The Broad Ax

The Christmas Issue, or the Twenty-Second Anniversary Edition of The Broad Ax, Which Will Reach the Highest Water Mark in Artistic Afro-American Journalism in This Country, Will Appear Saturday, December 22d. All Matter Intended for Publication in That Issue Must Reach the Editor Not Later Than Thursday Evening, December 20th. Phone Wentworth 2597 THE BROAD AX The Essay Contest and Musicale Held Under the Auspices of the Young Women's Patriotic Club of Bethel Sunday School Which Was Held in That Church Last Sunday Afternoon Was Largely Attended. The Subject Under Discussion Was "Women and the War." Representatives from the Leading Sunday Schools in This City Participated in the Affair MRS. IRENE McCOY-GAINES, MISTRESS OF CEREMONIES, IN HER OPENING REMARKS THANKED MAJOR ROBERT R. JACKSON AND JULIUS F. TAYLOR FOR CONTRIBUTING TO THE SUCCESS OF THE ESSAY CONTEST. MRS. CARITA BROWN, REPRESENTING THE SUNDAY SCHOOL OF HERMON BAPTIST SUNDAY SCHOOL, WON THE FIRST PRIZE, THE BEAUTIFUL DIAMOND RING, AND MISS LA URSA W. SNELSON, THE HIGHLY ACCOMPLISHED DAUGHTER OF REV. F. G. SNELSON, PASTOR OF ST. MARY A. M. E. CHURCH, $263 S. DEARBORN STREET, WON THE SECOND PRIZE, A LOVELY LA VALIERE, THE PRIZES BEING DONATED BY C. J. JACKSON, THE POPULAR COLORED JEWELER, 3242 S. STATE STREET. FIVE HIGHLY CULTURED WHITE LADIES, REPRESENTING THE WOMAN'S COMMITTEE, STATE COUNCIL OF DEFENSE, SERVED AS JUDGES AND SELECTED THE TWO LUCKY CONTESTANTS, WITHOUT THE SLIGHTEST FRICTION OR TROUBLE, TO THE ENTIRE SATISFACTION OF THOSE WHO FILLED BETHEL CHURCH. THE SILVER OFFERING AT THE DOOR AMOUNTED TO $31.69, AND THAT SUM AND THE MONEY TO BE REALIZED FROM THE ADVERTISSEMENTS IN THE SOUVENIR PROGRAM, WILL BE USED TO AID THE COLORED SOLDIERS AT CAMP LOGAN, HOUSTON, TEXAS, AND AT CAMP GRANT, ROCKFORD, ILLINOIS. REV. W. D. COOK, THE ELOQUENT AND HONORABLE PASTOR OF BETHEL CHURCH, IN HIS CLOSING REMARKS STRUCK OUT AT THE EDITOR OF THE GREATEST WEEKLY NEWSPAPER IN THE WORLD, FOR ATTEMPTING TO BRING DISGRACE AND SHAME UPON SOME OF THE TRIED AND TRUE PILLARS OF BETHEL CHURCH IN ORDER TO SELL A FEW EXTRA COPIES OF HIS YELLOW JOURNAL. Vol. XXIII. The Essay the Yor Which Was It Was “Leading Affair MRS. IRENE McCOY-GAINES, OF OPENING REMARKS THANKED BY JULIUS F. TAYLOR FOR CONTRI- ESSAY CONTEST. MRS. CARITA BROWN, REFRE- HERMON BAPTIST SUNDAY SCH BEAUTIFUL DIAMOND RING, AND HIGHLY ACCOMPLISHED DAUGHT- TOR OF ST. MARY A. M. E. CHUR- THE SECOND PRIZE, A LOVELY DONATED BY C. J. JACKSON, T. 3242 S. STATE STREET. FIVE HIGHLY CULTURED WI- WOMAN'S COMMITTEE, STATE OF JUDGES AND SELECTED THE TW THE SLIGHTEST FRICTION OR FACTION OF THOSE WHO FILLED THE SILVER OFFERING AT AND THAT SUM AND THE MONE- VERTISSEMENTS IN THE SOUVENIR THE COLORED SOLDIERS AT CAM- AT CAMP GRANT, ROCKFORD, IL REV. W. D. COOK, THE ELOG OF BETHEL CHURCH, IN HIS CL THE EDITOR OF THE GREATEST WORLD, FOR ATTEMPTING TO BE SOME OF THE TRIED AND TRUE ORDER TO SELL A FEW EXTRA C Notwithstanding the fact that last Sunday was an awful cold day Bethel Church was almost filled to overflowing with hundreds of the best people residing in this city, who were greatly interested in the essay contest, the important subject being "Woman and the Man." The affair was held under the auspices of the Young Women's Patriotic Club of Bethel Sunday School. It was for the purpose of raising money to establish a Sunday school literature fund for Camp Grant and Camp Logan. Representatives from all the best and the leading Sunday schools in this city joined in the contest. The music for the occasion was furnished by the Cubanola Ladies' Orchestra. The essay contest committee was as follows: Mrs. Irene McCoy-Gaines, chairman. Committee on advertisement and souvenir program: Mrs. Cooper, chairman; Mrs. E Barlow, Mrs. M Sumlin, Mrs. M Jackson, Mrs. M. E. Clark, Miss E Worthington, Mrs. Harris, Mrs. Goode, Miss Ealy, Mrs. Walton, Mrs. Kinnard. Committee on decoration: Miss Jeanette Goode, chairman; Mrs. Wilson, Mrs. Hattie Champion, Mrs. Withers, Mrs. Ella Stephens, Mrs. Lottie W. Rogers, Mrs. Rainey, Mrs. Gaynor, Miss Alcacia Brent. Committee on musical program: Mrs. Leona Barner, chairman; Miss Mable Slaughter, Mrs. Sumlin, Miss Edna Jackson. Ushers: Mrs. M. S. Thompson, chairman; Miss G. Hamilton, Miss Ollie Stevens, Miss Eugenia Collins, Miss Virginia Dillow, Miss Robbie Shelly, Miss Beatrice Johnson, Miss Naomi Goode, Miss M. V. Dickerson, Miss I. Plumber. The following program was very in --- HEW TO THE LINE; LET THE CHIPS FALL WHERE THEY MAY terestingly rendered to the great delight of all: Subject, "Woman and the War." Organ voluntary, Miss Lillian Hunt; prayer, Rev. W. D. Cook, pastor Bethel A. M. E. Church; introduction of mistress of ceremonies, Mr. R. E. Moore, superintendent of Bethel Sunday School; "Voice," Miss Mamie Elliott; essay, Miss E. Ferguson, Lincoln Memorial Sunday School; C. E. Chorus, Mrs. Clarinda Hunter, directress; essay, Mrs. Daisy Jordon, Salem Baptist Church Sunday School; selection, Ladies' Cubanola Orchestra; essay, Mrs. M. B. White, South Park Avenue M. E. Church Sunday School; essay, Mrs. Lula Brinkley, Mt. Carmel M. M. E Sunday School; duet, "A Negro Melody," Miss Gertrude Barner and Miss Edna Jackson; essay, Miss Elenor I. Garnett, Second Baptist Sunday School of Maywood; essay, Mrs. Carita Brown, Herman Baptist Church Sunday School; piano selection, "Alice" (Ascher), Miss Mable Slaughter; essay, Miss Lucretia Ash, Grace Presbyterian Sunday School; essay, Mrs. Leona Barner, Bethel Sunday School; selected, Cubanola Orchestra; essay, Miss LaUrsa W. Snelson, St. Mary's A. M. E. Church; awarding of prizes, first prize, diamond ring; second, diamond lavaliere; benediction, Bev. W. D. Cook, pastor of Bethel Church. Right here we must pause to state that too much credit cannot be given to our highly esteemed friend, Mrs. Irene McOoy-Gaines, who is one of the very brightest members of the Colored race in this part of the country today, for so successfully conducting or managing the essay contest. She was able to induce some of the most highly edu- cated white ladies in this city to attend the affair and act as judges, and they were able to come in contact with the Colored people at their very best and not at their worst, which was worth a great deal. As stated above, Mrs. Carita Brown and Miss Snelson were awarded the two valuable prizes by the white ladies, who deemed it a great honor to serve as judges. The whole affair was conducted fair and square and everybody seemed to be well pleased with the decision of the judges. Several weeks ago the editor of the greatest weekly newspaper in the world published a fake story, which was intended to bring down upon the heads of some of the pillars of Bethel Church everlasting disgrace and shame, and in closing his remarks Rev. Cook, who has the reputation of being one of the very best and cleanest and most honorable preachers in the A. M. E. convention, exclaimed that the writer of the slanderous article which appeared in the columns of a certain wildcat newspaper respecting Bethel Church, which had for its object of placing it in a false light before the world, ought to have been present and witnessed the beautiful and soul-inspiring scenes which had been enacted in dear old Bethel that afternoon. The essay by Miss Snelson will be published in full in these columns Saturday. December 22. NEGROES CO-OPERATE. By Wm. Anthony Aery. Portsmouth, Va., Dec. — "It is the duty of the Negro Organization Society to use every possible means to see that the Negro not only has his chance, but that, having it, he will use it in the wisest possible way for the good of his race and his country." Dr. Robert R. Moton, principal of Tuskegee Institute, who is the Society's honorary president, spoke these words at the closing session of the Fifth Annual Meeting of the Negro Organization Society of Virginia. For the first time the Society and the Negro State Teachers' Association of Virginia met at the same place and time, "because so many of the same individuals," to quote D. G. Jacex, "are interested in both organizations and each organization is in part trying to better the schools and conditions for the Negroes." Officers of the Negro Organization Society, elected for the coming year, include Robert B. Moton, Honorary President; Allen W. Washington, President; John M. Gandy, Executive Secretary; W. T. B. Williams, Treasurer; E. A. Long, Recording Secretary; George W. Blount, Corresponding Secretary; T. C. Erwin and T. G. Walker, Field Agents; and the following Vice-Presidents: L. L. Downing; Mra. Ora B. Stokes; Mra. Member of Congress from the first congressional district of Illinois, who will be re-elected to that body in November. 