The Broad Ax

Mayor William Hale Thompson in an Open Letter to Hon. Medill McCormick, Wants to Know if He and His Family Newspaper, the Chicago Tribune, Will Support the Republican Nominee for United States Senator, Whoever He May Be, in Case the Present Congressman at-Large, Who Aspires to That Honored Position Should Be Defeated at the State Wide Primaries This Coming September layor Thompson Contends That in 1912, Mr. McCormick Greatly Assisted to Disrupt the Republican Party, Thereby Making It Possible for the Democrats to Ride Into Power in Illinois and Throughout the Nation ATOR WILLIAM HALE THOMPEN ADDRESSED THE POLLW. OE OPEN LETTER TO HON. MH ILL McCORMICK. matter of principle or because you want an office for yourself through which you may bring greater power to your family's newspaper and are willing to use the Republican party at this time because you believe it to be the dominant party in Illinois. Today the Tribune has experienced a change of heart and it is ready and willing to fall in line with Mayer Thompson in his contention for true Americanism and Americans first in the present world's war for Democracy. 72 Mayor of Chicago, who predicted one year ago that if all of the coal and provisions were sent out of this country to Europe, that there would be great suffering on the part of the people residing in Chicago and in other sections of this country on account of the scarcity of coal and provisions, and his words have come true in this respect. THE BANQUET TO BE GIVEN BY THE SOCIETY FOR ALL NATIONALISTS BY THE PATRIOTIC AMERICAN CITIZENS ON WEDNESDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 9TH, AT HOTEL LA SALLE, PROMISES TO BE A HISTORY MAKING EPOGH. representing the War Department or President Woodrow Wilson, will be the distinguished guests of honor. The affair promises to be of vast importance to all the citizens of Chicago and the people in general throughout the nation. The banquet will be attended by the dent Chicago Col Club. COLOR-BARS THE Clarence Guillot, U. S. Intervie HON. WILLIAM HALE THOMPSON. who predicted one year ago that if all of the of this country to Europe, that there wou people residing in Chicago and in other se scarcity of coal and provisions, and his w representing the War Department or President Woodrow Wilson, will be the distinguished guests of honor. The affair promises to be of vast importance to all the citizens of Chicago and the people in general throughout the nation. The banquet will be attended by the following Colored citizens. Major Allen A. Wesley, Grand Chancellor of the Knights of Pythias of Illinois and President of the Colored Peoples Loyalty League; S. A. T. Watkins, Supreme Attorney for the Knights of Pythias throughout the world and President of the Appomattox Club; Hon. Edward H. Morris, Grand Master of the Grand United Order of Odd Fellows; Dr. Charles E. Bentley, Secretary of Provident Hospital and prominent member of the National Association for the advancement of Colored people; William R. Cowan, Manager Imperial Building; Robert R. Jackion, member Illinois Legislature; Dr. Carl G. Roberts; Robert S. Abbott, editor, Chicago Defender; Julius F. Taylor, editor The Broad Ax; Attorney Champion J. Waring; Rev. J. C. Anderson, pastor Quinn Chapel; Hon. Louis B. Anderson, Alderman Second Ward; Attorney J. R. Auter, Evanston, Ill. and Midian O. Bonshield, Presi- ```markdown ``` No.19 dent Chicago Colored Men's College Club. COLOR-BARS MRS. MARY C. THERBELL. U. S. Interpreters Corps—No Room for Mrs. Terrell. Washington, D. C., (Special)—Prof. Clarence Guillot has been appointed a member of the U. S. Interpreters Corps, and is now awaiting a commission. Prof. Guillot was formerly instructor in French at Howard University, and recently resigned this position to take up his new duties. A singular incident in connection with Prof. Guillot's appointment is the fact that Mrs. Mary Church Terrell, who succeeded him as instructor in French at the University, was refused a similar appointment in the corps because of her color. Prof. Guillot is of Creole birth. Hon. Francis J. Bhair announces himself a candidate for re-election to the office of superintendent of public instruction for the state of Illinois, subject to the decision of the Republican primaries this coming September. HON. JOHN One of the most popular and most pro- will this coming April be re-electa COLORED PEOPLE MUST AWAKE c Kewartino HON. JOHN TOMAN. One of the most popular and most prominent members of the City Council, who will this coming April be re-elected to that body from the 34th Ward. One of the most popular and most prominent members of the City Council, who will this morning April be re-elected to that body from the 34th Ward. The Colored people of Chicago, like those of most American cities, talk much. We boast of the largest Y. M. C. A., the largest churches, largest hospitals, two members in the state legislature, a member in the City Council, and before the war when our Eighth Illinois became the 370 U. S. A., we boasted of the only Colored regiment officers and men. We have several Colored men who are rated above $100,000 and two or three rated above $200,000. Our churches and secret organizations have to their credit in the banks of Chicago over $300,000. It is our proud boast that we live in the freest city in the Union, where the door of opportunity is wider open and where a man is a man. Because of this reputation thousands of our brothers from the South are coming to us seeking broader opportunity and a greater liberty. So that thousands of mills and factories are now employing Colored people to whom they pay about $100,000 per day. What becomes of this vast amount of money? Over $31,000,000 per year in addition to more than $1,000,000 in the banks of Chicago belonging to Colored organizations or individuals. We find that this great wealth is not being used by Colored people in business pursuits, as is evidenced by the business condition in the districts almost exclusively inhabited by colored people, where business places supplying the necessities of life are ten white to one Colored. Not one State or National bank in the city owned and controlled by Colored people, not a single Insurance Company to insure the lives and health of the one hundred thousand Colored people, and in which boys and Girls may find employment and where the thousand of dollars, paid as premiums may be invested to make larger businesses and real property more secure, in Chicago. Be it to the everlasting shame of the Colored people of Chicago, Ministers and Business people in particular, if this condition is permitted to continue through 1918. In vain do we spend thousands of