The Broad Ax

THE BROAD AX HEW TO THE LINE; LET THE CHIPS FALL WHERE THEY MAY Edward H. Wright, Assistant Corporation Counsel of Chicago, Who Delightes to Pose as the Leading or the Most Representative Colored Man in the Middle West, Was Caught with the Goods on him in a Gambling Raid at the Home of Mrs. Laverne Black, 3454 Indiana Avenue, Early on Sunday Morning. Col. William Randolph Cowan Was Caught at the Same Time and Place. THE VAST MAJORITY OF THE DECENT AND RESPECTABLE COLORED PEOPLE RESIDING IN THIS CITY, WHO DO NOT SPEND THEIR TIME NOR MONEY IN AN EFFORT TO ROB OR CHEAT SOME ONE IN A GAME OF STUD POKER, FEEL THAT MR. WRIGHT HAS BROUGHT EVERLASTING SHAME AND BURNING DISGRACE UPON THEM—THAT WITHOUT DELAY MAYOR WILLIAM HALE THOMPSON SHOULD REMOVE HIM FROM OFFICE. IT IS CLEARLY EVIDENT TO THE BEST THINKING COLORED PEOPLE IN THIS CITY THAT HE NEVER HAS AND THAT HE NEVER WILL BE ABLE TO REPRESENT THE SELF RESPECTING, PROGRESSIVE AND INTELLECTUAL COLORED PEOPLE RESIDING IN THIS COMMUNITY, FOR NO MAN CAN DO SO WHO PLACES GAMBLING AND TRICKERY AHEAD OF HONESTY AND SQUARE DEALING. THEREFORE, IF MAYOR THOMPSON DESIRES TO LAND IN THE UNITED STATES SENATE IN 1918 WITH THE SOLID SUPPORT OF THE COLORED VOTERS, HE MUST CAST HIS BIG COLORED ASSISTANT CORPORATION COUNSEL OVERBOARD AND SELECT SOME COLORED MAN TO TOTE ALL THE VOTES OF THE COLORED PEOPLE AROUND IN HIS HIP POCKET WHO DOES NOT SPEND ALL OF HIS SPARE TIME AT THE GAMING OR THE GAMBLING TABLE. Vol. XXIII. Edward H. Who I sentati with the of Mr. Sunday Caugh THE VAST MAJORITY OF THE ORED PEOPLE RESIDING IN THIS TIME NOR MONEY IN AN EFFORT A GAME OF STUD POKER, FEEL EVERLASTING SHAME AND BURNE WITHOUT DELAY MAYOR WILL REMOVE HIM FROM OFFICE. IT IS CLEARLY EVIDENT TO PEOPLE IN THIS CITY THAT HE WILL BE ABLE TO REPRESENT T SIVE AND INTELLECTUAL COLOR COMMUNITY, FOR NO MAN CAN AND TRICKERY AHEAD OF HONEY. THEREFORE, IF MAYOR THOR UNITED STATES SENATE IN 1918 W COLORED VOTERS, HE MUST C CORPORATION COUNSEL OVERSEL MAN TO TOTE ALL THE VOTES O IN HIS HIP POCKET WHO DOES NO AT THE GAMING OR THE GAMBLE It was stated in these columns the latter part of December, 1915, that "ten or fifteen members of the Appattox Club felt that the other two or three hundred members of the club should cheerfully assist to maintain it for their sole benefit, so that the ten or fifteen members could use its beautifully furnished parlors to gamble in to their heart's content" and not long after that the Appattox Club was raided like a common gambling house and ten or fifteen of its most prominent gambling members were arrested and carted to the Stanton Ave. police station. Out of respect for their families we did not publish the names of the members of the club who were arrested in the gambling raid; at that time Edward H. Wright, whom they claim greatly delights to be known as the boss stud poker player of the Appattox Club, led off in the effort or movement to throw us out of the club headforemost and crucify or nail us to the cross for simply stating that which was true and for honestly endeavoring to impart some sound advice to the members of the club through the columns of this paper. On all occasions Edward H. Wright wants to be known as the leading or the most representative real Colored man in Chicago and he will never consent to play ball with the rest of the big Colored men unless they place his name at the head of the list as "the Hon. Edward H. Wright, Assistant Corporation Counsel of Chicago." Only last week his name appeared at the top of the list in some kind of a very poorly gotten up address to President Woodrow Wilson which on the front page of the greatest weekly newspaper in the world and the ink was hardly dry on the paper bearing his name to all parts of the world before he was arrested early last Sunday morning like a common gambler. The Hon. Edward H. Wright, if you please, never hesitates in letting it be known that it is the great joy of his life to sit in a good stiff game of stud poker and in fact we have beheld him with our own eyes in some of the rooms of the Appomattox Club, sitting around the table with the others who delight to gamble, with stud poker chips stacked high up in front of him and plenty of money lying on the round table where the leading gambblers of the club were playing. The bigheaded Colored assistant corporation counsel of Chicago would not accept our sound advice and stay away from stud poker playing and early last Sunday morning while many good people were engaged in saying their prayers just before starting to church, Patrol Sergeant Frank Corcoran, of the Stanton Ave. police station, reinforced with Detectives Teeling and McGuire, wended their way to the flat of Mrs. Laverne Black, 3454 Indiana Ave., whom they claim is a very close and a very warm friend of the Hon. Edward H. Wright, and after the police officers had somehow or other made their way into the home of Mrs. Black, lo and behold, they found the Hon. Edward H. Wright sitting at one of the card tables and the officers say that "he was playing stud poker to beat the band." The officers pulled in one hundred and nineteen dollars which was lying on the table in front of the Hon. Edward H. Wright, the Colored mayor of Chicago, and when he was arrested he swore that his name was Louis Johnson or Joseph Williams and that he resided at 3624 Vernon Ave., but he was unable to fool the police officers and they toted him, and Col. William Randolph Cowan and the others arrested at the same time to the Stanton Ave. police station, where they were released on two hundred dollar bonds. There is no desire on our part to detract from the greatness of the Hon. Edward H. Wright, neither do we entertain the least bit of personal ill feeling against him, but we honestly feel that the vast majority of the decent and highly respected Colored people residing in this city who never permit themselves to spend their time nor money in an effort to rob or cheat their fellow men in a game of stud poker, feel deep down in their hearts that the Hon. Edward H. Wright has by his late rash action brought everlasting shame and burning disgrace upon them—that without any delay Mayor William Hale Thompson, if he has any respect or regard for the better element of the Colored people, should remove him from office, for he has no moral right from this on to claim that he really represents anyone else but himself and the gambling or the sporting element. It is further clearly evident to the best and the law abiding Colored people in this city, who believe in being honest in their dealings with their fellow men, that he never hss and that he never will be in a position to fully represent in any way the self-respecting, the progressive and the intellectual Colored people residing in this community, for Assistant Corporal to Pose as the Leading Man in the Minute on him in a Game Black, 3454 In. g. Col. William Game Time and Pl no man is capable of doing that who elevates gambling, trickery and double dealing far above honesty and straight-forward square dealing. It is the strangest thing in the world why so many Colored men who are forced to work real hard for their money will persist in blowing it in at the gambling tables at the expense of their families and others depending upon them, and as long as the Hon. Edward H. Wright has seemingly made up his mind to gamble in spite of all the laws which can or have been enacted against it, it should be the solemn duty of Mayor Thompson, that if he desires to land in the United States Senate in 1918 with the solid support of the Colored voters throughout the state of Illinois, to remove or separate his big Colored assistant corporation counsel from his present position and select some other Colored man as the head or the leading dog in the meat house to boss the Colored people and to tote all their votes around in his hip pocket, who will not spend all of his spare time around the gaming or the gambling table. NATIONAL NEWS NOTES. Brief Bits of News and Comments on Men and Measures. Color Lines to be Ignored in Army. Washington, D. C.—That color lines are to be ignored in the assignment of Negro troops in the drafting section of the national army has been revealed in a general order issued from the War Department, indicating the department's intention to apportion the Negro troops evenly where possible in all cantonments. The order provides that in every cantonment there shall be one Negro infantry regiment where sufficient personnel is available. Protests have been made against quartering Negro troops in certain parts of the South, but no modification has been made. The order is taken as an indication of what the War Department will do in disposing of similar regiments in national guard encampments. WHISKEY AND ITS ALTERNATIVE New York, N. Y.—That the distilling of whiskey must cease but that the distillers will be allowed to produce alcohol for medicinal and industrial purposes is a piece of news well calculated to hearten the disciples of total abstinence. But the second thought, in this as in other cases sounder than the first, causes fearsome apprehension as to the medicinal and industrial uses to which this alcohol will be put. That it will enter more largely than ever into the concoction of patent medicines cannot be doubted. The elimination of whiskey will give a decided impetus to the sale of the various "bitters" and "tonics" and "sovereign remedies" which have ruined the stomachs of so many professed teetotallers in the rural districts. The consumption of these nostrums, especially in prohibition States, has always been enormous, and the ills that they are warranted to cure unlimited. When no disease is to be combated they are consumed under the pretence that they "tone up the system" or "purify the blood." That whiskey often becomes a tyrant is admitted by every one except its slaves. In this connection we may re- --- Corporation the Leading the Middle a Gambling 454 Indian William Ra and Place. Ex-Mayor of C of Defense of Illin ential friends to en member that in the forum scene in "Julius Caesar" a citizen fears that a worse tyrant than the one murdered may come in the latter's place. WHISKEY GOES OUT OF BUSINESS Chicago, Ill.