1918. Maggie L. Walker; W. E. Robinson; Mrs. Ida N. Paey; R. E. Clay; R. C. Yancy; A. T. Shirley; G. E. Read; W. H. Salley; M. E. Davis; J. M. Jeffress and W. M. Reid. The program included hopeful reports from school clubs, clubs for boys and girls, men and women, addresses by white friends; timely talks on "Negro Music" by Mrs. W. T. B. Williams, "Education and Farming," by John B. Pierce, "World War and the Negro," by W. T. B. Williams, "Aim and Spirit of the Negro Organization Society," by Messrs. J. M. Gandy, T. C. Erwin, and A. A. Graham, and "Getting to Be Fit," by Dr. James H. Dillard. The Committee on Resolutions recommended that the Society continue its efforts to unify the race along the lines of education, health, home-building, and agriculture; that special emphasis be placed on making farm life more attractive; that all the colored people of Virginia participate in the buying of Government bonds and stamps; that high schools be provided for colored youth; that the rigors of segregation and Jim-crow laws be reduced. HON. MARTIN B. MADDEN ss from the first congressional district of re-elected to that body in November, 19 JOYOUS TIMES WILL BE PROVIDED DURING THE HOLIDAY SEASON FOR THE POOR LITTLE CHILDREN ON THE SOUTH SIDE BY THE CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY UNDER THE DIRECTION OF DR. MARY F. WARING. The Children's Aid Society are preparing to give Christmas cheer to the South Side children, whose parents are unable to make such provision for them. The work is under the direction of Dr. Mary F. Waring. The cheer will be given during the holidays at Douglas Center. Besides candy and nuts, stockings and shoes will be distributed to those in need. Packages of shoes or clothing your children have outgrown will be gratefully received at 3032 Wabash avenue. The Red Cross units being organized throughout the state are proving a wonderful help in the work of meeting the demands of the soldiers. Dr. Mary P. Waring is doing a great deal of good in dispelling the wrong impressions that No.13 are in circulation. One of the latest is an effort to make a feeling of race prejudice among the knitters. This is not worthy of American patriots, and as Dr. Waring stated last Sunday at a patriotic meeting: "The sooner we learn to do things to help and stop talking about things we do not know the quicker we will win the war. This is not a nation's war; not a race's war; but a world war and America is to win." The Colored workers from St. Mark Church, Coleman school and Douglas Center have been most courteously received. CUDAHY PACKING COMPANY BM FLOYS COLOBED WOMEN. The Cudahy Packing Company is trying the experiment of employing Colored women in departments of their extensive plant where formerly men, or white women have been exclusively employed. A large number of women were put to work this week. A. HON. THOMAS F. SCULLY Popular judge of the County Court, who feels dead sure of his calling and re-election to his present position in 1918. THIRTEEN SOLDIERS BELONGING TO THE TWENTY-FOURTH UNITED STATES INFANTRY WERE SENT HEADLONG INTO THE NEXT WORLD EARLY ON TUESDAY MOORING, AT HOUSTON, TEXAS. THEY HAD BEEN CONVICTED BY COURT-MARTIAL FOR SHOOTING SOME OF THE CITIZENS OF THAT CITY LAST AUGUST. “Private Henry T. Walls, Company I; Private, first-class, Alvin Pugh, Company I, and Private Walter B. Tucker, Company I, hard labor for two years.” Bonfire Lights Scene. “The bonfire illumination for the hanging, just as streaks of daylight were beginning to appear through a cloudy sky, the bleak landscape of dull gray and bronze against which the new timber of the scaffold stood out sharply, the blighted scaffold stood out sharply, Forty-one of Them Have Been Sent to Prison for Life for the Part That They Played in That Bloody Affair. The latter part of the past week it was flashed to all parts of the world that the court-martial had concluded its investigation into the mutinous rioting on the part of members of the famous 24th regiment in the streets of Houston, Texas, the latter part of last August, at which time a number of white citizens, including men, women and children were shot down in its streets. The account follows as to how brave they all conducted themselves when they were face to face with death—that they were fearless soldiers to the very last even if they had utterly failed to be manly at all times. "In the dark of the night army motor trucks conveyed the lumber for the scaffold to a little clearing in a lonely mesquite thicket on the big government reservation where the Negroes, convicted by court-martial, were to die. "And there, by the light of bonfires, army engineers erected the death traps to which, at 5 o'clock in the morning, other motor trucks hurried the condemned Negroes and the officers and men of the military guard. "Sergeant William C. Nesbitt, Corporal Larnon J. Brown, Corporal James Wheatley, Corporal Jesse Moore, Corporal Charles W. Baltimore, Private William Brackenridge, Private Thomas C. Hawkins, Private Carlos Snodgrass, Private Ira B. Davis, Private James Divins, Private Frank Johnson, Private Risley W. Young, Private Pat M'Whor "The following were condemned to hard labor for life, according to the official report: 'In the cases of Cook William Frazier, Cook Nathan Humphries, Jr., Privates, first-class, John M. Hudson, Jr., James R. Johnson, Ben McDaniels and Stewart W. Phillips, all of Company I; Privates Douglas T. Holder, Fred Brown, Robert Brownfield, Harrison Capers, Ben Ceill, Gerald Dixon, Henry Green, James R. Hawkins, George Hobbs, Norman D. Holland, Richard Lewis, Leroy Pinkett, Joseph Wardlow, William S. Kane, Harry Richardson, Luther Bucker, Rey Tyler, Joseph Williams, Jr., all of Company I; Privates Ernest Adams, John Adams, Wash Adams, Douglas K. Lumpkins, Richard Brown, all of Company K; Privates Allie C. Butler, Abner Davis and George H. Parham of Company I; Bugler Ruben W. Baxter, Company M; Privates Walter Burkett, James Coker, Callie Glenn, William J. Hough, Thomas Jackson, Walter T. Johnson, Dean New, Jesse Gallivan, all of Company M. "Private Oliver Fletcher, Company M, confined at hard labor for two years and six months. List of Executed "The men executed were: Court-Martial Verdict " 'Private Henry T. Walls, Company I; Private, first-class, Alvin Pugh Company I, and Private Walter B. Tucker, Company I, hard labor for two years. " Bonfire Lights Scene. "The bonfire illumination for the hanging, just as streaks of daylight were beginning to appear through a cloudy sky, the bleak landscape of dull gray and bronze against which the new timber of the scaffold stood out sharply, the khaki-clad military guard, officers with coat collars turned up, for the morning was cold, made an unforgettable picture. "One might tramp for hours over the hundreds of brush-covered acres of the military reservation without finding either execution site or burial ground as there are no landmarks near. The hanging took place not more than a hundred yards from bathhouses which have been built near a swimming pool used by men of the National army