various branches of service according to their physical qualifications. These assignments will be made according to lists showing their previous occupations, and they will go to infantry, cavalry, artillery, machine gun and other units, according to their fitness. Men from the same localities will remain in the same regiments as far as such disposition of them is possible. The first two weeks the recruit will spend largely under the doctor's care or at least under his watchful eye, according to the statement, which says: "He will be given a physical examination and vaccinated for typhoid, paratyphoid and smallpox. Recommendations will then be made to the company commander for special forms of exercise to remedy any slight physical defects. The first two weeks of training will be occupied almost entirely with these special exercises, light exercises in setting up drills and schooling of the soldier. "During the second ten weeks regular training will begin, but the work will be increased gradually and the division surgeon and his assistants will keep a watchful eye on the general physical condition of the men. Thorough instruction in personal hygiene, sanitation and first aid will be given during their first two weeks." LASSOS 1,000 POUND BEAR. Animal That Killed Many Cattle Is Trailed to Its End. Santa Fe, N. M.—A thousand pound female grizzly bear was lassoed in the Santa Fe national forest by J. F. McMullen, trapper, of the United States biological survey. The animal was trailed down as she raced through the woods with a forty-five pound trap and a six foot drag hanging to its feet. McMullen tied the bear and sent a man to the Mountain View ranch to bring an audience of ranchers and tourists to see and photograph the brute before it was given the death shot. The bear had killed many cattle recently. HIS FACE WAS "FAMILIAR." Did Not Recognize Brother Till Explanation Was Made. Hopkinsville, Ky.-Vego E. Barnes is back from Buffalo, where he went to see a certain man and met him on the street. "How are you, Orville?" said Mr. Barnes, extending his hand. The Buffalo man, with the natural suspicion of an easterner meeting a stranger, hesitated. "Your face is familiar," he said. "I'm sure I've seen it before. But who are you?" "Merely your brother," Vego explained. It was the first time they had met in twelve years. Adopts Soldiers' Families. Canton, O.-Mrs. J. H. Himes, a wealthy Canton woman, who was recently formally commissioned as honorary captain of Company C, Eighth Ohio, has adopted as war wards the members of the families of the soldiers whose honorary commander she is. Mrs. Himes has procured the names and addresses of every family and the number of children, and she will see that they are cared for during the soldiers' absence. THE. BROAD AX. CHICAGO. SEPTEMBER 8. 1917. WON BY CARTOONS WON BY CARTOONS North Dakota Artist Elected to Congress by Drawings. ILLUSTRATED HIS SPEECHES. None of the Other Political Campaigners Could Equal J. M. Baer's Chalk Talks In Getting Audiences—Farmers Would Drive Fifty Miles to See the Young Fellow Make Those Pictures. Fargo, N. D.-All the set rules of political poker were violated in North Dakota when the workingmen of the cities and the farmers united to send a nonpartisan candidate to congress. John M. Baer, who was sent on his way to Washington by a 3,000 plurality, is not a lawyer, gone to join the 350 other lawyers in our national assembly. Instead, he is a cartoonist on a Fargo newspaper. He was educated as a civil engineer, took a fling at farming and became interested in politics through the cartoonist's necessity for studying current affairs. If he had been a year younger than his twenty-five years he could not have been admitted to the house of representatives. Naturally, the young men were for him. Drainage engineers spoke for him because they thought his technical training would be of use in discussing J. B. JOHN M. BAER. public improvement projects. Cartoonists and artists sent drawings for a traveling exhibit boosting his cause. One newspaper humorist gave up his job to go out and give illustrated speeches for him. In the Fargo Courier News, all Baer's drawings bore the union label—and the workingman was favorably inclined. Then there were the farmers, whose lot he once had shared in his brief twenty-five years of life. The Republican and Democratic candidates sought to impeach his record on the soil. Why, they charged, he made himself the laughing stock of the community by covering a wagon load of flax to protect it from the frost. It seems that flax is impervious to chill, and the charge was a grave one to make in that agricultural