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THE BROAD AX HEW TO THE LINE; LET THE CHIPS FALL WHERE THEY MAY OR EIGHT YEARS ATTORNEY-GENERAL OF ILLINOIS. HIS REMAINS WERE LAID TO REST BY THE SIDE OF HIS WIFE IN THE FAMILY BURIAL GROUNDS AT OTTAWA, THIS STATE. N. CHARLES S. DENEEN DELIVERED THE FOLLOWING ELOQUENT FUNERAL ORATION OVER HIS REMAINS. Senator Gen. Stead first at a meeting of the State's Attorney's Association of Illinois of which later he became president. He later then had a reputation amongst state's attorneys for ability, training, integrity, industry, fearlessness and eloquence. He acquired with Gen. Stead in the pro-convention campaign at the convention of 1904. The condition was in dead-lock for several weeks, and the candidates for office had the opportunity of becoming well acquainted with each other. I observed the degree of demeanor, his frankness, his obvious sincerity, the ability of any effort to make friends or advancement upon any other person than these of simple merit. I served too, the strong attachment of friends of La Salle County, who so软ly his merits and his record public office. In the campaign—which followed, I served Gen. Stead's untiring energy and surrounded himself with lawyers of utility, integrity and experience. Industry, courtesy and harmony among his assistants were quickly observed by those who had official relations with his office. The legislature was in session when he was inaugurated, and we were urged at once into legislative and administrative work. Almost daily, and assistants many times a day, I was required to call upon him for advice in investigation, which were readily promptly given. Without making infamous comparisons, I may say that I had upon his judgment in matters of administration and legislation more than that of any one connected with the state government in its legislative or administrative departments. It was a time of legislative and administrative growth, and required knowledge of past facts and of new legislation. In both of these matters, Gen. Stead's knowledge and advice were invaluable at the end of the session, I was called to pass upon virtually all the work the session within ten days. This is the Hereculean task. It was beyond power of any man to study the bills within so limited a time. I called upon him and he passed the constitutionality of all bills the merits of many. Thereafter, during my administration, at my office, every bill passed by the Gen. Steadly was submitted to him before it came to me. This was a departure from old customs in the work of Governor's office, and Gen. Stead used the heavy burden of this additional work cheerfully and discharged well. In these matters his advice given to me with frankness and earnestness during all those years, he never to influence my judgment for or against a bill for any reason personal to me or his friends. I was impressed by his fairness, disinterestedness and humility. I trusted him impulsively, so official relations brought me into very close contact, and I learned to know him and his admirable personal qualities and characteristics. He had a many-sided thoroughness. He was broadly educated in law, in literature, in the political and social sciences, and he had a large familiarity with history, enriched by an intimate contact with life and social movements. Not only was he widely read, but he was given to reflection and contemplation. It was these qualifications and qualities which enriched his conversation and had matured his judgment. Gen. Stead was an orator of a high type. His eloquence was like the man—simple, straight-forward, sincere. He employed none of the tricks or the arts of the demagogue or the mere rhetorician. Knowledge, logic, resource, illuminating wit, illustrative anecdote, literary finish, conviction and a noble entusiasm were the marked characteristics of the man and his oratory. It was his endeavor to inform the mind, to convince the reason and to satisfy the judgment. The man spoke. Although Gen. Stead spoke extemporaneously with great facility and power, he often read his speeches. In our last campaign, when the state candidates were traveling by special train and averaging twenty-two meetings a day; and when he was limited to three or four minute speeches in many places, he still read his speeches from the rear platform of the train. But his written speeches were listened to with eager interest, because of the instant appeal of his personality. M. tage. Although idealistic by temperament, his training and experience had given his mind a practical bent. So, therefore, distinguished between the Utopian and visionary and the practicable, and directed his energies to what was possible of accomplishment. In managing his numerous campaigns, Gen. Stead neither had nor sought to cultivate the so-called popular arts. His political strength lay in his knowledge of public matters, his knowledge of men, his judgment as to political conditions and the confidence he everywhere created in his character, motives and political judgment. Here again, it was Gen. Stead's characteristic trait to rely upon the strength of his cause for success. tion and honor. I recall his attitude in the discussions among the state's candidates which followed the break in the party at the National Convention of 1912. Shortly after the National Convention, it became