—Victory in a fight which had been waged unceasingly for the past twenty years by the Hearst newspapers became complete last week when the Federal law forbidding the manufacture of whiskey and other distilled liquors went into effect. Accepting the inevitable only after spending fortunes in an effort to avert it, and resorting to every possible trick and subterfuge to postpone the day of reckoning, the Whiskey Trust capitulated and went out of business an hour before midnight. By powerful cartoons, forceful editorials and by the mobilizing of thousands of moral leaders and millions of citizens in the campaign, the Hearst papers carried the fight to Congress. Seeing at last the handwriting on the wall, the whiskey manufacturers waged a determined fight for the passage of a law which would forbid the manufacture of beer and light wines. Success would have placed an enormous premium on the 300,000,000 gallons of whiskey in bond by putting the country on a whiskey basis. The fight to end the destructive rule of whiskey in this country was begun by the Hearst newspapers twenty years ago. From New York to San Francisco all the growing influence of the chain of newspapers was brought to bear against the whiskey traffic. The whiskey men attempted coercion by withdrawing advertising. They attempted bribery by offering more advertising. They attacked the persistent champion of true temperance in de- [Name not visible] Ex-Mayor of Chicago, millionaire business man, Secretary of the State Counsel of Defense of Illinois, who is being strongly urged by his legions of warm and influential friends to enter the race for United States Senator in 1918. Ex-Mayor of Chicago, millionaire business man, Secretary of the State Counsel of Defense of Illinois, who is being strongly urged by his legions of warm and influential friends to enter the race for United States Senator in 1918. chicago, millionaire business man, Secretary is, who is being strongly urged by his legion the race for United States Senator in viious ways and determined fashion, and always they failed to check the steady, patient, intelligent hammering against the whiskey traffic. The Chicago Branch of The Law and Order League Will Hold a Patriotic Meeting at Bethel Church Sunday Afternoon, September 23rd. The 55th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation and a patriotic meeting will be held at Bethel Church, Sunday afternoon at 3:30 o'clock under the auspices of the Chicago Branch of the Law and Order League. A. H. Roberts, President, William H. Davis, secretary. THE COLORED MASONS OF GEORGIA HAVE RETAINED MESSERS J. E. WHITE AND S. A. T. WATKINS TO DEFEND THEM AGAINST THE ASSAULTS OF THE WHITE MASONS OF THAT STATE. The White Shriners of Georgia, who are unincorporated, have for some time labored under the impression that they possessed all of the wisdom and superiority and feeling or thinking that was. Lately they instituted suit in the Superior Court of Fulton county, that state, against the Colored Shriners of Georgia, who are duly and regularly incorporated. The Scottish Rite and the Blue Lodge Masons are include in the suit. The Superior Court, at the first trial in July past, found in favor of the white masons. Attorney George Gordon (white) of Atlanta, succeeded in having the former decision set aside and a motion is now pending before the court for a new trial. It was af that point that Messrs. White and Wat- No.1 kins were called into the case. Mr. Watkins journeyed to Atlanta last week to look the ground or the field over, and as he is the Supreme Attorney for the Knights of Pythias, throughout the world, and Mr. White being one of the most prominent Masons in the United States, they will fight the so-called claims or pretentions of the white masons of Georgia in relation to their right to unhorse the Colored masons of that state, in the Supreme Court of Georgia, and on up to the Supreme Court of the United States. The Colored masons of that state received their signs, grips and other secret degrees from high authorities, masonic, who had the right to confer them upon them; while the white masons of that state, picked theirs up as best they could. Hence the litigation to put the Colored masons out of the running. Raiden Get E. H. Wright; "I'll Get Police." He Says. Edward H. Wright, Colored, assistant corporation counsel, was much annoyed and threatened to "see the chief and have you men transferred" when Sergeant Frank Corcoran, Detectives Maguire and Teeling raided a flat at 3454 Indiana avenue early yesterday. The flat is occupied by Mrs. Laurene Black. Wright, who was easily identified, the police say, although he gave the name of Louis Johnson, 3624 Vernon avenue; William Vance, a porter, 3364 Prairie avenue; James Williams, 2950 State street, and William R. Cowan, real estate dealer, 3552 Forest avenue, all Colored, were charged with gambling. The detectives seized $119 from the poker table.—Chicago Herald, Monday, Sept. 17, 1917. : ee — ; erg : = any ~ : oo 7 aay Loe : » \s y. : 2 Hee ‘< Te ye % : = eee = im > ‘ j * : i eee : € Ae : . P o iT) es. < Ze = Coa / Z \ Pe . >) = On / \ i : wx — | 7 wy 4 2 Res = Sees =f "s aa SS <P On ey aa a a an = HEW TO THE LINE; LET THE CHIPS FALL WHERE THEY MAY SSS Vol. XXHL CHICAGO, SEPTEMBER 22, 1917 No. 1 Edward H. Wright, Assistant Corporation Counsel of Chicago, Who Delightes to Pose as the Leading or the Most Repre- sentative Colored Man in the Middle West, Was Caught with the Goods on him in a Gambling Raid at the Home of Mrs. Laverne Black, 3454 Indiana Avenue, Early on Sunday Morning. Col. William Randolph Cowan Was Caught at the Same Time and Place. THE VAST MAJORITY OF THE DECENT AND RESPECTABLE COL- ORED PEOPLE RESIDING IN THIS CITY, WHO DO NOT SPEND THEIR = TIME NOR MONEY IN AN EFFORT TO ROB OR CHEAT SOME ONE IN A GAME OF STUD POKER, FEEL THAT MR. WRIGHT HAS BROUGHT EVERLASTING SHAME AND BURNING DISGRACE UPON THEM—THAT WITHOUT DELAY MAYOR WILLIAM HALE THOMPSON SHOULD REMOVE HIM FROM OFFICE. IT IS CLEARLY EVIDENT TO THE BEST THINKING COLORED PEOPLE IN THIS CITY THAT HE NEVER HAS AND THAT HE NEVER WILL BE ABLE TO REPRESENT THE SELF RESPECTING, PROGRES- -SIVE AND INTELLECTUAL COLORED PEOPLE RESIDING IN THIS COMMUNITY, FOR NC MAN CAN DO SO WHO PLACES GAMBLING AND TRICKERY AHEAD OF HONESTY AND SQUARE DEALING. ‘THEREFORE, IF MAYOR THOMPSON DESIRES TO LAND IN THE UNITED STATES SENATE IN 1918 WITH THE SOLID SUPPORT OF THE ‘COLORED VOTERS, HE MUST ‘CAST HIS BIG COLORED ASSISTANT CORPORATION COUNSEL OVERBOARD AND SELECT SOME COLORED MAN TO TOTE ALL THE VOTES OF THE COLORED PEOPLE AROUND IN HIP POCKET WHO DOES NOT SPEND ALL OF HIS SPARE TIME AT THE GAMING OR THE GAMBLING TABLE. ‘Tt was stated in these columns the latter part of December, 1915, that ‘‘ten or fifteen members of the Appomattox Glub felt that the other two or three hundred members of the club should [cheerfully assist to maintain it for their Denefit, so that the ten or fifteen could use its beautifully fur i parlors to gamble in to their 2 content’? and not long after ‘that the Appomattox Club was raided ike a common gambling house and ten fifteen of its most prominent gam- members were arrested and carted to the Stanton Ave. police station. of respect for their families we Ga not publish the names of the mem- bers of the club who were arrested .in the gambling raid; at that time Edward H. Wright, whom they claim greatly delights to be known as the boss stud poker player of the Appomattox Club, led off in the effort or movement to throw us out of the elub headforemost and crucify or nail us td the cross for simply stating that which was true and for honestly endeavoring to impart some sound sdviee to the members of the club through the columns of this paper. On all ocessions Edward H. Wright wants to be known as the leading or the most representative real Colored man in ‘Chicago and he will never consent. to play ball with the rest of the big Col ‘cred men unless they place his name at the bead of the list as ‘‘the Hon. Ed. ward H, Wfight, Assistant Corporation Counsel of Ghicago.’’ Only last week ‘his name appeared at the top of the lin in some kint of very poorly gotten up address to President Woodrow Wilson which on.the front page of the greatest weekly newspaper in the world and the ink -was hardly dry on the paper besr- ing his name to all parts of the worla before he was arrested early last Sundsy morning like a commén gambler. ‘The Hon. Baward H. Wright, if you please, never hesitates in letting it be known that it is the great joy of his Tife-to sit in a good stiff game of stud poker and in fact, aye bebeld him ee ot a sane of the Appomattox Club, sitting around the table with the others who delight to'gamble, with stud poker chips stacked high up in front of him and with plenty ‘ef money lying on the round table =a “ Sout ‘gounsel of Chicago would away from stud poker playing and early last Sunday morning while many gooé people were engaged in saying thei prayers just before starting to church Patrol Sergeant Frank Corcoran, of the Stanton Ave. police station, reinforced with Detectives Tecling and MeGuire wended their way to the flat of Mrs Laverne Black, 3454 Indiana Ave. whom they claim is a very close and a very warm friend of the Hon. Edward /H. Wright, and after the police officers ‘had somehow or other made their way ‘into the home of Mrs. Black, lo and be ‘hold, they found the Hon, Edward H. ‘Wright sitting at one of the eard tables ‘and the officers say that ‘‘he was play: ing stud poker to beat the band.’ The officers pulled in one hundred and nine- teen dollars which was lying oh the table in front of the Hon. Edward H. Wright, the Colored mayor of Chicago, and when he was arrested he swore that his name was Louis Johnson or Joseph Williams and that he resided at 3624 Vernon Ave., but he was unable to fool the police officers and they toted him, and Col. William Randolph Cowan and the others arrested at the same time to the Stanton Ave. police station, where they were released on two hundred dollar bonds. There is no desire on our part to ctract from the greatness of the Hon. Edward H. Wright, neither do we en- tertain the least bit of personal il feeling against him, but we honestly feel that the vast majority of the de- cent and highly respected Colored peo- ple residing in this city who never per- mit themselves to spend their time nor money in an effort to rob or cheat their fellow men in @ game of stud poker, feel déep down in their hearts that the Hon. Edward H. Wright has by his late rash action brought everlasting shame and burning disgrace upon them —that without any delay Mayor ‘Wil- liam Hale Thompson, if he has any re- spect or regard for the better clement ef the Colored people, should remove him from office, for he has no moral right from this on to claim that he really represents anyone else but him- self and the gambling or the ‘porting element. ‘It is further clearly evident fo the best and the law abiding Colored people in this city, who believe in being honest in their dealings with their fellow men, that he never has and that he never will be in s position to fully represent in any way the self-respecting, the pro- gressive and the intellectual Colored people residing in this community, for no man is capable of doing that who elevates gambling, trickery and double dealing far above honesty and straight- forward square dealing. It is the strangest thing in the world why so. many Colored men who are foreed to work real hard for their money will persist in blowing it in at the gam- dling tables at the expense of their families and others depending upon them, ang as long as the Hon. Edward H. Wright has seemingly made up his mind to gamble in spite of all the laws which can or have been enacted against it, it should be the solemn duty of Mayor Thompson, that if he desires to land in the United States Senate in 1918 with the solid support of the Colored voters throughout the state of Illinois, to remove or séparate his big Colored assistant corporation counsel from his present position and select some other Colored man as the head or the leading dog in the meat house to boss the Colored people and to tote all their votes around in his hip pocket, who will not spend all of his spare time around the gaming or the gambling table. NATIONAL NEWS NOTES. Brief Bits of News and Comments on ‘Men and Measures. Color Lines to be Ignored in Army. Washington, D. C.