district. It appeared at one time that Mr. Baer could not survive this indication that he was unfit to sit in the national councils. But Baer got out his artists' crayon and drew a picture of the farm wagon driving through a terrific windstorm. The tarpaulin, he proved to all within hearing or sight, was necessary to prevent his harvest from blowing away. Having thus displayed a statesmanlike ability for explaining away damaging evidence, the race was conceded to the young nonpartisan. As a political drawing card all the old party oratory could not equal Mr. Baer's chalk talks. Farmers would drive fifty miles to see the young fellow draw those pictures—crude likenesses of anything from a state owned grain elevator to a fat Minneapolis miller gouging the men who raised the wheat. Baer's election marked the entry of the National Nonpartisan league into national politics. Lively interest was manifested throughout the nation because the league has now spread into eight states, Kansas, Missouri and Nebraska among them, with a total membership of 100,000, nearly half of which is in North Dakota. Drops "Kaiser" From Plane Redwood City, Cal.—"The kaiser is dead!" shouted a modern Paul Revere, galloping through Redwood City. The people rushed to the town hall to hear confirmation of the news. "Directed to a nearby marsh, they found the 'kaiser' up to his neck in mud. Dan Davidson, air pilot at the nearby aviation school, made an effigy of friend Bill Hohenzollern, went up in his aeroplane early in the morning and dropped Bill into the marsh. An early rising farmer saw the effigy drop and rushed to the spot, thinking some aviator had fallen. On learning it was only the kaiser the farmer spread the word. Great Lake Vessels Going to Atlantic Great Lakes Vessels Going to Atlantic Boston. More than a hundred vessels from the great lakes will be brought to the Atlantic coast during the next few months in an effort to relieve the shortage of tonnage here, it was stated. Many of the ships will be cut in halves to enable them to pass through the Welland canal Gas Users Take Notice! The Peoples Gas Light & Coke Company hereby offers to give two (2) Junior mantle lights to each and every consumer of gas in the City of Chicago who is wholly dependent upon flat flame burners for illumination, and to install them free of charge. Please read carefully the instructions given below for taking advantage of this offer and promptly securing— FREE—Two Junior Mantle Gas Lights At the right hand side of the first gas bill you receive on and after August 10, 1917, you will find a coupon headed, "To The Peoples Gas Light & Coke Co." If you have no incandescent mantle gas lights or electric lights in your home, sign that coupon on the line marked X. Do not tear off the coupon; just sign it and it will come to us, when you pay your gas bill, as your application for the two Junior mantle lights. We will then furnish and install the lights FREE—provided, as specified by City Ordinance, you are wholly dependent upon flat flame burners for illumination. The Peoples Gas Light & Coke Company Peoples Gas Building Telephone Wabash 6000 The Scale on a Map. Distance on a map is measured by its "scale." By laying a rule on a government map and ascertaining the number of inches between two points the number of miles between them can readily be calculated. Nearly all maps are drawn to a scale representing one, two, three or more miles to the inch, as the inch is the common unit of measurement in the United States by which the eye is accustomed to judge distances on paper. A scale of 1:62,500, used in the well known United States geological survey topographical maps, denotes that one inch on the map represents 62,500 inches on the ground, which is the approximate number of inches in a mile. Therefore the scale is, almost exactly, one inch to one mile. A scale of 1:125,000 is approximately two miles to one inch, and a scale of 1:1,000,000 represents sixteen miles to one inch. Pantheon and Parthenon. The Parthenon, or what is left of it, stands upon the Acropolis of Athens. The most famous building on earth was erected under the administration of Pericles about B. C. 442. Its present ruinous condition was caused by the explosion of a bomb during the war between the Venetians and Turks in 1687. The Pantheon at Rome was built by Agrippa in B. C. 27 and, unlike the more beautiful temple at Athens, is still in a fair state of preservation. The Pantheon is, of course, well worth seeing both for its own sake and on account of its historic interest, but it does not hold the fame belonging to the incomparable building on the Acropolis. Camphor Laurels In