The Broad Ax

BROAD AX A Splendid Joke on Mayor William Hale Thompson and Superintendent of Police, Herman F. Schuettler, Who Have Been Loudly Declaring from Time to Time, That There Is No Gambling in Chicago. The Hon. Edward H. Wright, Whose Duty It Is as Assistant Corporation Counsel, to See to It That the Laws Are Enforced Against Gambling TRAMPLED ALL OF THE LAWS PERTAINING THERETO UNDER HIS FEET AND, AFTER BEING APPREHENDED IN A STUD-POKER GAME, HE PLEADED GUILTY AND PAID ONE DOLLAR FINE AND COSTS, THEREBY LETTING THE WORLD KNOW THAT HE HAS NO SCRUPLES WHEN IT COMES TO RISKING HIS MONEY AT THE GAMING TABLE. THE TEN MILLION COLORED PEOPLE IN THIS COUNTRY CAN NEVER MAKE ANY MATERIAL OR SUBSTANTIAL PROGRESS AS LONG AS THEY LACK THE MORAL COURAGE TO BITTERLY PROTEST AGAINST PERMITTING THE UNDESIRABLE OR THE SPORTING OR THE GAMBLING ELEMENT TO REPRESENT THEM IN HIGH AND HONORED PLACES. AS LONG AS THEY CONTINUE TO DO SO, WITHOUT A MANLY PROTEST ON THEIR PART, THE WHITES WILL NOT FAIL TO ASSUME THE POSITION THAT THERE IS NO DIFFERENCE BETWEEN COLORED PEOPLE; THAT ONE COLORED MAN IS GOOD AS ANOTHER; THAT COLORED BOOTBLACKS AND THOSE ADDICTED TO GAMBLING ARE JUST AS CAPABLE IN EVERY WAY OF REPRESENTING THE RACE ON ALL OCCASIONS AS THE MOST HIGHLY EDUCATED DOCTORS, LAWYERS AND PRESIDENTS OF THE GREAT COLORED EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS THROUGHOUT THE UNITED STATES. THE GREATEST WEEKLY NEWSPAPER IN THE WORLD, WITH ITS MORE THAN ONE THOUSAND REPORTERS, WHO ARE AT EVERY PLACE AT THE SAME TIME, FAILED TO SHOW UP WHEN THE POLICE GRABBED THE BIG COLORED ASSISTANT CORPORATION COUNSEL OF CHICAGO. Vol. XXIII A Splendid Superior Have There Wright sel, to Gamb TRAMPLED ALL OF THE LAWS FEET AND, AFTER BEING APPLIED HE PLEADED GUILTY AND PATTERBY LETTING THE WORK PLES WHEN IT COMES TO RIS TABLE. THE TEN MILLION COLORED PEOPLE MAKE ANY MATERIAL OR SUPPLEMENT THEY LACK THE MORAL OR AGAINST PERMITTING THE USE OF THE GAMBLING ELEMENT TO HONORED PLACES. AS LONG AS THEY CONTINUE THE TEST ON THEIR PART, THE WORK THE POSITION THAT THERE ORED PEOPLE; THAT ONE COLORED BOOTBLACKS, BLING ARE JUST AS CAPABLE IN THE RACE ON ALL OCCUPATIONS, EDUCATED DOCTORS, LAWYERS, COLORED EDUCATIONAL IN UNITED STATES. THE GREATEST WEEKLY NEWS MORE THAN ONE THOUSAND PLACE AT THE SAME TIME, POLICE GRABBED THE BIG COUNSEL OF CHICAGO. Edward H. Wright, the self-confessed law-defying stud poker player of Chicago, who boastingly claims that all the Colored people residing in this city must dance to his stud poker playing music if they desire to stand ace high with the present high political lights who are holding forth in the City Hall, has very successfully put one over on Mayor William Hale Thompson and the Hon. Herman F. Schuettler, superintendent of police, who have been proclaiming in very loud noises through the columns of the newspapers to the effect that "there is no gambling in Chicago." There is not the slightest doubt but what they honestly thought that they were both stating that which was true, but Edward H. Wright, who represents all the Colored people residing in this city by reason of the fact that he is holding down the best, the highest and the most prominent position so far accorded to any Colored man in this city, very brazenly and in no shame-faced manner let them and the world know that Mayor Thompson and Hon. Herman F. Schuettler were both simply talking through the tops of their very wise heads or hats when they declared that "there is no gambling in Chicago," and to prove to them that there is plenty of gambling in this city Edward H. Wright, whose sworn duty it is as assistant corporation counsel to see to it that the laws are enforced against all kinds of gambling, went forth himself and with plenty of money at his command engaged in an all night stud poker game and late on Sunday morning he was arrested, marched off to the Stanton Avenue Police Station where he was released on ten hundred dollar bonds, at the same time being charged with gambling, thereby amply proving that there is plenty of gambling in this city right now. On last Friday morning Edward H. Wright, passing under the name of Louis Johnson or J. Williams, Col. William Randolph Colman and the other.big gamblers caught in the gambling raid at the home of Mrs. Lawrence Black, 3454 Indiana avenue, who is a mighty warm and close friend of Edward H. Wright, pleaded guilty in Judge John R. Caverley's Court in the City Hall and each of them paid one dollar and costs, except Mrs. Black, who was charged with conducting a disorderly flat or house for permitting Edward H. Wright and his gambling friends to gamble in it. She demanded a jury trial which will come up in the courts in the near future. Edward H. Wright was in the court room during the trial or hearing and to his everlasting discredit he did not seem to be the least bit abashed at his unpleasant situation, in fact he conducted himself like unto a big bully and a swaggering boss stud poker player, and not like an honorable, upright assistant corporation counsel representing all of the people, both White and Colored, residing in the great city of Chicago. The one hundred and nineteen dollars which the police grabbed at the time that they arrested Hon. Edward H. Wright was returned to all of the players. Right here it might be said that if Mayor Thompson feels that we overdrawn the picture in relation to Edward H. Wright, and his fondness for stud poker playing, all that his Honor, the Mayor, has to do in order to convince himself as to the truthfulness of our statements, is to have someone in whom he has confidence to investigate or to shadow Edward H. Wright each night for one week—and just as soon as his investigator would hit his trail he would fall down stone dead from the blind staggers. The ten or twelve million Colored people in all parts of this country can never expect to make any material or substantial progress as long as they utterly lack the moral courage to bitterly protest against permitting the undesirable or the sporting or the gambling element to represent them in the high honored places, and as long as they, the Colored people, are in favor of exalting vice and crime over virtue and honesty. Just as long as they, the Colored people, continue to permit those who cannot successfully pass muster, morally speaking, to pose as their greatest leaders, without protesting against them and endeavoring to choke them off or to keep them in the rear, they have no kick coming whatever, against the whites for assuming the position that there is no difference between Colored people; that one Colored man is as good as another; that those addicted to gambling and bootblacks are just as capable and as on Mayor William of Police, Herm dly Declaring fro mbling in Chicago Duty It Is as Assis t That the Laws REV. ELMER L. WILLIAMS, THE FIGHTING NORTH SIDE PREACHER, DEALS OUT SOME SLEDGE HAMMER BLOWS AGAINST THE HON. STATE'S ATTORNEY. It seems that the Hon. State's Attorney continues to come out at the little end of the horn in his tilt or set to with the Rev. Elmer L. Williams, which has been occupying the front pages of the daily newspapers this week. Rev. Mr. Williams renewed his more than redhot attacks on the Hon. State's Attorney from his pulpit in the Grace M. E. church Sunday evening. The Hon. State's Attorney gave out an extended supplementary statement and announced that he had finished "advertising" Mr. Williams. The clergyman answered this and later handed out a further 2,500 word broadside of charges and queries. In this attack Mr. Williams declared the avalanche of charges and the rebuke of ministers of the federated churches had "silenced Hoyne's batteries." The prosecutor declared the statements of Mr. Williams were handled by Mr. Williams' "pals" and directors general of publicity, Patrick H. O'Donnell and Attorney Charles E. Erbstein. Pastor Praises O'Donnell. Mr. Williams in his final statement replied: "I consider it an honor to be associated with Patrick H. O'Donnell, who had the courage and