The Broad Ax

THE BROAD AX The United States Supreme Court, the Majority of Its Members Being Dyed in the Wool Democrats, Has Handed Down a Decision to the Effect That the Segregation Laws or Ordinances of Baltimore, Maryland; Richmond, Virginia; St. Louis, Missouri; Louisville, Kentucky, and Many Other Southern Cities Are Unconstitutional THE SUPREME COURT WAS UNANIMOUS IN ITS OPINION ON THAT PROPOSITION AND ITS DECISION TO SAY THE LEAST WILL BE FAR-REACHING G IN ITS EFFECT. IT SIMPLY PROVES OVER AND OVER AGAIN THAT WHICH HAS BEEN STATED IN THESE COLUMNS IN THE PAST, NAMELY: THAT THE TEN MILLION COLORED PEOPLE IN THIS COUNTRY HAVE PERMITTED THEMSELVES TO SOUNDLY SLEEP ON THEIR CIVIL AND POLITICAL RIGHTS—THAT IF THEY WOULD LUMP A SMALL PORTION OF THEIR MONEY TOGETHER, THEY WOULD FINALLY SUCCEED IN KNOCKING OUT ALL "JIM CROW" LEGISLATION WHICH HAS BEEN ENACTED BY THE VARIOUS SOUTHERN STATES TO RETARD THEIR PROGRESS. THE JUDICIAL FUSION DEMOCRATIC AND REPUBLICAN TICKET WON OUT AT THE POLLS IN COOK COUNTY ON TUESDAY FROM TOP TO BOTTOM. MR. A. H. ROBERTS WILL SADLY LEARN BEFORE HE GETS TO THE END OF HIS ROPE THAT MESSRS. WRIGHT, ANDERSON & CO. ARE FEEDING HIM COLD SOUP WITH A LONG, SLIPPERY HANDLED SPOON AND THEY WILL NEVER PERMIT HIM TO BE ELECTED TO THE LEGISLATURE FROM THE THIRD SENATORIAL DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS. Vol. XXIII. The United bers H Down or Or ginia; Other THE SUPREME COURT WAS CISION TO SAY THE LEAST WILL OVER AGAIN THAT WHICH HAS THAT THE TEN MILLION O TO SOUNDLY SLEEP ON THEIR O PORTION OF THEIR MONEY TOGRE CROW" LEGISLATION WHICH HAS THEIR PROGRESS. THE JUDICIAL FUSION DEM COOK COUNTY ON TUESDAY FRI MR. A. H. ROBERTS WILL S MESSRS. WRIGHT, ANDERSON & C SPOON AND THEY WILL NEVER THIRD SENATORIAL DISTRICT OF The members of the United States Supreme Court, the majority of whom are dyeed-in-the-wool Democrats, opened the eyes of the people residing in all parts of the cilivized world the first of this week, at which time that august court handed down an unanimous opinion to the effect that the Louisville, Ky., segregation law or ordinance is invalid—that the segregation laws or ordinances of Baltimore, Md., Richmond, Va., St. Louis, Mo.,—similar laws or ordinances of many of the other Southern cities are null and void and unconstitutional. The Supreme Court went on to state in its far-reaching opinion that the drawing of "the color line must be barred," that the measure which prohibited persons of either race moving into blocks in which a majority of residents were of the opposite color, is similar to ordinances now in effect in St. Louis, Baltimore, Richmond and many other southern cities. Such laws, the court decided, would not prevent the amalgamation of the races, as was claimed by the Louisville authorities, or prevent race conflicts. Desirable as this is and important as is the preservation of the public peace, said the opinion, this aim cannot be accomplished by laws or ordinances which deny rights created or protected by the federal constitution. The members of the Supreme Court in its latest decision has dealt all kinds of "Jim Crow" legislation a staggering blow and the narrow minded race prejudice ridden whites residing throughout the southland will never be able to completely recover from its effect. Right WOMEN IN WAR A woman war worker submits the following editorial: "A few weeks ago one of our finest women died suddenly. The family physician told the household that the beloved lady had died of overwork. She was full of love for humankind and she had labored too well for the poor, the sick, the orphans, and the brave men in France. Why was the sacrifice necessary? "Because for 100 devoted women tolling without recompense day and night there are 1,000 slackers who live but for themselves and the moment's pleasure. Because for a dozen women making surgical dressings there are 300 in the next room playing bridge for silken cushions and gewgaws of silver. Because for two who knit day in and day out on the sweaters for our boys 'over there' we see twenty who have knitted for Sister Sue and grandmother and the baby and themselves. "A girl, not so very young either, went with a party of friends to see a certain camp where the boys were shivering in the bitter lake wind. The guide delegated to show them about was so --- here it can be truthfully stated namely, that for more than twenty years in season and out of season, through the columns of this paper, we have manfully and courageously urged the ten million Colored people in this country to wake up from their long sleeping or smoring spell and lump a very small portion of their money together and expend it for legal services of several of the best and most eminent White and Colored lawyers in this country that money can obtain and fight and contend in all the higher courts in the land against the constitutionality of all the "Jim Crow" legislation which has been from time to time enacted by the various southern states for the sole purpose of retarding the progress or the onward march of the Colored race. One step further, the Colored people of Louisville, Ky., have covered themselves all over with everlasting honor and undying glory in leading off in the long legal fight or battle against segregation and "Jim Crowism" and the members of the Supreme Court have far beyond a reasonable doubt amply proven that they are true blue, red blooded Americans—that no state, city or town within the sisterhood of states has the moral right to enact any legislation affecting the civil or the political status of its citizens which come in conflict with the broad laws of the United States. To the end of time the Colored people throughout this broad land should never tire in singing the very highest praise of the Supreme Court for possessing the courage to deal "Jim Crow" legislation a far-reaching sledge-hammer chilled he could not keep his teeth from chattering, yet she knitted cheerfully every moment on a lemon yellow sweater with a purple stripe. It is a common sight on the cars, this knitting of disloyalty, but we had thought it would not daunt itself at the camps. "In one of our best tearooms the waitress asked how many lumps we liked in our tea. The request for such information was so strange there that we asked the reason. The answer was that the sugar bowls were no longer allowed on the tables, because, since the grocers limited the amount of sugar purchased, the women had been