at Camp Travis, half a mile away, but mesquite trees effectually screen the trampled ground. Dressed in Uniforms "The condemned men were aroused this morning a few minutes before regular army reville, 5:30 o'clock. The military guard had been summoned silently and no sound was heard in the camp, where nearly 40,000 men were sleeping, except the purring of the army truck motors awaiting their loads. The Negroes dressed in the regular uniforms as carefully as for inspection. "The Negroes executed displayed neither bravado nor fear. They rode to the execution singing a hymn, but the singing was as that of soldiers on the march. Arriving at the clearing, the singing stopped, the men, shackled, were helped from the trucks to the scaffolds and seated on chairs. A low 'Good-by, boys,' addressed to members of their military guard, who had been in charge of the Negroes since they were brought here from Fort Bliss, was the only expression from any of the Negroes. "The men's feet were bound. An army chaplain offered prayer. An officer called 'Attention,' and as on parade the Negroes stood erect. They stood quietly while caps and nooses were adjusted and then stepped on the traps. The major in charge of the execution gave a signal and soldiers sprung the traps. "They plunged nine feet to instant death." Many Colored people throughout the country labor under the impression that the court-martial was too severe in its final findings but they must remember that this country is in a terrible state of warfare; that on enlisting in the service of the United States each soldier always solemnly swears that at all times that he or they will obey orders from their superior officers; this the members of the 24th regiment failed to do on August 23, hence they met their deaths at the hands of the highest military court in this country, and we have every reason to believe that if they had been white soldiers, who had disobeyed orders and had lost control over themselves to such an extent, that they felt that they had the undisputed right to blow their past splendid record to the winds and to take the civil or the criminal laws into their own hands that their fate would have been the same—Editor. THE BROAD AX, CHICAGO, DECEMBER 15, 1917 CATCHING COLD. Catching cold is easy. All you need to do is to spend an hour or so in a close, overheated, badly ventilated room with a person who already has a "bad cold" and you will soon develop one as severe or more so than the person from whom you got the infection. Of course, there are colds, congestive in character, that are caused by exposure but the "common colds" are due to germs, and colds of this kind are usually spread by contact. This means, as already stated, that close association with a person who has a bad cold is dangerous. Especially is this true, if the person who has the cold is careless in suiczing or coughing in the near presence of others without covering the mouth or nose with a handkerchief. Everybody has noticed, no doubt, that when one member of a family "comes down with a cold," all the members of the family in turn will also develop colds. When this happens, and it usually does happen, it is the result of carelessness in coming too closely in contact with the person or persons having a cold, or in handling articles that have been infected. It is important that people who have colds should refrain from close association with other persons; that all discharges from the nose and throat be properly disposed of by washing and boiling handkerchiefs; if paper napkins are used, by burning. If this be carefully done there is little danger of a cold going through the entire family. It is a wise economy to use either cheesecloth or paper in place of ordinary linen handkerchiefs, as they may be burned after using and thus disposed of in a way to prevent the spread of infection. When a cold seems to be unusually severe and aggravated in character, and as is sometimes said, "heavy on the chest," the family doctor should be called at once. The line between a cold of this kind and an attack of that dread disease, pneumonia, is so hard to distinguish that it is highly important medical advice should be sought at once. Most cases of pneumonia start with a cold; and many cases of tuberculosis are the direct results of neglected and long standing cases of "bad colds with a cough." The points that should be kept in mind are that colds must not be neglected; that we should avoid the danger of infection from careless and unnecessary contact with those who have colds and that when one has a cold, plenty of good, fresh air will help a lot in curing it. The season is here when pneumonia is getting in its deadly work. For the week ended December 1st there were 130 cases and 69 deaths from this disease in Chicago. And, judging by the records of previous years, the cases and deaths due to pneumonia will continue to show an increase week by week until the open air season arrives, when they will as steadily decline until next Fall when the hibernating season again comes around, and up they will go as they have in the past. The obvious moral is plenty of fresh air makes for bodily health and vigor. Avoid stuffy, overheated rooms; get an abundance of outdoor exercises; eat plain, simple food; be temperate in all things and the chances are you will "catch" nothing much but good health. In spite of the appalling loss of life on the battlefields of Europe, disease, most of it of the preventable kind, is killing more human beings every year than are destroyed by shot and shell. Fresh air is the one important necessity of life that has not advanced in price. It is still free. Why not get your share? PHYLLIS WHEATLEY CLUB NOTES The regular monthly meeting of the Phyllis Wheatley Club was held at the home, 3256 Rhodes Ave., Wednesday, December 5. Reports of the City Federation and the Cook County League were made by the President and Miss H. C. Whyte. The Secretary reported the result of the United Bazaar. Twenty-five dollars was voted out of the treasury to send to the Douglas Memorial Fund through Dr. Mary F. Waring, Illinois Chairman. Plans were perfected to send Christmas cheer to the Club's adopted Company B, at Camp Logan, Houston, Texas, and to help the City Federation Com. with the Christmas kits for "our boys" at Camp Grant, Rockford, Ill. Mrs. Fannie Givens, Louisville, Ky., founder of the Historical Art League, spoke very interestingly of her work. The Home Charities Dept. solicits garments of any kind, underwear especially, to be cut and made over for needy children. The members will saw the 2nd and 4th Wednesday at Douglas Center, 3032 Wabash Avenue. Elizabeth L. Davis, President; Nora Les, Recording Secretary. PRIZE OFFERED FOR LOYALTY CHRISTMAS CANDY. The Conservation Committee of the Woman's Committee of Illinois has offered a price of $10 for the best Loyalty Christmas Candy to be made without cane or beet sugar. Samples and recipes for this contest should reach Miss Elizabeth Allen, 120 West Adams Street, Chicago, not later than noon Wednesday, December 12. There will be a second prize of $5 and a third prize of $3. A great many people have already sent in orders for Loyalty Christmas Candy. Charities are especially interested as they do not feel that it is patriotic to buy candy with sugar and yet it is hard to disappoint eager children at Christmas time. The Loyalty Candy is the solution. The Council is arranging to have a demonstration of making the candy during Christmas week, and a festive gathering at the same time. MRS. BOWEN URGES WOMEN NOT TO WEAR BLACK. Mrs. Joseph T. Bowen has been deluged with letters in regard to wearing a gold star instead of mourning, for soldiers who have fallen. Many letters said that this star is an emblem of some association, and therefore should not be worn for another purpose. "The truth is," said Mrs. Bowen "that I never made any