—That color lines ‘are to be ignored in the assignment of Negro troops in the drafting section of the national army has been revealed in a general order issued from the War Department, indieating the depart- ment’s intention to apportion the Ne- gro troops evenly where possible in all cantonments. The order provides that in every cantonment there shall be one Negro infantry regiment where suffi- cient personnel is available. Protests have been made against quartering Negro troops in certain parts of the South, but mo modification has been made. ‘The order is taken as an indication of what the War Department will do in disposing of similar regiments in na- tional guard encampments. WHISKEY AND ITS ALTERNATIVE. New York, N. Y—That the distilling of whiskey must cease but that the distillers will be allowed to produce ‘coho! for medicinal and industrial purposes is a piece of news well cal- culated to hearten the disciples of to- tal abstinence. But the second thought, in this as in other cases sounder than the first, eausea fearsome apprehension as to the medicinal and industrial uses to which this aleohol will be put. ‘That it will enter more largely than ever into the concoction of patent med- ieines cannot be doubted. The elimina- tion of whiskey will give a decided im- petus to the sale of the various ‘‘bit- ters’? and ‘‘tonies’? and ‘‘sovereign remedies’? which have ruined the stom- achs-6f so many professed teetotallers jar the rural districts. ‘The consumption of these nostrums, especially in prohi- bition States, has always been enor mous, and the ills that they are war- ranted to cure unlimited. When no disease is to be combated they are eon- sumed under the pretence that they “tone up the system”? or “‘purify the blood.’? ‘That whiskey aften becomes a tyrant tn nimiipd 7 gray ooe_soompt i slaves. In this connection we may re- é 2 igs “a 4g be a ' eee) See a ie Fa See ee popes ee. : a peta See Pee i abet eee 2 2 eg ; ore Snel See pic tae [Re Se “ sais abate: < See aN SS ees a A ae ee m = = F he = $ / q / Ex-Mayor of Chicago, millionaire business man, Secretary of the State Counsel of Defense of Illinois, who is being strongly urged by his legions of warm and influ- ential friends to enter the race for United States Senator in 1918. member that in the forum scene in “Julius Caesar’? a citizen fears that &@ worse tyrant than the one murdered may come in the latter’s place. WHISKEY GOES OUT OF BUSINESS. Chicago, I—Vietory in a fight which had been waged unceasingly for the past twenty years by the Hearst newspapers became complete last week when the Federal law forbidding the manufacture of whiskey and other dis- tilled liquors went into effect. Accepting the inevitable only after spending fortunes in an effort to avert it, and resorting to every possible trick and subterfuge to postpone the day of reckoning, the Whiskey Trust capitu- lated and went out of business an hour before midnight. By powerful cartoons, forceful edi- torials and by the mobilizing of thov- sands of moral leaders and millions of citizens in the campaign, the Hearst papers carried the fight to Congress. Seeing at last the handwriting on the wall, the whiskey manufacturers waged a determined fight for the pass- age of a law which would forbid the manufacture of beer and light wines. Success would have placed an enormous premium on the 300,000,000 gallons of whiskey in bond by putting the coun- try on a whiskey basis. The fight to end the destructive rule of whiskey in this country was begun by the Hearst newspapers twenty years ago. From New York to San Francisco all the growing influence of the chain of newspapers was brought to bear against the whiskey traffic. ‘The whiskey men attempted coereion by withdrawing advertising, They st- tempted bribery by offering more ad- vertising. "They attacked the persist- ent champion of true temperance in de- HON. JOHN P. HOPKINS nicago, millionaire business man, Secretar is, who is being strongly urged by his legic er the race for United States Senator in a vious ways and determined fashion, and always they failed to check the steady, patient, intelligent hammering against the whiskey traffic. ‘The Chicago Branch of The Law and Order League Will Hold a Patriotic ‘Meeting at Bethel Church Sunday Afternoon, September 23rd. ‘The 55th anniversary of the Emanci- pation Proclamation and a patriotic meeting will be held at Bethel Church, Sunday afternoon at 3:30 o'clock un- der the auspices of the Chieago Branch of the Law and Order League. A. H. Roberts, President, William H. Davis, secretary. THE COLORED MASONS OF GEORGIA HAVE RETAINED ‘MESSRS. J. E. WHITE AND & A. . WATKINS TO DEFEND THEM AGAINST THE ASSAULTS OF THE MASONS OF THAT STATE. The White Shriners of Georgia, who are unincorporated, have for some time labored under the impression that they possessed all of the wisdom and supe- riority and feeling or thinking that was. Lately they instituted suit in the Superior Court. of Fulton county, that state, against the Colored Shriners of Georgia, who are duly and regularly incorporated. The Seottish Rite and the Blue Lodge Masons are include in the suit. ‘The Superior Court, at the first trial in July past, found in favor of the white masons. Attorney George Gor- don (white) of Atlanta, succeeded in having the former decision sot aside and s motion is now pending before the court fore new trial. It was af that point that Messrs, White and Wat- ‘kins were called into the ease. Mr. Watkins journeyed to Atlanta last week to look the ground or the field over, and as he is the Supreme Attor- ney for the Knights of Pythias, through- out the world, and Mr. White being one of the most prominent Masons in the United States, they will fight the so- called claims or pretentions of the white masons of Georgia in relation to their right to unhorse the Colored masons of that state, in the Supreme Court of Georgia, and on up to the Supreme Court of the United States. ‘The Colored masons of that state re- ceived their signs, grips and other se- eret degrees from high authorities, ma- sonic, who had the right to confer them upon them; while the white ma- sons of that state, picked theirs up as best they could. Henee the litigation to put the Colored masons out of the running. ‘Raiders Get B. H. Wright; “I'l Geo Police,”’ He Says. Edward H. Wright, Colored, assistant corporation counsel, was much annoyed and threatened to ‘‘see the chief and have you men transferred’? when Sergeant Frank Corcoran, Detectives ‘Maguire and Teeling raided » fiat at 3454 Indiana avenue early yesterday. The fiat is ceeupied by Mrs. Laurence Black. wren as wen cate ears Bp ‘say, although he gave the name of Louis Johnson, 3624 Vernon avenue; William Vance, a porter, 3364 Prairie avenue; James Williams, 2950 State street, and William B. Cowan, real es- tate dealer, 3552 Forest avenue, all Colored, were charged with gambling. ‘The detectives seized $119 from the poker table—Chieago Herald, Monday, Sept. 17, 1917. 1910 W HON. CHARLES M. FOELL One of the upright and honorable J re-elected to his present exalted posi November. One of the upright and honorable Judges of the Superior Court, who will be re-elected to his present exalted position at the judicial election this coming November. One of the upright and honorable Judges of the Superior Court, who will be re-elected to his present exalted position at the judicial election this coming November. THE RED CAP MEN AT THE 12TH STREET STATION, ILLINOIS CENTRAL ARE STILL MOVING AROUND. Mrs. C. P. Johnson and C. P., Jr. have returned from their visit in Benton Harbor, Mich. C. P., Jr., enjoyed very much his first country visit. Mrs. Marion Trice, wife of our Captain Geo. W. Trice, and Mrs. Alice Plummer are at home to their many friends after having enjoyed a delightful visit with relatives and friends in Boston and other cities in the East. Mr. and Mrs. Allen Thomas entertained friends including Mr. and Mrs. Horatio Maat, Mr. and Mrs. Anderson and Mr. Van Waters, Saturday evening in honor of their new bouncing boy, Eugene. Mr. and Mrs. Blouin from New Orleans, La., are the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Saul Shields, 3711 Rhodes avenue. Mr. W. G. Russell left last Tuesday evening for a short stay in Birmingham, Ala. Mr. J. G. Tyndall, traveling salesman north for Manada & Gray Cigar Manufacturing Co., left last Tuesday for Detroit and intermediate points upon his return. He reports excellent business for the firm that he represents. Messrs. Clark and Waters left Tuesday for “somewhere in Dixie.” They expect to return the latter part of next week. Uncle Sam's boys of the 15th New York, who are guarding the eastern bridges look regularly for Mr. Basset, who supplies them with copies of The Broad Ax. Mr. Basset visits the eastern cities weekly. Mr. George Dunean was in Springfield last week attending the Illinois State Fair. It was very inspiring to the ushers who saw the 28 officers of the first class from DeMoines, Iowa, last Monday noon. They appeared a hardy set of trained youths and were under command of Lieutenant Louis A. Cornish, First Sergeant Walter Cox and J. D. Baker. This first class of officers will be stationed at Newport News and Norfolk, Va. Mr. C. Bailey is visiting relatives and friends in Boston, Mass. Mr. James Robinson left the city Tuesday afternoon for Omaha, Neb. He will return via St. Louis, Mo. Mr. Chester Wilkins, we learn, is rapidly improving in mastering the game of checkers and hopes to soon cope with Mr. Wyatt Edgerton, "the King of Checkers." Mr. O. Cruse left for Grand Rapids last Tuesday on very urgent business. The audience at Bethel Literary was highly pleased with the speeches of Attorneys A. L. Williams and Wm. M. Farmer, last Sunday afternoon. The subject was The Status of the Negro Soldier in the World's Crisis. Attorney Gaines was called upon but refused to speak further as the subject had already been so ably presented by the former speakers. Mr. Spencer Watts now has in his fall and winter stock of uniforms. See him first, boys. PAGE TWO By Juan Wyatte Bell Mrs. C. P. Johnson and C. P., Jr. have returned from their visit in Benton Harbor, Mich. C. P., Jr., enjoyed very much his first country visit. Mr. Frank Wyche has been transferred to 53rd street station. Ushers from the Northwestern and Polk street stations are invited to attend Bethel Literary, Sunday, September 23rd, at 3:30 p. m. Hon. Patrick O'Donald will address the club. Charles G. Rowell and William D. Williams, Two Colored Policemen, are Charged with Grafting by the Hon. State's Attorney of Cook County. The City Hall and some of its grafting politicians are being rushed out into the broad daylight, by the Hon. State's Attorney, and in rounding them up, incidentally caught William D. Williams and Charles G. Rowell, two Colored police officers, in his grafting net. Some way or other officers Rowell and Williams carried on petty grafting in a wholesale manner, as the following plainly shows: **Book of Record.