dumping the contents of the bowl into their purses while awaiting their order. "Our grocer tells us that more women order meat on Tuesdays than on any other day, and that bread orders on Wednesdays are unusually heavy. He is cynical about it and says the only way to manage the matter is by bread and meat cards. "In one room alone in this city, a room in a large department store, women play bridge week after week from 2 in the afternoon till half past 8 at night for silly prizes. The man in charge of the department never reaches his home before 10 those nights, because CHICAGO, NOVEMBER 10, 1917 Supreme Court in the W n to the Eff of Baltimore Missouri; I Cities Are THAT PROPOSITION AND ITS DE- CT. IT SIMPLY PROVES OVER AND INS IN THE PAST, NAMELY: ERY HAVE PERMITTED THEMSELVES THAT IF THEY WOULD LUMP A SMALL RECEED IN KNOCKING OUT ALL "JIM US SOUTHERN STATES TO RETARD ET WON OUT AT THE POLLS IN TO THE END OF HIS ROPE THAT WITH A LONG, SLIPPERY HANDLED O THE LEGISLATURE FROM THE blow, which has caused it to reel and stagger like unto a drunken southern clay-eater or erracker Jack. The fusion Democratic and Republican judicial ticket was more than successful and each and every man on it was elected with handsome majorities to their credit. The following gentlemen were re-elected and elected judges of the Superior and the Circuit Courts. Superior Court judges follow: M. L. McKinley, D.; Denis E. Sullivan, D.; Joseph B. David, D.; Joseph H. Fitch, D.; Henry Guerin, D.; Jacob H. Hopkins, D.; Albert C. Barnes, R.; Charles M. Foell, R.; Oscar Hebel, R.; M. A. Kavanagh, R.; W. H. McSurely, R.; Hugo Pam, R. Frank Johnston, Jr., and Anton T. Zeman were elected to fill the two vacancies in the Circuit court. Mr. A. H. Roberts, who is foolish enough to believe that his political aspirations or ambition to become a great statesman at Springfield are perfectly safe in the hands of Edward H. Wright, the boss stud poker player, who was recently arrested, convicted and fined in an open court of record for gambling, and Louis B. Anderson and Co., but when Mr. Roberts wakes up from his long false dream he will learn long before he arrives at the end of his rope those false political leaders are and will continue to feed him cold soup with a long, tricky or slippery handled spoon, and at no stage of the political game will permit him to be elected to the Legislature from the Third senatorial district of Illinois. his employer sees fit to let them stay. Our men are on the firing line, we cannot get enough bandages made to save them when they are wounded, we cannot knit fast enough to keep them warm when the snow comes—or before—yet they play bridge to win a bonbon dish or a pickle fork! Would they listen if you spoke to them? Ah, no, it's time to begin the game. Between plays they can finish these sweaters for Jane and Mamie in time for Christmas, and anyway the game must not be interrupted. PLAY!'' THE CARTER-DORSEY WEDDING. The middle of last week Miss Maude E. Carter, was united in marriage to Dr. J. S. Dorsey, the druggist, 2701 S. Dearborn street. Rev. Williams, pastor of Olivet Baptist Church, tied the wedding knot good and tight. Dr. and Mrs. Dorsey will, for the present, reside in the rear of his drug store and settle right down to business. The happy couple are receiving the congratulations of their many friends: Dr. Dorsey is one of the head officials of Olivet Baptist Church and he stands high in the estimation of its pastor and its members. court, the M Wool Dem ect That t re, Maryland Louisville, N Unconstit Re-elected Judge of Evident on Elect His Fellow Men NOTES ON RACIAL PROGRESS. Reported by the National Negro Business League. The Local Negro Business League of New Orleans was reorganized recently and put on a more solid foundation. Hon. Walter L. Cohen was elected president to fill the place of the late Mr. Dejoie. A number of committees were appointed, including one to co-operate with the National Farm and Live Stock Show, which will be held in New Orleans in November. A permanent meeting place was established and campaign inaugurated to increase membership. During the recent meeting of the American Bankers' Association, which was held in Atlantic City, N. J., Mr. John Mitchell, Jr., the only Negro member of the Association, presented a very fine paper on "Thrift Among the Negro Race." His paper contains some very valuable information on the economic progress of the race. The Baptist Vanguard, published at Little Rock, Ark., recently published an editorial urging the organization of Local Negro Business Leagues throughout the country to "Increase the prestige and progress of the race." Negroes of Houlka, Miss., have organized a banking union, which has for its purpose the encouragement of larger production and conservation on Negro farms. Each member in good Mafik Re-elected Judge of the Superior Court for Another Term of Six Years, and It Was Evident on Election Day That He Still Occupied a Warm Spot in the Hearts of His Fellow Men Residing in Cook County. HON. HUGO PAM the Superior Court for Another Term of Si- on Day That He Still Occupied a Warm S Residing in Cook County. standing must increase his bank balance every year. Prizes are offered for rai- ing and selling products and saving money. Wallace A. Battle is president. A thought for the week: "Advertis- ing for good will works in one of two ways—it makes men come to you to buy instead of your going to them to sell; or it makes selling easier if you go to them to sell. In either case, it is very much worth while. It is like soap; it isn't there when the blanket is washed, but it has done it's work."—Printers Ink. Houghton Mifflin Company, publ- ers, of Boston, Mass., have recently issued a school edition of "Up From Slavery," and are instituting a campa- aign to place this book in both white and colored schools throughout the country. The Christian Recorder, published at Philadelphia, has invited Negro organizations throughout the country to observe the second Negro Literature Week the third week in December. For information concerning the National Negro Business League and its purposes, write Emmett J. Scott, secretary, Tuskegee Institute, Alabama. Charles E. Morrison, special messenger to His Honor, Mayor William Hale Thompson, is laying mighty low and sawing wood in these days of so much political strife and the war and all he is doing is to look wise, hold his breath and attend to his official duties. No.8 COMPLETE PLANS FOR NEGEO DIVISION IN U. S. Washington—Special.