known that a committee was to wait upon the state candidates and submit to them the alternative of abandoning the party or going down to defeat. The state candidates held a conference before the committee arrived in Springfield. At that conference, Gen. Stead expressed his views briefly and emphatically. He said both the life of the party and the obligations of honor made but one answer possible. Another state ticket was placed in the field. With a divided party, it was ap- tion and honor. I recall his attitude in the discussions among the state's candidates which followed the break in the party at the National Convention of 1912. Shortly after the National Convention, it became known that a committee was to wait upon the state candidates and submit to them the alternative of abandoning the party or going down to defeat. The state candidates held a conference before the committee arrived in Springfield. At that conference, Gen. Stead expressed his views briefly and emphatically. He said both the life of the party and the obligations of honor made but one answer possible. Another state ticket was placed in the field. With a divided party, it was apparent we were going to certain defeat. In the resulting conferences regarding the campaign by the state candidates, notwithstanding the prospect of certain defeat, Gen. Stead declared that sentiments of personal gratitude and of party and personal honor demanded the prosecution of a vigorous campaign. And so we entered upon the exhausting labors of a campaign which carried us into every community of the state. Gen. Stead accepted defeat with equality. During the campaign he discussed with me his plans for establishing a law office in Chicago. This he did shortly after his term of office expired. He saw in a Chicago law practice the opening of a great professional career. But fate decreed otherwise. The death of his wife brought to Gen. Stead the severest shock and great sorrow of his life. He tried for a time to overcome his grief in change of scene. But it was not to be so. His outlook on life seems to have changed. Shortly he gave up his law offices in Chicago and returned to Ottawa, which he considered his real home. He felt that old scenes and old friends would renew his old interest in life. It was from this place that he took up once more, after the lapse of a few years, the burdens of a political campaign. How well he did this is known of all. He sought neither elective nor appetitive office for himself. But his knowledge of political conditions and of AN APPEAL TO THE PEOPLE THROUGHOUT THE STATE OF ILLINOIS BY EDMUND JAMES JAMES, Ph.D., LL.D., PRESIDENT OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS. It is a mere accident that the launching of the Third Liberty Loan coincides in time with one of the greatest battles in history now going on along the western front in the trenches of Belgium and France. But this certainly constitutes an added reason for the subscribing of this loan many times over and doing it quickly. An oversubscription of this Third Liberty Loan at the present juneture within the period assigned for the special drive would be equal in its moral effect on the American people and on the world to the winning of a great victory on the battlefield itself. The governments of the Central Powers are evidently keeping up the courage, confidence and perseverance of their peoples by assuring them that the allied nations are growing very weary of the war, and that if the Central Powers will only hold out a little longer the Allies will be compelled to give up the contest. the ultimate overthrow of the Central Powers. And yet this is a very critical moment in this great struggle. We can not over night throw an additional million trained men into the trenches to support the allied armies for the simple reason that we haven't such a number of trained men at our disposition, nor if the men were available have we the ships to move them in such a short time. We can not plant a million guns along the fighting line within a month; because we have neither the guns nor the necessary shipping to transport them. But we can inside of the next week give notice to our men on the fighting line and to the Allies, whose armies they are sustaining, that we have underwritten again the great war up to a final victory for our arms; that we have within a week signed up three billions or six billions or nine billions, if necessary, to bring this war to a conclusion with a No better answer can be made to this argument than a great oversubscription of this loan. Such an oversubscription will save money, save life, save energy, save civilization. Every American citizen should subscribe to this Third Liberty Loan to the extent of his ability. There is no doubt, of course, as to the ultimate outcome of this conflict. Even though the Germans take Amiens and Paris and Calais, their temporary victories will only still more certainly assure their ultimate defeat. The longer the drive they make the longer the road back home; the more money and more lives they expend the longer it will take them to recuperate their strength; the longer the war lasts the more certain public questions was such that a demand was made upon him by the governor for his services. He was called upon to help formulate the government's administrative policies and later to take his