** "A book was taken from Williams," said the Hon. State's Attorney, "in which he kept memoranda of the amount he received each month and which also contained an account of the business done by both himself and partner working together." Mr. Raber said that in addition to getting money from gamblers and professional bondsmen, Williams admitted that they blackmailed at least one rooming house keeper. Rowell denied the grafting charges, except that he admitted taking fees from professional bondsmen. In Williams' book he had a list of names headed "Bondsmen." The names and telephone numbers included, Goodwin, Douglas 8243; Abe Poll, Calumet 3603; Phil Green, 343 W. 47th st., Yards 4809; I. Baskin, Calumet 4947, or Douglas 8936. Lists of Women There were also lists of names of women and addresses believed to be buffet flats, all on the south side of the city. The graft profits of the police partnership as indicated in the book under the heading of "Rowell and Williams" were listed thus: "February, $99; March, $149.50; April, $126; May, $105; June, $173.75; July, $191; August, $238." On another page headed "Williams, Separate" he had listed monthly amounts for the same period which totaled $595.75. "I first made a little shooting craps," Williams told Mr. Raber. "Then I got to working other ways for the coin. We made some money by holding out when we seized money in gambling raids. We'd get $40, say, and only turn over $15 in court like that." Williams told about raiding one rooming house and telling a man to "come across." The man had a $10 gold piece which he wore as a watch-charm. Williams took the charm, but being reasonable in his graft demands, handed the victim back $5 in change. Rowell denied that he had shared in the graft profits detailed by his partner. He told the assistant prosecutor that he had taken money seized in gambling raids when the judge had told him it would be all right. "The case of these two petty police Book of Record Tells of Raid. THE BROAD AX, CHICAGO, SEPTEMBER 22, 1917. Death and Funeral of Dr. Joseph E. Willis Who was the Leading Dentist of New Orleans, La. One of the White School Buildings of That City Against the Protests of the White School Children Transferred Over to the Colored School Children. Special to This Paper. By V. P. Thomas. Julius F. Taylor. New Orleans, La., Sept. 20, 1917. Editor Broad Ax: into the spacious church. people who followed his a living testimony of the in which Dr. Willis was he Dr. Joseph E. Willis, aged 49 years, a graduate of Mehairy Dental College Nashville, Tenn., class of 1899, practicing the profession with marked success at his residence and office, 1815 Dryades street, a home loving man with two children, a young girl and young boy and his second wife and daughter living with him, and a son in the Philipine Islands in the U. S. Army, a brother practicing the same profession in Houston, Texas, suffered a stroke of apoplexy Friday morning, Sept. 7th, at 7 o'clock while taking his usual morning exercise to reduce his weight, became unconscious and remained so until he died Saturday morning, twenty-four hours later. A blood vessel in his head had bursted causing total paralysis of the left side and a blood pressure ranging from 140 to 200. His family physician and close personal friend, Dr. L. T. Burbridge, hastily summoned responded without delay, calling into consultation several other skilful medical men to assist in doing the best the skill could do for a man in the condition of his stricken friend, but the stroke, as Dr. Burbridge believed from the first, was fatal and beyond the reach of medical skill. The surprising and shocking report of what had happened to the generally esteemed and widely known Dryades street dentist was heard with the most genuine regret and sympathy all over the city, and the later announcement of his death was felt to be a great loss to the profession and the race. Dr. Willis was a member of a number of societies among them Olympia Lodge No. 125 Colored Masons, who had charge of the funeral Monday, a Pythian Lodge, the Young Men Mutual, and was a devout member of Central Congregational Church, Rev H. H. Dunn, pastor. Thousands of people viewed his body while it lay in state at his home Saturday, Sunday and Monday and many were the expressions of heart-felt regret and sympathy received by his devoted wife and children. The funeral left the house Monday afternoon at 2:30, went to Central Church where touching tributes were paid to the fine character and life of Dr. Willis by Rev Dunn, the pastor and Rev T. A. Robinson, pastor of First Street M. E. Church as well as inspiring hymns sung by Miss Stauza and Miss Sylvester and by Central's own choir, in the presence of as many people of all classes, callings and professions as could crowd grafters is just an instance of what is going on,' Mr. Hoyne said in commenting upon the confession of Williams. The sad ending of these two Colored policemen should be a warning to others to walk straight in the middle of the road and refrain from all kinds of grafting. WHITE WOMAN ARRESTED IN CONNECTION WITH RACE BIOT Mrs. Alice Taylor, 18 Years Old, Jailed on Charge of Taking Part in East St. Louis Disturbance The first woman arrested in connection with the race riots in East St. Louis July 2, was taken into custody last Saturday on a capias issued following her indictment by the grand jury at Belleville, on a charge of conspiracy and rioting. She was Mrs. Alice Taylor, 18 years old, of 11 South Fourth street. She failed to give bond for $3000 and was taken to jail at Belleville. Many women participated in the riots, especially attacking Negro women and children. Others arrested last night as a result of the indictments returned Saturday, were Joe Braunagel, 17 years old, a newsboy at Missouri and Collinsville avenues, and Peter Majoukas, a grocer, of 500 Ohio avenue. Braunagel was charged with assault to kill and Majoukay with conspiracy and rioting. The choir of the First Baptist church of this city, and the choir of the A. M. E. Church, held a singing contest, here last Friday evening, for a premium of $2.50 in gold. The A. M. E. choir, walked away with the prize and it sang very fine. The church was crowded by the friends of the contestants. P. J. Cook, of this city, has become the hustling representative of The Broad Ax, and from this on, he will have something to say in its columns pertaining to the doings in Clarksdale. into the spacious church. The host of people who followed his remains was a living testimony of the great esteem in which Dr. Willis was held. So were the many beautiful floral designs sent to rest upon his casket. Four Masons, H. E. Braden, Dr. A. Dejoie, Jr., Dr. Ed Vincent, John J. Winston, and two Pythians, Richard Evans and Ed Johnson were active pall bearers. The six honorary pall bearers were Dr. L. T. Burbridge, Dr. Vining, Dr. P. H. Devore, Dr. J. H. Thomas, Dr. L. B. Landry and V. P. Thomas. Representatives of the various societies to which Dr. Willis belonged attended the funeral in delegations. The funeral procession was one of the longest seen here in a long time. The New Orleans board of public school directors changed McDonough No. 13 from a white school to a Colored school. This school building had been for white children 35 years, and when the change was announced the white patrons got together and drew up a petition signed by many of them begging that the school be not taken from the whites for the Colored children and sent a big delegation before the board with it to impress the school authorities with the earnestness of the petitioners. The board called a special meeting to receive the delegation and to hear what they had to say. At this meeting the petitioners argued that it would be dangerous to the life and safety of the white children to cross the tracks of the street cars and railroads to get to the Robert C. Davey and Zachary Taylor schools five blocks, up-town from McDonough, and that the McDonough school was in a white neighborhood. The board heard the argument and adjourned the meeting. At the regular meeting of the board on last Friday night, another big delegation of white patrons, mothers and fathers and children appeared again, this time with a strong (1) protest declaring that they would get out an injunction restraining the board from carrying out the proposed change. The board had prepared an answer showing why the petition would not be granted and disproving the argument of the petitioners, and informed the white patrons that the action of the board in changing McDonough No. 13 from a white to a Colored school would stand. As a Colored school it will be known as McDonough No. 35, instead of McDonough No. 13, and that this school will have a high school department, the only one of the kind ever in the city for Colored people. The Virginia Society Held Its Regular Meeting Wednesday Evening at 3638 8. State Street Wednesday evening the Virginia Society, which is adding new members to its roll each week, held its regular monthly meeting at 3638 S. State street and it was well attended. The writer has been invited to become one of its members, being a thorough bred Virginian. E. J. B. Ellington, is the president of the society; J. W. Moore, secretary; M. F. Bailey, corresponding secretary. THE THEOSOPHICAL SOCIETY On last Sunday two new members were admitted into the branch of the Theosophical Society, which meets at the home of Attorney and Mrs. H. B. Gaines. Several visitors were present and a very interesting discussion was led by Mr. Henry Hammond on Reincarnation. Meetings: first and third Sundays and second and fourth Friday evenings at 7:30 P. M., 5827 Wentworth Avenue. ELIHU BOOT OPPOSES VOTES FOR WOMEN. Utica, N. Y., Sept. 21.