such statement. What I did say was that the glory rather than the sadness of death should be emphasized; that it would be depressing to our men who are going to fight and to those who are fighting if many people in this country should shroud themselves in black, and I therefore hope that the people will not do so. I suggested that for economic reasons also it would not be a good thing; it would mean more wool, more expense; and that I was upheld in this opinion by some of the dry goods papers, such as the 'Dry Goods Times.' "I also advocated the wearing of some kind of mourning badge, such as a black band on the left arm or a black rosette with a tiny United States flag on it, also to be worn on the arm. This would not be the symbol of any society. "I am asking this correction to be made in the newspapers because I have been misquoted all over the country from New York to San Francisco." WHAT IS WHEATLESS DAY. A great many women have come to the Woman's Conservation Committee of Illinois to ask "Can we use wheat flour to thicken soups and gravies on wheatless day?" and other similar questions. The Committee takes its answer direct from Washington, "A wheatless day is twenty-four hours of absolute abstinence from the use of wheat or wheat flour in any form or quantity." The Committee suggests the use of rice flour for thickening. This flour is so satisfactory that it might be used on every day as well as wheatless day. YOUNG CHILDREN PICK ONIONS. Miss Jessie Binford, of the Committee on Health and Recreation of the Woman's Committee of the State Council, will address the Conference of the Boys' Working Reserve to be held in Chicago on Friday and Saturday, on the subject of the abuse of young children in Illinois on truck farms. "The aspect of the child labor law that impresses most people" said Miss Binford "is connected with overworking them in factories. But the child labor law applies to every child that works, whether it be on a farm, in a shop or in a factory. When children of nine and upward are obliged to rise early enough in the morning to catch a three o'clock train from Chicago to the onion truck farms, and then put in an eight hour day picking onions, it is just as much an abuse of the child labor law as overwork in factories. CAIBO WOMAN CALLED TO FRANCE. Miss Winifred Warder of Cairo has been forced to resign from chairmanship of Alexandria County because she has been called to France to serve in the canteen service. Miss Warder was the first chairman to get her county completely organized. She sails for France this week. Her work in Alexandria County has been turned over to Mrs. Walter H. Wood and Miss Margaret Lansden. THE GRAND THEATRE The old reliable Grand Theatre, 31st and State street continues right along to furnish the best vanderville acts that can be found anywhere, for its many patrons. The first and second shows are always very good and lively and there is no cutting down in the sets at the second show. THE HON. JAMES T. McDERMOTT Continues to re-construct his political fences in the Fourth Congressional District of Illinois, and he will be returned to Congress from that district in 1918. Continues to re-construct his political fences in the Fourth Congressional District of Illinois, and he will be returned to Congress from that district in 1918. MOVEMENT OF THE RED CAP MEN OF THE TWELFTH STREET STATION, ILLINOIS CENTRAL RAILROAD. LEGAL HELPS. By Attorney Harris B. Gaines. Mr. David Giles is ill at his home, 4947 Dearborn street, suffering with a cold and from a leg which was injured several years ago. Capt. Wm. Clifton holds up well under the long hours he is putting in these cold days. Mr. A. Marshall has returned to his duty and feels well judging from the rapid steps he makes to and from his trains. He expects to make a visit to his home in Indianapolis early in January. Mr. J. W. Hightower was off last Sunday and owing to the weather spent the day in his home. Mr. Jasper Henderson returned to the city Tuesday morning from Omaha, Neb., and left Wednesday for New Orleans. He will return the latter part of the week. Mr. J. Fields left Tuesday evening for Centralia, Ill. Messrs. Wm. Ferguson, J. Waters, Jas. Robinson, M. Roach, W. Russell are sojourning in New Orleans. Lucky boys are they to have missed our recent cold snap. Mr. Jas. Evans has fully recovered from his illness and is now daily at his duties. "An occasional wheatless or meatless day is easy" said a certain usher, "I have seen quite a few Eatless days." Mr. Arthur Kersey is not feeling well. He is at his home but expects to resume his duties in a few days. Word reaches us from Louisville that W. L. Clark is doing nicely but hopes to return to dear old Chicago soon. The boys who are off duty tomorrow afternoon will miss a treat if they fail to hear Mrs. Lanora Meeder. She will address Bethel Literary at 4 p. m. Subject: "Woman's Place in This War." Tomorrow is ladies' day and they especially invite the ushers from all stations. Fletcher Allison, chief usher at Mattoon, Ill., expects to spend the holidays in this city at his former home. Mr. Dan'l Ivory arrived Thursday from Centralia, Ill. He says it is colder down state than here. Several of the boys are laying by a few cents per day for their Christmas bird. Wise idea to start in time. J. B. Combs and R. L. Collins are on the dog watch. This is pretty comfortable for the clock man. Mrs. Hattie Hargrow, of 4739 S. State street, was the director of the Ladies' Cubanola Orchestra, which furnished the music for the Sunday School Essay Contest, December 8th, at Bethal Church. The ladies made quite a hit. The orchestra in its entirety is composed of 33 pieces, and is equipped to furnish music for all occasions. --- By J. W. Bell. . . . By Attorney Harris B. Gaines. This column is open to readers of The BROADAX for legal questions of general interest. All questions are to be addressed to the Editor of the Legal Helps Department by Wednesday of each week. H. B. Gaines, 6221 S. Halsted street, National Theater building Chicago, Ill., Dec. 11, 1917. Editor of Legal Helps: What are the legal exemptions of a married man in case of a suit in Illinois? W.B. In garnishment proceedings $15 per week is exempt, but must be claimed in proper manner. Where an execution has been issued $400 of personal property is exempt. A schedule of the property claimed as exemption must be filed with bailiff or lawyer in proper time. Chicago, Ill., Dec. 10, 1917. To Editor of Legal Helps: A few days ago I was riding with my wife on a street car. A man boarded the car and entered into an alteration with the conductor over a transfer. The conductor shoved the man and he fell upon my wife, knocking her on the floor and stepped on her hat, ruining the same My wife suffered several days from bruises received from said fall. Is the car company liable for damages sustained by my wife? C. S. M. Yes. The company is liable for the misconduct and negligence of its servants. Chicago, Ill. Dec. 11, 1917. To Editor of Legal Helps: Last May I rented a flat from the owner. He promised he would decorate it in the fall and also make other repairs. This he has failed to do. Every month when he collects the rent he promises to fix the place up, but never does anything. Can I withhold the rent until he repairs the place? F. W. D. From the facts you state you have no legal right to hold back the rent. You rented the flat as it was and can not force the owner to decorate. Your only remedy is to give proper notice and vacate the flat. SHOWERS FOR MISS BERTHA MOSELEY. Miss Bertha Moseley, 6248 Sangamon street, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. B. P. Moseley was given a shower last Friday by Mrs. Dave McGowan, Saturday by Mrs. Hazel Birch Alexander. Wednesday of this week she was given a miscellaneous shower by Mrs. Clifford Johnson at Phyllis Wheatley club rooms. Saturday the