place as the head of one of the great state departments. He took great pride in the state administration. He has said to me a number of times, that he would not have accepted the office, nor have undergone its labors and responsibilities, but for his deep interest in the success and welfare of the administration of Gov. Lowden, to whom he was greatly attached. A week ago last Saturday, Gen. Stead called upon me at my office. We visited for an hour or more. He was in a genial mood. He talked of many things. He talked of old friends and what had become of them; of the changes time had brought; of the work of his department, and of the administration. He talked of the war, and the great battle that was raging; of the great sacrifices that all were called upon to make for the country and the cause; of the reconstruction and readjustment in political, social and business affairs of the country, and the world, which were to follow the coming of peace. He seemed very moved in contemplation of the great drama in which this country is called upon to take a leading part. These great events deeply stirred his imagination as well as his patriotism. It was a delightful visit and a wonderfully pleasant hour. In it he revealed once more, his fine sentiment and true character. When he arrose to leave, I accompanied him, and he called upon my office associates and assistants. With a few pleasant words we parted, and as he appeared then, so he will remain in my memory, a great-hearted, true-hearted, manly man. the ultimate overthrow of the Central Powers. And yet this is a very critical moment in this great struggle. We can not over night throw an additional million trained men into the trenches to support the allied armies for the simple reason that we haven't such a number of trained men at our disposition, nor if the men were available have we the ships to move them in such a short time. We can not plant a million guns along the fighting line within a month; because we have neither the guns nor the necessary shipping to transport them. But we can inside of the next week give notice to our men on the fighting line and to the Allies, whose armies they are sustaining, that we have underwritten again the great war up to a final victory for our arms; that we have within a week signed up three billions or six billions or nine billions, if necessary, to bring this war to a conclusion with a decisive victory on our side. As we value peace and liberty, as we value our homes, our opportunities, our country, we must at this time help to convince the world that no organization of military power, however strong, however efficient, can possibly prevail against the free peoples of the world in their desire to secure for all mankind what they claim for themselves—an opportunity to live a worthy life under worthy conditions. All that we have thus far done in the way of building up a great, wealthy, liberty-loving and high-minded nation will go for naught if that lesson of this great war does not sink deeply into the minds and hearts of men—so deeply that no second attempt of this sort shall be made. Friend, companion, comrade in many struggles, this little spray would I add to the wreath that shall deck thy tomb, as I bid thee a long and last adieu. It was a great shock to the people of Illinois when they learned late last Saturday evening that Mr. Stead had ended his life at the Great Northern Hotel this city, for he was one of the best known and most prominent men in this state. At the time of his death he occupied the most important and responsible position within the gift of Governor Frank O. Lowden, and it must be said to his undying credit that he always discharged his public duties honestly and courageously. Mr. Stead was quiet and unassuming in his manner and seemed rather cold, but after any one became thoroughly acquainted with him he was extremely cordial and pleasant and was never too busy to extend cordial greetings to his friends and others who knew him well; in short, he was a highly cultured gentleman and extremely considerate of the rights of his fellow men. He will be greatly missed by his relatives and numerous highly esteemed friends throughout the state of Illinois.—Editor. PROF. CHARLES H. ROBINSON WILL MAKE HIS BOW TO THE CITIZENS OF CHICAGO AT BETHEL CHURCH. Prof. Charles H. Robinson, late of Boston, Mass., will make his first or official bow to the citizens of Chicago Tuesday evening, April 23, at Bethel Church, Thirtieth and Dearborn streets. Prof. Robinson is an elocutionist of great ability, and there is a rare treat in store for those who turn out to greet [Portrait of a man in a suit and bow tie]. HON. JOHN P. HOPKINS. Ex-Mayor of Chicago; Secretary of the State Council of Defense of Illinois, who is doing his bit to help to uphold the hands of President Woodrow Wilson and to win the world's democracy. THE DENEEN-BLOW WEDDING This evening at 8:30 o'clock Miss Dorothy Deneen, the very beautiful highly accomplished and popular daughter of Hon. and Mrs. Charles S. Deneen 457 West Sixty-first place, will be happily united in marriage to Mr. Allmand Matteson Blow, son of the late A. A. Blow and Mrs. Blow, of Knoxville, Tenn. Bishop Thomas Nicholson of the Methodist Episcopal Church will perform the wedding ceremony. He will be assisted by Rev. Hugh M. Bannen of Springfield, Ill. It was one of