—Elihu Root, it is announced, will act as chairman of an anti-suffrage meeting here Monday, and will speak along with Mrs. James W. Wadsworth, Jr., president of the national association opposed to woman suffrage. It seems that the Hon. Elihu Root is in favor of equal rights and freedom for everybody in the world over but the dear, sweet ladies.—Editor. Newspaper Advertising Solicitor Wanted. A live newspaper advertising solicitor; one who knows how to hustle for business wanted. For further information, address the editor of this paper or phone, Wentworth 2597. [Picture of a man in a suit and bow tie]. ATTORNEY PATRICK H. O'DONNELL One of the greatest and most emin States, who will address the Bethel Litera this coming Sunday afternoon. One of the greatest and most eminent Irish-American lawyers in the United States, who will address the Bethel Literary Society at Bethel Church at 3:30 o'clock this coming Sunday afternoon. POLICEMAN HELD FOR ROBBERY A Chicago policeman was held to the grand jury Thursday charged with robbery. He is Patrolman Henry Derrig of the vehicle bureau. Judge Fisher fixed his bail at $1,000. He is accused of holding up Frank Norman, 4929 Forestville avenue, on August 13, at East Thirty-first street and South Michigan avenue, while Norman was riding his motorevle. THE UNIVERSITY SOCIETY Mr. John Felton, chairman of the Program Committee, plans on giving the University Society a complete course in Negro history, together with the special word that it is to be continued by Dr. Edwin Beekwith. Visitors are always welcome, new members are desired. Club rooms, 5300 Wabash Avenue. Meetings second and fourth Sundays, 4 P. M. THE PEERLESS CLUB The Peerless Club met last Tuesday night at the home of Mr. Rob. Ray, 3831 Rhodes Avenue. J. L. Todd, president; W. R. Johnson, secretary. Mr. Bouchan, Mr. Rob. Pearmon, and Mr. Harry Greenlee, of the Peerless Club, are now serving in the 8th regiment. WATSON TO TEST DRAFT IN HIGH COURT. Augusta, Ga., Sept. 21.—Thomas E. Watson, Georgia publisher, is to test the constitutionality of the draft law in the United States Supreme Court, as an outgrowth of habeas corpus proceedings by Watson several weeks ago in behalf of two Negroes. THE PROGRESSIVE NEGEO LEAGUE. On Sunday, October 2, the Progressive Negro League will render an interesting program at the Wabash Avenue Y. M. C. A. Proof of Power of Advertising "Advertising is a great art," said one tradesman to another a day or so ago. "Let me give you an illustration: Who should be the best-known son of Jacob? Reuben, of course. But which do you read of and remember most easily? Why Joseph: because he advertised. He wore a coat of many colors, whilst the rest of the family went about in the ordinary kind—whatever they may have been. So we bear of Joseph and his brethren. Such is the power of advertising." If moths get into the closet, saturate a cloth ten or twelve inches square with formaldehyde; hang cloth in the closet and close up tightly for twelve hours. The same plan may be used in chests, trunks or boxes, where clothing is stored. The fumes will kill moths as well as their eggs; also germs of any kind. No odor is left in the clothing. Weather Has Made History. All through history, from classic times down to the present, the intervention of the weather has turned the tide of wars. No wonder that commanders, kings and nations used to pray for favorable weather when their fortunes were at stake. There was a time, both in pagan days and later under the Christian cycle, that no army went into battle without offering devout supplications for a fair day or a foul, as best suited their alms. Death to Moths INENT Irish-American lawyers in the United vary Society at Bethel Church at 3:30 o'clock CHIPS. Mrs. Jennie Fox, of St. Louis, Mo. is in the city and she will spend two or three weeks in visiting with Mrs. M. Swift Jordan, 3829 South State street. Mr. and Mrs. S. W. Green, who have been visiting in California since the meeting of the Supreme Lodge Knights of Pythias at St. Louis, Mo., arrived in the city last evening and they are the guests of Mr. and Mrs. S. A. T. Watkins, 3332 Calumet avenue. This coming Sunday evening they will depart for their home, New Orleans, La. Thursday evening a largely attended Mock Congress was held at Bethel church, and house bill No. 999 was up for discussion for adoption in favor of National Prohibition in the midst of much confusion on the part of those who joined in the discussion, it was put on its final passage. Mrs. A. T. Owens and Mrs. A. V. Musgrove were the moving spirits of the affair, which proved a financial success. Mrs. L. Buekner, who has been absent from Chicago touring the west for the past five or six years, is back again on her old stamping ground and will remain here visiting with friends until about October 15th, then she will start on her second tour through that section of the country. Mrs. Buekner is stopping at the home of Mrs. Henrietta Wilson, 3533 South Wabash avenue. She is holding her own and looking exceedingly well. "Belshazzar" was rendered Tuesday evening in costume, dramatize cantata in five acts at the Abraham Lincoln Center. Among the leading characters in the play which stood out more prominently than the others, was Nitroceris Queen Regent, who was portrayed in a most efficient manner by Mrs. Martha B. Anderson, who looked like a real queen. The singing and the character rendering on the part of the others who participated in it was of a high order and rebected much credit on each and every one of them. Man and His Weight Between forty and fifty a man who allows his weight to remain high is running more danger of an early demise than he would run if he contracted typhoid fever. What is more, if he were stricken with that disease, his chance would be 10 per cent less than normal. A man who is thinner than the average, on the other hand, has less danger of dying in the decade than a man who tips the scales at the normal figure. Extend Helping Hand Many of the world's failures would have been splendid successes, if, in their struggling stage, some one had reached out a helping hand to them—had spurred them on when the bitterness of disappointment crushed them. There is, indeed, a moral here. The woman isn't living who cannot do some bit of good. Then let her lose no time in doing it—in offering the word of hope or encouragement which is the greatest stimulus the world ever knew. What He Wanted to Find Out At a certain wedding the happy pair were about to retire, when the younger brother of the bride struck his glass with a knife and said: "Ladies and gentlemen, as the young couple are about to leave us, I will cut my remarks short. I invite each and all of you to take up your glasses, rise to your feet, and—see if one of you has not been sitting on my new hat!" CHIPS. 一 H. H. H. HON. HUGO PAM One of the popular and straightforward judges of the Superior Court, who will be re-elected at the judicial election in November and continue to serve the people in that capacity. Some country folk call the kingbird the bee martin, because he occasionally in his insect-catching life snaps up a bee. The kingbird loves the orchard. There, while his mate is covering the eggs, he takes to a tree top to look over the landscape and the skyscape. When a hawk or a crow comes in sight the kingbird is off for a battle in which he does all the fighting. Occasionally, he takes a ride on the enemy's back for a yard or so, pecking his hardest to make his victim exceed the speed limit. As the thumbs of a dying person fold beneath the fingers, so the handwriting begins to disintegrate when the intellectual faculties and physical vigor are on the wane. Observations of this kind are possible for there is an outward sign for each separate nerve degeneration. The user of drugs and stimulants can be easily discovered, for each of these positions has its particular quiver or irregularity.-Industrial Management. Famous Family of Preachers. Famous Family of Preachers. Rev. Lyman Beecher, sometimes referred to as "founder of the Beecher family," had seven sons who were preachers. Beginning with the oldest, they were: William Henry Beecher, born in 1802; Edward Beecher, born in 1803; George Beecher, born in 1809; Henry Ward Beecher, born in 1813; Charles Beecher, born in 1815; Thomas K. Beecher, born in 1824, and James C. Beecher, born in 1828. Common Sense Legal Decision. A recent English decision holds that in view of the known propensity of young, unbroken colts when startled to rush about and to kick, it is negligence to conduct such a colt along the highway at night by leading a mare which it was accustomed to follow, without securing it in any way, so as to render its owner liable where the colt, being startled by the light on a bicycle coming from the opposite direction, suddenly ran across the road and collided with and injured the collist. The meaning of the rite of "breaking the bottle" at the launching of ships was originally nothing short of sacrifice. Building a town or launching a ship were solemn matters to our forefathers, not to be done without devoting a life to propitiate the gods. Our timid civilization no longer dares to sacrifice a slave or a prisoner on such occasions, and therefore we break the bottle, signifying the taking of a man's life. If this world affords true happiness, it is to be found in a home where love and confidence increase with yearn, where the necessities of life come without severe strain, where luxuries enter only after their cost has been carefully considered. We are told that wealth is a test of character—few of us have to submit to it. Poverty is the more usual test. It is difficult to be very poor and maintain one's self-respect. A. Edward Newton in the Atlantic. Door Comparatively Modern. Who invented the door no one knows. It is, however, an invention of comparatively modern times. All the ancient houses, even the houses containing doorways, had no doors. Fabrics or skins of animals were hung across the doorways to keep out the elements. Kingbird a Hard Fighter. Significant Shakes Replace Human Sacrifice Real Happiness It is said that Gen. Hugh S. Scott is one of the world's greatest experts in sign language, and that without any fighting he has settled more disputes with Indians than any other man in history. Most of them were settled, too, without a spoken word, just by signs and gestures. General Scott speaks practically every North American Indian dialect, besides being familiar with the primitive languages of other lands. Instruments of Precision. Accuracy is one of the most necessary qualifications of the present-day business girl—or so it would appear from the following conversation overheard the other day in the park: "So I answered the phone, and he said, 'Is Mr. X—— there?' and I said, 'Yes, do you want to see him?' and then what do you think he said? He said, 'My dear girl, this is not a telescope; this is a telephone.'"