bridesmaids will give a shower at Appomattox Club. During the next week Mrs. Lottie Jefferson, wife of Dr. W. T. Jefferson will entertain at whist for her. Sunday, December 23, Dr. and Mrs. H. S. Garnes will have her and Carey B. Lewis at dinner. Monday night, December 24, Miss Hazel Harrison, La Porte, Ind, noted pianist and a member of the bridal party will entertain Miss Moseley and her bridal party and parents with a dinner at Mrs. Henrietta P. Wilson's, 3533 Wabash Ave. During the fall season Miss Moseley has been the guest of honor at a number of whist parties. Tuesday morning, December 25, Mrs. Felix Payne, Kansas City, Me, will entertain Miss Moseley at the Moseley home with a Christmas breakfast. LEGAL HELPS --- . . . DR. LOUIE USSELMANN The up-to-date South State street jeweler, who donated the prizes which will be awarded at the essay contest tomorrow afternoon at St. Mark A. M. E. church, 50th street and Webash avenue. DR. LOUIE USSELMANN, THE LEADING STATE STREET JEWELER, HAS HIS STORE BEAUTIFULLY DECORATED FOR THE HOLIDAY SEASON. Dr. Louie carries a large and varied stock of high-class jewelry of every description, including diamonds, which cannot be surpassed for Christmas or holiday presents. Everything will be Dr. Louis Usselmann, who conducts one of the finest jewelry stores on the South Side at 3150 S. State street, has for the past two weeks been busily engaged in having all the furnishings and furs in his store repolished and brightened up from end to end and on Saturday evening the Christmas or the holiday decorations were completed, which causes his establishment, with its hanging Christmas bells and with other trappings which are pleasing to the eye, to look like a thing of beauty, and when it is illuminated in the evenings, with its many beautiful electric lamps, one almost feels that they are in fairyland. THE NEGRO FELLOWSHIP LEAGUE Chicago, Pl. Dec. 8, 1917: The following letter was presented to the City Federation of Colored Women's Clubs Monday. After indorsing the same, the President appointed me chairman of a committee of seven which is to work in conjunction with the Negro Fellowship League to provide Christmas kits. In regard to the question of providing Christmas kits for the men of the 183rd Brigade at Camp Grant, Ill., I am very anxious that the men of my Brigade shall be as well provided for as the other men and if possible a little better. I know that arrangements are being made to care for the men of the white Regiments and so I am applying to you to ask that you take the matter up with the Colored Clubs and Organizations. We have on our roll today 96 officers and 1,021 enlisted men but we are taking recruits in small numbers so that by Christmas we shall have about 1,125 enlisted Colored men. If you can arrange to have Christmas kits for 96 officers and 1,125 men I know that it will be very greatly appreciated. By Christmas kits I mean a package to contain four or five articles such as a corn cob pipe, a package of tobacco, cigarettes, sweet chocolate, a set of dominies, a puzzle game and things on that order. If any of the ladies have relatives or friends among our men they can put whatever they wish in their packages, address them by name and Company. I will see that they are given to the persons for whom they were intended and will distribute the unaddressed ones among the other men. Very truly yours, Malvern Hill Barnum, Brig Gen Camp Grant, Rockford, Ill. You will see by this that we have very little time and would urge that each Club or person get as many kits ready as you feel able to provide as soon as possible and bring them to this address. When we have gotten the whole number they will be forwarded in one box in time for the boys to have some Christmas cheer. For the sake of our boys and for the sake of the cause I believe each Club will immediately appoint a committee to raise the money, make the purchases, and bring them to this number. Very truly yours, Mr. Ida. B. Wells-Barnett, Chairman. Mr. Sadie L. Adams, Secretary. Mr. E. L. Davia. Mr. Irene Goina. Mr. Myra Hunter Reeves. Mr. Lydia Stewart. Mr. Genia Tyler. On last Saturday evening Mrs. Gaines and Mr. Hammond spent a very pleasant afternoon at the school, and were recorded every courtey by the principal, Mr. Milliken, and the school faculty. The boys enjoyed the entertainment exceedingly, and the guests were invited to return. Mrs. Irene McCoy-Gaines and Mr. Henry W. Hammond were invited by Mr. Otto Wander, of the Board of Education, to appear in recital at the Chicago and Cook County School for Boys, in Riverside, IL. Editor. The Broad Ax. My Dear Mrs. Barnett; Dr. Louie carries a large and varied stock of high-class jewelry of every description, including diamonds, which cannot be surpassed for Christmas or holiday presents. Everything will be sold at the very lowest possible figures and whether you buy or not, he heartily invites you to call in and inspect his stock. Dr. Louie, has donated free of charge, as has been his custom for the past eight years, the two beautiful diamond rings which will be given away at the eighth annual essay contest, which will be held at St. Mark M. E. church, 50th and S. Wabash avenue, Sunday afternoon, December 16, at 2:30 o'clock, subject: "What Will be the Status of the Negro in the World's Democracy?" Dr. Louie desires at this time to extend the holiday greetings to his many friends and customers. The Peerless Club The members of the Peerless Club are preparing to send Christmas kits to the members of their club who are stationed in Camp Grant and Camp Logan. The Young Women's Patriotic Club of Bethel Sunday School. The young women of Bethel Sunday School are clated over the huge success of their Grand Essay Contest and Musicale, which drew a large audience despite the bitter cold of the weather. The Chicago Theosophical Society Dr. Edwin Beckwith is expected at 7 p. m. Sunday, December 17, at 5827 Wentworth avenue. All persons interested in Theosophy come out to hear him. The Kansas Club. Regular meeting of the Kansas Club will be held on the fourth Sunday at the home of Mrs. Slaughter, 4314 St. Lawrence avenue. The University Society. The study of Negro authors has proved very interesting, and it is hoped that the program committee selected for the next ensuing term will continue the program as mapped out by the present committee, who has performed quite a bit of research work in preparing the work for regular meetings. Visitors are always welcome to attend all meetings of the society. Club parlors, 5300 Wabash avenue. Meetings second and fourth Sundays, 4 to 6 p.m. BOOM M'CULLOCH FOR MAYOR AT GALFIN DINNER. Charles A. McCulloch was put into the Republican running for mayor in 1919, Monday night, at a fordmiddable roundup of Republican leaders who were guests at the annual dinner of the Eagle River Shooting and Fishing Club at Hotel Morrison. Homer K. Galpin, Republican county chairman, presided over the oratory which was a continuous round of nominating and seconding speeches for Mr. McCulloch. Mr. McCulloch was modest in his remarks, which did not indicate that he will decline the Republican nomination if it comes his way. Among the Republicians who were present were Coroner Peter M. Hoffman, Judges Hebel, Foell, Crowe, and Barass, D. A. Campbell, John M. Smyth, George K. Schmidt, Ald. W. J. Healy, Walter F. Schmidt, LeRoy Milner, Charles A. Williams, David W. Clark, Enil J. Wentzlaf, Louis J. Behan, Col. August W. Miller, John Kjellander and George F. Nye. Mrs. James H. Johnson, 3650 Prairie avenue, and her friend, Mrs. Benjamin E. Pinkney, are visiting their respective husbands, at Camp Logan, Houston, Texas. Attorney E. L. Barnett, 184 W. Washington street; left Friday morning for Springfield, Ill., where he will appear in the "Chicken Joe" Campbell case before the Supreme Court. From Springfield he will go to Camp Grant, Rockford, Ill. on legal briefs, returning home Tuesday morning. CHIPS THE BROAD AX. CHICAGO. DECEMBER 15. 