intelligence to break down the gigantic conspiracy of perjury, to prevent the waste of the people's money in supporting stall fed perjurers in first class hotels, and to rid Chicago of such criminals as the million dollar burglar trust members by sending them back to Joliet where they belong. The citizens of Chicago, the members of the bar, and the tapayers owe Mr. O'Donnell a vote of thanks." Concerning his associations with Frank Campbell, detective, called a lawbreaker by Mr. Hoyne, the minister said he employed him as he would any detective. He asks the State's Attorney why he does not prosecute Campbell if the detective is a gambler. He offers a copy of an affidavit made by Campbell which is a denial of Mr. Hoyne's statement that he (Hoyne) refused to meet Mr. Williams during the last campaign except in the prosecutor's office. "I am now persuaded," the statement continues, "that George Cohen, the morals investigator, who brought a package of papers to me to keep for him, was sent to me by Mr. Hoyne. I never undid the package and do not now know the substance of the reports contained in it. If it is a criminal offense to have such reports, then let Hoyne raid the 'morgues' of the newspapers of Chicago and get confidential information on his own office, for it would make interesting reading." The Hon. State's Attorney in winding up his wordy warfare with Rev. Mr. honorable in every way, representing the Colored race, on all occasions, as the most highly educated doctors, lawyers and presidents of the greatest Colored educational institutions throughout the world. William Herman bring from Chicago. has Assistant the Laws An Ex-President of the would make a missioners in Williams states that "he defies this yellow, crawling, lying cur to submit his questions to the Chicago Citizens' association or the Chicago Bar association. I will answer in detail any one of those questions which they ask me to answer." Think of an honorable state's attorney freely using such barroom language. It is too horrible to contemplate, but come to think of it he is an honored member of the superior race and sometimes we feel thmat he is not fully responsible for his actions and everything clearly indicates that he will in the near future experience a mighty fall in his rash conduct, as the Hon. State's Attorney of Cook County.—Editor. The Pastors Composing the Union Ministers' Meeting Indorsed the Actions of Rev. Elmer L. Williams, at the Same Time Hitting or Kicking Out at the Hon. State's Attorney of Cook County. Resolutions praising the Rev. Elmer L. Williams for his work to alleviate north side vice conditions and terming his services of "incalculable benefit to the city" were adopted Monday by the union ministers' meeting held in the First Methodist Episcopal church under the auspices of the Chicago Church Federation. State's Attorney Hoyne's controversy with the clergyman was touched upon in this wise: "In the controversy between State's Attorney Hoyne and the Rev. E. L. Williams we have full confidence in Mr. Williams' character and rectitude of [Name] Ex-President of the Board of Trustees of the Sanitary District of Chicago, who would make a dandy candidate for president of the Board of County Commissioners in 1918. purpose. Mr. Hoyne has not charged Mr. Williams with doing anything which it is not necessary to do in order to get at the facts of the real inner situation.' The resolutions were adopted unanimously. They were offered over the signatures of E. J. Davis, R. B. Benjamin, J. M. Kittleman, A. D. Morrison, Phillip Yarrow and Norman B. Barr. With regard to the resolutions adopted by the ministers, Mr. Hoyne said: "The only comment that I would care to make is that E. J. Davis, whose name is signed to the resolution, is another man with a grievance against me. We tried to send him to jail on a charge of contempt of court for tampering with a grand jury. "Charges have been made in the past to this office connecting Davis with incendiary fires." "I do not think I am acquainted with the Rev. Mr. Yarrow, whose name also appears, but it is sufficient to say for the statement that I never heard of Williams reforming anything or anybody." The Bible pounders seem to have caused the Hon. State's Attorney to become boiling hot in his collar and if he should explode he might be the means of running all of the preachers out of Chicago.—Editor. MAYOR OUT FOR LEWIS' PLACE IN SENATE. Mayor William Hale Thompson of Chicago has formally announced his candidacy for the Republican nomina- tion for United States Senator from Illinois, succeeding Senator James Hamilton Lewis at the primary next September. The Mayor is the first of the aspirants for Senator Lewis' place formally to announce his candidacy. His announcement follows: "To the People of Illinois: "In order that the people of this state may have an opportunity to vote on vital governmental policies involving the most precious rights of American citizens, I shall be a candidate at the primary in September, 1918, for the Republican nomination for United States Senator to succeed J. Hamilton Lewis. Stands On Record. "I stand upon my record as a public official, my public addresses and my authorized public statements. "In order that my candidacy may not be involved in the local election of aldermen in Chicago next Spring, in which I shall take no part for or against candidates for the City Council, I shall withhold the announcement of my formal platform until after the next Spring elections. Harry Ward of Du Quoin, formerly the leader of the Lorimer forces in "Egypt," will have charge of the Thompson campaign down state. Republicans, though loath to discuss the announcement, left little doubt it meant a big fight in the party. Former Governor Charles S. Deneen and Medill McCormick, it is generally conceded, will also be candidates at the primary. EDWARD The self-confessed and law-defying stud- Counsel of Chicago was arrested an under the name of Louis Johnson or Friday morning. [Name not visible in the image] EDWARD H. WRIGHT The self-confessed and law-defying stud-poker player who as Assistant Corporation Counsel of Chicago was arrested and fined one dollar and costs for gambling under the name of Louis Johnson or J. Williams, by Judge John R. Caverly last Friday morning. THE RED CAP MEN OF THE 12TH STREET STATION OF THE ILLINOIS CENTRAL RAILROAD ARE STILL ON THEIR JOBS. Mr. Jasper Henderson has just returned from an extensive southern trip. He visited New Orleans, La., Jackson and Greenville, Miss., Memphis, Tenn. Mr. Walter Galloway, with the former comptroller of the I. C. R. R., left last Tuesday for New York, his home, to take up his duties with the vice president of the Lehigh Valley R. R. James L. Robinson addressed the ushers on the evening watch last Monday in the Immigrant room of the station. His subject, "Where Does the Light Go When It Goes Out?" was interestingly discussed, but the answer was deferred owing to lack of time for the speaker to fully explain this thoughtful subject. Mr. M. D. Roach, with the vice president, is under the care of a physician. Messrs. Clark and Waters entertained our chief usher, Mr. Sandy W. Trice, at breakfast last Monday morning. Silver service was his, and the chief states that he was royally entertained. Mr. Clark and Waters left Tuesday for a short visit in Omaha, Neb. Mr. John R. Combs, with the aid of a sounding rod and a submarine, has located his recently-purchased summer home. He found it inhabited with a fine crop of lake perch. Mr. Alex T. Henry has left for New York city to close his business affairs there. He will return to our city next summer. Mr. W. H. Ewing, Mr. W. M. Bish, Mr. Geo. Johnson, Mr. C. H. Johnson, Misses Etta Simon, Anna Henry Mitchell and Miss Erma McGhee, 2918 State street, comprised the automobile party which recently motored to Gary, Ind. They launched at the Panama Cafe while in the Sandy City and report an enjoyable trip. Mr. Ezekiel Collins left for St. Louis, Mo. He intends to visit New Orleans and Birmingham, Ala., before