dollars in erecting church edifices and maintaining same to develop the spiritual and moral nature of our boys and girls if we make no provision for them to earn a livelihood to maintain their moral status. The Colored people of Chicago must awake. DR. DOBIS AT 60 CELEBRATES Dr. W. E. B. DuBois, the distinguished publicist, reaches his fiftieth birthday February 23. A unique celebration is planned. It is to be in the form of an autobiography that will appear with an art likeness, in the February Crisis magazine. The life story includes a description of his humble birth at Great Barrington, Massachusetts, a tribute to his ambitious mother, his early encounter with race prejudice, his long struggle for an education in Massachusetts, at Fisk University, at Harvard University and in Germany; his life work in Ohio, in Georgia and finally for the past eight years as editor of the Crisis, that has grown to 68,000 copies. This story of Dr. DuBois' life, as told by himself, grips the enthusiasm, thrills and inspire. It will be read with great interest by Negroes of all ages. PAGE TWO 1 The first anniversary celebration of the establishing of the Clio School of Mental Sciences in Chicago was held at the school, 3543 State street, on Monday evening, Jan. 21st. There was a large and representative gathering which taxed the capacity of the school and brought together some of the most distinguished residents of the city. At the close remarks were made by Major John R. Lynch, the presiding officer, Prof. R. T. Greener, and Rev. Father John Henry Simons, all members of the Advisory Board. They expressed themselves as deeply and thoroughly interested in the principles and usefulness of the subjects taught at the school, and pledged their co-operation and earnest support in the furthering of the work. A final feature of the program was a social hour after which the meeting dispersed and all departed with many good wishes, and expressing themselves as well pleased with the entertainment and instructions of the evening. About 75 guests responded to invitations. Of the many interesting papers read by graduates the one receiving the most favorable comment was one by Mrs. Maxy Montgomery, the full text of which follows: The Philosophy of Success. (Paper read at The Clio School Anniversary, Jan. 21st, 1918, by Mrs. Montgomery.) Mr. Chairman, Fellow Students, Ladies and Gentlemen: I will begin by saying that each person has the power to make of himself whatever he wishes to be, through the force and power of his mind. Practical psychology teaches us that the body is controlled, strengthened or weakened by the power of the mind. So to be successful one must cultivate the mind in both an objective and subjective way. In whatever way he wishes success and by application and perseverance, he can succeed. One of the first principles of success itself is self-control and a knowledge of self. I repeat, that each person has the power to make of himself whatever he wishes to be, by the force and power of his mind, but for perfect success even by this process he should cultivate a pure mind and keep his thoughts pure. Few people stop to think that what they eat or drink has a very great deal to do with building up a pure mind, as well as a strong body. The substance from which life draws its sustenance, must effect the character and the life, since life and character are one. To be successful one must also have a knowledge of the special things he can do, and the power and force of mind needed for that special thing. Then, there is another great mental aid which brings about success. In fact, one can scarcely be a success without having a strong will to guide him, in whatever he does. Since by the power and force of the mind man learns to think for himself, to see through the difficult problems of life, and through the mind's eye to see the things that are unseeable, in all its forms with our objective eye, we all can be considered to be born, ideally constructed for success. People who think for themselves, naturally get ahead faster and earn success quicker than those who do not think. The best way to learn to think for THE-BROAD AX, CHICAGO, JANUARY 26, 1918 No Colored Clerks Interview Shows White Merchants Get 100 Per Cent of Business from Colored People. By Wm. D. Neighbors. The leading Colored merchants on the South Side are in hearty accord with in last week's issue of The Broad Ax. in last week's issue of the Broad Ax. They are almost as generally of the opinion that something must be done to increase the amount of business being done by Colored merchants. Some of them attribute the cause to a lack of proper understanding of business, others to the lack of capital, others to the lack of co-operation on the part of Colored business men themselves. Some few to a disposition on the part of many Colored people to trade with white merchants. There is, however, a general optimistic note in the expression of all the Colored business men interviewed. Many of the white merchants frankly admit that their patrons are from forty to one hundred per cent Colored people. The manager of P. D. Madigan & Company, Mr. Louis Sparing, ex pressed the opinion that at least forty per cent of all their business was with the Colored people, and that the percentage of business done, with the people in the locality was much larger than forty per cent Colored, the lower average being due to white patrons who formerly lived in the neighborhood, many of whom are now living as far south as 92nd street, but who still trade with the store, so that the percentage of patrons in the neighborhood is considerably over fifty per cent Colored. One grocery store run by a white person (Dan Brothers), on 35th near Forest avenue, admitted that one hundred per cent of their business was with Colored people. This firm does not employ a single Colored clerk. He has one young Colored man there, however, a general all-around man, who delivers goods and does porter work. This is one of the most thickly settled Colored districts in the city, and as was stated last week, within two blocks there are four grocery stores that are doing a thriving business employing from three to five butchers and clerks, with not a single Colored clerk employed. It is reasonable to presume that the percentage of business done by each of the other three stores is the same as that done by Dan Brothers. Mr. F. Schuette, owner of a dry goods and gentlemen's furnishing store at 213 E. 35th street, in response to the inquiry, "What is the relative percentage of your business among Colored people?" replied, "I should say about 75 per cent of my business is with Colored people, as one might readily see from the