the most fashionable home weddings ever held in Chicago. The following are some of the many out of town guests who attended the wedding: Mrs. Blow, the groom's mother, and also his aunt, Mrs. James B. Grant of Denver, the widow of a former governor of Colorado. Mr. and Mrs. George P. Blow of the La Salle, the uncle and aunt of the bridegroom, and George Walker Snow, his cousin, who will be one of the ushers. Maj. George A. Blow, a brother of the bridegroom, will be the best man. Other out of town guests are Miss Deneen's classmates at Bryn Mawr College, Miss E. Buckner Kirk of Baltimore, Miss Frances Bradley, daughter of Col. J. J. Bradley of the general staff, director of training for the United States army, Washington; Miss Christine Brown of Springfield, and the uncle and aunt of the bride, the Rev. and Mrs. Hugh M. Bannen of Springfield. 1920 One of the directors of the Peoples Trust and Savings Bank; one of the directors of the People's Gas Light and Coke Co.; President of the Sawyer Biscuit Co.; patriotic citizen, who is with President Woodrow Wilson every inch of the road in his effort to protect the honor of the American flag on land and on sea and who believes that this country will be victorious in its fight for a world's democracy. State Council of Defense of Illinois, who the hands of President Woodrow Wilson and Miss Dencen is one of the most popular members of the younger social set in this city and her many friends wish her unbounded happiness throughout her married life. TAG DAY FOR THE PHYLLIS WHEATLEY HOME The annual tag day of the Chicago Federation of aged and adult charities will be held this year on Monday, May 13th. Among the institutions belonging to the Federation is the Phyllis Wheatley Home, $236 Rhodes Avenue. They are again asking their many frineds to "Do their bit" toward holding the home lines, by contributing their services to the institution for one day's service, to tag for it. 200 volunteers are asked to tag part of the day. If this is done, all of their boxes will be kept busy and $2,000 should be the result of the effort on May 13th. All who will help this institution in this way are asked to attend a meeting on Thursday, April 25th, 3 p. m. sharp, at the Phyllis Wheatley Home. Sincerely yours for holding the home lines. MRS. J. SNOWDEN PORTER, Gen. Chairman. MRS. GERTRUDE MOORE, Vice Chairman. MRS. BERTHA L. HENSLEY. MRS. ELIZA JOHNSON. MRS. THERESA G. MACON. MRS. ELVIE L. STEWART. THE BROAD AX, CHICAGO, APRIL 20, 1918 CHARLES E. STUMP THE KANSAS NEWSPAPER FEASTING ON THE WHILE TRAVELING CAROLINA, GEORGIA NIA, WINDING UP FRIENDS AT DANV THE KANSAS NEWSPAPER WRITER HAS BEEN FEASTING ON THE BEST IN THE LAND WHILE TRAVELING THROUGH SOUTH CAROLINA, GEORGIA, TEXAS AND VIRGINIA, WINDING UP AMONG HIS MANY FRIENDS AT DANVILLE IN THAT STATE. Danville, Va.—From South Carolina to Virginia is the record which I have made, and I am in Virginia as I write to you this week, but believe me, honey, I will be away from here before this letter is read by you. I am going to Washington to offer myself to the Government to help to get rid of the Kaiser, and what I do for him will be a plenty. before I found my way to the state school up on a high hill in Petersburg, and one of the finest school sites in the country. At the head of the institution is Prof. J. M. Gandy, one of the leading educators of the nation, and he has this distinction, because he took the time to provide himself with a first-class preparation. People are just getting hold of plenty of education, and while they get it I want them to get some fighting sense, for that is what we need Tony, and the man of my race who will go and get Kaiser William will be considered one more great man and the whole country will just rise up and call him blessed. If you will recall I told you about Rev. P. W. Wrean in one of my letters. He is the pastor of the Second Baptist church in Savannah, and the man who is bringing things to pass. But I am not going to dwell on Savannah, Ga., this weak because there are so many other things about which I am going to write. They have some big churches in Savannah, of both denominations—in fact all of them. I spoke for the Second Sunday morning, and then beat it to the C. M. E. church Sunday afternoon, thinking I was going to hear Mrs. D. W. Thomas, the wife of Prof. Thomas, and one of the leading educators of our country and age. Mrs. Thomas is the daughter of that great Kentucky missionary, Rev. P. H. Kennedy. She is just a great woman, and is doing a great big work there in that town. To me it was a source of pleasure to see and hear her. Mrs. Willie Hill toted me around in her automobile car and believe me, she has one first-class one at that. For a long time she has been teaching in the Georgia State college with Major R. R. Wright, the scholar, and the man who has made his reputation long before he was a man. It was when he was a little ragged boy in the schools of Georgia, in answer to the question asked by General Howard to a lot of little black boys and girls in school, "What shall I tell the people up north?" "Tell 'um we's rizin'," was the prompt reply of young Wright, and it has been handed down from one age to the other. It was to me a source of pleasure. Off for Columbia, S. C., where I had the pleasure of touching many people and meeting many friends. I went direct to