his return. Mrs. Sarah Ferguson recently returned from an enjoyable visit in Shelbyville, Tenn. Numerous entertainments were given in her honor during her short stay in this beautiful Southern city. Say anything about a musicale in the presence of Mr. Chas. Collins and he will tell you quickly that 'Belshazzar' which he attended last week was the peer of all heretofore produced by race folk. Mr. Wm. Ferguson and Eugene Bowman were royally entertained by Mr. White, proprietor of the Albany hotel in Excelsior Springs, Mo. The morning and afternoon rides to all of the outlying districts of this resort in the Pierce Arrow Six of their host, Mr. White, were to these gentlemen very pleasing and interesting. Mr. Wm. Overton, from Waterloo, Ia., is in the city for a few-days. Mr. C. P. Johnspa returned recently from a short stay in St. Louis, Mo. PAGE TWO By Juan Wvatte Bell - poker player who as Assistant Corporation and fined one dollar and costs for gambling - J. Williams, by Judge John R. Caverly last Mr. Jasper Henderson has just returned from an extensive southern trip. He visited New Orleans, La., Jackson and Greenville, Miss., Memphis, Tenn., and Cairo, Ill. Mrs. Sandy W. Trice returned to her home, 6438 Eberhart avenue, last Monday evening. Mrs. Trice is feeling very much improved in health. She spent six weeks in Minneapolis and St. Paul and was delightfully entertained by her many friends. Our Captain, Mr. G. W. True, is a heavy plunger in stocks and bonds. Some of his recent holdings have doubled while in the treasury of the company. Miss Bethel Literary Sunday, Sept. 30, at 3:30 p. m. and you will miss a treat. Attorney Henry M. Porter will address us. His subject is: "The Rights and Duties of Citizens." Rev. W. D. Cook, D. D., pastor; Sandy W. Trice, president; Mrs. A. C. Owen, secretary. Attorney Charles S. Gibbs of Springfield, Ill., Sounds the Praises of The Broad Ax. The following letter speaks for itself. Springfield, Ill., Sept. 26. Julius F. Taylor, Editor of the Broadest Ax in the whole world. My Dear Sir—I have just read with no small degree of pleasure the comment you had on the situation at East St. Louis, and I want you to accept my commendation for the way the matter was handled by your paper. Many of our papers have spoken of it, but for some cause they did not seem to find the mark. There is one of our State officers who deserves credit for the clearing up of the East St. Louis troubles above all others and that one is the Hon. Edward J. Brundage, by grace of the people, the Attorney General of Illinois. To appreciate what Mr. Brundage is doing in the interest of law and order a person would have to get on the ground, see and feel the condition of affairs and view the handicaps thrown in the way of the wheels of justice and then the magnitude of the great administrative mind of the general in a complex situation can best be seen, and, what is more, he does not leave the affairs of his office to the assistants, but, everywhere his personal attention is given, his personal magnetism is felt, his predominating force is put into the fight and no matter whether it be a stubborn, retrograding corporation or a malfeasing officer, or an erring layman, the rule is ever the same and some day Illinois will wake up to look back upon the record of the greatest Attorney General she has ever known. Yours very truly. P. S.—Send The Broad Ax to my shop and send bill for year's subscription. 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. THE BROAD AX, CHICAGO, SEPTEMBER 29, 1917. Great Meeting at Bethel Church Under the Auspices of the Chicago Branch of the Law and Order League. Attorney Patrick H. O'Donnell, Bishop Samuel Fallows and Lawyer Walter M. Farmer, Were the Leading Speakers Mr. A. H. Roberts Was Chairman of the Meeting. Last Sunday afternoon a largely attended meeting was held at Bethel church, under the auspices of the Chicago branch of the new Law and Order League. Each person on entering the church was presented with a small American flag, which they waved when "The Battle Hymn of the Republic," "The Star Spangled Banner," "Tenting on the Old Camp Ground," "John Brown's Body Lies Moulding in the Clay, While His Soul Goes Marching On." Rev. J. T. Jenifer offered the opening prayer. Bishop Samuel Fallows who fought in the Union Army and who was a member of Gen. Bragg's Iron Brigade of Wisconsin, who after fifty-five years recently visited the old camp ground in Wisconsin, where he had enlisted under the banner of freedom and the Union forever, was the first speaker. Mrs. Elizabeth Lindsay Davis made a very appropriate short talk on the part that women should play in the present war, following Bishop Fallows, and before he departed for his home the choir sang "Tenting Around the Old Camp Ground" in his honor. Attorney Patrick H. O'Donnell was the main speaker of the occasion, and introduceing him Chairman A. H. Roberts declared that "he was one of the best and the truest friends that the Colored race has in any part of this country." As he arose to speak he was noiselessly greeted by those who had turned out to hear him, including the waving of the American flags. When he concluded speaking, "John Brown's Body Lies Moulding in the Clay, While His Soul Goes Marching On" was sung in his honor. Lawyer Walter M. Farmer in a clear-cut manner set forth the aims and objects of the new Law and Order League, and in doing so he rightly contended that "now is the opportune time for Will Have Charge of Publicity Bureau in National Food Conserva- Prof. Charles Stewart, Associated Press correspondent, globe trotter and lecturer, was in town for a short stay Wednesday, dropped into the Afro-American office, and almost before one could say "Jack Robinson" was off again to Washington. Prof. Stewart was called to Washington Saturday to confer with members of the Hoover Commission as to the best way to reach the twelve millions Colored people in the United States in the educational campaign for the conservation of foodstuffs. At the conclusion of the conference, he consented to head the publicity department for the weekly newspapers throughout the United States. Prof. Stewart is the dean of newspaper correspondents in this country, having been in the newspaper business nearly forty years. He started in Louisville with the American Baptist in 1879. Later he became connected with Henry Watterson's Courier-Journal. When he moved to Chicago in the late eighties he joined the staff of the Inter-Ocean and remained with that paper until it suspended publication. While with the Inter-Ocean, he accepted a position with the Associated Press, which position he still holds, being the only Colored employee in that great news-gathering service. In connection with his work as a correspondent, Prof. Stewart has found time to deliver a number of lectures in all parts of the country. He also wrote for the Afro-American for a number of years under the nom de plume of "J. O. Midnight." He has, perhaps, traveled more than any other Colored man in America, having at one time or another visited every town in the south and southwest as well as every city of importance in the east and west. He has also been abroad several times.