passing on the street." Mr. Schuette has not a single Colored person in his employ, and does not advertise in any Colored papers or church programs or appeal in any other way to the Colored people for their patronage. He just seems to be there and because he is there they go and trade with him. This neighborhood offers a splendid opportunity to a Colored dry goods and ladies' and gentlemen's furnishing store. There ought to be a splendid opportunity for a gro yourself is to master some given subject or a piece of work, so that you can talk about it with confidence. To know the truth, means success, for truth is the power that moves the world forward. Love is the force that lifts it upward; earnest, thoughtful people do not expect to gain success except by hard struggle, many betetments and continual strivings. Now, to enable one to have mental strength to bring about these things, he must cultivate the moral sentiments of the mind. The moral sentiments, are those elements in man's nature that lift him above the brute kingdom, and make him a moral and accountable being. They are the sacred touches that light the soul, through the upward march toward heaven. They give to anticipation of future success tat is truly admirable, and keeps hope ever before us. Whatever is worthy of reverence, whatever is good and pure, whatever is honorable and venerable, whatever is kind and charitable, whatever is Christ-like in our natures, come through these moral sentiments; and these moral sentiments co-operate with every element of power of one's mind; but always with the same influence of uplift. Of course the different temperaments of people have something still to do with the action of these qualities of the mind. The human organization is composed of three distinct classes of temperaments. While all of these several systems are found in each individual, they seldom, if ever, exist in the same degree of strength, but by development, each temperament aims for its own success; so that these moral sentiments wherever found and combining with either of the three temperaments, will still produce that elevating, refining and purifying quality to the mind. cery and market run by a Colored person in this section also. In discussing the question as to the relative amount of business done by Colored people in his neighborhood, Mr. William D. Johnson said, "I am of the opinion that the Colored grocers and delicatessens do not get more than 25 per cent of the business in this neighborhood. There are three of us Colored men, two grocers and one delicatessen, in the 36th and 37th street blocks and there are in the same territory ten white grocers and delicatessen places. Either one of the ten obtain at least 75 per cent more of the Colored business than anyone of the Colored merchants." The bakery business, particularly the wholesale business, is completely controlled by white bakeries. The many groceries and delicatessens, both Colored and White are all supplied by White bakeries, so that the White merchant not only directly controls the grocery and market business, but all the bakery goods as well. It is not possible to purchase at any of these stores bread baked by a Colored bakery, notwithstanding the fact that there are four Colored bakeries in the neighborhood. One of these shops formerly did a wholesale business, but found that end of the business was not profitable owing to the fact that White merchants would not push their goods. In reply to the inquiry, "What is the percentage of business done by Colored men in your line to that of White in the same line in this neighborhood with Colored people," Mr. W. A. Wallace of the Wallace Baking Company said, "Presuming that 75 per cent of the people in this neighborhood are Colored, I should say that we Colored bakers do not get more than 50 per cent of that number, but I am satisfied with the patronage that we are getting. We find that in proportion as the Colored merchant is able to meet competition he will receive the trade of the Colored people. This was not always true, however. It is, in fact, only true in the last few years, due largely to the infux of the Colored people from the South, who are inoculated with the spirit of clannishness, and if you have what they want and at the price they can obtain it anywhere else they will trade with you. The only remedy for the lack of our getting the proper percentage of the Colored business is a mutual co-operation among Colored merchants, and proper financing businesses in which we are engaged. Mr. Wallace shares with the many other merchants the view that co-operative purchasing which would enable the merchants to buy in sufficiently large quantities to successfully compete with White merchants should be adopted by the Colored merchant. It is also the general opinion that through their united action the merchants may be able to secure better financing of their business. As to just how this is to be done will be fully discussed. These sentiments according as they predominate over even the propensities, will have the supremacy of power to direct and mold the character for lasting success. Prof. Adena C. E. Minott wishes to thank special friends of the school, and the public in general, for their support and patronage during the past year and hopes still to rely upon their friendly and faithful co-operation in the future. For the Eleventh Biennial Meeting of the National Association of The eleventh biennial meeting of the N. A. C. W. will be held in Denver, Colo., July 8 to 18, 1918. Every officer, superintendent of departments, state president and delegate should present her credentials to the Committee and obtain official badge entitling her to vote as soon after arrival as possible. The Credential Committee, Miss Georgia A. Nugent, Chairman; Mrs. Mary H. Baker, of Wyoming; Mrs. Theresa G. Macon, of Illinois; Mrs. Charlotte Hawkins Brown, of North Carolina, and Miss Reberta Dunbar, of Rhode Island, Recording Secretary, will be in session Monday, July 8, from 11 a. m. to 12 m., and from 2 to 5 p. m. The Executive Board, Miss Hallie Q. Brown, Chairman, will hold their first session at 5 p. m., July 8. Mrs. Myrtle Cook, chairman of Program Committee, has been able to nearly complete a program which covers the newer and more striking phases of work which has been called for, due to the ex- OFFICIAL CALL Colored Women. THE THE THE HON. JAMES T. McDERMOTT. Ex-member of Congress from the 9th Con out at the primaries Tuesday, Feb. 2 Congress Tuesday, April 2. Ex-member of Congress from the 9th Congressional District of Illinois, who will win out at the primaries Tuesday, Feb. 26, and be re-elected to the lower hall of Congress Tuesday, April 