1917 1890 By Joseph P. Forester. Somewhere far away in France, Somewhere on land and sea, Our sailor and our soldier boys Are fighting for you and me. Somewhere in the far off East On this holy Christmas morn, Shepherds gather, round the crib Where the King of Peace was born. Somewhere there's a saddened heart And a mother kneels in prayer, That the Prince of Peace will ne'er surcease To protect her boy—somewhere. SUNSHINE RESCUE MISSION. Phone Calumet 5915 2830 S. State St. H. Franklin Bray, Supt. Services every night at 8 P. M. Three volunteers were enlisted last week to enter the fight for God. Rev. H. P. Jackson preached last Sunday. The Superintendent is conducting a series of campaigns throughout Indiana, relative to the RESCUE work. An address will be given next Sunday afternoon at 3 P. M. by Mrs. L. E. Stewart of Evanston. With the advance of the bitter weather, there is a demand for clothing, shoes and provision, don't fail to give them anything that you have.—'C.' JOSEPH O. LANE, THE OLD REILLIABLE JEWELER, AT 76 E. 31ST STREET, NEAR MICHIGAN AVENUE. Joseph O. Lane, the practical watchmaker and jeweler, 76 E. 31st Street, near Michigan Avenue, phone Calumet 3664, who makes a specialty of fine watch and jewelry repairing, including all kinds of engraving, carries a fine stock of ladies' and gents' diamond rings, gold watches and other jewelry and ornamentations, which are suitable for Christmas or New Year's presents, which he sells at the lowest possible prices. For fair treatment and honest dealings, Joseph O. Lane's place is where you want to drop in and spend some of your money for holiday presents.—Adv. THE AVENUE THEATRE, 31ST AND INDIANA AVENUE, CONTINUES TO DRAW BIG CROWDS AT EACH PERFORMANCE. One of the most attractive high class vaudeville theatres on the South Side is the Avenue Theatre, 31st and Indiana Avenue. It is always nice and warm, and anyone can sit and witness the high class vaudeville shows with a larger degree of comfort. Mr. Louis Weinberg, its manager, states that the doors of the Avenue Theatre always swing both ways for the better class of white and Colored people; that no other class of either race who are noisy and unruly, will receive a warm welcome from its management. Mrs. Deborah Pritchard, mother of Mrs. Sarah Hart, 4841 Federal street, is seriously ill with pneumonia. Her hosts of friends wish her a speedy recovery. J. WILLIAM H. CLARK BECOMES THE CITY CIRCULATION MANAGER FOR THE BROADAX—HE WILL SECURE BOYS IN VARIOUS PARTS OF THE CITY TO SELL THE PAPER ON SATURDAYS. With this issue of the paper William H. Clark, 3217 South Park avenue, 'phone Douglas 7725, becomes the city circulation manager of The Broad Ax. Mr. and Mrs. Clark have both been constant supporters of The Broad Ax for a number of years, and they pay taxes on the home which they reside in at the above mentioned number. Mr. Clark is a steadfast member of Olivet Baptist Church and for some time he has made his headquarters with Attorney F. L. Barnett, 184 W. Washington street. He has had experience in the newspaper field in the past. Aside from assuming the duties of city circulation manager he will devote some of his time to writing for the paper on various subjects or topics, as he is a logical and forcible writer. He is fully authorized to accept subscriptions to it, to solicit advertisements for it and to gather in news items. Gradually Mr. Clark will select boys to sell it on Saturdays in the various parts of the city. He has four hustling boys selling it at the present time in the persons of Kenneth Jones, Lloyd Foster, James Brewington and James Marshall. Last Saturday and Sunday morning little James Marshall, who had never had any experience before in selling newspapers, made 50 cents for himself in selling The Broad Ax, and he is almost tickled to death. His mother, Mrs. Marshall, will save his money which he earns in that direction, adding to it each Saturday and Sunday, and just before Christmas she will buy him a Christmas present with it, thereby learning him to be saving and independent right from the very start. There is plenty of room for other active boys to follow in the footsteps of little James Marshall. 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. 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 1818; Charles Beecher, born in 1815; Thomas K. Beecher, born in 1824, and James C. Beecher, born in 1828. Business Proposition A little lad came in the grocery store for a five-cent head of lettuce. The clerk was removing the withered leaves and told the boy they cost ten cents, whereupon he remarked, "Can't you take off a few leaves and make it five cents?" 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. The New Year's Ball of the Catholic Order of Foresters DO YOUR BIT Attend the First A GRAND NEW YE Coliseum Annex, Attend the First Annual GRAND NEW YEAR'S BALL AT THE Coliseum Annex, January 1st, 1918 Music by Prof. Stewart's Orchestra Refreshments Served Annual Ch GIVEN First Regiment, Un UNITY CL 3140 Indi Xmas Night, Tu Refreshments Served ADMISSION FIFTY CENTS --- GIVEN BY THE First Regiment, Uniform Rank, K. of P. UNITY CLUB HOUSE 3140 Indiana Avenue Xmas Night, Tues., Dec. 25, 1917 Music by 1st Regiment K. of P. Band Admission 50 Cents --- 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. Proof of Power of Advertising "Advertising is a great art," said one tradesman to another a day or so ago. "Let me give you an illustration: Who should be the best-known son of Jacob? Reuben, of course. But which do you read of and remember most easily? Why Joseph: because he advertised. He wore a coat of many colors, whilst the rest of the family went about in the ordinary kind—whatever they may have been. So we hear of Joseph and his brethren. Such is the power of advertising." Extend Helping Hand. Many of the world's failures would have been splendid successes, if, in their struggling stage, some one had reached out a helping hand to them—had spurred them on when the bitterness of disappointment crushed them. There is, indeed, a moral here. The woman isn't living who cannot do some bit of good. Then let her lose no time in doing it—in offering the word of hope or encouragement which is the greatest stimulus the world ever knew. Put Outside the Law The strangest punishment which still survives in Great Britain under modern law is that of "outlawry." About ten years ago a lawyer charged with forging a check was "outlawed" in the Glasgow high court. By this sentence the person of the accused is declared forfeit. He cannot bear testimony in a court, nor sue, nor defend an action. He cannot act on a jury, nor vote at an election, nor act as tutor or guardian to another person. If anyone robs him he has no redress. 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. Explaina Corn's Fruitfulness Many plant students are led to wonder how ears of corn become so well pollenated that no vacancies occur among the kernels, for the tassels are so far above the silks and winds blow freely throughout the fields. But close observation has shown that there are 7,000 pollen grains to every ovule, and only one is necessary. What a brave soul is that, that is always prepared to leave the body, and unconcerned about her being either, suffering, scattered or removed—Mirrour aurelia. The Catholic Order of Foresters Annual BALL EAR'S THE January 1st, 1918 ADMISSION FIFTY CENTS Christmas Ball BY THE Uniform Rank, K. of P. at CLUB HOUSE ana Avenue es., Dec. 25, 1917 --- TO SEND FOOD TO AMERICAN PRISONERS Germany's Inadequate Rations Make Work Imperative. Washington.