—From the Afro-American, Baltimore, Md., Sept. 29, 1917. Dr. J. Frank Armstrong, 1924 West Lake street, returned from Marion, Ia., his old home, Wednesday morning, where he had spent three days looking after his property interests there. The doctor is a well-equipped, progressive member of the profession and has built up a very lucrative practice on the West Side. the Colored people to unite and stand together and manfully fight and contend at all times for all of their rights guaranteed to them under the Constitution of the United States." Mr. O'Donnell, who is one of the most forceful and eloquent orators around and about here, gave expression to many everlasting truths, which was well for the Colored people to drink in to the full. His reference to the patriotism of the gallant Eighth Regiment and to the patriotism of the Colored people in general, and the part that the Colored soldiers have played in all the wars of the past, was a stemwinder and the two thousand people in the church were so wrought up over it that "they came near tearing its roof off while they were giving full vent to their feelings, for at that time he had held them spellbound for a long while, and their shouting and applauding was like the onrushing of a mighty ocean." Mr. O'Donnell made one striking statement during the course of his oration, and that was that "all the good things in this life were placed on this earth for the special benefit of mankind—that if the Colored people wished to freely enjoy all of those blessings that they would have to fight for them, as the whites would not willingly permit them to come into the possession of them without a struggle on their part to prevent the Colored people from reaching out or up and grasping them." In these few words he gave expression to the plain and the unvarnished gospel truth, and for many years we have been preaching that same doctrine to the Colored people. Rev. J. T. Jenifer, Mrs. Blanche Gillmer, former Alderman Oscar De Priest, Attorney George W. Ellis, W. E. W. lace, Sandy W. Trice, Lawyer W. E. Mollison, Dr. W. H. Davis and Julius F. Taylor, aside from the speakers, were among those to occupy seats on the platform CAMP LOGAN TO BE MODEL AND SICKNESS-PROOF Floors for All Tents and Examinations in Plans. Camp Logan, Houston, Tex.—(Special.)—The men of Camp Logan will not lose any time in the hospital if the war department and the health authorities of the camp can help it. Plans have been made public that will safeguard the men individually from almost any disease and safeguard them as a whole from any epidemic. The first step will be the flooring of all the tents in the camp. The announcement that the work was to be done brought many expressions of satisfaction from the officers in command. "It will mean that the men will live in a place that is protected from water when it rains," Gen. Henry D. Todd, division commander, said. "This will do much to prevent such diseases as rheumatism and the like." The next step, which will go a long way toward preventing epidemics, is a general physical examination of the men by the division health authorities. Every man will be given a thorough overhauling, and if there is the least doubt about his physical fitness he will be sent back. The postoffice authorities of the camp have again asked the Chicago newspapers to publish the correct method of addressing letters to the men at the camp. There has been much confusion due to misdirected and incorrectly directed letters. This is the correct form. Rank (private, corporal, lieutenant, etc.), and name of company and regiment, Camp Logan, Houston, Tex. This form will insure prompt delivery. BOMAN CATHOLICS DEMAND FAIR PLAY FOR NEGROES Kansas City, Kas.-At the sixteenth annual convention of the American Federation of Roman Catholic Societies held recently, resolutions were adopted demanding fair play for the Negro. A demand was made for such governmental action as will secure the Negro's natural rights and constitutional guarantees. Washington, D. C.—(Special.)—The first Colored drafted men will be sent to national army cantonments on Oct. 3. Secretary of War Baker has made this announcement. ATTORNEY PATRICK H. O'DONNELL Warm friend of the Colored people who stirred them up from fore to aft at the big meeting at Bethel Church last Sunday afternoon. THE UNIVERSITY SOCIETY. The study of Negro authors promises to be very interesting. Mr. John Felton, Mrs. Irene McCoy Gaines and Mr. E. O. Marshall are now working on the outline for this part of the club work. Next regular meeting occurs on the second Sunday in October, 5300 Wabash avenue, 4 p. m. Two new members were taken into membership of the society at the last meeting: Mrs. Strayhorn and Miss Elsie Freeman. ELITE SOCIAL CHARITY CLUB. Will hold installation of officers Wednesday evening, September 26, 8 to 12 o'clock. The University Society and other clubs have been invited to enjoy the evening with the new officers at 3256 Rhodes avenue. THEOSOPHICAL SOCIETY. The next regular meeting of the Pioneer Lodge will be held Friday evening September 28, 5827 Wentworth avenue 7:30 p. m. All interested persons are welcomed. There will be an interesting lecture from some members of the Chicago Theosophical Society. Any persons desiring literature may apply at the club rooms or to Mrs. Irene McCov Gaines. PROGRESSIVE NEGRO LEAGUE. Will present to the literary public a very interesting program on Tuesday, October 2, 8 p. m., at the Y. M. C. A. auditorium. SOCIETY CHIPS. Dr. U. G. Dailey continues ill at his home, under the care of Dr. Giles. Mr. T. Arnold Hill, executive secretary of the Chicago Urban League, left Sunday en route to Boston, where on Wednesday evening, September 26, wedding bells will ring for him and Miss Sadie Henderson. On last Tuesday evening Miss Frances Galloway, post-graduate pianist of the Chicago Musical College, of wide fame, appeared in recital at St. Mark's M. E. Church, assisted by Mrs. Irene McCoy Gaines, elocationist, and Messrs. Bryant and Sevier, soloists. Miss Bertha Washington, a niece of the late Dr. Booker T. Washington, is in the city planning to make this her future home. Prof. E. C. Deas, of Jacksonville, Fla., who has been training somewhere in the United States for a military commission, is now in the city and may make Chicago his permanent home. THE COMFORT KIT CLUB. The Colored women of Chicago have organized a Kit and Comfort Club for the purpose, as its name implies, of furnishing comfort kits for their soldier boys. They are asking every woman in Chicago to join this club. The only requirement is, that she donate something, if only enough of her time to induce some one to help a little, if she can sew, knit, crochet, give a tooth brush or a handkerchief, will, when united in a mighty and combined effort, produce most wonderful results. All women are requested to meet at the Appomattox Club, 3441 South Wabash avenue, Friday afternoon, Sept. 28, at 2 p.m. President, Mrs. W. A. Buckner; Vice President, Mrs. Lawrence N. Jones; Secretary, Mrs. W. H. Marshall. --- THE PURGING PROCESS HAS STARTED. The Freeman felt like dropping down on its knees and exclaiming, "Let us pray," when it came across this news item last Monday afternoon in the Houston Chronicle: "A complaint charging Philip Tomasino, who conducts a grocery store and beer saloon at Arnold and Matthews streets, with selling liquor on Sunday, was issued in Justice J. M. Ray's court yesterday. Tomasino was arrested by Detectives Spradley and Bryson." The fact that Tomasino's place is in a colored neighborhood and is just one of many similarly situated, and that violate the law with impunity, is why we were stirred and worked up, believing that that arrest by the police department shows which way the wind is blowing. The Freeman, unable to suppress its emotions, had to shout, Amen, when, in another column of that same issue of the Chronicle, it saw this quotation delivered from the bench by Criminal District Judge C. W. Robinson: "Officers of the law, charged with the keeping of the peace, can not go out and shoot down citizens, whether they be white or black, and then come into court and expect to be white-washed." THE A. M. E. CONFERENCE AT ST. PAUL, MINN., HAS WOUND UP ITS DELIBERATIONS FOR THIS YEAR. REV. W. D. COOK AND REV. J. C. ANDERSON HAVE BEEN RETURNED TO THEIR RESPECTIVE CHARGES AT BETHEL CHURCH AND QUINN CHAPEL. Monday evening the annual A. M. E. Conference for this district, Bishop L. J. Coppin, presiding, wound up its affairs at St. Paul, Minn., and to the great joy and delight of the admirers and friends of Rev. W. D. Cook and Rev. J. C. Anderson, they were returned to their respective charges by their good Bishop Coppin, at Bethel church and Quinn chapel. Rev. F. G. Snelson will continue to hold forth at St. Mary's church, 5253 South Dearborn street; Rev. B. W. T. Wylor was returned to St. Stephen's, on the West Side; Rev. Griffin was sent back to the Hyde Park church; Rev. Archibald James Carey will continue for another year to be the political pastor of the Institutional church. Many other minor appointments were made. The conference was largely attended and its sessions were very interesting. ITEMS FROM CLARKSDALE, MISS. The A. M. E. Church here, without much trouble, last Sunday raised $50, which was very pleasing to its pastor, Rev. P. H. Polk. The district conference of the Slaven Chapel M. E. Church here has been in session the past week. The sessions have been presided over by Bishop Thirkilled of New Orleans, La. Many of our young lady school teachers are departing for different parts of this state where they will instruct the children in the various schools for the coming school term. Here's a New Wage Term. "A modest minimum wage" is the latest contribution to social science, now being used in arbitration courts in the commonwealth of South Australia. 