Allen University where I was the guest of Dr. B. W. Mance, the president of the institution. I am not going to repeat the big sounds I flung at that educator, but I let him have a few of them that all but dazed him, and caused me to look wise, but I am of the opinion that I looked otherwise when he got through with me. That is one more talking president. He is bringing things to pass there, and well he should, because he has the training. Getting through with him, I went down to the church, and there hung up with Rev. White and others, visiting the public school, spoke at the A. M. E church, and this closed me out for one day. I think this will end me in South Carolina for this time.' I pulled right out of the state bright and early the next morning for Richmond, Va., reaching town in time to go to see many of my friends there. The first man to claim my attention was John P. Graham, the fish dealer, and he was as nice as nice could be, and even presented me with a whole 8-pound shad which I carried over to Mrs. J. H. MeGrew and she cooked it and I did have me one more fish eating. Then around with Prof. MeGrew, for a little while. He is the state secretary of the Y. M. C. A. and is doing a great big work in this part of the world. It was indeed a pleasure to meet him and his many friends. Dr. Lewis towed us all over Richmond in an automobile—Ford heresciss carriage. It was a delightful ride, and the next day I went out to visit Hartshorn memorial college, for girls, and Union University for our young people, and then back to Petersburg. You can get many thoughts to come to you when you are around and about these cities. They figure in the civil war and figure heavy. Now. little time was spent there. --- fore I found my way to the state school up on a high hill in Petersburg, and one of the finest school sites in the country. At the head of the institution is Prof. J. M. Gandy, one of the leading educators of the nation, and he has this distinction, because he took the time to provide himself with a first-class preparation. I shall not tell you much about the things I saw on the hill and about my visit to the insane asylum. After getting around over these places, getting hold of some little more education, then I left for Lynchburg, only to find my way to still another table, and perchance I got to shake hands with some of our men who are going over to see Mr. Kaiser and pay their respects to him. They admire him, and declare, "Bye and bye we shall see 'Billy Williams' and send him to be with those who have gone ahead of him, none being left to carry their story to others." It will be recorded, and their children will read the story of how the brave fathers died for the flag of the country, and they will also be able to join Sergt. Carney, "The Old Flag Never Touched the Ground, Boys." Now in Lynchburg, for that was the next place, I found Dr. R. C. Woods bringing things to a focus. Dr. Woods was just cut out like you cut out goods and made to fit in the plan which God has for revealing them under their table. There is to be found a fine set of young people who are making it to the front. Men and women alike are fighting the battle against ignorance and immorality. They are going to get rid of it in their youth and then when they are full grown ups, they will have nothing to do but to devote their time in thinking, and do some inventing. Perhaps there is to come in this world a man who will invent a gun that will outshoot that one they discovered the other day in Germany or some other point shooting beyond the place where I can make good, yet I must go and if I don't go and learn then I will be shut out. I am praying for God to send forth our brave men. The Virginia Theological Seminary and College is supported by our people, but it is a Baptist institution and in it the Baptists are letting all the people know what they can do for humanity. I got so much out of seeing these 800 young people stepping to the drum of progress and getting ready to go into the trenches and wipe out ignorance and illiteracy. What a wonderful age this is, and what wonderful people we are in this world. Dr. Woods and his officers or the teachers are just making good and doing good work for us all. I was so glad to see him and to see them. Now then after spending two days, I started out to find my way here in this Danville, Va., town, and it is some town. I got on the wagon, and there I had the pleasure of being with many people coming here. Bishop J. Albert Johnson was there, and he was chatting with the boys. I was glad to see him. I am here attending the Virginia conference over which he presides. I found many good things in him, and many good things to talk about. Reaching here I was assigned to the home of Mr. and Mrs. P. L. Donohue. They have not been married long, and have just completed their home, and I was perhaps the first outsider to stop in it, and let me tell you those young people did give me one more good time. Mr. Donohue is considered one of the finest bakers in this city—in fact he has no equal, and is employed in the largest place in town, and is kept buay. He can bake a cake that will just melt in your mouth without you putting down on it. It was these good things, and his ability as a man of worth that attracted young Miss Essie Grasty, one of the teachers in the public school here. It was