—The American Red Cross has perfected plans to care for Americans who may be captured and held in German prison camps. A prisoners' relief committee has been organised at Berne, Switzerland, under the supervision of Ellis L. Diesel of the American legation. Mr. Diesel served from the outbreak of the war, in 1914, up to our breaking off diplomatic relations as an attache of the American embassy at Berlin, where his duties included relief work for men of the entente nationalities in German prison camps. Today about a hundred American prisoners are held in Germany. Most of these are civilians taken off American merchantmen that have been stunk by Teuton submarines. More recent arrivals in the prison camps had served as gun crews, since the arming of our merchant ships. Speedy provisions for their relief and for those who may be taken prisoner is necessitated by the German policy of giving their prisoners of war food totally inadequate to keep men in good health. The extremely high death rate among Russian, Servian and Roumanian prisoners in Germany and Austria (30 per cent in the case of the Roumanians) has been largely due to the inability of Russia and the Balkan states to organize the rationing of prisoners of their nationalities from their home countries. COLLEGE GIRLS PARK GUIDES Accompany Camping Parties and Talk About Nature. Estes Park, Colo.—Women "nature guards" is the latest innovation in the administration of America's national parks. The guards are cultured college girls, whose duty it is to accompany camping parties through the great natural playgrounds and give interesting talks on the trees and flowers as well as the birds and animals of the region. Any camper may obtain the services of these girl teachers of nature lore for a nominal charge. The first park to have such guards is the Rocky Mountain National park, of which Estes Park village is the principal gateway. Four young women already have passed the rigid federal examinations and have been appointed by Supervisor L. C. Way of the park. They have been swamped with applications for their services. Boy of Fourteen Fights Bull. Chardon, O., Spain, land of toreadors, should hear of Albert Hosmer, fourteen, of Parkman. As a bullfigher Hosmer has just made a record without weapons. A bull owned by the boy's father charged Albert as he sought to feed the animal an apple. He grasped the bell ring of the maddened animal and leaped squarely on the bull's back. Hoosing and hoorting the bull ran wildly around the lot. Then the animal stopped suddenly and Albert was hurled to the ground. Albert ran his fingers into the bull's nostrils and gripped tight. The bull fell to its knees. The boy let go dashed to the fence and was on the other side before the bull chared. ```markdown ``` PAGE THREE The CRANFORD Apartment Building 3600 Wabash Avenue 100 The finest building ever opened to Colored tenants in Chicago. Steam heat, electric lights, tile baths, marble entrance. FREE STYLE BOOK ... HAIR To Colored Women We are the largest market for colored Colored Women's Hair. Our latest book showing new styles in hair dressing and wigs. Every colored wom- man should have one. We sell thou- sands our hair and toilet articles infection guaranteed or money back. We make the best solid brass STRAIGHT- GUARANTEED. With each comb we give lamp cap FREE. Send money order or stamps. MONEY BACK IF NOT SATISFACTORY. $8c. postpaid. POSTPAID 89c Hair nets, brushes, combs and toilet articles manufacturer' prices. Send two-cent stamp. Agents Wanted. Address as follows: HUMANIA HAIR COMPANY. 121-187 Park Row, New York City. Address Dept. 84 PHONE DOUGLAS $855 Dr. Mac Enery J. Brown Physician and Surgeon Practice Limited to Diseases of the Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat 10 EAST 35th STREET Hours: 9 to 12 A.M. 2 to 9 P.M. CHICAGO RESIDENCE 3419 South Park Avenue PHONE DOUGLAS 9356 WM. J. LATHAM ATTORNEY AT LAW OFFICE PHONE: CALUMET 875 2 East 31st Street Suite 7 CHICAGO Frank Dunn, J. B. McCahey, Trustees Telephones: Oakland 1552, 1551, 1550 JOHN J. DUNN ESTABLISHED 1277 Wholesale and Retail COAL Fifty-First and Federal Streets CHICAGO KINKY HAIR Atlanta, Ga. Baskin-Rock Co. Gentlemen. My picture shows you what your face EXELENTO COMBINATION POMADE has deep for, my hair. Before I used it, my hair was wet and now it is 9 inches long, and so it looks good and soft. I can do it up my face. I want to be JANE LANTA. Don't let some fake Kink Remove fool you. You really can't straighten your hair until it's nice and long. That's what EXELENTO COMBINATION does, removes Dandruff, feeds the Roots of the hair, and makes it grow long, soft and silky. After using a few times you can lift the difference. The hair will be quite and long, that you can fix it up to suit you. If Dandruff don't do we claim, we will give your money back. Also by mail, receipt of stamp or coin. AGENTS WANTED EVERYTHING. Vince For September. EXELENTO COMBINATION Co., faxing me Residence, 1262 Macalister Place Telephone Monroe 2714 MILES J. DEVINE Attorney at Law Suite 313-329 Reaper Block Clark and Washington Sts. Phones, Central 228' Auto. 41-816 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 SS15 A. L. WILLAMS Attorney and Counselor at Law Phone Main 2017 Automatic 32-395 Suite 706 Firmenick Building 184 W. Washington St. CHICAGO RESIDENCE: 508 E. 36th STREET PHONE DOUGLAS 4397 J. Gray Lucas Attorney at Law Suite 815 Hartford Bldg. 8 S. Dearborn St. CHICAGO PHONES: OFFICE, CENTRAL 6583 AUTOMATIC 42-590 Residence, 4533 Prairie Avenue Ree., Kenwood 8520 WALTER M. FARMER ATTORNEY AND COUNSELOR AT LAW NOTARY PUBLIC Suite 706 184 W. Washington St. Phone, Office, Main 4131 Auto., 33736 CHICAGO RESIDENCE: 3353 South Park Ave. PHONE DOUGLAS 2773 W. E. MOLLISON ATTORNEY and COUNSELOR THE BROAD AX, CHICAGO, DECEMBER 15, 1917 In this city since July 15th, 1899, without missing one single issue, Republicans, Democrats, Catholics, Protestants, Single Taxers, Priests, infidels or anyone else can have their say as long as their language is proper and responsibility is fixed. The Broad Ax is a newspaper whose platform is broad enough for all, ever claiming the editorial right to speak its own mind. Local communications will receive attention. Write only on one side of the paper. Subscriptions must be paid in advance. One Year . . . $2.00 Six Months . . . 1.00 Advertising rates made known on application. Address all communications to 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. 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. Paraguay's "Spider Lace." Missionaries in Paraguay more than 200 years ago taught the native Indians to make lace by hand. Since that day the art has greatly developed, and in certain of the towns lacemaking is the chief occupation. Almost all the women, many children and not a few men are engaged in this industry. A curious fact with reference to the Paraguayan laces is that the designs were borrowed from the strange webs woven by the semitropical spiders that abound in that country. Accordingly this lace is by the natives called nanduti, which means "spider web."—Exchange. Would Rather Not Go. "So you were late to school, Bessale?" "Yes, mamma." "But how would that deceive, my child?" "It might give some one who saw me running an idea that I was anxious to get there, and I wasn't."—Yonkers Statesman. Time For the Lecture "Yes, indeed! I have had a fine time at your party, but if I am to get any sleep at all tonight I've got to go now to give my wife a chance to tell me all the breaks I have made while here."