4104 GEO. W. BLACKWELL One of the popular young attorneys of this city who is being urged by his many friends to make the race for judge of the Municipal Court in 1918. PHYLLIS WHEATLEY CLUB NOTES. The Phyllis Wheatley Social after moon, Wednesday, Sept. 19, was highly enjoyed by the large number of mem- bers and friends present. The follow- ing Chairmen of Committees were apo- pointed: Art—Mrs. Geraldine Withers. Domestic Science — Mrs. Fannie Cooper. Education — Miss H. Georgiana Whyte. Health and Hygiene—Dr. Mary F. Waring. Music—Mrs. Ophie Brown Wells. Civics—Mrs. Irene Goins. Home Charities—Mrs. Fannie B. Wil- liams. Mrs. H. Kuh of the Council of National Defense gave an interesting talk on the Home Charities Work. The Phyllis Wheatley Quartette sang several songs and delighted the audience with their equisite voices. Business meeting at the Home, 3256 Rhodes avenue, Wednesday, Oct. 3, p.m. BROOKLYN TO HAVE Y. M. C. A. Brooklyn, N. Y.-The Y. M. C. A. in this city laid Sunday, September 23, the cornerstone of a new building for its Negro members of the Carlton avenue branch. William McCarroir, vicepresident of the Brooklyn Y. M. C. A., presented a silver trowel to George Foster Peabody, who placed the cornerstone. Mr. Peabody was the donor of the first building of the branch. The new edifice will cost $204,534. POLICEMAN WHO CAUSED RIOT IS UNABLE TO FURNISH BOND. Houston, Tex., Sept. 28.—Former Policeman Lee Sparks (white), who, it is charged, incited the deplorable race riot here, has been denied bail by Judge Robinson for the killing of Wallace Williams, a member of the Race, who was shot while standing at Rice street and Dallas avenue. Sparks is being held on a charge of murder and his trial is set for October 15. He is the officer that assaulted Sergt. Baltimore of the Twenty-fourth Infantry, thus causing the riot. He is also under indictment on this charge. Here is a cooling drink for fever patients: Put a little sage, two sprigs of balm and a little sorrel into a stone jug, having first washed and dried it. Peel thin a small lemon, slice it and put a small piece of the peel in; then pour in three pints of boiling water. Sweeten and cover it closely. Famous Cherokee Halfbreed Famous Cherokee Halfbreed. Sequoyah, inventor of the Cherokee alphabet, was one of the great men of the Indian race. He was a halfbreed whose English name was George Guess. His father was a white man and his mother a full-blood Indian woman. Artificial legs and arms were, it is believed, used in Egypt as early as 700 B.C. They were made by the priests, who were the physicians of that early time. Daily Thought. The noblest mind the best contentment has.—Spenser. Art—Mrs. Geraldine Withers. For Fever Patient Artificial Limbs Long Know this city who is being urged by his many bridge of the Municipal Court in 1918. CHIPS. Madam M. Calloway Byron, 3300 Rhodes avenue, and her daughter, Miss Nellie Byron, are home again after delightfully spending one week in Glen Ellyn, Ill. Mrs. N. Davis of Kansas City, Kas., Grand Worthy Counselor O. O. E. S. of that state, and daughter, are visiting in the city. They are the guests of Mrs. Charles Stewart, 5922 South Aberdeen street. Miss Frances Galloway, post-graduate Chieago Musical College, assisted by Mr. Theo. P. Bryant and Mr. Sevier, gave a highly delightful piano recital Tuesday evening at St. Mark church, Fiftieth street and Wabash avenue. The affair was well attended. Mr. Noah D. Thompson and his wife, Mrs. Eloise Bibb-Thompson of Los Angeles, Cal., have both been recommended by Mr. Monroe N. Works for membership in the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History which held its annual meeting in Washington, D. C., recently. Mrs. Louvinia Mitchell gave a dinner party for her on Monday, Sept. 17, at 3726 Calumet avenue. Mr. and Mrs. Thos. H. Gibson, 25 East Forty-fourth street, gave an automobile ride through the parks, municipal pier, etc., and a theater party in honor of their sister, Mrs. Mason. Mrs. Caroline Hall Mason returned to her home in Washington, D. C., last Saturday after a delightful three weeks' visit among relatives in Peoria, Chicago and Portsmouth, Ohio. While in Chicago Mrs. Mason was entertained by her aunt, Mrs. Elizabeth Lindsay Davis, who gathered all of the Chicago relatives and a few friends in honor of her talented niece. Little Mary was called in to see the new baby, who was the sixth in the family. All the previous children had been very small babies. Mary looked at the baby a short time, then said: "Mamma; don't you think it would be better to have them a little bigger and not so many of them?" Soy beans, introduced into the United States more than one hundred years ago primarily for use as a forage crop, are in reality one of the most nutritious of the bean family when used as human food, according to specialists of the department of agriculture. Discovered "Arabian Nights." The "Arabian Nights" stories were translated into English from the Arabic by Antonie Galland, a French savant, and traveler, who died in 1715. He obtained them in their original form during his visit to the East as an attaché of the French embassy at Constantinople. World's Oldest Observatory Pekin has the oldest astronomical observatory in the world. It was established in 1279, and it contains several instruments which were placed there upon its opening. There can be no permanent happiness when there is a departure from prosperity. CHIPS Just a Suggestion Soy Beans as Food. THE BROAD AX, CHICAGO, SEPTEMBER 29, 1917 Oasis Made to Order In the desert stretch between El Centro and Yuma, down in the southeast corner of California, engineers maize a new oasis the other day. They just bored a hole in the ground, and up came the revivifying waters. Then a few date seeds were dropped into the soil, and a few vegetables planted, and they will have an oasis made to order. Another Thing to Remember Wille and his mother had been visiting their aunt in the country. After returning, his mother was telling one of her friends over the phone how homelike her aunt's house was. Willie was taking in the conversation and, speaking up, said: "Mamma, don't forget to tell her how homely aunt was, too." Profitable Reading. The woman who does not keep abreast with what is taking place is doing herself a serious injustice. There is no possible excuse for ignorance in this day when opportunity is open to all through the public schools, the public library and the newspaper.—Exchange. Revenue From Alaskan Seals Of all the treasures in Alaska, the seals are probably among the most valuable. Unlike mineral wealth, they need never run out, for, in consequence of their powers of reproduction, they can yield under reasonable control a large and continuous revenue for an indefinite future. Workshop Is Useful A convenient building to have on practically any small country or suburban estate is a small structure fitted up with a carpenter's bench and tool closet, with a bln for coal, a recess for wood and a small room fitted up for the storage of household goods or garden necessities. New Noises Some of the new automobile horns make a noise so different from anything ever heard by the present generation that one is tempted to believe the inventor has accidentally hit on the bark of the ichthyosaurus.