—Manchester Guardian. 'Tis a strange thing whin we come to think iv it that th' less money a man gets f'r his wurruk th' more necessary it is to th' wurruld that he shud go on wurrukin'. Ye'er boss can go to Paris on a combination wedding an' divorce trip an' no wan bothers his head about him. But if ye shud go to Paris—excuse me f'r laughin' meslif black in th' face—th' industriests iv th' country pines away."—Exchange. The oldest investment the world knows is the real estate mortgage. Twenty-one hundred years before Christ, in ancient Babylon, money was loaned on mortgages. These mortgages were recorded on bricks and preserved in great earthenware jars that were sunk in the earth. They were dug up after they had reposed there 3,300 years, mute evidence of this most ancient form of investment. It used to be told of the early explorers of the Mississippi that, after entering the delta, they never knew how they got inside, and that, after passing through it to the gulf, they never knew how they got outside. It was many years before the navigators fixed upon landmarks which enabled them to steer in anything like a straight course. Explain Corn's Fruitfulness. Many plant students are led to wonder how earn of corn become so well pollenated that no vacancies occur among the kernels, for the fassels are so far above the silks and winds blow freely throughout the fields. But close observation has shown that there are 7,000 pollen grains to every ovule, and only one is necessary. Being firm friends, Marie's two lovers decided that one must end his courtship to help the other. When Axel suggested "head or tails" no coin was at hand. He agreed to the use of Sandy's pocket knife, but was ill prepared for his friend's words as the knife shot upward: "If the knife stays up you win!" Theodore had learned from his playmates that the Murphy family had ten children, each being two years older than the one before, "You know the Murphies; well they got ten children. Each kid's two years older than each other; they go by ages." Sign Languages Philosopher Dooley. Old Form of Investment Explorers Simply Graped. Fine Chance for Axel. Lucid Explanation. THE BROAD AX, CHICAGO, SEPTEMBER 22, 1917. Charles E. Stump, the Rambling Newspaper Correspondent, Jumps from Attending the National Baptist Convention at Muskogee, Oklahoma, to Atlantic City, New Jersey. Atlantic City, N. J.—Of course you know the National Baptist convention is over and the next session will be held in Newark, N. J. It was the greatest session in the history of the organization, and there were so many people there that I could not count them. I did not know that it was possible to get so many people together. One convention this time of the year, but it has happened, and I am glad that I was a part of it. People were in Muskogee from twenty-six states and all deserve the kind words. Rev. E. Arlington Wilson and his committee did do things up in great shape, and it was because they knew how. You see Dr. Wilson has been attending National Baptist conventions for years, and he knows just what is required to entertain one and what was required he had it and delivered it to the people and don't you forget it. It was interesting to see the Governor of Oklahoma make a speech and he made one too, believe me. He declared that he was governor of all the people, and that he would not bar none of them. He was a man who was governor of all the people, and told the convention that he was a southern born white man, and that his birthplace was within one hundred miles of the Gulf of Mexico in Alabama. The Mayor of the city told the convention how welcome it was as well as other people. I am not going to tell you about all the things in detail which took place there, for it would be out of the question for me to attempt to do this for it would just take a whole paper. Dr. E. C. Morris was re-elected president, but it was not in the same old way. The committee reported, and he was elected, hence it was considered a fair election. It was the first time in years that the rule has not been suspended and he elected by that manner. He got the same vote, and is considered a safe leader. Rev. W. G. Parks, of Philadelphia, was made the vice-president at large, and Prof. R. B. Hudson was chosen secretary for another year. He has made a good, efficient secretary, but just behind the gun is to be found Dr. T. O. Fuller. That is the man you don't hear of, and he deserves some mention. Of course you know Prof. R. B. Hudson, for he has been a good and efficient secretary of the convention for a few years, and he will be able to hold the position a few years more if he so desires, for he has reached the hearts of his people, because of his ability and worth to the denomination. You know he must be first-class when that big convention elects him secretary year after year without any opposition. Next to him comes Prof. M. M. Rodgers, who is another prominent layman, and the man who believes in doing things. He has been a great asset to the National Baptist convention in the position of auditor, and I praise him. He is a man among men. I cannot afford to forget another great man in the convention, and that is Rev. L. K. Williams, pastor of the Olivet Baptist church in Chicago. Perhaps no man has done more to put the convention on the map and to educate the people upon the affairs than Dr. Williams. He has made a study of the working of the convention, and knows all the letters in it. He knows all about Publishing House, Publishing Plant, and everything else. He went all over the country before the meeting telling the people about it, and got them interested to the extent they declared that they go there regardless of cost. Rev. L. K. Williams is a born leader of men, and a great organizer. I remember his great work in Texas as president of the General Missionary and Educational convention, and remained in that place until he accepted a position in Chicago. He is just going right on attending to his business and helping to teach the truth about the convention. He was chairman of the committee and Rev. L. A. Thomas, another great man, is secretary, and those two men worked together like a clock. They carried some people with them out of Chicago, and all of Illinois. It was to me a source of pleasure to touch them. Getting around and meeting all those big men, it would be well for me to say that I enjoyed my stay in the city very much, and I am indebted to Rev. and Mrs. G. P. Sims. Dr. Sims is pastor of the A. M. E. church, and president of the church. He is going to do a great big work there in that part of the world. I left the city in the Chicago special, in a bed car. I went to bed and did get some sleep cut of it. To me it was a source of pleasure, and I was proud to be there. We changed in Pleasant Hill and I made it to Kansas City, then to Chicago and from there on over the C. & O. out of Chicago to Cincinnati, and from Cincinnati to Washington, D. C. It was a fine ride to Washington over that line, and getting in town I went to the home of Dr. L. G. Jernagin, where I had breakfast with his family and Dr. C. A. Buchanan, of Oklahoma. I was delighted to touch these people. After breakfast in the automobile of Hon. S. J. Davidson, I went down to the food administration building, and met Prof. A. U. Craig. Prof. Craig is a member of the faculty of the high school and a great member at that. He had been trying to get hold of me for several weeks, and when he saw me he shook my lily black hands and informed me that Hon. Herbert Hoover had appointed me at the head of the Publicity Bureau in the Department of Food Administration, and carried me up and showed me a room with a great big desk in it, and a telephone sitting on it, and told me that it was my office. I could hardly believe my own eyes. Well I did not know what to do, but I was informed that there was no such thing as no; that I had been selected and would have to serve. I went around with him and got acquainted with many others, and then I turned my attention to leaving town, coming to this place. I spent a night with Dr. J. L. Gordon, and next morning delivered me in Atlantic City, and I shall have something to tell you another time. We must win this war, and if it is won now I will have a hand in it, if I only serve one day, but I think I will put in a little more time than that. You see it is up to us to help to feed the allies as well as feed our own soldiers, and we are to teach our people how to save food. They must not cost so much to live in the future, and must not use extravagantly certain foods. Now as to the kind, we shall bring it to their notice from time to time. All the weekly papers as well as the daily papers of America are called upon to assist in this great work, and I believe they are going to do it. We are true Americans, and we have ever been ready and willing to die for our country and we are going to continue to do this as long as there are any of us left to die. America first and last, and America we are going to serve. There is no need of anybody sending out any reports about Negroes going to join Germany or Germany for these are the things we are not in favor of America first, last and all the time for us. I was told by Prof. John Hope, of Atlanta, president of Morehouse college, to serve the Government in any way possible, and he says that every Negro called upon to serve should do it even if done at a sacrifice. Good for him, and for my people. I wish that I had the time to tell you more. Look out for me in my next. Trees in Shakespeare Gardens. "Shakespeare" gardens should contain only such plants as are mentioned in Shakespeare's works. These range from apricot trees (apricock) down to the lowly pansy, with columbine, crocus and rue. It should be nearly square, formal in design, with a sundial and a place in center with rough stone flagging.