Mrs. Grasty, the mother of her daughter, who called them over and told them to take good care of me during my stay there. They seemed so happy. Mrs. Donchue has been teaching. She is a real teacher, and side by side they are going to make it in life. To see these young people and others making good is inspiration to me. TPEU 7 HON. FRED W. BLOCKI President of the Board of Review, who urged all of the clerks employed therein invest their money in Liberty Loan Bonds and who is willing to back up U Sam with his own money to the last ditch. President of the Board of Review, who urged all of the clerks employed therein invest their money in Liberty Loan Bonds and who is willing to back up U.S. Sam with his own money to the last ditch. I shall have more to tell you in my other letter, for it is time to bring this one to a stop. They have had one more good conference here. I am delighted to note what is going on in this world. I shall have more to say. THE Y. W. C. A. WILL SOON MOVE INTO ITS NEW HOME AT SHIRE DIANA AVENUE. Recently Dr. Fannie Emanuel elected president of the Y. W. C. A. ENTERTAINMENT BY THE KING'S DAUGHTERS The King's Daughters of Cook County who support a free bed in Provident Hospital as a memorial to Mrs. Eleanor Stewart, are arranging an entertainment to be given at the South Park M. E. Church, May 29th at 8:00 o'clock. The entertainment given by this body last year at the Institutional Church was both a pleasant and profitable affair. As agreed upon last year the entertainment has been called "The National Convention of the People's Party of the United States." A president of the United States will be nominated in regular convention and each state will be rerepresented by delegates. The leaders of the affair are Mrs. L. E. Smith, Mrs. Roma Ross, Mrs. Lucy Miller, Mrs. Sadie G. Brown, Mrs. D. E. Franklin, Mrs. P. Brady, Mrs. H. T. Trice, Mrs. A. M. Black, Mrs. Ada McKinley, member Cook County Executive Committee, 3152 Prairie Avenue. MR. CHARLES ALEXANDER McCULLOCH President and general manager of the Frank Purnelee Transfer Co., treasurer and director of the John R. Thompson Co., honorable and popular, upright citizen. urged all of the clerks employed therein Bonds and who is willing to back up U ditch. THE Y. W. C. A. WILL SOON MOVE INTO ITS NEW HOME AT $38 DIANA AVENUE. Recently Dr. Fannie Emanuel was elected president of the Y. W. C. 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Hisresponsibility is greater than that ever shouklered by any Amer- ican general—really greater than thatof any other general in this war. Pe ing is responsible with President for our Country ‘He needs a steady stream of food, mu- Buy Liberty Bonds today. Buy all you nitions, ships and men. And there is can afford—and more. Buy till it hurts; Just one way to raise these for him—we then buytill it quits hurting. “Let's keep ‘must raise the money to supply them. po ah in eee lao eniencemones Help the boys at the front; help those ‘who cannot help us back Pershing. making ready to go; help the boys of the navy—help the President and back Mines Raeecian te So-vant ton bait of Pershing tothe limit. =, exal Pershing. He is there. He knows. i vent ibe emu w aore-it we bec Forcing ae "1 of the iE 00. 111110100 D FOR AND CONTRIBUTED BY THE FOLLOWING PATR IN. GEORGE E. BRENNAN, Manager Chi- of Our Friends,” HON. FRED | ON. GROMGE E. BRENNAN, Menager Chi- “ine cf Our Prtenie” MOK, TEED) town district. The first seven years proved almest s failure, but I had faith im God and didn’t give up. I was always honest with my weights, and gained the confidence and patronage of my friends My rent for the first year was “$50 0 month, but increased each year until now it is $800 2 month.”* (To be continued next week.) SET FOR HIS HANGING THAT HE ‘DID NOT MURDER MES. EDMUND ALLEN. On Priday, April 12, ‘‘Chicken Joe’? Campbell was to hang up by the neck until he was dead; in the pen at Joliet, Mincis, for foully murdering Mrs. Ed- mund Allen, ed on Txursday, the day before the exccution was to come of “Chicken Joe?’ Campbell wrote the lawyers who fought so bard for his, thanking them for wist they had dose for kim and protesting his innocence. His letter reads as follows, and it speaks for tind A. B, Cowing, Robert MeMusdy, P. 1, Mea IEG ee My Dear Sims mak you for the Denevolenes whi ee eee eee one ee feelings are deeper than speeches, yet my heart speaks volumes. Again believe me when I say that I am_innocent of this crime for which I am to be hanged for I did not murder ‘Mrs. Allen and do not know how she was murdered or why she was murdered. ‘This is my statement to beth God and man. Respectfully yours, _ JOSEPH CAMPBELL, + etter known as “Chicken Joe.’’ ‘Means. Barnett, MeMardy and- Cow- ing are still Srmly of the opinion that time will prove that Mrs. Allen never lost her life at the hands of Joseph See a DAs 9 saree | ‘BETTER HEALTH CONDITIONS — ‘Tuskegee: Institute, Ala.