—Following the announcement of the selection of Brigadier General C. C. Ballou as commanding officer of the Colored division of the national army which is to be organized, the War Department today announced the appointment of regimental commanders for four infantry, three artillery and one engineer units to comprise the division. Colonels of the regular army have been selected for regiment commanders. The formation of the regiments and their commands are as follows: Infantry Regiments, from Rockford, Ill.; Des Moines, Iowa; Yaphank, N. Y., and Annapolis Junction—Colonels Vernon A. Caldwell, Ross L. Bush, James A. Moss and W. P. Jackson. Three Field Artillery Regiments, Wrightstown, N. J., and Annapolis Junction—Colonels Dan T. Moore, Fred T. Auston and William E. Cole. Engineers, Chillicothe, O.—Colonel E. I. Brown. The War Department will furnish white officers above the rank of captain to officer the division. NEGRO KILLS HIS WIPE, THEN SHOOTS HIMSELF. Steven Verriet, fifty-five years old, shot and killed his wife, Maude, thirty-eight, then committed suicide by shooting himself in the right temple, early last Saturday in their room at 3145 Calumet avenue. Both are colored. Verriet is a laborer. [Image of a man's face with a white shirt and a black tie]. THE WORLD'S FIRST FOREIGN POLITician HON CLARENCE S. DARROW The Able Lawyer and Brilliant Orator, Who Will Be the Leading Speaker at the Big Meeting at Bethel Church on Sunday Evening. BIG MEETING TO BE HELD UNDER THE AUSPICES OF THE NEIGHBORHOOD COMMITTEE OF THE STATE COUNCIL OF DEFENSE AT BETHEL CHURCH, SUNDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 11—HON. CLARENCE S. DARROW, THE RE-NOWNED ORATOR, WILL BE THE LEADING SPEAKER. This reversal of the process of segregation was decided upon by Archbishop Mundelein, whose order barring all white folks from St. Monica's Mission at Thirty-sixth and Dearborn streets went into effect Monday. The fathers of the Society of the Divine Word, who have an institution at Techny, took charge of the parish This coming Sunday evening, November 11th, a big patriotic meeting will be held at Bethel Church, 30th and Dearborn streets, under the auspices of the Neighborhood Committee of the State Council of Defense. Hon. Clarence S. Darrow, one of the most eminent lawyers and eloquent orators in this section of the country, will be the leading speaker. Major Robert R. Jackson will follow Mr. Darrow. Mr. A. H. Roberts will preside. The following program will be rendered: America; invocation, W. D. Cook, D.R.; introductory remarks, Adelbert H. Roberts; address, Hon. Robert R. Jackson; music, Bethel choir; address, Clarence S. Darrow; "Battle Hymn of Republic"; benediction. BAR WHITES AT NEGEO CHURCH Dedicating a church to the exclusive use of Negroes by the simple process of barring all other races from it was one of the many activities of Archbishop Mundelein this week. He also put the responsibility for the support and management of the church flatly and wholly up to the Colored people, who, he declared, have as great a duty and as good a chance to build up their own institutions as any other race or nationality. in stray and out of control 1920 One of the Newly Elected Judges of the Superior Court of Cook County, Who Is Bound to Make Good as One of the Honorable Judges of This Community. PAGE TWO This reversal of the process of segregation was decided upon by Archbishop Mundelein, whose order barring all white folks from St. Monica's Mission at Thirty-sixth and Dearborn streets went into effect Monday. The fathers of the Society of the Divine Word, who have an institution at Techny, IN., took charge of the parish. In his order directing the Fathers from Techny to assume charge of the parish, the Archbishop said: "I desire St. Monica's to be reserved entirely for the Colored Catholies of Chicago and particularly of the South Side; all other Catholies of whatever race or color are to be requested not to intrude." [The above information is freely published without comment.—Editor.] NEGRO DOCTOR CONVICTED OF KILLING WHITE WOMAN. Parrone, Kana.-Robert Smith, young Negro physician, charged with killing Mrs. Ass Smith, a white woman, by pouring acid down her throat, was found guilty of first-degree murder late last night by a jury in the District Court, here. The maximum sentence is life imprisonment. According to testimony, Mrs. Smith, a few hours before her death, told the County Attorney the Negro accused her of coming between him and her husband. The Negro had been befriended by Ass Smith, the woman's husband, who is wealthy, and who provided money for his education. Rev. G. H. McDaniel, president of the Enterprise Institute, 3800 Vineennes avenue, returned home Tuesday morning from a successful lecture tour through Iowa, and, as the old saying goes, he brought back some bacon with him. THE BROAD AX. CHICAGO, NOVEMBER 10, 1917 Death of Justin M. Holland, of New Orleans, La., Who Was One of the Best Known Colored Men in That Section of the Country. Special to the Broad Ax By V. P. Thomas, Staff Correspondent. The greatest loss by the race in recent years in this part of the country was the loss it suffered in the recent death of Justin M. Holland. The loss was the greatest by reason of the fact that Mr. Holland had for sixteen years held the most important position in the customs district of New Orleans. It was the position around which all customs matters passed in review, whether inward or outward bound, whether of vast importance or of minor importance. It was the position from which or to which every first step in custom affairs was taken and it was the one to which the last step in customs transactions found itself. Customs collectors came and customs collectors left under changes of national administrations, but Justin M. Holland remained always in his position in actual charge of the affairs, directing things just the same as if there was no change in the personnel of the customs service. Mr. Holland first entered the customs service in 1871, when he was 23 years old. He was born in Cleveland, Ohio, where he graduated in the high school course of that city and went to the West Indies Islands, coming to New Orleans to live in 1868. He became a clerk of a committee in the legislature of Louisiana during the earlier days of the Reconstruction period, where his duties brought him in contact with the leading lights of