—Detroit Free Press. The Retort Courteous. He—This bargain hunting shows your character. You are always looking out for something cheap. She—Too true. That is how I came to marry you. Baltimore American. Sarcastic Pop. She—I told papa you wanted to see him the next time you called. He—What did he say? She—He said for you to come on; he wasn't afraid of you—Boston Transcript. PRACTICAL HEALTH HINT. Varicose Veins. Operation is necessary in very severe cases. In simple early cases treatment consists of applying suitable bandages and paying attention to regularity of the bowels and general health. The bandage, which should be of fannel, about two inches wide and a yard or so long, is wrapped spirally round the limb affected, commencing well below the prominent veins and taken well above them. It should be adjusted firmly, but not too tightly, and each layer should slightly overlap the last. It should be put on while lying in bed in the morning and not taken off again till lying down in bed at night. Never massage or rub the parts. The Ambitious Bride. Bill—Hello! Home from your honey- boon trip already? Gill—Oh, yes. "Rather short, wasn't it?" "Oh, yes. My new wife seemed rath- r anxious to get home and try her poking on me."—Yonkers Statesman. The Passimist Says: "Meeting is believing," but that does not alter the fact that some men see things which have no real existence and therefore believe things which are not true—Bichmond Times-Dispatch. To what gulf a single deviation from the track of human duties lead Myron. --- Money Spent Would Have Made Earth a Paradise. Berlin Paper In Making Comparisons Says Funeral Cortege of 7,000,000 Men Killed Would Reach From Paris to Vladivostok, One Hearse Following Another. Berlin.-The Berliner Tageblatt sums up the results of the war to date as follows: "War loans, $87,000,000,000; loss in dead and wounded, 24,000,000 men; killed, 7,000,000 men; crippled for life, 5,000,000 men; loss through decrease of birth rate in all belligerent countries, 9,000,000 men. "The gold production of the world during the last 500 years amounted to $15,000,000,000, or less than one-fifth of the cost of the awful world war," the paper continues. "In five dollar gold pieces the $87,000,000,000 raised in war loans would form a belt that could be wound around the earth nine times. "The funeral cortege of the 7,000,000 men killed would reach from Paris to Vladivostok if one hearse followed the other. "When the war began the combined public debt of all European states was a little over $25,000,000,000, and now it is over $112,000,000,000. The British merchant fleet in 1914 represented a value of about $950,000,000. That is less than the annual interest England now has to pay for her war debt. Before the war Germany exported goods to the amount of $113,000,000 per year to the British colonies. By cutting off this export England can eventually reimburse herself for her losses, but this will take more than 200 years. "Germany, with the amount spent by her for the war, could have bought all the cotton fields, the copper mines and the whole petroleum industry of the United States and still would have had several billion dollars left over. "Russia, with her war expenses, might have covered her immense territories with a net of railways as close as that of Belgium and France, whose losses in men are larger than the entire male population of Alsace-Lorraine, could have bought all the Portuguese and Dutch colonies with the money she sacrificed for the war. "With the enormous wealth destroyed by the war Europe might have been made a paradise on earth instead of a howling wilderness. There is no doubt that the awful struggle would have been avoided if the nations had any idea of its enormity when it started." GROUNDHOG IS BACK HOME. Returns to Family That Befriended It Twenty Years Before. Madisonville, Ky.—Hezzie Sisk of Dalton is the owner of a groundhog that is now old enough to retire to private life. About twenty years ago Mr. Sisk's son Sam found a young groundhog pig, took it home, and that fall it hibernated. It came out next spring and soon was missing. Sight had been lost of the animal, but about two months ago the same hog turned up again and went to the same quarters where it was reared and is still with the family. Mr. Sisk says there is no doubt that it is the very same groundhog that strayed off from home a number of years ago. It is gentle and seems to have made up its mind to die among its former friends. LOST 121 LBS. IN FEW WEEKS Weighing 316, Physiologist Walked Eighteen Miles a Day. Seneca, N. Y.-Dr. I. H. Magill weighed 316 pounds when he went on his vacation a few weeks ago. When he returned he weighed 195 pounds. "The doctors told me I never would be able to get down to 200 pounds," he said, "but I fooled them. It took persistent exercise. While I was in Texas I started walking a mile a day. That was all I could stand at first. But by the time I had finished my visit in San Diego I was walking eighteen miles a day without becoming in the least exhausted." AMERICA'S WAR EXPENSES NOW A MILLION HOURLY Washington.—War expenditures of the United States, including allied loans, mounted during August to more than $24,000,000 every twenty-four hours. The figures, mlnus $100,000,000 just loaned to Russia, are contained in a treasury statement. Two-thirds of the daily total, $16,375,000, is represented by advances to the allies. For its own needs the United States has been spending daily $8,088,652, making the gross total $24,469,652. Since war was declared, 140 days ago, the treasury has paid out a total of $2,387,490,086, of which $1,680,500,000 has been advanced to the entente governments. Lord Northcliffe of the British mission presented to Secretary McAdoo figures showing that the credit of the British government would have to be increased from $500,000,000 monthly to about $800,000,000. A visit will convince you. You can save you Worry, Time and Money. Parts of the Country and Automobile Specialty. Central Display Rooms and promptly answered day or night. At H. Williamson, Undertaker AUTOMATIC 73-867 930 S. State St., Chicago, IL LOUIE USSELMANN maker, Jeweler and Optometrist 3150 South State Street 5308 CHICAGO Tech Inspector for the Chicago & Eastern Illinois R. R. DATE GIVE SERVICE LOW RENT H. A. WATKINS REAL ESTATE AND INSURANCE RENTING A SPECIALTY 3510 Indiana Avenue GLAS 1714 CHICAGO OWNERS AND DIRECTORS Consult me, I can save you Worry, Time and Money. Shipping to all parts of the Country and Automobile Funerals a Specialty. Central Display Rooms and Chapel. Call promptly answered day or night. Watchmaker, Jeweler and Optometrist Watch Inspector for the Chicago & Eastern Illinois R. R. I DECORATE GIVE SERVICE LOW RENT H. A. WATKINS REAL ESTATE AND INSURANCE RENTING A SPECIALTY 3510 Indiana Avenue PHONE DOUGLAS 1714 CHICAGO The Emanuel Jackson Undertaking Co., Inc. 2959-61 South State Street Service Courteous Treatment Reasonable Prices FREE CHAPEL IN CONNECTION of Funeral Goods Automobiles for Hire NAN JONES' PLACE TEENAN JONES' PLACE 3445 SOUTH STATE STREET TELEPHONE DOUGLAS 4591 finest and most UP-TO-DATE FFET and CAFE on the South First-Class Entertainers. "TEENAN" JONES, Proprietor The finest and most UP-TO-DATE BUFFET and CAFE on the South Side. First-Class Entertainers. HENRY "TEENAN" JONES, Proprietor A. B. Consult me, I can save Shipping to all parts of Funerals a Specialty. Chapel. Call promptly Ernest H. KENWOOD 455 Unc 5028 and 5030 S. DR. LO Watchmaker Phone Douglass 5308 I DECORATE H. REAL RE PHONE DOUGLAS 171 DAN M. JACKSON GEQ. T. KERSEY DAVID A. MCGOWAN AHMED A. RAYNER The Unc 2 Reliable Service FR Complete Line of Fu TEENA The finest BUFFET Side. HENRY "THE As Near As Your Telephone DISTANCE IMMATERIAL IN a Metropolitan City of this size, death knocks every thirty minutes at some door. Too often that death not only brings sorrow, but misfortune as well. Let the price you pay for a funeral be a business proposition and you will benefit by it in service, quality and cost to you in dollars and cents. The result of my campaign has built for me one of the largest and most magnificent establishments in the world. LAUREL ELMANN d Optometrist Eastern Illinois R. R. LOW RENT KINS INSURANCE ALTY Indiana Avenue CHICAGO Phones Calumet 6164 Automatic 71-629 Jackson , Inc. Street Pourteous Treatment CTION Automobiles for Hire TO-DATE the South tertainers. ES, Proprietor OPEN DAY AND NIGHT CHICAGO