—Albany Argus. Wasted No Time. Girl (as she entered parlor)—"It's so long since you called on me that I was beginning to think you had forgotten me." Young Man—"I am for getting you; that's why I've called. Can I have you?"—Boston Transcript. Practice Economy The sane standard, "Eat enough food and no more," rigidly followed, would reduce greatly food bills in many homes and at the same time tend to improve the physical condition of all members of the household. Not Called "Dead Sea" in Bible The name of "Dead sea" occurs nowhere in the Bible. This name does not appear to have existed until the second century after Christ. In the Old Testament this body of water is called the Salt sea and the Sea of the Plain. The Tendency of Things The wise politicians are those who have learned from experience the real tendency of things, who can climb the rocks where others have been wrecked, or from foresight can be cool when peril is upon them—Froude. Interrupted Solemnity Buddy, aged three, was flower carrier at his aunt's wedding. When all was very quiet and the minister was reading the marriage ceremony, Buddy called out in a loud, clear voice, "Mamma, is he reading a story about the bears?" Had Seen the "Ad." When formal announcement of Helen's engagement was made in the society column of the local paper, Dicky came running up to his sister, saying: "Oh. Helen. I saw your ad in the paper!" More Than Mere Right. Singleton—"But even a married man has a right to his opinion." Henpek—"My dear fellow, it isn't a question of right; it's a question of courage."—Boston Transcript. Happy Is Lover of Books Without the love of books the richest man is poor; but endowed with this treasure of treasures the poorest man is rich. He has wealth which no power can diminish, riches which are always increasing. The "lodge in a garden of cucumbers," mentioned in Isaiah 1:8, is a rude temporary shelter erected in the open grounds in which a boy or man is set to watch to scare away robbers or the foxes and jackals from the vines. Portable Hydraulic Press A portable, but very powerful, hydraulic press has been invented for bending large pipes to any desired curve without injury. That's Nice. For riding on water there has been invented a tricycle with hollow, water-tight wheels, the rear pair being provided with blades for propulsion. WOULD TRAIN BOYS WOULD TRAIN BOYS General Young Proposes Drafting Youths of 19 to 21. MARRIED MEN ARE UNWILLING Those Who Have Dependents Don't Want to Fight, as a Rule, So Younger Men Must Save the Country, as They Did In the Civil War, He Says. Three Million Would Be Affected. Washington.—In a signed statement given out recently, Lieutenant General S. B. M. Young, U. S. A., commander in chief of the military order of the Loyal Legion of the United States and president of the National Association For Universal Military Training, advocated the early drafting of youths between nineteen and twenty-one to form the national army. General Young says that of the 9,000-000 men registered fully 80 per cent of the married men have not hesitated to walk up and claim exemption on that ground alone, which means that only a small percentage of the married men in the nation are willing to bear arms in defense of it. This is a condition which was not only surprising, but which is full of menace and to [Picture of a man with a mustache and a suit]. LIEUTENANT GENERAL S. B. M. YOUNG, U. S. A., RETIRED. which there can be but one answer—the young, unmarried men must save this country even as they saved it in the civil war. After quoting statistics to show that the bulk of the Union army was composed of youths under twenty-one General Young analyzes the results of the present draft and concludes: After the first and second drafts are made there will be approximately 626,000 men available for purely military service who will not have been included in the first two drafts. Now, since the first and second drafts will total about 1,374,000 and experience shows that three men are required in reserve for each man on the firing line, the 626,000 left over from the first registration will not be adequate for even a reserve force for the men actually on the firing line, but will fall short of the number which experience has proved necessary by some 3,496,000. By using the comprehensive machinery set up by the war department for carrying out the provisions of the draft law and which is still in existence and in perfect working order the remedy which I have to propose can be immediately realized. This remedy is embodied in the following amendment to the draft law: All male persons resident in the United States who are nineteen years of age and not more than thirty-one years of age on the date when this amendment shall go into effect and who were not registered in pursuance of the act of May 18, 1917, shall be registered at such time and place as the president may by proclamation direct. It should also be provided that none of the men affected by the law so amended should be called for active military service before reaching the age of twenty-one years. Granting that the proposed amendment shall be adopted by congress, the same to go into effect June 5, 1918, a startling and illuminating comparison with the figures of the recent registration and draft given above is immediately presented: On June 5, 1918, there would be three classes—males nineteen, twenty and twenty-one years of age—affected by this proposed amendment. These three classes would total 3,000,000 men and after rejections would not approximately 1,920,000 men fit for training for military service. In these three classes there will be a much smaller average percentage of exemption than in the older classes which were comprehended in the recent registration. Pound of Bread Must Last Eleven Days The Hague.-The Dutch minister of agriculture has decided that the bread ration of 2,800 grams (not quite a pound) a head must suffice for eleven days in Holland. When bread tickets were first issued seven days was the period. Later it was extended to nine days, but the increasing scarcity necessitates a further reduction in consumption. Modkeva Chase Blacksnakes Newcastle, Pa. — Several monkeys have been placed on a wild site at Neshannock Falls to chase out the black-smakes for a summer colony. It is expected that the monkeys will free the site of snakes. Bungalows are to be erected there. Talks on Health Cleanliness Proper Living Sanitation, Etc. BY Dr. W. A. Driver 3300 So. State St. Phone Douglas 3617 STERILITY It is neither fair nor scientific to consider a case of sterility as a fault of either the female or the male without making a thoro examination of both. It is obviously unscientific and useless to treat either unless examination shows a cause or causes that should be removed. Sterility is the inability of a married pair to bring forth a fruitful conception, to increase and multiply, to replenish the earth. Conception alone frequently ends in what is equivalent to sterility. A successful conception is one in which a living heir is produced. The causes of sterility are numerous and are found or exist in both male and female at times. The causes may be structural, psychic, biochemical and physiological. The structural causes of sterility are found in the genital tract of the male or female and may be anatomical or pathological. In either case operative procedure may produce normal conditions and a fruitful conception reward effort. When the cause is psychic, the mental physiology must be reestablished by suitable psycho-therapy. The sensitive mental status of very young women and women who are about the menopause or change of life are well known; it is also well known When Time Hung Heavy. Today, when there is such a premium on time, one finds it hard to realize the condition portrayed by William Wistar Comfort in the Bookman: "In its day and for two or three centuries later The Romance of the Rose" was the most popular work composed in medieval Europe. It consists of about 23,000 eight-syllable verses in the old French original. That forms a very considerable poem. A poem in two volumes would be sufficient in our day to rebuff most readers. But think of copying out in longhand such a poem! "Time was something to be killed by our ancestors, and hands were found to copy this endless poem almost 200 times. That is to say, we have nearly 200 French manuscripts of the "Roman de la Rose," and that does not account for all those that must have been lost in the course of 400 years. However, the figures give us some idea of what medieval literary popularity was." Hurt His Professional Pride "I can't graft trees no longer for $3 a day," asserted the reformed crook who had applied for something to do on the farm. "Three dollars a day is fair pay for working." "But poor returns for grafting. Try me at something else."