the state and where he remained until he entered the customs service. He rose from one position to another until he became deputy collector of customs in charge of the main desk in the service. He possessed great capacity for mastering details and a most remarkable ability for executive business. In fact, the collectors or heads of the departments had little more than to put their signatures to the papers to do as their parts in the main DON'T NEGLECT YOUR HEALTH Tuberculosis, "the great white plague," kills and wounds more people than any other one disease. Most of the deaths from tuberculosis occur between the ages of 25 to 45. Tuberculosis is contagious. One person who is sick with it may give it to all the other members of the family. It can be cured, if taken in time, but that time is very early. Don't wait until you are sick in bed, or spit blood—if will be too late then. If you always feel tired, if you are under weight for your height, if you have a cough all the time, or get colds one right after the other, go to the nearest tuberculosis dispensary and get examined. It will cost you nothing and it may save your life. The City of Chicago Municipal Tuberculosis Sanitarium and its dispensaries are free to everyone who lives in Chicago. There are eight dispensaries, located at— Sedgwick street, 1367 Sedgwick street; Ashland avenue, 10 South Ashland avenue; Racine avenue, 1215 South Bacine avenue; Stock Yards, 738 West Forty-seventh street; Grand Crossing, 942 East Seventy-fifth street; Northwest, 1360 North Ashland avenue; Wabash avenue, 4746 Wabash avenue; South Side, 2950 Calumet avenue. They are open every week day from 9:00 to 4:00 p. m. to admit patients, except Saturday, when they close at noon. Dispensaries are also open Tuesday and Friday evenings for workers, from 7:00 to 9:00 o'clock. SKIM MILK AS POOD. Although skim milk is recognized as having great value in feeding animals, the United States Department of Agriculture points out that its value as human food should be kept in mind. By substituting grain, green feed, buttermilk, and whey in animal feeding, much skim milk may be left for human use as a beverage, in cooking, condensing, or for making cottage cheese. Only the surplus of this valuable human food should be fed to stock. While skim milk is good for stock, the fact remains that its highest efficiency cannot be had through turning it into meat. Skim milk is used most economically in animal production when fed to hogs, yet it takes twenty pounds when fed alone to produce one pound of pork. The same quantity will make three pounds of cottage cheese. In addition, cottage cheese contains one and one-half times as much protein and one-third as much energy as pork, so that the skim milk in the cheese form gives quite as much energy and four and one-half times as much protein as if would if converted into ham or bacon. Even at the highest prices recently paid for hogs, skim milk fed to them is worth not more than one cent a pound. Yet one cent a pound, or approximately one cent a pint, is very cheap for any human food, and particularly for a food so high in nutritive value as skim milk. office of the customs work, Mr. Holland being depended on to get everything in shape for execution. His versatility in customs affairs was so evident that every one with a doubt as to procedure went to Mr. Holland for advice, feeling it the safest course to take. Mr. Holland thus in every way deserved the respect paid him by the high and the low during the 16 years he filled the main position in the service here. And as secretary of the local board of U. S. Civil Service Examiners, which Mr. Holland filled for 23 years, he proved to be just the man for the work. When the duties of deputy collector became heavier and required all the attention one efficient man could give to it, Mr. Holland let the Civil Service Commission know that it was not possible for him longer to fill the position and urged the appointment of some one else. The commission was reluctant, but the fact that Mr. Holland would stand ready to give the board advice, his request to be relieved of secretary work was finally complied with. Mr. Holland declined to accept President Roosevelt's offer to him of the position of naval officer of this port, preferring to remain deputy collector where changes of administration at Washington does not affect the appointee and where he could continue to serve his country and his race. Mr. Holland was never married, leaving at his death two devoted sisters and a brother. He was always either at home or at the office, his office hours being from 10 o'clock in the morning to 11 o'clock at night every day of the year. He seemed to be the most necessary man in the service. Every branch of the service sent floral offerings to his home on learning of his death. Mr. Holland had been away from the office only 10 days when he died. His body was taken to Milwankee, Wis., for cremation. INCIDENT IN BOND DRIVE PATRIOTIC AND PATHETIC, TOO. One of the most patriotic incidents today in connection with the Liberty Bond drive was the appearance of a Colored woman 79 years old, who came to the Liberty Bond headquarters and asked how she could help the country. "I am old, as you see," she said. "My hands are hard and unable to knit," she continued, displaying hands that had worked hard through the years. "And my eyesight is not as good as it used to be. I am too feeble to be a nurse. But I sure would like to help Uncle Sam in this war." Then one of the committee explained to her that she could buy a Liberty Bond by making a small payment and the remainder in installments. It was explained to her that the bonds were a good investment and that they would pay her a liberal interest. 'Honey, I ain't interested in that. I just want to help the soldier boys in some way,' was her comment. Then from a deep pocket she drew out a large envelope. In this was a smaller one and within the latter a check book. Handing the book to one of the clerks of the bank the old woman asked that he write a cheek for $3,500 worth of Liberty Bonds. At first the men at headquarters gasped. Then they cheered and praised the practical kind of patriotism that is the backbone of the nation. "Later I want to buy another $3,500," concluded the woman who asked that her name be withheld, as she wanted no publicity.—From the Evening Express, Los Angeles, Cal., Oct. 29, 1917. [Our old friend, Noah D. Thompson, induced the old Colored lady to invest some of her money in Liberty Bonds.