2. traordinary time through which we are passing. Miss Nannie H. Burroughs, Superintendent of Department for Suppression of Lynching and Mob Violence, will have a report of unusual interest to present. The Entertainment Committee are arranging for short trips to Pike's Peak, Colorado Springs, the Garden of the Gods, and also for a mid-day lunch-eon to be served free to the delegates. The Committee in charge of Transportation has announced raises from the East, through Mrs. Mazie Mosselle Griffin. MR. AND MRS. BLOCKI WILL SPEND THE NEXT THREE MONTHS ON A PLEASURE TRIAL IN CALIFORNIA AND THE SOUTHWEST. Mr. and Mrs. F. W. Blocki, of Buena avenue, Chicago, have left for California on a three-months' tour, visiting friends in various parts of Southern California, stopping at San Francisco to visit Ex-Alderman Malibu or Chicago; at Los Angeles to visit Alderman Thomas Carey of Chicago at Pasadena to visit Mr. and Ms. Mrs. G. A. Ross, of Denver, representing the West, and Mrs. Mabel Keith Howard, of South Carolina, will announce rates for the South. Information concerning board and lodging may be obtained from Mrs. M. E. Diahman, 2439 Gilpin street, Denver, Colo., General Chairman of Arrangements for Denver. Among the interesting things scheduled will be the burning of the Douglass mortgage, the announcement of the Roll of Honor and the winner of the Special Tablet; also the election of the Board of Trustees to manage the Douglass Home which will pass to the entire control and management of the National Association of Colored Women. The American Colored women should be aroused as never before, to greater activity. New duties will be placed upon our women through the Amendment of the Constitution, which will doubtless become a law at the coming session of Congress. At the smallest calculation, three million Colored women will receive the ballot, which is the greatest power that has been given us since the emancipation, to correct some of the evils that have crushed us. Government ownership of railroads will wipe out the notorious, offensive, undemocratic Jim Crow cars, into which we have been herded during the past twenty years, regardless of rights as American citizens. Just now, a call is coming to you, as thrown across a deep valley. Will you be there? Let the answer come: "We will, we will be there!" All dues and per capita taxes should be in the hands of the National Treasurer, Mrs. Ida Joyce Jackson, 548 East Spring street, Columbus, Ohio, no later than May 30, 1918. MARY B. TALBERT, President. HALLIE Q. BROWN, Chairman Executive Board. REBEETA DUNBAR, First Recording Sec. Honorary Presidents: Mrs. Mary Church Terrell, Mrs. Lucy Thurman, Miss Elizabeth Carter, Mrs. Booker T. Washington. Local Committee: Mme. Dishman, Chairman. KIT AND COMFORT CLUB BENEFIT You and your friends are cordially invited to attend a progressive whist party at the Appomattox Club parlors Friday afternoon, February 1st, from 1:30 to 5, by Mrs. Ada Shreves' Unit of the Kit and Comfort Club. Proceds to be used to buy yarn to make comfort garments for the 370th boyn. Admission, 25 cents. Prizes will be offered. CONGRESSIONAL District of Illinois, who will wi 26, and be re-elected to the lower hall MR. AND MRS. BLOCKI WILL SPEND THE NEXT THREE MONTHS ON A PLEASURE TRI IN CALIFORNIA AND THE SOUTHWEST. Mr. and Mrs. F. W. Bloeki, of S. Buena avenue, Chicago, have left for California on a three-month's tour, visiting friends in various parts of Southern California, stopping at San Francisco to visit Ex-Alderman Malbey of Chicago; at Los Angeles to visit Ex-Alderman Thomas Carey of Chicago at Pasadena to visit with Mr. and Ma John T. Connery of Chicago, and at Long Beach to visit J. D. Stead of Kraine Park, Colorado. They will return via Houston, Tex. stopping at Camp Logan to call on Cabell Milton J. Foreman of the 12th Field Artillery, U. S. A., and Colonial Henry A. Allen of the 108th U. S. Engineers. By Attorney Harris B. Gaines This column is open to readers of The Broad Ax for legal questions of general interest. All questions are to be addressed to the Editor of the Lapto Helps Department by Wednesday each week. H. B. Gaines, 6221 Halsted street, National Theater Building. Chicago, Jan. 23, 1918.—To the Editor of Legal Helps: I would like to se cure employment in a government muni tion plant. What steps are necessary for me to take to secure such em plment? J. W. J. The proper steps to secure work is a muni tion plant is to register with the State Council of National Defensa 120 W. Adams street. They will pla ce you on their reserve list and when most employees are needed in the muni tion factories they will notify you. Chieago, Jan. 21, 1918—(Editor of Legal Helps): Last July Mr. A. requested me to move into his building which had been damaged by fire, for the purpose of giving protection to the building. It was agreed between me that I would receive free rent for two months (the time thought necessary to get the building in tenantable condition). At the end of the two months the building had not been repaired to the extent of making the house tenantable; for that reason I have refused to pay any rent. The landlord came around the last of September and agreed to extend free rent for an additional month stating that the repairs would then be completed and he would expect rent from the lst of November. He failed to complete repairs and I again refused to pay him rent. I completed the repairs at my own expense in order that I might have some comfort. The landlord now threatens to sue me for three months' rent, and refuses to allow me anything for the repairs done by me. Do I have to pay him the rent? G. F. L. Yes, you are liable for the rent in the time after November 1st, which was the end of the last extension of free rent. If the house did not suit you at that time you should have moved out. Your stay on the premises makes you liable for rent. LEGAL HELPS [Name] DR. M. J. BROWN. The highly expert in all diseases of the eye, ear, nose, fine suite of offices at No. 10 E. 35th st. THE RED CAP MEN AT THE 19TH STREET STATION OF THE L.C. RAILROAD Juan Wyatte Bell. Creed No highly expert in all discourses of the eye, ear, nose and throat, who occupies a fine suite of offices at No. 10 E. 35th street, near State. The map and activity daily displayed by the ushers is appreciated by our chief superviatively. "Be at your post and on duty" is his slogan. Jas. Matthews is spending the week in Southern Illinois. Ever ready and on the job is Paul Quinta. While weather conditions make into trains he is always willing to stay overtime to serve them. Tuesday was vaccination day for the Chas. Collins' family. Chas., the madam and baby and