—In response to numerous calls for suggestions as to how National Negro Health Week ny be observed, the following fdr the first @ay, Sanday, April Bist, has been ismed by the Exsentive Committee of the Ne- tional Negro Busines League, Dr. Robt. R- Motoa, Chairman. Specific instroctions for observing the other days of Heclth Week have already bees pablishod in cir colar form tnd: may be oveured by ad: dressing Mr. Emmett J. Scott, Secretary, entity date, tee: seieement for better L.out, it is sug- gested that the ministers of all the Col- bred churches throughout the nation set aside the third Sunday in April—the 2ist —as 2 DAY OF PRAYER for better agree to preach on thie day a special health sermon to his congregation, and arrange if pomible for some physician to deliver_ special bedlth talk at an after- noon or evening meeting. In @adition to this; exeh ministerrie re- quested to arrange, whenever possible, appropriate services which shall inelnde a discussion of local Sealth conditions and any other matters which in bis jedgment will make the Clean-Up Week s*msccess. In citien and communities where there is designated a date other than April 2ist to 27th for general cleaning, it may be well for Colored people in sueb cities and communities to arrange for their elean- nen ape ei pred wrens Sie maton St. Louis, acaan he 8 < phe IO MNBL Ce IE MOM ee RS OF oe ee ee seal be pth Sak ere ee YOU'LL SEB £ All your friends daring the intermia siom, the zen in the lodge, the Indies in the promenade) = “io Tan eet pow “Soden oie IC CITIZENS: p ST. MARK METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH, FIPTIETE ST. AND WABASH AVE. ‘Rev. Tohn W, Robinson, Pastor. ‘The Annual Conference Sunday at 8 Mark brought out s congregation taxed the seating capacity. The se1 mon by Bishop Thomas Nicholson, D.D. LL.D. wag one of the most inspirational the Conference has ever heard. There sore, twenty-eight persbus united with the ghureh. The Conference adjour eee pererens ett Bo selva the appointm its, ‘There wes no change at aes “St. and South Park Ave. Churches. ‘The Rev, J. M. Hayden sobhesash Si a ie ingtos Soci lement, 25 E — ees SE FS < gs ee Ne a Soe es ee eae Oa eaten TS a TE sted any_plan of unideti FS ge any ge Sea i +t tee nen os Seer Deerin i ly eee ee eee - AN APPRECIATION Rev. John W. Robinson, pastor of St. Mark Methodist Episcopal Chureh, 50th Bt. and Wabash Ave, having just f2- ished 25 years of.active itinerant min- istry, was presented with s purse con- taining 25 silver dollars from the La- dies’ Aid No. 2, Mrs. E. I. Angust, pres- ident. Mrs, Robinson was also presented & purse of $20 in. recognition of her twenty years as a minister’s wife, by Mrs. B. W. Jackson of thie Women’s Foreign Society of St. Mark. In token of their appreciation for the tiftl table and chair used by the bishop daring the 40th session. 3 ‘Austin, Texas—(Special)—By 8 re cent vote of the legislators, the ballot is given to the women citizens of the state, The women will pay poll tax after 1918. Added to 14,900 Colored men voters, will Se Se tee eighevcett ge : aoe me foe a te b all who come héreafter will have Cee ee ee 4 See ae rec ae poet aren Seek: eS ae eee $ ; ; The CRANFORD Apartment Building 3600 Wabash Avenue The finest building ever opened to Colored tenants in Chicago. Steam heat, electric lights, tile baths, marble entrance. J. W. CASEY, Agent Phone Main 263 133 W. Washington Street FREE STYLE - BOOK ... HAIR To Colored Women We are the largest manufacturer of Colored Women's Hair. Our latest back cover styles in stylen in hair dressing sent free. Every colored we manufacture one. We sell thou-mands our hair and bullet articles. Sat- dishable menud or money back. We make the best solidBrass STRAIGHT- penalties. With each comb we give bump cup FREE. Send money order or stamp. MONEY BACK IF NOT SATISFACTORY. $122 postpaid. POSTPAID $122 Hair sets, brushes, combs and toilet articles manufacturer's price. Send two-count stamp. Again Wash and follow. BUILDARE HAIR COMPANY. 131-137 Park Row, New York City. 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 3336 vv M. J. LATHAM ATTORNEY AT LAW OFFICE PHONE: CALUMET 873 2 East 31st Street Suite 7 CHICAGO Frank Dunn, J. B. McCahoy, Trustees Telephones: Oakland 1552, 1551, 1550 JOHN J. DUNN ESTABLISHED 1871 Wholesale and Retail COAL Fifty-First and Federal Streets CHICAGO KINKY HAIR Always, Dr. Dandreff, Dr. Gustafson. My picture shows you what you see. EXELENTO GOODNESS but since for my hair before I said it, my hair was too long and I had now to it in another long, and as it was too long, I can fit it any way I want to. JAMES BLAKE. Don't let come fake Kick Damore feel you. You really can't straighten your hair until it's nice and long. That's what EXELENTO POURAGE does, removes Dandreff, finds the Roots of the hair, and makes it grow long, soft and silky. After using a few times you can tell it is so pretty and long that you can fix it up to suit you. If Kandere does not do we clean, we will give your hair look. Click by mail on receipt of coupon or calls. AGENTS WANTED EVERYWHERE. EXELENTO INFORMATION CITY, Atlanta, Ga. A. D. GASH Attorney at Law 118 North La Salle Street Suite 615 to 616 CHICAGO Rec. 3055 Frank's Ave. Phone Dong. 8123 PHONES: MAIN 2017 AUTOMATIC 22-305 A. L. WILLIAMS Attorney and Counselor at Law Suite 706 FIRMENICH BUILDING 164 West Washington Street CHICAGO THE BROAD AX, CHICAGO, APRIL 20, 1918 Adjusting Bore Gas Inlet Air Buster Air Inlet Adjustable Air Inlet The air intake is directly behind the handle, or valve, which you use to turn the gas on or off. This "air intake" has a sliding outlet the rear wall of the window above. Locate the screw and turn the shutter until the air intake is completely closed. Then turn on the gas and light the burner. You will find