—Editor.] SPLENDID CHANCE FOR TWO HUNDRED COLORED WOMEN TO LEARN DRESSMAKING FREE Call at the Enterprise Institute, 3800 Vincenes avenue, if you want a position as dressmaker or practical seamstress. We will give you very easy terms and you can pay most of the tuition after you get to work. We can place two hundred women. Be sure to cal and investigate. Phone Douglas 9034. Rev. G. H. McDaniel, President. UNIVERSITY CLUB If you wish to enjoy a pleasant Sunday afternoon program come out to the University Club parlors at 5300 Wabash avenue, Sunday, November 11th, 4:30 p.m. The study of Negro authors and Bounds and Races of Men (the latter conducted by Mrs. Edwin B. Beckwith) have proved intensely interesting. Visitors always welcome. [Picture of a man in a suit with a tie]. HON. CHARLES M. FOELL Re-elected Judge of the Superior Court for Ranks with the Best and the Superior Court for Another Term the Best and the Brainiest Judges in Re-elected Judge of the Superior Court for Another Term of Six Years, Who Easily Ranks with the Best and the Brainiest Judges in Cook County. Re-elected Judge of the Superior Court for Another Term of Six Years, Who Easily Ranks with the Best and the Brainiest Judges in Cook County. SIX COLORED NURSES GRADUATED FROM PROVIDENT HOSPITAL Sunshine Rescue Mission. Phone Calumet 5915. 2830 S. State St. H. Franklin Bray. Sumt. Madam M. Callaway-Byron the Celebrated International Golden Throated Song Bird Sang Two Selections. Monday evening graduating exercises were held at Bethel Church, 30th and Dearborn streets, and six young Colored nurses received their diplomas, after undergoing a thorough training at Provident Hospital. It can be said to the great credit of that institution that since its foundation, well on to seventy-five trained nurses have gone forth from it, to administer to the sick and the afflicted in all parts of the world. The following were the graduates who received their diplomas on Monday evening: Grace Margaret Martin, Wisconsin; Willa O. Evans, Missouri; Garnet McGhee, Illinois; Frances M. Foulker, Indiana; Evangeline O. Pruett, Michigan; Katherine S. Harrison, Canada. It will be noted that only one of the graduates is a resident of the great state of Illinois. Madam M. Calaway-Byron, who has sung before the crowned heads of Europe, rendered two selections for the occasion and received the hearty applause of those who attended the graduating exercises. Mrs. Irene Lewis, 3633 Forest avenue, is again working day and night and she is some hustler for Oscar De Priest for alderman of the Second Ward. The New York Times THE NEW YORK TIMES SALVATORE HON. JAMES H. LAWLEY One of the most valuable trustees of the Sanitary Dis greater political honors in store for him, for he is an the trustees of the Sanitary District is in store for him, for he is an u One of the most valuable trustees of the Sanitary District of Chicago, who has greater political honors in store for him, for he is an un-to-date business man or Another Term of Six Years, Who Easily rainiest Judges in Cook County. Sunshine Rescue Mission. Phone Calumet 5915. 2830 S. State St. H. Franklin Bray, Supt. Rev. H. P. Jackson of Birmingham, Ala., preached a very splendid sermon Sunday evening. Two stalwart men whose lives had enhanced the cause of unrighteousness very vitally, were happily converted and added to the ever increasing number of the Rescue Home's redeemed. Mrs. Hattie Jones, Viola Johnson and M. D. Early officiated during the illness of Dr. Bray. After being absent from his post of duty for more than a week because of the la gripte, all are glad to see Dr. Bray out again. The Mission needs clothing, shoes, furniture, bedding and money, won't you help? Services every night at 8 o'clock and Sundays at 3 and 8 p. m.—'C.' THE THEOSOPHICAL SOCIETY. Those who feel they would like to better understand life and truth itself, as well as the study of philosophy, religion and science, are cordially invited to attend the public lectures of the Theosophical Society held at the home of Attorney and Mrs. H. B. Gaines, 5827 Wentworth avenue, every first and third Sunday, 7 o'clock p. m. H. A. Watkins continues to meet with success in the real estate business at 3510 Indiana avenue and as he is a warm admirer of former Alderman Oscar De Priest, he feels dead sure of his calling and re-election. MASS IN MASSW Sanitary District of Chicago, who has in, for he is an up-to-date business man. THE LATE BOOKER T. WASHINGTON The Father and the Founder of the Far Famed Tuskegee Institution Was Ushered Into This World in Virginia in 1858 and When at His Beautiful Home, The "Oaks," November 14, 1915. The Father and the Founder of the Far Famed Tuskegee Institute, Alabama, Who Was Ushered Into This World in Virginia in 1858 and Who Departed from It at His Beautiful Home, The "Oaks," November 14, 1915. The Father and the Founder of the Far Famed Tuskegee Institute, Alabama, Who Was Ushered Into This World in Virginia in 1858 and Who Departed from It at His Beautiful Home, The "Oaks," November 14, 1915. THE RED CAP MEN AT THE 12TH STREET STATION-ILLINOIS (By Juan Wyatte Bell.) Mr. W. H. Jones, who has for several months been ill and also underwent an optic operation, has returned to work. Many patrons of the Big Four frequently inquired of him while he was off. Mr. Chester Wilkins and his mother gave an entertainment at their residence, 3349 Forest avenue, last Wednesday evening for the benefit of the Improvement Club of Quinn Chapel. An elaborate dinner and Mr. Wilkins' entertaining pleased the guests. Mr. and Mrs. J. O. Davis were among those present and report an exceptionally enjoyable evening. Mr. Benjamin Ferguson returned from California last Saturday. He spent three weeks sight seeing through the state. Mr. and Mrs. Edward Fry attended the hallowe'en entertainment given by Mrs. Daniels, 6420 Champlain avenue, for the benefit of Bethesda Baptist Church. Mr. Fry left Tuesday afternoon for Detroit, Mich. Mr. Eugene Bowman and William Perguson returned Monday from Kansas City, Kan., and St. Louis, Me. The I. C. ushers' private car, trainmen and Pullman porters are making a concerted effort for the benefit of Provident Hospital. Sandy W. Trice, chief usher, is working like a Trojan for this fund. Mr. W. L. Clark and Mr. Jesse Waters returned to the city last Tuesday. They have spent the past two weeks in the larger cities of the