daughter and Chas. Jr. wisely took this preventive measure to possible infection. Mr. Jas. Tyndall, traveling salesman for Manade & Gray Cigar manufacturers, left Tuesday for Detroit. Sunday, Feb. 3rd, will be a gala day at Bethel Literary. Dr. A. Wilberforce Williams will address the society; subject, "The Call of the Hour." A new thought of the present advantages will be missed by those who fail to be present at Bethel Church at 4 o'clock p. m. Good music; everyone invited. Admission free. Mr. Horacio Maat recently returned from a short stay in St. Louis. Sergeant Jno. Ferguson left Tuesday for St. Louis. He was in good spirits as Mrs. Ferguson is again in normal health. Copied, "Jas. L. Robinsonograms": Judge, "Upon what grounds do you claim exemption from military service!" Jasper, "Dey say dat dis war is bein' sit fer democracy, don't dey!" Judge, "Yes—sure." Jasper, "I'se a publican." We are glad to tell the many friends of Mrs. Jas. Evans, 3422 Wabash avenue, that she is very much improved from her recent illness. J. W. Hightower was pleased to meet friends with whom he served in the Regular Army last week. Our chief usher, Sandy W. Trice announces that he turned over to the president of the Old Folks' Home, $20.30, donated by the ushers and employees of the Illinois Central. He tends his thanks to Chester Wilkins and James Ferguson, who were his co-solicitor. ST. MARK METHODIST EPHICOPAL CHURCH Fiftieth Street and Wabash Ave. "The Challenge of the Cities" proved a most interesting study to the large and appreciative congregation assembled in St. Mark to hear the pastor, the Rev. John W. Robinson, whose effort was worthy of the occasion. More than seven hundred ($700) dollars was raised toward the half million dollar campaign the Methodist Church has inaugurated in Chicago. There was loud and enthusiastic applause when on Monday morning Dr. Robinson reported the amount to the Chicago Presachers' Meeting. It was a most fitting thing to do since Methodists plan such a fine advance for its work among Negroes in this city. Services were well attended both morning and night last Sunday. The death of Mrs. H. A. Shaw was a great shock to the members of St. Mark Church. Her funeral was held on Monday at 11 a. m. Mrs. L. M. Covington, a very progressive young woman of this city, is the organizer and founder of the Creed of Soul Development and Physical Culture. She has published a very interesting little pamphlet on the subject which she hopes to have copyrighted in the near future. Mrs. Covington holds her meetings at Douglass Center every Sunday evening. MISS GAIL WILGON AND MR. JOSIAH JONES LECTURE TO THE SOPHICAL SOCIETY. Miss Wilson read and discussed a part of "The Doctrine of the Heart" at the last meeting, and Mr. Jones read and interpreted Theosopically, Paul's letter to the Corinthians. Both discussions were exceedingly interesting and instructive. Mr. C. Jackson sang. Mr. and Mrs. Doyle were interesting visitors. The next regular meeting will be held Sunday, February 3, 7 o'clock, 5827 Wentworth Avenue. THE UNIVERSITY SOCIETY. Don't fail to attend the next regular meeting of the University Society. President Mr. Henry W. Hammond, time, 4 o'clock, place, 5300 Wabash Avenue. Special program will be rendered. THE CLIO SCHOOL OF MENTAL SCHOLARS. The students of the Ohio School of Mental Sciences, under the direction of Prof. Adena C. Minnott, 3543 S. State Street, celebrated their anniversary last Monday evening at the school. Very splendid papers were read by graduates of the school on various phases of mental science. Mrs. Irene McCoy Gaines rendered dramatic readings, and Prof. J. A. Mundy and Mrs. Madah Pettiford sang. Prof. Minott demonstrated briefly the work of the school. After the program a very enjoyable cup of cocoa with wafers was given each visitor. CHAS. STEWART WILL PREACH ON SUNDAY MORNING AT BEREAN BAPTIST CHURCH, 52nd AND DEARBORN STREET. Charles Stewart, A. M., D. D., of National Baptist convention, will preach Sunday morning at Berean Baptist church, and will follow this with a lecture to the Young Men's Social Welfare Club at 4 o'clock Sunday afternoon at Olivet Baptist church, which promises to be a great meeting and will be attended by many. Dr. Stewart is one of the best known men of the race in Chicago and has traveled very extensively in all parts of the country as well as through Europe. FIRM OF FAULKNER AND COOK REPORTS THE FOLLOWING SALES-YEAR 1917 Residences—2733 Prairie avenue, 443 E. 40th street, 3145 Vernon avenue, 460 E. 34th street, 3302 Vernon avenue, 3541 Grand boulevard, 3624 Grand boulevard, 429 E. 41st street, 431 E. 41st street, 3286 Calumet avenue. Three Flats—439 E. 41st street. Associated in sale of 3330 Forest avenue residence; 3733 Indiana avenue, three flat, 3544 Grand boulevard, four flat; 14 lots in Morgan Park. Six Flats—3715-17 Indian avenue, 3719-21 Indiana avenue. THE BROAD AX, CHICAGO, JANUARY 26, 1918 Charles E. Stump, Who Hails from the Farming Regions of Kansas, Continues to Hold Forth in Chicago Perhaps you think I have fallen in love with Chicago and will give up my farm so I can walk around the streets in this town and dress up and look wise. But it is not so yet, I am just here, and it is hard to get away from here just now, but perhaps this will be my last week here and if not then next week will be, for I am going to take a trip down in balm. I am sure that you have seen some of the snow around and about Chicago, and you have no doubt thought that judgment was near at hand, but it is so few years and months away yet I am told, and I thank God that the people will not all be destroyed just now, because they are much needed. But then my attention is directed to the present war, and no one is prepared to tell just what it has in store for us, or what part we are going to take, except it has been registered in heaven that we are going to win the war, and win it we must, come what may or go what may not. Of course it is going to require some dying to accomplish this. It was impossible for Christ to save this world without the shedding of his blood, and now in order to establish for the whole world freedom and universal democracy, there must be blood shed, and this blood will be shed by white men and black men side by side. Our men have shown a willingness to die, and they are going to die. They will be in what you call the infantry, the cavalry, and then they will handle the machine guns, and I think some of them big cannons also. Those who do not die will live and return to tell the story how it was done, but some will never get back, but will end up in the other world. Their bodies will be planted in France. When the war is ever, we hope that