that it burns with a yellow flame. Open the air shutter SLOWLY, watching the flame meanwhile it is all blue, then tighten the screw so that the air shutter cannot slip. If your gas range "poes" back when lighted it gas will burn out. The top burners on your gas range should be not clean or pen will not get the best results. RESIDENCE: 3353 South Park Ave. PHONE DOUCLAS 2773 W. E. MOLLISON ATTORNEY and COUNSELOR Suite 815 Hartford Bldg. PHONE: CENTRAL 6583 CHICAGO Office Phone 8078 (Douglas) Residence Phone, Douglas 8178 Jack Johnson, former heavyweight prize fight champion, is homesick in far off Barcelona, Spain. This information was contained in a letter received from the fighter recently by Harry Markeyle, a friend, who was connected with Jack in the golden days of "The Champion," Johnson's Thirty-first street saloon. "He wants to come back," said Markeyle, "and it would not surprise me to see him bob up any day. Financially Johnson is all right. Jack was not the fool most people imagined him and he hung on to most of his money. I guess he was hard up until the Willard contest in Havana, when he lost the title, but Jack wrote me that he got almost $30,000 out of the match in addition to the moving pictures which he showed in Europe." FEDERATION OF COLORED WOMEN'S CLUBS. The Second Annual Convention of the Northwestern Federation of Colored Women's Clubs will be held at Cheyenne, Wyo., July 2nd to 5th inclusive. The federation will be the guest of the Searchlight Club of that city and will entertain all delegates free. This meeting occurs the week before the national association of Colored women, meeting at Denver. You should take advantage of this convention as it will continue along the lines of its first meeting and the reports will be illuminating. Watch these columns for future information regarding this progressive federation meeting. It will be a patriotic meeting and should have the support of the press. MRS. J. SNOWDEN-PORTER, President. MRS. MINNIE M. SCOTT, Chairman, Executive Board. H. Franklin Bray, D. D., Supt. Revs. I. F. White and T. S. Lowery, of LaGrange and Hardinsburg, Ky., conducted the services at the Mission last Sunday to the delight and edification of splendid congregations. Dr. R. A. Adams of Kansas City, Kansas, noted evangelist, delivered a splendid sermon Wednesday evening. Dr. H. Franklin Bray will preach Sunday night on the "Black Horse." Seven conversions last week, among them two aged and some promising young men. Service every night in the year and a hearty WELCOME. "C." COLORED GERMAN SEIZED, PROTESTS HIS LOYALTY Elizabeth, N. J.—(Special).—Franz Gannoman, thirty-nine years old, Colored, born in Mannheim, Germany, was arrested here. He was charged with failing to register as an enemy alien. Detective John J. Ohrenberger took him before United States District Attorney Lynch in Newark. Cannanone pleaded his own case. He said: "I was born in Germany, but I am not a German. I am a Negro, and so I cannot be a German. I am sincere and I am loyal to the United States." The officials believed in his loyalty and his honesty, but insisted that he register. He went back to Elizabeth with the detective and registered. THE NEGRO PELLOWSHIP LEAGUE The Negro Fellowship League's program for Sunday, April 21st will be furnished by the University Club. The meeting will be held at the Reading Room, 3005 S. State street at 4 p. m. All are invited to be present. Members are especially urged to be present and bring their friends. The League voted to attend Billy Sunday's meeting in a body Sunday evening at 7:30. All friends who wish to join us will meet at 3005 S. State street at 6:30 p. m. Last Sunday the meeting consisted of a report by our president of her trip to Louisville, Kentucky. IDA B. WELLS-BARNETT, President. I DECORATE GIVE SERVICE LOW RENT H. A. WATKINS REAL ESTATE AND INSURANCE RENTING A SPECIALTY 3510 Indiana Avenue PHONE DOUGLAS 1714 CHICAGO CHICAGO THEATER SOUTH WABASH AVENUE AND EIGHTH STREET Wednesday Evening, June 5th All seats reserved. Tickets for sale by all members and at PORTER'S DRUG STORE 3510 South State Street Phone Douglas 6525 3030 STATE STREET LAUREL SERVICE LOW RENT ATKINS AND INSURANCE SPECIALTY 3510 Indiana Avenue CHICAGO AND DIRECTORS Phones Calumet 6194 Automatic 71-629 AND NIGHT Michael Jackson ing Co., Inc. North State Street Courteous Treatment able Prices IN CONNECTION Automobiles for Hire DOUGLAS 811 Phones DOUGLAS 811 AUTO. 12:30 te Cafe BUFFET CHICAGO SOCIETY EVENT Amateur TRELS THEATER THE AND EIGHTH STREET Opening, June 5th Benefit of Hospital for sale by all members and at RUG STORE Phone Douglas 6525 recipient of much attention at the hands of Louisville's leading citizens and returned home feeling much refreshed from her week's vacation. Last week the greatest weekly newspaper in the world claimed that Governor Frank O. Lowden would not interfere and that he permitted "Chicken Joe" Campbell to be hanged, and this week the greatest weekly newspaper in the world claims that Governor Lowden saved the life of "Chicken Joe" Campbell. So you can pay your money and take your choice. REPORT SHOWS 17,416,303 CATHOLIC LIGS IN UNITED STATES. New York.—(Special.)—It is shown in the official Catholic directory for 1918 that there are 17,416,303 Catholics in the forty-eight states of the Union and 8,850,000 more in our foreign possessions.