Southland. Mr. Clark does not feel so well, but thinks that the cool weather will greatly tend to round him to normal health. Mr. George Brown was unable to report for duty last Tuesday because of a severe sore throat. He is improving and will be in line soon. Mr. E. G. Jordan returned from St. Louis last Tuesday. He was a delegate representing St. Paul C. M. E. Church, this city, to the annual conference which convened there. Rev. W. Y. Bell, of Evanston, and Dr. J. A. Winters, of St. Paul, were returned to their former charges. They report a grand conference. Mr. Sandy W. Trice, president of Bethel Literary, postponed last Sunday's meeting on account of funeral and other services which were quite lengthy. He explained that the speakers, Mr. James Hale Porter and Mrs. Joanna Snowden Porter, would not have time to do justice to their subjects as the literary closes promptly at six o'clock, but was glad to announce that the speakers will address us next Sunday at 4 p. m. Everybody welcome. Mrs. Nannie Mitchem will furnish good music. Mrs. A. D. Brown spent several days in Milwaukee last week. She returned to her home last Monday. Mrs. J. R. Williams, from Wildwood, N.J. is visiting her sister and brother-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. James Evans, . . . --- ```markdown ``` --- Famed Tuskegee Institute, Alabama, Who Virginia in 1858 and Who Departed from It November 14, 1915. 3422 Wabash avenue. Mrs. Williams is considering leasing her New Jersey property to the United States Government. Mr. Thomas Wagner, of Webster Grove, Mo., was in the city last Wednesday. He is a former resident of this city. To the surprise of his many friends on the job, Mr. Allen Thomas brought a gloom over the left glim. Mr. Joe Taylor will leave for New York City next Saturday where he will reside in the future. GUARDS AVERT ARMY RACE RIOT. Negro Soldiers Aroused by Rumor of Comrade Being Lynched. Montgomery, Ala., Nov. 8.—Quick work by the military police early tonight, coupled with the determination of Maj. John C. Fulton, commander of the Tenth training battalion, prevented probably serious trouble when some Negro soldiers became excited over the report that one of their comrades had been captured by a mob and was being taken away in an automobile. For a time it appeared there was danger of a race riot, but the military police took the situation in hand and at midnight everything was quiet. The trouble started when Jim Long, a Negro chauffeur, was arrested after running into a white woman. Long was taken to the police station and released on bond, but the Negro soldiers heard that "a soldier is being taken out to be lynched," and started out to the rescue. Amnesty 20 Negro soldiers. Military police went to the center of the disturbance and sent about seventy of the soldiers to headquarters for interrogation. They were later sent to camp under guard. C. Ramage reported to the police that Negro troops had searched his automobile while he was driving near the city with his wife and son, and that the "soldiers roundly cursed" him. "It is deplorable that this thing happened," Maj. Fulton said tonight, "and the trouble will be thrashed to the bottom." Weave Web in Houston Trial San Antonio, Tex., Nov. 8.—A witness who received fifty-seven wounds at the hands of Negro rioters and escaped, another who picked up a canteen cup which may lead to identification of a rioter, and a third who positively identified Sergt. Henry, afterward killed, as one of the leaders of the Negro soldiers of the Twenty-fourth infantry in their march toward Houston the night of Aug. 23, testified this afternoon at the court martial of sixty three Negroes charged with murder, mutiny and rioting. Corporal Foreman, a 21-year-old Texas youth, sat upon a cot and told of his almost miraculous escape from death at the hands of the rioters. He drove the car in which rode Capt. J. W. Mattes of Chicago, who was slain. 500 DRAFTED NEIGEOS MISSING AT SHERMAN. Chillicothe, O. Special.—A search will be started at once for about 500 Negro drafted men from western Pennsylvania, Ohio and Oklahoma who failed to present themselves. Camp Sherman officials said: Most of these men are from Oklahoma. . . . THE BROAD AX, CHICAGO, NOVEMBER 10. 1917 The Political Situation BY BEAUREGARD F. MOSELEY. The daily press of Chicago, and we might say of the country, have put to some disadvantage the common, ordinary, every-day American. The cry by the press that the election for judges in this city and mayor in New York was a fight between loyal and disloyal Americans was not warranted by the facts, and since the election these papers must feel a blush of shame, for if their statements are true, this city has a surprisingly large disloyal vote in it. So large that it would have beaten either the Republicans or Democrats, had these two parties not combined, for the Socialist vote, branded "disloyal" by the press, was 82,648 and the Independent vote about 4,384, making a total "disloyal" vote of 86,996, and conceding that the Democrats and Republicans would have split even on their 154,918 votes, it would have left a plurality in favor of the Socialists, or "disloyalists" of 9,537 votes over either of them. The writer cannot bring himself to believe loyalty or disloyalty had anything to do with the election of the judges in Chicago or with the mayor in New York. It was a cheap attempt to commercialize patriotism, and make of it a political asset, which the press sold to every gullible party leader, and in doing so injured the cause of the Republicans and Democrats and of the American people in branding those who opposed their program as "disloyal." Such men as A. D. Gash, Will B. Moak, Wm. Friedman, Seymour Stedman, Leopold Saltiel and Wm. A. Cunnea should not be branded as "disloyal" citizens solely because they had ambition and sought to become judges. A splendid ticket has been elected. Good men have won retention on the bench. But their defeat would not have been disastrous by any means, for opposing them were men who could have and would have made good. As to the election in New York, Tammany swept stakes with Judge John F. Hylan of Kings county, by a plurality of 145,000 over the "loyal candidate, Mitchel," as the newspapers have termed him. T. is, I think, what beat him. Had they put up a fight between Tammany and the decent people, the decent people would have won, but when they branded every man who voted for Hylan as "disloyal" and a "traitor to the country," the people who would have voted for Mitchel, voted against him to resent the insult; hence, Hylan, by 145,000 and the Socialists polling an unheard of vote and electing ten city aldermen and about five members of the legislature. The press will have itself to blame if these Socialists elected throughout the country prove disastrous to the governmental scheme, for their election would have been impossible had the press kept silent as to them, instead of boosting them and having it appear that a vote for them was a protest against the war conditions. In this city the Socialists accepted the gauntlet as thus thrown down and polled a greater vote than the Democrats or Republicans. The press should now become sane and present men and measures to the country upon their merit and not upon the theory of loyalty or disloyalty. There are no disloyal Americans. There cannot be, but men may differ as how best to serve their country, and this difference should not be branded as disloyal, if the purpose is to benefit and not in injury. OBRITT GOB REK CACO DEKTET CAPTAIN ADAM E. PATTERSON One of the Head Captains of the 365th U. S. Infantry, St. Rockford, Illinois, Who Is Ready to Do Some Tall Fight the Trenches in France. One of the Head Captains of the 365th U. S. Infantry, Stationed e: Camp Grant, Rockford, Illinois, Who Is Reedy to Do Some Tall Fighting for His Country in the Trenches in France. --- . . . . . . The Election A Ray of Hope for Whiskey and the Republics. The wets win in Ohio. That means that the pendulum is swinging whiskeyward. The Republicans carried New York state and elected Merten E. Lewis attorney general by over 80,000. One of the surprises was the landslide of the G. O. P. in Louisville, Kentucky, where Geo. W. Smith, Republican, was elected over Mr. Chas. H. Cronan. This surprise, however, was equalled by the triumph of Wm. O. Atwood over his Democratic opponent as mayor of Baltimore, Md.; Chas. W. Jewett, Republican, won the mayoral honors in Indianapolis, Ind., over Miller, Democrat, and Shanks, Home-Rule-Republican. East St. Louis, of riot fame, went on record for a commission form of government. There will be no more mayors and chief of police and other creatures to wink at the law and charge it to the mayor, for there will be none in East St. Louis for the next two years. Colored women are registering throughout the city with their sisters, for war service. Suffrage won in New York. Aldermanic Election. The aldermanic election was running so strong in the 2nd ward, until but few of the citizens could stem the tide and make it to the polls on election day. Hence a very light vote. Our letter last week concerning the Hon. Geo. W. Dixon for congressman seems to have stirred up a hornet's nest in some quarters. It is now conceded that S. B. Turner will try on the gloves with Representative Lucas for legislative honors in 1918, and the wise ones say Turner has a cinch. Betting is two to one that DePriest will carry more precincts west of Indiana avenue than any other candidate aspiring for alderman. Major R. R. Jackson is doing some tall hustling, corraling the ladies' votes. The major was always a favorite with the fair sex. Edw. H. Wright and the County Bar Association held a very interesting session at the Hotel Idlewild, Monday night, last, and besides endorsing the regular sitting judges for re-election, devised plans for furnishing legal talent to defend Dr. Bundy, now in jail at Belleville for rioting. We shall deal next week with the Constitutional Convention, the prospects of a Colored congressman and the possible primary winners in the aldermanic contest. Don't fail to get this paper if you wish to keep in touch with current political events. THE ANNUAL ESSAY CONTEST WILL BE HELD THIS YEAR AT ST. MARK'S CHURCH, FIETIETH STREET AND WABASH AVENUE. Dr. Louie Usselmann Will Donate Two Diamond Rings to the Lucky Contestants Sunday afternoon, December 16th, the annual essay contest will be held at St. Mark's Church, Fifthieth street and Wabash avenue, and as it has been its custom for many years in the past, Dr. Louie Usselmann, the popular and up-to-date jeweler at 3150 S. State street, will donate two diamond rings, one gent's and one lady's, to the successful winners in the contest. The rings are now on exhibition at his establishment, 3150 S. State street. LOF REM J. S. Infantry, Stationed a: Camp Grant, to Some Tall Fighting for His Country in The Woman. Talks on Health Cleanliness Proper Living Sanitation, Etc. BY Dr. W. A. Driver 3300 So. State St. Phone Douglas 3617 PAINLESS CHILDBIRTH. Any woman can be given the benefit of the painless method by her family physician in her own home. There is no risk about it. It is safe and sane and efficacious. Painless childbirth can be given without the aid of any instrument. Not even a hypodermic needle is required. It is so simple that women who have said they could not believe it have, after experiencing it, called it marvelously easy. Recently a young mother of five children, who had always been delivered by a midwife, was given the painless method. After the child was born she had to be told of it, the she had been awake and cosleeping during the ent proceedings. The only way she could be convinced that the event had actually happened was to be shown the child. She actually thot that labor had just begun. After pains, which had always troubled her except when the first child was born, were almost of trifling importance. The lady had always had distressing ani- MEN SHOULD SKIP THIS A little girl wrote the following composition on men: "Men are what women marry. They drink and smoke and swear, but don't go to church. Perhaps if they wore bonnets they would. They are more logical than women, also more zoological. Both men and women sprang from monkeys, but the women sprang further than the men."—Ladies' Home Journal. THE NEGRO FELLOWSHIP LEAGUE. Attorney N. G. McGill will address the Negro Fellowship League, Sunday, November II, 1917, at 4 p. m. His subject will be "Negro Emigration from the South and What We Should Do to Help It." Come early and get a good seat. NEW YORK HIBBITS ITS FIRST NEGRO TO THE LEGISLATURE. New York.—Special.