—Los Angeles Times. Virginia's View. Virginia, aged four, is extremely fond of peanuts. She has an ambition to eat a sackful of them. Her mother told her it would kill her to eat so many. The other day Virginia's grandfather asked her what she would do if he should die. Virginia was very thoughtful for a moment and then said tearfully, "Td eat a sack of peanuts and die, too." Unusual Celebration Billy was six months old, and in honor of the event his father purchased a fine new high chair for him. Little Sarah, who lived next door, was much exited over the new possession and brought her mother in to see it, saying: "Oh, mother, look at the new high chair Billy's father bought him for his half a birthday." Araba Eat Cucumber Bind. The cucumber is grown in great quantities in Palestine. A traveler visiting an Arab school in Jerusalem writes that the dinner the children brought with them to school "consisted of a piece of barley cake and a raw cucumber, which they ate, rind and all." Convinced. "I don't know," muttered Rivers, picking himself up from the pavement and moving on with a perceptible limp, "whether there is any such thing as a bicycle face or not, but I am thoroughly convinced of the existence of the phenomenon known as the banana skin." Daily Thought Neither let mistakes nor wrong dissections, of which every man, in his studies and elsewhere, falls into many, discourage you. There is predois instruction to be got by finding we were wrong. Let a man try faithfully, manfully to be right; he will grow dally more and more right—Carlyle. [Picture of a man in a suit with a white shirt and a black tie]. INFANTILE PARALYSIS. Infantile paralysis is an acute infectious disease, produced by a definite and specific germ or virus. It is known to the medical fraternity as acute anterior poliomyelitis because it attacks principally the anterior horns of the spinal cord and because it is acute. The brain is also affected. It occurs sometimes in epidemic form. It attacks children principally, but adults are often affected. The tendency of the disease is toward recovery, but it often proves to be fatal. When it is fatal it is because those portions of the brain and spinal cord that controls breathing and heart action are affected. There are remarkable abortive forms which present symptoms such as headache, twitching of the limbs, vomiting, transient fever without the subsequent paralysis. There are a few cases with coma, convulsions, rigidity without local paralysis. In the majority of cases of the sporadic there is merely a slight indisposition and fever is noticed or probably the first indication of trouble is the twitching of a limb an arm or a leg. One or both arms may be affected, one arm and one leg or both legs. Fever is usually present. Convulsions may usher in the trouble, but that is rare. Pain is often complained of in the early stages. The pain may be localized in the back or between the shoulders. Pressure on the paralyzed limbs may be painful. The paralysis comes on suddenly and usually reaches its full development in a day or a night. In the arms the paralysis is rarely complete. Unkind Comment The death recently took place in Ireland of a well-known singer who had a massive physique. This was rather a drawback in the case of certain sentimental songs which were hardly applicable to his girth. One night, when in Dublin, he gave as an encore, the well-known Irish song, "I'm sitting by the stile, Mary, where we sat side by side." An irreverent person in the gallery exclaimed: "Ah, shure, there wouldn't be room for the two of yez now." Little Things That Count. The sunshine of life is made up of very little beams that are bright all the time. To give up something, when giving up will prevent unhappiness; to yield, when persisting will chafe and fret others; to go a little around rather than come against another; to take an ill look or a cross word quietly, rather than resent or return it these are the ways in which clouds and storms are kept off and a pleasant and steady sunshine secured. Fuel Value of Woods Hickory, oak, beech, birch, hard maple, ash, elm, locust, long-leaf pine and cherry have fairly high heat values, and only one cord of seasoned wood of those species is required to equal one ton of coal. Hickory, of the nonresinous woods, has the highest fuel value per unit volume of wood, and has other advantages. It burns evenly and, as housewives say, holds the heat. The oak comes next, followed by beech, birch and manle. Cancer Not Hereditary According to the latest statistics of six large life insurance companies, compiled by an expert actuary for the American Society for the Control of Cancer, if one or even both of an individual's parents have died of cancer, that individual is no more likely than anyone else to die of the same disease. It begins to look as though cancer were not hereditary at all, contrary to ancient belief. - Philadelphia Had First Magazine. The city that gave birth to the magazine is not the city from which now come the greater number of our standard and popular periodicals. Philadelphia, not New York, was the first literary center of the New World; for although Boston produced the first newspaper, in the fourth year of the eighteenth century, Penn's city was next, and in the magazine field it was first. Sanitary Individual Spoon Among the latest sanitary appliances for public eating places is a spoon pressed from paper that can be thrown away after using. Might Try It. AnyHow might try it. Anyhow. A worn out typewriter ribbon throw into a quart of distilled or rain water will yield a fine writting fluid. Talks on Health Cleanliness Proper Living Sanitation, Etc. BY Dr. W. A. Driver 3300 So. State St. Phone Douglas 3617 Complete recovery from the paralysis is rare. When the paralysis persists the wasting of the muscles is extreme. Even the growth of the bones of the affected limb is retarded or arrested. The joints may be relaxed. Paralysis is often the first sign. Since the outlook for complete recovery is bad, prevention becomes a bigger factor for those who are free from the disease. The prevention of the disease may be accomplished by general sanitary means. Cleanliness of a general character is the biggest factor here in prevention. Recovery is a spontaneous process which can be greatly assisted by proper medical care. Recovery is accomplished by a process of immunization which takes place during the acute stage of the disease, and by the gradual restoration of the affected muscles by proper treatment. The public is best protected by the discovery and isolation of those who are ill of the disease. Those who have associated with the sick should be under sanitary control. The virus leaves the body in the secretions of the nose and throat and in the intestinal discharges. The spreaders of the infection include persons ill of infantile paralysis and contacts. Kissing, spitting, sneezing and coughing are the means by which the virus is spread. Avoid people who carelessly perform those acts, whether they manifest paralysis or other symptoms. Healthy persons may act as carriers of the disease. If your child has a slight indisposition or fever better be on the safe side and call your physician. Death often takes place in the acute stage before there is any paralysis. His Faith Vindicated. Maramatsu San, a converted ex-convict and manager of a home for discharged prisoners at Kobe, recently needed to make a trip to Tokyo, but had only 35 cents toward his fare. With faith in God, he nevertheless started for the station. One train departed without him, but when time for the next arrived, it brought a missionary who, greeting Mr. Maramatsu, said to him: "By the way, I have been intending for some time to hand you this $5 for your work." Mr. Maramatsu's faith was vindicated. Put Outside the Law The strangest punishment which still survives in Great Britain under modern law is that of "outlawry." About ten years ago a lawyer charged with forging a check was "outlawed" in the Glasgow high court. By this sentence the person of the accused is declared forfeit. He cannot bear testimony in a court, nor sue, nor defend an action. He cannot act on a jury, nor vote at an election, nor act as tutor or guardian to another person. If anyone robs him he has no redress. Voice of Envy. "Did I understand you to say that Mr. Grabboin has more money than he knows what to do with?" "No. That is merely the point of life held by some of Mr. Grabboin's neighbors who think they could enjoy life a great deal more than he does, if they only had his money."—New Haven Journal. Left Virginia Something Baby Jim had found Virginia's candy sack and had appropriated the contents. Later he confessed his sin and tried to impress the listener with the idea that, bad as the case was, it might have been worse. "I ate all of Virginia's candy," said he, "but I left the bag for her to pop." Business Proposition A little lad came in the grocery store for a five-cent head of lettuce. The clerk was removing the withered leaves and told the boy they cost ten cents, whereupon he remarked, "Can't you take off a few leaves and make it five cents?" BIG BARGAIN IN REAL ESTATE. For a big bargain in real estate, inspect 302 W. 29th St. Rent $480 per year. Price, $2,300; $500 cash, balance time. S. Yondorf & Co., 137 N. Dearborn St. Phone Majestic 7238. WANTED A high-class, live-wire tailoring salesman; a good proposition to right party. References required... EM-AY-BEE TAILORING CO. 184 Washington Street CHICAGO PAGE FOUR In this city since July 15th, 1899, without missing one single issue, Republicans, Democrats, Catholics, Protestants, Single Taxers, Priests, infidels or any one 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, ever 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 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. STYLE CHAT. It Is Even Said That Cashmere is Coming In Again. One of the popular models is built up in beige, broadcloth and satin, the long redingote, whose skirt is fulled to the body of the coat around the waist line, being of the broadcloth trimmed in self color braid, while the skirt and waistcoat are of satin of the same color. Braid is the natural trimming for a redingote model, but it is by no means limited to this type of model—is, indeed, one of the trimmings most insistently exploited this season. Possibly the liking for military ideas accounts for its sudden popularity, but it is not confined to the discreet military notes in fashions and is used in many forms, ranging in width from wide hercules to finest sutache, running through all weaves of silk and metal and used upon all kinds of material from net to fur. It enters well into the scheme of the blue serge frock, which is, as always, in great demand for the early autumn. One model shows a blue serge skirt marked off over its entire surface into big blocks by narrow, flat black silk braid. Other models are trimmed in many straight bands