our country will show to the world that it was in earnest, and I do not doubt it at all. Let that loyal American citizen, who has never been a traitor and perhaps never will be, take his place as a real man and enjoy some of this democracy. This is all I am going to say about it just now. Of course you know I have been knocking around Chicago for a little bit, and then you are glad that I have been here, for I have been taking things in, if only snow and cold without coal. I spent two weeks on the north side listening at them get rid of them criminals, the hold up men, the murderers, and other people who should be locked after by the law. The wheel of justice has been grinding. I find that a man must be much guilty according to law to convict him. The jury is instructed by the judge that it must be beyond a reasonable doubt and to a moral certainty guilty, and if there is a doubt in the minds of those who set on the case then they are instructed to turn him loose. When the twelve men have gone out and put it down then the thing comes off. During my stay around I have touched many men and women in all walks of life, and I am proud that I touched some of them. I was thrown in touch with some of the thinkers. I had the pleasure of shaking hands with Editor Julius F. Taylor of The Broad Ax, and I must say to you that he is one busy man, trying to get information for his readers and inspire them to do great things. He is proving to the world that he is a great editor, and is getting out a great newy paper. Friday, I had the pleasure of touching some of the great men of the African Methodist Episcopal church, such men as Dr. A. J. Carey, N. J. McCracken, and Attorney Ellis. These men entertained me for a little while, and through Dr. Carey I was invited to St. Stephens A. M. E. church, for Sunday morning, which invitation was accepted, and I met a large crowd there. Miss Catherine Davis, who is a student in the University of Chicago, went over with me, and we were cordially received by the pastor, Rev. Dr. Taylor, who is one more hustling man, and who is in the hearts of his people. Leaving St. Stephens, we went over to call on Dr. and Mrs. J. Frank Armstrong, and believe me that Doctor Armstrong is one more busy man. They were sitting around in the office waiting to get in a word and be healed, while his office girl was kept busy answering the hello box, telling them that the doctor would soon be there. He has made good in Chicago. Leaving his place we joined Mrs. Elvie L. Stewart, and Charles Stewart, Jr., at the home of Mrs. Laura Bartlett, 4325 Forestville avenue. She has been connected with the police department for the past 20 years, and will soon be retired on a pension. She has done her work well, and is one of the most aggressive women I have ever met. It was a pleasure to be at her home. She is as witty as any one who ever came down the pike in Ireland. After making us welcome and telling us the story of the Chicago gas, she got down to this getting dinner ready business. I was invited to take some of it and did not refuse. I had some fine reed birds, directly from Hogville, and then there were walkers, and the opposite to bravery in all of his gravy was there to satisfy our appetites. I tried to stay in sight of Mrs. Stewart, and if she left me it was not because I slacked in the least. If the table could speak it would inform you that my duty was done. I will say myself that it was well done. In the evening, I had the pleasure of going to Ebenezer Baptist church to hear a new preacher invited there by Dr. J. F. Thomas. He is a wonderful character, and one of the greatest preachers of our country, saying nothing about race or color. He is ripe and full of information. He holds his own. May he live a long time. I want in with them preachers and enjoyed all but one thing. Last fall I purchased me a brand new overcoat, one of the best—yes, the best I ever had since I have been in the world. I wore it to church and as I was with the preacher, I put my coat in the office with them other men, except I put my coat down in a corner with my hat on it, and after preaching I came out to get my coat, but it was not there. There were two or three over coats hanging up, but none of them would fit me, nor were they as good as mine. I happened to look around and saw one of the preachers, and felt like putting on his back "Lost, strayed or stolen." For he had on an overcoat much too big for him, and when I took the second look, lo, and behold, he had on my coat. When I demanded it, he said at first that it was his coat, but upon the second look, discovered that he had made a mistake, and had gotten hold of the wrong coat. I wish you could have seen me hustling that preacher out of what did not belong to him, and when he was on the outside, I put myself inside of it, and then looked at him trying to get into his own ragged coat, and when he got into it he took safety pins to fasten it on him. It would have been a righteous mistake if I had not discovered my coat in time. He was an honest man, and would not have lifted my coat for the world. Get through there I want down to Olivet Baptist church and found them air busy as could be there installing all the newly and oldly elected officers. It was a great service. Now that they are in, the work is now on of getting ready for a brand new church in the very near future. Already the lot has been purchased, and I am told paid for in cash, and other things will soon follow. Have you seen it? I want to congratulate Rev. L. K. Williams on his wonderful leadership. He is a leader of men, and I am so glad that I know him. I have been to the home of Bishop H. Blanton Parks, Dr. W. D. Cook, and the last of the week I had the pleasure of calling at the home of the Rev. Dr. Hubbard, of the Baptist church; Mrs. Hattie Plumb, a worker in the Household of Ruth, Mrs. Christine Cook and her husband, Mrs. Estella Peacock, and Miss Bessie F. Law. Speaking of Miss Law, she is from Jackson, Miss, and holds a good position in town. Her sister died in Jackson, and the news had just reached her. I think I will stop here. I am told that Charles Stewart will address the men at Olivet Baptist church Sunday afternoon. I am sure that it is going to be a great big meeting and I have made up my mind to go there myself. Enough for this time. Washington (Special)—Mrs. Carrie Burton Overten, of Wyoming, who as reported in the Afro-American, of a few weeks ago, was refused a position in the office of the Council of National Defense hate, has been appointed to a position as stenographer in the Agricultural Department, paying $1,000 a year. When she was refused a position in the Council of Defense, Mrs. Overten