—The distinction of being the first Negro assemblyman in this state falls to Edward A. Johnson, lawyer, real estate broker, and former educator. He was elected in the Nineteenth assembly district on the Republican-Fusion ticket, defeating his Tammy opponent by 323 votes. CHIPS. Dr. W. H. Marshall, 5509 South State street, the head Medical examiner for the Foresters, wants the world to know it, that he is for former Alderman Oscar De Priest for alderman of the Second Ward. Maj. Robert R. Jackson and former Alderman Oscar De Priest, are busily engaged in rounding up the lady voters of the second ward into their respective camps and Miss Nellie Callaway, 3300 Rhodes avenue, who is working day and night for the success of Maj. Jackson, states that "he is a prince; that he is so nice to the ladies, he is bound to be the next alderman from the second ward." Araba Est Cucumber Rind. 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." Explorer Simply Grown 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 stoef in anything like a straight course. 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. PAGE THREE [Name] noyance when the milk arrived in the breasts, and it usually arrived on the third day or later. After the fifth child was born, her first by the painless method, the milk secretion arrived painlessly and so soon as the second day. She was the happiest and most grateful recipient of the benefits of the modern and most humane painless childbirth it has been mine to see. Painless childbirth is for the poor as well as the rich. The cost of the drugs is very little. Any doctor can administer the necessary drugs without an instrument of any kind in a few seconds. He may secure a greater degree of ease in a whiff or so of a well known anesthetic as an adjunct to the drugs referred to in the preceding statement. Early in labor just one tablet is put under the tongue and allowed to be absorbed without any effort on the part of the lying-in woman. So great is the power of painlessness that the woman sleeps without any nervousness between the uterine contractions, which have hitherto been known as pains. We must not call them pains when this method is used. Near the end of labor another tablet may be required. Your doctor knows it. Ask him. Oasis Made to Order In the desert stretch between El Centro and Yuma, down in the southeast corner of California, engineers made a new oasis the other day. They just bored a hole in the ground, and 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. Practice Economy. The same standerd, "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. 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." Meaning of Biblical Phrase 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. 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." The name of "Dead sea" occurs nowhere in the Bible. This pane 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. Luclid Explanation 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." For Fever Patient. 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. Happy Is Lover of Books. Happy is Lover or 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. Might Try It, Anyhow. A worn-out typewriter ribbon throws into a quart of distilled or rain water will yield a fine writing fluid. PAGE FOUR In this city since July 15th, 1899, without missing one single issue, Republican, 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. Address all communications to THE BROAD AX 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. Daily Thought Neither let mistakes nor wrong directions, of which every man, in his studies and elsewhere, falls into many, discourage you. There is precious 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. Old Form of Investment 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. 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. Few Real Blue Flowers. Blue is a scarce color in our gardens, but. ageratum, cornflower, baby blue-eyes, Swan river daisy and Salpi-glossis sinuata, anemone blanda, forget-me-not, some larkspurs, some columbines and one or two iris are very blue blues. Boy Beana as Food 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. Real Happiness. If this world affords true happiness, it is to be found in a home where love and confidence increase with years, 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. Kingbird a Hard Fighter 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 egg, 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. 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 1815; Charles Beecher, born in 1815; Thomas K. Beecher, born in 1824, and James C. Beecher, born in 1828. Dear 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. Philosopher Dooley. "Tis a strange thing whin we come to think iv it that th' less money a man gets fr his wurruk th' more necessary it is to th' wurruld that he shud go on wurrukin'. Yeer 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 if laughin' meself black in th' face—th' industhees iv th' country pines away."—Exchange. 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?" Trees in Shakespeare Gardens. "S 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, "I'd eat a sack of peanuts and die, too." Replaces Human Sacrifice 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. 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 cyclist. 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 back 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. Significant Shakes. 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. Sign Languages 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. 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 excited 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." Death to Moths. 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. 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, NOVEMBER 10, 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 ink dressing and free. Every colored wom- man should have one. We sell thou- sands on our toilet toilet articles. Satisfaction guaranteed or money back. We make the best solid Brass STRAIGHTENING combs, with artificial back, fully guaranteed. With each comb we 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 manufacturers' prices. Send two-cent stamp. Agents Wanted. Address as follows: HUMANIA HAIR COMPANY. 181-187 Park Row, New York City. Address Dept. 84 To Gas Consumers Still Using Only Flat Flame Lights— The candle power of all gas in Chicago was reduced on October 1st, as provided by City Ordinance. This has cut down the volume of light from flat flame burners. 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