—Kansas City Journal. Code of Beauty. Our code and schedule of beauty is. I often feel, a very formal affair. Either we are afraid or ashamed to differ from received opinions, or we have never thought of revising the code we adopted in our youth, or we do not really look at things, or we do not care about beauty at all.—A. C. Benson. Few Real Blue Flowers. Blue is a scarce color in our gardens, but ageratum, cornflower, baby blue-eyes, Swan river daisy and Salpt glossis sinuata, anemone blanda, forget-me-not, some larkspurs, some columbines and one or two iris are very blue blues. Would Make Daddy Sorry Richard was proud of his newly acquired pompadour. One day while standing in front of the glass admiring it, he suddenly turned to his mother and said: "Say, mamma, when dad comes home and sees my pompadour, won't he be sorry he had his hair cut bald." Ingenious Four-Year-Old A little four-year-old was sent to the store to buy a lemon cream pie. Sometimes later she returned bearing it triumphantly in her arms and said: "I forgot the name of it, so I just asked for one wif embroidery on it." Symmetry Deliberately Lacking The Church of St. Basil, in the Kremila, on Kremlin hill, in Moscow, Russia, is perhaps the only building in the world constructed with a careful view to avoiding all symmetry in color or form. If Well Located An advertisement is like an electric fan; just keep it going and people are sure to get wind of it.—Boston Transcript. PAGE THREE A. that such women more often bear children than other ages who are less subject to psychic impressions. From the foregoing it appears that to produce young the mental condition of all the ladies should be what it is in very young females and what it is in those who conceive at the change of life. A strange but well known feature of the study of sterility is the fact that women who have never borne children are blessed with young at the climacteric. It is the great psychic time of life of women. In it we see the value of psycho-therapy in the matter of curing sterility. Husbands might get more children if taught the value of proper mental coordination and cooperation. The functional and biochemical causes are often shrouded in more mystery than the other strange causes of the whole mysterious subject. On the other hand there is definite knowledge governing functional and biochemical phenomena. Syphilitics and gonorrheics are generally sterile; such sterility is doubtless due to biochemical incompatibility due to toxins (poisons) of the germs that produce the disease and destroy the power of fruitful conception. Abortions once performed teach the womb a bad habit which might not be overcome. Surgical Triumph Over Locklaw. For a form of lockjaw in a young girl New York surgeons performed an operation affecting the muscles of the lower jaw, and then, to restore function, applied a spring motor that kept the jaw in constant motion. In three weeks, when the appliance was removed, the muscles had developed surprisingly, insuring natural chewing. Daily Thought What a brave soul is that, that is always prepared to leave the body, and unconcerned about her being either, extinguished, scattered or removed—Marcus Aurel'ia. 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Entered as Second-Class Matter Aug. 19, 1902, at the Post Office at Chicago, Illinois, under Act of March 3, 1879. HANDSOME WORK. The Kind of Pillow You Begin Early For Christmas. Why not utilize odd moments of your vacation or leisure hours now embroidering this beautiful gift for mother? ```markdown ``` REAL EMBRIDERY. The shape is most artistic, black satin corded around the seams and embroidered with a spray of chrysanthemums shaded in pink floss. The Danger of Lying In Bed. Lack of muscular exercise is the first result of lying in bed. As a result the appetite is weakened, the digestive action slews down and the muscles of the stomach and abdomen cease to act upon the intestinal mass. When the body is in a recumbent position the heart works with the least expenditure of effort and the least fatigue and the circulation and the functional activity are decreased. But unless the subject is exceptionally vigorous all the benefits are counterbalanced by dangers. In bed the subject is shut away from fresh air and sunlight. The result of that deprivation is a condition similar to anaemia. But the supreme menace to the weak or the aged confined to bed is the clogging of the pulmonary circulation, an action which frequently results in passive congestion of both sides of the lungs. For this reason the simple fracture of a bone may be the cause of death, because when the patient lies in bed there is no movement of the muscles to act as an incentive to deep breathing. Writers and Artists Too George Du Maurier was an artist, who turned author after making a European fame with the pencil as a satirist of society. He suddenly started the world with "Trilby" and set two continents comparing feet. With him novel writing seemed his true forte, but he had started too late. He enjoyed his new fame only a few years. Even Thackeryer tried art before he found his true vocation, and he illustrated several of his own books even then. That is a very pliant story which tells of Thackeryer calling on Charles Dickens to see if he could get the commission to illustrate one of his earlier novels. He had not written "Vanity Fair" then. A very distinguished artist-author was Dante Gabriel Rossetti. He was supreme in both arts. He was one of the greatest posts and certainly one of the greatest artists of the last century. Tunnels of the Ancients. Although tunneling is among the most ancient of enterprises, more progress has been made in it the last century than in the twenty centuries which preceded it. It is now known that beck in the semi-mythical days of the Theban kings the long tunnel into the mountain rock, expanding at a distance of 400 feet or so, into some lofty chamber, was a common work. The rock temples of Nubia and India, too, show that in certain matters at any rate moderns may still learn from the ancients. Lerman Empress Sells Gifts From Friends Now Enemies. MORGAN NECKLACE IN LOT. The Proceeds From Sale In Copenhagen of Jewels Given by Those Now Classed as Hostile to Germany Go Into the War Loan. "Worn in Germany" may be said of jewels which wealthy American women will wear in the near future. The kaiserin is selling some of her jewels, principally gifts from persons now numbered among Germany's enemies, it is said on good authority. The purchasers are not named, but it is probable that they are jewelers who will have the gems reset or sold unset, with a possible market in America, which is a large receiver of the fine gems of the world. It is interesting to know that one of the most important of the pieces sold [Bust of a woman with a headband and necklace, wearing a dress with a decorative pattern. The bust is set against a plain background.]] THE GERMAN