or in soutache embroidery or in military lines upon contrasting color. A clever little blue cashmere frock has fat two inch silk braid plaid in dark blue, green, white and yellow to relieve its sorbness. And, by the way, one hears more about cashmere than usual. It has been a staple ever since we can remember and particularly in demand for mourning and for old ladies' frocks, but in this day of wool fabric scarcity all good woolen stuffs find their opportunity, and several good houses are sponsoring models of wool cashmere in both light and dark tones. The cloth is fine of finish, light and supple, so it really has much to recommend it, and though, like all woolens, it has risen in price, it is not so very expensive even now. Broadcloth, too, never entirely out of favor, but not during recent years in the front rank of things modish, is to be much used. The velours or suede finish woolen stuffs are the height of the mode, but in their handsome grades they are high of price, so the thrifty must needs turn to other wool stuffs or to silks. Small quantities of the handsome velvet suede cloth and its kin are frequently used for trimming the dark surge rock, the warm reds being especially liked for such use, though beige and gray and leather and green and old medium blues and purples are used too. Raisin Bread. Sift four cupfuls of four into a basin with four teaspoonfuls of baking powder, add one cupful of raisins, one teaspoonful of salt, one-half cupful of sugar, one teaspoonful grated nutmeg, one well beaten egg and two cupfuls of milk. Mix well, turn into a well greased bread pan and allow to rise for fifteen minutes. Bake in a moderate oven for one hour. The Canning Kitchen. There is a place of savory grace, Most scrupulously clean, Where every pot's without a spot, And sterilized each bean, Where system rules the very tools, And every cook's a queen! There day by day the gold and gray. From hovel and estate, Bring garden truck to their luck Before it is too late. For Hoover claims that frugal dames Can seal a nation's fate! Oh, you may knit and do your bit, Or you may cut and sew, Or you may strive a car to drive Or wield a spade and hoe. But there's a thrill when jars you fill None but preservers know! For there is joy without alloy In saving every beet. To put up jam for Uncle Sam In solemn work—and sweet! And stripes and stars with rows of jars May keep us from defeat! —Anne P. L. Field of the Vigilanten Poor Baby! Little man, aged five, talking to baby brother in the cradle said: "You poor little thing, you hasn't got no indulge, only imma, and she works so hard." . New Suits Are Sure to Be Military Somehow. A UP TO DATE Dove gray broadcloth adapts itself well to this model of interesting shirred pockets, so dressy as well as useful. Fulness at the waist is confined by three small buttons, a larger size being featured on the front and pocket lids. WARTIME MOURNING. Plea That It Be Dropped to Ease Depression and Cost of Fabric. The developments in France must bring home to every citizen of this country the approach of the days when Americans will scan the casualty lists with a sinking of the heart. The present, therefore, is a fitting time for Americans to consider what action they will take when the news, terribly sad yet not unrelieved by pride, shall come to them of the fact that one who is near and dear has offered on the altar of his country the supreme sacrifice. In ordinary times it is our right and custom to make known our bereavement to the world by a change of costume. Heretofore we have put off the gay habiliments of ordinary wear and have put on those signs of mourning that, as we have believed, show respect for the loved ones we have lost. But while we are at war, why, it may well be asked, should we take any action that will tend to depress our neighbors, deter others from making the sacrifice we have made, discourage new additions to the depleted ranks of democracy's defenders and give aid and comfort to its enemies—including our own misguided citizens who are secret allies of the government with which we are at war? We cannot win the war by wearing crape. Instead of spreading depression, creating discouragement, it is our duty to maintain a high heart, to vitalize the fighting spirit, to do all that lies in our power to keep our country in trim for the further efforts and trials that it must face before final victory. Holding these views, yet with sincerest sympathy for those who may be bereaved, we recommend the starting of a movement throughout this country for the discarding of mourning throughout the period of our participation in the war. The present shortage of fabrics is equaled only by the shortage of raw materials entering into the manufacture of textiles. This shortage will increase as the war continues. The adoption of mourning by a large number of our people would entail the discarding of great quantities of clothing which otherwise might have been worn for a considerable period. True, some of these castoffs might be given to the poor or to charitable organizations. But the probability is that the greater proportion of them would be put away in some closet, to become moth eaten and forgotten. The result of the new purchases would be to increase the already serious shortage of material and to further raise the prices of clothing, which, as it is, promise to soar still higher in the near future. We by no means urge the indiscriminate wearing of bright or showy colors. Neutral or shoft shades would naturally be more appropriate. Some suitable device also might be worn upon the sleeve. But for "the customary suits of solemn black" there should be no place under war conditions.—Dry Goods Economist Glazed Turnip. Select small, tender turnips of uniform size, removing the skins, but not peeling too closely, because they must not break when boiled. Place butter in a frying pan large enough to hold all the turnips and when melted add the turnips. Then sprinkle with sugar and season with salt. Set on the back of the stove, where they can simmer gently for an hour. When nearly done and tender all through add a tablespoonful of flour mixed with water and blended well. Then set in the oven with paper on top and let stand for about half an hour and serve with beef. THE BROAD AX, CHICAGO, SEPTEMBER 22, 1917. FREE STYLE BOOK HAIR To Colored Women We are the largest manufacturers of Colored Women's Hair. Our latest book showing new styles in hair dressing sent free. Every colored woman should wear one. We sell thousands our hair and toilet articles. Satifide Now guaranteed or money guaranteed. We make the best solid Brass STRAIGHT-guaranteed. With each comb give lamp cap FREE. Send money order or stamps. MONEY BACK IF NOT SATISFACTORY. $8c. postpaid. POSTPAID $8c Hair nets, brushes, combs and toilet articles manufacturer' prices. Send two-cent stamp. Agenta Wanted. Address as follows: HUMANIA HAIR COMPANY. 181-187 Park Row, New York City. Address Dept. 49. A Water Heater Bargain The price must goup at least 35%—$7 or more—when the present stock is sold. Until then— $20 Only $3 Down and $1 a Month For this stand- ard Lion No.1 gas fired water heater: Simple, quick, efficient, economical. Order yours TODAY. The Peoples Gas Light & Coke Co. Peoples Gas Building Phone Wabash 6000 She Wanted to Know. Food economists who delight in telling the American people what excellent dishes they can make out of odds and ends usually thrown into the garbage can remind us of the London society woman who went down into the slum districts teaching the poor folk how to make nice soups and stews out of bones and meat scraps so often thrown to the dogs. The coaster women listened patiently for a long time, but at last up jumped Sal Grogan—or was it Mrs. 'Enery 'Awkins'?—and said: "Now, look 'ere, ldy, hit's mighty nice o' yer to come down 'ere and tell us wot ter do with old bones and little bits o' cat's meat, but wot I wants-to know is wot becomes o' the rest o' the animal. Who the ole boy gets that, and why should they?"—San Francisco Chronicle. Germany's Great Composers. Germany's great Composers. It is a significant evidence of the existence of two Germans, says a recent writer, that not one of the great German composers was a Prussian. Bach was a Thuringian, Handel a Saxon, Gluck a Bavarian, Mosart a Bavarian, Haydn an Austrian citizen, probably a Croat; Beethoven was born in Bonn of Flemish descent on his father's side; Weber, although born in Holstein, was an Austrian; Schubert was an Austrian; Schumann a Saxon; Mendelssohn was a Jew, born in Hamburg; Wagner was a Saxon; Brahms was born in Hamburg. The same general statement is true of the chief German poets. Mme. Schumann-Helnk was born in Bohemia, although of German descent. Richard Strauss is a Bavarian. Familiar. A woman and her four-year-old son were on a visit to her brother-in-law in London. One morning at the breakfast table the uncle said to the boy, "Here, Teddy, is something you don't see in Lancashire!" at the same time placing some small balls of butter in front of him. "Don't us, though!" said the boy. "There are three balls of butter hanging outside the shop where mother takes our clothes every Monday morning! Ain't there, mother?" — London Globe. Cut Out Useless Complaints The time wasted in complaining because the job is hard would often be more than sufficient to put that job on the list of "has been." Why Not Find Out? Every time a young man sees a pretty girl purse her lips he wonders if there is anything in the purse for him. Boston Transcript. Residence, 1262 Macalister Place Telephone Monroe 2714 MILES J. DEVINE Attorney at Law Suite 313-329 Reaper Block Clark and Washington Sts. Phones, Central 229; Auto. 41-916 CHICAGO PHONE MAIN 2214 A. D. GASH Attorney at Law 118 North La Salle Street Suite 615 to 616 CHICAGO RESIDENCE, 5548 JEFFERSON AVE. Phone Midway 5515 A. L. WILLAMS Attorney and Counselor at Law Phone Main 2017 Automatic 32-395 Suite 706 Firmenick Building 184 W. Washington St. CHICAGO RESIDENCE: 508 E. 36th STREET PHONE DOUGLAS 4397 J. Gray Lucas Attorney at Law Suite 815 Hartford Bldg. 8 S. 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"I would agree," he wrote, "that Gladstone was the author of my works for a good ten ton schooner and the coins to keep it on. I know a little about fame now; it's no good compared to a yacht." The Work Cure. There is no remedy for trouble equal to hard work—labor that will tire you physically to such an extent that you must sleep. If you have met with losses you do not want to lie awake and think about them. You want sleep, and to eat your meals with an appetite; but you cannot, unless you work. Chicago, Ill. CHICAGO DOUGLAS 5971 Phone DOUGLAS 3256 AUTO. 72-379 CHICAGO