took up her case with the N. A. A. C. P., and later with the Congressman from her home with the result that she received her present appointment. The C Apartm nilbing FORMER ALDERMAN HENRY P. BERGEN. For many years he faithfully served all the City Council and it would be well if ward would boost him back into it. CHIPS. Some prominent Colored men will attend the affair. Hon. John F. Smulski, president West Chicago Park Board, will be master of ceremonies. Mrs. Mary Taylor of 3841 Rhodes avenue, entertained fourteen ladies at luncheon Wednesday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. Lee Huffman, who have lived at the Hotel Brown for the past two years have moved to Hot Springs, Ark. Governor Frank O. Lowden and some one representing President Woodrow Wilson will be the distinguished guests of honor. Atty. Charles A. Ward is still convalescing. He returned to his office for a few hours, last Monday. Mr. and Mrs. Jessie Wormley, of Springfield, Ill., are visiting in Chicago for a few days. They are stopping at the Hotel Brown. Mr. Benj. H. Lucas, Representative of the First Senatorial District of Illinois, has been ill for the past few days, but is now able to be out. Mr. and Mrs. Andrew A. Todd have removed from 4121 S. Wabash avenue to 4116 S. State street, where they will be pleased to meet their friends. For many years he faithfully served all the people residing in the 31st Ward in the City Council and it would be well indeed if the people holding forth in that ward would boost him back into it. Mrs. Johns, of the Theosophical Society, suffered the loss of her flat and personal effects by fire a few days ago. Her home was on East 41st Street. Mrs. Birdie Doyle, one of the most efficient stenographers of the race, has been successful in securing a position stenographer in the Cook County Recorder's office. W. A. Wallace Baking Company are removing from their present location to the corner of 36th and State street, where they will be better prepared to accommodate their many patrons. The banquet to be given by the Society for All Nationalities by the Patriotic American Citizens on Wednesday evening, February 6th, at Hotel LaSalle, promises to be a history-making epoch. Mrs. Elizabeth Lindsey Davis, Mr. C. Parrish, and Mrs. Mary Montgomery were among the graduates of the Chio School of Mental Sciences, and read interesting papers last Monday evening at the school. Charles E. Morrison, special messenger to his honor, Mayor William Hale Thompson, state that "he feels it in his bones that the present mayor of Chicago will be the next United States Senator from Illinois. The Half Century Club held a reception and dancing party at the Hotel Idlewild, Wednesday evening, January 23rd. Many of the elite of Chicago were present. Mr. Julius Avendorph was master of ceremonies. James Crowley, who has been one of the most honest police officers in Chicago and who for some years has been in charge of the city council committee rooms and knew more politicians and business men than any other single individual in Chicago, very suddenly passed away the latter part of last week at his home, 1428 S. Turner avenue, from a severe attack of pleurisy. He was 57 years old at the time of his death. He leaves a wife and five children and hosts of friends to mourn his death. He was a member of Damon Council, Knights of Columbus, Catholic Order of Foresters, Holy Name Society and the Policemen's Benevolent Association. Officer Crowley owned the nice two-flat building where he resided. He was a fine, warm hearty genial character and he will be greatly missed by all those who frequent the council committees rooms. The C Apartment 3880 the people residing in the 31st Ward in the indeed if the people holding forth in that CHICAGO MEN IN HOUSTON GIVEN COMMISSIONS. Camp, Logan, Houston, Texas.—Approval of a long list of promotions in the 370th Infantry, formerly the 8th Infantry, colored, from Chicago, was announced Saturday. The promotions are made on the recommendation of Brig. Gen. A. H. Blanding, commanding the 185th Infantry Brigade, of which the regiment is a part. The following is the list of the men advanced: To be captains—Lieut. Lilbur Jackson, Lieut. Lewis E. Johnson. To be first leutenants—2nd Lieut. W. C. Phillips, Lloyd G. Wheeler, Arthur H. Gones, Herbert L. Chavis, Benote H. Lee, Frank P. Bass, Louis C. Washington, Harry L. Allen, Orville R. Smith, Oceola A. Browning, William Warfield, Corp. W. W. Williams, Sgt. Elmer Maxwell, Sup. Sgt. J. E. Carter, Sgt Samuel L. Ranson, 1st Sgt. Wm. H. Lewis, Sgt. H. N. Shelton, Corp. Harry Murphy, 1st Sgt. J. L. McDonald, 1st Sgt. G. L. Ames, Sgt. H. E. Johnson, Pte. Binga Dismond, Sgt. Frank W. Bates, Sup. Sgt. J. R. Wheeler, Sgt Durand Harding, Corp. Elisha C. Lane, Corp. Norman Garrett, Sgt. Blakee G. Alston, 2nd Sgt. G. C. Bunn. To be second lieutenants—Bat. Sgt. Maj. George L. Glass, 1st Sgt. A. C. Parker, Sgt. C. H. Bonchane, Sgt. Benj. A. Browning, Pte 1st class, Avon H. Williams, Pte Sgt. A. M. Jordan, Sgt. Frank Corbin, Sgt. Bernard McGwin, Sgt. Edward Douglass, 1st Sgt. E. J. Myers, Corp. E. G. White, Corp. T. A. Painter, Sgt. A. F. E. Williams, Sgt. S. B. Norvell, Sgt. Lloyd Broome, Sgt. Luther J. Harris, Sgt. Harvey J. Taylor, Sgt Isom Jackson, Sgt. F. K. Johnson, Sgt. Willis Stearles, 1st Sgt Boy B. Tisdell, Sgt. Max Evers, Corp. W. S. Moss, Sgt, first class (medical corps) R. B. Jackson, Private (medical corps) John A. Hall, 1st Sgt. David Jonas, Corp. Hugh W. Schuck, Corp. Homer O. Kelly. WHERE BITES ARE TREATED Mission Dispensaries Cure Many Africans Who Sustain All Manner of Dangerous Injuries. Africans go to the mission dispensaries to be cured of bites from all—kinds of animals, and a large number of them are cured. The commonest bites are from snakes, say a writer in World Outlook. In Inhambane are 18 to 20 varieties of poisonous snakes, some very deadly, whose bites mean a fight for life. Hyenas kill or carry off hundreds of children each year, and most of those who are rescued have terrible scalp wounds, as the hyena carries a child by the head. Other biting pests of the region are lions, from whom few escape alive; scorpions, very poisonous and fond of getting into beds; hypo files, large flies that in biting take huge pieces of flesh and cause great swellings; sharks, of which the bay is full. But the most common, bite and seemingly the hardest to heal, is the human bit. The Africans when they get angry use their teeth to good advantage. There is scarcely a morning that several do not come to the dispensary. One boy had his lower lip bit off, and for him a new lip was made. I followed with interest from time to time the innocent errors of the little blue-eyed helpmate of the office. I doubt not that, without her help, greater mistakes in typing would be made; not in spelling or grammar, perhaps, but such as these: "Dear, Sir youse of the 1st re%celved andin re%ly will say," etc. Be that as it may, I have one here which I think worthy of a paper. I dictated as follows: "Such a proposition, couched as it is in terms to mislead the jury, is not a true statement of the law, is untenable and is certain to mean defeat to the ends of justice." My stenographer evidently thought that our courts use a defeated litigant much as father does an unfavorable suitor for daughter's hand, for she wrote: "Such a proposition, couched as it is in terms to mislead the jury, is not a true statement of the law, is untenable and is certain to meet the feet in the hands of the justice."