KAISERIN, is a magnificent diamond necklace presented to the German empress by the late J. Pierpont Morgan. It is composed of 375 stones of finest quality, large and small brilliant. A tiara and another ornament for the hair are other pieces which the empress has sold. There are said to be no jewels of especial interest pertaining to the crown of Prussia, neither the crown nor scepter possessing gems of great rarity. The Austrian crown jewels are worthy of note, containing the famous Florentine diamond, weighing 133 carats and of a beautiful pale canary color. The Dresden green diamond of Saxony is another famous stone. Crown jewels of the Russian royal family dating back to Catherine the Great are notable. An armed guard was always on duty before the crown jewel room in the Winter palace so that no one could make off with the great Orloff diamond, one of the most famous diamonds of the world. It is said to have been taken from the eye of a Hindu deity by a French soldier, from whom it passed into the hands of a merchant captain, who sold it to Prince Orloff, by whom it was presented to Russia's great queen. For many years it held the place of honor as the greatest diamond of the world, weighing 196 carats, and the world famed Kohinoor weighed only 106%. The Orloff diamond was set in the Russian scepter, but it was only one among many wonderful jewels of the Russian crown. The English own the largest diamonds of the world, one weighing 516½ carats and another 809 carats. The French crown jewels were notable, the crown itself not to be excelled and containing the famous Pitt or Regent diamond, purchased by the Duke of Orleans for Louis XV. With this were over thirty beautiful diamonds of exceptional brilliancy. The Pitt diamond after having done duty in the first and second empires was preserved in the Louvre, while other jewels of the crown having no historic interest were sold, and the words "formerly French crown jewels" added to the luster of the stones which went into private hands. The Morgan diamonds and other jewels turned into cash by the German empire are said to have been sold in Copenhagen. Women In Banks An officer of a large national bank which had never until recently employed women (excepting a telephone operator) told how he solved the problem of introducing women workers into the bank. "You know," he confided, "we never had women, and we had no experience in hiring them. All of the officers were reluctant to assume the responsibility of interviewing and engaging the women applicants. They appeared to be afraid. We finally decided to simplify the situation by hiring one highly educated college woman of mature mind and ripe age, and we assigned to her the job of hiring all the girl stenographers and filing clerks. This woman has complete charge of all the women employees, and we men in the bank have nothing to do with this new staff which has replaced the men who have left the bank's service on account of the war." THE BROAD AX, CHICAGO, SEPTEMBER 29, 1917. FREE STYLE BOOK ... HAIR... To Colored Women We are the largest market in collection of Colored Women's Hair. Our latest book showing new styles in hair dressing and hairstyle. Every colored woman should have one. We sell thousands our hair and toilet articles and infaction guaranteed or money back. We make the best solid Brass STRAIGHT- ENING combs, with extra heavy back, fully guaranteed. Send the stock, complete lamp PRK. Send money order or stamps. MONEY BACK IF NOT SATISFACTORY. 88c. postpaid. POSTPAID 89c Hair nets, brushes, combs and toilet articles manual sterilization of prizes. Send two-cent stamp. Agents Wanted. Address as follows: HUMANIA HAIR COMPANY. 181-187 Park Row, New York City. Address Dept. 84 A Water Heater Bargain The price must go up 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 PRACTICAL HAT. Mushrooms Are a Popular Fall Article of Style. With a stole of Hudson seal this black velvet hat goes most appropriately. The facing is turquoise blue. THE MAYFIELD COZY ONES, and about the crown of a fold of velvet goes a string of iridescent blue beads the only trimming. Simplicity is a mark of all the new service hats. Sand Prevents Fire If Japanese lanterns have a little sand put in the bottom there will be small danger of their catching fire, as the sand gives weight and holds the candle firm. Ne Harm In Cucumbers The cucumber is not, in any sense, a poison nor an injurious vegetable. Sprinkling the sliced cucumber with salt is unnecessary. It does not "draw out" any poison. It only wilts the vegetable and renders it less appetizing. The harm resulting from eating cucumbers is due to the neglect to thoroughly chew the cucumber slices before swallowing them. All foods, green ones in particular, need to be most thoroughly masticated before they are swallowed. The cucumber gives zest to a meal, especially if it be served cold and crisp. In preparing the cucumber first peel it and then slice it in very thin slices and place these in plain ice water to soak and become crisp. It requires an hour for this usually—Philadelphia Record. --- Residence, 1262 Macalister Place Telephone Monroe 2714 MILES J. DEVINE Attorney at Law Suite 313-329 Reaper Block Clark and Washington Sts. Phones, Central 239; Auto. 41-918 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. 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Shipping to all parts of the Country and Automobile Funerals a Specialty. Central Display Rooms and Chapel. Call promptly answered day or night. Ernest H. Williamson, KENWOOD 455 Undertaker AUTOMATIC 73-867 Watchmaker, Jeweler and Optometrist Watch Inspector for the Ch Watch Inspector for the Chicago & Eastern Illinois R. R. OWNERS AND DIRECTORS OPEN DAY AND NIGHT The Emanuel Jackson Undertaking Co., Inc. 2959-61 South State Street Service Courteous Reasoanble Prices FREE CHAPEL IN CONNECTION line of Funeral Goods Autome NAN JONES' PL Reasoan FREE CHAPEL Complete Line of Funeral Goods FREE CHAPEL IN CONNECTION Complete Line of Funeral Goods Automobiles for Hire TEENAN JONES' PLACE 3445 SOUTH STATE STREET TELEPHONE DOUGLAS 4591 The finest and most UP-TO-DATE BUFFET and CAFE on the S Side. First-Class Entertain HENRY "TEENAN" JONES, the finest and most UP-TO-DATE UFFET and CAFE on the So- tle. First-Class Entertainm "TEENAN" JONES, F E N, Proprietors B, Manager Phone The finest and most UP-TO-DATE BUFFET and CAFE on the South Side. First-Class Entertainers. HENRY "TEENAN" JONES, Proprietor A. F. CODOZOE J. H. WHISTON, Proprietors CHAS. HARRIS, Manager The Elite Cafe AND BUFFET 3030 STATE STREET Chicago, Ill., Sept. 13, 1917. State of Illinois, County of Cook, ss. NOTICE OF PARDON. IN THE MATTER OF WILLIAM SMITH: Please take notice that William Smith, now incarcerated in the Illinois State Penitentiary, Joliet, Will County, under the charge of kidnapping, for the term of 10 years, will present his petition to the Board of Commissioners sitting at Springfield, Ill., to the October term. --- --- PETER H. Phone Douglass 5308 DAN M. JACKSON GEO. T. KERSEY DAVID A. McGOWAN AHMED A. RAYNER Reliable Service USSELMANN ler and Optometrist State Street Chicago & Eastern Illinois R. R. D DIRECTORS Phones Calumet 6164 Automatic 71-629 Courteous Treatment Single Prices IN CONNECTION Automobiles for Hire NES' PLACE UP-TO-DATE FE on the South Entertainers. JONES, Proprietor Towel and Medicine Closet. A good idea for a towel and medicine closet or cabinet in two bathrooms which have a common wall is to divide the one closet space into third laterally. The upper third forms the two shallow medicine closets, back to back, with a mirrored door in each bathroom. The other two-thirds extend through the depth of the closet and are used for towels. Each of these divisions opens into one of the bathrooms. Learning and Forgetting. The sad defect about the progress of the human race is that while we are occupied in learning one thing we are almost always engaged in forgetting another. Chicago, III CHICAGO DOUGLAS 3871 Phones DOUGLAS 3254 AUTO. 72-378 CHICAGO