Japan. There is a stringent law in Japan that when one camphor laurel is cut down another must be planted in its place. The tree is hardy and long lived, attaining to an enormous size. It is covered with a small leaf of a violet green color. The seed, or berries, grow in clusters, resembling the black currant in size and appearance. And the wood is employed for every purpose, from cabinetmaking to shipbuilding. Sliced Hair. Tommy, a bright little three-year-old, had just made his first visit to the barber's and was very dissatisfied upon his return. "I don't like my hair curled in this way, all in little curls," he said. "How do you wish it?" queried mamma. "Why, I want it like Uncle Tom's. I want it in two slices." Slow Work. "How's your boy Josh doing in the army?" "First rate," replied Farmer Corntosel, "although his mother's a little disappointed. She speaks about the slowness of Josh's promotion every time she sees in the payer that the same old general is still holding his job."—Washington Star. Paraguay's "Spider Lace." Missionaries in Paraguay more than 200 years ago taught the native Indians to make lace by hand. Since that day the art has greatly developed, and in certain of the towns lacemaking is the chief occupation. Almost all the women, many children and not a few men are engaged in this industry. A curious fact with reference to the Paraguayan laces is that the designs were borrowed from the strange webs woven by the semitropical spiders that abound in that country. Accordingly this lace is by the natives called nanduti, which means "spider web."-Exchange. Would Rather Not Go. "So you were late to school, Bessie?" "Yes, mamma." "Why didn't you run, dear?" "Because you told me never to deceive, mamma." "But how would that deceive, my child?" "It might give some one who saw me running an idea that I was anxious to get there, and I wasn't."—Yonkers Statesman. "Yes, indeed! I have had a fine time at your party, but if I am to get any sleep at all tonight I've got to go now to give my wife a chance to tell me all the breaks I have made while here."—Detroit Free Press. The Retort Courteous He-This bargain hunting shows your character. You are always looking out for something cheap. She-Too true. That is how I came to marry you.-Baltimore American. Sarcastic Pop. She—I told papa you wanted to see him the next time you called. He—What did he say? She—He said for you to come on; he wasn't afraid of you.—Boston Transcript. Varicose Veins. Operation is necessary in very severe cases. In simple early cases treatment consists of applying suitable bandages and paying attention to regularity of the bowels and general health. The bandage, which should be of flannel, about two inches wide and a yard or so long, is wrapped spirally round the limb affected, commencing well below the prominent veins and taken well above them. It should be adjusted firmly, but not too tightly, and each layer should slightly overlap the last. It should be put on while lying in bed in the morning and not taken off again till lying down in bed at night. Never massage or rub the parts. THE BROADAX Published Weekly In this city since July 15th, 1899, without missing one single issue, Republicans, Democrats, Catholics, Protestants, Single Taxers, Priests, inidels or anyone else can have their say as long as their language is proper and responsibility is fixed. The Broadax 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. 6418 Champlain Ave., Chicago, Ill. PHONE WENTWORTH 2597. JULIUS F. TAYLOR, Editor and Publisher. Entered as Second-Class Matter Aug. 19, 1902, at the Post Office at Chicago, Illinois, under Act of March 3, 1879. Just a Step. "You may not believe it, mum, but I wunst knelt at de feet of a queen." "And how did you fall so low as to become a tramp?" "It wuzn't much of a fall, mum. You see, I was a super in de movies."—Ex- Top and Bottom. The chiropodist is a humble individual. In the profession he begins and is content to remain at the foot. The barber, on the contrary, is ambitions. He begins at the head and stays there. Haste makes waste, and waste makes want, and want makes strife between the good man and his wife. The Ambitious Bride. Bill—Hello! Home from your honey moon trip already? Gill—Oh, yes. "Rather short, wasn't it?" "Oh, yes. My new wife seemed rather anxious to get home and try her cooking on me."—Yonkers Statesman The Pessimist Says: "Seeing is believing," but that does not alter the fact that some men see things which have no real existence and therefore believe things which are not true.—Richmond Times-Dispatch. To what gulf a single deviation from the track of human duties leads—Byron.