—West's Docket PAGE THREE PAGE FOUR The CR Apartmen 3600 Wab The finest building ever open cago. Steam heat, electric light Phone Main 263 The CRANFORD Apartment Building 3600 Wabash Avenue THE HOME OF THE HOLY GHOST FREE STYLE BOOK ... HAIR To Colored Women We are the largest manufacturer of Colored Women's Hair. Our latest hand drawn styles in hair dressing suit free. Every colored woman we sell. We sell thousands our hair and taillet articles. 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She declares, according to the Ohio State Journal, that pain should never be resorted to to make children good, and, hence, she advises that all spankings and whippins should be eliminated. There is nothing in pain to reconstruct a child. Joy is the only medium that should be used. Make a child happy, instead of sad, is the gospel of child training. The power that lived, moved and ruled the world, she said, was the power of joy; and this was the influence the parent should use in training the child. This is not the way of parents. The rule is to whip the child to make him good. It cannot result that way. A kind word and a gentle association are far more powerful than a rod or any other method for producing sorrow or pain. The other day we heard a mother shout to a little boy: "TH skin you alive!" That is enough to make a worse boy out of a bad one. The "mild power wink" is an old adage and every parent should take it to heart. CAUSE OF TIRED FEELING Complaint, Common With Many People Every Morning, Due to Pressure of Too Much Purin. The familiar condition in which one wakes up in the morning, after a good night's rest, with a dry mouth, spirits depressed, feeling tired, aching all over, was explained by Dr. Nathan Rosewater of Cleveland in the course of a discussion at a recent meeting of the American Medical association. He said such a person will go ahead and do a hard day's work and feel better as the hours pass, until in the evening all signs of trouble have gone. Such a person often had severe pains in the abdomen, the muscles of which were extremely sensitive; but the more they were pressed the less sensitive they became. This condition is not, as often be Phones: Prospect 179 and 427 HENRY P A keener interest in more and more aspects of humanity, a readiness to find more and more kinds of men and women worthy of plastic representation, a preference for expressiveness to traditional beauty, a love of life because it is life—by these tokens we may know Rodin for a modern of the moderns in his day, who made the spirit of his time incarnate in marble and bronze. Like every artist who begins by outraging our love of the familiar, he ended by forcing some of us to revise our definition of beauty, says the New Republic. Even those who most passionately deny that his beauty is beauty can never see quite as they would have seen if Rodin had not lived. He makes them less at ease in presence of the conventionally noble, even when excellent in its kind; reveals a humanity which cannot reach us through the conventionally noble without an effort. Those wrappings of nobleness hid something from us. Was it truth? It Can't Be Done. Few know better than Vincent Tabor the utter absurdity of trying to please the women of today. From evidence presented in the Court of Domestic Relations, writes a New York correspondent, it appears that he has at no time tried it, but the demands made by his wife have convinced him that there would be no hope anyway. The matter in consideration was a means to keep Mr. Tabor at work, a means to force him to provide $8 a week for his wife's support and a means to terminate his desperate struggle to drink a harried world dry. "Aw, judge, nothin' can be done," admitted the somewhat tearful defendant, "as long as yuh can't make money enough to satisfy all the highfalutin' ideas of the women. Two months ago we wus all right again an' everything goln' goin', when Minnie. made me move to a house what had a bathtub in it. We ain't had a day of happiness since." Effects of the Sun. City dwellers and those who do not lead a constant outdoor life should avoid exposing unclothed portions of their bodies to the bright sunlight for a prolonged period. According to the Journal of the American Medical Association, German specialists who have investigated the subject say that the damage that frequently follows the popular pastime of lying for hours in the sun on the sand at German beaches is not merely sunburn, but headache and often meningitis. Those who are inclined to be nervous are more quickly affected by undue exposure to the rays of the sun, and the anemic and nervously predisposed city indoor workers are the very persons who are most fond of sun baths. A tanned and vascular skin offers a better protection against the sun's rays, but the city dweller's skin is neither pigmented nor vascular. Instead of being benefited, the nervous are rendered more nervous, and when the summer is over they are tanned, but otherwise in poorer condition than in the spring. Gold in Montana. The first discovery of gold in Montana is accredited to a halfbreed Indian, who in 1852 found "colors" in gravel near the mouth of Gol creek, a small stream that rises in the northeast corner of the Philipseburg quadrangle, and the first workable places discovered in Montana were found on this creek in 1862, recites the Geological Press Survey Bulletin. A small quantity of gold was taken out of these gravels by means of sluice boxes on the creek near the present site of Pioneer. The deposit afterward exploited by the Hope mine was discovered in December, 1884, and in 1885 Philipseburg was founded just south of the mine. Since that time the Philipseburg district has produced about $50,000,000 in gold and silver. LAUREL The finest and most UP-TO-DATE BUFFET and CAFE on the South Side. First-Class Entertainers.